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Gatorubet

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  1. I spent time in Sandpoint Idaho, because my parents had a timeshare there. It is a very beautiful part of the country, but even 40 years ago, the place was chock full of white supremacists.
  2. It is clearly ridiculous that Joseph Smith translated ancient Egyptian documents through a magic crystal. Everyone knows that you get your best God information from a burning bush.
  3. at this point, it’s not so important what the tariff rates are, Canadians everywhere are on a mission not to buy a goddamn thing from America if they can help it. Whether it’s for a generation or just this administration term I cannot say, but my guess would be Canadians won’t be vacationing in the USA or buying American bourbon anytime soon.
  4. The market wants to be high because the market wants to be high, I guess. Trump is doing his best to be friendly with Canadians by asking them to give us their country, which is really complementary when you step back and think about it. I have it on good advice that we don’t need Canada and Canada is entirely dependent on us. Why waste time thinking about that when the market is doing so well? Snark aside, I look forward to July 10.
  5. I’m not sure about that. If you are - say - successful enough to be a millionaire business owner and entrepreneur, starting a my pillow business should make you immune to that sort of nonsense.
  6. I think they are exactly the type of people who will turn in GOLL once Trump’s SS wants to know who’s loyal. They have no problems with pain happening to the others. But once the others are gone, GOLL may become a target as ‘other-lite’. Not brown-ish, but still an enemy of the people. Turning in friends and relatives might be the line in the sand for some folks, but with MAGA, banking on that would be a fool’s bet.
  7. Rod’s username checks out.
  8. Back in the day they had these things called tax returns. And 1099s. Rumor has it that the government would know all kinds of personal things about you, like how much you made in interest - and how much your employer paid you - and what your capital gains from sale of stocks and real estate were. Those bastards also knew how much you had in retirement accounts when you hit 73 and older, and would check to make sure you took minimum distributions based on the amount of the account. Some say you would pay a greater Medicare premium if you made more money and junk. I think Big Brother can come up with some sort of way of knowing if you earned too much to get full benefits.
  9. it is fair because it was meant to be insurance for old age upkeep. That is why the most Elon Musk can get from Social Security is exactly the same as someone making 10,000 times less. It was not supposed to be a personal savings account that reflected exactly how well you did financially. (and yes, I know there is a cap on Social Security at about $175K and no cap on Medicare earnings so that Elon did not pay the same share of his earnings for Social Security) It was a depression era program created to keep people from starving to death while being homeless. If someone makes ten million a year and are bitching about not getting their Social Security, then they are a selfish asshole. Obviously, the devil is in the details, and in this case it depends on what income level you start means testing. That is a legitimate point of discussion. Edit: Troph beat me to it
  10. Maybe Trump thinks that he will unite the GOP rurals and the urban Democrats when the rurals have to go into town to access the bread and soup lines…
  11. I guess in your state that won’t attract the pythons..,
  12. My complete thoughts on the subject are actually the two posts. There are idiots who really don’t follow any of the news - but all of their friends and family and church members are big GOP types. Since they don’t follow what is going on, they essentially fall back on “ I don’t follow who to vote for, but all my friends say vote for these guys, and they seem really upset if you are a Democrat, because it’s bad, so I guess I’m voting Republican” My work colleague I mentioned was one of those people who weirdly was extremely religious, but seemingly completely uninformed on anything political. My small point was that people like that were not voting for Trump because they were racist and liked racist policies, some of the idiots had bought into three decades of “Democrats bad, GOP protected family values”, and they feel pressure from a societal point not getting sideways with all their friends and family and fellow church members. You are exactly correct that if the people voting for the GOP knew exactly what the fuck was going on, but supported the GOP anyway to not get sideways with friends and neighbors, then those people get no pass whatsoever. In a way they are worse than the actual racists because they should know better. Since all of the politicians know exactly what is going on, they are the ones who have simply no defense of any kind. I could’ve been clearer in my first post, but you can’t make me change my scotch drinking habits.
  13. Did the subject matter of the email say Muledick?
  14. Sometimes the answer is right in front of you.
  15. For some, sure. But I think you are perhaps biased due to your education, intellect, and that handy (or cursed) thing of having a photographic memory. You seem to reject the possibility that there are just a bunch of dim goobers who go through life not looking at anything political, not knowing any current events, not having any idea of civics, who literally have no idea what the hell is going on in the world and who vastly prefer it that way. And more importantly, these people have absolutely no intention of changing their behavior. Just like it is unwise to conclude malice when simple negligence or stupidity is at fault, I think it unwise to always attribute the worst personal characteristics of people when it can truly be said that they are so ignorant and uninterested in all things politics that they are only vaguely aware of the things intelligent, motivated, well-read, watch the news daily people are aware. That latter condition certainly does not give them a pass, but it does not make them inherently evil either. our current crop of GOP politicians? I agree with you 100%.
  16. and how did the original poster claim to get what I assume is still confidential flight recorder data?
  17. I’m a bit conflicted by this. I’m hoping that smearing a really good étouffée over my door jam will cause God to skip my house.
  18. Gotcha. Agree. I also liked you pointing out the no God before me concept. Before my paternal grandfather was kicked out of the Mormon church for his alcoholism, that side of the family were all latter-day Saints. The interesting thing about them is they are actually a polytheist theology. And I believe Joseph Smith referred to that particular sentence to validate the fact that there was a cosmic father and mother producing spirit babies, and the teaching that with enough time and adherence to theology that a human man can eventually become a God worshiped by people on other planets. I have to say, that is a hell of a lot better than hanging around on a cloud twanging on a harp.
  19. Sure. But you may have noticed that the easier thing is to ignore facts that oppose your worldview and accept facts that confirm it. I had a work colleague who was very Catholic and would use his lunch hours to go pray for his various deceased relatives. I kept asking him how he could support the GOP doing all these bad things, and he literally looked me in the eye and said I have to support family values. He was not being snarky. He had simply fully adopted the bullshit party line from the 90s and felt comfortable ignoring any negative - as he viewed himself as a family values supporter - which allowed him to disregard any critical thinking about the policies the family values party was actually adopting. He would probably be OK with concentration camps as long as there was no abortion going on at them.
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