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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. 17 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    I may be naive and idealistic but I don’t think a person who desires a college education should have to borrow large sums of money to get one. I also don’t think retirees should have to take out a loan to get necessary dental work done. 

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  2. 23 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    So in other words, solve a huge bureaucratic mess by creating another huge bureaucracy.

    The first was a perceived benefit that was ill conceived.  It's not a problem because "it is bureaucratic".  (It arguably wasn't bureaucratic enough.)  The later provides a pretty standard administrative review of folks who want to have it which would follow standard administrative procedures similar to those related to the EEOC and state wage agencies. 

  3. 55 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Were they not?  Could they not have lived in better homes, saved more for retirement, or built up their business with that money? Knowing that if they held out long enough, it would be forgiven? 

    If they "held out" presumably they would have delayed their degree. Any economist the world could show that they were not damaged, and in fact, benefited by sucking it up and getting their degrees without a benefit of a loan. 

     

  4. I haven't really looked into the specifics, but as an asshole moderate, I'd probably prefer to have a system where we can have claims that go through a government agency (Dept of Education) much like an EEOC claim where a borrower establishes that they somehow were wronged in a specified way and then are then awarded dept forgiveness if they reach a certain burden of proof.  After that, they can then pursue a claim in court or class action if the agency denies them.

    If we want to just cut checks, then I'd also provide a check to anyone who took out a student loan during the period as well, based on the amount of dept forgiveness.  For instance, if the average dept forgiveness is $15K, I'd cut everyone who paid off their debt $7.5K.

     

  5. I was glad I read some shitty reviews before hand (not here).  The vast majority were just pissed that they had to "sit through the same story three times". I actually really liked the way it was done and the last fight scene was great, although I wanted to see it end in a face crushing scene like (spoiler) the mexican DEA agent got in Game of Thrones.

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  6. On 1/20/2022 at 2:07 AM, 956 Worldwide said:

    Will nerd out just a bit more.  Important to note that the Mongol Conquest of China took 70 years, that the Mongols DID get bogged down for months and years in sieges and that the Mongols had to enlist more Chinese infantry than actual Mongol mounted warriors to accomplish it

             HEALY
               --There's this one kid, we call him Mongo
               on account of he's a mongoloid. He got out
               of his cage once and--
    
                            MARY
               --He's in a cage?! 
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  7. I hate Matt Damon, so this was a great role for him.

    Driver can play anything. A poet in Paterson to a redneck in Logan Lucky.

    I think Affleck went under the radar and gave the best performance of the movie. He’s so good as a scum bag. It always pissed me that he went away from that, but hey, he earned it. He allegedly wrote Good Will Hunting with Damon so he could cast himself in a non-jerk role. 

  8. 1 hour ago, futureman said:

    I don’t think it’s better than NCFOM. it’s very different. it’s great, though, and so texas. you gotta give it a day in court. 

    Lone Star is a must see just for Kristofferson. A few really great (and true) stereotypes - especially the attitude of Mexican Americans to illegal immigrants which is always fucking topical in Texas.  The restaurant owner reminds me of my mom and her attitude.

    John Sayles nailed it on this and Matewan. (West Virginia coal country)

  9. 7 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

    Raggedy Man with Sissy Spacek was another set in South Texas, WWII era.  

    Underappreciated movie.  Early Eric Roberts -- great to contrast his great and subdued performance in this with his over the top stuff in in Pope of Greenwich Village (or Star80).

    Texans - Always the same.

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  10. My votes:

    Best movie for reminding you of the Texas you may have experienced when you were tiny and everything seemed kind of mythological and scary. (Mine was Bracketville circa 60s)  - Last Picture Show

    Best movie for reminding you of your big Texas suburban public school - Dazed and Confused

    Best movie for capturing how time flies in Texas where you go to school and then need to get a job and get married and raise children who go off to school. - Boyhood

    Best all around Texas movie  - Lone Star

     

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  11. 20 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

    Plus it wasn't like Trump was a shoo in for winning in 2016.  She would have had to resign in the beginning of Obama's 2nd term to have a chance to be replaced by his choice because of McConnell.  Most likely she put her money on Hillary winning.  

     

    Yep, but just think about it.  You retire from the Supreme Court and then cool your jets at as a prof at Stanford/Harvard/Yale/Princeton/(Texas)?

    I appreciate your sentiment but the 80 fucking year old lady fucked up.  I'm hoping future octogenarians (and septuagenarians) gamble a bit more thoughtfully.

  12. 25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Easier....and it has the benefit of also being true.  Idiocy and anger have won.  There's no going back.

    Does idiocy rule in the jury box?  Have a trial attorney just figure out how to play that game? 

    To me, if the issue is that a jury ultimately will reach the truth, or the correct result, then the culprit regarding American democracy  isn't general "idiocy and anger".  It's the structure of elections and the $$$ that perverts the system. 

    If you think that any group of more than one is ruled by "idiocy and anger" then yeah, the Brisket approach, explained in that shorthand, makes sense.

  13. 2 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

    Do you not think messaging matters at all or what? 

    I'm not saying effective messaging is going to drastically shift anything. It's about the fight for the undecided people in the middle. A lot of those people have responded favorably to the Rs bullshit about culture wars and socialism, etc. They need to be made to see that the Rs are authoritarian obstructors who have no governing ideas at all. The Rs are sitting ducks for all kinds of attacks. The Lincoln Project has the right idea, but it needs to start coming from the Dem candidates.

    I do think it matters but I just think that the Dems are a pretty broad tent cobbled together with masking tape.  I'm voting to sow the Republican Party with salt, but the message I want is pretty moderate on most issues other than climate and I'll acknowledge it won't appeal to anyone who is progressive on economics.  So any message designed to keep the Dems together -- that's just going to be tough.

    In terms of convincing anyone who bought into the Rs bullshit?  I think ANY thinking about that is overthinking.  Any message that would appeal to these dolts is going to turn Dems away.  Unless, as you say, its just clever shit like the Lincoln Project stuff, but to me the Lincoln Project really is just clever shit. 

    My message to Dems marketers - "Don't be Stupid, We're All Counting on You.  Let's not ever say Defund the Police, Okay".

    To me the only message that MIGHT sway folks on the edge is the "protect our democracy" message.  They need to come up with something that is a more clever drumbeat on that - public service messages delivered by ex-Republicans and military folks, etc.

  14. 9 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

    Lately I'm mostly pissed at how inept the Ds are at the combat that is modern politics and their general failure to effectively counter the Magat insanity. 

    You have amazing faith that the American people will all of a sudden respond favorably to a strong message. 

    WTF gives that kind of faith? 

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  15. Didn't see anything that fit.

    Attitude:  Good.   Obviously, the prevalence of extreme stupidity and the literal deification of idiocracy is exhausting, but you just need to put your stoic big boy pants on and try to avoid the noise.

    The fact that one can vote and speak up at the very least provides some direction - get involved in the lower level races where you can.  I've decided not to give any money to politicians so all I try to do is a bit of working for individual candidates and sport a yard sign or bumper sticker now and again.

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