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TexasEd

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I know what to do these other dates:

  • Dec 7 - Fly the US Flag and talk to my kids about it.  Took them to Pearl Harbor last year and they already knew what was coming but were still overwhelmed.
  • March 2 - Fly the Texas Flag and read Travis' letter
  • Veterans', Memorial, Independence - got those down
  • Sep 11 - Flag and prayers

But what the hell am I supposed to do on Jan 6 when a third of the mutherfuckers that stormed the Capitol were carrying US flags or beating cops with them?  The other 2/3rds had Trump and Confederate Flags.  I think that the ones carrying US flags were imposters or false patriots that want to overturn our Democratic institutions and ignore the Constitution.  They are Fascists in every sense of the word and trying to co-opt the US Flag.

So I decided to fly the US Flag in the true sense of what it stands for and not the ironic right wing Fascist way.  What about you?

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shit, I didn't think about putting the flag out this morning.  That is a conundrum, you're right.  Like you, I put it up for anything remotely historical or patriotic from Operation Overlord Day to Armed Forces Day in May.  I hate to say, but 1/6 (now only 2 years old) is a little too abstract to explain to my 7yo.  

I could show her footage of the insurrection and be like, "Yeah, so these are a handful of people your dad knows and a few thousand of their criminally insane friends trying to overthrow our government."  But I mean, she knows what the Capitol is and that it's our seat of government.  And she'd certainly recognize all the American flags.  But I mean, how do you explain what was happening there?  "And oh that honey?  That's called a gallows, it's where they hung people to die back in 1821...and then in 2021 'cause progress."  I'll just get worked up and pissed off again.  And tell her that if so much as one federally elected official had been killed on camera that day, the country would have sank into a 10-year abyss that we wouldn't get out of until she graduated high school...but have a great day in Ms. Gilligan's 2nd grade class today!  Also, your father may have bribed some cholas in Jenna Ryan's prison to mentally torture and threaten her.  But it's only okay when daddy's do it.   

But yeah, I should say something about it tonight as we watch the news.  Dammit, I got my own shit going on today...thanks for adding this to the mix.  Excellent point of discussion though.    

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Well Fox News has absolutely no mention of Trump's coup attempt anywhere on their Website.  So the sheep won't have to think about how dangerous the Fox led GOP actually is.

I think I may go sit to happy hour at Roaring Fork for an hour or two tonight.  To see what the right wing Millionaire Losers club is pretending about today...

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18 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

I'm going to take a dump on a picture of Trump and rub one out to some Stormy Daniels porn.  Not at the same time though that would be impressive, right?

I believe that would some sort of blumpkin, and that would be impressive. 

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52 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

I know what to do these other dates:

  • Dec 7 - Fly the US Flag and talk to my kids about it.  Took them to Pearl Harbor last year and they already knew what was coming but were still overwhelmed.
  • March 2 - Fly the Texas Flag and read Travis' letter
  • Veterans', Memorial, Independence - got those down
  • Sep 11 - Flag and prayers

But what the hell am I supposed to do on Jan 6 when a third of the mutherfuckers that stormed the Capitol were carrying US flags or beating cops with them?  The other 2/3rds had Trump and Confederate Flags.  I think that the ones carrying US flags were imposters or false patriots that want to overturn our Democratic institutions and ignore the Constitution.  They are Fascists in every sense of the word and trying to co-opt the US Flag.

So I decided to fly the US Flag in the true sense of what it stands for and not the ironic right wing Fascist way.  What about you?

Get yourself and your kids Ashli Babbitt masks, because today is our Guy Fawkes day!

 

Edit: Nah, nix all that. Get fat, wear a Trump mask, and do your hair in a blond pompadour. Then, walk around like you've never been on your own two feet before, act like a pompous asshole, and keep repeating "Everyone is saying" followed by whatever bullshit comes to mind.

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1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

I believe that would some sort of blumpkin, and that would be impressive. 

Some sort of Blumpkin?

dude, a “Stormy Trumpkin” is sitting right there.  It also describes the post-tamale shit I gotta take today in honor of all the patriots rotting in prison today.  At least I get toilet paper.  
 

this is really screwing with me.  I really wonder what each of my ten neighbors on my little street will associate with my flag.  Only me and one other guy ever put out flags for anything.  And his is down today.  Mindfuck. 

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Some sort of Blumpkin?

dude, a “Stormy Trumpkin” is sitting right there.  It also describes the post-tamale shit I gotta take today in honor of all the patriots rotting in prison today.  At least I get toilet paper.  
 

this is really screwing with me.  I really wonder what each of my ten neighbors on my little street will associate with my flag.  Only me and one other guy ever put out flags for anything.  And his is down today.  Mindfuck. 

I like my Stormy Trumpkins with Kraken spiced rum. The one at Doral comes in 3 glasses and you have to mix it yourself. 

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1 hour ago, bolverk said:

Get yourself and your kids Ashli Babbitt masks, because today is our Guy Fawkes day!

 

Edit: Nah, nix all that. Get fat, wear a Trump mask, and do your hair in a blond pompadour. Then, walk around like you've never been on your own two feet before, act like a pompous asshole, and keep repeating "Everyone is saying" followed by whatever bullshit comes to mind.

Exactly this.  Celebrate like the English do on November 5.  Set off fireworks, build a giant bonfire with an effigy of Donald Trump on top, and light that suck up.

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I look at the pieces of shit who hate the good things that America stands for (whether they are smart enough to understand it or not), and decide again to not like them support the GOP and to instead vote for American values in every election I am able.

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Just now, Celery Man said:

I look at the pieces of shit who hate the good things that America stands for (whether they are smart enough to understand it or not), and decide again to not like them support the GOP and to instead vote for American values in every election I am able.

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I'm going to double my complaining that there hasn't yet been a single fucking indictment of trumpco for their actions in instigating and orchestrating Jan6. 

And I imagine I'll be doing it next year. And the next year. And the next year. And so on and so forth. If you'd like to know why, please direct all inquiries to twicehorn

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6 hours ago, TexasEd said:

How do you commemorate Jan 6?

I mourn it. Not for some undying love of our government. I have no love for it at all. But I do mourn it because I had to make the unfortunate decision to cut people out of my life that day.

While my brother-in-law and I were watching the terrorists riot like the bumbling idiots they’ve always been on the TV, I checked my Facebook and saw that my godfather’s ex-wife had juuuuuuust posted “when in the course of human events.”

I just about lost it.

That’s the statement of a freak. It’s a statement that ranks right up there with Condoleeza Rice claiming that the Israeli aggression against Lebanon in 2006 was the “birth pangs of a new Middle East.” Just raw in its suckitude, vile in its awfulness, and an abject failure at everything it means to be an adult in America.

I blocked that bitch on the spot, have not spoken to her since, and that evidently had to be a shared fate with a few others. I also learned later that one of the individuals involved in that falderal was a teammate of mine in high school (he was a year ahead). I consider every varsity teammate of mine from those two years to be a brother…except for him. 

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12 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Out on a walk and saw a flag in my neighborhood flying upside down today.  Not sure which side of the distress that was supposed to signal as I don't know the people.   

Yeah, same dilemma.  And then we have the Q nuts running the House so could be that.  Who knows?

I think I need tacos too.

Edit: and some beer

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Alright, so we're all agreed.  Some flag questions.  Tacos.  Fuck the insurrection.  Republic is flawed, but worth preserving.  More tacos.  And then finger-bang South Austin's Mom?  This is fucking eerie.  1st anniversary, I was filled with rage that nothing had happened.  2nd anniversary, some shit is happening but now what I thought but could be something and probably nothing and then possibly everything.  Also tacos.  I really picked the wrong year to quit drinking.  

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3 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Alright, so we're all agreed.  Some flag questions.  Tacos.  Fuck the insurrection.  Republic is flawed, but worth preserving.  More tacos.  And then finger-bang South Austin's Mom?  This is fucking eerie.  1st anniversary, I was filled with rage that nothing had happened.  2nd anniversary, some shit is happening but now what I thought but could be something and probably nothing and then possibly everything.  Also tacos.  I really picked the wrong year to quit drinking.  

alcohol sucks. try mushrooms

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Two years have passed and—in terms of fundamentals—not much has changed since the violent insurrection and attempted coup on January 6.

Here's what I see. 40-45% of Americans are ready for fascism, even if they are utterly ignorant of history due to the widespread failure/rejection of secular education. Thus, they turn to the sacred scrolls and social media. And Q. 

MAGA is still running amok, Trump is still a free man, and Garland/DOJ are apparently in no hurry to do much of anything. Meanwhile, American women are  living in The Handmaid's Tale. Reproductive rights and contraception are in serious danger. Border walls and busing migrants shows the racism. The rights of people of color and LGBTQIA communities are in danger. Books are being banned. MAGA-Q are planning on overturning key elections.

The list of targets will keep expanding. Non-believers in religion, get ready, they're coming. Science and sanity are under siege, with pseudoscience and idiocy everywhere, from evolution to Covid to climate disruption to anti-vaxxers to Ancient f*cking Aliens.

TLDR: American democracy is still in deep trouble. Sanity may not prevail. 

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Could only get through the first page.  Good lord, it's impossible they're that stupid.  

Poor wtmartinaggie bastard.  Guy tries to make a lick of sense and I'm guessing he's banned by the end of the weekend.  

I really would be genuinely curious to see who on here believes the same shit.  I don't blame them for not wanting to be laughed at, but it's like that creepy fact about how you've walked past #x of murderers in your life and didn't know it.  How many people do I know and associate with, and share blood with, actively think this insane bullshit.  I mean we all have serious, serious flaws.  And if you're mentally unstable, I want to help you.  But I can't abide this kinda shit, it can literally harm the country my children have to grow up in until our Costa Rica visas come thru.  

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10 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Could only get through the first page.  Good lord, it's impossible they're that stupid.  

Poor wtmartinaggie bastard.  Guy tries to make a lick of sense and I'm guessing he's banned by the end of the weekend.  

I really would be genuinely curious to see who on here believes the same shit.  I don't blame them for not wanting to be laughed at, but it's like that creepy fact about how you've walked past #x of murderers in your life and didn't know it.  How many people do I know and associate with, and share blood with, actively think this insane bullshit.  I mean we all have serious, serious flaws.  And if you're mentally unstable, I want to help you.  But I can't abide this kinda shit, it can literally harm the country my children have to grow up in until our Costa Rica visas come thru.  

There were surprisingly more level-headed posts than I would have imagined.  

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