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On 10/9/2022 at 6:03 PM, Red Five said:

I'm sure the delorean was fast, but I always thought he would have smashed into that picture going about 50 mph. 

Delorean 0-60 was 9.5 seconds and the speedometer maxes out at 85.  It probably took 15 seconds to get to 88 and needed a quarter mile

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This is such unbridled horseshit. I live in fucking California, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Fuck Trump shirt/flag/bumper sticker/whatever in person. I can't go a day without seeing Let's Go B

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.  

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Yep. I was a George Will/Ronald Reagan/Al Laffer conservative.  I genuinely thought that if you cut taxes for the upper classes, then they would spend and invest and the economic result of that w

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Losing your child has to be an awful experience. She wouldn't be the first person that tried to blame something...anything for their child's death. "It was her dealers fault she took the drugs...it was the person that texted her and made her take her eyes off the road...it was the cop that shot her for trying to break through the barricade she had been warned not to cross". I guess finding someone or something to direct your anger is a natural reaction. 

It's sad there are people out there that would stick her in front of a camera for political points. 

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Losing your child has to be an awful experience. She wouldn't be the first person that tried to blame something...anything for their child's death. "It was her dealers fault she took the drugs...it was the person that texted her and made her take her eyes off the road...it was the cop that shot her for trying to break through the barricade she had been warned not to cross". I guess finding someone or something to direct your anger is a natural reaction. 
It's sad there are people out there that would stick her in front of a camera for political points. 

Alternate take: fuck her, all the way to hell….where she can meet her daughter.
I’m done with sympathy or empathy for these evil pieces of shit. Fuck then all to hell. We’ll be better off if they all try something stupid and suicidal and get mowed down like they should be. Fuck around…find out.
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3 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Losing your child has to be an awful experience. She wouldn't be the first person that tried to blame something...anything for their child's death. "It was her dealers fault she took the drugs...it was the person that texted her and made her take her eyes off the road...it was the cop that shot her for trying to break through the barricade she had been warned not to cross". I guess finding someone or something to direct your anger is a natural reaction. 

It's sad there are people out there that would stick her in front of a camera for political points. 

 

follow the officer's instructions, and she'd be alive today 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/j-d-vance-and-the-collapse-of-dignity/671704/

 

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Ohio’s U.S. Senate candidates, Tim Ryan and J. D. Vance, held their first debate last night in Cleveland. I wrote last year about why I find Vance so execrable, but my friend Jim Swift, a native Ohioan, argued today that while “Ryan gave a serviceable performance,” he “didn’t beat Vance into the ground, and given how far Ohio has gone in a MAGA direction, that’s what he needed to do.”

One moment, however, struck me. At a rally in Ohio last month, Donald Trump declared, “J. D. is kissing my ass, he wants my support so bad”—while Vance was standing right by the stage. Last night, Ryan slammed Vance for selling his dignity:

 

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-I don’t know anybody I grew up with—I don’t know anybody I went to high school with—that would allow somebody to take their dignity like that and then get back up onstage. We need leaders who have courage to take on their own party. And I’ve proven that. And he was called an “ass kisser” by the former president.

 

 

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I understood Ryan’s exasperation. I’m not from Ohio, but I was raised in a working-class neighborhood. Where I grew up, if you sneered that a man was kissing your ass—and said it to his face—that other fellow might react by knocking you on that particular part of your anatomy. But Vance’s reaction to Trump calling him out as a spineless loser at his own rally was to run up to Trump like a puppy that just got a treat, wagging his tail for another tasty biscuit.

 

 

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It is possible, even likely, that Vance will gain a Senate seat. But he can never regain his dignity. He doesn’t seem to care—and neither, apparently, do voters.

Americans once expected politicians to carry themselves with a seriousness that indicated their ability and willingness to tackle problems, whether poverty or war, that were too difficult for the rest of us. We elected such people not because we wanted them to be like us but because we hoped that they were better than us: smarter, tougher, and capable of being leaders and role models.

We often failed, and sometimes we even enjoyed electing scoundrels, such as James Traficant and James Michael Curley. Democracies always welcome a certain amount of playacting and mischief as reassurance that our leaders are not too far removed from our own experiences as citizens. And yes, many politicians have used that as cover for their misdeeds. But even some of the most flawed people we elevated to high office at least pretended to be better people, and thus were capable of inspiring us to be a better nation.

Today, we no longer expect or even want our politicians to be better than we are. The new American right, however, has blown past the relatively innocuous populism of the past 40 years and added a fetid cynicism about almost everything related to public life. Not only are the MAGA Republicans seemingly repelled by the idea of voting for someone better than they are; they support candidates who are often manifestly worse people than the average citizen, so that they may slather their fears about their own shortcomings and prejudices under a sludgy and undifferentiated hatred about almost everyone in public office.

These populists not only look past the sins of their candidates but also defend and even celebrate them. Let us leave aside the cult around Trump, which has now reached such levels of weirdness that the specter of Jim Jonesis probably pacing about the netherworld in awe. Instead, consider how many people cheer on unhinged cranks such as Marjorie Taylor Greene or allow themselves to be courted by smarmy opportunists such as Vance and Ted Cruz.

This new populism, centered in the modern Republican Party, has no recognizable policy content beyond the thrill of cruelty and a juvenile boorishness meant largely to enrage others. The GOP’s goals now boil down to power for its elected royalty and cheap coliseum pleasures for its rank and file. Republicans, therefore, are forced to lower their—and our—standards for admission to public office, because the destruction of dignity is the only way they can find the candidates who will do what decent men and women will not, including abasing themselves to Donald Trump.

The same Republicans who claim to venerate the Founders and the Constitution have intentionally turned our politics into a scuzzy burlesque. Last night, Fox News—home to some of the loudest carny barkers on the freak-show midway—played a snippet of a 2018 phone call from Joe Biden to his son Hunter. The message revealed a father’s love and worry; the Fox host Sean Hannity tried to make it seem scandalous. Meanwhile, GOP leaders continue to defend the Georgia candidate Herschel Walker, whose callousness to his own children (and their mothers) is on full display. They ridicule Biden—a decent and good man who was worried that his son was going to die from addiction—and make excuses for Walker, who seemingly forgot about multiple children he’s fathered and has made incoherent responses to charges from the mother of one of those children that he financed an abortion for her. She has also said that he later asked her to undergo a second abortion; Walker continues to deny all of these claims.

I’m an adult. I get it. Our elected officials aren’t saints, and only rarely are they heroes. But must they now be a cavalcade of clowns and charlatans, joyously parading their embrace of vice and their rejection of virtue? The Republican Party seems to think so.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

libruhls out here grooming our kids....

gtfo with that shit. goddammit

 

The moment you decide to send your kids to that fucking dipshit's "school", its game over for your kids. Its not even worth it to dissect individual data points of curriculum, cult songs, etc... Kanye is bat shit crazy. You will be fucking your kids over by exposing them to his bullshit. 

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59 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Dude on my flight today had a MAGA cap featuring the Punisher skull with Dotard’s hair.

Lots of "interesting" t-shirts at the State Fair last weekend.  Apparently guns and the second amendment are popular styles.

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On 10/10/2022 at 2:18 PM, Biff Tannen said:

You know Twice will be here any second to explain why you are wrong, in a legal sense.  And he's probably not wrong.  But you aren't either.

The basic answer is that the basic crime most of them were charged with is a form of trespassing, a misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of one year or less.

The felonies that have been charged, other than the assault on police officers or others and destruction of property(self-explanatory), are obstruction of an official proceeding and seditious conspiracy, both of which are pretty difficult to prove in terms of intention and/or conspiracy.

Secondarily, for the more touristy type of rioter, a deep dive into their media, text messages, etc. might have shown a fleeting intention to obstruct an official proceeding that might even support a conviction.  But the government has enough trouble swallowing nearly 1000 prosecutions arising from a single event, let alone felonies.  That is an entire years worth of filings arising on the 6th day of the year.

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