The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult

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I love the Good Liars.  But he missed a great opportunity after the "It's called a Driver's License, it's for driving a car" to pivot to "It's like a Concealed Handgun LICENSE, it's for Concealing a Handgun."  That truly would have fried what's left of that Florida Man's brain.  

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14 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

all their events need multiple mass shooters

All right men, we’re packing up. We’re divorcing from America.  And in a divorce we have to split property! 

So let’s get some things out of the way. The libs are going to get….the NFL. And the libs also get…hot blonde pop stars. 

Now before you ask…yes, the libs get the military, which is woke anyway. And the shit-libs get to keep Russia and China as rivals.  They’re our friends now. 

BUT! We get Twitter! (Well, it’s X now). And Trump just said we get Tik Tok, too. And….we get Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro!

So let’s do this. Let’s go be super straight manly guys and tell everyone on on Twitter and Tik Tok! 
 

 

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23 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

all their events need multiple mass shooters

Jesus, that's frightening stuff in all honesty. Apparently, there's a Dallas chapter (yay!). I looked up this Nate Fischer guy, who supposedly started or is big in the Dallas chapter. I assumed I'd have some common acquaintances but so far, nope. He's allegedly a far-right venture capitalist who partially owns a Texas-based ammunition company.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/13/far-right-nate-fischer-ammunition-us-government-contract?fbclid=IwAR1HXSrMVwGJmblfWEfMxpQGp_Ezs5m62UnvFR_266hFTxWBd3ARFsYO0cg

He posted this pic on his personal Facebook page, presumably this was made by one of his kids: 

 

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15 hours ago, C-Man said:

 

I think the geezer was winding him up.

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He doesn't give a damn about his own family

 

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GoP ! GoP ! GoP !

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/bo-michael-dresner-sentencing/269-17fad9be-ddb4-4304-b956-fb3ba7bb7344

Edited March 12 by tx 3 putt

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I know some around here like the UFC but I just see that whole crowd as mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging GQP assholes.  I personally don't care for UFC or Boxing and even question liking football.   The gladiator aspect of it is sad. 

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6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

GoP ! GoP ! GoP !

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/bo-michael-dresner-sentencing/269-17fad9be-ddb4-4304-b956-fb3ba7bb7344

You know what this means?  That's right.  The GOP must be MORE VIGILANT THAN EVER AGAINST THE INFLITRATION OF THEIR RANKS BY OBVIOUS DRAG QUEENS!

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5 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

GoP ! GoP ! GoP !

 

And trying to flee to ArMEEnia.

Musta had an underage online sweetheart lined up there.

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You know what this means?  That's right.  The GOP must be MORE VIGILANT THAN EVER AGAINST THE INFLITRATION OF THEIR RANKS BY OBVIOUS DRAG QUEENS!

[FurrowedBrow] Well of course Mr. Dresner needs to go to prison, but you didn't have things like this happening before certain abnormal elements in society were allowed to undermine our nation's morals and standards. We need to go back to a simpler time when women gave men what they needed and any man who didn't "need" what a woman naturally wants to give just became a sailor or a playwright and served society honorably. Remember how those classic plays had a certain jittery energy like a steam engine running hot, the whistle-switch clamped down tight and unable to make a peep? Oh my. [/FB]

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27 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

GoP ! GoP ! GoP !

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/bo-michael-dresner-sentencing/269-17fad9be-ddb4-4304-b956-fb3ba7bb7344

NM

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A haircut like that should be admissible evidence that the dude is a pedophile.

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Republicans and pedos are like peas and carrots. 

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Kid Rock looking rough in that mug shot. 

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“Evidence also showed that one of the victims in the current case made allegations about Dresner in 2012,” Higgins said. “CPS was involved but the matter was not fully investigated by law enforcement and the victim was sent back to live with Dresner.” 

The district attorney said Dresner also pleaded guilty to assaulting a 15-year-old in Minnesota in 2005.

 

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LOL

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/politics/house-gop-retreat/index.html

Many Republicans plan to skip House GOP retreat as they grumble about location and spending time with one another

 

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Fewer than 100 Republicans have RSVP’d to attend the retreat, which is less than half of the entire conference, according to a GOP source familiar with the attendance sheet.

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But privately, some Republicans have complained about the venue choice. Sources said Speaker Mike Johnson selected the Greenbrier Resort because it was “family friendly,” in a break from past retreats which have taken place in sunny Florida – the preferred location of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

And other GOP lawmakers and aides told CNN they were simply not enthusiastic about the idea of having to huddle with the rest of their party at a time when Republican infighting has prevented them from even passing procedural votes.

 

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2 hours ago, Macanudo said:

I know some around here like the UFC but I just see that whole crowd as mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging GQP assholes.  I personally don't care for UFC or Boxing and even question liking football.   The gladiator aspect of it is sad. 

Same, up until the football inclusion. Used to be a big boxing fan but that pretty much went away after Mike Tyson bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear. Never been a fan of UFC.

 

3 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

He doesn't give a damn about his own family

 

Imagine having that fuckstick as your grandfather.

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He should use his social media accounts to dis grandpa

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3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

GoP ! GoP ! GoP !

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/bo-michael-dresner-sentencing/269-17fad9be-ddb4-4304-b956-fb3ba7bb7344

Every accusation and all that ...

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On 3/10/2024 at 11:15 AM, Horn Dog said:

Spot on from WaPo

Opinion | Forget ‘polarization.’ It’s the GOP’s radicalization.

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The notion that the United States is “polarized” into two conflicting, equally stubborn and extreme camps infects much of the mainstream news coverage and everyday chatter about politics. Washington is “broken.” “Gridlock” is a problem. “No one goes out to dinner with someone on the other side.” Such mealy-mouthed language masks a stark dichotomy: Democrats have to move to the center to get bipartisan support; Republicans have become radicalized and unmovable. This is not “polarization.” It is the authoritarian capture of much of the GOP by a right-wing movement bent on sowing chaos. Turkey, Hungary and other countries with autocratic strongmen are not polarized; democratic forces try their best to prevent their country’s ruin and collapse into total dictatorship. Our political scene, sadly, has come to resemble the global authoritarian assault on democracy. Oh, sure, it’s fashionable, as departing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) did, to blame both political parties. “Our democracy was weakened by government dysfunction and the constant pull to the extremes by both political parties. … The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic, attacking your opponents on cable news or social media. ‘Compromise’ is a dirty word. We’ve arrived at that crossroad, and we chose anger and division.” Really?! Who is “we”? The bipartisan border compromise — her bipartisan bill — was sunk by Republicans. Republicans in the House overwhelmingly opposed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, commonly known as the “Bipartisan” Infrastructure Bill (which President Biden modified to get bipartisan support); almost every Republican voted against the Chips Act, they all voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, and some even voted against the Pact Act, which would have helped veterans. House Republicans have launched phony, baseless impeachment hearings. Senate Republicans filibustered reenactment of a key part of the Voting Rights Act, blocked a bipartisan Jan. 6, 2021, commission and overwhelmingly refused to convict four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump. The assertion that hyper-partisanship, chaos and nihilism (e.g., threatening to shut down the government, egging on a default and refusing to even vote on Ukraine aide) is equally divided amounts to an outright fabrication — or utter cluelessness.

That’s the same tommyrot one hears from No Labels. CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere reported that No Labels has resorted to “accusing Biden of having politically toxic positions he does not actually hold.” Well, if you are asking for millions to run a quixotic third-party race, it sounds better to make him out to be just as extreme as Trump; alas, it is just not true. (Even No Labels apparently understands that: “In a private presentation the group has circulated among members and prospective candidates are two claims that No Labels officials say would be damaging to Biden, even as they acknowledge the claims aren’t true: that he is for ‘open borders’ and that he is captive to a ‘far left’ that ‘wants to abandon Israel’ and is ‘sympathetic to Hamas.’”) To cook up an equivalence, you have to misrepresent Biden’s record. Biden has actually stood up to the far left in his own party when it lionizes Hamas or demands Medicare-for-all. The left blasts him for being too accommodating, too courteous to Republicans and too hands-off with a listless Justice Department. Biden remains in step with the vast majority of Democrats. The party’s center-left orientation was evident throughout the primaries. On Super Tuesday, California voters chose moderate Rep. Adam Schiff (D) over progressive Rep. Katie Porter (D) as one of two candidates to run to fill the Senate seat opened by Dianne Feinstein’s death. In Texas, moderate Rep. Colin Allred won the Senate Democratic primary by a mile and avoided a runoff. San Francisco — yes, San Francisco — has gone moderate. “The liberal bastion of San Francisco pivoted rightward in Tuesday’s election as voters responded to ongoing drug, homelessness and crime crises by approving policies that bolster police and require drug-screening for welfare recipients,” Politico reported. “The results represent a major victory for embattled Mayor London Breed, a moderate Democrat who faces a tough fight for a second full term in November.”

Meanwhile, Republicans nominated for North Carolina governor not a “fiery outsider,” as the New York Times would have us believe (the headline was subsequently changed), but Mark Robinson, who called transgender and gay people “filth” and said gay people are equivalent to “what the cows leave behind” (also “maggots” and “flies”). He has made a series of shocking an inflammatory comments about women and Jews (even quoting Hitler), remains a staunch election denier and wants to ban all abortions (a view about 90 percent of Americans reject). Hate speech of the type Trump and Robinson utter would be disqualifying in the Democratic Party. Robinson will face the state’s no-nonsense Democratic attorney general, Josh Stein, who is very much in the mode of moderate incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper. (Also from North Carolina, “Republican Mark Harris, whose previous election to Congress in 2018 was thrown out after credible allegations of election fraud, won a GOP primary for a newly drawn House seat,” Politico reported.) Congress has also fallen under the grip of a right-wing bastion that cannot govern itself. The GOP speaker of the House is a Christian nationalist who thinks he was chosen by God and takes direction from the Bible, not the Constitution. No Democrat compares to the likes of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) or Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). Worst of all, Republicans are on the verge of nominating someone literally out on bail, who dines with neo-Nazis, talks about blood purity and invites Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack NATO. Virtually every elected Republican has fallen in behind him — the most extreme, racist candidate since the Civil War. (Even Sen. Barry Goldwater knew Moscow was the enemy.) Responsible reporting should not cover for Republicans. The MAGA Republican Party has become shockingly irrational and radicalized, fully embracing totalitarianism, white nationalism and radical isolationism. America is divided not by some free-floating condition of “polarization” but by one party going off the deep end. And that’s a threat to all of us.

 

 

On 3/10/2024 at 12:57 PM, RomaVicta said:

Accurate. 

Enourmously late. 

Congrats for looking beyond the template and seeing the real story that has been obvious for years and years.

Let's see if other outlets take up the same perspective. My guess is, if this gets discussed at all, it will be grist for a panel show where sensible people will agree and raving liars will muddy the water.  The host will declare it an interesting conversation then, with great relief, move on to something less vital.

From 12 years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html

Spoiler

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.

By Thomas E. Mann
and 
Norman J. Ornstein

April 27, 2012 at 11:46 a.m. EDT

Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it's not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West's comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates.

It’s not that the GOP leadership agrees with West; it is that such extreme remarks and views are now taken for granted.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.

"Both sides do it" or "There is plenty of blame to go around" are the traditional refuges for an American news media intent on proving its lack of bias, while political scientists prefer generality and neutrality when discussing partisan polarization. Many self-styled bipartisan groups, in their search for common ground, propose solutions that move both sides to the center, a strategy that is simply untenable when one side is so far out of reach.

It is clear that the center of gravity in the Republican Party has shifted sharply to the right. Its once-legendary moderate and center-right legislators in the House and the Senate — think Bob Michel, Mickey Edwards, John Danforth, Chuck Hagel — are virtually extinct.

The post-McGovern Democratic Party, by contrast, while losing the bulk of its conservative Dixiecrat contingent in the decades after the civil rights revolution, has retained a more diverse base. Since the Clinton presidency, it has hewed to the center-left on issues from welfare reform to fiscal policy. While the Democrats may have moved from their 40-yard line to their 25, the Republicans have gone from their 40 to somewhere behind their goal post.

What happened? Of course, there were larger forces at work beyond the realignment of the South. They included the mobilization of social conservatives after the 1973Roe v. Wade decision, the anti-tax movement launched in 1978 by California's Proposition 13, the rise of conservative talk radio after a congressional pay raise in 1989, and the emergence of Fox News and right-wing blogs. But the real move to the bedrock right starts with two names: Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist.

From the day he entered Congress in 1979, Gingrich had a strategy to create a Republican majority in the House: convincing voters that the institution was so corrupt that anyone would be better than the incumbents, especially those in the Democratic majority. It took him 16 years, but by bringing ethics charges against Democratic leaders; provoking them into overreactions that enraged Republicans and united them to vote against Democratic initiatives; exploiting scandals to create even more public disgust with politicians; and then recruiting GOP candidates around the country to run against Washington, Democrats and Congress, Gingrich accomplished his goal.

Ironically, after becoming speaker, Gingrich wanted to enhance Congress’s reputation and was content to compromise with President Bill Clinton when it served his interests. But the forces Gingrich unleashed destroyed whatever comity existed across party lines, activated an extreme and virulently anti-Washington base — most recently represented by tea party activists — and helped drive moderate Republicans out of Congress. (Some of his progeny, elected in the early 1990s, moved to the Senate and polarized its culture in the same way.)

Norquist, meanwhile, founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 and rolled out his Taxpayer Protection Pledge the following year. The pledge, which binds its signers to never support a tax increase (that includes closing tax loopholes), had been signed as of last year by 238 of the 242 House Republicans and 41 of the 47 GOP senators, according to ATR. The Norquist tax pledge has led to other pledges, on issues such as climate change, that create additional litmus tests that box in moderates and make cross-party coalitions nearly impossible. For Republicans concerned about a primary challenge from the right, the failure to sign such pledges is simply too risky.

Today, thanks to the GOP, compromise has gone out the window in Washington. In the first two years of the Obama administration, nearly every presidential initiative met with vehement, rancorous and unanimous Republican opposition in the House and the Senate, followed by efforts to delegitimize the results and repeal the policies. The filibuster, once relegated to a handful of major national issues in a given Congress, became a routine weapon of obstruction, applied even to widely supported bills or presidential nominations. And Republicans in the Senate have abused the confirmation process to block any and every nominee to posts such as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, solely to keep laws that were legitimately enacted from being implemented.

In the third and now fourth years of the Obama presidency, divided government has produced something closer to complete gridlock than we have ever seen in our time in Washington, with partisan divides even leading last year to America's first credit downgrade.

On financial stabilization and economic recovery, on deficits and debt, on climate change and health-care reform, Republicans have been the force behind the widening ideological gaps and the strategic use of partisanship. In the presidential campaign and in Congress, GOP leaders have embraced fanciful policies on taxes and spending, kowtowing to their party's most strident voices.

Republicans often dismiss nonpartisan analyses of the nature of problems and the impact of policies when those assessments don’t fit their ideology. In the face of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, the party’s leaders and their outside acolytes insisted on obeisance to a supply-side view of economic growth — thus fulfilling Norquist’s pledge — while ignoring contrary considerations.

The results can border on the absurd: In early 2009, several of the eight Republican co-sponsors of a bipartisan health-care reform plan dropped their support; by early 2010, the others had turned on their own proposal so that there would be zero GOP backing for any bill that came within a mile of Obama's reform initiative. As one co-sponsor, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), told The Washington Post's Ezra Klein: "I liked it because it was bipartisan. I wouldn't have voted for it."

And seven Republican co-sponsors of a Senate resolution to create a debt-reduction panel voted in January 2010 against their own resolution, solely to keep it from getting to the 60-vote threshold Republicans demanded and thus denying the president a seeming victory.

This attitude filters down far deeper than the party leadership. Rank-and-file GOP voters endorse the strategy that the party’s elites have adopted, eschewing compromise to solve problems and insisting on principle, even if it leads to gridlock. Democratic voters, by contrast, along with self-identified independents, are more likely to favor deal-making over deadlock.

Democrats are hardly blameless, and they have their own extreme wing and their own predilection for hardball politics. But these tendencies do not routinely veer outside the normal bounds of robust politics. If anything, under the presidencies of Clinton and Obama, the Democrats have become more of a status-quo party. They are centrist protectors of government, reluctantly willing to revamp programs and trim retirement and health benefits to maintain its central commitments in the face of fiscal pressures.

No doubt, Democrats were not exactly warm and fuzzy toward George W. Bush during his presidency. But recall that they worked hand in glove with the Republican president on the No Child Left Behind Act, provided crucial votes in the Senate for his tax cuts, joined with Republicans for all the steps taken after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and supplied the key votes for the Bush administration’s financial bailout at the height of the economic crisis in 2008. The difference is striking.

The GOP's evolution has become too much for some longtime Republicans. Former senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraskacalled his party "irresponsible" in an interview with the Financial Times in August, at the height of the debt-ceiling battle. "I think the Republican Party is captive to political movements that are very ideological, that are very narrow," he said. "I've never seen so much intolerance as I see today in American politics."

And Mike Lofgren, a veteran Republican congressional staffer, wrote an anguished diatribe last year about why he was ending his career on the Hill after nearly three decades. "The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe," he wrote on the Truthout Web site.

Shortly before Rep. West went off the rails with his accusations of communism in the Democratic Party, political scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, who have long tracked historical trends in political polarization, said their studies of congressional votes found that Republicans are now more conservative than they have been in more than a century. Their data show a dramatic uptick in polarization, mostly caused by the sharp rightward move of the GOP.

If our democracy is to regain its health and vitality, the culture and ideological center of the Republican Party must change. In the short run, without a massive (and unlikely) across-the-board rejection of the GOP at the polls, that will not happen. If anything, Washington’s ideological divide will probably grow after the 2012 elections.

In the House, some of the remaining centrist and conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats have been targeted for extinction by redistricting, while even ardent tea party Republicans, such as freshman Rep. Alan Nunnelee (Miss.), have faced primary challenges from the right for being too accommodationist. And Mitt Romney's rhetoric and positions offer no indication that he would govern differently if his party captures the White House and both chambers of Congress.

We understand the values of mainstream journalists, including the effort to report both sides of a story. But a balanced treatment of an unbalanced phenomenon distorts reality. If the political dynamics of Washington are unlikely to change anytime soon, at least we should change the way that reality is portrayed to the public.

Our advice to the press: Don’t seek professional safety through the even-handed, unfiltered presentation of opposing views. Which politician is telling the truth? Who is taking hostages, at what risks and to what ends?

Also, stop lending legitimacy to Senate filibusters by treating a 60-vote hurdle as routine. The framers certainly didn’t intend it to be. Report individual senators’ abusive use of holds and identify every time the minority party uses a filibuster to kill a bill or nomination with majority support.

Look ahead to the likely consequences of voters’ choices in the November elections. How would the candidates govern? What could they accomplish? What differences can people expect from a unified Republican or Democratic government, or one divided between the parties?

In the end, while the press can make certain political choices understandable, it is up to voters to decide. If they can punish ideological extremism at the polls and look skeptically upon candidates who profess to reject all dialogue and bargaining with opponents, then an insurgent outlier party will have some impetus to return to the center. Otherwise, our politics will get worse before it gets better.

 

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6 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

From 12 years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html

One of these every 12 years ought to do the trick. 

As you know, this is more than an opinion topic for a newspaper; it's the biggest story since WW2.

They just can't look beyond the templates hardened by wishfull assumption. They're really sort of hostile to news that rocks the boat too much.

Where have you gone Howard Beale?

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On 3/8/2024 at 6:13 PM, tx 3 putt said:

 

This has to be a Key & Peele skit.

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5 hours ago, Macanudo said:

UFC or Boxing and even question liking football.   The gladiator aspect of it is sad. 

What are you even doing here?

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Just now, F250 said:

What are you even doing here?

I do still watch football.   I enjoy the game but the wear and tear on the players can be tough to watch especially the brain trauma later in live.

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3 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

One of these every 12 years ought to do the trick. 

As you know, this is more than an opinion topic for a newspaper; it's the biggest story since WW2.

They just can't look beyond the templates hardened by wishfull assumption. They're really sort of hostile to news that rocks the boat too much.

Where have you gone Howard Beale?

I couldn’t say how many times the obvious has been stated in the past 12 years. I was just pointing out that the latest observation wasn’t breaking news. It’s not “enormously late.” It’s just repeating the same observation that is at least 12 years old. Just because we’ve only posted two op-eds making the observation doesn’t mean that’s all there have ever been. I don’t know how often it’s been stated. I know it’s been more than twice. 

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1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

I do still watch football.   I enjoy the game but the wear and tear on the players can be tough to watch especially the brain trauma later in live.

I was thrown off by the "questioning liking football" because it implies a recent decline in interest. I mean if there was a time to bail it was 10 years ago in the Strong era. But waiting until Texas is back...

 

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13 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

I do still watch football.   I enjoy the game but the wear and tear on the players can be tough to watch especially the brain trauma later in live.

Sometimes they suffer so much brain trauma, they get to be the Vice Presidential selection by a famous Kennedy.  But yeah, I feel for college players that get hurt on the gridiron, 95% of whom never had a chance of making the NFL.  But I really feel for watching old games on youtube or NFL Classic games.  The guys that got the absolute shit beat out of their bodies and brains with almost laughable medical care, zero pension, and barely middle-class payment to boot.  They literally laid their lives on the line so that guys today-who while still are just as physically vulnerable-can at least take solace in a very nice salary, lifelong benefits, and the most absolutely advanced medical care known to man.  

I stopped watching pro wrestling in 7th grade because I discovered weird shit like women, books, and baseball.  I don't know how grown adults still watch that crap.  UFC is equally laughable to me but at least those guys are actually beating the fuck out of one another and are insanely talented and tough.  It's just not for me.  Never watched more than a minute of it, but it's obviously doing something right.  I wish Trump would get into the Octagon.  The caged one, not the nickname for Ivanka's vagina.  

We're clearly past the heyday of boxing, but I used to love watching it with my dad.  He did some boxing in the Navy.  It's the most brutal of any sport, by far.  But also the most strategic in many ways.  

To sum up another long post.  I wonder what'll be harder to explain to my daughters in 10 years.  "Yeah, Dad used to pay hundreds of dollars to go watch two giant men in their underwear punch each other's heads until one went into a coma." ---or--- "Yeah, we live underground now because 35% of American adults somehow supported a criminal gameshow host and kinda, sorta started this nuclear holocaust.  Here, have some beans."  

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If Terry Funk was still alive he'd kick your ass

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1 hour ago, F250 said:

What are you even doing here?

Networking 

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29 minutes ago, safe sex said:

If Terry Funk was still alive he'd kick your ass

No way!  I'd fucking Tito Santana'd his ass from the top rope, 'WrestleMania 2' style.  

His longevity is insane to me.  He lived to be 80, and like 50 of it was spent wrestling.  Most of those guys die before 45 or so.  I guess it was clean living outta the ring.  Speaking of clean living, being involved in pro wrestling, and going before 80...what's Trump up to tonight besides crashing a wedding he wasn't invited to?

I think of that funny scene in 'Groundhog Day' where Bill Murray gives that young couple a honeymoon gift and they both look at the tickets and lose their shit, "Oh my god, WRESTLEMANIA!"  In another timeline of my life on loop-repeat, my fiance says, "I wanna have our wedding at Mar-a-Lago!" and the next day, I'm arrested in the Everglades for dumping her body.  I'm not saying I'd be proud of it, I just thought we were in the trust nest.

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1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I couldn’t say how many times the obvious has been stated in the past 12 years. I was just pointing out that the latest observation wasn’t breaking news. It’s not “enormously late.” It’s just repeating the same observation that is at least 12 years old. Just because we’ve only posted two op-eds making the observation doesn’t mean that’s all there have ever been. I don’t know how often it’s been stated. I know it’s been more than twice. 

I wasn't suggesting otherwise concerning your disposition.

It's not the provenance that makes it late so much as the observations' lack of penetration. That lack of embracing the obvious starts with the news media as far as I'm concerned. They're not prejudiced or possessed of dangerous agendas, they're hidebound, timid, and lazy. 

It's a great thing when somebody who gets it finds his/her way to print. It's strange the truth is not embraced and placed at its rightful place at the top of the daily news. 

I'd be surprised if we were in disagreement about any of this.

 

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8 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

 

Need to pair her up with Katie Britt so we could listen to Chuckle Voice and Whisper Voice at the same time.

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2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

I think of that funny scene in 'Groundhog Day' where Bill Murray gives that young couple a honeymoon gift and they both look at the tickets and lose their shit, "Oh my god, WRESTLEMANIA

A young Michael Shannon

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On 3/11/2024 at 7:06 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

Dunno where best to put this, but this seems shady as fuck

 

 

The hearing was a dud, apparently, just like they all have been. I say let Trump-world get involved as often as they wish. 

Stakes are scary high, but these dipshits can't get out of their own way.

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Bo Michael Dresner, former precinct chair and sergeant-at-arms for the Hays County Republican Party, sentenced to 410 years on child pornography and continuous sexual exploitation of children.  

 Evidence presented included testimony from his daughter and another child who had previously lived in his home.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/hays-county-man-sentenced-to-410-years-for-sexually-abusing-children
 

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[PenelopeWitherspoon 19142]

37 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

That woman is a moron.  

[conVINCEd 21469]

Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

That woman is a moron.  

Congratulations on having the intelligence of a first grader.  I wish more of this country was at your level.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19142]

7 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

Congratulations on having the intelligence of a first grader.  I wish more of this country was at your level.

Stupid people like this woman should be called out.  And anyone that attends Trump rallies is a Grade A moron.  

The world would have been better off if more people like this woman had succumbed to COVID.

I'm just stating the very obvious.  Sorry you got your panties in a twist.

[conVINCEd 21469]

2 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Stupid people like this woman should be called out.  And anyone that attends Trump rallies is a Grade A moron.  

The world would have been better off if more people like this woman had succumbed to COVID.

I'm just stating the very obvious.  Sorry you got your panties in a twist.

I was actually insulting the woman, not you.  

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

6 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I was actually insulting the woman, not you.  

Your delivery needs work. 

[conVINCEd 21469]

10 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I was actually insulting the woman, not you.  

To clarify, I was stating that you are, at the very minimum, as smart as a first grader, which is a level of intelligence that this woman has not achieved.  I’m quite certain you are much smarter than that.  I was setting the floor for her, not your ceiling.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19142]

4 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

To clarify, I was stating that you are, at the very minimum, as smart as a first grader, which is a level of intelligence that this woman has not achieved.  I’m quite certain you are much smarter than that.  I was setting the floor for her, not your ceiling.

No worries.  

[Satchel 6949]

On 3/12/2024 at 5:55 PM, F250 said:

This has to be a Key & Peele skit.

He even went so far as to claim he was a member of one of the Divine Nine (Kappa Alpha Psi) He is not.

[ultimaton 2982]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

She's an NPC

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[TheStoicPaisano 9939]

That's what the Porn Star Name Generator gave me last time.

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