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Dr. McReallysweet
Sep 12, 2006

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
6 weeks ago we were on 10k. bet we can get 15k in 3 weeks

edit: balls, ed

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7RE8zycJQ

SHVPS4DETH
Mar 19, 2009

seen so much i'm going blind
and i'm brain-dead virtually





Ramrod XTreme
so wait lemme get this straight, wait, i'm a rapist?
all these uggos and these 4s said i was all up in it?
50k for a speech, no policy out
yeah my bullshit's so tall that my tiny hands can climb it

e: gently caress a new page

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Fidel Castronaut posted:

Rick Ross' verse on Monster being the best is objective fact.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
marking my territory on this page, unlike the beta cuck trump who failed to piss and poo poo on his side of the debate stage

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

Phobophilia posted:

marking my territory on this page, unlike the beta cuck trump who failed to piss and poo poo on his side of the debate stage

gently caress I missed

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

cargo cult posted:

good job getting out. the closest i've been to a situation like that was when my mom worked briefly in albanny or schenectady or something and it sounds exactly like that, except that was back in the early 90s so i cant even imagine what its like now. also upon fully reading the article i feel bad that she was harassed at work and got hosed up from it, but the rest is her own doing.

Upstate NY is probably a paradise compared to Fayette County, PA.

It's REALLY loving WHITE, like 93.3% according to last census. Most non-white people live in the projects of the two largest towns. I lived in a township outside one of those towns, so I literally did not have a black classmate or teacher until I got to 7th grade and the junior high school.

When I was in high school, a teacher told us that Fayette County was among the worst in the nation for teen pregnancy, child poverty, adult illiteracy, and a whole lot more. I doubt it's gotten better since then. I also wonder if the two drive-in theaters in easy driving distance contributed to the teen pregnancy rate, but that's for some brave sociologist to study.

The dominant industry was mining coal, then baking it in specialized ovens so it was turned into hotter-burning "coke", then barged down the rivers to the Pittsburgh steel mills. This worked out wonderfully until the 60s and 70s when the steel industry collapsed. Pittsburgh eventually resurrected itself as a medical and tech city in the 21st century. Absolutely loving nothing has stepped in to fill the void in Fayette County. Fracking is a big thing now, but all the trucks hauling waste-water from the sites into gigantic holes in the ground that I'm sure won't corrupt the aquifers in any way are ruining the poo poo out of the roads. I expect the area to look like a Mad Max wasteland in fifty years.

The reason I'm typing all this poo poo up is so you understand what drives people like the WaPo article lady to Trump. Everything around her is dead or dying. She can't adapt. She feels she can't get an education and start a new career. All she's seen for decades is everything around her going to poo poo, and nobody in government has done a loving thing to help her, so BURN IT ALL DOWN. She's got mental health issues, yeah. But there are a lot of otherwise "sane" people there struggling. Opioid abuse is skyrocketing. Houses are getting robbed in broad daylight by people looking to fence stuff for their next high. This year they busted over two dozen people for distribution in one sting, but they'll be replaced.

If I were a high school student there now, my motivation would be to get into a college several hours away, work my rear end off, graduate, and never loving look back. That makes it an even bigger shame the public schools there are abysmal so only a relatively few students get that chance. What's an 18-year old HS-grad gonna do there if they're not going to a college? Work at WalMart? Get a CDL and haul that fracking waste-water?

Places like this are hosed, and so are the people living there. I don't know how to fix it.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

This is how CNN sees every election.

Hamelekim
Feb 25, 2006

And another thing... if global warming is real. How come it's so damn cold?
Ramrod XTreme

MadJackal posted:

Page 12k,



Seriously, Evangelical Christian Ministers are defending a thrice married, gold adorned, admitted serial sexual assaulter. This duck makes more sense than the entire Right Wing Media Edifice.

Also his name is Slippy Duck and you should love him.

Not all of them, but too many. Their only arguments are abortion and religious freedom, the rest while disgusting to them in their mind pales compared to Hillary and he evil. She's pro abortion and for suppressing their religious freedom to discriminate, hence the Trump vote. But it makes them hypocrites since they are value voters.

There's a lot of discussion going on in regards to this issue, it's pretty interesting if you follow that sort of thing. Some major leaders in conservative circles are basically arguing that it's foolish to try and change the culture by changing the court, however long that lasts for. In other words, the voting block of evangelicals is basically dying and that isn't a bad thing from their perspective.

emoji
Jun 4, 2004

Phobophilia posted:

gently caress I missed

The post count as displayed in the subform is behind reality.

mannerup
Jan 11, 2004

♬ I Know You're Dying Trying To Figure Me Out♬

♬My Name's On The Tip Of Your Tongue Keep Running Your Mouth♬

♬You Want The Recipe But Can't Handle My Sound My Sound My Sound♬

♬No Matter What You Do Im Gonna Get It Without Ya♬

♬ I Know You Ain't Used To A Female Alpha♬

the talent deficit posted:

rick wilson has been shouting about the dangers of trump since trump announced. he was way out front on calling him a facist baby. if anyone has got solid rumours of trump scandals i expect it's him

he's never said there's a tape though, just that there's two big stories yet to break.

rick wilson initially came out against trump because he thought he was an unelectable clown damaging the gop, not because he thought he was a fascist.

Politico article by Rick Wilson, July 22, 2015 posted:

Don’t be fooled by Trump’s double-digit lead in a new poll: He is not going to win. He’s not going to win the primary. He’s not going to win the general. He’s not going to win a third-party bid. Sure, he can damage the GOP ticket badly enough to guarantee Hillary’s election, but he can’t win. He’s too flawed, too liberal, too undisciplined and too afflicted with verbal dysentery when even slightly provoked. He lacks the fundamental presence and gravitas of a commander-in-chief.

Donald Trump is not running a real campaign. He is working the phones, stirring the pot and using the media ecosystem to its fullest. Soon, the bolder members of the field will follow Rick Perry, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush in making harder and more decisive strokes against him. Unlike Trump, they’ll use real oppo, tested and targeted messages—ads built not just to cut, but to kill. They’ll break his operational tempo, get inside his OODA loop and turn his circus into a crispy ruin. It’s what real campaigns do.

[...]

There are five or six smart, gifted and thoughtful national candidates in this race. I don’t expect that we will agree on who will be the best candidate to compete against Hillary, and that doesn’t matter. All in the broad-appeal, competent candidates like (in no particular order) Rubio, Cruz, Bush, Walker, Paul, Perry, Fiorina are markedly superior to Donald Trump for the general election. You can make a case for any one of them...or you could if Trump wasn’t sucking all the air out of the room. All Trump is doing now is giving Hillary Clinton more footage for attack spots.

people like rick wilson because he has a strong twitter trash talk game and does the same on panels, its not like he has any special access to information

whatever thing him and liz mair are talking up is going to be a big disappointment

https://twitter.com/LizMair/status/785468123130523648
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/786422745764466688
https://twitter.com/LizMair/status/786418574394920960

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

this song is so fuckin bad

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

emoji posted:

God dammit

were you going for the snype or what

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

SHVPS4DETH
Mar 19, 2009

seen so much i'm going blind
and i'm brain-dead virtually





Ramrod XTreme

baw posted:

this song is so fuckin bad

you best mean bad like good or we gonna ruckus

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

woah

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
aaaaaaaaaaaand i missed the milestone again

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

skaboomizzy posted:

Places like this are hosed, and so are the people living there. I don't know how to fix it.

socialism

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



baw posted:

this song is so fuckin bad

how lovely someone's taste in music must be to not like killer mike

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007


haha, bannon is closer to Calvin than trump, especially if you consider vocabulary

Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

Baloogan posted:

aaaaaaaaaaaand i missed the milestone again

Last time i missed it at least the whole page got probations...

MaxNV
Jan 3, 2011



This one's still the best

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Bumping it up that closer to 15k

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

unironically, yeah

but good luck with that

Hamelekim
Feb 25, 2006

And another thing... if global warming is real. How come it's so damn cold?
Ramrod XTreme

skaboomizzy posted:

Upstate NY is probably a paradise compared to Fayette County, PA.

...WORDS....

Places like this are hosed, and so are the people living there. I don't know how to fix it.

Don't cut manufacturing and labour jobs while at the same time increasing education costs and make it more difficult to get into college. It's not rocket science, and it pisses me off.

Why do we have so much crime in black communities for example? Maybe, in part, because of poor education due to funds being cut. Plus, a poor social environment caused by outsourcing of high paying factory work, which has led to drinking, drugs and crime increasing in the community.

Something I read before really stuck with me. We choose to have a middle class. It is not a natural component of free market capitalism. The natural state is an environment like Charles Dickins' England, with masses of poor people living in terrible conditions being oppressed by owners of capital. The plutocrats of the West have forgotten this and they are doing so at their own peril. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.

Fidel Castronaut
Dec 25, 2004

Houston, we're Havana problem.

the inhabitants of easter island, the rapa nui people, declined radically because they deforested their entire island, using much of the lumber to transport their worthless jeb statues to the coastline. please collapse.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


The Lord of Hats posted:

What actually happened in the election today that got the title changed

All I saw was that apparently Trump gave an incredibly awkward India speech

“If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it,” Dan Bowman, a 50-year-old contractor, said of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. “We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. . . . I would do whatever I can for my country.”

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/pol...l?event=event25

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

SHUPS 4 DETH posted:

you best mean bad like good or we gonna ruckus

it sucks, what kind of dork makes a song about reagan and then like explicitly talks about reagan and the things he did, like goddamn ever heard of allusion

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



skaboomizzy posted:

Upstate NY is probably a paradise compared to Fayette County, PA.

the thing with upstate ny, including the capital region, is that the second you live the cities of albany, schenectady, troy or saratoga, you end up in super super redneck country. i lived in the western part of schenectady county bordering with schoharie and that place was like loving rural alabama, same with when i lived in extreme northern saratoga county.

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
"reagan was bad, he made me sad, iran contra, not too rad" - killer mike, "reagan"

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Hamelekim posted:

Don't cut manufacturing and labour jobs while at the same time increasing education costs and make it more difficult to get into college. It's not rocket science, and it pisses me off.

American economies are driven by market forces, so it's not like there's a realistic politics (in the current environment) which can correct for industrial abandonment outside of the cities. Even if educations were cheap as free, you also run the risk of creating an education glut where people can't put their degrees to use, because the job market is shaped by market forces which are abandoning American labor in favor of more profitable foreign workers.

The liberal response to this crisis is to encourage young entrepreneurship, but I'm not so sure that's going to create anything other than another Silicon Valley bubble where massive amounts of speculative capital are being pumped into projects of specious utility.

Johnny Joestar
Oct 21, 2010

Don't shoot him?

...
...



12001: a nite crew odyssey

CortezFantastic
Aug 10, 2003

I SEE DEMONS
Up early in the morning sick and had a weird fever dream of Trump doing coke and losing his mind at the debate Wednesday. The prophecy is foretold.

Now I'm watching the Simpsons and blowing my nose

LIKE A DOG

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

lol entrepreneurship is six bullet Russian roulette without a functioning social safety net

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS
whatever happened to robert morrow? I haven't seen him mentioned for ages

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

gay picnic defence posted:

whatever happened to robert morrow? I haven't seen him mentioned for ages

Accidentally ousted himself by running for president

SHVPS4DETH
Mar 19, 2009

seen so much i'm going blind
and i'm brain-dead virtually





Ramrod XTreme

baw posted:

it sucks, what kind of dork makes a song about reagan and then like explicitly talks about reagan and the things he did, like goddamn ever heard of allusion

you're entitled to your opinion, friend. but i respectfully disagree

i'm not good at ruckusin :sigh:

gay picnic defence posted:

whatever happened to robert morrow? I haven't seen him mentioned for ages

robert morrow

e: the hounds of love ~~! owns

SHVPS4DETH fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Oct 16, 2016

mannerup
Jan 11, 2004

♬ I Know You're Dying Trying To Figure Me Out♬

♬My Name's On The Tip Of Your Tongue Keep Running Your Mouth♬

♬You Want The Recipe But Can't Handle My Sound My Sound My Sound♬

♬No Matter What You Do Im Gonna Get It Without Ya♬

♬ I Know You Ain't Used To A Female Alpha♬

gay picnic defence posted:

whatever happened to robert morrow? I haven't seen him mentioned for ages

no longer the chairman of the travis county gop because of his independent presidential run

mannerup fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Oct 16, 2016

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theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

also, there's zero money at all for investment in bumfuck county. saying they should "go be entrepreneurs" is telling a kid with a baking soda volcano to apply for tenure at Harvard

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