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Epic High Five posted:She's going to get deported before she can vote for Trump again, which she absolutely would, lmao lol there won't be elections in 2020 or ever again. she'll deffo be purged tho, once the red hats get official sanction
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i'd really like to see someone like the zodiac killer or santorum or Huckabee or any of the other hardcore moral-majority fuckers come out and give a glowing endorsement of the AHCA because "It will literally help hundreds of thousands of devout Christian believers reach their eternal reward that much sooner. And really, isn't that the most awesome gift that an executive can give to his constituents?" I mean I know contemporary evangelical Christianity is a death cult, but something like the above doesn't even seem too on-the-nose for them at this point.
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:would appreciate if the federal government would help him back on his feet, but NOT looking for a handout I feel like that's part of the problem right there - so many people have been conditioned to see any form of government assistance as some kind of terrible thing that has to be avoided at all costs or else you become one of them and that's a fate worse than death. guess what my dude, you're absolutely asking for a government handout, and that's okay because you've already paid for it. unless he's somehow avoided paying taxes for his entire adult life, he's been making annual tithes to the government to pay for a lot of stuff, and one of the big things it's supposed to pay for is support and assistance during a natural disaster. this guy shouldn't feel any guilt at all about receiving support from the govt because of a situation that was completely outside his ability to influence or control. that's got to be one of the best tools in the R tool chest, the fact that they have psychologically conditioned people to reflexively reject any govt utility outside of limitless defense spending.
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:"Scorpion and the Frog but because the scorpion was independently wealthy from the privatization of numerous social programs that previously provided a safety net for the disadvantaged, and thanks to a few well placed donations with some high ranking government officials, the scorpion was plucked from the back of the sinking frog by a bald eagle that he paid to follow him and monitor him from the air 24/7. he could have just had the eagle fly him over the river in the first place, but he enjoyed making time to personally twist his stinger into the backs of those he oppressed. - how the parable will end in 2017
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Mycroft Holmes posted:trump cannot fail, he can only be failed perhaps the same could be said of all religions
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deadgoon posted:maybe if everyone knows what kind of porn i like they'll make more of the kind of porn i like the kind where the performers are green-screened in over a video montage of Chinese traffic accidents and a .mp3 of the emergency siren that airplanes use when they're in free-fall continuously loops over the audio for the duration of the scene? righteous
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:that guy being held by ICE whose wife voted trump? he got deported on Tuesday whenever I see these kinds of things, I always wonder whether the person is being genuine or if it's some kind of attempt to distance themselves from him now that tangerine pissbaby didn't usher in a 1000 year utopia or whatever. I get a fair number of these are fake, but for the ones that are real, do they really regret their decisions or are they just trying to scapegoat any responsibility for their actions?
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Tiny Deer posted:It's because now even a cool skull head wizard man has to have a dumbass origin story now. I thought about it, and I agree. when I was a kid, the episodes of cartoons that were origin stories were the most boring to watch because you know they have to end with the character in question coming to exist however they already are. if you can't fit a character's origin story with the opening title credit montage of the cartoon (ex. the original TMNT cartoon, or Freakazoid), they aren't important enough to have an origin story.
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Burt Sexual posted:Self correcting problem. yeah, it's going to be really interesting to see whether or not his policies actually exterminate a non-trivial portion of his voter base for 2020 a 50% mortality rate outside the "coastal leftist sanctuary homo strongholds"? hope you had a fun 4 years donny! edit: holy poo poo his whole term is a false-flag opp engineered by soros and bernie to usher in a leftist stalinist majority, and they'll have gotten all the dissenters to vote for their own execution!
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:correct, and true yeah, the older I get, the more I question whether or not those old chestnuts of wisdom were ever anything more than platitudes that the wealthy could use to explain via just-world fallacy why it was a direct failing in someone else that they weren't also wealthy. "tut tut, if only those poors/negros/women/etc. would have stayed in school. they are singularly responsible for their miserable lot in life!" [said schools had 6 books and 20 seats per each classroom with more than 30 students. many of the students did not have adequate food at home to maintain basic subsistence level nutrition, and schools were often unable to meet the burden of even feeding all of the enrolled students one meal a day. teachers at these schools were idealistic but unprepared in the best cases; more likely they were disengaged with their low pay and impossible standards and essentially keeping a chair warm for 8 hours a day] but you know, it's totally the fault of the poor that they didn't edit: or you complete K-12 compulsory education in a town with no economic prospects and parents that struggle just to keep the lights on at your house. now you've got a high-school diploma; why are you such a lazy gently caress-up that you aren't already a millionaire at 18? you finished school! Freaking Crumbum has issued a correction as of 19:49 on May 8, 2017 |
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Kung Food posted:One system tries to limit access to opiods as well as fund treatment for addicts. The other makes them easier to get and jails addicts. Kinda opposite approaches really. more directly, there ain't no money in the cure where-as using opoid use/abuse/addiction as a pre-qualifier for incarceration and forced participation as free-labor for the private prison system has the potential to generate a gently caress-ton of money plus it disproportionately targets minority communities, but that's actually the cherry on top of the fuckoff amount of money they can make
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nm posted:The opoid abuse issue is much more wealthy and white than prior drug issues (meth is white, but poor). This may end up being a bad play that hurts the republicans as many of the people involved will be trump supporter's children, grandchild, etc. just lol if you think any of the people affected will be able to draw a line between cause and effect that in any way implicates tangerine pissbaby. double lol if you think they'll vote any differently even if he went on national t.v. and directly admitted that he was personally flying all of the U.S. to force people to shoot up heroin. I mean, that's the whole reason this thread exists
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Fullhouse posted:http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/05/20/deportation-dragnet-ensnares-north-florida-man/101843196/ it's crazy how hard people were willing to project their own beliefs onto the actual words tangerine pissbaby was saying. "We'll round them all up and send 'em back to Mexico! = We will create a thorough and principled process whereby the relative economic merit of each individual will be weighed against a cross-section of their 12 best personal references. Surely, we will only deport the individuals that are responsible for violent crimes, and not otherwise harmless people who pay taxes and work hard".
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uber_stoat posted:they can't even admit that they hosed up. loyal as dogs. gonna be grim as hell when the checks stop coming and these rural whitey towns all simultaneously drop dead. they'll just pile all the dead Trumpies into a ditch and set them on fire. too many to bury. I can't wait for the return of Lovecraft-style isolated rural towns that turn into slaughter traps for anybody with the bad luck to try and travel through them, because murdering travelers is the only way anyone in town can find income or eat
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:if you're rich enough, because all that money will insulate you from right wing dictates in your personal life I think this is a pretty good description of what the current national dialogue means when using the term "liberal". people that might really mean well and want to help out their fellows, but at the end of the day they have next-to-no skin in the game, beyond whatever anecdotal, personal experiences they've accumulated (i.e. i have a gay brother so i'm slightly more involved in LBGT stuff, or my wife and i had an abortion when we were young so i'm slightly more passionate about PP, etc.). it's easy for people from these economic circumstances to espouse whatever social views they care to entertain, because at the end of the day, they are extremely unlikely to have to deal with the current reality of the social conditions in their city/county/state.
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:you can't tell me how to feel about trump voters realizing that they're going to die under trump, dad they're adults that made their own choices. gently caress em if they couldn't be bothered to consider the consequences of their actions, or to invest even a modicum of effort into researching the history of the guy they were considering. good loving lord, all these asshats were inundating every facebook feed and every email FWD:FWD:FWD with all kinds of MAGA horseshit, so I know they've somehow got internet access and the technical skill to use the internet. oh but these poor babies were lied to/played for fools/should be absolved of their responsibility for their actions! if they're so dumb that they don't possess the critical thinking skills to be responsible for their own actions, why are they allowed to vote any-loving-way? it can't be both; either they're adults that need to face the music of their own calamitous choices, or they all need to have their ability to manage their own affairs permanently revoked in the same way that any other incompetent adult has to give up their autonomy. that'd actually be a platform i could support. "every one of you chucklefucks that are willing to acknowledge that you're barely smart enough to remember to breathe and to be permanently declared legally incompetent can have your obamacare and your food stamps and your paradoxical sense of entitlement returned. if you're too proud to accept the offer, then  "
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Business Gorillas posted:Maybe we should look into depriving our political opponents the right to vote? - someone who doesn't control any lever of government i dunno, it's been an extremely successful platform of the GOP for the last three-ish decades!
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Best Korea posted:and felt Clinton talked down to them. for the life of me I can't understand this. you can call me poo poo-for-brains morning, noon, and night as long as you're going to give me the lifesaving medicine I need to continue living. it would be nicer if you didn't, but given the option between medicine and derision or flowery language and empty promises, i'll take medicine and derision. even in the context of this specific election, I can't understand how people ever thought a New York billionaire was in any way a kindred spirit, or had ever personally experienced anything close to their level of privation. I mean yeah, he lied a lot, but come on, he was lying! how the gently caress do you hear all that nonsense and Best Korea posted:Also, these were Democrats until 2008 because they couldn't handle the idea of a black guy being in charge. suddenly this is all starting to make sense.
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Fullhouse posted:these people suck and trump using them as political props was disgusting. they deserve nothing Al! posted:i exploited my dead sons image, and i'm not even going to get a payday???????????? is there no justice in this world!?!?!?!?!?!? no but see we're collectively all at fault for these people's self-serving and short sighted decisions in some intangible, nebulous way! what if LIEbruls are the real racists make u think
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/870024334076674049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw no poo poo i had someone at my work mention this exact tweet and they added "hey at least he gave tromp 3 strikes. that how our courts work!" yeah boy amazing how his third strike just happened to coincide detrimentally with elon's personal wealth and ambitions
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Doc Hawkins posted:Trump heard too many white nationalists calling Obama the most divisive president in history, believed them, and got jealous. PleasingFungus posted:does it count as divisive if literally everyone winds up hating him, tho so you're saying he's solving the problem via the worst possible method available. trimp is basically a really really really dumb Ozymandias.
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Bushiz posted:In order to justify the Bush administration the American right had to become a literal death cult sometime around 2006. There's only so long you can try to control a death cult before it, you know, does what it says on the tin. it's been a death cult at least since the 80's, when they permanently married the party to all of the Christian Evangelicals for easy votes, not realizing (or caring) that a core tenant of their religious philosophy is that world war 3 needs to happen so that the anti-Christ can be made manifest and trigger the Rapture. not every Christian Evangelical is super hardcore about it, but it's basically all the Book of Revelation is about. it'd be a pretty gnarly basis for a dark souls-like video game if it wasn't the theology being actively used to cudgel the country into obeying their warped world view. the other half is that they 100% believe that there's a literal HeavenTM waiting for them when they die, so having shortsighted and selfish politics here on earth is a big "whatever" because it won't affect them in HeavenTM 
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Uncle Wemus posted:Im all the trump voter responses saying its good because they are ILLEGAL I love that there's not even loyalty or sympathy for their own. they're like a pack of starving wolves that have finally started descending on each other A REAL GODDAMN AMERICAN posted:you're an illegal that voted for trump? well, you did the wrong thing for the right reason, but we still hope you get deported! 
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not in contemporary times, but it is at least internally consistent that the original descendants of this country's protestant founders would be leery of Catholicism jumping the pond and ruining their city on a hill, if only because the protestant founders were the 17th century version of the Mormons, holding unpopular religious views and literally fleeing across the pond to escape papal authority in the first place. I guess all these idiot tormp voters are a pretty neat impromptu social experiment about how incredibly awesome white privilege is in the U.S. these people are so desperate to count as white that they willing voted for the candidate who is going to forcibly export them out of the country, on the off-chance that maybe their vote would somehow prove their inherent white-ness and earn them an honorary doctorate in being white. edit: they heard the expression "one of the good ones" and thought they could earn their way into that category, but the trimp hive-mind believes "the only good X is a dead X" Freaking Crumbum has issued a correction as of 19:53 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:
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amidst him getting some kind of patent or whatever for his clothing brand there, and jared & ivanka having private dinners with Chinese heads-of-state, and trying to scam chinese investors into buying their way into citizenship via investments in their real estate, and a thousand other shady criminal things at this point, are we sure that turmp doesn't want all of our business to go to CHYNA? seems like most of his money is moving that direction oh holy poo poo, he's in too deep with the russians to cut and run, so he's going to try and go even deeper into debt with the chinese, betting that they'll protect him from the russians if only to make him pay good on his debt to them. he's trying to use his platform as POTUS to slick willy his way through a russian mob vs triad gang war
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:and ford will move the next plant to mexico in response swap.avi style. nice
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:large animal veterinarians are about to get their business increased bigly it's that episode of seinfeld where kramer takes the dog to the vet to get medicine for himself, except in reality and way more depressing. actually, what is a veterinarian's liability if the owner takes the pet medicine? could be worth investing in whatever companies manufacture pet medication in the near-term. Relevant Tangent posted:Undischargeable medical debt that passes on to your children and debtors prisons so if they don't pay you can legally make them slaves. Alabama is the model, but it's not perfected yet. yeah but to where will the modern day puritans flee to escape their indebtedness and servitude? mars?
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i don't know if anyone else has had this experience, but it's absolutely insane how american evangelicalism has become a blatant death-cult. my boomer parents both firmly believe that trump is a good and righteous man because he's the only politician willing to usher in the rapture by ensuring that all the apocalyptic prophesies about isreal come true. they'll openly tell you there's good jews (orthodox of course) and bad jews (every other denomination) and that trump is allied with netanyahu because he's a good jew and only by supporting him is there any chance of the biblical rapture happening. they're not shy at all about the theoretical loss of life that is explicit in the terms of the rapture; their attitude is "well everybody has had their chance to believe in the good word and accept jesus as their savior and if they have decided not to do that, it's no skin off my back. they made their choices and i'll be going to heaven when i die so what do i care". anyway a lot of other evangelicals in their age cohort seems to agree with this general interpretation of values and it basically means there's a non-trivial amount of voters that are voting for trump explicitly because they expect he's going to kill a whole lot of people and in so doing trigger the rapture. like, there's "trump voters realizing they're going to die under trump" but i feel like "trump voters explicitly voting for trump because they expect to die under him" is just next level insanity.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:a lotta the time these places hafta offer significantly reduced or free admission for the kids of their employees, because otherwise they wouldn't be able to afford it on what they pay them my older brother's wife quit her job as a middle manager in retail to go be a teacher at her kid's pre-school because they did the math and figured out the savings in tuition + minimal hourly / salary was still a net gain for their family over her continuing to work at separate job + pay for childcare for two kids. A Wizard of Goatse posted:90% whatever insurance covers someone else's kid pissing in your electrical sockets it's this. any business that primarily deals with children has insane insurance rates
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Crunchy Black posted:loving yeah, that's been the case since i was in my early 20s and my youngest brother came out and my parents (predictably) treated him like poo poo. i had moved out when i was 18 and had been living on my own for several years, so when he came out and told me what they said / did to him, i had him move in with me and told my parents how badly they had hosed up, treating their own son like this. i mean, they weren't cool with me either, but since i'm cis-het i didn't have to deal with the kind of mind games they apparently started dropping on him. for years i think i spoke to them maybe once or twice in a given year. when my wife became pregnant and i told my mom, she wanted to do some magic 180 and pretend like they could just be cool fun grandparents that would be involved in my daughter's life, and it was cathartic getting to tell her why that was never going to happen and they could gently caress right off.
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BiggerBoat posted:That sucks. I can relate. my old man's a lost cause but i can occasionally engage my mom without it being confrontational (now, years later) and i've gotten her to the point where she'll admit that if it weren't for leviticus & the OT she'd have nothing else to base her homophobia on, and yet she's unwilling to take that next step and admit she's made a massive horrific mistake treating her youngest son like she has. the joke is my brother and his husband now live a great life many states away and he refuses to tell anyone outside me his address / phone number / etc and honestly i can't blame him. every now and then my mom will ask for his info and i have to remind her "i can tell him you want to talk to him, but that's as far as i can take you"
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it was probably a year or two ago, but there was an article posted about some research that was done that considered an annual cohort of med-school grads from across a variety of different schools, and observed to which cities / areas they were most frequently settling in after their initial rounds were complete and they could begin residency. something like 70% of the respondents refused offers of higher salary / better perks from hospitals is highly conservative areas. they were voluntarily taking pay-cuts to instead work on the coasts, or (in the case of texas) a city like austin that's a well-known outlier relative to the standard state political scene. when asked why they were turning down all that money (sometimes as much as a $250k/yr difference) a lot of the new doctors responded something along the lines of "i don't want to raise my eventual children in a state that includes a school curriculum that denies evolution in favor of jesus dinosaurs and abstinence only education". basically these highly educated people, that are specifically trained to help save the lives of others, cannot even be compelled by money to move to regressive cities / states. this has some pretty serious implications for the future lifespans of people in those areas, as their current doctors will eventually retire / die, and very few new grads are even willing to set foot in their cities. essentially, the only new doctors that were willing to move into regressive areas were doctors that were either natives of a given place, or else natives of a similar location. anybody with any sense is their heads is correctly deciding "no loving way do i want to spend my life around these god awful fucks" anyway the good news is, if there is another civil war it's extremely likely the conservative team will very quickly suffer massive casualties from what should be otherwise minor injuries / illnesses, because there's not going to be anybody around to actually provide medical care for them.
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do you think maga chuds would lose their poo poo the most over: 1. trump spontaneously passes comprehensive firearms reform 2. trump spontaneously reverses all partial abortion bans and makes abortion legal everywhere 3. trump spontaneously censors all video games that include any violent elements 4. trump spontaneously implements M4A just to spite the dumbocrats 5. trick question, there's nothing he could do that would actually cause him to lose these people's votes in 2020
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Pacho posted:I believe Trump openly supporting BLM would tank his votes 1. openly supporting BLM and taking concrete steps to improve their lives (reparations or etc) 2. openly supporting trans rights and taking concrete steps to improve their lives (expanded rights for protected classes or etc) 3. openly denouncing nazis / alt-right and taking concrete steps to punish them (reinstating federal funding for domestic terror prevention or etc) 4. openly denouncing ICE and taking concrete steps to punish them (closing concentration camps, prosecuting employees or etc) which one costs him more maga votes? which one makes them more likely to aim their second amendment rights at the WH?
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BiggerBoat posted:So you're going to walk away from $15 million dollars to spite your sister over some land you don't want anyway? assuming that wasn't just an unsourced quote, the idea is that keeping the farm and using it as a means of enabling your current lifestyle is easier and probably more consistent than taking a one-time pay out. if the govt is paying you not to touch the field (or otherwise subsidizing the enterprise) you really aren't out anything but whatever personal effort it takes to keep those subsidies rolling in. on top of that it's a business, so there's all kinds of tax $15M is a lot of money for most people, but you'd have to compare that against whatever it is you're effectively "making" by keeping the farm operating (or not operating) over however many more years you think you can keep the scam going. plus you're probably not getting all $15M after taxes, etc etc
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CodfishCartographer posted:Yeah lmao imagine if they only got like $10m, or even only $5m or $3m! How can someone possibly live on that?? Definitely not enough money to just buy a small condo in a decent neighborhood and gently caress off doing nothing for the rest of your life. i wasn't intending to support the unsourced quote, i was just explaining the mindset behind it. it's not like it's particularly difficult to imagine what / how / why someone that's greedy & selfish would reach those conclusions. "get your gubmint hands off all of this wealth i
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FMguru posted:Would love to follow up with that rallygoer a year from now. unless that dude is dead within the next year (entirely possible) there's no way he changes his vote, no matter what trump says / does. if you've ridden with him this far, you're past the point where any new information is going to change your behavior.
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