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Post by pepe on Jul 2, 2024 2:12:51 GMT
Well this independence day is going to be kind of redundant now the supreme court has pretty much ruled the president is a king.....
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Post by noidrhoid on Jul 3, 2024 7:33:43 GMT
Not done yet, Pepe, though it's not hard to imagine. Sadly, here's no magic wand to wave & make the evil high-tail it outta here. Hard to believe I'm watching these horrors but not much to do but gird the ol' loins & prepare for interesting times. Guess we're going to find out what Americans are really made of, yeah?
...shudders...
Sorry! That's probably not much help.
Thanks, again, for the venue, btw. 'Tis reassuring to find that the place that gave me shelter so long ago is still open for business.
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Jul 11, 2024 8:14:14 GMT
They can’t pretend it’s not a cult
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Post by pepe on Jul 11, 2024 9:00:58 GMT
Not done yet, Pepe, though it's not hard to imagine. Sadly, here's no magic wand to wave & make the evil high-tail it outta here. Hard to believe I'm watching these horrors but not much to do but gird the ol' loins & prepare for interesting times. Guess we're going to find out what Americans are really made of, yeah? ...shudders...Sorry! That's probably not much help. Thanks, again, for the venue, btw. 'Tis reassuring to find that the place that gave me shelter so long ago is still open for business. you are always welcome noid. |
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Post by joono on Jul 14, 2024 0:40:17 GMT
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pepe
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Post by pepe on Jul 14, 2024 0:43:00 GMT
aaww cute
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Jul 14, 2024 4:15:22 GMT
I think if you replace the “x” with “twitter” it works |
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Jul 14, 2024 4:17:31 GMT
very, very cute
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Post by noidrhoid on Jul 14, 2024 7:10:09 GMT
Well...
"My" Representative ( he's wholly "Lock Her Up" maga ) sent me an email, the other day, offering to help us get expedited passports. I wonder if he's trying to tell us something.
20 year-old with an AR-15. He get the rounds from one of those new bullet-vending machines?
Rhetoric's getting sharpened tonight, I guarantee. I can also pretty much guarantee rational gun laws will be an absolute NON-starter.
And the innocent murder victim will just be considered more "collateral damage" by a certain sect, if he's not useful as grist for a campaign.
I'm afraid it's going to get worse before it gets better.
And it feels like about all I can do is watch this unfold.
( although I AM going to get our passports . Better to have & not need then need & not have, yeah? )
If it feels like I'm being flippant about this, try to believe, I'm not. When I started this thread, I said it was going to get freaky. I don't think I actually imagined it would go on so long nor get this weird. I don't think anyone could have imagined the Shit Show that is Trumpland ~ it's almost mind-numbing & it takes me an enormous amount of resources to sort through want I see, hear & feel.
I desperately want to stick my head in the sand & hide until it's gone.
Sadly, I'm required to sit & watch, mostly idle.
I love this country very much and I've seen enough of the outside world, experienced enough, to know just how blessed I've been for so many decades.
Watching all that has occurred, the depths of...
Avarice and debauchery and...
cruelty for the SAKE of cruelty...
Sorry.
It's all just giving me a wee dose o' the sads & I don't have much time to work it through these days.
And, really none of us know how this will roll, right?
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pepe
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Post by pepe on Jul 14, 2024 7:24:34 GMT
sadly violence has become the norm in the past few years.
there is an old saying about reap what you sow......
I hope this is not the beginning of the much called for next civil war.
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Post by noidrhoid on Jul 14, 2024 8:14:39 GMT
"I hope this is not the beginning of the much called for next civil war."
Same here. It will be some feat, avoiding that.
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Post by joono on Jul 14, 2024 8:27:07 GMT
Thanks Kay. Good to know.
Scary times in your part of the world Noid, and one person is causing most of it.
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Post by noidrhoid on Jul 14, 2024 9:47:55 GMT
"Scary times in your part of the world Noid, and one person is causing most of it."
Scary times all around I think, J, but particularly here, at the moment, yes.
I'm thinking Ukraine is worse, facists are pushing hard in the U.K., France & who knows where else they're lurking.
And that orange guy should take some responsibility but that isn't really his "thing" and he's got lots of minions & allies that are equally guilty of feeding the hate.
I'm hoping cooler minds prevail but the screaming meemies have already started ( if they've ever really ceased ).
A current sampling from some folk I trust with the straight scoop...
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Jul 16, 2024 8:31:26 GMT
What I struggle to understand, and maybe some of our American friends can explain, is; you seem to vote for every position, right down to (it seems) the dog catcher, except the VP who is appointed by the Pres. The second most important person in the country and you have no direct say in who that is. How does that work?
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Post by noidrhoid on Jul 16, 2024 9:58:51 GMT
" How does that work?" For all my caterwauling about so many veeps, I never ONCE thought to consider this, SOooooo... About the VP From Senate.govI'm not sure it actually answers your question. I've only glossed it over & there's not much left in me tank. I CAN say I don't think Old Joe would have been as successful had he been saddled with a Vance or a Lindsay Graham by electoral trolls or some such. ( If'n I'm less coherent than usual, I apologize. It's not close enough, yet, to the end of a long day but I wanted to way in anyway. Thanks for making me think a bit! Also had NO idea that that's how ye spelt "caterwauling" & who knows WHEN I would become so edified? ) |
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Post by egulch2 on Jul 16, 2024 16:35:18 GMT
What I struggle to understand, and maybe some of our American friends can explain, is; you seem to vote for every position, right down to (it seems) the dog catcher, except the VP who is appointed by the Pres. The second most important person in the country and you have no direct say in who that is. How does that work? Originally, the vice president was the person who received the second place vote. This proved to be a problem when the president was from one party and the vice president was from another party. They eventually passed the 12th Amendment whereby the Vice President was chosen by the electoral college and was the person in the winning side, who received the second number of votes. This made it so both president and vp were from the same party. It wasn't until 1940, that the nominee picked his own VP. This was Roosevelt. He still had to have his selection nominated and voted on at the party convention. But it became moot as the individual parties have rubber stamped and nominated the person who the presidential nominee of the party has chosen. |
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Jul 17, 2024 0:38:57 GMT
Thank you both. It still seems weird to me, but now I understand the background
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Post by bradk on Jul 18, 2024 3:21:08 GMT
The same sort of thing applies to state's Lieutenant Governors. They have even less of a job than the Vice President does. There is really no need for them. It's not like if a Governor suddenly dies they need someone they can immediately hand the nuclear launch codes to.
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Post by joono on Jul 19, 2024 2:55:22 GMT
It's very good. Why can't people over yonder look at themselves and realise they are in a crazy cult.
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Post by pepe on Jul 19, 2024 3:51:31 GMT
she is bat shit crazy
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Jul 19, 2024 4:49:11 GMT
Yep, and getting more brazen about it too  |
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Post by egulch2 on Jul 19, 2024 13:39:19 GMT
And gets more so every day. |
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Post by moldman on Jul 19, 2024 14:51:29 GMT
So? Democrats follow the policies of Joe Biden and the Squad. Talk about NUTS.
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Jul 19, 2024 22:31:05 GMT
Deflection and non-denial duly noted
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Post by pepe on Jul 19, 2024 23:35:52 GMT
policies, or lack thereof aside, i really hope the republicans can reclaim their party and get some decorum back.
the maga circus really is not a good look.
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Post by pepe on Jul 19, 2024 23:36:42 GMT
Deflection and non-denial duly noted yes i noticed the non-denial too  |
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Post by pepe on Jul 22, 2024 1:04:13 GMT
so biden stepped out for the best interests of his party - trump's turn to do the right thing by his party now....  |
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Post by joono on Jul 22, 2024 1:05:41 GMT
Trump is too old to hold office for the next four years. Plus he has dementia.
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Post by bradk on Jul 22, 2024 1:08:16 GMT
policies, or lack thereof aside, i really hope the republicans can reclaim their party and get some decorum back. the maga circus really is not a good look. The MAGAts are the Republicans. There are no Republicans to claim the party from them. |
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It’s the Chris Gray reply that made me spit my coffee 
