That was my perception, as well. I thought at the beginning if he keeps this up, Harris is in trouble. As we all saw, the first 5-10 minutes were his high point.
If I had as much lobbying money as bankers, I'd probably be getting tax breaks, too.
I remember when the Tea Partiers were first voted in, and I asked on Facebook how long it'd be before they were co-opted. My friend replied as soon as some lobbyist bought them a steak dinner. How right he was!
I think the racism/misogyny/homophobia just comes baked in. It's hard coded.
I think InMD is looking at the root cause (for lack of a better word) and you're looking at the proximate.
Who among us wasn't outraged by the '08 bailouts? This gave rise to the Tea Party's economic populism. Unfortunately for America, this populism came with a side of racist xenophobia. Somehow, rage at the bankers who shafted Americans became rage at people who are in no position to do anything to Americans. People who lacked power in their own countries and who have even less here.
As Tea Partiers morphed in MAGA, the rage remained. Banks are unassailable so the rage had to be directed elsewhere. Guess where people who think they're at the top of the pyramid but are in reality nowhere near it are going to direct that rage.
Is this debate going to sway anyone? No one that I know, anyway. It might be good viewing from a comedic standpoint, but no one's going to learn anything about either candidate that we don't already know.
There is no amount of money that could have transformed the cinderblock cube I lived in. That said, doing that stuff at a mostly commuter college in Chicago would get you laughed off the campus.
I’m nowhere near an expert on insurance, but it seems to me that having a known, unremediated hazard, like an unsecured firearm, in your house might make it uninsurable.
On “Watch And React Live: The Harris Trump Debate”
I'm willing to go back to Bush. No one has clean hands here.
Hell's bells, Russia and Britain are great historical examples of what happens when great powers mess around in that country.
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That was my perception, as well. I thought at the beginning if he keeps this up, Harris is in trouble. As we all saw, the first 5-10 minutes were his high point.
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How far back in Afghanistan do you want to go?
On “The Party of the Middle”
What is the difference between the 2?
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If I had as much lobbying money as bankers, I'd probably be getting tax breaks, too.
I remember when the Tea Partiers were first voted in, and I asked on Facebook how long it'd be before they were co-opted. My friend replied as soon as some lobbyist bought them a steak dinner. How right he was!
I think the racism/misogyny/homophobia just comes baked in. It's hard coded.
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I think InMD is looking at the root cause (for lack of a better word) and you're looking at the proximate.
Who among us wasn't outraged by the '08 bailouts? This gave rise to the Tea Party's economic populism. Unfortunately for America, this populism came with a side of racist xenophobia. Somehow, rage at the bankers who shafted Americans became rage at people who are in no position to do anything to Americans. People who lacked power in their own countries and who have even less here.
As Tea Partiers morphed in MAGA, the rage remained. Banks are unassailable so the rage had to be directed elsewhere. Guess where people who think they're at the top of the pyramid but are in reality nowhere near it are going to direct that rage.
On “Watch And React Live: The Harris Trump Debate”
Mr. Positive with the closing statement.
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I wonder if it was only local. I got totally different ads.
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Mind boggling.
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That's a good point. Is there an American who doesn't have an opinion on Trump? And do we want that person voting? ;-)
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What are DJT's terms?
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Commercial break! Let's see who's sponsoring this sh*tshow.
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That's how good he is! Now I want to go to one of his rallies and bask in the idiocy.
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I would pay money to watch DJT free associate.
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I went over to r/conservative on Reddit. DJT is killing over there.
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Was it? I didn't hear anything.
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I actually started laughing when Trump talked about firing all of the officials who wrote books about what a terrible executive Trump was.
On “Brace Yourselves: The Debate is Coming”
Is this debate going to sway anyone? No one that I know, anyway. It might be good viewing from a comedic standpoint, but no one's going to learn anything about either candidate that we don't already know.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/9/2024”
There is no amount of money that could have transformed the cinderblock cube I lived in. That said, doing that stuff at a mostly commuter college in Chicago would get you laughed off the campus.
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The phrase in my day was "high school with ashtrays".
On “Apalachee Killer’s Father Now Charged”
I’m not sure how that applies.
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There are a lot more bad things that can happen with an unsecured firearm. I agree that school massacres are a vanishingly small percentage of these.
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I’m nowhere near an expert on insurance, but it seems to me that having a known, unremediated hazard, like an unsecured firearm, in your house might make it uninsurable.
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It ought to be a homeowner's insurance thing.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/2/2024”
Every thread on Reddit where the guy wants to open the marriage up ends up with him regretting it and her getting tons of new partners.
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