In different cultures department and hate-reads, some couples apparently are charging invitees to attend their wedding and it is causing a riff: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/style/wedding-guest-charge.html#commentsContainer
In the west, there is generally a tradition against cash gifts. In a lot of Asian cultures, cash gifts of a few hundred dollars or more) is usually the norm.
Trump is allegedly on the phone or was on the phone with Netanyahu to tell him to not agree to a ceasefire because a ceasefire helps Harris: https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1825934511038939515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1825934511038939515%7Ctwgr%5E59f08fffe736995dbba0ee5cfe2166db18501488%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dlawyersgunsmoneyblog-comt_i%3D14385220https3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F3Fp3D143852t_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F20242F082Fwe-will-never-know-if-biden-was-right-to-drop-outt_e%3DWe20Will20Never20Know20if20Biden20Was20Right20to20Drop20Outt_d%3DWe20Will20Never20Know20if20Biden20Was20Right20to20Drop20Outt_t%3DWe20Will20Never20Know20if20Biden20Was20Right20to20Drop20Outs_o%3Ddefaultversion%3D4cca83b0da0691f931ef86061fb7db43
There is also what I think of as the Charles Krafft problem. Imagine someone told you that a dear friend of yours had been participating on white supremacist sites for years and gave you proof.
Are people going to be angry at their friend or angry at the person who pointed out their friend was a white supremacist?
Luckily, the York, PA speech was a bomb as far as I can tell.
The question though is who is ignoring it. Joe Biden has tried with all his valiance and might to highlight Trump’s racism and was largely rewarded with being seen as too old and whatever Grandpa because have you seen egg prices and he was allegedly Genocide Joe.
Harris is pointing it out and seemingly doing better because he campaign knows how to troll people well and people see her youthful 59 and now think he us old and unfit on many levels for the Presidency.
Interestingly depending on who you ask, she is a moderate or heavy favorite to win the Presidency or people still see it as a 50/50 chance Trump wins because Harris polling is way better than Biden’s but still in margin of error territory.
I think it is places like OT unfortunately that make it easier for Trump to get sway with these kind of stunts and antics and barely hidden messaging. This site does it because the PTBs have a view that it is possible to debate all topics including contentious topics with the tones of dulcet tea party and maintains this through aggressive word blocking that moderates words like N##i in order to avoid Godwin’s Law. They might think this avoids OT becoming just another internet site but I think the practical effect is that it helps Trump supporters and penalizes his opponents because it enforces indirect confrontation. Sometimes people need to be confronted directly even if it makes others squirm.
Trump is a racist, white supremacist, and his staff is filled with white supremacists and xenophobes even if some of them are too stupid to realize “those trains are never late” like Ben Shapiro, Stephen Miller, and Libs of Tik Tok lady. The last train to Auschwitz is still a train to Auschwitz.
The cult of “polite dialogue and a wide views is always possible” isn’t worth it if means giving cover to explicit or implicit Trumpists* (whether they admit it or not) and the kind of leftist whose view seems to be it is the perfidious Democratic Winemoms from Mill Valley and Roslyn who are the real roadblocks to socialist revolution (TM) and hey, at least the Trumpists hate Democrats too.
*There have been various times that OT has tried to recruit writers from rural America because it is an underheard voice and the pattern is always the samre. The writer starts off reasonably enough but eventually the full force of white resentment and cultural grievance comes out.
The most logical school year is Singapore which starts right after NYD in January and ends in mid-November.
I semi-seriously think being a degree north of the equator allows them to do this because the weather is hot and humid or hot and humid and the amount of daytime vs. nighttime each day varies by minutes, not hours.
I think there are a fair number of voters out there who think Trump is vile and gross and corrupt but they have this cartoon version of the Democrats in their head which is basically close to Comet Pizza. Not exactly Comet Pizza but they still think the Democrats are some radical party that wants to allow Judith Butler to rewrite elementary school to introduce mandatory gender queer in second and third grade. I
Every now and then there is someone who can be very loosely associated with the Democratic Party (who is not officially a Democratic spokesperson) that feels like a blast of a furnace to a normal person.
The NYC City Council is trying to find a way to ensure students don't get signaled out based on their race, gender, weight, etc. for dress code violations. This is known to happen a lot. Girls get hit with more violations than boys and in ways that are completely random. An internet acquaintance stated she was punished for wearing sundresses but not for her more revealing (in her words) cheerleading outfit.
Students who discussed this at a NYC City Council meeting were accompanied by a woman named Alaina Daniels, who allegedly introduced herself to the Council as a "white, queer, neurodivergent, nonbinary trans woman" (according to the NY Times article).
I think there are a decent percentage voters out there who here this, find it extremely intimidating, and somehow impute it to the Democratic Party overall and think we all talk like this, all the time.
Known right-wing troll and N@@i Jack Posobiec tries to troll Democratic voters, gets identified and trolled in return: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dfa84162c67d628f377515687ffd9527bb770510ebb0a6303ff4634fb3ee90da.jpg
JD Vance speaks out against those…Germam, Irish, Italian immigrants and the crimes they brought to the U.S.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/jd-vance-lovingly-pulls-the-johnson-reed-act-out-of-his-nostalgia-file
Come to think about it, I heard about a guy whose Grandfather immigrated from Germany and was arrested for being a pimp. What was his name? Oh yeah, Donald J. Trump
I was never really into Disney. Movies all over are not doing great. one of the best movie performances this year was from In & Out 2, which is from Disney.
JB, you are a grown man who is over the age of 50. You have access to the original Snow White. You aren't going to be marched at Bayonet point to watch this Snow White. I haven't watched a Disney movie in decades except for the Marvel movies. You aren't going to be forced to march from a movie theatre showing this Snow White to a seminar room where you will be required to listen to an oral reciting of the complete works of Judith Butler.
This movie can exist without it causing you a tizzy.
JB has done nothing to really elicit a good-faith interpretation from most of us to be honest and a lot of us don't think his ideology is loveable libertarian scamp.
Oh JFC, women don't dislike Vance because he played Magic even if it is still a mainly male thing to do. Women dislike Vance because he is an anti-abortion extremist, a hypocrite, and basically gets to as close to arguing that allowing women to vote was a big mistake without explicitly stating it.
IN JB's world, everything is about being sore about Dungeons & Dragons being very unpopular when he was in high school and marking you as a target for cheerleaders.
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On “Open Mic for the week of 8/19/2024”
The r@tfu@@ revealed: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/politics/robert-kennedy-campaign-future.html
RFK Jr considers dropping out to support Trump. Ah but Trump's ability to be a dignity wraith should continue
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In different cultures department and hate-reads, some couples apparently are charging invitees to attend their wedding and it is causing a riff: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/style/wedding-guest-charge.html#commentsContainer
In the west, there is generally a tradition against cash gifts. In a lot of Asian cultures, cash gifts of a few hundred dollars or more) is usually the norm.
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Trump is allegedly on the phone or was on the phone with Netanyahu to tell him to not agree to a ceasefire because a ceasefire helps Harris: https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1825934511038939515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1825934511038939515%7Ctwgr%5E59f08fffe736995dbba0ee5cfe2166db18501488%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dlawyersgunsmoneyblog-comt_i%3D14385220https3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F3Fp3D143852t_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F20242F082Fwe-will-never-know-if-biden-was-right-to-drop-outt_e%3DWe20Will20Never20Know20if20Biden20Was20Right20to20Drop20Outt_d%3DWe20Will20Never20Know20if20Biden20Was20Right20to20Drop20Outt_t%3DWe20Will20Never20Know20if20Biden20Was20Right20to20Drop20Outs_o%3Ddefaultversion%3D4cca83b0da0691f931ef86061fb7db43
On “Why on Earth Would Trump Plan This Speech At This Location At This Time”
This is a real “fact check” a reporter wrote and the media published on Trump refusing to accept election results if he loses. Our media is hopeless
https://bsky.app/profile/thearchduke.bsky.social/post/3l24s6jass62j
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/19/2024”
That seems short.
New York ran school from the Wednesday after Labor Day until mid June
On “Why on Earth Would Trump Plan This Speech At This Location At This Time”
There is also what I think of as the Charles Krafft problem. Imagine someone told you that a dear friend of yours had been participating on white supremacist sites for years and gave you proof.
Are people going to be angry at their friend or angry at the person who pointed out their friend was a white supremacist?
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Luckily, the York, PA speech was a bomb as far as I can tell.
The question though is who is ignoring it. Joe Biden has tried with all his valiance and might to highlight Trump’s racism and was largely rewarded with being seen as too old and whatever Grandpa because have you seen egg prices and he was allegedly Genocide Joe.
Harris is pointing it out and seemingly doing better because he campaign knows how to troll people well and people see her youthful 59 and now think he us old and unfit on many levels for the Presidency.
Interestingly depending on who you ask, she is a moderate or heavy favorite to win the Presidency or people still see it as a 50/50 chance Trump wins because Harris polling is way better than Biden’s but still in margin of error territory.
I think it is places like OT unfortunately that make it easier for Trump to get sway with these kind of stunts and antics and barely hidden messaging. This site does it because the PTBs have a view that it is possible to debate all topics including contentious topics with the tones of dulcet tea party and maintains this through aggressive word blocking that moderates words like N##i in order to avoid Godwin’s Law. They might think this avoids OT becoming just another internet site but I think the practical effect is that it helps Trump supporters and penalizes his opponents because it enforces indirect confrontation. Sometimes people need to be confronted directly even if it makes others squirm.
Trump is a racist, white supremacist, and his staff is filled with white supremacists and xenophobes even if some of them are too stupid to realize “those trains are never late” like Ben Shapiro, Stephen Miller, and Libs of Tik Tok lady. The last train to Auschwitz is still a train to Auschwitz.
The cult of “polite dialogue and a wide views is always possible” isn’t worth it if means giving cover to explicit or implicit Trumpists* (whether they admit it or not) and the kind of leftist whose view seems to be it is the perfidious Democratic Winemoms from Mill Valley and Roslyn who are the real roadblocks to socialist revolution (TM) and hey, at least the Trumpists hate Democrats too.
*There have been various times that OT has tried to recruit writers from rural America because it is an underheard voice and the pattern is always the samre. The writer starts off reasonably enough but eventually the full force of white resentment and cultural grievance comes out.
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/19/2024”
The most logical school year is Singapore which starts right after NYD in January and ends in mid-November.
I semi-seriously think being a degree north of the equator allows them to do this because the weather is hot and humid or hot and humid and the amount of daytime vs. nighttime each day varies by minutes, not hours.
On “Conservatives for Kamala”
I think there are a fair number of voters out there who think Trump is vile and gross and corrupt but they have this cartoon version of the Democrats in their head which is basically close to Comet Pizza. Not exactly Comet Pizza but they still think the Democrats are some radical party that wants to allow Judith Butler to rewrite elementary school to introduce mandatory gender queer in second and third grade. I
Every now and then there is someone who can be very loosely associated with the Democratic Party (who is not officially a Democratic spokesperson) that feels like a blast of a furnace to a normal person.
The NYC City Council is trying to find a way to ensure students don't get signaled out based on their race, gender, weight, etc. for dress code violations. This is known to happen a lot. Girls get hit with more violations than boys and in ways that are completely random. An internet acquaintance stated she was punished for wearing sundresses but not for her more revealing (in her words) cheerleading outfit.
Students who discussed this at a NYC City Council meeting were accompanied by a woman named Alaina Daniels, who allegedly introduced herself to the Council as a "white, queer, neurodivergent, nonbinary trans woman" (according to the NY Times article).
I think there are a decent percentage voters out there who here this, find it extremely intimidating, and somehow impute it to the Democratic Party overall and think we all talk like this, all the time.
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/19/2024”
Known right-wing troll and N@@i Jack Posobiec tries to troll Democratic voters, gets identified and trolled in return: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dfa84162c67d628f377515687ffd9527bb770510ebb0a6303ff4634fb3ee90da.jpg
Charlie Kirk also got identified and called out.
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Israel accepts a ceasefire deal: https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-blinken-hamas-palestinians-gaza-34f91f99c9a4f63e98134aaecb7af971
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I still think starting school before Labor Day is weird. School should start on the Wednesday after Labor Day
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/12/2024”
Apparently he is now using Gangs of New York to defend the comments
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JD Vance speaks out against those…Germam, Irish, Italian immigrants and the crimes they brought to the U.S.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/jd-vance-lovingly-pulls-the-johnson-reed-act-out-of-his-nostalgia-file
Come to think about it, I heard about a guy whose Grandfather immigrated from Germany and was arrested for being a pimp. What was his name? Oh yeah, Donald J. Trump
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Flo found insurance to be a more lucrative profession
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So what? We still have multiple Mel's Dinners and they are better
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I love the A game on these media advisories from the Harris-Walz campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYI99xuI9CM
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Based on his responses to me, he has not. Nor does he seem to think that something can be universal if it has a non-white lead.
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Is this how they announce they swallowed up Star Trek too?
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I was never really into Disney. Movies all over are not doing great. one of the best movie performances this year was from In & Out 2, which is from Disney.
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JB, you are a grown man who is over the age of 50. You have access to the original Snow White. You aren't going to be marched at Bayonet point to watch this Snow White. I haven't watched a Disney movie in decades except for the Marvel movies. You aren't going to be forced to march from a movie theatre showing this Snow White to a seminar room where you will be required to listen to an oral reciting of the complete works of Judith Butler.
This movie can exist without it causing you a tizzy.
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JB doesn't like it, so it is bad.
On “JD Vance and Yawgmoth’s Bargain”
JB has done nothing to really elicit a good-faith interpretation from most of us to be honest and a lot of us don't think his ideology is loveable libertarian scamp.
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Oh JFC, women don't dislike Vance because he played Magic even if it is still a mainly male thing to do. Women dislike Vance because he is an anti-abortion extremist, a hypocrite, and basically gets to as close to arguing that allowing women to vote was a big mistake without explicitly stating it.
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IN JB's world, everything is about being sore about Dungeons & Dragons being very unpopular when he was in high school and marking you as a target for cheerleaders.
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