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    The Sewer That Is The GOP: With All The White Supremacists, Conspiracy Nutters, And Other Malicious Whacko Subgroups, How Does It Get Fixed?

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    On 3/15/2024 at 3:24 PM, China said:

     

    Who needs to look at the road when god is on your side?

     

    Why does it sound like he's driving a racecar?

     

    On 3/18/2024 at 12:11 AM, Califan007 The Constipated said:

     

     

    Because the car is probably rigged up like cars in movies, and the car you're hearing is the 2nd vehicle that is actually doing the driving lol...

     

     

    It's a joke. A good one.  He was originally sitting in a parked car but someone 'shopped in the background and sound. 

     

    Fact Check: Did Mike Lindell Film Himself Driving Recklessly Along Highway? (newsweek.com)

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    Election 2024 & Presidential Race: Demented WannaBe Dictator Trump vs President Biden

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    [Tweet from A Call to Activism, below]
     
    A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:
     
    “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities
    which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility,
    no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility,
    no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously
    blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
     
    Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or
    even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever.
    And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
    But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a
    crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
     
    Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
    And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is
    a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
     
    There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some
    Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having
    no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our
    heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither
    plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy,
    or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
     
    And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when
    he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are
    unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all.
    He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow
    he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks
    them when they are down.
     
    So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does,
    listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some
    confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
    • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
    • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
     
    This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too;
    his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him
    speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form;
    he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of ****. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws,
    and so on ad infinitum.
     
    God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too.
    But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy
    and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely
    from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch
    out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?'
     
    If being a **** was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”
     
    -Nate White
     
     
     
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    Election 2024 & Presidential Race: Demented WannaBe Dictator Trump vs President Biden

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    3 hours ago, PeterMP said:

    Trump got over 100K more votes in VA than Biden in a state that Biden must win in Nov to win the Presidential election.

     

     

     

    5 minutes ago, Ball Security said:

    I would think Trump only having 100k more votes than Biden in VA would be concerning for Trump. I read (admittedly not positive of the source) that Fairfax County only had a 10% turnout and that Hailey won the Republican primary vote.

     

    Slightly over 1M people voted in the primary. 4.375M voted in the 2020 election. 2.4M voted for Biden. 346k voted in the Democratic primary.

     

    At the polling stations in Virginia you were asked if you want to vote in the Republican or Democratic primary. You could choose which, regardless of your party affiliation.

     

    This is anecdotal, but there was a lot of talk about Democrats and Independents, knowing that Biden was a shoo-in, choosing to vote for Haley as a way to repudiate Trump.  Haley garnered 240,839 votes, 34.8% of GOP votes.  I'm betting a good chunk of those were non-GPO voting anti-Trump.

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    The Washington Nationals Thread: The Future is Near!

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    19 hours ago, Always A Commander Never A Captain said:

     

    We have no idea if he's making the major league squad or not. They might withhold him until the summer for service time manipulation.

     

    I think MLB tweaked the rules so that there's less incentive or less ability to manipulate service time. I caught fragments of a conversation about that on 106.7 the other day.

    do car dealerships provide ANY benefit? beyond the obvious vile parasitic cancerous treacherous bull**** that is their day-to-day evil?

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    I’ve bought from CarMax also. If you’re not sure what model you want they have a wide range to look at and test drive. And I’ll pay a little more for the no-hassle pricing - what’s on the sticker is the price (what a novel concept) and not have to go through the hours-long Kabuki Theater of “negotiating” and still not knowing whether or not you got ****ed on the price. The cars have always been in tip-top shape from there as well. 

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