Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[iam416]

The past 6-7 years have demonstrated quite well how much your average Republican/conservative sincerely values facts and Truth.

Yeah, I don't have much of a problem acknowledging R malfeasance and lies. I don't see any need in pretending the Rs are some sort of beacon of honesty and integrity. That seems to be your general, albeit not "all the time," approach to the Ds, though.

[Dr. Strangelove]

I'm also familiar with the "pin prick" stylus voting booths that Florida had that year because Ohio used them prior to 2004 too. Depending on the style of paper and if the perforations were misprinted, it's at least conceivable that a chad could be dimpled and not punched through all the way. I'm almost positive 2000 was the last year Ohio used those. In 2004 we had switched to the Diebold machines that Dems falsely accused of rigging the vote for Bush in 2004. The machines have changed at least twice since then.

Where I vote has gotten pretty fast and efficient. Our Driver's Licenses down here just gets swiped and a card gets created for you to insert in the machine. Once upon a time you had to sign the voter roll but it's been a while since I've been asked to do that. Presumably the License kills the need.

[DaGeezer]

Geezer, I'm not going to make a bold claim about the impossibility of "dimpled chads" based solely on your foggy recollection of a single letter to the Editor in the WSJ 22 years ago. It also has nothing at all to do with whether the 2020 election was stolen in Michigan. According to your own Party and your own elected officials, it was not.

Yup. You have no answer. Never do. How did those ballots get dimpled?

Voter fraud happens in big cities everywhere. I picked out an example of when it mattered, and I proved to you within your own memory that it did happen. We were one vote on the SC from having AlGore as President. And residents of MI know it happens in Detroit, and has for my lifetime. Why do you suppose the MI House and Senate are comfortably Republican? But MI always elects Dems to "statewide" office?

DSL, Dems vote to eat. Welfare recipients and unionized government employees are the immovable base of the Dem party (along with criminals, Transvestites, gays, queers, lesbians, and bi-sexuals). Republicans just want to be left alone, but the Dems have their DEI agenda to fund and need more and more money from those who work for a living.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Well, do you believe Trump got rich in office?

Do you believe the Russians actually wanted this guy (who said he was going to unleash the American O+G industry to make the US independent of world oil markets) to become President? The entire Russia Hoax is predicated on some fantasy that Trump's election would benefit Russia in some way. Another predicate was that Hillary wouldn't maintain the Obama policies that so greatly benefitted Russia.

No. What the left wants is to "reset" the US into its image. That image demands that God, family, and country be de-emphasized so as to make the state all-powerful. Have you ever read Das Capital? How about Rules for Radicals? Read more, DSL.

One, Trump was nowhere near as rich as he claimed to be when he ENTERED office, I think that much is pretty well established.

Two, do you think the Saudi royal family deposited $2B in Jared Kushner's startup investment fund mere months after Trump left office because they are in the habit of tossing that amount of money on totally inexperienced hedge fund managers? If Hunter Biden bothers you than surely Kushner's ablity to raise money from foreign governments post-office should too, yes?

Put aside everything about the Russia hoax and any assistance Trump may or may not have gotten, I absolutely DO believe Putin prefers the President be someone like Trump because he's a cynical transactionalist with very few governing principles. Anyone from the US "Establishment" would be hostile to Putin. Leftwing isolationist or rightwing isolationist, Putin wouldn't care. Just give him someone who cares more about making a "deal" than America's long-term interests.

[iam416]

This is a fanatastic parody from Charles Cooke on the news cycle: https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/...k-in-the-life/

Unfortunately, it's probably less parody than it should be.

[Mike]

I read that this morning and figured it would end up here. Really good stuff. Charlie is my favorite writer over there.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Cooke's sort of making this point but I'll say it explicitly, a vast swath of the media is just an perpetual outrage mill at this point and the internet is to blame. Newspaper and tv stations have known for generations that bad news sells much better than good news and the internet (social media specifically) has vastly accelerated the need for more bad news, something to get OUTRAGED over on a daily basis even when there's virtually no significant news.

A recent example might be the 48 hour furor (you might have missed it) over some fat rapper desecrating James Madison's beloved crystal flute, a crystal flute I reckon 99.9% of America had never heard of until the past week.

[lineygoblue]

Loretta Lynn has died. Age 90.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/loretta-lynn-coal-miner-s-daughter-and-country-queen-dies/ar-AA12AspU?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=91c938538dc44672a8d57acd47cec716

[klondike]

If you're a Democrat I just wonder how it feels to have your two running points being Jan 6th and abortion. Meanwhile, China is stripping the earth clean of rare elements, not minding any green earth concerns. And the U.S. is under its thumb in total trade agreements. Solar panels, chips and batteries being used are 100% dependent on fossil fuels.

[Dr. Strangelove]

The absolute worst kind of those stories are the ones headlined INTERNET MELTS DOWN OVER BLEAGLE'S COMMENTS ON FLEAGLE and then you look at the story itself and it's like two, or maybe three random ass Twitter users saying something beyond the pale. Who give a fuck.

But shitty internet media is just a relentless grind to publish, publish, publish, Content, content, content. Clicks, clicks, clicks.

[lineygoblue]

If you're a Democrat I just wonder how it feels to have your two running points being Jan 6th and abortion.

In Michigan, that's going to be good enough for Gretch, Lezzie Nessie and Benson to keep their jobs.

The USSC's Roe ruling gave them 4 more years.

The Dems are very good at winning one issue elections. Even one that guarantees the right to kill an inconvenient preborn child.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Michigan is a socialist state. And Ohio is the birthplace of Jeffrey Dahmer.

Game. Set. Match.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Nebraska's most famous resident was Charles Manson, you sick weirdo. Now go get your apron cuz the bikers will be rolling in soon and they love them some of Mrs. Wiz's world-famous ham loaf.

[THE_WIZARD_]

STFU

[THE_WIZARD_]

Nebraska most famous (after THE_WIZARD_) is Marlon Brando...dumbass...followed by Larry the Cable Guy.