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#651
1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Wait. Yes I do know. @Captainant we’re talking about different people. You’re lumping everyone into the ~40% of R voters that are committed, hardcore MAGA and will actively support anything the regime does. I’m not talking among them. I’m talking about how you begin to reach and then deprogram the others.

It's mainly driven by social ties in my experience. That insane 40% tends to be highly socially connected - the crazies at the country club. But that means in order to keep up good graces, they MUST all accept and normalize their insane friends.

It's less so that they support trump, and moreso that they've been brainwashed their entire adult lives by reaganism and the belief that anyone to the left of Dick Cheney is a raging socialist communist that's going to turn their kids gay. And SURE, maybe the 60% of Republicans who are just useful idiots only believe half of that, but they will all fall in line and repeat whatever Dear Leader tells them to.

At this point, anyone who's paying attention and still pro-trump isn't the 40%. Theyre the people who are gonna be burning books in a giant pile in a few years of things keep going the way they are.

Like holy shit did you learn nothing from the failure of reconstruction? You can't give these assholes an inch

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#652
16 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It's mainly driven by social ties in my experience. That insane 40% tends to be highly socially connected - the crazies at the country club. But that means in order to keep up good graces, they MUST all accept and normalize their insane friends.

This is my experience as well. Inlaws (sorry to keep using them as an example, but they are my only real-life maga cultists that I have consistent contact with) are having dinner tonight (4pm early bird special) with two of their fellow cultists and I'm sure it will be another reinforcing round of hate-fantasy. These people are HARDCORE Christians and the inlaws have gone WAY down that rabbit hole as they've gotten older. All of their friends are big time into the church and big time magats.

#653
40 minutes ago, Captainant said:

At this point, anyone who's paying attention and still pro-trump isn't the 40%.

“Anyone who’s paying attention” doing some very heavy lifting. The majority of the voting population never really pays close attention. It’s the privilege of growing up in a stable western democracy. And unfortunately the only way to learn it’s unstable is to start paying attention or something getting your personal attention.

Like I know for a fact the ICE thing is having a huge negative impact among normies on the Republican brand in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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#654
8 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

“Anyone who’s paying attention” doing some very heavy lifting. The majority of the voting population never really pays close attention. It’s the privilege of growing up in a stable western democracy. And unfortunately the only way to learn it’s unstable is to start paying attention or something getting your personal attention.

Like I know for a fact the ICE thing is having a huge negative impact among normies on the Republican brand in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Also, again agree on a disengaged fraction of the electorate (and also believe that these are the ones responsible for Trump II Electric Boogaloo with "the base" remaining stagnant).

It's hard for me to be sure because I am now officially a political pervert for the first time in my life and accordingly voluntarily expose myself to various media (I try to avoid being siloed, but may not succeed)

But, I find it hard to believe that the disengaged moiety can be aware of ICE depredations and unaware of Trump's gutter racism and general stupidity and incoherence.

I accept that it was easier for them to forget what a general shitshow Trump I was and vote accordingly with a vague animus toward Biden/Harris because of the economy.

#655
2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I accept that it was easier for them to forget what a general shitshow Trump I was and vote accordingly with a vague animus toward Biden/Harris because of the economy.

The funny thing is though, the economy wasn't even doing all that poorly! Especially compared to our current donkey show. It was just their shared vibe and repeated mantra that the Dems are bad for business, and any success is in spite of them.

It's all delusion and blind belief over opening their eyes and looking for themselves.

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#656
17 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

“Anyone who’s paying attention” doing some very heavy lifting. The majority of the voting population never really pays close attention. It’s the privilege of growing up in a stable western democracy. And unfortunately the only way to learn it’s unstable is to start paying attention or something getting your personal attention.

Not paying attention to politics when we had a stable democracy made sense. But if you're not paying attention now, considering all the technology/media and politics infecting everything over the last decade, then it is an active choice to ignore our perilous times.

#657
3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

The funny thing is though, the economy wasn't even doing all that poorly! Especially compared to our current donkey show. It was just their shared vibe and repeated mantra that the Dems are bad for business, and any success is in spite of them.

It's all delusion and blind belief over opening their eyes and looking for themselves.

And border crossings had fallen dramatically. It was the perfect opportunity to codify better rules and lock it in.

#658
22 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Like I know for a fact the ICE thing is having a huge negative impact among normies on the Republican brand in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

I know this as well - our friends up there have plenty of MAGA relatives and friends who want ICE gone. They may not be out protesting or showing up to challenge ICE when they get notifications from this or that group, but they are not happy and they are pissed at Noem and some of them feel like this will blow up into something even bigger, and they do not want that.

#659
Just now, Parliament said:

And border crossings had fallen dramatically. It was the perfect opportunity to codify better rules and lock it in.

I've said this a lot in the immigration threads - these people come here because there are higher-paying jobs and a better situation than they had back in their home countries, full stop. It's the same reason our European ancestors came here in the 1600s and 1700s (or later if that's your family history).

If we want to reduce the amount coming in, we do two things:

  • Dry up the jobs. Prosecute businesses and people who hire them without proper verification (places like Tyson Foods and various real estate developers love to hire them - hammer those companies and things would change).

  • Look at what could be done to improve the conditions in their home countries. I don't mean Trump and Co. wanting to invade multiple countries or decapitate the leadership. I mean is there something we can do to help improve their economy or local systems, and hey, if we improve their economy, it opens markets for American businesses, win-win. Ironically, USAID was helping with that, when we shipped food to places that needed it. It would be cheaper and better than Trump hiring a bunch of unqualified people to go beat up anybody that glances sideways at them, and spending way too much money on border walls. It would keep more of our farmers employed (national security benefit right there) and it would stabilize our food prices.

#660
23 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Me too. Quite a few of them were literally screaming at me for owning guns a decade ago. I think this ICE bullshit drove the point home for them. Now I'm suddenly giving pointers.

Some of the ICE videos make me very mad in seeing how fellow Americans are being treated. If I were armed and personally saw that behavior, I would hope that I could stay calm and not draw a gun on ICE to stop hurting and kidnapping someone.

#661
51 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Like I know for a fact the ICE thing is having a huge negative impact among normies on the Republican brand in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Yet when it's time to vote............

#662
22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I've said this a lot in the immigration threads - these people come here because there are higher-paying jobs and a better situation than they had back in their home countries, full stop. It's the same reason our European ancestors came here in the 1600s and 1700s (or later if that's your family history).

If we want to reduce the amount coming in, we do two things:

  • Dry up the jobs. Prosecute businesses and people who hire them without proper verification (places like Tyson Foods and various real estate developers love to hire them - hammer those companies and things would change).

  • Look at what could be done to improve the conditions in their home countries. I don't mean Trump and Co. wanting to invade multiple countries or decapitate the leadership. I mean is there something we can do to help improve their economy or local systems, and hey, if we improve their economy, it opens markets for American businesses, win-win. Ironically, USAID was helping with that, when we shipped food to places that needed it. It would be cheaper and better than Trump hiring a bunch of unqualified people to go beat up anybody that glances sideways at them, and spending way too much money on border walls. It would keep more of our farmers employed (national security benefit right there) and it would stabilize our food prices.

3) "Colonize" them with American factories. Again we are SO close to this. American companies are rightly looking to leave China. Near shore those lower skill mfg jobs that arw quite frankly, beneath us.

#663
10 minutes ago, Parliament said:

3) "Colonize" them with American factories. Again we are SO close to this. American companies are rightly looking to leave China. Near shore those lower skill mfg jobs that arw quite frankly, beneath us.

It's synonymous, basically, but a more polite and accurate way to put it is that there are some jobs that carry with them environmental and workplace hazards that we just don't want here and the cost of minimizing them makes having those jobs here uneconomical.

That is, if we continue to give a shit about our environment or the health and safety of workers, which is dubious in the current environment.

#664
1 hour ago, Captainant said:

It's mainly driven by social ties in my experience. That insane 40% tends to be highly socially connected - the crazies at the country club. But that means in order to keep up good graces, they MUST all accept and normalize their insane friends.

It's less so that they support trump, and moreso that they've been brainwashed their entire adult lives by reaganism and the belief that anyone to the left of Dick Cheney is a raging socialist communist that's going to turn their kids gay. And SURE, maybe the 60% of Republicans who are just useful idiots only believe half of that, but they will all fall in line and repeat whatever Dear Leader tells them to.

At this point, anyone who's paying attention and still pro-trump isn't the 40%. Theyre the people who are gonna be burning books in a giant pile in a few years of things keep going the way they are.

Like holy shit did you learn nothing from the failure of reconstruction? You can't give these assholes an inch

@Bozo_Casanova = Steve Irwin

"If you just handle them with love and care......"

#665
26 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Yet when it's time to vote............

This. This. This. For apparently not following politics at all, the "normies" sure do find elaborate ways to justify voting for objectively terrible human beings and literally anyone other than one of those tax-stealing, welfare-giving Democrats they've "read" so much about.

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#666
1 minute ago, aggie08 said:

This. This. This. For apparently not following politics at all, the "normies" sure do find elaborate ways to justify voting for objectively terrible human beings and literally anyone other than one of those tax-stealing, welfare-giving Democrats they've "read" so much about.

It's been proven over and over again.

We have to hold their feet to the fire for the next proposed election.

#669

5 minutes ago, immamac said:

Is this about fucking sports or general shit? Go to the maga thread for general shit. This is like a 4 page derail.

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#670
9 minutes ago, immamac said:

Is this about fucking sports or general shit? Go to the maga thread for general shit. This is like a 4 page derail.

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#672
11 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Soooo......

That Aaron Rodgers sure does suck.

My wife, who doesn't watch football at all, thinks Aaron Rodgers is an asshole. She has come across him talking about things other than football on socials.

#673
12 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Soooo......

That Aaron Rodgers sure does suck.

holy shit it was great seeing him get absolutely abused by the Texans last night! I went to the fan game watch thing at NRG last night, just about blew the roof off that place with the pick six

#674
2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Like I know for a fact the ICE thing is having a huge negative impact among normies on the Republican brand in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Bullshit. Because (1) there ARE NO "Republican normies." They don't exist. Stop. And (2)...see Thatguy and Aggie responses below. They will all, at a 100% rate, vote for more of this.

They are beyond saving. All of them. Do not treat them as innocents who can be converted. That time has passed.

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

The funny thing is though, the economy wasn't even doing all that poorly! Especially compared to our current donkey show. It was just their shared vibe and repeated mantra that the Dems are bad for business, and any success is in spite of them.

It was doing BETTER than "not poorly." FFS, this was a cover of the Economist fall of 2024:

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All that this dipshit regime had to do was (1) not a goddamned thing, and (2) take credit for what was already happening.

But they couldn't fucking do it.

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

I know this as well - our friends up there have plenty of MAGA relatives and friends who want ICE gone. They may not be out protesting or showing up to challenge ICE when they get notifications from this or that group, but they are not happy and they are pissed at Noem and some of them feel like this will blow up into something even bigger, and they do not want that.

They'll come around and vote 100% for more of this. Because they can't POSSIBLE vote for a Dem, I heard the dems let a trans girl play tiddly winks at an elementary school in Oregon once.

1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

Yet when it's time to vote............

^^^^^ This. It is the only accurate answer.

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

3) "Colonize" them with American factories. Again we are SO close to this. American companies are rightly looking to leave China. Near shore those lower skill mfg jobs that arw quite frankly, beneath us.

I've suggested this so many times my brain hurts. There is no fucking reason that Whirlpool washers aren't being made in Honduras or Guatemala by now. Except for the fact that we can't get past demonizing and hating brown people who live nearby.

Want to solve 90% of our immigration issues? Make the places people are leaving places that people might want to stay. That's it. It's that easy. How do we know it works? See Germany and the rest of post-war Europe -- post-1945, refugees by the boatload fleeing because there was nothing for them. Then the Marshall Plan, rebuilding Europe and providing it a future. Now, people go TO Europe, they don't flee from it.

None of this is hard. But none of it gives you a chance to be hateful and cruel, and those are the only currencies of any value in our current social economy. Yes, that holds for all of your supposed "Republican normies." They enjoy suffering, don't let their lies tell you any different. They like it, and will vote for it, without wavering.

#675
9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Bullshit. Because (1) there ARE NO "Republican normies." They don't exist.

Counterpoint: that’s nonsense.

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#676
Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

Counterpoint: that’s nonsense.

Sorry it sucks that it's true. If you are ultimately okay with supporting fucking absolute white supremacist white nationalist flat-out nazi (I mean, actual, literal nazi -- they use the same fucking slogans and everything) with your vote, then you are not a normie. You are a piece of shit.

We crossed the Rubicon a good while back. Anyone on the Republican side of it today is a piece of shit. The only path forward for them is to experience enough suffering to make them cower/go away/give up.

#677
51 minutes ago, immamac said:

Is this about fucking sports or general shit? Go to the maga thread for general shit. This is like a 4 page derail.

It turned into doomerchat because the cabal has a case of the mondays and doesn’t want to hear that winning is their job.

#678
Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

It turned into doomerchat because the cabal has a case of the mondays and doesn’t want to hear that winning is their job.

Winning is our job indeed.

We win by bringing the suffering to all of them.

#679
55 minutes ago, immamac said:

Is this about fucking sports or general shit? Go to the maga thread for general shit. This is like a 4 page derail.

Ok fine, call SAS.

#680

can't wait to watch the olympics and watch American athletes get booed.

a) we deserve it

b) i feel terrible for the athletes themselves, as they get to take it from all sides, a pain I know all to well

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What a great fucking morning! Texans stomp Aaron Rodgers, Aziz shares an important message, and piece of shit MAGAT Scott Adams died.

More of this in 2026 please!

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#682
20 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

We crossed the Rubicon a good while back. Anyone on the Republican side of it today is a piece of shit. The only path forward for them is to experience enough suffering to make them cower/go away/give up.

We crossed the Rubicon in 1981, and I’ve heard lefties saying that there were no normie Republicans my whole life. And yet here you are, despite spending about that time as a Republican normie. It’s like the people who move to Austin griping about the people who want to move here and how it’s different now.

If you were redeemable, or to the extent that you were, there are plenty more of you where that came from.

So, speaking as a native, welcome to the ledge. Nice to have you. All are welcome as long as like to throw things and your aim is good.

#683
17 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

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What a great fucking morning! Texans stomp Aaron Rodgers, Aziz shares an important message, and piece of shit MAGAT Scott Adams died.

More of this in 2026 please!

This is a whole vibe man

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#684
19 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

We crossed the Rubicon in 1981, and I’ve heard lefties saying that there were no normie Republicans my whole life. And yet here you are, despite spending about that time as a Republican normie. It’s like the people who move to Austin griping about the people who want to move here and how it’s different now.

If you were redeemable, or to the extent that you were, there are plenty more of you where that came from.

So, speaking as a native, welcome to the ledge. Nice to have you. All are welcome as long as like to throw things and your aim is good.

Dude, completely wrong thought process. For most people it happened like this. In 1981 Reagan was behind the podium using euphemisms like "Welfare Queens" to get the average American to vote for policies that had little to no benefit to them because otherwise black people might benefit from free handouts.

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In 2025 voting for those policies is now a baked in expectation. Now we have moved on to physically harming our political enemies, but also EVERY minority group in the US starting with immigrants because they are the low hanging fruit. We are no longer using euphemisms. We are full out saying they are poisoning the blood of our country. We no longer believe in the Constitution and are actively trying to destroy it. We are consolidating power into one office.

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For most people old enough, they didn't change much, their preferred party just ran away from them while the other party moved closer to them in order to stay relevant. Not many people have made wholesale changes to themselves that switched from R to D, they've just held true to their own ideologies, which in 2025 are closer to the Ds. The refusal to ever vote D has forced a large portion of the population to engage in the mental gymnastics it requires to stay with the R party. That's why almost every republican you know has Fox news pumping almost 24/7. They need the constant programming because otherwise they can't make sense of it.

In 2025 you can talk to a right winger and easily break through their defenses. But as soon as they leave your site they will hop right back into the programming. The next time you see them it will as though you never spoke.

#685
15 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Dude, completely wrong thought process. For most people it happened like this. In 1981 Reagan was behind the podium using euphemisms like "Welfare Queens" to get the average American to vote for policies that had little to no benefit to them because otherwise black people might benefit from free handouts.

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In 2025 voting for those policies is now a baked in expectation. Now we have moved on to physically harming our political enemies, but also EVERY minority group in the US starting with immigrants because they are the low hanging fruit. We are no longer using euphemisms. We are full out saying they are poisoning the blood of our country. We no longer believe in the Constitution and are actively trying to destroy it. We are consolidating power into one office.

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For most people old enough, they didn't change much, their preferred party just ran away from them while the other party moved closer to them in order to stay relevant. Not many people have made wholesale changes to themselves that switched from R to D, they've just held true to their own ideologies, which in 2025 are closer to the Ds. The refusal to ever vote D has forced a large portion of the population to engage in the mental gymnastics it requires to stay with the R party. That's why almost every republican you know has Fox news pumping almost 24/7. They need the constant programming because otherwise they can't make sense of it.

In 2025 you can talk to a right winger and easily break through their defenses. But as soon as they leave your site they will hop right back into the programming. The next time you see them it will as though you never spoke.

This.

I've used this example repeatedly, but will do so again for clarity. I've read the Economist for decades. To the extent it takes policy positions (and it does, with regularity), I have historically been aligned probably 80% with their takes. Sometimes, they're too conservative (their deference to corporate power is too much for me), sometimes, they're a bit too left (which makes sense, they are a product of the modern European governance approach, and we'll have some differences, although they aren't chasms).

The Economist really hasn't changed. It was a source and set of beliefs that many "traditional Republicans" would have agreed with 20 years ago. Today? They literally condemn it as a leftist rag. The Overton window has flown by us all.

But in the past 10 years, functionally every Republican has gone there along with it. That's the difference. That's why I say there ARE not traditional republicans, just MAGAs. This shit was known in 2015. If you're still on board, you know what you've chosen. And almost none of them have defected.

#686
1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

In 2025 you can talk to a right winger and easily break through their defenses. But as soon as they leave your site they will hop right back into the programming. The next time you see them it will as though you never spoke.

But we aren’t talking about right wingers. We are talking about reachable normies. They exist. Just like they did in 1981, 91, 2003, and 2007.

1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

For most people old enough, they didn't change much, their preferred party just ran away from them while the other party moved closer to them in order to stay relevant.

I disagree and I’m not going to indulge this myth of the good old GOP. The party is basically the same under Trump as it has been since Reagan. They just took the mask off.

When he’s not posturing, for example, @Brisketexan will admit that Reaganomics were always bullshit, just like Bush-era “compassionate conservativism” was. He just didn’t know that yet. He was just like the Normies today. They don’t know yet, just like he didn’t know. So he left. The party didn’t leave him. some of them will leave too.

I know a lot of the anger former Republicans feel towards Trump is driven by nostalgia for what the party used to be, but the party hasn’t been that for 45 years. So their nostalgia is just longing to plug back into the matrix.

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#687
25 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

But we aren’t talking about right wingers. We are talking about reachable normies. They exist. Just like they did in 1981, 91, 2003, and 2007.

I disagree and I’m not going to indulge this myth of the good old GOP. The party is basically the same under Trump as it has been since Reagan. They just took the mask off.

When he’s not posturing, for example, @Brisketexan will admit that Reaganomics were always bullshit, just like Bush-era “compassionate conservativism” was. He just didn’t know that yet. He was just like the Normies today. They don’t know yet, just like he didn’t know. So he left. The party didn’t leave him. some of them will leave too.

I know a lot of the anger former Republicans feel towards Trump is driven by nostalgia for what the party used to be, but the party hasn’t been that for 45 years. So their nostalgia is just longing to plug back into the matrix.

infinite rep.

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#688
1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

But we aren’t talking about right wingers. We are talking about reachable normies. They exist. Just like they did in 1981, 91, 2003, and 2007.

I disagree and I’m not going to indulge this myth of the good old GOP. The party is basically the same under Trump as it has been since Reagan. They just took the mask off.

When he’s not posturing, for example, @Brisketexan will admit that Reaganomics were always bullshit, just like Bush-era “compassionate conservativism” was. He just didn’t know that yet. He was just like the Normies today. They don’t know yet, just like he didn’t know. So he left. The party didn’t leave him. some of them will leave too.

I know a lot of the anger former Republicans feel towards Trump is driven by nostalgia for what the party used to be, but the party hasn’t been that for 45 years. So their nostalgia is just longing to plug back into the matrix.

You might think it's the same but it's not the same. There have always been racists. But there have not always been Nazis.

This post is why I used the Steve Irwin reference. These people looked at this man after all the vile shit. The open talking about Eugenics. The poisoning the blood of the people. The 4 years of open and blatant lying. The making fun of a disabled person. The chaos of the last administration.The obvious grifting and corruption. They looked at all of that and still pulled the lever. That is not the same as pulling the lever for Reagan the second time. This is an unapologetically evil human being. People who pulled the lever for him not only knew what they were getting, they pulled it two more times, and at a higher rate each time. They are applauding the shit going on. You know how I know? Because when they are in anonymous spaces they are loud and proud about it.

#689
3 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

You might think it's the same but it's not the same. There have always been racists. But there have not always been Nazis.

There have not always been WHAT? Dude. I’ve got a faded facial scar from a minor injury in 1987 that says otherwise. Are you not old enough to remember the huge expansion of Nazi skinhead groups and very familiar right wing extremism in the 80s? David Duke? Pat Buchanan playing footsie with white nationalists? Randy Weaver?

Look at Reagan in this picture. He kicked off his campaign for President with a states rights speech in 1980. Do you not realize where he is standing? Who do you think he is talking to? It is not different today. It’s just more open.

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#690
4 hours ago, Thatguy said:

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For most people old enough, they didn't change much, their preferred party just ran away from them while the other party moved closer to them in order to stay relevant. Not many people have made wholesale changes to themselves that switched from R to D, they've just held true to their own ideologies, which in 2025 are closer to the Ds. The refusal to ever vote D has forced a large portion of the population to engage in the mental gymnastics it requires to stay with the R party. That's why almost every republican you know has Fox news pumping almost 24/7. They need the constant programming because otherwise they can't make sense of it.

In 2025 you can talk to a right winger and easily break through their defenses. But as soon as they leave your site they will hop right back into the programming. The next time you see them it will as though you never spoke.

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the only consistent principle of the republican party is HYPOCRISY.

#691
4 hours ago, Thatguy said:

This post is why I used the Steve Irwin reference. These people looked at this man after all the vile shit. The open talking about Eugenics. The poisoning the blood of the people. The 4 years of open and blatant lying. The making fun of a disabled person. The chaos of the last administration.The obvious grifting and corruption.

Man, I was so confused about the Crocodile Hunter for a minute.

#692
3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Man, I was so confused about the Crocodile Hunter for a minute.

Don't confuse him with this guy

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#693
On 1/8/2026 at 12:23 AM, Hermanator said:

This is a touchy subject at the moment, but what do you think of the Shipley situation? I would rather he recovers, but knowing he and his family are big magas and support the death and destruction of people who aren't like them makes me not give too much of a shit.

And the incessant religious nonsense his family throws out in every update on that thread made me just step away from reading it. I understand it's a crutch that these types of people lean on but damn, say it once and move on. It rings so hollow knowing the atrocities these people support.

A decade ago I'd be all in this guy's corner, religious dumbassery aside. Another example for me of trump showing me who some of my fellow Americans/Texans/Longhorns truly are. Such a shame.

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Fuck 'im.

#694
On 1/7/2026 at 3:34 PM, Brisketexan said:

I like blackjack, but not enough to go to a $50 minimum table.

Fucking this. I took my oldest boy to his Volleyball Nationals in Vegas in like 2022. Prior to that, I hadn't been since the late 90s, so the new Vegas was quite a shock to my system. Back then, I could play blackjack (real blackjack) for hours. Wouldn't win a ton or lose a ton on those $5-10 tables, but I had a good time. Drinks were free or cheap. Food was good, and cheap. Rooms didn't require you to take out a loan, etc. When we went in 2022, nothing was free. Nothing was cheap. Nothing was even reasonably priced. And nothing was better than before. In fact, most of it sucked and was stupidly expensive. Cheapest 'blackjack' table I could find anywhere was $50. So, welp, I'm not playing. Fuck these people. There's something about Vegas that I like, or liked, but I'm not gonna pay them stupid amounts of money for rooms and restaurants and for the ability to sit and lose money to them on games that are more rigged in favor of the house than they've ever been. /csb

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#695
On 1/11/2026 at 12:46 PM, Biff Tannen said:

Holy shit, just got into a yelling match with my wife (on my side) and the in laws. Just straight right wing propagandists. They immediately bring up shit that I only vaguely know about from the Fox News thread and such on this site as if it is straight reality.

The only thing that came of it from my super Christian MIL is she claimed Jesus would send the immigrants back instead of housing and feeding them. I told her that was the antithesis of Christianity and it made her double take. For a moment, she was self aware. But only a fleeting moment. Then she gave me the finger.

So, wait. She's MAGA and knew what 'antithesis' means?

I ain't buyin' it.

#696
On 1/11/2026 at 3:39 PM, Fastbreak said:

World Cup, I hope we lose every game 10-nill

Olympics? I hope 0 medals.

Yeah I don't see how I can root for our teams, minus a specific reason to pull for a certain athlete or something, I guess. I just can't.

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14 minutes ago, wood said:

Yeah I don't see how I can root for our teams, minus a specific reason to pull for a certain athlete or something, I guess. I just can't.

I wouldn't count out all American Olympians just yet. It's the Winter Olympics, so probably a few from Minnesota.

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#698
On 1/11/2026 at 7:43 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Point out that he was violating DHS policy with this shooting by trying to get in front of the Pillot, and also that he was violating DHS policy when he got dragged before.

Yep. He got dragged because his arm was wedged between the seat and the frame/door. He had to have gone in pretty deep for that to happen. In other words, he's a fucking idiot who's poorly trained, like most of them.

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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I wouldn't count out all American Olympians just yet. It's the Winter Olympics, so probably a few from Minnesota.

391582

Oh yeah, I'll make exceptions when warranted, for sure. (not that it'll make any difference to anyone else)

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11 hours ago, wood said:

Yeah I don't see how I can root for our teams, minus a specific reason to pull for a certain athlete or something, I guess. I just can't.

I can. Our Olympic athletes have achieve in the absolute most difficult way; they toil in obscurity, they make immense financial sacrifices and take extreme physical risk to be the best at things no one cares about or pays attention to except for two weeks every four years. What they have, no one can give them and when they fail, as most of them will, nobody will remember that they dared greatly to represent us honorably on the international stage. In other words, they the kind of people Trump derides as suckers and losers. When we celebrate them, we are rejecting him and what he stands for.

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