Fu*%face Von Clownstick

brydan said:
Not maga, I just choose not to spend that much time online. In the 60's we were supposed to kill our TV's, now I guess not spending enough time staring at a screen is the problem. Times have changed my friend.
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I apologize for assuming that you were in the maga camp. It was a statistical likelihood based on your location being listed as "deep south". It is also a common theme within the maga cult to dismiss any information that doesn't align with their narrow world view as propaganda, and to do so without factual basis or logic, because they are already operating under the assumption that they are simply arguing with people who are buying into lies. It's a closed loop of "logic" with no external frame of reference. I don't think that killing your TV is incongruous with staying at least somewhat informed on matters that materially affect you and your community, so don't think I am implying that one should stay glued to a screen. I am curious, with all the bizarre shit out there on the internet, how this has held the top spot for "most bizarre" for ypu for so long, and what it is that you find so bizarre about it?
 
“Why is Barack Obama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?"
- Trump, 7/10/12

“This is how it starts. Obama is now threatening to use an Executive Order for gun control. Welcome to his 2nd term.”
- Trump 1/9/13

“Look at Obama [...] you’ve got to close the door and get things done without signing your executive orders all the time. That’s the easy way out.”
- Trump 10/20/15

"[Obama] signs executive orders all the time, because he can’t get his own people to go along.”
- Trump 11/2/15

“I don’t think he even tries anymore. I think [Obama] just signs executive actions.”
- Trump 12/12/15

“You know, it’s supposed to be negotiated. You’re supposed to cajole, get people in a room; you’re supposed to deal with them, you have Republicans, you have Democrats, you have all these people that get elected to do this stuff, and you’re supposed to get together and pass a law. [Obama] doesn’t want to do that because it’s too much work. So he doesn’t want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play golf.”
- Trump 1/4/16

“The problem with Washington, they don’t make deals. It’s all gridlock. And then you have a president that signs executive orders because he can’t get anything done. I’ll get everybody together.”
- Trump 1/20/16

“We have a president that can’t get anything done so he just keeps signing executive orders all over the place.”
- Trump 1/26/16

“Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can’t even get along with the Democrats. He goes around signing all these executive orders. It’s a basic disaster. You can’t do it.”
- Trump 2/19/16

“I want to not use too many executive orders, folks. Executive orders sort of came about more recently. Nobody ever heard of an executive order. Then all of a sudden Obama, because he couldn’t get anybody to agree with him, he starts signing them like they’re butter. So I want to do away with executive orders for the most part.”
- Trump 3/29/16

"Every radical and foolish executive order of the Biden administration will be repealed within hours of when I take the oath of office."
- Trump 1/19/25

Trump signed over 200 Executive Orders on his first day in office, and more than 200 since.

Just in case you were wondering how the Republican Hypocrisy is going.

Hat tip to Jim Wright
 
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The National Transportation Safety Board will from now on issue notification and updates on news conferences exclusively through the Elon Musk owned X platform.

They will no longer email notifications to the press or issue notifications via NON Musk platforms.

In case you wanted to know how the fascism was going.
 
Boomslang said:
Today? Yes.

Americans made this mess, Americans can clean it up. Have a civil war or start taking people out. Whatever. Take care of your own yard and then we can talk about letting you play in ours.
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You're not wrong, but you know that the listed places are the ones that voted against the d, right? Please accept us :cry:
 
Boomslang said:
Maybe we do a potluck. The restaurant selection in my neck of the woods is lacking, unless you want basic pub fare.


Banff is beautiful in the way Tahoe is. They're overpriced tourist towns. You can find better scenery throughout the Rockies
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Potluck actually is my favorite.

That's the most useful analogy I have heard for Banff, as I am very familiar with Tahoe. Thank you so much for finding a good, regionally appropriate comparison.
 
Boomslang said:
Stay the fuck out of Alberta though. The Texas of Canada.
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Parts of Alberta are freaking beautiful, I’ve spent some time with the Blackfeet that giant rockslide is sumthin else.

what part of Canada are you in? For some reason I thought Manitoba. Any advise for getting a passport overseas? That’s next on my list
 
Boomslang said:
Funny story. When I was maybe 9 or 10, I decided that Minnesota would be my favourite state if anyone ever asked. I started following all the pro sports teams, studied the geography and history of it, and later in my teen years tried to keep up on Minnesotan politics. I wanted to be able to talk about my favourite state! :ROFLMAO:

Fast forward to today and the Twins, T-Wolves, and Golden Gophers are my favourite teams in their respective leagues (Wild and Vikings are 2nd's), I've had a chance to visit (although for not nearly long enough), and I was fan-girling over Tim Walz be chosen as VP candidate.
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@Boomslang

Which of the MN accents have you adopted
 
Yesterday I spent the whole day driving around a reporter from the Guardian to talk about tree damage during Helene and survey the damage. Pretty interesting conversations.

At one point she had us pull into an encampment in Swannanoa which turned out to be this stronghold of a far right group called Veterans On Patrol. It was a little hairy there but got an interesting sense of what that leader thinks of this storm- that it was caused by the US Military for a land grab for precious minerals. Trump as it happens stood just 20’ from where we interviewed this guy when he came to visit the other day. These guys think he’s going to somehow make this all better even though Trump also said he is going to cut or shut down FEMA. I don’t understand the disconnect.

We have a lot to be worried about right now, and instead of goddamn civil war we need to make sure everyone can get food and medicine in the months and years to come because the more the govt squeezes us and makes those things harder, the easier it is to blame our neighbors rather than the people in power… resist that temptation, please. There’s no where safe to go. I’m very vulnerable in some ways where I am - but I also feel strongly I should not be intimidated out of this beautiful place I’ve called home, with all the paths and trees and shrubs and garden beds that I’ve poured my heart and soul into, and my friends and family and the forests I love so dearly.
 
Stumpsprouts said:
... instead of goddamn civil war we need to make sure everyone can get food and medicine in the months and years to come... the easier it is to blame our neighbors rather than the people in power… resist that temptation, please...
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Hear, hear! Enough with the hate, history of past events that can't be changed and
ill-thought plans of retribution. It is small-minded and juvenile.

This is a time people need to connect more not less and work things out, not slam shut doors and minds.
 
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