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I think posting a video of dropping shit on your opponents is obscene.

On the whole I'm happier having people around who are willing to fix my roof, make a new patio, help landscape my yard than I am to have people around who are clearly frustrated Gestapo wannabes.

I'm sure Crazy Horse felt the same way.

Most of us have a part of the brain we use to empathize with or feel concern for other people. In Trump's brain that part is a mass of worms. He is unable to feel concern for anyone except himself and possibly his children (who are an extension of himself). Born into extreme wealth, and never having had to worry for a second about money, he is incapable of imaginig himself in the position of being unable to afford food or anything else. That also explains why he is so uncaring about military personnel he rips from their families and jobs to carry out his political theater. To Trump people are just tools to be used and discarded when they are no longer useful, or obstacles to be destroyed. But nevertheless to some people he's still better than Harris, or Biden, or Obama. For "reasons".

Apparently I'm living in a war zone. Funny, my street seems remarkably quiet, as does everywhere I've driven in the city today. Just like it was yesterday, and last week, and last month. Only disturbances I've heard about are in places where a bunch of armed, masked thugs claiming to be federal agents seem to be doing their best to foment trouble. I wonder how a draft dodger knows what a war zone looks like, anyway.

I just wish it were a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

Yes, I know. You'd rather ban that language. I would rather people be allowed to say whatever they like (outside of the yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater direct-harm examples) so they can be convinced they are wrong (or prove they are right.) I understand how you can't permit that sort of freedom, since it would undermine your position. I agree. Right wing terrorism is at an all time high. A record number of republicans think violence is the right way to solve the country's problems. Trump has LITERALLY BANNED WORDS from all government communications. I am sorry you don't understand this; I suspect it's your steady diet of Breitbart, OAN and FOX News that results in your ignorance on topics like this. List below: https://pen.org/banned-words-list/ Anyone can out them all they like. But your side knows it will lose that challenge, so you ban them instead, Nope. Specifically they are Trump's. Again, if you got outside your OAN/Breitbart/FOX bubble you'd see that.

Look, everyone. This has gone on far enough. Those "felonies?" They can be just a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, who among us doesn't have a few felonies? And that rape? Well, women, amirite? They're always accusing alpha males of whatever. Plus she was ugly. Like coyote ugly. And that pedophilia thing? Look, they all probably said they were 18. How could he know? Again, women, amirite? Can't trust em, even if you pay em. And don't start with that "paying porn star to lie about his banging her." Every man in America wants to do that, and they'd all pay to cover it up! Right? And sure, his adminstration conspired with Russia against the United States. But Putin, like Hitler, isn't ALL bad. They did some good things. Yeah, yeah, he thinks that windmills cause cancer, that you can nuke hurricanes, that you can inject bleach to cure COVID, and that Tylenol and vaccines cause autism. But at least he speaks his mind. But Harris? BLACK! A WOMAN! And that LAUGH!

In the book How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt discuss their research that looked into the cause of authoritarian regimes that replaced more democratic societies. There are a lot of famous ones out there: Iraq under Hussein Hungary under Orban Kampuchea under Pol Pot Germany under Hitler The Soviet Union under Stalin Italy under Mussolini Libya under Gaddafi They set out to answer the question "how does this happen?" How do authoritarian strongmen take control of democracies and societies that are more democratic than authoritarian? Why do people cede their power to an autocrat? During their studies, they found some common themes that appeared in all transitions to autocracy. 1. Rejecting the principles of democracy. Fledgling autocrats start by attacking the principles of democratic society. They question elections, claiming they were rigged against them. They threaten judges and electors, hoping to cow them into supporting the autocrat, rather than do their jobs to ensure justice and fair elections. 2. Denying the legitimacy of opponents. Opponents are portrayed as criminals or threats to national security. They are often arrested or threatened with arrest, and the autocrat's supporters often carry out these threats with implicit backing from the autocrat. 3. Tolerating or encouraging violence. Autocrats encourage riots and civil unrest, and often later call their followers engaging in such riots heroes. They then use their power to protect those rioters, to create a more loyal base willing to do violence. At the same time they try to incite violence at a state level, by using state forces to create conflict where there was none - and then using that conflict as an excuse for more brutal controls. 4. Curtailing civil liberties. The first target of autocrats is the media - restricing their access, feeding them misinformation, threatening them with arrest, and using state power and influence to shut any dissenting opinions down. At the same time, state and state affiliated media sources are supported, promulgated and funded in order to get the autocrats message out. After that they start restricing individual rights, like banning certain types of speech or certain sorts of communication. As these go on, there are several other ancillary steps the autocrat takes. Expanding executive power. They will often govern through executive edicts, ignoring the legislative and judicial branches. They will claim that any limits to their power are false, or evil, or a result of an enemy trying to harm the country. Politicizing independent institutions. Ordinarily nonpartisan organizations, like the police, the national guard and the judiciary, are taken over by the autocrat to do their bidding. Disinformation. Falsehoods that help the autocrat are spread continuously, relentlessly and deliberately to confuse the issues surrounding the autocrat. Quashing dissent. Dissenters are criminalized, and the right to assemble and speak freely is limited by the autocrat. Scapegoating vulnerable communities. A scapegoat community is chosen, generally one with little to no power, and one that is visibly and notably different from the autocrat's community. They are vilified and turned into the evil that is holding the country back, and so must be stopped at all costs. This allows the autocrat to seize extraordinary powers to "deal with the emergency." Seen any of that going on recently?

Often taxpayer funds maintain the facilities that political parties use for free - like public halls and convention spaces. But overall there's far more private donations than public funding. Keeping independent voters from voting for people in either party's primary leads to further polarization and penalizes centrist candidates.

I thought the Access Hollywood tapes would have been the end of Trump. But his supporters made excuses. I thought caracaturing a disabled man would have been the end of Trump. But his supporters made excuses. I thought findings of fraud and rape by US courts would have been the end of Trump. But his supporters made excuses. I thought felony convictions would have been the end of Trump. But his supporters made excuses. I am APPALLED by the video he posted of himself wearing a crown and shitting on No Kings protesters from a fighter jet. Has any President of the United States of America ever gone public with something so vile, vulgar, disgusting and low class? Can you imagine any former president doing such a thing - Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan, Carter, either Bush, Obama, not even Nixon or Johnson. As much as I disagreed with many of them, each one of them behaved with a level of decorum that is totally absent in Trump. And still his supporters stay silent.

Mark is not suggesting that they SIGN the paper. Rather that they refuse to sign or vacate their offices. BTW, the Australian Newspaper signed the agreement, then seeing they were out of step with everyone else rescinded their agreement (said their lawyers had reviewed the terms and they couldn’t in good faith comply).

Somehow you seem think that incoherence is a mark of excellence.

Wrong president?

There's something very wrong with people who are obsessed with what other consenting adults do with their genitalia.

A nun walks into mother superiors office and lets out a sigh, heavy with frustration. "What troubles you, Sister?" asked the Mother Superior. "I thought this was the day you spent with your family." "It was," sighed the Sister. "And I went to play golf with my brother. We try to play golf as often as we can. You know I was quite a talented golfer before I devoted my life to Christ." "I seem to recall that," the Mother Superior agreed. "So I take it your day of recreation was not relaxing?" "Far from it," snorted the Sister. "In fact, I took the Lord's name in vain today!" "Goodness, Sister!" gasped the Mother Superior, astonished. "You must tell me all about it!" "Well, we were on the fifth tee — and this hole is a monster, Mother — 540 yard par 5, with a nasty dogleg right and a hidden green ... and I hit the drive of my life. The sweetest swing I've ever made. And it's flying straight and true, right along the line I wanted ... and it hits a bird in mid-flight!" "Oh my!" commiserated the Mother Superior. "How unfortunate! But surely that didn't make you blaspheme, Sister!" "No, that wasn't it," admitted the Sister. "While I was still trying to fathom what had happened, this squirrel runs out of the woods, grabs my ball and runs off down the fairway!" "Oh, that would have made me blaspheme!" sympathized the Mother Superior. "But I didn't, Mother!" sobbed the Sister. "And I was so proud of myself! And while I was pondering whether this was a sign from God, this hawk swoops out of the sky and grabs the squirrel and flies off, with my ball still clutched in his paws!" "So that's when you cursed," said the Mother Superior with a knowing smile. "Nope, that wasn't it either," cried the Sister, anguished, "because as the hawk started to fly out of sight, the squirrel started struggling, and lost his grip on the ball, and it fell right onto the green, and rolled to about 18 inches from the cup!" The Mother Superior sat back in her chair, folded her arms across her chest, fixed the Sister with a baleful stare and said ... "Jesus fucking Christ! -- You missed the God damn putt, didn't you?"

Let me help because a new old America now exists. The US is currently led by a dictator King out for blood. He only hires loyal servants who obey without question. The courts are nothing but a speed bump. A federal judge appointed by Reagan stated that “The effect of these targeted deportation proceedings continues unconstitutionally to chill freedom of speech to this day,” .. William Young concluded, in a scathing, 161-page opinion that he described as the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench. Previously US judges ruled that many actions of the King are unconstitutional. Those opinions mattered not in the King's kingdom. Oyez, oyez, oyez, from the town criers on FOX there was no criticism or even mention of those opinions. In the public markets there was no criticism of the King because people didn't want to be put to the sword. Commanders who served bravely in the armies of the land were brought together. They listened in silence as the naked King berated them, praised himself and promised vengeance on his enemies.

Well, that and reversing everything first Obama and then Biden accomplished, and imprisoning every person who has ever tried to hold him to account for his numerous crimes, and destroying every institution that might try to limit his dictatorial ambitions.

"Her policies" - as if Trump has EVER had a single policy on anything besides grifting from the US.

You have never enumerated anything that actually made her worse, other than a hand-waving "her policies." And the little innuendo in his birthday card to Epstein, combined with his talking about walking around in beauty queen (and teenage pageant) dressing rooms because he can get away with it, all paint a fairly creepy picture. Not to mention his now-unwillingness to release the Epstein files, and constant misdirection (Look! aid to Argentina! Look! Bombing Venezuelan fishermen! etc) Wendy P.

THIS is what is ending the American experiment. That millions can support the worst possible example of what a human should never be, will destroy this democracy is beyond incomprehensible. 34 felony convictions Rapist Pedophile Pedophile rapist Nothing but bankruptcy in business He stole from children with cancer While most of us could NEVER possibly have these qualities in a coworker, we have them in the pedo potus. I will never understand this insanity. America has lost it's standing in the world. China and Russia will take horrific advantage of this. "Whoosh" indeed.

It says a lot about you that you still believe that. The fact that you rank a pedophile, rapist, felon as arguably better than a successful prosecutor is pretty sick. Only you know what deep seated prejudice allows you to hold that view.

Just about everything about the current government is "sad". What's even sadder is the number of Americans who voted for it.

You're reflecting too much locally. Some citizens love convicted felons, rapists, conmen, flim flam artists, etc. Most countries refuse to endorse them.

I'll take (incompetent + decent) over (incompetent + evil).

GWB’s group fabricated the intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq. GWB’s group created the Afghan quagmire and set its government up for failure. They made no attempt to understand the politics of the region before setting up a random warlord as President and sending a couple of college kids to write him a constitution. Culminating in the ‘08 financial crash GWBs entire presidency was a global disaster of seismic proportions, the aftershocks and ramifications of which created the conditions of misery and dissatisfaction that Trump himself capitalised on in his campaigns.

Bachelorette parties should probably avoid the area.

In the open is best. Trump has been treated very unfairly by the DOJ. All these investigations were so unfair. Now "President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit." In other counties where kings were sent to the guillotine centuries ago. The justice system has no kings "Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi." For non Americans here is one analysis of this "justice" " “What a travesty,” said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.” He added: “And then to have people in the Justice Department decide whether his claim should be successful or not, and these are the people who serve him deciding whether he wins or loses. It’s bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.”

IMO pretty damn good.

As long as your birth name wasn’t Julie… Wendy P.

Of course you didn’t infer it. The reader infers, as the writer you implied. But for real though if this “I would have been back every day trying to get back in, making it very loudly known to all.” Isn’t a protest then what the fuck is it?

That post was of no use to me. Being smarter than a turtle and all.

Hi Bill, Trump could not plan a trip to the bathroom. That takes thinking. Jerry Baumchen

LOL - Beginner's Skydiving Forum on FB is similar - lots of sage skydiving advice from 'XXX - I already have 45 skydives' and 'XXYY - I've just done my first tandum (sp) and am now hooked on skydiving' Given that some of these people may actually become useful skydivers it's for me, a read for amusement but make no discouraging comments, exercise. P.S. I haven't seen 'chode' used outside of Australia for ages.

Tom’s 2023 analysis of the money shows that the rubber bands were on the ends and the center opened up and let the diatoms in and the very edges could also open up and let the diatoms in. If that bundle is rolling on a sandy river bottom there is no way silt (smaller then diatoms) and other debris aren’t getting lodged in the middle opening and outside crevices. The middle opening and outside edge crevices quickly close up when it gets out of the water. There not open for sand debris to enter in it’s water logged condition while in situ on the sand bar. I think your smart enough to get the no silt thing. You just choose to believe it doesn’t mean anything because it clashes with your theory . Cooperites no longer subscribe to the natural arrival via spring flood because of this finding. Tom Kaye - “So being this clean kinda says this money was never exposed to the water in the way you’d think.” Whether you choose to accept it or not it puts further constraints on how the money got to tbar.

"go figure" should be the NORJAK subtitle.

I think you need to break down that sentence 'cos... wut?

Indeed, and my metric is to not irreversibly harm our nation by inciting a confused citizenry to divide and conquer themselves so one ideology might consolidate dictatorial power as Trump is clearly doing. In fact, he loudly telegraphed his intentions long before the last election. Christian against Muslim, rich against poor, blue against red, cities against farms, science against ignorance and on and on and on. Somehow, according to your worldview, there is less harm in that idea than in E Pluribus Unum. I disagree.

Hi folks, After a local federal judge [ appointed by Trump ] blocked his use of the Oregon National Guard, Trump has moved the California National Guard to Oregon: Kotek: California National Guard arrives in Oregon, on Trump’s orders - oregonlive.com Looks like it is going to be a shit-show for a while. I think that this is one issue that Trump will double-down on; he does not want to look weak. Jerry Baumchen PS) Judge blocks National Guard troops from deploying to Portland - oregonlive.com

This seems about right.

I completely agree. A frequent SC poster PM'd me a week or so back. He was pissed because I kept posting about fraud, corruption and the endless criminal and unconstitutional acts from the Trump administration. I guess he thought should just post positive things about America. The Winston Churchill approach. War and cancer is messy, dirty. The current garbage dump is going to stink for at least another year and a half. Stay strong brother. Canada is much closer. March 6, 2025 | 3:00 pm Are Americans Moving to Canada? Truth Behind the Migration Trend and from Buzzfeed: Americans Are Revealing The Reasons Why They Moved To Canada, And It's A Difficult Truth Most Americans Aren't Ready To Hear

So Trump just banned the words "emissions" and "climate change" from any government publication. Orwell, 1984: "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." Orwell, 1984: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. . . . Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?” Orwell would be proud of you. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649

Why wouldn't I care? It must be profitable because they are doing such a conversion on a second AC. It must be well managed to consider such a modification rather than just getting by with a second machine. Others must be curious about our sport in a area of the world that gets no coverage here.

And even sadder than the number who voted for it is the number who will do so again if given the chance. Popularism is popular.

And stop your dog from barking and keep your damn cats inside!

Speaking of behaviour, here is a picture of the weekends Mormon church shooter Thomas Jacob Sanford, in Michigan. Proudly wearing his hero's merchandise. Note the slogan under Trump's picture "Liberals cry again"

I nominate Richravizza. You guy's ought to have him straightened out by game time.

Also, I had the Hartzell grey blade on the 182 and the McCauley on the 206. Again, you'll be a hero up to 10K. Stick with that and you'll turn a lot of loads and make money. Believe you have a 12.5K machine and you'll be wasting the investment.

The Daily News published a story saying that one-half of Congress were crooks. The Government took great exception to that and demanded a retraction and an apology. The newspaper responded the next day with an apology and reported that one-half of Congress were not crooks. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.