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Brent is not trivial. He posts on what he believes as opposed to farming the site for things to post on just to stay relevant. I do not think he's a troll, I just think he's speaking to an audience that is not us.

Now, now TK, 2400 pages is like 10 copies of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire or every Taylor Swift tune about young love gone bad. A fast reader would take 40 hours to read all of that, more if they were humming along. Methodology is what's important and I can assure you that Brent reached the correct conclusion.

I was hoping she would beat me, so to speak, to it. I wonder if pronoun confusion will stop when it comes to Thailand? Or maybe instead of Khap and Kha it'll be Khop Khun Kathoey for everyone.

But I don't and said so. It's not that it's not real it's that not enough people worldwide give enough of a shit to fix the problem in real time. We take recycling to the curb while in Asia barge loads of toxic trash goes overboard; the list goes on and on and includes hypocritical liberal DZO's who burn huge amounts of Jet-A to support their sailing habit. For me, how near we are to the end is less important than how near to the end I am. Again, I think we're plain fucked so, if you like, I'll stand shoulder to shoulder with you and defend your right to be wrong but we're gonna be drinking, so you know.

You won't find salvation in whatsupwiththat.com any sooner than my Christian friends will find salvation in their bibles. It seems to me that you prefer closed systems like the army or just living locally where change and disorder are rarely perceived and never desired. I could advise you again to get out and travel as far and wide as you can, with a good dose of living on the water included, and see if that affects your worldview but I won't. Mainly because while I am convinced that humans are warming the planet outside of natural variation and with long term negative consequences, I'm also convinced that in the absence of an external variable, like nicey nice aliens who speak fluent moron stopping by to help, we're probably fucked no matter what so at this point prudence dictates that we just party on.

I also thought the opioid crisis was bullshit but now that I'm out I see it differently.

For sure. I was simply jabbing your ass for fucking up an IQ post, a practice that is strongly correlated to many of my other posts.

Thanks, but this is the gun thread.

A Theocratic Principality, apparently. Our new Christian overlords are long since thrilled at being serfs in a Kingdom and need only a servient Prince to do the Kings bidding whilst he's busy elsewhere, hence their complete willingness to do away with our messy democracy. Blame racism, bigotry, ignorance, or the crappy way our brains are wired if you like. For that matter blame Taylor Swift, Two Buck Chuck, or ice fishing, but in the end it is religion that is wrecking the world and our receding chance at long term survival.

When the armed authorities, who are empowered to arrest, detain, and if it's not too inconvenient kill you, are in lockstep support of authoritarian leadership in a country I'm saying that country is failing.

“President Trump’s history of support for the men and women of Law Enforcement is unmatched,” IUPA President Sam Cabral said in a Feb. 6 statement. “His policies and actions were directed at improving safety in our communities and the men and women who provide that shield. He has earned and deserves our wholehearted support.” Obviously fomenting insurrections, riots, street brawls, committing rape, fraud, or simply encouraging your moronic followers to bash cop's in the head doesn't matter a twit when you stand to be rewarded with being on the sharp end of a Police State come 2025. Of course in the aftermath of the insurrection, there was nary a peep from Americas Finest, in particular the 375,000-member Fraternal Order of Police, which represents the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., and the Capitol Police. For reference, those are the two agencies whose officers were attacked on January 6, 2021. At this point I think it's time to wonder if we haven't simply leap frogged past banana republic and went directly to failed state.

The essence of stupidity.

Dupes. I doubt Comer and Jordan ever had a single original idea in their lives. Grassley is simply hobbled from being a tiny red state shill. The most surprising thing about it is that it's not surprising. I'll wager no Liberal here believed other than that Comer and Jordan were both stupid enough to be taken in by a foreign agent.

Well, it’s better than they Wendy, I guess.

Good thing there’s no such thing as quantum satire.

Absolutely. I think I'm reasonably well traveled and nowhere else but here have I seen a single LGBTQ person, illegal immigrant, person of color, atheist, or worse, an EV driving climate alarmist. The only thing keeping us even partly unraveled is easy access to guns.

Satire for sure.

Just to be obnoxious, the car rental joint didn't have the medium car size I usually get so they gifted me with a Dodge Charger. I figured gas guzzler for sure. Nope, it's a beast when passing but sips the juice. The times they are a changing.

That's right. But if the system is going to work there are going to be some losers. Now's the time to be strong, stay the course, and stock up on Pringles.

That's for sure, Miss Wendy. Even the ones who diminish you with kindness, right?

Good and Mortifying aren't synonyms, you know.

Sadly, not before November 5, 2024.

Biden is old, says dumb stuff on occasion, and some of his advisors need a good, swift, kick in the ass. But there is nothing, absolutely nothing he has done, is doing, or might do (or say) that would justify even thinking about voting for Trump. Biden beat him before so we know he can beat him again. Now, if Trump falls over dead then most certainly it would be agreeable to see the shepherds crook come out from stage left and pull his occasionally confused self behind the curtains. But wish thinking is just that so in the meantime we should be freakin' thrilled that even though that milquetoast Garland couldn't get his shit together in realtime at least we have Biden to beat back a second Trump presidency.

Well, damn! 289% of Americans believe something even if it's ridiculous. I'd have guessed more.

Education is something worth paying for, if you've a mind. One big reason for the dearth of objective reporting is the lack of revenue received by the news agencies. But you know that. Disabling Javascript is a neat workaround that will also come to a screeching halt someday leaving you with what? "Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?"