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Elephants and Jackasses...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Nettdata, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. GcDiaz

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    Also there's a shitton of Indian restaurants around Niagara. We love the stuff and yet failed to try a single one.
     
  2. GTE

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    Laughs in Californian at people talking about "high housing prices"
     
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    NJ isn't much better. Granted not California bad, but still.
     
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    A very small percentage of them may be feeling regretful.

    But the overwhelming majority, who thought the ideal person to stick up for Gaza was a sabre-rattling authoritarian bully who befriends dictators and holds them up as a source of inspiration, feel fine about it because they're too stupid to read.
     
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    They say what their president says, and feel how their president feels. There’s nothing more cult-like than hearing interviews that paraphrase “Sure, my friends and family are angry at me and won’t speak to me, but I support my president!”
     
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    I think his point is about the people who would have voted for Kamala, except their red line was that she had to give a full-throated support of Palestine over Israel.
     
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    It’s more like they are seeing the current political environment as no different than when HW or Clinton was in office. “You can’t let a little politics get in the way of family.”

    There’s a disconnect between the national political landscape and how people operate in their day-to-day lives. It used to be that not much really happened. Sure the stock market goes up and down. Times get tough but we pull through. Generally speaking, most people were roughly on the same page with some differences. There’s always fringe groups but they were treated like the wackos they are.

    Now, gop politics is purely about retribution and turning the temperature up to Emril Lagasse levels.(BAM!) Policies are designed to hurt a lot of people but convince idiots it’s worth it if it’s also hurts the “bad group” more. Nazis are openly praised and welcomed into the circle. They are trying to literally just delete entire groups of people. And we openly side with hostile foreign powers against our own interests.

    It’s not the same landscape and people who are just like, “Eh, it’s all just politics…don’t know why my family doesn’t speak to me anymore.” are completely blind to what is happening. These are the same people who always say, “How could the Germans have just let someone like Hitler come to power? Didn’t they see what he was up to?” Without a shred of fucking irony.
     
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    But I think there’s also a disconnect in a different way, in that the left side of the spectrum is being told that this is pure dystopian hellscape, and the beginning of the end…so the answer to it is paddles.
     
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    Doug Ford is done with fucking around.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...-electricity-it-provides-to-the-us-on-monday/
     
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    In local news, Jungle Julia got an unexpected phone call yesterday: one of the waitresses from her favorite taco restaurant.

    It seems that the waitress, along with most of the kitchen staff, were fired because they weren't US citizens, and the new owners (who obviously knew) feared an ICE raid.

    The waitress also seemed doubtful about the future of the restaurant, because she and the ones who were fired were the ones who kept the restaurant running smoothly; we shall see how that plays out.

    Here's the kicker: THE OWNERS ARE TRUMP SUPPORTERS, MAGA flag and all!

    Oh man, if that restaurant tanks, I'm gonna laugh so hard.
    Not just for that, but I don't think it's that great, and JJ INSISTS on getting food there twice a week.

    If I tell her I don't want anything, she gets pouty (I've told you guys that she can be weird about food), so I have to force myself to eat some mediocre tacos.
     
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    The Kentucky Distillers Association President just came out with one of the most idiotic responses to Canadians pulling US liquor from their shelves

    https://whiskeynetwork.net/2025/03/kda-statement-on-retaliatory-tariffs-on-bourbon/

    Maybe putting tariffs on a major importer of your product isn't the greatest idea, nor is trying to appeal to Canadians to spare some thought to those in America affected by this
     
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    "Your response to these tariffs is unfair and not proportional".

    Yeah, go fuck yourself.

    Going jerk us around with tariffs, but wait we'll pause while we let you realize why you're wrong, then on again, etc, all while constantly mocking our sovereignty... and blaming the tariffs on us in the first place?

    Ha.

    I hope we leave our retaliatory tariffs in place even during this pause period.... because petulantly toying with us is never acceptable.

    Gloves off, elbows up, you bunch of spare parts.
     
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    https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/ would love that story.
     
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    The stock market is in crash mode right now. So much winning.
     
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    That’s the Art of The Deal, my friend.
     
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    Mentioned it a while back, but I found the link to a study showing inconsistencies in the elections.

    https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county,-nv

    Basically, the numbers and how they tabulated coming out of Clark County Nevada showed massive inconsistencies and abnormalities.
     
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    “Stop sticking up for yourselves” only requires one response, and that’s a good old fashioned Streisand Effect. He is the first motherfucker that deserves to hurt from this.

    Canadian Club, Crown and Wiser’s is looking better then ever these days. And places like Quintana Roo just got a huge booking boost from Canadian tourists cancelling US vacations, ourselves included in that.
     
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    Man, I never knew American "greatness" involved so much chaos!