My gay friends think his sexuality is probably the only thing he's being honest about at this point. Not that anybody has ever gone to the trouble to verify that or anything.

"Income inequality is rich people bitching about richer people."

Wake me when my cost of living is the same as that in these poorer countries I'm supposed to compare us favorably to.

It's been a minute since anybody has been that openly anti-semitic here, regardless of M8's claims to the contrary.

"A waste of taxpayer money this is. Real conservatives would be horrified."

Nah, they were annoyed that the sentences were so lenient in the first place. This is just them clawing back some righteous vengeance.

It's so crazy. Just a few years ago energy saving features on your game system were not only welcomed in bipartisan fashion, but gamers would brag to one another about their own methods. The argument being that not only would it save you money on electricity, but it would extend the life of your system.

My dad had an SUV in the early 90s when I was finishing high school. He used to let me drive it all the time. Would take girls out on dates in it. My high school sex life owes a lot to that folding back seat. At the time I'd have argued it was worth the environmental degradation. So did it make me feel like more of a man? I'd have to concede that yes, it absolutely did lol. Just not in the way most of you are discussing here.

So that's campaign finance fraud, right?

"The election was to make that lying, manipulative criminal Santos Congressman?"

They voted for a fiction. Now he's just got to conform to that fiction to keep his job I guess. Because they're not looking for authenticity or honesty, they're looking for a reliable R vote.

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That's all true. They're still only a small percentage of owners. The sentiment driving purchase in my experience is decreased likelihood of dying in a head on collision with a smaller car.

"He gives them the false impression that racism is acceptable."

Racism most certainly is acceptable. If that were not true there never would have been a sufficient number of ostensibly not racist people to help put him over the top in 2016.

If you think that the results of 2020 were a repudiation of that, I'd argue it was far more a repudiation of Trump drama than it was his racism or any other position he might hold.

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*virtual hug

I waited tables and bartended for a decade. I was a good waiter and a better bartender and it was obvious from my tips that I was better than most people I worked with. Even then though, I was doing okay but not amazing by any stretch. Can't imagine how my coworkers were supporting themselves making much less than I was making. Especially the ones who were married and/or had kids. And in the places where base wage for wait staff was less than half minimum wage for other employees.

"Has been called out as a liar. Testified in court his show wasn't news. Yet he still remains the mouth of propaganda for the Republican Party."

They've collectively agreed that the winner gets to say what truth is. So they're just faking it until they make it.

"These people expected that high school would be named after them."

A a grandiose yearning for a life of significance has always been a central component of this kind of behavior.

"How in the world will I find about my cars extended warranty now?"

I love those calls. I haven't owned a car since January 2002.

If I can teach it to a 12 year old I'd say go for it.

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Blackbird was the first song she learned completely a couple years before that

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My daughter learned that song on guitar for my father's day present last year. Best father's day ever.

RIP David Crosby. And thank you.

I'm not going to handle Neil Young's passing well.

"Doesn't actually know anybody who lives in a red state."

Couldn't be more wrong.

"Is it so wrong, you'll make women three times more likely to die during pregnancy to stop it?"

They're leaving it in God's hands. But in all seriousness, do we have the actual numbers on women who die due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth vs the number of abortions performed? My guess is that they're calling it a net positive.

" ... A lot of folks living in those red states don't realize ... "

Nah, they just don't GAF. Pregnancy, maternal mortality ... it's all part of God's plan.

"How much effort does it take to motivate these kinds of people to do such things?"

To do something that's been the main inspiration of their nocturnal emissions for decades? I think the consistency of the effort is the most important thing.

JeffJ doesn't see how this is just another facet of White Supremacy.

Yes he does. He just knows that acknowledging it for what it is works against their goals. For now at least.

"Time to ask again what happened to Republicans that makes them so damned mean?"

I'd argue it's the Bible, ymmv.

"Martin Luther King Jr. fought, using peaceful disobedience, to awaken the American conscience."

It's always been interesting to me how people, who would call themselves not racist, always focus on the MLK civil disobedience part of the black civil rights struggle, as if violence would delegitimize the righteousness of their cause and serve as justification to not support their goals.