" Election DAY should be election DAY."

Be honest, were you cheering on Al Gore when he tried suppress / throw out overseas military ballots that didn't arrive by Election Day?

If so, then you may be consistent on this. If not, well . . .

" Article on MSN states "the ruling was 6-3, but the court was split 5-4 on whether Congress could vote to do away with birthright citizenship. "

So basically like Bush v Gore. That ruling was 7-2, but they were split 5-4 on whether to do an equally dubious alternative .

Repeat a lie often enough, enough marks will believe it.

WC = water closet?

"Tang"

The clan?

"After the midterms, Turkey is likely to enter into a longterm, trilateral nuclear security agreement with both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Essentially a nuclear umbrella"

Nope. There have been exploratory talks about them joining mutual defense pact, but it did not involve sharing nukes or any kind of nuclear umbrella with Turkiye. SA and Pakistan have already said they want their agreement to remain bilateral.

"I'm Tuck, and I'm . . . out . . . a . . . heeeeere."

-obscure MTV reference

You guys are all wrong about the Epstein files. The Epstein files never existed.

It was always The Epstain Files.

For those in power, anything that allows them to stay in power is a victory.

"All criticism of Trump is fair.
All of it."

Really? Even the fat jokes and the homophobic innuendo?

"It also makes sense to point out he wouldn't've had to backtrack if he hadn't been an idiot in the first place."

The TACO meme is a crappy way to do that. At best, it undermines the valid criticism being made by making it look like he'll be attacked no matter what he does, at worst it could potentially delay or prevent reversals on critical issues. But hey, go ahead and double down again something that you know is stupid and counterproductive.

"the meaning of life in Arnold's biopic about the death of Jayne Mansfield"

You're almost there...

"Because it's an easy example of his mindless cuts to government that make no sense and will later cost us even more to correct or reinstate later. ( Chesterton's Fence)"

It makes sense to criticize him for doing it in the first place, but not for backtracking on it.

Just wait until the US "fundamentally transforms" its relationship with Iran. If you think Israel was bad...

The ironic thing is Iran probably sees themselves just like Israel did after the 1967 war.

"You Betrayed Us"

Anybody who though lt he wouldn't do that was and is a fool.

The punchline from the Joker movies is very apt here.

Process them and make government cheese out of them.

This is a perfect example of why the "TACO" meme sucks. Unless you actually wanted him to completely shut down the monitoring system, why would anyone flame him for reversing course on this particular issue?

"Google's AI, btw, has self-admitted errors.

Not only errors, but it also missed a lot of nuance and easter eggs, just like when you ask people about "gist" of things.

"Not too lazy, I just have other things to do than sit through an hour+ long youtube video to learn something I could read in a couple minutes."

Given the amount of time you spend on this board, not to mention the amount of time you've already spent making excuses not watch it, I don't believe you.

"Sentinel, is this this supposed to make us hate Jews?"

???

Why would you say that?

"If you were old enough to be obsessed with weekly 46-minute plots, you were old enough for social consciousness."

LOL. At that age, I didn't even pay much attention to the plots. I was just waiting in anticipation for some dude to transform into a green man, break his shirt, roar, and probably throw someone across the room. With the Dukes, it was obviously the car chases, the car jumps, and watching how they'd climb out the window of their car without opening the door. I used to imitate that, too, until my hand got caught in the door behind me when someone slammed it. It was quite an ugly wound. Luckily, the windows on that car didn't have frames, so it healed.

"No early Reagan memories? Assassination? John Hinckley? All right past you?"

At that time, yeah. I might have vaguely noticed that they changed Ralph Hinkley to Ralph Hanley on another show I watched, but I had no idea why.

"John Lennon getting shot? No?"

Nope. I didn't even get into popular music until later in the 80s.

"Top 1980 movies: www.boxofficemojo.com"

Wow. I can't believe "The Jayne Mansfield Story" starring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger aren't on that list!

The first movie I remember watching in a movie theatre was The Dark Crystal. The second was probably Back to the Future, but that was a few years later.

In 1980 I was too young to have any inkling of what was going on in even local news, much less national news. I was probably obsessed with the Dukes of Hazzard and Incredible Hulk TV shows at the time.

Thankfully I was shielded from things like babies being abandoned in dumpsters. I do remember government cheese, though. People joked (and probably still do joke) about it, but damn, that cheese was definitely the best to make grilled cheese sandwiches ever.

How much do you remember about 1980?

I've watched videos that were over 2 to 3 hours long because they gave some interesting insights into past eras of history and presented them in an interesting or entertaining way. If an hour video is too much for some people, I'd hate to think how they'd react if someone asked them to (*gasp*) read a book!