Insert "it was aliens" meme here.

It's weird how 2024 seemed to be a year of leftists desperately chasing after the 18-to-25-year-old demographic, bragging about how important it was, and predictably failing to get a ROI. Just like with the Disney+ reboot of Doctor Who.

Perhaps reflections from satellites?

"Biden could have picked a Black woman without loudly proclaiming to the world that it was a pre-req."

Agreed, that was dumb. Sadly, politics has always been a contest between dumb and dumber.

"Harris never really had a shot at the presidency, IMHO"

Biden seemed to think so too.

"between her sex, childlessness, color, and inflation/illegal immigrants"

She could have overcome all of those things and connected with more voters, but she failed.

"When Joe Biden announced he'd pick a woman of color as his running mate, he thought he was being progressive."

He was actually being shrewd in the short term, just like when Obama picked Mrs. Clinton for SecOState. Harris could have shown herself more than just that and earned people's votes like she said she was going to, but she failed to do that. That's on her, not Biden.

"Nazi's"

Nazi's what?

"Link?

Nice LimpLighter impression you got there.

Mulvaney was pretty unpopular even among many LGBT+ people, especially in light of those obnoxious videos like "normalize the bulge" and the near-misogynist parodies of how Dylan thinks a woman acts.

I said at the time it was a huge mistake for the Biden/Harris admin to invite someone like that to the White House as a "representative" of so-called trans people.

Was it worth it?

"This is how Trump won. Stupid fkkking ignorant morons - like Lfthndturds -voted"

We should stop "stupid" people from voting, right?

Remember when that internet weirdo named Dylan Mulvaney was invited to the white house?

Apparently a lot of voters did.

Was it worth it?

"toxic masculinity."

Thank you! I was looking for that on my bingo card.

Without seeing the data this article alludes to, nobody knows how many of them are actual incidences.

"All the big tough white supremacists love blaming their actions on people PRETENDING to be them. Just like jan 6th."

I'll take your word for it. Doesn't change the fact there have been numerous hoaxes and misrepresentations, whether we're talking about Smollett, or some older guys who were harassing schoolchildren and one of them "smirked" at them, or a big guy literally threatened and assaulted a woman in the park before he started recording her before she called 911, or just some random busybodies doing what busybodies do and the other person just happened to be black, etc... these all get lumped under "white supremacy" incidents.

"You start naming the hoaxes and false flags and I will name actual white supremacy incidents."

I'm more interested in seeing a breakdown of the types of incidents alluded to in this vague article and embedded fb post.

How many of these are false flags, Russian agit-prop, or college campus hoaxes?

Even many who voted for Harris are very skeptical of these claims.

Anyway, Re: Clinton Regrets Pressuring Ukraine To Give Up Its Nukes

I wonder when he'll also regret helping to build up the PRC's military, or agreeing to repeal Glass-Steagal. I know he got really pissed off the last time someone called him out on that last one.

The 3-day timer before automatically locking threads on the back page is way too short. I'm regularly opening threads and wanting to contribute to them but can't.

The last time I listened to the song in an automobile, it was on a cassette recorded from a crackly vinyl record.

Dam!

"You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back"

I loved how Guthrie used innuendo in a way that was almost subliminal, instead of hitting you over the head with it. Another example is from The Motorcycle song.

I don't want a pickle
I just wanna ride my motor-sickle.
And I don't wanna die
I just wanna ride my motorcy- kill

I wonder if this song has been bowdlerized already, like "Money for Nothing" and "Jenna Bush Army". There's certainly a couple of lines in the military section that would never make the cut today.

Going into this thread, I had already heard that Chuck Woolery died at the age of 83. A little disappointed that he wasn't the inspiration for the song.

"First of all, to be an exempt/salaried employee, you have to sign the agreement to exempt yourself from the hourly labor laws."

True, but HR departments regularly try to hoodwink employees to maximize their leverage to use and abuse them. If the government doesn't set some reasonable parameters, more people are likely to turn to the union thugs, at best, or "go postal" at worst, when they're mistreated.

"States like Mississippi could afford the higher minimum wage if the good old boy network didn't suck up all the profits."

It's all relative. Every state could afford higher minimum wages if investors didn't suck up all the profits. How do you address that without disincentivizing investments? Some states are always going to be better or worse off than others.

One thing I've learned in my travels is that every state/country and every system has corruption. They just do it in different ways. I know that both blue states and red states like to think they're morally superior to other, but in reality, it isn't true.

"how great, and white, things are going to be."

"Hey magat scum, [...] I point and laugh at you."

"lazy white fat guys"

"incel"

Thanks for reminding everyone why you guys can't win elections any time your opponents haven't already screwed up the economy.

I've always hated the term "rape kit". It sounds like something therapists would use to commit the crime.