It is fascinating that republicl0wns embrace this idea that the US can just go around telling other countries how they need to conduct politics and economics... and they will comply... or else

We didn't win WW2 either... the Nazis just lost due to overwhelming resistance of which we played but a small part. Japan was already beaten when we dropped the bomb and scared the $#!t out of everyone ... including ourselves.

That bought us top dog position for about 5 years.

For all our bluster...half the people on the globe are living under either a communist or socialist economy...they comprise the oldest most densely populated regions on the planet...i.e. Asia... and the world's capitalists have formed a symbiotic relationship with them... to keep the peace.

Our military has fought one stalemate after another setting up businesses... installing dictators...to run the country.

Now that so few WW2 veterans remain... the kids are not buying all the myths we were told to justify our hegemony.

in a decade 8 out of 10 persons on the planet will be Asian.

kids today have a lot to work out...

At least by this rendering, this dad wasn't encouraging his son to be violent with their sharing of hunting, he was trying to connect with his son's self esteem, trying to make him more secure when confronting his fears and the bullying he's said to have been haunted by.

#3 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-07 01:29 PM | Reply | EYE ROLL

Violence = behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

Killing is violence... it's done that way on purpose... bullets are just speedy violence... in terms of the victim's lifespan... usually. Even when you're talking about deer.

Adam Lanza's mom said the same thing about bonding over firearms with her kid... then there was that 20-year-old republicl0wn fella... yeah share a common interest... the power to kill something.

Hmmmm... seems to me if you want to avoid your child wanting to get through the rageful hormones phase in life... you know when their brains aren't fully developed... some things can wait... like bonding with lethal weapons... killing something together...

Ironically the same folks willing to give an assault-style weapon to a person with a not yet fully developed brain get all upset when parents allow gender transition ... why? Because it's potentially harmful to the person whose brain isn't fully developed... doh!.. or whatever line of reasoning outside something biblical... smh

It's the life-altering decision thingies...

On the other hand... a 14-year-old shouldn't terminate a pregnancy... don't get me started about what drugs can do to the undeveloped brain... not to mention all the information they have access to at all times right there on their phone... but let's not worry about the killing tool thingie... it's sort of ironic... and confusing.

When I was a kid we worried more about getting through a phalanx of infectious or self-inflicted diseases...

They were the best his money could buy...

He has the best specifics... no one has ever seen specifics like his... Obama tried specifics... you know like that time... it was so awful... nobody had ever seen anything like it was... a huge mess... thankfully Ivanka.... you know his beautiful daughter... if she was his mother... she could get along with Xi... and that's why... Marco Rubio... he calls him Little Marco... Awww well... that was a great answer... my mind is at rest

I have a friend working with Gaza refugees... it's pretty awful... no matter the justification... it's all chicken or egg to me. The purpose of war is to kill as many civilians as it takes... toooo.... I dunnoooo... whutevah fake @$$ objective needed to make it acceptable?

The Palestinians are doing whatever we would be doing under the same circumstances.

I knew a woman who did that to her cat. It's a weird anthropomorphizing relationship dynamic when people do that to their pets.

I have two big boys I adopted when one was 6 and the other 11... I put them on a proper house cat diet of cheapo ghetto crunchies and table scraps in clean dishes... and lots of water... they trimmed down to the proper size.

I never lose sight that when left to their own devices they would be eating rodents on the ground and garbage out of the dumpster... so they still have it good... just not fancy with me. My cats live more than twice as long as ferals do... 14 to 21 years old... neutered and immunized. Easy pets. I let them be cats.

No rodents in my house... although they did share their breakfast with a possum once...poor thing saw me and fainted... I carried it outside and gave it an apple... so freakin cute.

Seems like Going Away is the best thing he could do.

#12 | Posted by organ_bank at 2024-09-06 03:02 PM | Reply | Flag:PFFFFTTTTT

I'll bet in 4 years if Biden is alive when the next Democrat Presidential convention takes place he will be there...unlike the republicl0wns who haven't had a former president attend their conventions... because they would be a "distraction"... for the last 5 cycles... true story

Biden's not going anywhere... unless his God calls him.

The last two republicl0wn presidents left office in disgrace... its a fact... republicl0wns are rotting from the inside... it's going to take at least 8 years to clean up the mess.

One more thing... Kamala has been a heartbeat away from the office for 4 years...Biden came out of retirement after his son died... Unlike Trumpanzee...he understands his own mortality... he also tested positive for Covid early in his term... she could've assumed office then had he gotten seriously ill.

It's called doing the right thing...

btw...

We'd be further ahead if the holdouts hadn't dragged their feet so badly when it was obvious it was time to change course.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-05 09:58 AM | FLAG. EYE ROLL

There is no way for you to know that. If he had dropped out at the beginning... we'd just be getting out of the debates and convention and who knows what kind of butt hurt figuring it out... like when Bernie got burned... and the hostility against Hillary at the convention... go back look at the tapes... Bernie sulking in the seats... then Bernie bots whining up until the night of the election voting against Clinton... out of spite...

Biden is still aware he's just slow and old. Honestly, I think the timing was brilliant.

FTR I've been beeching about the age of the contestants since 2016... wondering why the geezers were still at it... It was interesting Hillary's appearance at this convention made it clear that mentally she is sharper than hubby Bill, Biden, or Trumpanzee combined. The look and talk all worn out.

Oh... and kids getting hurt playing a game? Kids get hurt playing games... it's what they do... organized or not. If you don't want your kids hurt by something... keep them on the sidelines.

Kids get hurt working on farms...noodling with chemicals in the garage... all sorts of fun things...

Making it to adulthood has never been easy.

I'm surprised I made it.

I've been around a lot of youth sports as part of my job for a couple of decades and I can tell you it's pretty heartbreaking to see a kid medivacked off a field. Always... it's been football... and the whole psychology of that particular sport.

I know men who like Doc here played in high school some were severely injured... tendons... broken bones.. and all complain about the remnants of some injury they got decades ago while playing. Some of them even think the injuries "made a man out of them" and joke about how kids today may as well be told to "wear a dress" and how their parents are raising their boys to be poosies.

Seriously... there is a mentality about football that surpasses all the other field sports even the ones like Lacrosse, soccer, and rugby which are more bare-knuckled competitions. The coaches are more aggressive, the parents...

Makes me wonder...

Boxing became more deadly when the padding was added to the gloves. For a man to lose the use of his hands boxing is as bad as using the use of his head to the same sport. The risks were more apparent... both had something to lose.

Maybe it's all the armor that is deluding them.

Furthermore... the Taliban sought to eradicate the opium fields... the US invasion put them back.

Oh and before you go off on how other countries solved the problem with strict "no-nonsense laws" like China or Arabia... well all these years later China and Arabia are still executing drug dealers... so it hasn't stopped the problem... it's only killing those who get caught.

It's funny to think that 100 years ago a person could go to a neighborhood "Rexal" and buy them off the shelf. Cough medicines... teething medicines... hell they were included in military ration kits... along with pep pills... not to mention the copious amounts of booze that flowed...

All of them were taxed to the hilt by the US government.

Then came prohibition... then organized crime... the enormous loss of tax revenue leading to the Great Depression. It was a big mess... didn't solve the problem.

People will do drugs... regardless...

Perhaps we should reconsider how they are distributed and who gets to profit.

The Pentagon may wish to take note and instead of investing in expensive airplanes, ships and tanks they should just hold up in the nearest cave when under attack and wait out the storm and then take over a la Taliban/Hamass/Al Qaeda/ISIS.
#10 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2024-09-02 10:30 PM | Reply | Flag: PPFFTTTT

The legend of our military might is based on the dropping of two nukes... 80 years ago... Since then a lot of other countries got nukes to wave around as a show of superiority.

Remember when we initially invaded Afghanistan and Iraq with a complete array of our superior equipment that ultimately couldn't withstand IEDs?
You know... the weapons they pieced together out of this and that... they were sending our troops back home missing pieces of their bodies and ringing ears. Meanwhile... our troops were digging through junk yards finding scraps to weld onto their vehicles because what we were using wasn't up to snuff against their "improvised weapons".

Frankly... what they are doing is what we would do to win if the tables were turned... stubbornly keep fighting a myriad of little battles... until it gets too expensive for the invading forces to keep up the fight.

It's fascinating that the whole "Shock and Awe" thingie to "win the hearts and minds"... only managed to pi$$ them off and fight rather than capitulate. Why fault them for their patriotism?

The US can't win a ground war on foreign soil. Never has... never will.

Anyone recall what came our way?

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-09-02 12:06 PM | FLAG PFFFTTTTT

Welllll he got to stick it to us "librulzzzz"...plus we unloaded a buttload of heavy artillery...

yay war... lets go do another one...

Well well well cl0wns... Do tell... is Trumpanzee a hero because he surrendered to the Taliban?

That's the real reason these nerds are determined to make robots human shaped.

#5 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-08-29 04:19 PM | FLAG PFFFFTTT

Remember the infomercials about how to get rich selling real estate?

Tim Walz is Kamala's Dick Cheny.

#4 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-08-29 03:35 AM | FLAG EYE ROLL

A Bushturd cabinet member with a head full of bad ideas and a lousy aim? What a relief! Great legacy... two wars to catch one man ... that he let get away... all in order to pursue wars we ultimately lost... and trash our economy while improving Iran's standing in the world.

Don't you have someone with a fresher CV to put into your fantasy debate?

They remind me of "Dead Heads" or Rocky Horror Show Cultist ... only Trumpanzees are really really weird.

Yeppers the ol' Premillineal Dispinsationalists... they've been around for centuries but the current batch has been at it since the 19th century... as communication technology improves so does the spread of this sect of mind prisoners.

oooohhhh noooo its not a cult... not at all.... nuh uhhhh... no sireeeeeee

Brag about his babies... grow a beard... it's not like he's the first couch cucker struggling to stay in the closet.