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#61 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 51 weeks ago

Another ramification here…when is the last time a democratic leaning judge was appointed to the Supreme Court?

What kind of stupid game are the Dems playing on this? How has Biden not replaced a single judge? The irony…age and health…and it all comes down to ego preservation just like it did with Ginsberg.

The Dems are about to get thrashed…and this isn’t even the top of the iceberg.

I’m annoyed by AOCs action but at least she’s doing something. Can’t say the same for rest of the Dems who have absolutely no plan should Biden lose.

#62 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 51 weeks ago

So how does it play out? What's your prediction for the future? You forecast doom and gloom...what does that look like?

My very poorly researched conclusion? We end up with something similar to what the middle east has now as compared to 50 years ago. A total reversal in direction (not necessarily good or bad?) in which a severely patriarchal system is re-established. Or we just continue to meander aimlessly and hopelessly with no real objective in sight other than to tear each other apart.

What does that mean - 'the west will pay...the west will fall...'...don't we just reinvent? We don't just disappear?

Also, I wanted to hear more on your thoughts regarding when feminism became a men's movement. I had not heard that one before.

#63 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 51 weeks ago

Randall Flagg wrote:

I’m amazed at how this election is shaping up. It’s truly an amalgamation of 2016 and 2020, but reversed.

In 2016 republicans such as myself hoped and prayed Trump would be replaced at the convention, this couldn’t be our nominee. The convention came and went and the majority got on the Trump train. This is what is happening with Biden now. Half the party wants someone else, and over half thinks he should step aside because he’s not a serious candidate. Sound familiar?

Why is this happening? Why do we hate the people we're voting for?

In 2020 Trump was down in nearly every poll this time. Covid was all the hype and the media and Democrats blamed Trump for the shitty state of affairs. Biden hid from the media for 6 months, and let Trump destroy himself with his nonstop gaffes and idiotic statements. Admittedly Trump isn’t hiding in his bunker, but he’s certainly not leading the chorus of chants against Biden. Quite the opposite in fact, he’s shutting the fuck up about it. The same media the ran Covid numbers on every inch of our screens for 10 months is now doing to Biden what it did to Trump, and Trump is letting it eat Biden.

I thought Stephanopolous went too far with his interview with Biden. Yes, he needed to hit the mark on Biden’s cognitive ability, but he beat a dead horse. He pushed Biden to say only God can get him to quit, and that was way beyond the line of good journalism in my book. Biden is staying in the race. We don’t need 12 minutes of nonstop badgering on if that’s a good idea.

I have serious concerns for this nation early next year. Because I do think Trump will win, and the violence of the summer of 2020 is only a glimmer of what left wing radicals will do now. The media and the left have convinced them it’s morally acceptable to use violence against “Nazis” and that Trump is the greatest threat to America in a century. Let’s ignore the reality of his presidency and the crime rates and and global conflicts, and pretend such a claim is remotely true, as they do. How do you not have tens of thousands of Gen Zers and young millennials in the streets trying to insta their Selma moment?  How do you not have militarized police that respond with force when they try to firebomb the White House again like they did on June 1st 2020.

I have voted in every presidential election I could since I legally became of age. Why do I seriously consider not voting at all this year. Not that it matters...I live in a state that is already decided. This has the feel of a dead man walking no matter what or who...

If you think for a moment Democratic leaders will call for calm, Pelosi and Schumer knelt in solidarity with the rioters a day after they threw Molotovs at the White House and Trump was rushed to the bunker. Democrats called 2016 stolen and Trump illegitimate. They’re just as guilty of dissent and stirring the pot as Trump was in the aftermath of 2020. Or did we all forget that every newspaper in the country and leading Democrats called for the electoral college to vacate Trump in January of 17? 

ARs and AKs take 5 minutes to get in nearly every state. Both extremes have violent people willing to hurt others for their cause. The two party system is broken and co-opted by the same corporations and people happy to have the country fight over coke or Pepsi.

Civil war is coming. China is now in Belarus doing drills alongside Russia, and half our country is blindly urging us to head to WW3.  I wonder if fighting for men to swim in the women’s Olympics or passing heart beat bills will seem like hills to die on in the coming years.

I'm starting to believe this to be true...but why? What are we fighting over? What are we fighting for?

Define Civil War...

Here is one that I see...Gen Z women are total whores and will sell their bodies for $100. Men and women under 35 do nothing but use each other now. Women are proud to run up their body counts and making entire careers out of it...you men pay for sex and toss them away. Sex work is the new feminism (wtf???) and men get accused of SA for no reason at all. 80% of women in marriages are initiating divorce and fleecing their husbands. Birth rates are at all time lows...we're not replacing ourselves.

That seems like a civil war of some kind.

#64 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 52 weeks ago

Biden is a good man and he gets to say he was president. Trump is everything ID says…he’s revolting.

But he will win as i predicted a few messages back. Rather than get it right with policy, the Dems spent way too much time chasing down Trump in court. Even when Trump was beaten, they couldn’t resist.

Here we are 4 years later and we have AOC looking like a total fool at NYC rallies looking as detached as anyone could be in 2024.

Plug your nose in November…it’s gonna stink.

#65 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 54 weeks ago

James...I don't recall our exact age difference but I think you're a tad older than me. Why does this matter? I think you were in high school around this time. I was in high school shortly after...you couldn't be a bigger douche bag than a Gn'R fan in the late 90s, early 2000s...I took Axl's words to heart, you stand behind your music like a political statement.

I was the Gn'R fan while boy bands and jail bait female acts took over and I took a lot of critical abuse for this...

Slash in the mid-late 90s seemed clueless in some ways. He avoided confrontation by just leaving. In retrospect, this is a hard thing to reconcile from the 'baddest band on the planet' lead guitar player.

#66 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 54 weeks ago

...soon...is still the word...

#67 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 54 weeks ago

oh god...the missing 90s years leading up to Slash quitting (and Duff). Slash needed something to do. Found it.

#68 Re: The Garden » The Space thread » 54 weeks ago

What's LEO?

I'd like to hear more about where we drifted off into alternative 1985. or whatever alternate line we're on now.

Where did we go wrong? Is there anyone out there that doesn't want to explore space?

#69 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 61 weeks ago

What do these protesters think they’re accomplishing? Protests don’t do anything. Why don’t these people go over there and do something about it if they don’t like it?

Unbelievable privilege to sit around campus protesting.

#70 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 65 weeks ago

I'm calling it now, Trump will win...again. Yipee...

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