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Post by miscmisc on Nov 12, 2020 14:02:16 GMT 1
You will likely enjoy regular Christmas and holidays in 2021 and beyond. You'll have plenty of the same old, boring, stupid Christmas.
But you rarely have a highly unusual, interesting, pandemic Christmas. It will be refreshing.
I know this is a perverse thing to say, and people whose hospitality business depends on the holiday season want to murder me now. I'm sorry.
But I just don't understand the sheer obsession with having a "normal Christmas" that many people seem to have.
You're a fucking software engineer. You won't fucking need a "normal Christmas."
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 12, 2020 14:53:25 GMT 1
It will be extremely hard to top this both-sides-ism extremo on dex and power roids from another galaxy.
Satire is truly dead.
"Whoopi Goldberg telling his voters to suck it up"
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 12, 2020 14:58:03 GMT 1
Dude, I'm the first person to tell you all about the liberal meltdown and their never-ending obsession with The Russians Giving Trump The Victory four years ago.
And I can assure you that this humongous crap that not only Trump but the entire GOP is pulling is 10 times worse.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 12, 2020 16:15:38 GMT 1
It's not wrong to say that Trump lost the election because of Mitch McConnell.
If McConnell had agreed with the Democrats on the relief bill, and Trump had trumpeted it as his achievement, he could've been reelected.
But McConnell did what you'd expect from Republicans and just killed it. And Trump couldn't do a thing.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 12, 2020 16:42:38 GMT 1
I can also assure you that this "illegal votes" nonsense is actually a real mass delusion in a large part of the Republican Party.
If your assumption is that they are amplifying the crap only because they want to appease that giant fool in the White House, you are wrong.
Every single one of my sources in the party - all of whom have been trying to distance themselves from the whole shit - tells me that they are kind of scared now.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 12, 2020 17:30:10 GMT 1
"I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit."That's what Butch said in Pulp Fiction, back in 1994. Indeed Americans used to pride themselves on giving their kids simple, blunt names that don't mean shit. Times have changed, though. College lacrosse team roster:  "Shackleford Stanwick" "Wheaton Jackoboice" "Taggart Eymer" "Dallas Creamer" Even the English Upper-class Twits would be terrified of these names. And yes, "lacrosse" means that many of these kids are probably from VERY wealthy families. So this is not "lower-class people having bad taste in lower-class ways" stuff.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 13, 2020 3:48:17 GMT 1
I just cannot overstate how absolutely horrendous this is.
But that crazy governor will probably keep saying that this is "what we expected" and therefore no big deal.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 13, 2020 4:02:20 GMT 1
At this pace, and given the absence of federal policies, this winter will be an incredibly long Covid-19 nightmare in America. It probably won't even peak in December; It will keep getting worse into 2021, and I don't even want to guess how many lives we will have already lost at that point.
We have great antiviral drugs now, but there are only few of them available. Only the wealthy and powerful will have access to them.
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Post by gols on Nov 13, 2020 15:20:15 GMT 1
College lacrosse team roster: "Shackleford Stanwick" "Wheaton Jackoboice" "Taggart Eymer" "Dallas Creamer" Even the English Upper-class Twits would be terrified of these names. And yes, "lacrosse" means that many of these kids are probably from VERY wealthy families. So this is not "lower-class people having bad taste in lower-class ways" stuff. I thought this was a joke, that it can't be real. But it is (I checked!).
What I don't understand, is that the last names seem just as made-up as the first names?!
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Post by gols on Nov 13, 2020 15:21:50 GMT 1
Every single one of my sources in the party - all of whom have been trying to distance themselves from the whole shit - tells me that they are kind of scared now. What are they scared is going to happen? What do you think will happen? |
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Post by K1power on Nov 13, 2020 16:09:24 GMT 1
College lacrosse team roster: "Shackleford Stanwick" "Wheaton Jackoboice" "Taggart Eymer" "Dallas Creamer" Even the English Upper-class Twits would be terrified of these names. And yes, "lacrosse" means that many of these kids are probably from VERY wealthy families. So this is not "lower-class people having bad taste in lower-class ways" stuff. I thought this was a joke, that it can't be real. But it is (I checked!). What I don't understand, is that the last names seem just as made-up as the first names?!
Dallas Creamer definitely sounds like a raunchy gamer tag: D@ll@$_Cr3@m3r69 just joined the party. |
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 13, 2020 19:06:10 GMT 1
Every single one of my sources in the party - all of whom have been trying to distance themselves from the whole shit - tells me that they are kind of scared now. What are they scared is going to happen? What do you think will happen? They aren't scared because of where the party is headed, but because they have no idea where it's headed. They expected some kind of a memo, but there has been none. So everyone has to improvise based on their political instinct. It's chaotic behind the scene. And a whole lot of Republicans genuinely believe that Democrats stole the election. It's mostly projection, needless to say, but they do believe that. The bad news is that those crazies will continue to have enormous political power no matter what. They won't even need Trump. I don't think there's any path for that clown to stay in power in any event. No "coup." But my biggest fear - well, more like resignation, really - is that it's such a complete shit show that people around the globe will definitely find the Chinese model a hell of a lot more attractive. |
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 13, 2020 19:14:59 GMT 1
College lacrosse team roster: "Shackleford Stanwick" "Wheaton Jackoboice" "Taggart Eymer" "Dallas Creamer" Even the English Upper-class Twits would be terrified of these names. And yes, "lacrosse" means that many of these kids are probably from VERY wealthy families. So this is not "lower-class people having bad taste in lower-class ways" stuff. I thought this was a joke, that it can't be real. But it is (I checked!).
What I don't understand, is that the last names seem just as made-up as the first names?!
Yeah, that's a mystery, but it's true that there are a lot of Anglo-sounding last names in America that nonetheless sound very strange to English people. Many of them were probably originally German, and got pseudo-Anglicized in pretty "unique" ways. Most of the "white" genes in America are of German-speaking-world origin after all. The English-Scotch-Irish ones are completely outnumbered. |
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 13, 2020 20:22:28 GMT 1
One thing that I thought that everyone knew about Donald is that he is a coward. He would even joke in private about how much of a coward he is, adding that "brave people are usually dumb, though."
The Republicans who desperately need Trump now are Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia. The rest can do without him in the mid-to-long run.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 13, 2020 21:04:10 GMT 1
I don't pretend to be an expert on British politics. I'm not. So I never understood what the fuss was about Dominic Cummings. I just didn't get it.
I think anyone who suggests that he played such a big role in Brexit is delusional. Literally any enthusiastic reactionary prick could've done what he did, and as far as I can see in hindsight, the UK was absolutely ready for Brexit anyway.
I read some of the things he wrote. Every single one of them was desperately ordinary reactionary prose that could've been easily written by Newt Gingrich's secretary.
All British people must thank Armando Iannucci for making British politics seem 10 times as interesting as it actually is in reality. He fooled many Americans, the same way the BBC with their many science shows fool Americans into thinking that most British people are scientifically literate.
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