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re: The MoU is Officially Done

Posted by AUCom96 on 7/8/26 at 5:05 am to
I love how we keep acting like we're the "good guys" when we're the ones who started this and who have brought war over and over to that region over three decades.

We bought our ticket. Glad some of you neo-con's bloodlust will get sated some more.
Some may think it will work, others are merely tired of watching our modern brand of capitalism tilt our nation toward monopoly, corporate control and war profiteering.

Socialism will always be a disaster, but it's not the only bad direction available. Where many go wrong is accepting there are only two possible solutions to every problem.
Division, identity politics, brown uber alles.

Sounds typical of the globalist left.
I wish we had more of Japan's values right now.
The ones that buy the federal government.
This nation - or its power structure - does not value and actually holds its citizenry in contempt. Thus, it will eventually fail... just like the venture capital acquisitions it has resembled in the last couple of decades tend to do.
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E10 to E15 sucks, but the alternative is open borders, chicks with dicks, DEI, more taxes, etc.


What's the trend in ideology been, despite splitting the difference in party power pretty much the last few decades?

They're all bad and yeah, ethanol subsidies suck.
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If "the other guy is communist" won't get you to the polls, you're an idiot.


No, you just have your eyes open. The idiot is the one who goes back to pretending he's seeing something that doesn't exist.
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Irresponsible spending hasn’t changed. The Republican Party has not been fiscally conservative since the mid 1990s and Newt.



I'd argue it never truly has been. America has run on debt my entire life and I pre-date Newt's time by a number of years.

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But forever wars have changed. I’ve been well known to be opposed to this iran misadventure from the beginning but iran is in fact not Iraq or Afghanistan. Iran is over. We’re done. It’s a failure, but at least it’s done. At least it’s not a 20 year failure.


I hope you're correct, but Trump has a hard time admitting he fricked up.

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And the vast majority, save a few old guard believers, actually oppose illegal immigration now.


Trump ran on that. It remains to be seen how that translates post-Trump. I suspect the GOP - on the whole - is still on board the "comprehensive immigration reform" - aka indentured labor - bandwagon once he's out.
And now many think Marco Rubio will be the future of the GOP.

What has changed?
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If "the other guy is communist" won't get you to the polls, you're an idiot.


Why? Corporate lobby control via government or... other corporate lobby control via government with a weak stab at socialist policy they can't maintain? The result will continue to be as they are: high crime, stagnating economy, job loss to AI, swelling of social programs, immigrant replacement and war, war, war.

When both options are bad, people generally either choose the devil the DON'T know or they punt.

re: NPR Announces Alito Retiring

Posted by AUCom96 on 7/1/26 at 1:00 pm to
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Alito and Thomas need to retire soon so conservatives are sure to take their spot.


None have been appointed since them so why would that happen now? We'd get another ACB, most likely... or worse.
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People have to turn out in November or these morons will get elected.


The days of "the other guy is worse!" will no longer get people to the polls. The GOP has had two Trump terms to show what they can accomplish and it's been war, debt and a flat economy.

The republicans will not sweep the midterms.

re: The U.S. is Not a Country Anymore

Posted by AUCom96 on 7/1/26 at 10:45 am to



^^ There's "America" right there. And that has no allegiance to any borders, nations or laws that don't turn that red to green.

re: DeSantis does it again

Posted by AUCom96 on 7/1/26 at 7:05 am to
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You honestly believe if we had poll tests, we wouldn't have an entirely different set of politicians in America?


We'd start from the same lobbyist purchased field of candidates, so who gives a frick about a poll test? From the start, these people are bought... or they don't get through the gate. The only exception to that are the rare cases of extremely wealthy people using their own money to finance a campaign... and even then, the higher up the ticket, the price tag gets even too massive for them to bear.
It is amusing to see some curly moustached, topknotted hipster in an Argentina jersey and his granola bros crowding around a screen in a bar watching not-their-country's national team square off against Ethiopia.

Yeah, for some it's completely a virtue signal.
If that's your problem with Tucker, why do you like Trump so much?

re: DeSantis does it again

Posted by AUCom96 on 6/30/26 at 6:42 am to
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The disease is the voters.



The voters don't pick the candidates, fund their campaigns, back specific legislation through lobby pressure, set the election laws or handle the corrupt machines by which they are carried out... voters are the least of the problem. Most of the voters honestly don't give a shite, anymore. They can see it's a giant lie. Look at the voters totals versus population. It tells a story.
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Leaving Las Vegas is not really a movie that shows chops….


I've known my share of alcoholics and he nailed it. That was a very strong performance and I'm pretty critical. It's hard to judge Cage because after he got into financial straights, he basically accepted being a cartoon character.

Because it seems to piss off the fangirls, I'll go with Zendaya. She basically can look mildly perturbed and that seems to be the bulk of her acting ability.
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Ahhhh, college ball. Hasn’t changed a bit.



In the future, like the NFL, it's going to take a lot of gambling to keep it anywhere near the viewership it has now.