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Well, OK, if that's what amuses you then ... carry on.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Quote:There is no contradiction. Despite Trump breaking the Ten Commandments, the showy Christian Mike Pence defends Trump on all occasions. Pence wants and could be an adequate President, but if he ever stops slavishly defending Trump, Trump would drop him in a second. Then Pence would not be a Vice Presidential candidate in 2020 and he won't have a chance to replace Trump, should he have a stroke and suddenly die. It has been known to happen. Another example: Mitch McConnell needs Trump to nominate judges on McConnell's list. If McConnell ever stops defending Trump, Trump stops picking names from McConnell's list. McConnell's life would be much easier with President Mike Pence, but there is nothing McConnell can do to get rid of Trump without Trump completely sabotaging McConnell's plan to pack the courts with extremist judges.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
To repeat
He'll shift arguments and even contradict himself from one moment to the next ("Republicans protect Trump/ Republicans secretly want to get rid of Trump . . . "
www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/trump-mcconnell-judges-1205722
Did you really need this explained to you, Signym? You did. fff.net has a million words by you that show you are overly articulate but you don't understand American politics. I suspect you are a Russian troll who would do Russian politics more competently.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:I consistently say terrible things about terrible people. I've always been judgmental. It works for me. You have probably had your life derailed many times by bosses like me or girlfriends who dumped you, but you never understood why they fired you or dumped you. You never figured out what you did wrong because they didn't warn you a hundred times before they pushed the big red button and ejected you from the airplane or the job or their life. Trump cannot save you from yourself and your faults.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. I already know there's no changing Second. He's a despicable human being and a completely static character incapable of change.
I get a kick out of making him lose his shit, however, and putting him on blast for any of the hypocritical and terrible things he routinely has to say about others.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
You have probably had your life derailed many times by bosses or girlfriends like me, but you never understood why they fired you or dumped you.
Nope. Never had a girlfriend like you. They were all twice the man you'll ever be, cupcake.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:In hundreds of "Witch Hunt" tweets, Trump denies that Russians committed crimes, but dozens of Russians were indicted by Mueller. That is Trump damning himself when he can't even be trusted to understand simple things like indictments of criminals.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. The only problem with that is the Mueller report didn't damn Trump.
lol
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Trump's answer to every question Mueller asked in Appendix C of the Mueller Report was either "I have no recollection" or "I do not recall". Trump damned himself with his amnesia and dementia. If he can't recall, he shouldn't be in the White House. Mike Pence should be in the job.
Trump is a confused old man. But if 6ix can't see it, 6ix is as confused as Trump is. I've read enough of 6ix's stuff to know he is mentally handicapped as severely as Trump. This is why both 6ix and Trump have physical troubles in the real world -- their brains are malfunctioning. It is all there in the Mueller Report about Trump's mental problems. 6ix's problems are spread all over fff.net for anyone to see.
www.fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=20928
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
lol
Let's see how many threads we can find where Second threatens the lives of others, wishes death on political figures, talks about how he would murder political figures themselves, how he revels in ruining other people's lives, how he's better than you because he's rich, yada yada yada...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=20832
There's a huge collective of reasons why we're both different, Second. One I might point out right now is that I'm not full of hatered and anger toward my fellow man, and I don't make a living using and abusing other people. Another I might point out is that I've admitted in plain view my own shortcomings here, on many occasions.
I do it here, as I've said before, rather than talking on Facebook where everybody knows my name because the RWED is my toilet.
Unlike you, a completely static character who is exactly the same person that they were when they signed up on this site in 2013, I've been working very hard to turn things around. I take full ownership of my problems. They were many years in the making. Trump isn't going to fix them. Hillary wouldn't have fixed them.
Yeah... my back is a bit up against the wall at the moment, but believe me, I've faced worse in my life. I'll figure it out and everything's going to be alright.
You would wither away and die if you had to spend a week in my shoes.
Why don't you go back to work in your Ivory Tower and go fire somebody else and ruin their life? You seem a bit on tilt today. I'm sure destroying somebody will make the pain go away.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:second seems to have found a home for shovelling his nonstop heap of manure.
Originally posted by second:
How Abraham Lincoln helped rig the Senate for Republicans
https://thinkprogress.org/how-abraham-lincoln-rigged-the-senate-for-re
publicans/amp/
By 2040, according to a University of Virginia analysis of Census population projections, about half of the country will live in just eight states — which means 16 senators for one half of America and 84 for the other half. Meanwhile, according to Stanford political scientist Jonathan Rodden, partisanship closely correlates with population density — “as you go from the center of cities out through the suburbs and into rural areas, you traverse in a linear fashion from Democratic to Republican places.”
America is fast approaching a tipping point where the GOP will enjoy a permanent supermajority in the United States Senate — and with it, permanent control over the federal judiciary. Democrats have no choice. They must embrace the Party of Lincoln’s tactic of selectively admitting new states, or they must perish.
In 1860 the virtually unpopulated Nevada became its own territory. Republicans would admit it as a state just four years later. That gave the Party of Lincoln two extra seats in the Senate — helping prevent Democrats from simultaneously controlling the White House and both houses of Congress until 1893.
Nor was this selective admission of the Republican state of Nevada an isolated case. Among other things, the reason why there are two Dakotas — despite the fact that both states are so underpopulated that they each only rate a single member of the House of Representatives to this day — is because Republicans won the 1888 election and decided to celebrate by giving themselves four senators instead of just two.
But this is more nutso. Lincoln rigged the Constitution?
Nevada is currently the 7th largest State. It was larger than 10 States (at the time) combined: RI, DE, CT, NJ, NH, MA, MD, WV, SC.
According to second's wacko delusions, RI should have their 2 Senators taken away.
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You have probably had your life derailed many times by bosses or girlfriends like me, but you never understood why they fired you or dumped you.- SECONDRATE
Nope. Never had a girlfriend like you. They were all twice the man you'll ever be, cupcake.- SIX
OMG!!!!
Holy fuck, SIX! Pure genius!
I laughed so long hubby wanted to know what was funny, and despite the fact that he's a pretty humorless guy, he laughed out loud too.
I gotta direct my friend's attention to this, it's a gem.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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The Rise of “Game of Thrones” was Part of The Fall of America
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/20/the-rise-of-game-of-thrones-was-pa
rt-of-the-fall-of-america/
“Game of Thrones” thirst for cruelty was always unsettling. Decapitation, rape, crucifixion, children being burned at the stake, people eaten alive by dogs. Then it culminated in actual genocide. The show’s enormous conglomeration of creative talent was harnessed to exquisitely depict ever more baroque barbarism.
Of course, great stories almost always involve some degree of violence. It’s hardwired into humans to pay close attention to it, for good reason. But because that’s true, the not-so-great stories pumped out by America’s entertainment industry include violence as well, because they don’t have anything else. “Game of Thrones” was perfect for an audience that’s been marinated since birth in bad stories full of more banal brutality. Like drug addicts, we needed higher and higher doses for our burned-out nervous systems to feel anything. The core viewership for “Game of Thrones” was people who are rich enough to afford an HBO subscription — and therefore have almost any kind of distraction instantly available to them — yet deeply bored. ( I paid HBO nothing. Free HBO https://psarips.org/tv-show/game-thrones-season-8/ )
Anyone who knows anything about history will recognize this kind of decadence of imagination. It’s common among the elites of societies in decline. In fact, “Game of Thrones” puts this worldview in the mouth of Sansa, a princess from the provinces who yearned to move to the sophisticated capital — and is herself part of a collapsing elite.
“You’ve got to invent a story,” she tells one of her servants as she sits on a dock, speculating on where all the ships on the water are going.
“Why should I make up a story when I know the truth?” asks the servant.
“Because,” Sansa replies, “the truth is always either terrible or boring.”
This is completely wrong: If you can taste more than the strongest mental flavors, much of the truth is both non-terrible and exciting. We actually have the capacity to power everything via the giant glowing orb in the sky. We could use a small fraction of our wealth to provide everyone on Earth with clean water. We could focus our lives on creating something the world’s never seen before: an actual democracy.
However, anyone who’s spent time in the upper precincts of America knows many of the people there believe Sansa in their hearts. Their lives are so cosseted and lush that only extremes can get their attention. Indeed, Donald Trump — even as he experiences the most extreme life possible in the United States — is so bored that the only thing he wants to do is watch cable TV.
That’s where “Game of Thrones” leaves us in the end. As some of the few remaining characters discuss building better sewage systems so that regular people don’t die like flies, the camera slowly pulls back, leaving them to it. HBO knows that we simply don’t have the imagination to care about reality.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Game of Thrones’ political realism fell apart in season eight
The West Wing (TV show) is defined by its optimistic account of democracy. At its core, Aaron Sorkin’s White House drama believed that people are rational and open to persuasion, and that the American political system centers on people having good-faith conversations about their beliefs and frequently changing their minds as a result. Speeches persuade; the marketplace of ideas works.
This is not how American politics — or politics anywhere, really — actually works. It’s a naive vision that Game of Thrones has spent years deconstructing, pointing out all of the ways in which self-interest and ideology not only make it difficult for people to compromise, but sometimes lead to war. And yet, the end of this long struggle for supremacy ends in the most saccharine way possible: all the lords agreeing to a new king, without any debate, because Tyrion offered up some pretty words about stories.
www.vox.com/game-of-thrones/2019/5/20/18632343/game-of-thrones-finale-
season-8-bran-tyrion-iron-throne
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Good to know that everybody hates the end of Game of Thrones.
No reason to watch it now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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