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Originally posted by second:Quote:As far as most people know, I don't have any money. I'm living on a pension, they think. I give the appearance of an old guy that is kind of generous. Somebody dumped a dead pitbull at the cemetery? I will pick it up. I do the stinking jobs, not hire them done. I don't want to end up like Oprah or Bill Gates, living in a multitude of big houses so that they can isolate themselves from all the greedy Americans who want a share. I live in a dinky little house in a middle class neighborhood a very short distance from the poor in Baytown. I already found out what happens when I take on other people's problems, people who create their own problems faster than even Jeff Bezos could solve them. Bezos is smart enough to put his excess money into rockets and fire it into outer space. That is less trouble.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You really have surrendered to your fate, 6ixStringJack. And not in a good way, such as explained in "Your Money or Your Life", where they recommend not striving for what is not worth the effort or time.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm loving where I'm at now, brother.
How long has it been since you've heard me bitching about things?
Yup. It's been a while.
I think that your problem is that all you value is money.
How worthless of a human being would you be without all of yours?
That's a question you should probably be asking yourself, if you haven't been already.
I would advise the temptation to avoid being brutally honest with yourself while making that evaluation.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That is not at all what I was talking about, and I'm pretty sure that you know that.
If that is how you live your life, I actually respect that for it being a series of intelligent decisions. When people at work talk about winning the power ball and what they'd do, they even joke that if I won it I'd still be driving the same POS car, and they're right. I wouldn't even fix up the outside of my house all that much. But the inside would be filled with all kinds of technological marvels, and my garage would be a handyman's wet dream. But from the outside, it would look exactly the same as it ever has.
I don't even remember to lock my doors half the time that I'm home.
But that's not answering any questions of what kind of man you are. I wasn't expecting a real answer because you don't have any clue yourself. If we are to believe you about how much money you have, there isn't a problem in the world you couldn't buy your way out of. You don't have any real concerns in your life. Picking up dead pitbulls, or living in a middle class neighborhood and driving a car that isn't flashy aren't examples of struggles you face. It is just what intelligent people of any income bracket would do as to not draw unwanted attention to themselves. It comes from a place of self preservation. It's not as if you're doing that to free up money to go out and do charitable deeds with it... you said so yourself.
I'm not even attacking you here. You're not any different than most other people would be with a lot of money in terms of character, and maybe even a little smarter than a majority of them.
All I'm saying is that there is a lot more to life than money. It took me a long time to learn that lesson. I think it's one that most people actually never learn because somewhere along the way they enslave themselves to it.
So long as you serve God Money, you will never know what Freedom truly tastes like.
No judgement. No joke. I honestly hope that one day you can.
That goes for anybody here who hasn't as well.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All I'm saying is that there is a lot more to life than money. It took me a long time to learn that lesson. I think it's one that most people actually never learn because somewhere along the way they enslave themselves to it.
Riiiight like learning how to judge what a piece of sh*t your president is and why that's important to more than just you...
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All I'm saying is that there is a lot more to life than money. It took me a long time to learn that lesson. I think it's one that most people actually never learn because somewhere along the way they enslave themselves to it.
Riiiight like learning how to judge what a piece of sh*t your president is and why that's important to more than just you...
What good would that do me? Or anybody else for that matter? The last 3 at least were all pieces of shit. I'm fairly confident at this point in my life that it's an unwritten prerequisite for the job.
Sure. Trump's a piece of shit. You happy now?
Did me admitting that to you change your life in any meaningful way?
Hey. Maybe it put a smile on your face. Glad I could start your day off right.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:From long experience, I noticed that the Americans who are failing in life think that feeling bad and saying sorry is enough. It is not. That is why they are failing. They need to do more. Fix what they broke. Set right what they did wrong. Make a different decision.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All I'm saying is that there is a lot more to life than money. It took me a long time to learn that lesson. I think it's one that most people actually never learn because somewhere along the way they enslave themselves to it.
Riiiight like learning how to judge what a piece of sh*t your president is and why that's important to more than just you...
What good would that do me? Or anybody else for that matter? The last 3 at least were all pieces of shit. I'm fairly confident at this point in my life that it's an unwritten prerequisite for the job.
Sure. Trump's a piece of shit. You happy now?
Did me admitting that to you change your life in any meaningful way?
Hey. Maybe it put a smile on your face. Glad I could start your day off right.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Saying empty words that they can take back and feeling depressed will count for nothing in the real world. That is especially true if you keep on doing what caused the trouble in the first place. You have got to do something different and bigger. There is a three way choice coming: Vote GOP, Don't Vote, Vote Democrat. The first two choices are as worthless as saying "Sorry". I am sure millions of Americans will fuck up this decision and then they will wonder until they die why things never get better for themselves. Because they voted once, it must be the government's fault! No. It is the voters' fault, all the thousands of little mistakes and bad decisions and habitual laziness during the years they waited for the next election, where hope is in their little heart that this election fixes everything instantaneously.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Beginning in 2012, Trump accused Obama of planning to announce hostilities against Iran in order for Obama to win an election. Trump wrote on separate tweets:
“I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!”
“Remember what I previously said – Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is.”
“Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly – not skilled!”
Nothing Trump wrote about Obama was true. But Trump loved his Iran Conspiracy Theory so much that he is following the Iran plan for the 2018 election.
The details of Trump’s old tweets and the leaks of Trump’s new and very slimy plans are at https://qz.com/1334536
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:Quote:From long experience, I noticed that the Americans who are failing in life think that feeling bad and saying sorry is enough. It is not. That is why they are failing. They need to do more. Fix what they broke. Set right what they did wrong. Make a different decision.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All I'm saying is that there is a lot more to life than money. It took me a long time to learn that lesson. I think it's one that most people actually never learn because somewhere along the way they enslave themselves to it.
Riiiight like learning how to judge what a piece of sh*t your president is and why that's important to more than just you...
What good would that do me? Or anybody else for that matter? The last 3 at least were all pieces of shit. I'm fairly confident at this point in my life that it's an unwritten prerequisite for the job.
Sure. Trump's a piece of shit. You happy now?
Did me admitting that to you change your life in any meaningful way?
Hey. Maybe it put a smile on your face. Glad I could start your day off right.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Saying empty words that they can take back and feeling depressed will count for nothing in the real world. That is especially true if you keep on doing what caused the trouble in the first place. You have got to do something different and bigger. There is a three way choice coming: Vote GOP, Don't Vote, Vote Democrat. The first two choices are as worthless as saying "Sorry". I am sure millions of Americans will fuck up this decision and then they will wonder until they die why things never get better for themselves. Because they voted once, it must be the government's fault! No. It is the voters' fault, all the thousands of little mistakes and bad decisions and habitual laziness during the years they waited for the next election, where hope is in their little heart that this election fixes everything instantaneously.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
To be clear, I never said I'm sorry.
I'm not sorry.
We're still much better off than the alternative.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Republicans Have Mostly Stayed Loyal to Their Party In the Trump Era (But would you expect liars, dumbasses and racists to have an epiphany, a sudden and striking realization about Trump causing them to quit the GOP??)
Whenever the topic of Donald Trump’s continuing popularity among Republicans comes up, somebody asks if maybe it’s just an artifact of the polling. If moderates are abandoning the Republican Party because of Trump, then simple arithmetic says that most of the folks who are left will be big fans. So then: are people abandoning the Republican Party? Luckily, Charles Franklin has just taken a look and here are his results:
The graph going back to 2004 is at
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/07/republicans-have-mostly-stayed-
loyal-to-their-party-in-the-trump-era/
Roughly speaking, not much has happened. Since 2016, Democratic Party ID has been flat at about 46 percent and Republican Party ID is slightly down from 42 percent to 41 percent. There’s just not a lot going on here.
I’ve chosen to highlight the chart that includes leaners, since a lot of research shows that leaners are as reliably Republican as self-professed partisans. They just don’t like to admit it for some reason. However, Franklin has a full set of charts in this thread, including party ID charts that exclude leaners. They show a little more movement—around 4 percentage points—but that’s still a pretty modest amount, and they’ve probably just migrated from Republican to Lean Republican anyway.
Bottom line: at most, there’s been a slight decline in the number of self-IDed Republicans over the past couple of years. But for practical purposes, it’s about zero. All those Republicans who say they love Donald Trump are the same ones who loved Mitt Romney and John McCain and George Bush. They’re just Republicans.
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:
Bottom line: at most, there’s been a slight decline in the number of self-IDed Republicans over the past couple of years. But for practical purposes, it’s about zero. All those Republicans who say they love Donald Trump are the same ones who loved Mitt Romney and John McCain and George Bush. They’re just Republicans.
I would think that the Bottom Line would be that the current tactics by Democrats are having absolutely zero effect.
Time for a change?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All I'm saying is that there is a lot more to life than money. It took me a long time to learn that lesson. I think it's one that most people actually never learn because somewhere along the way they enslave themselves to it.
Riiiight like learning how to judge what a piece of sh*t your president is and why that's important to more than just you...
What good would that do me? Or anybody else for that matter? The last 3 at least were all pieces of shit. I'm fairly confident at this point in my life that it's an unwritten prerequisite for the job.
Sure. Trump's a piece of shit. You happy now?
Did me admitting that to you change your life in any meaningful way?
Hey. Maybe it put a smile on your face. Glad I could start your day off right.
I use to think that way in my 20s. "What's the point?"
You want to know what's ironic? It's a totally selfish point of view, you not giving a sh*t. But in a lot of ways so is the opposite. I can't imagine not trying to do something even if it's only informing myself as much as possible and expressing my opinions about @sswipe Trump in public. If that was all I did I'd still feel a lot better about myself than if I did nothing. So good news: you don't have to give up putting yourself first.
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Steve Schmidt quit.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/393170-gop-strategist-denounces-party
-will-vote-for-democrats
He'z the jeneus hoo pushed for Sara Palin in 2008. We can partly xank him for Obama.
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