Post #436,974
11/3/20 7:18:33 PM
11/3/20 7:18:33 PM
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2016...
I had just flown into Hawaii with my not quite one year old daughter and my wife for a medical conference. (the wife's) I misread something on the TV (a state going for Clinton as opposed to a national total) and thought we'd blown Trump out of the water. Kept telling people don't worry, and then spent the rest of the week feeling totally shitty about everything.
Beating Trump won't lift that feeling, sadly - so much damage has been done that it would take decades of the Republicans being in the weeds to undo it, and I think we've got 4-8 years tops.
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Post #436,975
11/3/20 7:23:35 PM
11/3/20 7:23:35 PM
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I regret to report (sorry mmoffitt)
…that Indiana has already been called for the Orange Man. Hoocoodanode?
sorrowfully,
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Post #436,976
11/3/20 8:23:40 PM
11/3/20 8:23:40 PM
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Indiana was already slated to go red anyways.
Not losing any sleep over that state.
I didn't say I'm not losing any sleep, mind you...
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Post #436,982
11/4/20 5:27:57 AM
11/4/20 5:27:57 AM
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This is the worst place in the Universe to live if you are a human being.
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #436,984
11/4/20 6:16:36 AM
11/4/20 6:20:34 AM
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Yeah nah
Edited by pwhysall
Nov. 4, 2020, 06:20:34 AM EST
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Post #436,985
11/4/20 8:04:46 AM
11/4/20 8:04:46 AM
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Point taken.
But how do you feel about, "Native Hoosiers are the worst people in the Western world." Imagine you lived where nearly eight out of ten people gave their unconditional, unwavering support to Britain First. That'd be close to living in Indiana. Reduce that number to nearly five in ten and you're close to living in the United States. I haven't really wanted to live in this country since I was ten years old. Today it is unbearable.
My father said this about North Carolina, but it applies to the entire nation today. "North Carolina The United States is a beautiful country. It's too bad the people fuck it up so horribly."
Infants literally ripped from their mothers' bosoms and then effectively orphaned in OUR name. Roughly half the US population is just fine with that. How much more damning a statement can you make about these fuckers?
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #436,986
11/4/20 8:26:18 AM
11/4/20 8:26:18 AM
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If it's unbearable, move.
Go to NZ, or Canada, or something.
You have a choice. It's not necessarily very palatable, nor is it easy, but it's there.
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Post #436,989
11/4/20 10:19:31 AM
11/4/20 10:19:31 AM
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'
It's too late for me. I should have moved out of the country as a young man. I could already tell where this country was going in 1980. I was still a young man in 1980 and many borders now completely or partially closed were still wide open to us undesirables. But, I didn't. Instead I fell in love with and married an Indiana girl. (I may have said this before, but there are only three types of people who live in Indiana: 1) People who were born here 2) People who are married to people who were born here and 3) the completely incompetent. And yes, there is tremendous overlap between groups 1 and 3).
What I'm saying is that I know my misery is largely self-inflicted. That doesn't make it any less painful. Happily I do not have too many years left and my remains will soon enter a cremation furnace.
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #437,008
11/5/20 3:50:37 AM
11/5/20 3:50:37 AM
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A Kline© newspaper cartoon from long ago.
Sketch: man with elongated-head/face, folded onto shoulders; atop: a stack of block-like packages; Text, along margin:
So often we fail to see that the unrelenting , sometimes even horrific, pressures we live under are actually pressures that we created by our own DESIRES in the first place.
On fridge, yellowed. (We enter the future facing backwards at those inflection points we missed, eh?) ..if there is cosmic humor, anyway.. ...
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Post #436,992
11/4/20 10:45:00 AM
11/4/20 10:45:00 AM
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Well, you got your revolution of the Proletariat . . .
. . I'm guessing you don't like how it turned out.
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Post #436,997
11/4/20 1:19:41 PM
11/4/20 1:19:41 PM
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You like beating that drum, don't you?
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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