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The funny thing is that at exactly the same time Brent is arguing that Fascism is Socialism, Winsor is arguing you should vote Fascist to prevent Socialism, and they will both back each other up without a hint of irony.

It’s really quite simple: you start with the conclusion, for example “Trump good, Libs bad”, and you just work backwards from there to try and twist the facts into that form…Pro Tip: this is easier if you do it with a complete disregard for facts and/or previous statements that you yourself have asserted as facts. It truly is a flawless strategy.

Yep. I saw that this morning. It was fun while it lasted, and I really wish it were as vibrant as it once was. To me it was a much more democratic (in the sense of participation) format than FB, Reddit, or whatever else is out there. There’s an awful lot of good information here Wendy P.

Hi Tanya, During the height of the Watergate Scandal, Nixon said that he did not know what was going on. Someone, I don't remember who, said that was like the piano player in the bordello saying, 'I don't know what they do up there.' Jerry Baumchen

Headlines today, “GOP concerned that fallout from Madison Square Garden rally will just distract from Trump’s message” I am pretty sure that the racist tripe that was spouted at Madison Square Garden is in fact… Trump‘s message.

Trump to liberals: "That wasn't my message AT ALL!" Trump to conservatives: "Yeah you heard me right."

He represents the angry resentful white man portion of the maga crowd. Trump's base is distressingly varied. Almost like a grab bag of deplorables.

The best Elmo meme I've see this morning:

They did in Australia. All it takes is the will.

First they came for the journalists. We don't know what happened after that.

If you like, but that ostensible truth doesn't void the fact that whatever was the brain chemistry rebalance, or sudden electrical storm, that caused the subject to grab a gun and murder his family is still a mystery. Nor does it void the fact that a butcher knife has the same utility. Of course the proliferation of guns in America is a huge contributor to these events, you won't get an argument from me, but clearly there is a lot more involved that can't be known from making a few jumps together or giving them a good look over. As I recall, Ted Bundy was a rather benign and pleasant looking fellow who preferred bludgeoning over shooting.

Woke or un-woke, gender or mis-gendered, Trump loving or not, homosexual or straight or some variation, or sadly the feeling that you must kill those closest to you to escape, and on and on. What goes on at the level of the brain defies any possible current understanding. It might be intellectually satisfying to be reductionist, and certain, but things and our personal understandings are always more complex. The truth is that we really don't have a clue why we feel the way we do or why we act on those feelings the way we do. But we each and every one of us is always on the precipice of being something other than we think we are. Hence, judge not your fellow beings for their quirks because you just cannot know whether or not you are next up.

Old couple had been married for 65 years and he was on his death bed. He tells the wife the combination to a safe that he had always told her to never look in. Inside the safe was $40,000 and three eggs. This of course puzzled her. She asked him what the three eggs & the $40,000 meant. He said, ‘Every time I was unfaithful to you I put an egg in the safe.’ She was not happy but said, 'I guess that’s not too bad for 35 years.' He continued, 'Every time I got a dozen eggs I sold them. That’s where the $40,000 came from.’ Jerry Baumchen

A 15-year-old boy accused of killing his parents and three siblings at their home in Washington state shot them and then called police to claim that one of the victims killed his family and then himself, according to court documents. The boy was charged Thursday with five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the slayings Monday morning in Fall City. Two adults and three children — 7, 9 and 13 years old — were found dead shortly before 5 a.m. Monday after a shooting was reported at a home in the Lake Alice Road neighborhood in Fall City, about 25 miles east of Seattle. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/15-year-old-charged-killing-parents-3-siblings-washington-rcna176893 "The surviving 11-year-old sibling told police that her 15-year-old brother shot her and her family with a Glock handgun that belonged to their father, the probable cause statement says." The gun most likely to kill you is one that you own.

In the 1930s, if you didn't support Hitler, the Jews would win and destroy you. Today, if you don't support Trump, the Marxists/immigrants/RINOs/liberals will win and destroy you. Same story, different year.

https://youtu.be/SZ2L-R8NgrA?si=5SuLqoTAZMxhaIsj How is this video 5 years old? They somehow managed to cast JD Vance perfectly

The fact that all of your references are from 100 years ago proves that you know it isn't. You know that modern day neo-nazis will vote republican if they vote. You know that Trump is the candidate who embodies fascist rhetoric and policy. You just invent this wonderland nonsense soyou can justify supporting him anyway.

Trumpies gonna party like it's 1939!

Completely agree. President Biden has been too risk adverse. Right now NATO allies have supplied arms without restrictions on where they are used. So Putin could use his red line right now. Putin could attack the NATO allies who have delivered unrestricted use weapons to Ukraine and the US would be dragged to war anyway. Netherlands Says Ukraine Can Use Its F-16s To Strike Russian Territory Ukrainians are designing and building more and longer range drones. It needs ones that can sink Russian ships in Vladivostok (3700 NM). Turn off power, gas, oil and phone service all over Russia. Ukrainian farmers need to be building drones in their workshops in the winter when they are not farming.

Read the title of this thread before making any more stupid comments.

Hi tk, As I posted in Post #9: Just wait until rush & the rest of the MAGA crowd starts to lose those 'rights' that effect them. Jerry Baumchen

Hi folks, As most of you know, I am a very strong supporter of a woman's right to abortion. I also donate to NARAL every year. Since the Dobbs decision, slowly but surely, we are winning back the right to an abortion. Slowly, state by state. However, I do not think that is enough. IMO every free thinking woman in this country should get involved; here is one opportunity: Defend Democracy - Emerge Jerry Baumchen

you should indeed stop supporting rapist felons who steal from children's charities.

the right to make decisions about their own healthcare.

yeah, like what kind of moron would think women have the right to control their own body and not be subjected to forced labour. Women can't have REAL rights. Guns, guns have real rights.

Sure it would change. It just takes time. But that isn't a reason not to do the right thing.

Thanks to Citizens United, money is speech.

I was unaware that either beaches or margaritas are available in prison.

Husband comes home and finds his wife packing her suitcase. Where are you going? he asks. I'm going to Vegas! I found out I can make $500 a night doing what I do for you for free! Husband starts packing his suitcase too. Where are you going? wife asks. I'm going to Vegas, I want to see how the hell you can live on $500 a year.

I was livid when I found out the gun nutter BV murdered his family - my anger got me a vacation here. It still makes me angry as all fuck to see someone murder their children. Americans seem to prefer to ignore the "well regulated" part of the Second. Yet another thing I'll never understand. Americans have zero fucks to give about fellow citizens lives. The price of gas at the pump though....

That's no longer funny.

Everything he says is a lie. EVERY SINGLE THING.

Fundraisers are asking for money to provide solar power systems for people in areas affected by the hurricane. Some are using gas generators, but gasoline is getting expensive and the dirt roads they are using now will not be passable in the winter. They need the reliability of solar. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-weave-powers-solar-relief-efforts?attribution_id=sl:9148a13b-de86-466f-b8fb-590f390ffeca&lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp8_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

Kim Jong Un-woke?

Bravo, Sir! What a wonderfully stated and smart bit of advice. AirbornePOG, this is the word.

Progressivism equals Fascism? That's about as ass backwards a proposition one could possibly make unless it's a total troll or you posted after a session smoking fatties with Rich Ravizza.

Hi folks, It was a nice try, for a while: “Defendants were no more presidential Electors simply because they give themselves the title than Martin Sheen was ever the President because he went by President Bartlet,” Appeals court rules four Trump co-defendants can’t move Georgia election charges to federal court Trump, you're up next. Jerry Baumchen

Maybe stop telling people to vote for him then.

He's just a troll. No further explanation needed.

Upon further consideration, I think having generals like Rommel could have good for Trump. ;-)

I think he’s a slime ball who is covering his arse. The only positive I can take from that is that Mitch is seeing that Donald may lose and wants to make sure he’s on record. If he was confident of a Trump win he would admit nothing

Hi folks, Solar saved the day: Helene and Milton put this net-zero, hurricane-proof community to the test. The lights stayed on as everything else went dark | CNN Jerry Baumchen

Elon won't take a cabinet posistion. Or any other posistion where he would be subordinate to someone else. Especially someone like Trump. More likely Donny boy will become a Musk boot licker.

I’m always interested in hearing viewpoints though. I have one friend who is pro trump and some reasonably sane explanations for a few things. But so far he’s the only person who seems to have a semi coherent argument. There’s nothing we agree on though

The economy lost 2.7 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.7 percentage points to 6.4%. The international trade deficit Trump promised to reduce went up. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 was the highest since 2008 and increased 36.3% from 2016. Illegal immigration increased. Coal production declined 26.5%, and coal-mining jobs dropped by 25%. It's a hell of a record.

weird argument when you just celebrated people in black robes taking a right away.

Not on your life, my gullible friend!

Going to need a UN security force to allow for fair elections soon.

Over 31,000 well documented lies from Trump from Jan 2017 to Jan 2021. A man of his word? You are very easily fooled.

I started skydiving seven years ago but only two years back I really was infected with the virus. Since then I visited about 8 different dropzones in Europe. For work I had to visit Tokyo, and this is my third visit. Previous times were to busy to think of jumping. I did sent a mail but didn't get any reply. This time I have some more time and I called with some help from the hotel lobby. After contacting the right person, it only took a week for the permit to be arranged and I visited the dropzone the next weekend. As a dutch person taking a bus was somewhat difficult but for less then 20euro's I was able to take a taxi. Leaving from Okegawa station taking a bus is easy. After crossing the bridge over the river just take the first stop. Then it is a 20 minutes walk to the DZ (they also have a clubhouse which is closer to the bus stop, if you can be there at 7:45 probably someone can take you to the DZ which is about 1km away). When I stepped out of the taxi a loud welcome was shouted. This proved to be an oasis for english speaking people in Japan. I am used to 80% only speaking Japanese, here it is 80% speaking english. I was not only welcomed in words, also the people were really friendly and helpfull. I didn't bring all of my gear with me (I was not sure how much I could take with me) so I rented gear locally (about 17 euro/jump). A few Sabre 170's were avaible, almost I could jump a Sabre 2 but the repack was 4 days overdue :(. My skydiving level is not such that I can play around with the realy experienced people, it is just above a graduated AFF student. But this proved to be no problem. The first day I made two solo jumps, just enjoying the views. But I felt so much at home that I came back the second day. This time arranging a 3-way with a very experienced and another less-experienced skydiver was done in an eyeblink. This was one of the most fun jumps I have ever made! To bad that there were so many people and tandems wanting to jump that at 13:00 the manifest was full for the rest of the day. But I already was asked to join the BBQ later that day so I stayed to enjoy the atmosphere. Together with some other jumpers that were also 'grounded' I went for some icescream at a pet-farm nearby. After the BBQ I still didn't wan't to leave, but I could get a lift back to the station so I had to go. Next time I will take a sleeping bag with me so I can stay at the bunkhouse! I planned to go back the next weekend, however weather wasn't that great due to a typhoon (the one day it was good I couldn't visit). Hopefully next friday I have some time again... And if I ever visit Tokyo again, I will for sure drop by if I can make the time! I put some pictures with comments on the web: http://beuf.is-a-geek.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Tokyo-Skydiving