Time To Crash The Gates

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Wednesday November 16, 2016 · 12:00 AM PST

2016/11/16 · 00:00

Don't hold your nose to vote for the less worse.

You want a movement, don't sell yourself out. Don't accept less in face of worse.

You know what's great, that constitution. The right to gather, the right to unions. The right to privacy, the right to abortion. The right to speech, the right for us to do this.

We lost the election. Fair and square. Good, burn that part of the Party to the ground. We don't need that. We don't want that.

Its no longer “hey libs, join it or leave it”.

DNC, Markos, you join it or you leave it.

Nate Silver Remains King

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 11:44 PM PST

2016/11/09 · 23:44

The thing about a 30% chance, is that 3 in 10 times it happens. That's math.

“Nate is manipulating data”, followed by an instant uprated voted by dozens of fools.

I tried to avoid politics today, but even on ESPN, they gave Nate shit for predicting Trump would lose.

And YOU gave him shit for giving Trump a chance.

Not only were Nates models right, but his analysis was right too. If one key state was likely to be wrong, so were the rest of them.

Hes being buried in the MSM, he went up in my mind.

Sam Wang? Bye, Felicia.

Things I've Learned

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 11:24 PM PST

2016/11/09 · 23:24

Just an all over the place rant.

My last communication with my best friend, who is disabled and a Trump voter, was him texting “its over, let's be friends again”, and me replying with a link to job hiring classifieds. While funny, I was wrong.

Women and minorities voted Trump. I've seen the blogs and diaries that said “nope”, but stats are what they are, they didn't turn out and when they did, they voted Trump more than anyone thought. Not that minories or women are to “blame”, because that's ridiculous.

Markos. “Bernie, Bernie, Warren, Jones, Bernie, Liberal, Bernie, Black People, Bernie”. STFU you fraud. You know what was successful? Your sports sites after you sold them.

We were good soldiers. I was never Bernie or Bust, Bernie was a shit candidate. My wife could testify I literally cried upon losing last night. That said, the person who won the D was a fraud, phony and an embarrassment. The “emails” are a joke, what's not a joke is feeding a candidate questions in a debate. And War.

I feel better. Thank you for your time.

I Hate The GOP

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Thursday August 25, 2016 · 9:01 PM PDT

2016/08/25 · 21:01

I'm open minded, I think. If someone posts an opinion or a link to something contrarian, I'll gladly read it and form my own opinion, even after 20 different recipes for pie have long been posted.

Not always, but I usually come to the same conclusion of the consensus here. It's why I'm here, I belong under the tent.

Which leads to the point. Guilt by association.

If the consensus of this website was something morally reprehensible, I would not post here. If the owner of this website was a prejudice scum, I would not post here. If the basis for this website was something I didn't believe in, I would not post here.

At some point it goes from guilt by association, to you are the association. If you are hesitant to condemn David Duke, if you have white supremacist delegates, if the one you worship started their campaign in Neshoba County based on “states’ rights", then I hate you.

That is the GOP’s association. And they're guilty of it.

Golden Country - REO Speedwagon -1972

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Friday August 05, 2016 · 12:27 AM PDT

2016/08/05 · 00:27

Golden country your face is so red
With all of your money your poor can be fed
You strut around and you flirt with disaster
Never really carin' just what comes after
Well your blacks are dyin' but your back is still turned
And your freaks are cryin' but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand

Mortgage people you crawl to your homes
Your security lies in your bed of white foam
You act concerned but then why turn away
When a lady was raped on your doorstep today
Well your blacks are cryin' but your back is still turned
And your freaks are dyin' but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand, oh yeah

Golden country your face is so red
With all of your money your poor can be fed
You strut around and you flirt with disaster
Never really carin' just what comes after
Well your blacks are dyin' but your back is still turned
And your freaks are cryin' but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand

Who Will Trump Insult Next?

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Thursday August 04, 2016 · 10:54 PM PDT

2016/08/04 · 22:54

Sure, Gold Star families, babies, the Pope and POWs are easy game. Who doesn't hate and insult those losers? He's going to take his game to the next level, we all know it. So...

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29 votes Show Results

Who Will Trump Insult Next?

29 votes Vote Now!

Who Will Trump Insult Next?

Mother Teresa

1 vote

Cancer Stricken Babies

3 votes

Jesus Christ

6 votes

MLK

2 votes

The Dalai Lama

4 votes

Stephen Hawking

3 votes

Nelson Mandela

1 vote

Lassie

1 vote

Oprah

2 votes

Queen Elizabeth

3 votes

Alf

1 vote

Winston Churchill

0 votes

Dory and Nemo

0 votes

Other

2 votes

Pop Or Soda?

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Friday July 29, 2016 · 11:34 PM PDT

2016/07/29 · 23:34

Was gonna do a America or Russia post, but this is similar. If you love America, you know it's soda.

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113 votes Show Results

Pop Or Soda?

113 votes Vote Now!

Pop Or Soda?

Pop

44 votes

Soda

36 votes

Cola

1 vote

Soft Drink

7 votes

Coke

9 votes

Tonic

7 votes

Soda Pop

9 votes

Other

0 votes

You Know What I Love? America

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Thursday July 28, 2016 · 11:38 PM PDT

2016/07/28 · 23:38

What a fucking wonderful, weird, and great country we are. A woman for candidate is ground breaking and historic, a literal troll doll as the opponent is fantastic. Would anybody be surprised if he has someone write a GBCW speech for him before election?

Since I've been an adult, and for what I understand the generation before me, the basic premise of the GOP is “we are the pro-American Party”. It still echoes to this day in my experience.

The times, they are a-changin.

We are the pro-America Party now. Period.

This isn't a subject to hide away or shy from anymore. Embrace the love for this country. We are America. We want and believe in this country and in what this country believes.

It’s not just defeating Trump, it's a dagger in the GOP.

Our Party’s principles and core beliefs coincide with this country. Not just on a nuanced level anymore, but in a way the average Joe or Jane relate.

Their “strength”, the soul of their Party is ours. If you don't know a lot about politics, and you don't want to know a lot, you just want to vote America, you vote Democratic from now on.

Run with it. America, 2016!

I'm A Proud Athiest

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Saturday July 23, 2016 · 11:08 PM PDT

2016/07/23 · 23:08

How is outright hateful and evil bigotry shrugged off?

He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.

This is what I'm supposed to fight for? What I'm supposed to side with? To donate to?

This ain't me. This is disgusting. Utter slime ball filth bigotry. I don't want my name anyway associated with this bigoted hate.

The majority opinion seems to be to excuse, to “HR” or to attack the person posting anything acknowledging this. So go for it. Take your stand. I'll take mine. It makes my soul want to vomit.

How dare anyone attack me, my friends, my neighbors or my family for their religion, or lack thereof.

I understand Hillary didn't use this line of attack. This blog is not an attack against Hillary either, so save it.

I’m embarrassed. What would the reaction be if it was gay shaming, black shaming, Muslim shaming?

It's not going to change my vote for President. I understand. I have a young one, I'll do my duty for him. It does make me reconsider my life long Party affiliation. It makes me angry at a lot of this site too.

Unions: Not Just A Fight For Marriage

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Saturday July 09, 2016 · 10:03 PM PDT

2016/07/09 · 22:03

When it comes to workers rights, wages, family, Liberalism, Feminism, equality, life, safety, health care, and a lot of things that impact the average man or woman on a day to day basis, there are Unions. This has impacted our lives monumentally. And yet, it's largely a forgotten word.

From thinkprogress. thinkprogress.org/...

1. Unions Gave Us The Weekend: Even the ultra-conservative Mises Institute notes that the relatively labor-free 1870, the average workweek for most Americans was 61 hours — almost double what most Americans work now. Yet in the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, labor unions engaged in massive strikes in order to demand shorter workweeks so that Americans could be home with their loved ones instead of constantly toiling for their employers with no leisure time. By 1937, these labor actions created enough political momentum to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, which helped create a federal framework for a shorter workweek that included room for leisure time.

2. Unions Helped End Child Labor:“Union organizing and child labor reform were often intertwined” in U.S. history, with organizations like the “National Consumers’ League” and the “National Child Labor Committee” working together in the early 20th century to ban child labor. The very first American Federation of Labor (AFL) national convention passed “a resolution calling on states to ban children under 14 from all gainful employment” in 1881, and soon after states across the country adopted similar recommendations, leading up to the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act which regulated child labor on the federal level for the first time.

3. Unions Won Widespread Employer-Based Health Coverage: “The rise of unions in the 1930’s and 1940’s led to the first great expansion of health care” for all Americans, as labor unions banded workers together to negotiate for health coverage plans from employers. In 1942, “the US set up a National War Labor Board. It had the power to set a cap on all wage increases. But it let employers circumvent the cap by offering ‘fringe benefits’ – notably, health insurance.” By 1950, “half of all companies with fewer than 250 workers and two-thirds of all companies with more than 250 workers offered health insurance of one kind or another.”

4. Unions Spearheaded The Fight For The Family And Medical Leave Act:Labor unions like the AFL-CIO federation led the fight for this 1993 law, which “requires state agencies and private employers with more than 50 employees to provide up to 12 weeks of job-protected unpaid leave annually for workers to care for a newborn, newly adopted child, seriously ill family member or for the worker’s own illness.”

Nobody gives 2 shits about unions anymore. Maybe, a slight exception during primary season and how an endorsement will matter in votes. But nobody actually cares.

We are being dealt a death blow on a core and fundamental progressive belief, and a liberal blog doesn't care. At all.

We choose what and how we fight for. The death of unions is on us.

O.J. Simpson Murdered Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman

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Tuesday June 21, 2016 · 11:30 PM PDT

2016/06/21 · 23:30

Ronald Goldman would be 47, soon to be 48 now. Ms. Brown would've just turned 58 a month ago.

On June 10th, 1994, O.J. Simpsom stabbed them repeatedly until they died.

We have grown so little.

It's so old news! So 90s! They would be in their 50’s. They are dead. From Simpson.

We gave a murderer a free pass, not based on his deeds or his character, but based upon character of others.

I was young, but cheered internally upon the verdict.

I was wrong.

Nobody worthwhile disagrees who did it now. It's a fact, or theory, with more conclusive evidence than gravity.

Everyone agrees O.J. actually murdered innocent people, and disagree what should come of it.

The defense is now, and I've heard it so many times, “you're upset about this, but not about (insert blank).

Fuck that.

And to, WTF is your point? A) There's a really good documentary on it. B) Somebody killed people, still important.

Life Is Complicated

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Tuesday June 14, 2016 · 10:57 PM PDT

2016/06/14 · 22:57

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, now living in New York, I visited Florida once in my life a decade ago. I'm the median American statistically. White. Straight. Male. Upper 30’s. 40k a year income.

One of my very best friends was from High School, I became roommates with him at 17. Our group, and he himself, joked about him being gay then. We didn't actually know he was gay then. Or at least I didn't.

I don't particularly feel bad for my conduct. It wasn't mean spirited, ever. It was the 90’s, I was young and “gay” was an insult like “dork”.

Life is complicated. Stuff I said then could borderline be considered a hate speech. But there was never any hate in my heart.

He lives in Orlando now. I found out about what happened from Facebook, and his posting a deep and thoughtful short comment on it. Then his check into the “safe” thing Facebook set up.

We tend to look at a subject, and take it a position on it and argue it to the extreme.

Life is fucking complicated.

There is a disappropriate number of attacks on America and our friends by people of or with connections to the Islamic faith. And it is not a coincidence.

It should be okay to say the above. It's fact. Life is complicated man.

Most Muslims condemn this. And we can point to times in history where it has been another religion. The Crusades killed more.

It feels like deflection. And it fucking sucks.

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