Politics 2021

[Buster's Uncle]

The Hitler Youth Kid told a local paper he was packing heat, on the floor of Congress, on Nazi Wednesday.

[Buster's Uncle]

The House has impeached the Pig, 232-197, 10 Republicans voting for.


Word is, Mitch ain't convening the Senate until the 19th.

[E_T]

The oldest picture of [Sleezebag]
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/hidden-cave-popcorn-leads-to-worlds-oldest-cave-art-discovery/news-story/a2814b75a7f43c1ad1d177629476593c

[Geo]

Small wonder he's so vane.
I mean, 45,000+ years old?

[E_T]

New York is cancelling Financial contacts with [Sleezebag] Organization.  Lawyers are going to get involved, but it will hit him further in the pocket book.  Hopefully, he won't also have Presidential Pension to draw off of.  Although, his followers will help pay for his [poop], at least until they lose their jobs while in jail, etc...

[Buster's Uncle]

It struck me, a thing the Nazis Republicans are only 99% or a little more wrong about?

Antifa.  I may have never posted the opinion I settled on about 2 1/2 years ago, that I know enough about the Spanish Civil War to write a medium paragraph, and that much makes it clear that, as much as I looove the idea of punching Nazis like they deserve, as much as the Nazis are pulling criminal violence everywhere, we don't want no Spanish Civil War crap up in here.  That gets you General Franco for a generation, and sucked pretty bad while it was still the 30s w/ no one in charge of Spain.  Antifa is not a good idea.

Gandhi and King had it right with non-violent resistance being the most moral and effective way to embarrass a modern free society into doing the right thing, and they did it without live via satellite TV coverage.  Sit on the ground and take a tiny fraction of the whoopin's those giants did.  Fighting the Nazis and/or po-po and getting murdered and/or going to jail is for suckers.

[E_T]

many of the ones sitting (non-violent) did die, if not immediately, but later (bomb under bedroom on Xmas eve comes to immediate mind from long list of examples)

[E_T]

more hitting him in the Pocket book

Deutsche Bank will no longer do business with President Donald [Sleezebag], a move that will cut off his business from a major source of loans that once helped fund his golf courses and hotels. Germany's biggest bank has decided to refrain from future business with the president and his company, a person familiar with the bank's thinking told CNN Business. The news, first reported by the New York Times, follows last week's deadly riot at the US Capitol.

Can't make loans to make payroll and pay bills in timely manner, your staff leaves and power gets shut off....

[E_T]

hehe, he'll have to go get loans from "Jewish Bankers" to make ends meet...

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm uncomfortable with that joke.  You wouldn't happen to be one of that admirable and overachieving people?

Related, I had a longish conversation with Solver a few years ago, about prejudice against our respective peoples, in which I expressed jealousy that Jews get the Really Smart Mastermind stereotype and us honkies from the southeastern US only get super-strength.  Not that it isn't true in both cases, so mind your manners, but I'm willing to trade, please.

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh, and also related -good segue, in fact- it ought to shock no one who's paying attention to what I say going back a few years that I'm a little miserable lately -been going on since George Floyd died in the Midwest at the hands of yankees and the General's statue in front of the Old Courthouse down here was punished- at all the talk about the Confederacy and treason related to that, like it was eighteen sixty-freakin'-five.

This is poking at a sore spot us pale SE people have - we are never allowed to live down something that passed out of living memory forever in my 80 year-old mother's childhood.  We are retarded inbred hillbillies who talk funny and I have experienced actual job discrimination/hostile working environment.  We're not allowed to object to any of the jokes, because THAT proves we're also [jerk, sphincter]s.  My actual boss actually said I had a chip on my shoulder to my face for objecting to oppressive bigotry in the workplace, and thought that was okay.

I'm not defending the Confederacy, a truly bad idea, and not that battle flag, a symbol slimed by racists from the beginning and 'til the end of time - but lumped in with all that I eternally get, and personally is how I DO take it when you take away that ugly statue that was there when I got here and I didn't want, and I am personally affronted when randos on the nets show their ignorance of that sad episode like so many, many of the victors writing history.

I reckon that saying we're the ones who can't let go of the civil war is one of them there stereotypes, and not true like that we are mighty strong and can beat your rude yankee butt.

I wasn't there.  It was like this when I showed up, and I have never displayed that battle flag, and have put in a lot of work in my life trying to get my head straight about various prejudices.  I take it personally, and I hate my life.

[Buster's Uncle]

-AOC made some remarks that hurt my feelings, is what set that off.  I dig intelligent women, I've never disagreed with her before, I wanted to be MR. Occasional Cortez, and now I am heartbroken.

[E_T]

You know your a Redneck when....

[Geo]

Deutsche Bank will no longer do business with President Donald [Sleezebag], a move that will cut off his business from a major source of loans that once helped fund his golf courses and hotels. Germany's biggest bank has decided to refrain from future business with the president and his company, a person familiar with the bank's thinking told CNN Business. The news, first reported by the New York Times, follows last week's deadly riot at the US Capitol.

Of course, none of this and related stuff would've happened if he was re-elected.
Its just institutions and rich people getting even when they see the chance.

[Unorthodox]

I'm uncomfortable with that joke.

  Ditto.