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Post by whatagain on Jun 5, 2020 15:22:16 GMT
Saw this posted elsewhere but worth sharing: Trump holds a bible like a nun holds a dick. Stolen. In my facebook wall. 6 likes in 5 min. I ll be making the buzz thanks to you ! Supreme consecration...😈😈😈😈
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Post by Kimby on Jun 5, 2020 15:33:05 GMT
Saw this posted elsewhere but worth sharing: Trump holds a bible like a nun holds a dick. I would have said “like a nun holds a used condom”
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Post by spaceneedle on Jun 7, 2020 9:19:29 GMT
Over the last couple of years, I've become a fan of Instagram. It's a fun break and I enjoy some of the more humorous accounts there. One of my favorites is Snoop Dogg's Instagram. His random videos of him bored to tears during the lockdown provided some really good belly laughs at times. He posted something the other day that was just GREAT about Trump. Warning, there is some salty language but he pretty much expresses my feelings 1000%.
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Post by mossie on Jun 7, 2020 14:53:38 GMT
Don't you all just looove your president.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 23, 2020 21:38:19 GMT
excellent news! --> Full details HERE
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2020 18:56:46 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 24, 2020 19:10:19 GMT
Is that doobe do...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 28, 2020 16:50:19 GMT
He is such an idiot.
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Post by htmb on Jun 28, 2020 17:45:14 GMT
I have no doubt that was what was happening down the road from me. I’ve mentioned the area here before In the Covid thread. Back in the spring, due to large, repeated gatherings of residents, it was expected to become the next Covid hotspot in the state. It covers a huge section of central Florida and continues to expand. I’m not sure the percentage, but the majority of the retirees there are Republican and many absolutely adore the idiot leader in chief. They form part of his base, and tend to be at the slightly more educated and affluent end of the spectrum.
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Post by htmb on Jun 28, 2020 17:55:37 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jun 28, 2020 18:21:10 GMT
Can't see your video in Europe, htmb. Not that I really want to look at these people.
On the other hand, on the news just now it was mentioned that the Rolling Stones, Adele, Neil Young and Steven Tyler have all asked Trump to stop using their music at his rallies. The Stones have put out cease and desist orders which Trump has ignored. I would love to see them sue him.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 28, 2020 18:58:31 GMT
And how.
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Post by htmb on Jun 28, 2020 19:41:33 GMT
Can't see your video in Europe, htmb. Not that I really want to look at these people. On the other hand, on the news just now it was mentioned that the Rolling Stones, Adele, Neil Young and Steven Tyler have all asked Trump to stop using their music at his rallies. The Stones have put out cease and desist orders which Trump has ignored. I would love to see them sue him. The estate of Tom Petty has also filed a decease and desist order. Sorry you can’t see the video. I was afraid of that. It’s short, but to my liberal-minded eyes, it shows the people shouting insults at the T supporters in a much better light. The T supporters are processing through town in a birthday celebration, golf cart parade, while protestors shout at them, referring to the supporters as racists and clan members who promote a foul-mouthed, sexist pig. Baby boomers on both sides.
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Post by htmb on Jun 28, 2020 19:45:46 GMT
Starting at the 1:15 minute, if you want to cut to the protestors. Warning, there’s foul language.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 28, 2020 20:40:50 GMT
I'm not American so maybe I shouldn't comment but these people are my age and I find them totally embarrassing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 28, 2020 23:10:37 GMT
Go ahead & comment, Mick. That's my age group, too -- the group that protested against the Vietnam war, that burnt bras, that proclaimed peace & love and didn't want to trust anyone over thirty. Okay, yes, everyone has to grow up, but what the hell happened? These fools supporting Trump not only have no ideals, they seem to have no grasp on reality. And I probably shouldn't say this in a public forum, but the counter-protester holding the sign saying "white trash" has said it all.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 28, 2020 23:23:37 GMT
Hillary was right (though wrong to speak it out loud). Basket of deplorables, indeed!
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Post by questa on Jun 29, 2020 0:46:04 GMT
"This is more exciting" ...a man's voice in the background on the above video
Bixa, I was half a world away but joined you in spirit burning bras, stopping a war in Indochina and raising awareness of local race issues. It was exciting, wasn't it? We gradually changed the thinking of the over 30s so that they could see past the hippy clothes and music and understand the issues that needed action in a civilised country. When Dylan sang about the times changing he was speaking to and for us.
Now we have a generation of people who are bored. They didn't change when the world moved on. They have vanilla lives but yearn for a bit of chilli, so they mount their symbols of power...GOLF BUGGIES for crying out loud! and trundle through the traffic, looking for excitement.
Hey, guys, welcome to the 21st century. Choose a cause that will make the world a better, not worse place for everyone. Then get involved so that changes occur. Then you get the excitement.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 29, 2020 2:29:18 GMT
How grotesque that you have turned this into a competition. I listed some things that broadly typify an era for a particular generation. If you took that as bragging. you need to work on your reading comprehension skills. Obviously some of that generation have turned into insular fogeys, but for you to dismiss an entire segment of the population in order to make the ridiculous claim that all your generation manned the barricades and brought about sweeping change is risible and bizarre. I am well aware of the valuable and risky work that was done when those of us born after WWII were still in school. Sorry you feel underappreciated, but that's kind of your personal problem which, for whatever reason, you feel you need to use as blunt force attack.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 29, 2020 3:12:57 GMT
I was griping about a segment of my generation and never mentioned yours, but you felt moved to blast "you boomers". Ad hominem my eye!
You might want to proofread your latest post.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 29, 2020 4:30:12 GMT
If I wanted to watch people tear each other down, I’d go to Facebook. Kiss and make up, ladies. We’re among friends here. I hope!
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Post by Kimby on Jun 29, 2020 4:42:20 GMT
And huckle, the Vietnam war wasn’t just “over there”.
The draft took 100’s of 1000’s of young men and forced them to go fight in the jungle in a useless and bad war. And 56,000 of them died over there.
At least YOUR war was a “good war”. And your veterans were feted with parades and gratitude for a job well done.
Vietnam was a clusterf*ck and everyone knew it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 29, 2020 5:17:22 GMT
How the hell old do you think Huckle is, Kimby?
Vietnam wasn't just "our" war. My father served in Vietnam & he'd be 102 if he were alive. (hint: Huckle is not that old.)
And how did you manage to skip right over the Korean conflict?
For someone so delicately distressed over those previous posts (scroll bar not working?), you sure are eager to get into the fray.
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Post by questa on Jun 29, 2020 5:52:58 GMT
I am not a 'boomer'. While your Silent Generation sat quietly, you allowed persecution of innocent people in the paranoia of Reds under the beds.
My generation is known in Australia as 'the Builders'. We were the ones who developed the country, with the much-welcomed "New Australians" from war torn Europe working with us. It was a time of growing our own character and standards.We made some awful mistakes, specially in the relationships with Aboriginal people,but realised that paternal systems were not suitable.We were roped into the Korean war, survived US trade fixing and still saw ourselves as a British outpost of the Empire.
In short, we set up the country ready for the tertiary educated boomers to make the changes that were needed. Some spread their activities to cover many of the injustices taking place, others specialised in one area of great need. The next couple of generations will concentrate on Environment, and I think Justice.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 29, 2020 6:01:20 GMT
So all of you "Builders" were noble workers, whereas all of the Silent Generation were sheeplike McCarthyites?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 29, 2020 6:14:10 GMT
At last a debate on a debate thread!
I myself have navigated through several generations so far and have not found a perfect one.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 29, 2020 12:41:10 GMT
While the "ladies' point of view" is always interesting, I doubt than any of you can imagine what it was like to be a young man during the Vietnam war with military conscription hanging over your head and the risk of being sent to fight and possibly die there against your will.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 29, 2020 14:28:56 GMT
Ad hominem argulents between women should be called ad mulierem.
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Post by casimira on Jun 29, 2020 14:37:21 GMT
Reading these posts about how seemingly irrelevant the baby boomer generation did nothing in our time to try and make changes and have a voice makes my blood boil.
I had 3 brothers. The eldest was exempt from the army due to a congenital defect in one leg being an inch or more longer than the other that was never really a major handicap for him. But, it was enough for the army to not want him. He lucked out.
My next eldest brother enlisted in the Air Force and my mother told me the story of him being loaded on a train and spat upon by protestors. His post was in Fairbanks, Alaska where he served with the military police on a base patrolling the border there in the bleakest of environments. Not having to go to Vietnam may have seemed to be a relief for us but, his assignment was to examine all the dead bodies that were flown in daily from Vietnam. Searching the body cavities of dead young men looking for contraband, heroin, opium, whatever, day in and day out in sub-zero temperatures in a barren landscape took it's toll on him psychologically. We were not aware of this until many years later. Upon his return home to us was a once sensitive, beautiful, loving and kind soul who was transformed into an unrecognizable, hollow eyed, raging alcoholic that we knew would never be the same ever again. Night after night of nightmares when he would scream into the night was torture for all of us. My mother in particular tried everything within her power to help heal him from this torture. There were no services available from the VA to deal with all the thousands of young men who all had their own nightmares and demons to try and cope within a society that had a president in the White House who seemingly did not give a rat's ass about the toll this fiasco called a war ruined lives of not just the individuals but also the families that had to try and do whatever they could to help heal the wounds inflicted upon their loved ones. He left in the dead of night and went to Las Vegas where he proceeded to live out his nightmares in a scenario not too unlike the movie Leaving Las Vegas which could have been scripted specifically about my brother. And, as in the movie, that's what happened. He died alone in a motel room and the day the sheriffs car came to my mother's house to tell her the news, she and the rest of our family have never quite gotten over this tragic event. One among many thousands of other similar but different scenarios being played out all over the country. I rarely, if ever speak of this to anyone, let alone post this story on a public forum but, these previous posts on here struck a nerve in me that hasn't risen it's ugly head in a very, very long time.
Every generation has its own stories and no one of us should ever dismiss one generation over another for having done their part and another not. How cruel and self serving, superior in some f'd up way to do so is beyond my comprehension. I would say pardon my disruption and rant but I cannot and will not if only for the sake of the memory of my brother and our family. And, the baby boomer generation.
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Post by questa on Jun 29, 2020 14:47:52 GMT
So all of you "Builders" were noble workers, whereas all of the Silent Generation were sheeplike McCarthyites? Not all, of course. It is often referred to as a trend when observations can be made to indicate a rise in one area or a fall in another etc. Did I say 'noble'? or 'sheeplike' Nobles of the aristocracy type visited us but soon fled back to UK where they could understand the language. As for sheep-like..at that time the main export was wool and we loved our merinos (but only in the 'friend' sense, none of THAT in our times.) A bit more seriously...US does fall in a hole from time to time and it seems the holes are of their own making and more serious than holes in other countries. The biggie is Race relations or "USA is the richest country in the world because Grand dad didn't have to pay fair wages to his slaves etc." Then the hysteria about communists taking over and the injustices that only fear and a tyrant could create. Now the hole belongs to all the idiots who failed to vote and have thrust a monster into the White house. Just try hard not to step in a hole
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