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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 25, 2016 22:52:35 GMT -5
....and it got pretty ugly. The worst slam was "Nice hair!", said in a sarcastic tone.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 0:35:50 GMT -5
nothing- which is another reason to hate the MRC. i would love to start a thread on those miserable fucks, but i already spend too much time here. I hate those rotten sons of guns. But I'm not going to say why. But I HATE them! Rotten den of vipers! But I'm too angry to talk about it any more. Because they're such foul, loathsome rotters! I should start a thread on it, but I won't. Hey, I get it, mon ami. Mr. Trump got his expected convention bump. The drama at the RNC failed to hurt him much. The DNC is now experiencing drama of its own. Paul and VB are running around proclaiming the "good news". You're terrified and miserable, right? I get it. I'll wait until next week, after Ms. Clinton gets her expected bump and some bad news for Mr. Trump comes along. Her lead will be back again, and so will happy DJ. I'm sure he'll be willing to devote a paragraph or two to actually explaining himself as opposed to cussing people out for no discernible reason. 1) i have said it many many times. don't need to say it again, here. if you get it, you have a funny way of showing it. 2) why would i be terrified and miserable? if Trump wins, he will give me a YUGE tax break. i will use it to finance my retirement. when the US eventually crumbles, i will remember his generosity by pulling out an old single malt and toasting his lying ass from my luxury condo in Costa Rica. if the US is stupid enough to elect him, i have no interest in doing anything other than getting mine and moving on. and i will do so unrepentantly. if this sounds bitter and resentful, it isn't. i suspect he won't get elected. but if he does, i will cease caring about a nation that cares so little for itself. 3) you don't have to wait longer than it takes to type "press loathers" into the search engine at ymam. if that is forever, it is your own doing, not mine. this thread is about Donald Trump, Virgil. the subject of right wing press loathers is way too far astray for here.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 26, 2016 1:23:03 GMT -5
I hate those rotten sons of guns. But I'm not going to say why. But I HATE them! Rotten den of vipers! But I'm too angry to talk about it any more. Because they're such foul, loathsome rotters! I should start a thread on it, but I won't. Hey, I get it, mon ami. Mr. Trump got his expected convention bump. The drama at the RNC failed to hurt him much. The DNC is now experiencing drama of its own. Paul and VB are running around proclaiming the "good news". You're terrified and miserable, right? I get it. I'll wait until next week, after Ms. Clinton gets her expected bump and some bad news for Mr. Trump comes along. Her lead will be back again, and so will happy DJ. I'm sure he'll be willing to devote a paragraph or two to actually explaining himself as opposed to cussing people out for no discernible reason. 1) i have said it many many times. don't need to say it again, here. if you get it, you have a funny way of showing it. 2) why would i be terrified and miserable? if Trump wins, he will give me a YUGE tax break. i will use it to finance my retirement. when the US eventually crumbles, i will remember his generosity by pulling out an old single malt and toasting his lying ass from my luxury condo in Costa Rica. if the US is stupid enough to elect him, i have no interest in doing anything other than getting mine and moving on. and i will do so unrepentantly. if this sounds bitter and resentful, it isn't. i suspect he won't get elected. but if he does, i will cease caring about a nation that cares so little for itself. 3) you don't have to wait longer than it takes to type "press loathers" into the search engine at ymam. if that is forever, it is your own doing, not mine. this thread is about Donald Trump, Virgil. the subject of right wing press loathers is way too far astray for here. ymam.proboards.com/search/results?who_at_least_one=1923&captcha_id=captcha_search&what_exact_phrase=press+loathers&display_as=0&search=Search"when the US eventually crumbles, i will remember his generosity by pulling out an old single malt and toasting his lying ass from my luxury condo in Costa Rica. if the US is stupid enough to elect him, i have no interest in doing anything other than getting mine and moving on. and i will do so unrepentantly. if this sounds bitter and resentful, it isn't." That doesn't sound bitter and resentful at all. It's just you getting yours and toasting the destruction of your lying ass president and stupid countrymen from your luxury condo in Costa Rica.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 1:39:56 GMT -5
1) i have said it many many times. don't need to say it again, here. if you get it, you have a funny way of showing it. 2) why would i be terrified and miserable? if Trump wins, he will give me a YUGE tax break. i will use it to finance my retirement. when the US eventually crumbles, i will remember his generosity by pulling out an old single malt and toasting his lying ass from my luxury condo in Costa Rica. if the US is stupid enough to elect him, i have no interest in doing anything other than getting mine and moving on. and i will do so unrepentantly. if this sounds bitter and resentful, it isn't. i suspect he won't get elected. but if he does, i will cease caring about a nation that cares so little for itself. 3) you don't have to wait longer than it takes to type "press loathers" into the search engine at ymam. if that is forever, it is your own doing, not mine. this thread is about Donald Trump, Virgil. the subject of right wing press loathers is way too far astray for here. ymam.proboards.com/search/results?who_at_least_one=1923&captcha_id=captcha_search&what_exact_phrase=press+loathers&display_as=0&search=Searchhuh. try "press haters". and please, don't post the results here. i list names. then type the names in a google search. when you are done doing all of that, you will know about 1/10th what i do. i have been following these idiots for a long time. i don't want to get started here because it consumes me when i do. i can't stop posting. know what i mean?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 1:59:11 GMT -5
1) i have said it many many times. don't need to say it again, here. if you get it, you have a funny way of showing it. 2) why would i be terrified and miserable? if Trump wins, he will give me a YUGE tax break. i will use it to finance my retirement. when the US eventually crumbles, i will remember his generosity by pulling out an old single malt and toasting his lying ass from my luxury condo in Costa Rica. if the US is stupid enough to elect him, i have no interest in doing anything other than getting mine and moving on. and i will do so unrepentantly. if this sounds bitter and resentful, it isn't. i suspect he won't get elected. but if he does, i will cease caring about a nation that cares so little for itself. 3) you don't have to wait longer than it takes to type "press loathers" into the search engine at ymam. if that is forever, it is your own doing, not mine. this thread is about Donald Trump, Virgil. the subject of right wing press loathers is way too far astray for here. ymam.proboards.com/search/results?who_at_least_one=1923&captcha_id=captcha_search&what_exact_phrase=press+loathers&display_as=0&search=Search"when the US eventually crumbles, i will remember his generosity by pulling out an old single malt and toasting his lying ass from my luxury condo in Costa Rica. if the US is stupid enough to elect him, i have no interest in doing anything other than getting mine and moving on. and i will do so unrepentantly. if this sounds bitter and resentful, it isn't." That doesn't sound bitter and resentful at all. It's just you getting yours and toasting the destruction of your lying ass president and stupid countrymen from your luxury condo in Costa Rica. you quoted me out of context. rule violation. i specifically said that i don't expect this to happen, but if it does, then this (essentially) is not the America i thought it was. your failure to quote THAT part of what i said does no justice to the discussion.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 26, 2016 2:19:55 GMT -5
huh. try "press haters". and please, don't post the results here. i list names. then type the names in a google search. when you are done doing all of that, you will know about 1/10th what i do. i have been following these idiots for a long time. i don't want to get started here because it consumes me when i do. i can't stop posting. know what i mean? The only name (or I should say 'term') that comes up is "Brent Bozell The Clown and his Merry Band Of Press Haters"--five times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_IIIHe's conservative. Catholic. An outspoken critic of the press. Has ongoing feuds with Keith Olbermann and Terry Krepel. A lifelong conservative activist. According to other sites, he reviles homosexuality, smut, and other sexual immorality, which is no small part of why leftists hate him. He has a fellow named Tim Graham write or co-write his books and columns. Hence my conclusion is that you either don't believe a socially leftist bias is present in the USMSM or you're content with it being there, and you hate Mr. Bozell in particular for decrying it as a problem. Fair enough. We'll leave the other 90% of why you hate him as a question for the ages.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 26, 2016 2:24:16 GMT -5
you quoted me out of context. rule violation. i specifically said that i don't expect this to happen, but if it does, then this (essentially) is not the America i thought it was. your failure to quote THAT part of what i said does no justice to the discussion. You can't claim I quoted you out of context when the context is right there, 0.75 inches above the quote. Notwithstanding that, if you prefer "bitter and resentful if you don't get your way" to "bitter and resentful"... be my guest.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 2:25:49 GMT -5
you quoted me out of context. rule violation. i specifically said that i don't expect this to happen, but if it does, then this (essentially) is not the America i thought it was. your failure to quote THAT part of what i said does no justice to the discussion. You can't claim I quoted you out of context when the context is right there, 0.75 inches above the quote. Notwithstanding that, if you prefer "bitter and resentful if you don't get your way" to "bitter and resentful"... be my guest. then why didn't you just use the fucking quote? your excuse-making is seeming more like intentional obfuscation by the second.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 26, 2016 2:29:24 GMT -5
You're not in a mood to be reasoned with.
Good night, my friend. The sun will dawn tomorrow and it will be another day. We'll chat later.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 26, 2016 2:33:17 GMT -5
....and it got pretty ugly. The worst slam was "Nice hair!", said in a sarcastic tone. It was pretty much a scandal here too. Different worlds.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 2:34:37 GMT -5
huh. try "press haters". and please, don't post the results here. i list names. then type the names in a google search. when you are done doing all of that, you will know about 1/10th what i do. i have been following these idiots for a long time. i don't want to get started here because it consumes me when i do. i can't stop posting. know what i mean? The only name (or I should say 'term') that comes up is "Brent Bozell The Clown and his Merry Band Of Press Haters"--five times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_IIIHe's conservative. Catholic. An outspoken critic of the press. Has ongoing feuds with Keith Olbermann and Terry Krepel. A lifelong conservative activist. According to other sites, he reviles homosexuality, smut, and other sexual immorality, which is no small part of why leftists hate him. He has a fellow named Tim Graham write or co-write his books and columns. Hence my conclusion is that you either don't believe a socially leftist bias is present in the USMSM or you're content with it being there, and you hate Mr. Bozell in particular for decrying it as a problem. Fair enough. We'll leave the other 90% of why you hate him as a question for the ages. not digging far enough. it is all out there. Paul and i had a very long discussion on the subject in the first six months i was here. that spawned 2-3 other threads where we discussed this subject ad nauseum. i am a little surprised you don't remember it. maybe try LBMA? again, you are subverting this thread, Virgil. this subject has little or nothing to do with Trump.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 2:35:57 GMT -5
You're not in a mood to be reasoned with. Good night, my friend. The sun will dawn tomorrow and it will be another day. We'll chat later. i am not in a mood to be toyed with. but that is not unusual. i am here for a bit. waiting for my wife to arrive home from Comicon.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jul 26, 2016 13:25:24 GMT -5
nothing- which is another reason to hate the MRC. i would love to start a thread on those miserable fucks, but i already spend too much time here. I hate those rotten sons of guns. But I'm not going to say why. But I HATE them! Rotten den of vipers! But I'm too angry to talk about it any more. Because they're such foul, loathsome rotters! I should start a thread on it, but I won't. Hey, I get it, mon ami. Mr. Trump got his expected convention bump. The drama at the RNC failed to hurt him much. The DNC is now experiencing drama of its own. Paul and VB are running around proclaiming the "good news". You're terrified and miserable, right? I get it.I'll wait until next week, after Ms. Clinton gets her expected bump and some bad news for Mr. Trump comes along. Her lead will be back again, and so will happy DJ. I'm sure he'll be willing to devote a paragraph or two to actually explaining himself as opposed to cussing people out for no discernible reason. Oh, if you think we're having fun-- wait until our new national holiday which I have proclaimed: "Splodey Head Day" observed the Wednesday after the US Presidential elections starting in 2016.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 26, 2016 13:48:59 GMT -5
I hate those rotten sons of guns. But I'm not going to say why. But I HATE them! Rotten den of vipers! But I'm too angry to talk about it any more. Because they're such foul, loathsome rotters! I should start a thread on it, but I won't. Hey, I get it, mon ami. Mr. Trump got his expected convention bump. The drama at the RNC failed to hurt him much. The DNC is now experiencing drama of its own. Paul and VB are running around proclaiming the "good news". You're terrified and miserable, right? I get it.I'll wait until next week, after Ms. Clinton gets her expected bump and some bad news for Mr. Trump comes along. Her lead will be back again, and so will happy DJ. I'm sure he'll be willing to devote a paragraph or two to actually explaining himself as opposed to cussing people out for no discernible reason. Oh, if you think we're having fun-- wait until our new national holiday which I have proclaimed: "Splodey Head Day" observed the Wednesday after the US Presidential elections starting in 2016. I still think your head's going to be the one going splodey after the ballots are tallied. With due respect for your "monster vote" theory, it's 2% legitimate theory, 98% blind, desperate hope. The good news for you, if we can even call it that, is that whichever party ultimately does get elected--which will almost certainly be the Democrats--is going to wish they hadn't been by 2020.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 14:08:43 GMT -5
I hate those rotten sons of guns. But I'm not going to say why. But I HATE them! Rotten den of vipers! But I'm too angry to talk about it any more. Because they're such foul, loathsome rotters! I should start a thread on it, but I won't. Hey, I get it, mon ami. Mr. Trump got his expected convention bump. The drama at the RNC failed to hurt him much. The DNC is now experiencing drama of its own. Paul and VB are running around proclaiming the "good news". You're terrified and miserable, right? I get it.I'll wait until next week, after Ms. Clinton gets her expected bump and some bad news for Mr. Trump comes along. Her lead will be back again, and so will happy DJ. I'm sure he'll be willing to devote a paragraph or two to actually explaining himself as opposed to cussing people out for no discernible reason. Oh, if you think we're having fun-- wait until our new national holiday which I have proclaimed: "Splodey Head Day" observed the Wednesday after the US Presidential elections starting in 2016. i am planning to be in Costa Rica on election day.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 14:09:54 GMT -5
already discussed on the T-v-C thread. even Goldwater got a 7% bounce.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 26, 2016 14:28:29 GMT -5
There haven't been any polls following the DNC because the DNC isn't over yet. Just started. In case you weren't paying attention.
There were some polls that showed a bump for Trump after the RNC, but a couple out this morning are still showing Hillary in the lead, so his bump was not so much bump-like as 'tiny statistical hump' -like.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 26, 2016 14:34:54 GMT -5
Oh, if you think we're having fun-- wait until our new national holiday which I have proclaimed: "Splodey Head Day" observed the Wednesday after the US Presidential elections starting in 2016. I still think your head's going to be the one going splodey after the ballots are tallied. With due respect for your "monster vote" theory, it's 2% legitimate theory, 98% blind, desperate hope. The good news for you, if we can even call it that, is that whichever party ultimately does get elected--which will almost certainly be the Democrats--is going to wish they hadn't been by 2020. I never know why anyone wants to be POTUS anymore.
Pay is crap, at least half the country will think you suck, and you spend four years with your family in a fishbowl, including the questionable family members you would rather pretend aren't related to you.
Not to mention all the conspiracy nut jobs linking you to every death, scandal or suicide within a 100 mile radius and all the stupid pictures of you sneezing in a weird way, tripping over a curb or getting food on your shirt that end up as endless memes on the internets.
Most of the problem with our politics is that the really GOOD people won't run. We're left with the runts of the litter who are too blindly ambition to care.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jul 26, 2016 17:57:11 GMT -5
You're not in a mood to be reasoned with. Good night, my friend. The sun will dawn tomorrow and it will be another day. We'll chat later. i am not in a mood to be toyed with. but that is not unusual. i am here for a bit. waiting for my wife to arrive home from Comicon. I hope she had a great time at Comicon. Some day I'll go.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 26, 2016 18:16:02 GMT -5
i am not in a mood to be toyed with. but that is not unusual. i am here for a bit. waiting for my wife to arrive home from Comicon. I hope she had a great time at Comicon. Some day I'll go. me too. she got a free ticket. so jealous. Nerd Mecca.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 27, 2016 10:20:26 GMT -5
Oh, if you think we're having fun-- wait until our new national holiday which I have proclaimed: "Splodey Head Day" observed the Wednesday after the US Presidential elections starting in 2016. i am planning to be in Costa Rica on election day. So I've been looking at Costa Rica since you mentioned it.
I like it, other than the tropical aspect of it. I went on a cruise to various Caribbean islands this spring and thought the intense tropical sun would make me spontaneously combust.
I think southwestern Canada might be more compatible with my very Northern England gene pool with the translucent white skin that refuses to tan and blue eyes that get blinded in bright sunlight. Give me a murky cold climate.
If they would have me. Should Trump win, I imagine the Canadians might be swamped with panicked Yanks.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 27, 2016 10:26:03 GMT -5
By the time November rolls around, could half the people reading this still pass a sanity test? I vote 'no'.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 27, 2016 11:31:45 GMT -5
i am planning to be in Costa Rica on election day. So I've been looking at Costa Rica since you mentioned it.
I like it, other than the tropical aspect of it. I went on a cruise to various Caribbean islands this spring and thought the intense tropical sun would make me spontaneously combust.
I think southwestern Canada might be more compatible with my very Northern England gene pool with the translucent white skin that refuses to tan and blue eyes that get blinded in bright sunlight. Give me a murky cold climate.
If they would have me. Should Trump win, I imagine the Canadians might be swamped with panicked Yanks.
i have been looking at Vancouver, as well. i have family there. only the beach bums and people who live on the South Coast move to the coast in Costa Rica. everyone else moves to the highlands (above 1000m). this keeps the daytime highs MODERATE and DRY. that is what i am looking @. ditto for all of the other regions in Equatorial America.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 27, 2016 12:10:28 GMT -5
So I've been looking at Costa Rica since you mentioned it.
I like it, other than the tropical aspect of it. I went on a cruise to various Caribbean islands this spring and thought the intense tropical sun would make me spontaneously combust.
I think southwestern Canada might be more compatible with my very Northern England gene pool with the translucent white skin that refuses to tan and blue eyes that get blinded in bright sunlight. Give me a murky cold climate.
If they would have me. Should Trump win, I imagine the Canadians might be swamped with panicked Yanks.
i have been looking at Vancouver, as well. i have family there. only the beach bums and people who live on the South Coast move to the coast in Costa Rica. everyone else moves to the highlands (above 1000m). this keeps the daytime highs MODERATE and DRY. that is what i am looking @. ditto for all of the other regions in Equatorial America. Won't your face be red when your banks "bail you in" and confiscate your life savings in exchange for worthless bank bonds that mature in 100 years. You'll be stranded in Costa Rica training seals for tourists to pay the rent. Seriously: expats are the first people they'll go after when they desperately need cash and the Fed is out of options. Why? Because Americans hate expats and won't deeply care if and when they're taken to the woodshed in order to keep their pensions paying out for a few more years. You might be able to hide your money in international banks, but not without considerable risk and expense. I don't think you're truly serious about jumping ship, but if you are, don't think for a moment that you're insulating yourself from the coming reckoning.
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since I can't quite figure out a good spot for this link, it's going here. if there's a better place for it, point it out and I'll gladly move the link. it's a long one, but I have to share. I was already aware of most of the content, but some has been enlightening. I am sitting here just shaking my head at how varied and straight up contradictory his opinions have been, but that Hillary isn't allowed to change her mind. just wow. A Full List of Donald Trump's Rapidly Changing Policy PositionsI suppose I could have put it in the "liberal bias in the media" thread, since it's clearly anti-Trump and produced by NBC.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 27, 2016 12:34:29 GMT -5
By the time November rolls around, could half the people reading this still pass a sanity test? I vote 'no'. November? Most Trump supporters can't pass a sanity test NOW.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 27, 2016 13:23:00 GMT -5
i have been looking at Vancouver, as well. i have family there. only the beach bums and people who live on the South Coast move to the coast in Costa Rica. everyone else moves to the highlands (above 1000m). this keeps the daytime highs MODERATE and DRY. that is what i am looking @. ditto for all of the other regions in Equatorial America. Won't your face be red when your banks "bail you in" and confiscate your life savings in exchange for worthless bank bonds that mature in 100 years. You'll be stranded in Costa Rica training seals for tourists to pay the rent. Seriously: expats are the first people they'll go after when they desperately need cash and the Fed is out of options. Why? Because Americans hate expats and won't deeply care if and when they're taken to the woodshed in order to keep their pensions paying out for a few more years. You might be able to hide your money in international banks, but not without considerable risk and expense. I don't think you're truly serious about jumping ship, but if you are, don't think for a moment that you're insulating yourself from the coming reckoning. first of all- worry about yourself. i will be fine. i am way more on top of all of this than you think. second- i already said i am not moving immediately. if Trump wins, i am here for at least (4) years. if Clinton wins, i might move in (3). this is a "scouting report" for the wife and family. we went to Australia and Canada already. that leaves (3) more to check out: Costa Rica being one of them.
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