WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10d ago
If you want to move the goalpost past "Is a long standing and high profile member of the Democratic caucus" be my guest. At that point the DNC doesn't even exist anymore. It's like Antifa, it's just an idea.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10d ago
Sanders definitely doesn't represent the DNC.
Yeah, he just almost won the Democratic primary, twice, and was an appointee in the Biden Administration. Not a Democrat at all really.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
So what your saying is, making Trump our king to keep the government from shutting down again is just as viable a political strategy as demanding infinity dollars for special interest groups?
I exaggerate, but that's the directionality here. Republicans could have ended the shutdown by fundamentally changing how the senate conducts business. Trump even wanted them to, because then they could ram through whatever he wanted. I'm all for it! I just never thought I'd hear those same words out of someone arguing the Democrat's case about why Republicans should own the shutdown.
Glad to hear we're united in our aspirations for Trump's agenda to be completely unimpeded. Too bad Republicans didn't own the shutdown like you say they should have and done it.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
That's fascinating. So your contention is that Democrats are mad that Republicans didn't end the filibuster?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
I linked to a Democrat celebrity, who then embeds numerous Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, complain about the traitors who reopened the government.
Here it is on it's own.
https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1987718655736528939
I know the first clip was a whopping minute and 19 seconds, so it was hard to watch the entire thing. This one is even longer, a minute 39 seconds. Good luck.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
I'm mostly experience whiplash from the DNC messaging. I wonder at the hypothetical bugman who just uncritically believes all of it. Because in the span of hours, we went from "This is a Republican shutdown" to "Who are the traitorous Democrats who caved and allowed the government to open again?"
Ah well. No helping it.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
13d ago
Define “they”.
The people who voted for Jay Jones.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
13d ago
It barely matters. The goalpost just shifts to them having been correct to do so, because the axiomatic belief is that Trump must be destroyed by any means nessecary. They are already electing officials that gloat to the opposition about wanting to see them murdered. You think they care about corrupt investigations at this point?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14d ago
I almost beat Ys Chronicles 1. Got to the final boss, decided it was bullshit I'm too damned old for, and watched the ending on youtube before I started cussing at it.
I think I just should have played the game on easy instead of normal. It has some awkward difficulty spikes that after a few tries I was able to overcome, and for 99% of the game normal felt about right. But the final boss was just too much bullshit. Constantly drops meteors on your head to dodge, they explode into more bullets turning the scenario into a bullet hell. Then whenever you hit him, he deletes the part of the boss arena you were standing on when you did it. After 10 or so hits, while dodging all around the screen, while trying to chase him down as he's bouncing all over, you tend to find yourself boxed in.
Watching the final boss fight on easy, it took few enough hits for that to not be an existential problem. But you can't switch the difficulty, so if I want to beat the game on easy, I have to start over.
I'm just too damned old for that. Alas.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14d ago
So I read The Master Mind of Mars, the 7th story in the Barsoom/John Carter series. It was aggressively mediocre. Each of these stories has pretty boring, one dimensional characters that are either all good and honorable or all unrepentantly evil and consummate liars. The redeeming quality of Barsoom is usually at least one, single good sci-fi hook or mystery, and some slightly above average action. The hook for this one was a scientist who can swap brains in bodies. It was not his best hook, and the by the numbers "Go and save a girl" story was only complicated by the fact that the hero was trying to save her body to put her brain back in it. Would not recommend it really.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
16d ago
Yes, the enemy of the people are excellent at telling only the truth, but still leaving you believing a lie.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
16d ago
VA does not allow Governors to run again immediately. I think they can wait out a cycle though?
I feel like I should know this.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
16d ago
private messages between friends.
This is a lie. They were not friends, unless you think everyone you work with, even in an adversarial manner, is your "friend". This was sheer gloating directly to a political rival on the other team. He directly said these things, while a Democrat state legislator, to another Republican state legislator, while they were both serving, in the aftermath of a 3rd state legislators funeral.
That's the sort of unhinged psychopath that now has top legal authority over me and my growing family of "little fascist".
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
16d ago
There is no bottom. Jennifer Welch reacting to a clip from Virginia where normie democrats were talking about being glad Charlie Kirk was dead, and might want the Republican Media Person interviewing them to be murder too was right. Murdering Republicans is a winning campaign platform, and Democrats need to get with the message or be left behind.
God help us all.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
17d ago
Yes. I am in a dark, dark place right now.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
17d ago
Listen, I can't go solving Britain's problems for them. If they want to see my woodworking projects, they're just going to have to fedpost
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
17d ago
I finally worked up the motivation to get back out to my shop and work on some bookshelves I've been planning. This old IKEA veneer and cardboard monstrosity needs replacing as it's overflowing completely, not to mention falling apart after 4 more house moves than the 0 it was designed for. This CRT I keep hooked up to an old Nintendo (well, Nintendo on a chip reproduction) needs a place to go too. So my plan is a three section almost built in, heavily inspire by this New Yankee Workshop episode. Only I'll be using pocket screws wherever possible instead of dados and rabbets, because I'm feeling lazy.
Step one, spend $400 on 6 sheets of birch plywood, half 3/4 and half 1/4.
Step two, break them down using a circular saw and a Kreg ripping jig.
Step three, make the cases. The first two came out pretty good, a little wobbly but nothing some shims can't fix. And then the rest.
My goal is for this to be a pretty quick project. I have some soft maple from the bargain bin laying around for the faces, as well as the rail and stile for the cabinet doors down below. The plan is to stain it black, and then wipe on poly for protection. Wish me luck and speed!
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
That's complete nonsense. I mean, if you know only about problems in a handful of Western European countries, you could conclude every country is like that, but it's not. Ukraine has completely different problems and Zelensky has no intention and no inclination to do any of that, neither did any Ukrainian politicians. I realize how you want to present it as another case of evil Joos doing evil Joo stuff, but that's just ignorant nonsense, not discussing real facts on the ground.
I'll accept the rest of your post at face value, but this...
Nobody has wanted that anywhere. And yet it's happened regardless. I refuse to accept "That won't happen because nobody wants it" as an adequate rebuttal.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
Yeah, that actually makes perfect sense when you put it like that.
A shame there won't be a Ukrainian people in 50 years.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
I've banged this drum for a while, so excuse me for repeating myself, but...
What are the Ukrainian people afraid of, being conquered by Russia? I mean I understand the process of being conquered is violent and deadly, but post surrender, what are they afraid of? Their government is already among the most corrupt governments in the world, and their "Democracy" was already a proxy battle between Russian and USA color revolutions for most of their lifetimes. If they stuck with Western Europe their Jewish President will just adopt a program of flooding them with 3rd worlders as "Replacement Migration" and they'd be ethnically cleansed inside 50 years anyways. The only hope the Ukrainian people have of surviving as a people as opposed to a label on a map is with Russia.
It, frankly, blows my damned mind that European leaders will let virtually every nation on Earth walk all over them, colonize their lands, commit mass rapes, murders, terrorism and ethnic cleansing, but somehow Russia's action are a step too far. There are nearly less English left in London than their are Ukrainians left in Kiev. What's been the greater crime?
What if world leaders just put on blinders, and let Russian people drive all the way to Kiev without firing a shot? What if they told fictions about how they are just immigrants looking for a better life? How dare you accuse them of having dual loyalties? They're perfectly capable of it. It's what they've been doing the last 50 years.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
21d ago
I've long wondered how many people the FBI radicalizes in an effort to entrap... but then they fall between the cracks. Maybe they start getting their own ideas instead of listening to their FBI handler. Maybe someone retires and their casework gets lost in the shuffle. Maybe the target just can't follow instructions correctly and accidentally commits a terrorist attack at the wrong location so the FBI fails to scoop them up. All sorts of things can go wrong. The FBI is obviously playing with fire, trying to create terrorist so they can then arrest them. If it ever went wrong, they'd probably be the most darkly held secrets the FBI keeps.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
21d ago
Unironically yes. Retards are a valuable political resource.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
21d ago
You’re talking about Biden like loyalty was owed to him. Isn’t loyalty owed to the country?
Wow, what a shitball of a question.
Here is the thing. I can imagine a world where Jen Psaki, much as I disliked her and everything she stood for, takes that question and makes the interviewer deeply regret asking it. I deeply loath her, but I can admit she was good at her job, if you take her job being to make reporters look more stupid than the administration.
Likewise, look at JD Vance, being the current administration's attack dog, going into hostile media environments and generally having pretty good message discipline, as well as being verbally nimble enough to not appear that he's pointing to a deer and calling it a horse. He generally does a pretty solid job making reporters regret asking him questions by making them look stupid.
KJP was, and is, a preposterously stupid individual who was terrible at her job. Her elevation to the position, and the fact that she somehow rode it until the wheels fell off, was probably one of the most obvious signs that nobody was in charge in the Biden administration.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
21d ago
So I watched The Exorcist a few nights ago, because it's Halloween. I remember my mom talking about how much it scared her as a little girl, and how when she was a teenager living in Vienna, VA, it wasn't uncommon to go see the steps in Georgetown where they filmed for a scare. Despite it just being a movie, people swore they felt evil. You know, according to teenagers in the 70's.
It got me thinking how different that movie must have hit in 1973 than it does today. I mean now, being a parent, and a parent of a child who's spent some time jumping through hoops to get things diagnosed, many of the medical scenes hit super hard. But the whole concept of demon possession, or even demons being real probably hit harder in '73. Supposedly 87% of the nation was Christian then, versus 65% now. I hazard to guess the quality of Christian back then was different as well. I know my mother would talk about her Southern Baptist upbringing, and the nightmares she'd have about demons and ending up in hell.
I wonder if it was like The Blair Witch Project. For like the first week it came out, people thought it was real. I certainly remember thinking it was, until the actors appeared on Letterman. It leaned hard into that leading up to the release. I'm sure in 73 people knew the Exorcist wasn't real, but maybe they felt like it could be real? In a way we simply fail to appreciate today.
The is rarely such thing as "DNC messaging" in the manner you seem to be expecting. The DNC does not issue proclamations from heaven on DNC notarized stationary.
It's constituent members directly, and frequently indirectly, launder their talking points through proxies. If I have to defend the ultra literally, actually never happens "The DNC says", which flies in the face of everyone's understanding of how politics actually works, and what people understand it to mean in colloquial terms to say "The RNC says" or "The DNC says", then for all intents and purposes the "DNC" as you expect it to speak with one unambiguous and authoritative voice doesn't exist.
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