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6 hours ago, oblong said:

Those who stay home are judged for “just” doing that.  

If only there were people that could use there platform to point out there is nothing wrong with that path if you choose to do it.

1 hour ago, casimir said:

Ah, yes, tell the females in your life their only job is to procreate and cook.  Let me know how that works for you.

Did something publicly happen with someone that said this recently?   Links or it didn't happen.... and I mean links with the wording that explicitly says their only job is to procreate and cook.  

I have read Butkers speech if that's what you are referring to.  I did take exception with some parts of it, parts in which I view him as a Catholic that likes the conservative push we're seeing with that church in the US of which the pope is actually pushing back on.

There was a part where he mentioned that women, the type of women that would choose to go to a catholic school, may be looking more forward to starting a family then pushing for a c-level position.  My wife was and is very proud of her degree and she was working towards that when we met.  Apparently because I'm a horrible conservative, we also talked about our hopes for our lives outside of work before we got married.  In hindsight, I guess I should have only looked at my wife in the terms of the money and titles she could attain and just hope she would eventually want kids like I wanted.  Obviously I'm part of the patriarchy.  That was later re-enforced when after our 1st child was born, she wanted to quit work and spend more time raising our child.  I encouraged it and when she felt horrible about the lack of financial support from her, I tried to make sure she understood I'd do anything to help her have her wish.  At the time I felt I was being supportive, but I'm woke now and realize I was telling her she should just stay home, cook, and procreate.

It was difficult on her as she was raised in a family of female's that worked and she had a new world out there that said women should be pushing for more power in the workplace.  It was not an easy decision for her and a lot of that was based on outside pressures to be a successful women.  She eventually went back to work, but raised two wonderful kids.  Even if she didn't go back to work, she was successful in my eyes.

2 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

That was started by Republican (Fox) assholes who told any athlete who made a political comment to shut up and just play.

Stop being a hypocrite.

Ahh yes, I forgot how Sean Hannity got so big over his FoxNews coverage of the 68 Olympics.

Both sides have done it for as long as their have been at least two sides. Stop pretending it only happens when it offends you.

8 hours ago, VegasTiger said:

Links or it didn't happen.

Ever watch a White House press briefing?  If you miss it, you can go back and watch them on youtube and I think c-span usually has the most recent one up.  

Stock market rising when Trump is in power - It means nothing, average American's aren't getting the advantage of that rising stock market, there are many other factors.

Stock market rising when Biden is in power - It's the ultimate measurement, you shouldn't discuss anything else, this should be the only focus.

15 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

She is smarter (the bar is low) but it's hard to call someone sophisticaled when use the term "butch"  

Not the best thing to say, but.... and hear me out......have you seen MTG?

It was absolutely trading barbs, but it wasn't equal either.  Ridiculous that they allow MTG to get away with her comments, funniest part is the chairman didn't even realize the sarcasm that Crocket used.  

Screw term limits, what about a law that you can't run for congress (or president) if you're over 65 on your first day.

On 5/16/2024 at 6:06 PM, oblong said:

I just bought out two leased vehicles and my rate is about 6.  Not worried as I will pay them off early.  Drive them into the ground and hopefully buy another in cash as a retirement gift in 11 years and be done with it. 

I've put too much money into my 2009 Traverse (put about 4-5 thousand miles a year on it over the past 5 years) and my wife's 2015 Equinox in the last year, but my tires on both cars are great still, so I feel like I have to try and get a little more out of them both, lol.  

My son's girlfriend was bitching about the car her dad gave her and how it makes some noises.  Wanted to tell her i'd trade it even up for my car but held my tongue.  

On 5/16/2024 at 10:49 AM, casimir said:

Harrison Buttker.  Just shut up and kick.

Ahh yes, if you agree with a celebrity, they are awesome, if you don't, they should shut the **** up.

Being one of the lone conservatives on this forum, i'm a huge fan of the military.  So pro military that even back in my "working with Ann Arbor people" I had a huge argument over Audioslave's "doesn't remind me" video as they claimed it was some anti war crap, but we all know Cornell was paid by the CIA to help drum up how cool it is to serve.

That said, and please take no offense Tigerholic, but this thread reminded me of a reddit thread my BIL sent me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/justdependathings/

I'm trying to get my SIL to change her behavior so she can be like this. So far she's not going for it, but she needs to realize her husband walks on water and therefore she shouldn't be on the same level as anyone else she deals with on a daily basis.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/05/14/president-biden-new-tariffs-on-china-economy/73684903007/

More tariffs, but without even knowing much about them, I know they are good because Biden says they are.  Unlike the Trump tariffs which were enacted without any thought, even though Biden reviewed and determined it was exactly what he would have done and kept them in place.  Must of have God's work to guide the Plinko chips to the correct tariffs when Trump picked them so haphazardly. 

Seriously though, looks like he's trying to give US producers some more time to compete with cheap EV's.  I see the argument.  Definitely something the new GOP wouldn't be against either.  Guessing GM and Ford pushed for this.  Only concern is I could see the progressives getting upset as it'll slow the rate of electric vehicles into our markets.  I suspect it won't register much though.

15 hours ago, romad1 said:

I used to listen to this "the South will rise again" talk while I was in the Air Force and I would always say.  "Yes, that is why all the strategic air command bases are in the North" (which isn't technically true but the ICBMs are). 

Pretty sad that I'm pleasantly surprised to learn this today.

On 5/9/2024 at 2:47 PM, chasfh said:

I don't have 17 minutes, can you boil it down for me?

No way I could do it justice.  From someone that I think is a bit of a PBS'er type of guy, I'd think you'd love a 10-20 minute spoken word story.  🙂

TL/DR, He finally met John Prine after years of mutual friends, scares him, and it ends with front row seats.

I listen to the Drew Lane Show (former Drew and Mike Podcast) and they have a guy that does Top Ten "X" where X is some specific type of song, like Top Ten songs with a false ending.  Seeing the Old 97's and the first thought I had was "what about a top ten bands that everyone knows, but never made it big"

They have been such a solid band for so long, had songs in movies, a handful of top 10's.

Unrelated, it's usually the Friday show (comes out Thursday night) and you can find a timestamp for when it starts in the show notes if you don't care to listen to the show but want to listen to this segment.  Often it leads to some great music discussions. 

52 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

 committed to a set of objectives that will become untenable?

Do you actually believe Ukraine is in a better spot right now then Russia?  And when I say a better spot, I'm referring to Russia and Ukraine's ultimate goal of controlling land. 

Short term (next several years, regardless if Trump or Biden is the next president), Ukraine is ****ed.  Putin doesn't care about his losses as long as he holds and increases land.  

Long term this is good for the US, because Russia is in an untenable situation in that it's reworked its economy for war, so it needs war.  If it wins in Ukraine, it's screwed.  But slowly killing off both Ukrainians and themselves, they can and are more than willing to do that for years.  The longer they do that though, the worse their economy will be when it ends.  The longer this lasts the better for the US, but also the worse for Ukraine.  But let's keep up with the ultra nationalism for Ukraine (which we hate for our own country) and keep claiming that they just want to fight, so what else can we do but keep on supplying them.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

I still don't know anything about the guy, and FWIW, which may or may not be much, your all sides research looks like a bunch of random websites and numbers without sourcing, linking, or corroboration.

If you're interested in how they determine, they provide information on it.  I don't count it as the gospel, but have used it as an additional resource.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias

I'm just surprised because he reminds me of a Fieger, where he tries to be in front of the camera as much as possible.  And while the right wing might make him out to be a boogie man.... you know for things like blatantly lying and little things like that, he's definitely not a product of right wing media.  Quick google search on his name and I find this on the first page (national news only):

The independent - Leans Left
The Hill - Center
Newsweek - Center
PBS - Leans Left
Yahoo - Leans Left
NBC News - Leans Left
USA Today - Leans left
The Daily Wire - Right
Huffington Post - Left
The New Yorker - Left
 

Additionally, an all-sides search on his name based on left, center, right sources yields:

Left - 6620 results
Center - 2450 results
Right - 2030 results

Thus why overall just a bit surprised so many of you don't know about him.  In my younger, more snarky and more ideological days, I'd probably respond with something like "of course you liberals don't have any idea who's even saying the talking points you throw back at me"   🙂

Just now, Tigeraholic1 said:

He has not been on NPR recenlty so give him a break! LOL

I'd expect Crump to be on NPR daily, probably with his own show called 'hands up, don't shoot'.

20 minutes ago, chasfh said:

And yet you continue to make whoever the **** this Crump is the point. 

You really have no idea who Benjamin Crump is?  

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

but I don't agree with your attempt to shift the focus of the story to some civil rights attorney.

I wasn't looking to shift the focus, just expounded on one aspect of the story, a lying story, put out by Crump.  If it's impossible to make the narrative worse than it already was, then you'd think there would be no need to lie about it.

13 minutes ago, oblong said:

the guy having the gun in is hand will be all that's required for him to get away with it.  Anything at all in the situation where an officer can say "Well I was scared" and that's all it takes.  

There will be pro-cop folks saying this, but legally "I'm scared" is not justifiable.   The cop doesn't need to wait for a gun to be pointed at him, just an upward movement can potentially give him justification, but that simply didn't happen here.  I can't say he will be convicted, but the Feds need to step in if Florida refuses to pursue criminal charges.

8 minutes ago, chasfh said:

You may not be implying this, but speaking for myself, I don’t think the bar has to be as high as “went looking to kill a young black man” before the book can be thrown at the cop. This was a criminal act by him, and he needs to pay with a criminal conviction.

I agree completely, my point is that the narrative was that police swarmed into the wrong apartment without identifying which we can see was absolutely false, but it helps drive a narrative to make it worse than it already is (which with an innocent young man dead, is absolutely horrible).

People like Crump do nothing to help and putting out narratives like this only gets the pro-cop folks defenses up, which actually lowers the chances that the family gets criminal justice.  But Crump will get a nice pay day from the cops eventually, so he's happy to move along to the next questionable death he can find.

You're looking at it from a textbook economic view.  Channeling Dangerfield in Back to School, the attacks on the refineries leads to a perceived attack on oil, so Russia greases up OPEC to find a way to increase the cost per barrel under a 'the market is shaky' excuse and then the US cost goes up not because we can't just supply our own country, but because our suppliers, as they are finger wagging at OPEC, gladly sell their oil abroad.  Everyone wins, except for us commoners.

Police released the cop cam.  The cop on scene was told it was apartment 1401 that had the disturbance and he goes to 1401.  Very loudly knocks on the door and identifies himself as police, the kid opens the door with a gun in his hand (in a relaxed position pointing down) and the cop immediately pulls his gun and shoots.  

It's clear the cop didn't go looking to kill a young black man like the story that is being painted, but also clear the cop shouldn't be a cop.  I don't see how legally you can view it as a justifiable shooting.

Where's the Utah Salty McSaltLakes option at?