Trumps Presidency 2025

[LaceyLou]

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I don’t remember anyone losing it over a teenage Brooke Shield’s jean ad. Or worse teen Shields in the nearly porn Blue Lagoon.
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I do remember there was a campaign to remove the ad from television, and that it worked. It was a case study in one of my communications classes in the 80s.

[mtutiger]

10 minutes ago, oblong said:

That could be.  I remember when the opposite happened when people on the left said people on the right were upset over Starbucks "getting rid of" Christmas cups.  They didn't.  And like one 'influencer' made a stink about it, then it blew up. 

 

It was dumb then, and this is dumb now.

Personally I'd prefer a society where stupid culture war **** was less pervasive and didn't matter more than material consequences as it pertains to society, but here we are. And while you can blame the influencers, the media that blows the stuff out of proportion and the consumers of said media who eat it up bear as much or more responsibility for why it keeps happening. 

Edited 17 hours ago by mtutiger

[Tigermojo]

Really guys. Tone deaf white privilege does exist and many people are marginalized. Are people sensitive about fascism right now? Yes with good reason...

I try to be respectful to everyone because I have respect for myself. People wanting to be represented equally in media is not a new thing.

As an old white guy I will shut up now but I will keep my ears open.

Edited 17 hours ago by Tigermojo

[oblong]

regarding cities.... I got back from San Diego last week and immediately drove to a wedding in Louisville.  MAGA family's first question about our trip was "Did you see a lot of homeless people".  It's like they get off on it.

Yes we did see some. It's a beach in the best climate in the country, not too hot, not too cold.  Why wouldn't a person without a home be there?  Did they bother me? No. Not once were we solicited.  They were just sitting or laying there like everybody else around who presumably had a place to go when finished.

 

[LaceyLou]

On another topic... how many of the people blocking release of the Epstein files, and bending over backwards to support a certain person were campaigning to 'restore dignity and honor to the White House' in 2000? 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

regarding cities.... I got back from San Diego last week and immediately drove to a wedding in Louisville.  MAGA family's first question about our trip was "Did you see a lot of homeless people".  It's like they get off on it.

Yes we did see some. It's a beach in the best climate in the country, not too hot, not too cold.  Why wouldn't a person without a home be there?  Did they bother me? No. Not once were we solicited.  They were just sitting or laying there like everybody else around who presumably had a place to go when finished.

 

Did you see a lot of hillbillies in Louisville? 

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

The script just writes itself. Is LT even allowed 500 feet within a school?

Trump will issue a decree demanding some blue state install LT as a principal at a girls-only middle school or risk losing federal education funds.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

TBH Pretty Baby and Blue Lagoon were both pre internet and the rise of outrageous talk radio

Plus they came out during the 70s, a decade which sexualized underage girls to a frightening and unprecedented degree. It was actually the Brooke Shields documentary from a few years ago from which I learned why that actually happened.

[LaceyLou]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

regarding cities.... I got back from San Diego last week and immediately drove to a wedding in Louisville.  MAGA family's first question about our trip was "Did you see a lot of homeless people".  It's like they get off on it.

Yes we did see some. It's a beach in the best climate in the country, not too hot, not too cold.  Why wouldn't a person without a home be there?  Did they bother me? No. Not once were we solicited.  They were just sitting or laying there like everybody else around who presumably had a place to go when finished.

 

I'm torn... most of the time I roll my eyes when people tell me my city is burning to the ground or is too dangerous to walk around...

Another part of me likes it because I'd rather not have them around anyway. 

 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

regarding cities.... I got back from San Diego last week and immediately drove to a wedding in Louisville.  MAGA family's first question about our trip was "Did you see a lot of homeless people".  It's like they get off on it.

Yes we did see some. It's a beach in the best climate in the country, not too hot, not too cold.  Why wouldn't a person without a home be there?  Did they bother me? No. Not once were we solicited.  They were just sitting or laying there like everybody else around who presumably had a place to go when finished.

 

Flip side: I saw an astonishing number of unhoused people in Anchorage and Fairbanks, and, of course, Portland. It's something about western cities.

[smr-nj]

7 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

She is a convicted sex trafficker.

How ****ing dare they make her life easier. A jury heard evidence and convicted her of multiple counts of criminal behavior. 
 

Every damn day my anger level just skyrockets.  

[LaceyLou]

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Flip side: I saw an astonishing number of unhoused people in Anchorage and Fairbanks, and, of course, Portland. It's something about western cities.

Boston has a fair number of homeless also... linked in part to closure of a treatment center on Long Island.

ETA unfortunately a lot of cities have people displaced by the high cost of housing, and a lot of them are blue cities. That's probably why many people who are right of center seem so happy when they hear of 'violent homeless people' wandering their streets. It just fits and confirms what they believe to be true.

Edited 16 hours ago by LaceyLou

[Netnerd]

11 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Pedophiles get country club prisons. Undocumented fruit pickers get abandoned landing strip tents and cages in the Everglades.

Got it.

Not at all messed up.

[CMRivdogs]

 

[Tiger337]

5 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

Boston has a fair number of homeless also... linked in part to closure of a treatment center on Long Island.

I encountered homeless pretty much every day when I worked in Boston.  In eleven years, they never behaved aggressively or in a threatening way.  They would ask for money and then usually say "God bless" whether I gave them anything or not.  

[Tigerbomb13]

20 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

I'm torn... most of the time I roll my eyes when people tell me my city is burning to the ground or is too dangerous to walk around...

Another part of me likes it because I'd rather not have them around anyway. 

 

I’m moving to Detroit in a month and I’m pretty excited about it. I look forward to not being around these people. 

[Tigermojo]

11 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

I will be wandering the nuclear wasteland wearing a "Release the Epstein Files" T-shirt.

[Tiger337]

15 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

"Words are very important"  LOL

[oblong]

39 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Did you see a lot of hillbillies in Louisville? 

No because we went to the nice part but I did have to stop in Red State Ohio and saw some meth heads around gas stations.

By the way... nice job Ohio.  Every freaking Rest Area going south, and all but but one going north, are closed for construction.

 

[mtutiger]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

regarding cities.... I got back from San Diego last week and immediately drove to a wedding in Louisville.  MAGA family's first question about our trip was "Did you see a lot of homeless people".  It's like they get off on it.

Yes we did see some. It's a beach in the best climate in the country, not too hot, not too cold.  Why wouldn't a person without a home be there?  Did they bother me? No. Not once were we solicited.  They were just sitting or laying there like everybody else around who presumably had a place to go when finished.

 

I would be surprised if Louisville didn't have a higher murder rate than San Diego.... 

[mtutiger]

 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

No because we went to the nice part but I did have to stop in Red State Ohio and saw some meth heads around gas stations.

 

 

That's what I figured.  I imagine it's the same thing as as going to the nice parts of San Diego.  

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

No because we went to the nice part but I did have to stop in Red State Ohio and saw some meth heads around gas stations.

By the way... nice job Ohio.  Every freaking Rest Area going south, and all but but one going north, are closed for construction.

 

Maybe MI has caught up on this one by now, but I was impressed on a trip this Spring (before they apparently closed them all!) that the rest stops on I-75 in Ohio were stocked with Naloxone dispensers....

[mtutiger]

I will hand it to Ohio in that the Ohio Turnpike service plazas are lightyears better than the new ones they built on the Indiana Toll Road...