elpaso

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

My neighbor and colleague hired a cleaning service recommended by the apartment manager and they still ate his deposit.

Unless you have a close relationship with your landlord you will get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

DWS voting yea

Dems will never win an election with types like her , James Carville, and Liz Cheney in the party.

Dems have far more to gain by letting them go to Trump and actually proposing and executing popular policies. It's such a good trade, why let these clowns stay? They are just a bunch of hateful snarky assholes.

Dems will NEVER win an election with them at the helm they just won't.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean, when the McConnell faction in the Senate is the only guard rail, you are pretty much fucked.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Y'all are so fucking creative with these lmao.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (13 children)

This was likely done for 2 reasons.

  1. The ag position was used as leverage to walk off scott free from sex trafficking.
  2. To make his other picks look better. We will get Ken Paxton.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Exactly. It explains the rise of MAGA so well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Yes, and drug abuse in Oklahoma is astronomical. It was one of the first states where the opioid pandemic hit. It's a very poor state that is full of oil barons.

A lot of those kids go home hungry.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have some friends who are teachers in Oklahoma. Which is pretty much the pilot for republican education in the US.

These kids are not alright. One of them had to confiscate a ruler a kid turned into a shiv. These are 7th graders.

This is one of the better schools in Oklahoma, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

In the South, I grew up with that being the church. As I got older, I saw how mean and vicious the politics were and those politics were what ultimately convinced me not to be a priest. I understand people aren't perfect, but the church frequently exalted its worst members. The rise of Ted Cruz in his father's church makes a lot of sense to me, because I saw how nasty those politics were first hand. It also shows how easily someone like Trump can rise. Yeah he's a piece of shit, but isn't everyone else in the church leadership?

I honestly don't think a lot of people believe the beliefs they hear at church, at a mosque, at a synagogue, at a temple, at a monastery. It's a community that adheres to a culture they are familiar with and are emotionally comfortable with.

The only lesson I really think we can learn from the right is that forgiveness is OK. That isn't to say that people cannot be held accountable, but the scolding culture I saw from libs in this election immediately told me that Trump was going to win. There has to be a balance here. We are only human.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

The one silver lining, and I say this like surviving a shotgun wound, is watching Trump absolutely humiliate Joe Scarborough.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I grew up with boomer evangelical parents watching fox news.

It's pretty much the exact same kind of mindset. Parrot what you hear from the news and don't think about it. They know they are being fed doublethink; they just aren't emotionally comfortable challenging it.

The best way I can describe it is being in the closet in the deep south/Texas. You know you are supposed to act one way, but you believe you are pressured to act another way, even if it makes you uncomfortable. It leads to mental gymnastics, going down weird paths (such as wanting to be a priest) and so on. It also can make you an asshole.

Many people aren't comfortable with the truth; they just want to be emotionally comfortable. If that makes sense.

TLDR; people glued to cable news are delusional like Dallas Cowboys fans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stock up on antidepressants. He will go for them.

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