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The entire MAGA sales pitch is based on boomer nostalgia for the era they grew up in--only instead of just implementing/building on what was already there they're trying to sell a completely different set of variables to try to(if you actually believe that's the real goal

) make it happen. Sounds like pie-in-the-sky to me I don't know.

leftist philosophy is meretricious, too.

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08-07-2020 , 11:56 PM

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Holy **** this song is amazing.

we are besties now, bub. your location is also song.

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08-08-2020 , 12:02 AM

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I think I had an eargasm during the guitar solo.

edit: wow all his stuff is good. I'm a total sucker for bass driven stuff. Guess I've been living under a rock the last 5 years.

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08-08-2020 , 12:10 AM

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08-08-2020 , 12:17 AM

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they shot this video in one take. just git some!

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08-08-2020 , 12:20 AM

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Schlitz, have you played any WW in this forum? I think you would rather enjoy it.

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08-08-2020 , 12:45 AM

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what is it? sign me up!

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08-08-2020 , 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Schlitz mmmm

leftist philosophy is meretricious, too.

Kinda makes you wonder why so many conservatives pine for the era when the country was tilted that way

Guessing when most of the boomers were young they didn't really think about it in that way.

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08-08-2020 , 03:56 PM

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08-08-2020 , 05:01 PM

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I don't think you'll get any pushback here pointing out that the NYT Opinion page is a steaming pile of garbage

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08-08-2020 , 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

I don't think you'll get any pushback here pointing out that the NYT Opinion page is a steaming pile of garbage

"America's Newspaper of Record" Opinion Page is garbage?

How un-American of you to even THINK such a thing!

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08-08-2020 , 05:11 PM

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"America's Newspaper of Record" Opinion Page is garbage?

How un-American of you to even THINK such a thing!

Oh you didn't hear? The NYT is a commie rag now.

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I have no comment. When a man claims to be a long-time conservative but works for Northwestern, a highly left wing university, and publishes an article in the NYT, a highly left-wing newspaper, why do you think it should change my mind? This is a common lefty strategy. They think conservatives are as herdlike as them and that I should change my mind based on an appeal to authority/ad populem. In fact I can almost guarantee that the professor in question just advanced his own career by publishing this article.

Oh, and the man "claiming to be a conservative" is the co-founder of the Federalist Society. Conservatives say the cutest things!

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08-08-2020 , 05:33 PM

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Oh you didn't hear? The NYT is a commie rag now.

Oh, and the man "claiming to be a conservative" is the co-founder of the Federalist Society. Conservatives say the cutest things!

When words don't mean what you want them to--just change the definitions lol Sprinkle on some QFlakes and add something about Orwell and done

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08-08-2020 , 05:57 PM

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When words don't mean what you want them to--just change the definitions lol Sprinkle on some QFlakes and add something about Orwell and done

About a year ago I bought a baseball cap at a thrift store that read "Make Orwell Fiction Again"

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08-08-2020 , 11:25 PM

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Kinda makes you wonder why so many conservatives pine for the era when the country was tilted that way

Guessing when most of the boomers were young they didn't really think about it in that way.

There is no pining. What's that Eagles' lyric?

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We may lose and we may win,
but we will never be here again

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08-10-2020 , 11:59 AM

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boring af, the responses I received in the now-closed thread

some cannot forgive the thread's title and permit themselves to advance the discussion beyond that of a 3rd-grade classroom

do better, morans

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08-11-2020 , 05:35 PM

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Dry Week, Day 2:

It appears I have picked a poor week to abstain, judging by the posting thus far. Nonetheless, we shall soldier on.

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08-11-2020 , 05:37 PM

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I know it's what you were referencing anyway, but I can't resist.

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08-11-2020 , 05:39 PM

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It appears I have picked a poor week to abstain, judging by the posting thus far.

Let content like this get you through these dark times (nsfw)

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08-11-2020 , 05:41 PM

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Let content like this get you through these dark times (nsfw)

Is it wrong that I got a semi from this?

Maybe I should hit Ben up on twitter and let him know too. Not like that massive p-word is gonna do anything about it.

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08-12-2020 , 08:15 AM

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08-12-2020 , 09:15 AM

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The dnc did their job and got ~the two worst candidates on the ballot. Not a lot you can do now except shrug and support them given the alternative.

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08-12-2020 , 03:34 PM

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At 4:45 p.m., Trump campaign aide Brad Parscale tweeted that the pick meant that the “Bernie Bros get burned,” pointing to a story about liberal resistance to her candidacy.

Around exactly the same time, though, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said something quite different. “Kamala Harris’ extreme positions … show that the left-wing mob is controlling Biden’s candidacy, just like they would control him as president,” McDaniel said in a statement.

But by late that evening, the RNC was back to making a very different case. “Liberals revolt against Biden, Harris ticket,” an RNC news release said. It pointed to Bernie Sanders supporters and others who attacked Harris as insufficiently progressive. “Even if Joe Biden’s campaign handlers gave their base the same notes they gave Biden for his video chat with Kamala D. Harris, it’s highly unlikely the left’s reception of Kamala would have gone any better,” it said. “Talk about embarrassing.”

Trump backers’ response to Harris’s selection has been somewhat dizzying. They have mostly painted her as the kind of radical that McDaniel did, even labeling her a socialist. But as with the man whose ticket Harris is joining, they have offered mixed messages by also suggesting she is a disappointment to Sanders supporters and even a tool of Wall Street.

Fox News’s prime-time airwaves on Tuesday night were full of dire warnings about Harris’s supposed liberal hostile takeover of the party. But on Tucker Carlson’s show, he asserted she was, in fact, an entirely principle-free politician who would bow to big business.

(of course, unlike Shaun King who got realistic when the campaign changed from "Joe vs. Bernie" to "Joe vs. Donald Trump", the right is going to push all these conflicting narratives straight from now through November)