When you get older, the next generation will hate you as well. Things don't change

And they'll be right to. The **** have we done for them? We enabled you when we should've stood up to you way earlier. We're handing them ashes because we were too afraid of confrontation to prevent our parents destroying the entire planet.

True story, so long as birth rates decline in Europe/North America, we'll always be a gerontocracy governed by the whims and tastes of olds, and increasingly competing with a global world that might have far more responsive, dynamic political systems because they have a much larger share of their population that are young people and younger generations.

Something something CLOSE THE BORDERS though.

Reminder:



Why won't the Millennials get out of their parents basement hurr hurr

I think rather than lay the blame at the feet of Boomers for specific cultural tics, I still argue a big fundamental problem of our political system is the lack of redistribution so a big point of frustration is that the olds have all the wealth and they're going to clutch it forever. The Boomers aren't bad because of the Andy Griffith Show or spoiled hippies or whatever the ****, but simply because they have tons of accumulated wealth and no systemic impetus to give it up.

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LOL

Past eras had their dip**** slogans like These Colors Don't Run but These Letters Don't Lowercase is a new low for America's bizarre brand of cosplay masculinity.

I feel bad for Eric. He is super weird looking, and left out of everything.

I ALWAYS put i before e. Even after c! No snowflake liberal dictionary can tell me differently.

So much this. Widespread immigration is vital to the survial of the United States. Otherwise we are going to have eighty year old drone pilots crashing them into the ground. (Which I realize is fine by many standards but I am talking in terms of thwarting an invasion).

That or the Great Tapioca Trade Wars of 2072 will bring us to our knees. People don’t realize the success of the country is based on a pyramid scheme of fresh blood. We need a constant and substantial flow of external blood to keep the scheme going.

When referring to Ivanka I do the same.

Tiffany even got left out of this post

Something we yelled about a lot during the Ground Zero Mosk debacle was how much of conservatives talking about the religious oppression in Saudi Arabia was silver medalist envy.

With Trump's bizarre speech congratulating a Congressman for hitting a journalist you can see we're now going to do that with silencing dissidents. I'd love to see some polling on Trump supporters attitudes towards that.

Right? By the time the current crop of teenagers are pushing thirty, a large portion of some of our biggest cities will be underwater.

We can hook up the video replay to an applause-o-meter. It sounded like a 7 or 8 to me

Absolutely. I mentioned this in the Saudi Arabia thread, I didn't bother linking or quoting, you can go find it yourself. But Howard Beale's murder-curious take is EVERYWHERE on in the deplorable commentariat. These people literally think the Saudis found the cheat code to do legal murder, TONS of them are prattling on about how the consulate is Saudi territory and Turkey has no business there and the Saudis can do whatever they want there, like it's the ****ing Thunderdome or some ****, and many are openly fantasizing about how the United States can re-envision their foreign consulates to be the site where all their political enemies get murdered and the nosey liberals and international scolds are powerless to stop it, it's hilarious / disturbing. It's only darkly humorous instead of genuinely disturbing because the US has already created a ****ton of CIA blacksites where we straight up torture and murder people so like everything, in some sense the deplorables are actually re-purposing their trite innovations as radical thinking, because the CIA is literally decades ahead of the Saudis on "well if we just murder people in unacknowledged black project areas outside of where domestic law enforcement has any jurisdiction, we're probably OK."

https://twitter.com/TrumpsAlert/stat...11018367311872

A mirror to you soul, huh?

I know you are but what am I?

Wow

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1053247956776878080

Castle Doctrine bro. Any Muslim comes into my embassy I have the right to defend myself with any bone saws I happen to have lying around.

Justice Dept. Rank-and-File Tell of Discontent Over Sessions’s Approach

"Since I’ve been a lawyer, going back to the late 1970s, I can’t recall a time when morale has been as low as I have heard from some former colleagues,” said Robert Litt, a former Justice Department official during the Clinton administration.

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In one instance, Mr. Sessions directly questioned a career lawyer, Stephen Buckingham, who was asked to find ways to file a lawsuit to crack down on sanctuary laws protecting undocumented immigrants. Mr. Buckingham, who had worked at the Justice Department for about a decade, wrote in a brief that he could find no legal grounds for such a case.

Reminding Mr. Buckingham of the attorney general’s bona fides as an immigration hard-liner, Mr. Sessions asked him to come to a different conclusion, according to three people who worked with alongside Mr. Buckingham in the federal programs division and were briefed on the exchange.

To Mr. Buckingham’s colleagues, the episode was an example of Mr. Sessions stifling dissent and opening the department to losses in court.

Mr. Buckingham resigned a few months later, and Mr. Sessions got his lawsuit. A federal judge dismissed most of the case, and the department has appealed.

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In stripping protections last year for transgender people under the Civil Rights Act, Mr. Sessions consulted no departmental experts, leaving out Diana Flynn, the head of the civil rights appellate division who led the effort to add the protections in 2014, and many of her career staff.

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Similarly, a flare-up over the Affordable Care Act this summer occurred after the department’s political leaders urged a judge to find unconstitutional two of the law’s key elements, a reversal of the government’s longstanding position.

“This is a rare case where the proper course is to forgo defense” of existing law, Mr. Sessions said at the time, adding that Mr. Trump had approved the step. Three career lawyers withdrew from the case, including Joel McElvain, a 27-year department veteran, who made headlines by resigning in protest.

Anyone who hasn't read the Dead Zone should read the Dead Zone.

Though the most unrealistic part about that book now is the end.