It's tasteless and, more importantly, unnecessary, if you are in the cottage industry of pointing out Biden's shortcomings. But, you be you.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:17 pmHmm, I haven't seen the movie in a while. I worked an an adult daycare for a few years and I didn't spot Down's Syndrome in that character when I watched it. Still don't really see it.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 2:58 pmI took offense to a "joke" that used a Downs kid as the fulcrum for the "humor." I know, I must hate the Constitution or something.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:14 amI have so many questions now.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 7:17 amSorry, I have a niece, my sister's younger daughter, who has Downs. She's not a "creepy" person, or a tool to be compared with a politician for a cheap laugh. There are different "senses of humor." I am hardly uniformly tasteful, but the sense of humor I had when I was 10 or 12 is, thankfully, not the one that I have now. Again, the "creepy" guy in Deliverance and my niece and countless others are, as you might put it, all God's children, no? Using them and folks like them as the fulcrum on which you pose a cheap, dirty little joke isn't funny. Better to just make fun of his stutter, right?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 9:48 pmA sense of humor is a terrible thing to lose….Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 4:10 pmNice. This is what you’re doing to make people think and have a conversation. A little introspection would be helpful. Just a stupid and offensive little reel.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 3:31 pm Nailed it… https://www.instagram.com/reel/C61BnEer ... 93MjRob3Q0
Try harder. You're the one who asserts you have standards, and standards guided by the Bible and Christ's life and "deliverance" of all of us through his actions. Maybe climb up with better standards and out of this immature little gutter.
But if you took offense to a meme, I'll pass...
Given the context of the movie, for all these years, I thought he was just a unique looking kid, the result of inbreeding.
I guess it's still wrong to point out Biden's similarities?
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I knew it….Biden has the goods on BHO.
https://x.com/leadingreport/status/1810 ... a82I2GssRg
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Odd how you have an issue with that one comparison, given the amount (and type) of bile that spews from your comrades on all the Trump threads.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:44 pmIt's tasteless and, more importantly, unnecessary, if you are in the cottage industry of pointing out Biden's shortcomings. But, you be you.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:17 pmHmm, I haven't seen the movie in a while. I worked an an adult daycare for a few years and I didn't spot Down's Syndrome in that character when I watched it. Still don't really see it.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 2:58 pmI took offense to a "joke" that used a Downs kid as the fulcrum for the "humor." I know, I must hate the Constitution or something.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:14 amI have so many questions now.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 7:17 amSorry, I have a niece, my sister's younger daughter, who has Downs. She's not a "creepy" person, or a tool to be compared with a politician for a cheap laugh. There are different "senses of humor." I am hardly uniformly tasteful, but the sense of humor I had when I was 10 or 12 is, thankfully, not the one that I have now. Again, the "creepy" guy in Deliverance and my niece and countless others are, as you might put it, all God's children, no? Using them and folks like them as the fulcrum on which you pose a cheap, dirty little joke isn't funny. Better to just make fun of his stutter, right?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 9:48 pmA sense of humor is a terrible thing to lose….Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 4:10 pmNice. This is what you’re doing to make people think and have a conversation. A little introspection would be helpful. Just a stupid and offensive little reel.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 3:31 pm Nailed it… https://www.instagram.com/reel/C61BnEer ... 93MjRob3Q0
Try harder. You're the one who asserts you have standards, and standards guided by the Bible and Christ's life and "deliverance" of all of us through his actions. Maybe climb up with better standards and out of this immature little gutter.
But if you took offense to a meme, I'll pass...
Given the context of the movie, for all these years, I thought he was just a unique looking kid, the result of inbreeding.
I guess it's still wrong to point out Biden's similarities?
Perhaps you're just resigned to all that noise. Or perhaps you enjoy it if its pointed at someone you detest.
But, you be you.
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I have an orange cousin & I'm perpetually offended, by proxy.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 11:56 pmOdd how you have an issue with that one comparison, given the amount (and type) of bile that spews from your comrades on all the Trump threads.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:44 pmIt's tasteless and, more importantly, unnecessary, if you are in the cottage industry of pointing out Biden's shortcomings. But, you be you.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:17 pmHmm, I haven't seen the movie in a while. I worked an an adult daycare for a few years and I didn't spot Down's Syndrome in that character when I watched it. Still don't really see it.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 2:58 pmI took offense to a "joke" that used a Downs kid as the fulcrum for the "humor." I know, I must hate the Constitution or something.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:14 amI have so many questions now.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 7:17 amSorry, I have a niece, my sister's younger daughter, who has Downs. She's not a "creepy" person, or a tool to be compared with a politician for a cheap laugh. There are different "senses of humor." I am hardly uniformly tasteful, but the sense of humor I had when I was 10 or 12 is, thankfully, not the one that I have now. Again, the "creepy" guy in Deliverance and my niece and countless others are, as you might put it, all God's children, no? Using them and folks like them as the fulcrum on which you pose a cheap, dirty little joke isn't funny. Better to just make fun of his stutter, right?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 9:48 pmA sense of humor is a terrible thing to lose….Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 4:10 pmNice. This is what you’re doing to make people think and have a conversation. A little introspection would be helpful. Just a stupid and offensive little reel.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 3:31 pm Nailed it… https://www.instagram.com/reel/C61BnEer ... 93MjRob3Q0
Try harder. You're the one who asserts you have standards, and standards guided by the Bible and Christ's life and "deliverance" of all of us through his actions. Maybe climb up with better standards and out of this immature little gutter.
But if you took offense to a meme, I'll pass...
Given the context of the movie, for all these years, I thought he was just a unique looking kid, the result of inbreeding.
I guess it's still wrong to point out Biden's similarities?
Perhaps you're just resigned to all that noise. Or perhaps you enjoy it if its pointed at someone you detest.
But, you be you.
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Slightly confused. No Downs Syndrome intent (source novel and screenplay) in this famous scene. Nor did the actor have Downs Syndrome or any developmental disabilities whatsoever. Fairly easy to google the whole backstory on the author, screenwriter, director, and actor, who was in a few other bit roles and is 65 or so and working at a Wal-Mart in GA. He was a 15 year old kid in a local high school, and due to unique look was given $500 to play the iconic role when casting scouts went through the town looking for extras. They cut his hair, and he had white makeup added. A professional banjo player reached around and did the actual playing. The scene's intent was obvious: slick city folk contrasted with mountain folk. Redneck country bumpkin stereotyping? Yes. Downs Syndrome - via the actor having the condition or via intent in novel or screenplay - 100% no.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 3:09 amI have an orange cousin & I'm perpetually offended, by proxy.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 11:56 pmOdd how you have an issue with that one comparison, given the amount (and type) of bile that spews from your comrades on all the Trump threads.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:44 pmIt's tasteless and, more importantly, unnecessary, if you are in the cottage industry of pointing out Biden's shortcomings. But, you be you.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:17 pmHmm, I haven't seen the movie in a while. I worked an an adult daycare for a few years and I didn't spot Down's Syndrome in that character when I watched it. Still don't really see it.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 2:58 pmI took offense to a "joke" that used a Downs kid as the fulcrum for the "humor." I know, I must hate the Constitution or something.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:14 amI have so many questions now.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 7:17 amSorry, I have a niece, my sister's younger daughter, who has Downs. She's not a "creepy" person, or a tool to be compared with a politician for a cheap laugh. There are different "senses of humor." I am hardly uniformly tasteful, but the sense of humor I had when I was 10 or 12 is, thankfully, not the one that I have now. Again, the "creepy" guy in Deliverance and my niece and countless others are, as you might put it, all God's children, no? Using them and folks like them as the fulcrum on which you pose a cheap, dirty little joke isn't funny. Better to just make fun of his stutter, right?youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 9:48 pmA sense of humor is a terrible thing to lose….Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 4:10 pmNice. This is what you’re doing to make people think and have a conversation. A little introspection would be helpful. Just a stupid and offensive little reel.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 3:31 pm Nailed it… https://www.instagram.com/reel/C61BnEer ... 93MjRob3Q0
Try harder. You're the one who asserts you have standards, and standards guided by the Bible and Christ's life and "deliverance" of all of us through his actions. Maybe climb up with better standards and out of this immature little gutter.
But if you took offense to a meme, I'll pass...
Given the context of the movie, for all these years, I thought he was just a unique looking kid, the result of inbreeding.
I guess it's still wrong to point out Biden's similarities?
Perhaps you're just resigned to all that noise. Or perhaps you enjoy it if its pointed at someone you detest.
But, you be you.
People projecting "retardation" or "inbreeding" or whatever on Banjo Boy - now or in the 50 years since the movie came out - that's between you and you.
And with how rough and tumble this place is, arguing semantics and "meanie-ness" of memes of our leaders on either side of the political divide is a bit surprising. I look to memes for cleverness, humor, and what they say about both the meme creator's side and the meme target's side. In this insane world, meme humor is a free "Laughter is the Best Medicine" bowl of candy. Probably should be a university course on them, although there likely already is. We can learn a lot about memes, as well as the mindset, intelligence, critical thinking skills, emotional maturity, and open-mindedness of meme respondents.
Carry on.
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NC is strange to me as I've spent a ton of time in the state predonominantly in the CLT, Triad (High Pt/Greensboro) and Raleight/Durham areas but also in the wilmington greater area, mt olive, ashebooro, hickory/blowing rock, etc. The metro areas are more strongly right (wont use conservative) than other metro areas in SC cities incluidng Greenville, SCSCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 1:33 pmAu contraire. I'm around too many North Carolina Republicans, the land of the idiot Mark "just keep your skirt down" Robinson. Trumpists here love that clip. It's just one more time he's telling it like it is, owning the libs, and showing the strength we need from the best president ever. Millions of morons.OuttaNowhereWregget wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 6:42 amIf memory serves, I've been hitting the White House for running cover for Biden and lying about it. I can't blame Biden ultimately--we get old, sometimes our brain gets tired along with our body. It happened to my dad near the end. Caused us to have to take his keys away. It was no longer safe for him to drive. Joe's keys will be taken away soon enough. Not his fault. It's the fault of those who continue to prop him up and lie about his condition.
I've heard Trump step in it during his speeches plenty of times. He often has verbal diarrhea and can't help himself. This recent video clip released of him scoffing at Biden and Harris with coarse language from his golf cart only serves to make him look bad. It's probably all his advisors can do to get him to stop being such a braggadocio when the press is around--and, in a strange kind of way, the press these days can end up being anyone with a phone.
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Some delusionals feel the news media are, somehow, pro Biden. But you wouldn't know it from what you see on TV.
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Why I Support—but Fear—a Kamala Harris Candidacy
..Let’s just come out and say it: The prospect of the vice president replacing Joe Biden on the 2024 ticket would be much easier if the vice president were a white guy.
This fact is foundationally, fundamentally unfair and deeply enraging. As much as conservatives are branding Harris a “DEI candidate,” the truth is that, in electoral politics, race and gender work overwhelmingly to the benefit of white men. The United States has had 235 years of unbroken male rule. In that same time, we have had one Black president—a man of outstanding, once-in-a-generation political talents. Kamala Harris is the first female vice president, and the first female vice president of color, in a country where both houses of Congress remain largely white and largely male. A Harris win would usher the first woman, and the first woman of color, into the presidency—a history-making possibility, and a deeply exciting one.
But then: 2016.
Those of us who were sure Hillary Clinton would smoke Donald Trump may be uniquely ill-situated to evaluate Harris’ potential candidacy. Here is a truly horrifying and humiliating admission: I was equal parts appalled and relieved when the Republican Party chose Donald Trump as their candidate, because while I thought selecting him certainly signaled a deep rot in the GOP base, I also thought he was the weakest, most beatable candidate the party had run in my lifetime. In other words, he was a uniquely helpful one to pit against a highly competent feminist woman. Coming at the tail end of the Obama years, I genuinely believed that Americans would watch Trump sputter incoherent nonsense, go on racist and misogynist rants, and demean his female rival, and they would watch Clinton put forward lucid, reasoned policy proposals and approach the office of the presidency with the dignity and respect it deserved, and that victory would be easy for her. Sure, lots of conservative voters didn’t like her, and I was under no illusions that America had somehow solved sexism by electing a Black man and then seeing Democrats run a white woman. But Trump was such an obvious con man who said such disgusting things and comported himself like such an all-out bozo that I simply could not imagine a critical mass of Americans, no matter their politics, listening to him and concluding: This is the guy who should have the nuclear codes.
And yes, Clinton did win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million votes. But she still lost the election—and I lost a whole lot of faith in the American public, and trust in my own perceptions of it.
Perhaps the clearest takeaway from the 2016 election is that, faced with the prospect of a female president following a Black president, a huge number of mostly white American voters absolutely lost their minds. Yes, Clinton had drawbacks as a candidate. But a politics of rage coalesced around Clinton’s candidacy that simply cannot be explained by the fact that, say, she’s a liberal and leftists wanted a socialist (or she didn’t campaign in Michigan.) Joe Biden, after all, ran as a centrist and with a legislative record more moderate than Clinton’s a mere four years later and did not draw nearly the same level of unhinged ire. The misogyny that rained down on Clinton was mostly a right-wing storm, but there was a sexist tempest on the left, too.
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Biden says he stopped Putin !
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That author will continue to be surprised as long as she thinks that race & gender are all that matters, or are even the primary consideration(s).dislaxxic wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 5:09 pm Why I Support—but Fear—a Kamala Harris Candidacy
Let’s just come out and say it: The prospect of the vice president replacing Joe Biden on the 2024 ticket would be much easier if the vice president were a white guy.
This fact is foundationally, fundamentally unfair and deeply enraging. As much as conservatives are branding Harris a “DEI candidate,” the truth is that, in electoral politics, race and gender work overwhelmingly to the benefit of white men. The United States has had 235 years of unbroken male rule. In that same time, we have had one Black president—a man of outstanding, once-in-a-generation political talents. Kamala Harris is the first female vice president, and the first female vice president of color, in a country where both houses of Congress remain largely white and largely male. A Harris win would usher the first woman, and the first woman of color, into the presidency—a history-making possibility, and a deeply exciting one.
But then: 2016.
Those of us who were sure Hillary Clinton would smoke Donald Trump may be uniquely ill-situated to evaluate Harris’ potential candidacy. Here is a truly horrifying and humiliating admission: I was equal parts appalled and relieved when the Republican Party chose Donald Trump as their candidate, because while I thought selecting him certainly signaled a deep rot in the GOP base, I also thought he was the weakest, most beatable candidate the party had run in my lifetime. In other words, he was a uniquely helpful one to pit against a highly competent feminist woman. Coming at the tail end of the Obama years, I genuinely believed that Americans would watch Trump sputter incoherent nonsense, go on racist and misogynist rants, and demean his female rival, and they would watch Clinton put forward lucid, reasoned policy proposals and approach the office of the presidency with the dignity and respect it deserved, and that victory would be easy for her. Sure, lots of conservative voters didn’t like her, and I was under no illusions that America had somehow solved sexism by electing a Black man and then seeing Democrats run a white woman. But Trump was such an obvious con man who said such disgusting things and comported himself like such an all-out bozo that I simply could not imagine a critical mass of Americans, no matter their politics, listening to him and concluding: This is the guy who should have the nuclear codes.
And yes, Clinton did win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million votes. But she still lost the election—and I lost a whole lot of faith in the American public, and trust in my own perceptions of it.
Perhaps the clearest takeaway from the 2016 election is that, faced with the prospect of a female president following a Black president, a huge number of mostly white American voters absolutely lost their minds. Yes, Clinton had drawbacks as a candidate. But a politics of rage coalesced around Clinton’s candidacy that simply cannot be explained by the fact that, say, she’s a liberal and leftists wanted a socialist (or she didn’t campaign in Michigan.) Joe Biden, after all, ran as a centrist and with a legislative record more moderate than Clinton’s a mere four years later and did not draw nearly the same level of unhinged ire. The misogyny that rained down on Clinton was mostly a right-wing storm, but there was a sexist tempest on the left, too.
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When the current agreement was put in place NATO countries were given time to raise their % devoted go defense with a deadline later than today were they not?
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Trump tries to takes credit for things he didn’t do and denies blame for things he did do. It’s his MO.
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I guess this didn't happen. NATO Sec Gen doing all of the talking in the beginning. Who does he credit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k
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In FULL agreement with Trump here. 100%.get it to x wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 4:48 pmI guess this didn't happen. NATO Sec Gen doing all of the talking in the beginning. Who does he credit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k
Germany getting rid of their nuclear plants is one of the dumbest thing I've seen any country do.
....and FFS, replacing it with Russian energy? What the heck are they thinking?
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The longer Biden stays in, the easier he makes it for Trump to win. More gaffes, more losing his train of thought. Certainly more Biden scrutiny from the press now on tap for the next who-knows-how-many days. So much for the big boy press conference.
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According to Biden this evening: https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/181154 ... a82I2GssRg
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The increases were already in the works. SG was just massaging the insecure little man’s ego. Obviously, NATO wants to be on good terms with the US.get it to x wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 4:48 pmI guess this didn't happen. NATO Sec Gen doing all of the talking in the beginning. Who does he credit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k
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"In the works". I know what that means. I have a handful of projects around the house that are "in the works".njbill wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:58 pmThe increases were already in the works. SG was just massaging the insecure little man’s ego. Obviously, NATO wants to be on good terms with the US.get it to x wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 4:48 pmI guess this didn't happen. NATO Sec Gen doing all of the talking in the beginning. Who does he credit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k
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Nice work. Laura Loomer is mentally ill.youthathletics wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:47 pm According to Biden this evening: https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/181154 ... a82I2GssRg