Quote from: RE on Aug 31, 2025, 10:34 AMNever had a glass of wine?

Nope. No beer. No cigarettes. No weed. No pills. I objected to prescription medication until I got gout in my 40's. Was quite anomalous growing up in the hills and mt friends first thought it was funny, and then tried to get me to participate, and then gave up.

And then I discovered motorcycles and it was game over for thinking artificial means could ever replace the feeling of dancing at the edge with every sense heightened and screaming information and guess what?

Drugs are a crutch of some sort. Difficulty in dealing with a life that didn't go as planned? Difficulty with a reality that doesn't recognize their abilities, assuming they were even there to recognize? To compensate for lack of...something? Anything? Robin Williams used drugs to alleviate mental issues to begin with.

Hunter had it more right, and when he got it right, he certainly allowed for the use of drugs in this quote I suppose. But once you watch and see who uses them, what it does to them, his theme certainly doesn't REQUIRE them to arrive at the right mental attitude. Never seen drugs do much good, but the latest SOuth Park episode and what drugs did to them? An absolute riot....and quite illustrious.

Quote from: REGoes a long way toward explaining the stick stuck up your ass.

Nah. That comes from a lifetime of delivering results, and the confidence that comes with it.

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Quote from: TDoS on Aug 31, 2025, 03:04 PMThat comes from a lifetime of delivering results, and the confidence that comes with it.

Doubtful.  If you didn't drink beer in college, the stick was already up your ass.  I'd bet you were a prick in preschool.

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Quote from: RE on Aug 31, 2025, 05:07 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Aug 31, 2025, 03:04 PMThat comes from a lifetime of delivering results, and the confidence that comes with it.

Doubtful.  If you didn't drink beer in college, the stick was already up your ass.  I'd bet you were a prick in preschool.

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How wude! I never drank anything. Daddy was a murderous drunk....I didn't need any more examples of what even booze does to people, to think hard drugs were any better.

My prickdom mostly originated in this century. Do you know how affronted PhD's can get when you dismantle their research that has stood for more than a quarter century? But once you pull back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz and his tricks, you do gain quite a bit credibility among the more uppity educated types. Or maybe they just don't want someone putting a laser focus on their fields of study next?

Self puffery CoC violation.  Cooler.


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Quote from: K-Dog on Aug 30, 2025, 04:42 PMYou have to be high to know it is not a crime.

Do I have to explain myself?

My point is to NOT know that things are completely and totally FUBAR in America at the current time would require being in an ALTERED STATE.

It could be from drugs or a bad childhood or just plain stupidity.  Pick anything, I do not care.  If anybody thinks things are 'normal' today, they have screws loose.  Or screws missing altogether.  Labeling their lack of correct perception beyond anything but a general cognitive impairment does not interest me today.  I do not care how they were broken, that is a personal problem.  The fact that we must suffer the consequences of their broken existence is the issue.

I did not expect to trigger a rant about pharmaceuticals.

Like El Trumpo even CARES what the courts say?  How will the SCOTUS enforce their rulings, even if they do rule against Trumpolini?  The FBI and all the other 3 letter agencies answer to Trumpovetsky.  Have rulings against deporting people stopped the deportations?  Soon he'll have a Gestapo force of ICE agents 10X the current size.  You think they'll restrict themselves to intimidating immigrants?  You think he'll stop at deploying the National Guard in Chicago & Baltimore?

Will anyone with some money & power grow a pair?  Where are the guys who tried to get Smedley Butler to stage a coup against FDR when we really need them?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/04/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-appeal-column-00543196

Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court

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QuoteWhere are the guys who tried to get Smedley Butler to stage a coup against FDR when we really need them?

Are you sure you want to stick with that analogy? 

The individuals who attempted to recruit General Smedley Butler to lead a coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt were motivated by fascist ideology.

MAGA voted in the coup, just like the Germans voted the NAZIS in.  That was an equally stupid case of mass delusion.  Now fascists are in the White House.

We need a Smedley Butler to do an UNDO !

Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 01, 2025, 02:33 AMI did not expect to trigger a rant about pharmaceuticals.

Some folks might have different experiences when it comes to the consequences of being in proximity to drug users. Might have given them a bad impression as to the general practice.

Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 05, 2025, 09:41 AM

QuoteWhere are the guys who tried to get Smedley Butler to stage a coup against FDR when we really need them?

Are you sure you want to stick with that analogy? 

Yes, I realize the analogy is somewhat flawed.   However in this case, the CURRENT goobermint is fascist, so the coup sponsors would seek a socialist goobermint to replace it.  Wouldn't be the same sponsors of course, since Smedley's backers are all long dead by now.

Not sure who they should install though.  I don't think there's a modern equivalent of Smedley Butler in the military.

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What is going on with unemployment.  As Americans we can never know because the numbers and definitions defining it are decided by the deciders and deliberately designed to obfuscate reality from the average guy.



But whatever the upper class number means you can decide which way it points by yourself.  And you can see where it has been going all last year.

Rumor has it the current number is exceptionally divorced from reality.

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 21, 2026, 01:24 PMWhat is going on with unemployment.  As Americans we can never know because the numbers and definitions defining it are decided by the deciders and deliberately designed to obfuscate reality from the average guy.

An EXCELLENT turn of phrase. With one change, it ABSOLUTELY fits what I've been watching for more than 20 years now.


What is going on with peak oil. As Americans we can never know because the numbers and definitions defining it are decided by the deciders and deliberately designed to obfuscate reality from the average guy.

Quote from: K-DogRumor has it the current number is exceptionally divorced from reality.

And the conclusion on the other topic was certainly the same.

Add Market Manipulation & Insider Trading to Trumpolini's list of High Crimes & Misdemeanors.

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If oil stays above $100 throughout Q2 and into Q3, stagflation becomes a problem. In the 1970s, the S&P 500 went nowhere for an entire decade when stagflation took hold.  Stagflation is like long Covid, it just does not go away.

Trump does not understand economics.  If he did we would not be in this mess.  If the cost of a commute and a meal exceeds daily take-home pay, the labor force demands an immediate raise or quits.  It is a mathematical thing, not a choice.

Household debt was 40% of income in the 70's.    Now household debt is 80-90% for the middle class.  There is no wiggle room like there used to be.  Today the employment situation in America is dismal for many.  And filling my gas tank today cost an extra $17.

The scamasaurus thinks it is a good idea.  What else is there to say.

Quote from: K-DogAnd filling my gas tank today cost an extra $17.

DA YAM!!!! Filled my tank the other day for $1.68. You high net worth types, just THROWING money away like its NUTTIN!!