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Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Vim Fuego posted:

Do you already have a name, or do you need the thread to workshop one for you?

All I got is "Cum on Bideen" which isn't super solid but you could post videos with the tune in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpnAGajyMc&t=84s

I think the video content would differentiate your product from "nut divide" and really drive engagement

i nut, he still succing

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 09:14

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

spacetoaster posted:

Also, Taurus guns have lifetime warranties.

guaranteed piece of poo poo for your whole life

# ¿ Mar 14, 2021 00:44

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Mustached Demon posted:

Root cause of migration eh? So he's disbanding the CIA?

he's going to have the cia chop every south/central american's legs off

# ¿ Apr 13, 2021 01:46

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VileLL posted:

that's like the worst possible timing

why the gently caress would you choose 9/11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkSMSbFV_q0

# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 19:24

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ted hitler hunter posted:

No one ever doubted Strom Thurmond�s physical courage. You�ve heard much written about it. Not 15 years ago I was reminded of this. I was coming across to vote in the Senate and going up the escalator, and a fellow who apparently had held a longtime grudge against Senator Thurmond, a tourist, literally interposed himself between me and Strom and then said -- and Thad may remember this -- and said, "If you weren�t so old, I would knock you" -- and, Reverend, I will not say what he said -- "I will knock you down." And I immediately stood between them. And Strom literally took off his coat and said, "Hold my coat, Joe." (Swear to God.) And I looked at him and said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." And with that, he went down and did 25 pushups. He had to be 88, 87. He stood up and looked at the man -- he said, "If you weren�t so young I�d knock you down."

Strom Thurmond was also a brave man, who in the end made his choice and moved to the good side. I disagreed deeply with Strom on the issue of civil rights and on many other issues, but I watched him change. We became good friends. I�m not sure exactly why or how it happened, Nancy [Thurmond], but you know we did. And Fritz [Hollings] could never figure it out. Neither could I. Fritz [Hollings] is my very closest friend in the Senate.

But I do know that friendship and death are great equalizers, where our differences become irrelevant and the only thing that is left is what�s in our heart.

I went to the Senate emboldened, angered, and outraged at age 29 about the treatment of African-Americans in this country, what everything that for a period in his life Strom had represented. But then I met the man. Our differences were profound, but I came to understand that as Archibald MacLeish wrote, "It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived: Life is lived for better or worse in life."2 Strom and I shared a life in the Senate for over 30 years. We shared a good life there, and it made a difference. I grew to know him. I looked into his heart and I saw a man, a whole man. I tried to understand him. I learned from him. And I watched him change oh so suddenly.

Like all of us, Strom was a product of his time. But he understood people. He cared for them. He truly wanted to help. He knew how to read people, how to move them, how to get things done. [I�ll] never forget we went down to see President Reagan. He and I had the Thurmond-Biden crime bill. And he was -- we sat in a room with Senator -- with President Reagan and with Ed Meese, Jim Baker, and William French Smith, the attorney general. And Strom started to try to convince the President to sign onto our bill, and he turned to me -- he said, "Joe, explain it to them." So I did my little bit, and it looked like the President was coming along.

And I swear to the Lord in the Lord�s house this is a true story. And with that, as Ed Meese, Mr. Vice President, thought the President might be convinced, Ed Meese stood up and said, "Mr. President, time to go...time to go." And with that, the President very dutifully looked -- not dutifully, but very respectfully -- looked over and said, "Well, Strom" -- we were sitting next to him [on] either side -- "I have to go."

And he had his hands on the table, and the President -- the President went to get up like this -- the -- and Strom grabbed his arm and pulled him back down in his seat. I never saw anybody do that to a President. And the President -- true story -- President looked very sternly at Strom, and Strom said with his hands still on his arm, he said, "Mr. President, when ya'll get to be my age you�ll understand you've got to compromise." And the President then was about 85 years old.

Strom knew America was changing, and that there was a lot he didn�t understand about that change. Much of that change challenged many of his long-held views. But he also saw his beloved South Carolina and the people of South Carolina changing as well, and he knew the time had come to change himself. But I believe the change came to him easily. I believe he welcomed it, because I watched others of his era fight that change and never ultimately change.

It would be humbling to think that I was among those who had some influence on his decision, but I know better. The place in which I work is a majestic place. If you�re there long enough, it has an impact on you. You cannot, if you respect those with whom you serve, fail to understand how deeply they feel about things differently than you. And over time, I believe it has an affect on you.

This is a man, who in 1947, the New York Times ran a lead editorial saying, "Strom Thurmond, Hope of the South," and talked about how he had set up reading programs, get better books for separate, but equal schools. This is a man who was opposed to the poll tax. This is a man who I watched vote for the extension of the Voting Rights Act. This is a man who I watched vote for the Martin Luther King Holiday. And it�s fairly easy to say today that that was pure political expediency, but I choose to believe otherwise. I choose to believe that Strom Thurmond was doing what few do once they pass the age of 50: He was continuing to grow, continuing to change.

His offices were next door to mine in the Russell Building, or more appropriately mine were next to his. And over the years, I remember seeing a lot change, including the number of African-Americans on his staff and African-Americans who sought his help.

For the man who will see, time heals, time changes, and time leads him to truth. But only a special man like Strom would have the courage to accept it, the grace to acknowledge it, and the humility in the face of lasting enmity and mistrust to pursue it until the end.

There�s a personal lesson that comes from a page in American political history that is yet unwritten, but nevertheless, it resonates in my heart. I mentioned it on the floor of the Senate the other day. It�s a lesson of redemption that I think applies today, and I think Strom, as he listens, will appreciate it.

When I first arrived in the Senate in 1972, I met with John Stennis, another old Southern Senator, who became my friend. We sat at the other end of this gigantic, grand mahogany table he used as his desk that had been the desk of Richard Russell�s. It was a table upon which the Southern Manifesto was signed, I am told. The year was 1972. Senator Stennis patted the leather chair next to him when I walked in to pay my respects as a new, young Senator, which was the order of the day. And he said, "Sit down, sit down, sit down here, son." And those who served with him know he always talked like this [pointing index finger gesture with right arm extended]. And he looked at [me] and he said, "Son, what made you run for the Senate?" And like a darn fool I told him the exact truth before I could think of it -- I said, "civil rights, sir." And [as] soon as I did I could feel the beads of perspiration pop out of my head and get that funny feeling. He looked at me and said, "Good, good, good." And that was the end of the conversation.

Well -- Well, 18 years later, after us having shared a hospital suite for three months at Walter Reed and after him having tried to help me in another pursuit I had, we�d become friends. I saw him sitting behind that same table 18 years later, only this time in a wheelchair. His leg had been amputated because of cancer. And I was going to look at offices because in my seniority his office was available as he was leaving.

I went in and sat down and he looked at me as if it were yesterday and he said, "Sit down, Joe, sit down," and tapped that chair. And he said something that startled me. He said, "Remember the first time you came to see me, Joe?" And I shook my head, I didn�t remember. And he leaned forward and he recited the story. I said to him, "I was a pretty smart young fellow, wasn�t I, Mr. Chairman?" He said, "Joe, I wanted to tell you something then that I�m going to tell you now. Ya'll going to take my office, aren�t you?" And I said, "Yes, sir, Mr. Chairman."

And he ran his hand back and forth across that mahogany table in a loving way, and he said, "You see this table, Joe?" This is the God�s truth. He said, "You see this table?" And I said, "Yes, sir, Mr. Chairman." He said, "This table was the flagship of the Confederacy from 1954 to 1968." He said, "We sat here, most of us from the Deep South, the old Confederacy, we planned the demise of the civil rights movement." Then he looked at me and said, "And now it�s time, it�s time that this table go from the possession of a man against civil rights to a man who is for civil rights."

And I was stunned. And he said, "One more thing, Joe," he said. "The civil rights movement did more to free the white man than the black man." And I looked at him, I didn�t know what he meant. And he said in only John Stennis fashion, he said, "It freed my soul; it freed my soul."

Strom Thurmond�s soul is free today. His soul is free. The Bible says,

Learn to do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now and let us reason together [saith the Lord]: though your sins may be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow....3

Strom, today there are no longer any issues to debate; there�s only peace, a patch of common ground and the many memories that you�ve left behind.

For me, those memories are deeply personal, and they will stay with me as long as I live. Strom Thurmond stood by me when others didn�t, and it was against -- when it was against his political interest to do so.

I had been accused of something terrible, in my view, on the eve of the Bork nomination. I gathered the entire Senate -- I was then chairman -- the entire Judiciary Committee, and I said to Democrats and Republicans alike, "I will stand aside as chairman so it will not affect this proceeding." And the first man to jump to his feet was your father, and he said, "No." And I said, "Well, let me explain." He said, "You don�t have to explain anything to me. You�re my chairman." And with that, everyone ad seriatim stood up, but Strom Thurmond was the first man on his feet -- did not seek a single explanation for what I had been accused of. And clearly, when partisanship was a winning option, he chose friendship, and I�ll never forget him for it. I was honored to work with him, privileged to serve with him, and proud to call him my friend.

His long life may well have been a gift of his beloved God, but the powerful and lasting impact he had on his beloved South Carolina and on his nation is Strom�s legacy, his gift to all of us.

And he will be missed.

The British essayist William Hazlitt once wrote (quote): "Death conceals4 everything but truth, and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It�s a sort of natural canonization."5

The truth and genius and virtue of Strom Thurmond is what I choose and we all choose to remember today.

To Nancy, to Strom [Jr.], to Julie, and to Paul, to all his friends, to the people of South Carolina who knew him so well and loved him so much: America mourns with you. I mourn with you. For I knew Strom well. I felt his warmth as you did. I saw his strength as you did. I was the beneficiary of his virtues, as you were. And I�ll miss him as you will, as we all will.

But he lived a long and good life. And I know that today a benevolent God has lifted his arms to Strom. I just don�t know what Strom is saying to that benevolent God, because you know he�s saying something.

So I say, Farewell, Mr. Chairman. We stand in adjournment until we meet again.

more words than he said the entire campaign for president

# ¿ Apr 15, 2021 12:41

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Vim Fuego posted:

were any of those things actually involved in any of the mass shootings that have occurred

community violence - although he appears to support it

# ¿ Apr 17, 2021 05:52

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

*before heading to shoot-up an elementary school and plans to shoot myself in the head* oops almost grabbed my non-ghost gun - don't want this to be linked to me

# ¿ Apr 17, 2021 05:53

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Toplowtech posted:

His nativist bullshit is a corner stone of far-right ideology, why is anyone surprised? If we were playing the "who wouldn't mind becoming a nazi?" game on twitter, i would name him first. The thing is he would probably become one by "accident", out of crass ignorance. e: Or because nazis promised him new zoning laws or something similar.

he's pro expanded immigration. or he says - i don't know i'm not defending that pos. just saying

# ¿ Apr 19, 2021 12:43

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Some Guy TT posted:

theres a very funny chud conspiracy theory that the lack of pictures of biden actually playing golf is because he didnt actually play golf theyre just trying to trick us into thinking hes healthy enough to play golf

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1383772466854592514

that this was a public relations stunt is i think beyond question given that bidens wearing his loving mask again despite allegedly being in the middle of nowhere playing with a couple of other old guys who have also been vaccinated all of them forgetting as usual that the who advises against wearing a mask when doing physical activities and exercise

i'll go ahead and say what everyone is thinking -- that's just a wax statue of joe biden, obviously

# ¿ Apr 20, 2021 05:14

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witchy posted:

look turkey is in nato is it really worth messing that up over some piddly genocide

pretty sure committing a genocide is a requirement for entrance to NATO

# ¿ Apr 26, 2021 21:43

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Business Gorillas posted:

You'd think just wearing the mask all the time or none of the time would be easier than creating a million scenarios on when it is and isn't okay to wear masks. I suppose if they didn't love needlessly complicated rules, they wouldn't be liberals

wait is there a new rule that no one should wear masks outside? but just inside your own home...?

# ¿ Apr 27, 2021 23:09

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

even the dems can see that obviously "the most progressive" would "make the biggest reduction in childhood poverty"

it would be ironic if they were against childhood poverty... but they are sincere here and explaining why they can't have a progressive candidate on the ballot

# ¿ Apr 28, 2021 05:20

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

ah well... just takes me back to when i was young and truly believed that liberals did want good outcomes but are the way they are because they truly believe the economic theories they were fed. i think 9/11 was when i realized liberals are the way they are because they like the outcomes

# ¿ Apr 28, 2021 05:23

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

just ban cigarettes idiots. like the eu when it formed had a rule that countries couldn�t produce a tobacco product besides cigarettes lmao of course the worst one is the one you can kee
producing

# ¿ Apr 30, 2021 01:14

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Zeriel posted:

She's running

*being carried by secret service

# ¿ May 1, 2021 09:22

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Mayor Dave posted:

hunter biden named his most recent child beau biden junior lmao

i understand naming your kid after your dead brother, but adding the junior?????

he did channel beau Biden back to life. he�s stored in the balls

# ¿ May 2, 2021 04:11

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Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Reuters/status/1396494882466934789

the white house graciously donated one of his older mechanical body doubles

# ¿ May 25, 2021 00:48

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/POTUS/status/1396518791203463175

interestingly, according to the usda

quote:

USDA does not have a measure of hunger or the number of hungry people.

and the term hunger rate doesn't seem to have a meaning on any government site, nor are there any figures later than the numbers from 2019 (which was the lowest it had been ever) at 1 in 9 adults.

So in that case, to drop 43% that means 5% of american adults had to suddenly have gained the ability to buy more food - but since he's talking about a made up statistic its probably (going out on a limb) not true

Vomik has issued a correction as of 01:03 on May 25, 2021

# ¿ May 25, 2021 01:00

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

according to the 2019 data i did find, from 2018->2019 the """"""""""""""""""hunger rate"""""""""""""""""""" dropped by 15% - was that the MAGA plan at work?

# ¿ May 25, 2021 04:14

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

wouldn't even be surprised if, since i'm assuming 2020 was far worse, the big % reduction brought us back to 2019 levels. biden is just bringing us back to the great prosperity under Emperor Trump

# ¿ May 25, 2021 04:16

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Jabronie posted:

ghoulish loser minds think alike

https://twitter.com/joekennedy/status/1258900004623835136

did he mistype patients for hospitals? fairly certain if you�re filing for bankruptcy you don�t want to fight it off

# ¿ Jun 5, 2021 10:25

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Shear Modulus posted:

what slate article? was there an article saying "biden considers killing his dog"?

probably the article about the lady who claimed her dog was sick and died but it turned out she just decided to snap kill it because it nipped her bf's hand

# ¿ Jun 19, 2021 18:41

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

paul_soccer12 posted:

i think so, too

i know it in my heart of hearts

# ¿ Jun 21, 2021 19:24

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Louisgod posted:

he's a huge piece of loving poo poo who enables liberals to feel complacent in their boring white middle class lives of comfort disconnected from any actual suffering and are surprised when their political action of doing absolutely nothing but the bare minimum (if that), which includes putting black lives matter 8x11 papers in the living room windows of their 3,000 square ft. houses, leads to a fascist being elected because god forbid we do anything to improve the lives of the labor class or cheat at politics like the gop.

and this isn�t even touching on the misery brought to billions worldwide.

I don�t think if the dems �cheated� like the gop things would get better tho

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 18:58

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

beau got a brain tumor. hunter got a massive hog

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 21:54

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

is Biden gripping her wrist and dragging her around lol

# ¿ Jul 3, 2021 18:59

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BGrifter posted:

https://twitter.com/potus/status/1413558065748758529?s=21

Let me be clear: capitalism ~~without competition isn�t capitalism. It~~ is exploitation.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2021 04:02

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Good soup! posted:

i believe it's the Corn Pop story

gotta have my pops

# ¿ Jul 14, 2021 14:45

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Pamela Springstein posted:

it's been going strong for 12. maybe we've broken the cycle?

its been picking up steam since the 50s. the "failures" are intentional. each failure (whether 70s stagflation, 87 crash, tech bubble of the 90s, real estate in the early 2000s, "great recession" of 2008) resulted in an even greater distribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.

you may not like it but this is what peak capitalism looks like

# ¿ Jul 17, 2021 20:39

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Platystemon posted:

drat that one is p. good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRq7fc-bR2o

lmao

# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 16:40

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Tubgoat posted:

I was thinking about this last night on my walk; they saddle Biden with the pullout, use it to 25th him, boom, President Kkkopmala without a single vote while Good Morning America and The View crow about girlboss yaskkkween bullshit as her approval rating sits at 3% and rockets to 4% on the back of an almost-immediate re-invasion of Afghanistan.

reminding me that kamala exists is like losing the game but more depressing

# ¿ Aug 23, 2021 16:30

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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

joe

i have dentist bills

give me my monet

# ¿ Sep 1, 2021 20:33

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Lux Animus posted:

people who think that covid will allow the U.S. to flourish in large part due to the deaths of enough right wing voters are the true democrats here

also, pretty sure that close to 1-in-4 covid hospitalizations in the U.S. are vaccinated people, and front-line workers (lower class) are exposed and endangered the most.

In summary, democrats are lecherous ghouls cheering on a pandemic's death toll and Biden is their morally- and mentally-deficient king.

demographics destiny takes a dark turn

# ¿ Sep 16, 2021 20:53

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

AP Fact check finds that it. was. a. debate. LOL

# ¿ Sep 19, 2021 00:24

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tangy yet delightful posted:

Yeah I just googled and apparently I memory holed Daniel actually saying the L word about Trump. I thought it was all "error/misspoke/untrue" type phrasing.

I think after he did a drone strike the press would let up on him for a bit and use the soft language but�. their bloodlust is insatiable

# ¿ Sep 19, 2021 04:45

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In Training posted:

did you listen to his story. he did the math and everything, the number 3 guy at New Jersey Amtrak laid out how he travelled over 2,000,000 miles on Amtrak over 36 years in the Senate, some number of years as VP, average 131 days a year. it wasn't a figure of speech, it's plain science. they figured this out the retirement dinner.

he would have to roundtrip wilmington to dc EVERY business day for 40 years to hit 2m

# ¿ Sep 23, 2021 18:51

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Excelzior posted:

Defiintely sounds like someone making a wild exageration to me

its 200 miles roundtrip, and the post i'm quoting he says 131 days a year - every business day is 252

# ¿ Sep 23, 2021 19:07

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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

https://twitter.com/DisavowTrump20/status/1441208223311089667

Biden: Is there anything wrong, President Trump?

Trump: No... this is a lovely home of piss.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2021 21:09

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Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1445057824200003599?s=19

that guys Twitter is Ebola

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 14:46

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 09:14

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Grandpa Palpatine posted:

Maybe you shouldn't vote against your constituents if you're a senator? Just a thought...

all senators should vote against their constituents - corporations

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 17:41

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