Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Ask YC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5w21_Vphbg

How dare you post that after your post yesterday. I am disgusted.

TM

[Not Bob]

More anecdotal evidence from Chris Arnade in the Guardian about why working class voters are pissed and maybe voting for Trump and Bernie. But, hey, the economic data says everything's swell, so this can't be right.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Consider:

"Wow, Bill Belichick really drew up an awful offensive scheme for the Super Bowl. Denver was all over them on every play. He got everything wrong. We should hire Donald Trump to be our head coach next year. He's very rich, and although he has absolutely no experience with football, he can probably figure it out. And if he can't, he'll just hire smart people to assist him."

TM

it might make sense

https://soundcloud.com/howardstern/larrydavid_jets

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

How dare you post that after your post yesterday. I am disgusted.

TM

I don't even know who YC is, but that song has come to represent to me the lowest common denominator of commercial rap these days. It is basically the anti-Tribe.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

How often does anyone use hundreds?

Excluding Las Vegas, basically never. (I mean, now that I'm no longer involved in an international drug cartel.)

Those few days after I come back from Vegas and I still have hundreds in my wallet are always weird. But, sadly, it's not usually enough hundreds to bother going to the bank. So I get like $97 of change from the coffee shop downstairs (the owner always knows when people have been to Vegas).

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

it might make sense

https://soundcloud.com/howardstern/larrydavid_jets

Sorry. I do not listen to Howard Stern as a matter of principle (even if his guest is Larry David, who I love).

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I don't even know who YC is, but that song has come to represent to me the lowest common denominator of commercial rap these days. It is basically the anti-Tribe.

You still made me listen to 5 seconds of it.

If you had sent me a link to this, I might have forgiven you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3yia1AJeQ

And I'm ashamed I've listened to this song more than 4 times.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Excluding Las Vegas, basically never. (I mean, now that I'm no longer involved in an international drug cartel.)

Those few days after I come back from Vegas and I still have hundreds in my wallet are always weird. But, sadly, it's not usually enough hundreds to bother going to the bank. So I get like $97 of change from the coffee shop downstairs (the owner always knows when people have been to Vegas).

I had the opposite of this repeatedly in St. Louis. I was there several times on a lawsuit. The train into town from the airport gives change in $1 coins. No one anywhere else (at least in Detroit) has any idea what they are, so it is hard to spend them. So I took to trying to get rid of them in the airport before flying home.

This led to me offering to buy the lunch a young man in army fatigues behind me in line at a food kiosk was about to order. You know, in thanks for his service. I had 5 coins I needed to get rid of. I think the guy thought I was coming on to him.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Sorry. I do not listen to Howard Stern as a matter of principle (even if his guest is Larry David, who I love).

TM

your loss- he believes he could coach the Jets. On offense "he drew up some pretty good plays as a kid." and he promises a defense "that will never leave a receiver open in the flat."

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

You still made me listen to 5 seconds of it.

If you had sent me a link to this, I might have forgiven you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3yia1AJeQ

And I'm ashamed I've listened to this song more than 4 times.

TM

You should be ashamed. That Tyga song is basically the same song as the YC song. And so is this one, which was the other one I was going to link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI0gk2KJeho

Just terrible.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

More anecdotal evidence from Chris Arnade in the Guardian about why working class voters are pissed and maybe voting for Trump and Bernie. But, hey, the economic data says everything's swell, so this can't be right.

This article is just amazing to me. Not because I disagree. But the stuff it addresses, namely:

• The problem of the lack of available jobs for people in certain geographic areas
• The reality of Republicans blaming those who are poor for those circumstances
• The revelation that the poor, who seemingly have no future, often turn to drugs
• The available jobs being of the service variety, which result in wage stagnation
• Etc.

is (i) what black people have been complaining about since the dawn of time in this country while being ignored, ridiculed, and over-policed and (ii) the direct result of the policies of the Republicans these people continually vote into office.

When people asked, "What's the matter with Kansas," everyone, including the people who are the focus of this article were angry that people on the left didn't understand that the social issues used as a pre-text to get these people to constantly vote against their own economic self-interest were so very important.

But what really surprises me is that any of you think that their support of Trump is any different than the status fucking quo. Trump doesn't give a fuck about these people. Just because he's not a career politician doesn't mean he's not going to completely screw them over like he's done to business partners, lenders, employees, etc. If they're voting for him because they think they're in this predicament because of Mexicans, Muslims, and black thugs--all the time pointing at black people in a WORSE position and faulting them for being lazy criminals--then they deserve what they get.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

You should be ashamed. That Tyga song is basically the same song as the YC song. And so is this one, which was the other one I was going to link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI0gk2KJeho

Just terrible.

The worst.

But I will say this. This is club music. And when I'm out (which is rare), I don't walk out when they play this garbage. It's a strange phenomenon.

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

The worst.

But I will say this. This is club music. And when I'm out (which is rare), I don't walk out when they play this garbage. It's a strange phenomenon.

TM

I know all these songs mainly because of someone who works here who goes out to clubs on hip hop nights and made me a CD of the songs in heavy rotation.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I know all these songs mainly because of someone who works here who goes out to clubs on hip hop nights and made me a CD of the songs in heavy rotation.

I can understand how you did not immediately chuck this CD out of the window, both because I don't think the windows in your building open and because I believe that you, being a generally non-careless person, would prefer to avoid impaling any passing pedestrians, but I cannot fathom how you decided to actually play it, much less learn the names of the songs and artists involved.

(Don't mind me, I'm just an old crank that doesn't get the kids' music)

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I had the opposite of this repeatedly in St. Louis. I was there several times on a lawsuit. The train into town from the airport gives change in $1 coins. No one anywhere else (at least in Detroit) has any idea what they are, so it is hard to spend them. So I took to trying to get rid of them in the airport before flying home.

This led to me offering to buy the lunch a young man in army fatigues behind me in line at a food kiosk was about to order. You know, in thanks for his service. I had 5 coins I needed to get rid of. I think the guy thought I was coming on to him.

It says something about you that a guy thought you were trying to get laid for a $5 lunch.