Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Re: Hey Thurgreed!
 

FWIW the wife believes this photo is NOT shopped. The window effect is too real.

Re: Trump/Sanders Voters
 

People are voting for Trump.

Hate the article all you like, it's accurate in its assessment. And we share some of the blame for creating it. All those years of those of us who knew better saying, "Fuck it. Given them bread and circuses... They'll be happy and complacent with reality TV, pop-country, Rush Limbaugh, and video games." Well, that didn't work out so well.

They got dumber. And they kept fucking. And now we're in Idiocracy.

But here's the thing: they're still kind of logical. They know their king is a clown. They figure if you're going to get fucked either way, why not enjoy throwing a Malatov cocktail into the system? DJT may ultimately prove as Establishment as HRC, but with him, Joe Sixpack at least enjoys the temporary satisfaction of watching the Establishment freak out until it discovers this reality.

(And then there are those who think they'll get a wall. These people really miss Pink Floyd. And generally have fetal alcohol syndrome.)

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

He does not support repealing the ACA. He doesn't like it, but has conceded it's not going anywhere, and so has embraced it in Ohio. He's also not in favor of undoing gay marriage. That's bullshit.

Yes, he's got some pro-business views on the courts. But so does every conservative.

Defunding PP is a vacant policy plank for all GOP candidates. It's like HWBush saying he wanted to undo Roe. No GOP candidate actually wants to to do that (except Cruz, who is a psychotic imbecile). It's just some shit you say to the stupid religious freaks.

But yes -- it's disturbing that he felt the need to prove his lunatic bona fides by trying to seriously defund PP at the state level. That criticism is valid.

Re: Trump/Sanders Voters
 

Molotov, no Malatov.

The name "Molotov cocktail" was coined by the Finns during the Winter War. The name is an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who was responsible for the setting of "spheres of interest" in Eastern Europe under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939. The pact with the Nazis bearing Molotov's name was widely mocked by the Finns, as was much of the propaganda Molotov produced to accompany the pact, including his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. The Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food". Molotov himself despised the name, particularly as the term became ubiquitous.

Wow, this Molotov sounds like a real character. A thin-skinned, xenophobic, megalomaniacal bully who was willing to tell whatever lie, no matter how absurd, to avoid admitting to his darker actions and beliefs.

Re: Trump/Sanders Voters
 

I know you don't read or post here much, so you probably do not have any idea what you did wrong. Adder, ggg and Ty, they all hate on you now because you denigrated the Soviets. If you delete then I'll delete. Maybe best for you to ease into posingt here more regularly?

Re: Trump/Sanders Voters
 

Quite deserved... Christ, how did I do that?

But that long-form added text still isn't getting you script work on Portlandia, or a 2006 writing credit for McSweeneys.

Stick with the funk.

Re: Hey Sebby!
 

There's no reason for this not to coexist with a cash economy for those who want to use it.

The services you describe will inevitably drive us to a nearly cashless structure, wherein cash will be safe, legal, and rare. Summers wants to start banning certain bills. This is an unnecessary legislative dictate troubling to anyone who believes we have a right to transact beyond the scope of govt oversight.

Re: Foreman says these jobs are going boys, and they ain't coming back.
 

I'm not sure Goldenhead even gets the nomination: http://www.xojane.com/issues/stephan...paign-defector

Scenario: Cruz beats him in Wisconsin, preventing him from getting 1237. At the Convention, Trump loses, and his followers go nuclear. I don't know who wins the nomination or election, but it's immaterial. (My best guess is the GOP nomination is decided by steel cage match. And we'd better have our passports in order.)

Re: Hey Sebby!
 

Look, let's just take this conversation to its natural end point. You be Sam and Ty can be Josh.

Re: Trump/Sanders Voters
 

I'm just trying to enforce a minimum standard mental discipline here. But I'm not an ogre and don't like to pile on, so I am going to let slip the fact that I don't think you know what all the terms you used in your post mean.

Re: Hey Sebby!
 

The idea is that the spread of digital technology and connectivity means that it should be getting increasingly cheaper to provide increasingly real-time payments. Things that used to be special should slowly become commodity goods, even payments. Of course, incumbents don't like this and try to use their market power to keep it from happening.

Re: Hey Sebby!
 

I don't really care, but the $100 bill only exists because the government creates it.

Re: Hey Sebby!
 

Um. You know that the government decides which bills to print, right? Are you this outraged that there is no $25 bill? Are you also outraged that there is no $500? You sound really crazy putting this much emphasis on a really tiny thing (that also appears to have no legs).

Also, why aren't you doing your high-value dark transactions in bitcoin?

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I am feeling a bit more cheerful today. Trump, upon realizing that he will likely not receive the required delegates, is really starting to melt down a bit. Even Ann Coulter has called him "mental".

My good spirits are precipitated by yesterday's news that Rubio has taken action to affirmatively remove himself from the CA ballot, which should hurt Trump. The polling is tight and generally, Cruz has overperformed and Trump has underperformed the polling by roughly 4-5 points each. Winning CA would be huge. That and a win in Wisconsin for Cruz, which seems pretty certain now with a Scott Walker has endorsed and Trump has appeared typically idiotic in interviews with local radio hosts (which he would never had done if he had competent campaign advisers and management), means that Trump will not get the nomination on the first ballot.

Rubio has further contacted the states where he won delegates and has not released them. Where delegates are usually free to vote their preference after their candidate drops out, Rubio has acted to keep is delegates bound to him on the first ballot, which further hurts Trump. Cruz has been active in states like SC, installing his people as delegates which can only be picked from people who attended the last party convention. He is clearly out-maneuvering the Trump campaign.

While I am a bit more confident that Trump won't win the nomination outright, I do not have words for the hatred and revulsion I feel for John Kasich at this time.