Everything posted by Khan
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The Politics Thread
Nor should you be. Even if your grandparents weren't there, it's still terrifying to think about. My father, a systems technician at AT&T, was scheduled to work at the Murrah Building on the day Timothy McVeigh ripped a hole through it, and through the OKC community as a whole; killing 168 people, including innocent babies whose parents had dropped them off at the daycare, believing April 19, 1995 would be a day like any other. And even though Papa Khan would die, unexpectedly, in 2010, I still become numb at the thought that we COULD have lost him much, much sooner. (Thank God he had decided that April morning to stop at McDonald's and have a cup for coffee before showing up for work.) When people who are SUPPOSED to be my FB friends fear the coming migrant "invasion," because, "EEK! LOOK OUT! THEY MIGHT HAVE DISEASES!," it's all I can do not to climb aboard the nearest clock tower with a high-powered rifle and hurt some people. ("They're not following the rules! They're coming here to hurt us!" Trust me, the damage they could do to us doesn't compare to the damage we're doing to ourselves.) I'm serious. I'm this [!@#$%^&*] close to losing it over others' insane reactions to the migrants. I think that's the story that affects me the most deeply. Here we had someone who survived perhaps the greatest atrocity committed in modern times -- someone who, no doubt, was witnessing what had been unfolding since the election and wondering if it all was happening again -- and how does he die? At the hands of a white supremacist. As one of my fellow members of the Philolexian Society would say, "there's an irony in there...somewhere." Forget the needle, I want the s.o.b. who killed these people to get the gas chamber. His delusional ass deserves nothing less. The GOP is good at selling snake oil to the masses, I'll grant 'em that!
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The Politics Thread
No more preposterous than Rachel Dolezal believing she's black. It's just like the end of the episode of "The Jeffersons" called "Sorry, Wrong Meeting." When the white supremacist (played by James Karen, who passed away last week) who was trying to get the Jeffersons and other "undesirables" evicted from their building learned that it was George who had performed CPR on him and saved his life after suffering a heart attack, he told his son, "You should've let me die." What George said after hearing that remains just as true today: they ain't never gonna change.
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The Politics Thread
But that's always their response to tragedies such as these, isn't it? "Hey, this could all have been avoided, if more people had more guns!" Seriously, white men would LOVE it if this country were more like a rerun of "Gunsmoke" or "The Rifleman."
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The Politics Thread
Dear God. When will this carnage end?
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"The Conners" Discussion Thread
As long as they aren't shortening the episode order, I'm good.
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The Politics Thread
LOL!! "Uh, Cesar? You do know you're not white...right?" Yep, I would say he was just delusional.
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"The Conners" Discussion Thread
Said every Golden Corral customer, ever.
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The Politics Thread
As the saying goes, "Do me a favor and lose my number."
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The Politics Thread
That's probably because, it does no good to challenge a pathological liar who would lie even when confronted with the truth. I mean, you could TRY...but you are gonna get nowhere. Trust me.
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The Politics Thread
Chuck Todd always reminds me of some knuckle-dragging idiot who gets busted by the cops on "COPS."
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The Politics Thread
The facts, I am sorry to say, speak for themselves: for eight years, we had Barack Obama making all the right arguments, and what was the response? A Congress who was openly hostile and treasonous; and a constituency filled with idiots who STILL believe he's a Kenyan-born Muslim. There are days when I believe there should never be another non-Caucasian president, or another candidate who isn't white, Christian and male. We just don't deserve to be so progressive.
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The Politics Thread
Party? More like rally at the heart of Times Square! We's about to set it off!!
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The Politics Thread
I. Love. That. Man.
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The Politics Thread
Once again, we didn't have to do much to make this happen, except stand by and wait for her to hang herself.
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The Politics Thread
Robert DeNiro? Now *I'm* tired.
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The Politics Thread
I'll say this much: if the bomb threats are orchestrated efforts to swing votes to the left before Election Day -- which I doubt very highly -- then the left has figured out that when it comes to the GOP, taking the high road is taking the road to nowhere.
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The Politics Thread
25th Amendment. JS.
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The Politics Thread
This isn't going to stop until someone gets killed.
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The Politics Thread
It's not exciting enough. Now, if Brian Kemp were hopped up on meth and screwing a male prostitute as he tinkered personally with the voting machines....
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The Politics Thread
If that's true, then maybe B**** K******** isn't such a waste of humanity after all.
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The Politics Thread
Yep. I couldn't see it before, but I do now: a lot of the MSM worked their asses off to help Trump become president, because, IMO, eight years of a scandal-free (and, in their eyes, boring) Obama administration was more than they could handle. They NEEDED some good, gossipy [!@#$%^&*] to keep their audiences and readerships from deserting them. Enter Trump, the "star" and EP of a hit "reality" series, and the GOP, who were ready, willing and able to deliver the meat necessary to keep their hungry selves fed. Factor in the media's long-simmering hatred of the Clintons, a couple who's long been able to dodge whatever boulders they've lobbed at them, and you have part of the recipe for the shitstorm that is unfolding at the moment for them.
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The Politics Thread
Are we talking about the mail bomber, or the president? Never mind, it's true for either guy.
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The Politics Thread
Seriously, where is the off switch on that woman's Twitter account?
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The Politics Thread
Unbefuckinglievable.
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The Politics Thread
Oh, no. Don't let "Mike" Bolton include that on his set list. We don't wanna put any wrong ideas in the Russians' heads. (Other songs to leave off: "Soul Survivor" and "Said I Loved You...But I Lied.")