Everything posted by Khan
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The Politics Thread
From the article: No one cared about us until Trump. That's just it; they DID care and they still do care. (Certainly, they care(d) more than Trump ever will.) But the problem was that the solutions they were offering, you didn't want to hear. You wanted to hear exactly what Trump told you: "the world is just fine, nothing is changing, just keep making your popcorn and we'll take care of the rest." It's the equivalent of daddy coming into your bedroom after you've had a nightmare and telling you there are no monsters hiding under your bed or in your closet. However, in this case, the monsters are very much real, and they are no longer hiding. Thanks, DD, for the article!
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The Politics Thread
Seriously, moderators, why am I seeing comments again from people I'm supposed to have on Ignore? Have your fancy-schmancy updates to SON resulted in our no longer being able to block filth from our view? If it has, then I'm done with this [!@#$%^&*] board.
- All My Children Tribute Thread
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Hollywood Sexual Harrasment/Assault Thread
From the King profile: “People said to me, ‘It’s so amazing how you picked this up so quickly.’ Uhhh, this was my job for a long time,” Ms. King said. To which people would regularly reply, “I didn’t know you had a job!” or “I didn’t even know what your last name was!”
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"The Conners" Discussion Thread
RE: Spoilered section -- Well, that just sux.
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The Politics Thread
If Alan Brady and Meathead's dad can't get you off your asses and vote, nothing can.
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The Politics Thread
IA. Given how much will be at stake next Tuesday, Pelosi really needed to keep her trap shut.
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The Politics Thread
Isn't Sanford the one who "disappeared" several years ago and had everyone wondering what happened to him before he came forward and admitted he was chillaxing with his mistress? I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this will not end well.
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The Politics Thread
Oh, they'll still push the narrative. It won't matter to them one bit that the entire scam has been exposed as just that. They'll just say the "deep state" is at work again, covering up Mueller's secrets, so they can proceed in taking down "the greatest President in U.S. history."
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The Politics Thread
Ironically, thirteen weeks is also the length of one cycle of a typical soap actor's contract.
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The Politics Thread
Well, it sure as hell took her long enough! Next time, Kim, just slip the Lithium in his food or drink.
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The Politics Thread
Why does this not surprise me at all? Ugh! Thanks, DD and Vee, for catching me up!
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The Politics Thread
Did I miss something (again)? Who is "they," and what did they attempt to do to my baby daddy, Robert Mueller? As Ralph Furley would say, "DAMN!!".
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The Politics Thread
Could someone explain to me a little more clearly what this means? For example: Mama Khan, an African-American, was born on U.S. soil. However, Papa Khan, a native of Georgetown, British Guyana, never obtained U.S. citizenship. (He came to this country forty-six years ago this month, on a visa, but he had let that visa expire by the time he and Mama Khan married.) Does this mean I'm in danger, since one of my parents was a non-citizen at the time of my birth? We Have. To Vote. That's all there is to it.
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The Politics Thread
Frankly, I'd have been surprised if Bubbles hadn't tapped someone like "Rabbi" Jacobs to offer that prayer. In his eyes, the shooting wouldn't have happened if they had loved them some Jesus. You know I was being hyperbolic, right? I'm not REALLY going to pull a Charles Whitman (although, given what occurred this past weekend at the synagogue, I can understand your concern). Nevertheless, Julia, you're right -- and I'm doing just that. I thought I could handle the pro-Trump ones among my friends on FB -- many of whom, by the way, are former classmates -- but it's just incredible to see how otherwise rational human beings have become so adept at rationalizing and justifying the most heinous [!@#$%^&*]. Again, everyone, rest assured I will not be committing any acts of violence anytime soon. I'll leave that to my government and the troops who have been deployed at the border.
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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."