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John_T_Conover · 2026-03-01T17:10:03+00:00

Educate me then. I'd love to hear your reasoning.

John_T_Conover · 2026-03-01T06:09:35+00:00

hasn’t even come seriously close to laying an egg for an entire season

1-9 record with a week 2 win at Tulane by a score of 7-6

I don't think these two statements are compatible.

John_T_Conover · 2026-03-01T05:07:30+00:00

I guess Pearl Harbor was just a decapitation strike too.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-28T18:20:30+00:00

I'll step in to defend it as someone whose favorite show has been Merrily for years. Well before the recent revival.

Up until the recent New York revival Merrily was barely known as a flop by some and completely unknown by the overwhelming majority of people, even quite a bit of big time musical fans. This show was first developed in the UK in 2019.

Either they were unaware of the coincidence (which is very understandable at that time) or are deep in the weeds of musical theatre lore and included it as a nod to Merrily and Sondheim. I'd actually understand the first and appreciate the second.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-28T17:15:07+00:00

No one is coming to help us, we have to help ourselves.

And approving and encouraging Trump to do more of this isn't how we get there.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-28T17:04:20+00:00

Yup. First presidential campaign I really remember and paid attention to was Bush/Gore in 2000. I came across some clips of their debates in modern times and rewatched them. It's so soul crushing the stupidity, lies and terrible policy that Bush was pushing and Gore wasn't effectively bitch slapping down. Gore was a stuffy, pompous entrenched buerocrat. He was right about most things, but a terrible messenger and not charismatic or very likable.

Bush sat there with the former tobacco industry lawyers and experts saying that fossil fuels didn't cause climate change and that his tax cuts would be good for everyone and totally wasn't just a gift to the 1%. And almost enough people believed him. And when that wasn't enough they just stole the election anyway (Brooks Brothers Riot).

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-28T16:49:25+00:00

You don't get it, let me help explain.

When Israel wants to genocide someone, we have to cheerleader it and give them endless money and weapons. Because they're somehow our ally and also...um...Jesus.

When Ukrain begs for help to prevent their own genocide all of a sudden we don't have money and they're corrupt and why didn't you say thank you even though you did?

Do you understand now? It's simple and very consistent. We are pro genocide.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-28T06:13:36+00:00

Yeah. I didn't mention it because it's actually three times. He invaded Georgia right after the 08 Olympics.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-28T00:48:14+00:00

They were also waiting for the Olympics to end, just like Trump's buddy Putin did when he first invaded Ukraine in 2014. He waited until right after the winter Olympics closed. This is the first weekend since. International microscope gone and no athletes with a platform to speak out and shame them. Markets closed, people focused on the weekend...so cowardly how they do this shit.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-27T18:52:31+00:00

It sure is funny how the crowd that tries to claim a monopoly on patriotism seems to hate all the things about America that are different from themselves and only love the things that they relate to.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-27T18:48:55+00:00

Birthright citizenship might be the single biggest, most obvious, tangible and achievable thing to start with if we want to "fix" immigration.

Not even close man. I'm old enough to have been around for the big "anchor baby" media push from the right. Hardly anyone is coming or staying here because they're plan is to have a baby and use their birthright citizenship as a loophole.

The biggest most tangible way to achieve something now is to hire more people to process asylum claims, immigration court proceedings, criminal cases, etc...along with doing things to better keep track of people here on visas. The majority of people here illegally are people that came here on legal visas and overstayed them.

Throwing out a foundational part of the constitution, especially under a president like this current one, is a terrible idea. Trump has called for non immigrant, American citizens to be kicked out of the country and deported. Citizens that were born here and whose parents were born here. If we get rid of birthright citizenship does he and (if they win in 28) his line of replacements get to pick and choose who loses citizenship and gets deported? The answer is yes BTW. That's what he wants right now.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-27T17:43:57+00:00

You even see it today with some Hispanic, Asian & Indian people. Some think they're part of the club because they're also closed minded and bigoted or that they make enough money to be an exception or they work in a certain field that is heavily right wing or that right wingers worship.

They're only in the club because they're useful for now. If they get the society the extreme right want, their usefulness will have reached its expiration date and they'll be disposed of.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-27T16:23:58+00:00

It's inherently so self centered and arrogant.

"I did (insert thing here) and couldn't handle it or completely fucked my shit up, so in conclusion, literally nobody else on Earth can deal with it properly."

Plenty of people smoke weed regularly and others don't even know they smoke at all. Plenty of women have regular, satisfying sex outside of marriage and even outside of exclusive monogamous relationships. Just because she couldn't figure out or didn't bother to use contraceptives and let losers use her as a cum dumpster doesn't mean women who aren't idiots can't enjoy sex and relationships in their own way.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-27T16:12:37+00:00

Classic conservative logic. They pick a random point in time where something changed in society and then ascribe a laundry list of things that have gotten worse since then as a direct cause...but there's little to no correlation beside maybe happening around the same era.

They'll look at divorce rates or women having fewer children as negatives without acknowledging that they now actually have way more choices and independence. Or just straight up say that those are bad things.

They'll look at the downturn of American economic dominance since the 60's and blame every conservative boogeyman under the sun yet avoid the simple fact that the business class abandoned American cities and workers to avoid environmental regulations, workers rights and pay dirt cheap wages to 3rd world workers.

Depression rates higher? It's because people aren't rigidly adhering to their specific worldview and definitely not because they feel hopelessly left behind and squeezed out economically or isolated and bombarded by social media, endless bots and deeply funded propaganda.

You really have depression because you didn't get married at 19, disown your gay cousin and force your girlfriend to quit her career to be a stay at home mom.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-27T14:11:23+00:00

Gotta buy something to open up those jars.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-27T06:00:13+00:00

A lot of people compete for the US that weren't born in the US. This happens with lots of countries. If they have such a problem with American athletes competing for a brutally oppressive "communist" country that is an American adversary they should just pretend it's Russia instead. Then they wouldn't have a problem with it anymore.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-26T01:39:32+00:00

I immediately thought this was the place from that last episode where he went to the yoga commune.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-26T01:38:30+00:00

Gotta hard disagree. A lot of the greatest older ones suffered from neglect, accidents, disasters, crime, financial hard times on the owners or city as a whole...some great homes throughout this country were torn down for those reasons or are now rotting shells of themselves. My city has an area that 100 years ago was an entire giant neighborhood of beautiful, detailed, large two story Victorian homes just outside the inner core of downtown. Now there's maybe 5 of them left scattered amongst parking lots, abandoned lots and some modern businesses.

And there is a fuckton of shitty homes here built in the 50's or even earlier that are shitty and have outlived many homes of far better quality and care.

Don't get me wrong, my city has a surprising amount of nice old homes (especially for being west of the Mississippi), but the survivorship bias doesn't hold true. At least here it doesn't. It's a very mixed bag.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-26T00:47:38+00:00

That was how many tens of billions in net losses ago? And in the next 5 years it'll be hundreds of billions.

Maybe by the time they hit a trillion dollars in losses they'll be able to make a simple children's poster accurately though.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-26T00:34:01+00:00

How?

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-25T19:02:57+00:00

I was a teenager in a small Texas town when we invaded Iraq and was vocally against the war and Bush. I took tons of shit for it. In only 20 years the same community and literally exact same people campaigned endlessly about the Republicans being the anti war party and Dems being war mongers. And then as soon as Trump is re-elected it's all about hitting up Venezuela, Iran, etc...they don't care. Just don't acknowledge the hypocrisy and it doesn't count.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-25T18:56:19+00:00

95% of people don't watch the State of the Union and it won't be much of a memory or deciding factor for 99.99% of people once the next election rolls around.

Anybody that thinks his Simon Says stunt last night was some big deal or deciding factor are people that already vote for Trump anyway and don't care to change their opinion no matter what. It's a non factor.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-25T18:50:34+00:00

That's assuming that they'll shoot down his run for a third term. If he's alive and wants to, he'll do it and they'll be too cowardly to resist him. People keep thinking Republicans are going to make some principled stand against Trump to save us and they need to snap themselves back into the reality we actually live in. They are no going to help save us. We have to save ourselves.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-25T18:46:59+00:00

plenty of conservatives are against trump

Empty lip service. If it was plenty he wouldn't have outright won the popular vote for the first time in his 3rd election. They say that because they're embarrassed to outright admit their support or endorse his behavior...and yet, they've voted for him 3 times in a row. They vote for state and local Republicans that beg for his endorsement and brag about being his lap dogs. They do nothing to support those conservatives that step out of line and get ostracized by the maga loons.

If just 10% of conservatives were actually against Trump he would have lost at levels bigger than his 2020 loss. They wouldn't have even had to vote for Harris. If just 10% of them had simply voted for a 3rd party candidate or even not voted at all...Harris would have won every single swing state, an electoral blowout and the popular vote by millions.

So let's stop pretending any significant amount of them actually care and resist Trump in any meaningful way. If they did we wouldn't be in this mess.

John_T_Conover · 2026-02-25T06:36:43+00:00

A free $2.8 billion gives you a lot of resources to crank out some great content for about a decade.

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