One’s gotta do what one’s gotta do. I’m disappointed that I’m still surprised at the lack of self-awareness of many ….. and how their own previous commentary on Too Woke for Swamp Gas contributed to the very “problems” they bemoan. So it goes …….
Wrong. Very wrong. If you're morally bankrupt enough to vote for a lying sexual predator, convicted felon, who we all saw clearly criminally try to overturn an election..... .....that's a commentary on you. If your morals are so flimsy that mean posters on a message board force your hand....an even sadder commentary on your "character."
This board has always been a refuge for children. It’s people who try to out insult each other. They try to out coy and clever each other. Name calling has always been a part of this forum. One side is always smarter than the rest and have no problem shoving it each others faces. It continues to this day. I’m guilty of all of the above. Many won’t own that simple truth.
To the right, I would say that change is the nature of all things. To the left, I would say that burning everything to the ground and forcing it to happen now is not.
This is an old post but I find it BS. Everything about today is better than 20/30/40/50 years ago. People are kinder, its safter, more accepting.... the list goes on. Social media is uniquely anonymous so people dont use social norms like polite disagreement. It's no society breakdown.
Don’t you live in the mountains? How often do you come in contact with the rest of the world? Or you probably just saw a chart that told you how amazing everything is…
I tried, but the dog dug it up and now I have this rusty hatchet that is going to give someone tetanus. I applaud your attempt at appealing to our better angels.
It's not morality, it's intelligence. Sorry, but people are just a lot dumber now than they were in the past and far more mentally lazy. Thus everything is driven off feels rather than fact, or feels based on loose facts. Just read casual books from 75-100 years ago. The language is multiple levels above what we use now. Social Media - which gets worse by the day - has driven it completely in the sewer, and that just gets worse and more vapid by the day. It's interesting seeing all the rationalizations for Trump's win, when it's pretty clear why he won. A large group of people in this country think he can turn the economic clock back to 2016. Combine that with a dislike of woke politics and it was an easy score. Problem is, 2016 is never walking through that door again. So they'll probably flip back again when or if Trump doesn't deliver. These are people who use TicTok daily so don't be surprised that they can't contemplate anything beyond 1mm off the tip of their noses and will become the electoral version of dogs chasing a treat.
Before moving on from a presence in Too Hot I want to announce I have resigned from the Gator Country moderating staff for reasons, some of which were previously stated. I hope the cancer thread on the Pub continues, and will probably post on it from time to time. I wish you all well. Please, be kind to one another.
There was widespread fraud in 2020 and 2024. The facts on fraud are not "black and white." There's fraud in every election, the question is how much. What we know about Democrats is they favor just about anything that makes fraud easier. Why do Democrats object to voter ID laws? Because they want to cheat. Why do Democrats vote for whichever presidential candidate will let in as many illegals as possible? Doesn't that make them traitors? Rather than address all the nonsense you post "Jo," why don't you tell us what Trump's 5 biggest lies are?
I agree. Although extremely anecdotal I recall a photograph of commuters in a subway car in NYC from the late '50s or early '60s. Virtually all of them were reading newspapers. How many Americans ready newspapers regularly today (am that includes digital versions not just print versions)? According one source only 12 percent of Americans read newspapers as their primary source of news. 37% rely on social media. Given the willful ignorance of the American electorate it's not hard to see how they perceive a charismatic reality television star as a business genius capable of assuming the presidency and not once but twice.
If you grew up in the 50s and 60s you know that there was nothing to do on a bus, train or street car except look out the window or read a newspaper. Well I guess the third option would be to flirt with the girl across the isle.
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Only you really old farts long for the misery of the 60’s, 70’s or 80’s. You’re not perceptive enough to realize you were young which is why you remember them fondly. The bitterness of age has set in. I live in Charlotte. Check a map. It’s near the mountains not in them.
It’s almost like the OP goes right over your head. Just about every one of your posts is …I’m right and you are wrong… end of story. I didn’t vote for Trump in this election, but I understand the frustration behind those that did. You, and others like you don’t even try. I’m smart and you’re dumb …that can be the only reason. It’s not a good way of bringing the 2 sides closer together.
You have to bear in mind that one of my main points is : it's absolutely unacceptable (and indeed un-American) to vote for someone who enacted a criminal conspiracy to overturn an election. So, well......yeah, I am right and anyone who disagrees with that is wrong.
