Jussie is all class.Fantastic work over the last few days, gentlemen! Catching up was exciting. An appearance from the top even? What a couple of days. Really.
@Newoikkin Bitch-ass move.
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Elon says it's actually over a billion views at this point. The saddest part is that he invited Kackula to come on and do the same. The world will never see it because there is no way to do a scripted free flowing conversation like that. They can't control it. She is gonna run as a generic democrat for as long as the press covers for her.
Hey @Heels Noir thought you'd get a chuckle out of this one. The best though is the second comment on the birds. Enjoy.
And to add to this discussion, I would rather not shut the board down. When jumping into the political conversation swamp, you're going to get dirty and have feelings hurt. That goes with the territory. Strap it on and deal with it.
And perhaps I overreacted some yesterday, especially since I hadn't gotten a report regarding this board in a while. And one of the complaints included a threat, so I reacted.
In total truth, I work every day of the year trying to make this site work in a very competitive environment. I have a vastly underpaid staff, which includes myself. I do this as a labor of love and with the intent on growing the site, as slow a process as that may be. When I was hired more than ten years ago, this board was part of the deal. I didn't think much at first until people started complaining about each other.
Those first few years I ran THI were during a period in which other sites were eliminating their free boards. I actually liked having a spot for people to hang out that weren't subscribers because many were regulars, and it was a place to post our content hoping to draw a few of you onto the premium side.
I DO NOT want to shut down this board, but I don't want to be bothered by complaints either. It's an anything-goes board and shouldn't be moderated because we're all adults and should be able to compartmentalize message boards posts that bother us from real life.
However, I will do what is necessary if things get out of hand. We have just less than three months before the election, and then possibly difficult times for the months after. I hope there's no need for me to return here.
Now, I have to go record a football show with Jacob. I'd MUCH rather do that than post here.
AJ
But the politicians are still pandering to their base, who won't get it, and the base is bigger than never-trumpers. And the base is cra-cra, obsessed with message instead of substance, so now you have a perpetual loop of poop.
The senate and house are rejecting straight-forward bills for guaranteed contraceptive access, simply to make themselves look anti-dem (everything is polarized). Surely the actual constituents in districts probably don't mind guaranteed access to contraceptives - they certainly would freak if contraceptive access became restricted. But here we are.
This is what the people want. A chance to roast (even feebly like @blazers attempt here) each other. Thanks for chiming in and thanks for a return to normalcy Blaze. I look forward to calling you a douchebag for years to come.
Looks like third-party options hurt Trump more than Harris. Am I looking at that right?Well, looky there. Trump hasn't even touched down yet and already he's affecting the polls in our state:
North Carolina - Harris +2
The post got 73 millions views. A view could be a half-second glance at your twitter feed. API feed is included, so you embedding that post counts as a "view".
And of the 4 million posts, how many mentioned lisp or failing dentures and dementia?
Truth Social (DJT) has tanked the last few months. Down 60% the last 3 months. Trump going back to twitter isn't going to help it any.
Trump doesn't care if Truth Social tanks. He only started it as a protest against Twitter and to continue getting his message out. He's happy to be back on Twitter and I can't than Elon Musk enough for doing the Lord's work.
What you just described happened in politics long before Trump. He's just the latest lighting rod. Granted he's been the biggest and most vocal, but still just one of many. I just don't see them standing behind a two time loser. It will be on to the next person.
If Kameltoe were to win it will all but guarantee the next 8 years of either Younkin or Haley.
Thanks AJ. I think a big "issue" is that because this group has been together for so long that there's a lot of inside jokes and normal "procedures" that a new person won't understand. That can cause issues when newer people try to come in guns blazing. You don't go to someones house for the first time and grab the remote. Most of the newer people here have come in calmly and learned how this functionally-dysfunctional "family" works. This time it was a case where a guest changed the channel to a duke game. We really do appreciate this place. I know TOS just closed down one of their boards because of politics and I know people here don't want that and don't want you to have to be bothered with it. Hopefully all that makes sense.
Also, I enjoy your shows with Jacob and I miss how he says under-dog-fantasy with those little pauses between words. Always makes me chuckle. Need to bring that back even if they aren't a sponsor.
I still don't want to waste 4 years on her policies to get there.
Where's the car? It's hidden behind all those Kamala Harris fans in the parking lot.
Lol. You’ve obviously never been to Asheville. I grew up there. It’s the bluest city in the country next to maybe portland
It's pretty amazing. It's like Berkeley, CA when you're in the city itself. Then, outside of the city, it's like the set of Deliverance. Hendersonville and Brevard are similar. I heard somewhere that a lot of northeastern hippies relocated to Asheville in the 70s and 80s. I dunno if that's true or not.
She doesn’t need to do a damn thing different than what she’s doing so why would she? Trump is in full blown self destruction mode.
So what happened was that the downtown completely died in the 70’s when a mall was built. We’re talking near complete desolation. Abandoned buildings, trash, open prostitution, drugs, homeless, it was horrible. My parents shop was one of the victims. The cheap real estate and rent was gobbled up by people opening art galleries, boutiques, bars, novelty type restaurants….which are typically run and staffed by people of the blue persuasion. It just mushroomed from there as the blues from all over th country flocked to the cheap liberal haven. Meanwhile the people in the surrounding mtns are still….well mtn people.
I don't understand this. How is Trump in full blown self-destruction mode?
"You know you have languages that people don't even know about."
Thaaaat's right. I remember back in the 2000s, I was at an art gallery/store thing on main street in Hendersonville (I guess it's main street). Anyway, the woman who owned it was in her 60s, I guess... and she had already started this decorative memorial to the dead US soldiers in Iraq, adding a leaf to an ornamental tree... I digress. She was from New York, and I could tell her accent. She explained that basic premise. She said she'd been in the Asheville area since 1978. Damn communist, liberal yankee hippies!
I don't get it either. You and I are supposed to be in the CULT yet we know very little about these blowups. All I've seen is him giving interviews, as is Vance and Kameltoe dodging the press and trying to wipe the internet clean of her and Walz's past.
Oh and her team changing headlines to make her look more appealing. But, you can febreeze a turd but it's still a turd.
Said every person that was in every cult. Any good cult is loaded with members that aren't aware objective realities OUTSIDE of the cult's universal perspective. You listen to Musk and Trump, and your admiration for both increases.
They usually just repeat the reactions of the cult leader... like insisting that "opposition" events with large amounts of people attending are merely AI generated fictions.
it seems to me their entire campaign is based on slandering the opposition and creating the illusion of support. If you listen to Kamala she spouts a bunch of happy words about what she's going to achieve without a syllable of substantiation about how she's going to do it. That's smart, because that's all the liberal masses need to hear. She has brought back in those on the near left who had abandoned Biden, even though she will double down on the problems Biden brought about.
Trump better sharpen up because those middle-ground undecideds are what it's all about at this point.
It's amazing she has a plan now. How did she keep all these great secrets for 3.5 years?
Then from your perspective, please explain what YOU are seeing to characterize his behavior as "self destruct mode".
I do have admiration for both men though. They are problem solvers. They've built things. Do you have any idea of all the things Musk has invented that are beneficial to people?
Oh, I'm sure he's just as philanthropic (@bluetoe ) as Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, W.R. Hearst... and all of those wonderful contributions to humanity.
Nikki Haley has blunt message for Trump, GOP as Kamala Harris gains momentum: 'Quit whining'
Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley tells 'Special Report' how Republicans can win in November and why the party needs to make a 'serious shift.'
It's not "my perspective"... you don't want my perspective.
I was very puzzled when I heard he was going to Hippie Haven. Not sure what reception he thinks he'll get, but I'll be shocked if it isn't a rocky one. Could even be an insurrection or two.
I don't keep up with the campaign much but I'll follow up on this one. I should have made this the only Trump rally I've ever attended just to go on a beer binge. I love Asheville for a few reasons, but especially for that.
Just like Barack Obama in 2008... out of nowhere and went full rock-star by September 2008.
People will follow the illusion more than anything else. MAGA is a testament to that. Hell, American politics is built on the appeal of illusion.
Keep calling her stupid and fumbling her name and questioning her ethnicity and whatever else you have in the "Hurl Insults" bag. Harris has not been vilified for 30 years like Hillary Clinton. She's brand new for a lot of people. And, after 10 years of Donald Trump whining, brand new is all it might take. Biden is gone.
It's a shame how badly you resent successful people.
and it's blazeringly obvious that it's a populist sham, failing to address where all this wonderfulness for the people has been. It's only up from here I guess. Trump needs to stop with the slurs and let her own words condemn her. Like 'no I haven't been to the border. I haven't been to Europe either. I don't know what you're trying to say' He should be
isn't it a shame that half the country does.
