September 4, 20242 yr 13 minutes ago, SPIDER-MAN said: I believe Trump has three more weeks until he can cash out all of his stock options. I think any sane person knows the moment Trump can cash out, he will abandon that platform and run back to his buddy Elon's domain and spout his nonsense to a large audience -- thereby collapsing that fraudulent stock for anyone else dumb enough to have invested. It's been kind of comical that he hasn't been able to use X because it would completely crater his remaining stock value -- and it may cost him this election -- even though there are 1,000 other things that make him unelectable. If Trump actually had a brain he'd have worked out with Musk how to make his posts sync to both platforms simultaneously.
September 4, 20242 yr 1 minute ago, Gannan said: This is a real text message I got this morning. Totally not weird at all They already photoshopped it, they couldn't have taken the child molestor kid out?
September 4, 20242 yr 2 minutes ago, Gannan said: This is a real text message I got this morning. Totally not weird at all It does seem practical to have 16 kids and one wage earner ......
September 4, 20242 yr 6 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: They already photoshopped it, they couldn't have taken the child molestor kid out? That horrifying picture reminds me of when comedian Chad Daniels basically said children are the original STD
September 4, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Alpha_TATEr said: jeopardy answer - who are eight people that will feel stupid at the next family reunion? hey tim, nothing personal, we just believed in trump's policies more. umm, that's mr. vice president to you 8 dopes. Oh, I thought you were saying they'd feel stupid for not knowing how to spell the plural form of their own family name.
September 4, 20242 yr 3 minutes ago, The_Omega said: Walz's what? Eight family members, and zero of them are smart enough to know that the pluralized family name would be Walzes. Not Walz's. I love the poorly educated.
September 4, 20242 yr 37 minutes ago, Lloyd said: Oh, I thought you were saying they'd feel stupid for not knowing how to spell the plural form of their own family name. everyone gets one mulligan.
September 4, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Bill said: Even 3YearLetterman broke character over it like three times this week. whoa whoa whoa, this I gotta see
September 4, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Gannan said: This is a real text message I got this morning. Totally not weird at all @Mike31mti think these folks are wrong for calling you out like this.
September 4, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Bill said: Even 3YearLetterman broke character over it like three times this week. Wow, yeah this Tucker Carlson interview has apparently blown way the F up.
September 4, 20242 yr This is the inevitable result when you fire the content moderation team under the guise of "free speech". Elon the super genius!
September 4, 20242 yr What kills me is that Threads could have just carbon copied Twitter and called it a day, but they made the lamest app they could and it's just populated by the worst blue hair takes you've ever seen. You go on Twitter and it's all "the jews did this". Then you go on Threads, and it's all "the jews did this", but from the opposite direction. I used to think that antisemitism and racism were just these fringe losers, but with the internet giving everyone a voice I'm starting to realize that the losers weren't as fringe as I thought they were.
September 4, 20242 yr Just now, Bill said: I used to think that antisemitism and racism were just these fringe losers, but with the internet giving everyone a voice I'm starting to realize that the losers weren't as fringe as I thought they were. I'd say 2016 all but confirmed that.
September 4, 20242 yr 6 minutes ago, Bill said: What kills me is that Threads could have just carbon copied Twitter and called it a day, but they made the lamest app they could and it's just populated by the worst blue hair takes you've ever seen. You go on Twitter and it's all "the jews did this". Then you go on Threads, and it's all "the jews did this", but from the opposite direction. I used to think that antisemitism and racism were just these fringe losers, but with the internet giving everyone a voice I'm starting to realize that the losers weren't as fringe as I thought they were. Lots of racists / misogynists on the left too, especially in the unions. That was always the risk with swapping Biden out for Harris.
September 4, 20242 yr 3 minutes ago, Bill said: I'm glad Churchill bombed Dresden. The Germans deserved every bomb that fell on them. No tears for me.
September 4, 20242 yr As an aside, can someone give me the history on that rockwell painting of the guy standing up? I know it's pre-pearl harbor and used as a means to engender support for entering the war, but I don't get what the image is supposed to represent? Is his standing up to speak a metaphor for the US standing up to speak on behalf of western europe and our allies abroad?
September 4, 20242 yr nevermind, answered my own question. Four Freedoms war bonds poster featuring an image designed by Norman Rockwell in 1943. The poster shows a man standing to speak at a town meeting, symbolizing the freedom speech. It is one of a four-poster series using Rockwell's paintings, which were inspired by President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. He described these in his 1941 State of the Union Address (also called the Four Freedoms Speech): freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The United States entered World War II in December 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Office of War Information (OWI) was established in June 1942, to control the message and imagery of government information about the war. This office controlled the design and distribution of war information to the American public in print, radio, and film media, and commissioned work from leading artists. Rockwell created a series of sketches about the Four Freedoms to support the war effort, but no one in Washington was interested in using them initially. The paintings were later published by the Saturday Evening Post beginning on February 26, 1943, and then reprinted, with permission, by the OWI. The OWI launched a nationwide tour with the paintings, raising $130 million dollars in war bond sales. They also offered the posters for sale in three different sizes, and four million sets of the posters were printed.
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