BarneyPiccolo

At their core, Conservatives are cowards. They are afraid of EVERYTHING: Liberals, minorities, women, women's genitals, other religions, poor people, other countries, technology, education, intelligence, Critical Thinking Skills, the Constitution, history, etc. They are even afraid of each other. They are terrified that anything will change, and they're lives won't be as comfortable as they are now. They are so scared about that, that they will literally murder entire demographic sectors, just to assure their personal comfort.

So right off the bat, if you are dating a Conservative, you are dating a profound coward. If trouble occurs, he's going to grab you, and use you as a human shield.

Julie Andrews didn't sing Edelweiss, that was Captain Von Trapp's song. He's the Punk you should admire.

Valid.

Before 9/11, the Bush administration had several clear warnings that something serious was in the works, and they totally ignored it. It was even put into his daily briefing that Al Qaeda was planning an attack that involved flying planes into buildings, but it was later speculated that bush probably never even saw it, since he often skipped reading his morning briefings.

If they had stopped to consider it, they would have realized that they had been receiving reports from flight schools of Arab students wanting to learn to steer planes in flight, but not take off or land, and one guy already in custody. Just a little bit of investigation would have exposed the whole thing.

But they wanted a Middle Eastern conflict, so all of it was ignored, with easily predictable results.

A False Flag event? Not by precise definition, but essentially the same thing.

I make ice cream for a living, and watermelon is very difficult to pull off without artificial flavoring.

To start with, it has a lot of water in it, which is bad for making quality ice cream. You have to filter out as much as possible, and collect only the pulp. Since watermelon has a very mild taste, it takes a LOT of pulp, which still carries a lot of water in it.

Bottom line is that it is difficult to collect enough pulp to carry enough flavor, without adding too much water, and compromising the creaminess.

Of course, some artificial flavoring would do the job easily, but I am fundamentally opposed to that in my ice cream, and I would imagine Ben is as well.

It's not ruining your marriage to insist that treason, racism, intolerance, pedophilia, etc. isn't acceptable in your home. If your wife chooses that over her marriage, then you are better off. She can live with her MAGA mother for the rest of her life.

If your MiL voted for Trump, then she's a filthy MAGA, stop making excuses for her. Live your normal life, yell at the news, complain loudly every time you hear another one of his inane statements, criticize loudly and often.

That's what it's like in a normal, patriotic American household. Make her live like a real American, and not in her imaginary alternative MAGA reality, and stop coddling her treason. Tell her you won't tolerate talk of treason, racism, etc. Call her out EVERY time, and tell her it's unacceptable in your house, and in YOUR America. You can say ANTHING YOU WANT, but she has to keep her treason to herself. Period, no negotiation. Freedom of Treasonous Speech does not have to exist in your house.

If she doesn't like it, she can GTFO. We should no longer tolerate any MAGA bullshitp. It's time to push back HARD, and don't stop.

False Flag attacks are a military adventurer's favorite method to start trouble. America has used it multiple times to start wars.

I'm not forgetting any of that, I was just pointing out a fact about the relationship and history between Vietnam and Russia. It was a phantom war between Russia and the US, with both North and South Vietnam being proxies, and the North prevailed.

The point being that Vietnam has understandable reasons to cooperate with Russia, and there's not a whole lot we can say about it.

It will be a another propaganda mouthpiece, and have all the credibility of Fox News.

The problem is that laughingstocks seldom understand that they are the butt of the joke.

That's what colleges and networks were doing for a while, but since Kimmel stood up to them and won BIG, potential victims have been pushing back. Colleges are refusing money with strings, for one thing.

If J&J is smart (and it's not clear that they are, although they are well-established to be evil), they'll refuse to settle.

I can't wait for all these bullshit cases to get in front of judges. Some of them already have, and are getting tossed. The media should be covering it much heavier.