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Saturday, May 3, 2025 3:01 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: We don’t need more executive orders. We need a government that does its damn job.
Saturday, May 3, 2025 5:59 PM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Saturday, May 3, 2025 6:12 PM
Saturday, May 3, 2025 7:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Shut the fuck up, loser. You are done. Your party is done. You are politically homeless. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Saturday, May 3, 2025 8:23 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Shut the fuck up, loser. You are done. Your party is done. You are politically homeless. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon1) MAGA Melts Down Over Trump’s ‘Disrespectful’ Pope Post
Saturday, May 3, 2025 8:28 PM
Saturday, May 3, 2025 9:23 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: At this point I've just got to ask myself how far to the ultra-fringe-right I can push Second if given enough time. Let's see... We've got him posting about religion in a positive light every other day now. He was in full support of the Cheney family in the months leading up to the election. He posts online at least once per week about who should be murdered this week. Is it any wonder why GenZ hates the Democratic Party and cringes hard any time one of them talk? -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Saturday, May 3, 2025 10:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: At this point I've just got to ask myself how far to the ultra-fringe-right I can push Second if given enough time. Let's see... We've got him posting about religion in a positive light every other day now. He was in full support of the Cheney family in the months leading up to the election. He posts online at least once per week about who should be murdered this week. Is it any wonder why GenZ hates the Democratic Party and cringes hard any time one of them talk? -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon“That was some weird shit,” George Bush said about Trump. That doesn't mean I approve of Bush, but Trumptard 6ix weirdly thinks different. Weird shit is an excellent description of all Trumptard behavior. What George W. Bush Really Thought of Donald Trump https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/what-george-w-bush-really-thought-of-trumps-inauguration.html The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Sunday, May 4, 2025 5:12 AM
Sunday, May 4, 2025 7:20 AM
Sunday, May 4, 2025 10:23 AM
Sunday, May 4, 2025 1:37 PM
BRENDA
Quote:Originally posted by second: Trump’s gaudy-awful Oval Office is all too American George Will WaPo https://eedition.houstonchronicle.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=88d24d05-64cc-4c6a-b69a-c81cccb904e3&share=true When the 47th president does something right, he repents by doing something that contradicts it. Consider his excellent executive order about the importance of aesthetic good taste in governance, and his subsequent redecoration of the Oval Office. Issued during the blizzard of orders in his first full day in office, “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,” was thoughtful and sensible. Making amends for this, the president has redecorated the Oval Office. The style, which is not for the squeamish, is best described (actually, it is best not described, but here goes) as: “The Atlantic-City-Aspiring-to-be-Las-Vegas School of Interior Design.” Or (intellectual whiplash warning) Founding Fathers Bling. In short: Maximalism. The president evidently likes working inside a Faberge egg. For readers of the Washington Post, Carolina A. Miranda, a talented cultural journalist, has described the new Oval Office, stuffed with stuff: The mantel is adorned by seven gold examples of authentic bric-a-brac. Gold floral moldings are stuck here and there. Gold angels. Gold eagles on side tables. Gold coasters. Gold medallions on the fireplace. Gilded mirrors on the doors and gilded frames for about 20 paintings, more than triple the number Biden had, so there. Gold cherubs imported from Mar-a-Lago, which is probably still is not destitute of them. Gold coasters. A large gold block paperweight inscribed with TRUMP, in case he momentarily forgets to think about himself. Miranda finds this sinister. And she bills the decor as “un-American.” If only. We have a national knack for wretched excess, of which Super Bowl halftime shows are, amazingly, not the most vivid eruptions. Remember Detroit’s 1950s land yachts: The 1956 Chrysler Imperial and the 1958 Lincoln Premiere were 19 feet long. What is more vulgar than 21st-century State of the Union addresses? Benjamin Franklin pointedly wore clothes of homespun cloth to the Court of St. James’, and Thomas Jefferson sometimes wore slippers when receiving presidential visitors. Nowadays, however, Americans enjoy leavening republican simplicity with touchingly absurd attempts at grandeur: There are, surely, communities where Kiwanis Club lunches are held in Holiday Inns’ Versailles Rooms, cheek-by-jowl with hardware stores and grain silos. What has become of the aesthete who issued the Day 1 presidential order on “beautiful federal civic architecture”? The president said: “Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.” Quite right. Recently Paul Zepeda, an architecture student at Catholic University, writing for Civitas Outlook of the University of Texas at Austin’s Civitas Institute, noted that the current president was reversing his predecessor’s reversal of a 2020 executive order. Cue the “here-comes-Hitler” warnings. (He did have an unhealthy interest in overbearing architecture that diminished the individual relative to the state.) And critics of the president’s January order issued somber warnings about attacks on “design freedom.” “Design freedom,” which has often meant indifference to design, has blighted Washington with durable examples of brutalist architecture, such as the FBI Building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Might such architecture foment in citizens a sense of alienation from their government? In October 1943, after German bombs destroyed the House of Commons, Prime Minister Winston Churchill insisted on rebuilding it with its traditional rectangular, and adversarial, arrangement rather than the semicircular design favored by many legislatures (including the U.S. Congress). Churchill thought it supported the temperateness of a two-party system. He said: “We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.” Zepeda argues that, traditionally, here and elsewhere, “buildings with the greatest significance to the community” should be designed with cognizance of the moral dimension of the physical. Each building’s human scale, decoration, ornaments and measured proportions should reinforce in those who see and enter them a sense of the nobility and dignity of what transpires in them. A federal building should be, Zepeda says, “a celebration of self-government, a fluorescence of the republican system.” The classical temple-like building in which the Supreme Court sits is probably related to the court’s remarkably durable prestige, which is a potent fact in contemporary governance. In the unlikely event that the current president wearies of the golden monochrome of his Oval Office surroundings, he can swivel his chair 180 degrees and contemplate the National Mall, one of the world’s great urban spaces. Its clean, spare, Euclidean geometry is an analogue of our society’s premise and promise: open vistas and open minds. The Mall’s symmetry, balance and proportion encourage a similar mentality, infusing political institutions and civil society with restraint. At least they used to. George F. Will is a columnist for the Washington Post. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Sunday, May 4, 2025 4:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Tacky for the Oval Office but it figures. And this guy shouldn't be giving him any ideas for the National Mall. I happen to like that open space and I'm Canadian. Also like the Lincoln memorial which is well deserved for Mr. Lincoln. Now the Washington Monument looks like an obelisk from Ancient Egypt and it was transplanted to DC.
Sunday, May 4, 2025 4:42 PM
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Sunday, May 4, 2025 5:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: At this point I've just got to ask myself how far to the ultra-fringe-right I can push Second if given enough time. Let's see... We've got him posting about religion in a positive light every other day now. He was in full support of the Cheney family in the months leading up to the election. He posts online at least once per week about who should be murdered this week. Is it any wonder why GenZ hates the Democratic Party and cringes hard any time one of them talk? -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon“That was some weird shit,” George Bush said about Trump. That doesn't mean I approve of Bush, but Trumptard 6ix weirdly thinks different. Weird shit is an excellent description of all Trumptard behavior. What George W. Bush Really Thought of Donald Trump https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/what-george-w-bush-really-thought-of-trumps-inauguration.html The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Some would argue that thinking it was a good idea to run on a dual-platform of Privatizing Social Security and Banning Gay Marriage would make a mindless Lefty headline-reader-bot question how prudent it would be to use that person's words and judgement as a good choice to bolster their own argument 21 years later in 2025. Especially after doing the same thing with the Cheney family before the election turned out the way that it did. And certainly, especially when the headline-reader-bot already possesses the data that the human being they are interacting with cares not whatsoever for George W. Bush or anything he's ever had to say about any topic. But we're still dealing with pretty unsophisticated AI when it comes to the Second-Bot and the mindless articles it scrapes off the internet. Keep watching your party circle the drain and wondering why you're completely powerless to do anything about it, drone. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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