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Post by RSCTom on May 19, 2020 11:34:27 GMT -5
Now I need Dramatico to review this when you receive it.
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Post by RSCTom on May 11, 2020 16:13:28 GMT -5
Been wearing the same pair of Adidas all white shell toes for a decade with one 'top ten' exception. Recently it was made clear to me the high top all white top tens fit my style even better so I've switched and won't be looking back. Not sure about summer shoes, though!
Otherwise I grab a pair of Nikes that are on sale and leave it at that if I need to junk in something or need a quick option.
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Post by RSCTom on May 11, 2020 10:24:47 GMT -5
I'm not really into Clone Wars but glad everyone is enjoying it so far. Still interesting to see the lengths they're going to in lining it up with ROTS.
I'm more thrilled that this casting for Boba Fett puts to bed the discussions of a spin-off movie, particularly one where 'someone kills the original Boba Fett and takes on the mantle'. These all just seemed like weak, heavy handed attempts to make him more than he really has ever been. I get it because people love Boba Fett but I've never really thought he was that cool. Even back in the day I thought he was a huge dork for getting eaten the way he did and no novel or comic book can change that.
While I'm pretty much anti-spin-off movie anyways at the moment, it'd be more interesting to see something else get the time and energy.
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Post by RSCTom on May 8, 2020 19:10:52 GMT -5
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Post by RSCTom on Apr 2, 2020 8:40:28 GMT -5
So your whole entire story is based on nothing more than your own personal perception. You create an entire situation in your head. A situation that even includes you inventing the thoughts of the people at the grocery store. And then you blame Donald Trump for your imagination. You don't see how crazy that is? Anyone? Seriously? All I did was tell you a story. Personal perception, sure, but with weight behind it. This dude was basically stalking me in the store or I wouldn't have told it. I am a pretty laid back guy but it was enough for me to notice as a grown man with enough life experience to know when someone is fishing for a confrontation. Like I said, I don't know his thinking but it's worth noting and is, to your point, really just my personal example. We can't get inside everyone's head and see the box that is checked off that says 'Trump made me feel empowered to do this' or 'I am just an idiot', but if you think he isn't empowering at least a portion of the country, even subconsciously, to act like this, you're fooling yourself.
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Post by RSCTom on Apr 1, 2020 14:16:45 GMT -5
Yes, he poorly handled this, he could have acted better and/or faster and we would have less lives lost. Read his comments that he made in the timeline below and you tell me with a straight face he did the best job he could and we don't put any blame on him. January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
February 28: “Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that, right? Coronavirus, they’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa.” “They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax.”
March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9: “This blindsided the world.”
March 9: "The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.”
March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."
March 13: National Emergency Declaration
March 13: “I don't take responsibility at all”
March 15: "TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!"
March 16: "I give myself a 10 out of 10"
March 17: “I’ve always known this is a real—this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
This doesn't just sum it up, this knocks it out of the park. Seeing it laid out in a timeline like this shows just how NOT seriously he has taken it. Even now it's unbearable to listen to him talk about Democrats and Republicans and himself as if anyone cares about politics and partisanship at the moment. NO ONE CARES ABOUT HIM AT THIS MOMENT. We all want to see our families, keep our jobs and go outside like normal again, it's that simple. For him to continue the game and spread of misinformation literally in the face of this and discuss things like television ratings just shows how truly unfit for this position he is. Beyond that, it really just paints him as one of the most self-centered human beings in existence. Do we really want this person as an example for future generations? It's ludicrous. YES, the idiots at spring break should be blamed on him. YES, someone feeling invincible enough to lick deodorant should be blamed on him. People are responsible for their own actions, but the President of the United States is setting the EXAMPLE for these idiots. And, setting the example for people who are maybe not idiots...but feel empowered enough to live normal life at the moment. Take the macho a**hole at the grocery store when I took the trip the other day, for instance, going out of his way to smirk at me multiple times in different aisles as I wore gloves, avoided folks and packed my grocery cart to do the right thing, stock up and stick to my apartment. This dude just couldn't help but smile at me and laugh at me struggling in the store with so much stuff while he walked around with his girlfriend and a basket like everything's normal. I don't have definitive proof this was on his mind, maybe he just thought I was funny looking, but I can only imagine someone who is getting off on being a smart ass at the grocery store like this is empowered by the country's leader basically doing the same in front of 327 million people. At the VERY LEAST, he should be telling people to take it seriously without any rhetoric. He has taken a full month of crisis if not longer to come even remotely close to that. Setting a good example is his first priority and instead he continues to lean back on the same song and dance that gets him cheers and claps at rallies. I would vote for Joe Biden if he were headless at this point and it's still mind numbing that anyone could see this any other way. I'm afraid it really won't sink in for people until they are responsible for the death of a relative. And for me to have to pay for the shortcomings of others at this point, if I were to lose a family member, is infuriating, but it's where we're at. Please open your eyes and see this is a different world we're in that has finally come to a head and try voting with basic common sense.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 31, 2020 9:26:13 GMT -5
I think it is laughable that Dems could provide oversight for misappropriated tax payer funds, the faux propaganda and scare tactics used by the media, Dem lawmakers refused to allow Republicans during the “peach-mint” proceedings, and stock market numbers help out many people, who have accounts and retirement things of that nature. Look we won’t agree, and that is why this country is balkanizing. The bottom 80% of the country owns 8% of the stock market. NYSE is a very lousy way to demonstrate economic health in the US. I don't see how this doesn't sink in with more folks. It's kind of shocking to me that anyone would really care about their own bottom line based on what traders are doing. You know, because it likely has absolutely nothing to do with it. Trickle down economics has always been, and will always be, nonsense.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 23, 2020 14:38:10 GMT -5
It's definitely laughable to think Hillary would have been worse in the situation we're in.
She certainly wouldn't have fired the US Pandemic Response team!
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 23, 2020 10:33:05 GMT -5
His approval rating will go down. As soon as the two week period ends and he does something drastic like actually let people out and 'back to normal', people that people know will start to die. That's really all there is to it...this won't hit home for people until someone close to them dies.
He is smart enough to let Fauci speak on his behalf with facts while at the same time boasting his usual nonsense that his base eats up. I would argue as someone who is not an idiot that I can separate fact from fiction and while I don't prefer being lied to, I can at least see when Trump is clearly lying or when he is telling us to listen to facts and the experts.
So far, other than the despair this has caused us all, there hasn't been a red line situation that has cost lives yet on a scale that touches the average American. When that happens, people will smarten up.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 20, 2020 11:07:17 GMT -5
The thing about this - and this won't be popular - is that many people will die of the virus, but many others will not survive the fallout. Yes I know, the ill come first, and they should, but there's a lot more than a pandemic at play here. The economy is already tanking hard, and tens of thousands of businesses will close forever; small and otherwise (large businesses on the cusp of closure like Sears/Kmart and Gamestop won't survive this). Anyone out of work is at a huge risk. I know there are bailout programs, but it's never enough to cover actual work, and millions are ineligible due to loopholes and fine print. Moreover, the social implications are going to be severe. We can all manage a month, maybe even two of no entertainment, no travel, no bars, no restaurant dining, and supply shortages, but stretching to 3 and beyond (some say a year or more of lockdown) is not sustainable. People will start to crack. Suicides will rise, crimes like robberies and home invasions will occur, there will even be riots if we're locked away for 6 months or more. Once summer hits, and the heat rises, things are really going to get bad. There's also going to be a huge spike in births over the next two years since there's litetally nothing else to do. This is what scares me the most, not the virus itself. Life as we knew it is over for a very long time, and many of us who don't even get sick will not make it out. I really wish they'd taken this seriously from the outset (not that I did at first either). I guess this is a PSA to try not to forget the "healthy" who won't make it out of this (of which I am likely one). Be nice when someone freaks out about how this will affect them, because all they're hearing is ' this isn't about you' while their world implodes. It all feels pretty hopeless now, and scolding people for even being outside really doesn't help anyone. Everyone is trying to adapt to the new normal, and some of us (financially, socially, or mentally) won't be able to. While this worst case scenario/apocalypse daydreaming is true and a fear for all of us with an IQ above a toaster, that's what makes the current action and listening to it, all the more imperative. People hoarding food and standing outside of gun shops for this are making it worse. We are in the small window where we don't need to panic, just need to be listening and be smart. It's really a common sense issue. People like Jim Ross saying 'the media are overblowing this' are almost as bad as people who are outside in large gatherings. There is a HUGE difference between going for a walk with 1-2, even 3-4 people and gathering 10-15 of your friends to play basketball. There's an even bigger difference with people having house parties or 'social distance gatherings' because it seems funny or cool. THIS is the problem. It's barely been a week of being home for anyone that isn't in any sort of essential job position and people are really doing those around them a disservice by not being able to handle it. People are already starting to crack, so your fears aren't unwarranted but there's an easy solution and that's to just chill the hell out and do what the experts are saying to do. I don't want to politicize this thread but I place a huge amount of blame on the president for this (it took everything in my being not to call him a name right there). He's kind of woken up and despite his stupid digs and inability to take responsibility and blame during press conferences, he is at least telling people to listen. It remains to be seen as to whether it's too little, too late from when he was treating this like a joke. And I haven't forgotten that and ALL other things considered, I won't all the way up until election day and neither should anyone else.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 20, 2020 9:27:35 GMT -5
Richard Pryor for me in the past was a hard hit and more recently Dolores O'Riordan of Cranberries fame was the hardest to hit.
Chris Cornell was also pretty devastating but some things just kind of transcend that personal connection sometimes. The first two for me were a lot more impactful for whatever reason.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 20, 2020 8:26:39 GMT -5
The hardest thing about this to 'register' with regular folks is the fact that you shouldn't be as worried about YOURSELF AS YOU ARE ABOUT OTHERS. I went for a walk a couple days ago and it wasn't too bad, but definitely saw some kids playing basketball and a few other things going on that just shouldn't be happening. I don't really fear catching this and I of course have a sinking feeling I'll catch it anyways because of course. I also had Swine Flu when that whole thing was going on.
What I don't want is someone's blind ignorance to hurt my mom who is in her 60's and a cancer survivor with other issues and my dad who is in his 60's and has a miraculous heart valve and blood thinners. If you're not isolating for yourself, do it for someone else.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 19, 2020 9:16:07 GMT -5
When this is all said and done, the human race will still never learn there lesson, sadly this is how it always works out in the end. Humans cause destruction in life, thus creating panic and chaos. Animals only eat what they need, they never take more than that! They are 100% pure, in life, this world and other ones, what do we humans do to even match that? Nothing, not one thing that comes close to what they are. They are the saints and we, the human race are the sinners. uhh, that’s not really true at all. lots of types of animals take far more than they need. a weasel will kill every chicken but only eat one. lots of animals gorge if given the opportunity. lots of animals feed on the young of other species. look up siblicide. if animals are saints, they’re from the Old Testament. Even with what K5 mentioned, have you never owned a dog that ate a chocolate cake off the counter and then managed to eat another chocolate cake off the counter one god damned day after??
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 5, 2020 12:31:44 GMT -5
I agree that sexism is absolutely a factor in a lot of the criticism of Warren as a person. The same is true for Hillary. With Warren, my beef with her is that the moment she became the frontrunner, she pivoted to the center instead of staying on the far left with Bernie. Her Medicare-For-All plan became this weird Rube Goldbergian plan that was going to take three years and would resemble the public option that Buttigieg was promoting more than the Sanders plan. I think that cost her a ton of the support she had. And her (campaign's) reaction to dipping a bit was to go after Bernie instead of continuing to go after milquetoast centrism that the other candidates were offering. She still would have been my second choice in this race, but she was closer to third than first for me by then. Fair points and definitely an achilles heel of sorts here in that she pushed too hard to try and appeal to too many who were otherwise closed off to what she was proposing.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 5, 2020 12:27:44 GMT -5
Please don't mistake my harping on her preference for Michelob Ultra as any sort of serious factor I considered in whether or not to vote for her. I've voted for women in the past, and I will do so again should one come along that inspires me. In not singling you out hopefully that was clear, but really your joke has legs for a reason from my perspective. I knew exactly why you were referencing that right away. People do make these decisions based on those types of factors on a regular basis and that was what I was trying to call out.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 5, 2020 12:08:02 GMT -5
I am absolutely mind-bended as to the dislike for Warren. I don't want to blame it on the country still not being ready to vote for a woman, but I don't think the country's ready to vote for a woman, still. I seriously could give a rats ass about what beer she drinks or how she appears while doing it or whatever. If she webcast herself drinking beer upside down in a diaper I would still have voted for her. Had she lined up a bunch of shots on a counter, taken them all in a row and shouted with a fist pump there'd be people coming out of the woodwork going 'HAHA THIS BITCH IS AWESOME!!!' Stupid reason to decide a vote.
My great grandmother back in the day openly told family members she would go to the polls and cast based on who had the most balloons at their both. It isn't the 1940s or 50s anymore and we have treasure troves of accessibility and information where these types of decisions shouldn't even be made.
Obviously people have personal preferences from a politics perspective but the fact that we're still factoring in these weird, shallow details in judging who should or shouldn't win almost 250 years after the country started is kind of crazy.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 5, 2020 10:49:16 GMT -5
Kind of the opposite effect for me. Hoped when I was younger and even after long since moving away it would become more forward thinking and provide more options not just for kids like me who lived there or anyone who would like to move there as it's a beautiful place. But stagnation kills!
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 4, 2020 12:42:20 GMT -5
Bernie should run as a 3rd party if he truly believes in his principals. No thanks. Unless he actually had a real, unprecedented shot at winning that way (which would be REALLY revolutionary) anyone doing anything after the dust has settled to take votes from the primary candidate is at major fault here. Yes the system is at fault, yes it's not that different from what we already have, yes we're 'betting on both corporate horses, but we will make ZERO progress towards anything substantial enough to change the way things work voting in Trump or any other Republican. It seriously becomes time to set your differences aside and vote for whoever is the nominee, now more than ever before when we've seen how close we can be (we already are) to being a banana republic. The Supreme Court justices that have been appointed are an absolute disaster and it's one of the many negatives that have come from this administration. I think the electoral college is rubbish in this day and age and health care is an absolute human right among a laundry list of other things that I can't believe are still in question, but to 'stand my ground' based on those principles is selfish and irresponsible. Donald Trump's only value has been bringing out the worst in people who have been trying to hide it. Now that it's all out in the open we have to end the continued empowerment.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 3, 2020 20:25:10 GMT -5
It's looking pretty early like Biden could come up big and get the nomination. Not even close to my first choice but I'm also fine with it, other than the fact that we will have to hear about Burisma nonsense through this election cycle.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the 'safe' choice is getting selected but maybe I am a little surprised?
No matter as I would vote for a potato before I voted for the current holder of the office.
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Post by RSCTom on Mar 3, 2020 10:20:39 GMT -5
The best way to handle folks who can't even engage in civic discourse without lowering themselves to the depths required to refer to a candidate, in earnest, with such an off-color nickname is to simply refuse to engage them. It's a tell-tale sign of an inability to rise above the mud and engage in a discussion of ideas. People who can't adhere to a baseline modicum of decency should be treated like they're not even at the table. SHOULD be, but unfortunately, they are at the table at the moment. I can agree with the idea that we just don't treat them as part of the conversation but it's clear with who is in office and where the country is at that's an impossibility at the moment, so it's tough. One direction is to argue of course but the only other solution I can think of is gently having a conversation as to why it's so outlandish. But generally people in that position feel like they're being spoken down to which of course we don't want to be doing, so it's tricky. Ugh. I don't know if I'm going to make it through November.
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