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TNBanjoMan 8 points ago +8 / -0

Heh, maybe... but nah, I've maintained much of my sanity by NOT engaging in social media. I did break down and join TRUTH SOCIAL over a year ago, but that's it. I already have WAY too many rabbit holes to explore without having more delivered to me via X.

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TNBanjoMan 4 points ago +4 / -0

Joe and Jill are not capable of making valuable or tactical information, so it was probably just measurements of the windows so the Trumps could order new drapes.

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TNBanjoMan 1 point ago +1 / -0

All true, but I too was raised in an age when roadmaps were widely used, and the Marine Corps taught me how to use them tactically and for using a compass to get from Point A to Point B. I could easily go back to using them... it's a skill you and I have that young people might find useful in coming days.

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TNBanjoMan 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yup. My little hometown paper recently just folded for good. We called it "The S____ County Scandalizer" because it printed just enough salacious gossip and court records to earn that name. Still it was a staple in our little mountain hometown, and I know a lot of people will miss it.

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TNBanjoMan 12 points ago +12 / -0

Don who? Oh.... him... I'm just SURE he will be greatly missed, bwahahahaha....

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TNBanjoMan 4 points ago +4 / -0

Thune just opened himself to living under a microscope and an ongoing coloniscopy.... We The People will judge him harshly.

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TNBanjoMan 2 points ago +2 / -0

True to a point. But things come and go. America doesn't buy very many buggy whips these days for a reason. Try to find a road map at your local gas station.

Newspapers are appealing to a rapidly declining audience.

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TNBanjoMan 9 points ago +9 / -0

Maybe I'm a bad person, but I laughed through that whole video.

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TNBanjoMan 11 points ago +11 / -0

Yeah, but this is probably too little, too late. Newspapers, as such, are a dying form of media in America today. Most people get their news (or what passes for news) from various internet sources, blogs, and (sadly) late night TV.

This is a curious time to suddenly rediscover "journalistic standards."

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TNBanjoMan 1 point ago +1 / -0

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

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TNBanjoMan 6 points ago +6 / -0

Is this from the Utilitarian Church? (That's what my wife calls the Unitarian Church, "Utilitarians"... whatever works for them.) And what's with the purple stole and all the peeps depicted on it? Anyway, it's certainly a "church" I'd never attend. Does the Gospel EVER get preached there?

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TNBanjoMan 11 points ago +11 / -0

Well, yes and no. Geography (real estate) does not vote, and much of that red (I know, I live in one of the reddest parts) is not as densely populated as the blue parts. I think when you get so many people living in close proximity, like in the blue area, mental illness increases and The Stupid is allowed to concentrate and intensify.

A look at the popular vote (because it's PEOPLE who vote, not real estate), and yeah, America is pretty divided right now. About 52% are sane, 48% not so much.

They can't be reasoned with, they can't be persuaded, they won't respond to logic or facts. You don't get much more divide than that.

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TNBanjoMan 7 points ago +7 / -0

Like so many other bloated federal agencies, FEMA has outlived its usefulness. It's now just a place for ineffective employees to go get a cushy job and draw a salary as long as they're loyal to the Demwit Party. Reports from upper-east Tennessee, just about an hour's drive from where I live, the hardest hit places report very little contact with actual FEMA agents, and that it is hard to contact them.

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TNBanjoMan 9 points ago +9 / -0

This is entirely possible, and there is historical precedence for it. Most folks don't recall that there was another such treaty organization in modern history called SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization). It was formed in 1954 to control the spread of communism in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. And like NATO, it was largely funded by the US.

It never quite caught on, as there was a lot of in-fighting and it finally ceased operations in 1977, mostly due to lack of interest. The Vietnam war may have had something to do with its collapse too.

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TNBanjoMan 3 points ago +3 / -0

Once the Dept. of Education is dismantled and education returned to the states, each state can have its own standards. Red states like Texas (and my home state of Tennessee, and others) will be "unburdened by what has been" and can hire and fire at will. The blue states, however, will probably continue to turn out dunces who won't fare well into the 21st Century, and will under-perform compared to children educated in the red states.

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TNBanjoMan 3 points ago +3 / -0

Why would Trump take someone from the Senate when we have a thin margin majority there?

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