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Finally got a new job that lets me have time to do things outside of work aside eat, take a dump and sleep.

Let's see, Trump was an impulsive and incompetent president whose unpredictability and fawning (as well as sucking up) up to authoritarians like Kim, Putin and Xi damaged the U.S.'s stature in the world. Plus, his inability to comprehend how free trade works wound up damaging American manufacturing even more in the long term. Not to mention that Trump continuously attacked people for trying to avoid the COVID-19 virus because small crowds made him sad. What did Biden do that was so bad? Oh, right, he can't be a dictator and ram through every little demand internet leftists want. It's so sad that we have elected officials representing constituents whose desires don't align with ours. Purists are never happy. They were the sort who wanted the ACA to fail because they didn't get everything they wanted. Some things never change.

... except Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. They may not be called "Nazis" but far right nationalists seem to have no problem getting elected worldwide. We (along with Canada and Australia to an extent) are outliers when it comes to our progressive world views.

Vermont: 94.2 percent white Oregon: 86 percent white Iowa: 90 percent white If people from California are looking to be away from minorities, they're not heading to the whitest states. I'm still trying to figure out what sort of point you're trying to make. I'm not even sure what you're even taking issue with aside from "California is losing population to other states."

You're not citing anything in specific. Births have gone down in the state and lower and middle income families are leaving. Also: Are you even familiar with the demographic makeup of Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Texas? If people are seeking places where they don't want to live around minorities then Vermont, Oregon and Iowa would be exploding in population right now.

I'm not sure the point you're trying to make here. You're not pointing at any statistical information. The exodus from California is spread across most demographic groups: https://calmatters.org/projects/california-black-population-exodus/ https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-economy-16076.html Even the immigrant population is leaving: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-10-16/reverse-migration-california-coronavirus-covid-pandemic Ohio's and the Midwest's decline is no secret and has been a thing for years. Not sure what the relevance is aside from "they're heading south too."

Oregon had seen growth really slow in 2019 and word is 2020 is going to be a bad year, particularly due to Portland losing its shine. Washington looks to be doing OK, but it's experiencing the same problem as far as becoming too expensive for anyone but single professionals to live, at least as far as the metro areas. Idaho, Arizona and Utah seem to be the places everyone wants to be as far as the Western states go now. That will probably mean more congressional seats for Republicans thanks to the way the districts will be drawn.

Everything that I've seen has pointed at decline, which is benefiting other states, particularly Texas. The biggest reason people used to leave California was due to the cost of living but now the environment is playing an even bigger role. People are giving up due to the air quality, water shortages and, of course, having homes burnt down by wildfires almost as soon as they're rebuilt. Plus, California is starting to lose the industry that drew so many there over the last three decades: Tech. Overall, the population trend is negative for California and looks like it will be accelerating over the next decade: https://qz.com/1599150/californias-population-could-start-shrinking-very-soon/ It is going to lose at least one congressional district by the next election. California has always been a state dependent on people going there from other places, not families that stay for generation after generation. The market for workers looking to make big moves has become more competitive and California is losing. It's going to be the most populous state for awhile, but the trend is that more people are leaving than are coming. If the military didn't have so many operations there, the loss would probably be more pronounced. We still have no idea the effect coronavirus has had on the population yet, but we know it's bad. Newsom isn't to blame, he's just been left with an impossible situation, even before coronavirus.

I have to admire Pat Robertson's tenacity in regards to all the attempts to buy him out of that seemingly eternal contract for the 700 Club to air on whatever network CBN used to be. The last amount I heard he was offered was $42 million.

I thought the 700 Club only came on at some godawful hour like 3 a.m. now.

So, some questions after reading this: What is the future of Los Angeles considering California is starting to experience a population decline? What U.S. city will displace Los Angeles as No. 2 in the US and how long (if it is on the same track as the state)? Will New York City feel the same population decline as the rest of the state (which is on track to lose two congressional seats)? Where is the population gravity of the country in your opinion? So, the article: https://www.axios.com/rise-of-megacities-world-3c212d8e-a269-45b9-9e74-3106ed681e9c.html

I remember her being kind of old when I was a kid ... kind of expected her to be old when I got old too.

I doubt it, at least not from the MAGA crowd. Trump's final days pretty much killed it. He pretty much dropped them like a sack full of rocks to protect himself from future prosecution and lawsuits resulting from the riot he started. Look at what happened on the day they were supposed to turn out at all the state capitals (ARMED) ... zero. They're done and demoralized. I doubt Trump will be able to reignite the flames and the rest of the Republicans are trying to ride on his fumes ... but they won't be getting near as far. The whole culture war thing only works so long before it becomes evident that there has been nothing of substance done. It may not mean that Democrats are going to sweep GOP strongholds, but the most extreme elements are going to find themselves eventually fall to primary challengers when people get tired of talk and want results. The GOP is not going to have a good 2022 despite mid-terms usually being rough. Unless Biden majorly fucks up something on the scale of Trump, his policies are probably going to be pretty popular. What are the GOP going to do in reaction to that? Probably scream socialism and conspiracy theories again, marching out the bloated spectacle that Trump will be. If Trump family members run like they threaten to, it's going to be a major disaster in the general election for them. Right now it looks like McConnell is fine with sacrificing party seats in the senate in order to keep Trump voters happy. He's unenthusiastically taken a double barrel shotgun and shot himself in the foot in order to protect an ex-president who is going to become more and more unpopular as time goes on and more of his personal dealings come to light. On the other hand, Trump will continue to be a great tool for Democrats as they mount challenges to crackpots like Ron Johnson and whoever wins the Senate primaries in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. From the sound of it, Arizona already looks lost since the most likely candidate is even worse than McSally (chemtrail Kelli Ward). Georgia may be close, but Warnock will have the advantage of being an incumbent and better reflecting the changing attitude and demographics of that state. Anyway, the people you're worried out have been abandoned by their savior. They're trying to cope with this new reality where they realize that Trump was never going to stick his neck out for them. They'll either drift back to the dark places of the internet or (like most people who embrace internet extremism) quietly change their politics to fall within what's considered mainstream, particularly if they go out and get lives. Part of the reason we may have had the riot is due to all the people with nothing to do but hang out at home and warp their reality because of COVID.

The level of debasement that the GOP has sunk to in just four short years is pretty amazing. This is on top of hundreds of thousands of people choosing Marjorie Taylor Greene to be their House Rep. Before her, I thought Gohmert or Steven King was the lowest they could go. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence/index.html

It may be an age thing for you or it may be that you don't really have a perspective how huge country music is. In the late 80s and early 90s her songs were everywhere and she was a household name because she just had "something" that caught people's attention. The woman is still able to headline arena tours despite her best-selling album days being about 30 years behind her. But the thing that helped her get the TV part more than anything is that she actually had acting talent. She was actually pretty great in Tremors as gun-toting survivalist married to the dad from Family Ties.

May 15, 1994 Rollins Band performs "Liar."

From this story: Every press organization has been emphasizing that from what I've read and heard today. As far as any of this goes it's probably the first time anyone has even heard of his brother, let alone mentioned him. As far as anyone has said, he's a guy who does his job and there's no evidence that he's involved with extremist groups. Here's his description of what happened: Anyway, there's going to be an investigation. We'll find out one way or the other, but it's not helpful to start building a conspiracy around Flynn's brother. There's been nothing to dispute his explanation and no evidence of pre-plotting within the military to let the rioters take over the Capitol.

120 Minutes was a pretty influential show at one point (Smells Like Teen Spirit had its world premiere there). Lots of videos and lots of live performances. I'm going to post some of the live performances here, starting with The Cure playing Just Like Heaven from sometime in the early 1990s (didn't have a year for this performance).

I joined a Club on the Club list ... looked the same as before I joined the club. Is there supposed to be postings or something like that? What's the point of them? I don't get it.

You just need humidity.

Back when I was a kid porn was usually second generation recording on VHS tapes that my friends would find in their parents' rooms. It might sound weird now, but when someone found one of those tapes, particularly if it was new, they'd call everybody come over and watch it. Most of these tapes were from the 70s-mid 80s so body hair still existed on human beings and porn staches were abundant. I remember one time my best friend called me over to his house to watch some new tape he found in his dad's stuff called "Bi The Way." He thought it was going to be girls that swung back and forth ... well, there was this one part where this dude was getting it on with this girl and this other dude just casually walked in the room, dropped his pants and put his you-know-what in the other guy's pooper. We never saw his dad the same way again.

I think we'll have a decent infrastructure for traveling, transporting and maybe even colonizing the inner planets and asteroid belt within 1,000 years or so. A system where travel between planets and asteroids can be done within minutes or hours instead of days. I'm saying 1,000 years because I don't see the political unity required for going beyond that being reached before that time. As far as the Outer planets and Kuiper Belt, I'd say we'd developed the infrastructure and energy generation required to colonize and exploit them within 10,000 years. This doesn't mean we haven't done anything interstellar, but we probably wouldn't be at a point where we can expend enough energy to work around the light barrier. After 10,000 years, I figure we'll start creating outposts within Interstellar Space within 10 light years or so, working our way out. After that, it's hard to say. I figure we'll be something like Cylons at that point with synthetic bodies we can just download into. The mass of humanity may just prefer to spend its time in something like the cloud, taking a nap, waking up just for holidays.

Not so exciting. It's a family-owned restaurant next to a Dollar Tree.

In the town I'm from, but don't live, they've been having weekly gatherings at a restaurant across from Walmart where they hop in their Trump-flag decorated Trumps and have a parade across the county. Not sure what the purpose is aside from saying "a lot of dumb rednecks live here!"

There is a serious, but unlikely to be successful movement, to make it part of the US: https://www.guyanausa.org/ I say serious because it has been in existence as long as I can remember ever hearing of Guyana. Here's their explanation on why they should join the US: I think they exaggerate a bit, but there is a significant amount of emigration to the U.S. But there's other reasons that the joining appeals to a number of them. They're also the only English majority country in South America. Another thing is that Venezuela has been trying to lay claim to parts of their territory, which is pretty worrying for them considering Maduero's militaristic bent.