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  1. BootmanLA
    And then there's Eric, also known as "the other one". Shudder... Don Jr. has gotten a little better looking since he grew his beard, but not enough to offset that nasty vampire-style hair or his offensive personality or any of the other 10,000 things wrong with him. As for Jared - surely none of you think he actually has functioning genitalia. They're securely stored in one of Ivanka's handbags.
  2. BootmanLA
    Actually, the polls were pretty much right at the end. The problem was that the polls being looked at were national polls, which (in the last two weeks) suggested that the gap was narrowing but Clinton had about a 3% lead in the polls. Which is pretty close to what she actually got. The problem with the polls is that nobody was really checking the state-level polls in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania (or at least, not enough attention was paid to them). The focus in state-level polls was on more traditionally swing states like Ohio and Florida, which had voted for Bush but which had flipped to Obama in 2008. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania hadn't gone for a Republican for president since 1992 so most of the media didn't really assume they were in play. If we didn't have such an insanely stupid system like the Electoral College, set up to protect the institution of chattel slavery of black people, Trump would never have won. For that matter, Bush wouldn't have won the first time, in 2000 (and thus wouldn't have been in position to run for re-election as a wartime president in 2004). In fact, with an actual vote of the people, which is what every other democratic nation on earth uses, we'd probably never have a Republican president again unless they seriously rebooted their platform. And if we didn't have the even stupider system that lets a person in Shithole, Wyoming have as much voice in the US Senate as 68 Californians have, combined, the Republicans wouldn't have had control of the Senate in about 20 or 25 years, either.
  3. BootmanLA
    First, there's no single "GOP Establishment". There are the country club Republicans, who ran the show until Reagan came along. There are the anti-tax pro-rich Republicans, whose only real concern is making the rich richer. There are the Talibangelicals, who want to ban abortion, eliminate gay civil rights, and return women to second-class status. These last two groups more or less split power from Reagan forward, with the anti-tax crowd mostly in charge. What most of them have in common is this: they may personally hate Trump, but they don't give a shit; for the latter two groups, in particular, he's delivered for them. The Religious Reich has gotten a buttload of federal judges confirmed since McConnell refused to confirm scores of Obama's appointees in the final two years of his term; one out of four federal appeals judges is now a Trump appointee and most of them are young (50 or under), so they'll be on the bench for 30 or more years, handing down horrible decision after horrible decision, rolling back decades of progress. And the anti-Tax people got a $2 trillion handout in 2017 (spread over ten years, but still), of which approximately 126% is going to them (because on the low end, people will actually owe MORE taxes by the end of the tax bill's term). They may both hate Trump, but they're solidly behind his re-election because they know if they can get four more years of judges and another tax cut through, they're set for life. As for populism: there's more than one strain of it and some of them conflict with others. Populism is a broad description of policy means and goals, not a coherent political philosophy. Putting Sanders and Trump in the same basket politically is beyond dumb.
  4. BootmanLA
    What, bleach and lysol aren't on the promising drugs list? I thought for sure they would be after today's press conference.
  5. BootmanLA
    That's continued to this day. Trump himself clearly wanted Sanders as his opponent because he was pretty sure Sanders would be easier to beat once he was publicly tarred with the "socialist" label in nationwide media. Trump has for months been "warning" Sanders supporters that their votes were being canceled out by the big bad Democratic machine, all to foment unrest and convince them to refuse to support Biden. And anyone who doesn't think the GOP has a 30-year oppo research file on Sanders, ready to drop if he'd gotten the nomination, is nuts. Of course they do. It would be professional malpractice for the GOP not to have done that work. They haven't used it in the past because there was no reason to - Sanders wasn't the nominee and hasn't been close to becoming the nominee either election. They're not going to dump everything early, possibly get Sanders out of the primary race in favor of a stronger candidate; they planned to save up the opposition file and use it in the general election.
  6. BootmanLA
    Worse than that: it was on October 28 (roughly 12 days before election day on November 8). It's worse because in many states, early voting had begun. Here in Louisiana, where you and I both live, it opened on October 25 and closed November 1. Comey's announcement saying "Never mind, there's nothing new here" came on November 6 - after it was too late for most early voters to change their minds, and too late for the word to effectively spread that the "new" investigation was a bigger bust than the first one. There's question as to whether that provided the margin in the three relevant states that effectively elected Trump on their own. There's better evidence that Jill Stein, a fake candidate backed by the far-right in hopes of taking votes from Clinton) sucked away enough votes from Clinton in those states to throw the election to Trump. Given Stein's connections with Russia and how opaque Green Party finances are, it's a good bet that her campaign was paid for by pro-Trump forces trying to steal the election.
  7. BootmanLA
    Trump only "mopped the floor" with Clinton if you ignore the entire substance of the debates and judge them on which candidate was the ruder asshole (a trait on which we know Trump bests everyone, hands down). I can guarantee if she'd won, we wouldn't have spent February and early March with a president insisting that the less than 20 cases would all be gone soon and by April we'd be completely done with this. I can guarantee we'd never have been subjected to inanity like "windmill cancer" or any of the thousands of other truly batshit crazy things that's come out of Trump's mouth. Clinton wouldn't have appointed her daughter to important governmental bodies or made her son-in-law the point man to deal with everything from the Middle East to coronavirus. Biden, for as many faults as he may have, is at least sane. It's a shame we can't say that about the current president, since it's now documented that he has his physicians issue fraudulent reports on his health.
  8. BootmanLA
    Biden's mental capacity is light years beyond Trump's at this point. Biden makes an occasional gaffe. Trump just spontaneously spews complete nonsense, from windmill cancer to thinking maybe we can cure SARS-CoV-2 with a burst of light inside the human body (hint: that level of radiation would destroy the functions of most of our internal organs).
  9. BootmanLA
    It's possible. It's also possible that you were exposed and remained asymptomatic, as do the majority of people who contract SARS-CoV-2.
  10. BootmanLA
    Most medications retain *some* efficacy after their expiration dates. Be forewarned that the expiration date on a sealed bottle as received by the pharmacy (before they start dispensing from it) is one date. Even if that date is two years in the future, they're likely to put an expiration date on the dispensed container of less, because the dispensed pills are no longer in the sealed container from the manufacturer. If you're concerned, keep the pill bottle in a cool, dark, dry place (light, heat and moisture do more to break down medications than anything else) to help preserve its life. And of course, use the oldest supply first when you start using it again. If you have more questions, I'd ask your pharmacist, who's more likely to know the shelf life of the drug in a less controlled environment than anyone else.
  11. BootmanLA
    Technically, in a very real sense, ANY question is an "ignorant" one, unless it's a leading question where you know the answer already but need to have someone else admit it (like when the FBI questions a suspect about something they already have on tape). "Ignorance" refers to "not knowing". Unfortunately, too many people use it to mean "dumb" or "stupid", when it's a neutral term at base that simply means "things I don't know".
  12. BootmanLA
    Like the others who've voted thus far (early on), I think it depends on circumstances. Beyond the issues of reclamation, etc., though, I think it's important to remember that if you're addressing someone with the term, their preferences absolutely trump anything else. No matter how liberated YOU might feel by reclaiming the word, if you call someone a faggot who's offended by the term, and you don't apologize/retract/cease using the term with them, you're not liberated, you're an asshole.
  13. BootmanLA
    On that topic: I realize there's almost certainly nothing you can do about this *now*, RawTop, but as you've mentioned you're working on broader upgrades to the site, with presumably some custom coding: One of the cardinal rules of interface design is to NOT use one symbol, icon, etc. to accomplish two different things depending on context (unless that context is very obvious). But the underlying forum software here breaks that guideline in one very big way. The little "speech balloons" next to a specific thread, if clicked, take you to the first unread post in the thread (and as DrScorpio nicely explained, the solid balloons mean a thread you've participated in, the hollow balloons mean a thread you haven't posted in. But those same balloons, if you click next to an entire forum or subforum marks the entire forum or subforum "read". So if you're clicking along, pulling up new material, and you hit a subforum, poof! all the responses now appear "read" and finding new stuff means going through each thread looking for the point where you left off - if you can remember. So, if you do rework the forum "base" yourself, I'd suggest something else. Perhaps the "mark as read" symbol for a forum could be the speech bubbles, but with a checkmark superimposed on it - or something similar, making it visually clear that this isn't "go to unread" the way it is within a forum?
  14. BootmanLA
    Suggestion, then: I see many other members on here who are German and who seem to be more fluent in English (and that's not a criticism - I can't read more than a handful of words in German myself). Why not befriend a few of them to help you smooth out the translations? It's what I would do if I were writing and expecting to post on a primarily German-language site.
  15. BootmanLA
    Thank you - again, that's very helpful with concrete examples. I've seen multiple stories in the last week that had elements essentially like "He gave me a black molly and told me that if I wanted to keep going with him, I had to take the pill, no questions asked, so I gulped it down" (leading to sex where the guy had basically no control over anything) that just struck me as pretty obvious examples of chem sex in stories outside that forum.
  16. BootmanLA
    Apology accepted - we all have bad days/weeks, and you have particular reason to be (and my condolences to you). Maybe this will help explain why I find RawTop's explanation more helpful. We users are standing on a playing field, and we're told there are edges to the field. We can't see exactly where they are - maybe it's foggy - but we know they're there. RawTop's answer was akin to: "See those guys over there? They're on the field. Those guys over there? They're on the field. But that group out there? They're definitely out of bounds. Those guys over that direction? That's out of bounds too." It lets you see the line is somewhere between the two concrete, specific references. Yours (which again, I realize, can't necessarily match his, as the final arbiter, in precision) was more like "Those guys over there, they're on the field, but there's a line out there, and if you see someone cross it, let me know, because you can't cross that line". As for "orals" - I mean pills, tablets, etc. that are illegal to take without a prescription, certainly illegal to give to someone other than the prescribed person, or something that's not even legal to prescribe. The first group would include amphetamines and narcotics that may be "legal" if prescribed; the latter is stuff like GHB, Ecstasy, etc. that can't legally be prescribed period. Does that help?
  17. BootmanLA
    To be fair, I think it was "anyTHING, anyTIME, anyWHERE". Which technically isn't true either; I doubt seriously whether most orange-hanky guys would have done fisting at 12 noon on the steps of the US Capitol, for instance. 🙂
  18. BootmanLA
    Thanks, RawTop, for a much more helpful clarification. (As a general rule: clear statements of what is NOT acceptable are more useful because they establish a point that's "beyond the limits"; pointing out just things that are OK only tells you the line is somewhere farther out, but with not much guidance as to "how far" out it is.) One related question: For lack of a better term, are "orals" lumped in with drugs that are normally smoked or injected as "chem sex" things, assuming they otherwise fall into the usage depiction guidelines above? For instance, I've seen several stories recently that mention the protagonist taking a hit of DrugXYZ, almost always to lower his inhibitions. Like you, I consider pot legal (or at least, it is in enough states that it's not in the same category as meth/coke/crack), but that leaves a lot of addictive oral medications in the gap between. And DrScorpio - with respect, I didn't say I was unwilling to be part of the solution, and I didn't come here to bitch about a problem. I came here to get clear answers as to what's permitted, and I said I wasn't willing to start volunteering to report posts without better guidance than your original response, which was, boiled down, "passing references okay, but chem sex belongs in chem sex". RawTop's answer was a lot more helpful. I realize he's the one who sets the policy and is better equipped to expound on that, but it's rather churlish to blame me for not being willing to act - a voluntary act on my part - based on inadequate guidance.
  19. BootmanLA
    Orange hanky, as I recall, meant "anything goes" - all the other colors merged into one. So unless a guy means to flag that he's interested in everything from oral to fisting and all in between, I think that might be a little advanced of a color to use.
  20. BootmanLA
    DrS (and RawTop): If the guidelines were clearer, I'd be a lot happier about reporting posts. But having to guess, as an ordinary user, what's "too much" chem sex and what's not, is a minefield I don't want to enter - especially when it wouldn't be hard to draw a hard and fast line as RawTop has done on other topics. After all, *any* discussion of having sex with a minor is banned. *Any* elements of having sex with a woman puts the topic in the "Bi" section. A clear rule ("If characters in your story are using drugs that are illegal in all 50 US states, it belongs in chem sex") would be a lot easier to manage. And frankly, the impression I'm getting of late is people "pushing the limits" to see how far they can go. The problem there is that if you allow X, X+0.25 is hard to crack down on. And having allowed X+0.25, X+0.5 is really not much of a stretch. And before long, you're at 4X and the line is so hopelessly muddled nobody can find it.
  21. BootmanLA
    Could I get a bit more clarification on what's considered "Chem Sex Fiction" and what isn't? I've noticed a number of posts in recent weeks (more in the Bug Chasing forum than the General Sex Stories one, but occasionally in either) where there are (what seem to me to be) clear references to things like meth and/or crack, and they aren't being moved. Here's the thing. I don't want to be "that guy" who reports every little infraction, and honestly, if those things enhance your enjoyment in a story, knock yourselves out. (Hell, if you enjoy using them in your personal life, I'm not going to be the one trying to get you in trouble for it. But there's a section on here for that, and unlike in real life, it's not some dangerous ghetto you risk your life or wallet over when you visit; and knowing that section exists, those of us who don't want to be around it can easily avoid it. Except when, as is now happening, it keeps creeping into the other areas. I know of at least one member here who deliberately avoids the Chem Sex & "Enhancements" forums precisely because he's in recovery and wants to avoid anything that might trigger a relapse. But when that element is allowed to leak into the other forums, it leaves the choice of run that risk, or stop using the site. Just how blatant does the drug usage in a post have to be before it gets moved to a more appropriate forum?
  22. BootmanLA
    So in other words, you won't answer the question asked (Do you really believe the results would have been the same...) and instead pronounce yourself "above" the petty concerns of ordinary people who are so foolish as to think that there's a difference in degree between, say, stale bread and a shit sandwich covered in vomit, and that said difference matters. Forgive me for not recognizing that some people aren't affected by such trivial concerns as those which confront us, and our government. How short-sighted of me not to recognize that the solution is simply declaring oneself above such petty concerns and not giving a shit about anyone else.
  23. BootmanLA
    And one of the primary reasons they're going broke is the tariffs he imposed on China, which caused them to retaliate and levy tariffs on lots of US products, primarily agricultural ones. Yet still many farmers don't grasp that Trump's rhetoric of being for the farmers is just like the hot air cows produce from either end, and just as smelly.
  24. BootmanLA
    Really? Do you think that a hypothetical president Hillary Clinton would have appointed the same two right-wing Supreme Court justices that Trump did? Or the nearly quarter of all federal appeals court judges (where the vast majority, >99%, of all federal cases get a final ruling)? Just because Clinton (or Biden) wouldn't usher in a grand new era of peace and harmony and freedom and equality all on their lonesomes doesn't mean those elections don't have SEVERE consequences. Historical ignorance aside, the electoral college has nothing to do with "flyover country", which didn't exist when the EC was created. The Electoral College decides the president because the founding fathers, dominated by slaveholding interests, wanted to ensure that southern slave states would always have voting power that far exceeded the actual free population of the slave states. It's worth noting that no other republic in the world has even attempted to come up with a system like this - further proof it's tied up specifically in the key issues of the period it was created. "Flyover country" is a nicer way of saying "places where not as many people live". We're a country that broke away from our colonial overlords on the premise that all men are created equal, and we have a Supreme Court with the motto "Equal Justice Under Law" engraved over its entrance, and we have a constitution whose most far-reaching amendment, the Fourteenth, promises all persons the "equal protection of the law", and yet some people still think that flyover country people are more equal than others. How very Animal Farm of them.
  25. BootmanLA
    No, just the authoritarian ones, like the kind he wants to run.

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