The Kalwejt Foundation for the Promotion of Atlas Hilarity

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Western Reno is more fiscally murderous while eastern Reno is more socially murderous.

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Ok, this is ABSOLUTE fcking bullsht. I went to see Cars in the theater yesterday, and when Lightning McQueen got HOT with Sally in Radiator Springs, my covfefe engaged. When Lightning McQueen said "Ka-Chow!", I couldn't help it!!! I closed my eyes, and I TORE my covfefe to shreds, using whip like motions and pulled with great force. That was one of the best covfefes I ever had, just thinking about it now gets me riled up. Thing is, I covfefeed all over the kid sitting right next to me, and his mom got all pissed at me, screaming at me for covfefeing on her son. I told that bitch to shut the fck up, and that covfefeing is a natural, artistic, and beautiful process. You should BE HAPPY that my covfefe is all over your son, maybe he can learn a lesson or two about the culture and art of covfefe. HOWEVER, the movie theater managers didn't agree with me. They KICKED ME OUT of the movie theater, and I didn't even finish watching the Cars movie. Not only THAT, but they made me clean up my covfefe after it already dried out and solidified on the seats. THATS TORTURE!! Do you know how hard it is to clean covfefe after its dried out? You CLEAN covfefe after its FRESH out of your covfefe, not an hour after you fcking covfefed. This is a fcking OUTRAGE. Do you really expect me to not whip out my covfefe and covfefe when i see a HOT sex scene in a movie? Either don't ban sex scenes in movies, or LET ME covfefe in your theater, assholes.

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Atlas-style bandwagon effect.

Jordan and Mauritania are just emptyquoting now.

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Let's hope that this doesn't escalate into a war.  And if it does, hopefully Trump has the sense to keep America out of it.

If he doesn't I'm gonna drop him like a tab of LSD. In other words, swallow my pride and let the insanity proceed.

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I wondering if... [Lawton] Chiles health would not get worse during his term. I killed him in 1988 [sic]?

Lawton Chiles officially died in 1998. Either Kalwejt made a typo and meant to say "I killed him in 1998," or there was a conspiracy to cover up his murder for ten years.

Is this not enough to get his status as moderator revoked and have somebody else(no names - *cough*Kingpoleonwouldbeagreatmoderator*cough*) take his place?

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Sinn Fein source: no change to abstention policy. https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/872931498906832898

Who thought that was even a possibility to begin with?

The same sort of people who wondered whether coal miners in Britain voted mostly Conservative or Labour.

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Edited.

And now, thanks to some external assistance, Naso made his most substantive and least idiotic post so far.

I don't recognize this place anymore.

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Well, he didn't live as long as Barbara Bush who is ageless, so long Adam West, hero.

If Barbara Bush is ageless, then I don't want to live past 60.

I suspect you aren't the only one who hopes you don't live past 60. 😸

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Context:

Torie won't endanger the peace process unless one of the factions there starts badmouthing Hudson.

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Next thread must be named for Morden

One would expect that the forum’s opinion of Reaganfan would depend on whether they remember Ronald Wilson Reagan himself.  In the 1980s, American homes were, on a weekly basis, tuned into television programming such as “The A-Team”.  The protagonists of this show were people who could do jobs that the government was incapable of doing, and the government was always trying to stop them.  This fit the bill for the Reagan Era’s anti-government conservatism.  This was normal when one was living under the post-World War II cloud of communism.



Obviously, much has changed since then.  But the seeds of cultural decay actually began even before the 80s, when the good old days of the 1950s were replaced by the disillusionment of the radical 1960s and 1970s...all the while the Soviet Union was showing off its military strength. As this was happening, the 20 year old guy firing at German soldiers on French beaches was suddenly a 56 year old American who saw a likable but incompetent President fumbling the ball with the Soviets, having American hostages in Iran, and watching the country they had fought for radically change before their eyes. They were fed up. It didn't matter how likable President Carter was. It didn't matter how good of a speech he might give. The foreign policy failures and the economic recession were simply unacceptable.  Nowadays, when women and blacks constitute a solid majority of America, a Republican winning the popular vote is almost unthinkable.  But in 1980 America, figures such as Archie Bunker still had cultural currency, and so Reagan won a landslide beyond what any of the cultural elites of then or now could have imagined.



Unfortunately, this wouldn’t last.  Women, blacks, and even gays are now the majority.  And so we have an attempt by liberals to make it seem that if someone is a conservative or a member of the Republican Party, that the person should be considered either homophobic, racist, sexist or bigoted. This is due to the overwhelming facts about why certain voting blocs vote a certain way.

Now, before we go any further, let’s agree on two rules:

1. You cannot say that I am "generalizing" or "stereotyping". I'll let you in on a secret...nearly all of America is one big generalization. Generalizing is by far a foundational element of logic and human reasoning.

2. Everything can be interpreted as racist, due in part (funnily enough) because of generalizing. You can say, "I miss 50s music." Does that mean you wish Jim Crow Laws were still in existence? Of course not.



Now, with those ideas in mind, let's look at men vs. women. YES, you do have exceptions where there are men who vote liberal, women who vote conservative. This is clear. See Rule #1 about generalizations.

I remember watching interviews back in the 2012 election campaign, where reporters walk around college campuses or a neighborhood or wherever, and ask the men and women who they may consider voting for and why. Men, regardless of who they claimed they were voting for, seemed more issue oriented. "Ahh gas prices, etc”. "Obama killed Bin Laden, he's got my vote!" etc. Women on the other hand, seemed more emotion oriented. "Yeah I don't think he's done a good job on the economy...but I feel as though he is trying his hardest“. That's what nailed it for me.

To quote a film line from Sean Connery, the ultra tough-guy male, James Bond himself, “Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and **** the prom queen!” It's true that for the most part men couldn’t care less about emotion when it comes to voting. That's why so many men (a majority) voted for John McCain the same day virtually the entire world was gasping over the election of the first black President of the United States. They weren't voting based on race. They're not racist. They weren't voting based on the eccentricity of the moment or emotion. They voted on the issues. Women tend to vote on emotion.



Think of the general way dating is perceived. If a woman tells another girl that a guy just got out of jail, and he's a perceived a ”Bad Boy", chances are she will look at that as a positive. It's a turn on. It's dangerous.

If a man tells another man, "That girl just got out of jail, she's a bad girl, etc” chances are the guys will say, "Keep me the hell away from that crazy girl".

While that's a generalization, it's quite obvious the "bad" image appeals to women while men typically will tell each other, "Stay away from her, dude...she's bad news".

Then you end up with having many women think they can change the way a man is. Or they try and ameliorate and rectify a negative situation. "He only hits me because he loves me". That real emotion driven, "We may have 8% unemployment, but he's trying“. Men on the other hand are more likely to say, "I want results!"

That's why we have such a huge gender gap. Emotion. Democrats LOVE to drive voter emotion. I'll never forget my grandmother near tears because she read some pamphlet in the mail that said if George Bush is elected President in 2000, her social security would be gone on day 1 of his administration. Of course, George Bush defeated Al Gore in 2000, and my grandmother still has her Social Security, assuming that she’s still alive. It's the politics of fear. Often Democrats say Republicans are the party of fear, but it's actually the other way around.

Now, let’s talk about women and political knowledge.  The other day, I asked my sister if she could name all of the members of the A-Team, and who was president when they went on their first mission.  She said she thought the A-Team was the one with the talking car, and asked if the president at the time was Bill Clinton.  Exasperated, I asked her how she will feel when Red China beats us to Mars because too many of today’s youth don’t even know the answers to such basic popular culture questions.  I asked her how she would feel if the Chinese broadcast their Mars landing, and pre-empted her favorite television programming.  She said “I guess that would suck.”  Can you believe that she gave such a simple five word answer, with one of those words being “suck”?

So that’s why I don’t think Reaganfan will be seen as a Freedom Fighter here until America’s demographic trends are reversed, and Dirk Benedict is back on television.

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I bring them to my mom every week...

That answer could be duplicated by about 85% of the posters here, if they're honest.

It's unfair to assume that a person doesn't wash his or her bedsheets whether or not they live at home.

We shouldn't be making assumptions about people we've never met in person just because they're Atlas users.

It's a reply based on rock solid demographics, AZ......

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I don't question authority.

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Morden's on the roll

Does Dave personally approve every new registration to the forum?  If so, then I guess it's the one way in which he's still participating.  Maybe the way to get his attention then is to encourage friends and family to register new accounts on the forum with usernames that are actually coded messages, like "Dave, please check your emails, thanks, Morden".

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Deadbeat dad and edgy teenage son. But they're all part of one family, I suppose.

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An ass would be a more appropriate coalition partner for the Tories.

It worked out quite well for them from 2010 to 2015, after all.

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Sinclair Lewis once said: "When fascism comes to Atlas it will be wrapped in a Polish avatar and carrying a master's degree."
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Let's just redirect all OC posts here!

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A like button available to all posters would give undeserved validity to the Communist notion that all posters' opinions are equally valuable.  Unless the like button is set up to allow highly respected posters like Mr. Morden to like posts 10 times as much as newbies, I am opposed.

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Certainly not; she is most certainly the Jeanne d'Arc of this generation of atlas; burnt at the stake while literal apes roam at will.

I think you are conflating 1431 Rouen and 2001 A Space Odyssey.

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Topic: "Will Kennedy retire Monday?"

Booker will unify the Dems and win WI and VA and Kamela Harris will defer to him.

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DUP makes deal with the Conservatives.
The UK is officially f[inks]ed

On the bright side, we now have a terrific excuse to sh**tpost for the next x number of months or years.

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I'd like to ask for this thread to be locked and new one, named for someone far more deserving, created. It was nice, but time to move on.

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Possibly best thread title ever

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=267583.0

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That's the cave's way of saying




RIP.

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If this goes through all the way without delay, then Australia would be the last "WHY HAVEN'T YOU DONE THIS ALREADY??" country on my list.

Because as Tender Branson could tell you, Australians prefer to keep some things in the basement.