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The DUmpster / Re: Good morning my DU family,
« Last post by SVPete on June 22, 2026, 11:37:56 AM »
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JMCKUSICK (6,836 posts)

Good morning my DU family,

I gave up on watching news channels immediately after the 2024 election when I realized that in many ways, we as Dems had been as equally misled by MSNBC as Fox news viewers.

People with limited access to the outside world, be they shut ins, rural farmers whose neighbors are half a mile away, including myself, have used the voices that drone on endlessly on these channels to replace the real need for human companionship.

It is with the above reasons and more that my sanity has at least in some respects been restored by breaking that bad habit and it is for that reason that I value DU so much more today than ever before.

So when I confess that most mornings, I open DU with a small prayer that the main headline will be something along the lines of "The National Nightmare Is Over."

Yes, MesS NOW lied and lies to you. Fox, not so much, though I don't get news from Fox, anyway (your stereotype is too simplistic).

The rural people you despise as stupid - as well as shut-ins - have the same access to the Internet as you do. DUpipo should get to know some actual farmers and business people they work with and compare real people to Dem/Prog stereotypes.

JMCKUSICK still believes Prog male bovine feces, so his her "sanity has" not in any "respect been restored". Seeking information and "community" in DU ensures that.
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The DUmpster / Re: What The Reflecting Pool now reflects...
« Last post by FlippyDoo on June 22, 2026, 11:19:28 AM »
Help me understand this because I've just seen a few headlines and haven't done any investigation. I know that there's some algae bloom (or some such) in the reflecting pool and that there are some issues with the liner. Anyone who has been around construction knows that, regardless of how diligent contractor is, occasionally things happen which brings a negative result. I had just assumed that this stuff was in the "things happen" category, but is it actually a situation of evil demonrats MAKING it happen?
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The DUmpster / Re: What The Reflecting Pool now reflects...
« Last post by ADsOutburst on June 22, 2026, 11:16:23 AM »
Republicans should run with this team algae thing.

This election season, we’re not running against Democrats, we’re running against team algae (a good symbol for government overgrowth).
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The DUmpster / My brother came up with a new name for the Reflecting Pool . . .
« Last post by CC27 on June 22, 2026, 11:02:16 AM »
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hatrack (65,337 posts)

My brother came up with a new name for the Reflecting Pool . . .

The Strait of Warm Ooze.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221321731

Your brother is no Don Rickles
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The DUmpster / Re: Good morning my DU family,
« Last post by fatboy on June 22, 2026, 10:33:29 AM »
For most of us, there is a huge difference between a hard-working farmer busy in the fields and someone collecting disability for anxiety issues.   :stoner:
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The DUmpster / Re: What The Reflecting Pool now reflects...
« Last post by DefiantSix on June 22, 2026, 10:21:44 AM »


At this point, I have to assume Dim'Rats are all either INSANE or EVIL.
(There’s no question at this point that DUmp'Rats are both insane AND evil.)
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The DUmpster / Re: What The Reflecting Pool now reflects...
« Last post by SVPete on June 22, 2026, 09:48:22 AM »
Quote from: Airwolf on June 22, 2026, 12:30:13 AM
First the reflecting pool and who knows what is next, but I won't be surprised if they try to burn down something in D.C. next.

There are quite a few government statues and memorials on which Trump-Haters can crap.
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General Discussion / Re: Watch: Steven Spielberg Says ‘Disclosure Day’ Will Leave Christians Questioning
« Last post by SVPete on June 22, 2026, 08:57:03 AM »
Irreligious people often/usually don't bother to understand religious people. Dismissing ideas and people tends to do that. Spielberg claims that he returned to his roots in Judaism in the 1990s, but he has strayed really far from his Orthodox upbringing, and I wonder whether his return was more in the realm of deeper cultural Judaism - meticulously observing the customs, but not really diving into the meaning of God's LORDship.

It's interesting Spielberg singled out Christians, not including Jews, Muslims and other non-pantheist theistic religions. Sounds like Spielberg harbors particular animus toward Christians. His family lost nearly 2 dozen members to the Holocaust, but he should realize that the Holocaust was not a "Christian Thing" and that most American who fought against the Nazis were Christians, many of them of Germanic family heritage and German-speaking (e.g. my Uncle Erwin, whose first language was German; the US Army had enough German translators that his mechanical skills were more needed).

Comments about the movie I've seen/heard have been that it's boring and stuck in the "Close Encounters ..." 1970s. How object thoes people are, :shrug: .

Larry Norman had a song in the 1970s that in part speaks to the possibility of "life on other planets", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjd265vNIlQ&list=RDgjd265vNIlQ&start_radio=1 . Two of the books in C. S Lewis's "Space Trilogy" speak of life on Mars and Venus, which while fiction, demonstrate that the possibility of extraterrestrial life was/is not particularly troubling to Christians. If Spielberg thinks Christians would find the idea of extraterrestrial life troubling, its an artifact of his lack of understanding theologically conservative Christians.
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The DUmpster / Good morning my DU family,
« Last post by CC27 on June 22, 2026, 07:17:21 AM »
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JMCKUSICK (6,836 posts)

Good morning my DU family,

I gave up on watching news channels immediately after the 2024 election when I realized that in many ways, we as Dems had been as equally misled by MSNBC as Fox news viewers.

People with limited access to the outside world, be they shut ins, rural farmers whose neighbors are half a mile away, including myself, have used the voices that drone on endlessly on these channels to replace the real need for human companionship.

It is with the above reasons and more that my sanity has at least in some respects been restored by breaking that bad habit and it is for that reason that I value DU so much more today than ever before.

So when I confess that most mornings, I open DU with a small prayer that the main headline will be something along the lines of "The National Nightmare Is Over."

Until then if course, I'll continue to be grateful for the conversations that happen here, the information that is so freely shared, along with whatever dose of news I care to ingest.

Your humanity and engagement is is such a welcome place to be informed, engaged, and yes, sometimes corrected out of some prior naivete or ignorance, always in good spirit.

So as we start what we can only hope to be the final week of this nightmare, let me thank you and offer the hope that you gain as much from me as I do from you.

Please give us a day filled with opportunities to know our value to our community, to.embrace the value of others in it, and to gratefully offer our hands in friendship to one another.

Have a day filled with Unity DU.
Love, John 

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182327477

Somone pass me a barf bag please
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The DUmpster / Re: What The Reflecting Pool now reflects...
« Last post by Old n Grumpy on June 22, 2026, 07:06:52 AM »
Quote from: Airwolf on June 22, 2026, 12:30:13 AM
First the reflecting pool and who knows what is next, but I won't be surprised if they try to burn down something in D.C. next.

Wait till summer and they will find some reason to riot and destroy several cities. :thatsright: :loser: :loser: :loser: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:

 :cheersmate:
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