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The DUmpster / Re: I certainly didn't think my retirement years would be like this
« Last post by RonE on May 22, 2026, 10:30:09 AM »
Quote from: SVPete on May 22, 2026, 09:41:50 AM
As unsportsmanlike as shooting fish in a 5 gallon bucket:

Did you complain when Biden's gas prices "soared" even higher? Your poutrage obviously is partisan.

Did you complain when chicken and egg prices "soared" due to Biden's FDA carrying out a massive cull?

Did you complain when OhBummer!'s ACA caused insurance rates and patients' "share" of costs to "soar"?

Dems have been yammering but doing almost nothing about "crumbling infrastructure" for 3 or 4 decades. How is Trump somehow to blame for 30 or 40 years of inaction?

And if I may be so bold as to point out, those Biden era prices were the direct results of Biden & co. policies. They were DESIGNED TO RAISE PRICES!! There was no plan to lower them back to normal. Do you understand this? Reread if necessary. Biden had no plans to come to your rescue. Meanwhile  the whining, crying, bitching, and moaning all in the name of TDS, requires you and your news sources to avoid this easily proven reality.
Private Business grossly over regulated, fraud, all put on display for you to understand, trans bull shit, gender reassignments etc...
Blame it on Trump you 100% useful idiot. Damn, you're stupid.
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The DUmpster / I think I'm done here...at least for awhile
« Last post by CC27 on May 22, 2026, 10:25:51 AM »
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angrychair (12,545 posts)



I think I'm done here...at least for awhile

I joined this website on November 13th, 2006.

I have always said "I was born a Democrat".

I have voted Democrat in every election I could vote in since I was 18 years old.

I am very proud to be a Democrat and would defend it's principles with my dying breath.

And...

I have never felt more out of place here than I have since the 2024 election cycle.

I'm not going into why because it's just not worth the discussion but I need to reduce the stress in my life so I am out for awhile. At least until the after the election.

Last thoughts before I leave:

Progressives are Democrats.
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon.
Healthcare is a human right.
Billionaires are antithetical to a functional society.

Peace.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221253768

What, do you want your fellow DUmmies to beg you to stay? Nobody cares.
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The DUmpster / Re: A brief Iran rant for DU lurkers
« Last post by CC27 on May 22, 2026, 10:16:42 AM »
Quote from: FlippyDoo on May 22, 2026, 09:44:54 AM
I hope my fellow Cavers don’t mind, but this doesn’t have to do with a specific post from DUmbassistan. I just feel the need to vent just a little on this warm Friday because I’m really tired of the Trump/America haters calling the attack on Iran “unprovoked”. The people saying so are either so stupid that I’m surprised that they are able to breathe without instructions OR are simply extremely dishonest.

Let me tell you DUmbassistan lurkers a story…
You have a fairly nice house. You have some fairly nice stuff; however, you realize that you don’t have room for all of your stuff in your house. Since, for whatever reason, you don’t want to get rid of the stuff, you lease/rent a storage unit in town to store the excess stuff. Now one day, you have a friend or family member at your storage unit doing some work when a gang of thugs attack. The gang of thugs destroy your storage unit and all of your belongings inside of it. In addition to that, the gang captures your friend (or family member) and refuses to release them. Granted, they finally release the friend (or family member), but the gang of thugs constantly call for your death and destruction. Then, for the next 47 years, the gang of thugs constantly either attack and kill (or pay someone to attack and kill) your friends and family. The entire time calling for your death and destruction. If you finally grew some testicles and decided to do something about it, would you be doing it “unprovoked”? Or would it depend on the party letter behind your name?

BRAVO HIGH FIVE
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The DUmpster / Re: I certainly didn't think my retirement years would be like this
« Last post by CollectivismMustDie on May 22, 2026, 10:05:58 AM »
Your mouth should have retired with the rest of you, like it did during the autopen administration.
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The DUmpster / A brief Iran rant for DU lurkers
« Last post by FlippyDoo on May 22, 2026, 09:44:54 AM »
I hope my fellow Cavers don’t mind, but this doesn’t have to do with a specific post from DUmbassistan. I just feel the need to vent just a little on this warm Friday because I’m really tired of the Trump/America haters calling the attack on Iran “unprovoked”. The people saying so are either so stupid that I’m surprised that they are able to breathe without instructions OR are simply extremely dishonest.

Let me tell you DUmbassistan lurkers a story…
You have a fairly nice house. You have some fairly nice stuff; however, you realize that you don’t have room for all of your stuff in your house. Since, for whatever reason, you don’t want to get rid of the stuff, you lease/rent a storage unit in town to store the excess stuff. Now one day, you have a friend or family member at your storage unit doing some work when a gang of thugs attack. The gang of thugs destroy your storage unit and all of your belongings inside of it. In addition to that, the gang captures your friend (or family member) and refuses to release them. Granted, they finally release the friend (or family member), but the gang of thugs constantly call for your death and destruction. Then, for the next 47 years, the gang of thugs constantly either attack and kill (or pay someone to attack and kill) your friends and family. The entire time calling for your death and destruction. If you finally grew some testicles and decided to do something about it, would you be doing it “unprovoked”? Or would it depend on the party letter behind your name?
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The DUmpster / Re: I certainly didn't think my retirement years would be like this
« Last post by SVPete on May 22, 2026, 09:41:50 AM »
As unsportsmanlike as shooting fish in a 5 gallon bucket:

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Gas prices soaring.

Did you complain when Biden's gas prices "soared" even higher? Your poutrage obviously is partisan.

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Food prices soaring.

Did you complain when chicken and egg prices "soared" due to Biden's FDA carrying out a massive cull?

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Healthcare costs soaring.

Did you complain when OhBummer!'s ACA caused insurance rates and patients' "share" of costs to "soar"?

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Roads, schools and bridges crumbling.

Dems have been yammering but doing almost nothing about "crumbling infrastructure" for 3 or 4 decades. How is Trump somehow to blame for 30 or 40 years of inaction?
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The DUmpster / Re: I certainly didn't think my retirement years would be like this
« Last post by 67 Rover on May 22, 2026, 09:17:15 AM »
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Gas prices soaring. Food prices soaring. Healthcare costs soaring. Roads, schools and bridges crumbling.

Fu*king Rip Van Winkle here.  :banghead:
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/22
« Last post by SVPete on May 22, 2026, 08:59:31 AM »
Don Lemon: I'm a Victim of Failed White Men, Just like Stephen Colbert

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/21/don-lemon-im-a-victim-just-like-stephen-colbert-n3815183

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Don Lemon just published his thoughts about the end of the Late Show. You'll be shocked to learn that he thinks it's all part of a plot, one in which failed white men are silencing anyone who challenges Republicans. Lemon says he was the canary in the coal mine and Colbert is just the next victim.

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The networks didn’t like me asking conservatives hard questions. CNN didn’t like the mirror I was holding up every night. So they pushed me out. And I thought: if it happened to me it will happen to others. It will trickle down. Or up. Depending on how you look at it.

Now it has trickled all the way to late night television.

It has been three years since Don Lemon was fired and most of us probably don't think about him all that often anymore. But just as a reminder, Don Lemon was not fired because he was such a tough interviewer. He was fired because he was a prickly, arrogant man who repeatedly offended the two women co-hosts CNN had paired him with. Remember this?

Failed Black Man sez wut about Failed White Man? Lemon failed because he couldn't restrain his misogyny and/or hatred for whites long enough to record/broadcast a talking head show (Hour-long? Half hour?) with two white women co-hosts. Colbert failed because he let his partisan hatred blind him to the obvious fact that alienating half your potential audience is moronically stupid and would lead to the loss of viewership that did, unsurprisingly, happen.
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Politics / Re: Prosecutor charged for allegedly emailing self sealed Jack Smith Trump report...
« Last post by SVPete on May 22, 2026, 08:57:24 AM »
Quote from: Texacon on May 22, 2026, 08:46:16 AM
The left would say this is justified just as they did with Reality Winner. Or whatever that word chicks name was.

KC

Yep, to DU-grade Progs, Tump to so eeeee-vile that he does not deserve Constitutional rights or proof he did something illegal.
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General Discussion / David Letterman Sowed the Seeds of Late-Night Television's Demise
« Last post by SVPete on May 22, 2026, 08:49:01 AM »
David Letterman Sowed the Seeds of Late-Night Television's Demise

https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/05/21/david-letterman-sowed-the-seeds-of-late-night-televisions-demise-n4953122

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... Because American leftists are clinically insane, fans of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert like to blame President Trump for the host's walking papers. Some of them throw in a dash of garment-rending about CBS and corporate evil, but usually circle back to a Trump tantrum. As I have said on many occasions, President Trump isn't just living rent-free in their heads, he's building condos there.

What those on the left aren't talking about is the program's bloated production costs and the fact that Colbert made a conscious decision to tell half of the country to go you-know-what ourselves. Well, nobody on the left had been discussing the latter. Earlier this week, Variety — Hollywood's news organization of record — had a dimly lit lightbulb moment:
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Throughout most of Letterman's tenure on television, his trademark was doing goofy things that just weren't seen on talk shows at any time of day. Even when he was being a little bit acerbic, he kept it weird enough so that he didn't seem cranky or bitter. ...

Near the end of his run on The Late Show, Letterman wandered more and more into partisan grumpy old man stuff. Nobody on our side of the aisle ever thought he was conservative, but he also wasn't making it a point to offend us. That changed in the last couple of years before he left late-night television. He began giving the implied finger to half of his potential audience. Conservatives on social media were a combination of disappointed and angry because so many of us had been fans of his work up until then.

I can't help but believe that Letterman's embrace of leftist partisan vitriol emboldened Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel when they made the choice to be emotional political advocates rather than humorous talk show hosts. Kimmel's weepy breakdown after President Trump was elected again in 2024 remains perhaps the most pathetic spectacle in the history of late-night TV.

Letterman was BDS-driven.
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