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Don't know how woke I am but I generally think to myself "Damn that's an ugly woman". If it was a trans man I'd dismiss them as a lesbian.

I worked with an old boy who was, when younger, a big poon hound....had a reputation as being pussy crazy. When he turned 50 he became a she and was just about the ugliest woman you ever saw...almost Cleveland Tennessee ugly. Other than taking to wearing dresses away from work and that sort of thing he was exactly the same person he was in a pair of jeans and a polo. He/she/they, whatever the frick, disappeared about a year after they took to wearing dresses. I don't know if his family has ever heard anything about him.

I met a black trans woman from Atlanta in a cigar lounge in Denver about my age once while my son and I were smoking cigars and watching football. We had a great conversation reminiscing about Atlanta in the 70s and 80s. Them being trans never came up. Again, damned ugly woman but I suspect this individual was a homely man also...

My daughter's boyfriend has a brother who is trans, about 18 years old. They have been to our house several times. Very nice person, polite, yes ma'aming and no sirring, active in their church....salt of the earth other than the fact that he wears clothing one would expect to find a biological woman wearing. Very attractive but youth is often so.

I have a half sister who was in a relationship with a trans man for almost year and that motherfricker was a piece of work. Crooked as a Philadelphia lawyer, constantly in some minor scrape with the police...just an a-hole. And damned ugly. Recurring theme.

To sum up I have known or interacted with at least 4 trans people. 3 of the 4 seemed pretty normal outside of their choice of costume. The 1 was just a complete loser a-hole. About the same, in my experience, as people whose choice of costume is in line with societal expectations....75% normal, 25% assholes. Small sample size and clearly anecdotal but thats my experience. I have also found, again small sample size and anecdotally, they tend to be homely at best if not damned ugly...I know that's mean, hell I ain't winning no beauty contests myself, but noticeably unattractive all but the one who is about 18 and its hard for an 18 year old to have lived enough life to be ugly...

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Trump added that the federal government will start distributing less federal aid for disaster recovery

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Now this is what I voted for by god....damn a bunch of handouts to parasites who are too stupid not to build a city below sea level or in an area where wildfires are an annual fact of life. frick 'em. Should cut out ALL funding for disaster recovery. Starting somewhere is a good idea though, damn a bunch of welfare recipients living in areas where they ought to know better....

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Good. Im tired of my taxes paying for someone's 3rd chainsaw.

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Seriously if you are dumb enough to build a city in an area where wildfires are an annual fact of life or build one below sea level why in the pluperfect hell should the rest of us help a brother out, especially a second time. Maybe the first time your home is destroyed by a flood, hurricane, wildfire or some other natural disaster was an accident...but the second time you chose to re-build there....that's on you.

Obviously, I am joking. It's obviously in the national interest for those who haven't had their lives destroyed to help those who have, and someone needs to be a central command center for it.

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I feel like the only people who are on the other side are either A) not competitive B) have never played organized sports C) do not have a daughter or D) are so far woke anything pushed as trans they are all in on.

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Most polls indicate about 75% of Americans think trans athletes should not be competing with women in sports. I don't know who the 25% are but they must be idiots are caching their response in some manner that makes sense to them. Who knows.

The thing is is it is almost non-existent to begin with. There are about 500,000 athletes in college sports in the US. .002% of them are trans people and not all of them are participating in a sport against people other than their assigned gender at birth. There have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 medals awarded at the Olympics since steps were initiated to limit the participation of trans women in women sports and only a handfull of those went to trans athletes...maybe as few as one by some reporting. It just doesnt happen because it is fricking insane and only a very tiny number of athletes would want to win anything in the manner so many think trans women dream of doing.

By all means pass a zillion laws prohibiting something that simply does not happen on any scale and is likely to happen even less as the stigma attached to the idea becomes more prevalent.


What is the gist of what y'all think is going to happen? A widespread dominance of women's sports by men wearing bras???? Why on earth would they do so on any kind of meaningful scale? What would be the point....they will be known as man who beat up on a bunch of girls LOL. It just isn't happening. I know many of you believe it is and there are a lot of stories about it BUT relative to the number of people competing it is a tiny, miniscule number. It shouldnt happen at all and thankfully it doesn't happen very often.

Finally having a physical advantage is kind of the idea behind sports and competition. I am 5 foot 9 inches tall and have never played a minute in the NBA because NBA players have a significant physical advantage over me. Is that unfair???? Of course it ain't...were someone to make that point they'd be laughed out of the arena faster than a man dominating the WNBA...which a LOT of men talk about like they would enjoy seeing by the way....its is a non issue that some of us are just ate up with for some strange reason....

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That is why this needs to wrap up ASAP

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That is exactly why. Its akin to ripping off a Band-Aid, if you're going to do it do it, don't pussyfoot around about it. The problem is it is a monumental task that is going to take a long time and it is going to cause a lot of civil unrest and generally speaking civil unrest initially starts off being seen by the public as a bunch of ruffian ne'er do wells acting a fool but sooner or later it is seen as a failing by those in charge of controlling the peace. This is why it all too often works to achieve an end because the public does not have the stomach for it for long. Good bad or indifferent that is generally the course that these events take....there is no reason to assume this one will be different and exactly the reason if it is to be successful it has to be done quickly. The scope and breadth of what they have proposed is not going to be fast, its going to be a slog.

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Roadside memorials are bad. So are decals on rear windows and Adopt-A-Highway signs.

So you knew and loved someone who died. Big deal! Who hasn't? Buy a headstone and move on.

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I suspect there is a lot of truth in this. The memorials in the back window have always seemed a little dark to me. Death is part of life and the rare person who has not lost someone near and dear to them is fortunate....but hanging onto that with outward signs of grief for years and years after the fact seems unhealthy, to me and only me, y'all do y'all by all means.

I visit a graveyard where several family members are buried a couple of times a year. I am always amazed at some of the grave markers...fish jumping, deer heads, all manner of stuff. Not put out by it but its always been interesting. My FILs marker has a bass jumping at a dragonfly with cat tails and rings in the water...all colored appropriately. There used to be a seafood place on the way to Tybee Island with a near identical neon sign....I have always thought it was the inspiration for his marker LOL. I saw one once with two pigs square dancing and did some research and the man who was buried there owned a BBQ shack LOL....Its all part of the grieving process

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Agreed, and it's trashy. I don't need a memorial where I bled out. Hell, who needs a memorial at all other than the human ego?

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Memorials. funerals and cemeteries ain't for dead folks they are for live folks. Dead folks problems are solved. they have no worries or concerns as far as we know. Those still alive, on the other hand, not so much....

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This is incorrect. In 1944 Americans were optimistic the war was going to end soon. Their patriotism was still at all time highs. The effort was highly supported.

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After D Day the optimism that the war would end soon was around 90% and for good reason...but overall support of the effort in early 1944 dipped below 50%. Again for good reason. People's sons and daughters were being killed. The people of the US and the rest of the world had had a belly full...it is not difficult to imagine why.

I appreciate the facts and figures. DJT was re-elected 7 months ago in part by promising to deport what they said was 15-20 million people. 7 months ago this was at least acceptable to the majority of people who took the time to vote. That number may be higher today. Thats not the point I was making. Prior to Kent State most Americans had had a belly full of protests and applauded the Governor's calling out the guard. The number of Americans who approved of the shooting or said it was the students fault was somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% for about a week afterwards. Then reality sat in that the national guard had killed college students and within a couple of weeks public opinion had shifted dramatically away from the actions of the guard being justified and that shift in public opinion is generally held as one of the many reasons the war ended when it did. No, what is going on now is most likely very popular amongst Americans sick of seeing protests....but that opinion is most likely going to shift as it has in the past because Americans do not have the stomach for it long term.

I have NEVER said that illegal immigration is good for the economy my friend, I do not know where you got that from. In fact I will state unequivocally that illegal immigration is bad for the economy because it creates an underclass of undocumented people who are easily exploited by those bent that way which creates an unfair competitive advantage for them over those who try to comply with legal requirements. Legal immigration and documented immigrants working legally in the US is a plus for the US economy in general but does impact wages at the bottom negatively. It has been argued that that impact is offset by lower prices which I tend to think is correct....lettuce would be incredibly expensive if it weren't for legal immigrants picking it.

I am not suggesting that the idea of deporting 20 million people is not a popular sentiment right now. I suspect it has more support today than it did in November. I also suspect that will change dramatically going forward as Americans have traditionally not had the stomach for such things. After 6 months of being inundated with images of senior citizens being punched in the face and knocked to the ground and children screaming for their mother American sentiment is going to turn, most likely. It makes NO difference that those images may be rarer than hen's teeth...it is all about perception and Americans aren't known for their ability to think much longer than it takes to break wind.

Polls showed Americans were opposed to declaring war against the axis powers in 1941 by 80-90%. Immediately after Pearl Harbor the same numbers indicated they were all in on declaring war. By 1944 that number was below 50%. In 1965 about 60% of Americans supported intervention in Vietnam. By 1969 that number was below 40%. The idea of deporting millions of immigrants here illegally is no doubt a popular one in June of 2025. It won't be in June of 2026 if history is any indicator. The numbers are much closer even while it is popular with a majority of Americans today than most similar "big" events in US history were at the beginning. It is unlikely that a year from now the support is close to what it is today because Americans do not have the stomach for it or they have not had in the past.

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Just get an airtight Tupperware container, toss an appropriately sized boveda pack in there and you’re good to go.

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This is what I do. I build humidors from time to time and give them to people as gifts and have several but I do not keep cigars on hand long because its too tempting to smoke them if I've got 'em. Having to go get some to smoke is often enough to keep me from smoking one. The humidors I build aren't meant to be highly efficient humidors but are kind of temporary storage. It takes a helluva craftsman to build a proper humidor. Mine are nice but about like the ones sold at cigar shops for $100 or so....