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Prospective President Kamala Harris

Wandering Monk

Well-Known Member
So if Trump decides he is going to dump Vance, what will MAGA say then? Then everything will be kosher when it comes to Trumps campaign funds and delegates, right?
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Just watched the video, your kidding, it was called the tilt a whirl and the bottom fell out and then it tilted, this thing is a joke.

I even agree with you, the regulations that made this the best you could experience were the type that are the overreach of liberals and insurance companies that don't understand the physics. LOL
Not a tilt a whirl. That's a completely different ride.

It was called a cliffhanger and/or rotor..



Here is one that six flags had called the cajun cliffhanger



This was/is a tilt a whirl

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Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.

We Never Know

No Slack
What that popular names are often confused for many reasons, Even @We Never Know describes two different things with his link.
I still wonder why you were scared?
Two different names of rides that operated in a similar-same way. I listed them both because some knew or called them rotor, some knew or called them cliffhanger.


As for how the links describe them...

"The Cajun Cliffhanger was a rotor-type amusement ride at Six Flags Great America. and was one of the earliest Chance Industries Rotors produced.

The ride was a large circular room with felt-lined walls which passengers entered through a door and took a position freely standing against the wall. The door would be closed and the room would begin to rotate. When the rate of rotation was sufficient, the floor would drop a few feet, leaving the riders pinned to the wall by inertia."

"The Rotor is an amusement ride designed and patented by German engineer Ernst Hoffmeister in 1948. The ride was first demonstrated at Oktoberfest 1949 and still appears in numerous amusement parks. The Rotor is a large, upright barrel, rotated to create an inward acting centripetal force supplied by the wall's support's force. Once at full speed, the floor is retracted, leaving the riders stuck to the wall of the drum.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
So who are you voting for? Come on, spill the beans. I have.
I'd announced voting for the Libertarian.
The party selected Chase Oliver.
But after some due diligence, I'll likely
switch to Harris. She appears to be more pro
human rights than Genocide Joe. So she'd
be my vote to keep Treasonous Trump from
desecrating the White House again.

I've covered all this already.
 
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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
How many times do you need to be told? Promiscuous people come in two guises: females, who are called sluts (pejorative) and villified, and males, who are called playboys (approbative) and honored as conquering heros (unless they're gay bottoms, in which case sluts or tramps (pejorative) apply again).
I'm a slow learner.
 

Magic Man

Reaper of Conversation
I am not going to go back through all this tripe but I do believe it was three things and it was the last thing. And I am many things but never dishonest.
"Allowing women to kill babies" is dishonest. That's not what abortion is, and you know it. You use that phrasing to make an emotional point because you can't make the rational point. Whether you want to admit it or not, that's dishonesty.
 

It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
All these people wanting to armchair diagnose Trump (and anyone else) are ultimately playing into stereotypes and replying on a slice of their overall pictures of behaviors and characteristics, typically what is shown to them through various media outlets.
You seem to be saying that people shouldn't judge the mental states of others, but I'm sure that you don't mean that. When one calls Trump a malignant narcissist, he is saying that he sees those characteristics in Trump's behavior.

Look at this list. When one calls Trump a malignant narcissist, he is saying that he ticks off most of these boxes, which most people do not:

Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder (and the severity of these symptoms) vary. But the following are common characteristics of malignant narcissists:
  • Preoccupied with fantasies about beauty, brilliance, success, and power
  • Unable to handle criticism
  • Tendency to lash out if they feel slighted
  • Likely to take advantage of others to get what they want
  • Overly concerned about their appearance
  • Expect to be treated as superior and craves this validation, also known as narcissistic supply
  • Lack of empathy for others
  • Inflated sense of self and inability to self-regulate
  • Have no remorse for hurting others and no interest in apologizing unless it benefits them
  • Have an attitude of deserving the best of everything
  • Tendency to monopolize conversations and/or mistreat those who they perceive as inferior
  • Hidden insecurity and a weak sense of self
  • Tendency to blame others for their own bad behavior
Additional signs of malignant narcissism can include:
  • Seeing the world in black-and-white terms, including seeing others as either friend or foe
  • Seeking to win at all costs, leaving a great amount of pain, frustration, and even heartache in their wake
  • Not caring about the pain they cause others—or maybe even enjoying it and experiencing it as empowering
  • Doing what it takes to protect themselves from loss, inconvenience, or failing to get what they want in any situation
Would you prefer if I described Trump using those words rather the psychiatric term that stands for them? How about if instead of malignant narcissist, I said that Trump has an inflated sense of self, can't stand criticism, is vengeful and verbally abusive, is manipulative, wears make-up and a comb-over, craves attention, is void of empathy, etc..? I don't think you would disagree or object to me describing him in those terms. I find it more convenient to say it all with one phrase, and for those unfamiliar with the diagnosis and what it implies, I could tell them or refer them to a list like the one above.

I agree that writing off gun violence to just mental illness is a mistake. But when people do that, they are generally trying to deflect the discussion away from guns, not make medical diagnoses. But that is not what we're doing here, which I consider not only justified, but essential to repeat and reinforce:
  • When I say that Trump is a malignant narcissist, antisocial, a pathological liar, and becoming increasingly demented, that's all shorthand for what I have seen and can describe. Trump IS antisocial.
  • He's a social parasite and doesn't care about people other than himself.
  • He shows no empathy. If you agree with that, you can join me in using that word to describe him more efficiently.
  • What is a pathological liar, and does Trump fit that description? If you think he does, you can use that term to say so.
  • Is he showing signs of cognitive decline such as slurring and mispronouncing words, consuming people for other people, focusing on sharks, electrocutions and Hannibal Lecter, who he thinks is dead ("the late, great ...")? If so, then you can say all of that with a single phrase.
no telling who I will write in. I have not anywhere near decided yet.
With all due respect, does it really matter to you or anybody else whether you write in a name or what that name is? No votes matter except votes for the Democrat or Republican, and then only in swing states. Are you doing this just so that you can say you voted?
It was a major testament on just how people were completely sick and tired of Democrat rule.
Hillary won the popular vote. It was a testament to how effective conservative indoctrination media is against the susceptible. And Biden defeated Trump.
I tried multiple times to clearly note that Democrats created their own monster, and that monster was Trump.
No, you and people like you empowered the monster.

It's interesting that you describe Trump in those terms. You call him a monster, and then support him. What does that say about what you want for America? And why would you want that? I'm going with indoctrination media. You could never have come to such conclusions on your own.
I like the way you put in coup in.
You don't like that word, do you? But it's accurate, although a more complete description would be failed self-coup. A coup is attempted by an out-party. If Trump were to try to seize the government today as a private citizen, it would be an attempted coup. But when the sitting head of state attempts to hold power, it becomes a self-coup.
 

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
With all due respect, does it really matter to you or anybody else whether you write in a name or what that name is? No votes matter except votes for the Democrat or Republican, and then only in swing states. Are you doing this just so that you can say you voted?
With all due respect, no. I am doing it while I am voting - there are other candidates for other positions I will be voting for.
 

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
"Allowing women to kill babies" is dishonest. That's not what abortion is, and you know it. You use that phrasing to make an emotional point because you can't make the rational point. Whether you want to admit it or not, that's dishonesty.
I am sorry but like I've been saying, it's a difference in terminology, not a matter of honesty or dishonesty.
 

Copernicus

Industrial Strength Linguist
With all due respect, does it really matter to you or anybody else whether you write in a name or what that name is? No votes matter except votes for the Democrat or Republican, and then only in swing states. Are you doing this just so that you can say you voted?
With all due respect, no. I am doing it while I am voting - there are other candidates for other positions I will be voting for.

But he made a legitimate point. We all know that only the Democrat or the Republican is going to win the election. Voting for a third party candidate or a write-in seems fatuous--equivalent to not voting at all.

But is it really? I do understand your position. I support Kamala Harris and will vote for her, but I live in a blue-majority state. So I can simply not vote, and she will still win my state. If I lived next door in Idaho, my vote for her would probably not matter, but I'd still vote for her just to have it registered that I had an opinion in the matter. Our individual votes are never decisive, but they give us a chance to have our opinion counted, even if our preferred candidate is hopeless and our vote inconsequential.

I just wish that our country elected the president by popular vote instead of this wacko electoral college system. Then every vote would literally count. And, if we had ranked-choice voting, we could register a vote for the candidate we thought best and also for a second preference.
 
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