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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by LP -
I can't help but be amused by the MAGA abandonment of RedTrump, he's become the embarrassing uncle they sit in the corner and do not mention. Having lost the locus of their discussions that reverted to talking about Biden who is now apparently the cause of all their pain. I fully expect when that switch in focus fails to gain traction, that MAGA will wheel out Hillary or Obama next.

There are analogies between this MAGA behaviour and the situation in Victoria, pro-liberty the claim is they do not tell you how to live your life, unless of course you are female, teenage, gay, transgender, transvestite, agnostic, atheist, vaccinator or feminist, excluding lesbian, lesbian is OK because they all harbour lesbian fantasies.

Apparently the ideal MAGA woman is a youthful, slender, blue-eyed, blond haired bisexual trad wife who wears a pineapple skirt.
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Ladies Lounge / AFLW 2026 Rd 10: Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by crashlander -
Saturday afternoon at 15:05 at home.

Our line-up:

B;   21 Harriet Cordner   49 Madeline Hendrie
HB:   14 Siofra O'Connell   36 Ciara Fitzgerald   1 Amelia Velardo
C:   19 Erone Fitzpatrick   4 Claudia Whitfort   17 Dayna Finn
HF:   7 Poppy Scholz   55 Sophie McKay   25 Keeley Sherar
F:   3 Darcy Vescio   35 Nell Morris-Dalton
R:   2 Lauren Bella   10 Mimi Hill   5 Abbie McKay
Int:   24 Brooke Vickers   11 Yasmin Duursma   20 Lily Goss   26 Tayla McMillan   13 Aisling Reidy
EM:   30 Kiara Bischa   8 Lily Baxter   6 Gabriella Pound

Only one change: Reidy is in. Jess Good is having the weekend off: managed!
Lily Goss: 50 games! That's a big mark in the AFLW!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by PaulP -
Quote from: LP – on
It's been asserted RedTrump's appointments follow a conservative fundamentalist policy, in which females have a specific place and role in society.

I couldn't help but think of that discussion in context of @Thryleon's tongue in cheek comment about RedTrump.

The debates I refer to stem from the recent "Unsteady State" series published on The Philosopher's Zone, starting with the recent Alan Saunders lecture, well worth a listen.

The short answer is I don't know. Trump, so far as I can tell, is an idealogical void. I don't know whether it's him or those around him that do the hiring and firing, but his focus is power and financial enrichment, and whatever serves those twin motives in the moment is what carries the day, even if it's the direct opposite of what he said yesterday.

Whether this new woman or Hegseth or many others are there to look good in front of the cameras, or to distract the population with theater whilst the country is looted and pillaged, or to simply do what they're told, or to be sufficiently incompetent as to be easily manipulated, I can't say.

If there is a belief that women have a specific (subordinate) place and role in society, I dare say this has nothing to with adherence to any idealogical belief, and purely about a consolidation of power.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by LP -
Quote from: PaulP – on
I'm not sure I follow.
It's been asserted RedTrump's appointments follow a conservative fundamentalist policy, in which females have a specific place and role in society.

I couldn't help but think of that discussion in context of @Thryleon's tongue in cheek comment about RedTrump.

The debates I refer to stem from the recent "Unsteady State" series published on The Philosopher's Zone, starting with the recent Alan Saunders lecture, well worth a listen.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: LP – on
Quote from: Lods – on
Which is a real shame because I would have liked to see what Saturday Night Live and Jon Stewart did with her efforts, :D  :D
Just never got into SNL or a lot of other US sketch comedy, I've always preferred the Brits for sketch, maybe I watched too much of the Dean Martin Show growing up.

Stand Up I put in a different category, and I gravitate to the less scripted types. George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Rich Hall I don't mind, they can be a bit dark for some, the US equivalents of a Gervais or Connolly type.

SNL do the political take-offs really well and that's usually at the beginning of their shows.

But yep I also much prefer the British style of comedy.
He's passed now but I've been watching a lot of Sean Lock... and Michael McIntyre clips.
They make the 'everyday' a bit more ridiculous.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by DJC -
Leavitt was cringeworthy but Zacharia was taken it to an entirely new level!

If there's one thing that Taco excels at, it's finding the most unqualified incompetents for roles in his administration  ::)