The Last Bass Outpost

My apologies; I've been a bit on edge about a lot of this stuff for a while now though I will never reach a level of keying a tesla or anything like that.

As for further military escalations, I don't have high hopes. Trump ran on not getting involved in any more and yet he's threatening military use to take over Greenland, make Canada the 51st state, and also take over the Panama Canal.

Darrol, see post 50. I don't have 100% faith in any elected official. I'm hoping we don't get wrapped up in further military escalations but that looks like it will be a challenge. Don't get too worked up guys. I'd hope everyone here can manage to resist the urge to key a tesla or something like that.

Quote from: 4stringer77 on March 31, 2025, 10:29:16 AMI don't know exactly how the administration is trying to suppress the rights of college kids. The party previously in power would not have lost so much in the last election if the country was satisfied with the way things were going. The pendulum swings and so it goes.

Look up the case of Rumeysa Ozturk who is a Turkish national legally here on a visa studying at Tufts university. Masked individuals ambushed her and took her away in an unmarked vehicle. Her crime: she co-wrote an op-ed criticizing her school's response to what was happening in Palestine which many view as a genocide. She was exerting her freedom of speech as a person legally here in the US and they kidnapped her. They also sent her to Louisiana against court orders.

Freedom of speech only matters to the right when it's on their side. Muskrat bought Twitter and said his goal was to restore the freedom of speech to the platform and yet that notion doesn't apply if you say something he doesn't like. Trump would constantly make threats and call for violence but his cult loses their head if anyone on the other side does anything marginally close to what he does.

Do not think that the election was a landslide and Democrats lost a huge footing because people were unhappy. Less than half of Americans voted for this and the difference in a red win versus a blue win is about 200k total votes across 3 swing states.

Oh, and if you care so much about wasted spending from a bloated government, how do you feel about the 20+ million that's already been spent on golf trips since January 20th?

Quote from: 4stringer77 on March 31, 2025, 10:29:16 AMOther than Germany, I would have said the UK pertaining to european countries that are most hostile toward free speech.

...according to Breitbart and Fox News.

I'm ceaselessly amazed at how confidently Americans can make such poorly researched, unnuanced statements. Aren't you lot knocking back folk at airports for saying mean things about your new King for Life in text messages? Much freedom. At least the folk in North Korea probably understand that they are living in a totalitarian hellscape.

I wonder if it was modified by its owner. Never remember seeing two output jacks before. I wonder if the selector switch was originally mounted in the second output jack hole.

It's all Coverdales fault.
He just wants at least one Les Paul wielding tall blonde guy in his band.
Guess he never got over the mistake of throwing John Sykes out...

Scott, it's so undistorted, what happened? 

Quote from: patman on March 31, 2025, 05:45:24 AMSuccessful change happens in small carefully controlled increments over time. Evolution rather than revolution.
My opinion...yours may vary. I'm uncomfortable with the chainsaw approach.

Amen. Progress is a snail, but a determined one. And for the life of me I can't think of a notable civilization that was built on chainsaws.

In all of our arguments, you've always been right, Rob! 

My Dutch son-in-law (blond, blue-eyed and very tall) still gets approached by Scandinavians on a regular basis thinking he is one of them.

Interestingly enough, Scandinavians overall share the most similar DNA with Dutch people. Only Danes are even closer to North Germans (and closer to them than to Swedes which have a larger Baltic influence; among Scandinavian nationalities, Norwegians are closest to Danes).

Quote from: gearHed289 on March 31, 2025, 07:33:02 AMElon's buddy Donald is taking the USA in that exact direction. It's already happening to college students.

I can agree with what Ron Paul is saying here.
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/free-speech-is-worth-fighting-for/