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Title: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 14, 2020, 09:06:00 AM
post all your clown world happenings up in this bitch

I'll start

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-08-13/wu-tang-clan-rza-ice-cream-truck-song
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 14, 2020, 03:03:11 PM
post all your clown world happenings up in this bitch

I'll start

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-08-13/wu-tang-clan-rza-ice-cream-truck-song

Kids are going to get run over when they fall asleep when running in the road listening to that new song.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 14, 2020, 06:41:52 PM
https://hoboken411.com/archives/139211
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 19, 2020, 09:23:16 AM
here's a good (heh) one
(https://i.imgur.com/VA1BJMN.jpg)

its like they actually want a discrimination lawsuit or something
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 19, 2020, 09:35:53 AM
another good one

(https://files.catbox.moe/7e1ojm.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 19, 2020, 11:49:30 AM
another good one

(https://files.catbox.moe/7e1ojm.jpg)

That's funny
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 21, 2020, 06:32:17 PM
lol Utah

https://www.eagnews.org/2020/08/utah-kindergarteners-face-up-to-6-months-in-jail-1000-fine-for-mask-violations/?utm_source=home-headline
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 23, 2020, 04:19:50 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/SKhMQPw.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 23, 2020, 05:38:34 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/SKhMQPw.png)

Why she wasting our cash? She's moving out in 5 months anyway....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 23, 2020, 05:52:40 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/SKhMQPw.png)

Why she wasting our cash? She's moving out in 5 months anyway....
When it came down to her now, or Doug in the spring, she opted to go with the woman's touch.
I'm sure you understand.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 23, 2020, 06:55:25 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/SKhMQPw.png)

Why she wasting our cash? She's moving out in 5 months anyway....
When it came down to her now, or Doug in the spring, she opted to go with the woman's touch.
I'm sure you understand.

Doug has a good eye for color.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 23, 2020, 08:30:02 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/SKhMQPw.png)

Why she wasting our cash? She's moving out in 5 months anyway....
When it came down to her now, or Doug in the spring, she opted to go with the woman's touch.
I'm sure you understand.

Doug has a good eye for color.

Love is blind.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 24, 2020, 04:25:33 PM
hi Sparky, I see you've been busy on reddit

(https://i.imgur.com/yIFDbiO.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 24, 2020, 10:55:15 PM
hi Sparky, I see you've been busy on reddit

(https://i.imgur.com/yIFDbiO.jpg)

Dude, you read some weird ass shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 24, 2020, 11:35:45 PM
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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 27, 2020, 09:40:00 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/hdmy0EX.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 27, 2020, 12:05:30 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/hdmy0EX.jpg)

Maybe they just picked out the only fire to show on TV?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 27, 2020, 01:41:30 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/hdmy0EX.jpg)

Maybe they just picked out the only fire to show on TV?

word is they were holding hands and singing kumbaya around it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 27, 2020, 01:47:52 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/hdmy0EX.jpg)

Maybe they just picked out the only fire to show on TV?

word is they were holding hands and singing kumbaya around it

No s'mores?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 27, 2020, 11:22:04 PM
This is incredibly prescient

https://youtu.be/hRYJTKUabhc
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 28, 2020, 07:55:29 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/hdmy0EX.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/93LhwZZ/Screenshot-20200828-074943.jpg) (https://ibb.co/n8vB3PP)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 28, 2020, 08:01:57 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/440vZJc/Screenshot-20200828-075904.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XFG0ZV9)

Now do Antioch Il to Kenosha Wi.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 28, 2020, 09:33:20 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/440vZJc/Screenshot-20200828-075904.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XFG0ZV9)

Now do Antioch Il to Kenosha Wi.

Confusing Manitowoc and Kenosha is an honest mistake I'm sure
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 02, 2020, 12:06:28 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8688793/Pregnant-mum-arrested-Facebook-post-inciting-coronavirus-protest.html

keep voting for authoritarian leftists and this is coming to america... seriously what the fuck
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 02, 2020, 12:10:58 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8688793/Pregnant-mum-arrested-Facebook-post-inciting-coronavirus-protest.html

keep voting for authoritarian leftists and this is coming to america... seriously what the fuck

She should be arrested for being on The Facebook, which is a proven Soviet propaganda tool. Nonetheless, this happened in Australia. How is that relevant to AMERICA?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 02, 2020, 01:07:24 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8688793/Pregnant-mum-arrested-Facebook-post-inciting-coronavirus-protest.html

keep voting for authoritarian leftists and this is coming to america... seriously what the fuck

574, wise guy. 574
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 02, 2020, 03:02:59 PM
After 97 nights, Ted might be looking for a mostly peaceful neighborhood.

In an email Tuesday from Wheeler to other residents of the 16-floor high-rise tower, the mayor said it would be “best for me and for everyone else’s safety and peace” that he finds a new home. He assured people that police are taking their safety concerns seriously and invited them to a Thursday evening meeting that will include himself and officers to voice their concerns.

“I want to express my sincere apologies for the damage to our home and the fear that you are experiencing due to my position,” according to a screenshot of the email sent to The Oregonian/OregonLive. “It’s unfair to all of you who have no role in politics or in my administration.”

" Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek called for greater acknowledgement by elected officials of Portland police’s role in violence that occurs during nightly protests."

She must not have gotten the memo that the violence is due to the Feds.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 02, 2020, 03:19:27 PM
She should be arrested for being on The Facebook, which is a proven Soviet propaganda tool. Nonetheless, this happened in Australia. How is that relevant to AMERICA?
this thread is about clown WORLD

not clown AMERICA
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 02, 2020, 03:29:17 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/hRuEalO.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 02, 2020, 08:45:49 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/hRuEalO.png)

Maybe Trump.should hire the Hell's Angels to move protestors out of Lafeyette Park next time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 03, 2020, 01:25:19 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/l9B1RJ7.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 03, 2020, 01:41:08 PM
My dad wore a pair of afro-centric glasses about 20 years ago. I think he was the only white person who did.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 03, 2020, 03:06:25 PM
I guess these go here:

https://nypost.com/2020/09/03/african-historian-jessica-krug-admits-shes-lied-about-being-black/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-glued-up-vagina-attempt-22621636
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 03, 2020, 06:46:27 PM
I guess these go here:

https://nypost.com/2020/09/03/african-historian-jessica-krug-admits-shes-lied-about-being-black/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-glued-up-vagina-attempt-22621636

lmao wow those are both solid contributions   golds! golds! golds! golds! golds!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 03, 2020, 09:32:29 PM
Flights are cheap af I’m thinking it might not be a bad time to seek asylum in a warm tropical location
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 03, 2020, 11:20:06 PM
Is Costa Rica still the go-to spot for Americans who have $35k on hand and want to retire?

If so, what's the internet like there?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 04, 2020, 12:01:05 AM
Is Costa Rica still the go-to spot for Americans who have $35k on hand and want to retire?

If so, what's the internet like there?

I think its Belize now...  anyway

(https://i.imgur.com/0GRPKMB.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 04, 2020, 08:54:13 AM
I think its Belize now...  anyway

(https://i.imgur.com/0GRPKMB.png)

🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 04, 2020, 01:10:05 PM
so much material these days

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/hair-salon-job-posting-happy-hairdresser-discrimanatory.amp
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 04, 2020, 01:51:21 PM
so much material these days

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/hair-salon-job-posting-happy-hairdresser-discrimanatory.amp

I actually understand their point with this one. Depressed hairdressers need not apply.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 07, 2020, 11:40:07 AM
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/califoronia-wildfires-september-7-gender-reveal-party-1.5714719?cmp=rss

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 07, 2020, 01:24:31 PM
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/califoronia-wildfires-september-7-gender-reveal-party-1.5714719?cmp=rss

I'm guessing it wasn't Murph.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 07, 2020, 01:43:45 PM
They/Them
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 08, 2020, 10:00:45 AM
https://reason.com/2020/09/03/usc-greg-patton-chinese-word-offended-students/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 08, 2020, 10:08:38 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/L3HNtgV.png)

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 08, 2020, 01:09:19 PM
god I love pseudo-intellectualism, its a comedy gold mine

(https://i.imgur.com/LMBwuyx.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 08, 2020, 01:10:06 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/7R3vWNl.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on September 09, 2020, 04:47:29 PM
Thats a mostly peaceful fire right there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 09, 2020, 05:25:45 PM
god I love pseudo-intellectualism, its a comedy gold mine

(https://i.imgur.com/LMBwuyx.png)

The new flavors are "Redwood Smoke", "Oak Smoke", "Tire fire smoke"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on September 10, 2020, 09:08:08 AM
Gotta cut loose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Awb89q_9rg&t=44s
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 10, 2020, 09:52:29 AM
Holy shit that’s great
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 10, 2020, 02:57:59 PM
No picture? GTFOoH.. Clown shoes.

https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200909/exeter-woman-votes-topless-after-anti-trump-shirt-disallowed
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 11, 2020, 11:49:49 AM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-indigenous-death/brazilian-expert-on-uncontacted-amazon-tribes-killed-by-arrow-idUSKBN2612MP

Dumb ass....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 11, 2020, 05:06:21 PM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-indigenous-death/brazilian-expert-on-uncontacted-amazon-tribes-killed-by-arrow-idUSKBN2612MP

Dumb ass....
He's got a Yamaha. So he's got some smarts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 11, 2020, 09:49:34 PM
NFL viewership for a seasoning opening game is a 10 year low ?
The millionaires don't know why the fans booed their show of unity. 🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 11, 2020, 10:13:55 PM
Holy shit that’s great

I missed it. what was it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on September 12, 2020, 09:33:50 AM
I missed it. what was it?

Oh nothing much.  Just another peaceful protester out dancin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRQFxB1SPWE
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 12, 2020, 12:50:50 PM
ah yes, that explains it!

(https://i.imgur.com/3onJsXM.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 12, 2020, 01:07:50 PM
ah yes, that explains it!

(https://i.imgur.com/3onJsXM.png)

And they claim appearing in black face is not in vogue.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 12, 2020, 01:12:13 PM
https://www.google.com/amp/s/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/09/12/nfl-wont-let-kenny-albert-call-sundays-bears-lions-game/amp/

Guy has been in the bubble in Edmonton and Canada appears to know what it is doing with the Covid-19.

Instead we get Dick Stockton? Clown World!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 12, 2020, 02:25:48 PM
You’d think in 2020 people could call a game without actually being there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 12, 2020, 02:36:53 PM
https://www.google.com/amp/s/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/09/12/nfl-wont-let-kenny-albert-call-sundays-bears-lions-game/amp/

Guy has been in the bubble in Edmonton and Canada appears to know what it is doing with the Covid-19.

Instead we get Dick Stockton? Clown World!

Tune in early for the NFL pre-game coverage. Maybe they'll show some clips of the Vikings in their pre-game sjw wear. Nobody will be at the game, so there must be a reason for the heads up.
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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 12, 2020, 03:10:19 PM
oh the irony of the NFL propping up yet another violent criminal
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 12, 2020, 03:51:22 PM
The thoughts that must be running through Ray Rice’s head right now
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on September 12, 2020, 04:53:31 PM
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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 12, 2020, 06:11:40 PM
Isn't one of the issues in Kenosha was that the chief of police could not confirm that the cops on the scene knew the b/g of the guy when they pumped him full of lead? If that's the case, then his record is irrelevant.

As for the Minnesota guy, the cops' defense appears to be blaming each other to.prevemt a jury from finding reasonable doubt against any one of them or all of them? Sure sounds like it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 12, 2020, 10:46:04 PM
I don’t have time to goggle it but they would have known why they were called there, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 12, 2020, 11:47:13 PM
I don’t have time to goggle it but they would have known why they were called there, right?

They were called there, but I thought the issue was that they were not necessarily given details on the history or had time to look it up.  Meaning they knew there was a dispute occurring, but they didn't know anything else at the time..
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 13, 2020, 12:30:13 AM
I think when it gets down to this level it just underscores exactly how fucking hard it is to be a cop in crime ridden areas and have to make snap decisions in intense situations.

I sold an item online today and met the buyer in Kankakee on my way by. Super nice dude, late 40s or so, not real big, looked like a banker or accountant but was driving an older import. Soft spoken, measured in his speech, and wearing a charity pullover. The kind people usually get for doing a lot for said charity.

I forgot to bring a piece of the item he bought so I said I’d be happy to meet up with him again next time I’m going through. He told me he has been a cop in K3 for 24 years and with everything going on it wasn’t a good time to be a cop.

His schedule is way out of whack due to increased criminal activity, he isn’t seeing his family or his kids’ events, he doesn’t know what hours he’s working beyond the next day, and because of his rank he’s basically never off duty.  They’re basically being told to stand down unless it’s life threatening.

I put myself in his shoes and tried to reconcile having the occupation of enforcing the law against being asked to allow community wrecking crime by certain protected groups. All the while he’s missing time he can never get back with his wife and kids.

There are a lot of bad cops that seek the position to have power over others and they should be held accountable at the highest level. But imo there are FAR more guys like the one I met today whose home life is being compromised while also having his entire job being redefined every time a news program airs. These guys aren’t the enemy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 13, 2020, 07:57:31 AM
What little I've seen, and and some are alleged.
In Kenosha, the police were responding to a 911 call. Without the contents of the call or the comments of the dispatcher to the police, it's conjecture what the police did or did not know.
Blake entered the woman's residence and took the kids and her car keys.
Blake later had a head lock on one of the responding police officers.
Blake was tased twice while resisting.
Someone, not the police, apparently shouted "drop the knife" twice. A knife was found on the floorboard when Blake tried entering the woman's car, where he already had the kids in the back seat. Blake's movements reaching into the car do not appear to be those of someone trying to sit in the driver's seat.
There is no way for the officer to know if any of the first shots were sufficient to stop Blake. It's possible that it was the last shot that did it.
George Floyd ....
He was in a car apparently breathing ok.
The 2 rookie police officers showed up and Floyd was not cooperative. Chauvin and Thao responded.  Floyd was sitting in the police car when he says that he couldn't breathe. The medical examiner indicated that if Floyd had been found dead alone at home,  his toxicology report would have been sufficient to treat it as an od.
The "I can't breathe" didn't start when he was on the ground.
Mike Freeman, the county attorney, and 3 prosecutors have been currently disqualified from the case by Judge Cahill for discussions with the medical examiner. The Judge cited "sloppy" work.
"The ruling related to a meeting some staff lawyers had with the Hennepin County medical examiner, a likely witness in the case, which allegedly violated the rules of professional conduct for attorneys.
“I think it was sloppy not to have someone [else] present [at a meeting with] a primary witness in this case,” Cahill said."
A defense attorney for one of the officers is requesting information regarding Floyd and his previous cooperation with police as a "snitch".
I'm not defending Chauvin by any means, but there may be a lot more to this story than meets the eye so far.





Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 13, 2020, 08:13:41 AM
One of the reports said he told them he was claustrophobic when in the police car .

Shocked at claims of prosecutorial misconduct. Shocking!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 13, 2020, 08:26:58 AM
One of the reports said he told them he was claustrophobic when in the police car .

Shocked at claims of prosecutorial misconduct. Shocking!

I've seen that too. He was apparently ok 20-30 minutes earlier when he was sitting in his own car.
Being in your own car, then arguing with the police for 20 minutes doesn't do much for an "I'm claustrophobic" claim after being placed in the back seat of a police car.

The Judge apparently agrees with you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 13, 2020, 09:15:17 AM
Not sure being in custody in the back of a police car is the same as being in your car, but whatever gets you through the day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 13, 2020, 10:19:07 AM
Not sure being in custody in the back of a police car is the same as being in your car, but whatever gets you through the day.

Those plastic seats are very uncomfortable
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 13, 2020, 10:29:30 AM
Not sure being in custody in the back of a police car is the same as being in your car, but whatever gets you through the day.
I've already got plans to get me thru the day.
6 hours in the smoker, shred it and freeze it for Mississippi pot roast sandwiches out on the boat next week.
Hopefully warm, like we do the Portillo's italian beef/sausage sandwiches.
(https://i.ibb.co/LdsJrJx/20200913-102447.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xqrfYf1)
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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 13, 2020, 12:35:51 PM
Nice
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 13, 2020, 07:35:13 PM
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/09/13/anti-police-protesters-yell-we-hope-they-die-outside-hospital-where-wounded-deputies-were-taken/

https://nypost.com/2020/09/13/la-hospital-treating-deputies-inundated-by-protesters/

https://twitter.com/josie_huang

For now it looks like a handful of protestors gathered and taunted police officers at the hospital. Shame on them. One may have said he hoped they die. Ugh. The police subsequently arrested a protestor. They also may have mugged a female reporter and perhaps even tried to destroy evidence. At some point, they posted what appears to have been an inflammatory tweet, but that has been removed. Still, the "liberal" media runs with wild stories of mobs blocking entrances and shouting 'we hope they die'.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 14, 2020, 02:11:39 AM
You’d think in 2020 people could call a game without actually being there.

Harry Caray, for example.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 14, 2020, 06:32:34 AM
😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 14, 2020, 08:43:20 AM
If only there had been a social worker intervention ...
(https://i.ibb.co/NNf42GL/Screenshot-20200914-083811.jpg) (https://ibb.co/T0JCMNH)
(https://i.ibb.co/9Yg9VPg/Screenshot-20200914-084115.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cT3cCq3)

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on September 14, 2020, 09:22:47 AM
Quite the nuance you have here.  These issues are never complicated?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 14, 2020, 10:56:22 AM
It’s a joke
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on September 14, 2020, 11:32:04 AM
I can agree with that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 14, 2020, 04:28:47 PM
https://nypost.com/2020/09/14/man-who-pooped-on-pelosis-driveway-calls-it-peaceful-protest/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 14, 2020, 04:50:08 PM
Video shows a lot more cops than protestors. Josie Huang was wearing press credentials and yelling that she was a reporter. Cops are trained to lie.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 14, 2020, 04:52:22 PM
Police claimed Huang, who also reports for LAist, didn’t have credentials and ignored demands to leave the area.

But those claims are contradicted by video Huang shared on Sunday showing her quickly backing away from police when ordered to do so and repeatedly identifying herself as a journalist. Huang said she also had a press badge around her neck.

NPR executives and reporters groups condemned Huang’s arrest, demanding her charges be dropped and the sheriff’s department explain why officers forcefully tackled her.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/14/la-sheriffs-josie-huang-npr/

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 15, 2020, 12:45:18 PM
https://www.insider.com/mcdonalds-selling-chicken-mcnugget-body-pillow-travis-scott-2020-9
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 16, 2020, 10:28:08 AM
https://english.uchicago.edu/graduate/admissions

Quote
For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies. We understand Black Studies to be a capacious intellectual project that spans a variety of methodological approaches, fields, geographical areas, languages, and time periods. For more information on faculty and current graduate students in this area, please visit our Black Studies Page.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 17, 2020, 10:17:42 AM
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/sep/16/after-balking-at-masks-pastor-and-church-staff-in-/

"A Coeur d’Alene pastor who opened his large church in early May for in-person services that allowed and even encouraged unmasked congregants to gather has been recovering from COVID-19 at the Kootenai Health intensive care unit."

God a big fan of irony, apparently.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 17, 2020, 11:42:01 PM
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/neil-postman-still-amusing-ourselves-to-death/?utm_source=recirc-mobile&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=more-in&utm_term=fourth
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 18, 2020, 09:19:24 AM
https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/adbusters-white-house-siege-september-17/

lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 18, 2020, 07:19:19 PM
It's the tenth anniversary of RBG's incredibly selfish decision to not retire when, at age 77 and a cancer patient/survivor, her party held both the Senate and the White House.

Bravo RBG. Brilliant strategy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 19, 2020, 09:45:31 AM
It's the tenth anniversary of RBG's incredibly selfish decision to not retire when, at age 77 and a cancer patient/survivor, her party held both the Senate and the White House.

Bravo RBG. Brilliant strategy.

How selfish of her. What a bitch!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 19, 2020, 02:09:06 PM
There is a “Trump Store” (possibly stores) setting up on the edges of small towns and slinging Trump merch out of concession style trailers. Sorry for the shitty photo. It was in Watseka a week or two ago. Today it’s in Fairbury.

(https://i.ibb.co/BGwM7kL/31-EBBEA3-E722-4-F8-F-9-F3-C-9973-A0913-F26.jpg) (https://ibb.co/2S54LJq)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 19, 2020, 05:10:37 PM
Olivia Troye was right. Trump is thanking his lucky stars he'll never have to meet those people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 19, 2020, 10:41:22 PM
It's the tenth anniversary of RBG's incredibly selfish decision to not retire when, at age 77 and a cancer patient/survivor, her party held both the Senate and the White House.

Bravo RBG. Brilliant strategy.

Should this be a separate wtf is up SCOTUS thread?  It is going to be fucking interesting.  It looks like lose/lose/lose for Trump and the weasels McConnell and Graham. OK, maybe they have an out?  Obama was a lame duck? Wait, what was that about a Biden rule? A reference to 1992? Was George H. W. Bush a two President? 

Meanwhile Grassley and Murkowski have recently reaffirmed. Grassley this summer, Murkowski days ago. Cory Gardner is up for reelection, behind in the polls, and is another past 'Biden rule' advocate. Susan Collins is 12 down in the Quinnipiac and is already saying the November winner should pick the replacement. Then there is Mitt Romney. Are there 4 no votes?

Meanwhile, besides Collins and Gardner, 11 other Republican Senate seats are now considered vulnerable, including Graham's. Dems have 2 vulnerable seats. If Dems gain 4, they win control of the Senate.   

If Trump & McConnell ram through a hard right replacement; that should motivate opposition turnout. Even if Trump ekes out an electoral college victory, he might still lose the Senate.

It might be wiser to do nothing, or even nominate a female version of Merrick Garland. Except that is not gonna fire up the Trumpsters.

Republicans are thinking it's best to motivate their own base. Plus, they'll need a vote to steal the election and some Senate seats.  My guess is he nominates a hard right anti-abortion woman and McConnell forces a vote timed to affect the election.     
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 20, 2020, 03:28:00 AM
Should this be a separate wtf is up SCOTUS thread? 

The Fart has restricted my ability to start threads.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2020, 09:39:16 AM
The Fart has restricted my ability to start threads.

Fake news

(https://i.ibb.co/87y6PKZ/F317-D696-F22-A-4-CBD-9084-991-D22-BDB227.jpg) (https://ibb.co/W2rgBxJ)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 20, 2020, 12:31:28 PM
I just assumed you got tired of him starting new threads late at night/early in the morning while under the influence of dumpster booze/weed....oh wait....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 20, 2020, 05:46:55 PM
I do not like marijuana.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2020, 07:20:46 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/W3FQVCg/03-CFF768-CB14-4-AEF-B61-A-A9-E9-A6-CC627-C.jpg) (https://ibb.co/CtvqPLh)
(https://i.ibb.co/KrPDzhv/38187-AD8-AB01-47-B0-AEAA-366-D7-EE4968-D.jpg) (https://ibb.co/fxg9GFw)

Saw a lot of signs out today even some Biden ones
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 21, 2020, 06:20:44 PM
This is pretty damned good

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/nine-inch-nails-new-pandemic-merch-perfectly-sums-up-2020/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 22, 2020, 11:40:30 AM
Seattle hires an ex-pimp @ $150k a year to be a street Czar... lol

https://komonews.com/news/local/new-city-contract-with-seattle-street-czar-under-scrutiny
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2020, 01:21:18 PM
This is exactly what I’d do if I were a politician there and ultimately wanted tons of public support to take things back to normal.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 22, 2020, 03:56:27 PM
This is exactly what I’d do if I were a politician there and ultimately wanted tons of public support to take things back to normal.

I have to laugh as it is not much different than what actually happened way back when with the "surge" in Iraq. All we really did was pay more than the Iranians, et al., did to the local warlords so that they would cool it. And it worked. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 22, 2020, 04:19:52 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8756911/Defund-police-activist-Alyssa-Milano-sparks-massive-police-presence-calling-911.html

'Defund the police' activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property - but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 22, 2020, 05:20:02 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8756911/Defund-police-activist-Alyssa-Milano-sparks-massive-police-presence-calling-911.html

'Defund the police' activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property - but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun

Milano is not very sharp. But does a lot less damage than equivalently stupid people on the right. And there are a lot more equivalently stupid people on the right. Hell, there are more just on this board.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 22, 2020, 05:33:57 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/co3YjYC.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 22, 2020, 06:41:40 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/co3YjYC.png)

You can do much better than this weak au jus.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2020, 07:02:32 PM
I liked that au jus so much I shared it with some friends
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2020, 07:35:53 PM
The entire world right now

(https://media2.giphy.com/media/26BGGNs1gCbRF53Xy/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2020, 08:06:05 PM
Milano is not very sharp. But does a lot less damage than equivalently stupid people on the right. And there are a lot more equivalently stupid people on the right. Hell, there are more just on this board.

(https://i.ibb.co/1mFKDCp/99249054-B510-440-B-8-D26-BB9446067-E1-C.jpg) (https://ibb.co/sV8Q0TD)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 22, 2020, 08:15:43 PM
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-claim-returning-to-campus-amid-covid-enforces-white-supremacy-culture/?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 22, 2020, 08:53:02 PM
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-claim-returning-to-campus-amid-covid-enforces-white-supremacy-culture/?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated

That is pretty funny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 22, 2020, 08:54:27 PM
I liked that au jus so much I shared it with some friends

Definitely weak, watery au jus instead of a good, tasty sturdy gravy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 22, 2020, 11:13:42 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/1mFKDCp/99249054-B510-440-B-8-D26-BB9446067-E1-C.jpg) (https://ibb.co/sV8Q0TD)

well played - but Whataboutism implies that you say that the original item is OK.

Milano is a dumpster. Her opposition is a dumpster on fire. I like neither.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 22, 2020, 11:40:06 PM
Dumpsters are awesome.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 23, 2020, 05:16:39 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/KwsVdGR/OUDDNOJFNNDEPHCCAFNYITZ6-Y4.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dgpkFc1)

The Kingfishers ?
More than one clown in this one.
What's next ? Join the MAC ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 23, 2020, 11:24:30 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/t7Au07H.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 23, 2020, 11:28:45 PM
Seems.like good, common sense advice. Just keep your wallet in your front pocket.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 24, 2020, 10:05:45 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/t7Au07H.jpg)

Fake news.

Everyone knows that the freedom lovers live in double wides, not communist condos with elevators.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 24, 2020, 11:39:23 AM
Murph smoked you again, just like on the stock issue, ILLove....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 24, 2020, 03:24:45 PM
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-adult-obesity-rate-tops-42-percent-highest-ever-recorded-301132778.html

STOP EATING YOU FAT FUCKS
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 24, 2020, 05:05:02 PM
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-adult-obesity-rate-tops-42-percent-highest-ever-recorded-301132778.html

STOP EATING YOU FAT FUCKS

I am doing my part to keep the percentage up there! CT probably isn't.  Slacker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 24, 2020, 05:22:33 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/deeEA15.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 24, 2020, 10:19:32 PM
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-adult-obesity-rate-tops-42-percent-highest-ever-recorded-301132778.html

STOP EATING YOU FAT FUCKS

COVID affects virtually nobody, just people with underlying conditions. Starting with the 42 percent who are obese
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 24, 2020, 10:48:39 PM
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-adult-obesity-rate-tops-42-percent-highest-ever-recorded-301132778.html

STOP EATING YOU FAT FUCKS

1/2 lb med rare cheeseburger with veggies from the garden on a buttered/grilled brioche bun

(https://i.ibb.co/sqWDNws/7677-F55-E-6752-4-DB5-9-F66-6-CC176-E88-AF1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/njPVYcQ)
(https://i.ibb.co/KF814Q6/0938-E2-F8-AAC3-43-A0-BAB7-29-B5-DA2-E54-A6.jpg) (https://ibb.co/NZG4Dkx)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 24, 2020, 11:01:16 PM
COVID affects virtually nobody, just people with underlying conditions. Starting with the 42 percent who are obese

True. Really underscores just how much more dangerous it is to be obese than virtually any other factor. Obesity is the common denominator in virtually all the major causes of premature death in the US.

As I’ve said so many times before, I’d love to see our leaders attack mental health and obesity issues with the vigor with which they’ve attacked the spread of the virus.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 24, 2020, 11:35:04 PM
1/2 lb med rare cheeseburger with veggies from the garden on a buttered/grilled brioche bun

(https://i.ibb.co/sqWDNws/7677-F55-E-6752-4-DB5-9-F66-6-CC176-E88-AF1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/njPVYcQ)
(https://i.ibb.co/KF814Q6/0938-E2-F8-AAC3-43-A0-BAB7-29-B5-DA2-E54-A6.jpg) (https://ibb.co/NZG4Dkx)

I hate brioche buns, too bready.

Going to make smashburgers for lunch tomorrow, ill hopefully remember to take a picture
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 24, 2020, 11:39:12 PM
This is literally the first time I’ve bought brioche. These aren’t that bready. Didn’t stand up to that burger at all.

I considered making smash burgers tonight but it was so nice out I wanted to grill
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 25, 2020, 01:08:38 AM
I hate brioche buns, too bready.

Going to make smashburgers for lunch tomorrow, ill hopefully remember to take a picture

It's a nice burger but you gotta up your garden game if you are growing iceberg and whatever those red things are.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 25, 2020, 08:45:44 AM
COVID affects virtually nobody, just people with underlying conditions. Starting with the 42 percent who are obese

Yoan Moncada begs to differ.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 25, 2020, 08:59:12 AM
https://www.tampabay.com/sports/lightning/2020/09/24/lightning-fans-screams-prompt-visit-from-police/

Neighbor calls police on Lightning fans screaming ‘shoot’

Devon Garnett and his pals were yelling at the TV during game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 25, 2020, 05:49:48 PM
https://www.tampabay.com/sports/lightning/2020/09/24/lightning-fans-screams-prompt-visit-from-police/

Neighbor calls police on Lightning fans screaming ‘shoot’

Devon Garnett and his pals were yelling at the TV during game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals


(https://i.ibb.co/VVQHkxQ/The-Andy-Griffith-Show-Pictured-are-Don-Knotts-Barney-Fife-and-Jim-Nabors-Gomer-Pyle-Public-Domain-A.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 25, 2020, 06:10:56 PM
oh hey I remembered, pre condiments double smash burgers... words can not describe how fucking good these are... and Custard I am very disappointed that you don't own one of these https://amzn.to/2S0sdIE yet, best $250 I've spent in ages (guess word got out since they are now $331 lol)

(https://i.imgur.com/9BAd7aY.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 25, 2020, 06:16:13 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/pwuFMWn.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 25, 2020, 10:29:27 PM
Would hope a businessperson would be more responsible than rioters.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 26, 2020, 12:57:55 AM
There's a good reason why MAGAts keep comparing themselves to lawless mobs.

Would hope a businessperson would be more responsible than rioters.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 26, 2020, 07:38:23 AM
There's a good reason why MAGAts keep comparing themselves to lawless mobs.

Great point
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 26, 2020, 07:56:21 AM
You mean people didn't know this already?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/judge-rules-fox-news-tucker-carlson-not-source-of-news-defamation-suit-mcdougal-trump.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 28, 2020, 11:49:12 PM
Ok who mailed Trump the envelopes of ricin?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 29, 2020, 10:20:11 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/n9NyDDc.jpg)

saw this on my TV a few weeks ago, first time I've actually watched TV in ages, good to know they are still brainwashing the youth
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 29, 2020, 02:57:42 PM
I’m pretty fired up for the debate tonight and the SP Pandemic Special tomorrow night. I pretty much went from March until 2 weeks ago without watching TV. When it’s nice out I’m outside until dark or later every night.

About the only things I care to watch are sports and since they were 2020’d I had no reason to watch TV. but with the days getting short and the evenings being cold I’m getting sucked into some of the drama. Got high hopes for the SP episode. And the debate. Should be epic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 29, 2020, 02:58:01 PM
I’m pretty fired up for the debate tonight and the SP Pandemic Special tomorrow night. I pretty much went from March until 2 weeks ago without watching TV. When it’s nice out I’m outside until dark or later every night unless it’s raining.

About the only things I care to watch are sports and since they were 2020’d I had no reason to watch TV. but with the days getting short and the evenings being cold I’m getting sucked into some of the drama. Got high hopes for the SP episode. And the debate. Should be epic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 01, 2020, 04:54:26 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1311746097447137283?s=20

cringe level over 9000
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 01, 2020, 05:23:47 PM
She just trying to lighten the mood

(https://i.ibb.co/YBmWccy/191447-C0-5922-4773-82-D5-E9081-EE4-BC1-A.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4Rzf88Y)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 01, 2020, 07:18:22 PM
Good grief, I think the two Parties did flip, but not in the sense most people think, and it has been a recent flip. We now have hand wringing, right wing victims of offensive speech who just make things up, are into white identity,  and think their made up alternative facts and theories are just as valid as real facts and scientific theories, because they make them feel better. This is straight out of self esteem education and identity politics. Guys like Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh have devolved into pathetic parodies of themselves. 
 

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 13, 2020, 11:11:08 AM
Now we know what happened to CT?

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1625454/donald-trump-superfan-dies-praying-coronavirus/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on October 13, 2020, 06:56:52 PM
IIRC, he was only half-Desi.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 13, 2020, 07:40:10 PM
I’m hoping once seasons start getting going maybe some of the old regulars will find their way back again.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on October 13, 2020, 10:21:10 PM
But not him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 13, 2020, 11:01:42 PM
CT was one of the most accidentally entertaining characters
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 28, 2020, 12:58:46 PM
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a8507112/marrying-yourself-wedding-trend/

lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 28, 2020, 04:12:36 PM
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a8507112/marrying-yourself-wedding-trend/

lol

I laughed at 2 things:

1. The article. That is ripe for The Onion.
2. You reading Cosmopolitan.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 28, 2020, 07:04:19 PM
wow lmao!

https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1321533528870244352

(https://i.imgur.com/Ep1liaK.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 28, 2020, 08:50:07 PM
Had a blast reading the comments
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 28, 2020, 09:22:30 PM
Had a blast reading the comments
Like this one with Mayor Lightfoot.
(https://i.ibb.co/Ntp8Pq6/Screenshot-20201028-212015.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TYRVSGB)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 31, 2020, 12:00:09 PM
Illinois playing 4th string QB with no kicker against Purdue in front of fewer people than are currently in line to get COVID tests at Market Place Mall.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 04, 2020, 09:28:14 PM
https://www.thelocal.dk/20201104/denmark-to-cull-millions-of-minks-over-mutated-coronavirus

wtf yo
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on November 04, 2020, 09:55:23 PM
Those weasels.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 15, 2020, 07:51:38 PM
I have been slacking hard on this thread

https://www.rt.com/sport/484358-kazakh-bodybuilder-sex-doll-marriage-coronavirus/

lol
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Post by: fucking on November 15, 2020, 09:59:44 PM
Looks like she doesn't give head.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on November 19, 2020, 10:53:55 AM
has journalism peaked?

(https://i.imgur.com/OGf7BH7.png)
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Post by: Custard on November 19, 2020, 12:35:04 PM
😂😂😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on November 19, 2020, 03:01:47 PM
I blamed someone for a fart just the other day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 19, 2020, 04:12:49 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/8PS9d1V/0-B3-CBB2-E-BE63-4-AC2-BC27-E6-EEA08-F7-C1-E.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)
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Post by: ILLove1997 on November 20, 2020, 10:32:33 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfcDmbFYs7Q

 ???
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Post by: Custard on November 20, 2020, 12:07:22 PM
Scary shit Jesus
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Post by: ILLove1997 on November 27, 2020, 11:41:18 AM
I always wondered why "big corporate" was pushing diversity... now it all makes sense

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228324/amazon-whole-foods-unionization-heat-map-union

Quote
Store-risk metrics include average store compensation, average total store sales, and a “diversity index” that represents the racial and ethnic diversity of every store. Stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity and lower employee compensation, as well as higher total store sales and higher rates of workers’ compensation claims, according to the documents.
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Post by: ThePAMan on November 27, 2020, 11:46:50 AM
I always wondered why "big corporate" was pushing diversity... now it all makes sense

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228324/amazon-whole-foods-unionization-heat-map-union

An article from.April???
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Post by: ridingthegrange on November 27, 2020, 02:20:44 PM
Big business has bought into diversity and taking care of their workers (Walmart excepted) since the late 80's.  It's a win/win for them: right thing to do and good for business!
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Post by: Custard on November 29, 2020, 04:23:37 PM
Wonder if that’s how she ended up in the wheelchair

(https://i.ibb.co/0YJhpWw/02-D063-DF-88-CB-4-EAB-A820-119-A58526995.jpg) (https://ibb.co/p4XJ6sm)
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Post by: Chickengeorge on November 29, 2020, 06:51:06 PM
Prolly had something to do with sexing up the teen wolf.
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Post by: murphstahoe on November 30, 2020, 11:17:20 AM
God is punishing me for coming to Chicago for Thanksgiving

https://twitter.com/ABC7Chicago/status/1333419397495615488
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Post by: Custard on November 30, 2020, 11:56:03 AM
Major shrinkage
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Post by: ILLove1997 on November 30, 2020, 02:37:44 PM
God is punishing me for coming to Chicago for Thanksgiving

https://twitter.com/ABC7Chicago/status/1333419397495615488

I swear I've seen that exact same video a few years ago, well turns out not exactly the same

https://youtu.be/b3BgWG-9XAs?t=5

man people are fucking dumb
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 03, 2020, 08:58:39 AM
https://www.cnet.com/news/this-pale-sweaty-robot-hand-wants-to-take-romantic-walks-with-you/

this invention will probably be comforting for some of you
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Post by: Custard on December 03, 2020, 09:41:20 AM
Man that’s fucking weird.

Also, Manti Te’o has one.

Too soon?
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 03, 2020, 01:04:41 PM
Man that’s fucking weird.

Also, Manti Te’o has one.

Too soon?

 golds! golds! golds! golds! golds!
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 03, 2020, 02:04:07 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/03/namibia-election-adolf-hitler-uunona/

sure he isn't...
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Post by: murphstahoe on December 03, 2020, 03:54:46 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/03/namibia-election-adolf-hitler-uunona/

sure he isn't...
If he were he'd change his name to Donald Drumpf Unoana
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Post by: ridingthegrange on December 03, 2020, 06:04:38 PM
https://www.cnet.com/news/this-pale-sweaty-robot-hand-wants-to-take-romantic-walks-with-you/

this invention will probably be comforting for some of you

This makes for a great stocking stuffer!
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Post by: Custard on December 03, 2020, 09:34:22 PM
🤣
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 05, 2020, 11:42:22 AM
Currently stuck by a train at Harlem and Fullerton if someone wants ro bring beer and hang out
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 06, 2020, 12:13:04 PM
https://twitter.com/aureylian/status/1334964758932549632
Quote
Happy to see Twitch has listened to everyone who shared feedback and removed the “Blind Playthrough” tag to encourage more inclusive language for our community.

You can still use “First Playthrough” or opt to use it in combination with "No Spoilers" for the same sentiment.
💜
8)
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 06, 2020, 12:30:13 PM
https://twitter.com/aureylian/status/1334964758932549632 8)

What does this even mean? Not as old as Mn, but old enough....
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 06, 2020, 06:40:25 PM
What did I do ?
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Post by: Custard on December 06, 2020, 07:16:57 PM
This fuckin guy


https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/Forum/threads/illinois-at-duke-tuesday-december-8th-8-30pm-ct-espn.25760/post-1560002
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Post by: Custard on December 06, 2020, 07:42:37 PM
MN did you see Minny get lambasted on 60 Minutes for cutting non revenue sports but going to great lengths to play football?

They made some valid point regarding the NCAA and the power/business structure of college revenue sports. However, in the interviews of the athletes or coaches whose sports had been cut, no one seemed to understand where the millions of dollars it costs to run these programs comes from.
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 06, 2020, 08:03:18 PM
This fuckin guy


https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/Forum/threads/illinois-at-duke-tuesday-december-8th-8-30pm-ct-espn.25760/post-1560002

I remember that wack job.

Also a wewillwint sighting....
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 06, 2020, 09:05:30 PM
MN did you see Minny get lambasted on 60 Minutes for cutting non revenue sports but going to great lengths to play football?

They made some valid point regarding the NCAA and the power/business structure of college revenue sports. However, in the interviews of the athletes or coaches whose sports had been cut, no one seemed to understand where the millions of dollars it costs to run these programs comes from.
I stopped watching after 'football has 115 players on scholarship, and title lX ......'
So I saw about 30 seconds.
A good football program is good for the entire athletic dept.
The gofs had 10000 more fannies per game last year than we did.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 06, 2020, 09:14:17 PM
This fuckin guy


https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/Forum/threads/illinois-at-duke-tuesday-december-8th-8-30pm-ct-espn.25760/post-1560002

I see his mental illness is still strong lol
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 06, 2020, 10:06:18 PM
here's a good one from the CTU... lol

(https://i.redd.it/r6z1jtqhqn361.jpg)
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 06, 2020, 10:57:48 PM
here's a good one from the CTU... lol

(https://i.redd.it/r6z1jtqhqn361.jpg)
.

Crazy.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 08, 2020, 12:59:44 PM
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1336049824391688194

lol
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 08, 2020, 01:20:47 PM
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1336049824391688194

lol

Feel badly for Mn. Dude just wanted to spread holiday cheer and all he gets is grief from his neighbor.
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Post by: alum74 on December 08, 2020, 01:55:09 PM
Feel badly for Mn. Dude just wanted to spread holiday cheer and all he gets is grief from his neighbor.

I see you got the memo too.  Now that Joe Biden has been elected, it's OK to say Happy Holidays again.
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 08, 2020, 03:59:03 PM
The letter was discussed on #TCNT this a.m.
A neighbor of the recipient called the show & indicated they may know which neighbor wrote the letter. Starts at 4 mins.
https://iheart.com/podcast/139-justice-drew-28004901/episode/hour-1-christmas-is-cancelled-74901456

Another person from the n'hood posted their copy on our FB pg. Said 4 homes got it.

Jesus, Mary, Joseph. lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 08, 2020, 04:24:18 PM
I think we've all had unpleasant encounters with crazy leftists.

In law school, there was a sweaty obese girl who had a crush on me.  Our outspoken leftist agitator put pressure on me to get involved with her. Blatant sexual harassment, you might say.

The same thing happened with a gay guy and his sister. She and her friends pressured me to get involved with him because he liked me. I guess you're not woke if you're not willing to suck a dude.
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Post by: murphstahoe on December 08, 2020, 07:36:00 PM
I think we've all had unpleasant encounters with crazy leftists.

In law school, there was a sweaty obese girl who had a crush on me.  Our outspoken leftist agitator put pressure on me to get involved with her. Blatant sexual harassment, you might say.

The same thing happened with a gay guy and his sister. She and her friends pressured me to get involved with him because he liked me. I guess you're not woke if you're not willing to suck a dude.

https://media.giphy.com/media/K0AnEB2t2EM/giphy.gif
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 08, 2020, 07:55:30 PM
I think we've all had unpleasant encounters with crazy leftists.

In law school, there was a sweaty obese girl who had a crush on me.  Our outspoken leftist agitator put pressure on me to get involved with her. Blatant sexual harassment, you might say.

The same thing happened with a gay guy and his sister. She and her friends pressured me to get involved with him because he liked me. I guess you're not woke if you're not willing to suck a dude.

I guess you are just too damned sexy for your own good. Or is it "were"?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 08, 2020, 07:56:57 PM
The letter was discussed on #TCNT this a.m.
A neighbor of the recipient called the show & indicated they may know which neighbor wrote the letter. Starts at 4 mins.
https://iheart.com/podcast/139-justice-drew-28004901/episode/hour-1-christmas-is-cancelled-74901456

Another person from the n'hood posted their copy on our FB pg. Said 4 homes got it.

Jesus, Mary, Joseph. lol

Is that Mary Richards' old show?
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 08, 2020, 08:24:12 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/DmGXr9x.png)

so much material these days... yes this is real
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 08, 2020, 08:26:28 PM
I think we've all had unpleasant encounters with crazy leftists.

In law school, there was a sweaty obese girl who had a crush on me.  Our outspoken leftist agitator put pressure on me to get involved with her. Blatant sexual harassment, you might say.

The same thing happened with a gay guy and his sister. She and her friends pressured me to get involved with him because he liked me. I guess you're not woke if you're not willing to suck a dude.

(https://i.imgur.com/St2MmyI.png)
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Post by: Custard on December 08, 2020, 09:36:41 PM
I had Burger King/queen today. The 2 whoppers for $5 is a fantastic deal. It’s one of my occasional guilty pleasures.
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2020, 03:48:39 PM
I thought this was the best line from the article:

Quote
The chief of the Peoria Tribe did not respond to requests for comment, and his community was busy setting up for a children’s Christmas party, his office said on Tuesday.

Chief Illiniwek was officially retired 13 years ago. University of Illinois is still trying to remedy his ‘painful impact’ on Indigenous people.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-university-of-illinois-native-americans-20201209-zcekffcctvh6jdlaauwhaou2cm-story.html

Yes, the chief was too busy setting up for a Christmas party to talk. Good to see they are continuing those original indigenous rituals.

Been 13 years. No more frat guys dressed as natives will be doing the David Lee Roth jump splits at halftime ever again. Open a casino and move on.
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Post by: fucking on December 09, 2020, 04:29:03 PM
I had Burger King/queen today. The 2 whoppers for $5 is a fantastic deal. It’s one of my occasional guilty pleasures.

Whoppers are an American treasure. And now, thanks to globalism, we can share them with the world.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 10, 2020, 08:48:28 AM
Whoppers are an American treasure. And now, thanks to globalism, we can share them with the world.

I don't like mayo or raw white onions all that much
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 10, 2020, 08:49:41 AM
I thought this was the best line from the article:

Chief Illiniwek was officially retired 13 years ago. University of Illinois is still trying to remedy his ‘painful impact’ on Indigenous people.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-university-of-illinois-native-americans-20201209-zcekffcctvh6jdlaauwhaou2cm-story.html

Yes, the chief was too busy setting up for a Christmas party to talk. Good to see they are continuing those original indigenous rituals.

Been 13 years. No more frat guys dressed as natives will be doing the David Lee Roth jump splits at halftime ever again. Open a casino and move on.

This is an outstanding clown world article passiveaggressiveman, you are finally catching on!

I guess these clowns were just waiting till one of our sports teams was actually good again to start squeaking the wheel?  lol
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Post by: Custard on December 10, 2020, 12:24:24 PM
Whoppers are an American treasure. And now, thanks to globalism, we can share them with the world.

I was bummed when they closed the old one on Green. A Whopper was great drunk food. I imagine it still is but I never seem to be drunk within walking distance of a BK these days.

La Bamba and Garcia’s were the other ways I liked to ensure my hangovers were as uncomfortable as possible.
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Post by: fucking on December 10, 2020, 05:18:48 PM
I don't like mayo or raw white onions all that much

Right. Because you're A FUCKING COMMUNIST.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 10, 2020, 10:19:14 PM
I don't like mayo or raw white onions all that much

We have one thing in common besides Illini sports.
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Post by: illiniray on December 10, 2020, 10:38:06 PM
I think we've all had unpleasant encounters with crazy leftists.

In law school, there was a sweaty obese girl who had a crush on me.  Our outspoken leftist agitator put pressure on me to get involved with her. Blatant sexual harassment, you might say.

The same thing happened with a gay guy and his sister. She and her friends pressured me to get involved with him because he liked me. I guess you're not woke if you're not willing to suck a dude.

I was hot when when I was young. Got hit on all the time. I Learned to tell gay guys, no thanks I am straight. I'd tell the fat chicks I had a girl friend. They cried.   

Had an encounter one October with pita people at Lake of the Woods near Mahomet. They looked ridiculous in their camouflage hiking garb, armed with organic bug repellant.  I was fishing; which triggered them. They seemed to think the great spirit had put those fish there to swim around and be happy. Actually, I was catching rainbow trout with my nephew. I explained to them those were stocked in the fall, strictly as a 'put and take' fish, paid for with fishing license fees. They stormed away pissed off.           
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 10, 2020, 11:05:10 PM
HQ2 may be the 5th most popular Illin messagei board, but it appears to have the hottest posters.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 10, 2020, 11:15:56 PM
I was hot when when I was young. Got hit on all the time. I Learned to tell gay guys, no thanks I am straight. I'd tell the fat chicks I had a girl friend. They cried.   

Had an encounter one October with pita people at Lake of the Woods near Mahomet. They looked ridiculous in their camouflage hiking garb, armed with organic bug repellant.  I was fishing; which triggered them. They seemed to think the great spirit had put those fish there to swim around and be happy. Actually, I was catching rainbow trout with my nephew. I explained to them those were stocked in the fall, strictly as a 'put and take' fish, paid for with fishing license fees. They stormed away pissed off.         

This rob parody is absolutely fantastic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 10, 2020, 11:19:02 PM
HQ2 may be the 5th most popular Illin messagei board, but it appears to have the hottest posters.

(https://media4.giphy.com/media/3oFzmkkwfOGlzZ0gxi/giphy.gif)
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 11, 2020, 09:50:41 AM
yeah, how convenient... you couldn't even talk about it before the election without getting banned from every social media platform and now that its over here we go... lol  honk honk!

(https://i.imgur.com/rPyQSsK.png)
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Post by: ThePAMan on December 11, 2020, 09:58:42 AM
yeah, how convenient... you couldn't even talk about it before the election without getting banned from every social media platform and now that its over here we go... lol  honk honk!

(https://i.imgur.com/rPyQSsK.png)

I have zero clue what Hunter Biden may or may not have done. But I'm not sure that the current DOJ looking into anything he may or may not have done actually means squat at this point.

Also, seems odd that the DOJ was opening its investigation at the time Trump was getting impeached for shaking down the Ukraine for information on.....Hunter Biden.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on December 11, 2020, 10:47:45 AM
this is pretty hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAiE9fJbVd4
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 16, 2020, 10:37:10 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/going-outside-is-our-only-escape-but-now-thats-scary-too/2020/04/07/c3ab9be0-7431-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html

lol honk honk!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 16, 2020, 10:51:58 AM
I think we've all had unpleasant encounters with crazy leftists.

In law school, there was a sweaty obese girl who had a crush on me.  Our outspoken leftist agitator put pressure on me to get involved with her. Blatant sexual harassment, you might say.

The same thing happened with a gay guy and his sister. She and her friends pressured me to get involved with him because he liked me. I guess you're not woke if you're not willing to suck a dude.

But did you suck him?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 16, 2020, 10:02:53 PM
Speaking of Clown Worlds ...

Some of you probably saw a recent Onion about George RR Martin collecting Topless Elf art.

https://ogn.theonion.com/the-con-pays-off-after-years-of-feigning-interest-geo-1845800147

It made me think: Is Topless Elf a thing? Is there something I don't know? So I Googled it.


Holy. Motherfucking. Shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2020, 10:08:28 AM
Speaking of Clown Worlds ...

Some of you probably saw a recent Onion about George RR Martin collecting Topless Elf art.

https://ogn.theonion.com/the-con-pays-off-after-years-of-feigning-interest-geo-1845800147

It made me think: Is Topless Elf a thing? Is there something I don't know? So I Googled it.


Holy. Motherfucking. Shit.

congrats on finally discovering Rule 34
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2020, 10:26:15 AM
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61955

get 10 billion dollars of donations to "help" black people

take that 10 billion dollars and start a bank and "loan" it to black people with interest... lol ok
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2020, 10:32:39 AM
lmao whaaat

(https://i.imgur.com/1PgjoGZ.png)

orgies are ok, but eating at a restaurant = bad!

This is what happens when you have a mentally ill person running your 'Health' department
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on December 17, 2020, 10:35:13 AM
Speaking of Clown Worlds ...

Some of you probably saw a recent Onion about George RR Martin collecting Topless Elf art.

https://ogn.theonion.com/the-con-pays-off-after-years-of-feigning-interest-geo-1845800147

It made me think: Is Topless Elf a thing? Is there something I don't know? So I Googled it.


Holy. Motherfucking. Shit.
Everything is “a thing”, I believe.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on December 17, 2020, 10:37:43 AM
lmao whaaat

(https://i.imgur.com/1PgjoGZ.png)

orgies are ok, but eating at a restaurant = bad!

This is what happens when you have a mentally ill person running your 'Health' department
So do you like, read things, or do you just see what you want to? Honest question. Because I’ve read this at least 3 times and can’t find a single thing that can even remotely be interpreted as “orgies are OK.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2020, 03:06:19 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/3KrBXRP.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2020, 03:08:57 PM
So do you like, read things, or do you just see what you want to? Honest question. Because I’ve read this at least 3 times and can’t find a single thing that can even remotely be interpreted as “orgies are OK.”

"if you attend a large gathering where you might end up having sex"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 17, 2020, 04:14:31 PM
"if you attend a large gathering where you might end up having sex"
Try to identify a consistent sex partner
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2020, 04:27:08 PM
Try to identify a consistent sex partner

"try"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 17, 2020, 04:58:19 PM
Try to identify a consistent sex partner

Aren't we all?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 17, 2020, 06:59:34 PM
I definitely party with the wrong people
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 17, 2020, 07:14:46 PM
It's been at least 18 years since I was involved in any variety of group sex.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 17, 2020, 07:44:48 PM
First one was 20 years ago. Second one was either 10 or 11 years ago. One of them involved the reigning Illinois State Fair Queen. I guess that’s my Al Bundy moment.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on December 18, 2020, 01:34:41 AM
"if you attend a large gathering where you might end up having sex"
Maybe read the part of that sentence you deliberately left out?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 18, 2020, 08:56:05 AM
Maybe read the part of that sentence you deliberately left out?

relax Francis this is a humor thread
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 18, 2020, 10:45:11 AM
relax Francis this is a humor thread

ILLove1997 has convictions for theft, DUI and child pornography.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 18, 2020, 11:50:52 AM
ILLove1997 has convictions for theft, DUI and child pornography.

how come I have internet access then
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 18, 2020, 12:51:03 PM
I was just joking.

Hey, wait. Do child pornographers lose their rights to broadband?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on December 19, 2020, 11:55:18 AM
relax Francis this is a humor thread
So what’s your excuse for looking like a dumbass in every other thread? 😉
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 19, 2020, 02:14:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/BvgYwVh.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 22, 2020, 08:56:58 AM
Page 5320 of the new stimulus bill defines portable fuel containers and the action required to educate consumers about them.

(https://i.ibb.co/sHSxPVS/9228-B33-A-CC12-41-BA-892-B-7-C9-BB24-CA0-DA.png) (https://ibb.co/TLXjTgX)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 22, 2020, 09:00:49 AM
Damn Portable Fuel Containers lobby.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 22, 2020, 09:15:16 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/jLp2XwW/Screenshot-20201222-074540.jpg) (https://ibb.co/mHxwWyX)
 The working class ?....

(https://i.ibb.co/Vv1FsKX/Epu-H-dj-W4-AAOq0z.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 22, 2020, 09:22:44 AM
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/as-i-lay-dying-frontman-tim-lambesis-suffers-burns-to-25-percent-of-body-in-freak-accident/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on December 22, 2020, 09:41:08 AM
Damn Portable Fuel Containers lobby.

More specifically: fire services, product safety and burn association groups. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 22, 2020, 09:45:30 AM
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/as-i-lay-dying-frontman-tim-lambesis-suffers-burns-to-25-percent-of-body-in-freak-accident/

It's a big stretch to call this a freak accident.  I wonder who's on the hook for all the medical costs? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 22, 2020, 09:45:46 AM
Page 5320 of the new stimulus bill defines portable fuel containers and the action required to educate consumers about them.

(https://i.ibb.co/sHSxPVS/9228-B33-A-CC12-41-BA-892-B-7-C9-BB24-CA0-DA.png) (https://ibb.co/TLXjTgX)

lmao just a humongous piece of shit bill in so many ways, RIP America
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 22, 2020, 10:14:13 AM
I see your fire containers and raise you 45 million for Pakistani democracy programs and 10 million for Pakistani gender programs

(https://i.imgur.com/KULsE7J.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 22, 2020, 10:16:45 AM
It's a big stretch to call this a freak accident.  I wonder who's on the hook for all the medical costs?

Yeah, not a freak accident, but consider the source.  Oddly, this guy has an interesting past.  He spent some time in prison for attempting to hire a hitman to take out his wife.  Little bit of karma at play here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 28, 2020, 12:04:19 AM
37 year old white guy shoots up a bowling alley in Rockford, kills three and wounds 3 more.
Active Army Special Forces.

The cops were able to apprehend him - though I guess I already mentioned that he was white.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 28, 2020, 11:54:53 AM
That’s pretty funny. Not the incident, the joke you made about him being apprehended.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 28, 2020, 01:07:35 PM
That’s pretty funny. Not the incident, the joke you made about him being apprehended.
It's not a joke
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on December 28, 2020, 04:48:34 PM
It's not a joke
At least he wasn’t selling bootleg cigarettes or trying to pass off a counterfeit $20. That MF would be dead for sure then.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 28, 2020, 05:08:35 PM
The omnibus budget bill is being conflated with covid relief.

 Never thunk I'd see the day when Republicans demanded more free money from Congress.

Some of that foreign aid might be black ops.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on December 28, 2020, 07:48:31 PM
The omnibus budget bill is being conflated with covid relief.

 Never thunk I'd see the day when Republicans demanded more free money from Congress.

Some of that foreign aid might be black ops.
IDK, a Facebook meme told me that $750 billion of the $900 billion in the COVID relief bill is going to foreign countries, and I seriously doubt you can come up with a more credible source that says otherwise.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 29, 2020, 01:06:51 PM
IDK, a Facebook meme told me that $750 billion of the $900 billion in the COVID relief bill is going to foreign countries, and I seriously doubt you can come up with a more credible source that says otherwise.
Trump is pretty incompetent so this may just be true
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 30, 2020, 02:05:22 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Rn4KmM5.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 30, 2020, 04:32:35 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Rn4KmM5.png)

I'm buying it and wearing it when I take the Blue Line downtown and back.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 30, 2020, 04:34:23 PM
The omnibus budget bill is being conflated with covid relief.

 Never thunk I'd see the day when Republicans demanded more free money from Congress.

Some of that foreign aid might be black ops.

Have to say that Moscow/Cocaine Mitch's offer to tank Section 230 (and fucking kill The Facebook and The Twitter in the process) as part of the $2k COVID relief payment is pretty enticing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 30, 2020, 04:52:28 PM
I'm buying it and wearing it when I take the Blue Line downtown and back.

lol have an applaud
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 30, 2020, 04:56:21 PM
lol have an applaud

The picture on the box of the kid vomiting is hilarious.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 30, 2020, 04:57:48 PM
I'm buying it and wearing it when I take the Blue Line downtown and back.
pics, or it didnt happen. Audio might be good also.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 30, 2020, 05:02:29 PM
pics, or it didnt happen. Audio might be good also.

It is actually not real!  This should not be in the Clown World section! WTF ILLove97? That is a rules violation. May have to be stripped of your award.....

https://www.amazon.com/Prank-Pack-Baby-Shield-Prank/dp/B07W5L6JDM/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FD7X2MGNFN3U&dchild=1&keywords=baby+shield&qid=1609369178&sprefix=Baby+shield%2Caps%2C174&sr=8-2
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 30, 2020, 05:15:26 PM
You could probably make one up while you're watching the Rose Bowl parade, and have it for the Mon morning blue line.
Make 2, someone will ask where you got it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 30, 2020, 06:17:06 PM
The picture on the box of the kid vomiting is hilarious.

I know, when I saw that I laughed out loud
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 30, 2020, 06:18:04 PM
It is actually not real!  This should not be in the Clown World section! WTF ILLove97? That is a rules violation. May have to be stripped of your award.....

https://www.amazon.com/Prank-Pack-Baby-Shield-Prank/dp/B07W5L6JDM/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FD7X2MGNFN3U&dchild=1&keywords=baby+shield&qid=1609369178&sprefix=Baby+shield%2Caps%2C174&sr=8-2

you can buy it on amazon, how is that not real?  lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 30, 2020, 06:19:46 PM
then again there's this terrifying device, but the batteries only last 4 hours.... after that you are clearly DEAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F64USk0anE
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 05, 2021, 08:07:21 AM
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-blasts-her-party-for-removing-gendered-language-the-height-of-hypocrisy?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR3iysJWS8b7UPKR35m87FTvRQYbkux2HxMHZbdmi2u-AS2kpg0jeqBDyT4
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 05, 2021, 08:19:42 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_159j4pa8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 05, 2021, 08:25:17 AM
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-blasts-her-party-for-removing-gendered-language-the-height-of-hypocrisy?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR3iysJWS8b7UPKR35m87FTvRQYbkux2HxMHZbdmi2u-AS2kpg0jeqBDyT4

love me some tulsi

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 05, 2021, 08:32:20 AM
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-blasts-her-party-for-removing-gendered-language-the-height-of-hypocrisy?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR3iysJWS8b7UPKR35m87FTvRQYbkux2HxMHZbdmi2u-AS2kpg0jeqBDyT4

Banning gender terms. The Libs have lost their damn minds.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 05, 2021, 01:13:28 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/135693241_3546314998819957_3485969127064292047_o.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=2&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=j-Ha-0czY-8AX91zanj&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=b4ab8411d7db357c08834827761ade27&oe=6019AB73)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 05, 2021, 01:40:13 PM
lmao!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on January 05, 2021, 02:22:25 PM
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-blasts-her-party-for-removing-gendered-language-the-height-of-hypocrisy?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR3iysJWS8b7UPKR35m87FTvRQYbkux2HxMHZbdmi2u-AS2kpg0jeqBDyT4

Science deniers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 05, 2021, 03:22:37 PM
Science deniers.

Only when it fits their agenda....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 05, 2021, 05:29:18 PM
then again there's this terrifying device, but the batteries only last 4 hours.... after that you are clearly DEAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F64USk0anE

Is this another gag gift?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 05, 2021, 05:31:47 PM
Not sure it fits in the science denier category, but linguistically it is extreme and dumb.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 07, 2021, 11:57:11 AM
Denmark debuts new children's TV show about a man with a huge and uncontrollable penis:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/europe/denmark-john-dillermand-controversy-scli-intl/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on January 07, 2021, 12:30:51 PM
Denmark debuts new children's TV show about a man with a huge and uncontrollable penis:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/europe/denmark-john-dillermand-controversy-scli-intl/index.html
I want my royalties dammit!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on January 07, 2021, 01:43:45 PM
Not sure it fits in the science denier category, but linguistically it is extreme and dumb.

If it were an argument made by anyone on the right you’d be labeling it all science denialism. Since it aligns with you viewpoints well you just can’t be sure...might cause cognitive dissonance can’t have that !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 07, 2021, 03:29:42 PM
If it were an argument made by anyone on the right you’d be labeling it all science denialism. Since it aligns with you viewpoints well you just can’t be sure...might cause cognitive dissonance can’t have that !

You are not as stupid as JizzJudy, KAGlato, but you are closing in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 07, 2021, 04:51:45 PM
You are not as stupid as JizzJudy, KAGlato, but you are closing in.

Yeah sure because we’re the ones talking about lining people up and shooting them because they have different opinions than us🙄 And you’re on here calling other people stupid and Nazi’s. Get the fuck outta here you dumbass.😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 07, 2021, 04:58:42 PM
Yeah sure because we’re the ones talking about lining people up and shooting them because they have different opinions than us🙄 And you’re on here calling other people stupid and Nazi’s. Get the fuck outta here you dumbass.😂

Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh. It is "Nazis" you fucking moron.. You are also terrible at constructing straw men. Go drink bleach with KAGlato, you fucking mentally deficient whiny bitch.  Again, if you have a degree from Illinois it has devalued the diplomas of everyone else who does.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 07, 2021, 05:04:17 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/yIxJQYK.png)

lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 07, 2021, 05:05:34 PM
Don't be so quick to judge. He might belong to a Nazi.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jrock74 on January 07, 2021, 05:12:45 PM
You are not as stupid as JizzJudy, KAGlato, but you are closing in.

I'm more blown away by the fact that someone who smokes that much marijuana can still manage to be that fucking angry all the time. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 07, 2021, 08:50:58 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/yIxJQYK.png)

lol

Looks like you found JizzJudy on Twitter.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 07, 2021, 08:51:18 PM
Don't be so quick to judge. He might belong to a Nazi.

Good point.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 07, 2021, 10:29:31 PM
did you guys completely miss the funny part via its subtlety?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 07, 2021, 10:36:05 PM
did you guys completely miss the funny part via its subtlety?

I thought we got it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 08, 2021, 09:38:15 AM
I thought we got it.

idk doesn't seem like it  /shrug
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 08, 2021, 09:52:13 AM
idk doesn't seem like it  /shrug

Yes, "Via Getty" was not the name but the photo credit..JudgeJudy's Twitter post thought it was the dude's name.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on January 08, 2021, 10:08:55 AM
did you guys completely miss the funny part via its subtlety?
I thought it was pretty funny. Via Getty and his pal Per Reuters really fucked some shit up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 08, 2021, 11:34:47 AM
I'm more blown away by the fact that someone who smokes that much marijuana can still manage to be that fucking angry all the time.

He's just as crazy as Trump is. Birds of a feather.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 08, 2021, 04:23:56 PM
At least there's some darwinism going on when a Trumpist tazers himself in the balls and dies
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 08, 2021, 05:19:30 PM
A lot of people don't understand how this Darwin thing works.

See, you have to taser yourself in the balls before you use them. It doesn't work if you're 55 already.

BTW, how long do we think it would  take for Judy to tase himself in the balls? From acquisition to execution? Under an hour, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 08, 2021, 06:17:40 PM
A lot of people don't understand how this Darwin thing works.

See, you have to taser yourself in the balls before you use them. It doesn't work if you're 55 already.

BTW, how long do we think it would  take for Judy to tase himself in the balls? From acquisition to execution? Under an hour, right?

Barron Trump was born while trump was in his 60's
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 08, 2021, 06:25:15 PM
Yes. Trump is also ineligible for a Darwin Award.

Kevin Greeson had children.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 08, 2021, 06:52:41 PM
Yes. Trump is also ineligible for a Darwin Award.

Kevin Greeson had children.

Was he sterile before he decided to self sterilize?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 08, 2021, 11:07:18 PM
A lot of people don't understand how this Darwin thing works.

See, you have to taser yourself in the balls before you use them. It doesn't work if you're 55 already.

BTW, how long do we think it would  take for Judy to tase himself in the balls? From acquisition to execution? Under an hour, right?

😂

You’re one weird dude.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 09, 2021, 02:46:55 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/lbYDYEZ.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on January 10, 2021, 11:34:14 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/lbYDYEZ.png)
That’s awesome 🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 10, 2021, 01:06:21 PM
I'd really hoped it was real.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 10, 2021, 01:35:13 PM
Hey, am I the only one who feels bad for this little guy?

(https://media.wusa9.com/assets/WUSA/images/aad4a9a9-ccd5-42b1-aa6a-8270b9a1f1ea/aad4a9a9-ccd5-42b1-aa6a-8270b9a1f1ea_1920x1080.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Cinimod on January 11, 2021, 10:51:08 AM
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/512160-big-tech-sweepstakes-trump-blm/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 11, 2021, 06:17:09 PM
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/512160-big-tech-sweepstakes-trump-blm/

Russia Today? Hilarious. Nice cite, you Soviet pedo bitch.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 11, 2021, 08:53:00 PM
Oh I see what is going on here. Wonder what Anna Kournikova is up to these days although she’s gotta be getting way old.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 13, 2021, 10:45:44 PM
Is this another gag gift?

no, its $300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZYWvUh28s
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 13, 2021, 11:06:34 PM
Could buy two with a single COVID stimulus check. Coincidence? I think not.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 19, 2021, 02:09:10 PM
https://au.news.yahoo.com/dutch-graduate-gender-neutral-playing-cards-inequality-181001836.html

Quote
A Dutch woman has created a gender neutral pack of cards which removes the need for Kings, Queens and Jacks.

Indy Mellink was inspired to create the new form of deck after questioning why a king should be worth more than a queen.

The 23-year-old forensic psychology graduate was encouraged by her father to turn the traditional pack of cards on its head.

"If we have this hierarchy that the king is worth more than the queen then this subtle inequality influences people in their daily life because it's just another way of saying 'hey, you're less important," she said in an interview.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 19, 2021, 03:16:09 PM
Triggered?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illinicalvin on January 19, 2021, 08:30:16 PM
Isn't the problem more with traditional poker ranking than the cards themselves? Just make up your own game like hearts or euchre where a queen or jack trumps everything. Make the jack an enby. Done.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 19, 2021, 09:02:58 PM
Isn't the problem more with traditional poker ranking than the cards themselves? Just make up your own game like hearts or euchre where a queen or jack trumps everything. Make the jack an enby. Done.

But that kind of pragmatism doesn’t earn you a congratulatory article on Yahoo OZ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on January 21, 2021, 05:55:19 PM
I never cared about his stupid computer why didn’t I hear about this good clown world stuff til now ?

Hunter had baby with stripper from Ark. and didn’t pay child support so ended up in court all while he was banging his dead bro’s wife and his own wife pregnant?  What a stallion !

https://www.businessinsider.com/hunter-biden-agrees-pay-child-support-mother-of-lovechild-roberts-2020-1
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 23, 2021, 12:52:21 PM
https://myfox8.com/news/offbeat/alabama-man-finds-drugs-in-car-bought-from-government-auction-in-tennessee/

Alabama man finds drugs in car bought from government auction in Tennessee

Just heard about this on the radio....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on January 23, 2021, 02:37:49 PM
I never cared about his stupid computer why didn’t I hear about this good clown world stuff til now ?

Hunter had baby with stripper from Ark. and didn’t pay child support so ended up in court all while he was banging his dead bro’s wife and his own wife pregnant?  What a stallion !

https://www.businessinsider.com/hunter-biden-agrees-pay-child-support-mother-of-lovechild-roberts-2020-1
I thought this stuff was old news. Definitely the “dating his sister in law” stuff was old. Nobody cared about it during the election though, because you can’t make a conspiracy theory out of it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 23, 2021, 05:45:20 PM
I thought this stuff was old news. Definitely the “dating his sister in law” stuff was old. Nobody cared about it during the election though, because you can’t make a conspiracy theory out of it.

It is old news. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 24, 2021, 11:20:28 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/o11t17A.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 24, 2021, 12:42:54 PM
Powerful capitalist pig, with a long history of collective bargaining resistance, working overtime to stifle a unionization vote.   

Shitty, but predictable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 24, 2021, 02:29:01 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/o11t17A.png)

How ironic and hypocritical. Pathetic
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 24, 2021, 05:13:00 PM
Of course. The same reason Republicans oppose mail-in voting.  I bet already established unions would oppose mail-in  ballots  for Union officers.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 24, 2021, 07:02:58 PM
Powerful capitalist pig, with a long history of collective bargaining resistance, working overtime to stifle a unionization vote.   

Shitty, but predictable.

indeed, then there's this fakery
http://diversity411.com/diversity-in-the-workplace/diversity-at-amazon/

Quote
In a rapidly shifting political climate, Jeff Bezos wants Amazon employees to know the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion remains unchanged.

The CEO sent a reassuring letter to company leaders on Sunday, in response to an inquiry from a manager and minority advocate anxious over last Tuesday’s election of Donald Trump, following a xenophobic campaign and concerning policies.

“The US has just concluded two years of the most divisive presidential campaigning many of us can remember with an unexpected result,” senior vendor manager Anthony Little wrote to Bezos. “The groups represented by our memberships were undeservingly pulled into the spotlight, and as such many of us feel deeply affected by the outcome.”

Little went on to ask Bezos if he’d weigh in with a reassuring “nonpartisan message” that might shore up the company’s minority groups, which includes the Black Employee Network, Glamazon (an LGBTQ group) and a Latino-centric group.

Bezos was more than happy to oblige.

“Thank you very much for your heartfelt email,” he responded. “Diversity at Amazon has always been, and always will be, committed to equal rights, tolerance and diversity. And we firmly reject, and have zero tolerance for, harassment of any kind.”

He added that a commitment to diversity at Amazon is not only good for the company; on a more elemental level, it’s just deeply and fundamentally right.

“We’re a company of builders whose diverse backgrounds, ideas, and points of view are critical to helping us invent on behalf of all our customers,” Bezos wrote. “But it’s not only that diversity and inclusion are good for our business. It’s more fundamental than that — it’s simply right.”

“These are enduring values for us,” he concluded, “and nothing will change that.”

Why is this evil penis head so allegedly loving of diversity?  Oh right, because of this...

https://observer.com/2020/04/amazon-whole-foods-anti-union-technology-heat-map/

Quote
Shades of Big Brother are looming over Whole Foods, once thought to be a pioneer of healthy workplace culture. According to internal documents seen by Business Insider, the Amazon-owned supermarket chain has been using an interactive heat map to monitor its 510 locations across the U.S. and assign each store a unionization risk score based on such criteria as employee loyalty, turnover rate and racial diversity.

Whole Foods employs roughly 95,000 people nationwide. Data collected in the heat map suggest that stores with low racial and ethnic diversity, especially those located in poor communities, are more likely to unionize.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 24, 2021, 07:13:12 PM
I think companies should just take care enough of their employees so they don’t feel the need to unionize.

My fingers are too numb from ice fishing to goggle it but I was always under the impression Amazon compensated well compared to peers for jobs requiring similar skills.

If that’s true I don’t think unionizing is a good idea because any incremental gains will probably just end up going to the unions rather than the workers.

If that’s not true and Bezos isn’t compensating fairly and won’t negotiate then fuck Bezos and unionize. I don’t agree that he should overpay for labor just because his company is making money hand over fist because it won’t last forever. Bezos himself has said he fully expects Amazon to inevitably fail.

With the labor market being the way it is and thinking about where Amazon has positioned their facilities, I imagine Amazon could replace a very large percentage of their employees very quickly.

But a strike would definitely fuck them up big time because timeliness is such a cornerstone of the business.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: dwc13 on January 24, 2021, 07:52:52 PM

My fingers are too numb from ice fishing to goggle it but I was always under the impression Amazon compensated well compared to peers for jobs requiring similar skills.


So, did you catch any ice?  :D



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 24, 2021, 09:50:02 PM
Fish weren’t biting today but did catch some ice and a buzz and it was nice to listen to and tell some stories in the process.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 25, 2021, 12:17:41 AM
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/oklahoma-rep-backlash-bigfoot-hunting-season
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illinicalvin on January 25, 2021, 10:06:28 AM
I think companies should just take care enough of their employees so they don’t feel the need to unionize.

My fingers are too numb from ice fishing to goggle it but I was always under the impression Amazon compensated well compared to peers for jobs requiring similar skills.

If that’s true I don’t think unionizing is a good idea because any incremental gains will probably just end up going to the unions rather than the workers.

If that’s not true and Bezos isn’t compensating fairly and won’t negotiate then fuck Bezos and unionize. I don’t agree that he should overpay for labor just because his company is making money hand over fist because it won’t last forever. Bezos himself has said he fully expects Amazon to inevitably fail.

With the labor market being the way it is and thinking about where Amazon has positioned their facilities, I imagine Amazon could replace a very large percentage of their employees very quickly.

But a strike would definitely fuck them up big time because timeliness is such a cornerstone of the business.
Unions operate best as a tool of fear to prevent exploitation more than anything. Amazon currently has an effective monopoly (omitting a long legal/economic discussion). One of the few things that threatens that status is a workforce that can go on strike and shut the company down. They could fire everybody much easier than, say, an auto plant, but the lag and resulting customer service learning curve opens a door for competing middlemen online retailers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: dwc13 on January 25, 2021, 10:58:07 AM
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/oklahoma-rep-backlash-bigfoot-hunting-season

This representative managed a rare feat -- pissing off people on both sides at the same time (Bigfoot community believers & deniers). I'd say it was a publicity stunt, but the election is over for now. Good to know elected officials in other states are also prioritizing the big problems their constituents face. That aside, the proposed bill serves no real purpose -- not exactly a first for politics -- regardless of whether one is a Bigfoot believer or denier. Even without the such a permit, is there a hunter (armed with a rifle) who *wouldn't* shoot if he/she had a close encounter with Bigfoot? The notoriety, possible fortune, collecting evidence for the scientific community, likelihood of being in fear for safety/life, etc., all suggest to me shooting Bigfoot would happen if such a close encounter took place. And I doubt a hunting license would be revoked under such circumstances.

I wonder if the Oklahoma representative is related to the person in this case:
https://blogs.duanemorris.com/animallawdevelopments/2018/09/05/canadian-court-dismisses-sasquatch-case/


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 29, 2021, 11:58:27 PM
maybe its the mostly peaceful prize
(https://i.imgur.com/c3AwgxM.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 30, 2021, 12:20:40 AM
Heather has an uncle who thinks the Babylon Bee is real.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 30, 2021, 12:25:31 AM
Heather has an uncle who thinks the Babylon Bee is real.

I’m high and laughed. Well done.

Great night for me. Illini beat xxxx, Cardinals get Arenado and I’m high as fuck.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on January 30, 2021, 12:13:39 PM
That's a great get for the Cards and pisses me off on a number of fronts.  The Rox are in the midst of a dumpster fire.  Nolan's the consummate pro and brings it every day.  Seeing him live is worth the ticket itself.  If there's anyone ever, who's fielded the hot corner as good as he does, I've never seen it in the 60+ years I've been watching.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 30, 2021, 12:49:44 PM
That's a great get for the Cards and pisses me off on a number of fronts.  The Rox are in the midst of a dumpster fire.  Nolan's the consummate pro and brings it every day.  Seeing him live is worth the ticket itself.  If there's anyone ever, who's fielded the hot corner as good as he does, I've never seen it in the 60+ years I've been watching.

Cardinals even had Colorado pay $50 million for them to take him and Cards didn’t even give up any of their top-5 prospects.

Arenado has been wanting to come since last year it sounds like and it’s well known St. Louis is a great organization to play for.

Unbelievable steal!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 30, 2021, 02:27:02 PM
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/bloke-penis-held-ransom-hackers-23412940

Bloke has his penis held to ransom by hackers who took control of digital chastity belt
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 30, 2021, 05:58:34 PM
I hate it when that happens.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 30, 2021, 06:19:58 PM
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/bloke-penis-held-ransom-hackers-23412940

Bloke has his penis held to ransom by hackers who took control of digital chastity belt

ahahaha
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 01, 2021, 09:42:31 AM
https://worldnewsera.com/news/entertainment/plane-flies-over-robinhood-hq-with-suck-my-nuts-banner/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 01, 2021, 01:15:06 PM
https://worldnewsera.com/news/entertainment/plane-flies-over-robinhood-hq-with-suck-my-nuts-banner/
The redditors found a bigger waste of money than GME I see
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 02, 2021, 12:15:13 PM
https://apnews.com/article/7e36c00c5af0436abc09e051261fff1f

who cares?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 02, 2021, 12:18:39 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9206947/Cancer-sufferer-arrested-serving-soup-disadvantaged-members-community.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 02, 2021, 04:12:05 PM
What is Weekly World News saying?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2021, 06:38:38 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9206947/Cancer-sufferer-arrested-serving-soup-disadvantaged-members-community.html

Chainsaw!!!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 03, 2021, 11:46:34 AM
I hate people that do that anyway

(https://i.imgur.com/qZuP9Hy.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 03, 2021, 12:32:53 PM
I hate people that do that anyway

(https://i.imgur.com/qZuP9Hy.png)

I'd only cheer if it ended in a 5 OT tie anyway
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 03, 2021, 03:38:33 PM
I hate people that do that anyway

(https://i.imgur.com/qZuP9Hy.png)

Where are you on cheering during games while at sports bars?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 03, 2021, 03:47:46 PM
Ask him about hot balls.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 03, 2021, 04:56:46 PM
I'd only cheer if it ended in a 5 OT tie anyway

I bet you’re one of those guys who secretly hates all football players because they’re bigger and stronger and more attractive than you
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 03, 2021, 04:57:11 PM
Where are you on cheering during games while at sports bars?

Go for it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 03, 2021, 05:10:28 PM
I bet you’re one of those guys who secretly hates all football players because they’re bigger and stronger and more attractive than you

I was actually wondering when I heard the reports if you were the Florida pedo who shot the FBI agents. Guess not.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: dwc13 on February 03, 2021, 06:23:08 PM


Apparently shoveling snow can be deadly besides causing heart attacks.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-dead-murder-suicide-over-170521061.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 03, 2021, 07:12:11 PM
An old friend of mine lives 10 mins from where that took place
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 03, 2021, 11:14:47 PM
An old friend of mine lives 10 mins from where that took place
Oh, the humanity.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 03, 2021, 11:17:54 PM
I bet you’re one of those guys who secretly hates all football players because they’re bigger and stronger and more attractive than you

http://pa1.narvii.com/6428/999c9ee5c6ec07d4b2c91d17e0ad91ed3e763a22_00.gif
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 04, 2021, 10:46:28 AM

Apparently shoveling snow can be deadly besides causing heart attacks.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-dead-murder-suicide-over-170521061.html

When dibs turn deadly
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 04, 2021, 10:51:04 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/YEYTeHP.png)

this is child abuse
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 04, 2021, 02:05:22 PM
Why do we eat shrimp and crawfish but not their brethren on land?   And just think, the more bugs you eat, the less you have to spray. 

Popular Science guide to eating bugs:
https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/insect-bug-eating-guide/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 04, 2021, 03:02:15 PM
Crabs are good.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 04, 2021, 03:32:32 PM
I recently discovered the joy of cooking crustaceans sous vide.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on February 04, 2021, 04:47:02 PM
I had the crabs once.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on February 04, 2021, 05:05:52 PM
I had the crabs once.

From Abe's Red Hots graffiti board circa 1968 "Wanted to trade:  2 blind crabs for 1 with no teeth" 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 04, 2021, 05:09:32 PM
RIP Obrycki's.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on February 04, 2021, 05:29:21 PM
I once ate a blue crab boil along the shore of Chesapeake Bay at sunset in Baltimore. It was beautiful. Although I would advise any other first time crab eater against trying this. Once the sun went down, it became pretty much impossible to tell the sweet delicious parts of the crab from the parts that tasted like  aspirin marinated in asparagus piss.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on February 04, 2021, 05:37:31 PM
By the way, it’s shocking the number of people who are coming to this dipshit country singer’s defense. Morgan something? I don’t know, country music pretty much died 20 years ago. “So, you can’t get drunk and say N**** to your friends any more? I thought Joe Biden was President, not Joe Stalin! Fuckin cancel culture is getting ridiculous.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 07, 2021, 10:10:49 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/MCXR5qK/84565937-5943-47-D8-B1-F9-36-F43-B99-B8-C8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TgCHqzJ)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 08, 2021, 09:15:08 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/MCXR5qK/84565937-5943-47-D8-B1-F9-36-F43-B99-B8-C8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TgCHqzJ)

lol I always love those tales of woe, like they couldn't find any skinny people anywhere to do the story about? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 08, 2021, 09:18:27 AM
how does someone write this completely inappropriate and stupid editorial and say, YEAH this is worthy of being published in McPaper

not only is it incredibly racist but it is literal propaganda... critical race theory is fucking cancer, how did it spread this far

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2021/02/02/super-bowl-2021-tom-brady-doesnt-deserve-pass-trump-support/4358829001/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 08, 2021, 09:35:51 AM
lol I always love those tales of woe, like they couldn't find any skinny people anywhere to do the story about?
Skinny people can afford organic vegetables.
Many overweight people are eating the cheapest calories there are - processed junk from the dollar store washed down with coke
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 10:50:47 AM
critical race theory is fucking cancer

I agree.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 12:38:23 PM
how does someone write this completely inappropriate and stupid editorial and say, YEAH this is worthy of being published in McPaper

not only is it incredibly racist but it is literal propaganda... critical race theory is fucking cancer, how did it spread this far

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2021/02/02/super-bowl-2021-tom-brady-doesnt-deserve-pass-trump-support/4358829001/

“And yet again this week, less than a month after a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that was incited by Trump.”

This particular quote in that article is disturbing. It’s a completely false statement that isn’t “fact checked” or banned/taken down from being distributed. It’s propaganda and irresponsible “journalism.”

And they wonder why there’s millions of people that don’t trust and wanna overthrow our government.... 🤔
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 08, 2021, 03:03:23 PM
“And yet again this week, less than a month after a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that was incited by Trump.”

This particular quote in that article is disturbing. It’s a completely false statement that isn’t “fact checked” or banned/taken down from being distributed. It’s propaganda and irresponsible “journalism.”

And they wonder why there’s millions of people that don’t trust and wanna overthrow our government.... 🤔

You remain a fucking moron.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 03:07:35 PM
I mean, he told them to do it. I've seen the video.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 03:23:04 PM
I mean, he told them to do it. I've seen the video.

I’ve seen it too and if you believe that you’re ignorant. That’s the whole reason for the trial dumbass and that’s not even started yet. So how can he be guilty already?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 03:24:02 PM
You remain a fucking moron.

Oh so the trial doesn’t matter that he’ll be found innocent?! 🤔 ok and now who’s the Nazi??
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 03:24:47 PM
It's not a criminal trial Mr. Brains.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 04:36:08 PM
It's not a criminal trial Mr. Brains.

Agreed. It’s a big political stunt by the Democrats. It’s ridiculous and a waste of taxpayer money. Yet they call for unity😂

Go back and see what Pelosi, Harris, and Biden said about the riots this past summer. What Omar said about our country. It’s completely hypocritical and a double standard. There was destruction of federal property and deaths then too. Didn’t see any censorship or trial for them then. Things that make ya go 🤔
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 04:46:08 PM
Go back and see what Pelosi, Harris, and Biden said about the riots this past summer.
Time machines aren't real Mr. Brains.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 04:53:04 PM
Time machines aren't real Mr. Brains.

😂 pretty good response. I laughed and I’m not even high🤷🏻‍♂️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 08, 2021, 05:16:01 PM
Skinny people can afford organic vegetables.
Many overweight people are eating the cheapest calories there are - processed junk from the dollar store washed down with coke

I think you meant to say people with money can afford organic vegetables rather than skinny people but either way 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 08, 2021, 05:18:52 PM
Agreed. It’s a big political stunt by the Democrats. It’s ridiculous and a waste of taxpayer money. Yet they call for unity😂

Go back and see what Pelosi, Harris, and Biden said about the riots this past summer. What Omar said about our country. It’s completely hypocritical and a double standard. There was destruction of federal property and deaths then too. Didn’t see any censorship or trial for them then. Things that make ya go 🤔

Let's do that:

Fact check: Joe Biden has condemned protest-related violence from the left and the right
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/07/fact-check-joe-biden-has-condemned-violent-protests-several-times/6576824002/

Myron B. Pitts: 8 times Biden, Obama and others condemned Black Lives Matter violence
https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/01/15/8-times-biden-obama-et-al-condemned-black-lives-matter-violence/4170932001/

Fact check: Joe Biden has condemned Antifa, violent protests
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-biden-condemned-antifa/fact-check-joe-biden-has-condemned-antifa-violent-protests-idUSKBN2712ZA

Fact check: Democrats have condemned violence linked to BLM, anti-fascist protests
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fact-check-democrats-have-condemned-violence-linked-protests/3317862001/

Also:
“Whataboutism is the last refuge for someone who can’t admit they’re wrong,”
https://www.city-journal.org/about-whataboutism-and-political-hypocrisy





Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 05:20:19 PM
Whoa, buddy. He's not good with the big words.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 05:32:37 PM
Let's do that:

Fact check: Joe Biden has condemned protest-related violence from the left and the right
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/07/fact-check-joe-biden-has-condemned-violent-protests-several-times/6576824002/

Myron B. Pitts: 8 times Biden, Obama and others condemned Black Lives Matter violence
https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/01/15/8-times-biden-obama-et-al-condemned-black-lives-matter-violence/4170932001/

Fact check: Joe Biden has condemned Antifa, violent protests
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-biden-condemned-antifa/fact-check-joe-biden-has-condemned-antifa-violent-protests-idUSKBN2712ZA

Fact check: Democrats have condemned violence linked to BLM, anti-fascist protests
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fact-check-democrats-have-condemned-violence-linked-protests/3317862001/

Also:
“Whataboutism is the last refuge for someone who can’t admit they’re wrong,”
https://www.city-journal.org/about-whataboutism-and-political-hypocrisy

Funny I don’t see any Harris, Omar, or Pelosi in there.... oh wait 🤦🏻‍♂️ Because it’s not. And he sure as hell isn’t doing anything about it up in the northwest. He thought it’d all end when Trump was out, but it appears they hate Biden too. Now he doesn’t know what to do. It’s pretty funny actually.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 05:36:41 PM
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/trump-has-condemned-white-supremacists/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5883336002

This was a claim by Biden, our NOW President. Where’s the backlash?! Yet he’s still considered a racist and the “insurrection” and/or anybody associated with him gets labeled as one. Again 🤔

The hypocrisy is alarming. The claims made are completely false, yet doesn’t stop any of you from saying it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 05:39:23 PM
Guys, Judy is right.
 
We should just accept violence and insurrection because Judy can't find links he's not looking for on the internet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 08, 2021, 05:43:04 PM
I think you meant to say people with money can afford organic vegetables rather than skinny people but either way 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

That was indeed a Biden level gaffe
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 08, 2021, 05:45:59 PM
Regarding this Trump thing.

If we accept the premise that Trump told them to "fight" but when he said that, it was a metaphor, and he wanted them to go to the Capitol and protest "peacefully"....

He was giving this speech to a topless dude with face paint and a racoon hat with big horns, amongst the rest of the rabble at his rally.

If he didn't understand that those people don't quite understand what a metaphor is, he shouldn't be impeached for insurrection, he should be impeached for stupidity
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 08, 2021, 05:51:54 PM
Funny I don’t see any Harris, Omar, or Pelosi in there.... oh wait 🤦🏻‍♂️ Because it’s not. And he sure as hell isn’t doing anything about it up in the northwest. He thought it’d all end when Trump was out, but it appears they hate Biden too. Now he doesn’t know what to do. It’s pretty funny actually.

Here you go:

Quotes by 4 Democrats twisted to make it look like they endorsed riots
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/07/facebook-posts/quotes-4-democrats-twisted-make-it-look-they-endor/

Fact check: Kamala Harris said she supports protests, not ‘riots’, in Late Show clip
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-kamala-harris-late-show-rio/fact-check-kamala-harris-said-she-supports-protests-not-riots-in-late-show-clip-idUSKBN27E34P

Ilhan Omar says protests valid, destruction not
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/31/ilhan-omar-george-floyd-protests-291722

Ilhan Omar calls for the violent protests across the country to cease – claiming those causing the arson, looting and violence are not doing so in the interest of the Black Lives Matter movement
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8374575/Ilhan-Omar-calls-end-violent-riots-country-George-Floyd-killing.html


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 06:10:37 PM
Here you go:

Quotes by 4 Democrats twisted to make it look like they endorsed riots
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/07/facebook-posts/quotes-4-democrats-twisted-make-it-look-they-endor/

Fact check: Kamala Harris said she supports protests, not ‘riots’, in Late Show clip
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-kamala-harris-late-show-rio/fact-check-kamala-harris-said-she-supports-protests-not-riots-in-late-show-clip-idUSKBN27E34P

Ilhan Omar says protests valid, destruction not
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/31/ilhan-omar-george-floyd-protests-291722

Ilhan Omar calls for the violent protests across the country to cease – claiming those causing the arson, looting and violence are not doing so in the interest of the Black Lives Matter movement
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8374575/Ilhan-Omar-calls-end-violent-riots-country-George-Floyd-killing.html

I’ve seen all those clips and it doesn’t make it true. AOC and Omar condemned De Blasio (political target) not the rioters. They spun it and made it about him being the bad guy lol. It’s all political theater.

Harris knows there’s violence going on in the protests and she encourages it in the video with Colbert. I mean if you guys can have double standards....Hell she was even bailing them out. I also find it amusing that she talked about trying to reform the system while she was a prosecutor in California. Yet she incarcerated more African Americans than ever before and even lied to keep them in prison.

We all know what the media is trying to do. It’s atrocious. Follow the money.

For 4 straight years Democrats cried about the Russian hoax, 2016 election fraud/interference and couldn’t accept the facts, or him being a racist (as debunked above). So let’s talk about those conspiracy theories. Yet they were never censored or taken down off social media as false. Or ignored for that matter. Now all the sudden it’s being done to the conservative side. Again, things that make ya go 🤔
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 06:17:15 PM
Also:
“Whataboutism is the last refuge for someone who can’t admit they’re wrong,”
https://www.city-journal.org/about-whataboutism-and-political-hypocrisy

That’s all Democrats have been doing for the last 4 1/2 years....😂🤦🏻‍♂️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 06:38:13 PM
What about that!?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 06:39:13 PM
Judy's gone full Q.

I suppose it'll keep him occupied. Lotta research involved, after all.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 06:52:59 PM
Judy's gone full Q.

I suppose it'll keep him occupied. Lotta research involved, after all.

I’m the motherfucker (it’s your mom) that was shirtless, face paint, and horns at the Capitol “fighting.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 06:54:39 PM
Trump fired Republican James Comey. Republican Jeff Sessions recused himself. Republican Rod Rosenstein appointed  Republican Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.   

"As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents. The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."  https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 06:59:19 PM
"A bipartisan Senate report released Tuesday affirms the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a far-ranging influence campaign approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin and aimed at helping Donald Trump win the White House."  April 21, 2020 https://apnews.com/article/d094918c0421b872eac7dc4b16e613c7
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 07:13:06 PM
How does Judy explain the years long attempt to subvert the 2020 election, from Louis DeJoy to January 6?

I'd like to know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:21:30 PM
the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."  https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

That’s a pretty important piece there. I’m sure if there is/was a four year witch-hunt like with Trump, we’d/will find Chinese interference helping Biden in 2020. After all, he and his son are in bed with them. You’ve gotta be much more worried about China than you do the Russians.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 07:26:42 PM
Georgia election officials investigate Trump call

"The complaint suggests Trump may have committed one or more violations of Georgia law, including conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with the performance of election duties, the release says." https://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/associated_press/georgia-election-officials-investigate-trump-call/article_db0ad5e5-675f-515c-9424-2b6f4f9d69fe.html

This made me think of Trump's Ukraine phone call that led to his first impeachment. In that one, Trump used foreign aid to bribe / threaten / cajole foreign officials into announcing a public investigation into Joe Biden and his son. The effort was foiled by a whistleblower. Ironically, the lack of success became part of Trump's defense.     
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:27:05 PM
How does Judy explain the years long attempt to subvert the 2020 election, from Louis DeJoy to January 6?

I'd like to know.

If you think the postal service and mail-in voting was helping Trump, you’re delusional.

So tell me, why doesn’t a civilized nation like the United States have voter ID? It wouldn’t be hard to do and set up. Why are Democrats wanting illegals to flood our country? Think about it. It’s not hard to figure out.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:33:04 PM
Georgia election officials investigate Trump call

"The complaint suggests Trump may have committed one or more violations of Georgia law, including conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with the performance of election duties, the release says." https://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/associated_press/georgia-election-officials-investigate-trump-call/article_db0ad5e5-675f-515c-9424-2b6f4f9d69fe.html

This made me think of Trump's Ukraine phone call that led to his first impeachment. In that one, Trump used foreign aid to bribe / threaten / cajole foreign officials into announcing a public investigation into Joe Biden and his son. The effort was foiled by a whistleblower. Ironically, the lack of success became part of Trump's defense.   

Well they can “suggest” all they want. And the only reason he was impeached in the House was because Democrats  had a majority. Another political stunt. It got squashed in the Senate and they knew it would.

Oh and tell me.... why haven’t they looked into the Biden family in Ukraine and China??
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 07:33:41 PM
If you think the postal service and mail-in voting was helping Trump, you’re delusional.
Non-responsive.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 07:34:24 PM
Why would Republicans want to make it harder to vote?

 https://www.npr.org/2021/02/07/964598941/after-record-2020-turnout-state-republicans-weigh-making-it-harder-to-vote
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:35:11 PM
Non-responsive.

Would cooling your hot balls help bring you back?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 07:36:40 PM
It got squashed in the Senate and they knew it would.
Why didn't the GOP allow witnesses? What were they hiding?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 07:37:57 PM
Would cooling your hot balls help bring you back?
Why won't you answer the question about Louis DeJoy?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:38:27 PM
Why would Republicans want to make it harder to vote?

 https://www.npr.org/2021/02/07/964598941/after-record-2020-turnout-state-republicans-weigh-making-it-harder-to-vote

Oh what a way to spin it. It’d actually be easier once you set it up. It’s about a LEGAL vote. Hell dead people and illegals are voting right now. You can’t tell me we can’t come up with a better solution than the one we have. Our elections are worse than a third-world country.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 07:38:41 PM
Well they can “suggest” all they want. And the only reason he was impeached in the House was because Democrats  had a majority. Another political stunt. It got squashed in the Senate and they knew it would.

Oh and tell me.... why haven’t they looked into the Biden family in Ukraine and China??

They have.  WSJ and FNC looked into allegations as well.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:41:28 PM
Why won't you answer the question about Louis DeJoy?

The USPS was a wreck before he got there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 07:45:20 PM
The USPS was a wreck before he got there.
Destroying sorting machines helped, though, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:47:14 PM
They have.  WSJ and FNC looked into allegations as well.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/barr-worked-to-keep-hunter-biden-probes-from-public-view-during-election-11607653188

So tell me, why isn’t this widespread throughout the media and why was it suppressed? Liberal media doesn’t think this is important? Our President taking money from the CCP?!

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 07:48:03 PM
Oh what a way to spin it. It’d actually be easier once you set it up. It’s about a LEGAL vote. Hell dead people and illegals are voting right now. You can’t tell me we can’t come up with a better solution than the one we have. Our elections are worse than a third-world country.

No, our elections are not worse than 3rd world countries.  Republicans would like to have elections like they do them in Russia though.

There is no evidence that dead people and illegals are voting.  Trump and his people looked hard for fraud and couldn't find anything significant. There is always going to be minor stuff, like the old lady who voted in her deceased husband's name, or the son who mistakenly used his late father's registration (they have the same name and address. 

Republicans want to suppress the vote because lower turnout in more densely populated urban areas helps them. It's not just ID. They want to restrict mail-in voting and ballot collection.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:52:47 PM
Destroying sorting machines helped, though, right?

Postal services workers throwing ballots away and having algorithms on the voting machines in favor of Biden sure didn't. Right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 07:55:10 PM
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/barr-worked-to-keep-hunter-biden-probes-from-public-view-during-election-11607653188

So tell me, why isn’t this widespread throughout the media and why was it suppressed? Liberal media doesn’t think this is important? Our President taking money from the CCP?!

What?

"The venture—set up in 2017 after Mr. Biden left the vice presidency and before his presidential campaign—never received proposed funds from the Chinese company or completed any deals, according to people familiar with the matter. Corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden"  https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partner-alleges-father-knew-about-venture-11603421247
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 07:56:28 PM
Postal services workers throwing ballots away and having algorithms on the voting machines in favor of Biden sure didn't. Right?

 :o
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:56:34 PM
No, our elections are not worse than 3rd world countries.  Republicans would like to have elections like they do them in Russia though.

There is no evidence that dead people and illegals are voting.  Trump and his people looked hard for fraud and couldn't find anything significant. There is always going to be minor stuff, like the old lady who voted in her deceased husband's name, or the son who mistakenly used his late father's registration (they have the same name and address. 

Republicans want to suppress the vote because lower turnout in more densely populated urban areas helps them. It's not just ID. They want to restrict mail-in voting and ballot collection.

Yeah I mean you can choose to believe that if you want. I agree we shouldn’t have widespread mail-in voting like this past election. There’s way too much risk for fraud. State’s completely revamped their practices on it just beforehand and it created chaos.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 07:57:49 PM
What?

"The venture—set up in 2017 after Mr. Biden left the vice presidency and before his presidential campaign—never received proposed funds from the Chinese company or completed any deals, according to people familiar with the matter. Corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden"  https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partner-alleges-father-knew-about-venture-11603421247

No, Hunter did it for him. Then Hunter paid the “big guy.” He wasn’t even qualified to be doing these things and only based on his name and influence alone.

You mean to tell me he doesn’t talk with his kid about this stuff. Come on, man. You’re not that naive are you?! 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:02:39 PM
"Fox News has reviewed emails from Bobulinski related to the venture — and they don't show that the elder Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings, or took any payments from them or the Chinese. " https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tony-bobulinski-joe-biden-unanswered-questions
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:03:25 PM
No, Hunter did it for him. Then Hunter paid the “big guy.” He wasn’t even qualified to be doing these things and only based on his name and influence alone.

You mean to tell me he doesn’t talk with his kid about this stuff. Come on, man. You’re not that naive are you?!

"The venture—set up in 2017 after Mr. Biden left the vice presidency and before his presidential campaign—never received proposed funds from the Chinese company or completed any deals ..."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 08:04:00 PM
I understand why Judy and other small town rednecks assume that everyone has a photo ID (and even one that would satisfy a poll watcher).

But I'm the executor of an estate in which the decedent had no valid photo ID. The only recent photo ID was a transit card, which makes sense if you live in a city.

Bumpkins get everywhere in their pick-up trucks. So naturally they carry a driver's license. Solipsism leads them to believe all normal people have one.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that people should prove their identity before voting. But the fact is that they do. I've never shown an ID, but my signature matches, and they look.

Funnily enough, the Republican establishment of Champaign County never bothered to purge the dead from its voter rolls. I've seen them. Lots of dead people.

The GOP held both the Coroner's office and the County Clerkship for decades. For some reason, they never removed those dead, erstwhile elderly white reliably Republican voters from the rolls. Weird, huh?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:05:01 PM
Yeah I mean you can choose to believe that if you want. I agree we shouldn’t have widespread mail-in voting like this past election. There’s way too much risk for fraud. State’s completely revamped their practices on it just beforehand and it created chaos.

 Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 08:07:26 PM
Postal services workers throwing ballots away and having algorithms on the voting machines in favor of Biden sure didn't. Right?
Please link me to a non-debunked news item.

No, Gateway Pundit doesn't count.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 08:11:14 PM
"The venture—set up in 2017 after Mr. Biden left the vice presidency and before his presidential campaign—never received proposed funds from the Chinese company or completed any deals ..."

His son did and you don’t think that’s concerning or some ever got back to Joe “the big guy?!” 😂 ok I guess you can choose to believe whatever you want. Much like I do.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 08:12:15 PM
Ray, I like how you employed WSJ and Fox to refute Judy's cuckoo claims. (Quckoo qlaims?)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 08:14:01 PM
it just beforehand and it created chaos.
Except that it didn't.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 08:19:44 PM
I understand why Judy and other small town rednecks assume that everyone has a photo ID (and even one that would satisfy a poll watcher).

But I'm the executor of an estate in which the decedent had no valid photo ID. The only recent photo ID was a transit card, which makes sense if you live in a city.

Bumpkins get everywhere in their pick-up trucks. So naturally they carry a driver's license. Solipsism leads them to believe all normal people have one.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that people should prove their identity before voting. But the fact is that they do. I've never shown an ID, but my signature matches, and they look.

Funnily enough, the Republican establishment of Champaign County never bothered to purge the dead from its voter rolls. I've seen them. Lots of dead people.

The GOP held both the Coroner's office and the County Clerkship for decades. For some reason, they never removed those dead, erstwhile elderly white reliably Republican voters from the rolls. Weird, huh?

Yet you assume we’re all “rednecks.” And you live here too. Cool story, bro.

No photo ID?! Wtf is this, the 1700’s?! Who said it has to be a driver’s license? There are ID cards. Yeah because nobody can forge a signature lol. We were getting somewhere when you stated it’s not unreasonable to prove your identity. Not sure how a signature with no ID does that. Especially with mail-in voting. How the fuck you even know who filled out the fucking thing?! :o

Nah I drive an Audi, you country bumpkin. 8)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:21:05 PM
Definition of solipsism
: a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing
also : extreme egocentrism
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 08:25:13 PM
Definition of solipsism
: a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing
also : extreme egocentrism

Ironic. Sounds EXACTLY like Rob.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:26:06 PM
Rich Republicats want the rest of us to all vote on the same day, by standing in line in crappy weather, at our designated locations, with the ballots counted at the site where they are cast, while they vote absentee at their leisure.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:27:31 PM
Ironic. Sounds EXACTLY like Rob.

What about  Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 08:28:22 PM
Rich Republicats want the rest of us to all vote on the same day, by standing in line in crappy weather, at our designated locations, with the ballots counted at the site where they are cast, while they vote absentee at their leisure.   

Kinda like Pelosi avoiding the metal detector, Lightfoot getting her hair done, Pritzker traveling out of state, and Kerry taking private jets. Ok I understand now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 08:28:59 PM
As actual, knowledgeable authorities have explained ad nauseum, yes, it's possible for one individual to access a copy of another individual's signature, and then forge it on a ballot.

No, it's not possible to do it at a meaningful scale.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 08:43:43 PM
As actual, knowledgeable authorities have explained ad nauseum, yes, it's possible for one individual to access a copy of another individual's signature, and then forge it on a ballot.

No, it's not possible to do it at a meaningful scale.

Wtf are u talking about lol?! The copy of your signature is right there when you sign it. They show it to you and say make it as close as you can to it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:52:28 PM
Kinda like Pelosi avoiding the metal detector, Lightfoot getting her hair done, Pritzker traveling out of state, and Kerry taking private jets. Ok I understand now.

In the sense of double standards.  Do as I say, not as I do. Ron Paul flew first class at our expense.  Ayn Rand received SS and Medicare benefits.

I think a mix of mail-in, in person early voting,  drop boxes, ballot collection, and traditional election day voting worked pretty well; so there is no rationale for a double standard.   

Republicans are just mad because so many urban Black people voted. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 08:53:50 PM
Wtf are u talking about lol?! The copy of your signature is right there when you sign it. They show it to you and say make it as close as you can to it.
Sounds like your reliably Republican Coles County voting authority is making it extra easy for reliably Republican voters to vote.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:54:20 PM
Wtf are u talking about lol?! The copy of your signature is right there when you sign it. They show it to you and say make it as close as you can to it.

That would work for in-person voting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 08, 2021, 08:57:59 PM
https://www.comicsands.com/reps-fined-skirting-metal-detectors-2650404674.html?fbclid=IwAR2PHjfsnlIP2ujmuk9D8nYJSv7pFZYB0ZPdoCwtxU7g9CUIt5fW9n8bsa8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 09:02:48 PM
Sounds like your reliably Republican Coles County voting authority is making it extra easy for reliably Republican voters to vote.

As it should be everywhere. Yet somehow in 2021 people don’t even have IDs. I’m sure you’ll find someway to blame this on Trump too. If you notice these urban areas, you’ll see most of them are Democrats running things. Yet they never get blamed for holding people down and failed systems such as schools and widespread poverty.

I mean look at what’s going on right now with the CPS and union. Where the taxpayer money going that is suppose to be for these schools? All mismanaged and gone.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 09:16:59 PM
He didn't get it, did he?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 09:20:19 PM
He didn't get it, did he?

Yes I got it. I chose to ignore it and continue on with the initial point.

Also who’s not saying that’s not a widespread issue or happen in urban areas?! That’s why I’m advocating for a better system.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 09:22:04 PM
Also who’s not saying that’s not a widespread issue or happen in urban areas?!
Reliably Republican poll watchers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 09:28:50 PM
Reliably Republican poll watchers.

Oh it’s the whole voting system. Everywhere. It’s way too easy for widespread fraud.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 09:36:04 PM
Every polling station, every clerk's office has poll watchers from both parties.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 09:40:06 PM
Every polling station, every clerk's office has poll watchers from both parties.

Even Coles County. I don’t think YOU get it. *Sarcastically* I mean, how was that able to happen?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2021, 09:56:41 PM
I'm glad you were just joking about massive voter fraud.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 08, 2021, 09:58:34 PM
I'm glad you were just joking about massive voter fraud.

🤘🏼
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 09, 2021, 10:01:16 AM
Oh so the trial doesn’t matter that he’ll be found innocent?! 🤔 ok and now who’s the Nazi??

You are living proof of the negative effects of lead in the water system.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 09, 2021, 10:14:14 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55982131

YouTube robbery 'prank' ends in fatal shooting
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 09, 2021, 11:05:09 AM
https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/lil-uzi-vert-got-a-huge-diamond-implanted-in-his-forehead.html

just what in the fuck is this planet lol

and no, I do not remember the person with the penis pearl either
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on February 09, 2021, 11:58:20 AM
Oh it’s the whole voting system. Everywhere. It’s way too easy for widespread fraud.
And yet, nobody has ever found any. It’s almost like the people saying there is widespread fraud are full of shit and just butthurt their favorite turd didn’t win.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on February 09, 2021, 12:01:53 PM
https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/lil-uzi-vert-got-a-huge-diamond-implanted-in-his-forehead.html

just what in the fuck is this planet lol

and no, I do not remember the person with the penis pearl either
It’s been a while since I went diamond shopping, but I’d guess that one is worth at least $100k.

I hope he’s never planning on going out in public again, because eventually someone is going to rip that thing off his face and run like hell.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 09, 2021, 12:44:24 PM
If the marketing department at Audi read this thread they would all willingly drink poisoned Kool Aid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 09, 2021, 01:06:59 PM
It’s been a while since I went diamond shopping, but I’d guess that one is worth at least $100k.

I hope he’s never planning on going out in public again, because eventually someone is going to rip that thing off his face and run like hell.

Article says 24 million. There used to be a name for this we can’t say anymore.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 09, 2021, 01:38:33 PM
If the marketing department at Audi read this thread they would all willingly drink poisoned Kool Aid.

I don't know. It seems likely that some of their grandparents were Nazis.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 09, 2021, 01:48:52 PM
It’s been a while since I went diamond shopping, but I’d guess that one is worth at least $100k.

I hope he’s never planning on going out in public again, because eventually someone is going to rip that thing off his face and run like hell.

apparently its worth 24 million?  lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on February 09, 2021, 01:59:42 PM
Article says 24 million. There used to be a name for this we can’t say anymore.
There are plenty of names we can say though. Fucking Idiotic comes to mind.

At $24 million, I’m not so sure I wouldn’t snatch that thing.
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Post by: fucking on February 09, 2021, 02:12:47 PM
I'll resist the (fairly muted) urge to post the first image I found for "penis pearl."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 09, 2021, 02:22:47 PM
I'll resist the (fairly muted) urge to post the first image I found for "penis pearl."

lookin for ideas to improve the look of your junk?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 09, 2021, 03:45:41 PM
I thought it was for her pleasure?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 09, 2021, 03:47:55 PM
I'll resist the (fairly muted) urge to post the first image I found for "penis pearl."

Is it a Smitty photoshop of Bruce Pearl as a phallus?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 09, 2021, 04:06:08 PM
It might have been.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 09, 2021, 06:49:49 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1359207169091108864?s=20

I hope this was not Calvin
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Post by: ILLove1997 on February 10, 2021, 12:18:27 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/mY60AnU.png)

haha
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 11, 2021, 01:02:14 PM
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/02/why-didnt-you-stay-in-mexico-school-diversity-and-inclusion-meeting-turns-volatile.html


‘Why didn’t you stay in Mexico?’ School diversity and inclusion meeting turns volatile
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 11, 2021, 01:42:30 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apguWVmh3bU&feature=emb_title
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Post by: ILLove1997 on February 18, 2021, 03:05:55 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/3PYFq16.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 18, 2021, 03:26:25 PM
I wonder if there's a population of Armenians that believes they're the only ones who got a raw deal.

Apart from Stevie Jay, of course.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on February 19, 2021, 01:31:22 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/3PYFq16.png)
I’m assuming they mean that if poor black people had more money, they could have avoided the virus better?
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Post by: ILLove1997 on February 23, 2021, 10:52:12 AM
satire, but still funny

https://babylonbee.com/news/7-ways-you-can-be-less-white
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Post by: ThePAMan on February 23, 2021, 11:43:35 AM
satire, but still funny

https://babylonbee.com/news/7-ways-you-can-be-less-white

It could have been a lot better.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 23, 2021, 12:38:28 PM
It could have been a lot better.

it did seem hastily cobbled together
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 23, 2021, 03:27:14 PM
Le Sigh Tiger

Time will tell but it's already failing a sniff test when early on they are calling it a two car crash then later a single vehicle rollover
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 23, 2021, 08:19:46 PM
Stick a fork in him
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Post by: ridingthegrange on February 23, 2021, 08:57:11 PM
Walks like a duck....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 23, 2021, 09:40:30 PM
Jack can die happy now
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Post by: IlliniGolf on February 24, 2021, 10:09:37 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/womans-tattoo-new-meaning-amid-pandemic-182938616.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlYXBpcy5jb20vYXV0aC9jaHJvbWUtY29udGVudC1zdWdnZXN0aW9ucw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAL_PCTnteXobws8o0Nmt9SQw3XQtJydo9kBfzGWd0k82F__HsPLcXV94c4khbeORgK0vWTBOHvvcyiAPtsk37nSlV4hnimTIgnavaDTy8Nj5V3ce15v7vZFBahI8wQaHONpWIAV5kON58BXOhoZe3k_S8xTD0uRoX37AoGY3a5se
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Post by: fucking on February 24, 2021, 10:30:39 PM
Or, for brevity's sake

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/womans-tattoo-new-meaning-amid-pandemic-182938616.html
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Post by: ILLove1997 on February 25, 2021, 09:45:27 AM
https://disrn.com/news/california-bill-would-fine-retailers-who-have-separate-toy-sections-for-boys-and-girls
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 25, 2021, 02:36:27 PM
https://apnews.com/article/mr-potato-head-goes-gender-neutral-d3c178f2b9b0c424ed814657be41a9d8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 25, 2021, 02:40:55 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/qm7rxLx/image.jpg)
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Post by: ThePAMan on February 25, 2021, 03:13:16 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/qm7rxLx/image.jpg)

"Band f*gs"?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 25, 2021, 03:15:09 PM
https://apnews.com/article/mr-potato-head-goes-gender-neutral-d3c178f2b9b0c424ed814657be41a9d8

Let me know when they start making Penthouse Lipstick Lesbian Barbie.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 25, 2021, 04:17:13 PM
That's more of a DIY exercise, if I recall correctly.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2021, 04:37:12 PM
Still timely

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 25, 2021, 07:23:50 PM
Still timely

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/

yeah that article is definitely clown world material... go ahead and chop your 5 year old grandchild's dick off though because he played with a barbie doll or start some dangerous puberty blockers or other fucked up hormones... yeah...

Quote
The truth is, your biological sex isn’t carved in stone, but a living system with the potential for change.

so are they saying its a choice?  man its hard to keep up with shit in these clown world times
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Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2021, 08:19:23 PM
The truth is weird.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001669.htm
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 25, 2021, 09:48:55 PM
It’s all weird. You know you’re living in decadent times when shit like this is even on anyone’s radar.
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Post by: Custard on February 25, 2021, 09:55:17 PM
Subaru just aired an ad for all the millions of meals they’ve donated to those in need. In the montage every single person was well-to-overnourished. And I didn’t see a single lesbian.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 25, 2021, 10:14:03 PM
The truth is weird.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001669.htm

(https://media.notthebee.com/articles/3c8d76bb-ff36-4897-a858-d885dbee3989.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 25, 2021, 10:22:08 PM
(https://media.notthebee.com/articles/3c8d76bb-ff36-4897-a858-d885dbee3989.jpg)

HuffPo has always been written for 22 year-old baristas for whom AOC is too Establishment.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 25, 2021, 10:29:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/KdWFrMK.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 27, 2021, 09:42:59 AM
 https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-bitelabs-make-salami-celebrity-tissue-samples-20140304-story.html#axzz2x5PK83H3

🤮🤮🤮
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 27, 2021, 10:41:58 AM
I’ve often thought of munching JLaw, just not in that way
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 27, 2021, 12:14:14 PM
https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-bitelabs-make-salami-celebrity-tissue-samples-20140304-story.html#axzz2x5PK83H3

🤮🤮🤮

Truly a WTF? situation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on February 27, 2021, 05:28:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/KdWFrMK.png)
To get a truly accurate result, you need the AtM probe.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 04, 2021, 02:45:29 PM
Rob's cooling his rocks posts made me think of this.

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/swimsuit-birthday-suit-remembering-swimming-holes/article_7a8646f7-bef9-5d55-867b-7aa208892fd4.html

I vaguely remember the pits west of Champaign. Dudes were not very modest way back in the day. Girls generally wore suits  that I recall.

Edison Jr. High (now Middle School) made the boys swim naked for PE through 1966. Suits were optional for a few years after that, then required at some point. Not that PE classes were segregated by sex. It was called sex back then, not gender. Boys also took group showers.

Heard boys also swam naked in boys only classes at the local Champaign YMCA though about 1962. I took lessons there when I was very young, but do not remember.   

The reasoning was suits spread diseases and the fibers clogged up the filtration.  They had to make an exception for female modesty, but real men didn't care.  At some point, chlorination and nylon suits would have defeated the supposed purpose.   

Then there was also this in March of 1974:

https://archon.library.illinois.edu/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=2327

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/whatever-happened-to-streaking-at-the-university-of-illinois/article_e5543ec4-4633-5e07-85fe-d8d61b960238.html


 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 04, 2021, 03:44:16 PM
yooooo what in the fuck California

https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1366507394541387779
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Post by: Custard on March 04, 2021, 04:15:36 PM
Hopefully that cleared up any lingering doubts Murph had
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Post by: ILLove1997 on March 04, 2021, 04:19:51 PM
Hopefully that cleared up any lingering doubts Murph had

lol
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Post by: murphstahoe on March 05, 2021, 04:33:25 PM
yooooo what in the fuck California

https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1366507394541387779
Those kids should just shut up and lick some doorknobs the Sparks Nevada way
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Post by: ILLove1997 on March 06, 2021, 08:25:15 PM
https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1368004606085763077

this is a real product

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMFxQDM-OFs

https://www.benosy.com/#technology

god help us all
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Post by: ILLove1997 on March 08, 2021, 02:41:44 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/07/tech/jack-dorsey-nft-twitter/index.html
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Post by: ILLove1997 on March 09, 2021, 09:34:35 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56331524

Unilever drops word 'normal' from beauty products

Quote
The word "normal" is typically used on shampoos, conditioners and face products, such as for "normal or oily skin".

But Roshida Khanom of market research firm Mintel said: "'Normal' is such a loaded term because it indicates that there is an 'abnormal' and it doesn't actually describe anything, so it's about time that the term is dropped."

"Young people in particular are shifting the conversation - the traditional notions of beauty no longer hold up for Generation Z, who see beauty as accepting and owning your imperfections," she said.

Instead of the word "normal", Unilever will use different descriptors for customers looking for particular qualities in their beauty products. Shampoo for "normal to dry" hair, for example, will soon be labelled for "dry and damaged" hair.

Unilever said on Tuesday it would also take a number of other steps in an attempt to promote "a new era of beauty that's inclusive, equitable and sustainable".

It committed to increase the number of adverts portraying people from under-represented groups and use more natural and biodegradable ingredients across its range of products.

wow, thanks PLC Unilever, you are so compassionate and caring you really make me want to spend money on your PRODUCT

now... I just have to figure out what head & shoulders I am supposed to use since the word 'normal' is apparently discriminatory or something
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2021, 12:48:58 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56331524

Unilever drops word 'normal' from beauty products

wow, thanks PLC Unilever, you are so compassionate and caring you really make me want to spend money on your PRODUCT

now... I just have to figure out what head & shoulders I am supposed to use since the word 'normal' is apparently discriminatory or something

Damn, I owe Custard $20, I bet him you didn't shower
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on March 09, 2021, 03:17:37 PM
Looks like Meyers Leonard is going to be “cancelled” now. He called some guy a “kike bitch” in a live video game stream. Combine that with refusing to kneel for the national anthem last year, and I think they might be coming for him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2021, 03:31:51 PM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/olaf-psych-eval-376215

MARCH 8--A judge today ordered a psychological evaluation to help determine the competency of a Florida Man charged with having sexual contact with a pair of large stuffed animals at a Target store, court records show.

Sounds like IlliniGolf has been busy.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 09, 2021, 04:18:52 PM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/olaf-psych-eval-376215

MARCH 8--A judge today ordered a psychological evaluation to help determine the competency of a Florida Man charged with having sexual contact with a pair of large stuffed animals at a Target store, court records show.

Sounds like IlliniGolf has been busy.

No wonder he’s been quiet lately
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2021, 04:36:30 PM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/olaf-psych-eval-376215

MARCH 8--A judge today ordered a psychological evaluation to help determine the competency of a Florida Man charged with having sexual contact with a pair of large stuffed animals at a Target store, court records show.

Sounds like IlliniGolf has been busy.
I presumed it was Meyers Leonard
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 09, 2021, 04:50:16 PM

Like you guys have never fucked a stuffed animal.

Come on...

😳
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on March 09, 2021, 08:12:41 PM

Like you guys have never fucked a stuffed animal.

Come on...
Not one I hadn’t paid for yet. That’s just disgusting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 09, 2021, 09:08:16 PM
Especially in Covid
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 10, 2021, 09:57:54 AM
hmmm where have I seen this before

https://covidstatuswear.com/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2021, 11:32:00 AM
hmmm where have I seen this before

https://covidstatuswear.com/

I bought one for you. Just addressed it to "QAnon97, Reno, Nevada."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 10, 2021, 11:47:52 AM
I bought one for you. Just addressed it to "QAnon97, Reno, Nevada."

(https://media.giphy.com/media/VbbKTXH8zaJsQOkfau/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2021, 11:55:50 AM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/VbbKTXH8zaJsQOkfau/giphy.gif)

Hahaha.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 10, 2021, 12:35:21 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/VbbKTXH8zaJsQOkfau/giphy.gif)

Who dat ? A National Guard member waiting for the next QAnon insurrection ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2021, 02:23:36 PM
I bought one for you. Just addressed it to "QAnon97, Reno, Nevada."
Stop, next thing you know he'll be a Congressman
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 10, 2021, 02:34:12 PM
https://nypost.com/2021/03/10/japanese-candidate-discusses-platform-dressed-as-the-joker/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on March 11, 2021, 02:36:04 PM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/olaf-psych-eval-376215

MARCH 8--A judge today ordered a psychological evaluation to help determine the competency of a Florida Man charged with having sexual contact with a pair of large stuffed animals at a Target store, court records show.

Sounds like IlliniGolf has been busy.

As usual, I left them both satisfied
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2021, 02:52:52 PM
As usual, I left them both satisfied

Now that's funny. Well done.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 14, 2021, 09:40:03 PM
https://www.theblaze.com/news/young-people-intimidated-messages-with-periods

Quote
Young people can be intimidated by social media messages that use periods — yes, periods — since they apparently signal anger, linguists say
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 14, 2021, 09:57:26 PM
https://www.theblaze.com/news/young-people-intimidated-messages-with-periods

Good. Grief.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2021, 10:57:31 PM
https://www.theblaze.com/news/young-people-intimidated-messages-with-periods

Those are some cunning linguists.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 15, 2021, 06:47:56 PM
happy international penis day, cock suckers

(https://i.imgur.com/6lW4vWo.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 16, 2021, 04:13:35 PM
give em an inch and they will try to take a MILE

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/uk/uk-crime-bill-sarah-everard-protests-clampdown-intl-gbr/index.html

the UK is lost
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 16, 2021, 04:35:28 PM
Those are some cunning linguists.

Ah, college days.

I'm sure some of you didn't wander into a strange bathroom at 2 a.m., find the light switch, turn it on, and discover in the mirror that you'd acquired a red goatee.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 16, 2021, 05:12:09 PM
My dentist has a GREAT story about that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 16, 2021, 05:21:11 PM
Guys!

Dave found me.

(https://i.ibb.co/yyBQbW1/Screenshot-2021-03-16-17-16-12.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 16, 2021, 06:23:57 PM
Guys!

Dave found me.

(https://i.ibb.co/yyBQbW1/Screenshot-2021-03-16-17-16-12.png)

We need him here, stat.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 16, 2021, 06:42:35 PM
#blessed
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 16, 2021, 06:51:26 PM
Is Golf not Dave? I thought Golf was Dave.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 16, 2021, 07:37:15 PM
Is Golf not Dave? I thought Golf was Dave.

commando was dave and peru's finest
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 16, 2021, 08:09:46 PM
Is Golf not Dave? I thought Golf was Dave.

No. Commando was Dave. Golf was Gelato.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 16, 2021, 08:14:58 PM
Not a chance. Gelato was humorless. Golf is the funniest "person" on the board.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 16, 2021, 10:49:34 PM
(https://i.redd.it/8x23j9pojhn61.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 16, 2021, 10:55:51 PM
Could Golf be doing a weird mashup? That’s kinda the vibe I get.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 17, 2021, 12:29:47 PM
diversity through... segregation?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbia-university-graduation-ceremonies-income-race-ethnicity

honk honk!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 17, 2021, 01:39:17 PM
diversity through... segregation?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbia-university-graduation-ceremonies-income-race-ethnicity

honk honk!

Yet, everyone is welcome to participate?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2021, 02:01:03 PM
https://twitter.com/katiedaviscourt/status/1372023043506069506?s=21
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2021, 02:03:27 PM
https://twitter.com/katiedaviscourt/status/1372023043506069506?s=21
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 17, 2021, 02:15:48 PM
https://twitter.com/katiedaviscourt/status/1372023043506069506?s=21

LMAO!  You win for today sir

my favorite reply https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewqb2WoWUAI0oX1?format=jpg&name=large
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 17, 2021, 04:27:19 PM
Custard = Spark is a match!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2021, 05:23:22 PM
Didn’t see that one coming
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 18, 2021, 02:06:54 PM
https://streamable.com/rkttck

and thats enough internet for the day
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2021, 08:28:20 AM
Jeff Carlson
@themarketswork

"Biden Admin humiliated by China & Russia on the same day. Quite the feat."

(https://i.ibb.co/zXWvCTD/Screenshot-20210319-082004.jpg) (https://ibb.co/pf6FNB5)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 08:47:33 AM
Jeff Carlson
@themarketswork

"Biden Admin humiliated by China & Russia on the same day. Quite the feat."

(https://i.ibb.co/zXWvCTD/Screenshot-20210319-082004.jpg) (https://ibb.co/pf6FNB5)

Seems like Biden got in the Soviets' heads by rightly calling Putin a killer. Of course the Republicans are mad that he upset Trump's benefactors.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 08:50:10 AM
A Texas museum has removed its wax rendering of former President Donald Trump after it was mercilessly vandalized, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

The battered statue was recently pulled from public view and put in storage after it had been repeatedly punched, scratched and beaten, while on display at Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas, the paper said.

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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2021, 09:18:47 AM
The 'killer' replying with "I wish him health" sounds like they're on good speaking terms.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 19, 2021, 09:28:43 AM
A Texas museum has removed its wax rendering of former President Donald Trump after it was mercilessly vandalized, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

The battered statue was recently pulled from public view and put in storage after it had been repeatedly punched, scratched and beaten, while on display at Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas, the paper said.

and people say TDS isn't real...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 09:38:13 AM
and people say TDS isn't real...

Even his wax statute is  loser!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 09:38:58 AM
The 'killer' replying with "I wish him health" sounds like they're on good speaking terms.

You know that is Putin's version of the "kiss of death," right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2021, 09:57:50 AM
You know that is Putin's version of the "kiss of death," right?
I think the world knows that.
Rocket Man just went straight to the 'ignore' button.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 19, 2021, 10:01:45 AM
The 'killer' replying with "I wish him health" sounds like they're on good speaking terms.

It’s weird, but Biden is actually making me want to side with Putin. Putin would fuck Biden up and is making him look like a clown. Biden’s response to him was we can’t have a public discussion because we’re busy this weekend😂 well what about next weekend then, dumbass?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2021, 10:17:33 AM
Russia is a diversion.
Blinken suggesting Xi should read WaPo and the NYT more often.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1372770852882636802
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 19, 2021, 10:27:33 AM
Russia is a diversion.
Blinken suggesting Xi should read WaPo and the NYT more often.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1372770852882636802

Oh yeah, Biden is CCP’s puppet and they’re gonna wipe their ass with Biden’s face. They own that piece of shit and he knows it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 11:00:46 AM
Russia is a diversion.
Blinken suggesting Xi should read WaPo and the NYT more often.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1372770852882636802

Given the damage caused by 4 years of the Trump admin, I'm not sure the Chinese guy is wrong.

And the Soviets are not a diversion unless you agree with their tactics.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 19, 2021, 11:07:39 AM
🥴
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 12:18:08 PM
🥴

Alexander's from last night not sitting well?  :D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 19, 2021, 02:49:00 PM
Russia is a diversion.
Blinken suggesting Xi should read WaPo and the NYT more often.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1372770852882636802

Who is Jack Posobiec?  One of the far-right’s leading agitators and conspiracy theorists.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/09/16/jack-posobiec-trump-fake-news/

For a balanced report on the meeting, let’s go to the Associated Press:

US, China spar in first face-to-face meeting under Biden
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-alaska-antony-blinken-yang-jiechi-wang-yi-fc23cd2b23332fa8dd2d781bd3f7c178

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 02:53:23 PM
Who is Jack Posobiec?  One of the far-right’s leading agitators and conspiracy theorists.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/09/16/jack-posobiec-trump-fake-news/

For a balanced report on the meeting, let’s go to the Associated Press:

US, China spar in first face-to-face meeting under Biden
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-alaska-antony-blinken-yang-jiechi-wang-yi-fc23cd2b23332fa8dd2d781bd3f7c178

You need to be a better propagandist bot.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 19, 2021, 03:51:48 PM
possibly the most English news article ever?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9378491/Police-grandmother-82-warning-enjoyed-cup-TEA-neighbour.html

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A pensioner was given a police warning after she had a socially distanced cup of tea with her neighbours in their communal garden.

Officers turned up at the 82-year-old’s sheltered housing complex home at 9.45pm to question her about the incident – after she’d settled into bed to watch television.

They told her she had been reported for drinking tea outside with her neighbours, in breach of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 19, 2021, 04:07:11 PM
JFC those poor people and then you’ve got the Rob’s and Murphs of the UK enforcing their imprisonments
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 04:10:53 PM
JFC those poor people and then you’ve got the Rob’s and Murphs of the UK enforcing their imprisonments

They deserve it over there, given their thing with the Royals.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on March 19, 2021, 04:23:56 PM
It’s weird, but Biden is actually making me want to side with Putin. Putin would fuck Biden up and is making him look like a clown. Biden’s response to him was we can’t have a public discussion because we’re busy this weekend😂 well what about next weekend then, dumbass?!
You sided with Trump when Putin had his hand up Trump’s ass. Are we supposed to be surprised you’re siding with Putin now!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 19, 2021, 04:28:08 PM
You sided with Trump when Putin had his hand up Trump’s ass. Are we supposed to be surprised you’re siding with Putin now!

IDGAF if you’re surprised or not.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2021, 04:29:14 PM
You sided with Trump when Putin had his hand up Trump’s ass. Are we supposed to be surprised you’re siding with Putin now!

I had stopped bothering to read Judge Judy's inane posts, but the one you quoted takes the cake. Hope that little fucker get runs over by a car and his brain spurts out like a popped zit while his daughter is watching.  Fuck him, what an asshole. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 19, 2021, 04:32:58 PM
I had stopped bothering to read Judge Judy's inane posts, but the one you quoted takes the cake. Hope that little fucker get runs over by a car and his brain spurts out like a popped zit while his daughter is watching.  Fuck him, what an asshole.

https://giphy.com/gifs/trump-disability-mocks-lF5li31f8WdKo
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 19, 2021, 06:28:13 PM
Some White House staffers asked to resign over past marijuana use
Several White House staffers were asked to resign, were suspended or are working remotely after revealing past marijuana use during their background checks, sources familiar with the situation tell CNN. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports.

The worry is that you give a clearance to someone and they could be blackmailed because they smoked pot?

Here - "I smoked pot". Go ahead and blackmail me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 19, 2021, 06:34:08 PM
Some White House staffers asked to resign over past marijuana use
Several White House staffers were asked to resign, were suspended or are working remotely after revealing past marijuana use during their background checks, sources familiar with the situation tell CNN. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports.

The worry is that you give a clearance to someone and they could be blackmailed because they smoked pot?

Here - "I smoked pot". Go ahead and blackmail me.

oh no, not the devil's lettuce!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 19, 2021, 06:35:36 PM
Some White House staffers asked to resign over past marijuana use
Several White House staffers were asked to resign, were suspended or are working remotely after revealing past marijuana use during their background checks, sources familiar with the situation tell CNN. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports.

The worry is that you give a clearance to someone and they could be blackmailed because they smoked pot?

Here - "I smoked pot". Go ahead and blackmail me.

😂🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 19, 2021, 07:10:28 PM
A little past reefer use should not be a problem. Now if they ever tweeted anything remotely racist, mysoginistic, or homophobic ...
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 19, 2021, 07:30:43 PM
A little past reefer use should not be a problem. Now if they ever tweeted anything remotely racist, mysoginistic, or homophobic ...

If we can have a supreme court judge testifying "I liked beer. I still like beer" in 2018, we can be done with the whole weed thing. Nobody gives a crap.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 19, 2021, 07:56:49 PM
"Why do you think they call it dope?"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on March 19, 2021, 08:20:33 PM
Compared to the bar set by past few years, a little reefer should be no problem at all.  Frankly, I'd be suspicious if some millennial hadn't toked.  Same as it was in late 60's, early 70's.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 19, 2021, 10:02:49 PM
I wouldn’t vote for someone who hasn’t smoked a little rope
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 19, 2021, 10:19:36 PM
Is it okay if I hated it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 19, 2021, 10:50:53 PM
Is it okay if I hated it?

You would just to be ironic you hipster fuck
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 19, 2021, 11:07:00 PM
Is it okay if I hated it unironically?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 19, 2021, 11:20:28 PM
Is it okay if I hated it unironically?

Ugh fine, youre no fun
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 19, 2021, 11:21:09 PM
Is it okay if I hated it?

Did you inhale?  Bill Clinton said he tried it, but didn't inhale, and didn't like it. That is probably because it does not work if the smoke is not inhaled.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 19, 2021, 11:29:02 PM
He wanted to fit in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 20, 2021, 01:56:06 AM
"Why do you think they call it dope?"

Best retort in this thread
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 20, 2021, 10:48:25 AM
Who is Jack Posobiec?  One of the far-right’s leading agitators and conspiracy theorists.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/09/16/jack-posobiec-trump-fake-news/

For a balanced report on the meeting, let’s go to the Associated Press:

US, China spar in first face-to-face meeting under Biden
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-alaska-antony-blinken-yang-jiechi-wang-yi-fc23cd2b23332fa8dd2d781bd3f7c178



The AP article doesn't mention the CCP, who wants to be the world military and economic power, told Blinken that the US should mind It's own business, stay out of China's business, and that the US shouldn't be acting as if it is in a position of strength.
In other words, get outta here with that stuff and work on your own problems.
The AP article doesn't show that video.
Blinken put the CCP in its place makes for a better story.

And not a mention of a virus that has devastated the world. That should have been the opening issue.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 20, 2021, 12:38:43 PM
The AP article doesn't mention the CCP, who wants to be the world military and economic power, told Blinken that the US should mind It's own business, stay out of China's business, and that the US shouldn't be acting as if it is in a position of strength.
In other words, get outta here with that stuff and work on your own problems.
The AP article doesn't show that video.
Blinken put the CCP in its place makes for a better story.

And not a mention of a virus that has devastated the world. That should have been the opening issue.

China “wants to be a world military and economy power.”  Who knew?

The China diplomat tells “Blinken that the US should mind its own business, stay out of China's business, and that the US shouldn't be acting as if it is in a position of strength.”   Those Chinese officials are saying mean things to us.   The horror! The horror!

Well…both sides came out throwing punches at the meeting.  It’s hard to say how much of the public back-and-forth was theatrics for each country’s home audiences versus messaging to each other.  I think it’s better to lay it out, express some honest thoughts and positions, step away, then move back to the table and try to create real agreements based on reality and not some fake pretend relationship.

Oh, and here’s another article that provides balanced information about the meeting.   It outlines several actions the Biden administration is considering for confronting China.  OMG, it also reports that Biden officials are conferring with Republicans on China-related matters.   

‘Fundamentally at odds’: China, U.S. retreat to their corners after Alaska talks
“’There are a number of areas where we are fundamentally at odds,’ U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said as the last session drew to a close Friday, ‘including China’s actions in Xinjiang, with regard to Hong Kong, Tibet, increasingly Taiwan, as well as actions that it is taking in cyberspace. And it’s no surprise that when we raised those issues clearly and directly, we got a defensive response.”

“Blinken told Chinese officials that the U.S. would continue to speak out about Beijing’s crackdowns in Hong Kong and on Uighur Muslims, along with other points of contentions. Despite China’s insistence that these are internal matters, they threaten the rules-based international order, Blinken said, making them fair game for American comment and action.”

“The Biden administration is looking at taking actions in the next few weeks to punish China over what U.S. officials say is a genocidal campaign against Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region, according to a China analyst in touch with Biden administration officials.  The actions will likely include new economic sanctions and could also involve some coordinated measures with countries in Europe which, too, are alarmed by the Xinjiang crisis.”

“Earlier this week…the U.S. issued subpoenas on multiple Chinese companies that, according to the Commerce Department, ‘provide information and communications technology and services in the United States.’ The move signaled a potential crackdown on Chinese companies that could pose what the administration sees as a national security risk to America.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/19/china-usa-alaska-477267
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 20, 2021, 01:45:42 PM
The origins of the virus should have been the 1st talking point. But no.
Instead, the world has no idea how the virus started and the CCP is keeping it that way.

The CCP came to U.S. soil and told us in front of media that we shouldn't be thinking we are in a position of strength.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on March 20, 2021, 02:31:13 PM
This US leadership is prob the biggest bunch of pussies ever assembled to lead a global power. Of course the CCP is licking their chops. Their buying up America while we are worried about gender pronouns and culture appropriation
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 20, 2021, 02:40:52 PM
The origins of the virus should have been the 1st talking point. But no.
Instead, the world has no idea how the virus started and the CCP is keeping it that way.

The CCP came to U.S. soil and told us in front of media that we shouldn't be thinking we are in a position of strength.

But, but, but...according to our former president, China was forthcoming and worked hard to prevent the pandemic.   

“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!” (Jan 24, 2020)

"I just spoke to President Xi last night, and, you know, we're working on the — the problem, the virus. It's a — it's a very tough situation. But I think he's going to handle it. I think he's handled it really well. We're helping wherever we can." (Feb 7, 2020)

“Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days … Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!” (Feb 7, 2020)

"I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control," Trump said. "I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that's a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard." (Feb 10, 2020)

“China is working very, very hard. I have spoken to President Xi, and they’re working very hard. And if you know anything about him, I think he’ll be in pretty good shape. They’re — they’ve had a rough patch, and I think right now they have it — it looks like they’re getting it under control more and more. They’re getting it more and more under control.” (Feb 26, 2020)

“I spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. He’s working very hard, I have to say. He’s working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it’s actually gotten smaller.” (Feb 27, 2020)
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronavirus-188736


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on March 20, 2021, 03:25:37 PM
This US leadership is prob the biggest bunch of pussies ever assembled to lead a global power. Of course the CCP is licking their chops. Their buying up America while we are worried about gender pronouns and culture appropriation
At least Biden wasn’t dumb enough to start a trade war with China and get his ass handed to him.

China isn’t licking their lips, they’re disappointed they don’t have a clueless dipshit who doesn’t understand the difference between rhetoric and policy in the White House any more.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 20, 2021, 06:38:06 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/mar/20/jesus-camargo-chicago-cubs-meth-oxycodone

Quote
Chicago Cubs prospect arrested with 21lbs of meth in team duffel bag
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 20, 2021, 09:34:23 PM
Well at least he didn’t call someone a kike
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 20, 2021, 11:33:45 PM
"One person in NJ complained, "Why was that performance okay but Pepe Le Pew is offensive?" -- a reference to the Looney Tunes character getting canceled for allegedly perpetuating rape culture.

Likewise, another viewer wondered how Dr. Seuss's books were being yanked while Cardi is allowed to "sing about her [WAP] on national television.'"
https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/18/cardi-b-megan-thee-stallion-wap-fcc-complaints-strip-club-grammys/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 21, 2021, 10:01:13 AM
At least Biden wasn’t dumb enough to start a trade war with China and get his ass handed to him.

China isn’t licking their lips, they’re disappointed they don’t have a clueless dipshit who doesn’t understand the difference between rhetoric and policy in the White House any more.

You would think this would sting, but they cannot admit this all started happening on their America First Hero's watch. He abdicated the US' role in the world when he was not sucking on Traitor Judy's Hero's cock and China started filling the vacuum.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on March 21, 2021, 10:53:14 AM
By the way, using the term “CCP” is a major indicator to me that someone has 100% bought into right wing propaganda.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 24, 2021, 09:41:12 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/6kjlJ7N.png)

lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 24, 2021, 11:04:48 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/6kjlJ7N.png)

lol

Hope she brings condoms with her.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 24, 2021, 12:05:13 PM
Or a couple of nice Cuban cigars.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 24, 2021, 01:53:23 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/us/reparations-evanston-hr-40-legislation-whats-next/index.html

yes I'm sure that Evanston, IL which was founded a whopping 10 years before the Emancipation Proclamation had a big part in slavery in the US...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 24, 2021, 02:09:36 PM
Yeah, and before incorporating as a municipality, it was just an empty hole in space.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 24, 2021, 02:13:35 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/us/reparations-evanston-hr-40-legislation-whats-next/index.html

yes I'm sure that Evanston, IL which was founded a whopping 10 years before the Emancipation Proclamation had a big part in slavery in the US...

This has nothing to do with slavery.

reparations to Black residents whose families have felt the effects of decades of discriminatory housing practices



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 24, 2021, 02:16:30 PM
This has nothing to do with slavery.

reparations to Black residents whose families have felt the effects of decades of discriminatory housing practices

Ok so I would assume the national association of realtors is paying for this then?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 24, 2021, 02:33:34 PM
Ok so I would assume the national association of realtors is paying for this then?

 3% tax on the sale of recreational marijuana

Qualifying residents must either have lived in or been a direct descendant of a Black person who lived in Evanston between 1919 to 1969 and who suffered discrimination in housing because of city ordinances, policies or practices.

Sounds fair enough to me.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 24, 2021, 02:42:05 PM
3% tax on the sale of recreational marijuana

Qualifying residents must either have lived in or been a direct descendant of a Black person who lived in Evanston between 1919 to 1969 and who suffered discrimination in housing because of city ordinances, policies or practices.

Sounds fair enough to me.

I'm sure their records are well kept from 1919 and there won't be any sort of illicit behavior from this pool of funds at all
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 24, 2021, 03:46:03 PM
I'm sure their records are well kept from 1919 and there won't be any sort of illicit behavior from this pool of funds at all
Conservative: (noun) - we can't do anything good for millions because that one time that one person found a loophole and scammed a few bucks
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 24, 2021, 04:29:05 PM
Conservative: (noun) - we can't do anything good for millions because that one time that one person found a loophole and scammed a few bucks

millions of people live in Evanston?  well probably with this stupid program they will say they do lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 24, 2021, 06:10:45 PM
Here's a weird thing about the tranny community that makes no sense to me: Some of the more politically active trannies don't want you to know the given names of their pre-transition brethren (sistren).

Seeing news of today's Senate confirmation, I went to the Wikipedia page of Rachel Levine, and discovered an ongoing fight among people who do/don't want you to know that s/he was Richard for most of her career.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 24, 2021, 07:22:17 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-says-calling-boulder-shooter-white-christian-terrorist-ok-1578284

Quote
A tweet describing Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the suspected gunman in Monday's Colorado supermarket shooting, as a "white Christian terrorist" does not violate the social network's misinformation policies, Twitter told Newsweek.

Many Twitter users assumed the shooter was white before his name was released by police in Boulder, Colorado. Several pointed to the massacre as another example of racial injustice and white supremacy in the United States, coming a few days after a white man killed six Asian women in an Atlanta shooting spree.

Those tweets backfired when police named Alissa, whose family immigrated from Syria and whose now-deleted Facebook pages suggested he was a Muslim. Many conservatives accused the left-wing Twitter users of race-baiting.

Some users have deleted their tweets calling him white. Others have defended their claims, saying they were based on Alissa's skin color rather than his ethnicity.

Newsweek put the misleading posts to Twitter. The social network has been accused of left-wing bias and anti-Christian prejudice in the way it polices speech on its platform.

In January, for example, Twitter locked the account of The Catholic Review, apparently for tweeting an article that described assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Rachel Levine as "a biological man identifying as a transgender woman."

A Twitter spokeswoman said the "white Christian terrorist" tweet and other false posts did not violate its rules.

"The Tweets referenced are not in violation of the Twitter Rules," the spokesperson told Newsweek in an email. "We will not take action on every instance of misinformation. Currently, our misinformation rules cover COVID-19 misinformation, synthetic and manipulated media and civic integrity."

lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 24, 2021, 07:44:08 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-says-calling-boulder-shooter-white-christian-terrorist-ok-1578284

lol

Calling him a white Christian terrorist is acceptable, but not a brown Muslim terrorist. Call him that you’re a racist. This world is so fucked up and just getting worse.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 24, 2021, 09:35:32 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-says-calling-boulder-shooter-white-christian-terrorist-ok-1578284

lol

Another reason to wait for the evidence before commenting. Kind of like waiting to see Underachiever coach in an NCAA   tournament before declaring you (the general "you") were "right" about him when he was hired.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 25, 2021, 03:31:23 PM
Here's a weird thing about the tranny community that makes no sense to me: Some of the more politically active trannies don't want you to know the given names of their pre-transition brethren (sistren).

Seeing news of today's Senate confirmation, I went to the Wikipedia page of Rachel Levine, and discovered an ongoing fight among people who do/don't want you to know that s/he was Richard for most of her career.

What doesn't make sense is the ongoing fight - was that a fight inside the transgender community or amongst a bunch of Senators.

Also - "Tranny"?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 25, 2021, 06:11:00 PM
https://twitter.com/BugPennis/status/1375162883739422724
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 25, 2021, 06:17:21 PM
was that a fight inside the transgender community or amongst a bunch of Senators.

People who edit Wikipedia.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on March 26, 2021, 08:36:18 AM
https://twitter.com/BugPennis/status/1375162883739422724

That's fucking great!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 26, 2021, 07:45:28 PM
Steve Daines protecting Montana jerbs

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1375584214792421376
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on March 27, 2021, 02:07:13 PM
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/rescue-dog-who-obese-stand-23800441
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 29, 2021, 05:48:12 PM
https://thepostmillennial.com/oxford-university-may-stop-teaching-sheet-music-because-of-its-complicity-in-white-supremacy

Quote
The University of Oxford has taken the Black Lives Matter movement to heart, and as such is considering a plan to scrap sheet music, notation, and the classical music that was scored upon it. Sheet music is now considered "too colonial," while Beethoven and Mozart, and music curriculums in general, are believed to have "complicity in white supremacy."

Musical notation is believed now to be part of a "colonialist representational system." The changes are being proposed to undergraduate level courses and the goal is to "decolonize" music study. These professors are intent on addressing "white hegemony," according to the Telegraph.

The professors argue that the teaching of musical notation would be a "slap in the face" for students because notation "has not 'shaken off its connection to its colonial past." Music study, moving forward, has been "earmarked for a rebranding to be more inclusive."

it never ends with these lunatics
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 29, 2021, 05:56:36 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/mar/24/super-freeing-mens-skirts-emerge-as-pandemic-fashion-trend

Quote
For men who want to ditch their tie-dye tops and sweatpants post-pandemic but keep the comfort, a surprising new trend has emerged: the skirt.

Skirts have been included in the autumn/winter collections of Stefan Cooke, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, Burberry and Jaden Smith’s MSFTSrep label, while longer skirts have been worn by the rappers Post Malone and Bad Bunny and the singer Yungblud. But it was Harry Styles on the pages of US Vogue who cemented the trend (in a Wales Bonner knitted skirt and a Comme des Garçons kilt), following other notable male skirt/dress moments (David Bowie on the cover of The Man Who Sold the World, Mick Jagger at Hyde Park, Kanye West in a Givenchy leather skirt).

The trend is indicative of how the pandemic has unshackled men from their dress codes. And what’s more freeing to your legs than a skirt?


Clown world is accelerating I fear
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 29, 2021, 06:04:20 PM
Pants are a pretty stupid paradigm to get trapped in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 29, 2021, 07:02:32 PM
https://thepostmillennial.com/oxford-university-may-stop-teaching-sheet-music-because-of-its-complicity-in-white-supremacy

it never ends with these lunatics

Maybe they should start teaching Hendrix, Prince, and Bootsy Collins.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 29, 2021, 07:29:27 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/F7LrwhV/Screenshot-20210329-185404.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RHkF0gy)

Leave the Masters out of this.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 29, 2021, 07:36:18 PM
Combine forty years of cheap food and relative world peace with the boredom of a year long pandemic, add the internet, and voila
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 29, 2021, 08:35:11 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/F7LrwhV/Screenshot-20210329-185404.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RHkF0gy)

Leave the Masters out of this.

Kind of hard to play the Masters somewhere else. But the rest, yeah, stick it to the GA GOP.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 29, 2021, 09:00:59 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/mar/24/super-freeing-mens-skirts-emerge-as-pandemic-fashion-trend


Clown world is accelerating I fear

Amusing stories but you are seriously approaching "Your crazy old uncle on Facebook" stage
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 29, 2021, 09:40:32 PM
Amusing stories but you are seriously approaching "Your crazy old uncle on Facebook" stage

well the thread IS about amusing and ridiculous clown world stories
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 29, 2021, 09:44:28 PM
well the thread IS about amusing and ridiculous clown world stories

It’s been a bad day for Murph
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 29, 2021, 09:52:08 PM
On Murph's worst day, he's still not either one of you village idiots. So he's got that going for him. which is nice.

Also, I'd like to see a bunch of PGAers boycott the Masters, and I'm not surprised that you MAGAts are against the idea.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 29, 2021, 09:53:18 PM
On Murph's worst day, he's still not either one of you village idiots. So he's got that going for him. which is nice.


I laughed.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 29, 2021, 10:05:18 PM
Kind of hard to play the Masters somewhere else. But the rest, yeah, stick it to the GA GOP.

They should just cede Augusta to a more progressive state like South Carolina or Alabama 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 29, 2021, 10:36:31 PM
They should just cede Augusta to a more progressive state like South Carolina or Alabama

Yeah, far more advanced over there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 29, 2021, 11:16:50 PM
On Murph's worst day, he's still not either one of you village idiots. So he's got that going for him. which is nice.

Also, I'd like to see a bunch of PGAers boycott the Masters, and I'm not surprised that you MAGAts are against the idea.

Whats a MAGAt and who other than some fringe lunatics are for boycotting the Masters?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 29, 2021, 11:19:50 PM
Whats a MAGAt and who other than some fringe lunatics are for boycotting the Masters?

Tiger Woods won't be there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 29, 2021, 11:58:13 PM
Tiger Woods won't be there.

Heyoooo
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on March 30, 2021, 08:26:44 AM
Tiger Woods won't be there.

(https://media3.giphy.com/media/rN56zT7PPl7qM/200.webp?cid=ecf05e47ivzdl0qn9zdcwkkgnyrus76k3kqme1qiqipa2j7z&rid=200.webp)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 30, 2021, 11:20:42 AM
(https://media3.giphy.com/media/rN56zT7PPl7qM/200.webp?cid=ecf05e47ivzdl0qn9zdcwkkgnyrus76k3kqme1qiqipa2j7z&rid=200.webp)

Even Trump - the least racist person in the world, knows that Tiger cooked his own goose

If 30 of the top 50 players in the world bypass the Masters but they still hold the tourney, the Masters will put a pretty big stain on their brand.
They tried for a very long time to hold the line on their archaic policies - they ran the tourney without sponsors to put off admitting women.
But running a tourney with a field of 20 isn't going to work very well for them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 30, 2021, 11:44:17 PM
Most interested in responses from Murph, PAMan, and 97.

https://youtu.be/dgIYd23hemk
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 30, 2021, 11:46:32 PM
I find Russell Brand too annoying to watch. But I will push through it at some point.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 30, 2021, 11:57:04 PM
He has tiny teeth.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 30, 2021, 11:58:37 PM
He has tiny teeth.

He's British. Probably dentures.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on March 31, 2021, 07:53:55 AM
I find Russell Brand too annoying to watch. But I will push through it at some point.

But Oprah loves him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 31, 2021, 07:57:45 AM
But Oprah loves him.

Not surprised.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 31, 2021, 10:45:09 AM
Most interested in responses from Murph, PAMan, and 97.

https://youtu.be/dgIYd23hemk

1) I'll agree with the article Naiomi wrote that the "solutions" to the worlds problems that are being proposed are terrifying and literally ripped out of dystopian novels... these ideas most of the time however are just copied ideas from the old Soviet Union - vaccine passports - Propiska they were called in Soviet russia
whats next, yellow stars?  a quick search on the googles makes this right here the first result... holy fuck it reads like straight up propaganda... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/30/dont-believe-conservative-fearmongering-over-vaccine-passports/  pretty sad being composed by a Jewish guy...

2) I don't think most of the ordinary people pushing this shit are inherently bad people, their ideas are just terrifying and they just aren't smart enough to see the consequences of their proposals that are being run through them by higher ups.  Technology HAS made life better and will continue to make life better, but this weird computer/human hybrid life they are talking about where people don't have their own interests or free thought to do what the computer reccomends is insanity

3) Billionaires and other world leaders are in on this shit together and every time they see some country or business grabbing power/money somehow it gives them ideas on how to do it as well... you think its a fucking coincidence that Jeff Bezos bought a newspaper because he just really loves money losing dinosaur businesses... he doesn't care if it loses money, he just needs to spit out whatever message will make him more powerful and wealthy.  And having dealt with a few recently divorced narcissist men at my job before, holy fuck these people are insane and will do anything to get their wealth back.

4) anyway - a straight up technocracy like these people are referring to is just insanely terrifying... I have found great happiness getting the fuck out of the concrete jungle of Chicagoland and reconnecting with nature and wilderness - and most humans would do best to spend much much MUCH less time with a screen in front of their faces, it makes them depressed, low energy, have hormone loss, anti-social behavior, etc.  Humans for nearly our entire history spent time outside in the sun, with nature.  It is not natural to sit in your house all day talking over zoom calls or interacting virtually.  Oh yeah - take some vitamin D3 as we never get enough today even if you live in a sunny climate, helps a lot!

5) too much to unpack regarding this video - I'm out of time - but I do agree with most of what he's saying - the great reset isn't going to make life for everyone better - its going to make life for rich fucks a lot better - everyone else can fuck off (which is kind of how its always been)


apologies in advance for terrible writing/grammar/whatever its early
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 31, 2021, 11:41:10 AM
Most interested in responses from Murph, PAMan, and 97.

https://youtu.be/dgIYd23hemk

TL, DR;

As long as I could stand it, there are some points there but most of it seems to be made up performance art.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 31, 2021, 11:42:50 AM
I find Russell Brand too annoying to watch. But I will push through it at some point.

And there you go, the two of us agree, but Old 97 he was like "COOL!"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 31, 2021, 11:55:02 AM
And there you go, the two of us agree, but Old 97 he was like "COOL!"

never said I enjoyed listening to him, but ok
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 31, 2021, 12:16:06 PM
...anti-social behavior, etc.

I can't be the only one who found this one ironic...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 31, 2021, 02:02:23 PM
https://cbs2iowa.com/sports/hawkeye-xtra/worlds-largest-truckstop-owners-endow-iowa-football-program

Quote
The Will and Renee Moon Excellence Fund will endow the head football coaching position in perpetuity, and Kirk Ferentz and those who follow him will hold the formal title of Moon Family Head Football Coach.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 02, 2021, 08:04:14 AM
Thanks for the lift, guys.
This is so cool. It's my first cabinet meeting.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1377757687954423808

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 02, 2021, 08:05:58 AM
Thanks for the lift, guys.
This is so cool. It's my first cabinet meeting.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1377757687954423808

Hahaha. Maybe he didn't want to ride the bike through the tough part of town....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 02, 2021, 04:54:22 PM
Hahaha. Maybe he didn't want to ride the bike through the tough part of town....

nah he's just another piece of shit liar
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 02, 2021, 05:50:45 PM
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31184112/brooklyn-nets-kevin-durant-fined-50000-offensive-derogatory-language

So Donald Sterling gets banned for life and this is all Durant gets 🤔 the NBA is a fucking joke.

Yeah this is clown world post worthy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 02, 2021, 09:18:25 PM
At least he offered up a heartfelt apology. Well, not so much so.
"but hopefully I can move past it and get back out there on the floor."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 02, 2021, 10:59:18 PM
I thought “pale pasty cum guzzling bitch” was the new my nigga. No?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Lkdog on April 03, 2021, 12:40:35 AM
https://cbs2iowa.com/sports/hawkeye-xtra/worlds-largest-truckstop-owners-endow-iowa-football-program


I drive by this regularly. A few miles from Quad Cities. Have never stopped there in like 40 years. I have always heard there are hookers hanging out. It's like a small city.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 03, 2021, 11:01:23 AM

I drive by this regularly. A few miles from Quad Cities. Have never stopped there in like 40 years. I have always heard there are hookers hanging out. It's like a small city.

most truck strops have 'Lot Lizards'
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on April 03, 2021, 11:17:26 AM

I drive by this regularly. A few miles from Quad Cities. Have never stopped there in like 40 years. I have always heard there are hookers hanging out. It's like a small city.

I worked there in the early 90's for about 10 months.  You'd see the occasional trucker roll in with some skank hanging on him, but the owners tried hard to make it more of a family atmosphere.  It's not like you see hookers walking around from truck to truck, although I'm sure it happens.  The more alarming thing was seeing these drivers (not many, but still) come in on speed doing their Corey Hart imitation. 

It's really quite impressive, as far as truckstops go.  Clean.  Back in the day, they'd have a chiro, dentist, showers, family restaurant, fast food, huge chrome shop, truck wash, service center, etc.  It's massive.  It was a learning experience as to how much shit costs.  That's an expensive industry.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 04, 2021, 11:51:53 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/Ls9ymN09/Ey-FN5-KXWYAEWLPS.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 05, 2021, 07:26:41 AM
Don't know where to put this that MLB tells millions of fans that it's ok to never watch or go to a game again.
Yo, hey China and you Uighers with internet service. You can stream us on Tencent. Can you guys do an All Star game in July ?

(https://i.ibb.co/zGdYfWh/Screenshot-20210405-072132.jpg) (https://ibb.co/LnKWpDz)

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-expands-deal-chinese-firm-151033313.html#:~:text=Major%20League%20Baseball%20has%20expanded,games%20in%20China%20until%202023.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 05, 2021, 07:48:53 AM
(https://i.postimg.cc/Ls9ymN09/Ey-FN5-KXWYAEWLPS.jpg)

It remains comical that a solution for a problem that does not exists is so popular amongst the Small Government Republicans.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 05, 2021, 08:57:33 AM
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31196207/tampa-bay-buccaneers-cb-carlton-davis-apologizes-using-anti-asian-slur-tweet

Thought it meant “lame.” Dude stfu, this is getting ridiculous.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 05, 2021, 09:24:07 AM
(https://media.notthebee.com/articles/dcccf1bf-ffd3-4350-bc39-6d33bf67b846.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 05, 2021, 11:46:43 AM
It remains comical that a solution for a problem that does not exists is so popular amongst the Small Government Republicans.

The problem is too many people voted, and they voted for the wrong candidates. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 05, 2021, 12:48:29 PM
(https://media.notthebee.com/articles/dcccf1bf-ffd3-4350-bc39-6d33bf67b846.jpg)

Could be consistent if he believes that the offender should not have been released at all. Either you should be able to be out pending trial, or you shouldn't - and that shouldn't be a function of how much cash you can scratch up.

Now, if this guy was released within the scope of what we believe he shouldn't be held, then this legislator should shut up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2021, 01:57:08 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/Ls9ymN09/Ey-FN5-KXWYAEWLPS.jpg)

Do you support on line voting?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2021, 02:01:57 PM
(https://media.notthebee.com/articles/dcccf1bf-ffd3-4350-bc39-6d33bf67b846.jpg)

"I think this is a perfect example of how the cash-bail system does not make us more safe; he is free tonight on cash bail," Sims said. "If the Safety Act were in place, that would be very different."
https://abc7chicago.com/police-reform-bill-illinois-sen-elgie-sims-springfield-january-6th/10432104/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 05, 2021, 03:36:49 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4

I'm sure there will be massive protests and lots of outrage over this  :-X

whoever uses social media in this day and age is an idiot IMO
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 05, 2021, 03:38:21 PM
Do you support on line voting?

is that a thing?

(https://i.postimg.cc/jjG8ZxSG/You-live-in-a-country.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 05, 2021, 03:39:03 PM
is that a thing?

(https://i.postimg.cc/jjG8ZxSG/You-live-in-a-country.png)

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2021, 03:53:37 PM
is that a thing?

(https://i.postimg.cc/jjG8ZxSG/You-live-in-a-country.png)

You compared the right to vote with opening an online payment account.

Things that require an ID can generally be done online or by mail.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2021, 03:53:57 PM
The concern seems to be voters'  privacy rather than fraud.  covfefe

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/online-voting-304013
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 05, 2021, 03:55:48 PM
You compared the right to vote with opening an online payment account.

Things that require an ID can generally be done online or by mail.

That one is going to leave a mark.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 05, 2021, 04:24:50 PM
Hehehe.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/online-voting-304013
"In fact, it may be a decade or more before the U.S. can safely entrust the internet with the selection of its lawmakers and presidents, according to some experts. Still, a handful of states are pushing ahead, with the encouragement of one politically connected tech entrepreneur — and the tempting logic of the question, “If we can bank online, why can’t we vote the same way?”

Who is this "politically connected tech entrepreneur", you ask ?

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-campaign-for-mobile-phone-voting-is-getting-a-midterm-test

Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg can probably answer that.
"Bradley Tusk has a plan to fix American democracy. A former high-level staffer for Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg, among others, Tusk has recently been using his political wits to help tech companies sidestep red tape and clear regulatory hurdles. As he recounts in his new book, “The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics,” Tusk has—for better or for worse—convinced authorities across the country to let Uber operate in their cities, figured out how to get the San Jose City Council to allow on-demand home delivery for marijuana, and toppled regulations banning the sale of online homeowners and renters’ insurance. When Uber, the first tech client of his fledgling consulting firm, didn’t have enough cash to pay him, Tusk took half his compensation in equity. As a consequence, he said, “I just got more money than I ever expected to have.”

Now Tusk, who is forty-five, is parlaying his Silicon Valley experience, and the fortune he made in the process, searching for a way to make it easier for people to vote.
..... the organization aims to crack the nut of voting by mobile phone, something computer scientists have been trying to do, unsuccessfully and in various ways, for the past two decades.

On its face, voting by phone makes sense. Nearly ninety-five per cent of American adults own mobile phones, and rely on them for all sorts of secure transactions. Using them to cast a ballot would seem to be a natural extension, and one that removes many of the impediments that discourage people from voting, such as inconveniently located polling places, limited hours, and long lines."

Let's make sure we throw in the how onerous it is to vote bs.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 05, 2021, 08:06:37 PM
America's past time, the game of baseball. No politics allowed.
Thanks, Commissioner.  Thanks, POTUS.

(https://i.ibb.co/ccR0SSD/20210405-185504.png) (https://ibb.co/rGqYRR4)



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 05, 2021, 08:29:30 PM
Dude has no legs. How's he gonna pitch?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 05, 2021, 09:06:50 PM

Let's make sure we throw in the how onerous it is to vote bs.

You wouldn't last 10 minutes in a voting line in Fulton County before you'd be on the ground like Fred Sanford
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 05, 2021, 09:07:59 PM
America's past time, the game of baseball. No politics allowed.
Thanks, Commissioner.  Thanks, POTUS.

(https://i.ibb.co/ccR0SSD/20210405-185504.png) (https://ibb.co/rGqYRR4)

So much for your support for free market capitalism, something being practiced in this instance by both MLB

MLB put out a response saying "Abbott declined to throw out the first pitch because he knows his arm has about as much power as Texas in a snowstorm"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 05, 2021, 09:10:37 PM
America's past time, the game of baseball. No politics allowed.
Thanks, Commissioner.  Thanks, POTUS.

(https://i.ibb.co/ccR0SSD/20210405-185504.png) (https://ibb.co/rGqYRR4)

Shorter Abbott.  “I will not participate in any event that threatens to undermine the focus on me in the far-right media swamp."   

Surely he will be missed.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 05, 2021, 11:05:19 PM
Dude has no legs. How's he gonna pitch?

still throws a better heater than Fauci

(https://media.giphy.com/media/JOYFIu1DdVY2ze28S3/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 05, 2021, 11:24:13 PM
still throws a better heater than Fauci

(https://media.giphy.com/media/JOYFIu1DdVY2ze28S3/giphy.gif)

Pretty standard - "Fauci threw a bad pitch, therefore Abbott throws good ones"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 05, 2021, 11:43:42 PM
Pretty standard - "Fauci threw a bad pitch, therefore Abbott throws good ones"

Learn the definition of 'better than'..

It might be helpful
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 06, 2021, 07:59:13 AM
Rob Manfred gets a letter from Marco Rubio where Rubio says he has no illusions that Manfred will give up his membership to Augusta National.
The MLB All Star game may go to Coors Field. Pete Coors is listed in Wikipedia as also being an Augusta member.
It looks like Colorado has the lowest percentage of blacks of any state with an MLB franchise.
You old privileged white guys be you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 06, 2021, 08:09:57 AM
Rob Manfred gets a letter from Marco Rubio where Rubio says he has no illusions that Manfred will give up his membership to Augusta National.
The MLB All Star game may go to Coors Field. Pete Coors is listed in Wikipedia as also being an Augusta member.
It looks like Colorado has the lowest percentage of blacks of any state with an MLB franchise.
You old privileged white guys be you.

Those tears tasting salty? You guys wanted corporations to be treated as "people", does not sound like it is going as planned. Maybe Mitch will propose raising corporate tax rates to get back at them
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 06, 2021, 09:59:16 AM
Those tears tasting salty? You guys wanted corporations to be treated as "people", does not sound like it is going as planned. Maybe Mitch will propose raising corporate tax rates to get back at them

I'm sure all the local white kids working at the gastropubs will appreciate the extra income for the weekend
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 06, 2021, 10:52:47 AM
I love how the Dems say they’re all for minorities and MLB then pulls the game from an AA community and takes it to one of the whitest communities in baseball to benefit from the business/income. It’s a classic way to “say” they’re for minorities, but they know people are too stupid to actually look at the actions. Dems been doing it for decades. Give ‘em a little handout here and there and they’ll keep coming back thinking they’re winning by supporting their candidates. Keep them in poverty all while telling them how much they’re helping them lol. The AA community is gonna be a super minority here soon to the Hispanic/Latino population. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 06, 2021, 11:01:08 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/I5kc3oW.png)

bruh
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 06, 2021, 12:58:33 PM
I love how the Dems say they’re all for minorities and MLB then pulls the game from an AA community and takes it to one of the whitest communities in baseball to benefit from the business/income. It’s a classic way to “say” they’re for minorities, but they know people are too stupid to actually look at the actions. Dems been doing it for decades. Give ‘em a little handout here and there and they’ll keep coming back thinking they’re winning by supporting their candidates. Keep them in poverty all while telling them how much they’re helping them lol. The AA community is gonna be a super minority here soon to the Hispanic/Latino population.

So Cobb County is an AA community?   Did not know that.

https://www.cobbcounty.org/economic-development/why-cobb/demographics
http://documents.atlantaregional.com/profiles/Superdistrict/Cobb_County_Cumberland_NN.pdf
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 06, 2021, 01:46:58 PM
I love how the Dems say they’re all for minorities and MLB then pulls the game from an AA community and takes it to one of the whitest communities in baseball to benefit from the business/income. It’s a classic way to “say” they’re for minorities, but they know people are too stupid to actually look at the actions. Dems been doing it for decades. Give ‘em a little handout here and there and they’ll keep coming back thinking they’re winning by supporting their candidates. Keep them in poverty all while telling them how much they’re helping them lol. The AA community is gonna be a super minority here soon to the Hispanic/Latino population.

Denver County is 30 percent hispanic, the country as a whole is 18%. Or are latinos only minorities when they are crossing the border?

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 06, 2021, 01:47:34 PM
Learn the definition of 'better than'..

It might be helpful

Do you have any evidence that Abbott throws a better heater?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 06, 2021, 01:49:04 PM
So Cobb County is an AA community?   Did not know that.

https://www.cobbcounty.org/economic-development/why-cobb/demographics
http://documents.atlantaregional.com/profiles/Superdistrict/Cobb_County_Cumberland_NN.pdf
Probably thinks the Braves still play at Fulton County Stadium
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 06, 2021, 02:05:58 PM
Do you have any evidence that Abbott throws a better heater?

it would be impossible to be worse?

I seriously don't get the Church of Fauci worship, it literally boggles my mind... he's a career government worker loser who has no fucking clue what he's doing and is treated like he's some sort of God for some bizarre reason.  Thanks Trump you dipshit!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 06, 2021, 02:08:50 PM
Do you have any evidence that Abbott throws a better heater?

oh wait... you make it too easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C4zfvRAaT8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 06, 2021, 02:33:45 PM
So Cobb County is an AA community?   Did not know that.

https://www.cobbcounty.org/economic-development/why-cobb/demographics
http://documents.atlantaregional.com/profiles/Superdistrict/Cobb_County_Cumberland_NN.pdf

Don’t be an idiot.

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/atlanta-ga/

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/denver-co-population
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 06, 2021, 03:39:06 PM
Don’t be an idiot.

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/atlanta-ga/

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/denver-co-population

The Braves don't play in the "Big A."  In 2017, the team relocated from downtown Atlanta's Turner Field to the northern suburbs of Cobb County. 
https://www.mlb.com/news/atlanta-braves-leaving-turner-field-for-new-ballpark-in-nearby-cobb-county/c-63830416
https://www.ibtimes.com/atlanta-braves-move-cobb-county-about-race-not-transportation-1470814

Try to keep up.   Murph provided a big hint. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 06, 2021, 03:49:28 PM
Can you still buy Eskimo Pies?

Edy's Pie is an American brand of chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped in foil. It was the first such dessert sold in the United States. It is marketed by Dreyer's, a division of Froneri. The dessert was rebranded from Eskimo Pie in 2021, because Eskimo is considered a derogatory term
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 06, 2021, 03:53:23 PM
Can you still buy Eskimo Pies?

Edy's Pie is an American brand of chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped in foil. It was the first such dessert sold in the United States. It is marketed by Dreyer's, a division of Froneri. The dessert was rebranded from Eskimo Pie in 2021, because Eskimo is considered a derogatory term


Can we.still be Eskimo Brothers?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 06, 2021, 04:02:19 PM
Can we.still be Eskimo Brothers?

https://youtu.be/g7SdhtxuJYA
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 06, 2021, 04:46:48 PM
I don't expect you'll ever overcome this particular bit of irony.

Don’t be an idiot.

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/atlanta-ga/

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/denver-co-population
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 06, 2021, 04:54:58 PM
Can you still buy Eskimo Pies?

Edy's Pie is an American brand of chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped in foil. It was the first such dessert sold in the United States. It is marketed by Dreyer's, a division of Froneri. The dessert was rebranded from Eskimo Pie in 2021, because Eskimo is considered a derogatory term


Eskimo kisses are worthless as well
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 06, 2021, 06:13:03 PM
I seriously don't get the Church of Fauci worship, it literally boggles my mind... he's a career government worker loser who has no fucking clue what he's doing

I hope your doctors are as smart as you, especially when an otherwise curable but very aggressive and painful tumor begins to grow in your nether regions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 06, 2021, 09:26:39 PM
Those tears tasting salty? You guys wanted corporations to be treated as "people", does not sound like it is going as planned. Maybe Mitch will propose raising corporate tax rates to get back at them
Which "you guys" am I part of ?
Other than one of the "you guys" who thinks Manfred should keep his politics out of America's past time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 06, 2021, 10:30:38 PM
I don't expect you'll ever overcome this particular bit of irony.

I don’t know how I’ll ever recover.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 06, 2021, 11:48:38 PM
I hope your doctors are as smart as you, especially when an otherwise curable but very aggressive and painful tumor begins to grow in your nether regions.


(https://i.redd.it/vqr5a232uir61.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 12:15:14 AM
Which "you guys" am I part of ?
Other than one of the "you guys" who thinks Manfred should keep his politics out of America's past time.

You guys who wanted corporations treated as people for campaign financing purposes.

Baseball is a business. Apparently supportimg those who make it tougher for people to vote is not considered to be  good for business.

Karma sure can be a beeyotch.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 07, 2021, 04:46:58 AM

(https://i.redd.it/vqr5a232uir61.jpg)

You've equated the high survival rate of a disease (good) with your intellectual superiority to an accomplished virologist (oranges).

That's how irrational you are.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on April 07, 2021, 09:25:58 AM
You wouldn't last 10 minutes in a voting line in Fulton County before you'd be on the ground like Fred Sanford

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/colorado-voting-laws-georgia-mlb-all-star-coors-denver-atlanta/73-197a5922-cc9c-446c-a4db-bda4dca81ab8

Good comparison of voting in CO vs GA. 

Why did CO get the game?

First off, professional sports moguls don't give a rat's ass about politics unless it hurts or helps the bottom line.  The move from ATL was strictly a business decision.

Coors was slated to get the game (pre-covid) in 2022.  So, it's our turn, prep had already begun, and there are ZERO access to voting issues in our state in which every voter gets mailed a ballot.

The Monfort family, which owns the Rox, are not deep pockets compared to most other owners.  Being a small TV market, they get a large % of income from in person attendance which didn't happen last year.  That was a big hit for them evidenced by selling their, arguably best player in franchise history, in his prime, to the Cards in a purely money move.  The fans aren't happy having owners that view it as a business not a plaything.  Again, another business decision to send the game here.

So America's pass time, making a statement in the midst of a pandemic, that calls out this obvious attempt at voter suppression, is not not good for business?  GMAFB!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 07, 2021, 11:16:59 AM
You've equated the high survival rate of a disease (good) with your intellectual superiority to an accomplished virologist (oranges).

That's how irrational you are.

You've equated a person's opinions online and speech online as a reason to wish for painful death upon them, and I'm the irrational one?  LOL Ok
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 07, 2021, 11:26:24 AM
Yes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 11:36:16 AM
You've equated a person's opinions online and speech online as a reason to wish for painful death upon them, and I'm the irrational one?  LOL Ok

So it has all been a long con?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 07, 2021, 11:43:49 AM
You've equated a person's opinions online and speech online as a reason to wish for painful death upon them, and I'm the irrational one?  LOL Ok

It makes sense in their fucked up heads.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 07, 2021, 11:51:59 AM

(https://i.redd.it/vqr5a232uir61.jpg)

Small percentages operating on very large numbers is a lot of people.   

Imagine the National Hurricane Center issuing the following warning:
“Hurricane [insert name here] will make landfall in the Miami area tomorrow, there is a 99% survival rate so don’t take any precautions and we are sorry in advance for the 60,000 that we will likely lose their lives.”

Or imagine this weather alert from an emergency preparedness and response official for a smaller rural county located in a “tornado alley.”   
“An EF-5 tornado is approaching, but there is a 99% survival rate.  It won’t be necessary for you to turn on your weather radios.  You can also ignore the outdoor sirens and forget about taking shelter.  Only 100 or so people may lose their lives so get over the fear.”

Simple math shows that unchecked spread of the COVID-19 would kill an unacceptable number of people and create a overwhelming burden on the health care system.   

And that doesn’t even account for long-term consequences of infection.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 12:50:49 PM
Small percentages operating on very large numbers is a lot of people.   

Imagine the National Hurricane Center issuing the following warning:
“Hurricane [insert name here] will make landfall in the Miami area tomorrow, there is a 99% survival rate so don’t take any precautions and we are sorry in advance for the 60,000 that we will likely lose their lives.”

Or imagine this weather alert from an emergency preparedness and response official for a smaller rural county located in a “tornado alley.”   
“An EF-5 tornado is approaching, but there is a 99% survival rate.  It won’t be necessary for you to turn on your weather radios.  You can also ignore the outdoor sirens and forget about taking shelter.  Only 100 or so people may lose their lives so get over the fear.”

Simple math shows that unchecked spread of the COVID-19 would kill an unacceptable number of people and create a overwhelming burden on the health care system.   

And that doesn’t even account for long-term consequences of infection.

Math is hard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 07, 2021, 01:45:53 PM
Jim Crow 3.0
The state that prides itself on voter turnout election after election after election.

Mn requirement for early voting required only 5 hours of weekend voting for 2020, from 10-3 on Sat before the election.
What's Ga now ? 4 days of 9-5, and includes at least 1 Sunday ?

People stood in line for hours in Mn in Nov. All I remember was 'it's worth it to vote'. But then people stand in line for hours to be the first one in the door at Wal-Mart on Black Friday. Same old same old we do it every year.  People can't get tickets for opening day and the ballpark may be 1/4 full the next day. But it's opening day.
(https://i.ibb.co/GtvR7T9/20210407-133407.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RBpc2yN)

Mn doesn't really use ballot boxes. 'Out state' ( rural ) counties that rely on mail in voting may use monitored ballot boxes. Minneapolis had 1 at the government center in downtown Minneapolis for the 440,000 Minneapolis residents.

Mn does not automatically register voters. The voter is responsible and an id is required, which everybody has anyway unless you live in Georgia and have no idea to get one. Actually, there may be a couple of Minnesota residents without an id, and to register requires mailing in a paper application that goes thru a process not indicated in the SOS website.
Mn does allow same day registration, but bring everything you have if you don't have an id. Bring your utility bills, a note from your landlord, or someone to vouch for you. They'll accept something.

N.Y. had 9 days of early voting in 2020. Ga is 17-19, which I believe is more than Colorado.
Delaware didn't have no excuse absentee ballot voting in 2020. They're debating it currently. Ga now has it.
The list can go on, and on, and on.

This is not about voter suppression. It's about getting ready for HR1.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 01:53:44 PM
it would be impossible to be worse?

I seriously don't get the Church of Fauci worship, it literally boggles my mind... he's a career government worker loser who has no fucking clue what he's doing and is treated like he's some sort of God for some bizarre reason.  Thanks Trump you dipshit!

Now there's a straw man.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 01:55:08 PM
Can you still buy Eskimo Pies?

Edy's Pie is an American brand of chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped in foil. It was the first such dessert sold in the United States. It is marketed by Dreyer's, a division of Froneri. The dessert was rebranded from Eskimo Pie in 2021, because Eskimo is considered a derogatory term


Who cares - It's It or GTFO
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 07, 2021, 01:58:05 PM
The U.K. has the third-highest death rate in the world (184 deaths per 100,000 population) and the fourth-highest obesity rate with 63.7% of adults classifying as overweight, closely followed by the U.S., which has 152.49 deaths per 100,000 and 67.9% of the population living with obesity.

Get a shot, get a Krispy Kreme.
We do donuts. We don't do math.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 01:59:17 PM

So America's pass time, making a statement in the midst of a pandemic, that calls out this obvious attempt at voter suppression, is not not good for business?  GMAFB!

The best part of this whole thing is that nothing needs to be proven to the crazies. MLB could give a rat's ass if they are happy or unhappy. They made a calculated business decision, period. No extended analysis by MAGA Nation means anything to MLB
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 02:08:45 PM
Jim Crow 3.0
The state that prides itself on voter turnout election after election after election.

Mn requirement for early voting required only 5 hours of weekend voting for 2020, from 10-3 on Sat before the election.
What's Ga now ? 4 days of 9-5, and includes at least 1 Sunday ?

People stood in line for hours in Mn in Nov. All I remember was 'it's worth it to vote'. But then people stand in line for hours to be the first one in the door at Wal-Mart on Black Friday. Same old same old we do it every year.  People can't get tickets for opening day and the ballpark may be 1/4 full the next day. But it's opening day.
(https://i.ibb.co/GtvR7T9/20210407-133407.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RBpc2yN)

Mn doesn't really use ballot boxes. 'Out state' ( rural ) counties that rely on mail in voting may use monitored ballot boxes. Minneapolis had 1 at the government center in downtown Minneapolis for the 440,000 Minneapolis residents.

Mn does not automatically register voters. The voter is responsible and an id is required, which everybody has anyway unless you live in Georgia and have no idea to get one. Actually, there may be a couple of Minnesota residents without an id, and to register requires mailing in a paper application that goes thru a process not indicated in the SOS website.
Mn does allow same day registration, but bring everything you have if you don't have an id. Bring your utility bills, a note from your landlord, or someone to vouch for you. They'll accept something.

N.Y. had 9 days of early voting in 2020. Ga is 17-19, which I believe is more than Colorado.
Delaware didn't have no excuse absentee ballot voting in 2020. They're debating it currently. Ga now has it.
The list can go on, and on, and on.

This is not about voter suppression. It's about getting ready for HR1.

Your whole post is predicated upon the notion that we, as a country, should not attempt to make it easier to vote, no matter how hard or easy it is to vote. More to the point in Georgia, it's not incumbent upon us to make it equally as easy to vote.

When I went to vote in person in 2018, I went in at 2 PM and was the 8th person my precinct had served the entire day. It's mind boggling that you can't wrap your head around the concept that it's clearly easier for me to vote than the people we see standing in lines. And to understand that because of this, no matter how much dedication those people have, there is no way they will get the same percentage turnout as my precinct will have. And that this is a bad thing.

I think it gets down to the misuse of the term "Suppression" - we hear that word and think of "people being suppressed". But in the concept of voter suppression, it's more like spraying roundup on a field. You won't get every weed, but you'll reduce the overall amount of weeds, to the point where the corn grows fine. That's the point, sure, they *can* vote, and many will. The point isn't to stop every single african american in Georgia from voting. 

The point is to just make it a little bit harder. Can't make it radically harder, otherwise the Supreme Court will nuke it. Just little tiny things - because we don't need the turnout to go to zero, we just need the turnout to go from 55% to 52%, just enough to swing the election.

Pathetic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 07, 2021, 02:10:35 PM
Who cares - It's It or GTFO

Edy's Pies. Love 'em or leave 'em. I was going to switch to Klondike bars, but I am not sure if a mispronunciation of a First Nation word is acceptable. Aldi's arctic bars aren't bad.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 02:11:42 PM

N.Y. had 9 days of early voting in 2020. Ga is 17-19, which I believe is more than Colorado.


https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/CO.html

Colorado is an all-mail state, with an in-person voting option.

Doesn't really matter how many early voting days there are if it's an all-mail state, now does it.

Do you make shit up just to force us to Google?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 07, 2021, 02:22:27 PM
Who cares - It's It or GTFO

Its It are garbage

The Tillamook ice cream sandwiches are far superior
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on April 07, 2021, 02:48:30 PM
Your whole post is predicated upon the notion that we, as a country, should not attempt to make it easier to vote, no matter how hard or easy it is to vote. More to the point in Georgia, it's not incumbent upon us to make it equally as easy to vote.

When I went to vote in person in 2018, I went in at 2 PM and was the 8th person my precinct had served the entire day. It's mind boggling that you can't wrap your head around the concept that it's clearly easier for me to vote than the people we see standing in lines. And to understand that because of this, no matter how much dedication those people have, there is no way they will get the same percentage turnout as my precinct will have. And that this is a bad thing.

I think it gets down to the misuse of the term "Suppression" - we hear that word and think of "people being suppressed". But in the concept of voter suppression, it's more like spraying roundup on a field. You won't get every weed, but you'll reduce the overall amount of weeds, to the point where the corn grows fine. That's the point, sure, they *can* vote, and many will. The point isn't to stop every single african american in Georgia from voting. 

The point is to just make it a little bit harder. Can't make it radically harder, otherwise the Supreme Court will nuke it. Just little tiny things - because we don't need the turnout to go to zero, we just need the turnout to go from 55% to 52%, just enough to swing the election.

Pathetic.

Oh, and if you don't get your way, change the rules to where the Legislature now gets final say instead of the Sec. of State. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 07, 2021, 02:53:54 PM
Your whole post is predicated upon the notion that we, as a country, should not attempt to make it easier to vote, no matter how hard or easy it is to vote. More to the point in Georgia, it's not incumbent upon us to make it equally as easy to vote.

When I went to vote in person in 2018, I went in at 2 PM and was the 8th person my precinct had served the entire day. It's mind boggling that you can't wrap your head around the concept that it's clearly easier for me to vote than the people we see standing in lines. And to understand that because of this, no matter how much dedication those people have, there is no way they will get the same percentage turnout as my precinct will have. And that this is a bad thing.

I think it gets down to the misuse of the term "Suppression" - we hear that word and think of "people being suppressed". But in the concept of voter suppression, it's more like spraying roundup on a field. You won't get every weed, but you'll reduce the overall amount of weeds, to the point where the corn grows fine. That's the point, sure, they *can* vote, and many will. The point isn't to stop every single african american in Georgia from voting. 

The point is to just make it a little bit harder. Can't make it radically harder, otherwise the Supreme Court will nuke it. Just little tiny things - because we don't need the turnout to go to zero, we just need the turnout to go from 55% to 52%, just enough to swing the election.

Pathetic.

I'm glad it's easier for you.
Minnesota led the country at 80% in Nov.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 03:01:02 PM
The best part of this whole thing is that nothing needs to be proven to the crazies. MLB could give a rat's ass if they are happy or unhappy. They made a calculated business decision, period. No extended analysis by MAGA Nation means anything to MLB

They made the decision because the players, and a manager, were not going to show if the game was in GA. Not good for whatever TV ratings are left for an MLB all-star game.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on April 07, 2021, 03:12:18 PM
I'm glad it's easier for you.
Minnesota led the country at 80% in Nov.

So why is the first state legislative activity in 2021 for most red states to make it more inaccessible?  Some have said it's a solution in search of a problem.  I disagree.  They know what their problem is and are trying to make it go away.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 03:16:01 PM
Jim Crow 3.0
The state that prides itself on voter turnout election after election after election.

Mn requirement for early voting required only 5 hours of weekend voting for 2020, from 10-3 on Sat before the election.
What's Ga now ? 4 days of 9-5, and includes at least 1 Sunday ?

People stood in line for hours in Mn in Nov. All I remember was 'it's worth it to vote'. But then people stand in line for hours to be the first one in the door at Wal-Mart on Black Friday. Same old same old we do it every year.  People can't get tickets for opening day and the ballpark may be 1/4 full the next day. But it's opening day.
(https://i.ibb.co/GtvR7T9/20210407-133407.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RBpc2yN)

Mn doesn't really use ballot boxes. 'Out state' ( rural ) counties that rely on mail in voting may use monitored ballot boxes. Minneapolis had 1 at the government center in downtown Minneapolis for the 440,000 Minneapolis residents.

Mn does not automatically register voters. The voter is responsible and an id is required, which everybody has anyway unless you live in Georgia and have no idea to get one. Actually, there may be a couple of Minnesota residents without an id, and to register requires mailing in a paper application that goes thru a process not indicated in the SOS website.
Mn does allow same day registration, but bring everything you have if you don't have an id. Bring your utility bills, a note from your landlord, or someone to vouch for you. They'll accept something.

N.Y. had 9 days of early voting in 2020. Ga is 17-19, which I believe is more than Colorado.
Delaware didn't have no excuse absentee ballot voting in 2020. They're debating it currently. Ga now has it.
The list can go on, and on, and on.

This is not about voter suppression. It's about getting ready for HR1.

The GA reduces the time absentee ballots can be requested. 

Drop boxes now must be located at the office of the board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk or inside locations where early voting is taking place. This is a change when many boxes were located outside during the 2020 election. The boxes cannot be accessed when early voting is not happening. Numerous outside boxes were used in Fulton County (Atlanta).

Voting can only take place between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. during weekdays. The law does require two Saturday voting days between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., with option to add two Sunday voting days by election registrars.

The Secretary of State no longer serves as a member of the election board.

These changes were not made due to any EVIDENCE of fraud - because any shred of EVIDENCE of fraud would have been raised in the numerous lawsuits filed by Trump - they were made solely to supress minority voters.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 03:17:23 PM
So why is the first state legislative activity in 2021 for most red states to make it more inaccessible?  Some have said it's a solution in search of a problem.  I disagree.  They know what their problem is and are trying to make it go away.

Yep.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 07, 2021, 03:26:49 PM

(https://i.redd.it/vqr5a232uir61.jpg)

This is probably fairly true, though poorly worded, depending on how young adult is defined.

I am curious why conservatives focus so much on 'survival rate' '-- terminology which, btw, they misuse. Is this based on the notion that anything that does not kill us somehow makes us stronger?

https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/survival-rates-are-not-the-same-as-mortality-rates/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 04:34:04 PM
I'm glad it's easier for you.
Minnesota led the country at 80% in Nov.
When 80% of the population votes, who wins? Biden by 7, Baldwin by 5
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 04:37:36 PM
https://www.al.com/news/2021/04/alabama-secretary-of-state-john-merrill-admits-affair-wont-run-for-us-senate-theres-no-excuse.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 07, 2021, 08:59:25 PM
The GA reduces the time absentee ballots can be requested. 

Drop boxes now must be located at the office of the board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk or inside locations where early voting is taking place. This is a change when many boxes were located outside during the 2020 election. The boxes cannot be accessed when early voting is not happening. Numerous outside boxes were used in Fulton County (Atlanta).

Voting can only take place between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. during weekdays. The law does require two Saturday voting days between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., with option to add two Sunday voting days by election registrars.

The Secretary of State no longer serves as a member of the election board.

These changes were not made due to any EVIDENCE of fraud - because any shred of EVIDENCE of fraud would have been raised in the numerous lawsuits filed by Trump - they were made solely to supress minority voters.
Early ballots can be requested 11 weeks before an election. Is that before debates start ?
Ballot boxes weren't legal before the 2020 election. They are now, and they're permanent.
There may be an issue with 400,000 ballot box votes and chain of custody records. Monitoring of the boxes is the result of the outside boxes.
Voting is during normal business hours. Minnesota is normal business hours. The law also allows for 7-7 voting.
The Georgia 2020 vote is still in the courts. A judge allowed for a full audit. The SoS petitioned the court, asking the court to allow an audit of only the ballot marked ballots and not the paper ballots. 
Georgia now has no excuse absentee voting.
Georgia vote participation was better than the national average, in spite of the state having nothing but a bunch of dumb fuqs who don't have ids and don't know how to use a computer.
Jim Crow 2.0 was an Abrams mistake that backfired, and Abrams is now saying don't boycott Georgia. Georgia stands to lose $100 million plus. Time will tell how the voters treat Abrams.
A state with better than the national average in voter participation expanded voting capabilities with no excuse absentee voting and weekend voting.
Could it be better ? Could be.
President Unity and MLB should have stayed out of this, imo.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 09:33:28 PM
Early ballots can be requested 11 weeks before an election. Is that before debates start ?
Ballot boxes weren't legal before the 2020 election. They are now, and they're permanent.
There may be an issue with 400,000 ballot box votes and chain of custody records. Monitoring of the boxes is the result of the outside boxes.
Voting is during normal business hours. Minnesota is normal business hours. The law also allows for 7-7 voting.
The Georgia 2020 vote is still in the courts. A judge allowed for a full audit. The SoS petitioned the court, asking the court to allow an audit of only the ballot marked ballots and not the paper ballots. 
Georgia now has no excuse absentee voting.
Georgia vote participation was better than the national average, in spite of the state having nothing but a bunch of dumb fuqs who don't have ids and don't know how to use a computer.
Jim Crow 2.0 was an Abrams mistake that backfired, and Abrams is now saying don't boycott Georgia. Georgia stands to lose $100 million plus. Time will tell how the voters treat Abrams.
A state with better than the national average in voter participation expanded voting capabilities with no excuse absentee voting and weekend voting.
Could it be better ? Could be.
President Unity and MLB should have stayed out of this, imo.

Why was GA's participation higher? Maybe because they made it easier to actually, uh, vote? This is all ridiculous and disingenuous. We all know why they did all this. Because you Trumpers are crybaby sore losers who don't want black people to vote. Fuck that Gov. Kemp guy with Judge Judy's small dick. So you want to change the rules to make it harder to vote, despite Trump's inability to find a single shred of evdience to support his lawsuits (just like Gore had zilch besides "hanging chads" in 2000 despite all the stories floating around). It would be more honorable if you guys just stiop lying about why you are trying to do all this.

The MLB only got involved because the players and Dave Roberts were not going to show for the All-Star game. Apparently it is fine for business to "get involved" when handing money over to Moscow Mitch or Pedo Matt Gaetz, but when it goes the other way....WAHHHHHHHHHHH!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 07, 2021, 09:40:21 PM
Why was GA's participation higher? Maybe because they made it easier to actually, uh, vote? This is all ridiculous and disingenuous. We all know why they did all this. Because you Trumpers are crybaby sore losers who don't want black people to vote. Fuck that Gov. Kemp guy with Judge Judy's small dick. So you want to change the rules to make it harder to vote, despite Trump's inability to find a single shred of evdience to support his lawsuits (just like Gore had zilch besides "hanging chads" in 2000 despite all the stories floating around). It would be more honorable if you guys just stiop lying about why you are trying to do all this.

The MLB only got involved because the players and Dave Roberts were not going to show for the All-Star game. Apparently it is fine for business to "get involved" when handing money over to Moscow Mitch or Pedo Matt Gaetz, but when it goes the other way....WAHHHHHHHHHHH!
Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have the vote counted.
If Dave Roberts doesn't want to read the bill, that's up to him. He can do whatever he wants.
Cut the crap..
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 09:49:39 PM
Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have the vote counted.
If Dave Roberts doesn't want to read the bill, that's up to him. He can do whatever he wants.
Cut the crap..

You sure do not act like it.

How do you know he didn't read the bill? Maybe he thinks they should switch back to longer hours for voting, so people can vote before or after work, and be able to drop their vote off in a drop box. What are you guys scared of? (We know the answer to that...)

Talk about cutting the crap....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 07, 2021, 09:51:32 PM
Its It are garbage

The Tillamook ice cream sandwiches are far superior

DO NEVER TEST OPIEZ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 07, 2021, 10:00:52 PM
You sure do not act like it.

How do you know he didn't read the bill? Maybe he thinks they should switch back to longer hours for voting, so people can vote before or after work, and be able to drop their vote off in a drop box. What are you guys scared of? (We know the answer to that...)

Talk about cutting the crap....
Minnesota had normal business hours for early voting. I think the only weekend voting was Sat before the election. There was not a peep about vote suppression and Minnesota led the country in voter turnout. Minnesota patted itself on its back. Thank 'the, you know' that there wasn't someone trying to create a problem where nobody saw one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 07, 2021, 10:10:00 PM
keep the gay ass politicis out of here this is CLOWN WORLD

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-sues-after-california-man-dies-taco-eating-contest-n1263138

Quote
FRESNO, Calif. — The son of a California man who choked to death during an amateur taco eating contest at a minor league baseball game is suing the event’s organizers for negligence.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 07, 2021, 10:15:18 PM
And let’s not even mention the heinous cultural appropriation element
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 10:17:04 PM
Minnesota had normal business hours for early voting. I think the only weekend voting was Sat before the election. There was not a peep about vote suppression and Minnesota led the country in voter turnout. Minnesota patted itself on its back. Thank 'the, you know' that there wasn't someone trying to create a problem where nobody saw one.

Good for Minnesota for not trying to stick it to people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 10:18:22 PM
keep the gay ass politicis out of here this is CLOWN WORLD

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-sues-after-california-man-dies-taco-eating-contest-n1263138

Sounds like a sore loser to me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 07, 2021, 10:26:01 PM
(https://i.redd.it/esoh8keljsr61.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 10:29:17 PM

Jim Crow 2.0 was an Abrams mistake that backfired, and Abrams is now saying don't boycott Georgia. Georgia stands to lose $100 million plus. Time will tell how the voters treat Abrams.


Brutal. This is not Abrams fault. Any leader with a functioning brain could have seen that passing this bill would have this sort of backlash. They voted it in and Kemp signed it anyway. Holy crap, they got caught bluffing and lost, and now they are yelling at the people with a Royal Flush for calling their bluff.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 10:30:36 PM
(https://i.redd.it/esoh8keljsr61.png)

That is some good comedy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2021, 10:31:12 PM
Brutal. This is not Abrams fault. Any leader with a functioning brain could have seen that passing this bill would have this sort of backlash. They voted it in and Kemp signed it anyway. Holy crap, they got caught bluffing and lost, and now they are yelling at the people with a Royal Flush for calling their bluff.

Of course it is her fault. She actually signed people up to vote and they voted.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 07, 2021, 10:33:53 PM
The GA reduces the time absentee ballots can be requested. 

Drop boxes now must be located at the office of the board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk or inside locations where early voting is taking place. This is a change when many boxes were located outside during the 2020 election. The boxes cannot be accessed when early voting is not happening. Numerous outside boxes were used in Fulton County (Atlanta).

Voting can only take place between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. during weekdays. The law does require two Saturday voting days between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., with option to add two Sunday voting days by election registrars.

The Secretary of State no longer serves as a member of the election board.

These changes were not made due to any EVIDENCE of fraud - because any shred of EVIDENCE of fraud would have been raised in the numerous lawsuits filed by Trump - they were made solely to supress minority voters.

I think the worst part of Georgia’s new voting law are the provisions that "create new avenues for partisan interference in election administration."

2020 taught the GOP that elections can be stolen because they came close to overturning legal election results, if only they had a few key people in place in a few key states. 


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 07, 2021, 10:34:08 PM
Minnesota had normal business hours for early voting. I think the only weekend voting was Sat before the election. There was not a peep about vote suppression and Minnesota led the country in voter turnout. Minnesota patted itself on its back. Thank 'the, you know' that there wasn't someone trying to create a problem where nobody saw one.

Presumably Minnesota doesn't have the bullshit polling place coverage that Georgia did.

It's this simple

Question: Are there lines of over 30 minutes to vote?
If the answer is yes, then the state needs to fix it so that never happens. A 8 hour line to vote is a poll tax, as far as I am concerned, time is money. If that line is not consistent across polls voting in the same election, it's dirty pool, before we get into the an 8 hour line being more costly for a poor person working an hourly job than a salaried employee who probably gets a dispensation to vote, or a retiree who isn't working.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 07, 2021, 11:23:39 PM
Sounds like a sore loser to me.

😂👍
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 08, 2021, 07:21:53 AM
Presumably Minnesota doesn't have the bullshit polling place coverage that Georgia did.

It's this simple

Question: Are there lines of over 30 minutes to vote?
If the answer is yes, then the state needs to fix it so that never happens. A 8 hour line to vote is a poll tax, as far as I am concerned, time is money. If that line is not consistent across polls voting in the same election, it's dirty pool, before we get into the an 8 hour line being more costly for a poor person working an hourly job than a salaried employee who probably gets a dispensation to vote, or a retiree who isn't working.
If the world doesn't find out what happened in Wuhan, we may see another pandemic impacted election.
The law addresses wait times.
A previous post indicates that election day wait times in Fulton County were under 30 minutes.
Minnesota had stories of 2 hour wait times. There may have been longer times.
Ga turnout was better than the national average, and 26th in percent.
Ca was 24th, 0.7% better than Ga.
http://www.electproject.org/2020g
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 08, 2021, 07:49:37 AM
Imo, Phillips is a relatively level headed Minnesotan and Vice-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus.
(https://i.ibb.co/7khYsDG/Screenshot-20210408-074452.jpg) (https://ibb.co/5KZMb35)

The thread .....
https://mobile.twitter.com/saletan/status/1378394751339261961
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 10:23:29 AM
Interesting how almost every single news source has covered and released this EXCEPT for The NY Times and CNN. Interesting. Maybe just a coincidence 🙄😂

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/7136896002
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 10:26:35 AM
Why would they?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 08, 2021, 10:27:38 AM
damn thats a crazy story

I found out within the past year that one of my roommates from high school killed his whole family and then himself.  Kid was a total dork and got bullied a lot, but a great student, a doctor I believe he went to Notre dame and was just dealing with some sort of custody issue... killed both his kids and his ex wife and then himself... fuckin nuts people are these days
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 10:29:36 AM
Why would they?

You’re joking right??
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 10:31:04 AM
damn thats a crazy story

I found out within the past year that one of my roommates from high school killed his whole family and then himself.  Kid was a total dork and got bullied a lot, but a great student, a doctor I believe he went to Notre dame and was just dealing with some sort of custody issue... killed both his kids and his ex wife and then himself... fuckin nuts people are these days

Damn that’s crazy. Sorry to hear about that. I’m sure Rob would tell you it’s sad that it wasn’t you. Then somehow say you deserved it and he’s justified in wishing it upon you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 10:33:58 AM
Here's the WaPo story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/08/south-carolina-shooting-rock-hill/

Here's the NYT story
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/us/south-carolina-shooting.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage

What was your question?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 10:35:47 AM
CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/08/us/york-county-south-carolina-mass-shooting/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 08, 2021, 10:37:00 AM
Damn that’s crazy. Sorry to hear about that. I’m sure Rob would tell you it’s sad that it wasn’t you. Then somehow say you deserved it and he’s justified in wishing it upon you.

hahaha
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 10:39:11 AM
I'm not saying it isn't funny, but I do wish a painful illness on you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 10:39:56 AM
Here's the WaPo story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/08/south-carolina-shooting-rock-hill/

Here's the NYT story
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/us/south-carolina-shooting.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage

What was your question?

Now that it’s known who it was, not a single mention. As you clearly read in the NYT article. The Washington Post just said suspected. Still no CNN. Dude you can’t make this shit up. They have an agenda and this doesn’t fit.

Edit- you linked the CNN article and it’s the same as NYT. Not a single mention of Phillips. And now that it’s all known, they have not said a single thing about it. Agendas. They were hoping and praying it was a white male. Preferably an extremist Trump supporter who has all kinds of guns. GTFO of here with your defending these POS “news” outlets.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 10:45:40 AM
Now that it’s known who it was, no a single mention. As you clearly read in the NYT article. The Washington Post just said suspected. Still no CNN. Dude you can’t make this shit up. They have an agenda and this doesn’t fit.

Yes, I thought that was the gist of your complaint.

Here's the thing about serious news outlets: They don't publish accusations of mass murder without confirmation from reliable sources.

If the medical examiner is withholding the name, they have no reliable source to cite.

I'm sorry you're so dumb. But it's not fair to smarter, responsible people when you lash out at them because you're angry and stupid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 10:49:05 AM
I'm not saying it isn't funny, but I do wish a painful illness on you.

How tolerant of you. Somebody doesn’t have the same political beliefs as you and you wish they die?! Sounds like you belong in China. You stupid fucks believe their country is so much greater and defend them while they slaughter people. Go on over there, traitor.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 08, 2021, 10:49:33 AM
I'm not saying it isn't funny, but I do wish a painful illness on you.

well that's not very nice, I certainly don't wish the same on you
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 10:50:53 AM
Yes, I thought that was the gist of your complaint.

Here's the thing about serious news outlets: They don't publish accusations of mass murder without confirmation from reliable sources.

If the medical examiner is withholding the name, they have no reliable source to cite.

I'm sorry you're so dumb. But it's not fair to smarter, responsible people when you lash out at them because you're angry and stupid.

See previous post.

Your last paragraph is so ironic as you wish people would die that you don’t agree with. You’re a joke.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 11:02:33 AM
The problem, Judy, is that you fail to differentiate between opinions and facts. It's probably because you're so dumb.

You assert, as fact, a lot of unfounded propositions.

You leap to crazy conclusions from unsupported suppositions.

It's annoying.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 11:18:23 AM
The problem, Judy, is that you fail to differentiate between opinions and facts. It's probably because you're so dumb.

You assert, as fact, a lot of unfounded propositions.

You leap to crazy conclusions from unsupported suppositions.

It's annoying.

Still no update from CNN or NYT. Trump still not in jail. ILLove1997 still not dead. Tempo is still not an alcoholic and/or bad dad.

Who asserts, as fact, a lot of unfounded propositions? Leaps to crazy conclusions based on unsupported suppositions? Might wanna look in the mirror.

It’s just probably because you’re so dumb and well annoying too.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 08, 2021, 11:19:05 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/zQkSNzX.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 11:24:36 AM
Still no update from CNN or NYT. Trump still not in jail. ILLove1997 still not dead. Tempo is still not an alcoholic and/or bad dad.

Who asserts, as fact, a lot of unfounded propositions? Leaps to crazy conclusions based on unsupported suppositions?
I mean ... all of these subjects are excellent examples of your inability to differentiate and/or comprehend processes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 08, 2021, 11:25:07 AM
You had a roommate in high school? what the fuck?

actually he was my roommate in 8th grade

boarding school...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 11:32:08 AM
I mean ... all of these subjects are excellent examples of your inability to differentiate and/or comprehend processes.

Or practice what you preach...

Maybe YOU should just stop taking your opinions and beliefs and projecting them onto others as if they’re fact. I mean that’s what you like to accuse everyone else of.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 11:46:39 AM
So ... yeah,  anyway ... legitimate news organizations don't attribute mass murder to individuals unless they have reliable sources.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 11:59:38 AM
So ... yeah,  anyway ... legitimate news organizations don't attribute mass murder to individuals unless they have reliable sources.

Is that what MSNBC told ya this morning?!

So you’re calling every news outlet that’s put Phillips behind the murders as not reliable?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 12:04:52 PM
How was it attributed?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 12:09:11 PM
How was it attributed?

That Phillips committed the murders. I guess I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking or questioning.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 12:11:01 PM
Shocking.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 12:14:27 PM
Shocking.

Well please elaborate. You don’t think he did it? You don’t think every major news source that’s reported it has reliable sources?!

Maybe if you’d quit trying to talk in parables and appear to always be the smartest person in the room all the time, people might actually take you seriously. Your ego is insufferable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 08, 2021, 12:21:54 PM
If the world doesn't find out what happened in Wuhan, we may see another pandemic impacted election.
The law addresses wait times.
A previous post indicates that election day wait times in Fulton County were under 30 minutes.
Minnesota had stories of 2 hour wait times. There may have been longer times.
Ga turnout was better than the national average, and 26th in percent.
Ca was 24th, 0.7% better than Ga.
http://www.electproject.org/2020g

Ga had good turnout in large part because Abrams was able to get people out to the polls, using voting mechanisms that the GA legislature has now limited.

Pretty sad that CA had better turnout than Georgia given we had no meaningful statewide races, on the margin. The most important vote - on the margin - that I made was probably some bullshit state ballot measure.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 08, 2021, 12:26:03 PM
Lest you think California has no Republicans - yeah, we got at least one

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/windsor-mayor-dominic-foppoli-sexual-assault-allegations/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 08, 2021, 12:38:04 PM
https://twitter.com/orwellngoode/status/1379220564661919745?s=21
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 12:38:23 PM
Maybe if you’d quit trying to talk in parables
It's not my job (praise the lord) to educate you.

It's also not my job to remind you that you're ignorant, and that you should quit spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories. It's just a hobby.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 12:43:39 PM
It's not my job (praise the lord) to educate you.

It's also not my job to remind you that you're ignorant, and that you should quit spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories. It's just a hobby.

So Phillips didn’t commit the murders is what you’re trying to say?

But yet Tempo is a drunk and bad father?

And I’m the one spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories. Gotcha
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 12:52:40 PM
We're talking about attribution in news reporting.

You don't understand how it works. I'm going to guess that you also don't understand why it's important.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 12:56:04 PM
We're talking about attribution in news reporting.

You don't understand how it works. I'm going to guess that you also don't understand why it's important.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31214902/report-former-nfl-player-phillip-adams-kills-5-himself

You calling them liars?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 01:07:16 PM
The first word in the headline should be a clue.

And then a lot of words in the first paragraph. Those should be clues, too.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 01:15:48 PM
The first word in the headline should be a clue.

And then a lot of words in the first paragraph. Those should be clues, too.

So why you so quick to convict Trump. I mean he’s just suspected of. Not convicted of.

Or does this only work on things you pick and choose. Your “opinion” one might say.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 01:23:35 PM
Are we still talking about attribution in news reporting?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 01:38:41 PM
Are we still talking about attribution in news reporting?

Oh it spills over into a lot of different things. I guess you wouldn’t wanna address it due to all the hypocrisy of it all.

Your propaganda CNN, NYT, and MSNBC would never do/put out anything to compromise their credibility.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 01:45:34 PM
You don't really need news reporting to discern that Trump is a sack of shit.

Mocking the guy with cerebral palsy was all you needed.

You down with that?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 01:57:09 PM
You don't really need news reporting to discern that Trump is a sack of shit.

Mocking the guy with cerebral palsy was all you needed.

You down with that?

What if ILLove1997 has cerebral palsy?!

Does that make you a sack of shit?!

Uh oh. You done fucked up!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 02:36:57 PM
I guess you're right. Here I am making fun of you for being retarded when I know full well that you really are retarded.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 02:41:52 PM
I guess you're right. Here I am making fun of you for being retarded when I know full well that you really are retarded.

So you are a POS like Trump?!

Hence the whole time I’ve been saying you’re a fucking hypocrite.

Edit- you’re just mad that I fucked Heather. Don’t kid yourself. It’s ok to just say that on here. Nobody cares.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 08, 2021, 02:44:40 PM
That means it's open season on Judy's Pretend Daughter jokes, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 02:45:32 PM
That means it's open season on Judy's Pretend Daughter jokes, right?

Oh so I can’t be a hypocrite too?! See how that works....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 08, 2021, 02:47:11 PM
It already was open season on them. Hence they were being blasted on here. I mean you do it all the time to Tempo. So wtf?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 08, 2021, 03:12:43 PM
To be continued, maybe,

(https://i.ibb.co/yN7npsj/Screenshot-20210408-144126.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vcRxhzn)

From NBC
(https://i.ibb.co/XLWGyKK/Screenshot-20210408-145648.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RbgJhss)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 09, 2021, 09:57:37 AM
ummmm wtf?

(https://i.imgur.com/krhuq08.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on April 09, 2021, 10:45:58 AM
https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2021/04/student-responsible-for-racist-graffiti-found-in-albion-college-dorm-officials-say.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 09, 2021, 11:45:40 AM
https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2021/04/student-responsible-for-racist-graffiti-found-in-albion-college-dorm-officials-say.html

From the article written before they identified the suspect:

(https://i.ibb.co/61XMCz4/8-BBC3-CF6-046-E-4-FE5-B0-B2-EF406-B76-BE4-E.jpg) (https://ibb.co/pRh7Fc3)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 09, 2021, 11:53:07 AM
that actually happens more often than real racists doing bad shit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 09, 2021, 12:02:58 PM
that actually happens more often than real racists doing bad shit

A link would be helpful. But, yeah, seems to be a few false flag operators out there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 09, 2021, 12:08:19 PM
I agree with the crazy person.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 09, 2021, 02:57:30 PM
I thought it was established that Tempo is a drunk, and that he does in fact beat the shit out of his kid.

I mean, it is what it is.

Oh, and I fucked Heather too.  I discussed it with fucking before hand.  I had his blessing.

Maybe if I asked first and had his blessing he might not be so harsh on me. Damn I guess I could’ve asked. Doubt it would change his view on me, but for what it’s worth.....I’m sorry fucking.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 09, 2021, 03:22:18 PM
Yeah, protip - she really likes anal.  Not sure if you got that far, but...yeah.  Or, butt...yeah

😂 nothing wrong with that. I mean she is Rob’s girlfriend, so🤷🏻‍♂️ He probably wouldn’t settle for anything less. I just wonder if she pegs him....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on April 09, 2021, 05:23:22 PM
that actually happens more often than real racists doing bad shit
I suspect that depends on how you define “real racists” or “bad shit.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 12, 2021, 11:15:12 AM
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1381362593017819141

now why would big companies want this when 70% of Americans support voter ID?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 12, 2021, 12:33:17 PM
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1381362593017819141

now why would big companies want this when 70% of Americans support voter ID?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Don't know. Why?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 12, 2021, 05:06:13 PM
Don't know. Why?

because they will put in power those that will be easiest to lobby to whatever the fuck they want to do to extract more money from the economy
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 12, 2021, 05:14:18 PM
because they will put in power those that will be easiest to lobby to whatever the fuck they want to do to extract more money from the economy

Uh, isn't that how it has been done anyway and Citizens United made it even easier? What's different other than "they" may be changing sides on certain issues for PR; i.e., business, purposes?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 13, 2021, 10:08:58 AM
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1381362593017819141

now why would big companies want this when 70% of Americans support voter ID?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

99% of statistics you read on the internet are 100% totally made up. The key is to look at the Author
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 13, 2021, 10:11:56 AM
because they will put in power those that will be easiest to lobby to whatever the fuck they want to do to extract more money from the economy

So what you're saying is, if more people vote, it will put into power the leaders who are easiest to lobby. But if we restrict voting, that won't happen...?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 13, 2021, 10:33:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP_mLiNcoWY

these "reporters" are insane

they sure as shit aren't reporting
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 13, 2021, 10:34:56 AM
So what you're saying is, if more people vote, it will put into power the leaders who are easiest to lobby. But if we restrict voting, that won't happen...?

more unintelligent lazy people voting is a terrible idea, they are the easiest to manipulate

but nobody is restricting anything, if you follow the rules you are free to vote as you see fit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 13, 2021, 11:20:10 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ncaa-backs-transgender-athletes-says-events-to-be-in-places-free-of-discrimination/ar-BB1fA6C2?ocid=uxbndlbing

last I checked, following rules isn't discrimination

Quote
the NCAA Board of Governors said it "firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports."

maybe this is just a way for the NCAA to get people to watch women's sports now... lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 13, 2021, 11:45:27 AM
more unintelligent lazy people voting is a terrible idea, they are the easiest to manipulate

but nobody is restricting anything, if you follow the rules you are free to vote as you see fit

OK, I got a good chuckle out of this. You have been on a roll, with the unintended irony and all.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 13, 2021, 04:35:16 PM
more unintelligent lazy people voting is a terrible idea, they are the easiest to manipulate

You prove that daily
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 13, 2021, 09:12:10 PM
OK, I got a good chuckle out of this. You have been on a roll, with the unintended irony and all.

I'm here for the LOLZ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 16, 2021, 07:55:40 AM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/million-dollar-general-store-762930

Women Tried To Use $1 Million Bill At Dollar Store
Cops: Tennessee twosome was thwarted by convenience
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 16, 2021, 11:48:33 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3LF7bIdB7M

apparently real... lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 19, 2021, 09:21:59 PM
Has anyone seen Nichi lately?

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/horror-buddhist-monk-chops-head-23939425
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 19, 2021, 09:45:31 PM
Has anyone seen Nichi lately?

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/horror-buddhist-monk-chops-head-23939425
He's been posting since the poor monk lost his head, but I don't know what happens in the afterlife for those guys.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 20, 2021, 04:35:08 PM
He's been posting since the poor monk lost his head, but I don't know what happens in the afterlife for those guys.

The Jataka Tales are mythical stories about the Buddha's past lives. There are several apocryphal versions of a story about his life as a King named Candraprabha who gives his own life in various ways to protect, save, or heal others. In one obscure version, he cuts off his own head as a gift to a greedy Brahmin. The Brahmins (Vedic priests)  are generally the bad guys in the Jataka Tales. The commentaries usually make it clear that these kind of stories are like fables intended to illustrate selflessness, generosity, and compassionate service to others. Some lineages tend to take them more literally than others.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 22, 2021, 06:45:28 AM
Sounds like a good show to me.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9495115/Outcry-Iraq-TV-fake-ISIS-fighters.html

Smile - you're on Jihadi Camera! Outcry in Iraq over prank TV show that has fake ISIS fighters 'kidnap' celebs, strap 'suicide vests' to them and tell them they'll be executed 

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 22, 2021, 10:32:28 AM
Sounds like a good show to me.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9495115/Outcry-Iraq-TV-fake-ISIS-fighters.html

Smile - you're on Jihadi Camera! Outcry in Iraq over prank TV show that has fake ISIS fighters 'kidnap' celebs, strap 'suicide vests' to them and tell them they'll be executed

hahahaha wow
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 22, 2021, 11:23:08 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/579QYpc.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 22, 2021, 12:43:00 PM
The Daily Mail is The New York Post is OANN. They are not sources of real news.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 22, 2021, 12:55:34 PM
The Daily Mail is The New York Post is OANN. They are not sources of real news.

what?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 22, 2021, 05:05:17 PM
The Daily Mail is The New York Post is OANN. They are not sources of real news.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 22, 2021, 07:23:32 PM
(https://media.consumeproduct.win/post/JRHjO6vf.jpeg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 24, 2021, 10:07:45 AM
https://twitter.com/JayBilas/status/1384869169087324162?s=19
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illinicalvin on April 24, 2021, 10:11:37 PM
The Daily Mail is The New York Post is OANN. They are not sources of real news.
Washington Times is legit tho right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 24, 2021, 10:55:18 PM
IMAO, the Washington Times is more legit than the Washington Examiner, which Q97 keeps linking here as if it were a real newspaper.

That's not to say the Washington Times is legit. But I don't think our local idiots know who Sun Myung Moon was, anyhow.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on April 25, 2021, 10:20:17 AM
(https://media.consumeproduct.win/post/JRHjO6vf.jpeg)
On one hand, this seems like it overreaches a little bit and infringes on freedom of speech. On the other hand, if you plan a bank robbery over family dinner, you’re still guilty of criminal conspiracy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 25, 2021, 02:35:54 PM
On one hand, this seems like it overreaches a little bit and infringes on freedom of speech. On the other hand, if you plan a bank robbery over family dinner, you’re still guilty of criminal conspiracy.

My only question is how would you even enforce this?! How would the law/government even know you had this conversation? It’d be your word against another’s unless someone is spying or secretly recording it. Even a family member recording it can be dismissed on the basis you could deny that it’s your voice on the recording. Very strange/odd to even bring this up and it making news.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 25, 2021, 03:27:26 PM
My only question is how would you even enforce this?! How would the law/government even know you had this conversation? It’d be your word against another’s unless someone is spying or secretly recording it. Even a family member recording it can be dismissed on the basis you could deny that it’s your voice on the recording. Very strange/odd to even bring this up and it making news.
It's the first step of 'it won't happen here'.
Next is 'So and so did it. And it's a good thing he did, too'.
And best not disagree with it, either.
Next is, you're suspended from social media.
Oh, wait........
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illinicalvin on April 25, 2021, 05:50:53 PM
IMAO, the Washington Times is more legit than the Washington Examiner, which Q97 keeps linking here as if it were a real newspaper.

That's not to say the Washington Times is legit. But I don't think our local idiots know who Sun Myung Moon was, anyhow.
I totally forgot about the Examiner. Ew.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 26, 2021, 01:14:07 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgVf9F44HU
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Miniditka on April 26, 2021, 01:53:09 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgVf9F44HU
I think all the criticism of Fauci by the right to try to score cheap political points while deliberately increasing the risk to their own constituents’ lives is pretty much unforgivable.

That being said, that’s a pretty fucking funny video.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 26, 2021, 08:01:00 PM
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/26/man-jumps-building-lands-woman-san-diego-both-die/

Two dead as suicidal man jumps off building, lands on woman

Now this sucks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 27, 2021, 12:00:28 AM
Well with the way she was dressed she was just asking for it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 27, 2021, 01:50:52 AM
Suicidal people should be killed.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 27, 2021, 10:42:59 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/367lN31.png)

 from Rob's favorite TV station
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 27, 2021, 01:18:33 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/367lN31.png)

 from Rob's favorite TV station

I didn't think he watched TV.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 28, 2021, 11:05:24 AM
https://www.vogue.co.uk/mini-vogue/article/having-a-child-sustainable

Quote
Is Having A Baby In 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?

Is having a child an act of environmental vandalism or an investment in the future? Is it possible to live an ecologically responsible life while adding yet another person to our overstretched planet? Can I get away with it if I just never learn to drive, never get a dog and keep wearing the same three pairs of jeans for the rest of my life?

For the scientifically-engaged person, there are few questions more troubling when looking at the current climate emergency than that of having a baby. Whether your body throbs to reproduce, you passively believe that it is on the cards for you one day, or you actively seek to remain child-free, the declining health of the planet cannot help but factor in your thinking. Before I got pregnant, I worried feverishly about the strain on the earth’s resources that another Western child would add. The food he ate, the nappies he wore, the electricity he would use; before he’d even started sitting up, my child would have already contributed far more to climate change than his counterpart in, say, Kerala or South Sudan. But I also worried about the sort of world that I would bring my child into – where we have perhaps just another 60 harvests left before our overworked soil gives out and we are running out of fresh water. Could I really have a baby, knowing that by the time he was my father’s age, he may be living on a dry and barren earth?

climate "emergency" is next on the fear docket

how fucking obvious is it, I mean the dude who works at CNN fucking said it out loud

please excuse me while I vomit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 28, 2021, 12:19:37 PM
https://www.vogue.co.uk/mini-vogue/article/having-a-child-sustainable

climate "emergency" is next on the fear docket

how fucking obvious is it, I mean the dude who works at CNN fucking said it out loud

please excuse me while I vomit

Looks like your mayor and city council were scared stupid into developing a climate action plan for the community back in 2018.   
https://www.reno.gov/community/sustainability

I couldn’t find the section on family planning, but it’s great to see your mayor and city council being so forward-thinking. 

“Reno: The Biggest Little Sustainable City”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 28, 2021, 12:33:19 PM
(https://i.redd.it/z58053qijct61.png)

ouch, 0 for 42... but I'm sure they will totally be right this time, because the answer is more taxes and communism
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 28, 2021, 01:06:39 PM
(https://i.redd.it/z58053qijct61.png)

ouch, 0 for 42... but I'm sure they will totally be right this time, because the answer is more taxes and communism

Most of this is malarkey. Some is rooted in partial truths, but things happened.

There was what was called the green revolution. Note green meant something else back then. It involved the use of fertilizers and pesticides etc to increase food production..

Also, the Nixon era clean air and water acts/ EPA. Reducing sulfur dioxide and other forms of pollution has made a heckuva difference. Lake Erie is not on fire. There are fish in the Chicago River.

50 years ago there was some debate over whether particulate type pollution would cause global cooling, or green house gases would cause global warming. By about 1979 or so, the cooling theory had been dumped for a number of reasons.

https://www.environmentalcouncil.org/when_our_rivers_caught_fire

https://news.wttw.com/2017/10/23/dramatic-recovery-illinois-sport-fish-traced-clean-water-act

https://longreads.com/2017/04/13/in-1975-newsweek-predicted-a-new-ice-age-were-still-living-with-the-consequences/

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 28, 2021, 01:29:14 PM
https://www.vogue.co.uk/mini-vogue/article/having-a-child-sustainable

climate "emergency" is next on the fear docket

how fucking obvious is it, I mean the dude who works at CNN fucking said it out loud

please excuse me while I vomit

Yet you won't see the irony this summer when your water bill gets jacked up because the snowpack is fubar
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 28, 2021, 01:32:17 PM
(https://i.redd.it/z58053qijct61.png)

ouch, 0 for 42... but I'm sure they will totally be right this time, because the answer is more taxes and communism
No kidding. Anyone with half a brain would have gotten the other bingo card, the one with "Annual armageddon fires in California", "millions without power in deep freeze in Texas for several days"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on April 28, 2021, 02:12:44 PM
I was just hoping for flying cars by now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 28, 2021, 02:17:22 PM
Yet you won't see the irony this summer when your water bill gets jacked up because the snowpack is fubar

Lake Mead has been under pretty significant drought stress, which means nearby states will be subject to more cuts to water allocations from the reservoir.  The first group to be impacted will be farmers in Arizona.  They will have to find ways to use water more efficiently. 
https://www.vox.com/22392710/southwest-water-drought-arizona-nevada-california-colorado-river-lake-mead-climate-change

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 28, 2021, 03:35:58 PM
I was just hoping for flying cars by now.
Imagine the road rage.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on April 28, 2021, 04:00:52 PM
Imagine the road rage.

It would have been glorious.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 28, 2021, 05:59:12 PM
Lake Mead has been under pretty significant drought stress, which means nearby states will be subject to more cuts to water allocations from the reservoir.  The first group to be impacted will be farmers in Arizona.  They will have to find ways to use water more efficiently. 
https://www.vox.com/22392710/southwest-water-drought-arizona-nevada-california-colorado-river-lake-mead-climate-change

Reno gets it's water from Lake Tahoe, which has one outlet, the Truckee River. Snow in the basin has been pretty sad
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 28, 2021, 11:00:17 PM
Yet you won't see the irony this summer when your water bill gets jacked up because the snowpack is fubar

the snowpack is about average this year what are you talking about, prior year it was shit... thats why the fires were so bad last summer... the year before that we had quite a bit of snow so much we had flooding in the spring and the drought ended, in 2017 I was snowboarding at squaw June 4th...

shit varies in the sierra every year, and it has for literally longer than humans have existed on the planet
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 29, 2021, 01:11:44 PM
the snowpack is about average this year what are you talking about, prior year it was shit... thats why the fires were so bad last summer... the year before that we had quite a bit of snow so much we had flooding in the spring and the drought ended, in 2017 I was snowboarding at squaw June 4th...

shit varies in the sierra every year, and it has for literally longer than humans have existed on the planet

You are worse at "Just making shit up" than Mike Lindell

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article250368436.html#:~:text=See%20what%20water%20officials%20found,snowpack%20(April%201%2C%202021)&text=California%20water%20officials%20on%20Thursday,the%20driest%20years%20on%20record.

California water officials on Thursday reported the statewide snowpack is just 59% of average for this time of year as the state continues to experience one of the driest years on record.

It’s the second straight year of low numbers, after the Department of Water Resources recorded a reading of 53% on April 1 a year ago. The back-to-back low measurements could mean the return of summer drought conditions and water-use restrictions for the first time since 2016.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 29, 2021, 01:14:03 PM
the snowpack is about average this year what are you talking about, prior year it was shit... thats why the fires were so bad last summer...

Fires in the mountains only tangentially are a function of the winter snowpack.

The issue lately has been that the spring/early summer has been so warm that the snow has melted super fast, providing heat and water for big early growth for the trees and underbrush. Then the snow runs out because it melted early, shit dies, then burns.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on April 29, 2021, 09:55:32 PM
Bad news for the Q-adjacent members of our community: Your compatriots might turn on you.

(https://i.ibb.co/429hHrf/Q-lovers-kill-man-in-Danville-article.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on May 02, 2021, 01:13:52 AM
No kidding. Anyone with half a brain would have gotten the other bingo card, the one with "Annual armageddon fires in California", "millions without power in deep freeze in Texas for several days"
Neither of those have anything to do with climate change and everything to do with improper management.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on May 02, 2021, 10:30:48 AM
Neither of those have anything to do with climate change and everything to do with improper management.
Right. Because as everyone knows, Houston always freezes in the winter.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 02, 2021, 12:36:36 PM
Neither of those have anything to do with climate change and everything to do with improper management.

In the case of the California wildfires, it’s both.

Climate Change Is Central to California’s Wildfires

“Conservative pundits who tout land management as the main issue fail to see the big picture.”

“...fuel treatments alone are not the solution; we cannot disregard that our contributions to climate change continue to aggravate our risk.”

“The science is clear. Climate change plays an undeniable role in the unprecedented wildfires of recent years. More than half of the acres burned each year in the western United States can be attributed to climate change. The number of dry, warm, and windy autumn days—perfect wildfire weather—in California has more than doubled since the 1980s.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-central-to-californias-wildfires/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on May 02, 2021, 02:24:44 PM
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/wildfire/colorado-2020-historic-wildfire-season/73-c9458147-c945-45e6-bea9-a1d426cca102


2020 was the worst fire season ever in Colorado.  Dry weather/lack of moisture combined with vast swaths of beetle killed trees were the ingredients.  The beetles flourished because the mountains don't get the prolonged deep freezes that have historically occurred to keep them in check. 
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 02, 2021, 07:26:47 PM
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/wildfire/colorado-2020-historic-wildfire-season/73-c9458147-c945-45e6-bea9-a1d426cca102


2020 was the worst fire season ever in Colorado.  Dry weather/lack of moisture combined with vast swaths of beetle killed trees were the ingredients.  The beetles flourished because the mountains don't get the prolonged deep freezes that have historically occurred to keep them in check.

yeah well that's just bad management.

Hurricanes in Florida is just God's will
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 03, 2021, 10:29:15 PM
Plus sized model claims she's anorexic

https://twitter.com/Tess_Holliday/status/1388573957524115456
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 05, 2021, 02:09:35 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/l3ZjOp2.png)
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 05, 2021, 03:00:25 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/l3ZjOp2.png)

Cuz you know, she won the Men's Decathlon. Granted, she did that without various treatments radically adjusting her hormone levels.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 05, 2021, 03:08:51 PM
she
ha

won the Men's Decathlon

haaaa

Granted, she did that without various treatments radically adjusting her hormone levels.

bahahahaha
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Post by: fucking on May 05, 2021, 03:25:39 PM
She shouldn'a had her dick cut off. Chicks like a nice dick.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 05, 2021, 03:55:05 PM
ha

haaaa

bahahahaha

She's your party's best candidate, not mine
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Post by: ThePAMan on May 05, 2021, 04:48:23 PM
ha

haaaa

bahahahaha

I laughed. Have an applaud.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 05, 2021, 07:44:51 PM
She's your party's best candidate, not mine

Oh god that would be something LOL

Definitely peak clown world material
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 09, 2021, 10:02:52 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/PJiApgu.png)
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Post by: ridingthegrange on May 09, 2021, 10:08:10 AM
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-beer-of-the-future-tastes-like-ass-1846848051

The rest of the story.  What ever works.
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Post by: ridingthegrange on May 09, 2021, 10:10:07 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/l3ZjOp2.png)

Oh, and Happy Mother's Day!
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 09, 2021, 10:16:06 AM
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-beer-of-the-future-tastes-like-ass-1846848051

The rest of the story.  What ever works.

accidentally make a shitty batch of beer

idea

blame it on climate change

get the marketing team to print up some fancy graphics

make up a bunch of bullshit claims and suck some earth day cock in a press release

? ? ? ?

profit

I can see the soyboys lining up to buy intentionally bad tasting beer now
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Post by: illiniray on May 09, 2021, 12:29:17 PM
accidentally make a shitty batch of beer

idea

blame it on climate change

get the marketing team to print up some fancy graphics

make up a bunch of bullshit claims and suck some earth day cock in a press release

? ? ? ?

profit

I can see the soyboys lining up to buy intentionally bad tasting beer now

Right. They accidentally used millet and buckwheat for the malt instead of barley. Then accidentally smoked the malt to simulate wild fire smoked water. And accidentally  tossed in astringent dandelions for something. Wtf are astringent dandelions?

Oh well. These people sell craft brews in cans.

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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 11, 2021, 10:02:27 AM
https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/10/washington-dc-woman-lawsuit-ban-dancing-weddings-strip-clubs/

Quote
A Washington D.C. woman is suing the city over its ban on dancing at weddings.

Margaret Appleby, whose wedding is scheduled for June 6, filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming that the city’s ban violates her First Amendment rights. The city allows dancing in exercise classes such as Zumba and at strip clubs, Appleby’s lawsuit notes.
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Post by: fucking on May 11, 2021, 12:29:13 PM
The question that's been revealing itself over these many months is whether Q97 can differentiate legitimate news from propaganda.

I'm going to vote "no."
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Post by: Custard on May 11, 2021, 12:36:20 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-bowser-reopen-coronavirus/2021/05/10/c4d6536e-b195-11eb-9059-d8176b9e3798_story.html
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Post by: fucking on May 11, 2021, 01:06:59 PM
I walked through Campustown last night. Murphy's had people sitting at every table.

A block to the west is a Cafe Benne. It was full too.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 11, 2021, 01:28:01 PM
I walked through Campustown last night. Murphy's had people sitting at every table.

A block to the west is a Cafe Benne. It was full too.

Too soon.

San Francisco is opening indoor dining and bars, 25% capacity, must be seated, no standing room.

San Francisco County is at 2 cases/100,000 people. The state as a whole is at 5/100k, best in the US

Champaign County is at 13/100k. Illinois as a whole is at 17/100k

Oh but think of the the economy! California has a 75 Billion dollar surplus due to excess revenues because our economy has done well despite the pandemic, half of that money is being sent directly back to taxpayers as a stimulus payment. LA Times reported the other day that 40% of new jobs in the US since February have been in California.

So much for Newsom being recalled. Numbers don't lie.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 11, 2021, 01:47:38 PM
yeah I'm sure the booming central Illinois economy will wind up with a tax surplus if they stay shut down for a few more years till they totally go zero covid

lol
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Post by: alum74 on May 11, 2021, 02:23:47 PM
yeah I'm sure the booming central Illinois economy will wind up with a tax surplus if they stay shut down for a few more years till they totally go zero covid

lol

Illinois Set to Move into Bridge Phase Friday. Here's What That Means For You

“Illinois is expected to fully reopen and enter Phase 5 of its COVID reopening plan on June 11, ‘barring any significant reversals in our key COVID-19 statewide indicators.’"
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-bridge-phase-reopening-plan-friday-chicago/2506400/

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Post by: ThePAMan on May 11, 2021, 02:34:26 PM
Illinois Set to Move into Bridge Phase Friday. Here's What That Means For You

“Illinois is expected to fully reopen and enter Phase 5 of its COVID reopening plan on June 11, ‘barring any significant reversals in our key COVID-19 statewide indicators.’"
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-bridge-phase-reopening-plan-friday-chicago/2506400/

But QAnon97 said no one would ever get their freedoms back!
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Post by: Custard on May 11, 2021, 02:36:35 PM
Wait...the tech and entertainment capital of the world made out like a bandit during the 14 months in which people worldwide were mandated to stay home and thus use technology to entertain themselves?
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 11, 2021, 05:16:03 PM
Wait...the tech and entertainment capital of the world made out like a bandit during the 14 months in which people worldwide were mandated to stay home and thus use technology to entertain themselves?

The largest portion of the California economy is financial services including Real Estate
Then professional and business services, then Government, then Manufacturing, and finally Information Technology in 5th

Entertainment represents only a couple percent of our economy.

We do have a very large company headquartered in Mountain View, it's called "Google". You should check it out sometime, it's pretty neat.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 11, 2021, 05:24:00 PM
Wait...the tech and entertainment capital of the world made out like a bandit during the 14 months in which people worldwide were mandated to stay home and thus use technology to entertain themselves?

The source of the surplus is still being debated, a lot of current wisdom is that there were a lot of real estate transactions, producing a lot of fees and taxable capital gains events. And the short term real estate rental market went ballistic with people spending weeks and months in remote areas. That is income, which is taxable at a state level.

Local budgets on the other hand, have been hit because sales taxes at restaurants are down, but this is mitigated somewhat in that the real estate transactions have created an increase in property taxes.
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Post by: Custard on May 11, 2021, 05:24:35 PM
So only a housing, tech and entertainment boom in the the 7th largest economy in the world?
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Post by: fucking on May 11, 2021, 05:35:04 PM
My ex-BIL had a house in Mountain View. He held on to it after they got married and moved to Belmont.

I wonder how much it's worth now.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 11, 2021, 06:13:27 PM
My ex-BIL had a house in Mountain View. He held on to it after they got married and moved to Belmont.

I wonder how much it's worth now.

The house is worth 2 million
If he burns it down, the lot is worth 3 million
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 11, 2021, 06:16:26 PM
So only a housing, tech and entertainment boom in the the 7th largest economy in the world?

You don't see the irony of throwing shade at California succeeding during the pandemic just because we had the advantage of growing the 7th largest economy prior to COVID. We should have been a dumpster fire instead
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Post by: Custard on May 11, 2021, 10:13:43 PM
I’m not throwing shade at California, I’m throwing shade on you for touting a budget surplus as proof the economy wasn’t hurt by draconian lockdown measures.

The primary drivers of the California economy were largely unaffected and some even benefitted from the pandemic. But it also devastated many small businesses and lower class working people while people with tech jobs flourished and refinanced their ever more ridiculously valuable homes at ridiculously low interest rates and/or purchased investment properties with that cheap money.

I mean...no wonder you want to hold on to COVID. You’re making money hand over fist, you get to virtue signal about case rates and vaccines, and you probably didn’t even have a social life to begin with.

I say this as someone who draws the majority of his income from a tech company based in San Marcos and took advantage of these situations like any reasonably intelligent person would. But I have a lot of empathy for the people who experienced real hardship be it physically, mentally, or financially, and wish there had been a more reasonable solution for them.

Think of the little people, Murph. One thing is clear: The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. But hey you probably don’t mind some tax dollars pouring into homeless tent towns in SF as long as they aren’t camping in the lawn of your McMansion in Healdsburg or your investment property at Tahoe, right?

For the record this is all for the sake of discussion.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 11, 2021, 11:19:49 PM
Illinois Set to Move into Bridge Phase Friday. Here's What That Means For You

“Illinois is expected to fully reopen and enter Phase 5 of its COVID reopening plan on June 11, ‘barring any significant reversals in our key COVID-19 statewide indicators.’"
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-bridge-phase-reopening-plan-friday-chicago/2506400/

whats the Illinois budget surplus mr roboto?
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 12, 2021, 02:18:56 AM
I’m not throwing shade at California, I’m throwing shade on you for touting a budget surplus as proof the economy wasn’t hurt by draconian lockdown measures.

Newsom isn't Modi. The only universe where our lockdown was draconian is the FOX News Universe.

I guess it only seems draconian to shut down bars if you live in places where it's either 100 degrees or 0 degrees. I mean, I miss live music and bars too, but beaches and hiking are better for you anyway (at least the beaches not packed with slobbering drunken 20 year olds - on our beaches they'd end up drowning), and nobody had live music, tailgating at NFL games. For all the whining about haircuts, my wife and I cut each other's hair and people in states with on and off opening of hair salons were all growing pandemic hairdos anyway. Wow, you had to get take out instead of eating at a restaurant. Schools were closed nationwide.

I really have failed to see the value added that the states that didn't do a "draconian" shutdown got.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 12, 2021, 02:29:23 AM

The primary drivers of the California economy were largely unaffected and some even benefitted from the pandemic. But it also devastated many small businesses and lower class working people while people with tech jobs flourished and refinanced their ever more ridiculously valuable homes at ridiculously low interest rates and/or purchased investment properties with that cheap money.


As I noted, 40% of all jobs added in the US since February have been in CA.

If by your thesis, the illuminati tech workers were unaffected, who are the people filling all those jobs?

The places that muddled along and are still muddling along, are not rebounding. The restaurants in the valley are doing monster business now, because with the low rates (down to 4/100k) and high vaccine adoption, the sector of the population that is afraid to go out has dwindled to near zero. My sister was in Vegas last week - says it's all open but it feels like a ghost town. I've been at both Castro Street and HBG Plaza this week, most people who aren't eating are still masked up but business is running ahead of 2019 levels, with the added seating outdoors via street closures (granted this isn't simple to do if your weather is crappy).

You can't do a Modi style lockdown but you can't be doing beer bongs on the beach either.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 12, 2021, 07:32:22 PM
I mean...no wonder you want to hold on to COVID.

It's also pretty funny that my entire vibe is bragging about how well California is doing to END COVID. If I wanted COVID to stick around, I'd be calling for relaxed restrictions and being an anti-vaxxer
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Post by: fucking on May 12, 2021, 07:51:11 PM
you probably didn’t even have a social life to begin with.
Show us that rooftop bar video again.
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Post by: Custard on May 12, 2021, 08:30:58 PM
The one from my work trip?
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Post by: fucking on May 12, 2021, 08:46:37 PM
Actually, what I'd really like to see is Q97's kitchen.

I haven't been able to figure out whether he has a Ring or if it's just encrypted in a way that doesn't register.

Is he using a VPN?
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 12, 2021, 10:52:25 PM
Actually, what I'd really like to see is Q97's kitchen.

I haven't been able to figure out whether he has a Ring or if it's just encrypted in a way that doesn't register.

Is he using a VPN?

You really missed your calling as an FBI agent
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Post by: fucking on May 12, 2021, 11:01:16 PM
Or did I?!?
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 17, 2021, 01:48:26 PM
peak clown world folks

https://stitchbugstudio.com/product/bittybug/
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Post by: fucking on May 17, 2021, 02:38:52 PM
WTF do you have against commerce?
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 17, 2021, 03:51:42 PM
WTF do you have against commerce?
He's just thinking "what's so bitty about those?"
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 17, 2021, 04:41:13 PM
WTF do you have against commerce?

clearly the market for mental illness is booming
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 18, 2021, 10:02:14 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9585165/Oxford-University-teach-imperial-measurements-tied-idea-Empire.html

Quote
Oxford University reportedly plans to teach that imperial measurements are 'tied deeply to the idea of the Empire' in a bid to make science courses less 'Eurocentric'.

The University has suggested imperial measurements, including the mile, inch, pound and ounce, should be 'decolonised' due to its links to the British Empire.

Decolonising plans by Oxford's maths, physics and life sciences departments suggest the teaching of the measurements in the curriculum may change, according to The Telegraph.

It comes after a pledge from Oxford's vice-chancellor Louise Richardson to embed teaching on colonialism and the Empire into courses and 'diversify' the maths and life sciences curriculum.

I would imagine all those departments already use the metric system but I guess this is just a good chance to virtue signal that the British really weren't all that bad not that long ago and you can totally trust them now... lol
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Post by: ThePAMan on May 18, 2021, 10:47:01 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9585165/Oxford-University-teach-imperial-measurements-tied-idea-Empire.html

I would imagine all those departments already use the metric system but I guess this is just a good chance to virtue signal that the British really weren't all that bad not that long ago and you can totally trust them now... lol

Not sure how you got that out of that, but ok. I'm going to guess the opposite,  they will British Empire bash. Maybe they can take Prince Harry back.
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Post by: fucking on May 18, 2021, 12:38:06 PM
clearly the market for mental illness is booming
Chinese mothers hold their infant sons' penises, to comfort them when they're agitated.
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Post by: Custard on May 18, 2021, 01:48:08 PM
So that’s why they work at rub n tugs
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 18, 2021, 10:40:48 PM
So that’s why they work at rub n tugs

 ;D
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Post by: IlliniGolf on May 18, 2021, 11:18:37 PM
You are worse at "Just making shit up" than Mike Lindell

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article250368436.html#:~:text=See%20what%20water%20officials%20found,snowpack%20(April%201%2C%202021)&text=California%20water%20officials%20on%20Thursday,the%20driest%20years%20on%20record.

California water officials on Thursday reported the statewide snowpack is just 59% of average for this time of year as the state continues to experience one of the driest years on record.

It’s the second straight year of low numbers, after the Department of Water Resources recorded a reading of 53% on April 1 a year ago. The back-to-back low measurements could mean the return of summer drought conditions and water-use restrictions for the first time since 2016.

Maybe There’s a reason that civilizations normally don’t built massive settlements in arid environments far away from fresh water it’s recklessly unsustainable
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Post by: ThePAMan on May 18, 2021, 11:20:41 PM
Maybe There’s a reason that civilizations normally don’t built massive settlements in arid environments far away from fresh water it’s recklessly unsustainable

Like Arizona?
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Post by: IlliniGolf on May 18, 2021, 11:22:42 PM
Much of the American west, already using all the water and population still growing !
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 20, 2021, 04:46:15 PM
QIllLove97 bitching about his water bill soon

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Lake-Tahoe-drought-water-drops-two-feet-16169540.php
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Post by: alum74 on May 20, 2021, 09:08:46 PM
QIllLove97 bitching about his water bill soon

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Lake-Tahoe-drought-water-drops-two-feet-16169540.php

No problem.  Buried deep in Biden’s infrastructure bill is funding for a large-scale project that will pipe Great Lakes water to parched cities out West.   
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 20, 2021, 09:46:40 PM
No problem.  Buried deep in Biden’s infrastructure bill is funding for a large-scale project that will pipe Great Lakes water to parched cities out West.   

Probably just a conga line of Cybertrucks with tanks
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 20, 2021, 11:06:16 PM
QIllLove97 bitching about his water bill soon

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Lake-Tahoe-drought-water-drops-two-feet-16169540.php

The lake level has been falling since July of 2019, when it was close to the maximum legal capacity.

Start to shit your pants when its at the 1992 levels bro

and my water bill is like $30 lol like I give a fuck about that if it even increases 10 fold
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 21, 2021, 12:58:46 AM
The lake level has been falling since July of 2019, when it was close to the maximum legal capacity.

Start to shit your pants when its at the 1992 levels bro

and my water bill is like $30 lol like I give a fuck about that if it even increases 10 fold

Since record keeping began in 1900, Lake Tahoe’s lowest measurement was taken on Nov. 30, 1992, when the lake’s water levels were nearly 3 feet below the rim, at 6,220.26 feet.

That's like saying "Shit your pants when your bank account is empty" when you have 200 bucks in your bank account and you owe $1000 in rent tomorrow.

The winter is over. That means no more snow. But hey, there is the snow that will be melting and filling the lake all summer, as usual! Except that it's already gone. And now the temperatures go up and the lake starts to evaporate. The lake level, snowpack, and date guarantee that the lake level will go below Nov 30,1992 levels.

It really won't be a monetary signal, to be fair, they will just put usage restrictions up.
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Post by: fucking on May 21, 2021, 01:07:21 AM
I take the contrarian view about living near resources.

My leftist BIL in Sonoma thinks everybody should eat local. That seems crazy to me. If we put all the people on the fertile land, we'd have less fertile land.

I think more people should live in America deserts and chalky western Kansas, where nothing grows. And they should use solar and wind power, and live in adobe houses and dugouts.
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Post by: fucking on May 21, 2021, 01:09:11 AM
It really won't be a monetary signal, to be fair, they will just put usage restrictions up.
Q97 doesn't seem like a guy who'd need to bathe a lot.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 21, 2021, 08:48:26 AM
Since record keeping began in 1900, Lake Tahoe’s lowest measurement was taken on Nov. 30, 1992, when the lake’s water levels were nearly 3 feet below the rim, at 6,220.26 feet.

That's like saying "Shit your pants when your bank account is empty" when you have 200 bucks in your bank account and you owe $1000 in rent tomorrow.

The winter is over. That means no more snow. But hey, there is the snow that will be melting and filling the lake all summer, as usual! Except that it's already gone. And now the temperatures go up and the lake starts to evaporate. The lake level, snowpack, and date guarantee that the lake level will go below Nov 30,1992 levels.

It really won't be a monetary signal, to be fair, they will just put usage restrictions up.

It literally snowed last night...

And boo fucking hoo some golf courses and people with grass lawns might have to suffer a bit.  Fine with me they are retarded for planting grass in the desert anyway.

I just got rid of my grass... want to buy a push mower?
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 21, 2021, 12:16:57 PM
I take the contrarian view about living near resources.

My leftist BIL in Sonoma thinks everybody should eat local. That seems crazy to me. If we put all the people on the fertile land, we'd have less fertile land.

I think more people should live in America deserts and chalky western Kansas, where nothing grows. And they should use solar and wind power, and live in adobe houses and dugouts.

40% of US corn production is used for ethanol. We aren't in a dearth of fertile land - especially when you consider the amount of food waste in this country, a fact you are presumably well aware of.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 21, 2021, 12:19:06 PM
It literally snowed last night...

And boo fucking hoo some golf courses and people with grass lawns might have to suffer a bit.  Fine with me they are retarded for planting grass in the desert anyway.

I just got rid of my grass... want to buy a push mower?

Snow in May in low humidity Tahoe area will evaporate before it hits any water table.

For someone who hates the government you seem to be blissfully unaware that the golf courses will get their allocation before you do. And they're behind agriculture.

The best part of these restrictions is that they don't set some sort of "cap", nobody can use more than X gallons. What they do is say that everyone must reduce consumption by X%. So the guy with the big lawn can easily cut his consumption, the people not using anything for landscaping have to find places to cut. It's quite silly.
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Post by: alum74 on May 21, 2021, 01:33:06 PM
Snow in May in low humidity Tahoe area will evaporate before it hits any water table.

For someone who hates the government you seem to be blissfully unaware that the golf courses will get their allocation before you do. And they're behind agriculture.

The best part of these restrictions is that they don't set some sort of "cap", nobody can use more than X gallons. What they do is say that everyone must reduce consumption by X%. So the guy with the big lawn can easily cut his consumption, the people not using anything for landscaping have to find places to cut. It's quite silly.

In some parts of the West, there’s a push to educate homeowners and businesses on ways to harvest rain- and street-water for reuse, such as cisterns, rain barrels, curb-cuts and rain basins. 
https://wrrc.arizona.edu/gila/can-i-harvest-rainwater
https://www.watercache.com/education/rainwater-harvesting-101

Some cities are also using reclaimed water from water treatment plants to irrigate turf at schools, parks and golf courses.
https://www.tucsonaz.gov/water/who-uses-reclaimed-water-for-irrigation

Next up will be programs to encourage graywater (i.e., water from bathroom sinks, bathtubs and clothes washers, but not from toilets or kitchens) – to be reused for purposes other than drinking, such as flushing toilets.
https://theconversation.com/a-new-strategy-for-drought-stressed-cities-graywater-recycling-56564
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Post by: fucking on May 22, 2021, 01:32:26 AM
I propose seawater for toilets.

Plenty available. Instant disinfectant. Brings that fresh ocean smell to your commode.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 22, 2021, 02:45:37 PM
I propose seawater for toilets.

Plenty available. Instant disinfectant. Brings that fresh ocean smell to your commode.

Over time the salt builds up in the pipes and clogs them. Ask me about the guy who sold me his house and was running the output of the water softener into the main.

And it's not particularly available in Reno
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Post by: Custard on May 22, 2021, 06:31:36 PM
And those gotdam barnacles
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on May 22, 2021, 09:32:18 PM
Tell us about the guy who sold you his house and was running the output of the water softener into the main.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 24, 2021, 11:05:58 PM
Taking one from the China playbook I see

https://twitter.com/stem_feed/status/1396904684087136257

(https://i.imgur.com/MS48cxn.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on May 25, 2021, 12:26:08 AM
You're not an insane idiot because your genes don't derive primarily from east Asia.

But that doesn't mean your parents weren't also insane idiots.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 25, 2021, 09:02:06 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/roll-flower-tattoos-celebrate-fat-120000604.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 25, 2021, 12:32:21 PM
https://twitter.com/sallykuchar/status/1396912847150481416
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on May 25, 2021, 12:59:59 PM
Meanwhile, I can't find a buyer for an apartment in NYC.

Okay, fine. Queens.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 26, 2021, 04:13:21 PM
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2021/5/26/22454359/kevin-clark-dies-school-of-rock-crash-avondale-western-chicago
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Post by: Chickengeorge on May 26, 2021, 05:54:57 PM
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2021/5/26/22454359/kevin-clark-dies-school-of-rock-crash-avondale-western-chicago

That sucks.
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Post by: Custard on May 26, 2021, 07:11:32 PM
Didn’t have PAMan pegged as a Hyundai guy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on May 26, 2021, 07:33:52 PM
Why are you pegging PAThey?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 05, 2021, 11:10:01 PM
https://www.koin.com/news/organizers-of-naked-bike-ride-wont-require-shirts-or-pants-but-masks-are-a-must/

Quote
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Philadelphia bike riders won’t need their shirts, pants, skirts or even underwear — just a mask.

Organizers of the annual Philly Naked Bike Ride say this year’s event will take place Aug. 28 and will require masks, based on the city’s earlier coronavirus restrictions.

The city lifted most of its COVID-19 rules this week, citing an increase in vaccinations and a decrease in cases. But ride organizers said they hadn’t had a chance to chat since the city’s guidelines changed so for the time being, they’re “going to stick with our initial mask guidance.” Lead organizer Wesley Noonan-Sessa said they’ll keep an eye on what the city says in the next month or so.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on June 15, 2021, 12:35:51 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/bird-names-racism-audubon/

😂 it never ends
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 15, 2021, 06:54:00 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/bird-names-racism-audubon/

😂 it never ends
Dunno. This may be a bigger deal. 🤡
The FBI has warned lawmakers in Washington that QAnon followers may move from being “digital soldiers” to engaging in “real world violence."

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Post by: illiniray on June 15, 2021, 02:41:41 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/bird-names-racism-audubon/

😂 it never ends

Another case of selectively imposing 21st C outrage and cancel culture on historical figures.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on June 15, 2021, 02:58:10 PM
Shakespeare never had actors of color at The Globe!
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Post by: alum74 on June 15, 2021, 06:40:51 PM
Another case of selectively imposing 21st C outrage and cancel culture on historical figures.

The National Audubon Society is a private membership-based, non-profit organization.   John James Audubon did not form the organization.  It was named after him posthumously in the late 19th century because of his pioneering and brilliant work with North American birds. 

Injustice and inequity don’t have statutes of limitations.  Racists don’t get a pass because of historical contexts.  If the organization wants to acknowledge, discuss and grapple with the checkered past of Audubon and several of his fellow ornithologists, that’s their business.   

Deal with it. 

From Audubon Magazine: The Myth of John James Audubon
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-myth-john-james-audubon
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Post by: ThePAMan on June 15, 2021, 06:45:44 PM
The National Audubon Society is a private membership-based, non-profit organization.   John James Audubon did not form the organization.  It was named after him posthumously in the late 19th century because of his pioneering and brilliant work with North American birds. 

Injustice and inequity don’t have statutes of limitations.  Racists don’t get a pass because of historical contexts.  If the organization wants to acknowledge, discuss and grapple with the checkered past of Audubon and several of his fellow ornithologists, that’s their business.   

Deal with it. 

From Audubon Magazine: The Myth of John James Audubon
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-myth-john-james-audubon

That one will leave a mark. Ouch.
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Post by: illiniray on June 15, 2021, 07:11:35 PM

Injustice and inequity don’t have statutes of limitations.  Racists don’t get a pass because of historical contexts.  If the organization wants to acknowledge, discuss and grapple with the checkered past of Audubon and several of his fellow ornithologists, that’s their business.   

Deal with it. 

From Audubon Magazine: The Myth of John James Audubon
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-myth-john-james-audubon

The same sort of thing can be and has been said of Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger, among others. Racist attitudes may not have a statute of limitations, but they do have a historical context.

According to the best extant records, the historical Buddha was staunchly pro-life, fairly sexist and possibly even homophobic by our standards. Cancel Buddhism? Or consider the context of India 2500 years ago?

Private organizations are free to judge historical figures by our current standards if they wish. Others are free to disagree with that approach.

Deal with that.
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Post by: murphstahoe on June 15, 2021, 07:23:18 PM
The same sort of thing can be and has been said of Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger, among others. Racist attitudes may not have a statute of limitations, but they do have a historical context.

According to the best extant records, the historical Buddha was staunchly pro-life, fairly sexist and possibly even homophobic by our standards. Cancel Buddhism? Or consider the context of India 2500 years ago?

Private organizations are free to judge historical figures by our current standards if they wish. Others are free to disagree with that approach.

Deal with that.

Talk to the Wilson Sanger society.
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Post by: illiniray on June 15, 2021, 07:32:19 PM
Talk to the Wilson Sanger society.

Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html

Princeton University to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from public policy school and residential college
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/us/woodrow-wilson-princeton-university-trnd/index.html

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Post by: murphstahoe on June 15, 2021, 09:20:37 PM
Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html

Princeton University to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from public policy school and residential college
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/us/woodrow-wilson-princeton-university-trnd/index.html

Also private organizations. Why do you hate freedom
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Post by: illiniray on June 15, 2021, 09:51:16 PM
Also private organizations. Why do you hate freedom

Why do you hate reading comprehension? .

As I previously wrote:

Private organizations are free to judge historical figures by our current standards if they wish. Others are free to disagree with that approach.

Deal with that.

I have not changed my mind in the last couple hours. I believe a historical person's views should be weighed in the context of the standards of their time, not ours.



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Post by: ThePAMan on June 15, 2021, 09:56:38 PM
Why do you hate reading comprehension? .

As I previously wrote:

Private organizations are free to judge historical figures by our current standards if they wish. Others are free to disagree with that approach.

Deal with that.

I have not changed my mind in the last couple hours. I believe a historical person's views should be weighed in the context of the standards of their time, not ours.

Not sure Woodrow Wilson should be the poster child for your program.
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Post by: illiniray on June 15, 2021, 10:29:10 PM
Not sure Woodrow Wilson should be the poster child for your program.

The progressive who won a Nobel Peace Prize for leading the creation of the League of Nations?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 15, 2021, 10:34:48 PM
Not sure Woodrow Wilson should be the poster child for your program.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2018/05/02/president-woodrow-wilson-racist-new-biography-tackles-question/555849002/
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Post by: illiniray on June 15, 2021, 10:56:43 PM
Robert Byrd has been a favorite target of the right, but so far the left has defended him.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on June 15, 2021, 11:23:50 PM
Robert Byrd has been a favorite target of the right, but so far the left has defended him.

Fascinating isn't it
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Post by: alum74 on June 16, 2021, 12:01:47 AM
The progressive who won a Nobel Peace Prize for leading the creation of the League of Nations?

Too bad Wilson unilaterally killed a proposal from Japan to include a racial equality provision in the charter of the League of Nations.  And while he championed the cause of self-determination for many stateless peoples of Eastern Europe, his sympathy did not extend to the "backward countries" of Asia and Africa.

On the home-front, Wilson was extremely racist, even by the standards of his time.  As an academic, he wrote a history textbook romanticizing the Confederacy and the Ku Klux Klan.  It also describes the institution of slavery as a relatively benign affair. 

As president of Princeton, he refused to admit black students and took steps to erase from the public record that African Americans had ever attended or instructed at the university.   Talk about “cancel culture.”

As President, he rolled back economic gains for African Americans, overseeing the segregation of multiple agencies of the federal government.  This effort included dismissing black supervisors, cutting off black employees’ access to promotions and reserving those better paying jobs for white workers.   

A Princeton committee looked at the totality of his work.  The committee weighed Wilson's racist policies with the contributions he made to the nation.  It determined that his racist thinking and beliefs made him an inappropriate namesake for the university’s public policy school. 

https://newrepublic.com/article/158356/woodrow-wilson-racism-princeton-university
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race
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Post by: ThePAMan on June 16, 2021, 12:26:39 AM
Fascinating isn't it

Probably had nothing to do with him pulling a George Wallace (not the comedian).
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Post by: alum74 on June 16, 2021, 12:32:13 AM
Robert Byrd has been a favorite target of the right, but so far the left has defended him.

Robert C. Byrd's name removed from a college health center
https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Robert-C-Byrds-name-removed-from-a-college-health-center-571345761.html

Thousands sign petitions to remove Jenkins, Byrd from campus building names
https://marshallparthenon.com/25512/news/thousands-sign-petitions-to-remove-jenkins-byrd-from-campus-building-names/

West Virginia University SGA wants to rename Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center after Patrice A. Harris, WVU alum and first Black president of American Medical Association
https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/west-virginia-university-sga-wants-to-rename-robert-c-byrd-health-sciences-center-after-patrice/article_c92adb60-db9e-5f06-b668-6ee47f23a984.html

CANCEL CULTURE!
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Post by: illiniray on June 16, 2021, 01:05:31 AM


On the home-front, Wilson was extremely racist, even by the standards of his time.

https://newrepublic.com/article/158356/woodrow-wilson-racism-princeton-university
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race

That is a dubious judgment. By whose standards? Jim Crow did not end until 1964. Wilson died in 1924. He was raised in the south by racist parents. He also needed southern Democrat support, for example, to get progressive Louis Brandeis on the SCOTUS.
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Post by: fucking on June 16, 2021, 03:11:25 AM
Woodrow Wilson was the worst president in the history of the United States.

Yes, I am aware of arguments for Grant, Buchanan, Johnson and Harding.

And W. And Orange Golfer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 16, 2021, 10:02:01 AM
Too bad Wilson unilaterally killed a proposal from Japan to include a racial equality provision in the charter of the League of Nations.  And while he championed the cause of self-determination for many stateless peoples of Eastern Europe, his sympathy did not extend to the "backward countries" of Asia and Africa.

On the home-front, Wilson was extremely racist, even by the standards of his time.  As an academic, he wrote a history textbook romanticizing the Confederacy and the Ku Klux Klan.  It also describes the institution of slavery as a relatively benign affair. 

As president of Princeton, he refused to admit black students and took steps to erase from the public record that African Americans had ever attended or instructed at the university.   Talk about “cancel culture.”

As President, he rolled back economic gains for African Americans, overseeing the segregation of multiple agencies of the federal government.  This effort included dismissing black supervisors, cutting off black employees’ access to promotions and reserving those better paying jobs for white workers.   

A Princeton committee looked at the totality of his work.  The committee weighed Wilson's racist policies with the contributions he made to the nation.  It determined that his racist thinking and beliefs made him an inappropriate namesake for the university’s public policy school. 

https://newrepublic.com/article/158356/woodrow-wilson-racism-princeton-university
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race

Tell us about Lyndon B Johnson
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Post by: IlliniGolf on June 16, 2021, 12:49:59 PM
Imagine having nothing better to do than go looking for stuff to be outraged about from 100 or more years ago
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Post by: alum74 on June 16, 2021, 02:07:10 PM
Tell us about Lyndon B Johnson

What, some dastardly group trying to cancel Lyndon?

He was a mean, rotten SOB, but a shrewd legislative strategist.  “Vote for the civil right bill or I’ll have your family and friends killed. “

Oh, by the way, the Dr. Seuss foundation has released a new set of Seuss books just for cancel culture crybabies like you.   

“Cucks on FOX”
“Green Eggs and Hammity”
“The MAGAt in the Hat”
“Horton Withdraws from the WHO”
“Debate Me, Lorax!”
“One Fish, Two Fish, Kill the Jew Fish”

Enjoy!
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Post by: ILLove1997 on June 16, 2021, 03:52:37 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/c75oDRH.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on June 16, 2021, 04:32:19 PM
https://youtu.be/i5zYiUz4rZ8
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Post by: illiniray on June 16, 2021, 04:53:12 PM
It looks to me like racism and white supremacist assumptions were pretty much baked in Americas past. Even those who opposed slavery and Jim  Crow tended to hold implicitly racist views.

Walt Whitman Turns 200, So It's Time to Be Honest About His Racism
https://www.wnyc.org/story/walt-whitman-turns-200-and-poet-harmony-holiday-calls-out-his-racism/

Although Whitman's attitude towards blacks may be offensive to modern audiences, it was common in its day.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/whitman-and-race/

Was Emerson a Racist?
http://transcendentalistspirituality.com/was-emerson-a-racist/

Was Teddy Roosevelt a racist? You decide
https://www.liherald.com/stories/was-teddy-roosevelt-a-racist-you-decide,126499

Environmentalism’s Racist History
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history/amp

U.S. Universities Must Stop Honoring Racist Scientists of the Past
https://blog.ucsusa.org/adam-markham/u-s-universities-must-stop-honoring-racist-scientists-of-the-past/


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 16, 2021, 05:35:18 PM
Woodrow Wilson was the worst president in the history of the United States.

Yes, I am aware of arguments for Grant, Buchanan, Johnson and Harding.

And W. And Orange Golfer.

How about rate him on international relations, domestic economic policies, and civil rights?

Obviously, an America first protectionist would give him low marks for international relations. He was a free trade globalist who cut tariffs and basically founded the forerunner of the
UN

Supply siders and hard core libertarians would not think much of his domestic policies. He reestablished the graduated  income tax, created the federal  reserve and the federal trade commission; passed  workers compensation, a child labor law, and a farm loan program.

Segregationists might be be the only ones who like his record on civil rights?
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Post by: ILLove1997 on June 17, 2021, 11:53:56 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/before-you-use-word-spooky-you-should-know-its-racist-origins-1541441

Quote
With all the skeletons, witch hats and spider webs decorating homes and stores across the nation during Halloween—not to mention the plethora of horror movies widely available during the month of October—it seems fitting to call it "spooky" season.

However, there are connotations associated with the word "spooky" that are much more horrifying than the ghosts to which the term usually refers.

how did I miss this bad boy
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Post by: illiniray on June 17, 2021, 03:22:41 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/before-you-use-word-spooky-you-should-know-its-racist-origins-1541441

how did I miss this bad boy

What a crappy article. The headline claims the term has racist origins, the article itself says it does not.

Also,

"Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe."
https://www.etymonline.com/word/spook

https://www.etymonline.com/word/spook
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Post by: ILLove1997 on June 17, 2021, 03:32:35 PM
What a crappy article. The headline claims the term has racist origins, the article itself says it does not.

Also,

"Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe."
https://www.etymonline.com/word/spook

https://www.etymonline.com/word/spook

time to cancel the Tuskegee Airmen!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 17, 2021, 03:36:01 PM
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), like most educated people of his time, was exposed to so-called scientific racist theories. He struggled with and, ultimately, rejected them. He opposed slavery. He supported full emancipation, reparations, education, citizenship, and voting rights. That does not stop some activists from taking a few things he wrote out of context to call him racist. Part of the rationale is that he actually dared to like some aspects of his English culture and was an advocate for self reliance.     
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 17, 2021, 04:55:36 PM
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), like most educated people of his time, was exposed to so-called scientific racist theories. He struggled with, and ultimately, rejected them. He opposed slavery. He supported full emancipation, reparations, education, citizenship, and voting rights. That does not stop some activists from taking a few things he wrote out of context to call him racist. Part of the rationale is that he actually dared to like some aspects of his English culture and was an advocate for self reliance.   

"To be great is to be misunderstood" -rwe
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 17, 2021, 06:06:00 PM
In 50-75-100 years, if the world lasts that long, we'll be criticized for something; be it not educating the kids, the societal impact of identity politics, the amassing of wealth by the upper class, or any of a number of issues.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 17, 2021, 07:48:33 PM
In 50-75-100 years, if the world lasts that long, we'll be criticized for something; be it not educating the kids, the societal impact of identity politics, the amassing of wealth by the upper class, or any of a number of issues.

Liking Brad Underachiever....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 17, 2021, 07:52:58 PM
Some will be impressed that the bankruptcy court for the Northern District of Illiniois announced this afternoon that it will be closed tomorrow for the Federal Juneteenth holiday.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on June 17, 2021, 07:57:26 PM
Agreed.

In 50-75-100 years, if the world lasts that long, we'll be criticized for something; be it not educating the kids, the societal impact of identity politics, the amassing of wealth by the upper class, or any of a number of issues.
The way we talk about "racism" has always been a problem. It prevents people from understanding in group/out group behavior.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 17, 2021, 08:29:45 PM
Some will be impressed that the bankruptcy court for the Northern District of Illiniois announced this afternoon that it will be closed tomorrow for the Federal Juneteenth holiday.
2 long summer weekends for federal employees outta 3. Quite a deal. They should have just declared June 19 to July 4 a federal holiday.
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Post by: ridingthegrange on June 18, 2021, 08:11:21 AM
Maybe it's the time for a 4 day workweek to become the norm.  Now that would be progress!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 18, 2021, 12:25:44 PM
2 long summer weekends for federal employees outta 3. Quite a deal. They should have just declared June 19 to July 4 a federal holiday.

You can add Minneapolis city workers to the list of “lucky duckies” that will get another three-day weekend.  I understand white employees will have the option of referring to the new holiday as Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Day. 
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/05/12/minneapolis-makes-juneteenth-an-official-city-holiday/

Here’s an interesting article on the 94-year-old women who fought to make Juneteenth a national holiday.
https://variety.com/2021/politics/features/activist-opal-lee-juneteenth-holiday-1234998507/
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Post by: alum74 on June 18, 2021, 01:12:51 PM
Agreed.
The way we talk about "racism" has always been a problem. It prevents people from understanding in group/out group behavior.

Not sure, but I think I understand what you’re saying.   I would not call anything “racist” in any educational initiative.   Avoid personal trait references.  Focus on the structural inequities that crept into areas of society and institutions.   This would help reduce knee-jerk reactions, although many would argue that ship has sailed. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on June 18, 2021, 01:21:10 PM
The word has been applied to any and all situations. It doesn't mean anything anymore.

It meant, in its original form, that skin color determines capabilities.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 18, 2021, 01:32:56 PM
The word has been applied to any and all situations. It doesn't mean anything anymore.

It meant, in its original form, that skin color determines capabilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VvibQFYp6k
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 18, 2021, 02:52:51 PM
You can add Minneapolis city workers to the list of “lucky duckies” that will get another three-day weekend.  I understand white employees will have the option of referring to the new holiday as Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Day. 
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/05/12/minneapolis-makes-juneteenth-an-official-city-holiday/

Here’s an interesting article on the 94-year-old women who fought to make Juneteenth a national holiday.
https://variety.com/2021/politics/features/activist-opal-lee-juneteenth-holiday-1234998507/

How about the nonsense word day?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 18, 2021, 03:04:56 PM
The word has been applied to any and all situations. It doesn't mean anything anymore.

It meant, in its original form, that skin color determines capabilities.

Sort of.  The pseudo-scientific racism was loosely based on natural selection and genetics. They believed northern european white men dominated the globe because they and their culture were superior. Skin color coincides.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on June 18, 2021, 11:04:12 PM
The white people had to learn how to stay alive in winter. That's not nothing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 18, 2021, 11:45:51 PM
The white people had to learn how to stay alive in winter. That's not nothing.

The pilgrims.culturally appropriated techniques from Chief Illiniwek's relatives.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 19, 2021, 11:56:18 AM
The pilgrims.culturally appropriated techniques from Chief Illiniwek's relatives.

Speaking of cultural appropriation, I came across a HuffPost  article entitled "Beyond McMindfulness."

This is Tricycle quality material by an actual ordained Zen teacher, though written with a general audience in mind.

I agree with the conclusion. On balance, the mindfulness fad is not a terrible thing.

Still, traditional  Buddhism teaches three kinds of meditative disciplines (cultivation, mindfulness,  and concentration) with two applications (calming and insight).

Secular mindfulness exploits one part, albeit an important and useful part.

 https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3519289/amp
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 21, 2021, 01:55:32 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/WP7OkyV.png)

is this for the umpires?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2021, 02:05:15 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/WP7OkyV.png)

is this for the umpires?

Big Ten should publish rule book in Braille.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 22, 2021, 09:06:26 PM
What a bunch clowns relying on the Chinese Commies....dumb asses.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/they-relied-on-chinese-vaccines-now-theyre-battling-outbreaks/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 22, 2021, 09:38:03 PM
This is something Judge Judy would do even if he wasn't drunk

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/austrian-soldier-imprisoned-for-showing-photos-of-testicle-swastika-tattoo-671688

An Austrian soldier who posted online pictures of a swastika tattoo on one of his testicles was sentenced to 19 months in prison.

***
The soldier said he had been very drunk when he got the tattoo earlier this year, the Kleine Zeitung newspaper reported earlier this month.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on June 22, 2021, 10:13:46 PM
Is Judy embarrassed to post here now? Is it because he no-showed for his ass whoopin'?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on June 23, 2021, 12:46:36 AM
https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 24, 2021, 10:14:54 AM
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cornell-class-explores-whether-the-vast-blackness-of-the-cosmos-is-racist/

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A class taught at Cornell University over the spring semester, “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos,” examined whether the vast blackness of the cosmos and items such as black holes are racist.

“Conventional wisdom would have it that the ‘black’ in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there? Contemporary Black Studies theorists, artists, fiction writers implicitly and explicitly posit just such a connection,” the class description states.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 24, 2021, 10:18:50 AM
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/05/10475330/quarantine-weight-gain-covid-15-problem

try to read this article without laughing
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on June 24, 2021, 11:00:41 AM
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cornell-class-explores-whether-the-vast-blackness-of-the-cosmos-is-racist/

More wasting of time and energy
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 24, 2021, 12:15:45 PM
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cornell-class-explores-whether-the-vast-blackness-of-the-cosmos-is-racist/

Looks like we will have to defer to Neil DeGrasse Tyson on this one
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 26, 2021, 05:30:36 PM
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/26/1010588807/uk-health-minister-resigns-kissing-coronavirus-rules

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LONDON (AP) — U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who has led the country's response to the coronavirus, resigned Saturday, a day after apologizing for breaching social distancing rules with an aide with whom he was allegedly having an affair.

Hancock had been under growing pressure since the tabloid Sun newspaper published images showing him and senior aide Gina Coladangelo kissing in an office at the Department of Health. The Sun said the closed circuit television images were taken May 6 — 11 days before lockdown rules were eased to allow hugs and other physical contact with people outside one's own household.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on June 26, 2021, 10:34:00 PM
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/26/1010588807/uk-health-minister-resigns-kissing-coronavirus-rules

The lockdown tyrants didn’t obey their own rules but you can’t question the plandemic or your a conspiracy theorist !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 28, 2021, 01:48:06 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9731521/National-Archives-task-force-racism-calls-Rotunda-alleged-problematic-paintings.html

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The National Archives anti-racism task force blasted its own headquarters' rotunda for 'structural racism' over paintings it displays which are said to depict the United States' white founding fathers in too positive a light.

According to the 100-page plus report's authors, the rotunda's famed murals depicting scenes such as the sighting of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are insufficiently tempered with depictions of Native Americans being driven off their land by settlers.

‘While these massive paintings are historically significant and loved by many, others find them oppressive and exclusionary,’ the report, overseen by National Archivist David Ferriero reads.

It adds that a possible solution to alleged issue is to either paint new murals or 'to stage dance or performance art in the space that invites dialogue about the ways that the United States has mythologized the founding era.’   

The report says structural racism 'permeates all aspects of work and workplace culture at NARA'.

more clown world at the link... jfc
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 28, 2021, 03:51:11 PM
The "sighting of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution"???
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 28, 2021, 05:18:11 PM
The "sighting of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution"???

proper spelling and grammar is deemed racist now

https://www.theblaze.com/news/professors-say-proper-grammar-is-racist-perpetuates-whiteness

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The virtual event, which took place on June 17, featured April Baker-Bell — an associate professor of language, literacy, and English education at Michigan State University — who stated that standard English usage and teaching perpetuates the idea that "black language" is inferior to standard grammar.

Baker-Bell noted that dangerous teacher attitudes include "assumptions that black students are somehow linguistically, morally, and intellectually inferior because they communicate in black language."

"The way black language is devalued in schools reflects how black lives are devalued in the world," Baker-Bell said, "[and] the anti-black linguistic racism that is used to diminish black language and black students in classrooms is not separate from the rampant and deliberate anti-black racism and violence inflicted upon black people in society."

Also present was Cristina Sánchez-Martín, English professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, who said that she is working hard to undo "whiteness" in her students' writing.

“The repeated references to 'correct grammar' and 'standard language' reinforce master narratives of English only as white and monolingualism and a deficit view of multilingualism," Sánchez-Martín insisted during the symposium.

Speakers also included Dr. Carmen Kynard, Lillian Radford chair in rhetoric and composition and professor of English at Texas Christian University; Dr. Khirsten Scott, an assistant professor of English in the composition program at the University of Pittsburgh and co-founder of Digital Black Life and Culture; and Reverend Dr. Zandra L. Jordan, director of the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking at Stanford University.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 01, 2021, 10:34:55 AM
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/bill-put-feminine-hygiene-products-boys-bathrooms-goes-governor

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A bill awaiting the Illinois governor’s signature would require schools to provide free menstruation products in both girls' and boys' bathrooms for grades 4 through 12.

Currently, Illinois requires tampons to be provided to students who need them, but the supplies are kept in the nurse’s office.

State Rep. Kathleen Willis, D-Addison, a co-sponsor of the proposal, said products such as tampons and sanitary napkins are needed in both girls’ and boys’ bathrooms in order to address the health needs of transgender students.

“If you are biologically a female, but identifying as a male, you’re going to menstruate and you’re going to need these products,” Willis said during floor debate.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 01, 2021, 10:38:14 AM
Yeah, if you know in advance that you're a dude with a vagina, you should probably bring your own maxipads.

I imagine the schools can think of a better way to spend the funds.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 01, 2021, 11:13:24 AM
Yeah, if you know in advance that you're a dude with a vagina, you should probably bring your own maxipads.

I imagine the schools can think of a better way to spend the funds.

Wringing your hands over a couple hundred bucks over entire districts, when the state assembly will probably spend an extra several thousand because some GOP Assemblymembers decide to do performance art complaining about this.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 01, 2021, 11:26:24 AM
Wringing your hands over a couple hundred bucks over entire districts, when the state assembly will probably spend an extra several thousand because some GOP Assemblymembers decide to do performance art complaining about this.

They are all just going to wind up clogging the boys' toilet anyways.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 01, 2021, 11:49:54 AM
Agreed. None of those tampons is destined to absorb menstrual blood.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 01, 2021, 12:04:10 PM
That's what your chin is for, right?

I hear all the kiddos these days eat ass instead of pussy

WTF is up with zoomers?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 01, 2021, 12:14:53 PM
I hear all the kiddos these days eat ass instead of pussy

WTF is up with zoomers?
I didn't know that.
I suppose it could explain some ass backwards thinking.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 06, 2021, 09:57:40 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/29/pride-month-kink-consent/

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Yes, kink belongs at Pride. And I want my kids to see it.
Children need to know that they can make their own ways in the world

Our family often took the train into Philadelphia, but as we rode across the bridge to attend the city’s Pride parade five years ago, my wife’s leg bounced with a nervous jitter. She squeezed my hand, worried that she might run into a colleague or be harassed by a stranger. My wife is trans, and wasn’t out at the time, so she typically only expressed her authenticity in the privacy of our home. That morning she wore a green skirt and light makeup, brushing her hair all to one side. Even though we’d attended Pride marches and protests in previous years, that day was our first celebrating openly as a family.

When our children grew tired of marching, we plopped onto a nearby curb. Just as we got settled, our elementary-schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats, raising an eyebrow at a bare-chested man in dark sunglasses whose black suspenders clipped into a leather thong. The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog. “What are they doing?” my curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on. The pair was the first of a few dozen kinksters who danced down the street, laughing together as they twirled their whips and batons, some leading companions by leashes. At the time, my children were too young to understand the nuance of the situation, but I told them the truth: That these folks were members of our community celebrating who they are and what they like to do.

Ummmm  hold on folks, hot take here but... I'm going to say that bringing a toddler to a pride parade might not be the best idea...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 06, 2021, 10:13:15 AM
Yeah. Forbid them from seeing it. That'll ensure they have no interest.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 06, 2021, 10:32:52 AM
Yeah. Forbid them from seeing it. That'll ensure they have no interest.

toddlers dude

toddlers
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 06, 2021, 10:40:35 AM
Elementary school toddlers?

Oh, right. I almost forgot that you never read the articles you link.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 06, 2021, 10:51:25 AM
Elementary school toddlers?

Oh, right. I almost forgot that you never read the articles you link.

Quote
“What are they doing?” my curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 06, 2021, 11:00:54 AM
He's not talking to the toddler, dumb-dumb.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 06, 2021, 11:21:46 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/29/pride-month-kink-consent/

Ummmm  hold on folks, hot take here but... I'm going to say that bringing a toddler to a pride parade might not be the best idea...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 06, 2021, 11:29:47 AM
The toddler sees funny men in costumes. It's a parade.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 06, 2021, 12:27:16 PM
The toddler sees funny men in costumes. It's a parade.

ok degenerate
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 06, 2021, 01:00:40 PM
Did you get vaccinated?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 14, 2021, 01:10:09 PM
so much to catch up on but here's a good one for starters

https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-cuba-ca1ae7975e04481e8cbd56d62a7fb30e

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Cubans facing the country’s worst economic crisis in decades took to the streets over the weekend. In turn, authorities blocked social media sites in an apparent effort to stop the flow of information into, out of and within the beleaguered nation.

Restricting internet access has become a tried-and-true method of stifling dissent by authoritarian regimes around the world, alongside government-supported disinformation campaigns and propaganda. On the extreme side, regimes like China and North Korea exert tight control over what regular citizens can access online. Elsewhere, service blockages are more limited, often cutting off common social platforms around elections and times of mass protests.

hmmmm
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 14, 2021, 08:37:23 PM
so much to catch up on but here's a good one for starters

https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-cuba-ca1ae7975e04481e8cbd56d62a7fb30e

hmmmm
so much to catch up on but here's a good one for starters

https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-cuba-ca1ae7975e04481e8cbd56d62a7fb30e

hmmmm

It's actually somewhat reassuring that you still don't know the difference between private parties banning people on their platforms and the government doing it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 14, 2021, 11:03:36 PM
The list of things he does know would be far less exhausting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 14, 2021, 11:46:45 PM
It's actually somewhat reassuring that you still don't know the difference between private parties banning people on their platforms and the government doing it.

Private monopolies you mean?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 15, 2021, 12:28:45 AM
Private monopolies you mean?
He was banned from "Twitter and Facebook", a well known monopoly
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 16, 2021, 01:57:29 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/pregnant-man-emoji-shortlist-1610445

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Pregnant Man Emoji to be Rolled Out Across Phones

 :o
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 16, 2021, 02:07:57 PM
It's actually somewhat reassuring that you still don't know the difference between private parties banning people on their platforms and the government doing it.

bruh come on

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/biden-administration-completely-kills

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the Biden administration has admitted that it is giving Facebook a list of accounts to censor for spreading "disinformation" about the Covid-19 response.

"We've increased disinformation research and tracking," Press Secretary Jen Psaki told the press on Thursday. "Within the Surgeon General's Office, we're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation. We're working with doctors and medical professionals to connect medical experts with people, who are popular with their audiences with accurate information and boost trusted content. So, we're helping get trusted content out there."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 16, 2021, 10:37:11 PM
bruh come on

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/biden-administration-completely-kills

Oh brother.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 17, 2021, 12:05:41 AM
This is an actual picture of the actual blogger whom Q97 cited as a source of information from the White House.

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTUE4Ik74BFBfHj7uej3yMKfv-pDOOxuhpMpQ&s)

https://info.scoop.co.nz/Caitlin_Johnstone
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 17, 2021, 10:18:32 AM
This is an actual picture of the actual blogger whom Q97 cited as a source of information from the White House.

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTUE4Ik74BFBfHj7uej3yMKfv-pDOOxuhpMpQ&s)

https://info.scoop.co.nz/Caitlin_Johnstone

She looks like Jeff Tweedy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 20, 2021, 05:24:55 PM
https://www.axios.com/nyu-conservative-claims-tech-bias-disinformation-c637086d-c054-479b-abbf-54c7a526a720.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&utm_term=&utm_content=

Quote
Study calls conservative claims of tech censorship "a form of disinformation"

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/mj-laughing.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 20, 2021, 05:32:47 PM
https://www.axios.com/nyu-conservative-claims-tech-bias-disinformation-c637086d-c054-479b-abbf-54c7a526a720.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&utm_term=&utm_content=

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/mj-laughing.gif)

Remember when the viewpoint was that the marketplace should decide winners and losers and, if you did not like how a business treated its customers, the answer was to start a competing business?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on July 20, 2021, 06:15:30 PM
She looks like Jeff Tweedy.

His memoir is really good. Considering how boring his lyrics are, I was stunned.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 20, 2021, 08:04:29 PM
His memoir is really good. Considering how boring his lyrics are, I was stunned.

Sometimes this pops up when I’m steaming YouTube music videos. Maybe it’s the benefit of hindsight but in my mind Jay is thinking, “WTF is this bullshit we are playing?”

https://youtu.be/Hy3WkIfgkSQ

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 20, 2021, 08:49:48 PM
Sometimes this pops up when I’m steaming YouTube music videos. Maybe it’s the benefit of hindsight but in my mind Jay is thinking, “WTF is this bullshit we are playing?”

https://youtu.be/Hy3WkIfgkSQ

I like steamed YouTube music videos.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 20, 2021, 10:41:25 PM
I like steamed YouTube music videos.

Probably in your rice cooker
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 21, 2021, 09:56:41 AM
I like steamed YouTube music videos.

while you're there you should look up steamed hams

really funny stuff people come up with
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on July 21, 2021, 10:32:25 AM
97 is an elite poster
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 21, 2021, 03:08:47 PM
His memoir is really good. Considering how boring his lyrics are, I was stunned.

I’m having an IPA at O’Hare right now waiting for my flight. Baader-Monhof in full effect now.

(https://i.ibb.co/FVCWmCw/EBD30-B89-AE85-4544-BA99-BCA2-F9-BFF374.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Wtj3Gjy)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 21, 2021, 05:14:33 PM
I’m having an IPA at O’Hare right now waiting for my flight. Baader-Monhof in full effect now.

(https://i.ibb.co/FVCWmCw/EBD30-B89-AE85-4544-BA99-BCA2-F9-BFF374.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Wtj3Gjy)

The Red Army Faction is trying to take over O'Hare?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 23, 2021, 01:32:26 PM
where is the meltdown over The Guardians?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 26, 2021, 02:06:14 PM
posting the breitbart version for the funny picture of boris eating soft serve

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/26/nanny-state-boris-johnson-to-introduce-junk-food-credit-score-app/

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The supposedly Conservative government will launch an app by the end of the year to monitor the supermarket spending habits of families in the UK. Those who choose “healthier” options such as fruits and vegetables or engage in exercise will be rewarded with “loyalty points” in the app, which will translate into discounts and other incentives.

“There is a whole team in Downing Street working on this, and the Prime Minister thinks that we simply cannot go on as before and that we must now tackle it head-on,” a White Hall source told The Telegraph.

“He has been on a very rigorous diet and exercise programme and it is likely he will play a leading role in fronting this whole campaign.”

The outgoing head of the NHS, Lord Stevens said that the UK’s socialised healthcare system will be weighed down in the future if the government failed to tackle the rising obesity in the country.

“The layers of the onion… stretch out to things that are obviously beyond a healthcare system’s direct control, including the obesogenic food environment that children and poorer communities are exposed to.

“Countries, where more than half the population are overweight, have had 10 times more Covid death,” Lord Stevens noted.

Some have criticised the nanny state mentality of the government, likening the programme to the social credit score in China, which tracks the habits of citizens, awarding positive points for buying things like diapers and subtractions for buying alcohol. The communist scheme has also seen tens of millions of citizens barred from travelling because their score was too low.

Political commentator Calvin Robinson wrote in response to the idea of tracking supermarket spending: “The party of small state and privacy has become the party of nanny state interventionism. For shame.

Check out the Black Mirror episode “Nosedive”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 26, 2021, 02:17:26 PM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/antifa-made-me-do-it-726508

Nazi Enthusiast Blames Antifa For Shooting
Man makes "stand your ground" claim over flag theft fusillade
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 26, 2021, 05:52:14 PM
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3354826/woman-waving-trump-flag-crashes-minnesota-state-capitol/

Hopefully this wasn't Mrs. Mn!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 26, 2021, 08:12:51 PM
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3354826/woman-waving-trump-flag-crashes-minnesota-state-capitol/

Hopefully this wasn't Mrs. Mn!
She says it's not her.
Thanks for your concern. Much appreciated.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 27, 2021, 12:06:16 PM
very believable article from the Ministry of Truth

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/564265-new-poll-shows-record-breaking-happiness-in-america

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 27, 2021, 12:55:58 PM
very believable article from the Ministry of Truth

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/564265-new-poll-shows-record-breaking-happiness-in-america

I didn't realize Gallup was part of the government. Do you actually read the articles you link to?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 27, 2021, 01:11:15 PM
its a joke, asshat

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 27, 2021, 01:16:15 PM
its a joke, asshat

No, it wasn't.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 27, 2021, 03:54:55 PM
No, it wasn't.
you're retarded if you believe that I believe that gallup polling or the hill is actually the ministry of truth...

we all know that is going to be the HHS going forward

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019346177/democrats-want-to-hold-social-media-companies-responsible-for-health-misinformat

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 27, 2021, 04:21:15 PM
you're retarded if you believe that I believe that gallup polling or the hill is actually the ministry of truth...

we all know that is going to be the HHS going forward

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019346177/democrats-want-to-hold-social-media-companies-responsible-for-health-misinformat

We all know what you meant based on your other hot takes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 27, 2021, 04:41:12 PM
Q97 should just use the old "Simone Biles Mental Health defense" after he screwed up. At least he is not a quitter like her and is doubling down.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 27, 2021, 06:04:06 PM
will this be better than "Chad"???

(https://i.imgur.com/GpZOszP.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 29, 2021, 11:46:40 AM
hahahaha


https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/default/files/what-we-do/networks/radicalisation_awareness_network/ran-papers/docs/ran_ad-hoc_pap_fre_humor_20210215_en.pdf

oh the irony
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 29, 2021, 12:24:49 PM
https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1420181609815314432
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2021, 01:09:41 PM
https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1420181609815314432

There is a singular grain of truth somewhere in there if you look hard enough.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2021, 01:11:36 PM
hahahaha


https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/default/files/what-we-do/networks/radicalisation_awareness_network/ran-papers/docs/ran_ad-hoc_pap_fre_humor_20210215_en.pdf

oh the irony

There is no way you read this.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on July 29, 2021, 01:27:46 PM
There is no way you read this.

Oh I did, it was a laugh riot
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 02, 2021, 09:18:25 PM
Transgender woman fails to register a snatch. Rachel Axon USA Today.

"Rather than focus on her performance in the +87 kg competition – which finished early when she was not able to register a snatch – Hubbard thanked the Japanese hosts of these Games and the sports organizations who supported her."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 02, 2021, 09:27:16 PM
Transgender woman fails to register a snatch. Rachel Axon USA Today.

"Rather than focus on her performance in the +87 kg competition – which finished early when she was not able to register a snatch – Hubbard thanked the Japanese hosts of these Games and the sports organizations who supported her."

Nice. Liked how the lady was a weight lifter as a male.kid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 02, 2021, 09:41:13 PM
Nice. Liked how the lady was a weight lifter as a male.kid.
I assume the writer is a female, but I may be wrong.
the lady failed "to register a snatch" ?
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Post by: Custard on August 02, 2021, 09:43:01 PM
That’s some funny shit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 11, 2021, 09:59:38 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv2AD_EKExs

 :o
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Post by: fucking on August 13, 2021, 12:17:13 AM
Nobody could have possibly guessed that that lady has a cock. Nobody.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 13, 2021, 02:13:57 PM
(https://i.redd.it/qx5ksyeh45h71.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YNw2SM0.png)
Apparently...
Amazon Lockers are popping up in the middle of Chicago parks. This one is in a 39th ward playground.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 13, 2021, 02:17:10 PM
Nobody could have possibly guessed that that lady has a cock. Nobody.

Um excuse me bigot, not a lady... NON-BINARY

SHEESH
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Post by: murphstahoe on August 13, 2021, 06:20:17 PM
(https://i.redd.it/qx5ksyeh45h71.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YNw2SM0.png)
Apparently...
Amazon Lockers are popping up in the middle of Chicago parks. This one is in a 39th ward playground.

One - how are they getting to put that in public spaces
Two - on the sidewalk? brutal
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Post by: fucking on August 15, 2021, 02:27:45 AM
After some hipster abandons his rent-a-bike there, that sidewalk could be the final death trap for an individual of Unusual Abilities.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 15, 2021, 07:58:55 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/Tw6ZqSM/Screenshot-20210815-080210.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nw9T8vM)

](https://i.ibb.co/6w9k40y/Screenshot-20210815-075002.jpg)[/url]


🤡🤡
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2021, 08:03:50 AM
Good call. Could be one of those guys that has that condition like Joe C., Kid Rock's old sidekick, did.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 15, 2021, 05:22:16 PM
love NBC news's version

(https://i.imgur.com/tOm3SXv.png)
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 18, 2021, 06:46:00 PM
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bmd7/socialist-publication-current-affairs-fires-staff-for-doing-socialism

Of course....
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 19, 2021, 08:52:10 AM

Pete Buttigieg
@PeteButtigieg
·
Aug 17
For some time, Chasten and I have wanted to grow our family. We’re overjoyed to share that we’ve become parents! The process isn’t done yet and we’re thankful for the love, support, and respect for our privacy that has been offered to us. We can’t wait to share more soon.

🤡
A ittle ray of sunshine this past Tuesday.
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 19, 2021, 10:17:26 AM
Pete Buttigieg
@PeteButtigieg
·
Aug 17
For some time, Chasten and I have wanted to grow our family. We’re overjoyed to share that we’ve become parents! The process isn’t done yet and we’re thankful for the love, support, and respect for our privacy that has been offered to us. We can’t wait to share more soon.

🤡
A ittle ray of sunshine this past Tuesday.

Those kids will get plenty of exercise loading Pete's bike into the security team's  Escalade.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 19, 2021, 11:07:39 AM
Those kids will get plenty of exercise loading Pete's bike into the security team's  Escalade.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/UqSRKTUpNfMHp3me35/giphy-downsized-large.gif)
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 19, 2021, 03:24:20 PM
he does have a point

(https://s2.discussions.app/v1/api/upload/file/1629374287395.png)
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 19, 2021, 03:33:56 PM
he does have a point

(https://s2.discussions.app/v1/api/upload/file/1629374287395.png)

Apparently Twitter is his only news source.

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Post by: IlliniGolf on August 19, 2021, 04:35:26 PM
Transgender woman fails to register a snatch. Rachel Axon USA Today.

"Rather than focus on her performance in the +87 kg competition – which finished early when she was not able to register a snatch – Hubbard thanked the Japanese hosts of these Games and the sports organizations who supported her."

The stories write themselves !
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 19, 2021, 09:45:07 PM
Oh my.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1427668138309607424
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 19, 2021, 10:54:51 PM
Thousands died of cringe at that concert
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 19, 2021, 11:55:03 PM
MAGAt Twitter Disparages Democrat.

Film at 11.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 22, 2021, 09:59:57 AM
🤡🤡
(https://i.ibb.co/3fbPrhc/20210822-095811.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gv8cjgJ)

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Post by: ridingthegrange on August 22, 2021, 10:01:27 AM
Glad you're coming back Lee!
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 22, 2021, 11:01:41 AM
🤡🤡
(https://i.ibb.co/3fbPrhc/20210822-095811.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gv8cjgJ)

Titania is a satire account by the way Mn, wouldn't want Rob to go unhinged on you again
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 22, 2021, 12:12:26 PM
Titania is a satire account by the way Mn, wouldn't want Rob to go unhinged on you again
(https://i.ibb.co/GWB984Y/20210822-121051.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9bzh1kK)
Is the issue. Not the tweet.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 23, 2021, 09:55:09 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/GWB984Y/20210822-121051.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9bzh1kK)
Is the issue. Not the tweet.

yes I posted that in the WTF is wrong with the left thread, no comment from the peanut gallery though of course... LOL
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 23, 2021, 10:24:26 AM
yes I posted that in the WTF is wrong with the left thread, no comment from the peanut gallery though of course... LOL
Got it.
I ain't going past their paywall, so I may not have seen the headline. And nobody reads past the headline anyway, so ...
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 23, 2021, 10:37:49 AM
Except for Murph, why do we care about Larry Elder or the CA recall election?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 23, 2021, 10:43:38 AM
https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-california-police-chased-nonexistent-100001124.html
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 23, 2021, 11:27:36 AM
I was in Sacramento yesterday... holy crap what a dump!

You'd think the state capital of glorious California would be a lot nicer!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 23, 2021, 11:49:04 AM
He's not very well informed.
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Post by: Reacher on August 23, 2021, 11:50:36 AM
I was in Sacramento yesterday... holy crap what a dump!

You'd think the state capital of glorious California would be a lot nicer!

It’s basically the Rockford of California.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 23, 2021, 12:15:16 PM
It’s basically the Rockford of California.

Ouch. Who is their IlliniHimey?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 23, 2021, 12:19:18 PM
It’s basically the Rockford of California.

Fresno is going down without a fight!
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Post by: Custard on August 23, 2021, 12:19:31 PM
Ouch. Who is their IlliniHimey?

That’s fantastic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 23, 2021, 01:00:53 PM
I had an "aunt and uncle" who retired to Fresno. Their backyard went on for days.



*Actually a childless colleague of my dad's
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Post by: Chickengeorge on August 23, 2021, 01:10:53 PM
I had an "aunt and uncle" who retired to Fresno. Their backyard went on for days.



*Actually a childless colleague of my dad's

So, a pederast?
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Post by: murphstahoe on August 23, 2021, 01:31:13 PM
I was in Sacramento yesterday... holy crap what a dump!

You'd think the state capital of glorious California would be a lot nicer!

Nope, too many Republicans.

At least you are not in the 800+ AQI. Replace your return air filter when you get home
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Post by: murphstahoe on August 23, 2021, 02:01:30 PM
https://www.gotahoenorth.com/webcams/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 23, 2021, 02:05:43 PM
So, a pederast?

https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/67/3/497/147772/Charles-E-Nowell-1904-1984
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 23, 2021, 02:43:36 PM
You just now discovered this?

It's well known that Sacramento is a shithole.  Why is that a surprise to you?

I like to see things with my own lying eyes
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 23, 2021, 02:45:06 PM
 !!!!!!
Fresno is going down without a fight!

Fresno is even worse, especially with the high speed rail monstrosity looming over the city

The entire valley is a disgusting wasteland to be honest
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 23, 2021, 03:51:57 PM
There's an Oregon Public Radio producer on MSNBC right now. He has an ox ring in his nose.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 23, 2021, 04:41:59 PM
!!!!!!
Fresno is even worse, especially with the high speed rail monstrosity looming over the city

The entire valley is a disgusting wasteland to be honest
The ... Carson Valley I presume?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 23, 2021, 05:36:01 PM
You're kidding, of course.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley
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Post by: murphstahoe on August 23, 2021, 06:06:16 PM
You're kidding, of course.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley

It's easy to confuse them at first given they both produce copious amounts of meth, but you can grow produce in the Central Valley
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Post by: murphstahoe on August 23, 2021, 06:08:20 PM
!!!!!!
Fresno is even worse, especially with the high speed rail monstrosity looming over the city

The entire valley is a disgusting wasteland to be honest

The funny thing here is that Q here says "that place is a disgusting wasteland" - and it's a place that is represented by his freedom heroes Devin Nunes and Kevin McCarthy. Coincidence?
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 23, 2021, 08:23:42 PM
The funny thing here is that Q here says "that place is a disgusting wasteland" - and it's a place that is represented by his freedom heroes Devin Nunes and Kevin McCarthy. Coincidence?

Who?  Seriously, I don't really follow politics
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 23, 2021, 08:24:25 PM
Who?  Seriously, I don't really follow politics

Now that's good comedy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 23, 2021, 09:06:22 PM
Now that's good comedy.

Really I don't

I am not on the internet much at all lately and I never watch TV

Lots of projects going on in my life right now as well so not a whole lot of time, I come on here once in a while and hear about something if its important lol
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 23, 2021, 09:13:11 PM
Really I don't

I am not on the internet much at all lately and I never watch TV

Lots of projects going on in my life right now as well so not a whole lot of time, I come on here once in a while and hear about something if its important lol

Well, it appears you limit your internet time to here and conspiracy websites.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 23, 2021, 10:58:54 PM
Well, it appears you limit your internet time to here and conspiracy websites.

my friends send me that crap lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 23, 2021, 11:33:16 PM
Well, it appears you limit your internet time to here and conspiracy websites.
he's given up the old school internet and just uses his phone for grindr
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 24, 2021, 02:24:58 AM
you can grow produce in the Central Valley
I explained this point to Jess Settles once.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on August 25, 2021, 08:33:51 AM
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/baby-on-nirvanas-nevermind-cover-sues-band-for-child-pornography/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 25, 2021, 08:51:47 AM
I explained this point to Jess Settles once.

I’d like to hear about this conversation in detail.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 25, 2021, 09:46:01 AM
Jess is one of my favorite people from the beat. He's extremely earnest.

Heather and I were having lunch with him at the B1G media day in October 2019. One of us must have said something about California, because he asked, quite ingenuously, "why would you go there?"

I told him about the amazing farms one sees while driving through the middle. Like, artichokes and shit.

I think he might believe that Iowa
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on August 25, 2021, 09:47:01 AM
... is perfect, and there's no reason to go anywhere else.

He's a farmer, you know.
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Post by: ridingthegrange on August 25, 2021, 01:17:41 PM
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/08/24/mesa-county-election-tina-peters-dominion/

On the Lam with Lindell!
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Post by: murphstahoe on August 25, 2021, 03:08:31 PM
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/08/24/mesa-county-election-tina-peters-dominion/

On the Lam with Lindell!
the western slope. Quite a place. They don't have a pot to piss in but they'll claim they are sending pots to Denver
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Post by: Custard on August 25, 2021, 03:34:23 PM
... is perfect, and there's no reason to go anywhere else.

He's a farmer, you know.

Iowans are particularly fond of Iowa.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 25, 2021, 04:12:36 PM
Iowans are particularly fond of Iowa.
Iowans and 3rd tier presidential candidates
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 25, 2021, 10:54:02 PM
Although I got the point, I expected a lot more out of this article than an anecdote and some Jerry Seinfeld bit.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/how-emotionally-intelligent-people-build-better-relationships-develop-trust-employees-family-friends.html

Maybe the fault of the headline writer.

Reminded me of my mom, and the wife, always trying to create some holiday tradition, instead of just letting it happen organically, and having it blow up when a shithead kid (either me or my kids) basically says "What the fuck is this bullshit?" And of course they all get pissed off about it. That's how you get a tradition of me making White Castle Stuffing every year.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 25, 2021, 11:18:36 PM
Never underestimate the willingness of Republicans to overlook being absolutely horrific about everything; but I gotta believe DeSantis’ stock has to be dropping.
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 25, 2021, 11:20:25 PM
Never underestimate the willingness of Republicans to overlook being absolutely horrific about everything; but I gotta believe DeSantis’ stock has to be dropping.

Q97 expects you to link to something in Clown World posts.
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Post by: Reacher on August 25, 2021, 11:22:18 PM
Wrong thread. My bad. Desantis sucks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 02, 2021, 10:34:00 AM
https://jalopnik.com/ford-created-a-rainbow-very-gay-ranger-raptor-in-respon-1847593582

yeah clearly the proper response to dumb internet comments
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on September 02, 2021, 10:51:30 AM
Wrong thread. My bad. Desantis sucks.

DeSantis kept the economy going while other governors were killing businesses and the death rates aren’t even much different than lockdown states

Florida: Love it or leave it
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Post by: fucking on September 02, 2021, 11:15:19 AM
Especially if you don't count them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 02, 2021, 08:21:46 PM
(https://i.redd.it/anxws0sm85l71.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 03, 2021, 10:52:35 AM
https://www.dailysabah.com/world/asia-pacific/china-will-be-our-main-partner-help-rebuild-afghanistan-taliban

Quote
China will be the Taliban's "main partner" and will help rebuild Afghanistan, according to a spokesperson for the group.

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Post by: fucking on September 03, 2021, 12:02:12 PM
You idiot.

"Daily Sabah is a mouthpiece of the AKP, and more so a cheerleader for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the current president of Turkey, and an advocate of Islamism."

https://wpd.wiki/wiki/en/Daily_Sabah
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Post by: ILLove1997 on September 03, 2021, 12:12:20 PM
You idiot.

"Daily Sabah is a mouthpiece of the AKP, and more so a cheerleader for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the current president of Turkey, and an advocate of Islamism."

https://wpd.wiki/wiki/en/Daily_Sabah

strange that was the first of many articles to pop up then isn't it?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=china+going+to+rebuild+afghanistan&tbm=nws&source=univ&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSzPmqpuPyAhVYGjQIHa2SATkQt8YBegQIFRAG&biw=2007&bih=1216
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 03, 2021, 12:40:03 PM
You don't understand how any of this stuff works.

I didn't pose that sentence as a question because you don't know that you don't know how any of this stuff works.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 03, 2021, 07:54:28 PM
Doesn't that just mean you regularly patronize and search propaganda website dressed as news sites and the Google is giving you what you want?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illinicalvin on September 04, 2021, 03:54:54 PM
strange that was the first of many articles to pop up then isn't it?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=china+going+to+rebuild+afghanistan&tbm=nws&source=univ&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSzPmqpuPyAhVYGjQIHa2SATkQt8YBegQIFRAG&biw=2007&bih=1216
Basically tells you who else is Googling to seek connections between China and Afghanistan and who wants a piece of that audience.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 04, 2021, 04:00:05 PM
Basically tells you who else is Googling to seek connections between China and Afghanistan and who wants a piece of that audience.
Correct.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 04, 2021, 04:07:51 PM
"China role in Afghanistan to face organised crime cartels, rampant corruption

With the departure of the US and its allies there is speculation China can step in to help rebuild the war-torn country

Chinese investors are likely to run into the same corruption problems as their American predecessors"

scmp.com
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Post by: alum74 on September 04, 2021, 05:55:37 PM
The graveyard of empires calls to China.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 08, 2021, 05:33:11 PM
https://abc7.com/politics/larry-elders-venice-event-cut-short-due-to-angry-crowd/11009110/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 08, 2021, 05:42:05 PM
Journalism for those who only read headlines.
"When Elder arrived in Venice to tour a homeless encampment ... An egg was thrown at Elder as the crowd grew, shouting at the conservative radio talk show host."

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 08, 2021, 06:06:20 PM
The graveyard of empires calls to China.

According to the right wing, the CCP is licking their chops at the prospect. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 08, 2021, 06:17:29 PM
The right wing is outraged that we left people behind in Afghanistan. They are also outraged that the people we evacuated were not properly vetted.

The right wing is outraged that Obama traded 5 Taliban for Bergdhal. No mention that Trump released 5,000 Taliban / ISIS-K prisoners.

The right is outraged that Biden negotiated with the Taliban. They seem to have amnesia about what happened in  February 2020.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 08, 2021, 06:24:43 PM
It's when they berate/praise the exact same policy that one begins to think they aren't serious policy wonks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 08, 2021, 07:11:48 PM
https://abc7.com/politics/larry-elders-venice-event-cut-short-due-to-angry-crowd/11009110/

those folks seem quite mentally stable

reminds me of some antifa I've seen footage of
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 08, 2021, 09:21:43 PM
those folks seem quite mentally stable

reminds me of some antifa I've seen footage of

It was a homeless encampment, not a peaceful January 6th rally.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 14, 2021, 09:53:19 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/larry-elder-covid-newsom-recall/index.html

I laughed numerous times reading this pile of garbage article
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 14, 2021, 10:02:25 AM
https://twitter.com/lanikaps/status/1437563360032210945

only $30k a ticket to get in, LOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 14, 2021, 10:41:50 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/larry-elder-covid-newsom-recall/index.html

I laughed numerous times reading this pile of garbage article

Not following it closely or even superficially. This article is the most I've seen on the subject, and I read maybe 2/3. What is the issue with the article?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 14, 2021, 10:43:04 AM
https://twitter.com/lanikaps/status/1437563360032210945

only $30k a ticket to get in, LOL

Yeah, she is something special.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 14, 2021, 05:43:43 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-nicki-minaj-swollen-testicles-tweet-covid-vaccine-20210914-6m3b6ipnzrfxjlyeknrsvs6ccq-story.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 14, 2021, 06:32:48 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-nicki-minaj-swollen-testicles-tweet-covid-vaccine-20210914-6m3b6ipnzrfxjlyeknrsvs6ccq-story.html

fake news still funny though
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 19, 2021, 07:46:49 AM
Protesters at yesterday's DC rally in their govt issued sunglasses, black socks and camo clothing.

(https://i.ibb.co/QMTzLhs/Screenshot-20210919-073656.jpg) (https://ibb.co/tDvkgny)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 19, 2021, 08:46:09 AM
Protesters at yesterday's DC rally in their govt issued sunglasses, black socks and camo clothing.

(https://i.ibb.co/QMTzLhs/Screenshot-20210919-073656.jpg) (https://ibb.co/tDvkgny)

Tell me you’re a police officer without telling me you’re a police officer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 19, 2021, 09:56:02 AM
Protesters at yesterday's DC rally in their govt issued sunglasses, black socks and camo clothing.

(https://i.ibb.co/QMTzLhs/Screenshot-20210919-073656.jpg) (https://ibb.co/tDvkgny)

Heard the only person that got arrested yesterday was an undercover FBI agent lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 20, 2021, 01:22:16 PM
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/walmart-worker-resigns-over-store-loudspeakers-f-k-this-job

Walmart worker resigns over store loudspeakers: ‘F–k this job’
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on September 20, 2021, 01:30:19 PM
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/walmart-worker-resigns-over-store-loudspeakers-f-k-this-job

Walmart worker resigns over store loudspeakers: ‘F–k this job’

No one should ever shop at that shithole and shame on you if any of you do
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 20, 2021, 01:32:52 PM
No one should ever shop at that shithole and shame on you if any of you do

I thought their big thing was selling American made stuff there. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 20, 2021, 02:14:14 PM
I thought their big thing was selling American made stuff there.

that was a long time ago IIRC, walmart is just like amazon selling shitloads of Chinese junk
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on September 20, 2021, 02:34:46 PM
that was a long time ago IIRC, walmart is just like amazon selling shitloads of Chinese junk

"Give 'em what they want."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 20, 2021, 08:27:43 PM
No one should ever shop at that shithole and shame on you if any of you do
They have good prices on Royal Oak hardwood lump and hardwood briquets.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2021, 09:32:10 PM
They have good prices on Royal Oak hardwood lump and hardwood briquets.

So does everyone else bro
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 20, 2021, 09:36:53 PM
So does everyone else bro
I don't see many places that carry it tho. But I'm not a shopper.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2021, 10:23:39 PM
Do you have Gordon Food Service?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 20, 2021, 10:26:24 PM
I don't see many places that carry it tho. But I'm not a shopper.

support your local hardware store
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 21, 2021, 01:01:40 AM
Next up, Mn offers recommendations for his favorite ice boxes & turntables.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 21, 2021, 06:26:35 AM
Do you have Gordon Food Service?
Nope.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 21, 2021, 06:30:25 AM
support your local hardware store
I would if I wanted Kingsford or something shitty.
I do try to support local business, and to keep my tax dollars at home.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 23, 2021, 09:56:44 AM
Shut up and eat the bugs, bigot!  I mean, Dog!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/09/21/pet-food-sustainable-bugs-insects/

Quote
Pets can help fight climate change with an insect-based diet. Owners just need to come around to the idea.

yeah... no
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 23, 2021, 01:45:35 PM
You have no idea what's in your dog's food, dummy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 23, 2021, 01:47:08 PM
My dog loved eating the cicadas as long as they were barely alive.  If they were dead, no way. Had to have a little buzz left in their wings before she would chow down.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on September 23, 2021, 02:33:09 PM
My dog loved eating the cicadas as long as they were barely alive.  If they were dead, no way.
Evolutionary behavior is cool.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on September 23, 2021, 02:54:33 PM
Stoopid corporations...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/12/more-pets-eating-insect-food-to-fight-climate-change-for-owners.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 24, 2021, 06:55:19 AM

When I was a kid, me and my dipshit friends caught a cicada and tied a string around it and flew it like a kite.  That was fun.  I'm sure the cicada didn't see the humor in it, tho.

Lol.
Step one is the apology.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 24, 2021, 07:00:55 AM
Lol.
Step one is the apology.

WERE! Or ANY! Whatever that acronym he and JudgeJudy are pushing....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 27, 2021, 12:30:44 PM
“I know that when you are a dimwit, with no skill or talent or significant accomplishments, living off your father’s name and fame and fortune, you’ve got to draw attention to yourself. If you want to have a conversation about Covid and obesity, you could have had it last October, when your elderly, obese father had it. So it is a legitimate conversation to have, and fortunately for you, you have got somebody in your family who you can call and discuss it with. Because imagine having a father whose butt is the size of a studio apartment in New Jersey, you got the gall to pick on me?”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 03, 2021, 07:18:46 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/black-woman-masquerading-klu-klux-klan-member-terrorized-neighbors-faces-charges-1635059
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 03, 2021, 06:29:05 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/black-woman-masquerading-klu-klux-klan-member-terrorized-neighbors-faces-charges-1635059

seeming like these types of race hate hoaxes is a fairly common occurence these days
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 03, 2021, 07:07:11 PM
seeming like these types of race hate hoaxes is a fairly common occurence these days

It seems to be a pandemic with the Bugaloo BLM guy!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 05, 2021, 11:44:53 AM
Mn, what the heck is going on up there?

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/10/05/proctor-teens-say-students-used-item-to-sodomize-teammate-shared-video-online-2/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 06, 2021, 05:35:48 PM
IlliniGolf???

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/battery/get-off-my-lawn-arrest-275936

After demanding that an interloper get off his sprawling lawn, a 90-year-old Florida Man twice punched a neighbor in the face, according to cops who arrested the rowdy nonagenarian for battery and resisting arrest.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 06, 2021, 09:23:14 PM
Probably fucking with his Trump - DeSantis 2024 signage
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 06, 2021, 10:01:04 PM
If this Bielema experiment doesn't work out, Urban Meyer might be available
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 07, 2021, 10:50:23 AM
Evolutionary behavior is cool.

reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXYL9OUaKs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on October 07, 2021, 10:56:43 AM
reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXYL9OUaKs

An actual LOL.  Funny shit there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 13, 2021, 01:51:42 PM
Not sure I have ever heard one of this guy's songs, is he the Red Solo Cup guy?, but here he is going after Q97, apparently while in Reno....

https://www.al.com/life/2021/10/watch-tim-mcgraw-jump-off-stage-to-confront-heckler.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 13, 2021, 02:08:01 PM
Not sure I have ever heard one of this guy's songs, is he the Red Solo Cup guy?, but here he is going after Q97, apparently while in Reno....

https://www.al.com/life/2021/10/watch-tim-mcgraw-jump-off-stage-to-confront-heckler.html

only an idiot would forget the words to his (allegedly) own songs!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 17, 2021, 11:47:57 PM
Hilarious that people are pissed about this.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/17/europe/spanish-female-writer-revealed-intl-scli/index.html

Lauded Spanish female crime writer revealed to be three men
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 18, 2021, 11:27:15 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/Hm256kJ.png)

lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 25, 2021, 10:27:30 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIupv90eMGY
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 10:04:55 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-hiker-got-lost-in-colorado-then-ignored-rescuers-calls-because-they-came-from-an-unknown-number/ar-AAPXOp8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 26, 2021, 10:53:12 AM
He probably thought it was about a car warranty.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 26, 2021, 10:56:41 AM
He probably thought it was about a car warranty.

those motherfuckers drive me nuts!  I get like 3 calls a day even though I block every one, futile effort I know
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 11:02:15 AM
those motherfuckers drive me nuts!  I get like 3 calls a day even though I block every one, futile effort I know
Your Porsche out of warranty already ? What did you get, 1 month ?
They just dont make things like they used to.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on October 26, 2021, 11:20:09 AM
those motherfuckers drive me nuts!  I get like 3 calls a day even though I block every one, futile effort I know

This week I started getting facetime calls with 25 other numbers on the same call - same area code and prefix. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 11:35:44 AM
This week I started getting facetime calls with 25 other numbers on the same call - same area code and prefix.

Just show your ass during the call.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 12:30:25 PM
Why are teams from states with Jim Crow 2 laws allowed to play in the World Series ?
Why aren't Atlanta home games being moved to Denver ?
Where should Houston home games be moved to ? Minneapolis ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 26, 2021, 12:32:44 PM
those motherfuckers drive me nuts!  I get like 3 calls a day even though I block every one, futile effort I know
I figured I'd let them get all into it and try to sell me a warranty then tell them my vehicle was a Trek Bicycle.
While satisfying for a moment, it didn't stop the spam calls
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 01:23:53 PM
Why are teams from states with Jim Crow 2 laws allowed to play in the World Series ?
Why aren't Atlanta home games being moved to Denver ?
Where should Houston home games be moved to ? Minneapolis ?

No one will be paying attention to care anyways besides older guys like you and me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 01:38:15 PM
No one will be paying attention to care anyways besides older guys like you and me.
Maybe the minority business owners around the ballyard in Atlanta should double their prices to make up for lost revenue, or put a catchy name on an "added charge".
Some people may raise a stink tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on October 26, 2021, 01:42:54 PM
Why are teams from states with Jim Crow 2 laws allowed to play in the World Series ?
Why aren't Atlanta home games being moved to Denver ?
Where should Houston home games be moved to ? Minneapolis ?

It's the only way to get sell-outs.  $$$
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 26, 2021, 01:49:49 PM
No one will be paying attention to care anyways besides older guys like you and me.

I fucking hate that politics have been injected into nearly every sport, its such a turn off!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 01:50:32 PM
It's the only way to get sell-outs.  $$$
The minority business owners know all about sell-outs. They're the ones who moved the All Star game.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 02:03:16 PM
I fucking hate that politics have been injected into nearly every sport, its such a turn off!

Shut up and dribble, amirite?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 26, 2021, 02:09:29 PM
Shut up and dribble, amirite?

there's many available channels for 24/7  politics if that's your thing

I enjoyed (or used to) enjoy watching sports because it was sports and nothing else, just the game and some shitty commercials

sorry that's too complicated for you to comprehend
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 26, 2021, 02:53:39 PM
Maybe the minority business owners around the ballyard in Atlanta should double their prices to make up for lost revenue, or put a catchy name on an "added charge".
Some people may raise a stink tho.

Still losing your mind over the All-Star Game.  The Braves bolted the City of Atlanta for Cobb County in 2017.  I heard that the minority business owners around the old ballpark doubled their prices to make up for the lost revenue.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 26, 2021, 03:13:45 PM
there's many available channels for 24/7  politics if that's your thing

I enjoyed (or used to) enjoy watching sports because it was sports and nothing else, just the game and some shitty commercials

sorry that's too complicated for you to comprehend
But was ILLove1997 AOTC on the NVDA trade?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 26, 2021, 03:18:35 PM
there's many available channels for 24/7  politics if that's your thing

I enjoyed (or used to) enjoy watching sports because it was sports and nothing else, just the game and some shitty commercials

sorry that's too complicated for you to comprehend

Yeah, I'm honked off that I can't bring a confederate flag to the NASCAR races anymore. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 03:48:33 PM
I’m honked off that athletes don’t just shut up and dribble. How dare they have opinions and things they care about other than sports. Entertain me, bitch.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 04:39:13 PM
I’m honked off that athletes don’t just shut up and dribble. How dare they have opinions and things they care about other than sports. Entertain me, bitch.

Not being an asshole or facetious at all, but honestly and genuinely wanting to know your opinion of what Enes Kanter is doing in the NBA speaking out.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 26, 2021, 05:02:11 PM
https://twitter.com/Nuevocentos/status/1452618320843141120?s=20
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 05:13:44 PM
Hey Custard, how do you feel about basically giving this board to Tempo?

I think it sucks.

That clip was funny though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 05:19:09 PM
Hey Custard, how do you feel about basically giving this board to Tempo?

I think it sucks.
Imo, don't rag on Custard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 05:19:54 PM
It was.  But what do you have against UHaul trucks? Why do you think it's funny for a guy driving a UHaul to run into something? Yeah, like you've never gotten into an accident.

Real funny.  Maybe you need to think about what you laugh at.  Maybe a woman was driving that truck.  Did you ever think of that, you insensitive son of a bitch? Are you making fun of women now? I think you're making fun of women.

Classy.  PA man is making fun of women.  What a piece of shit.

You know, you still have it when you focus properly.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 05:20:10 PM
It was.  But what do you have against UHaul trucks? Why do you think it's funny for a guy driving a UHaul to run into something? Yeah, like you've never gotten into an accident.

Real funny.  Maybe you need to think about what you laugh at.  Maybe a woman was driving that truck.  Did you ever think of that, you insensitive son of a bitch? Are you making fun of women now? I think you're making fun of women.

Classy.  PA man is making fun of women.  What a piece of shit.
Did you drop the family pumpkin too ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 05:22:09 PM
I've done that.  Everyone else here supports him, so fuck it.

Now I'm starting to wonder if Jobu = Tempo = Wayne = NoTempo is a match.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 05:23:16 PM
I haven't changed.

Let's not get our head out over our skis here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 26, 2021, 05:27:07 PM
I’m honked off that athletes don’t just shut up and dribble. How dare they have opinions and things they care about other than sports. Entertain me, bitch.
Justin Fields is very good at dribbling the ball onto the ground
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 05:35:51 PM
It's his board.  Who the fuck else should I rag on? Tempo?

I've done that.  Everyone else here supports him, so fuck it.

It's his board now, Mn.  Enjoy him calling you names and being a prick to you.  Because it's supported.
I think I'll be able to remember the 4th quarter and OTs in the PSU game.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 05:37:54 PM
Let's not get our head out over our skis here.
Anyone who can come back from the dead should be able to handle being out over the skiis.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 05:47:32 PM
So is Jobu posting? I’m guessing he has me blocked? What a snowflake.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 05:48:26 PM
Now I'm starting to wonder if Jobu = Tempo = Wayne = NoTempo is a match.

I would never create a character as pointless as Jobu.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 06:02:52 PM
Justin Fields is very good at dribbling the ball onto the ground

He’s also been very good at getting no help from his teammates or coaching staff.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 06:04:48 PM
Custard didn’t “give me the board,” Jobu did. Right before he left/died for the 8th time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 26, 2021, 06:26:54 PM
I’m honked off that athletes don’t just shut up and dribble. How dare they have opinions and things they care about other than sports. Entertain me, bitch.

well I for one don't give a flying fuck about some (for the most part uneducated) athlete's take on world affairs and thats not what I'm tuning in to do

you can have fun with ESPNTMZ but I choose not to bother wasting my precious bandwidth on what some fuckin idiot I've never met has to say about literally any political manner
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 06:59:44 PM
It was never mine. I never claimed it.

It’s yours. Custard is paying for it, but it’s all yours. A humorless, dark piece of shit.

Enjoy.


Dramatic much?

Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on October 26, 2021, 07:01:02 PM
You got played, bro. I don't recall rescinding your moderatorship.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:01:19 PM
And, just so you fuckers are aware, I deleted all of my shit because I don’t feel like you’re entitled to it. Not as long as this is Tempo’s board.

He gets to run it while Custard pays for it. What a fucking deal.

What a god damn shame, what all of you fuckers let this become. No more jokes. No more fun.

Enjoy.

Lololololololol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:01:56 PM
We are not entitled to the wonder that is Jobu. Rob is envious of your arrogance.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:03:51 PM
Nope. Look at what has happened here in the last 24 hours. And tell me it isn’t garbage.

Generated solely by you.

I’m out. This is stupid. Again, fuckers. Enjoy Tempo’s awful message board.

Are you trying to set the record for most times quit in 72 hours?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:04:48 PM
You’ve already set the record for most times reincarnated.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:05:31 PM
Man, this place has really gone downhill since Jobu left. Just ask him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 07:07:43 PM
Man, this place has really gone downhill since Jobu left. Just ask him.

I did ask you about Enes Kanter to no reply. I’m trying to get this board back on fucking course.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:08:11 PM
I did ask you about Enes Kanter to no reply. I’m trying to get this board back on fucking course.

I don’t even know who that is.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 07:09:54 PM
I don’t even know who that is.

You mean Bernstein hasn’t commented?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 07:10:53 PM
He’s actually a pretty big NBA star.

Amazing. Can’t believe you’ve never heard of him. Lol

It doesn’t fit the narrative
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:12:23 PM
You mean Bernstein hasn’t commented?!

I don’t know. I actually don’t catch a lot of their show. I catch more of Laurence Holmes and Parkins/Spiegel. Some days, I miss Bernstein’s show completely. Fairly often probably.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:13:16 PM
Not being an asshole or facetious at all, but honestly and genuinely wanting to know your opinion of what Enes Kanter is doing in the NBA speaking out.

After the one article I just googled, I love it. I love it a lot.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:15:52 PM
I’d venture to say Enes Kanter is my new favorite NBA player; and 10 minutes ago, I didn’t know who he was.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:18:10 PM
How’s therapy going? Not well, apparently.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:20:46 PM
He’s actually a pretty big NBA star.

Amazing. Can’t believe you’ve never heard of him. Lol

I’ve barely even watched any Bulls games in years, let alone the rest of the NBA. I watch NBA about as often as I watch hockey; which is pretty much never.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:21:24 PM
If I watch the NBA, I’m usually turning the channel within 5 minutes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 07:21:40 PM
I’d venture to say Enes Kanter is my new favorite NBA player; and 10 minutes ago, I didn’t know who he was.

He’s got a few posts on Twitter regarding China and Nike. He isn’t scared of anything and speaks his mind.
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Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:22:41 PM
He’s got a few posts on Twitter regarding China and Nike. He isn’t scared of anything and speaks his mind.

I see, I LOVE it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:23:10 PM
I watch so little NBA, I’ll bet I’ve seen less than 100 minutes of LeBron’s career.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:23:48 PM
Ok, that might a stretch, but not by a lot.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 07:24:50 PM
I watch so little NBA, I’ll bet I’ve seen less than 100 minutes of LeBron’s career.

I don’t watch NBA really at all either. I just started watching some Bull’s games this year just for Ayo.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:26:17 PM
I’m giving some consideration to watching the Bulls this year. My best friend is a big NBA guy and is all over me about it (although he’s a Spurs fan). He’s been “telling me” the Bulls are going to be good. I try telling him “I don’t really care.” But he seems to want me to.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:27:51 PM
When it comes to sports, I’m down to NFL, Illini basketball, and golf. That’s about it.

I did watch a lot of the White Sox this year. More than I’ve watched probably since Thomas/Ventura we’re on the team.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:30:03 PM
I tune into the very occasional Illini football game. If the opponent intrigues me. For whatever reason, I was intrigued by Penn St this past week. Watched basically the entirety of that game except the overtimes (promised the family I’d take them to a pumpkin patch). Had to finish the Illini game on the radio and via texts with my best friend.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:30:53 PM
Jesus. I can’t believe Tempo the great had never heard of Enes Kanter.

I’m sure your therapist has heard of me, though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 07:31:55 PM
When it comes to sports, I’m down to NFL, Illini basketball, and golf. That’s about it.

I did watch a lot of the White Sox this year. More than I’ve watched probably since Thomas/Ventura we’re on the team.

I’m Bears, Illini football and basketball, and St. Louis Cardinals. Not really anything else.

Am a fan of golf when Tiger or Dustin Johnson play, but otherwise, nah.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:32:54 PM
It’s Tempos board everyone! All you other fuckers are just living in it.

Enjoy.

Custard, remember to pay the bill so Tempo can keep trashing you.

If there’s one thing I’ll say for Custard, he’s not a content/moderation Nazi. And can take a jab. Unlike the soft little Jobu.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:36:51 PM
Well, that makes no sense.

This is the humor you’re in for now, at TempoHQ!  Enjoy, fuckers.

I’m so far into your head, this is starting to remind me of the movie Scanners.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:37:41 PM
A jab. Lol, ok.

Calling him a sexual predator is a jab. Good to know, temp.

Whatever. TempoHQ.

Well, posting semi-nudes of his latest conquests is pretty creepy. He can ban me if he wants. I’ll get over it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 07:39:22 PM

 TempoHQ.

That's funny. And you said this place is humorless.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:42:10 PM
That doesn’t even make sense. Lol

Just stay away from my peanut butter, ok.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 07:46:14 PM
WTF, Jobu? You deleted all of Wayne's threads? I had a good joke in one of those.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 07:47:20 PM
And none of the other pussies here will stand up to you. I’m tired of being the only one.

Enjoy Tempo’s board, pussies.

Oh brother.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 07:49:57 PM
Yep. Sure did.

Sorry. Come up with your own shit. I’m tired of it.

It’s Tempos board. Make sure you get his ok first.

I did come up with the joke in one of those threads.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:51:11 PM
He’s “standing up to me” by crying and leaving constantly. *Jobu logic*
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:52:21 PM
I don’t think it’s creepy at all.

That would seem to say a lot about you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 07:52:39 PM
I know you’ve been going back and forth about the Bernstein crap. Whatever.

I’ve been on an island this whole fucking time. I’m tired of it. He wore me out. I’m done.

Keep stirring the soup.

Hard to believe there was never a section named Tempo v. Jobu.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 07:53:42 PM
Which one? I forgot. Sorry

Don't worry about it. Was hoping to get a laugh out of you,  but what is done, is done.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:54:16 PM
Hard to believe there was never a section named Tempo v. Jobu.

It’s really only escalated somewhat recently.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:55:57 PM
Plus, Spark and I just argued about actual stuff. Almost entirely sports related. Jobu and I mostly just argue about his mental state.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 07:57:38 PM
Which “Wayne” threads were deleted?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:00:39 PM
Posting semi-nudes of the women you’re banging without their knowledge isn’t creepy? Ok.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:02:35 PM
Ok.

See, this is what I’m talking about. I say I don’t think it’s creepy. I’m pretty confident most others agree with me. Tempo says “That seems to say a lot about you.”  And none of you fuckers will stand up for me.

Fuck it. Tempos board. God damn assholes. Every one of you.

If Jobu had been a dictator, he’d have been a ruthless one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:04:41 PM
Pretty sure those pics were on Instagram. And how do you know they were posted without their knowledge? Was that said?

Doesn’t matter. If you said it in here it’s true. It’s your board.

I’ll bet the thing side boob one wasn’t. And even if they were, are you one of her Instagram followers?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:06:18 PM
Sorry, but post-bragging with pics about the latest woman you’re banging IS creepy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:07:02 PM
Now you’re just saying random shit. Lol.

Enjoy your board. Make sure everyone stays miserable. It’s what you’re good at.

When you leavin’? Anytime soon? Doesn’t seem like it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:13:28 PM
I’m not the board police. Custard can post whatever he wants. And until I’m banned, I can say what I want. That’s how this works.

And I’m sure he said, “hey babe, mind if I brag to the guys on HQ that I’m banging you, and show some semi-nudes?”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:14:02 PM
Yep. Leaving now. Fuck it. Later.

Have a shitty life, dickhead.

And fuck all of you other assholes too.

You strike me as very stable genius.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 08:14:43 PM
Jesus. Proof read your shit.

I’m not on Instagram. Why does that matter?

Maybe she gave consent for the photo. How the fuck do you know if she did or didn’t? And why do you get to be the fucking board police anyway?

Oh yeah, because it’s yours I guess.

Ok, fuckers. Anyone want to chime in here or nah?  I’m just gonna stay on an island like always?

Damn.

I just figured it was a stock photo found online and really didn't care one way or the other if it wasn't.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:19:12 PM
I just figured it was a stock photo found online and really didn't care one way or the other if it wasn't.

So a boob joke is way out of line and worth ostracizing over; but sharing semi-nudes in a “look what I’m banging” thread rates a “don’t know, don’t care?” Where’s the consistency here?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:19:46 PM
Jobu needs a friend, guys.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 08:19:54 PM
Well, most people don’t care. But Tempo went after me when I said I didn’t think it was a big deal. Maybe stand up for me? Or nah?

Fuck it. Doesn’t matter. Like I said, I’m tired of it. It’s not fun anymore.

Stand up for you? What do you want people to say? You seem to be able to stand up for yourself.  Like most people here*.

*JudgeJudy exempted.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:25:35 PM
It’s nice to have friends. What’s wrong with wanting friends?

I will be your champion.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 08:28:42 PM
So a boob joke is way out of line and worth ostracizing over; but sharing semi-nudes in a “look what I’m banging” thread rates a “don’t know, don’t care?” Where’s the consistency here?

You actually just made the point why your idolozation of Dan Bernstein is inconsistent with your own worldview. Well done.

Again, I don't listen to or read Dan Bernstein because I think he sucks for a multitude of reasons. I didn't care about his boob Tweet at the time. It is odd on light of his evolution to Serious. Radio. Guy. I have only sought to point out the inconsistencies in your views/opinions based on whether you liked the person or not. You like Dan Bernstein. You don't like Mike Leach. Neither one has exhibited good character in the past.

I didn't care about the Boob Tweet. I didn't care about Custard posting photos. I guess that is at least consistent at a minimum.

On the other hand, I did not like Jobu posting under your name and I posted such.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:29:15 PM
That’s nice. I like that!

Nice profile pic. You’re a handsome man.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 08:29:45 PM
Would have been nice to have a little support. That’s all.

No biggie. Enjoy the board.

What support were you looking for? You wanted people to tell Tempo to shut up? Custard to ban him?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:31:10 PM
A boob joke that he apologized for in 2015 is far less egregious than sharing semi-nudes for other creeps to drool over last week IMO. YMMV
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:31:41 PM
And I don’t know how sharing an article = “idolization.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:32:49 PM
Damn, Jobu only kept my picture up for like 3 minutes. Typical Jobu. Dude’s emotions are on a yo-yo.
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 08:33:39 PM
Yep. Leaving now. Fuck it. Later.

Have a shitty life, dickhead.

And fuck all of you other assholes too.
I'll rest on my efforts with the PSU game.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 08:39:25 PM
You wanted people to tell Tempo to shut up?
I did.
Plenty of times.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:41:09 PM
The saddest thing is that there aren’t more people logging into this abortion of a website, to take in the quality work that I do here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:43:26 PM
No, I didn’t want Custard to ban him. I don’t want anyone banned. That’s not what this board is about.

I just thought someone might step up and at least agree with me. I mean damn, I’ve been fighting the dude forever. It gets tiring after a while.

He called Custard a sexual predator. That to me is irresponsible. I’m pretty sure nobody else on here thinks he’s a sexual predator but nobody else feels the need to stomp that shit out. I think that sucks.

If you guys want this to be Tempos board, and it seems like you do, fine. But I won’t be a part of that.

I’ve been watching over the last 24 hours or so. This place has absolutely sucked. If that’s what you want have at it. I won’t be here for that. Fucking gross.

I don’t think I called him a sexual predator, but if you want to infer that, that’s fair. I called him creepy, specifically. I doubt he’s a bad person, but IMO sexual post-bragging with pics isn’t something one should be doing in 2021.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 08:44:25 PM
There's only a handful of people here. If Custard wants to show some pics, I'm ok whether It's food or women.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:45:02 PM
I did.
Plenty of times.

And boy, did I!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:45:36 PM
There's only a handful of people here. If Custard wants to show some pics, I'm ok whether It's food or women.

Yeah, well, we’ll have to disagree there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:45:55 PM
And you just compared women to food.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 08:46:42 PM
Fuck you Tempo! Fuck you ThePAMan!

I love you Jobu!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:46:55 PM
Well, it’s your abortion. Wear it.

I thought you were leaving (again)?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 08:47:48 PM
A boob joke that he apologized for in 2015 is far less egregious than sharing semi-nudes for other creeps to drool over last week IMO. YMMV

That's fair enough. I just don't care either way.

It's lightly used Illini message board. Only 3 people, as far I can tell off the top, have publicized their names here or at the original HQ: Rob, JeffFrank and you. 

I find it comical, for example, why some guy who calls himself JudgeJudy gets mad about some idiot who calls himself ThePAMan saying he is a trailer park pedo. No one here, except maybe Custard (as I believe they saw or met each other at the same place once) knows who the fuck JudgeJudy is in real life.

Why a guy named Jobu is getting his tit in a ringer about anything said by Tempo is equally comical. I figured this is just another Jobu character bit like when he died on HQ.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:51:14 PM
That's fair enough. I just don't care either way.

It's lightly used Illini message board. Only 3 people, as far I can tell off the top, have publicized their names here or at the original HQ: Rob, JeffFrank and you. 

I find it comical, for example, why some guy who calls himself JudgeJudy gets mad about some idiot who calls himself ThePAMan saying he is a trailer park pedo. No one here, except maybe Custard (as I believe they saw or met each other at the same place once) knows who the fuck JudgeJudy is in real life.

Why a guy named Jobu is getting his tit in a ringer about anything said by Tempo is equally comical. I figured this is just another Jobu character bit like when he died on HQ.

Agreed. “Tempo34” isn’t my real persona. It’s a bit. Sure, there are definitely parts of me in Tempo34, and most of my takes are real opinions. But I think that’s why most of us come here. To talk about things most of our friends don’t care to talk about, amd to talk to people in a way we’d never use in real life. This place is entertainment, not real life.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 08:51:20 PM
And you two continue to make my point.  I'm willing to bet Custard does not give a fuck if Tempo called him a sexual predator,  or creepy, or whatever.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 08:54:41 PM
Agreed. “Tempo34” isn’t my real persona. It’s a bit. Sure, there are definitely parts of me in Tempo34, and most of my takes are real opinions. But I think that’s why most of us come here. To talk about things most of our friends don’t care to talk about, amd to talk to people in a way we’d never use in real life. This place is entertainment, not real life.

ThePAMan could take tips from this post and ANY Custard post about how to write poetry. His shit just isn’t up to par. That’s probably why we clash.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:54:44 PM
You did say that the thread was a sexual predator thread.



That was for dramatic effect.

Rob for one, seems to get this technique.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 08:56:42 PM
That was for dramatic effect.

Rob for one, seems to get this technique.

Rob definitely gets the sexual predator bit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 08:57:38 PM
Rob definitely gets the sexual predator bit.

*not unproven*

Well played.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 08:59:32 PM
Despite all the kumbaya shit, I still have JudgeJudy on ignore since his posts usually suck.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 09:00:23 PM
I pride myself on being open-minded. But remember, we come here to talk to people in a way we’d never do in real life!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 09:00:30 PM
I suppose not. I just really don’t like seeing that term thrown around. Past history. That’s all.

You are not allowed within30 feet of schools or something?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 09:00:40 PM
I’m your huckleberry.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 09:02:16 PM
You are not allowed within30 feet of schools or something?

This was a joke....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 09:03:16 PM
Haha, I certainly am. Let’s just say…

Eh. Not going there.

Figured I need to make sure Tempo knew it was a joke....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 09:06:20 PM
He’s actually been decent lately.

I'll take your word for it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 09:06:49 PM
I'll take your word for it.

Shut up, bitch!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 09:07:15 PM
Ok. Do I need to mediate Jobu v. Beach Bum next?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 26, 2021, 09:09:37 PM
Shut up, bitch!
Nice to see you two have come to an understanding. Lol.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 26, 2021, 09:10:08 PM
Ok. Do I need to mediate Jobu v. Beach Bum next?

Tempo? Jobu? Wanna mediate this bitch and I?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 09:10:49 PM
Ok. Do I need to mediate Jobu v. Beach Bum next?

They got a history?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 09:10:56 PM
Nice to see you two have come to an understanding. Lol.

LOL.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 09:11:53 PM
Tempo? Jobu? Wanna mediate this bitch and I?

I for one think you two should work it out. We’re already undermanned around this shithole. Need all the regulars we can get.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 09:12:05 PM
They got a history?

Oh yeah. Maybe you can mediate that one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 26, 2021, 09:28:25 PM
And you two continue to make my point.  I'm willing to bet Custard does not give a fuck if Tempo called him a sexual predator,  or creepy, or whatever.

Exactly.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 26, 2021, 09:35:14 PM
Exactly.

Always trust content from The PAMan.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 26, 2021, 10:03:20 PM
if y'all were trying to get me to take this board out of my bookmarks, you succeeded

what is all this noise?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 26, 2021, 10:47:03 PM
if y'all were trying to get me to take this board out of my bookmarks, you succeeded

what is all this noise?

It’s quite tiresome.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 26, 2021, 11:06:41 PM
It’s quite tiresome.

Yeah, would be much better if we all just sucked the coaches cocks, and cheerled.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on October 27, 2021, 12:11:32 AM
Jobu v. Tempo is the new Al Capone's Vault, but boringer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 27, 2021, 04:54:13 AM
Who here would rather watch the same Lifetime Channel movie 11x in a row than read Rob’s posts? I’m sure I would.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 27, 2021, 07:29:38 AM
https://reason.com/2021/10/25/reno-criminalizes-possessing-whips-without-a-permit/

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 27, 2021, 08:46:47 AM
https://reason.com/2021/10/25/reno-criminalizes-possessing-whips-without-a-permit/

W
T
F
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 27, 2021, 09:06:54 AM
Didn’t 97 move to Reno? Does he need just one permit, or one for all 150?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 27, 2021, 12:34:48 PM
W
T
F

There were a few (like 1 or 2) crazy meth heads down town just walking around with these huge whips made out of chains smashing up the concrete and scaring the shit out of everyone lol

I think the legislation is fucking dumb, and whip man will be missed!  Tourism will be crushed I'm sure
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 27, 2021, 04:23:15 PM
There were a few (like 1 or 2) crazy meth heads down town just walking around with these huge whips made out of chains smashing up the concrete and scaring the shit out of everyone lol

I think the legislation is fucking dumb, and whip man will be missed!  Tourism will be crushed I'm sure

Meanwhile, in Chicago, we can have all the FREEDOM WHIPS we want!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 27, 2021, 04:25:43 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10136219/White-marketing-VP-North-Carolina-hospital-wins-10million-reverse-discrimination-payout.html

Here you go, Tempo!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 27, 2021, 04:27:41 PM
Great news days for items for Tempo to comment on:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385

Is a lesbian transphobic if she does not want to have sex with trans women? Some lesbians say they are increasingly being pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners - then shunned and even threatened for speaking out. Several have spoken to the BBC, along with trans women who are concerned about the issue too.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 27, 2021, 05:23:18 PM
Okaaaaayyyyyy…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on October 27, 2021, 06:42:00 PM
The Champaign/Minnesota abortion clinic bomber came out as trans prior to his sentencing.

So if he gets his way, he'll go to a women's prison.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 27, 2021, 07:04:22 PM
The Champaign/Minnesota abortion clinic bomber came out as trans prior to his sentencing.

So if he gets his way, he'll go to a women's prison.

That’s some bullshit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 27, 2021, 07:36:43 PM
The Champaign/Minnesota abortion clinic bomber came out as trans prior to his sentencing.

So if he gets his way, he'll go to a women's prison.

Ingenious.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 28, 2021, 02:44:50 PM
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chicago-council-approves-16-7-181328928.html

nice to see our federal tax dollars hard at work on socialist pet projects in some poorly run large cities

Quote
The guaranteed basic income plan would provide 5,000 selected households $500-a-month stipends for a year, thanks to money provided under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act. Chicago joins other cities including Los Angeles in providing direct cash assistance to households in need.

the "science" says this is a waste of money from prior tests in other countries and parts of the world so yeah so glad we're doing it again here for no fucking reason at all (other than buying votes for 2022)

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 28, 2021, 03:00:53 PM
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chicago-council-approves-16-7-181328928.html

nice to see our federal tax dollars hard at work on socialist pet projects in some poorly run large cities

the "science" says this is a waste of money from prior tests in other countries and parts of the world so yeah so glad we're doing it again here for no fucking reason at all (other than buying votes for 2022)

While reticent, I will ask for cites to the "science."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on October 28, 2021, 04:24:14 PM
https://consequence.net/2021/10/man-shoots-son-playing-guitar-too-long/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 28, 2021, 04:48:01 PM
Turns out ILLove's Mom was missing, she's been found

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1453384520934252545
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 28, 2021, 05:17:36 PM
People are upset people in need are getting $500, while Bezos and Musk are on the fast track to trillionaire status. This is a fucked up society.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 28, 2021, 05:17:40 PM
Wtf. The people on that subway should’ve whooped that dude’s ass!

https://twitter.com/cernovich/status/1453423079657328643?s=21
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 28, 2021, 05:18:37 PM
Turns out ILLove's Mom was missing, she's been found

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1453384520934252545

Hot. Got her number?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 28, 2021, 05:19:24 PM
People are upset people in need are getting $500, while Bezos and Musk are on the fast track to trillionaire status. This is a fucked up society.

Should they not have that? You’re able to do that as well if you did what they did.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 28, 2021, 05:21:06 PM
Should they not have that? You’re able to do that as well if you did what they did.

No, they shouldn’t have it. It’s absurd.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 28, 2021, 05:21:12 PM
Hot. Got her number?

You’re a misogynistic pig! Objectifying women like that!!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 28, 2021, 05:22:30 PM
No, they shouldn’t have it. It’s absurd.

Why not?! Should there be a limit? Should we not encourage people to strive to do great things? Encourage them to sit around and ask for government assistance?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 28, 2021, 05:32:15 PM
Why not?! Should there be a limit? Should we not encourage people to strive to do great things? Encourage them to sit around and ask for government assistance?

Because I don’t think you have any earthly idea how much money that really is. If you spent 1 million dollars per day, for an entire lifetime, it would take you about 8 lifetimes to spend $200 billion. If you liquidated that wealth Bezos could give every person on the planet $20 and still be one of the richest people in the world. Now 5x that.

You will never ever convince me that Jeff Bezos deserves to be a trillionaire more than poor people deserve fairly meager financial help.

Do you identify as a Christian?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 28, 2021, 05:36:36 PM
LMAO

If you don’t allow trillionaires, people won’t strive to do things! What a joke.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 28, 2021, 11:39:39 PM
LMAO

If you don’t allow trillionaires, people won’t strive to do things! What a joke.

I mean yeah, look at Zimbabawe, they had a bunch of trillionaires
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 28, 2021, 11:47:40 PM
I mean yeah, look at Zimbabawe, they had a bunch of trillionaires

FinTwit is so much fucking fun
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 29, 2021, 10:56:01 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mom-banned-as-orange-elementary-school-volunteer-after-anonymous-letter-reveals-onlyfans-page/ar-AAQ4j33

Mom banned as Orange elementary school volunteer after anonymous letter reveals OnlyFans page

This is bogus! I bet even Tempo would agree!

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 29, 2021, 08:38:27 PM
Uh, ok.

(https://i.ibb.co/4J0jxm1/Screenshot-20211029-203612.jpg) (https://ibb.co/25pjBnZ)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 29, 2021, 09:24:30 PM
Blood and soil!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 30, 2021, 08:36:49 AM
Oh geez. I thought the terrorist attack was a possibility within 6-12 months.
I guess do not go out to vote in Virginia before the polls close on Tues is within 6 months tho.
Never mind the neo-Nazis roaming the streets of Charlottesville.

Northern Virginia police increase presence at malls and transit hubs amid warnings about possible terror plot
By Geneva Sands, Sonnet Swire and Christina Carrega, CNN

Updated 8:03 AM ET, Sat October 30, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/30/us/northern-virginia-possible-terror-plot-warnings/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 30, 2021, 11:04:04 AM
Uh, ok.

(https://i.ibb.co/4J0jxm1/Screenshot-20211029-203612.jpg) (https://ibb.co/25pjBnZ)

apparently according to the twatter some of those 5 are actually democrats posing as nahtzees

tiki torches?  really?  wasn't that like a 2015 "its racist" thing LOL

and one of the guys is black so ????????? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 30, 2021, 11:06:26 AM
Oh geez. I thought the terrorist attack was a possibility within 6-12 months.
I guess do not go out to vote in Virginia before the polls close on Tues is within 6 months tho.
Never mind the neo-Nazis roaming the streets of Charlottesville.

Northern Virginia police increase presence at malls and transit hubs amid warnings about possible terror plot
By Geneva Sands, Sonnet Swire and Christina Carrega, CNN

Updated 8:03 AM ET, Sat October 30, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/30/us/northern-virginia-possible-terror-plot-warnings/index.html

also this last line... huh?

Quote
"We're dealing with an evolving foreign terrorist threat environment as conditions in Afghanistan, Yemen, and other countries that are known areas of terrorist activity are evolving. We're dealing with a sustained threat by domestic violent extremist and domestic terrorists,"

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 30, 2021, 12:27:57 PM
apparently according to the twatter some of those 5 are actually democrats posing as nahtzees

tiki torches?  really?  wasn't that like a 2015 "its racist" thing LOL

and one of the guys is black so ?????????

So is Candace Owens. Your point?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 30, 2021, 05:37:32 PM
Candace Owens is a white supremacist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on October 31, 2021, 09:54:32 AM
So is Candace Owens. Your point?

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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 01, 2021, 03:54:45 PM
https://nypost.com/2021/11/01/florida-teacher-of-the-year-arrested-for-hitting-pupil-who-criticized-award/



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 01, 2021, 05:27:59 PM
https://nypost.com/2021/11/01/florida-teacher-of-the-year-arrested-for-hitting-pupil-who-criticized-award/




I think I remember reading in another thread that awards don't mean squat.
FBI get her ? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 01, 2021, 05:34:51 PM
I think I remember reading in another thread that awards don't mean squat.
FBI get her ?

Doesn't this prove Tempo's point? Hahaha.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 01, 2021, 05:50:19 PM
Doesn't this prove Tempo's point? Hahaha.
It's not easy being AOTC all of the time..
I hear being the heavy favorite in an AOTC award can be the kiss of death.
It could be quite a burden to carry for some people
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 01, 2021, 10:14:13 PM
Lincoln project are Republicans.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 01, 2021, 10:15:55 PM
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I appreciate you, chickengeorge. If that’s your real name.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on November 02, 2021, 09:19:46 AM
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/E8rJEUMGs9cyWEtNXT/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47ocb2a8xi1vu8air2x1gp6udoomgh15xp2j3edgu5&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on November 05, 2021, 05:33:20 AM
Whoa !

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20211105&instance_id=44676&nl=the-morning&regi_id=143246464&segment_id=73603&te=1&user_id=858ab9a7502ceba78c88e886c8e2645f
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on November 05, 2021, 05:53:08 AM
Did you expect something different from the Trump-appointed henchman who was hired specifically to investigate the investigators?

Personally, I love what's going to happen to the entire American law enforcement community thanks to Trump. It's gonna suck going through it, though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 05, 2021, 07:18:18 AM
Another guy arrested for lying to the FBI. Maybe President Ttump.will pardon them too in 2024 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 05, 2021, 07:23:20 AM
Whoa !

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20211105&instance_id=44676&nl=the-morning&regi_id=143246464&segment_id=73603&te=1&user_id=858ab9a7502ceba78c88e886c8e2645f
Add the Michael Sussman indictment to this and Durham is starting to tell the story.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 05, 2021, 12:41:03 PM
Whoa !

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20211105&instance_id=44676&nl=the-morning&regi_id=143246464&segment_id=73603&te=1&user_id=858ab9a7502ceba78c88e886c8e2645f

The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) ....
also voted to approve two new members..... and Charles “Chuck” Dolan, Senior Strategist at kglobal.

These decisions were taken at a meeting of the IFES Board of Directors on March 16, 2021
https://www.ifes.org/news/ifes-elects-new-chair-welcomes-new-board-members
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 05, 2021, 01:12:57 PM
Add the Michael Sussman indictment to this and Durham is starting to tell the story.

Let me know when Hilary and Trump are both locked up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 05, 2021, 01:15:05 PM
This is effed up. But corporate money owns America, so who’s surprised?

https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/chevron-wins-case-to-jail-lawyer/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 05, 2021, 01:58:33 PM
Let me know when Hilary and Trump are both locked up.
I read somewhere that Trump would be in jail Jan 21. 🤔
The 1st SDNY Grand Jury couldnt nail Trump, so they're starting another one. Vance is gone at SDNY at the end of the year, so maybe that will be the end of it.
They'll stop before they get to Hillary.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 05, 2021, 02:51:41 PM
This is effed up. But corporate money owns America, so who’s surprised?

https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/chevron-wins-case-to-jail-lawyer/

Or, you know, he lied and withheld evidence, etc. In order to win 9 billion. 

Rudy and Powell are currently getting their heads handed to them by Dominion. I'm going to guess Rudy gives up his law license and retires before they take it from him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 05, 2021, 02:53:07 PM
I read somewhere that Trump would be in jail Jan 21. 🤔
The 1st SDNY Grand Jury couldnt nail Trump, so they're starting another one. Vance is gone at SDNY at the end of the year, so maybe that will be the end of it.
They'll stop before they get to Hillary.

The DA will continue it.

You would have thought Trump would have nailed Hilary when he had the.chance.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 05, 2021, 03:29:29 PM
The DA will continue it.

You would have thought Trump would have nailed Hilary when he had the.chance.
His FBI and DOJ were busy. Lol.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 05, 2021, 08:07:01 PM
His FBI and DOJ were busy. Lol.

Yeah, he kept them busy alright.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 08, 2021, 10:35:22 AM
Add the Michael Sussman indictment to this and Durham is starting to tell the story.

Durham has  indicted 3 in 2 years and 8 months. Low level lying to the FBI  stuff.

Mueller indicted 37 + referrals in 1 year and 10 months.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 08, 2021, 01:35:26 PM
Durham has  indicted 3 in 2 years and 8 months. Low level lying to the FBI  stuff.

Mueller indicted 37 + referrals in 1 year and 10 months.
Have patience. Durham and his small staff were interrupted by an infected pangolin running around SE Asia somewhere that still hasnt been found.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 08, 2021, 03:06:23 PM
Have patience. Durham and his small staff were interrupted by an infected pangolin running around SE Asia somewhere that still hasnt been found.

I'm sure that is the reason. Not that I call lying to the FBI a "low level" crime...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 08, 2021, 11:18:06 PM
I'm sure that is the reason. Not that I call lying to the FBI a "low level" crime...

The alleged  liars are low level. The alleged lies were not particularly significant. The worst was altering the email.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 09, 2021, 08:40:35 AM
No.
The biggest is the entire Russia collusion hoax.
Brought to the American public by our own government and national media.

July, 2016
(https://i.ibb.co/D1fVR5T/Screenshot-20211109-081451.jpg) (https://ibb.co/j8k6rgs)

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 09, 2021, 09:15:24 AM
At the end of the day, the Trump campaign was probably too inept to collude in a meaningful way. Although why would Manafort share polling information with Russia?

The fact that a presidential candidate went in front of a camera and encouraged a foreign power to find and share dirt on his opponent should have been disqualifying in itself. An embarrassing moment in American history.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 09, 2021, 09:17:41 AM
At the end of the day, the Trump campaign was probably too inept to collude in a meaningful way. Although why would Manafort share polling information with Russia?

The fact that a presidential candidate went in front of a camera and encouraged a foreign power to find and share dirt on his opponent should have been disqualifying in itself. An embarrassing moment in American history.

And now the goalposts have moved…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 09, 2021, 09:19:35 AM
Although why would Manafort share polling information with Russia?

And all the other stuff Trump and his band of Putin-loving traitors obstructed Mueller on. Read the report.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 09, 2021, 09:19:55 AM
The Russians did not actually hack the DNC and work with Assange to selectively leak damaging information and help the Trump campaign. It was an inside job and the Clintons had the leaker whacked. The CIA framed the Russkies.  Durham is getting close. Heads will role (sic) /s
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 09, 2021, 09:21:00 AM
The Russians did not actually hack the DNC and work with Assange to selectively leak damaging information and help the Trump campaign. It was an inside job and the Clintons had the leaker whacked. The CIA framed the Russkies.  Durham is getting close. Heads will role (sic) /s

And QAnon97 is still in Dallas waiting for JFK, Jr. to rise from the dead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on November 09, 2021, 09:21:59 AM
I'm not buying that DOJ/Hillary were the puppet-masters for Flynn, Jr, Manafort and others in their contacting the Russkies over and over and over again.  That's quite a bit to swallow.  Plus, why shouldn't that be investigated?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 09, 2021, 09:35:19 AM
Maybe someone can find any testimony, Adam Schiff in front of a camera doesnt count, that they knew of collusion.
Good luck.
Maybe someone can find any evidence that info was exfiltrated from DNC servers.
Good luck.
The Crowdstrike CEO says they have none. The FBI says 'if you say it happened, that's good enough for us. We wont be needing the servers either.'
Mueller : 'Trump obstructed us from finding stuff that didn't exist.

July 2016. The Russkis are up to Hillary and the PR Executive-1 plans. Anybody got any ideas ?
'Give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything' commercial comes to mind.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 09, 2021, 09:35:53 AM
And now the goalposts have moved…

No, not really.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 09, 2021, 09:38:29 AM
There’s all kinds of evidence the Trump campaign was working/colluding with Russia. The burden of proof was so high, it was nearly unattainable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on November 09, 2021, 09:38:39 AM
Maybe someone can find any testimony, Adam Schiff in front of a camera doesnt count, that they knew of collusion.
Good luck.
Maybe someone can find any evidence that info was exfiltrated from DNC servers.
Good luck.
The Crowdstrike CEO says they have none. The FBI says 'if you say it happened, that's good enough for us. We wont be needing the servers either.'
Mueller : 'Trump obstructed us from finding stuff that didn't exist.

July 2016. The Russkis are up to Hillary and the PR Executive-1 plans. Anybody got any ideas ?
'Give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything' commercial comes to mind.
I rarely re-post an entire quote, but I want to preserve this one in its entirety.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 09, 2021, 09:40:38 AM
I'm not buying that DOJ/Hillary were the puppet-masters for Flynn, Jr, Manafort and others in their contacting the Russkies over and over and over again.  That's quite a bit to swallow.  Plus, why shouldn't that be investigated?
Nobody ever said they shouldn't have been investigated.
Where's Hunter ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 09, 2021, 09:42:44 AM
When we find the pangolin, we'll find the Russia evidence too. The pangolin has it. 
Lol.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on November 09, 2021, 09:58:51 AM
But you'll only believe it if it's offered by the putative perpetrators, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 09, 2021, 11:24:40 AM
People. He's gone. As crazy as that all was, let's move on, we have potholes to fill
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 09, 2021, 12:58:54 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-history-teacher-told-her-students-trump-was-still-president-she-s-been-removed-from-the-school/ar-AAQuO6p

Sounds like she is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

"She raved against coronavirus vaccines, the criminal justice system and the 2020 presidential election results."




Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 09, 2021, 01:10:40 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-history-teacher-told-her-students-trump-was-still-president-she-s-been-removed-from-the-school/ar-AAQuO6p

Sounds like she is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

"She raved against coronavirus vaccines, the criminal justice system and the 2020 presidential election results."





I caught that.
Well done.
I had Raisin Bran this morning.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 09, 2021, 02:04:01 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-russians-hacked-the-dnc-and-passed-its-emails-to-wikileaks/2018/07/13/af19a828-86c3-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 09, 2021, 02:48:05 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-russians-hacked-the-dnc-and-passed-its-emails-to-wikileaks/2018/07/13/af19a828-86c3-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html
Who fed the story to Nakashima ?
And in his Senate testimony, Crowdstrike CEO Shawn Henry said they have no evidence of exfiltration. Michael Sussman hired Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike also used the same style of arguments regarding a Russia hack in Ukraine, which they were forced to retract.
Take all of the 'likelys' and 'maybes' out and what are you left with ?
You're left with the same argument that 50 IC individuals made regarding the validity of Hunters laptop pre-election. 'It has all the markings of Russian disinformation'. They knew what they were saying, and they knew why they included the statement. It's an out, and nobody in the media took them to task.
Then look at the 'they never asked. Yes we did' between Crowdstrike and the FBI.
https://mate.substack.com/p/indicted-clinton-lawyer-hired-crowdstrike
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 09, 2021, 03:54:03 PM
Does CrowdStrike have evidence that data was exfiltrated from the DNC network?

Yes. Shawn Henry stated in his testimony to the House Intelligence Committee that CrowdStrike had indicators of exfiltration (page 32)  and that data had clearly left the network. Also, on page 2, the Intelligence Community Assessment also confirmed that the Russian intelligence agency GRU “had exfiltrated large volumes of data from the DNC.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 09, 2021, 03:59:14 PM
Did CrowdStrike have proof that Russia hacked the DNC?

Yes, and this is also supported by the U.S. Intelligence community and independent Congressional reports.

...

This conclusion has most recently been supported by the Senate Intelligence Committee in April 2020 issuing a report [intelligence.senate.gov] validating the previous conclusions of the Intelligence community, published on January 6, 2017,  that Russia was behind the DNC data breach.

...

It’s also worth noting that other security companies, including Fidelis and FireEye have supported CrowdStrike’s analysis.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 09, 2021, 04:05:55 PM
Crowdstrike CEO Shawn Henry said they have no evidence of exfiltration.

In this particular case, CrowdStrike saw circumstantial evidence of data exfiltration from the DNC network. As a reference point circumstantial evidence is the type of evidence such as DNA analysis or fingerprints that are fully admissible in courts.


“Counsel just reminded me that, as it relates to the DNC’ we have indicators that data was exfiltrated. We did not have concrete evidence that data was exfiltrated from the DNC, but we have indicators that it was exfiltrated.’

and circumstantial evidence that data was taken as he states on page 75 ”so there is circumstantial evidence that it was taken”

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 09, 2021, 04:22:37 PM
Crowdstrike CEO Shawn Henry did not say they had no evidence of exfiltration. He said there was no real time observation of exfiltration of data. Nothing akin to an eye witness account. He said they did have circumstantial evidence akin to fingerprints.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 09, 2021, 04:42:30 PM
Sounds like Mn needs to read the report instead of relying on The Twitter, or The Gab!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 09, 2021, 06:54:16 PM
In this particular case, CrowdStrike saw circumstantial evidence of data exfiltration from the DNC network. As a reference point circumstantial evidence is the type of evidence such as DNA analysis or fingerprints that are fully admissible in courts.


“Counsel just reminded me that, as it relates to the DNC’ we have indicators that data was exfiltrated. We did not have concrete evidence that data was exfiltrated from the DNC, but we have indicators that it was exfiltrated.’

and circumstantial evidence that data was taken as he states on page 75 ”so there is circumstantial evidence that it was taken”

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/
Crowdstrike defends it's work with it's own blog.
"A lot of — outside of any political organization, companies, most corporations, they often would use these third party contractors, who they hired through their own counsel, and maximize the control from the point of view of the victim.”
Outside of any political organization .... Lol.

"We’ve provided all forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI related to the DNC investigation as requested. We have never declined any request for information from the FBI related to this investigation, and there are no pending requests for information by the FBI."

The FBI: 'That's not exactly true'
According to the Senate Intelligence Committee, CrowdStrike delivered a draft report to the FBI on Aug. 31, 2016 that an unidentified FBI official described as "heavily redacted." James Trainor, then-assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division, told the committee that he was "frustrated" with the CrowdStrike report and "doubted its completeness" because "outside counsel" – i.e. Sussmann – "had reviewed it."  According to Trainor, the DNC's cooperation was "moderate" overall and "slow and laborious in many respects." Trainor singled out the fact that Perkins Coie – and specifically, Sussmann – "scrubbed" the CrowdStrike information before it was delivered to the FBI, resulting in a "stripped-down version" that was "not optimal."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 09, 2021, 08:40:24 PM
So the intelligence community, multiple private sector security firms, the senate intelligence committee snd so on were all wrong. Only Trump aplogists got it right. The
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 09, 2021, 09:18:05 PM
...The Alfa Bank investigation in the bureau went nowhere. The Steele dossier affected only the Carter Page matter, which was only one relatively unimportant thread of the larger Russia investigation....

... none of what we think of as the fruits of the Russia investigation had anything to do with Clinton-world opposition research efforts. Not the Papadopoulos matter. Not the Michael Flynn investigation. Not the investigation of Paul Manafort and his business relationship with the Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik. Not the indictment of Russian intelligence officers for hacking and dumping Democratic emails—all with the public endorsement of Donald J. Trump. Not the investigation of Roger Stone. And not the indictments of other Russian operatives for social media manipulations. The extensive findings of the Mueller report depend not a whiff on Perkins Coie or Fusion GPS.

Not even if Michael Sussmann lied to Jim Baker about his clients
https://www.lawfareblog.com/special-counsels-weird-prosecution-michael-sussmann
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 10, 2021, 06:15:40 AM
People. He's gone. As crazy as that all was, let's move on, we have potholes to fill

Is he though?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 10, 2021, 02:50:31 PM
The consensus at Fox News is without the discredited Alfa Bank lead and the Steele Dossier; there was no rationale for the Mueller investigation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 10, 2021, 03:38:59 PM
The consensus at Fox News is without the discredited Alfa Bank lead and the Steele Dossier; there was no rationale for the Mueller investigation.

How soon they forget the DePaul braggert doofus.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on November 10, 2021, 04:04:19 PM
Is he though?
He's not.

Murph was channeling the current Hoover Institution talking points. Maybe some sort of electrical interference.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on November 15, 2021, 09:48:04 AM
Alrighty then.

https://www.spin.com/2021/11/brass-against-sophia-urista-pee-fan-face-welcome-to-rockville/?fbclid=IwAR1hRMaA6RZy4LJzifr0bWajGfVMwQOwvzRn0IYHrcw8gaPj9gzIKqUyAsk
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on November 15, 2021, 09:59:57 AM
Trump fans, obviously.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 15, 2021, 11:52:41 AM
Why the apology?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 19, 2021, 03:14:45 PM
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/hamas-calls-on-justin-bieber-to-cancel-show-in-israel-685384

Sounds like they are doing the Israelis a favor for once.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 24, 2021, 02:16:18 PM
Sweden's first ever female prime minister has resigned just hours after she was appointed.

Magdalena Andersson, was announced as leader on Wednesday but resigned after her coalition partner quit the government and her budget failed to pass.

Instead, parliament voted for a budget drawn-up by the opposition which includes the anti-immigrant far right.

"I have told the speaker that I wish to resign," Ms Andersson told reporters.

Oh well.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 24, 2021, 02:22:43 PM
Sweden's first ever female prime minister has resigned just hours after she was appointed.

Magdalena Andersson, was announced as leader on Wednesday but resigned after her coalition partner quit the government and her budget failed to pass.

Instead, parliament voted for a budget drawn-up by the opposition which includes the anti-immigrant far right.

"I have told the speaker that I wish to resign," Ms Andersson told reporters.

Oh well.

what kind of pension do you get for a few hours of government "work"?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 24, 2021, 02:28:44 PM
what kind of pension do you get for a few hours of government "work"?
She gets a Wiki first ever female prime minister. Hang a banner.

"On 24 November 2021, the Swedish Riksdag elected her as Sweden's first female Prime Minister, thereby ending Sweden's status as the only Nordic country never to have had a woman as head of an elected government.[2][3]"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 24, 2021, 06:35:22 PM
Sweden's first ever female prime minister has resigned just hours after she was appointed.

Magdalena Andersson, was announced as leader on Wednesday but resigned after her coalition partner quit the government and her budget failed to pass.

Instead, parliament voted for a budget drawn-up by the opposition which includes the anti-immigrant far right.

"I have told the speaker that I wish to resign," Ms Andersson told reporters.

Oh well.

Winners never quit; quitters never win.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 26, 2021, 06:15:26 PM
This seems like the appropriate thread.......
The new coronavirus mutation has been named the Omicron variant. There is no evidence to support a baseless conspiracy theory by far right wing radicals that the Greek alphabet 'Xi' was passed over for political reasons. 🤡🤡🤡

(https://i.ibb.co/MfKXkhJ/Screenshot-20211126-180424.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8bGhgBQ)

Say it ain't so, Joe. Brandon goes hysterically xenophobic and bans travel from several countries in Africa. Secretary Mayorkas has not responded to requests for comment regarding South Africans flying into Mexico to cross the border into the US.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 26, 2021, 07:18:24 PM
This seems like the appropriate thread.......
The new coronavirus mutation has been named the Omicron variant. There is no evidence to support a baseless conspiracy theory by far right wing radicals that the Greek alphabet 'Xi' was passed over for political reasons. 🤡🤡🤡

(https://i.ibb.co/MfKXkhJ/Screenshot-20211126-180424.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8bGhgBQ)

Say it ain't so, Joe. Brandon goes hysterically xenophobic and bans travel from several countries in Africa. Secretary Mayorkas has not responded to requests for comment regarding South Africans flying into Mexico to cross the border into the US.

I thought travel bans were racist??
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 26, 2021, 09:20:03 PM
This seems like the appropriate thread.......
The new coronavirus mutation has been named the Omicron variant. There is no evidence to support a baseless conspiracy theory by far right wing radicals that the Greek alphabet 'Xi' was passed over for political reasons. 🤡🤡🤡

(https://i.ibb.co/MfKXkhJ/Screenshot-20211126-180424.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8bGhgBQ)

Say it ain't so, Joe. Brandon goes hysterically xenophobic and bans travel from several countries in Africa. Secretary Mayorkas has not responded to requests for comment regarding South Africans flying into Mexico to cross the border into the US.

hahahaha!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 03, 2021, 09:11:14 AM
Alec didn't pull the trigger.  Mmhhmm.  Was following direction.  Not his fault.  This dude's deflection is pretty amazing.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/key-takeaways-alec-baldwins-exclusive-interview-george-stephanopoulos/story?id=81519931
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 04, 2021, 10:40:53 AM
What.the.fuck.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/woman-reportedly-breastfed-cat-delta-airlines-flight?cmpid=fb_fbn&fbclid=IwAR2J6HFSHxxFBA08pOYKd1im2CcurtdhWh_gC9f9NyIoAsAV1aRNoh7pYdQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 04, 2021, 12:24:32 PM
Alec didn't pull the trigger.  Mmhhmm.  Was following direction.  Not his fault.  This dude's deflection is pretty amazing.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/key-takeaways-alec-baldwins-exclusive-interview-george-stephanopoulos/story?id=81519931

Reminds me of reading Tempo’s posts
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 04, 2021, 12:52:59 PM
Reminds me of reading Tempo’s posts

😂🤣

POTY
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on December 04, 2021, 02:49:03 PM
Reminds me of reading Tempo’s posts

Tempo is a worthless piece of shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 04, 2021, 02:54:59 PM
Tempo is a worthless piece of shit.

Go see what ThePAMan posted about me in the Roe vs Wade thread on the deuce. What a fucking loser.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 04, 2021, 11:28:41 PM
😂🤣

POTY

It doesn’t even make sense.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 04, 2021, 11:29:15 PM
Tempo is a worthless piece of shit.

Agreed.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 04, 2021, 11:30:24 PM
I like Tempo AND Jobu.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 07, 2021, 12:30:35 PM
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qvpm/jussie-smollett-testifies-did-drugs-masturbated-with-attacker?utm_source=vice_facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1DbsMzCLViFhWA_cHE41Wrkcb-cQ4lH_bunZVyEC2al35Ma_TBN9gbO_g

Poor ole Jussie 🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 07, 2021, 06:23:44 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/264983970_1081840459256502_4427787646165538398_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=XtRF34g14L4AX_fDSEG&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=eaa9f33e1a8b608930e46598d2d89e00&oe=61B522AA)

Funny.  Not funny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 07, 2021, 09:45:56 PM
MARVIN
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 09, 2021, 11:05:40 AM
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/584722-george-orwells-estate-approves-retelling-1984-from

Quote
George Orwell's estate approves retelling '1984' from woman's point of view
Orwell’s classic gets a feminist perspective in “Julia” by American author Sandra Newman.

lol why tho
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2021, 11:06:21 AM
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/584722-george-orwells-estate-approves-retelling-1984-from

lol why tho

Read it and review it here for us.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 09, 2021, 11:12:37 AM
Read it and review it here for us.

Not sure I could make it through without throwing it in a fire
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2021, 11:41:42 AM
Not sure I could make it through without throwing it in a fire

Not ironic at all.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 09, 2021, 11:46:19 AM
Not ironic at all.

that was the point
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2021, 01:18:25 PM
that was the point

Sure it was.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 09, 2021, 02:39:06 PM
pedo state coming in strong in the woke olympics this year

https://twitter.com/JackAGreenberg/status/1469040253268901895/photo/1

how do you do, fellow gum drops
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 10, 2021, 01:30:32 PM
(https://memesfeel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Top-25-Jussie-Smollett-Memes-13.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 10, 2021, 02:26:24 PM
(https://memesfeel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Top-25-Jussie-Smollett-Memes-13.jpg)

That's good stuff.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 10, 2021, 02:39:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/OIRloxF.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 10, 2021, 03:45:09 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/OIRloxF.png)
Was it Michele Bachmann?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on December 10, 2021, 04:29:01 PM
Anyone here tried this?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 10, 2021, 04:46:00 PM
Anyone here tried this?

You mean you haven't?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 10, 2021, 04:50:28 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/OIRloxF.png)
How did you get this ? Lol.
I saw it this morning.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on December 10, 2021, 05:03:59 PM
You mean you haven't?

Not that I recall. That’s exactly what I would say if I were in a court of law.

“Have you ever had a fetish where you dressed up like an animal?”

“Not that I recall.”

“So, you never have dressed up like an animal. Hmmm. Have you ever fucked another man in his ass?!”

“Not that I recall, sir/madam.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 10, 2021, 05:46:58 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/CR4plz5sncj/

They're tracking the Biden chips.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 10, 2021, 09:28:45 PM
Birds aren't real is the best and most hilarious conspiracy larp
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 13, 2021, 01:01:24 PM
https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1470081071723208711
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 13, 2021, 01:23:28 PM
https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1470081071723208711

looks like a trump voter
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 13, 2021, 04:26:14 PM
looks like a trump voter
you don't know who that is?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 13, 2021, 05:10:21 PM
you don't know who that is?

Should we?! Let me guess, some really awesome and cool liberal comedian you have a hard on for?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 13, 2021, 05:25:28 PM
Should we?! Let me guess, some really awesome and cool liberal comedian you have a hard on for?!
I'm guessing a social media influencer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 13, 2021, 06:19:27 PM
https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1470081071723208711
!!!!!!

It is interesting that people still blame / credit Presidents for gas  prices.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 13, 2021, 06:21:56 PM
Wingnuts credit Trump for gas low prices late last year, and higher prices this year. They specifically blame Biden for stopping Keystone XL and suspending new oil leases on federal land as well as economic stimulus programs flooding the economy with cash.

Both the low and high gas prices actually illustrate how transitory covid related factors affect prices. The lockdowns in 2020 obviously drastically  cut into demand when producer were ramping up supply. This led to a glut, low prices, and losses.

Producers, domestic, opec, et al, responded by cutting production. As demand increased this year, producers have reacted with caution, by gradually increasing production. They fear another variant could result  in another lock down.There have also been supply chain issues, such as a shortage of hazardous materials drivers. 

KXL has no effect. Even if approved, it would not be operational for two years. New leases would not help. Domestic producers aren't even working all the leases they already have.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 13, 2021, 08:39:17 PM
you don't know who that is?

of course I don't... care to enlighten me?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 13, 2021, 08:56:23 PM
of course I don't... care to enlighten me?
It's some guy pumping gas. Happens all the time, everywhere, every day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 13, 2021, 09:33:18 PM
I’d never heard of him but after reading the comments I learned he’s a gay black Trump fanatic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 13, 2021, 09:41:36 PM
I’d never heard of him but after reading the comments I learned he’s a gay black Trump fanatic.

I too did some research. I believe it’s Herschel Walker’s son if I’m not mistaken.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 13, 2021, 09:46:12 PM
he’s a gay black Trump fanatic.

That's not something you see/hear everyday.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on December 13, 2021, 10:53:29 PM
https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1470081071723208711

All my bills are "divisive" to my bank account.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 13, 2021, 11:36:21 PM
I’d never heard of him but after reading the comments I learned he’s a gay black Trump fanatic.

no wonder murph knows who he is
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 14, 2021, 02:29:44 AM
I've learned that your previous infection won't help you with Omicron.

I look forward to it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 14, 2021, 11:48:30 AM
I've learned that your previous infection won't help you with Omicron.

I look forward to it.

(https://i.imgur.com/IbPGYG0.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 14, 2021, 02:44:20 PM
Well, it was only Andy Slavitt who said it. No reason you shouldn't get out there and party with the young people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 14, 2021, 03:19:36 PM
I recommend Trump rallies. If you can’t find any, create some.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 14, 2021, 03:40:56 PM
I recommend Trump rallies. If you can’t find any, create some.
The problem is that nobody is showing up to them.

Perhaps all dead or in the hospital?

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-bill-oreilly-struggled-155509628.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 14, 2021, 08:40:12 PM
In 2016, CNN and the RNC paid for it. From 2017 through 2020, you paid for it.

Now they're asking the attendees to pay for it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 14, 2021, 10:42:00 PM
Make Mexico pay for it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 15, 2021, 01:10:14 AM
Presumably some of them noticed that he's not self-financing, among other broken promises.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 15, 2021, 07:39:54 AM
Presumably some of them noticed that he's not self-financing, among other broken promises.

99% of his followers don’t care how much he lies to them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 15, 2021, 08:37:42 AM
I don't think that's true. They just don't know it, because they're dumb.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 15, 2021, 09:37:34 AM
Same difference. The vast majority are too biased and ignorant to understand he’s lying to them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 15, 2021, 10:54:09 AM
Lemme guess ......
White priviledge families on Mondays,
Asian families on Tuesdays,
LGBTQ families on Thursdays,
The playground is all-inclusive on proper use of pronouns Fridays.

(https://i.ibb.co/zsXFsVh/Screenshot-20211215-103250.jpg) (https://ibb.co/v13h14x)



(https://i.ibb.co/chh3GPM/Screenshot-20211215-072451.jpg) (https://ibb.co/r220CgT)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 15, 2021, 12:11:23 PM
Lemme guess ......
White priviledge families on Mondays,
Asian families on Tuesdays,
LGBTQ families on Thursdays,
The playground is all-inclusive on proper use of pronouns Fridays.

(https://i.ibb.co/zsXFsVh/Screenshot-20211215-103250.jpg) (https://ibb.co/v13h14x)



(https://i.ibb.co/chh3GPM/Screenshot-20211215-072451.jpg) (https://ibb.co/r220CgT)

It’s ironic. They’re trying to be inclusive and in turn being non-inclusive. Why not just have a “Family Playground Night.” That would include all of what they have listed 🤔
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 15, 2021, 12:13:05 PM
Being anti racist is just racism with more steps
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 15, 2021, 12:35:53 PM
Being anti racist is just racism with more steps

Yup. Now the usual suspects on here are gonna tell us how racist we are for pointing that out.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 15, 2021, 06:55:10 PM
"I am excited, and proud, to join you ...."
And looky here, I put my name on these cool certificates of recognition .......

Just hit the "X" in the Twitter box.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1470910903377965060

🤡🤡🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 15, 2021, 07:42:02 PM
"I am excited, and proud, to join you ...."
And looky here, I put my name on these cool certificates of recognition .......

Just hit the "X" in the Twitter box.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1470910903377965060

🤡🤡🤡

I guess he will look for votes anywhere.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 15, 2021, 10:50:35 PM
“We invite you to join the Communist Party in this epic time as we make good trouble to uproot systemic racism, retool the war economy, tax the rich, address climate change, secure voting rights and create a new socialist system that puts people, peace and planet before profits,” event emcee Ben McManus said.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 16, 2021, 05:51:31 AM
The $5 trillion BBB is all paid for. It won't cost a penny.
Joe Biden
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 16, 2021, 08:35:36 AM
The $5 trillion BBB is all paid for. It won't cost a penny.
Joe Biden

Another point of view:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/opinion/build-back-better.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 16, 2021, 09:50:32 AM
The $5 trillion BBB is all paid for. It won't cost a penny.
Joe Biden

Mexico can pay for it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 16, 2021, 01:48:48 PM
https://twitter.com/business/status/1471367007014686720

Quote
Giant kites that drag cargo ships across the ocean will be trialed next year as the industry attempts to decarbonize

so.... sailboats?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 16, 2021, 01:57:11 PM
https://twitter.com/business/status/1471367007014686720

so.... sailboats?

Since when is a kite a sailboat?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 16, 2021, 01:58:34 PM
Sounds like a sailboat to me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 16, 2021, 02:19:02 PM
Sounds like a sailboat to me.

Except they are kites and not sails. Fucking landlubbers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 16, 2021, 02:41:08 PM
Kite-surfing cargo ships.
Brilliant.

(https://i.ibb.co/my4Zr3f/download.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 17, 2021, 07:45:44 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10320853/Enraged-monkeys-kill-Indian-towns-entire-population-250-DOGS-throwing-heights.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 17, 2021, 09:24:45 AM
(https://media3.giphy.com/media/l41YAhtXEh2cJJEXK/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47pzhtrob32ogum918rrhg4467ntee3s76mwjfozp2&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 17, 2021, 09:28:13 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10320853/Enraged-monkeys-kill-Indian-towns-entire-population-250-DOGS-throwing-heights.html
Let 1 monkey get away with it and word gets around. Next thing you know, things are out of control.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 17, 2021, 11:33:01 AM
(https://media3.giphy.com/media/l41YAhtXEh2cJJEXK/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47pzhtrob32ogum918rrhg4467ntee3s76mwjfozp2&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)

Roddy McDowell at his best in that one. Love the ending.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2021, 12:01:29 PM
Let 1 monkey get away with it and word gets around. Next thing you know, things are out of control.

 ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 17, 2021, 01:03:25 PM
Let 1 monkey get away with it and word gets around. Next thing you know, things are out of control.

(https://i.postimg.cc/t18WsmWS/speedball-planet-apes.gif) (https://postimg.cc/t18WsmWS)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2021, 02:01:35 PM
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-warned-christmas-tree-syndrome-25691519

Quote
Christmas trees could trigger fatal asthma attacks during the festive season, according to a leading charity.

Brits putting up the festive fir in the corner of the living room could be putting themselves at risk of an allergic condition called "Christmas Tree Syndrome".

The Yuletide centrepiece can harbour mould spores which are launched into the air and can aggravate the lungs - irritating airways and causing inflammation and tightening.

But opting for a plastic imitation doesn't solve the issue as they're usually left in attics for the majority of the year, picking up dust - another irritant for asthma sufferers, Wales Online reports.

Charity Asthma UK has urged Brits to be vigilant this Christmas period, fearing the syndrome could spur serious attacks and hospital stays.

It estimates that 40 per cent of asthma sufferers suffer attacks as a result of mould and fungi.

Turning up the heating to get cosy on Christmas Day also gives dust mites room to thrive - another leading cause of attacks.


I can't stop laughing at clown world
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 17, 2021, 02:10:53 PM
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-warned-christmas-tree-syndrome-25691519


I can't stop laughing at clown world

Probably better to just burn the trees.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2021, 02:31:04 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10314717/Chicago-drug-dealer-17-given-PROBATION-murdering-boy-15-marijuana-sale-went-wrong.html

Quote
A Chicago high school drug dealer was given just three years probation and 100 hours community service after pleading guilty to the 2020 murder of a 15-year-old boy during a drug sale gone wrong.

Glenbrook South High School sophomore Elias Valdez was found dead on August 5, 2020, with multiple stab wounds to his chest after police said he took marijuana from a 17-year-old senior without paying.

The drug dealer chased after the boy, and as they fought, he stabbed Valdez multiple times with a utility tool blade. 

On Monday, Cook County Judge Steven Bernstein ordered the 17-year-old senior's name not be published because he's a minor but said he was disappointed in the young man's choices.

'I see a child like you who has two parents concerned with his welfare. [You're] a bright kid with a bright future,'  Bernstein said.

'I don't think you're a murderer, but you killed this child and you have to live with that for the rest of your life.'


Bernstein also sentenced the teen and his parents to participate in counseling. The judge also offered his condolences to Valdez's family.

'You'll never get closure. I wish I could tell you you will,' he said. 'Your son will be in your heart forever.'

um... WHAT
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 17, 2021, 03:15:06 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10314717/Chicago-drug-dealer-17-given-PROBATION-murdering-boy-15-marijuana-sale-went-wrong.html

um... WHAT
You know that your source is questionable. Don't you ? 🤣
You need a link from the Tribune or Sun-Times, or it didn't happen.
(https://i.ibb.co/MhcbGbs/Screenshot-20211217-150005.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4f8cYc7)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 17, 2021, 03:35:59 PM
You know that your source is questionable. Don't you ? 🤣
You need a link from the Tribune or Sun-Times, or it didn't happen.
(https://i.ibb.co/MhcbGbs/Screenshot-20211217-150005.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4f8cYc7)

You mean there is a chance the Indian monkeys did not kill 250 dogs?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 17, 2021, 03:39:34 PM
You know that your source is questionable.
*Of course* he doesn't.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 17, 2021, 03:53:21 PM
You mean there is a chance the Indian monkeys did not kill 250 dogs?
I trust you researched the story, but I'm guessing they got every last dog. Women and children may be next.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2021, 04:28:09 PM
You know that your source is questionable. Don't you ? 🤣
You need a link from the Tribune or Sun-Times, or it didn't happen.
(https://i.ibb.co/MhcbGbs/Screenshot-20211217-150005.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4f8cYc7)

https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/facebook-admits-the-truth-fact-checks-are-really-just-lefty-opinion/

checkmate libtards

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2021, 04:29:50 PM
You know that your source is questionable. Don't you ? 🤣
You need a link from the Tribune or Sun-Times, or it didn't happen.
(https://i.ibb.co/MhcbGbs/Screenshot-20211217-150005.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4f8cYc7)

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-glenview-stabbing-sentence-tl-1223-20211215-rdizvnebrjfc5mxedbuog6fmom-story.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 17, 2021, 05:00:17 PM
https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/facebook-admits-the-truth-fact-checks-are-really-just-lefty-opinion/

checkmate libtards
See? He also thinks the NY Post is credible.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 17, 2021, 05:20:41 PM
I trust you researched the story, but I'm guessing they got every last dog. Women and children may be next.

I should have checked the byline to see if Woodward or Bernstein wrote the story as opposed to someone named QAnon97?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 17, 2021, 10:36:16 PM
See? He also thinks the NY Post is credible.

Jokes are lost on the dimwitted
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 17, 2021, 11:27:43 PM
You need to establish credibility before anyone can judge you as clever.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 20, 2021, 12:15:45 PM
"A Florida Man denied ownership of baggies containing cocaine and methamphetamine that cops found 'wrapped around his penis' during a search early Saturday morning, according to arrest affidavits."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/wrapped-package-arrest-896154

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 20, 2021, 12:26:04 PM
Wing nuts posting something inaccurate then being called on it to say “oh, I was just trying to be funny” is a common occurrence.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 20, 2021, 02:41:57 PM
You know that your source is questionable. Don't you ?
You need a link from the Tribune or Sun-Times, or it didn't happen.
(https://i.ibb.co/MhcbGbs/Screenshot-20211217-150005.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4f8cYc7)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/glenview-stabbing-elias-valdez-greenview-road-murder/11343195/

guilty plea, was16 at the time, sounds like parents are involved and cooperative. Tried as a juvenile.

Victim's family complains it is preferential treatment. Implies the defendant is white? rich kid?

Probably should be a juvenile case, but if the roles were reversed, do they charge an Hispanic kid as an adult?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 20, 2021, 02:52:39 PM
https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/facebook-admits-the-truth-fact-checks-are-really-just-lefty-opinion/

checkmate libtards

Fox does thst too. [insert mainstream source identified as the enemy] admits [spin] .
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 22, 2021, 07:56:09 AM
Murph beats QAnon97 again...

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/South-Lake-Tahoe-Zillow-most-popular-place-2021-16720241.php
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 22, 2021, 10:41:55 AM
Murph beats QAnon97 again...

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/South-Lake-Tahoe-Zillow-most-popular-place-2021-16720241.php

why?  I live closer than he does on a regular basis

but honestly I like the smaller lakes and other areas around here in the summer Tahoe is almost always packed full of bay area / sacto jerkoffs who litter and are rude as hell

for Tahoe beach going, I hung out at round hill pines beach and zephyr cove a few times last summer, round hill is amazing, love that spot, zephyr... meh

definitely enjoying the copious amounts of snow we have had recently, snowboarding has been great so far
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 22, 2021, 12:51:14 PM
why?  I live closer than he does on a regular basis

but honestly I like the smaller lakes and other areas around here in the summer Tahoe is almost always packed full of bay area / sacto jerkoffs who litter and are rude as hell

for Tahoe beach going, I hung out at round hill pines beach and zephyr cove a few times last summer, round hill is amazing, love that spot, zephyr... meh

definitely enjoying the copious amounts of snow we have had recently, snowboarding has been great so far

because i own real estate in a more rapidly appreciating market. at least you can fall back on your nvidia stock
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 22, 2021, 03:09:51 PM
because i own real estate in a more rapidly appreciating market. at least you can fall back on your nvidia stock

my house is up 40% from when I bought it 2.5 years ago, my equity has tripled, so there's that

would have done much better living in a van and buying NVDA stock instead though that's for sure
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 22, 2021, 05:27:30 PM
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1473665612765437959

Quote
1.6 billion disposable face masks have made their way to the oceans. It will take 450 years for the masks to biodegrade.

gross
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 22, 2021, 05:48:26 PM
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1473665612765437959

gross

Just wait till all those discarded batteries from electric cars make their way into our soil and water. #CleanEnergy 👀😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 22, 2021, 08:53:31 PM
Just wait till all those discarded batteries from electric cars make their way into our soil and water. #CleanEnergy 👀😂
Batteries are made from minerals people go to war over. They won't be discarded
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 22, 2021, 08:57:27 PM
Batteries are made from minerals people go to war over. They won't be discarded

Oh wow, even better outcome, huh!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 23, 2021, 06:32:09 AM
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wz5a/people-got-sick-at-a-conspiracy-conference-theyre-sure-its-anthrax

People Got Sick at a Conspiracy Conference. They’re Sure It’s Anthrax.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 23, 2021, 06:58:03 AM
Oh wow, even better outcome, huh!
Judy indignantly insinuating that we'll be invaded for our used car batteries has brought him to a new achievement in dumbness.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 26, 2021, 10:16:54 AM
It’s ironic. They’re trying to be inclusive and in turn being non-inclusive. Why not just have a “Family Playground Night.” That would include all of what they have listed 🤔

The rest of the story....

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/23/denver-elementary-school-families-of-color-playground-night-racism-segregation-fox-news/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 26, 2021, 12:04:24 PM
The rest of the story....

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/23/denver-elementary-school-families-of-color-playground-night-racism-segregation-fox-news/
"colored kids"

The Denver Post printed this ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 26, 2021, 01:06:27 PM
"colored kids"

The Denver Post printed this ?

😂 wtf is wrong with people.

I’m so glad Riding the Grange provided “the rest of the story.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 26, 2021, 01:14:40 PM
😂 wtf is wrong with people.

I’m so glad Riding the Grange provided “the rest of the story.”
There's nothing wrong with us racists. Can't you just let us be ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 26, 2021, 01:22:49 PM
Judy indignantly insinuating that we'll be invaded for our used car batteries has brought him to a new achievement in dumbness.

Reading comprehension. Murph insinuated that, not I…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 26, 2021, 04:14:38 PM
😂 wtf is wrong with people.

I’m so glad Riding the Grange provided “the rest of the story.”

Why, I feel privileged to bring a little sunshine into your world. You're most welcome.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 26, 2021, 07:07:52 PM
"colored kids"

When I was very young, we briefly lived in an all white community. I recall that there was going to be a colored boy in my Sunday school class. My dad said the kid was from a Negro family. I had never seen one, and wondered in anticipation what color. Maybe purple, red, and yellow?

Was disappointed he was black.

A neighbor lady referred to them as darkies. She said the darkies should stay among their own kind. She chain smoked and yelled  a lot.

I forget why I went to the kitchen, but I remember this shit from 1957 just like it happened 65 years ago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 27, 2021, 05:23:14 PM
https://rumble.com/vrhuwi-hilarious-reenactment-of-the-jussie-smollett-scandal.html?mref=4pvd7&mc=b2gay&fbclid=IwAR2-qRzr4gQnDdnaHbnDR2M468KORVBpxyZY-T-mWksUvblvbz4oRuZv5Uc
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 28, 2021, 01:14:36 PM
https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2021/12/27/tahoe-breaks-50-year-december-snowfall-record-sierra-winter-storm-ski-resorts-snow-storm-snowpack/9029766002/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 28, 2021, 01:44:19 PM
https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2021/12/27/tahoe-breaks-50-year-december-snowfall-record-sierra-winter-storm-ski-resorts-snow-storm-snowpack/9029766002/

just want to say that murph is an idiot and I called it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 28, 2021, 01:51:05 PM
just want to say that murph is an idiot and I called it

Second time you have been AOTC?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 28, 2021, 02:25:14 PM
Second time you have been AOTC?

to quote the great Tempo34, "I am AOTC more often than not"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 28, 2021, 02:37:31 PM
to quote the great Tempo34, "I am AOTC more often than not"

It’s true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 28, 2021, 03:37:22 PM
It helps if you wait as long as possible to project an outcome. And couch it in variables.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 28, 2021, 05:39:09 PM
to quote the great Tempo34, "I am AOTC more often than not"
Just not when $$$ is on the line. (1200 dollar signs per share on the line)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 28, 2021, 05:42:11 PM
just want to say that murph is an idiot and I called it
You know, this shit never happened back in the 90's when the greater Tahoe area wasn't full of dumbshits from the midwest

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/us/nevada-whiteout-crash/index.html

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 28, 2021, 05:56:45 PM
You know, this shit never happened back in the 90's when the greater Tahoe area wasn't full of dumbshits from the midwest

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/us/nevada-whiteout-crash/index.html

Were the bikes on top of all their Subarus ok?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 28, 2021, 08:56:44 PM
PAMan continuing to kill it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 28, 2021, 11:36:00 PM
It helps if you wait as long as possible to project an outcome. And couch it in variables.

Why would I not allow for variables? If i didn’t, I’d just be a blowhard; like Peoriaman, Fear, and Champaign Transplant. My record here speaks for itself. I’ve had a few misses, and I’ve hit a few bullseyes. My record is still above average here. Because I don’t shill for someone just because he wears an orange tie.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 29, 2021, 02:28:04 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/P1DJJXg/tempo-billboard.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 29, 2021, 09:06:00 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/P1DJJXg/tempo-billboard.png)

That’s a pretty high rate around here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 29, 2021, 10:13:41 AM
That’s a pretty high rate around here.

I think you are wrong about that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 30, 2021, 06:24:59 PM
First where I live had a massive wildfire (or 3)

Then my house in Tahoe - massive wildfire

Now, right by where I grew up, massive fire

Champaign's gotta be next
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 30, 2021, 06:44:29 PM
Pretty damp, here.

So you live in Santa Rosa?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 30, 2021, 07:15:04 PM
Pretty damp, here.

So you live in Santa Rosa?

Close enough. Wet here, but Boulder looks very bad
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 30, 2021, 08:46:23 PM
Rohnert Park? Cotati?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 30, 2021, 09:17:44 PM
Rohnert Park? Cotati?

he lives in Healdsburg, cmon man pay attention
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 30, 2021, 09:48:22 PM
I have a sister who lives in Healdsburg And one who lives in Santa Rose.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 30, 2021, 10:01:13 PM
I have a sister who lives in Healdsburg And one who lives in Santa Rose.

Are you sure Murph is not your in-law?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on December 30, 2021, 10:10:28 PM
If he were, I'd have better graphics cards.

One of them is a serial entrepreneur in the medical devices space. Coincidentally, an entirely different BIL and his best college buddy also worked in medical devices. There's a lot of money in it, as you may have heard.

The other non-Murph BIL works in the wine industry.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 31, 2021, 12:41:33 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/KF9KbvD.png)

oh the irony
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 08, 2022, 09:15:15 PM
https://twitter.com/claytravis/status/1479957588431286278?s=21

So two dudes place first and second in a women’s collegiate swim meet. 🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 16, 2022, 08:12:43 AM
Does this Lightfoot person really exist, or is it some kind of cartoon character?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/lori-lightfoot-reportedly-called-smash-and-grab-victim-an-idiot-then-his-store-was-cited-for-various-violations?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR2ckrzen9JXdciCFYFAKahSEXM_rMVMC3eeFBMmHR-CYLENJQoI7qPdLeA
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 16, 2022, 05:33:04 PM
Does this Lightfoot person really exist, or is it some kind of cartoon character?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/lori-lightfoot-reportedly-called-smash-and-grab-victim-an-idiot-then-his-store-was-cited-for-various-violations?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR2ckrzen9JXdciCFYFAKahSEXM_rMVMC3eeFBMmHR-CYLENJQoI7qPdLeA

I had not heard this. Only right leaning sites picked it up. The original source is an obscure right wing web site founded in Chicago in 2013. I had never heard of CWB Chicago until today.

https://cwbchicago.com/2022/01/days-after-1-million-smash-and-grab-lightfoot-walked-out-of-meeting-with-idiot-luxury-car-dealer-then-a-city-inspector-showed-up-with-a-ticket-book.html

A story citing 'sources' posted on the web by some north side guys becomes a national story in the right wing media.

Luxury car dealer apparently had $1 million in luxury watches stolen from a display cases. Makes a scene in local media. Meanwhile, he was allegedly selling liquor without a license? Something about stones and glass houses?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on January 17, 2022, 09:49:50 AM
I trust my government because they've always told the truth about:
The Federal Reserve
Bay of Pigs
The Kennedy Assassination
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tuskegee Study
MK Ultra
UFOs
Weapons of Mass Destruction
9/11
Ruby Ridge
Jan 6th

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 17, 2022, 10:09:19 AM
I trust the private sector because they told the truth about:

nicotine addiction
marketing cigarettes to children
CO2 and global warming
food additives
marketing sugary  cereals to children
derivatives and subprime mortgages
price collusion
opioid addiction
glyphosate
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 17, 2022, 03:18:16 PM
What about
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 17, 2022, 03:44:48 PM
What do our government and the private sector have in common?

I used to believe in free market competition and the invisible hand. Then I figured out a lot of it is rigged. Preplanned product cycles, planned obsolescence, deceptive advertising, and worse.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 17, 2022, 06:30:07 PM
I trust my government because they've always told the truth about:
The Federal Reserve
Bay of Pigs
The Kennedy Assassination
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tuskegee Study
MK Ultra
UFOs
Weapons of Mass Destruction
9/11
Ruby Ridge
Jan 6th

Oh please educate us on January 6th....we can start there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 17, 2022, 07:38:21 PM
I'm sad because Golf doesn't trust Michelob.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 17, 2022, 08:30:25 PM
I'm sad because Golf doesn't trust Michelob.

Maybe he trusts the original Michelob, but not the Ultra Michelob.

Do they even still make regular Michelob? I have not seen it at Binny's when I have looked for it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 18, 2022, 03:15:09 PM
Last time I went to Binny's, a brother was walking toward checkout with a 12 of MGD.

I thought that was gone, too.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 18, 2022, 05:47:59 PM
Meibomian Gland Dysfunction?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 19, 2022, 06:54:35 AM
No, but the flavor profile is similar.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 19, 2022, 02:51:48 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/world/australia/tonga-volcano-covid.html

LOL suuure
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 22, 2022, 10:19:49 PM
Aaron Rodgers said he was immunized and he still got COVID

That's because what he was immunized against was Championships
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 22, 2022, 10:33:18 PM
Aaron Rodgers said he was immunized and he still got COVID

That's because what he was immunized against was Championships

He's been to as many Super Bowls as Rex Grossman.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on January 23, 2022, 09:21:26 AM
Aaron Rodgers said he was immunized and he still got COVID

That's because what he was immunized against was Championships

Poor guy just needed a boost.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 26, 2022, 02:40:55 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10441143/Disney-says-taking-new-approach-avoid-reinforcing-stereotypes-dwarfs-Snow-White-remake.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on January 26, 2022, 04:10:23 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10441143/Disney-says-taking-new-approach-avoid-reinforcing-stereotypes-dwarfs-Snow-White-remake.html

The 7 Izzo's?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 26, 2022, 04:14:15 PM
https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/26/michael-rapaport-films-alleged-shoplifter-rite-aid-security/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 26, 2022, 04:54:24 PM
Peter Dinklage should be installed as King of the World.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 26, 2022, 05:31:07 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10441143/Disney-says-taking-new-approach-avoid-reinforcing-stereotypes-dwarfs-Snow-White-remake.html

Is he pissed he hasn't been asked to be in the film?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 26, 2022, 07:52:46 PM
The 7 Izzo's?

🤣🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 27, 2022, 10:57:37 AM
Peter Dinklage should be installed as King of the World.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h28P6jgO7zM

lmao
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 27, 2022, 11:07:50 AM
Wow, they really beat that joke into the ground. I made it to :58 and can't imagine what another 64 seconds could have done for it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 27, 2022, 11:32:32 AM
Wow, they really beat that joke into the ground. I made it to :58 and can't imagine what another 64 seconds could have done for it.

it was another 30 seconds

but anyway

reminded me of a SNL skit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 27, 2022, 11:57:48 AM
You don't say? Juvenile comedy produced for a televisual medium. Huh.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 27, 2022, 12:01:12 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/272849196_1895288954010464_2079703725132822973_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=rs-hoTYfgqQAX9O2hmI&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=00_AT9FzYI_QebVOtkqnYrUXAAdCzEpmcR2ecAtiioHIjX3Iw&oe=61F7C3C2)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 27, 2022, 12:11:25 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/272849196_1895288954010464_2079703725132822973_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=rs-hoTYfgqQAX9O2hmI&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=00_AT9FzYI_QebVOtkqnYrUXAAdCzEpmcR2ecAtiioHIjX3Iw&oe=61F7C3C2)

And apparently nobody even cares 😂

I’ll take Crosby, Stills, and Nash. You can keep the Young  fr!!

Reminds me of the scene in Tombstone where Johnny Ringo says, “well bye.” 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 27, 2022, 12:23:15 PM
People with principles often act in ways that are financially disadvantageous. It's kind of the definition of "principled" in fact.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 27, 2022, 12:31:38 PM
"While Only Love Can Break Your Heart, it seems Neil has decided he need no longer live on Sugar Mountain to reap his Harvest. He's seen the Needle and Damage Done." 

"Now he will be Out of the Blue and Into the Black because of his Heart of Gold."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 27, 2022, 02:58:40 PM
People with principles often act in ways that are financially disadvantageous. It's kind of the definition of "principled" in fact.

I doubt this hurts his financial status much at all.  Don't think he's hurting.  Didn't he recently sell off a bunch of his catalog? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 27, 2022, 03:30:20 PM
Spotify generated 60% of his streaming income.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 27, 2022, 03:41:04 PM
Spotify generated 60% of his streaming income.

Ok.  But what I'm saying is that in all likelihood, he doesn't need what Spotify brings in.  I would wager with his lengthy career he's doing alright without streaming income.  But, I have nothing to back that up.   ;D 

Edit:  The google button says his net worth is 200 million.  Sooooo, yeah. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 27, 2022, 04:28:22 PM
Real martyrdom here folks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 27, 2022, 04:53:50 PM
Real martyrdom here folks.

Donald Trump donated his salary to charity (allegedly).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 27, 2022, 04:55:54 PM
Donald Trump donated his salary to charity (allegedly).

and?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 27, 2022, 05:06:01 PM
Exactly. Is it a competition? Like who gives a fuck if Trump did or Young did? They have every right to and it’s their choice. What’s the big deal?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on January 27, 2022, 06:57:13 PM
He didn't donate his salary.

OF COURSE he didn't. You fucking rubes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 27, 2022, 07:18:41 PM
And apparently nobody even cares 😂

I’ll take Crosby, Stills, and Nash. You can keep the Young  fr!!

Reminds me of the scene in Tombstone where Johnny Ringo says, “well bye.” 😂

Anyone who comes to that conclusion hears someone ask "David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar" and responds "Gary Cherone"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 27, 2022, 07:19:20 PM
He didn't donate his salary.

OF COURSE he didn't. You fucking rubes.

You were the one that suggested it was a big sacrifice.  60% of his streaming.  BFD.  Of the handful of big artists I've read comment say that spotify pays them shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 27, 2022, 07:20:59 PM
Ok.  But what I'm saying is that in all likelihood, he doesn't need what Spotify brings in.  I would wager with his lengthy career he's doing alright without streaming income.  But, I have nothing to back that up.   ;D 

Edit:  The google button says his net worth is 200 million.  Sooooo, yeah.
He owns several hundred acres in the Santa Cruz mountains, I can't even fathom what the value of that ranch is
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 27, 2022, 07:27:53 PM
Something completely different:

Annoying popular words and phrases:

That is amazing!
This is so good.
I know, right?
Perfect!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 27, 2022, 07:35:56 PM
Anyone who comes to that conclusion hears someone ask "David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar" and responds "Gary Cherone"

😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 28, 2022, 10:05:42 AM
Weber email headline today:

"Bite-sized fun for everyone."

I just assumed Peter Dinklage died today.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 31, 2022, 07:42:23 PM


 (https://i.ibb.co/Pc67dML/Screenshot-20220131-192820.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HtHWjCS)

 nb!!
🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 01, 2022, 01:42:11 PM
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/02/01/watch-massive-brawl-breaks-out-in-bensalem-golden-corral-over-alleged-steak-shortage/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 01, 2022, 01:49:56 PM
That's great.

There's gotta be an issue where we can pit MAGATs against each other. This could be it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on February 02, 2022, 05:09:00 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/273022657_1868110773387734_1640899053630540663_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=hK4a7GaCAWEAX9UDHL6&tn=vK97XeHoFtXRwq6F&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=00_AT-wMq5LkdGxIW6FNkcOR38zj67gU2VRhk4jdMvbzK8dxA&oe=61FF55A8)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 02, 2022, 05:38:18 PM
😂🤣😂🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 03, 2022, 11:51:51 AM
And apparently nobody even cares 😂

I’ll take Crosby, Stills, and Nash. You can keep the Young  fr!!

Reminds me of the scene in Tombstone where Johnny Ringo says, “well bye.” 😂

Crosby, Stills and Nash are withdrawing music from Spotify over misinformation
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077653424/crosby-stills-nash-young-spotify

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunite…against Spotify.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 03, 2022, 12:52:22 PM
Crosby, Stills and Nash are withdrawing music from Spotify over misinformation
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077653424/crosby-stills-nash-young-spotify

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunite…against Spotify.

Well, bye, and don’t let the door hit ya in the ass. All because they want Spotify to censor people. Yeah that’s not fascist at all.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 03, 2022, 01:06:26 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/RP3HK7m/Screenshot-20220203-121422.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rMxyhvS)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 03, 2022, 01:09:56 PM
😂🤣 so much for that huh
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 03, 2022, 01:11:29 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/RP3HK7m/Screenshot-20220203-121422.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rMxyhvS)

I get it, but they are not censoring Spotify.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 03, 2022, 01:17:40 PM
I get it, but they are not censoring Spotify.

Ding, ding, ding.  Also:

‘A Menace to Public Health’: Doctors Demand Spotify Puts an End to Covid Lies on ‘Joe Rogan Experience’
“Although many have criticized Spotify for hosting Rogan on its platform, the open letter to Spotify does not request that Rogan’s show be taken off Spotify, nor does it demand that Spotify remove the Malone episode in particular. Rather, it is calling on Spotify to develop a comprehensive policy prohibiting misinformation.  ‘Any podcast that platforms dangerous people, people spreading dangerous ideas and misinformation, should not be allowed to go unchecked on the Spotify platform.’”
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/covid-misinformation-joe-rogan-spotify-petition-1282240/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 03, 2022, 01:49:37 PM
I get it, but they are not censoring Spotify.

No, they just want Spotify to do it for them. Is that any better?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 03, 2022, 01:58:56 PM
I get it, but they are not censoring Spotify.
Correct. It's some of the content on Spotify that is disagreed with.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 03, 2022, 02:09:41 PM
Correct. It's some of the content on Spotify that is disagreed with.

They aren't alone apparently.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 03, 2022, 02:40:44 PM
They aren't alone apparently.
Joni Mitchell ?
"This is a song that talks about sides to things. In most cases there are both sides to things and in a lot of cases there are more than just both."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 03, 2022, 02:57:27 PM
Joni Mitchell ?
"This is a song that talks about sides to things. In most cases there are both sides to things and in a lot of cases there are more than just both."

She is Canadian.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 03, 2022, 03:07:06 PM
Joni Mitchell ?
"This is a song that talks about sides to things. In most cases there are both sides to things and in a lot of cases there are more than just both."

Bothsiderism?  Good luck with that. 

Mitchell's decision is not a meditation on reality and fantasy. 

She’s pulling her song catalog off Spotify because “irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives.”
https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=5101
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 03, 2022, 03:26:55 PM
She is Canadian.
She cant sing either
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 03, 2022, 05:14:06 PM
She cant sing either

I always liked her version of "Both Sides Now" better than Judy Collins's. 

I don't do spotify or podcasts in general. I have no idea if Joe Rogan presents all sides in an objective manner, or if he is another "butthurt" right wing hack claiming to be fair and balanced.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 03, 2022, 05:19:52 PM
Fox reporting that Loudon County VA will begin charging students who show up without masks with trespassing.

Of course, this won't do any good. Liberal prosecutors will put them back out on the street to offend again.

I think they should charge them as adults.

Someone tell golf this is satire. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 03, 2022, 05:28:59 PM
I always liked her version of "Both Sides Now" better than Judy Collins's. 

I don't do spotify or podcasts in general. I have no idea if Joe Rogan presents all sides in an objective manner, or if he is another "butthurt" right wing hack claiming to be fair and balanced.
I don't do Spotify or podcasts either and excuse me if I think Joni Mitchell hasn't listened to one of Joe Rogan's "controversial" podcasts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 03, 2022, 05:33:27 PM
I don't do Spotify or podcasts either and excuse me if I think Joni Mitchell hasn't listened to one of Joe Rogan's "controversial" podcasts.

People who don't think she could sing need to listen to "Help Me."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 03, 2022, 05:52:06 PM
People who don't think she could sing need to listen to "Help Me."
Nails on a chalkboard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 03, 2022, 07:23:10 PM
Ding, ding, ding.  Also:

‘A Menace to Public Health’: Doctors Demand Spotify Puts an End to Covid Lies on ‘Joe Rogan Experience’
“Although many have criticized Spotify for hosting Rogan on its platform, the open letter to Spotify does not request that Rogan’s show be taken off Spotify, nor does it demand that Spotify remove the Malone episode in particular. Rather, it is calling on Spotify to develop a comprehensive policy prohibiting misinformation.  ‘Any podcast that platforms dangerous people, people spreading dangerous ideas and misinformation, should not be allowed to go unchecked on the Spotify platform.’”
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/covid-misinformation-joe-rogan-spotify-petition-1282240/

Gee I don’t see how policie like this could possibly be abused
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 03, 2022, 07:44:52 PM
I believe in a free market of ideas, but the first amendment includes the  right to boycott.

An aside, even though I tend to favor free markets over central planning, the invisible hand is bunk.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 03, 2022, 10:01:45 PM
Gee I don’t see how policie like this could possibly be abused

A corporate policy prohibiting the dissemination of false and dangerous information that can get people killed?  Potential abuse?  I don’t think you have anything to worry about.  Spotify has an exclusive, multiyear $100m contract with Rogan.   

But I hear the company is working on advisory labels for some content.
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2022-01-30/spotifys-platform-rules-and-approach-to-covid-19/
 
Here’s the advisory for the Rogan podcast: “WARNING: You may die if you believe any of the crap this person says, but, c'mon man, bro Joe brings a lot of money our way.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 03, 2022, 10:29:19 PM
If you want to learn how to ski you have to look down the mountain instead of looking at your feet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 05, 2022, 09:44:30 AM
If you want to learn how to ski you have to look down the mountain instead of looking at your feet.

That’s good advice, even for a BIG STREAMING SERVICE like Spotify.

Here’s a few more words of wisdom:  “Under no circumstances should one seek guidance from a Joe Rogan podcast while learning to ski.   You may end up crashing into a stationary object or flying off the mountain.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 07, 2022, 09:55:10 AM
Smile for the camera, kids.

(https://i.ibb.co/X36HkfD/Screenshot-20220207-095008.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gPQYFbd)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 07, 2022, 10:32:47 AM

“Atticus Finch, of course is in everyone’s memory the great hero of the book, but in fact he was kind of tolerant of the racism around him. He described one of the members of the lynch mob as a good man.”

Students and community members also cited the book’s use of the n-word as a reason for removing it from the required list.

“And it never has a discussion of why that word is bad why it is hurtful or why it should not be used,” Gahagan said. “You don’t really get the perspective of the pain that might cause people of color.”

Mukilteo School District removes ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from required reading list
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/mukilteo-school-district-removes-to-kill-a-mockingbird-from-required-reading-list/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 07, 2022, 12:49:31 PM
How will kids learn history if they're taught that everyone had 21st century values at all periods of human evolution?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 07, 2022, 01:09:05 PM
Mukilteo School District removes ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from required reading list
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/mukilteo-school-district-removes-to-kill-a-mockingbird-from-required-reading-list/

To make up for the book’s removal, the school district plans to add The Lord of the Flies to the required reading list.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 07, 2022, 07:17:21 PM
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/

Up to $30 million over 3 years, but the headline is misleading. "The priority populations for this program are underserved communities that are greatly
impacted by SUD (substance use disorders). Underserved communities are defined under section 2 of Executive Order 13985.
.
Rest assured tho. The applications will be reviewed based on "The strengths and weaknesses of the application as identified by peer reviewers."

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 07, 2022, 09:08:50 PM
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/

Up to $30 million over 3 years, but the headline is misleading. "The priority populations for this program are underserved communities that are greatly
impacted by SUD (substance use disorders). Underserved communities are defined under section 2 of Executive Order 13985.
.
Rest assured tho. The applications will be reviewed based on "The strengths and weaknesses of the application as identified by peer reviewers."

Poor people have just as much right to get just as screwed up as everyone else.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 07, 2022, 09:29:39 PM
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/

Up to $30 million over 3 years, but the headline is misleading. "The priority populations for this program are underserved communities that are greatly
impacted by SUD (substance use disorders). Underserved communities are defined under section 2 of Executive Order 13985.
.
Rest assured tho. The applications will be reviewed based on "The strengths and weaknesses of the application as identified by peer reviewers."

The purpose of this federal grant program is to support community-based overdose prevention programs, syringe services programs and other harm reduction services.  Yes, this includes the distribution of “safe smoking supplies” to help reduce the sharing of substance use equipment and reduce the spread of infectious diseases. 

Here’s a list other services that are eligible for funding under the program:
•   Distribution of overdose-reversal medications and fentanyl test strips
•   Overdose education and counseling
•   Management or expansion of syringe services programs (which help control the spread of infectious diseases like HIV and
        hepatitis C)
•   Provision of sterile syringes
•   Provision of safe-sex kits
•   Prevention education about synthetic opioids and other substances
•   Peer worker engagement
•   Medical services
•   Case management and referral to treatment

Eligible applicants include States; local, Tribal, and territorial governments; Tribal organizations; non-profit community-based organizations; and primary and behavioral health organizations.
https://treatmentmagazine.com/the-biden-administration-sinks-30-million-into-harm-reduction/
https://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/press-announcements/202112081000
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 07, 2022, 10:17:09 PM
Maybe they could just spend the $30 million on an overdose reduction plan by slowing the fentanyl coming across our southern border.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 07, 2022, 11:47:00 PM
How will kids learn history if they're taught that everyone had 21st century values at all periods of human evolution?

Apparently, we can't teach that humans are morally nuanced. Otherwise decent people are capable of doing bad things.

I wonder if "The Oxbow Incident" is on any reading lists? We can read that and think those were bad guys. Or we can see they got caught up in the herd mentality and that can happen to us.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 07, 2022, 11:50:53 PM
Maybe they could just spend the $30 million on an overdose reduction plan by slowing the fentanyl coming across our southern border.

Yes, because the chinese and the cartels force Americans to use opioids
 and opiates? The solution is to reduce the supply? How about doing something about demand?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 08, 2022, 02:53:58 PM
Maybe they could just spend the $30 million on an overdose reduction plan by slowing the fentanyl coming across our southern border.

So you're saying these Hillbilly elegy folks would be clean and sober if they just didn't have access to fentanyl. In other words your standard rural GOP voter has no self control.

Somehow I've managed to avoid a fentanyl addiction despite this flood of drugs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 08, 2022, 03:00:44 PM
I've even taken fentanyl and avoided addiction.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 08, 2022, 04:19:47 PM
So you're saying these Hillbilly elegy folks would be clean and sober if they just didn't have access to fentanyl. In other words your standard rural GOP voter has no self control.

Somehow I've managed to avoid a fentanyl addiction despite this flood of drugs

But have you let a homeless person live in your spare bedroom?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/07/how-bay-area-homeowners-can-help-house-homeless-residents/amp/
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Post by: murphstahoe on February 08, 2022, 05:07:02 PM
But have you let a homeless person live in your spare bedroom?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/07/how-bay-area-homeowners-can-help-house-homeless-residents/amp/
A lovely way for the landed gentry to block affordable housing development - "oh we could get homeowners to put the homeless in their spare bedrooms"

True story - in order to prevent affordable housing, the town of Woodside is claiming that the entire area is sensitive Mountain Lion habitat

https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2022/02/02/woodside-freezes-sb-9-projects-with-town-citing-excemption-for-mountain-lion-habitats

Looks like they've been embarrassed into trying to find a different BS story
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 08, 2022, 06:37:21 PM
I guess the answer is "no".
How about a safe injection site across the street instead ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 08, 2022, 07:56:05 PM
Maybe they could just spend the $30 million on an overdose reduction plan by slowing the fentanyl coming across our southern border.

The news is not all bad.  Border agents are making some progress in seizing fentanyl at the border.

Border agents have seized more fentanyl in the last 7 months than the year before, CBP says
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/18/us/fentanyl-seizures-customs-border-trnd/index.html

Fentanyl seizures at U.S. southern border rise dramatically
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fentanyl-seizures-u-s-southern-border-rise-dramatically-n1272676

1,066% increase in fentanyl seizures at US border
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/1066-increase-in-fentanyl-seizures-at-us-border/

Authorities seize 2.8 tons of meth and fentanyl along California border
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meth-fentanyl-2-8-tons-seized-california-border/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 08, 2022, 08:21:15 PM
Way to go Sleepy Joe?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 09, 2022, 09:02:53 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/N2f6X8Z/1-D20480-A-935-A-4-E54-8148-BFB918-ABCB1-B.jpg) (https://ibb.co/N2f6X8Z)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 09, 2022, 08:58:18 PM
The purpose of this federal grant program is to support community-based overdose prevention programs, syringe services programs and other harm reduction services.  Yes, this includes the distribution of “safe smoking supplies” to help reduce the sharing of substance use equipment and reduce the spread of infectious diseases. 

Here’s a list other services that are eligible for funding under the program:
•   Distribution of overdose-reversal medications and fentanyl test strips
•   Overdose education and counseling
•   Management or expansion of syringe services programs (which help control the spread of infectious diseases like HIV and
        hepatitis C)
•   Provision of sterile syringes
•   Provision of safe-sex kits
•   Prevention education about synthetic opioids and other substances
•   Peer worker engagement
•   Medical services
•   Case management and referral to treatment

Eligible applicants include States; local, Tribal, and territorial governments; Tribal organizations; non-profit community-based organizations; and primary and behavioral health organizations.
https://treatmentmagazine.com/the-biden-administration-sinks-30-million-into-harm-reduction/
https://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/press-announcements/202112081000

'No,no,no. We are not going to, nor were we intending to give out crack pipes. Right wing conspiracists misinterpreted alcohol wipes and lip balm as safe smoking supplies to mean pipes.'
🤡🤡🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 10, 2022, 09:10:47 AM
Educate yourself
https://www.tni.org/en/primer/coca-leaf-myths-and-reality
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 10, 2022, 12:40:50 PM
'No,no,no. We are not going to, nor were we intending to give out crack pipes. Right wing conspiracists misinterpreted alcohol wipes and lip balm as safe smoking supplies to mean pipes.'
🤡🤡🤡

Strawman Alert.

I acknowledged the existence of the safer smoking kits in my post (see 2nd sentence, first paragraph).  I also never said the article from the Washington Free Beacon was a “right-wing conspiracy theory.”

I just thought it was important to indicate the purpose of the safe smoking kits and point out that the federal harm reduction funds could be used for a variety of other purposes. 

Safe smoking kits are designed to reduce infections among drug addicts.  The kits have been around for at least a decade (in places like Vancouver, San Francisco, Maryland and Kentucky).  Some have included the distribution of nearly-free glass pipes, even from vending machines.  Not sure I like that.  Safe smoking kits don't seem to be super common compared to needles, wipes, HIV med and so forth.   

This would be the first time that safe smoking kits could be funded as part of a federal program.  Local governments and service  organizations would decide whether to seek funding for distribution of the kits.  The Biden Administration said that the grant program would not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth.  Apparently the kits would only include mouthpieces, screens and disinfectant wipes. 
https://www.fox46.com/health-care/feds-say-no-taxpayer-money-for-safer-drug-smoking-pipes/

There seems to be strong support for safe smoking kits among public health advocates as a pragmatic approach for reducing hepatitis and HIV rates among drug addicts.  Here’s a good explainer: 
https://www.nchrc.org/harm-reduction/crack-use/.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 10, 2022, 02:25:22 PM
Strawman Alert.

I acknowledged the existence of the safer smoking kits in my post (see 2nd sentence, first paragraph).  I also never said the article from the Washington Free Beacon was a “right-wing conspiracy theory.”

I just thought it was important to indicate the purpose of the safe smoking kits and point out that the federal harm reduction funds could be used for a variety of other purposes. 

Safe smoking kits are designed to reduce infections among drug addicts.  The kits have been around for at least a decade (in places like Vancouver, San Francisco, Maryland and Kentucky).  Some have included the distribution of nearly-free glass pipes, even from vending machines.  Not sure I like that.  Safe smoking kits don't seem to be super common compared to needles, wipes, HIV med and so forth.   

This would be the first time that safe smoking kits could be funded as part of a federal program.  Local governments and service  organizations would decide whether to seek funding for distribution of the kits.  The Biden Administration said that the grant program would not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth.  Apparently the kits would only include mouthpieces, screens and disinfectant wipes. 
https://www.fox46.com/health-care/feds-say-no-taxpayer-money-for-safer-drug-smoking-pipes/

There seems to be strong support for safe smoking kits among public health advocates as a pragmatic approach for reducing hepatitis and HIV rates among drug addicts.  Here’s a good explainer: 
https://www.nchrc.org/harm-reduction/crack-use/.


And the Fox46 link is a story written about the WH position after the backlash and the question of the legality of drug paraphernalia possession.
From the link, "The White House was put on the defensive as outrage from the political right"....

And from another story ...
" On Monday an HHS spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon that included in these kits could be pipes for users to smoke substances like crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, or 'any illicit substance.'

Buy all of the pipes you want and hand them out. That's up to you. Or if private organizations want to do it, that's up to them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 10, 2022, 02:33:07 PM
And the Fox46 link is a story written about the WH position after the backlash and the question of the legality of drug paraphernalia possession.
From the link, "The White House was put on the defensive as outrage from the political right"....

And from another story ...
" On Monday an HHS spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon that included in these kits could be pipes for users to smoke substances like crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, or 'any illicit substance.'

Buy all of the pipes you want and hand them out. That's up to you. Or if private organizations want to do it, that's up to them.

Can they use the pipes to smoke Captain Black pipe tobacco?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 10, 2022, 03:24:59 PM
Can they use the pipes to smoke Captain Black pipe tobacco?
Dunno. I've never seen crack. But I'm guessing "no".
Besides, possessing a meerschaum pipe is legal. Crack pipes, not so much so in most places.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on February 10, 2022, 04:23:05 PM
The White House was never giving out crack pipes.  Anyone who pretends otherwise should be ignored.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 10, 2022, 07:52:45 PM
And from another story ...
" On Monday an HHS spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon that included in these kits could be pipes for users to smoke substances like crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, or 'any illicit substance.'

Does this HHS spokesperson have a name?

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 11, 2022, 07:03:54 AM
The original grant language includes "safe smoking kits/supplies".
The grant language does not specify that pipes may be included in the "safe smoking kits",
but the grant language does not prohibit the inclusion of pipes in a "safe smoking kit".
If HHS wanted funding for supplies, don't include the language for kits.
The end.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on February 11, 2022, 08:43:05 AM
Your entire argument is “it doesn’t say they AREN’T giving out crack pipes”.

Please vet your sources better.  Stop falling for outrage machine nonsense.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 11, 2022, 09:11:53 AM
You think no one  at HHS raised an eyebrow when they included "safe smoking kits" in the language ? You think no one at HHS had the oresence of mind to google "safe smoking kits" when they wrote the grant ? You think no one at HHS had an inkling of what may be included in a "safe smoking kit" ?
The " source" is the grant language.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 11, 2022, 09:21:07 AM
You're dumb.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on February 11, 2022, 09:31:15 AM
Can't fix stupid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 11, 2022, 10:00:22 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/GxF48MY/75-FA36-B8-1-D79-4757-929-B-0-F4-F0-DFA96-E2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GxF48MY)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 11, 2022, 10:02:40 AM
Your entire argument is “it doesn’t say they AREN’T giving out crack pipes”.

Please vet your sources better.  Stop falling for outrage machine nonsense.

Outside of Jobu there isn’t a poster here that’s as consistently outraged as spark mandriller ! McLassie, Tempo and PAThey are in the team photo 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on February 11, 2022, 10:18:46 AM
Peppermint Patty said the kits will have some Carmex and baby wipes.  Drug users are now marked safe from HIV and the hep.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on February 11, 2022, 10:50:47 AM
Outside of Jobu there isn’t a poster here that’s as consistently outraged as spark mandriller ! McLassie, Tempo and PAThey are in the team photo

I laughed.

You’re a parody account right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 11, 2022, 10:53:51 AM
Maybe the WFB reporter got things wrong about the contents of the safe smoking kits.  Maybe the reporter never asked about crack pipes.  Maybe he just assumed the smoking kits would include the pipes because a few cities have experimented with their distribution.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/free-crack-pipes-myth-rooted-in-false-free-beacon-report

There’s an old adage in journalism, “If your mother says she loves you, check on it.”

My guess is the grant program staff did not flag the crack pipe issue to HHS senior management, and therefore it was not brought to the attention of the White House.   

That’s not good, but it’s something that can be fixed.  Future grant solicitations should include a definitions section.   And senior management should be made aware of any significant policy issues.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 11, 2022, 11:05:10 AM
Outside of Jobu there isn’t a poster here that’s as consistently outraged as spark mandriller ! McLassie, Tempo and PAThey are in the team photo

I'm outraged that I'm only in the team photo and Spark is in the center.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 11, 2022, 12:38:21 PM
how long till the biden administration caves to the DPA?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10499799/Liberal-drug-group-criticizes-Biden-administration-NOT-giving-free-crack-pipes.html

Quote
Liberal drug group now criticizes Biden administration for NOT giving out free crack pipes in safe smoking and harm reduction kits that include 'lip balm, alcohol swabs, fentanyl testing strips and clean syringes' - and have infuriated Republicans

    The Drug Policy Alliance said the decision to 'remove pipes from safe smoking equipment is deeply disappointing'
    'Harm reduction works to meet people where they are at, and keep people free of diseases and alive so they have a chance of recovery and healing'
    The Biden admin may not be handing out free crack pipes, but a $30 million grant program will dole out materials for addicts to utilize when using drugs
    Also funded are harm reduction vending machines, medication to reverse a drug overdose, medication lock boxes, infectious disease testing kits
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 11, 2022, 12:52:33 PM
how long till the biden administration caves do the DPA?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10499799/Liberal-drug-group-criticizes-Biden-administration-NOT-giving-free-crack-pipes.html

Well played.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 11, 2022, 01:07:54 PM
Maybe the WFB reporter got things wrong about the contents of the safe smoking kits.  Maybe the reporter never asked about crack pipes.  Maybe he just assumed the smoking kits would include the pipes because a few cities have experimented with their distribution.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/free-crack-pipes-myth-rooted-in-false-free-beacon-report

There’s an old adage in journalism, “If your mother says she loves you, check on it.”

My guess is the grant program staff did not flag the crack pipe issue to HHS senior management, and therefore it was not brought to the attention of the White House.   

That’s not good, but it’s something that can be fixed.  Future grant solicitations should include a definitions section.   And senior management should be made aware of any significant policy issues.

Good. Whatever the issue is/was, we agree that the grant language is an issue.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on February 11, 2022, 01:51:16 PM
The issue was a right-wing media environment that makes things up, and people who rush to post them without taking half a second to check if they're true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 12, 2022, 09:52:30 AM
Lock boxes
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 18, 2022, 11:08:02 AM
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/another-all-time-media-faceplant

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 18, 2022, 11:36:25 AM
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/another-all-time-media-faceplant

Oh brother. You don't think there is PR and strategic reasons he was doing that? And there is a connection to no full scale invasion, but now artillery fire?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 18, 2022, 12:22:21 PM
Oh brother. You don't think there is PR and strategic reasons he was doing that?
Are you referring to the Alfa Bank hoax he told the world about ?
😁
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 18, 2022, 12:47:41 PM
Are you referring to the Alfa Bank hoax he told the world about ?
😁

Sounding like Alfa Bank will be targeted for sanctions if they do go in!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 18, 2022, 12:48:40 PM
Oh brother. You don't think there is PR and strategic reasons he was doing that? And there is a connection to no full scale invasion, but now artillery fire?

did you read the whole article?  or even listen to it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 18, 2022, 01:30:55 PM
did you read the whole article?  or even listen to it?

No, and no. Of course he didn’t.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 18, 2022, 02:34:56 PM
The whole Russia/Trump story never passed the sniff test to me, nor did Pizzagate, nor Hunter Biden’s laptop.

None of this passes my sniff test either, but I am sure it does to the people who’ve spent the last 5-6 years maniacally parroting the Trump/Russia narrative.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 18, 2022, 05:14:13 PM
I'll add the pangolin and natural origin theory.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 18, 2022, 06:42:22 PM
I would add the moon landing, anthropogenic global warming, round earth, holocaust, vaccines, mass shootings and 2020 election results.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 18, 2022, 07:24:45 PM
I'll add the pangolin and natural origin theory.

Yes
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 18, 2022, 07:25:23 PM
I would add the moon landing, anthropogenic global warming, round earth, holocaust, vaccines, mass shootings and 2020 election results.

No. Throw in 9/11 and we might have something though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on February 18, 2022, 08:12:25 PM
No. Throw in 9/11 and we might have something though.

How about the Millennium Panic?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 18, 2022, 09:37:56 PM
did you read the whole article?  or even listen to it?

I read until the part about a free trial to read the rest. Up to that point, it was "ok...the media is reporting what they are being told"...which we have no clue whether that caused Putin to change course/delay or not. I also heard numerous reports the past few days that the Soviets we're pulling troops out and...it wasn't true. Maybe he can report on that too.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 21, 2022, 06:55:38 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/6wP0jYw/0-D361-D92-717-C-4-C26-957-C-241-F7-B1-E74-CC.jpg) (https://ibb.co/H4zT574)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 21, 2022, 07:07:58 PM
2022 article
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 21, 2022, 08:19:48 PM
One thing Trump was right about was how the NYT sucks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 21, 2022, 09:32:42 PM
My favorite reader comment:

“Wow.  I am astounded that a pair of adults needs to seek guidance on such a simple and basic issue.  Your children’s health and safety come first.  Not white guilt, not terminal wokeness, not PC, or moral timidity.  It is articles like this which will cause this 50-year NYTimes reader to pack it in for good.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 22, 2022, 10:19:08 AM
The whole Russia/Trump story
How do you define this concept?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 22, 2022, 12:59:35 PM
How do you define this concept?

A certain someone's silence, in light of the events that have transpired, tells you all you need to know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on February 22, 2022, 04:29:40 PM
I just don't understand the meme. Trump and Putin are not secretive about their fondness for each other.

The Internet Research Agency's work is an acknowledged fact. The Trump kids talk openly about their Russian funding.

I know that part of the bizarre populist movement is a black-is-white bizarro viewpoint + a shitload of projection.

Reducing all that too "the Trump/Russia story" is conveniently obscurantist, but I believe Fart likes to strut his knowledge out for public display, so I'm not following this feint.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2022, 11:29:33 AM
Interesting poll

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1669/general-mood-country.aspx
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 25, 2022, 11:32:41 AM
Interesting poll

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1669/general-mood-country.aspx

surprised its that high to be honest
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2022, 01:00:23 PM
surprised its that high to be honest

Look at the history. That is what I found interesting. It has been below 50% for 18 years. Cinton had the best numbers and it's not even close.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 25, 2022, 01:13:47 PM
Look at the history. That is what I found interesting. It has been below 50% for 18 years. Cinton had the best numbers and it's not even close.

the 90's were awesome, glad I got to live my youth during that time period

Reagan era was a big jump up from the carter era and yeah... both bushes sure fucked things up
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2022, 05:50:22 PM
W Bush got a bump from 911 and another one from the Iraq invasion. The nation rallied behind him.

2001 Sep 14-15   61   36   3
2001 Sep 7-10   43   55   2

2003 Mar 22-23   60   38   2
2003 Mar 3-5   36   61   3

I don't see anything like that happening again anytime soon.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 02, 2022, 03:15:16 PM
Daniel McAdams, Col. Douglas Macgregor,  and Tucker Carslon want you to believe Viktor Yanukovych's illegitimate political presecution of Yulia Tymoshenko is morally equivalent to Ukraine's legitimate efforts to prosecute Yanukovich.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 02, 2022, 03:23:46 PM
Daniel McAdams, Col. Douglas Macgregor,  and Tucker Carslon want you to believe Viktor Yanukovych's illegitimate political presecution of Yulia Tymoshenko is morally equivalent to Ukraine's legitimate efforts to prosecute Yanukovich.

And Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the Democratic Party want you to believe they are all for funding the police now!😂🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 02, 2022, 04:18:41 PM
The rap in Harris was always that she's too cop-friendly.  Joe has always had the support of police and firefighters.

Thanks for reminding us how dumb you are.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 02, 2022, 04:29:05 PM
And Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the Democratic Party want you to believe they are all for funding the police now!😂🤣

You might want to check with the defund the police folks at Black Lives Matter.  They don't seem to be big fans of Biden and other Democratic leaders.   

https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/biden-breaks-with-blm-movement-to-oppose-defunding-the-police/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democratic-leaders-clash-black-lives-matter-activists-over-defund-police-n1227671

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/11/defund-police-organizers-to-biden-were-not-going-away/

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/blm-garza-defund-the-police-443667

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/black-lives-matter-leaders-met-with-biden-white-house-officials-on-police-reform.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 02, 2022, 04:36:33 PM
The rap in Harris was always that she's too cop-friendly.  Joe has always had the support of police and firefighters.

Thanks for reminding us how dumb you are.

She will do whatever is in HER best interest. Flip flopping all the way to wherever she plans on going and whatever way is best for her.

And no, the police and firefighters have mostly turned there backs on Biden. First it was defund them and the platform he ran on and now all the sudden he’s back for them? Nah, if you can’t see it then you’re the dumb one. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 02, 2022, 05:29:53 PM
The rap in Harris was always that she's too cop-friendly.  Joe has always had the support of police and firefighters.

Thanks for reminding us how dumb you are.
Harris *is* a cop.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 02, 2022, 05:33:49 PM
Harris *is* a cop.
Well, prosecutor. But yeah.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: fucking on March 02, 2022, 05:34:41 PM
Judy's getting all his news from Facebook.

Cool.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 02, 2022, 07:04:37 PM
You might want to check with the defund the police folks at Black Lives Matter.  They don't seem to be big fans of Biden and other Democratic leaders.   

https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/biden-breaks-with-blm-movement-to-oppose-defunding-the-police/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democratic-leaders-clash-black-lives-matter-activists-over-defund-police-n1227671

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/11/defund-police-organizers-to-biden-were-not-going-away/

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/blm-garza-defund-the-police-443667

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/black-lives-matter-leaders-met-with-biden-white-house-officials-on-police-reform.html

Those links are Western MSM (as if Mother Jones is "MSM") nonsense! JudgeJudy is the one with all the accurate info based on something Golf DM'd him he found on The Internets! Get with it, Alum!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 02, 2022, 07:07:58 PM
Well, prosecutor. But yeah.

When you have to go to court because you got a ticket for riding your bike on the sidewalk, they are all fascist cops. That is, until your bike is bikejacked.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 03, 2022, 12:25:57 AM
https://youtu.be/4sTs42YOYIg
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 03, 2022, 06:58:27 AM
Would have a field day here.

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-ai-mental-disorders-based-web.html

AI model detects mental disorders based on web posts
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on March 03, 2022, 08:48:59 AM
Would have a field day here.

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-ai-mental-disorders-based-web.html

AI model detects mental disorders based on web posts

It's a better world if it can better match people with their proper meds.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 03, 2022, 10:21:11 AM
Judy's getting all his news from Facebook.

Cool.

Don't worry, its been "fact checked" I'm sure, otherwise it wouldn't be on there, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 03, 2022, 10:28:05 AM
Don't worry, its been "fact checked" I'm sure, otherwise it wouldn't be on there, right?

Just like the stories in the Epoch Times!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 03, 2022, 12:06:03 PM
Don't worry, its been "fact checked" I'm sure, otherwise it wouldn't be on there, right?

Bingo! Someone as smart as Robb should know that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 16, 2022, 09:12:20 PM
Wtf did I just watch?!

https://twitter.com/gottliebshow/status/1504190514479861760?s=21
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 16, 2022, 11:51:10 PM
Astoundingly spot-on. And, necessarily 🤡

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/orwell-was-right?s=r
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 17, 2022, 07:28:36 AM
Astoundingly spot-on. And, necessarily 🤡

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/orwell-was-right?s=r

A. Someone may want to tell Cornell West that there not US soldiers stationed in the Ukraine at the time of the invasion, nor was that a reason given for the invasion by Putin.

B. Someone may want to tell Matt Taibii that there is a difference between the Soviet government issuing laws criminalizing "Fake News" and dictating what the Soviet news organizations say and say, The FaceBook, a business not subject to the First Amendment, allowing content about killing Soviets.

Other than those huge caveats, and that we still have Golf and Dominic able to spout Soviet propaganda here, sure, spot on!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2022, 09:48:51 AM
The US did remove the national guard troops we’d had there since November to train/advise/mentor Ukrainian armed forces sometime around mid-February. And have sent bunches more to NATO states bordering the conflict.

And big tech is so woven into the fabric of our government anymore that we have come to the point where we are pretending we don’t have mass censorship by hiding it under the guise of private company free speech.

“According to an analysis of more than 1,000 financial disclosures, senior Biden Administration officials were more likely to have worked with Google, Facebook or Microsoft than any other private sector employers.”


https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericfan/2022/03/07/beltway-big-tech-former-silicon-valley-execs-in-the-biden-administration/?sh=7d12ef55720b

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 17, 2022, 11:13:19 AM
The US did remove the national guard troops we’d had there since November to train/advise/mentor Ukrainian armed forces sometime around mid-February. And have sent bunches more to NATO states bordering the conflict.

And big tech is so woven into the fabric of our government anymore that we have come to the point where we are pretending we don’t have mass censorship by hiding it under the guise of private company free speech.

“According to an analysis of more than 1,000 financial disclosures, senior Biden Administration officials were more likely to have worked with Google, Facebook or Microsoft than any other private sector employers.”


https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericfan/2022/03/07/beltway-big-tech-former-silicon-valley-execs-in-the-biden-administration/?sh=7d12ef55720b

Looks like the trainers did a decent job.

You want the government dictating, or not dictating, the content here? I doubt you would like that
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 17, 2022, 11:23:18 AM
Looks like the trainers did a decent job.

You want the government dictating, or not dictating, the content here? I doubt you would like that
The N.Y. Post says hi.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 17, 2022, 11:34:38 AM
The N.Y. Post says hi.

The News Gazette loved censoring Cock in Cockburn and suspending Jobu, so there is that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 17, 2022, 11:49:41 AM
And big tech is so woven into the fabric of our government anymore that we have come to the point where we are pretending we don’t have mass censorship by hiding it under the guise of private company free speech.

“According to an analysis of more than 1,000 financial disclosures, senior Biden Administration officials were more likely to have worked with Google, Facebook or Microsoft than any other private sector employers.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericfan/2022/03/07/beltway-big-tech-former-silicon-valley-execs-in-the-biden-administration/?sh=7d12ef55720b

I think Biden’s approach to Big Tech has some positive elements. 

Biden signs order to crack down on Big Tech, boost competition ‘across the board’
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/09/biden-to-sign-executive-order-aimed-at-cracking-down-on-big-tech-business-practices.html

Biden elevates energetic critic of Big Tech as top regulator
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-government-and-politics-57d894c1f85a5d6d2ad4d7d05934e4f8

The White House Wants to Rein In Big Tech. Here’s How
https://www.barrons.com/articles/white-house-big-tech-51629428885

Why Biden’s War On Big Tech Is Misguided
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2021/07/11/why-bidens-attack-on-big-tech-is-misguided/?sh=837428e61e0e

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 17, 2022, 01:29:11 PM
I think Biden’s approach to Big Tech has some positive elements. 

Biden signs order to crack down on Big Tech, boost competition ‘across the board’
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/09/biden-to-sign-executive-order-aimed-at-cracking-down-on-big-tech-business-practices.html

Biden elevates energetic critic of Big Tech as top regulator
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-government-and-politics-57d894c1f85a5d6d2ad4d7d05934e4f8

The White House Wants to Rein In Big Tech. Here’s How
https://www.barrons.com/articles/white-house-big-tech-51629428885

Why Biden’s War On Big Tech Is Misguided
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2021/07/11/why-bidens-attack-on-big-tech-is-misguided/?sh=837428e61e0e

The flip side of civilian defense personnel having worked for military contractors?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 19, 2022, 07:44:48 PM
Here’s the type of trash The New York Times puts out…

https://twitter.com/fitfounder/status/1504939733880918016?s=21
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2022, 08:07:39 PM
Here’s the type of trash The New York Times puts out…

https://twitter.com/fitfounder/status/1504939733880918016?s=21
But sometimes they'll balance trash with truth.

(https://i.ibb.co/QcVMrX2/Screenshot-20220319-200349.jpg) (https://ibb.co/kyTXQMR)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 19, 2022, 09:20:12 PM
Is that legit?! Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2022, 09:27:19 PM
Is that legit?! Lol
Lol.
Nope, but there's always hope.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2022, 09:33:09 PM
Oh brother. Has anyone actually    read the article to see what the point of it is? I haven't, but I can take a few guesses.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 19, 2022, 09:54:10 PM
Lol.
Nope, but there's always hope.

No. No there’s not. Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 20, 2022, 09:04:32 AM
Is that legit?! Lol

Obviously not. Though it is hard to hard to distinguish between stories from NY Post, Fox News, Washington Times, etc.  and the Onion.

It was determined some time ago that emails on the lap top were Hunter's. They just didn't implicate Joe Biden in any improper activity.

Cue MN to assert without evidence that Joe Biden was the Big Guy. WSJ said that business never existed, was planned while Joe Biden was an ordinary citizen,  and the big guy was some Chinese dude.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 20, 2022, 09:09:19 AM
Obviously not. Though it is hard to hard to distinguish between stories from NY Post, Fox News, Washington Times, etc.  and the Onion.

It was determined some time ago that emails on the lap top were Hunter's. They just didn't implicate Joe Biden in any improper activity.

Cue MN to assert without evidence that Joe Biden was the Big Guy. WSJ said that business never existed, was planned while Joe Biden was an ordinary citizen,  and the big guy was some Chinese dude.

And I’m sure you believed all of it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 20, 2022, 09:23:42 AM
Oh brother. Has anyone actually    read the article to see what the point of it is? I haven't, but I can take a few guesses.

I just did. I agree to an extent. I would add that parents should not try to be their children's buddy. They should raise  them. Teach and coach, praise and scold them.

The author did not say do not be with your kiddos. Just let them play their 'tend like games and be there and watch and do your things. She also says that might not work for everyone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/magazine/kids-play.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 20, 2022, 09:51:01 AM
I just did. I agree to an extent. I would add that parents should not try to be their children's buddy. They should raise  them. Teach and coach, praise and scold them.

The author did not say do not be with your kiddos. Just let them play their 'tend like games and be there and watch and do your things. She also says that might not work for everyone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/magazine/kids-play.html

Interesting. Should have known a moron like Idiot Fuckhead Judy didn't actually read the fucking article and just saw the snippet on Twitter and lost his shit for brains.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 20, 2022, 09:52:35 AM
Obviously not. Though it is hard to hard to distinguish between stories from NY Post, Fox News, Washington Times, etc.  and the Onion.

It was determined some time ago that emails on the lap top were Hunter's. They just didn't implicate Joe Biden in any improper activity.

Cue MN to assert without evidence that Joe Biden was the Big Guy. WSJ said that business never existed, was planned while Joe Biden was an ordinary citizen,  and the big guy was some Chinese dude.

Shit for Brains Judy asking if it is real. Can he even wipe his own ass? What a dolt.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 20, 2022, 10:04:09 AM
"The reduction cut the CDC's estimate of deaths in children by 24% to 1,341 as of March 18."
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cdc-reports-fewer-covid-19-pediatric-deaths-after-data-correction-2022-03-18/

It was a coding logic error.
gmafb. 🤡🤡
24%



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 20, 2022, 10:25:55 AM
"The reduction cut the CDC's estimate of deaths in children by 24% to 1,341 as of March 18."
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cdc-reports-fewer-covid-19-pediatric-deaths-after-data-correction-2022-03-18/

It was a coding logic error.
gmafb. 🤡🤡
24%

They are always correcting the jobs reports,  why should this be any different?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 20, 2022, 11:06:11 AM
They are always correcting the jobs reports,  why should this be any different?
24% ?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 20, 2022, 11:07:29 AM
24% ?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

GiGO
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 20, 2022, 11:07:50 AM
24% ?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There’s dumbass ThePAMan saying stupid shit of course. 🥴
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 22, 2022, 11:24:52 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvRo1imzAYw
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 23, 2022, 09:46:39 AM
There’s dumbass ThePAMan saying stupid shit of course. 🥴
Actually, he's correct. Garbage in, garbage out doesn't do a whole lot for any shred of credibility the CDC may have left tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 23, 2022, 09:48:07 AM
Actually, he's correct. Garbage in, garbage out doesn't do a whole lot for any shred of credibility the CDC may have left tho.

Well this is true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 23, 2022, 09:50:53 AM
MrsMn was just watching some morning blab show. The 4 people were given pizza ice cream to try. 1 said 'no thanks'. The other 3 tried it, for reasons unknown to me, and didn't like it.
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 23, 2022, 12:07:50 PM
Actually, he's correct. Garbage in, garbage out doesn't do a whole lot for any shred of credibility the CDC may have left tho.

Or any first rendition of the jobs report.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 01, 2022, 10:18:33 AM
Are we trusting the March job report? Will the revision be up or down?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 01, 2022, 11:20:09 AM
Are we trusting the March job report? Will the revision be up or down?

Jan and Feb numbers were revised up so I'll go with up in March as well

shit costs more, people need to work again
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 01, 2022, 11:21:44 AM

shit costs more, people need to work again

Thanks Joe?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 01, 2022, 11:23:15 AM
Thanks Joe?

🤷‍♀️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 03, 2022, 06:19:45 PM
These came early. Just in time for golf season.

(https://i.ibb.co/DpdDvqT/20220403-181641.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xHZSB4d)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 03, 2022, 07:51:26 PM
Haha will have to share that
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 03, 2022, 11:16:30 PM
Oh brother. You don't think there is PR and strategic reasons he was doing that? And there is a connection to no full scale invasion, but now artillery fire?

I used to really like Taibbi, he’s just a Glenn Greenwald clone now. Not sure where he went off the rails.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 04, 2022, 12:19:44 AM
Do your likes and dislikes of a given journalist depend on whether or not you agree with what they write about?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 04, 2022, 08:49:42 AM
Do your likes and dislikes of a given journalist depend on whether or not you agree with what they write about?

So do you like David Corn? Yeah, I suppose that’s part of the equation.

When I read people like Greenwald and Taibbi saying Russia’s hand was forced by Ukraine and the US, and that 1/6 wasn’t a big deal, they’re going to lose credibility points with me. It doesn’t mean they haven’t done some good work in the past, or maybe occasionally still do.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 05, 2022, 01:02:21 PM
What in the actual fuck?! 🤡

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1511399533271519236?s=21&t=KLx4J_kUnYHnPHiCFZTO0w

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1511382601642262536?s=21&t=KLx4J_kUnYHnPHiCFZTO0w
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2022, 01:58:41 PM
“I think we should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities,” Sasse told Jackson during his turn questioning the judge.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2022, 02:21:55 PM
What in the actual fuck?! 🤡

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1511399533271519236?s=21&t=KLx4J_kUnYHnPHiCFZTO0w

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1511382601642262536?s=21&t=KLx4J_kUnYHnPHiCFZTO0w

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1509831687290585093?s=20&t=E40BIqn8Qxt2QmntICNUrQ

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1511321743545319429?s=20&t=x5JskNIsnE0MpVuu-hJusw


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2022, 02:24:53 PM
"Joel Greenberg, was charged with a host of crimes — from falsely smearing a political rival as being a pedophile to cheating taxpayers in a cryptocurrency scheme to sex-trafficking the same 17-year-old in the Gaetz investigation."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/matt-gaetz-s-ex-girlfriend-testifies-grand-jury-sex-trafficking-n1287352
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 05, 2022, 02:29:06 PM
What in the actual fuck?! 🤡

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1511399533271519236?s=21&t=KLx4J_kUnYHnPHiCFZTO0w

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1511382601642262536?s=21&t=KLx4J_kUnYHnPHiCFZTO0w

MAP acceptance is next, just watch and honk
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2022, 06:15:25 PM
The right can't help themselves. They can stfu and inflation / high energy prices will pave the way.

MTG says Collins, Murkowski, and Romney are pro-pedophile. .

Everyone agrees with harsh sentences for the criminals who willfully produce  and distribute  child porn.

Those who download and share child porn from the internet should also face serious consequences, but those are not identical offences.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 05, 2022, 09:08:14 PM
The right can't help themselves. They can stfu and inflation / high energy prices will pave the way.

MTG says Collins, Murkowski, and Romney are pro-pedophile. .

Everyone agrees with harsh sentences for the criminals who willfully produce  and distribute  child porn.

Those who download and share child porn from the internet should also face serious consequences, but those are not identical offences.

MTG would probably agree that pedophiles should get the death penalty but that would make Boebert a widow
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2022, 09:20:02 PM
Good grief. Those wily liberals are grooming children with Mickey Mouse and Oreo ads. Good thing Desantis put a stop to "Heather has two Mommies" by passing that don't say gay act.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 05, 2022, 09:37:04 PM
MTG would probably agree that pedophiles should get the death penalty but that would make Boebert a widow

Them Boeberts is good solid cunsurvahteeves.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on April 06, 2022, 09:52:50 AM
Them Boeberts is good solid cunsurvahteeves.

Yep, if you're going to root out those groomers, stay the hell away from organized religion!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 06, 2022, 10:50:56 AM
Good grief. Those wily liberals are grooming children with Mickey Mouse and Oreo ads. Good thing Desantis put a stop to "Heather has two Mommies" by passing that don't say gay act.

https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1511726957624545294
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 06, 2022, 12:31:21 PM
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1511150070367985664?t=Fa5oXd6263Kqjn3hrvwggw&s=19
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 06, 2022, 12:32:30 PM
Good grief. Those wily liberals are grooming children with Mickey Mouse and Oreo ads. Good thing Desantis put a stop to "Heather has two Mommies" by passing that don't say gay act.

yeah lets keep defending against and controlling the narrative around the thing that totally doesn't exist at all  ::)

(https://i.imgur.com/vIVVle9.png)

oh dear, the horror
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 06, 2022, 06:10:24 PM
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1511150070367985664?t=Fa5oXd6263Kqjn3hrvwggw&s=19

I did not know the Democrats were proi Matt Gaetz
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2022, 11:02:08 AM
Readily apparent from quite a few posters here:

https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

LEAD EXPOSURE IN LAST CENTURY SHRANK IQ SCORES OF HALF OF AMERICANS
Leaded gasoline calculation to have stolen over 800 million cumulative IQ points since 1940s
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 07, 2022, 11:26:17 AM
Readily apparent from quite a few posters here:

https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

LEAD EXPOSURE IN LAST CENTURY SHRANK IQ SCORES OF HALF OF AMERICANS
Leaded gasoline calculation to have stolen over 800 million cumulative IQ points since 1940s

coof
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210730/study-finds-covid-19-may-lower-intelligence

TV
https://www.livescience.com/tv-watching-midlife-brain-health.html

alcohol
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368388/

driving
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/driving-more-than-two-hours-day-less-intelligent-iq-watching-tv-computer-study-university-of-leicester-a7855416.html

I'm sure there's many more
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2022, 12:56:32 PM
coof
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210730/study-finds-covid-19-may-lower-intelligence

TV
https://www.livescience.com/tv-watching-midlife-brain-health.html

alcohol
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368388/

driving
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/driving-more-than-two-hours-day-less-intelligent-iq-watching-tv-computer-study-university-of-leicester-a7855416.html

I'm sure there's many more

It all appears to be true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 07, 2022, 01:04:05 PM


alcohol
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368388/


This can’t be. Explain Tony Stark.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on April 07, 2022, 01:34:05 PM
Readily apparent from quite a few posters here:

https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

LEAD EXPOSURE IN LAST CENTURY SHRANK IQ SCORES OF HALF OF AMERICANS
Leaded gasoline calculation to have stolen over 800 million cumulative IQ points since 1940s

The Ethyl Corporation stockholders didn't care.  Our roadsides are still contaminated with lead.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 07, 2022, 03:17:33 PM
Saw a fox news clown explain why blaming American oil companies for high gas prices is despicable.

Some Dems argued that big oil companies are earning record profits. They should be able to pass some of that of that onto consumers in the form of lower prices.

However, pump prices are set by service stations, most of which are independently owned. And they are only earning a few cents profit per gallon.

Despite my lead addled brain, even I can see through that logic.
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Post by: alum74 on April 07, 2022, 04:56:34 PM
The Ethyl Corporation stockholders didn't care.  Our roadsides are still contaminated with lead.

“Fill ‘er up with ethyl buddy, but don’t go over $3.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 08, 2022, 01:56:40 PM
coof
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210730/study-finds-covid-19-may-lower-intelligence

TV
https://www.livescience.com/tv-watching-midlife-brain-health.html

alcohol
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368388/

driving
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/driving-more-than-two-hours-day-less-intelligent-iq-watching-tv-computer-study-university-of-leicester-a7855416.html

I'm sure there's many more

you hit for the cycle, eh?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 08, 2022, 01:57:58 PM
Saw a fox news clown explain why blaming American oil companies for high gas prices is despicable.

Some Dems argued that big oil companies are earning record profits. They should be able to pass some of that of that onto consumers in the form of lower prices.

However, pump prices are set by service stations, most of which are independently owned. And they are only earning a few cents profit per gallon.

Despite my lead addled brain, even I can see through that logic.

I blame American consumers. Supply, demand. If there were only a way to buy less gasoline.
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Post by: illiniray on April 08, 2022, 04:14:35 PM
I blame American consumers. Supply, demand. If there were only a way to buy less gasoline.

Like a safe, clean,  affordable, well maintained public transportation system?
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Post by: ThePAMan on April 08, 2022, 04:37:17 PM
Like a safe, clean,  affordable, well maintained public transportation system?

I am guessing like the bike Eric Boehlert was riding when he got run over by a train.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 08, 2022, 06:05:48 PM
Like a safe, clean,  affordable, well maintained public transportation system?
Like not living 80 miles from work, like not driving an F-150 to Applebees, like if you enjoy going to Manhattan Beach don't live in Reno
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 12, 2022, 10:33:20 AM
1970 Johnny Cash & June Carter   "If I Were a Carpenter"

2022 Miranda Lambert – “If I Was a Cowboy”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 12, 2022, 10:36:53 PM
1970 Johnny Cash & June Carter   "If I Were a Carpenter"

2022 Miranda Lambert – “If I Was a Cowboy”
What the hell does this mean?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 12, 2022, 11:21:04 PM
What the hell does this mean?

subjunctive mood, if I were, not was.

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/subjunctive-verbs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 13, 2022, 12:21:07 PM
Not sure how this is considered racist, but whatever, it’s definitely 🤡 worthy. Definitely reaching on the racist part.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33729248/san-francisco-giants-coach-antoan-richardson-accuses-mike-shildt-yelling-expletive-reeked-undertones-racism
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Post by: ILLove1997 on April 13, 2022, 12:32:43 PM
seems kind of racist to assume that what he said was racist (implying that blacks are perpetually out of control or something)

but that fact is lost for these clowns begging for clicks I guess
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 13, 2022, 12:39:51 PM
seems kind of racist to assume that what he said was racist (implying that blacks are perpetually out of control or something)

but that fact is lost for these clowns begging for clicks I guess

Yeah my thoughts exactly. Richardson immediately saying that and jumping to that conclusion is very odd. It’s almost HIS preconceived notion and meaning and/or HIS subconscious thinking. Not Shildt’s.

As you stated, whatever makes headlines these days, run with it. See Jussie Smollet and Bubba Wallace as prime examples.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 13, 2022, 12:41:05 PM
Now if you call somebody who is a minority “dumb,” you MUST mean that all minorities are “dumb,” right?! Just ridiculous.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 13, 2022, 01:20:44 PM
Wait.  So if I call someone a motherfucker, it's racist now? That's weird.

At first, I saw that Shildt was involved, and was like, yeah, he spent time in St. Louis, so, probably.  Then I read the article and he said "You need to keep that motherfucker under control."

And that's racist now.  Fuck, man.  Soon, we're not going to be able to say "have a nice day!" because some asshole is gonna say, "Well, every day, Thomas Jefferson told his slave mommas to have a nice day every morning, so if you tell me to have a nice day, it's in reference to how my slave ancestors were treated!"

Seriously, it's getting ridiculous.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 16, 2022, 11:27:07 AM
https://www.mystateline.com/news/national/two-women-at-new-jersey-jail-pregnant-after-sex-with-transgender-prisoners/

Quote
CLINTON, N.J. (WTVO) — Two female inmates at New Jersey’s all-women’s prison have both become pregnant after they had sex with transgender inmates.

According to NJ.com, the women were housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.

Prison officials say the sex was consensual in both instances.

Last year, the facility began to house transgender inmates, including those who have yet to undergo gender reassignment surgery after a lawsuit by a trans woman and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The transgender prisoner who filed the suit, identified as Sonia Doe, claimed she had been forced to live in men’s prisons for a year and a half, despite identifying as female.

The ACLU’s legal director, Jeanne LoCicero, defended the settlement policy, saying it was “in line with New Jersey’s strong anti-discrimination laws that prevent discrimination and harassment on the basis of gender identity.”

New Jersey’s Department of Corrections (DOC) executive director Dan Sperrazza said it appeared the women became pregnant from “consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person.”

Sperrazza did not identify the inmates. Edna Mahan houses 27 transgender prisoners, NJ.com reports.

“While DOC cannot comment on any specific disciplinary or housing decisions that may be considered in light of these events, the Department always reserves all options to ensure the health and safety of the individuals in its custody,” Sperrazza said.

According to the Daily Mail, in 2021 two inmates filed a lawsuit trying to revoke the gender identity policy, saying they had been harassed by transgender inmates.

The president of the union representing correctional officers issued a statement saying “We opposed this policy change believing it would be detrimental to the general population of female inmates being housed at Edna Mahan and also bring added stress to our correctional police officers assigned to this institution.”

Several correctional officers at Edna Mahan have been accused of sexual abuse and misconduct over the years. Ten guards are currently facing criminal charges for an alleged assault on inmates in 2020, which included a transgender prisoner.
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Post by: ThePAMan on April 16, 2022, 03:31:12 PM
https://www.mystateline.com/news/national/two-women-at-new-jersey-jail-pregnant-after-sex-with-transgender-prisoners/


Sounds like a new twist for the prison pornography genre to work with.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 18, 2022, 03:42:18 PM
🤡

https://twitter.com/julio_rosas11/status/1516153949052706824?s=21&t=zcJiRBV8wL94Q3_R1ceHHg
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 20, 2022, 02:54:24 PM
https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/1516645649084821506
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Post by: Chickengeorge on April 20, 2022, 03:00:38 PM
https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/1516645649084821506

Good God help us. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 20, 2022, 03:10:45 PM
Good God help us.
God ain't got nothing to do with it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 20, 2022, 04:04:14 PM
Good God help us.

Space does connect us all....cannot dispute that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 20, 2022, 04:07:03 PM
Wait.  So if I call someone a motherfucker, it's racist now? That's weird.

At first, I saw that Shildt was involved, and was like, yeah, he spent time in St. Louis, so, probably.  Then I read the article and he said "You need to keep that motherfucker under control."

And that's racist now.  Fuck, man.  Soon, we're not going to be able to say "have a nice day!" because some asshole is gonna say, "Well, every day, Thomas Jefferson told his slave mommas to have a nice day every morning, so if you tell me to have a nice day, it's in reference to how my slave ancestors were treated!"

Seriously, it's getting ridiculous.

Don't call any communists scumbags either. Hope things are going better for you these days.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 20, 2022, 04:17:44 PM
Don't call any communists scumbags either. Hope things are going better for you these days.

Thanks. 

Not great, but I'm hanging in there.  That's really all you can do.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 20, 2022, 06:53:18 PM
Rangers parachuting into the Washington Nationals ballyard caused an evacuation of the Capitol.

U.S. Capitol Police alert just now: “The USCP is tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat to the Capitol Complex.”

Nobody told the Capitol Police about the pre-game event.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illinifan57 on April 20, 2022, 07:04:37 PM
Rangers parachuting into the Washington Nationals ballyard caused an evacuation of the Capitol.

U.S. Capitol Police alert just now: “The USCP is tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat to the Capitol Complex.”

Nobody told the Capitol Police about the pre-game event.
Just watched this Rangers parachuting into the ballpark on NewsNation. The Capital was notified 2 weeks ago. If Howard Cosell was still around, he'd say "who goofed, I got to know."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 20, 2022, 07:42:37 PM
Didn't know the Texas Rangers could do that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 20, 2022, 09:03:00 PM
Space does connect us all....cannot dispute that.

Space fills the gap between her ears
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 20, 2022, 09:22:57 PM
Space fills the gap between her ears
Not surprising, she's a cop after all
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Post by: ILLove1997 on May 03, 2022, 11:19:09 PM
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjby4b/anarchist-collective-shares-instructions-to-make-diy-abortion-pills?utm_source=motherboard_twitter

how?  by using horse medicine of course

🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 04, 2022, 05:23:13 AM
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjby4b/anarchist-collective-shares-instructions-to-make-diy-abortion-pills?utm_source=motherboard_twitter

how?  by using horse medicine of course

🤣
Big difference between this horse medicine and the other horse medicine tho.
The other one was promoted by those conspiracy theorists. 🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 04, 2022, 07:30:40 AM
Big difference between this horse medicine and the other horse medicine tho.
The other one was promoted by those conspiracy theorists. 🤣

And that one apparently works and the other does not (in humans, as intended in each instance).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 04, 2022, 07:45:55 AM
And that one apparently works and the other does not (in humans, as intended in each instance).
But over dosing with horse medicine on the one that we're told didn't save lives most probably isn't as bad as over dosing with horse medicine on the one meant to, as Joe said, "abort a child".
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 04, 2022, 09:17:56 AM
But over dosing with horse medicine on the one that we're told didn't save lives most probably isn't as bad as over dosing with horse medicine on the one meant to, as Joe said, "abort a child".

I'm sure the guy on The YouTube knows what he is doing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 04, 2022, 12:07:26 PM
I'm sure the guy on The YouTube knows what he is doing.
Unless he's one of those birthing persons I don't think he will be taking any of the misoprostol.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 12, 2022, 02:13:41 AM
https://fortune.com/2022/05/11/bitcoin-whale-michael-saylor-defuse-fears-over-microstrategy-margin-call/

There may be some very weird very bad days ahead. Bitcoin is finally plummeting. For a while I worried this would cause some systemic risk because you had these hacker dudes who mined a bunch of bitcoin under $100 who now had many millions, then sold the bitcoins to buy real estate and then mortgaged the homes, took the cash from the loan and put it back into bitcoin. So now the housing market is being propped up by gains in a ponzi scheme, but the gains went back into the ponzi scheme via a loan.

Now I'm reading the crazy ass story listed above where this dude decided he wanted to have his company buy a whole shit load of bitcoin. The company wasn't making enough cash to buy the amount of bitcoin he wanted so he took out a 200 million dollar loan to buy a bunch of bitcoin.

If bitcoin crashes, he gets a margin call, can't repay the loan, and a real world company collapses because the CEO used it as a shell to gamble in a ponzi scheme. Not only that, the bank that lent him 200 million is going to have a fun time explaining that to their shareholders.

Then you have things like Ecuador buying up a shit load of bitcoin, so we are talking about the collapse of a medium level country's government.

This is infecting the stock market too. These same bitcoin douches who think that there is a perpetual motion machine driving things up without actual products and growth, that we can just sit around on our couches and "invest" and end up with houses and porsches without anyone actually building the houses and Porsches, took their funny money balance sheets of bitcoin, with the blessing of dumbass brokerages (real ones like Fidelity and scammy ones like Robinhood) and levered up the margin on stock portfolios. This drives up stock prices but when the first balloon pops and people get the margin calls, the house of cards go boom.

Buckle up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 12, 2022, 11:41:32 AM
https://fortune.com/2022/05/11/bitcoin-whale-michael-saylor-defuse-fears-over-microstrategy-margin-call/

There may be some very weird very bad days ahead. Bitcoin is finally plummeting. For a while I worried this would cause some systemic risk because you had these hacker dudes who mined a bunch of bitcoin under $100 who now had many millions, then sold the bitcoins to buy real estate and then mortgaged the homes, took the cash from the loan and put it back into bitcoin. So now the housing market is being propped up by gains in a ponzi scheme, but the gains went back into the ponzi scheme via a loan.

Now I'm reading the crazy ass story listed above where this dude decided he wanted to have his company buy a whole shit load of bitcoin. The company wasn't making enough cash to buy the amount of bitcoin he wanted so he took out a 200 million dollar loan to buy a bunch of bitcoin.

If bitcoin crashes, he gets a margin call, can't repay the loan, and a real world company collapses because the CEO used it as a shell to gamble in a ponzi scheme. Not only that, the bank that lent him 200 million is going to have a fun time explaining that to their shareholders.

Then you have things like Ecuador buying up a shit load of bitcoin, so we are talking about the collapse of a medium level country's government.

This is infecting the stock market too. These same bitcoin douches who think that there is a perpetual motion machine driving things up without actual products and growth, that we can just sit around on our couches and "invest" and end up with houses and porsches without anyone actually building the houses and Porsches, took their funny money balance sheets of bitcoin, with the blessing of dumbass brokerages (real ones like Fidelity and scammy ones like Robinhood) and levered up the margin on stock portfolios. This drives up stock prices but when the first balloon pops and people get the margin calls, the house of cards go boom.

Buckle up.

for once I agree with you murph, lol

I read about this a while ago and actually microstrategy borrowed 2 BILLION to buy bitcoin... a boring software company borrowed 2 billion dollars to buy digital non money, the 200 million is just a margin call... lol fucking idiots

I personally know a crypto billionaire and he has let me just say... diversified out of a lot of it into tangible assets (you should see his car collection... holy shit)
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Post by: alum74 on May 12, 2022, 12:33:02 PM
https://fortune.com/2022/05/11/bitcoin-whale-michael-saylor-defuse-fears-over-microstrategy-margin-call/

There may be some very weird very bad days ahead. Bitcoin is finally plummeting. For a while I worried this would cause some systemic risk because you had these hacker dudes who mined a bunch of bitcoin under $100 who now had many millions, then sold the bitcoins to buy real estate and then mortgaged the homes, took the cash from the loan and put it back into bitcoin. So now the housing market is being propped up by gains in a ponzi scheme, but the gains went back into the ponzi scheme via a loan.

Now I'm reading the crazy ass story listed above where this dude decided he wanted to have his company buy a whole shit load of bitcoin. The company wasn't making enough cash to buy the amount of bitcoin he wanted so he took out a 200 million dollar loan to buy a bunch of bitcoin.

If bitcoin crashes, he gets a margin call, can't repay the loan, and a real world company collapses because the CEO used it as a shell to gamble in a ponzi scheme. Not only that, the bank that lent him 200 million is going to have a fun time explaining that to their shareholders.

Then you have things like Ecuador buying up a shit load of bitcoin, so we are talking about the collapse of a medium level country's government.

This is infecting the stock market too. These same bitcoin douches who think that there is a perpetual motion machine driving things up without actual products and growth, that we can just sit around on our couches and "invest" and end up with houses and porsches without anyone actually building the houses and Porsches, took their funny money balance sheets of bitcoin, with the blessing of dumbass brokerages (real ones like Fidelity and scammy ones like Robinhood) and levered up the margin on stock portfolios. This drives up stock prices but when the first balloon pops and people get the margin calls, the house of cards go boom.

Buckle up.

Great post.  It would never occur to me to buy something intangible backed by nothing.  But Bitcoin has provided a real service in showing us how many supposedly smart people really aren't. 

Is it too much to hope for that we'll see Elon selling apples on a street corner? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 12, 2022, 01:37:32 PM
for once I agree with you murph, lol

I read about this a while ago and actually microstrategy borrowed 2 BILLION to buy bitcoin... a boring software company borrowed 2 billion dollars to buy digital non money, the 200 million is just a margin call... lol fucking idiots

I personally know a crypto billionaire and he has let me just say... diversified out of a lot of it into tangible assets (you should see his car collection... holy shit)

Cars are tangible but I would not call them assets. Well, they are an asset, but they are a depreciating asset. Even if you have some weird ass collectors edition Ferrari, once we hit 70% or more of the US fleet being electric, the gas stations start closing and the rest go electric, then what you gonna do with that Ferrari? Well you can drive it around, but the amount of humans willing to buy if from you will plummet.

What is it with these douches and buying a fleet of cars? Call me old school but I'd go for the good old "condo in Kaanapaali"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 12, 2022, 01:53:28 PM
Cars are tangible but I would not call them assets. Well, they are an asset, but they are a depreciating asset. Even if you have some weird ass collectors edition Ferrari, once we hit 70% or more of the US fleet being electric, the gas stations start closing and the rest go electric, then what you gonna do with that Ferrari? Well you can drive it around, but the amount of humans willing to buy if from you will plummet.

What is it with these douches and buying a fleet of cars? Call me old school but I'd go for the good old "condo in Kaanapaali"

His cars are far beyond ferrari's, they are the types of cars that only increase in value.  Zero gasoline is pretty far off, and the ultra rich people buying these things will find a way regardless.  He has a bunch of real estate projects he's doing as well so that's not his only thing
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Post by: Judge Judy on May 12, 2022, 02:05:06 PM
Call me old school but I'd go for the good old "condo in Kaanapaali"

Or a fleet of bicycles…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 12, 2022, 02:30:18 PM
Great post.  It would never occur to me to buy something intangible backed by nothing.  But Bitcoin has provided a real service in showing us how many supposedly smart people really aren't. 

Is it too much to hope for that we'll see Elon selling apples on a street corner?

Tesla stock is down 40% but I don't think he'll be begging anytime soon. Company does own "2 Billion of bitcoin", per some youtube I saw yesterday, if that was true it's a lot less than 2B now.

There's a whole cadre of crazy youtuber bitcoin maniacs, they are probably doing great on page views right now but it would be the height of irony for them to bank 300-400k/year from youtube, dump it into bitcoin, bitcoin goes to zero and they lose all their money and their youtube channel evaporates too.

This crazy shit also plays a part in inflation. If borrowed money is being used to buy bitcoin, the sellers of the bitcoin now have real money they can pump into the economy (see Q97's buddy and his cars). Same goes for people borrowing against their bitcoin. I don't see the same correlation from things like COVID relief bills, if people couldn't work and got a check from the government, that injected money is replacing organic money. The bitcoin leverage is just invented money.

But if Bitcoin really tanks that could do wonders for inflation, especially if it takes down the stock market. The amount of "money" that vanishes will be quite impressive.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 12, 2022, 02:31:10 PM
His cars are far beyond ferrari's, they are the types of cars that only increase in value. 

That's what they said about bitcoin
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 12, 2022, 02:32:09 PM
Or a fleet of bicycles…
They run on fat and save you money
Cars run on money and make you fat
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Post by: alum74 on May 12, 2022, 03:41:30 PM
Or a fleet of bicycles…

Electric Police Bikes..."A better way to protect and serve."
https://mikesbikes.com/pages/police-bikes

#DefundGasolinePoweredLawEnforcementVehicles
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on May 12, 2022, 04:36:09 PM
They run on fat and save you money
Cars run on money and make you fat

Good point. Can’t really argue with that. Just don’t be one of those douchebag riders that ThePAMan hates 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 12, 2022, 05:39:31 PM
They run on fat and save you money
Cars run on money and make you fat

Well done, Murph, well done.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 12, 2022, 05:41:08 PM
Good point. Can’t really argue with that. Just don’t be one of those douchebag riders that ThePAMan hates 😂

Exactly. Tell the kids to stop at stop signs when riding on the streets. See it every day. One or more of them are going to get crunched. Thankfully there is one more week of school left and I am done with that shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 12, 2022, 05:41:44 PM
Electric Police Bikes..."A better way to protect and serve."
https://mikesbikes.com/pages/police-bikes

#DefundGasolinePoweredLawEnforcementVehicles

That's well done also, Alum!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 17, 2022, 01:06:04 PM
https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2022/05/16/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-cover-models-2022

 !!!!!!  :o
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 17, 2022, 01:13:31 PM
https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2022/05/16/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-cover-models-2022

 !!!!!!  :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjC0vMIrOAk

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on May 19, 2022, 06:27:17 PM
Well ESPN, we already knew all this. NBA doesn’t care about the human rights abuses in China. Yet the preach about human rights. It’s laughable…

 https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33938932/nba-owners-mum-china-relationship-more-10-billion-invested-there
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 20, 2022, 11:33:12 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/carbon-removal-technologies-35b-federal-investment-84845174?

yes seems like a great idea, lets waste a bunch of money on machines that run on.... energy to suck plant food out of the air...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 20, 2022, 11:59:17 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/carbon-removal-technologies-35b-federal-investment-84845174?

yes seems like a great idea, lets waste a bunch of money on machines that run on.... energy to suck plant food out of the air...

“The time is right for this,” Aines said. “And the only way to really know whether we’re going to like this kind of approach is to try it out.”

 ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on May 20, 2022, 12:33:23 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/carbon-removal-technologies-35b-federal-investment-84845174?

yes seems like a great idea, lets waste a bunch of money on machines that run on.... energy to suck plant food out of the air...

You can't be this ignorant. You are joking, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on May 20, 2022, 12:56:18 PM
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-does-rising-co2-benefit-plants1/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 20, 2022, 01:07:01 PM
You can't be this ignorant. You are joking, right?

this is nothing more than a political bribe and complete waste of money

you want to look at these monstrosities rather than trees you fuckin idiot?

(https://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/06/06/92/52/1100x619_cmsv2_3f581b47-8a14-5e55-8a9c-e731a04434f6-6069252.jpg)

how much carbon is used to make the steel and all the electronics and all the garbage in these machines?

How much carbon is used to mine the ore to make the steel and then transport it?

PLANT SOME FUCKING TREES.  They capture carbon just fine and reduce temperatures, and as an added bonus are beautiful.

We could have lovely forests and nuclear power but these climate activists and the powers that be actually hate us, so yeah, you are a fucking retard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on May 20, 2022, 01:53:29 PM
Lol that was maybe a little too on the nose.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 20, 2022, 02:03:23 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/carbon-removal-technologies-35b-federal-investment-84845174?

yes seems like a great idea, lets waste a bunch of money on machines that run on.... energy to suck plant food out of the air...

Don't fret.  Global warming is a hoax.  We're entering a period of global cooling.  Those machines will never be built. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 20, 2022, 02:20:18 PM
Don't fret.  Global warming is a hoax.  We're entering a period of global cooling.  Those machines will never be built.

(https://i.imgur.com/NaDhqCk.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 20, 2022, 02:29:50 PM
this is nothing more than a political bribe and complete waste of money

you want to look at these monstrosities rather than trees you fuckin idiot?

(https://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/06/06/92/52/1100x619_cmsv2_3f581b47-8a14-5e55-8a9c-e731a04434f6-6069252.jpg)

how much carbon is used to make the steel and all the electronics and all the garbage in these machines?

How much carbon is used to mine the ore to make the steel and then transport it?

PLANT SOME FUCKING TREES.  They capture carbon just fine and reduce temperatures, and as an added bonus are beautiful.

We could have lovely forests and nuclear power but these climate activists and the powers that be actually hate us, so yeah, you are a fucking retard.

Are the Chinese Commies and the Indians planting trees? They still cutting down trees in the Amazon? Why not plant trees here and do this? If the machine causes a net reduction in carbon to safer levels, even accounting for the carbon caused by the manufacturing process, that would be good, wouldn't it? Plus, once one is built, presumably tech advancements will lead to more effective devices? Might as well give it a whirl. After all, you are running out of water out there in NV.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 20, 2022, 02:30:47 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/NaDhqCk.png)

Irony is not dead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 20, 2022, 03:17:27 PM
...PLANT SOME FUCKING TREES.  They capture carbon just fine and reduce temperatures.

We could have lovely forests and nuclear power but these climate activists and the powers that be actually hate us, so yeah, you are a fucking retard.

Why planting tons of trees isn't enough to solve climate change.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/planting-trees-climate-change-carbon-capture-deforestation

Why Nuclear Power Is Bad for Your Wallet and the Climate
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/why-nuclear-power-is-bad-for-your-wallet-and-the-climate

Didn't realize you're a DIRTY ROTTEN COMMIE SOCIALIST.
Nuclear Power Plants Require Significant Subsidies to Keep Operating, Experts Say
https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2019/12/07/nuclear-power-plants-require-significant-subsidies-to-keep-operating-experts-say/#sthash.66UY8fg1.dpbs
Why Illinois paid $694 million to keep nuclear plants open
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/20/illinois-nuclear-power-subsidy-of-694-million-imperfect-compromise.html

OMG, Senile Joe has a plan to keep struggling nuke plants from closing.
U.S. eyes nuclear reactor tax credit to meet climate goals -sources
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/white-house-eyes-subsidies-nuclear-plants-help-meet-climate-targets-sources-2021-05-05/
Ailing nuclear power plants propped up by US infrastructure law
https://www.ft.com/content/faba7e8a-1983-4b47-9b70-ec903351a373

I'd be ok with the construction of smaller modular nuclear units, but it's going to take some BIG GOVERNMENT support.
Tiny Nukes: Feds Award $1.35 Billion Contract For Modular Reactor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2020/10/29/the-future-of-small-modular-reactors-department-of-energy-awards-135-billion-to-nuscale-power-for-smr-development/?sh=310475b54dab

Here's a group even you could love -- Taxpayers for Common Sense.  Send them a big check.
Report: New Nuclear Isn’t Worth Public Investment
https://www.powermag.com/new-nuclear-isnt-worth-public-investment/



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 20, 2022, 03:59:53 PM
Why planting tons of trees isn't enough to solve climate change.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/planting-trees-climate-change-carbon-capture-deforestation

Why Nuclear Power Is Bad for Your Wallet and the Climate
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/why-nuclear-power-is-bad-for-your-wallet-and-the-climate

Didn't realize you're a DIRTY ROTTEN COMMIE SOCIALIST.
Nuclear Power Plants Require Significant Subsidies to Keep Operating, Experts Say
https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2019/12/07/nuclear-power-plants-require-significant-subsidies-to-keep-operating-experts-say/#sthash.66UY8fg1.dpbs
Why Illinois paid $694 million to keep nuclear plants open
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/20/illinois-nuclear-power-subsidy-of-694-million-imperfect-compromise.html

OMG, Senile Joe has a plan to keep struggling nuke plants from closing.
U.S. eyes nuclear reactor tax credit to meet climate goals -sources
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/white-house-eyes-subsidies-nuclear-plants-help-meet-climate-targets-sources-2021-05-05/
Ailing nuclear power plants propped up by US infrastructure law
https://www.ft.com/content/faba7e8a-1983-4b47-9b70-ec903351a373

I'd be ok with the construction of smaller modular nuclear units, but it's going to take some BIG GOVERNMENT support.
Tiny Nukes: Feds Award $1.35 Billion Contract For Modular Reactor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2020/10/29/the-future-of-small-modular-reactors-department-of-energy-awards-135-billion-to-nuscale-power-for-smr-development/?sh=310475b54dab

Here's a group even you could love -- Taxpayers for Common Sense.  Send them a big check.
Report: New Nuclear Isn’t Worth Public Investment
https://www.powermag.com/new-nuclear-isnt-worth-public-investment/

 !!!!!! that has to hurt.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 20, 2022, 05:07:26 PM
this is nothing more than a political bribe and complete waste of money

you want to look at these monstrosities rather than trees you fuckin idiot?

(https://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/06/06/92/52/1100x619_cmsv2_3f581b47-8a14-5e55-8a9c-e731a04434f6-6069252.jpg)

how much carbon is used to make the steel and all the electronics and all the garbage in these machines?

How much carbon is used to mine the ore to make the steel and then transport it?

PLANT SOME FUCKING TREES.  They capture carbon just fine and reduce temperatures, and as an added bonus are beautiful.

We could have lovely forests and nuclear power but these climate activists and the powers that be actually hate us, so yeah, you are a fucking retard.

Great plan. Let's take some Illinois farmland and plant some trees. It's a win win as we would capture carbon and also stop burning ethanol for fuel, putting the carbon captured by corn back into the atmosphere.

Best place to plant them these days as it doesn't rain in the Western US anymore
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 20, 2022, 05:08:03 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/NaDhqCk.png)
Illinois will not win an NCAA Championship in Football in your lifetime
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 20, 2022, 05:09:16 PM
Are the Chinese Commies and the Indians planting trees? They still cutting down trees in the Amazon? Why not plant trees here and do this? If the machine causes a net reduction in carbon to safer levels, even accounting for the carbon caused by the manufacturing process, that would be good, wouldn't it? Plus, once one is built, presumably tech advancements will lead to more effective devices? Might as well give it a whirl. After all, you are running out of water out there in NV.

The nice irony is that the Brazilians cut down trees to plant soybeans thanks to Tree Lovin Q97's buddy Trump putting up those tariffs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on May 20, 2022, 05:13:21 PM


PLANT SOME FUCKING TREES.  They capture carbon just fine and reduce temperatures, and as an added bonus are beautiful.

We could have lovely forests and nuclear power but these climate activists and the powers that be actually hate us, so yeah, you are a fucking retard.

We have a climate change problem and it's caused by an excess of CO2. With direct air capture, you can remove any emission, anywhere, from any moment in time – Steve Oldham

DAC is far from the only way carbon can be taken out of the atmosphere. Carbon can be removed naturally through land use changes such as restoring peatland, or most popularly, planting forests. But this is slow and would require huge tracts of valuable land – foresting an area the size of the United States, by some estimates, and driving up food prices five-fold in the process. And in the case of trees, the carbon removal effect is limited, as they will eventually die and release their stored carbon, unless they can be felled and burned in a closed system.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210310-the-trillion-dollar-plan-to-capture-co2

(Read more about why planting trees doesn’t always help with climate change)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200521-planting-trees-doesnt-always-help-with-climate-change

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on May 20, 2022, 05:24:43 PM


how much carbon is used to make the steel and all the electronics and all the garbage in these machines?

How much carbon is used to mine the ore to make the steel and then transport it?


I bet someone thought of that. The same lame argument is used against windmills. The answer will be a fraction of what they remove.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on May 20, 2022, 05:38:09 PM
btw,  things that kill more birds than windmills: Climate change, habitat destruction, oil spills, feral cats, domestic cats, oil pits, poison, vehicles, electrical lines, cell-phone towers, nuisance removal
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on May 23, 2022, 10:32:34 AM
GOP anti-abortion witness baselessly claims DC authorities are burning aborted fetuses for electricity.

A pro-abortion witness speaking in front of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday told members of Congress that she believes men can get pregnant.

There are idiots on both sides of most issues.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 27, 2022, 12:12:18 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/beer-shortage-water-urine-singapore-b2088993.html

Quote
Climate change: Could beer made from urine help water shortages?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 31, 2022, 12:31:16 PM
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/primary-school-pupils-offered-insects-24103107

Quote
Children at four primary schools will be offered insect protein during workshops to gauge youngsters' appetite for "alternative protein". The children will reportedly be given a product called VeXo, a combination of insect and plant-based protein.

The product is said to look like "conventional" mince. The i newspaper said researchers are hoping to use data from the study to learn how best to educate children about the nutritional and environmental benefits of eating creepy crawlies - such as crickets, grasshoppers, silkworms, locusts and mealworms.

🤢🤮

prepping for their future I guess
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 31, 2022, 12:45:20 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/beer-shortage-water-urine-singapore-b2088993.html

They could just drink Coors Lite.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 01, 2022, 02:17:38 PM
Musk is so cheap he does layoffs by making the job suck instead of just laying people off and giving severance

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-06-01/elon-musk-tells-tesla-workers-to-return-to-the-office-or-lose-their-jobs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 01, 2022, 02:19:22 PM
Musk is so cheap he does layoffs by making the job suck instead of just laying people off and giving severance

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-06-01/elon-musk-tells-tesla-workers-to-return-to-the-office-or-lose-their-jobs

Has to pay for The Twitter somehow.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 01, 2022, 02:46:06 PM
Musk is so cheap he does layoffs by making the job suck instead of just laying people off and giving severance

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-06-01/elon-musk-tells-tesla-workers-to-return-to-the-office-or-lose-their-jobs

A "space guy" not supporting remote working?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 01, 2022, 04:57:55 PM
I knew of people who pre-covid used to commute to Chicago from the x-urbs to work in office. One of them, a friend's neighbor, actually caught Covid in the spring of 2020 at a meeting with a delegation from China.

I know at least some have worked remotely, met with zoom etc. Dunno what they are doing now. It seems stupid to get dressed up and spend 2 to 3 hours a day in cars, buses, trains to go sit in a cubicle to do things that could be done at home.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 01, 2022, 10:46:13 PM
I knew of people who pre-covid used to commute to Chicago from the x-urbs to work in office. One of them, a friend's neighbor, actually caught Covid in the spring of 2020 at a meeting with a delegation from China.

I know at least some have worked remotely, met with zoom etc. Dunno what they are doing now. It seems stupid to get dressed up and spend 2 to 3 hours a day in cars, buses, trains to go sit in a cubicle to do things that could be done at home.
At least in SF, companies are dumping leases and going permanently remote. Tesla probably owns their buildings on Deer Park
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 01, 2022, 10:57:59 PM
At least in SF, companies are dumping leases and going permanently remote. Tesla probably owns their buildings on Deer Park

He is still an idiot, but Jesse Watters did a nice plug for the value of going to work. Working at home, we miss the office gossip. Also, we miss out on office dating. Plus, you can't tell who is tall on zoom. The big one, if we are alone all day,  staring at a screen, we will all turn into mass shooters.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 01, 2022, 11:55:29 PM
Working remote isn’t all that great for a lot of people. And it’s not like everyone works in a fucking cubicle for shit’s sake.

There are objective benefits to working with other people in a collaborative environment beyond the (likely cherry picked) nonsense Nichi parsed from Watters.

Lots of people don’t need to go to an office setting to do their jobs. Some do. A lot of people I work with have decided to stay home permanently. Many others prefer to go into the office every day and be on a schedule and interact with their colleagues.

I imagine all this will shake out just fine but hey, let’s turn this into a political football too!

It’s also pretty great how Musk went from the darling of the champagne left to pariah so quickly. 

Wonder what will happen when metro SF office buildings have been vacated and everyone is working remote?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 02, 2022, 01:44:27 AM
How does a womanizing, pro-choice Clinton ally and NY Democrat become the darling of the America First right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 02, 2022, 07:23:51 AM
Working remote isn’t all that great for a lot of people. And it’s not like everyone works in a fucking cubicle for shit’s sake.

There are objective benefits to working with other people in a collaborative environment beyond the (likely cherry picked) nonsense Nichi parsed from Watters.

Lots of people don’t need to go to an office setting to do their jobs. Some do. A lot of people I work with have decided to stay home permanently. Many others prefer to go into the office every day and be on a schedule and interact with their colleagues.

I imagine all this will shake out just fine but hey, let’s turn this into a political football too!

It’s also pretty great how Musk went from the darling of the champagne left to pariah so quickly. 

Wonder what will happen when metro SF office buildings have been vacated and everyone is working remote?

I don't know much about Musk or care to. But my cynical Spider sense tells me he knows his market landscape. Wealthy lefties already buy his crap cars. He see there is an untapped market: the suckers who support Trump. Thus, his "shift."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 02, 2022, 07:29:30 AM

Wonder what will happen when metro SF office buildings have been vacated and everyone is working remote?

They'll be empty.  Restaurants and other businesses catering to office workers will close. Tax collections go down..But can then convert the office buildings to homeless shelters.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 02, 2022, 08:41:51 AM
They'll be empty.  Restaurants and other businesses catering to office workers will close. Tax collections go down..But can then convert the office buildings to homeless shelters.

😬
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 02, 2022, 10:14:01 AM
Yup Musk is a jerk.  I guess supporting electric cars fooled people. 

This dude has no filter.  I can only imagine the headache his HR team is facing right now.  The mix of remote and in-person activity should accord to what the job requires.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 02, 2022, 10:16:13 AM
If musk was truly going to do a 400IQ move he'd fire all the worthless HR and DAI people too
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 02, 2022, 11:46:33 AM
I'd think this could be Golf, but I doubt he has any friends.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/i-will-hit-you-florida-man-77-punches-friend-84-over-golf-etiquette-at-the-villages-deputies-say
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 02, 2022, 11:56:15 AM
I'd think this could be Golf, but I doubt he has any friends.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/i-will-hit-you-florida-man-77-punches-friend-84-over-golf-etiquette-at-the-villages-deputies-say
Sometimes, when you get what you ask for, it is delivered.
An 84 year old should know that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 02, 2022, 12:06:51 PM
Sometimes, when you get what you ask for, it is delivered.
An 84 year old should know that.

Just proves you are never too old to learn, my friend.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 02, 2022, 02:35:06 PM
I don't know much about Musk or care to. But my cynical Spider sense tells me he knows his market landscape. Wealthy lefties already buy his crap cars. He see there is an untapped market: the suckers who support Trump. Thus, his "shift."

My son is friends with 2 kids whose dad wrote a book on Musk, and had to interview him extensively. So he's a pretty big Musk fanboy.

I expressed my skepticism over Tesla's market value, he said "look at all the Teslas here in CA, expand that to the country and it's a trillion dollar company"

I just said "You mean like Honda" (hint: not a trillion dollar company). And Tesla can't expand that to the country because of the price point, and his original point is broken anyway. There are Teslas all over the South Bay, but not so many in Fresno. My sister's kids go to a hoity toity private school in Lafayette IN, plenty of Teslas there. Unless they can adjust their price point to be closer to Honda or Ford, they can't expand into lower median income ranges, and if they do, their margins go to pot.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 02, 2022, 03:08:23 PM
They'll be empty.  Restaurants and other businesses catering to office workers will close. Tax collections go down..But can then convert the office buildings to homeless shelters.

My thinking
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 02, 2022, 03:14:12 PM
My thinking
Frankly, we could use some more 1-2BR condos. Like 40,000 more
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 02, 2022, 03:25:56 PM
My son is friends with 2 kids whose dad wrote a book on Musk, and had to interview him extensively. So he's a pretty big Musk fanboy.

I expressed my skepticism over Tesla's market value, he said "look at all the Teslas here in CA, expand that to the country and it's a trillion dollar company"

I just said "You mean like Honda" (hint: not a trillion dollar company). And Tesla can't expand that to the country because of the price point, and his original point is broken anyway. There are Teslas all over the South Bay, but not so many in Fresno. My sister's kids go to a hoity toity private school in Lafayette IN, plenty of Teslas there. Unless they can adjust their price point to be closer to Honda or Ford, they can't expand into lower median income ranges, and if they do, their margins go to pot.

Forget about buying an overpriced new Tesla.  If anyone is in the market for an electric vehicle, I would suggest looking at used EVs. 

The savings will vary by model, but on average, used EVs cost 43% to 72% less than new ones.  Plus, they are significantly less expensive to maintain than comparable used gas-powered cars.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/the-pros-and-cons-of-buying-a-used-ev.html
https://www.greencars.com/post/what-to-consider-when-buying-a-used-electric-vehicle
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 02, 2022, 03:33:45 PM
Forget about buying an overpriced new Tesla.  If anyone is in the market for an electric vehicle, I would suggest looking at used EVs. 

The savings will vary by model, but on average, used EVs cost 43% to 72% less than new ones.  Plus, they are significantly less expensive to maintain than comparable used gas-powered cars.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/the-pros-and-cons-of-buying-a-used-ev.html
https://www.greencars.com/post/what-to-consider-when-buying-a-used-electric-vehicle

How are the batteries in the used ones? Feel free to call me B1GTenPAThey.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 02, 2022, 03:35:04 PM
Forget about buying an overpriced new Tesla.  If anyone is in the market for an electric vehicle, I would suggest looking at used EVs. 

The savings will vary by model, but on average, used EVs cost 43% to 72% less than new ones.  Plus, they are significantly less expensive to maintain than comparable used gas-powered cars.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/the-pros-and-cons-of-buying-a-used-ev.html
https://www.greencars.com/post/what-to-consider-when-buying-a-used-electric-vehicle

True for used cars in general, but are EV's available on the used market? For a while, used Teslas pretty much didn't exist.

One thing about buying a used EV - while an ICE car will have some life out of it, need new tires, have some miles in the transmission, etc... with used EVs you start getting into the situation where the battery range has decreased.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 02, 2022, 03:36:47 PM
My son is friends with 2 kids whose dad wrote a book on Musk, and had to interview him extensively. So he's a pretty big Musk fanboy.

I expressed my skepticism over Tesla's market value, he said "look at all the Teslas here in CA, expand that to the country and it's a trillion dollar company"

I just said "You mean like Honda" (hint: not a trillion dollar company). And Tesla can't expand that to the country because of the price point, and his original point is broken anyway. There are Teslas all over the South Bay, but not so many in Fresno. My sister's kids go to a hoity toity private school in Lafayette IN, plenty of Teslas there. Unless they can adjust their price point to be closer to Honda or Ford, they can't expand into lower median income ranges, and if they do, their margins go to pot.

Despite the overall point re cost, there are plenty of rich Trumpers too.

I did notice that the rink in Irvine when we out there had a bunch of charging stations in front. Had not seen anything like that around here. They were always packed with people charging their cars when we were at the rink.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 02, 2022, 03:37:13 PM
They'll be empty.  Restaurants and other businesses catering to office workers will close. Tax collections go down..But can then convert the office buildings to homeless shelters.

Converting vacant office buildings into affordable housing is complicated.  Might be better to focus on renovating older motels, big box stores and ground-level retail spaces to address homelessness. 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/why-empty-offices-aren-t-being-turned-housing-despite-lengthy-n1274810
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 02, 2022, 03:37:35 PM
with used EVs you start getting into the situation where the battery range has decreased.

That is what I was wondering.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 02, 2022, 03:38:56 PM
Converting vacant office buildings into affordable housing is complicated.  Might be better to focus on renovating older motels, big box stores and ground-level retail spaces to address homelessness. 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/why-empty-offices-aren-t-being-turned-housing-despite-lengthy-n1274810

I always wonder who stays at those old motels located near Midway Airport.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 02, 2022, 04:06:08 PM
True for used cars in general, but are EV's available on the used market? For a while, used Teslas pretty much didn't exist.

One thing about buying a used EV - while an ICE car will have some life out of it, need new tires, have some miles in the transmission, etc... with used EVs you start getting into the situation where the battery range has decreased.

I think it depends on where you live but google used EVs for sale.  I think you’ll find a surprising number of pre-owned models available in larger metropolitan areas, including 2020 and 2021 Teslas.   

While it can be intimidating, there’s plenty of good information available to help people buy the right EV.  This includes estimating the remaining life of the battery.
https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/buying-used-electric-car/
https://www.autotrader.com/car-shopping/batteries-used-electric-vehicles
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: dwc13 on June 03, 2022, 08:09:18 PM

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/florida-man-passenger-crash-fedex-172900159.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 04, 2022, 08:09:22 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/florida-man-passenger-crash-fedex-172900159.html

We all hope Golf recovers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 10, 2022, 11:52:07 AM
just for you alum

https://twitter.com/Postmates/status/1534926284681121792
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 13, 2022, 09:32:04 AM
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Proud-boys-storm-Bay-Area-Drag-Queen-story-hour-17236693.php
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 13, 2022, 01:49:09 PM
Narrator [Morgan Freeman]: 

For many of the Proud Boys, it was their first trip to the library....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 13, 2022, 03:11:03 PM
I think this thread is the only place for any discussion of Crypto

https://www.wsj.com/articles/risks-of-crypto-stablecoins-attract-attention-of-yellen-fed-and-sec-11626537601?mod=e2tw
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 13, 2022, 11:19:18 PM
I don't feel bad for anyone that put their money in that crap
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 14, 2022, 11:20:57 AM
I don't feel bad for anyone that put their money in that crap

you shouldn't. They'll declare bankruptcy, tank the housing market, and we'll be holding the bag.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 14, 2022, 11:36:51 AM
you shouldn't. They'll declare bankruptcy, tank the housing market, and we'll be holding the bag.

buying opportunity :)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2022, 12:52:47 PM
buying opportunity :)

Crony capitalism at its best!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2022, 12:53:42 PM
They have a tampon dispenser in the Men's bathroom in the Illini Union. Yes, I am on campus today....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 14, 2022, 12:54:13 PM
They have a tampon dispenser in the Men's bathroom in the Illini Union. Yes, I am on campus today....

must be nice for you!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 14, 2022, 12:56:07 PM
They have a tampon dispenser in the Men's bathroom in the Illini Union. Yes, I am on campus today....
buying opportunity!!!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2022, 01:40:32 PM
must be nice for you!

I grabbed some for you and your QAnon buddies to use next time you are all cramped in a UHaul.

Just bought stamps and an envelope at the bookstore and addressed it to QAnon97, Reno, Nevada. I'm sure the postal carrier will know where to drop it off.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 14, 2022, 01:51:59 PM
They have a tampon dispenser in the Men's bathroom in the Illini Union. Yes, I am on campus today....
You guys going out tonight to a Chinese restaurant for some Orange Chicken ?
Or go with Flag Day and some barbecue and cold beer ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2022, 01:56:04 PM
You guys going out tonight to a Chinese restaurant for some Orange Chicken ?
Or go with Flag Day and some barbecue and cold beer ?

Plenty of Asian options on campus. Was looking for Zorba's to get a gyro and it is some noodle bullshit. Went to the Illini Inn, instead.of the free parent meal in the 6 Pack, and had a burger, free fries (Tuesday special), a (plastic) Mug Club mug of Miller Lite, and a $3 Long Island (summer special). Bartender let me keep the plastic Mug Club mug as I was the only one in there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 14, 2022, 02:27:10 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-warning-users-could-lose-crypto-bankruptcy-earnings-2022-5

this is good for bitcoin
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2022, 02:59:17 PM
After seeing the completely full tampon and maxi pad dispenser in the Illini Union Bookstore Men's bathroom, I am actually curious what they have for the "fellas" in the Women's bathrooms here. Condoms? It is as if they are just taunting Judge Judy.

I don't care much about who does their business where,  but these dispensers are befuddling to me. Just go into the  Women's one of you need one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 14, 2022, 03:06:15 PM
You guys going out tonight to a Chinese restaurant for some Orange Chicken ?
Or go with Flag Day and some barbecue and cold beer ?

Thing is, unlike you we would not be flying the Confederate flag
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 14, 2022, 03:07:31 PM
After seeing the completely full tampon and maxi pad dispenser in the Illini Union Bookstore Men's bathroom, I am actually curious what they have for the "fellas" in the Women's bathrooms here. Condoms? It is as if they are just taunting Judge Judy.

I don't care much about who does their business where,  but these dispensers are befuddling to me. Just go into the  Women's one of you need one.

Don't even get Q97 started on diaper changing stations in the men's room.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 14, 2022, 03:08:28 PM
After seeing the completely full tampon and maxi pad dispenser in the Illini Union Bookstore Men's bathroom, I am actually curious what they have for the "fellas" in the Women's bathrooms here. Condoms? It is as if they are just taunting Judge Judy.

I don't care much about who does their business where,  but these dispensers are befuddling to me. Just go into the  Women's one of you need one.

FWIW: “Not all women menstruate and not all menstruators are women.”

Tampons in men’s restrooms? Activists, schools and businesses are serving the menstrual needs of those who don’t identify as women
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-transgender-menstrual-products-20191112-2rqexd75efezhp2r4oy7njdmju-story.html

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2022, 03:29:56 PM
FWIW: “Not all women menstruate and not all menstruators are women.”

Tampons in men’s restrooms? Activists, schools and businesses are serving the menstrual needs of those who don’t identify as women
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-transgender-menstrual-products-20191112-2rqexd75efezhp2r4oy7njdmju-story.html

I get that, but the damned things are full. Meanwhile, moms were lined up outside the Illini Union women's bathrooms like it was a Bears game. Why not make sure the dispensers are full in there? If "Pat" needs a tampon, go in there and grab one? I'm guessing there are not as many "Pats" as there are...Pattys given how full the damned things are.

I'll post pictures. Yeah, I took them when no one was in there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2022, 03:38:16 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/tYGhzTZf/PXL-20220614-153549454.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/tYGhzTZf)

(https://i.postimg.cc/QVTQ55t1/PXL-20220614-194858309.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/QVTQ55t1)

Hot damn tamale. I got this to work.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 14, 2022, 03:43:39 PM
I get that, but the damned things are full. Meanwhile, moms were lined up outside the Illini Union women's bathrooms like it was a Bears game. Why not make sure the dispensers are full in there? If "Pat" needs a tampon, go in there and grab one? I'm guessing there are not as many "Pats" as there are...Pattys given how full the damned things are.

I'll post pictures. Yeah, I took them when no one was in there.

I know this may shock you, but I've purchased my wife a tampon, from a machine in a bathroom. I mean, it's perfect, I don't have to go to the damn register with a box of tampons and wait for "PRICE CHECK, ALWAYS MENSTRUAL PADS"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 14, 2022, 04:03:23 PM
I know this may shock you, but I've purchased my wife a tampon, from a machine in a bathroom. I mean, it's perfect, I don't have to go to the damn register with a box of tampons and wait for "PRICE CHECK, ALWAYS MENSTRUAL PADS"

Or another question would be, why would that bother you?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 14, 2022, 04:30:44 PM
There's a tampon shortage, and the men's room is all stocked up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 14, 2022, 06:53:16 PM
Thing is, unlike you we would not be flying the Confederate flag
I did see some smoked andouille at the butcher shop today, so I'm grilling some up to go with pasta salad.
I'll take the U.S. flag down later.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 14, 2022, 06:53:39 PM
There's a tampon shortage, and the men's room is all stocked up.

how observant of you, Mn!

🤡🌎
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 15, 2022, 03:14:55 AM
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/34091716/national-anthem-singer-college-world-series-performance-canceled-horns-gesture

🤡🌎 why are people so fucking sensitive these days?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 15, 2022, 08:45:17 AM
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/34091716/national-anthem-singer-college-world-series-performance-canceled-horns-gesture

🤡🌎 why are people so fucking sensitive these days?!

Not everyone can be immune like you, Judge Judy
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 15, 2022, 09:26:39 AM
OMG, the horns down gesture 😱 how in the world are we ever gonna recover from that?!  😂

And I’m not the one complaining about tampon dispensers In the men’s bathroom. Appears you’re not immune either. Tell us the truth, did you use one for your hurt vagina?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 15, 2022, 10:08:58 AM
OMG, the horns down gesture 😱 how in the world are we ever gonna recover from that?!  😂

And I’m not the one complaining about tampon dispensers In the men’s bathroom. Appears you’re not immune either. Tell us the truth, did you use one for your hurt vagina?!

You are such a dumbass.  The reason the guy get bounced, from an NCAA event, is because he, who is just there to sing the damned song, was mocking an NCAA team. If he was mocking the Illini, we all know how ballistic you would go.

We all know you are an idiot, but seriously, how fucking stupid are you? I know Special Olympians who are smarter than you are. You should put a tampon in your mouth so you stop saying stupid shit.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 15, 2022, 10:21:54 AM
We would bitch and get over it. If we win the game, we laugh at the guy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 15, 2022, 10:47:43 AM
You are such a dumbass.  The reason the guy get bounced, from an NCAA event, is because he, who is just there to sing the damned song, was mocking an NCAA team. If he was mocking the Illini, we all know how ballistic you would go.

We all know you are an idiot, but seriously, how fucking stupid are you? I know Special Olympians who are smarter than you are. You should put a tampon in your mouth so you stop saying stupid shit.

We’re better off without the horns down gesture guy anyways. Just wait till next year when the new National Anthem singer tells us how thankful she is that there’s tampons in the “men’s” restroom because she needed one before singing. Watch everybody cheer in excitement for 3-5 more minutes! 🤡🌎
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 15, 2022, 10:48:17 AM
I’ll be at the college World Series next week and hope to see plenty of offensive mockery.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 15, 2022, 11:54:01 AM
We would bitch and get over it. If we win the game, we laugh at the guy.

Who you crapping? We are known for having the whiniest fan base out there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 15, 2022, 11:55:35 AM
We’re better off without the horns down gesture guy anyways. Just wait till next year when the new National Anthem singer tells us how thankful she is that there’s tampons in the “men’s” restroom because she needed one before singing. Watch everybody cheer in excitement for 3-5 more minutes! 🤡🌎

This is one of your more semi-cogent posts. I'll give you an applaud.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on June 15, 2022, 12:16:23 PM
Quote
A year and a half after the arrival of Virus, some may have started wondering why the usually unscrupulous ruling elites decided to freeze the global profit-making machine in the face of a pathogen that targets almost exclusively the unproductive (over 80s). Why all the humanitarian zeal? Cui bono? Only those who are unfamiliar with the wondrous adventures of GloboCap can delude themselves into thinking that the system chose to shut down out of compassion. Let us be clear from the start: the big predators of oil, arms, and vaccines could not care less about humanity.

In pre-Covid times, the world economy was on the verge of another colossal meltdown. Here is a brief chronicle of how the pressure was building up:



https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 15, 2022, 02:24:21 PM

https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/

That is actually kind of interesting. The crony capitalists actually engineered covid to bail themselves out?

I was saying pre-covid, that Trump's great economy was largely bullspit. UE decline and low inflation were just continuations of previous trends. Trump et al tended to misrepresent his gdp growth. The Late El Rushbo blatantly misled listeners by comparing Trump's early quarterly numbers with Obama's annualized numbers. Corporations used the unique tax break to buy back stocks, artificially inflating the markets. P/E ratios predicted trouble ahead. Deficits ballooned. Covid was convenient, though I think coincident. Retrospection might tell us  there was an overreaction, or not.

A friend pointed out that humans seem to be hardwired for pattern recognition. This leads to things like synchronicity. Add in the inclination of some to be to be suspicious, we get complex conspiracy theories.
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 15, 2022, 10:44:23 PM
I didn’t get all the way to the end but Golf’s post makes more sense to me than the “official” narrative
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on June 16, 2022, 12:46:54 AM
I didn’t get all the way to the end but Golf’s post makes more sense to me than the “official” narrative

Quit fucking strange for a min and wake up !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 16, 2022, 07:49:02 AM
Quit fucking strange for a min and wake up !

Ironically, the reason it makes sense to him is that he didn't get all the way through it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 16, 2022, 11:44:33 PM
Ironically, the reason it makes sense to him is that he didn't get all the way through it.

I went back and finished it. Still seems more plausible than the official narrative. By far.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 17, 2022, 07:13:51 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/ZcvHRLy/Screenshot-20220617-071140-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QYh87bs)


Lol.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 17, 2022, 07:22:46 AM
I went back and finished it. Still seems more plausible than the official narrative. By far.

Really? The Marxian analysis from some UK egghead professor resonates with you, huh? The claim that the goal, under the guise of responding to the virus, was meant to prevent or defer hyperinflation? Haven't you argued here that the response to the pandemic caused inflation? (Not saying you are incorrect, just that you made the argument.) Why would Big Oil push a plan where they would wind up having to pay to give oil away? (And have Trump, who apparently was in on this plan, tell the Saudis to stop pumping so domestic producers would not completely get curb stomped?) Granted, it is now making up for those lost profits. The lower wages part? Huh?

And Lori Lightfoot and her mandates are apparently part of a global scheme for profit making by [insert your bogeyman here]. Interesting.

Chump edits: Man, I need to wear my glasses when posting on my phone.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 17, 2022, 07:25:42 AM
The thing is the January 6th stuff is just the tip of the iceberg on how many wack jobs really are out there. Has to be the lead pipes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 17, 2022, 11:31:04 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/16/usa-today-gabriela-miranda-retractions/

Quote
USA Today removes 23 articles, says reporter fabricated sources



fake news isn't real guys

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 17, 2022, 12:17:33 PM
"Hardly the first ink-stained wretch to get caught making stuff up."
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/07/10-journos-caught-fabricating-079221
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 17, 2022, 12:29:42 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/16/usa-today-gabriela-miranda-retractions/



fake news isn't real guys

We all knew the milk crate challenge was not banned on The Tik Tok.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 17, 2022, 12:30:55 PM
"Hardly the first ink-stained wretch to get caught making stuff up."
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/07/10-journos-caught-fabricating-079221

These people at least got fired. But it is apparently ok to make Fake News up about the 2020 election though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 17, 2022, 03:03:18 PM
These people at least got fired. But it is apparently ok to make Fake News up about the 2020 election though.

More than 100 GOP primary winners back Trump’s false fraud claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/more-than-100-gop-primary-winners-back-trumps-false-fraud-claims/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics

Believing the big lie is apparently a requirement to be a Republican candidate for office these days.  The sad thing for Republicans, however is that they are just as much a victim of Trump’s grifting as the rest of the dupes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 17, 2022, 04:50:15 PM
These people at least got fired. But it is apparently ok to make Fake News up about the 2020 election though.

There is always the Tucker Carlson defense.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on June 17, 2022, 08:21:38 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/16/usa-today-gabriela-miranda-retractions/



fake news isn't real guys

And these retractions are the big difference between a credible outlet and a non-credible one.  The places that lie to you just never fess up and you’re dumb enough to pretend that’s better.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on June 17, 2022, 08:23:00 PM
More than 100 GOP primary winners back Trump’s false fraud claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/more-than-100-gop-primary-winners-back-trumps-false-fraud-claims/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics

Believing the big lie is apparently a requirement to be a Republican candidate for office these days.  The sad thing for Republicans, however is that they are just as much a victim of Trump’s grifting as the rest of the dupes.

In large part they know better, don’t let them off the hook as victims.  They’re not stupid enough to believe the sky is green just because their moron leadership says it is, they are just beyond desperate for a win and politics is team sports to them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 17, 2022, 11:14:00 PM
Really? The Marxian analysis from some UK egghead professor resonates with you, huh? The claim that the goal, under the guise of responding to the virus, was meant to prevent or defer hyperinflation? Haven't you argued here that the response to the pandemic caused inflation? (Not saying you are incorrect, just that you made the argument.) Why would Big Oil push a plan where they would wind up having to pay to give oil away? (And have Trump, who apparently was in on this plan, tell the Saudis to stop pumping so domestic producers would not completely get curb stomped?) Granted, it is now making up for those lost profits. The lower wages part? Huh?

And Lori Lightfoot and her mandates are apparently part of a global scheme for profit making by [insert your bogeyman here]. Interesting.

Chump edits: Man, I need to wear my glasses when posting on my phone.

I feel like the author addressed a lot of these issues within the actual article and there are some really well thought out replies to it that cover the rest.

Yeah, pumping the rescue money into the economy on top of the purposeful supply (and supply chain) destruction helped cause the inflation we are seeing, but it’s certainly not hyperinflation at this point.

Central banking and big companies run this world. Most politicians are puppets of the establishment installed to serve their masters. Even the ones that rise to office by claiming to eschew the establishment eventually end up doing their bidding if they want to stay in office. Or worse, they get offed. (Ahem, Kennedy) Politics and the media dog and pony show that covers them exist primarily to give us the illusion of choice.

Is this a cynical take? Sure. But I’m not even sure how anyone can argue otherwise at this juncture. Hell, George Carlin, a progressive standup comedian, laid this all brutally bare three decades ago. It’s my opinion that the only ones who don’t get it at this point are either not paying attention or have their heads buried in the sand.

If there’s one thing that boggles my mind about the US post-March 2020 is that somehow the normally anti-establishment left has become firmly entrenched on the side of the establishment. We’ve got Democrats leading the charge on huge taxpayer payouts to the military industrial complex, hero worship of big pharmaceutical companies with abhorrent morality issues, our intrepid renewable energy stumping president begging Saudi Arabia (they of their fantastic human rights track record) for oil, all while kneeling at the altar of the Big Tech and media oligarchies.

So whether or not everything in the article is true, it’s abundantly clear that the moves the global elite are making are working.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 17, 2022, 11:44:47 PM
, our intrepid renewable energy stumping president begging Saudi Arabia (they of their fantastic human rights track record) for oil,

That is what Fox News says. They mock Biden for intervening with the Saudis to increase production in hopes of cutting prices; while domestic oil companies enjoy record profits. They use the word beg.

Two years ago Fox News praised Trump for intervening with the Saudis to cut production in hopes of increasing prices; while domestic oil companies suffered record losses. The word beg was not used.

Today Fox News expressed outrage because in their minds Biden lied when he said inflation is higher in the rest of the industrialized world. Actually, we are middle of the pack. It is slightly lower in some  countries, slightly higher in others. So he misspoke. The point Biden tried to sell is it is a global problem, not caused by his policies. He is now blaming Putin for aggravating the supply issues.

Meanwhile, Fox consistently defended and still defends the blatant  liar Trump.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 18, 2022, 08:37:12 AM
I feel like the author addressed a lot of these issues within the actual article and there are some really well thought out replies to it that cover the rest.

Yeah, pumping the rescue money into the economy on top of the purposeful supply (and supply chain) destruction helped cause the inflation we are seeing, but it’s certainly not hyperinflation at this point.

Central banking and big companies run this world. Most politicians are puppets of the establishment installed to serve their masters. Even the ones that rise to office by claiming to eschew the establishment eventually end up doing their bidding if they want to stay in office. Or worse, they get offed. (Ahem, Kennedy) Politics and the media dog and pony show that covers them exist primarily to give us the illusion of choice.

Is this a cynical take? Sure. But I’m not even sure how anyone can argue otherwise at this juncture. Hell, George Carlin, a progressive standup comedian, laid this all brutally bare three decades ago. It’s my opinion that the only ones who don’t get it at this point are either not paying attention or have their heads buried in the sand.

If there’s one thing that boggles my mind about the US post-March 2020 is that somehow the normally anti-establishment left has become firmly entrenched on the side of the establishment. We’ve got Democrats leading the charge on huge taxpayer payouts to the military industrial complex, hero worship of big pharmaceutical companies with abhorrent morality issues, our intrepid renewable energy stumping president begging Saudi Arabia (they of their fantastic human rights track record) for oil, all while kneeling at the altar of the Big Tech and media oligarchies.

So whether or not everything in the article is true, it’s abundantly clear that the moves the global elite are making are working.

Apparently Russia attacking The Ukraine and China continuing to shut down parts of its (and the world's) economy for The COVID (and, its, it appears, return to a more Marxist ideology in connection with its economy...anyone hear from the Alibaba guy lately?) was all part of GLOBAL INC's conspiracy plan to drive up profits and push everyone into a recession?

Yeah, ok.

You ever think, maybe, that businesses can be adept at taking advantage, best they can, of a bad situation on the ground when it works to their advantage? It is not as if we have never had price gouging around a natural disaster. (It was not that long ago when people were hoarding TP and selling it on eBay.) This just happens to be a worldwide natural (or man made) disaster, with huge collateral events (environmental and war) occurring, that is impacting everyone worldwide. Some industries are fucking EVERYONE over because they can. Meanwhile, others are getting hammered.

We have heard that domestic oil producer shareholders are fine taking profits right now instead of expanding production. This comes on the heels of oil demand taking a dive. Maybe makes sense $ wise, but maybe not morally. But, in the end, oil companies (like most businesses when push comes to shove) don't act morally. It's all about the Benjamins.

A push for renewable energy and addressing environmental issues could be a good outcome here. But we are too focused on pronouns and denying that water shortages out West are, in part, man made because people want to live in a desert with no water. See, e.g., QAnon97.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 18, 2022, 12:14:10 PM
I feel like the author addressed a lot of these issues within the actual article and there are some really well thought out replies to it that cover the rest.

Yeah, pumping the rescue money into the economy on top of the purposeful supply (and supply chain) destruction helped cause the inflation we are seeing, but it’s certainly not hyperinflation at this point.

Central banking and big companies run this world. Most politicians are puppets of the establishment installed to serve their masters. Even the ones that rise to office by claiming to eschew the establishment eventually end up doing their bidding if they want to stay in office. Or worse, they get offed. (Ahem, Kennedy) Politics and the media dog and pony show that covers them exist primarily to give us the illusion of choice.

Is this a cynical take? Sure. But I’m not even sure how anyone can argue otherwise at this juncture. Hell, George Carlin, a progressive standup comedian, laid this all brutally bare three decades ago. It’s my opinion that the only ones who don’t get it at this point are either not paying attention or have their heads buried in the sand.

If there’s one thing that boggles my mind about the US post-March 2020 is that somehow the normally anti-establishment left has become firmly entrenched on the side of the establishment. We’ve got Democrats leading the charge on huge taxpayer payouts to the military industrial complex, hero worship of big pharmaceutical companies with abhorrent morality issues, our intrepid renewable energy stumping president begging Saudi Arabia (they of their fantastic human rights track record) for oil, all while kneeling at the altar of the Big Tech and media oligarchies.

So whether or not everything in the article is true, it’s abundantly clear that the moves the global elite are making are working.

Now, I will agree with you that too many politicians (and Larry Sommers) willing to do nothing. When is Merrick Garland going to issue subpoenas to businesses who are engaged in gouging and, allegedly,  artificial supply chain issues? Where are the state attorney generals? They all went after Big Tobacco? Why not Big Baby Formula?

I'm too busy trying to get an answer from the CTA as to who is the head of the Blue Line to take this on myself. (I am actually serious about the Blue Line stuff, they won't tell me who is actually in charge.)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 18, 2022, 11:14:36 PM
That is what Fox News says. They mock Biden for intervening with the Saudis to increase production in hopes of cutting prices; while domestic oil companies enjoy record profits. They use the word beg.

Two years ago Fox News praised Trump for intervening with the Saudis to cut production in hopes of increasing prices; while domestic oil companies suffered record losses. The word beg was not used.

Today Fox News expressed outrage because in their minds Biden lied when he said inflation is higher in the rest of the industrialized world. Actually, we are middle of the pack. It is slightly lower in some  countries, slightly higher in others. So he misspoke. The point Biden tried to sell is it is a global problem, not caused by his policies. He is now blaming Putin for aggravating the supply issues.

Meanwhile, Fox consistently defended and still defends the blatant  liar Trump.

I don’t watch Fox News. How would you like me to phrase what Biden did so it’s less hurtful to you? He’s tough talked them a bunch when oil was cheap then he went over there to try and get them to produce more when oil was expensive.

The economy is fluid. They needed to slow production when demand tanked and they needed to resume production once demand resumed. It’s not rocket surgery.

I have friends, colleagues, and acquaintances who are in the oil business in OK/TX/ND. When oil crashed because we willfully (and stupidly) shut down the economy, it cratered their businesses.

These aren’t the Exxons of the world, they’re the family owned or medium sized businesses that feed the Exxons of the world. They laid people off and capped wells and hung on for dear life. Now they can’t hardly find people to work. You don’t just flip a switch and recover from that. Either from a pure business standpoint or from the emotionally traumatic part of having something you’ve spent your life building just shut down indefinitely and perhaps permanently altered.

Plenty of intelligent forward-looking people saw the writing on the wall really early in the pandemic and were absolutely lambasted for it. Blackballed. Made into pariahs. All to kowtow to the official narrative that so many lapdogs so enthusiastically embraced. Several of the folks here absolutely lived to lambaste people who questioned the official narrative.

The returns are pretty much in and the lockdown, it turns out, wasn’t a great idea. Maybe we shouldn’t have willfully damaged our delicately balanced supply and demand infrastructure in the first place?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 19, 2022, 12:09:10 AM
I thought the so called lockdown was just an excuse for another bail out?

What I am reading is that the various measures did save leaves, albeit mostly older and less healthy people. One article seems to say the gains were offset by loss of quality of life affecting younger people.

One article indicates the lock down in China indirectly saved a lot of lives by reducing pollution.

Another conspiracy theory out there is the left is trying to do some kind of reset. That might not be a bad idea. Use rebuilding from the pandemic partial lockdowns as a starting point. There just isn't any leadership to pull us in that direction.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 19, 2022, 02:01:18 AM
Apparently Russia attacking The Ukraine and China continuing to shut down parts of its (and the world's) economy for The COVID (and, its, it appears, return to a more Marxist ideology in connection with its economy...anyone hear from the Alibaba guy lately?) was all part of GLOBAL INC's conspiracy plan to drive up profits and push everyone into a recession?

Yeah, ok.

You ever think, maybe, that businesses can be adept at taking advantage, best they can, of a bad situation on the ground when it works to their advantage? It is not as if we have never had price gouging around a natural disaster. (It was not that long ago when people were hoarding TP and selling it on eBay.) This just happens to be a worldwide natural (or man made) disaster, with huge collateral events (environmental and war) occurring, that is impacting everyone worldwide. Some industries are fucking EVERYONE over because they can. Meanwhile, others are getting hammered.

We have heard that domestic oil producer shareholders are fine taking profits right now instead of expanding production. This comes on the heels of oil demand taking a dive. Maybe makes sense $ wise, but maybe not morally. But, in the end, oil companies (like most businesses when push comes to shove) don't act morally. It's all about the Benjamins.

A push for renewable energy and addressing environmental issues could be a good outcome here. But we are too focused on pronouns and denying that water shortages out West are, in part, man made because people want to live in a desert with no water. See, e.g., QAnon97.

No one here has argued more than I have that big businesses have engaged in a high degree of fuckery surrounding supply chain issues, shipping, collusion, and any other manner of bullshit in the Covid era.

What you said here: “Apparently Russia attacking The Ukraine and China continuing to shut down parts of its (and the world's) economy for The COVID” just kind of reinforces what the article said. They’re literally pumping more money directly into the system in support of Ukraine. Consistent with the article.

Meanwhile China is using Covid to throttle supply. Their extensive lockdowns only served to drag this on much longer. They could do this shit for years. They’ve adopted an entire ideology around it (Zero Covid) and you think they’re just going to abandon it? Coincidence?

They’re the goddamn kings of Making Cheap Shit, but now that they’ve got most of the world by the balls they’re taking full advantage of this opportunity to throttle supply in the face of rising demand, thus drastically inflating the value of their entire manufacturing industry. Because what are we gonna do? Bring manufacturing back here? Every Democrat in the US has guffawed at that very idea since the day Trump started saying it on the campaign trail.

I have buddies in finance that were telling me last fall that Russia would invade Ukraine right about the time the Covid thing seemed to be coming to a logical “end” and it turned out to be exactly right. They told me—emphatically—to go long on oil. I believe I posted that here late last fall or early winter. Definitely before the invasion.

One of my best friends has been AOTC on almost everything since March 2020. He’s VERY plugged in. The ONLY thing he missed on was that another global lockdown would come as a result of Omicron. I mean, they kinda tried, but turns out too many people were basically over it by that point to really get behind anything as draconian as we had seen previously.

One of my biggest regrets is not having listened to him. He’s one of the smartest mofos I know. He makes his own luck and lives life on his own terms. But I got so sucked up in the circus sideshow that everyone else is that I kind of dismissed it while it was all unfolding.

So while he’s in his late 30s and has multiplied his net worth many times over and doesn’t even need to work anymore,  I’m still toiling away trying to keep up with the rising cost of, like, fucking everything. 🤦🏻

And also, come on, man. Market manipulation, scandals, conspiracies, all that shit is as old as time.

Ok at this point, for fun, sI’m going to attempt to set a record for longest run-on sentence ever.

Behold:

It’s not really more of a stretch to believe the central bankers used Covid to try and cool down an economy that was running way too hot (we can blame that on Trump if you like) as it is to believe that this virus just emerged from a pangolin and all the developed nations in the world magically came up with this eerily similar and unprecedented authoritarian containment plan that flew in the face of science and didn’t actually work and did a lot of irreparable damage and then on top of it shouted down anyone (including well respected scientists and epidemiologists and virologists) that didn’t toe the line and then rushed a bunch of experimental vaccines to market and forced a great number of people to take them through some combination of political, financial, occupational, or social pressure that made a bunch of huge corporations (which aren’t PEOPLE!) …(with awful human rights track records) ENORMOUS profits and then it turns out the vaccines didn’t actually do a lot of what they said they’d do, but that’s ok because if we move the goalposts enough we can pretend that it’s ok they lied to us about the efficacy against contracting the virus as long as it helped against hospitalization and serious health issues but we knew, like FUCKING KNEW, before this even happened that coronaviruses are really hard to vaccinate against because they MUTATE RAPIDLY and so by golly the vaccine was presented as this cure-all but wait it really wasn’t and people get it time and time again and new variants come out but that’s also ok because if you get it time and time again and don’t die it’s because of THE VACCINE but the people who get it time and time again and also don’t die, well it’s just a matter of time before they do die, which a select subset of our society (like this guy named fucking that used to post here openly roots for) but that’s ok because it’s actually kind of funny that fat Republicans who deny the virus end up dying from it, because they’re the ones who were actually at risk all along but went way too far the other way and it bit them in the ass, and I appreciate both sides of the debate but hate that there are even two sides to begin with but I also understand that that is EXACTLY WHAT THIS WHOLE FUCKING EXERCISE WAS DESIGNED TO DO and so we have a group of people who won’t back off their stance that this was an “Existential Threat To Our Society And It Makes Me Feel Good To Wear An Ineffective Cotton Mask And Put A Thanks Dr. Fauci Sign Next To My Hate Has No Home Here Sign In My Lawn” or the group of people who think “This Is A Plandemic And I Won’t Get Chipped Because The Blood Of Jesus Is The Only Vaccine I Need” while ignoring the fact that in reality almost everyone falls somewhere in between those two extremes and has real and perfectly rational reasons for feeling the way they do but we need to lump people into camps because I watched X on Fox News and they don’t say what I want to hear or I watched X on CNN and they don’t say what I want to hear and so since my mind is small I have to assume that anyone who watches those things believes everything they say without question or any sense of skepticism because I read here that nichi’s neighbor told him over the backyard fence about some bullshit he saw something on Fox News and it indeed turned out to be bullshit and Alum rather than using his computer power to mine bitcoin uses it to google articles that confirm his bias and post them ad nauseum in response to anything that doesn’t conform to his already established and thoroughly unchangeable viewpoint and then there’s Mn posting pictures of his his culinary creations and Wingnut talking points while simultaneously using coded language to convert the burgeoning youth movement of IlliniHQ^2 to the ways of authoritarianism and nationalism and populism and racism and bigotry and neo-nazism and undying love for Halibut despite living on a pristine (except for the mutant frogs) lake somewhere in Minnesota which from what I’ve heard is cold af most of the year so the poor dude probably has to melt the icicles off his tallywhacker before he can even pour the (cold) coals to his old (literally) lady up der in the Nortland where they should subsist on a diet of nothing more than fresh caught perch, pike, bluegill, crappie,    trout, mussels, seasonal vegetables, a strawberry pie followed by slow but steady lovemaking that transcends even the joy that comes with drinking an ice cold root beer made with real Wisconsin honey on a hot summer day I just hope he sends pics but let’s get back to PAMan I think you need to get out of the city more and enjoy the finer things in life like a handy and a rosé on a blanket in a moderately populated park area where you might get caught but probably won’t but just enough ambiguity to make it exciting but at the same time ILL0vE97 needs to buy more drinking water at Costco and murph needs to SELL NOW and move to Missouri where he’s truly happy and Illinikvn needs to post more and Jobu is dying (again) and Judy needs to invite me to more bourbon tastings and Tempo needs to explain the staff shortages at Outback and Lanphier needs to help me understand his relationship with Reggie and I want to know if they saw a white light at the end of the tunnel and if not then what was it eternal doom for Illinois athletics but if it was would they even be back and if Ben Wilson on the other side did he say anything about whether or not he would have been an Illini had he not been dead and has anyone asked Nick Anderson why he didn’t properly box out I mean was it an instructional issue or right place wrong time or was it the curse of Frieder like wtf happened man that was our championship to lose, sucks I hate it but here it is 30 some years later and it’s all people like Tempo can talk about but I see the replay of the 89 game at IU where Nick made that shot and the bench stormed the court and Bobby looked real mad but he didn’t throw a chair or anything actually just looked really depressed which to me is satisfying but probably not so much for Dominic but boy that game against Cuse was a barnburner and it’s like hey I can’t even be mad they made it a long way but then I remember that goddamn Michigan of all schools won that title and we kicked their asses twice that season which just hurts even more but they always say it’s hard to beat good time three times in one season but that sounds like snowflake talk to me if you are really that much better you should just beat them every time regardless of the coach or the other team or bad bounces or improper box outs or people that are important to your team having concussions this isn’t youth soccer or the pedal tractor pull at the county fair people care about this shit and your legacy and hanging a banner and doing thing the right way and graduating players and mowing your own yard and doing Navy seals training in a slimy man made pond in Urbana and having ladders as a metaphor for success and moderately stretchy wristbands made of materials that don’t decompose that have inspiration sayings on them so when you go out to Kams (RIP) you don’t bring some skank home and get herpes and a $900 a month child support payment or threaten to cut someone with your strap or make your bitch gargle ice cubes while shoving her face in the carpet of a shithole apartment while demanding your money or getting high in MPLS and cold cocking a teammate or roughing up a bitch or buying drugs from undercover cops and running all over campus from them or going home for the holidays and sharing with them the dream you’d like to play professional basketball for money or maybe pulling guns out on people or players being all Americans in practice but not seeing the floor in games hardly ever unless it’s against a severely undermanned IU team and playing well but still losing anyways but that’s ok because it was a Good Learning Experience which is how People Grow but I need to go now to watch fucking’s videos on YouTube bye
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 19, 2022, 02:04:42 AM
Another conspiracy theory out there is the left is trying to do some kind of reset. That might not be a bad idea. Use rebuilding from the pandemic partial lockdowns as a starting point.

I knew you could do it! Look at you!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 19, 2022, 07:31:27 AM
Hey Custard, thanks for all of the coverage. I think.
 "....drinking an ice cold root beer made with real Wisconsin honey on a hot summer day I just hope he sends pics"
Now I've gotta go find the stuff.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 19, 2022, 09:06:22 AM
Lot to chew on here. Put it to music and you might match We Didn't Start The Fire.

People who believe in Grand Conspiracies appear to think that the "elites" are more organized and competent than they really are. So a worldwide response to an airborne virus is to tell people to stay home and mask up (but to build in so many exceptions) is evidence of a worldwide conspiracy of elite bankers to slow the world economy? The response had nothing to do with it being an airborne virus?  I must have missed the 2d lockdown attempt. Is that evidence that the world bankers wanted to slow things down even more and failed?  Yet they still successfully irreperably destroyed the world economy like they wanted? The same.world bankers who finance all.the office space in the world that is now being half used. Maybe you are right. I did read about the Dolphins owner cheering for a recession so workers will have to go back to offices that he owns in order to keep their jobs. Come on, dude, half this stuff in your argument does not make sense internally.

I go out way too much and went out too much when things started opening up.
I'm not a wine drinker. If I drink wine, it is at weddings because it is on the table and the bar is closed. I would drink white, regardless of what food was being served. I am always game for a handy.

While it is in there, but wasn't the response to slow the spread to mitigate the stress on the hospitals and to not overburden them any more than they were at the time?
 Seems like it worked to that extent . In the meantime, a lot of people died. You seem to forget that, as they got in the way of the economy.

Did the vaccine work in preventing people from getting the virus? Doesn't seem so. Did it work in preventing people who got the virus from having to be hospitalized (until the thing started mutating and hospitalizations went down)? Arguably so.

Aren't companies moving some manufacturing out of China to diversify supply chain sources precisely because of what they are doing over there and are not considered as reliable? Also, I would expect more companies, the ones that are paying attention, to be concerned about the new Marxist ideological focus over there. That's not good for business. This can all.boomarang on them. Maybe your smart AOTC friends should invest in Vietnamese manufacturers.

I will go all Alum on you, but you omit that COVID death disportionately impactsd minority communities:

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-cases-and-deaths-by-race-ethnicity-current-data-and-changes-over-time/

I think Alum and Mn are the best posters here, as they tend to try and back their shit up, as opposed to the rest of us.

And Big, and Little, Oil, are making up for lost profits during COVID, but they apparently supported throttling demand during the lockdowns so they lost money so they could them make it back in an inflationary economy. Very smart on their part.

People were AOTC on the Soviets attacking The Ukraine when we had one president signaling that he didn't care if it happened and then another say that a "minor excursion" would be just fine? We are pumping money into weapons in response to the invasion so The Ukraine can blow shit up and smoke Soviets. I don't get how that supports the thesis of the article at all. It's a response to the Soviet aggression.

Illinikvn does.need to post more.

Happy Father's Day.

Chump edits for typos. Fuck those central bankers for making me nead to wear Costco readers and having fat fingers. It's a conspiracy,  I tell ya!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 19, 2022, 02:39:03 PM
Nobody ever said cloth masks would protect anyone from airborne viruses. The virus is too small. It can pass through the cloth fibers. As can oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules; which are smaller than the corona virus.

That said, when we talk, yell, sing, laugh, cough, sneeze, etc. we emit lots of respiratory droplets. It was thought if a person was infected and contagious, their respiratory droplets would contain clusters of the virus. It was further thought that contact with an infected person's droplets might cause infection.  Moreover, if a number of infected people gathered in a small, poorly ventilated place; such as church, cafe, or tavern; there would be a good chance the virus might become airborne.

Note that respiratory droplets are small, but much larger than the virus. A cloth mask, especially one with several layers, could serve as an effective shield to block them. So they have two possible purposes. They might have a limited value of helping block incoming respiratory droplets from an infected person. The greater value is that they might help block outgoing droplets from infected persons before the virus can become airborne.

At the end of the day, cloth masks used alone were a provisional measure until surgical and n90 masks became widely available. Even now though, a cloth mask worn over a surgical mask is recommended for locations where masks are still required.

One would have thought the conspirators would have stocked up on surgical and n90 masks before launching their plandemic.

The one conspiracy most are missing is this is a simulation of some sort. Every now and then something goes wrong, and "they" reboot. When that happens, subtle changes occur  in the fabric of  time and space.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 19, 2022, 03:02:10 PM
Nobody ever said cloth masks would protect anyone from airborne viruses. The virus is too small. It can pass through the cloth fibers. As can oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules; which are smaller than the corona virus.

That said, when we talk, yell, sing, laugh, cough, sneeze, etc. we emit lots of respiratory droplets. It was thought if a person was infected and contagious, their respiratory droplets would contain clusters of the virus. It was further thought that contact with an infected person's droplets might cause infection.  Moreover, if a number of infected people gathered in a small, poorly ventilated place; such as church, cafe, or tavern; there would be a good chance the virus might become airborne.

Note that respiratory droplets are small, but much larger than the virus. A cloth mask, especially one with several layers, could serve as an effective shield to block them. So they have two possible purposes. They might have a limited value of helping block incoming respiratory droplets from an infected person. The greater value is that they might help block outgoing droplets from infected persons before the virus can become airborne.

At the end of the day, cloth masks used alone were a provisional practice until surgical and n90 masks became widely available. Even now though, a cloth mask worn over a surgical mask is recommended for locations where masks are still required.

One would have thought the conspirators would have stocked up on surgical and n90 masks before launching their plandemic.

The one conspiracy most are missing is this is a simulation of some sort. Every now and then something goes wrong, and "they" reboot. When that happens, subtle changes in the fabric of  time and space occur.

You should put profits over people. Not the other way around.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 19, 2022, 03:09:22 PM
"Things are not what they appear to be, nor are they otherwise." ~~ Lankavatra Sutra
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 19, 2022, 03:38:52 PM
No one here has argued more than I have that big businesses have engaged in a high degree of fuckery surrounding supply chain issues, shipping, collusion, and any other manner of bullshit in the Covid era.

What you said here: “Apparently Russia attacking The Ukraine and China continuing to shut down parts of its (and the world's) economy for The COVID” just kind of reinforces what the article said. They’re literally pumping more money directly into the system in support of Ukraine. Consistent with the article.

Meanwhile China is using Covid to throttle supply. Their extensive lockdowns only served to drag this on much longer. They could do this shit for years. They’ve adopted an entire ideology around it (Zero Covid) and you think they’re just going to abandon it? Coincidence?

They’re the goddamn kings of Making Cheap Shit, but now that they’ve got most of the world by the balls they’re taking full advantage of this opportunity to throttle supply in the face of rising demand, thus drastically inflating the value of their entire manufacturing industry. Because what are we gonna do? Bring manufacturing back here? Every Democrat in the US has guffawed at that very idea since the day Trump started saying it on the campaign trail.

I have buddies in finance that were telling me last fall that Russia would invade Ukraine right about the time the Covid thing seemed to be coming to a logical “end” and it turned out to be exactly right. They told me—emphatically—to go long on oil. I believe I posted that here late last fall or early winter. Definitely before the invasion.

One of my best friends has been AOTC on almost everything since March 2020. He’s VERY plugged in. The ONLY thing he missed on was that another global lockdown would come as a result of Omicron. I mean, they kinda tried, but turns out too many people were basically over it by that point to really get behind anything as draconian as we had seen previously.

One of my biggest regrets is not having listened to him. He’s one of the smartest mofos I know. He makes his own luck and lives life on his own terms. But I got so sucked up in the circus sideshow that everyone else is that I kind of dismissed it while it was all unfolding.

So while he’s in his late 30s and has multiplied his net worth many times over and doesn’t even need to work anymore,  I’m still toiling away trying to keep up with the rising cost of, like, fucking everything. 🤦🏻

And also, come on, man. Market manipulation, scandals, conspiracies, all that shit is as old as time.

Ok at this point, for fun, sI’m going to attempt to set a record for longest run-on sentence ever.

Behold:

It’s not really more of a stretch to believe the central bankers used Covid to try and cool down an economy that was running way too hot (we can blame that on Trump if you like) as it is to believe that this virus just emerged from a pangolin and all the developed nations in the world magically came up with this eerily similar and unprecedented authoritarian containment plan that flew in the face of science and didn’t actually work and did a lot of irreparable damage and then on top of it shouted down anyone (including well respected scientists and epidemiologists and virologists) that didn’t toe the line and then rushed a bunch of experimental vaccines to market and forced a great number of people to take them through some combination of political, financial, occupational, or social pressure that made a bunch of huge corporations (which aren’t PEOPLE!) …(with awful human rights track records) ENORMOUS profits and then it turns out the vaccines didn’t actually do a lot of what they said they’d do, but that’s ok because if we move the goalposts enough we can pretend that it’s ok they lied to us about the efficacy against contracting the virus as long as it helped against hospitalization and serious health issues but we knew, like FUCKING KNEW, before this even happened that coronaviruses are really hard to vaccinate against because they MUTATE RAPIDLY and so by golly the vaccine was presented as this cure-all but wait it really wasn’t and people get it time and time again and new variants come out but that’s also ok because if you get it time and time again and don’t die it’s because of THE VACCINE but the people who get it time and time again and also don’t die, well it’s just a matter of time before they do die, which a select subset of our society (like this guy named fucking that used to post here openly roots for) but that’s ok because it’s actually kind of funny that fat Republicans who deny the virus end up dying from it, because they’re the ones who were actually at risk all along but went way too far the other way and it bit them in the ass, and I appreciate both sides of the debate but hate that there are even two sides to begin with but I also understand that that is EXACTLY WHAT THIS WHOLE FUCKING EXERCISE WAS DESIGNED TO DO and so we have a group of people who won’t back off their stance that this was an “Existential Threat To Our Society And It Makes Me Feel Good To Wear An Ineffective Cotton Mask And Put A Thanks Dr. Fauci Sign Next To My Hate Has No Home Here Sign In My Lawn” or the group of people who think “This Is A Plandemic And I Won’t Get Chipped Because The Blood Of Jesus Is The Only Vaccine I Need” while ignoring the fact that in reality almost everyone falls somewhere in between those two extremes and has real and perfectly rational reasons for feeling the way they do but we need to lump people into camps because I watched X on Fox News and they don’t say what I want to hear or I watched X on CNN and they don’t say what I want to hear and so since my mind is small I have to assume that anyone who watches those things believes everything they say without question or any sense of skepticism because I read here that nichi’s neighbor told him over the backyard fence about some bullshit he saw something on Fox News and it indeed turned out to be bullshit and Alum rather than using his computer power to mine bitcoin uses it to google articles that confirm his bias and post them ad nauseum in response to anything that doesn’t conform to his already established and thoroughly unchangeable viewpoint and then there’s Mn posting pictures of his his culinary creations and Wingnut talking points while simultaneously using coded language to convert the burgeoning youth movement of IlliniHQ^2 to the ways of authoritarianism and nationalism and populism and racism and bigotry and neo-nazism and undying love for Halibut despite living on a pristine (except for the mutant frogs) lake somewhere in Minnesota which from what I’ve heard is cold af most of the year so the poor dude probably has to melt the icicles off his tallywhacker before he can even pour the (cold) coals to his old (literally) lady up der in the Nortland where they should subsist on a diet of nothing more than fresh caught perch, pike, bluegill, crappie,    trout, mussels, seasonal vegetables, a strawberry pie followed by slow but steady lovemaking that transcends even the joy that comes with drinking an ice cold root beer made with real Wisconsin honey on a hot summer day I just hope he sends pics but let’s get back to PAMan I think you need to get out of the city more and enjoy the finer things in life like a handy and a rosé on a blanket in a moderately populated park area where you might get caught but probably won’t but just enough ambiguity to make it exciting but at the same time ILL0vE97 needs to buy more drinking water at Costco and murph needs to SELL NOW and move to Missouri where he’s truly happy and Illinikvn needs to post more and Jobu is dying (again) and Judy needs to invite me to more bourbon tastings and Tempo needs to explain the staff shortages at Outback and Lanphier needs to help me understand his relationship with Reggie and I want to know if they saw a white light at the end of the tunnel and if not then what was it eternal doom for Illinois athletics but if it was would they even be back and if Ben Wilson on the other side did he say anything about whether or not he would have been an Illini had he not been dead and has anyone asked Nick Anderson why he didn’t properly box out I mean was it an instructional issue or right place wrong time or was it the curse of Frieder like wtf happened man that was our championship to lose, sucks I hate it but here it is 30 some years later and it’s all people like Tempo can talk about but I see the replay of the 89 game at IU where Nick made that shot and the bench stormed the court and Bobby looked real mad but he didn’t throw a chair or anything actually just looked really depressed which to me is satisfying but probably not so much for Dominic but boy that game against Cuse was a barnburner and it’s like hey I can’t even be mad they made it a long way but then I remember that goddamn Michigan of all schools won that title and we kicked their asses twice that season which just hurts even more but they always say it’s hard to beat good time three times in one season but that sounds like snowflake talk to me if you are really that much better you should just beat them every time regardless of the coach or the other team or bad bounces or improper box outs or people that are important to your team having concussions this isn’t youth soccer or the pedal tractor pull at the county fair people care about this shit and your legacy and hanging a banner and doing thing the right way and graduating players and mowing your own yard and doing Navy seals training in a slimy man made pond in Urbana and having ladders as a metaphor for success and moderately stretchy wristbands made of materials that don’t decompose that have inspiration sayings on them so when you go out to Kams (RIP) you don’t bring some skank home and get herpes and a $900 a month child support payment or threaten to cut someone with your strap or make your bitch gargle ice cubes while shoving her face in the carpet of a shithole apartment while demanding your money or getting high in MPLS and cold cocking a teammate or roughing up a bitch or buying drugs from undercover cops and running all over campus from them or going home for the holidays and sharing with them the dream you’d like to play professional basketball for money or maybe pulling guns out on people or players being all Americans in practice but not seeing the floor in games hardly ever unless it’s against a severely undermanned IU team and playing well but still losing anyways but that’s ok because it was a Good Learning Experience which is how People Grow but I need to go now to watch fucking’s videos on YouTube bye

This is approaching Gish Gallop territory. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 19, 2022, 03:56:14 PM
This is approaching Gish Gallop territory.

I looked that up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 19, 2022, 04:07:37 PM
Entitlement

(https://i.ibb.co/6tCQxyR/1655672601390.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 19, 2022, 07:28:11 PM
Entitlement


yeah none of those things has ever happened before SUV's  🙄

this is the clown world thread not shitty liberal boomer humor thread

stuff like this should go here

https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1538277350973902855

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 20, 2022, 12:04:40 AM
Hey Custard, thanks for all of the coverage. I think.
 "....drinking an ice cold root beer made with real Wisconsin honey on a hot summer day I just hope he sends pics"
Now I've gotta go find the stuff.

Sprecher!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 20, 2022, 12:10:31 AM

this is the clown world thread

stuff like this should go here

https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1538277350973902855

YES

Geez, guys
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 20, 2022, 12:39:13 AM
yeah none of those things has ever happened before SUV's  🙄

this is the clown world thread not shitty liberal boomer humor thread

stuff like this should go here

https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1538277350973902855

Entertaining comments. The guy who said he ordered one better be careful.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 20, 2022, 01:12:54 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1538579707184160768

😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on June 20, 2022, 01:25:07 AM
You stupid gulllible liberal fucks
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 20, 2022, 01:53:32 AM
  ::)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 20, 2022, 01:03:54 PM
Sprecher!
I'm not finding any in the stores. Might be a regional thing ?
Wanna send me some ? And maybe a pound or two of crawfish tails while you're at it ?  ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 20, 2022, 01:32:23 PM
this is some wack shit.

I work with some of the smartest people in the world, PhD's in all sorts of arcane number theory and other wild stuff. Hell, I have a masters degree in EE with a focus on statistics. Throw in various people I interact with in my day to day life, my son's schools have had a lot of people with double digit employee numbers at Google/Facebook/etc...

The people being accused of running all these grand conspiracies are substantially dumber than the people I run with. And the people I run with know that even really smart people could not pull of the conspiracies being bandied about. I mean, Donald Trump Jr? Alex Jones? These guys can figure out the basics of grifting some really dumb people, but the conspiracies we here about are just nuts, impossible to pull off and even harder to hide.

I will say though, entirely plausible that when we say "what is Putin's end game here" - he's getting the exact end game he wants. Invading Ukraine - and making the invasion a clumsy protracted shit show - is perfect for pretty much causing chaos worldwide. If he wanted to "invade" the US, the simplest way would be to invade Ukraine, disrupt the oil markets, and then disrupt the grain markets, and let the blame game start in the west over inflation.
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Post by: ThePAMan on June 20, 2022, 01:34:44 PM
You stupid gulllible liberal fucks

Hilarious...and ironic, given the MAGA/KAG grifting mantra Golf used in every post for years.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 20, 2022, 02:37:34 PM
I'm not finding any in the stores. Might be a regional thing ?
Wanna send me some ? And maybe a pound or two of crawfish tails while you're at it ?  ;D

Sprecher is a Wisconsin thing so I’d think it should be around MN as well. Every Menards I’ve ever been in has had it along with all the other flavors of Sprecher pop. If you strike out at Menards I’ll send you some. 😬
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 20, 2022, 02:46:21 PM
Sprecher is a Wisconsin thing so I’d think it should be around MN as well. Every Menards I’ve ever been in has had it along with all the other flavors of Sprecher pop. If you strike out at Menards I’ll send you some. 😬

I think they are selling the root beer at The Costco as well these days.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 20, 2022, 03:05:22 PM
Sprecher is a Wisconsin thing so I’d think it should be around MN as well. Every Menards I’ve ever been in has had it along with all the other flavors of Sprecher pop. If you strike out at Menards I’ll send you some. 😬
I think they are selling the root beer at The Costco as well these days.
2 places I don't go. I'll send MrsMn. She likes to tell me about the pack of veggies when she goes to Costco, twice as much for the same price at the grocery store.
The bill is usually only $150 or so. 🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 20, 2022, 03:45:55 PM
let the blame game start in the west over inflation.

And in the us there is a good chance inflation will elect a wave of Trumplicans to the House.

Democrats could try to explain the series of transitory events that triggered inflation. Point out that a couple things -- auto and wage related --  were pretty much  unique to US. And explain that transitory things can last years let alone months. That would answer the 3 mocking questions the right likes to pose.

While I find that interesting, most people do not. It's easier to try and divert attention to other relevant concerns: January 6, Roe V Wade, gun violence ...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 20, 2022, 04:04:17 PM
Democrats could try to explain the series of transitory events that triggered inflation. Point out that a couple things -- auto and wage related --  were pretty much  unique to US. And explain that transitory things can last years let alone months. That would answer the 3 mocking questions the right likes to pose.

They cannot do that because many of them would then have to apologize to Joe Manchin.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 20, 2022, 04:58:03 PM
They cannot do that because many of them would then have to apologize to Joe Manchin.

I get you are being sarcastic, but Manchin voted for both stimulus acts that passed. The build back better act he vetoed had provisions to help with supply.

It is demonstrably true that supply chain inflation is global and was triggered by the post covid lock down recovery. That is transient, but could take a long time to recover.

The US had auto inflation, both new and used,  that did not affect Asia or Europe to the same extent because they have decent public transportation.

The US had had huge wage inflation in the service / hospitality sector. A doubling. The rest of the developed world already paid living wages.

Oh, they didn't have the same massive CARES ACT or the American Rescue Plan in Japan or Europe? Didn't they already have better social insurance programs in place?

That explains why our inflation was ahead of Europe and Asia. Now, they have virtually caught up thanks to Putin's war.

Of course the right wing is blaming the poor and government relief programs for inflation. And the corporate media is coming around.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 20, 2022, 05:25:34 PM
And in the us there is a good chance inflation will elect a wave of Trumplicans to the House.

Democrats could try to explain the series of transitory events that triggered inflation. Point out that a couple things -- auto and wage related --  were pretty much  unique to US. And explain that transitory things can last years let alone months. That would answer the 3 mocking questions the right likes to pose.

While I find that interesting, most people do not. It's easier to try and divert attention to other relevant concerns: January 6, Roe V Wade, gun violence ...

You have seen clips of these people you would be trying to explain that nuance to? expect it to work?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 20, 2022, 07:26:45 PM
You have seen clips of these people you would be trying to explain that nuance to? expect it to work?

I know some of  these people personally. Someone with the verbal skills of FDR, Bill Clinton, or Obama could sway enough. Some would actually understand the nuances. Others would feel like the leader did.

I am pretty sure neither Biden nor Harris are up to the task. I don't see that charismatic confidence instilling leader out there right now for Dems. Someone needs to emerge.

Repubs have some skillful demagogues.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 21, 2022, 03:03:30 PM
MN:

The HyVee in Lincoln, NE is stocked up on the Sprecher! And it’s on sale!!!

(https://i.ibb.co/Y3gg4qW/5-E592-B8-F-6-C21-4992-8-AB6-2-A767-DD66-CB0.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Vt660PN)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 21, 2022, 03:15:30 PM
MN:

The HyVee in Lincoln, NE is stocked up on the Sprecher! And it’s on sale!!!

(https://i.ibb.co/Y3gg4qW/5-E592-B8-F-6-C21-4992-8-AB6-2-A767-DD66-CB0.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Vt660PN)
Hey thanks !!! Another place I never go.
I'll find some sooner or later.
Enjoy the CWS. Need Notre Dame and a couple of SEC teams bounced out of it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 21, 2022, 05:12:04 PM
I know some of  these people personally. Someone with the verbal skills of FDR, Bill Clinton, or Obama could sway enough. Some would actually understand the nuances. Others would feel like the leader did.

I am pretty sure neither Biden nor Harris are up to the task. I don't see that charismatic confidence instilling leader out there right now for Dems. Someone needs to emerge.

Repubs have some skillful demagogues.

From the last primary, the closest would be Mayor Pete, in terms of eloquence, but he isn't particularly charismatic. Booker is charismatic but not as eloquent. Bernie is smart but neither eloquent or charismatic. Beto is charismatic but he goes off into the weeds and gets lost then finally gets back and I'm not exactly sure what he was talking about. You can tell Warren knows a lot but decides to make stuff up that doesn't make any sense, when if she just went with her actual principles she'd be fine, instead her pandering just makes her look dumb because it's not even good pandering. Klobuchar and Gillebrand just suck - Gillebrand more so because she was advocating for bitcoin in 401k's. Inslee is very smart but has zero presence. After that it just sort of sucks in general.

My prediction - as much as I hated the guy as Mayor, Newsom might just get his wish. The problem being that Harris being from California might be a blockade, which would be just as useful as Hillary being in the way of Biden in 2016
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Post by: ThePAMan on June 21, 2022, 07:32:08 PM
From the last primary, the closest would be Mayor Pete, in terms of eloquence, but he isn't particularly charismatic. Booker is charismatic but not as eloquent. Bernie is smart but neither eloquent or charismatic. Beto is charismatic but he goes off into the weeds and gets lost then finally gets back and I'm not exactly sure what he was talking about. You can tell Warren knows a lot but decides to make stuff up that doesn't make any sense, when if she just went with her actual principles she'd be fine, instead her pandering just makes her look dumb because it's not even good pandering. Klobuchar and Gillebrand just suck - Gillebrand more so because she was advocating for bitcoin in 401k's. Inslee is very smart but has zero presence. After that it just sort of sucks in general.

My prediction - as much as I hated the guy as Mayor, Newsom might just get his wish. The problem being that Harris being from California might be a blockade, which would be just as useful as Hillary being in the way of Biden in 2016

Mayor Pete is definitely not flamboyant.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 21, 2022, 09:06:26 PM
Mayor Pete is definitely not flamboyant.

As a San Franciscan, I appreciate the irony
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 22, 2022, 10:25:25 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjX0qJAuOjg

hahaha
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on June 22, 2022, 11:36:50 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjX0qJAuOjg

hahaha

Ha.  I honestly didn't get this at first.  Then, yeah, he drew a cock n balls. 

I'm slipping, apparently.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 22, 2022, 05:15:00 PM
Ha.  I honestly didn't get this at first.  Then, yeah, he drew a cock n balls. 

I'm slipping, apparently.
More important tho, are you feeling better ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on June 23, 2022, 07:11:20 AM
More important tho, are you feeling better ?

I am, thanks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 24, 2022, 11:13:20 AM
Well lookey here, lookey here.
And it's supposed to hit 90 today.

(https://i.ibb.co/xHGKTbc/20220624-105013.jpg) (https://ibb.co/fvtVwWK)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 24, 2022, 01:32:19 PM
Wow looks like you’re stocked up for a while!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 24, 2022, 01:40:23 PM
Wow looks like you’re stocked up for a while!

Where is the regular root beer though?

Just the one box?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 24, 2022, 02:13:18 PM
Just 1 box. Maybe it's a hot seller, but they should have some on ice with the other brands.
And I only bought a 4 pack.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 24, 2022, 04:06:22 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/J2pQRyS/20220624-154812.jpg) (https://ibb.co/1KX6fd4)

51 grams of sugar. WTF ?
It's good tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 24, 2022, 11:53:44 PM
Thanks MN. Glad you liked it. Didn’t claim it was healthy! I’ll have one on rare occasions or more likely split with the kids. Special treat territory there. Thanks for the pics lol.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 25, 2022, 01:12:39 AM
That's hilarious, Mn. What do you care about carbs?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 25, 2022, 07:30:22 AM
That's hilarious, Mn. What do you care about carbs?
A stitch in time, saves 9.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Everything in moderation.

Or is that all old school stuff ? Lol.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 27, 2022, 01:07:45 PM
NSFW i think

https://twitter.com/REMASCULATE/status/1541436080599212034
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 28, 2022, 02:16:57 PM
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19008732/police-hate-incident-boy-shorty/

Quote
cops opened a “hate incident” file after a boy of 11 was called “shorty”.

Police stepped in after the jibe in the street at the kid, who was also dubbed a “leprechaun”.

But critics say such “non-crime hate incidents”, as they are officially known, have spiralled out of control.

Josie Appleton, director of freedom of speech group the Manifesto Club, blasted: “It beggars belief that one child calling another ‘shorty’ becomes a police matter.”

And Andrew Allison, Chief Executive of the Freedom Association, said: “Something is either a crime or it isn’t.

“Non-crime hate incidents are a threat to free speech and should be consigned to the dustbin of history.”

He said the decision by cops in Wiltshire to open a file could also affect the accused’s employment prospects — as their report could show up in criminal records checks for six years.

There is no right to appeal, leading critics to accuse police chiefs of acting as the “Stasi by stealth”.

The College of Policing defines non-crime hate incidents as those “perceived by the victim or any others to be motivated by hostility or prejudice”.

Around 10,000 such incidents are recorded every year.

The kids’ spat was just one of several barmy cases uncovered by The Sun in the past 12 months.

In one recent case, cops in Essex dished out a warning to an antiques market trader who was spotted with a book for sale about TV’s The Black and White Minstrel Show.

....

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 28, 2022, 05:05:37 PM
Barmy. Not quite "moxie" level, but I bet IlliniVette could get it there if he were still around
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 28, 2022, 07:09:12 PM
I can understand how we wind up with horrific Presidential candidates. Voters. There is a reason why the vote was once limited to land owning men who could pass a literacy test.

htf do incompetent dimwits like Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, and Kamala Harris get picked to be VP? They were hand picked and presumably vetted.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 28, 2022, 07:16:48 PM
I can understand how we wind up with horrific Presidential candidates. Voters. There is a reason why the vote was once limited to land owning men who could pass a literacy test.

htf do incompetent dimwits like Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, and Kamala Harris get picked to be VP? They were hand picked and presumably vetted.

its called a life insurance policy... same reason Joe was picked for Obama
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 29, 2022, 10:39:12 AM
I can understand how we wind up with horrific Presidential candidates. Voters. There is a reason why the vote was once limited to land owning men who could pass a literacy test.

htf do incompetent dimwits like Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, and Kamala Harris get picked to be VP? They were hand picked and presumably vetted.

Not a huge Kamala fan but those other two are a couple of orders of magnitude more dimwitted. Harris won the AG role in California and it was a reasonable choice, chosen by millions more voters than even exist in Alaska. Palin's existence on that stage is pure accident.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 29, 2022, 11:04:30 AM
its called a life insurance policy... same reason Joe was picked for Obama

Joe was picked because of his purported foreign policy expertise. My recollection was his being chosen was due to an overreaction caused by some international event at the time and the word was Obama lacked any foreign policy experience. Google it Big97Man.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 29, 2022, 01:09:10 PM
Joe acted kind of weird at times when he was VP, but he was not incompetent. That seems to have been a more recent development. Also, there might  have been some Bob Dole syndrome. Dole was very good in person, not good on TV.

Reagan, W, and Trump picked VPs that were more qualified for the job than themselves, just not good candidates.

Gore was a competent VP, but his annoying personality made him a weak candidate. He should have won easily running on Clinton's economic record against a guy who presented as a likeable idiot.

Just wonder how someone like Harris, Palin, or Quayle could slip through a vetting process. Or Perot's pick, Stockdale.

I was thinking the same way a guy like Tim Beckman even gets considered here,  but I think that was more because nobody else would work for the AD.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 29, 2022, 03:00:42 PM
Well, Grange can be happy that the Trumpists are just too crazy for 80% of his current and my former state. Colorado repudiates Trumpy candidates across the board (modulo Lauren Boebert, but the Western Slope is pretty wacky), despite Democrats spending money to try to get the GOP to nominate easily beatable Trumpers.

But oh, Illinois you wacky place, all the Trumpers cruised.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 29, 2022, 04:47:30 PM
Lots of Illinoisans have bought into the America First nonsense. Trump speaks to them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 29, 2022, 06:12:27 PM
Lots of Illinoisans have bought into the America First nonsense. Trump speaks to them.

Lots? What was the turnout?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 29, 2022, 09:49:22 PM
Lots? What was the turnout?

Enough to nominate an idiot named Darren Bailey.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 29, 2022, 10:17:25 PM
Enough to nominate am idiot named Darren Bailey.

Irvin came across as a manufactured candidate.  He stumbled repeatedly throughout the primary campaign. The Trump GOP likes authentic crazy, and they will get it in spades with Bailey.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 30, 2022, 07:23:23 AM
Enough to nominate an idiot named Darren Bailey.

The correct answer is "very low."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 30, 2022, 01:21:28 PM
I think this goes here

https://mobile.twitter.com/wilnerhotline/status/1542559346453729281
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 30, 2022, 05:48:57 PM
I think this goes here

https://mobile.twitter.com/wilnerhotline/status/1542559346453729281

Move has not been finalized at the highest levels of power. Mike Lindell is still waiting back to hear from Trump on the go/no go.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 06, 2022, 09:14:01 PM
How.much is wrong with this:

https://popculture.com/trending/news/lays-potato-chips-recalled/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 07, 2022, 09:32:13 AM
Only minutes after the Highland Park shooting Darren Bailey released a statement “we should pray, move on, and celebrate the holiday.”

Dude is straight trash.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 10, 2022, 01:20:56 PM
The person in this video 💯🤡

https://twitter.com/chrissiemayr/status/1546192434295709696?s=21&t=RgIGRGnZB-kTPWQ5dVu3CA
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 10, 2022, 03:12:41 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/WAVfRvG.png)

ya don't say...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 10, 2022, 03:13:47 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/1PW5CEI.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 10, 2022, 04:37:59 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/WAVfRvG.png)

ya don't say...

The US elected Trump in 2016, 4 years before COVID. Is it even possible to be dumber?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2022, 08:05:43 PM
The US elected Trump in 2016, 4 years before COVID. Is it even possible to be dumber?

Meanwhile, 40% of Americans and 70% of Republicans believe Trump won the 2020 election.

I realized something was amiss back in grade school. They gave us some kind of test and said I scored in the top 3%. I figured I was pretty stupid, and if 97% were even stupider; then we were in trouble. To make matters worse, most of my classmates had a high estimation of their own abilities and intelligence. The dumber ones even  tended to see themselves as the smartest. This was decades before Dunning and Kruger published their study confirming what Laozi observed 2500 years ago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 11, 2022, 08:04:27 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/WAVfRvG.png)

ya don't say...

The pussification of America continues unabated. Fucking bunch of snowflake kids we got here with all the alleged mental health and gender dystopia issues. Simone Biles gets a medal for being a snowflake.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 11, 2022, 03:51:00 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/WAVfRvG.png)

ya don't say...

I got two words for these kids.

Library.

/s

Seriously, these kids have access to enormous resources I didn't have, and my parents thought we were coddled.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 11, 2022, 04:16:11 PM
The pussification of America continues unabated. Fucking bunch of snowflake kids we got here with all the alleged mental health and gender dystopia issues. Simone Biles gets a medal for being a snowflake.

If you want to address the excesses of participation trophies, self esteem education, and speech codes, I hear you. 

That said, mental illness and transgenderism are not new. We have gradually stopped sweeping them under the rug and removing some of the stigma.
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 11, 2022, 08:11:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM8bMm3xCpI

Just stunning
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 11, 2022, 08:59:19 PM
If you want to address the excesses of participation trophies, self esteem education, and speech codes, I hear you. 

That said, mental illness and transgenderism are not new. We have gradually stopped sweeping them under the rug and removing some of the stigma.

Lots of library-going in inner cities during lockdown I’m sure. 🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on July 11, 2022, 09:57:38 PM
illiniray not going to let go of his lockdown boner just yet ! So many millions that won’t ever admit they were wrong !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 11, 2022, 10:00:46 PM
illiniray not going to let go of his lockdown boner just yet ! So many millions that won’t ever admit they were wrong !

Oh brother.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 11, 2022, 11:14:15 PM
Oh yay a golfgasm
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 11, 2022, 11:47:38 PM
One word for golf.

Read my tips.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 20, 2022, 11:47:38 AM
https://twitter.com/Lidotajs/status/1549439524354269186
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 25, 2022, 11:09:05 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/4PRWaD8.png)

a real tweet from the ny times...  🤡🌎

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1550864590560546816
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 25, 2022, 01:28:43 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/4PRWaD8.png)

a real tweet from the ny times...  🤡🌎

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1550864590560546816

Don't knock it until you try it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 27, 2022, 11:00:54 AM
Harbaugh's players be like "It's ok baby, we don't have to use a condom, Coach Harbaugh will raise the baby"

https://twitter.com/espn/status/1551970300392538113
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 06, 2022, 08:27:17 AM

Top scientist admits 'space telescope image' was actually a slice of chorizo
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/europe/scientist-space-image-chorizo-intl-scli-scn/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2022, 08:57:29 AM
Top scientist admits 'space telescope image' was actually a slice of chorizo
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/europe/scientist-space-image-chorizo-intl-scli-scn/index.html
Spanish, or Mexican ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 06, 2022, 09:56:00 AM
Spanish, or Mexican ?

Seemingly Spanish. But can anyone trust CNN?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 06, 2022, 10:50:11 AM
That’s great. Love that guy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2022, 12:02:26 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/kcbwT0M/Screenshot-20220806-115350.jpg) (https://ibb.co/h8Q4NHC)

(https://i.ibb.co/qmrWnNM/Screenshot-20220806-115303.jpg) (https://ibb.co/6DW1ZHR)

🤡🤡

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 06, 2022, 12:39:13 PM
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kari-lakes-gop-victory-arizonas-governors-race-matters-rcna41723
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 06, 2022, 01:20:18 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/kcbwT0M/Screenshot-20220806-115350.jpg) (https://ibb.co/h8Q4NHC)

(https://i.ibb.co/qmrWnNM/Screenshot-20220806-115303.jpg) (https://ibb.co/6DW1ZHR)

🤡🤡

Ms. Lake did claim the vote was being stolen until she started winning....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2022, 01:36:31 PM
Ms. Lake did claim the vote was being stolen until she started winning....
Ms. Abrams, the denier that NBC shows with a smile and a check mark, claimed the 2018 was stolen for years. She may still say it.
Ms. Lake ? No smile and no check mark from NBC.
I'm sure it didn't escape you tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 06, 2022, 04:59:16 PM
Ms. Abrams, the denier that NBC shows with a smile and a check mark, claimed the 2018 was stolen for years. She may still say it.
Ms. Lake ? No smile and no check mark from NBC.
I'm sure it didn't escape you tho.

Well, they gave Lake the sexier story lede. More people are going to click on that than the Abrams story. Unfair to Abrams!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 07, 2022, 10:23:41 PM
Ms. Abrams, the denier that NBC shows with a smile and a check mark, claimed the 2018 was stolen for years. She may still say it.
Ms. Lake ? No smile and no check mark from NBC.
I'm sure it didn't escape you tho.

There's a difference between saying "The current government disenrolled voters, and made it harder for people in specific areas to cast votes" and
"Jewish space lasers and a dead Venezuelan dictator changed the votes from one side to the other"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2022, 02:11:47 PM
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/ny-blood-center-offering-beer-for-blood

In an effort to encourage donations the Blood Center is offering a voucher to redeem for a pint of beer, cider, wine, or soft drink at participating breweries.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 08, 2022, 02:48:26 PM
https://twitter.com/rncresearch/status/1555968802667601920?s=21&t=3lnqvkPyrfNx0k63YCjBRg
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 08, 2022, 03:13:51 PM
https://twitter.com/rncresearch/status/1555968802667601920?s=21&t=3lnqvkPyrfNx0k63YCjBRg

Q97 was 229 of them
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 08, 2022, 03:43:51 PM
https://twitter.com/rncresearch/status/1555968802667601920?s=21&t=3lnqvkPyrfNx0k63YCjBRg
I was wondering when you would get to this. Lol.
How about the increase in taxes for nearly all groups making less than $400k ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on August 08, 2022, 03:52:18 PM
https://twitter.com/rncresearch/status/1555968802667601920?s=21&t=3lnqvkPyrfNx0k63YCjBRg

Is that Donald Trump's Wharton?  I wonder if MTG and Boebert could get in there with their GED's?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 08, 2022, 03:52:56 PM
Does the Inflation Reduction Act violate Biden’s $400,000 tax pledge? Expect ‘a different answer depending on who you ask,’ says analyst
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/does-the-inflation-reduction-act-violate-bidens-400000-tax-pledge.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 08, 2022, 03:57:15 PM
Does the Inflation Reduction Act .....
Lol.
Nobody refers to that any more because any effect, if there is a positive effect, will be minimal.
It's called a climate and tax bill now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2022, 04:17:11 PM
Q97 was 229 of them

Won't trust scientists but trusts economists! Sad!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 08, 2022, 04:17:53 PM
Path to Economic Disaster: Climate Inaction Could Cost $178 Trillion By 2070
https://deloitte.wsj.com/articles/path-to-economic-disaster-climate-inaction-could-cost-178-trillionby-2070-01653399895

Climate change — the cost of doing nothing
https://www.timesnews.net/opinion/columns/climate-change-the-cost-of-doing-nothing/article_5b8dea88-478d-11eb-a0dc-8f25f9859e42.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 08, 2022, 04:19:33 PM
I was wondering when you would get to this. Lol.
How about the increase in taxes for nearly all groups making less than $400k ?

You mean possible indirect taxes without considering indirect benefits?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 08, 2022, 04:20:49 PM

Won't trust scientists but trusts economists! Sad!

Economists who opposed Trump tax cuts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 08, 2022, 06:12:45 PM
I seem to remember being told over a year ago that the economists viewed the inflation as being "transitory".
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 08, 2022, 06:20:47 PM
Go out and spend $50,000 on an ev so you can realize that indirect benefit.
Get your health insurance thru the exchanges and you may/may not receive the indirect benefit of an extension, not a new program, on the current subsidy program.
Spend over $2000 on your Medicare prescriptions to receive the indirect benefit of reducing the cap from $2600 to $2000.
Don't do any of those ? Oh, well.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 08, 2022, 07:32:44 PM
Go out and spend $50,000 on an ev so you can realize that indirect benefit.
Get your health insurance thru the exchanges and you may/may not receive the indirect benefit of an extension, not a new program, on the current subsidy program.
Spend over $2000 on your Medicare prescriptions to receive the indirect benefit of reducing the cap from $2600 to $2000.
Don't do any of those ? Oh, well.

Don't worry I'm sure the rush for corporate stock buybacks this year (due to a tax going in effect next year) will bode well for those CEO bonuses
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 08, 2022, 07:38:58 PM
lmao

https://youtu.be/liLrSOJBuAs?t=8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 08, 2022, 08:07:07 PM
Don't worry I'm sure the rush for corporate stock buybacks this year (due to a tax going in effect next year) will bode well for those CEO bonuses

Yep. Plus, Inflation reduction, deficit reduction, affordable energy affect everyone. Also, savings on EVs, prescription drugs, and health insurance trickle out and benefit everyone. A rising tide lifts all boats.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 08, 2022, 08:21:54 PM
https://twitter.com/JHildebranski/status/1556776989129842689
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2022, 08:30:28 PM
I seem to remember being told over a year ago that the economists viewed the inflation as being "transitory".

It is all transitory, isn't it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2022, 08:32:23 PM
https://twitter.com/JHildebranski/status/1556776989129842689

Hopefully they searched his toilets.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 08, 2022, 08:32:39 PM
https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1556793344713363456
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2022, 08:35:53 PM
https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1556793344713363456

WTF is wrong with these people?

All they do is project. Hillary's emails topped by Trump literally flushing documents down the toilet and stealing records on the way out. Can't wait to see how they top Hunter Biden's shenanigans because you know they always one up the Dems when they can.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 08, 2022, 11:08:27 PM
https://twitter.com/JHildebranski/status/1556776989129842689

Somebody is going to be totally embarrassed tomorrow when the warrant reveals it was for the Mar-a-Lago Total Landscaping address.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 08, 2022, 11:57:13 PM
Yep. Plus, Inflation reduction, deficit reduction, affordable energy affect everyone. Also, savings on EVs, prescription drugs, and health insurance trickle out and benefit everyone. A rising tide lifts all boats.

not gonna happen
never gonna happen
energy is already affordable
do megacap corporations companies really need stimulus for EV's?  last I checked they can't build them fast enough
medicare and ACA... if people have more free income to spend how does that reduce inflation you fucking idiot
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 09, 2022, 10:45:54 AM
Yep. Plus, Inflation reduction, deficit reduction, affordable energy affect everyone. Also, savings on EVs, prescription drugs, and health insurance trickle out and benefit everyone. A rising tide lifts all boats.

Trickle down economics !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 09, 2022, 11:09:50 AM
not gonna happen
never gonna happen
energy is already affordable
do megacap corporations companies really need stimulus for EV's?  last I checked they can't build them fast enough
medicare and ACA... if people have more free income to spend how does that reduce inflation you fucking idiot

Republicans are making the idiotic argument that theoretical so-called indirect taxation violates Biden's promise not to raise income taxes on people making less than 400 thousand. One idiot calls it a lower and middle class tax increase.

They aren't even talking about indirect taxation in the technical sense. They appear to be saying that taxes on the rich trickle down. There is the old saying that businesses do not pay taxes, they collect them from their customers.

One counter is if you are taking that approach; then be consistent, also talk about the actual and potential indirect benefits.

Energy is affordable? Wow! High energy prices is one the biggest components of the 40 year high CPI. Reducing energy costs will reduce the CPI

You are really  going to argue that a tax increase on a rich corporation or a wealthy person is really a lower and middle class tax increase; then say a tax credit to middle class person is really a stimulus to megacap corp?

Making sure people can afford healthcare and prescription drugs is not inflationary. It helps keep inflation in check. The last thing we need is another round of soaring healthcare costs.

Deficit reduction might also help some with inflation.

It's questionable how much inflation is due to demand. We know it is global and related to post covid supply side disruptions.  Good news I have noticed the truck traffic around here is approaching 2019 levels.

I don't think there is much more  long-term the government can do beyond maintain the transportation, healthcare, education, and public safety infrastructures -- 3 out of 4 which Republicans see as wasteful spending.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 09, 2022, 11:11:15 AM
Trickle down economics !

The opposite. Trickle out and up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 09, 2022, 11:55:30 AM
Republicans are making the idiotic argument that theoretical so-called indirect taxation violates Biden's promise not to raise income taxes on people making less than 400 thousand. One idiot calls it a lower and middle class tax increase.

They aren't even talking about indirect taxation in the technical sense. They appear to be saying that taxes on the rich trickle down. There is the old saying that businesses do not pay taxes, they collect them from their customers.

One counter is if you are taking that approach; then be consistent, also talk about the actual and potential indirect benefits.

Energy is affordable? Wow! High energy prices is one the biggest components of the 40 year high CPI. Reducing energy costs will reduce the CPI

You are really  going to argue that a tax increase on a rich corporation or a wealthy person is really a lower and middle class tax increase; then say a tax credit to middle class person is really a stimulus to megacap corp?

Making sure people can afford healthcare and prescription drugs is not inflationary. It helps keep inflation in check. The last thing we need is another round of soaring healthcare costs.

Deficit reduction might also help some with inflation.

It's questionable how much inflation is due to demand. We know it is global and related to post covid supply side disruptions.  Good news I have noticed the truck traffic around here is approaching 2019 levels.

I don't think there is much more  long-term the government can do beyond maintain the transportation, healthcare, education, and public safety infrastructures -- 3 out of 4 which Republicans see as wasteful spending.

I don't care what Republicans are saying they are just as retarded as the Democrats

government spending has actually been decreasing quite substantially already in 2022 and yet inflation keeps rampaging
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/deficit-tracker/

inflation will not decline until M2 declines which it has just barely started to do from April this year, who knows where it will go when the government is handing out another 700 billion to their cronies
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

and finally you really think EV manufacturers are going to lower prices of their cars because of a tax credit?  Guess what, all they do is charge $7500 more or whatever the tax credit is on the MSRP of their vehicles making them prohibitively more expensive and thus increasing inflation on those vehicles and money trickling up to shareholders due to increased revenues brought in...  remember when the model 3 was going to cost 35k?  well now its 50k and with tesla getting their tax credit back I would wager on it costing hmmm... around 57.5k next year
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 09, 2022, 01:04:08 PM
Very few Tesla cars will be eligible for tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act.  The bill caps the price of eligible new EVs at $55,000 for most passenger cars and $80,000 for trucks, vans and SUVs.  Popular EV models eligible for the proposed rebates include Chevy Bolt, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen ID.4, Ford Mach-E, and the upcoming Ford F-150 Lightning.

Also looks like the proposed legislation doesn’t apply to imported EVs and new EV buyers with an annual taxable income of greater than $150,000 ($300,000 for joint filers).

The $4,000 tax credit for buying a used EV got my attention.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 09, 2022, 01:47:17 PM
Very few Tesla cars will be eligible for tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act.  The bill caps the price of eligible new EVs at $55,000 for most passenger cars and $80,000 for trucks, vans and SUVs.  Popular EV models eligible for the proposed rebates include Chevy Bolt, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen ID.4, Ford Mach-E, and the upcoming Ford F-150 Lightning.

Also looks like the proposed legislation doesn’t apply to imported EVs and new EV buyers with an annual taxable income of greater than $150,000 ($300,000 for joint filers).

The $4,000 tax credit for buying a used EV got my attention.

https://youtu.be/W45DRy7M1no?t=146

And boom goes the dynamite.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 09, 2022, 02:45:38 PM
not gonna happen
never gonna happen
energy is already affordable
do megacap corporations companies really need stimulus for EV's?  last I checked they can't build them fast enough
medicare and ACA... if people have more free income to spend how does that reduce inflation you fucking idiot

So you are saying that Biden brought gas prices back down?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 09, 2022, 02:48:22 PM
Very few Tesla cars will be eligible for tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act.  The bill caps the price of eligible new EVs at $55,000 for most passenger cars and $80,000 for trucks, vans and SUVs.  Popular EV models eligible for the proposed rebates include Chevy Bolt, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen ID.4, Ford Mach-E, and the upcoming Ford F-150 Lightning.

Also looks like the proposed legislation doesn’t apply to imported EVs and new EV buyers with an annual taxable income of greater than $150,000 ($300,000 for joint filers).

The $4,000 tax credit for buying a used EV got my attention.

Aren't going to be able to find used EV. Or if you can, the battery will be drained enough that you'd want a new one you can't get
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 09, 2022, 03:46:13 PM
https://electrek.co/2022/08/02/gm-offers-chevy-bolt-ev-owners-6000-if-promise-not-sue-battery-fire-recall-fiasco/

"Forever waive and release all claims, damages, or causes of action arising out of my Bolt vehicle, the battery defect, or the battery recalls."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 09, 2022, 05:49:59 PM
I don't care what Republicans are saying they are just as retarded as the Democrats

government spending has actually been decreasing quite substantially already in 2022 and yet inflation keeps rampaging
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/deficit-tracker/

inflation will not decline until M2 declines which it has just barely started to do from April this year, who knows where it will go when the government is handing out another 700 billion to their cronies
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

and finally you really think EV manufacturers are going to lower prices of their cars because of a tax credit?  Guess what, all they do is charge $7500 more or whatever the tax credit is on the MSRP of their vehicles making them prohibitively more expensive and thus increasing inflation on those vehicles and money trickling up to shareholders due to increased revenues brought in...  remember when the model 3 was going to cost 35k?  well now its 50k and with tesla getting their tax credit back I would wager on it costing hmmm... around 57.5k next year

Democrats are not as idiotic as Republicans.

Increasing or decreasing the money supply in and of itself does not affect inflation.  The simple explanation is when the money supply increases faster than the economy is growing, inflation can occur.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 09, 2022, 07:12:37 PM
Well that didn't take very long

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/9/23298076/ford-f-150-lightning-electric-truck-price-order-2023
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 09, 2022, 08:41:45 PM
Well that didn't take very long

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/9/23298076/ford-f-150-lightning-electric-truck-price-order-2023
"And if you think that the $7,500 federal EV tax credit might help take some of the sting out of these price increases, think again. Under the deal constructed by Senate Democrats, the Ford F-150 Lightning would not be eligible for the tax credit until at least 40 percent of its components — including the battery — are made in North America or by a US trading partner."

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 09, 2022, 09:33:30 PM
Well that didn't take very long

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/9/23298076/ford-f-150-lightning-electric-truck-price-order-2023

Do you read the stuff you link?

Quote
...the Ford F-150 Lightning would not be eligible for the tax credit until at least 40 percent of its components — including the battery — are made in North America or by a US trading partner.

Hope there aren't many suckers out there
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 09, 2022, 09:42:05 PM
"And if you think that the $7,500 federal EV tax credit might help take some of the sting out of these price increases, think again. Under the deal constructed by Senate Democrats, the Ford F-150 Lightning would not be eligible for the tax credit until at least 40 percent of its components — including the battery — are made in North America or by a US trading partner."

I think it’s a good idea that the legislation incentivizes EV and battery manufacturing in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent.  More of this please: 
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696427/ford-ev-battery-factory-tennessee-kentucky-investment and https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313251/gm-ev-second-battery-factory-lg-chem-tennessee


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 09, 2022, 09:46:11 PM
Do you read the stuff you link?

Hope there aren't many suckers out there
I'm guessing he was referring to the price increase.
$7000 price increase and no indirect benefit. Woohoo.

https://www.ibtimes.com/ford-layoffs-2022-why-automaker-reportedly-plans-cut-8000-jobs-3581973
Ford employees can learn to write code.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 09, 2022, 10:02:09 PM
Aren't going to be able to find used EV. Or if you can, the battery will be drained enough that you'd want a new one you can't get

Did a quick internet search and found 30 used EVs for sale where I live, ranging in price from $12,000 to $65,000.  If I find a car I like, I would take it to an independent repair shop to check the battery's health. 

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 09, 2022, 10:10:52 PM
workers at the 2nd largest aluminum mill in America, accounting for 20% of US supply, learned they were losing their jobs because the plant can’t afford an electricity tab that’s tripled in a matter of months. "
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 09, 2022, 10:17:49 PM
Democrats are not as idiotic as Republicans.

Increasing or decreasing the money supply in and of itself does not affect inflation.  The simple explanation is when the money supply increases faster than the economy is growing, inflation can occur.

🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

The party that uses stupid pronouns, that changes the definition of inflation, changes the definition of man/woman, that thinks taxes will help inflation/economy, worships EVs that use electricity from burning fossil fuels, that wants to defund the police, that has let thugs and trash burn and loot their downtown areas, that takes a soft stance towards china, ok !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 09, 2022, 10:56:21 PM
You miss the part where San Fran Nan went to Taiwan? QAnon97 may disagree with you on the tax part.  He doesn't want senior citizens to have more money by paying less for their meds as it leads to inflation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 09, 2022, 11:31:59 PM
You miss the part where San Fran Nan went to Taiwan?

I laughed out loud
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 10, 2022, 01:17:43 AM
workers at the 2nd largest aluminum mill in America, accounting for 20% of US supply, learned they were losing their jobs because the plant can’t afford an electricity tab that’s tripled in a matter of months. "
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/
Electricity is for mining bitcoin
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 10, 2022, 07:11:00 AM
You miss the part where San Fran Nan went to Taiwan? QAnon97 may disagree with you on the tax part.  He doesn't want senior citizens to have more money by paying less for their meds as it leads to inflation.
From the fishwrap .......
Reducing the costs for the 10 drugs is great, but 10 ?
I suppose they can find 10 older drugs that are losing market share.
By 2029, some of the most popular 60 .... some ?
At least we'll have 87,000 new Democratic donors, I mean IRS agents, to go over the returns of people who can't afford a tax accountant.

(https://i.ibb.co/2NvPcLw/Screenshot-20220810-070139.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Srt0V12)
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 10, 2022, 07:12:02 AM
Electricity is for mining bitcoin
Jobs are for people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 10, 2022, 09:54:48 AM
Jobs are for people.

That mill is dealing with recycled aluminum which is communism anyway
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 10, 2022, 10:35:49 AM
I think it’s a good idea that the legislation incentivizes EV and battery manufacturing in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent.  More of this please: 
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696427/ford-ev-battery-factory-tennessee-kentucky-investment and https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313251/gm-ev-second-battery-factory-lg-chem-tennessee

All except oil huh.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 10:48:05 AM
All except oil huh.

Now this is funny, for all the wrong reasons if course.

Quote
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. from Carrie Buck v. John Hendren Bell, Superintendent of State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded, 274 U.S. 200 (1927).
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 10, 2022, 10:49:39 AM
I think it’s a good idea that the legislation incentivizes EV and battery manufacturing in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent.  More of this please: 
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696427/ford-ev-battery-factory-tennessee-kentucky-investment and https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313251/gm-ev-second-battery-factory-lg-chem-tennessee

yeah awesome lets keep trashing the environment of north america, very cool

Pretty funny that nobody ever mentions a government funded trash recycling program, I mean that would certainly provide a much bigger benefit to a green agenda that bombing brown people 5000 miles away or giving more foreign aid to our enemies or money to people who can't be bothered to file their taxes or work or more manufacturing subsidies to the chinese
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 10:53:12 AM
And yet QAnon97 whines and moans about what happens when we abdicate our role as World's Policeman for 4 years..... Can't have it both ways, but you will still try to.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 10, 2022, 11:23:21 AM
All except oil huh.

That’s being addressed separately. 

Biden plan could allow new offshore drilling in Gulf of Mexico
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/02/biden-gulf-drilling-leasing-oil/

Biden administration pushes more ocean drilling amid record oil and gas profits. 
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/06/biden-oil-gas-drilling-royalty-rates/

Don’t worry, BIG OIL already gets plenty of government subsidies and incentives, some dating back to 1912.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/subsidies-really-do-matter-to-the?triedSigningIn=true#details. 

Oh my, the Inflation Reduction Act contains a few goodies for the oil and gas industry.  Damn it!!!! I hope Biden vetoes the bill.
https://www.naturalgasintel.com/why-is-inflation-reduction-act-a-big-deal-for-natural-gas-oil-industries/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 10, 2022, 11:43:08 AM
yeah awesome lets keep trashing the environment of north america, very cool

Pretty funny that nobody ever mentions a government funded trash recycling program, I mean that would certainly provide a much bigger benefit to a green agenda that bombing brown people 5000 miles away or giving more foreign aid to our enemies or money to people who can't be bothered to file their taxes or work or more manufacturing subsidies to the chinese

Translation: Let's keep offshoring our pollution. 

As to government support for recycling, you might want to take a peek at the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act:
https://www.wastedive.com/news/epa-feedback-recycling-375-million-infrastructure-bill/625275/

I do agree that improving waste reduction, recycling and composting efforts should be a priority for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, along with decarbonizing the energy, transportation and industrial sectors. 

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 10, 2022, 11:50:21 AM
From the fishwrap .......
Reducing the costs for the 10 drugs is great, but 10 ?
I suppose they can find 10 older drugs that are losing market share.
By 2029, some of the most popular 60 .... some ?
At least we'll have 87,000 new Democratic donors, I mean IRS agents, to go over the returns of people who can't afford a tax accountant.

(https://i.ibb.co/2NvPcLw/Screenshot-20220810-070139.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Srt0V12)

Yeah, let’s keep the existing inefficient system that has multiple entities negotiating simultaneously – (aka, the Republican way). 

Governing is hard.  You have to start somewhere to deal with exorbitant drug prices and this is the best deal that could be struck. The bill sets criteria for choosing which drugs to target, such as drugs that have been around a while, don’t have cheaper alternatives and that Medicare spends a lot on. 

Plenty of good targets like Orencia (for rheumatoid arthritis) and pricey cancer therapies. 


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 10, 2022, 12:46:18 PM
One well known Republican strategery is to sabotage programs, then say, see it doesn't work.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on August 10, 2022, 01:05:15 PM
Did a quick internet search and found 30 used EVs for sale where I live, ranging in price from $12,000 to $65,000.  If I find a car I like, I would take it to an independent repair shop to check the battery's health.

Why don't you buy one of those hunks of shit and let the rest of us know how it works out. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 03:41:40 PM
Why don't you buy one of those hunks of shit and let the rest of us know how it works out.

He will be AOTC on the purchase! Even Tempo will be impressed, I bet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 10, 2022, 03:48:28 PM
Went in for my annual former smoker CT. I used the same back roads as last year. I always leave extra time in case of trains, detours or whatever. This year compared the last couple heavy trucker traffic cost me time. They drive slower, take longer to stop and get up to speed. They are also hard to pass on county roads. The corn and beans looked really good for late June / early July.

We did some shopping. There were a lot more NE Illinois exurbanites out and about, almost back to precovid. They were driving very agressively and mostly ignoring the posted speed limits. Those who drove sanely got honked at, flipped off, etc. I bet over half the people we saw were obese and looked generally unpleasant.

We stopped by Best Buy. There was some kind of rage incident. I couldn't tell if was a disgruntled associate or customer.  Police showed up.

My CT was good enough.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 03:53:54 PM
Went in for my annual former smoker CT. I used the same back roads as last year. I always leave extra time in case of trains, detours or whatever. This year compared the last couple heavy trucker traffic cost me time. They drive slower, take longer to stop and get up to speed. They are also hard to pass on county roads. The corn and beans looked really good for late June / early July.

We did some shopping. There were a lot more NE Illinois exurbanites out and about, almost back to precovid. They were driving very agressively and mostly ignoring the posted speed limits. Those who drove sanely got honked at, flipped off, etc. I bet over half the people we saw were obese and looked generally unpleasant.

We stopped by Best Buy. There was some kind of rage incident. I couldn't tell if was a disgruntled associate or customer.  Police showed up.

My CT was good enough.

Sounds like you had a busy day. You should sit down and watch a show on TV and relax.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 10, 2022, 04:17:44 PM
The Five starts at 4. Lol.

Good going on the CT tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 04:46:44 PM
The Five starts at 4. Lol.

Good going on the CT tho.

I was thinking an antenna show, like The Andy Griffith Show.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 10, 2022, 05:08:10 PM
I was thinking an antenna show, like The Andy Griffith Show.
It's on the TV Land channel on Directv.
It might be a little bit too God fearing, patriotic and white tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 10, 2022, 06:04:07 PM
We watched the 5. My wife records it so not sure what day. They were pixxed off that Trump's right to privacy was violated. Jesse Watters and Judge Janine (sp?) were livid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 10, 2022, 06:08:43 PM
I am a big fan of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. Great show. Top 20. I know someone who was Andy's neighbor when she was a kid. She says he was an old grouch.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illinifan57 on August 10, 2022, 06:28:45 PM
Went in for my annual former smoker CT. I used the same back roads as last year. I always leave extra time in case of trains, detours or whatever. This year compared the last couple heavy trucker traffic cost me time. They drive slower, take longer to stop and get up to speed. They are also hard to pass on county roads. The corn and beans looked really good for late June / early July.

We did some shopping. There were a lot more NE Illinois exurbanites out and about, almost back to precovid. They were driving very agressively and mostly ignoring the posted speed limits. Those who drove sanely got honked at, flipped off, etc. I bet over half the people we saw were obese and looked generally unpleasant.

We stopped by Best Buy. There was some kind of rage incident. I couldn't tell if was a disgruntled associate or customer.  Police showed up.

My CT was good enough.
What were all those Californians doing in NE Illinois?
There is a sign on the 91 FWY here that says "This is a freeway, not a raceway." I don't think drivers can read.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 07:30:34 PM
It's on the TV Land channel on Directv.
It might be a little bit too God fearing, patriotic and white tho.

Drunk Otis wore white. Not sure if he was God fearing and patriotic though. Gomer joined the Marines, of course. Andy dropped him off at basic training.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 10, 2022, 08:01:43 PM
I am a big fan of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. Great show. Top 20. I know someone who was Andy's neighbor when she was a kid. She says he was an old grouch.
Interesting about Andy.
The early black and white episodes without Aunt Bea, Ernest T. Crump and the Darlings were good entertainment. The Dillards saved the Darlings.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on August 10, 2022, 08:33:45 PM
There was an early season without Aunt Bea?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on August 10, 2022, 08:48:39 PM
Interesting about Andy.
The early black and white episodes without Aunt Bea, Ernest T. Crump and the Darlings were good entertainment. The Dillards saved the Darlings.

Ernest T Bass?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 09:32:55 PM
There was an early season without Aunt Bea?

I wondered the same.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 09:33:16 PM
Ernest T Bass?

I had the same question.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 10, 2022, 09:45:57 PM
From that era I always preferred The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, Get Smart, and I Dream of Jeannie.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 10, 2022, 10:26:54 PM
Ernest T Bass?
Yeah, that guy. Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 10, 2022, 10:35:46 PM
Yeah, that guy. Lol

Helen Crump was the gal pal.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 10, 2022, 10:52:57 PM
Episode. Not season.
Then they started bringing in weaker characters after a while like Ernest T. and the Darlings.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on August 11, 2022, 07:58:12 AM
Episode. Not season.
Then they started bringing in weaker characters after a while like Ernest T. and the Darlings.

Ok, but what you got against Bea? 

We're going to have to disagree on weaker characters like Bass and the Darlings.  Those characters were great.  I think all of it was great up until it went to color and after Knotts was gone.  Then it was done.

I have that on in the shop anytime I'm out there in the evenings.  MASH usually before it, Gomer Pyle (but not a big fan), and I think Hogan's Hero's and Green Acres later still.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 11, 2022, 08:37:57 AM
Ok, but what you got against Bea? 

We're going to have to disagree on weaker characters like Bass and the Darlings.  Those characters were great.  I think all of it was great up until it went to color and after Knotts was gone.  Then it was done.

I have that on in the shop anytime I'm out there in the evenings.  MASH usually before it, Gomer Pyle (but not a big fan), and I think Hogan's Hero's and Green Acres later still.
To each his own. We can disagree.
I just happen to think the episodes where Bea was out of town were better than a lot of the episodes she was in.
The Dillards were a hoot. Couldnt crack a smile, just played music.
Yep. Losing Barney and going to color lost me. Warren was no Barney. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 11, 2022, 12:26:49 PM
To each his own. We can disagree.
I just happen to think the episodes where Bea was out of town were better than a lot of the episodes she was in.
The Dillards were a hoot. Couldnt crack a smile, just played music.
Yep. Losing Barney and going to color lost me. Warren was no Barney.

Include The Andy Griffith Show as a topic you are disinforming on in your sig!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 11, 2022, 01:27:02 PM
https://youtu.be/KtI2iMp6OkM
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 11, 2022, 01:35:00 PM
Remember  Mayberry RFD with Ken Berry?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 11, 2022, 02:05:22 PM
Remember  Mayberry RFD with Ken Berry?

That show sucked.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 11, 2022, 10:06:14 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIid_2_IdX0

I think we're closing in on the endgame
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illinifan57 on August 12, 2022, 11:38:47 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIid_2_IdX0

I think we're closing in on the endgame
I sure hope so. Take that POS insane maniac out of the picture. Him in an orange jump suit works for me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 14, 2022, 11:28:36 AM
OK. Who's trying to pass themself off as Betsy from HQ ?  :D

I appreciate the good word but you can't fool me.

"This is Betsy from HQ.

We just formed our brand new .... Advisory Board and you've been selected. This is for our top 1% .....

Just click on the link ....."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 14, 2022, 12:25:08 PM
Damn I thought I had ya
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 14, 2022, 01:41:19 PM
Damn I thought I had ya
You might have, if I hadn't gotten up early to do pulled pork for later.
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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 14, 2022, 02:55:57 PM
You might have, if I hadn't gotten up early to do pulled pork for later.
(https://i.ibb.co/JnkCnY3/20220814-125615.jpg) (https://ibb.co/VVB3VFw)

The PassiveSon a pulled pork fan. Not my thing for whatever reason.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 14, 2022, 03:15:34 PM
The PassiveSon a pulled pork fan. Not my thing for whatever reason.
Have you had any luck getting a plate of Orange Chicken at a bbq joint ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 14, 2022, 03:24:03 PM
Have you had any luck getting a plate of Orange Chicken at a bbq joint ?

Have not seen it on the menu! Had some 2 weeks ago though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2022, 02:48:14 PM
Sure hope Golf has a good lawyer...

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/burger-king/bk-cheeseburger-battery-420163

During an argument at Burger King, a Florida Man threw a cheeseburger at his girlfriend with such force that when the sandwich struck the back of her head, the woman fell “over a curb onto the ground,” police charge.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 16, 2022, 08:41:27 AM
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/starbucks-asks-labor-board-suspend-mail-ballot-union-elections-rcna43114?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
"Starbucks is asking the federal labor board to suspend all mail-in ballot union elections nationwide, alleging misconduct in the voting process ......"

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-county-disterict-attorney-george-gascon-election-recall-petition/2964676/
"A total of 715,833 petition signatures were submitted..."
"The county announced Monday that 195,783 of the signatures were invalid."

https://ktla.com/news/california/california-election-officials-over-99-of-more-than-15-million-mail-in-ballots-were-accepted-in-november-election/
"California election officials announced Friday that 99.4% of more than 15 million mail-in ballots were verified and counted in the November election, ......"
"Of the mail ballots, 86,401 were rejected,.....

195,783 divided by 715,833 is 0.27%. Which is slightly less than half of the state's rejection rate in the 2020 election.
Just kidding.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 16, 2022, 12:55:40 PM

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-county-disterict-attorney-george-gascon-election-recall-petition/2964676/
"A total of 715,833 petition signatures were submitted..."
"The county announced Monday that 195,783 of the signatures were invalid."

https://ktla.com/news/california/california-election-officials-over-99-of-more-than-15-million-mail-in-ballots-were-accepted-in-november-election/
"California election officials announced Friday that 99.4% of more than 15 million mail-in ballots were verified and counted in the November election, ......"
"Of the mail ballots, 86,401 were rejected,.....

195,783 divided by 715,833 is 0.27%. Which is slightly less than half of the state's rejection rate in the 2020 election.
Just kidding.

In order to vote, you need to be mailed a ballot (because you registered to vote) or go to the polls and have your name seen on the rolls there (because you registered to vote). You won't get that physical ballot or have your name on the rolls to be given a ballot at the poll unless you register.

To sign a recall petition, you need a pen. The signature gatherer will hand you one. Test it out, come out to SF some April when they are gathering signatures for ballot measures, and see if they even ask where you live or if you are registered to vote. I tell them "I live in Sonoma County" and they will say "well, you can sign it an then they'll check if you are registered". Because the signature gatherers are paid by signature. More handsomely by well funded campaigns, for example a bunch of rich Republicans trying to recall a "progressive" DA (Gascon is an asshole btw)

Yet somehow you think the rejection rate on a recall petition would be the same as in an actual election?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 16, 2022, 02:52:47 PM
And from the recent Newsome recall ...
"This means that even with a  25% signature rejection rate, far above the current state and campaign third party rates, the  recall will have enough to be on the ballot this year."
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/report-majority-of-signatures-to-recall-gov-newsom-are-from-democrats-in-la-county/

LA County came in at around 19% rejection for the Newsome recall. A few months later, the rejection is close to 50% higher.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on August 16, 2022, 03:14:43 PM
Sure hope Golf has a good lawyer...

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/burger-king/bk-cheeseburger-battery-420163

During an argument at Burger King, a Florida Man threw a cheeseburger at his girlfriend with such force that when the sandwich struck the back of her head, the woman fell “over a curb onto the ground,” police charge.

I could see it if it was a triple whopper.  Those fuckers are heavy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 16, 2022, 04:00:24 PM
And from the recent Newsome recall ...
"This means that even with a  25% signature rejection rate, far above the current state and campaign third party rates, the  recall will have enough to be on the ballot this year."
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/report-majority-of-signatures-to-recall-gov-newsom-are-from-democrats-in-la-county/

LA County came in at around 19% rejection for the Newsome recall. A few months later, the rejection is close to 50% higher.

Only the loonies were willing to sign this time around. Turns out that even moderate Republicans can see it's pretty stupid to spend a couple hundred million to have an extra election that Gavin wins by 40 points.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 16, 2022, 04:03:33 PM
And from the recent Newsome recall ...
"This means that even with a  25% signature rejection rate, far above the current state and campaign third party rates, the  recall will have enough to be on the ballot this year."
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/report-majority-of-signatures-to-recall-gov-newsom-are-from-democrats-in-la-county/

LA County came in at around 19% rejection for the Newsome recall. A few months later, the rejection is close to 50% higher.

Report: Majority of LA County Signatures to Recall Gov. Newsom Are from Democrats

In other news, majority of University of Illinois students who like to eat food pay in state tuition.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 16, 2022, 04:22:30 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/starbucks-asks-labor-board-suspend-mail-ballot-union-elections-rcna43114?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
"Starbucks is asking the federal labor board to suspend all mail-in ballot union elections nationwide, alleging misconduct in the voting process ......"

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-county-disterict-attorney-george-gascon-election-recall-petition/2964676/
"A total of 715,833 petition signatures were submitted..."
"The county announced Monday that 195,783 of the signatures were invalid."

https://ktla.com/news/california/california-election-officials-over-99-of-more-than-15-million-mail-in-ballots-were-accepted-in-november-election/
"California election officials announced Friday that 99.4% of more than 15 million mail-in ballots were verified and counted in the November election, ......"
"Of the mail ballots, 86,401 were rejected,.....

195,783 divided by 715,833 is 0.27%. Which is slightly less than half of the state's rejection rate in the 2020 election.
Just kidding.

Apples and oranges.

Related...

"Joshua Spivak, an expert on recall elections and a senior fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Institute at Wagner College, said the signature rejection rate was “within the range” of past California recalls. He pointed out that most of the rejections happened not because of the signatures themselves, but because the signers were not registered voters or signed multiple times."
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-los-angeles-recall-petition-signatures-911133454353

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 16, 2022, 07:34:49 PM
Apples and oranges.

Related...

"Joshua Spivak, an expert on recall elections and a senior fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Institute at Wagner College, said the signature rejection rate was “within the range” of past California recalls. He pointed out that most of the rejections happened not because of the signatures themselves, but because the signers were not registered voters or signed multiple times."
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-los-angeles-recall-petition-signatures-911133454353

You mean they came from out of town and signed?

One could say this shows the process works...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 17, 2022, 10:09:17 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/GWbXB0R/B02-AD9-EC-D153-4883-BC64-82-B4-C75-D1629.jpg) (https://ibb.co/F5j9NKz)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 19, 2022, 08:43:14 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/0GQDp18/1-E8552-E6-A7-D9-4-EA5-BA71-1-B246-E82-E947.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZMNLRvt)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 19, 2022, 02:00:03 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/0GQDp18/1-E8552-E6-A7-D9-4-EA5-BA71-1-B246-E82-E947.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZMNLRvt)

Some of this is partially true and points to one of the failures of capitalism.  We can likely agree that capitalism is an economic system with private enterprise and free markets. The far opposite is socialism, an economic system with government enterprise and central planning.

What we have is neither, we have  private enterprise and central planning. Instead of central planning by socialist government bureaucrats in the public interest, we have central planning by private monopolies in their own interests.

Meanwhile, democracy has also failed.  Different big business interests pretty much own both political parties. The perception is Democrats are too busy censoring pronouns and putting criminals back on the streets to pursue antitrust legislation. They appear to be the party of wealthy yuppies who live in waterfront mansions and fly private jets to climate conferences.

Meanwhile, Republicans are now the party of illiberalism, theocracy, white nationalism, science denial, book banning, tax fraud, voter suppression, police brutality, incels ... Economic Libertarianism / laissez faire just makes it easier for the monopolies. We need better government, not less.
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 19, 2022, 03:56:57 PM
Meanwhile, Republicans are now the party of illiberalism, theocracy, white nationalism, science denial, book banning, tax fraud, voter suppression, police brutality, incels....

Golf is going to get the biggest boner reading this....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 19, 2022, 04:07:29 PM
Raw asparagus dipped in salsa with a shot of tequila anyone?
https://twitter.com/grocerieswegner/status/1559290958843449346?t=gIflWjtoMNekv1ZmAS4csg&s=19
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 20, 2022, 11:00:41 AM
Denver has been fun. DenFur 2022 livened things up a little.

(https://i.ibb.co/DkQFvNt/8-ECEE08-D-4421-4-D8-D-971-A-82-FB1-CC59-EA5.jpg) (https://ibb.co/S0BgM2P)
(https://i.ibb.co/6XGHGKt/45944-FE7-762-B-4-BAA-82-D4-FE3350-C2-C53-E.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9ZBbBx4)
(https://i.ibb.co/yP7jcnc/68-F30475-79-F9-4100-A78-C-149965326005.jpg) (https://ibb.co/jfsXPvP)
(https://i.ibb.co/27YHKZL/6-A5-CF78-A-2-BEE-495-C-BA69-02-B74-A7-D434-E.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rGfNydL)
(https://i.ibb.co/sPr5RWv/D1778-CA9-35-CF-40-B8-BECB-D541-C9-FD8296.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4fxst1Z)
(https://i.ibb.co/jG3ZjMY/ED61-A326-C7-F5-4-A8-C-9917-DA4996453-F70.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wCpr2Wq)
(https://i.ibb.co/nRWGs4C/F174-A3-B4-F6-AC-4784-B709-7-FA132-D91-A2-F.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4JQqZCd)
(https://i.ibb.co/vjfHrMk/A83-C06-B5-E814-4-B36-81-D7-FB99-D9731-D36.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rwqmLXH)
(https://i.ibb.co/NLN08bh/BB3-D0-F17-CC14-4197-8-B8-A-294-E5-BD4-CE5-D.jpg) (https://ibb.co/P5W270p)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 20, 2022, 12:12:10 PM
Denver has been fun.
Did anybody identify as Jobu ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 20, 2022, 01:04:02 PM
Haha no but we are probably only a few miles separated
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Post by: ridingthegrange on August 20, 2022, 02:32:40 PM
Glad I missed it.  Looks like you opted for the Firmness Sample Set?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 20, 2022, 02:35:06 PM
Which dildo was your favorite?

I remember we did go to Mike Shanahan's place when I was out there. Had the oysters and steak. Good cocktails.
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Post by: illiniray on August 20, 2022, 08:16:24 PM
 fr!!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 20, 2022, 08:50:22 PM
Which dildo was your favorite?

I remember we did go to Mike Shanahan's place when I was out there. Had the oysters and steak. Good cocktails.

I really liked the fat electric blue one
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 20, 2022, 10:42:49 PM
I really liked the fat electric blue one

Looks like a good choice.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 21, 2022, 12:14:29 AM
I have a picture of me holding the Brooklyn Supreme “21” of unmitigated vigor” but am reluctant to post it
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Post by: ILLove1997 on August 21, 2022, 12:23:08 AM
stay the fuck away from those disgusting furry degenerates, you don't want the monkey pox do you?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 21, 2022, 06:37:08 PM
stay the fuck away from those disgusting furry degenerates, you don't want the monkey pox do you?
What you talking about - he IS one of those disgusting furry degenerates
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 22, 2022, 03:13:18 AM
What you talking about - he IS one of those disgusting furry degenerates

Met your mom in the lobby
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 22, 2022, 12:14:55 PM
Met your mom in the lobby
The convention was at the Cemetery?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 24, 2022, 09:02:49 PM
From todays fish wrap

(https://i.ibb.co/8D3G75Q/547-ADB35-3-CC6-49-E8-A7-C4-1-E9-AF048-C7-D0.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7JcB1W0)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 24, 2022, 09:50:44 PM
From todays fish wrap

(https://i.ibb.co/8D3G75Q/547-ADB35-3-CC6-49-E8-A7-C4-1-E9-AF048-C7-D0.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7JcB1W0)

So you are the guy who subscribes to USA Today?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 24, 2022, 09:53:13 PM
The doubletree in Lafayette Indiana apparently does
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 25, 2022, 07:47:27 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/hMnF9G8/E6505-CE4-08-EF-447-F-86-FB-933-D0-A4063-CC.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QcqvQWm)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on August 27, 2022, 10:17:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaIHkQoRJkg
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 31, 2022, 10:19:21 PM
I was pricing Thai jasmine rice. There is a mail order shop in FL that that has a 5 lb bag of lucky elephant brand for almost 30 bucks. I can buy the exact same bag at Berkot's for less than 10 dollars. I wonder what is up with that?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 31, 2022, 10:35:08 PM
I’ve noticed that buying food and daily use type items online vs locally isn’t often a winning proposition.

When ordering online many times these items are already on display for sale in a brick and mortar store. Someone has to field the order, physically pull the item, scan it, pack it up, and put it out for pickup. That’s expensive.

The aggregators also generally use a dynamic pricing algorithm. If an item is selling like hot cakes at low margin the price automatically inches up. Sometimes when supply is low the dynamic price ends up getting insane.

I keep an eye on some online aggregate retailers of meat and liquor. It’s not hard to find prices that make zero sense whatsoever.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 05, 2022, 08:18:59 AM
Fess up.
Who follows this feed on the Twitter ?
This you, Illove ?

🤣🤣🤣

(https://i.ibb.co/Lh634vG/Screenshot-20220905-081447.jpg) (https://ibb.co/x8GNV34)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 05, 2022, 08:56:45 AM
Fess up.
Who follows this feed on the Twitter ?
This you, Illove ?

🤣🤣🤣

(https://i.ibb.co/Lh634vG/Screenshot-20220905-081447.jpg) (https://ibb.co/x8GNV34)

In addition to you?  ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 05, 2022, 10:39:05 AM
I follow it with both my accounts
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 05, 2022, 12:47:38 PM
Goggling to seek to find the Genesis of this, it appears to be a few years old.

But the Goggle did have this:

https://b1039.com/2020/11/09/survey-shows-growing-number-of-men-are-sitting-down-to-urinate/

This, according to a poll done in Japan by Panasonic, shows now that men are spending more time at home due to work from home changes, they have become concerned about stains on and around the toilet. To break it down, Japanese men want to keep the bathroom cleaner since they’re home more often.

The survey was conducted in August of 2020 and showed that 70 percent of men sat during urination, compared to a similar survey conducted 5 years ago which showed 51 percent.
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 05, 2022, 01:03:03 PM
I'll admit it. But that's only in the middle of the night when I dont trust my balance or aim.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on September 05, 2022, 01:19:22 PM
Goggling to seek to find the Genesis of this, it appears to be a few years old.

But the Goggle did have this:

https://b1039.com/2020/11/09/survey-shows-growing-number-of-men-are-sitting-down-to-urinate/

This, according to a poll done in Japan by Panasonic, shows now that men are spending more time at home due to work from home changes, they have become concerned about stains on and around the toilet. To break it down, Japanese men want to keep the bathroom cleaner since they’re home more often.

The survey was conducted in August of 2020 and showed that 70 percent of men sat during urination, compared to a similar survey conducted 5 years ago which showed 51 percent.

My mom and sisters were strong, vocal proponents of seated male urination. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 05, 2022, 01:53:10 PM
I used to hold it down to keep from peeing in my face. Now I hold it up to keep from peeing on my feet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 06, 2022, 03:45:18 PM
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121241257/mj-capital-johanna-garcia-ruiz-pavel-ponzi-florida

A Florida woman touted as a 'Mother Theresa' ran a $196 million Ponzi scheme, feds say

Hope you are able to recoup your money, Golf!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on September 09, 2022, 08:15:10 AM
Cops be shooting up whitey, too.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-wants-answers-pallbearer-killed-032730956.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 09, 2022, 08:20:35 AM
Cops be shooting up whitey, too.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-wants-answers-pallbearer-killed-032730956.html

Jeez.  That's a hell of a story.  Seems like there's a lot missing.

On the bright side, at least he was already at the funeral home.  Saves someone a trip.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 09, 2022, 09:46:27 AM
Jeez.  That's a hell of a story.  Seems like there's a lot missing.

On the bright side, at least he was already at the funeral home.  Saves someone a trip.

I like how you always look on the bright side of things.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 09, 2022, 09:54:16 AM
I like how you always look on the bright side of things.

🥊 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 09, 2022, 10:20:54 AM
I like how you always look on the bright side of things.

Yep, that's me.  I'm a bright ray of sunshine up in this mother fucker.

How are you today?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 09, 2022, 10:28:57 AM
Yep, that's me.  I'm a bright ray of sunshine up in this mother fucker.

How are you today?

Content in my safe suburban home until a. the Illini fuck up  Saturday and b. that fucking POS returns to managing the Pale Hose. Then I'll be miserable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 09, 2022, 10:33:45 AM
Content in my safe suburban home until a. the Illini fuck up  Saturday and b. that fucking POS returns to managing the Pale Hose. Then I'll be miserable.

Glad you are content.  That's a good word for where I'm at.  Content.

As far as the Illini fucking up, well, good chance of that happening.  So, I'm not gonna worry too much about it.  As I said, I have stuff to do tomorrow, so, I'll hear about it later probably.

Regarding the 2022 World Series Champions.  1.5 games back now.  We're on a tear.  It will be interesting to see what happens if/when your guy comes back.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 15, 2022, 02:35:57 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/DC0AGTM.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 15, 2022, 03:18:06 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/DC0AGTM.png)

If interested, one could find the underlying study here: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2022/08/09/bjsports-2021-105379
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on September 15, 2022, 03:42:41 PM
Women playing sports. How funny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 20, 2022, 02:49:31 PM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/19/park-poison-bass-threaten-grand-canyon-chubs/10421348002/

🤦‍♂️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 20, 2022, 02:54:57 PM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/19/park-poison-bass-threaten-grand-canyon-chubs/10421348002/

🤦‍♂️

The bass allegedly are threatening native (not "Native American") fish to the area that are already endangered. What do you want them to do?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 20, 2022, 04:13:57 PM
The bass allegedly are threatening native (not "Native American") fish to the area that are already endangered. What do you want them to do?

idk seems like there could be other solutions other than poisoning the water
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 20, 2022, 05:06:30 PM
#savethehumpbackchub
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on September 20, 2022, 07:33:09 PM
Got my own chub to worry about.
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Post by: Chickengeorge on September 28, 2022, 05:18:48 PM
https://www.facebook.com/reel/461684349154353 (https://www.facebook.com/reel/461684349154353)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 29, 2022, 04:24:24 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fdzf9hpXEAAafN4.jpg)
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Post by: murphstahoe on September 29, 2022, 07:07:52 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fdzf9hpXEAAafN4.jpg)
not shocking this is on the top of your agenda. DeSantis is proud you are keeping up the fight as he has to deal with a bullshit hurricane instead of protecting us from pronouns and frightened Venezuelan children
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 29, 2022, 07:35:35 PM
not shocking this is on the top of your agenda. DeSantis is proud you are keeping up the fight as he has to deal with a bullshit hurricane instead of protecting us from pronouns and frightened Venezuelan children

I have no agenda I am just an absurdity enjoyer
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 29, 2022, 08:16:13 PM
I have no agenda I am just an absurdity enjoyer

Having no dogma is still having a dogma.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 30, 2022, 12:24:08 AM
Having no dogma is still having a dogma.
if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 30, 2022, 07:22:09 AM
if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

Freedom of choice is what you got,  freedom from choice is what you want.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 30, 2022, 09:54:58 AM
Freedom of choice is what you got,  freedom from choice is what you want.

A+
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 30, 2022, 10:11:28 AM
A+

Looks like all the credit here should go to a. my contracts professor, b. Rush, and c. Devo.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on October 11, 2022, 08:22:48 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party/index.html

What?  Tulsi was a Dem?  GMAFB!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 11, 2022, 08:33:38 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party/index.html

What?  Tulsi was a Dem?  GMAFB!

Yeah, but would you doink her? She appears to have gone full wack job.

Then there is this:

Quote
On the campaign trail, she blamed US intervention in Latin America for creating instability that triggered the surge in migration across the southern US border

Uh, probably the opposite. See, e.g., Venezuela.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 11, 2022, 09:51:58 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party/index.html

What?  Tulsi was a Dem?  GMAFB!

And nothing of value was lost.  The only surprise was that it took this long.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 11, 2022, 10:20:30 PM
We’ll be better without her!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 11, 2022, 10:21:40 PM
We’ll be better without her!
Well played.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on October 11, 2022, 10:30:37 PM
Yeah, but would you doink her? She appears to have gone full wack job.


Over Boebert?  Hell yes!  Wet T shirt night at Shooter's Grill!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 11, 2022, 10:31:58 PM
We’ll be better without her!
Hahahaha
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 12, 2022, 08:46:41 PM
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/12/joe-biden-is-too-timid-it-is-time-to-legalise-cocaine
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 13, 2022, 10:10:05 AM
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/12/joe-biden-is-too-timid-it-is-time-to-legalise-cocaine

 have not read the article.

We should legalize the Coca leaf.

Cocaine possession should at least be decriminalized, treat addiction as a medical problem.

Regulation could be safer than prohibition. https://filtermag.org/heres-what-a-legal-market-for-cocaine-could-look-like/

But then the cartels and corrupt officials would lose revenue.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 13, 2022, 01:55:29 PM
have not read the article.

We should legalize the Coca leaf.

Cocaine possession should at least be decriminalized, treat addiction as a medical problem.

Regulation could be safer than prohibition. https://filtermag.org/heres-what-a-legal-market-for-cocaine-could-look-like/

But then the cartels and corrupt officials would lose revenue.

I'll just go with "I remember QAnon97 when he claimed he was a libertarian."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 13, 2022, 04:36:30 PM
SoCal man, SoCal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CK2c09EDtY

There are some real beauties on the board in SF, but this is some really wild stuff
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 13, 2022, 05:04:18 PM
SoCal man, SoCal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CK2c09EDtY

There are some real beauties on the board in SF, but this is some really wild stuff

In addition to Black people, she apparently also has it in for Jews, Armenians and Oaxacans.
https://www.starbeacon.com/region/in-leaked-recording-nury-martinez-makes-crude-comments-about-jews-and-armenians/article_56e193cf-fa3a-5811-a4dd-6de8d04e72dc.html

I hate to say it, in many cities ethnic politics between groups are a thing—- usually discussed behind closed doors.  It used to be worse back in the day when the machine bosses had a lot of power, but it still exists.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2022, 12:10:50 AM
This is awesome

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1580709422426300416

When asked to use 30 seconds to say something that they admire about their opponent, Ron Johnson gives a brief compliment and then says but actually Barnes is an asshole.

As a reply person noted, he was asked to be decent for 30 seconds, and only lasted for 10, and he plagiarized that part
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 14, 2022, 06:51:27 AM
This is awesome

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1580709422426300416

When asked to use 30 seconds to say something that they admire about their opponent, Ron Johnson gives a brief compliment and then says but actually Barnes is an asshole.

As a reply person noted, he was asked to be decent for 30 seconds, and only lasted for 10, and he plagiarized that part

Too bad he is going to win because Dem primary voters again picked a loser to run in a very winnable race.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2022, 12:20:40 PM
Too bad he is going to win because Dem primary voters again picked a loser to run in a very winnable race.

Barnes is the Lt Governor - so he's won statewide before. Why perhaps do you think he's a loser? You have a very dark outlook on this. Seems bleak, like the sun went out and it's all black.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 14, 2022, 02:37:57 PM
Barnes is the Lt Governor - so he's won statewide before. Why perhaps do you think he's a loser? You have a very dark outlook on this. Seems bleak, like the sun went out and it's all black.

It is fucking Wisconsin and he's a defund the police jackass loser. Typical Dem BS; they just love losing winnable elections. But, hey, I am sure he is ideologically pure for the AOC fuckheads who hate how elections have to be won in red and purple states.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2022, 05:10:25 PM
It is fucking Wisconsin and he's a defund the police jackass loser. Typical Dem BS; they just love losing winnable elections. But, hey, I am sure he is ideologically pure for the AOC fuckheads who hate how elections have to be won in red and purple states.

If so, how was he elected Lt Governor?

Side note: US Senator Sherrod Brown (D) Ohio. One of the most progressive Senators in the country.

If the Democrats just run 100 Kirsten Sinemas, what's the point?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 14, 2022, 05:49:09 PM
If so, how was he elected Lt Governor?

Side note: US Senator Sherrod Brown (D) Ohio. One of the most progressive Senators in the country.

If the Democrats just run 100 Kirsten Sinemas, what's the point?

Winning is what happens.

Was he a defund the police guy last election or just afterwards? Who was he running against? Don't know. Just care that he is getting lambasted on crime and can't say, you know, maybe we need to NOT defund the police, blah blah blah.

How is the current OH election going against Vance?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 14, 2022, 10:14:37 PM
Nevermind that a lot of police funding is wasteful spending or throwing money at problems. It's a matter of messaging.

Crime has been up since Covid and it's easy for Republicans to blame a poorly worded slogan.

Just like they are blaming Biden for global inflation.

Fox News says shutting down the keystone pipeline stopped domestic oil production and caused  high gas prices, how do you respond?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on October 17, 2022, 03:18:23 PM
We’ll be better without her!

In her first weekend on the campaign trail in a new alliance with New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate and on-again-off-again election denier Don Bolduc, Tulsi Gabbard compared President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler.

Speaking at a Bolduc town hall event in a town outside of Manchester on Sunday, the former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate stipulated that she’s “pretty sure” both Biden and Hitler share a “mindset” of good intentions to justify authoritarian behavior, according to audio obtained by The Daily Beast.

“And this is something that is, you know, throughout history, we look at authoritarian leaders and dictators in other countries,” Gabbard said in a tangent about Biden’s Philadelphia speech from September on anti-democratic extremism among “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.”

“I'm pretty sure they all believe they’re doing what’s best,” Gabbard continued. “Even Hitler thought he was doing what was best for Germany, right? For the German race. In his own mind, he found a way to justify the means to meet his end. So when we have people with that mindset, well, you know we’ve got to do whatever it takes because, as President Biden said in that speech in Philadelphia, that those who supported Trump, those who didn't vote for him are extremists and a threat to our democracy.”

Representatives for Gabbard and the Bolduc campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Yep
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 17, 2022, 03:34:03 PM
I doubt she is really that stupid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 17, 2022, 04:12:17 PM
In her first weekend on the campaign trail in a new alliance with New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate and on-again-off-again election denier Don Bolduc, Tulsi Gabbard compared President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler.

Speaking at a Bolduc town hall event in a town outside of Manchester on Sunday, the former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate stipulated that she’s “pretty sure” both Biden and Hitler share a “mindset” of good intentions to justify authoritarian behavior, according to audio obtained by The Daily Beast.

“And this is something that is, you know, throughout history, we look at authoritarian leaders and dictators in other countries,” Gabbard said in a tangent about Biden’s Philadelphia speech from September on anti-democratic extremism among “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.”

“I'm pretty sure they all believe they’re doing what’s best,” Gabbard continued. “Even Hitler thought he was doing what was best for Germany, right? For the German race. In his own mind, he found a way to justify the means to meet his end. So when we have people with that mindset, well, you know we’ve got to do whatever it takes because, as President Biden said in that speech in Philadelphia, that those who supported Trump, those who didn't vote for him are extremists and a threat to our democracy.”

Representatives for Gabbard and the Bolduc campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Yep

She's not akin to, let's say, Dmity or Kofi in the grand scheme of things....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 17, 2022, 04:40:04 PM
Winning is what happens.

Was he a defund the police guy last election or just afterwards? Who was he running against? Don't know. Just care that he is getting lambasted on crime and can't say, you know, maybe we need to NOT defund the police, blah blah blah.

How is the current OH election going against Vance?

I see. Maybe if the Democrats just endorsed Vance, Walker, Ron Johnson, and Dr Oz, they could "win"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 17, 2022, 04:48:15 PM
In her first weekend on the campaign trail in a new alliance with New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate and on-again-off-again election denier Don Bolduc, Tulsi Gabbard compared President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler.

Speaking at a Bolduc town hall event in a town outside of Manchester on Sunday, the former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate stipulated that she’s “pretty sure” both Biden and Hitler share a “mindset” of good intentions to justify authoritarian behavior, according to audio obtained by The Daily Beast.

“And this is something that is, you know, throughout history, we look at authoritarian leaders and dictators in other countries,” Gabbard said in a tangent about Biden’s Philadelphia speech from September on anti-democratic extremism among “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.”

“I'm pretty sure they all believe they’re doing what’s best,” Gabbard continued. “Even Hitler thought he was doing what was best for Germany, right? For the German race. In his own mind, he found a way to justify the means to meet his end. So when we have people with that mindset, well, you know we’ve got to do whatever it takes because, as President Biden said in that speech in Philadelphia, that those who supported Trump, those who didn't vote for him are extremists and a threat to our democracy.”

Representatives for Gabbard and the Bolduc campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Yep

She went from a Bernie Democrat to full-on MAGA and thinks it's us that left her.  What a weird figure and evolution in the last few years.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 17, 2022, 04:49:11 PM
I see. Maybe if the Democrats just endorsed Vance, Walker, Ron Johnson, and Dr Oz, they could "win"

Or, maybe they could not put up shit candidates in the primaries? You just listed some winnable races. Mitch has been pissed about the level of GOP candidates in winnable races. Yet, odds are the GOP still ends up taking the majority of the races you listed. But hey, you are right: Manchin and Sinema suck! We don't want them anyway! We would rather be in the minority than have them in office! Just plain stupid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 18, 2022, 05:41:36 PM
Or, maybe they could not put up shit candidates in the primaries? You just listed some winnable races. Mitch has been pissed about the level of GOP candidates in winnable races. Yet, odds are the GOP still ends up taking the majority of the races you listed. But hey, you are right: Manchin and Sinema suck! We don't want them anyway! We would rather be in the minority than have them in office! Just plain stupid.

John Fetterman is pretty much the best candidate you could choose. Raphael Warnock WAS ELECTED SENATOR vs an incumbent!

What do you want?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 18, 2022, 05:57:27 PM
John Fetterman is pretty much the best candidate you could choose. Raphael Warnock WAS ELECTED SENATOR vs an incumbent!

What do you want?

Fetterman? Stoke guy? Over Lamb? Ok.... We will see how that goes.

And Warnock in a battle with Abortion Guy, but it is GA. The rest, pfft.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: JaySwanCards on October 18, 2022, 06:42:24 PM
Fetterman? Stoke guy? Over Lamb? Ok.... We will see how that goes.

And Warnock in a battle with Abortion Guy, but it is GA. The rest, pfft.

Fetterman is 1,000x better than Lamb.  State-wide elected official that is progressive with a blue collar streak that can appeal to a wide array of people.  Assuming he recovers from his stroke fully, and he should, he could very well be running for president in 2028.  Lamb was good for winning that one purple district he is in.  He would not stoke turnout in the major cities in Pennsylvania enough to win a statewide race even against Oz.

Here is how I handicap the close senate races:

Fetterman over Oz in PA
Warnock over Walker in GA in a squeaker because it's Georgia
Johnson over Barnes in WI even though Ron Johnson might be one of the stupidest human beings on the planet
Vance over Ryan in OH but closer than it should be in Ohio because Ryan has run a damn good campaign.  JD Vance is trash but it is Ohio after all.
Kelly over Masters in AZ because astronauts are always better than fascists, even in Arizona
Budd over Beasley in NC in a fairly close outcome
Rubio over Demings in FL because it's Florida.  They would elect Hitler if given the chance.
Masto should win re-election in NV but it looks close

I show a net pick-up for Democrats of 1 seat but there are a lot of very close races in potential pick-up states.  I just want the election done so I can start watching live tv again without seeing the same 3 political ads ad nauseum.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 18, 2022, 09:35:42 PM
Fetterman is 1,000x better than Lamb.  State-wide elected official that is progressive with a blue collar streak that can appeal to a wide array of people.  Assuming he recovers from his stroke fully, and he should, he could very well be running for president in 2028.  Lamb was good for winning that one purple district he is in.  He would not stoke turnout in the major cities in Pennsylvania enough to win a statewide race even against Oz.

Here is how I handicap the close senate races:

Fetterman over Oz in PA
Warnock over Walker in GA in a squeaker because it's Georgia
Johnson over Barnes in WI even though Ron Johnson might be one of the stupidest human beings on the planet
Vance over Ryan in OH but closer than it should be in Ohio because Ryan has run a damn good campaign.  JD Vance is trash but it is Ohio after all.
Kelly over Masters in AZ because astronauts are always better than fascists, even in Arizona
Budd over Beasley in NC in a fairly close outcome
Rubio over Demings in FL because it's Florida.  They would elect Hitler if given the chance.
Masto should win re-election in NV but it looks close

I show a net pick-up for Democrats of 1 seat but there are a lot of very close races in potential pick-up states.  I just want the election done so I can start watching live tv again without seeing the same 3 political ads ad nauseum.

You may want to wear your cup on election day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 18, 2022, 09:38:23 PM
Fetterman? Stoke guy? Over Lamb? Ok.... We will see how that goes.

And Warnock in a battle with Abortion Guy, but it is GA. The rest, pfft.

Is your assessment that despite Warnock being the incumbent, he should have not entered the primary despite winning against an incumbent 18 months ago?

Fetterman's stroke was a few days before the primary, well after most of the votes were in. Are you saying he should have dropped out after winning the primary? A popular Lt Gov that basically screams "I am Western PA" vs Conor Lamb who screams "I am Warm Milk"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 18, 2022, 09:42:33 PM

I show a net pick-up for Democrats of 1 seat but there are a lot of very close races in potential pick-up states.  I just want the election done so I can start watching live tv again without seeing the same 3 political ads ad nauseum.

I don't watch a lot of TV, so I've been able to escape most of it. Neither the districts I permanently reside in nor the one I am currently at have competitive races for statewide or congressional offices, but two competing ballot props legalizing sports betting are two of the most expensive elections ever. Basically one lets DraftKings do sports betting, one lets the Indians do sports betting. Both sides are running ads against the other side's props railing on the evils of gambling, that will be allowed by their own props.

What I can't wait for is the text messages to stop. You buy one BIDEN mask as a goof and your phone becomes a better vibrator than The Rabbit (TM)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 18, 2022, 09:53:40 PM
Indians ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 18, 2022, 09:57:33 PM
Indians ?

Touche' - your WOKE T-shirt is in the mail
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 18, 2022, 09:59:29 PM
Is your assessment that despite Warnock being the incumbent, he should have not entered the primary despite winning against an incumbent 18 months ago?

Fetterman's stroke was a few days before the primary, well after most of the votes were in. Are you saying he should have dropped out after winning the primary? A popular Lt Gov that basically screams "I am Western PA" vs Conor Lamb who screams "I am Warm Milk"

First, I mentioned that all of the races listed were winnable but that the GOP would probably win the majority of them.

Warnick is fine as a candidate. Will see how he does when it is an off election.   The rest, shaky at best.

Nothing wrong with Lamb either. Probably would have beaten Oz. If Fetterman is popular as you claim, he shouldn't be in a race at all with Oz.

You sure do love Lt. Governors. They don't do jack shit and no one knows who they even are.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 18, 2022, 10:04:35 PM
Still don’t understand why Herschel Walker being an actual candidate is even a thing. Politics are a joke.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 18, 2022, 10:09:17 PM
I don't watch a lot of TV, so I've been able to escape most of it. Neither the districts I permanently reside in nor the one I am currently at have competitive races for statewide or congressional offices, but two competing ballot props legalizing sports betting are two of the most expensive elections ever. Basically one lets DraftKings do sports betting, one lets the Indians do sports betting. Both sides are running ads against the other side's props railing on the evils of gambling, that will be allowed by their own props.

What I can't wait for is the text messages to stop. You buy one BIDEN mask as a goof and your phone becomes a better vibrator than The Rabbit (TM)

You don't watch a lot of TV so you aren't seeing the ads destroying the defund the police assholes.

Abortion this abortion that worked sure sounded good in the summer. Problem is not everyone is shopping for an abortion, but they are shopping at the supermarket.

If turnout is good, they obviously have a good shot. If it is standard non presidential election turnout,  I'm skeptical.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 18, 2022, 10:10:58 PM
Still don’t understand why Herschel Walker being an actual candidate is even a thing. Politics are a joke.

Why not? Trump was president. JB Prtizker is Gov. Etc etc.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 18, 2022, 10:18:13 PM
Why not? Trump was president. JB Prtizker is Gov. Etc etc.

Pritzker is way better than Rauner.

A political ad told me I should vote for Bailey because he is an expert at growing food and Pritzker is just rich.

Another said to vote against Pritzker because some professor was sexually trafficked as a young woman and forced to have abortions and Pritzker opposes parents.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 19, 2022, 06:54:59 AM
Pritzker is way better than Rauner.

A political ad told me I should vote for Bailey because he is an expert at growing food and Pritzker is just rich.

Another said to vated against Pritzker because some professor was sexually trafficked as a young woman and forced to have abortions and Pritzker opposes parents.

Like Rauner had a chance with Madigan and his criminal cabal in charge.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 19, 2022, 10:48:39 AM
Like Rauner had a chance with Madigan and his criminal cabal in charge.

Rauner only "barely" got elected in 2014 in a Republican wave year against a weak, unpopular incumbent (Pat Quinn) and then acted like he had some mandate from the people.  He desperately wanted to be the Illinois version of Scott Walker or Mike Pence.  He governed arrogantly and badly, and most people saw him as the rich phony he is.  Toss-up between who is the worst governor in my lifetime: Blagojevich or Rauner. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 19, 2022, 11:06:11 AM
First, I mentioned that all of the races listed were winnable but that the GOP would probably win the majority of them.

Warnick is fine as a candidate. Will see how he does when it is an off election.   The rest, shaky at best.

Nothing wrong with Lamb either. Probably would have beaten Oz. If Fetterman is popular as you claim, he shouldn't be in a race at all with Oz.

You sure do love Lt. Governors. They don't do jack shit and no one knows who they even are.

Warnock won election to the Senate in a runoff. That's as "off election" as you can get.

Gavin Newsom has a 30% chance of being the Democratic nominee. He was groomed for Governor as Lt Gov.

Fetterman isn't in a race with Oz. The closest that race ever gets is 6 points, and when you get down to brass tacks, Fetterman's persona will enthuse his voters, people will vote *for* Fetterman. Nobody is voting *for* Oz - they are just voting against "The Democrat". That's not a recipe for success.

What's so amusing about this thread is you are saying that the *Democrats* are putting up bad candidates, when the GOP has trotted out Herschel Walker, Mehmet Oz, Blake Masters and JD Vance. Tim Ryan being close in Ohio is solely a function of Vance being despicable. Had the GOP found a full slate of "Adam Laxalt -  generic Republican", this could be a lot different. It is ironic, the rabid base that has elected the nutters would show up for "Generic Republican" but there are enough of them to defeat "Generic Republican" in the primary, so we are left with nutcases that depress Generic Republican turnout and can't win independents.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 19, 2022, 01:31:15 PM
Like Rauner had a chance with Madigan and his criminal cabal in charge.

Rauner let our rural roads crumble and was in the process of shutting down bus service.

Newt Gingrich called him Rawner.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 19, 2022, 02:22:57 PM
Rauner let our rural roads crumble and was in the process of shutting down bus service.

Newt Gingrich called him Rawner.

The state was bankrupt. Only Fed COVID money saved it. JB won't be able to remove all the toilets from state buildings to resolve financial issues. Isn't there a looming issue with fed unemployment loans coming due soon?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 19, 2022, 05:36:43 PM
The state was bankrupt. Only Fed COVID money saved it. JB won't be able to remove all the toilets from state buildings to resolve financial issues. Isn't there a looming issue with fed unemployment loans coming due soon?

Road construction started right after Pritzker took office in Jan 2019. 

Rauner's solution was to defund transportation.

Republicans spread lies to scare old people and defeat Pritzker's graduated tax amendment.

If Dems get blamed for inflation and crime; then Pritzker should get credit for budget surpluses. Republican dickheads should not be able to have it both ways.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 19, 2022, 06:51:09 PM
Road construction started right after Pritzker took office in Jan 2019. 

Rauner's solution was to defund transportation.

Republicans spread lies to scare old people and defeat Pritzker's graduated tax amendment.

If Dems get blamed for inflation and crime; then Pritzker should get credit for budget surpluses. Republican dickheads should not be able to have it both ways.

Yeah, Rauner was trying to balance the books on his own since Madigan and Cullerton, one guilty of fraud the other soon to be be, weren't interested in helping.

Oh JFC, that fuck's tax amendment failed because be is a hypocritical fuck face with all his off shore trusts. And that tax avoiding piece of shit proposed a tax increase amendment with no resulting property tax decrease guarantee.

How long have you lived in Illinois? Hopefully the budget surplus lasts without fed help.

https://www.wifr.com/2022/09/27/illinois-paying-off-450-million-unemployment-insurance-fund-debt/

Still a ways to go and no guarantee of the ability to use fed funds to repay the feds.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 19, 2022, 07:11:53 PM
How long have you lived in Illinois?

63 years, most of that as a Republican.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 19, 2022, 07:38:56 PM
63 years, most of that as a Republican.

You should know better then
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 19, 2022, 07:47:37 PM
You should know better then

George Ryan is a nice guy, but he was apparently almost as corrupt as the Daileys. Looking back, maybe guys like Ed Madigan and Jim Edgar were compromised too?

Pritzker > Bailey and it's not even close.

We once tried putting religious fanatics in charge. It got ugly. They called it the dark ages.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 19, 2022, 08:32:27 PM
Yeah, Rauner was trying to balance the books on his own since Madigan and Cullerton, one guilty of fraud the other soon to be be, weren't interested in helping...

Rauner wasn’t interested in getting the state’s fiscal house in order.  He weaponized the state budget negotiations to achieve three anti-union goals:  turn Illinois into a right-to-work state, change laws affecting worker’s compensation and bust the teachers’ unions.  He thought he could peel off the Black caucus and progressives but ended up uniting the Democrats behind Madigan.   

The state went through a two-year budget impasse, and the backlog of unpaid bills grew to $16 billion under Rauner.  As Jim Edgar once said:  "Illinois government did work. But then we had bad luck with a couple of governors."
https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-illinois-rauner-budget-rating.html

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 19, 2022, 08:47:27 PM
Rauner wasn’t interested in getting the state’s fiscal house in order.  He weaponized the state budget negotiations to achieve three anti-union goals:  turn Illinois into a right-to-work state, change laws affecting worker’s compensation and bust the teachers’ unions.  He thought he could peel off the Black caucus and progressives but ended up uniting the Democrats behind Madigan.   

The state went through a two-year budget impasse, and the backlog of unpaid bills grew to $16 billion under Rauner.  As Jim Edgar once said:  "Illinois government did work. But then we had bad luck with a couple of governors."
https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-illinois-rauner-budget-rating.html

2 year budget impasse and 2 of the 3 people responsible indicted. Guess which ones. Hint: answer above in this thread.

Who didn't want to do what and why?

And let's not forget: Rauner was not a culture warrior wack job.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 19, 2022, 09:22:35 PM
Defending a defund the government guy like Rawner is a strange hill to die on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 19, 2022, 09:40:48 PM
Rauner’s very much a man of the people. 

After his wealthy Florida Keys enclave got early vaccines, ex-Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner gave $250,000 to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-covid-vaccine-rick-desantis-florida-keys-20210304-sv3sw22vezbedmxaffk5xuutja-story.html

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 19, 2022, 10:54:38 PM
Atta boy PAMan!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 07:30:44 AM
Rauner’s very much a man of the people. 

After his wealthy Florida Keys enclave got early vaccines, ex-Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner gave $250,000 to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-covid-vaccine-rick-desantis-florida-keys-20210304-sv3sw22vezbedmxaffk5xuutja-story.html

No one ever said he was a man of the people. But he wanted to get Illinois' financial affairs in order to the dismay of the Dem criminal cabal (as they are literally criminals) who were in charge at the time. And now he was replaced by another criminal, who committed tax and mail fraud, read the report, who has been bailed out by federal funds.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 07:31:38 AM
Atta boy PAMan!

I'm here to serve and remind everyone to trust content from The PAMan.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 20, 2022, 07:43:22 AM
No one ever said he was a man of the people. But he wanted to get Illinois' financial affairs in order

On the backs of the middle class and the poor?
 
From what I gather, he wanted to privatize and deregulate everything and as one of our resident socialists pointed out, do away with unions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 20, 2022, 07:59:16 AM
Dunno why, but I went to the google machine ....

https://www.bettergov.org/news/rebuildillinois/
Projects With Madigan Ties Went to the Front of the Line in State’s Massive Rebuild Illinois List
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 09:24:26 AM
On the backs of the middle class and the poor?
 
From what I gather, he wanted to privatize and deregulate everything and as one of our resident socialists pointed out, do away with unions.

Yeah, ok. The state was bankrupt when he took over and when he left. Businesses catering to the poor who relied on the state paying its invoices closed. Middle class
and rich people still fleeing the state. Tell me what your plan is to get the state's finances in order? Cant count on Fed COVID money.
You don't have one. Neither does Gov Tax Cheat or idiots like Don Harmon and Chris Welch.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 20, 2022, 10:41:57 AM
No one ever said he was a man of the people. But he wanted to get Illinois' financial affairs in order to the dismay of the Dem criminal cabal (as they are literally criminals) who were in charge at the time. And now he was replaced by another criminal, who committed tax and mail fraud, read the report, who has been bailed out by federal funds.

Pritzker suckups be like
(https://media.tenor.com/fo6TOrmnelwAAAAC/jim-carrey-dumb-and-dumber.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 20, 2022, 11:20:06 AM
Yeah, ok. The state was bankrupt when he took over and when he left. Businesses catering to the poor who relied on the state paying its invoices closed. Middle class
and rich people still fleeing the state. Tell me what your plan is to get the state's finances in order? Cant count on Fed COVID money.
You don't have one. Neither does Gov Tax Cheat or idiots like Don Harmon and Chris Welch.
Pritzker put a tax increase on the ballot, people voted it down.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 20, 2022, 11:27:28 AM
No one ever said he was a man of the people. But he wanted to get Illinois' financial affairs in order to the dismay of the Dem criminal cabal (as they are literally criminals) who were in charge at the time. And now he was replaced by another criminal, who committed tax and mail fraud, read the report, who has been bailed out by federal funds.

Rauner (and his fat cat buddies Ken Griffin and Richard Uihlein) had just one goal in mind:  bust the labor unions, particularly the public sector ones.  If it meant not paying the state bills, letting infrastructure rot, slashing social services and gutting higher-ed, so be it.  No wonder he lost the next election so badly for an incumbent.
https://news.wttw.com/2015/10/01/rauner-slashes-social-services-cites-lack-state-budget 

Rauner came in with some goodwill and had a chance to help rebuild the deteriorating Republican political apparatus, which was losing seats in the collar counties, recruiting terrible candidates for the House and whiffing on elections for statewide offices like Secretary of State and Treasurer.   

Rauner was a putz compared to Jim Edgar, Judy Baar Topinka, Jim Ryan and even George Ryan.  They played the long game, knew how to build coalitions and recruited competent people to run their operations and agencies.  Rauner surrounded himself with sycophants and flatterers. 

Rauner talked a big game.  Loved his phony flannel shirts, cowboy boots and motorcycle vests.  He turned out to be just another rich, pompous dipshit who couldn’t govern his way out of a paper bag.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 20, 2022, 11:39:16 AM
Progressive income tax is a start. Allowing the roads to crumble is not a plan. In England, they drive on the left. In Illinois, we were driving on what was left.

Nor is just accusing opponents of corruption. Nor is defunding bus service. Nor is privatization, deregulation, and right to abuse workers laws.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 12:11:39 PM
Pritzker put a tax increase on the ballot, people voted it down.

And I told you why....there was zero guarantee of property tax relief if it went into effect. It was a complete boondoggle and deservedly got smoked.

Most people need the toilets in their house and do not have off shore trusts to hide their money like Pritzker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 20, 2022, 03:23:46 PM
And I told you why....there was zero guarantee of property tax relief if it went into effect. It was a complete boondoggle and deservedly got smoked.

Most people need the toilets in their house and do not have off shore trusts to hide their money like Pritzker.

So you say, the state is bankrupt, they don't have enough money to pay for services. But raising taxes to correct that is no good, because there is no guarantee that they won't lower the taxes to offset the tax increase that we need to pay for the services.

Here's a cake. Go eat it. Then show me your uneaten cake.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 20, 2022, 03:24:50 PM
And I told you why....there was zero guarantee of property tax relief if it went into effect. It was a complete boondoggle and deservedly got smoked.

Most people need the toilets in their house and do not have off shore trusts to hide their money like Pritzker.

Most people would have gotten a tax cut. But go ahead with your dishonesty.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 20, 2022, 03:31:21 PM
read the report,

The "internal, confidential document by the inspector general's office, which was looking into the assessor's office, that was leaked for political purposes in this last month of a campaign"?

"In 2007, Pritzker and his wife bought a second mansion next to the one they live in on Chicago's Astor Street, for $3.7 million.
...

that mansion remained vacant and was allowed to fall into disrepair.

in October 2015, , the Pritzkers had five toilets removed from the second house so that it would be classified as "uninhabitable"
...

On October 2 2018
"Pritzker said he would pay the Cook County treasurer's office $330,000 by the end of the week. The day before, he had defended the deduction, saying he had "followed the rules."

This is rather old news. You should really be more timely.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 03:49:16 PM
Most people would have gotten a tax cut. But go ahead with your dishonesty.

Bull fucking shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 03:52:32 PM
So you say, the state is bankrupt, they don't have enough money to pay for services. But raising taxes to correct that is no good, because there is no guarantee that they won't lower the taxes to offset the tax increase that we need to pay for the services.

Here's a cake. Go eat it. Then show me your uneaten cake.

What I am saying is, if you are going to raise income tax rates, you had to have institutionalized changes to the property tax system. Otherwise, we all know what was going to happen.

No property tax relief, no rise in the income tax. Pretty simple, Nichi. But Pritzker, Madigan, Cullerton, and all the pols who are in the property tax appeals business did not want that.

C'mon, you are smarter than this.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 03:58:01 PM
The "internal, confidential document by the inspector general's office, which was looking into the assessor's office, that was leaked for political purposes in this last month of a campaign"?

"In 2007, Pritzker and his wife bought a second mansion next to the one they live in on Chicago's Astor Street, for $3.7 million.
...

that mansion remained vacant and was allowed to fall into disrepair.

in October 2015, , the Pritzkers had five toilets removed from the second house so that it would be classified as "uninhabitable"
...

On October 2 2018
"Pritzker said he would pay the Cook County treasurer's office $330,000 by the end of the week. The day before, he had defended the deduction, saying he had "followed the rules."

This is rather old news. You should really be more timely.

Hahaha. That's funny. Doesn't mean the fucker at the end of the day shouldn't have been prosecuted for tax and mail fraud, now does it? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 20, 2022, 04:02:22 PM

No property tax relief, no rise in the income tax. Pretty simple, Nichi.

C'mon, you are smarter than this.
What would you say if I said you replied to the California resident.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 04:05:57 PM
What would you say if I said you replied to the California resident.

I would not have said he was smarter than this.

 ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 04:14:25 PM
Rauner (and his fat cat buddies Ken Griffin and Richard Uihlein) had just one goal in mind:  bust the labor unions, particularly the public sector ones.  If it meant not paying the state bills, letting infrastructure rot, slashing social services and gutting higher-ed, so be it.  No wonder he lost the next election so badly for an incumbent.
https://news.wttw.com/2015/10/01/rauner-slashes-social-services-cites-lack-state-budget 

Rauner came in with some goodwill and had a chance to help rebuild the deteriorating Republican political apparatus, which was losing seats in the collar counties, recruiting terrible candidates for the House and whiffing on elections for statewide offices like Secretary of State and Treasurer.   

Rauner was a putz compared to Jim Edgar, Judy Baar Topinka, Jim Ryan and even George Ryan.  They played the long game, knew how to build coalitions and recruited competent people to run their operations and agencies.  Rauner surrounded himself with sycophants and flatterers. 

Rauner talked a big game.  Loved his phony flannel shirts, cowboy boots and motorcycle vests.  He turned out to be just another rich, pompous dipshit who couldn’t govern his way out of a paper bag.

For all the bitching about Trump and Evangelicals taking over the GOP, you had a non-culture warrior (who even expanded abortion access funding) and the Dem Criminal Cabal would not play. He started cutting and slashing and it was brutal and did not do anyone any good and still nothing. Now you get Bailey running and we will remain fucked once the COVID money runs out while JB runs for president and gets hoisted on his own petard.

Are you really happy with Chicago FOP Lodge #7?

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 20, 2022, 05:31:17 PM
For all the bitching about Trump and Evangelicals taking over the GOP, you had a non-culture warrior (who even expanded abortion access funding) and the Dem Criminal Cabal would not play. He started cutting and slashing and it was brutal and did not do anyone any good and still nothing. Now you get Bailey running and we will remain fucked once the COVID money runs out while JB runs for president and gets hoisted on his own petard.

Are you really happy with Chicago FOP Lodge #7?

I voted for Thompson, Topinka and Jim Ryan.  Almost voted for Edgar the first time around.  They were all moderate Republicans who understood the responsibility of governing and reaching across the aisle.     

By contrast, Rauner was a fat-cat, dismissive ideologue who held the state budget hostage for his union-busting agenda.  He drove the state into the ditch.  Good riddance.   
https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-youth-take-the-hit-in-rauners-ideological-fight/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 20, 2022, 06:05:16 PM
Do you say holloween or Halloween? The former always makes me think of a rather shallow Ferlinghetti poem.

https://www.englishessaywritingtips.com/2012/10/halloween-holloween/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 20, 2022, 06:08:12 PM
Bull fucking shit.

The individual income tax rate in Illinois is 4.95%

The proposed brackets had the question passed...

For single and joint filers earning less than $250,000 per year, the first $10,000 would be taxed at 4.75%, then income between that and $100,000 would be taxed at 4.9%. From there, up to $250,000, the rate would be 4.95%, where it stands today.

The median household income in Illinois is $69,000. Someone making the median income would get a tax cut of $230 - roughly 8.2 lunches at Taco Bell using your FOX Business news math.

Median household income means that half of the households make less than this - by construction then, most people would get a tax cut. QED.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 20, 2022, 06:14:49 PM
Tax Assessor: Bend over, you owe big dollars on that vacant mansion you purchased.

Prickster:  But it's uninhabitable..

Tax Assessor: Legally it's inhabitable.

Prickster: What if I remove the toilet seats?

Tax Assessor: That'll work.

Election Year Report: Prickster defrauded the county out of taxes by removing toilet seats.

Prickster: But I did what I was told ... fuck it, I'll pay the damn taxes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 07:31:59 PM
The individual income tax rate in Illinois is 4.95%

The proposed brackets had the question passed...

For single and joint filers earning less than $250,000 per year, the first $10,000 would be taxed at 4.75%, then income between that and $100,000 would be taxed at 4.9%. From there, up to $250,000, the rate would be 4.95%, where it stands today.

The median household income in Illinois is $69,000. Someone making the median income would get a tax cut of $230 - roughly 8.2 lunches at Taco Bell using your FOX Business news math.

Median household income means that half of the households make less than this - by construction then, most people would get a tax cut. QED.

3 words for you California Prop 13 Boy:  property fucking taxes. I know it is tough for someone not living in IL, but it is how the schools and worthless shit like township government is funded here. Like I said, as they didn't prevent the local school board, library board, park district, from jacking up your taxes, you were not going to get enough support for this. No one trusted these fucks to do that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 07:35:45 PM
Tax Assessor: Bend over, you owe big dollars on that vacant mansion you purchased.

Prickster:  But it's uninhabitable..

Tax Assessor: Legally it's inhabitable.

Prickster: What if I remove the toilet seats?

Tax Assessor: That'll work.

Election Year Report: Prickster defrauded the county out of taxes by removing toilet seats.

Prickster: But I did what I was told ... fuck it, I'll pay the damn taxes.

Poor billionaire... only paid it because he got caught. Fucking scum bag.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 20, 2022, 07:38:18 PM
I voted for Thompson, Topinka and Jim Ryan.  Almost voted for Edgar the first time around.  They were all moderate Republicans who understood the responsibility of governing and reaching across the aisle.     

By contrast, Rauner was a fat-cat, dismissive ideologue who held the state budget hostage for his union-busting agenda.  He drove the state into the ditch.  Good riddance.   
https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-youth-take-the-hit-in-rauners-ideological-fight/

I get it.  But do you really think Madigan and Cullerton would negotiate in good faith? I don't.  Big Jim, etc. would have had a tough time dealing with that crew. George Ryan obviously fit right in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 20, 2022, 11:24:55 PM
I get it.  But do you really think Madigan and Cullerton would negotiate in good faith? I don't.  Big Jim, etc. would have had a tough time dealing with that crew. George Ryan obviously fit right in.

When Rauner started to slash funding for social services, high-ed, local governments, schools, infrastructure, etc., the fight was on.  He managed to unite the various caucuses within the Democratic party.  Madigan and Cullerton barely had to lift a finger to organize the opposition.  Their existence didn’t even matter.  What happened to the labor movement in Wisconsin and Indiana wasn’t going to work in a state like Illinois, with its long and proud history of collective bargaining and labor organizing.   

Rauner should have played the long game.  First stop the hemorrhaging and splintering within the GOP party organization.  Recruit better candidates to run for office.  Work to elect more Republicans to the House and take control of the Senate.  That would have given him leverage to seek labor reforms down the road, probably in his second term.  Instead, he decided to blow up the state budgetary process in his first two years of office.   

Here’s another thing.  As you know, not all labor unions are in bed with the Democrats.  The construction trades, teamsters, electrical workers, plumbers and public safety unions tend to be more conservative and will support moderate Republicans.  Rauner’s sledgehammer approach left these unions with no place to go but to form an alliance with the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, UAW and Illinois Federation of Teachers.   

And we all know the rest of the story.   


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 21, 2022, 12:37:02 AM
3 words for you California Prop 13 Boy:  property fucking taxes. I know it is tough for someone not living in IL, but it is how the schools and worthless shit like township government is funded here. Like I said, as they didn't prevent the local school board, library board, park district, from jacking up your taxes, you were not going to get enough support for this. No one trusted these fucks to do that.

Prop 13 is a disaster.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 21, 2022, 01:28:58 AM
The taxes in Illinois are plenty high enough. But hey, tax and spend Democrats gonna tax and spend. The way things are going they won’t have enough actual earners to tax to death at some point. It’s telling that the retired guys with grown children here are the ones advocating for overall higher taxes.

The property taxes are 1/3 (dollar for dollar on property value) here compared to Illinois. And we lived in a rural area in IL and a new, very nice suburban area here. State income taxes are essentially half. The roads and public schools are nice. Budgets are balanced. Middle wage earners live very well here compared to back home because they get to keep a lot more of their money.

I’ll keep believing my own eyes rather than articles arguing for more of the same shitty government and politics that got Illinois into this mess in the first place.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 21, 2022, 07:27:50 AM
When Rauner started to slash funding for social services, high-ed, local governments, schools, infrastructure, etc., the fight was on.  He managed to unite the various caucuses within the Democratic party.  Madigan and Cullerton barely had to lift a finger to organize the opposition.  Their existence didn’t even matter.  What happened to the labor movement in Wisconsin and Indiana wasn’t going to work in a state like Illinois, with its long and proud history of collective bargaining and labor organizing.   

Rauner should have played the long game.  First stop the hemorrhaging and splintering within the GOP party organization.  Recruit better candidates to run for office.  Work to elect more Republicans to the House and take control of the Senate.  That would have given him leverage to seek labor reforms down the road, probably in his second term.  Instead, he decided to blow up the state budgetary process in his first two years of office.   

Here’s another thing.  As you know, not all labor unions are in bed with the Democrats.  The construction trades, teamsters, electrical workers, plumbers and public safety unions tend to be more conservative and will support moderate Republicans.  Rauner’s sledgehammer approach left these unions with no place to go but to form an alliance with the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, UAW and Illinois Federation of Teachers.   

And we all know the rest of the story.

We certainly know the rest of the story.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on October 21, 2022, 08:52:16 AM
Meanwhile, in Iowa

https://arnoldmotewealthmanagement.com/iowans-new-tax-law-brackets/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 21, 2022, 09:20:59 AM
Holy shit, 8.53% state income tax rate over 78k? 🤯🤯🤯

The flat tax looks like a huge win for all but the very lowest earners, and not taxing retirement income is great as well.

I really hate being double taxed, but it’s pretty much unavoidable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on October 21, 2022, 10:19:39 AM
Holy shit, 8.53% state income tax rate over 78k? 🤯🤯🤯

The flat tax looks like a huge win for all but the very lowest earners, and not taxing retirement income is great as well.

I really hate being double taxed, but it’s pretty much unavoidable.

Yeah it's pretty bad over there right now. Also, I think their vehicle registration is fairly high as well, based on the year or value of the vehicle. That was the one good thing we had going in Illinois until fatfuckface came in and jacked up vehicle registrations. What was the biggest joke was small trailers. Used to be $18 a year, and then they added $100 to that. I just stopped paying it. Fuck em. I believe they did get it back down to $36 but that is still doubling it. I've yet to get my registration current and probably won't. I don't think the county cops give a shit and the trailer sits for 95% of the year anyway.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 21, 2022, 12:44:41 PM
Holy shit, 8.53% state income tax rate over 78k? 🤯🤯🤯

The flat tax looks like a huge win for all but the very lowest earners, and not taxing retirement income is great as well.

I really hate being double taxed, but it’s pretty much unavoidable.

What are the property taxes like in Iowa?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on October 21, 2022, 01:07:38 PM
What are the property taxes like in Iowa?

Not as bad as Illinois. About in the middle compared to the other states. Scott County Iowa (part of the Quad Cities), a $200k home would have about $2,700 in property taxes. That would easily be $1k more if it was in Rock Island County across the river.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 21, 2022, 01:14:27 PM
The taxes in Illinois are plenty high enough. But hey, tax and spend Democrats gonna tax and spend. The way things are going they won’t have enough actual earners to tax to death at some point. It’s telling that the retired guys with grown children here are the ones advocating for overall higher taxes.

The property taxes are 1/3 (dollar for dollar on property value) here compared to Illinois. And we lived in a rural area in IL and a new, very nice suburban area here. State income taxes are essentially half. The roads and public schools are nice. Budgets are balanced. Middle wage earners live very well here compared to back home because they get to keep a lot more of their money.

I’ll keep believing my own eyes rather than articles arguing for more of the same shitty government and politics that got Illinois into this mess in the first place.

Where is here?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 21, 2022, 01:25:40 PM
Not as bad as Illinois. About in the middle compared to the other states. Scott County Iowa (part of the Quad Cities), a $200k home would have about $2,700 in property taxes. That would easily be $1k more if it was in Rock Island County across the river.

Whatever state you go to, everyone bitches about the tax that is "too high". The income tax in CA is too high. But our property taxes are low to begin with, and if you've owned your home for a while, they are ridiculously low. There are 3 million dollar homes in SF that have under 500 a year in property taxes, and your heirs can inherit that basis. It's a horrible ponzi scheme, older residents benefitted for their school districts at property tax assessments that matched the cost of living, newer residents now get underfunded schools. Or they get funded by sales taxes which also target younger demographics.

The only places that seem to avoid the argument that this tax or that tax is too high, are Florida and Nevada, because they rely on taxing non-residents. One thing that will be very interesting when DeSantis starts firing up his Presidential campaign, will the Florida budget in two years. No matter how much money the feds are throwing at Florida, their economy is going to be completely fucked. When you rely on tourist occupancy taxes, then you have a massive hurricane that destroys huge chunks of your tourist sector, those taxes vanish at a time you need to spend money to support rebuilding and services for people whose jobs won't return for 2-3 years. While Florida has no income tax, their property tax is roughly average, but it will be a lot easier for people in Ft Meyers Beach to say their home is uninhabitable than it was for Pritzker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 21, 2022, 01:39:13 PM
Not as bad as Illinois. About in the middle compared to the other states. Scott County Iowa (part of the Quad Cities), a $200k home would have about $2,700 in property taxes. That would easily be $1k more if it was in Rock Island County across the river.

And maybe 4-5x higher in Cook County depending upon where you live? This is what I'm talking about Murph, and Nichi. People in IL are not going to approve higher income tax rates without a resulting change in the property tax system.

On one hand, I know where the property taxes are going - directly to the local schools. The problem is that this system sucks for poorer communities. They need to alter the property tax system in connection with a progressive income tax (and, probably add pension taxation) or else it is not going to work.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 21, 2022, 01:41:59 PM
It’s telling that the retired guys with grown children here are the ones advocating for overall higher taxes.

You forgot to mention and probably living on untaxed by the state pensions. Not that there is anything wrong with that other than being unsustainable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 21, 2022, 02:04:12 PM
I could see taxing retirement benefits over a certain amount, but propose that an the right wing will say see, they are raising taxes on poor seniors, just like we said. It would be a lie, but that is what Republicans do.

Right now they are a running an ad with Joe Rogan, saying if we reelect Pritzker we'll have a new no bail purge law with mandatory release for rapists, serial killers, child molesters, illegal aliens, and even people who commit voter fraud.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 21, 2022, 02:06:04 PM
Where is here?

Probably a red state that rakes in a lot of federal money.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 21, 2022, 02:08:49 PM
And maybe 4-5x higher in Cook County depending upon where you live? This is what I'm talking about Murph, and Nichi. People in IL are not going to approve higher income tax rates without a resulting change in the property tax system.

On one hand, I know where the property taxes are going - directly to the local schools. The problem is that this system sucks for poorer communities. They need to alter the property tax system in connection with a progressive income tax (and, probably add pension taxation) or else it is not going to work.

I'm retired, but I'd vote for that. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on October 21, 2022, 02:47:25 PM
Let's not forget about our sales tax. Top 7 in the country (state and average local) according to the google.

This is interesting.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 21, 2022, 03:19:32 PM
Meanwhile, in Iowa

https://arnoldmotewealthmanagement.com/iowans-new-tax-law-brackets/

Good for the wealthy, not so good for the poor.  It’s also not truly a flat tax because lots of tax credits and exemptions remain in the Iowa tax code. 

The flat tax plan relies in part on sizable savings the state has accumulated as federal dollars flowed in to help states compensate for economic loss due the COVID-19 pandemic.  Those dollars are temporary, and they were intended to be spent helping families in communities.   
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2021/10/17/iowa-governor-wrongly-claims-credit-for-large-budget-surplus/

It is also based on optimistic projections that Iowa’s annual tax revenue growth won’t drop from levels seen in the last decade.

I hope Iowa doesn’t end up like Kansas.  Stayed tuned.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 21, 2022, 03:31:58 PM
Let's not forget about our sales tax. Top 7 in the country (state and average local) according to the google.

This is interesting.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494

As questioned in the comments, do these rates include IL home rule taxing bodies ie., schools, park district, and villages/cities and townships? Unclear.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 21, 2022, 03:54:25 PM
Let's not forget about our sales tax. Top 7 in the country (state and average local) according to the google.

This is interesting.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494

This sort of thing is some really great intellectual dishonesty by the right.

Let's say you're Nevada. No state income tax, a lot of other taxes are generally low. Because they have a super high transient occupancy tax, that is paid by tourists on their lodging bill. In Lake Tahoe, the transient occupancy tax is 14%

The shell game played there, is that tourists don't care what part of the bill is tax and what part is rent. They look at the all in cost. So if  a room is $85 with a $15 tax, or $100 with zero tax, to the tourist, it's the same.

So just like a tariff, the tax isn't paid by the tourist, it's paid by the *landlord*. But it's not just a tax paid by the landlord itself, but trickles down in the form of reduced wages to the staff.

The staff doesn't care if they got paid $8.50 an hour with no tax, or $10 with $1.50 tax - in the end it's $8.50 into their bank account. It just feels better if the actual tax was collected from the tourist and resulted in reduced wages, instead of them paying tax on increased wages.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 21, 2022, 03:57:32 PM
Let's not forget about our sales tax. Top 7 in the country (state and average local) according to the google.

This is interesting.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494

And to further my previous point - there are more, better, and higher paying jobs in Chicago, than say Orlando. That's a function of the State investing in itself via tax revenues. You pay more taxes, but your wages are higher too. The median income in Illinois is 35,000, the median income in Florida is $29,000. Unless Illinois is taking an extra 18% in taxes from you, you come out ahead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 21, 2022, 04:03:07 PM
Taxes are high, but there's more to life than tax burdens.
If you could get a good pizza or Orange Chicken to go, we'd move up for sure.

(https://i.ibb.co/7vL9W20/Screenshot-20221021-155836-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gyhnTzc)
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/10-best-states-in-america?slide=10
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 21, 2022, 04:07:13 PM
Let's not forget about our sales tax. Top 7 in the country (state and average local) according to the google.

This is interesting.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494

At a glance, that map kind of looks like the opposite of this:
 https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-on-the-federal-government-2022
States with lower tax burdens rely  more on federal assistance? Indiana 28th in tax burden; 27th most dependent on federal government
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 21, 2022, 04:17:22 PM
Let's not forget about our sales tax. Top 7 in the country (state and average local) according to the google.

This is interesting.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494

Looks like the Illinois state sales tax rate is pretty much in line with nearby states.   
https://sovos.com/content-library/sut/state-by-state-guide-to-sales-tax/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=BB-StatebyState&utm_term=sut&utm_content=map&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhsmaBhCvARIsAIbEbH4DAWEX3VbUDortbzVdylpVIdVevyDhbDbappRrm1a7rqSleQkSlSkaAn_GEALw_wcB

Of course, the overall sales tax rate is higher in some areas of the state because certain local jurisdictions (i.e., home rule units) are allowed to impose their own taxes that can be combined with the state sales tax.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 21, 2022, 04:33:54 PM
This sort of thing is some really great intellectual dishonesty by the right.

Let's say you're Nevada. No state income tax, a lot of other taxes are generally low. Because they have a super high transient occupancy tax, that is paid by tourists on their lodging bill. In Lake Tahoe, the transient occupancy tax is 14%

The shell game played there, is that tourists don't care what part of the bill is tax and what part is rent. They look at the all in cost. So if  a room is $85 with a $15 tax, or $100 with zero tax, to the tourist, it's the same.

So just like a tariff, the tax isn't paid by the tourist, it's paid by the *landlord*. But it's not just a tax paid by the landlord itself, but trickles down in the form of reduced wages to the staff.

The staff doesn't care if they got paid $8.50 an hour with no tax, or $10 with $1.50 tax - in the end it's $8.50 into their bank account. It just feels better if the actual tax was collected from the tourist and resulted in reduced wages, instead of them paying tax on increased wages.

But the cost of living is probably lower.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 21, 2022, 04:34:47 PM
And to further my previous point - there are more, better, and higher paying jobs in Chicago, than say Orlando. That's a function of the State investing in itself via tax revenues. You pay more taxes, but your wages are higher too. The median income in Illinois is 35,000, the median income in Florida is $29,000. Unless Illinois is taking an extra 18% in taxes from you, you come out ahead.

The 6,000 may be eaten up in the cost of living and home rule taxes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 21, 2022, 04:36:22 PM
Taxes are high, but there's more to life than tax burdens.
If you could get a good pizza or Orange Chicken to go, we'd move up for sure.

(https://i.ibb.co/7vL9W20/Screenshot-20221021-155836-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gyhnTzc)
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/10-best-states-in-america?slide=10

That is until Scott Jensen takes over! Sounds like the Dem gov is doing a good job... 8)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 21, 2022, 05:11:59 PM
That is until Scott Jensen takes over! Sounds like the Dem gov is doing a good job... 8)
You're a fishwrap subscriber ? He's treated well.

Today's fishwrap had a story about a new grant bringing the total aid for the peaceful protest damage to $100 million.
Yee ha !!
Total uninsured losses ? Tack on another $100 million. We're 2 1/2 years later.

We led the country for a while in long term care deaths from the Covid, if you remember. His decision to send the Covid positive  hospital patients to long term care units was never covered. But then, all of the governors got away with it.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul are not what they were a few short years ago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 21, 2022, 08:44:27 PM
But the cost of living is probably lower.

That's generally true, but it's still better in the modern world to have a high wage in a high cost state than a low wage in a low wage state.
First off, the cost of say, a new Honda CRV, or a Dell Laptop, or a YouTube subscription are the same no matter where you live. True for many items, and that list is increasing with the ubiquity of Amazon.

More importantly, let's say a typical Chicagoan and a typical Floridian both sock away 10% of their income towards retirement. The Chicagoan will save up 50% more than the Floridian. Which is not that big a deal because the cost of living is higher in Chicago....

Until the Chicagoan retires to Florida, increasing the value of their nest egg. The best part being that if a hurricane destroys your retirement pad, Joe Biden will take a bunch of Federal taxes most of which are collected in higher cost states where residents are in higher brackets, and sends it to bail you out.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 21, 2022, 08:45:49 PM
That's generally true, but it's still better in the modern world to have a high wage in a high cost state than a low wage in a low wage state.
First off, the cost of say, a new Honda CRV, or a Dell Laptop, or a YouTube subscription are the same no matter where you live. True for many items, and that list is increasing with the ubiquity of Amazon.

More importantly, let's say a typical Chicagoan and a typical Floridian both sock away 10% of their income towards retirement. The Chicagoan will save up 50% more than the Floridian. Which is not that big a deal because the cost of living is higher in Chicago....

Until the Chicagoan retires to Florida, increasing the value of their nest egg. The best part being that if a hurricane destroys your retirement pad, Joe Biden will take a bunch of Federal taxes most of which are collected in higher cost states where residents are in higher brackets, and sends it to bail you out.

This said, the globalization of a lot of prices - making things like Dell laptops cheaper, has meant the cost of such items are going down for people in high cost states, but that money has just flown into increasing the cost of housing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 22, 2022, 04:23:18 PM
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

Chief Illinwek more authentic than she was.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 25, 2022, 02:40:57 PM
The Constitution for the win!

https://reason.com/2022/10/25/bikini-baristas-win-lawsuit-over-unconstitutional-dress-code/

"Bikini Baristas Win Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Dress Code"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 25, 2022, 02:51:32 PM
(https://media.tenor.com/gAWuUs5ILmwAAAAd/charlie-day-thumbs-up.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 25, 2022, 10:57:15 PM
https://twitter.com/ProfTBLittwin/status/1584920864876814336
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 25, 2022, 11:02:01 PM
The old news was that AMD/Nvidia were making a lot of money from Bitcoin, but since Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, that revenue stream wasn't going to go on forever.

The new news - Google had a revenue miss because they were making so much money from VC funded crypto companies running ads on YouTube, bitcoin price collapses, ads stop running.

Now - about those Super Bowl ads...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 02, 2022, 02:52:29 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Mu6GuSJ.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 02, 2022, 03:15:54 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Mu6GuSJ.png)

That is awesome.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 02, 2022, 03:21:41 PM
I cannot access the article, but Murph telling us that having a weak suck ass crime loving elected prosecutor did not matter appears to be wholly wrong.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/brooke-jenkins-sf-policing-17550839.php

Basically the study shows a change from the commie crime loving bastard DA in SF led the cops to doing their jobs as they knew the new DA would actually try and put scumbags in jail.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 02, 2022, 07:19:01 PM
I cannot access the article, but Murph telling us that having a weak suck ass crime loving elected prosecutor did not matter appears to be wholly wrong.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/brooke-jenkins-sf-policing-17550839.php

Basically the study shows a change from the commie crime loving bastard DA in SF led the cops to doing their jobs as they knew the new DA would actually try and put scumbags in jail.

Chesa Boudin wasn't very popular, he was recalled with ease. We've had a lot of shithead DA's here, when you really get down to it, the BEST District Attorney we've had is probably the current Vice President!  A lot of that comes down to it being an elected position but one which people don't really know too much about the candidates - the elections here that get the focus are the City Supervisors and Mayor.

One year, some dude from the SF Board of Supervisors ran for ... Sheriff. No law enforcement background. Yet somehow this guy, because he was a darling of "The Progressives" starts with some name recognition and has the money to put out mailers and ads, and he wins. Within a year he's charged with all sorts of weird domestic violence stuff, false imprisonment, it was a wack ass story. He's suspended for a while, the board refused to fire him, he gets the job BACK, runs for re-election, and gets his ass handed to him.

These races are just like Secretary of State races. In a swing-ish state in a year that isn't hyper-partisan 2022, it is mostly decided by a combo of a little prior name recognition and money.

but I take anything the SF cops say with a grain of salt. The SFPD is a pile of dog turds. I mean sure, they aren't the violent wack jobs of LA or the corrupt assholes in NY or Boston, but...

I've needed them, they were useless in those instances.

A cop once followed me while I was riding my bike to the bus stop that is on the entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge. He pulled me over and yelled at me that I needed to ride on the sidewalk. I impolitely informed him that it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk in California. He said "There's a sign back there that says Bikes Prohbited", I invited him to get out of his cruiser and walk back there to show me this imaginary sign. Finally he said "I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree" and I said "I think we can both agree you're going to have a lovely trip to Marin County" (he had entered the bridge and his only option at that point was crossing to Sausalito and turning around"

Of course, if I were black he would have cuffed me and beat the crap out of me.

Then of course there is this awesome story....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajitagate
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 02, 2022, 10:53:58 PM
Chesa Boudin wasn't very popular, he was recalled with ease. We've had a lot of shithead DA's here, when you really get down to it, the BEST District Attorney we've had is probably the current Vice President!  A lot of that comes down to it being an elected position but one which people don't really know too much about the candidates - the elections here that get the focus are the City Supervisors and Mayor.

One year, some dude from the SF Board of Supervisors ran for ... Sheriff. No law enforcement background. Yet somehow this guy, because he was a darling of "The Progressives" starts with some name recognition and has the money to put out mailers and ads, and he wins. Within a year he's charged with all sorts of weird domestic violence stuff, false imprisonment, it was a wack ass story. He's suspended for a while, the board refused to fire him, he gets the job BACK, runs for re-election, and gets his ass handed to him.

These races are just like Secretary of State races. In a swing-ish state in a year that isn't hyper-partisan 2022, it is mostly decided by a combo of a little prior name recognition and money.

but I take anything the SF cops say with a grain of salt. The SFPD is a pile of dog turds. I mean sure, they aren't the violent wack jobs of LA or the corrupt assholes in NY or Boston, but...

I've needed them, they were useless in those instances.

A cop once followed me while I was riding my bike to the bus stop that is on the entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge. He pulled me over and yelled at me that I needed to ride on the sidewalk. I impolitely informed him that it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk in California. He said "There's a sign back there that says Bikes Prohbited", I invited him to get out of his cruiser and walk back there to show me this imaginary sign. Finally he said "I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree" and I said "I think we can both agree you're going to have a lovely trip to Marin County" (he had entered the bridge and his only option at that point was crossing to Sausalito and turning around"

Of course, if I were black he would have cuffed me and beat the crap out of me.

Then of course there is this awesome story....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajitagate

Tl;dr: yeah, I should listen to The PAMan and I now agree that The Squad is a bunch of jackass fuck heads who love to lose elections.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 03, 2022, 12:37:04 AM
Scathing hot takes from the PAMan
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 03, 2022, 04:11:35 PM
More MSU players will see the clink for assaulting Michigan players than the Jan 6 crew did for assaulting cops
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 04, 2022, 02:24:10 PM
Chris Klewe changed his Twitter name to "Elon Musk" and his photo to that of Musk's and started trolling.

Twitter suspended his account.

Best punter ever.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 04, 2022, 03:07:36 PM
Fox is not good with analogies. The View didn't compare white women to roaches. They compared the current Republicans to poison.

Women voting Republican is like LGBTQ supporting the Westboro Baptist Church.


Or communists supporting the JBS.

Note: I am not comparing women to communists.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 08, 2022, 06:38:03 PM
https://twitter.com/culturecrave/status/1589899657307914240?s=46&t=wac9uS1yle8Sc7N6hLBVVg

"The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me – you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it"

palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 09, 2022, 03:49:17 PM
https://twitter.com/LennyDykstra/status/1590407856435576832
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 09, 2022, 03:55:49 PM
https://twitter.com/LennyDykstra/status/1590407856435576832

Maybe Lenny can get the Uber guy to help Tempo out with his app.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 09, 2022, 04:23:48 PM
Maybe Lenny can get the Uber guy to help Tempo out with his app.

I saw a great response - "The White Sox need to hire Lenny to be a hitting coach for the White Sox because those guys need to learn to swing for the fences"

Did I ever tell this group the story of a pit boss at the Desert Inn telling me to bet on the Giants that day? They had a 1:05 PM start in SF against the Phillies. He said "Dykstra left here at 7 AM, wasted"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 09, 2022, 04:50:54 PM
https://twitter.com/LennyDykstra/status/1590407856435576832

Hahahahaha
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 14, 2022, 12:24:04 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11426291/USA-make-statement-World-Cup-Qatar-REDESIGNING-crest-rainbow-colors.html

soccer is gay
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 14, 2022, 12:25:50 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11426291/USA-make-statement-World-Cup-Qatar-REDESIGNING-crest-rainbow-colors.html

soccer is gay

We should be respecting other cultures.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 15, 2022, 12:05:33 AM
This is great

https://youtu.be/CmO7BR_Tq04
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 15, 2022, 10:29:21 AM
We should be respecting other cultures.

like the hosts of the world cup?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 15, 2022, 10:46:15 AM
like the hosts of the world cup?
My 1st thought was that's what he was saying.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 15, 2022, 11:57:45 AM
FTX

That's it. That's the post
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 18, 2022, 01:30:45 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1593244536775446530

🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 18, 2022, 07:11:35 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1593244536775446530

🤣

Unavailable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 18, 2022, 07:15:08 AM
Unavailable.
From what I've read, count your blessings.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 18, 2022, 09:56:38 AM
Unavailable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-jt46vslUc

Here you go, enjoy 🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 18, 2022, 10:22:08 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1593244536775446530

🤣

Ok, that’s funny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on November 18, 2022, 10:35:13 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/YjGT29W/38716-CFA-A950-45-D3-88-FE-747-DDF29-E12-E.jpg) (https://ibb.co/F7tq6vW)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 18, 2022, 11:23:59 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-jt46vslUc

Here you go, enjoy 🤣

Seems like an Andy Kaufmann bit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 18, 2022, 11:24:47 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/YjGT29W/38716-CFA-A950-45-D3-88-FE-747-DDF29-E12-E.jpg) (https://ibb.co/F7tq6vW)

He seems to fire a lot of people who call him out on The Twitter and elsewhere. So much for free speech.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 18, 2022, 12:47:04 PM
He seems to fire a lot of people who call him out on The Twitter and elsewhere. So much for free speech.
He's said that they'll probably be valuable employees somewhere. 😁
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 18, 2022, 12:54:13 PM
He's said that they'll probably be valuable employees somewhere. 😁

Maybe they can fix the Uber app.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 18, 2022, 02:06:27 PM
Maybe they can fix the Uber app.

Uber could use the help.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 20, 2022, 04:48:04 PM
https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/11/18/grindr-stock-skyrockets-after-spac-merger-minting-at-least-one-billionaire/?sh=25c7a3d7185b

Ray Zage, UIUC 1992, made a cool billion with an IllLove97 focused app.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 23, 2022, 10:24:17 AM
Not too much of a wackjob

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-springs-lgbtq-club-shooting-suspect-identifying-non-binary-court-documents/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 23, 2022, 10:26:50 AM
Not too much of a wackjob

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-springs-lgbtq-club-shooting-suspect-identifying-non-binary-court-documents/

Seems fine, Mx. ThePAman.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 23, 2022, 10:41:48 AM
Seems fine, Mx. ThePAman.

Opium addict and non-binary and decides to shoot up a drag show after threatening to blow up mom. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 23, 2022, 12:57:15 PM
Opium addict and non-binary and decides to shoot up a drag show after threatening to blow up mom. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

average redditor
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on November 23, 2022, 01:56:43 PM
Not too much of a wackjob

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-springs-lgbtq-club-shooting-suspect-identifying-non-binary-court-documents/

Not enough to lose his right to own a gun.   The loonie's freedom is worth so much more than the lives of human beings.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 23, 2022, 02:01:52 PM
Not enough to lose his right to own a gun.   The loonie's freedom is worth so much more than the lives of human beings.

Wasn't one of the issues that he changed his name?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 23, 2022, 02:16:42 PM
Wasn't one of the issues that he changed his name?
From what I read, his records were sealed after he tried to blow up his Mom, which allowed him to get thru background checks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 23, 2022, 02:17:45 PM
Wasn't one of the issues that he changed his name?
They changed their name, dimwit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 23, 2022, 02:21:28 PM
They changed their name, dimwit.

Between Flow working for Progressive, which everyone knows, and the murderer being "non-binary," I am having a bad day here. Yesterday's glory is fleeting. Maybe I will make a video to humiliate myself to cap the day off.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 23, 2022, 02:23:08 PM
From what I read, his records were sealed after he tried to blow up his Mom, which allowed him to get thru background checks.

Ahhh, ok.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on November 23, 2022, 02:28:47 PM
From what I read, his records were sealed after he tried to blow up his Mom, which allowed him to get thru background checks.

Also, the county sheriff is a proud 2nd amendment poof.  We have red flag options that he refuses to use.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 23, 2022, 02:38:28 PM
Ahhh, ok.
Well, probably not.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 23, 2022, 02:38:50 PM
Also, the county sheriff is a proud 2nd amendment poof.  We have red flag options that he refuses to use.
Who seals the records ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on November 23, 2022, 02:47:19 PM
Who seals the records ?

Good question.  I would think the court but, if no charges were filed, how would they get it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on November 23, 2022, 02:48:35 PM
On another front:  Guess Lindsey and Ted made him excited.  Only the best and brightest you know.

With his Georgia Senate race hanging in the balance, Republican candidate Herschel Walker had an unfortunate slip of the tongue as he tried to drum up support for his campaign Tuesday night. Flanked by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Walker spoke on Fox News about the significance of his election. “This election is about more than Herschel Walker,” he said. “This erection is about the people.” Neither Cruz nor Graham appeared to clock the gaffe, but the clip quickly went viral and sent #Erection trending on Twitter overnight. The faux pas came after a woman who accused Walker of pressuring her into having an abortion on Tuesday challenged Walker to meet her in person after he dismissed her allegations as a “lie.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 23, 2022, 02:55:14 PM
Good question.  I would think the court but, if no charges were filed, how would they get it?
I think charges were filed, and the court sealed the records.
May a dimwit here with some legal background can chime in, but if records were sealed there must have been charges.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on November 23, 2022, 02:58:28 PM
Good question.  I would think the court but, if no charges were filed, how would they get it?

It appears the 2021 arrest was not adjudicated.  Wonder why?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 23, 2022, 03:02:11 PM
It appears the 2021 arrest was not adjudicated.  Wonder why?

Could have had charges that were dismissed.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 23, 2022, 03:06:20 PM
Trying to blow up your Mom should count for something, one would think.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 23, 2022, 03:07:27 PM
Trying to blow up your Mom should count for something, one would think.

Depends on the mom I guess.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 23, 2022, 03:20:17 PM
Depends on the mom I guess.
You can go buy guns, but no bombs. K ?
K. Thanks Mom. You're the best.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 23, 2022, 03:42:53 PM
JFC this explains a lot.

https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1595519454900805649?s=46&t=ygw_iehd2-PSfrIPJZiIEw
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 23, 2022, 03:44:43 PM
That kid never had a fucking chance. His dad is clearly messed up. Mom must be pretty special, too.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 23, 2022, 06:42:27 PM
So the father of the shooter is a former porn actor who starred in such movies as:

My MILF Boss 8, I Wanna Get Titty Fucked, and Latina Slut Academy, told CBS 8, “You know Mormons don’t do gay. We don’t do gay. There’s no gays in the Mormon church. We don’t do gay.” (The Mormon Church has confirmed that Aldrich was a member but had not been active in some time.)

His grandfather is a California politician (Trumper).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 23, 2022, 06:45:58 PM
The dad even has his own Wiki page. Apparently an MMA fighter too. Somehow the dude in that video is only 48. Wow

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Brink
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 23, 2022, 06:48:12 PM
Can’t make this shit up:

Brink entered the adult film industry under the name "Dick Delaware" after being encouraged by a producer at a party.[6] He shot his first scene in 2002; it was released under the title Cum Drippers 4.[8]
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 23, 2022, 07:23:20 PM
So the father of the shooter is a former porn actor who starred in such movies as:

My MILF Boss 8, I Wanna Get Titty Fucked, and Latina Slut Academy, told CBS 8, “You know Mormons don’t do gay. We don’t do gay. There’s no gays in the Mormon church. We don’t do gay.” (The Mormon Church has confirmed that Aldrich was a member but had not been active in some time.)

His grandfather is a California politician (Trumper).

But the Mormons do porn!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 24, 2022, 02:07:41 AM
Is that one movie or multiple movies? Punctuation is key.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 24, 2022, 02:35:49 AM
Well this has been a wild ride
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 24, 2022, 11:06:34 AM
Personally, I thought Cum Drippers 3 was a far superior movie to Cum Drippers 4.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 24, 2022, 06:29:42 PM
Well this has been a wild ride

The absolute state of this degenerate shithole clown world
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on November 26, 2022, 09:32:26 AM
Tempo: Worried about Covid

Also Tempo: Does one of life’s riskiest activities for a living
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 28, 2022, 12:13:26 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/fxYsnab.png)

did they ask the virus its preferred name?  if not, very very bigoted!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 28, 2022, 12:15:18 PM
The monkeys have a very powerful lobby, and weren’t keen on it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 28, 2022, 12:44:08 PM
The monkeys have a very powerful lobby, and weren’t keen on it.

damn dirty apes!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 28, 2022, 12:56:59 PM
Rename the monkeypox or the beans get spilled on what was going on at the lab ....
"DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A truck carrying about 100 monkeys was involved in a crash Friday in Pennsylvania, state police said as authorities searched for at least three of the monkeys that appeared to have escaped the vehicle."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 28, 2022, 01:07:53 PM
Rename the monkeypox or the beans get spilled on what was going on at the lab ....
"DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A truck carrying about 100 monkeys was involved in a crash Friday in Pennsylvania, state police said as authorities searched for at least three of the monkeys that appeared to have escaped the vehicle."

Your username should be QnOn.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 28, 2022, 01:53:30 PM
Your username should be QnOn.
Go fuck yourself, pussyboy.  ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 28, 2022, 01:55:26 PM
Go fuck yourself, pussyboy.  ;D

I smiled
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 28, 2022, 01:57:40 PM
Go fuck yourself, pussyboy.  ;D

That was actually above average.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 28, 2022, 01:59:26 PM
That was actually above average.

Just like my dick in your ass!

Zing!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 28, 2022, 02:02:45 PM
Just like my dick in your ass!

Zing!

Wow. This explains a lot.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 28, 2022, 02:05:25 PM
Wow. This explains a lot.

It was a joke 🙄

Now don’t go playing the victim and saying I forced myself upon you against your will and shit on here for hours…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on November 28, 2022, 02:09:40 PM
damn dirty apes!

Out of all the great ones today, this gets my vote for POTD.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 28, 2022, 02:18:32 PM
Out of all the great ones today, this gets my vote for POTD.

Just be careful talking like that on here, Tempo is gonna come after you and find a way to make it about him because somehow he was wronged and cheated out of that POTD! Him and Dom are just misunderstood (not regarding restraining orders) on Illini boards like these.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 28, 2022, 05:10:25 PM
Mn, were you out there with your buddies?

More than 100 people STRANDED on ice chunk on Minnesota lake  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11478739/More-100-people-STRANDED-large-iceberg-broke-free-Minnesota-lake.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 28, 2022, 06:52:50 PM
Mn, were you out there with your buddies?

More than 100 people STRANDED on ice chunk on Minnesota lake  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11478739/More-100-people-STRANDED-large-iceberg-broke-free-Minnesota-lake.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
Went ice fishing once, maybe 40 years ago.
FYI ...
Red Lake (translated from the Ojibwe language Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'igan:
There's Upper and Lower at 120,000 acres. That's a big lake.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 28, 2022, 07:54:49 PM
ThePAMan, people drive their vehicles out onto thin ice every year in Mn and sink their vehicles.
I haven't heard this one before tho.
https://alphanews.org/controversial-energy-official-charged-with-stealing-womans-luggage-at-msp/

"Sam Brinton, one of the first “openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership,” was charged with felony theft last month after allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage at MSP Airport."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 28, 2022, 08:02:38 PM
ThePAMan, people drive their vehicles out onto thin ice every year in Mn and sink their vehicles.
I haven't heard this one before tho.
https://alphanews.org/controversial-energy-official-charged-with-stealing-womans-luggage-at-msp/

"Sam Brinton, one of the first “openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership,” was charged with felony theft last month after allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage at MSP Airport."

Would have been far more discreet if s/he just went to the infamous airport bathroom there and met Larry "Wide Stance" Craig.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 28, 2022, 08:45:56 PM
Would have been far more discreet if s/he just went to the infamous airport bathroom there and met Larry "Wide Stance" Craig.
He didn't check a bag to MSP, but went to baggage on arrival and grabbed a bag that he thought was his and left the owner's clothes in the hotel room but there were no clothes left there.
🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 28, 2022, 08:48:18 PM
He didn't check a bag to MSP, but went to baggage on arrival and grabbed a bag that he thought was his and left the owner's clothes in the hotel room but there were no clothes left there.
🤡

Sold them at the local thrift store?

Certainly sounds like a wack job based on that article.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 28, 2022, 09:26:31 PM
Sold them at the local thrift store?

Certainly sounds like a wack job based on that article.

Was that your first clue?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 28, 2022, 09:33:00 PM
Was that your first clue?

I kept an open mind until I got to the end of the article.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 29, 2022, 11:19:55 AM
Sold them at the local thrift store?

Certainly sounds like a wack job based on that article.

Well he looks like one too
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 29, 2022, 11:41:32 AM
We’ve been the class of the B1G the last two seasons, why did we draw Cuse?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 29, 2022, 12:09:16 PM
We’ve been the class of the B1G the last two seasons, why did we draw Cuse?

I wondered the same thing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on November 29, 2022, 12:55:30 PM
When is the schedule set?  Pre-season or during?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on November 29, 2022, 01:02:24 PM
When is the schedule set?  Pre-season or during?

June 24th Press Release.  Considering how much we lost from last year's squad may have been a factor in seeding.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 29, 2022, 02:07:17 PM
Presumably DeSantis' wife

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/business/florida-kraft-velveeta-mac-and-cheese-lawsuit/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 29, 2022, 05:18:27 PM
https://twitter.com/mikebonin/status/1596345698005311488?t=JjRwWN5gFPetsNRQ1v_0AQ&s=19
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 29, 2022, 06:21:23 PM
Funny how Elon went from being the darling of the left to their arch enemy
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 29, 2022, 07:25:58 PM
Funny how Elon went from being the darling of the left to their arch enemy

That's a bit of a stretch.

Aside from "The Left" not being some sort of genetic tribe like "Eskimos" or even a coherent developed tribe like "The Bears Fans", he's pretty much been bonkers for years, and huge swaths of "The Everyone" knows it.

Doesn't mean that the Tesla isn't pretty decent technology, and fairly awesome car and a pathway to potentially powering individual transport with non-fossil fuel. Doesn't mean that the solar panels and the battery tech isn't great. Doesn't mean that the rockets aren't cool (albeit why on earth we would use the rocket fuel on tourist trips I have no idea).

I bought a bunch of Tesla stock when I just thought of Musk as a bit of a mercurial guy. I posted as such in the famous jasn88 threads where he was shorting Facebook and Google. I sold it at 350 before the splits, it would be worth a lot more today. But I just decided the dude was flat out crazy. Entirely possible that Tesla stock goes below my sales price - he's doing enormous damage to his brand at the exact time that other automakers are rolling out more EVs.

My big red flags were the Hyperloop and Boring. Boring is basically "add another lane to the freeway", which hasn't worked for LA ever, and now you need to add a bottleneck at the start of the added lane with his elevators. Hyperloop is vaporware. Then he started getting into pissing matches on twitter with people who pointed this out, and it was clear that he's not Tony Stark, he's just some dude who fell into a bunch of money.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on November 29, 2022, 07:49:13 PM
Funny how Elon went from being the darling of the left to their arch enemy

Maybe for all of 10 minutes.  It didn't take long for most commie socialist leftists to figure out that Musk is just another self-centered, airheaded billionaire.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 29, 2022, 08:20:43 PM
Maybe for all of 10 minutes.  It didn't take long for most commie socialist leftists to figure out that Musk is just another self-centered, airheaded billionaire.

You insult the merely self-centered and airheaded.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 29, 2022, 08:26:20 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc

six months ago! I need to follow this dude
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 29, 2022, 09:20:54 PM
Our whole banking system in the world is a Ponzi scheme. It does nothing except benefit the banks. Hence why they run the world. They’ve gotten too big and powerful, much like the government.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 29, 2022, 09:37:17 PM
The Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services blows a kiss and waves good bye to Sam Bankman Fried, a prominent donor to the Democratic party. 😍👋
The Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday, December 13 at 10 a.m. ET: The full Committee will convene for a hybrid hearing entitled, “Investigating the Collapse of FTX, Part I.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1468679048993800195
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Post by: illiniray on November 29, 2022, 10:34:24 PM
Funny how Elon went from being the darling of the left to their arch enemy

Funny how twitter went from censoring right wing nut cases to censoring left wing nut cases.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 29, 2022, 11:56:08 PM
The Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services blows a kiss and waves good bye to Sam Bankman Fried, a prominent donor to the Democratic party. 😍👋
The Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday, December 13 at 10 a.m. ET: The full Committee will convene for a hybrid hearing entitled, “Investigating the Collapse of FTX, Part I.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1468679048993800195

He gave a ton of money to the Republicans too. It was just more relevant to give money to the Democrats because Pelosi was the speaker. He didn't care about their politics - he just cared that whomever was in charge stayed away from his ponzi scheme as long as possible.

I mean if we are going to talk about donations, FTX bought the naming rights to the Miami Heat Arena for 135 Million, going straight to the pocket of their owner, a big Rubio/Scott/DeSantis donor.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 30, 2022, 08:12:05 AM
Lol.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1597674372114055168
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 30, 2022, 08:32:03 AM
Lol.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1597674372114055168

That lady should not have a valid drivers license.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 30, 2022, 09:39:40 AM
Lol.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1597674372114055168

I stopped using twitter. You follow James Woods.

This says a lot about something. Not sure what.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 30, 2022, 10:25:28 AM
I stopped using twitter. You follow James Woods.

This says a lot about something. Not sure what.
I think it says that you're assuming things.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 30, 2022, 11:31:09 AM
Lol.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1597674372114055168

That was funny. Likely staged.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 30, 2022, 11:31:40 AM
I think it says that you're assuming things.

Things that are probably safe to assume.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 30, 2022, 12:23:36 PM
I stopped using twitter. You follow James Woods.

This says a lot about something. Not sure what.

That was funny. Sorry they were not riding bikes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 30, 2022, 12:30:02 PM
Things that are probably safe to assume.

Not James woods

https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1593583183475392514?t=y6VDV6l9QwLDh4NO5NQogw&s=19
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 30, 2022, 01:09:03 PM
Not James woods

https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1593583183475392514?t=y6VDV6l9QwLDh4NO5NQogw&s=19

I am *shocked* that a Trumper plagiarized without attribution.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 30, 2022, 01:42:12 PM
It's in black and white. "From Figen"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 30, 2022, 05:17:36 PM
Here you go, Nichi:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-29/thai-temple-left-empty-after-monks-fail-drug-tests/101713616

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 30, 2022, 05:44:33 PM
Here you go, Nichi:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-29/thai-temple-left-empty-after-monks-fail-drug-tests/101713616

The Buddha said internal corruption would destroy the monastic sangha within 1000 years. After Ananda persuaded him to admit nuns, he reduced that to 500 years.

These days, in most traditions, the monks (or mahayana clergy) largely earn their keep by doing  extraneous stuff like exorcisms, blessings, or love spells for lay members.

In some cases, martial arts are stressed over the 8 fold path. Some dojos are even fronts for other stuff. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 30, 2022, 06:56:02 PM
The Buddha said internal corruption would destroy the monastic sangha within 1000 years. After Ananda persuaded him to admit nuns, he reduced that to 500 years.

These days, in most traditions, the monks (or mahayana clergy) largely earn their keep by doing  extraneous stuff like exorcisms, blessings, or love spells for lay members.

In some cases, martial arts are stressed over the 8 fold path. Some dojos are even fronts for other stuff.

Couldn't have said it better myself.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 30, 2022, 07:12:55 PM
Couldn't have said it better myself.

I know a little about the topic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 30, 2022, 07:37:42 PM
I know a little about the topic.

You weren't the guy selling the monks meth, were you?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 30, 2022, 08:46:36 PM
You weren't the guy selling the monks meth, were you?

It is interesting the defrocked  monks were sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehab.

Maybe they should have been taught right view, right thought, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 30, 2022, 09:31:29 PM
It is interesting the defrocked  monks were sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehab.

Maybe they should have been taught right view, right thought, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration?

Maybe they discovered all they were taught and lived for was BS? They were monks,  after all.  They presumably knew all that jazz.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 30, 2022, 09:56:19 PM
Maybe they discovered all they were taught and lived for was BS? They were monks,  after all.  They presumably knew all that jazz.

You might be surprised. You would think Trump is a competent business man. He is wealthy and viewed as a leader.

There was another story about monks from rival temples fighting over prime begging rounds.

Buddhism today is mostly devotional prayer. The average Buddhist in Asia is interested in protection from demons and material blessings or does not take it seriously.  Serious meditative practices are more popular in the west.

There are also some who still take their vows and the 8 fold path seriously, and lament the current depraved conditions.

There are 1500 year old disagreements on what to do about it. Some stress a more rigid and disciplined approach; others favor tolerance and compassion.

 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 30, 2022, 10:26:16 PM
You might be surprised. You would think Trump is a competent business man. He is wealthy and viewed as a leader.

There was another story about monks from rival temples fighting over prime begging rounds.

Buddhism today is mostly devotional prayer. The average Buddhist in Asis is interested in protection from demons and material blessings or does not take it seriously.  Serious meditative practices are more popular in the west.

There are also some who still take their vows and the 8 fold path seriously, and lament the current depraved conditions.

There are 1500 year old disagreements on what to do about it. Some stress a more rigid and disciplined approach; others favor tolerance and compassion.

I'm going to stick with they found out it was all BS.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 01, 2022, 09:30:50 AM
Close. The ones using and perhaps trafficking in illegal drugs, while posing as monks leading the holy life, are the actual bullshitters.

Once a religious order becomes established, corruption creeps in. Some don't actually practice, but instead use the power structure for personal gain. The Buddha said that would happen.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 01, 2022, 09:37:49 AM
Close. The ones using and perhaps trafficking in illegal drugs, while posing as monks leading the holy life, are the actual bullshitters.

Doubt it. Something broke them. Someone should investigate.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 01, 2022, 09:39:12 AM
God gave us spirituality.  The Devil gave us religion.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 01, 2022, 09:55:43 AM
Doubt it. Something broke them. Someone should investigate.

How about the pedophile priests and the corrupt power structure that protected them? Did something break them?

Or is it the same principle at work? Institutions created to serve and benefit humanity eventually become corrupted and self serving due to greed, lust, wrath, etc.

That happens to religions, governments, law enforcement, education.

Capitalism and the prosperity gospel of alt right xians seem to celebrate that. All but one of the 7 traditional cardinal sins are seen as virtues.  6 of the traditional cardinal virtues are viewed as qualities of soy boy beta male cucks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 01, 2022, 10:50:47 AM
How about the pedophile priests and the corrupt power structure that protected them? Did something break them?

Or is it the same principle at work? Institutions created to serve and benefit humanity eventually become corrupted and self serving due to greed, lust, wrath, etc.

That happens to religions, governments, law enforcement, education.

Capitalism and the prosperity gospel of alt right xians seem to celebrate that. All but one of the 7 traditional cardinal sins are seen as virtues.  6 of the traditional cardinal virtues are viewed as qualities of soy boy beta male cucks.

Guessing pedo priests became clergy because they knew they were pedos.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 01, 2022, 11:22:28 AM
Guessing pedo priests became clergy because they knew they were pedos.

And love God…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 01, 2022, 04:41:13 PM
This FTX story is just incredible, layered on top of the already incredible bitcoin story.

The amount of weird financial contagion caused by this is staggering.

One day in November, there were bitcoin trades resulting in 10 billion in realized losses. There are estimates that the sum total unrealized capital losses in bitcoin right now - that's if every single person with an underwater bitcoin could sell their bitcoin at the current price - would be 200 billion dollars.

Now given that crypto really is "sort of" a zero sum game, for 200 billion in losses to occur, someone cashed out major bank at the top, selling bitcoin to the current losers. The question is - "who were they, what nationality, and did they claim the income". Reasonable scenario is that the second question is mostly non-US citizens (Chinese bitcoin miners) and the 3rd is "No" (including US citizens). So the US Government won't see much of the capital gains on the zero sum gain going up, but will have US citizens with hundreds of billions of dollars of carryover capital losses.

It's even worse than zero sum because mined bitcoin is nominally zero cost, yes, you pay for the equipment and the electricity, but you aren't really taking US dollars and purchasing bitcoin. I have no clue if there is anything in the tax code if say, you spent 2k to mine an 18k bitcoin, then sell it. What the hell is even the cost basis of the bitcoin you mined? Do you pretty much need to file the bitcoin mining as a small business?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 01, 2022, 04:45:43 PM
This FTX story is just incredible, layered on top of the already incredible bitcoin story.

The amount of weird financial contagion caused by this is staggering.

One day in November, there were bitcoin trades resulting in 10 billion in realized losses. There are estimates that the sum total unrealized capital losses in bitcoin right now - that's if every single person with an underwater bitcoin could sell their bitcoin at the current price - would be 200 billion dollars.

Now given that crypto really is "sort of" a zero sum game, for 200 billion in losses to occur, someone cashed out major bank at the top, selling bitcoin to the current losers. The question is - "who were they, what nationality, and did they claim the income". Reasonable scenario is that the second question is mostly non-US citizens (Chinese bitcoin miners) and the 3rd is "No" (including US citizens). So the US Government won't see much of the capital gains on the zero sum gain going up, but will have US citizens with hundreds of billions of dollars of carryover capital losses.

It's even worse than zero sum because mined bitcoin is nominally zero cost, yes, you pay for the equipment and the electricity, but you aren't really taking US dollars and purchasing bitcoin. I have no clue if there is anything in the tax code if say, you spent 2k to mine an 18k bitcoin, then sell it. What the hell is even the cost basis of the bitcoin you mined? Do you pretty much need to file the bitcoin mining as a small business?

Wow, there's actual IRS guidance. When you get the coin, the FMV of the coin is taxed as ordinary income, and that's your cost basis. And you can't deduct the cost of mining unless you form a business, in which case you can deduct the equipment and costs, but have to pay self-employment taxes.

Guessing the OG miners from the 2007-8 era dodging all that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2022, 08:10:46 AM
Minneapolis. Now Las Vegas.

'A felony arrest warrant has been issued for Brinton, who is non-binary, after accusations they stole luggage from the Harry Reid International Airport, Las Vegas TV station KLAS reported.'
https://www.newsweek.com/sam-brinton-warrant-las-vegas-airport-harry-reid-1765820
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2022, 09:32:00 AM
Minneapolis. Now Las Vegas.

'A felony arrest warrant has been issued for Brinton, who is non-binary, after accusations they stole luggage from the Harry Reid International Airport, Las Vegas TV station KLAS reported.'
https://www.newsweek.com/sam-brinton-warrant-las-vegas-airport-harry-reid-1765820

Isn't this based on the same story or a different incident?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 09, 2022, 09:49:57 AM
Isn't this based on the same story or a different incident?

Accused of stealing luggage, again. Hence, more than one incident it would appear.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2022, 09:55:43 AM
Accused of stealing luggage, again. Hence, more than one incident it would appear.

As if no one could tell s/he wasn't a complete wacko.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 09, 2022, 10:44:00 AM
Isn't this based on the same story or a different incident?

New incident, and there have been multiple ones. So no, “well I just accidentally grabbed the wrong luggage” excuse.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 09, 2022, 10:46:10 AM
As if no one could tell s/he wasn't a complete wacko.

Now the left would ask, “whys that?!”
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Post by: ridingthegrange on December 09, 2022, 11:19:01 AM
I think charges were filed, and the court sealed the records.
May a dimwit here with some legal background can chime in, but if records were sealed there must have been charges.

The rest of the story.  Grandma and Grandpa turned uncooperative.

https://coloradosun.com/2022/12/08/anderson-aldrich-club-q-shooter-timeline-2021-case/?utm_source=The%20Colorado%20Sun%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=SUNRISER_20221209&utm_medium=email
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 15, 2022, 02:57:26 PM
I think this belongs here 😂 what in the actual fuck lol

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1603426780974665730?

oh and there's a very cringeworthy video that is worth watching

https://twitter.com/i/status/1603426913258803206
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Post by: illiniray on December 15, 2022, 07:18:27 PM
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-nft-trading-cards-1849900531
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 16, 2022, 09:57:14 AM
Man, these Proft newspapers are filled with great stuff..

https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/636737790-nebraske-i-find-it-very-offensive-to-have-a-religious-symbol-decorated-as-a-gay-pride-display
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 16, 2022, 08:24:37 PM
Man, these Proft newspapers are filled with great stuff..

https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/636737790-nebraske-i-find-it-very-offensive-to-have-a-religious-symbol-decorated-as-a-gay-pride-display

"he does not intend to take any further action on this matter."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 10, 2023, 04:20:19 PM
The Oldest Known Narrative Scene in Human History Is a Guy Holding His Dick

"Özdoğan and his colleagues plan to continue studying the relief, which is located in an ancient communal building that they believe must have been used for special gatherings."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmk3z/the-oldest-known-narrative-scene-in-human-history-is-a-guy-holding-his-dick

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 11, 2023, 02:12:36 PM
lol what?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/usc-will-no-longer-use-the-word-field-over-racist-origin/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 11, 2023, 02:26:08 PM
lol what?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/usc-will-no-longer-use-the-word-field-over-racist-origin/

Lol that’s a bit much
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 11, 2023, 02:29:39 PM
Lol that’s a bit much

You're just mad that your favorite QB will have to be referred to as Justin Practicums
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 11, 2023, 03:00:35 PM
You're just mad that your favorite QB will have to be referred to as Justin Practicums

Now that's funny.
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Post by: RandomLogicMan on January 11, 2023, 03:10:28 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/hdmy0EX.jpg)

Lol
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Post by: RandomLogicMan on January 11, 2023, 03:10:53 PM
Now that's funny.

B+
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on January 15, 2023, 09:42:57 AM
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/325707241_6716352015058662_6164275777884773479_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=G2aFwW8CIwoAX9A8PHx&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&oh=00_AfDZHOubpFmfCMJGap6Nd8OWjhyZzh4L7uiRuRAjGS80Sw&oe=63C95060)
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Post by: Judge Judy on January 15, 2023, 10:46:06 AM
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/325707241_6716352015058662_6164275777884773479_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=G2aFwW8CIwoAX9A8PHx&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&oh=00_AfDZHOubpFmfCMJGap6Nd8OWjhyZzh4L7uiRuRAjGS80Sw&oe=63C95060)

This is perfect and so true!
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Post by: murphstahoe on January 15, 2023, 01:14:48 PM
This is perfect and so true!

I can afford the egg. Maybe you should have studied harder.
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Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2023, 02:38:10 PM
I can afford the egg. Maybe you should have studied harder.

I buy the premium free range brown eggs. Also get some from friends that keep hens. Those come in various colors.

Bought some Lorna doone cookies. Cost 7 dollars. Frozen pizza is 9 bucks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 15, 2023, 03:07:51 PM
I buy the premium free range brown eggs. Also get some from friends that keep hens. Those come in various colors.

Bought some Lorna doone cookies. Cost 7 dollars. Frozen pizza is 9 bucks.

In Mariano’s in Vernon Hills chips are $7 not including tax
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 15, 2023, 03:11:12 PM
In Mariano’s in Vernon Hills chips are $7 not including tax

Nothing to see here. You can afford it so it’s not a big deal. Should’ve picked a better job according to Murph.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 15, 2023, 03:17:16 PM
Apparently there is a nation-wide bird flu epidemic, killing the flocks.

"A virulent strain of bird flu has resulted in the deaths of nearly 58 million chickens and turkeys since early 2022, according to the US Department of Agriculture."

"The economic toll has also been staggering: Most of the birds culled to stop the epidemic have been egg-laying hens, causing the price of eggs to skyrocket and availability to plummet."
https://www.cnet.com/science/egg-prices-have-soared-60-heres-when-they-might-get-back-to-normal/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2023, 03:32:57 PM
I bought some eggs to go with my bacon.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2023, 03:53:53 PM
We used 2 eggs to make brownies.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2023, 04:03:07 PM
I can say with confidence that you guys are not good grocery shoppers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on January 15, 2023, 04:05:52 PM
I can say with confidence that you guys are not good grocery shoppers.

Might depend on which side your bread is buttered on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2023, 04:07:01 PM
Might depend on which side your bread is buttered on.

They are good for the supermarkets of course.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2023, 04:09:48 PM
Nothing to see here. You can afford it so it’s not a big deal. Should’ve picked a better job according to Murph.

Maybe Murph will give you one of his old bikes. And his old bike shorts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 15, 2023, 04:29:58 PM
Apparently there is a nation-wide bird flu epidemic, killing the flocks.

"A virulent strain of bird flu has resulted in the deaths of nearly 58 million chickens and turkeys since early 2022, according to the US Department of Agriculture."

"The economic toll has also been staggering: Most of the birds culled to stop the epidemic have been egg-laying hens, causing the price of eggs to skyrocket and availability to plummet."
https://www.cnet.com/science/egg-prices-have-soared-60-heres-when-they-might-get-back-to-normal/

Thanks Obama
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 15, 2023, 04:31:34 PM
I can say with confidence that you guys are not good grocery shoppers.

Agreed. They are probably buying lettuce at the store now instead of just growing it in the garden, with the rain growing conditions are perfect.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 15, 2023, 04:33:28 PM
Bought some Lorna doone cookies. Cost 7 dollars. Frozen pizza is 9 bucks.

9 bucks and permanent damage to your taste buds. Pizza is goddamn flour/yeast/water, tomato sauce, spices, cheese, toppings - to reiterate PAMan's comment on being good grocery shoppers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2023, 04:49:31 PM
Pizza is goddamn flour/yeast/water, tomato sauce, spices, cheese, toppings - 

Yum!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 15, 2023, 04:51:56 PM
I can say with confidence that you guys are not good grocery shoppers.

I’d put my skills up against anyone here. I have 3 stores in the regular rotation and three others in reserve. I’m in a grocery store at least 3x a week.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 15, 2023, 05:23:44 PM
Sounds like a few of you need help stretching your food dollars.  Or perhaps you live in a food desert. 

I’m so old I remember my grandparents telling me stories about their backyard “victory garden” and root cellar where they stored items like potatoes and jars of canned food.

To hell with those BIG GROCERY MONOPOLIES and their high priced, heavily packaged and nutrition deficient food.  Fight the power!  Grow your own or join the neighborhood community garden to put food on the table.   

To help you get started, here are step-by-step instructions for building a coop to raise chickens in your back yard.
https://www.almanac.com/raising-chickens-101-how-build-chicken-coop

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 15, 2023, 06:29:05 PM
I bought some eggs to go with my bacon.

Man you’re rich! Bacon AND eggs. Quit showing off. You must’ve studied hard!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 15, 2023, 06:30:26 PM
Agreed. They are probably buying lettuce at the store now instead of just growing it in the garden, with the rain growing conditions are perfect.

Nobody can have gardens in you and Alum’s centralized communities you fucking Commies!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 15, 2023, 08:04:18 PM
Name an item, and I will tell you the best place in Chicagoland to buy that item.

Also, whoever designs bags for Aldi should be in charge of national cyber-security, because you can’t get shit into an Aldi bag.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 15, 2023, 11:23:01 PM
Get a lot of the basics at Aldi, or Costco when I need a bunch of something. Both stores carry a fair amount of relatively healthy snack items for the kids.

I probably wouldn’t have a Costco membership if my company didn’t have some relationship with them where I get the executive membership for half price. I recently bought a new TV for the primary living space and the cash back alone almost paid for the membership for the year, plus I got the extra 3 year warranty and an upgraded backlit remote I wouldn’t have gotten had I purchased it anywhere else. And sometimes I just wanna go in there and slay a beef hot dog and drink for $1.50 while I look around. But it’s not my favorite place. I did get a same day grocery delivery from them the other day as I was in a pinch for time and their location is out of the way for me. I got a big container of Orgain, two huge bags of frozen wild blueberries and strawberries, a bunch of bananas (to make smoothies) and a couple other odds and ins delivered to my doorstep within 2 hours for $65 out the door.

I prefer to get meat from local farmers or the local old school butcher shop. I like to grow veggies in the summer months. Per Murph’s comment I’ve found lettuce doesn’t keep well, so I have to buy it from somewhere in the winter. Usually from the pizza place down the road that has an awesome salad bar and cheap beer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 15, 2023, 11:47:34 PM
I had a Costco membership but let it expire. I bought it mostly because I thought they had good deals on tires, but when I went to get tires they were pretty expensive. They have some really good deals and whatnot there, but you end up overspending in the end. But you’ll get a great deal on a 5 lb container of cinnamon.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 15, 2023, 11:49:43 PM
Can get some nice wines for a good price.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 16, 2023, 12:03:41 AM
Their alcohol prices are outstanding. They also have the most expensive milk prices in the city. Like, higher than buying a gallon of milk at the gas station high. And we go through a lot of milk.

I could be wrong, but I feel like their business model is to price some things really consistently low to get people in the door, then have sneaky high prices on a bunch of other staples that people will throw in the cart without even looking at the price, assuming that they will also be priced low. Then you go to check out and you’ve spent $465. But then you get that few hundred back at the end of the year from the 2% you got back from buying a ton of shit you didn’t need in the first place and get sucked back in again.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 16, 2023, 12:07:58 AM
Their alcohol prices are outstanding. They also have the most expensive milk prices in the city. Like, higher than buying a gallon of milk at the gas station high. And we go through a lot of milk.

I could be wrong, but I feel like their business model is to price some things really consistently low to get people in the door, then have sneaky high prices on a bunch of other staples that people will throw in the cart without even looking at the price, assuming that they will also be priced low. Then you go to check out and you’ve spent $465. But then you get that few hundred back at the end of the year from the 2% you got back from buying a ton of shit you didn’t need in the first place and get sucked back in again.

Exactly. Which is why I mentioned “a great deal on 5 lbs of cinnamon.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 16, 2023, 08:03:57 PM
I’m in a grocery store at least 3x a week.

That makes you not a good shopper.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 16, 2023, 08:05:08 PM
Name an item, and I will tell you the best place in Chicagoland to buy that item.

Also, whoever designs bags for Aldi should be in charge of national cyber-security, because you can’t get shit into an Aldi bag.

Apparently the item you buy a lot of is gasoline.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 16, 2023, 09:14:57 PM
Apparently the item you buy a lot of is gasoline.

That's funny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 16, 2023, 10:20:31 PM
That makes you not a good shopper.

Think so? Explain. I’m buying fresh fruit every 2-3 days.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 16, 2023, 10:21:31 PM
Apparently the item you buy a lot of is gasoline.

Well I do drive Uber.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 17, 2023, 01:27:48 AM
Think so? Explain. I’m buying fresh fruit every 2-3 days.

Good point. I go to the store to get produce when I want it fresh.

This part is the issue

"Name an item, and I will tell you the best place in Chicagoland to buy that item."

If you spend more on gas than on the item...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 17, 2023, 05:08:17 AM
Good point. I go to the store to get produce when I want it fresh.

This part is the issue

"Name an item, and I will tell you the best place in Chicagoland to buy that item."

If you spend more on gas than on the item...

I’m in my car a lot anyway. If I drive to woodmans and gas up when they are .50 cheaper than any gas around, I’m saving money. Believe me, I’ve thought of this end of it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 22, 2023, 06:58:09 PM
"In a separate statement, Richard Sauber, a White House attorney, said that the Justice Department "conducted a comprehensive search of the president's Wilmington residence, and it concluded late Friday night."
And, 4 sentences later .....
'You can only search where there's no there there.' 🤞
"Representatives for Mr. Biden signed a form outlining the parameters of the search including which areas in the president's home could be swept for papers, the source said."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-finds-6-more-classified-documents-search-biden-delaware-home-attorney-says/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=198227661

And the Biden release says it was 6 items containing classified documents. The release didn't say 6 documents.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 22, 2023, 09:31:07 PM
🥴
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 22, 2023, 09:33:24 PM
Lock them up! Lock them up!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 22, 2023, 10:29:03 PM
Especially if he chooses not to be forthcoming about this.

Now I really don't think it's necessary for Biden to do two terms.  There's a solution.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 24, 2023, 11:24:21 AM
"In a separate statement, Richard Sauber, a White House attorney, said that the Justice Department "conducted a comprehensive search of the president's Wilmington residence, and it concluded late Friday night."
And, 4 sentences later .....
'You can only search where there's no there there.' 🤞
"Representatives for Mr. Biden signed a form outlining the parameters of the search including which areas in the president's home could be swept for papers, the source said."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-finds-6-more-classified-documents-search-biden-delaware-home-attorney-says/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=198227661

And the Biden release says it was 6 items containing classified documents. The release didn't say 6 documents.

Classified Documents Found at Mike Pence’s Home
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/politics/pence-classified-documents-fbi/index.html

Trump may get to see Mike Pence hanged after all!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 24, 2023, 11:32:23 AM
I may have some Top Secret documents in my house too.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on January 24, 2023, 12:06:29 PM
Maybe these guys treat that stuff like office supplies.   I mean, who hasn't changed jobs and raided the office supply cabinet before leaving?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 24, 2023, 12:23:43 PM
I have Top Secret documents at my house. Doesn’t everybody? Thought this was the norm.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 24, 2023, 12:36:17 PM
I may have some Top Secret documents in my house too.
presumably child porn
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 24, 2023, 12:40:43 PM
presumably child porn

I'm not a priest.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 24, 2023, 01:06:39 PM
I have Top Secret documents at my house. Doesn’t everybody? Thought this was the norm.

It appears to be.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 24, 2023, 01:07:24 PM
I'm not a priest.

Or named Dominic.

Or a low thinker…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 26, 2023, 01:44:43 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/donald-trump-golf-tournament-strength-and-stamina
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 26, 2023, 02:10:29 PM
Moonbat Democrats dumbed down education and created the Wingnut Republicans.    /s
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 27, 2023, 10:50:29 AM
A tough hard water fishing season for a few folks. From today's fishwrap ...
🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

(https://i.ibb.co/N3tnM3p/Screenshot-20230127-104013-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/BPcK9Pj)
(https://i.ibb.co/Qn5CLfY/Screenshot-20230127-104033-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7V9RPXr)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Cockpuppet on January 27, 2023, 01:04:44 PM
Here’s a thought. Don’t park your truck on a lake.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 27, 2023, 01:31:45 PM
Here’s a thought. Don’t park your truck on a lake.

Ohhh, spicy! 🌶️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Cockpuppet on January 27, 2023, 02:56:22 PM
Ohhh, spicy! 🌶️

Cockpuppet likes his chicken spicy!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 31, 2023, 11:38:36 AM
How did this one not make this website yet


https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/tennessee-cops-married-female-officer-fired-after-repeated-wild-sex-romps/?fbclid=IwAR22A0eXI6pjMfHJR39p0HPstErkxgOi7U2tjqZmWAvau7RrxXIYYscMrhI
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ScoreListener on February 01, 2023, 01:54:45 PM
Woman steals $1.5 million in chicken wings from public schools?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-woman-charged-stealing-chicken-wings-school-district.amp
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 01, 2023, 04:55:39 PM
Did they ever say what she did with the wings?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 01, 2023, 06:43:48 PM
Did they ever say what she did with the wings?

10 bucks say the wings never existed.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 02, 2023, 05:02:28 PM
"The U.S. military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and military and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-rcna68879

nbd, it's just Montana.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 03, 2023, 02:59:45 PM
"The U.S. military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and military and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-rcna68879

nbd, it's just Montana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJESLxEd0Tk
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ScoreListener on February 03, 2023, 03:02:47 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJESLxEd0Tk

One of my favorite movies. I always drop the “I would like to have seen montana” line whenever I can. I’ve had a couple more opportunities than you’d think…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ScoreListener on February 03, 2023, 03:04:12 PM
Disappointed in myself you beat me to it here lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 04, 2023, 01:00:09 PM
They just closed 3 Carolina airports. I guess they're hoping to shoot down the China spy balloon that crossed over the whole country before it gets to international waters.
🤡🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 04, 2023, 03:12:46 PM
They just closed 3 Carolina airports. I guess they're hoping to shoot down the China spy balloon that crossed over the whole country before it gets to international waters.
🤡🤡

Shot down over the Atlantic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ScoreListener on February 04, 2023, 03:32:42 PM
Guessing MN prefers it fall on top of Cleveland. Apparently it was the size of 3 buses?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 05, 2023, 09:28:19 AM
Shot down over the Atlantic.

Awesome.

We can give it back to the Chinese when we are done with it.

#BuildtheDome
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 05, 2023, 09:34:05 AM
Shot down over the Atlantic.
Wrong ocean.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 05, 2023, 10:01:56 AM
Awesome.

We can give it back to the Chinese when we are done with it.

#BuildtheDome

Can Israel pay for it this time?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 05, 2023, 10:46:41 AM
Wrong ocean.

Huh?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on February 05, 2023, 12:33:15 PM
https://www.kwqc.com/2023/02/04/vendor-apologizes-school-lunch-served-first-day-black-history-month/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 05, 2023, 12:54:50 PM
I have heard of southern fried chicken, chitluns, and smoked rib tips served with collard greens, southern style green beans, sweet potatoes, blackeyed peas, fried cornbread, and watermelon. But waffles?   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 05, 2023, 01:17:25 PM
Huh?

Guessing he’s saying it should have been shot down over the pacific.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 05, 2023, 01:21:06 PM
Huh?

Lots of conservatives are up in arms about Chinese surveillance of America as they watch TikToks and tweet from their iPhones, and their wives order Chinese goods from Amazon.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 05, 2023, 02:11:37 PM
Saturday, Jan. 28
The spy balloon starts a controlled drift into American territory, entering Alaskan airspace near the Aleutian Islands.
(https://i.ibb.co/dkZGty4/Screenshot-20230205-140707-2.png) (https://ibb.co/VM62x8Y)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 05, 2023, 05:18:05 PM
Wrong ocean.

Don't think it is the wrong ocean.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 05, 2023, 10:32:59 PM
Don't think it is the wrong ocean.

Damn straight, the trash goes into the Atlantic where it belongs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 06, 2023, 02:12:55 AM
Saturday, Jan. 28
The spy balloon starts a controlled drift into American territory, entering Alaskan airspace near the Aleutian Islands.
(https://i.ibb.co/dkZGty4/Screenshot-20230205-140707-2.png) (https://ibb.co/VM62x8Y)

Uh huh very believable

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

This article is From 2019
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 06, 2023, 06:53:34 AM
The 'it happened 3 times under Trump' part may be shooting more holes in the we let it travel across Alaska and Canada let it travel across Canada and we let it enter the U.S. again until some guy driving to work saw it and contacted local media and we don't know what it was surveiling but we took steps to mitigate so we'll let it travel over icbm sites and military bases until it's done with it's mission and when it's out over the Atlantic, and not until then, we'll shoot it down and then attempt to find out what it was doing and what information it sent back to China story.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/05/trump-officials-deny-chinese-spy-balloons-00081257
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Post by: Jobu on February 06, 2023, 08:35:54 AM
https://www.kwqc.com/2023/02/04/vendor-apologizes-school-lunch-served-first-day-black-history-month/

Chicken and waffles and watermelon sounds like a delicious lunch to me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 06, 2023, 08:49:46 AM
I would hope that NY was planning on using a recipe from their neighboring state.
The earliest American chicken and waffle combination appears in Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1600’s, when home cooks made waffles and topped them with pulled chicken and gravy.
But you're not in NY, Jobu. Use any recipe you want.
(https://i.ibb.co/h77ZYZX/Screenshot-20230206-084548-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nggnPn3)

Meanwhile, down in Georgia chicken and waffles is one of the listed recipes to celebrate the month.
(https://i.ibb.co/1T25pH9/Screenshot-20230206-090629-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/pdX8sC3)
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Post by: Jobu on February 06, 2023, 09:29:36 AM
Looks delicious! Thanks for sharing!
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Post by: illiniray on February 06, 2023, 07:16:41 PM
The next day after we were talking about chicken and waffles, my wife watched the Larry the cable guy health inspector movie.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 13, 2023, 09:01:42 PM
Apparently there is an active shooter on the MSU campus.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/13/us/michigan-state-shooting?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 14, 2023, 01:48:37 PM
https://dailynewsreported.com/breakingnews/criminal-caught-after-cutting-off-37-man-buns-in-one-day-claims-he-was-doing-the-lords-work/

lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on February 14, 2023, 02:16:12 PM
https://dailynewsreported.com/breakingnews/criminal-caught-after-cutting-off-37-man-buns-in-one-day-claims-he-was-doing-the-lords-work/

lol

That's hilarious.

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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 14, 2023, 02:43:23 PM
Would be a lot funnier if it were an Onion article.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 17, 2023, 12:16:36 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/PJRSBHYV/9-A2-B0-E38-91-F0-4110-B8-F5-138-ABEF9-C67-A.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/p5KQFg0K)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 17, 2023, 12:18:16 PM
Fess up.
Who had Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade on their bingo card ?

(https://i.ibb.co/xShsfwK/Screenshot-20230217-081524-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zhs57CW)
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Post by: ThePAMan on February 17, 2023, 12:59:32 PM
Fess up.
Who had Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade on their bingo card ?

(https://i.ibb.co/xShsfwK/Screenshot-20230217-081524-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zhs57CW)

They should be investigated. Look at these goofs:


(https://i.postimg.cc/L5cPNgXH/group-picture-2.webp) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on February 17, 2023, 01:02:58 PM
The girl with the sportcoat and slacks is freaking me out
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 17, 2023, 01:17:49 PM
The girl with the sportcoat and slacks is freaking me out
Bring her in for interrogation. The kid next to her too. They'll crack under pressure.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 17, 2023, 01:19:20 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/mNzTm6T/Screenshot-20230217-083058-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/1z2Q38Q)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 17, 2023, 01:45:13 PM
The girl with the sportcoat and slacks is freaking me out

I am left wondering which washrooms that person uses.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on February 17, 2023, 02:07:19 PM
I am left wondering which washrooms that person uses.

Whichever one s(he) chooses, I reckon.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 23, 2023, 03:10:05 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11784945/Black-Panther-Angela-Davis-discovers-ancestor-came-Mayflower.html

Love the call for her to pay herself reparations.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 23, 2023, 03:32:02 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11784945/Black-Panther-Angela-Davis-discovers-ancestor-came-Mayflower.html

Love the call for her to pay herself reparations.

Funny, but misses the point. We've been over that.  It is not individuals that owe reparations. It is surviving corporate entities -- businesses and governments.
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Post by: illiniray on February 23, 2023, 04:48:56 PM
It is patently absurd that there are any surviving persons who are civilly liable for slavery. The statute of limitations has passed. Probably for Institutional  Jim Crown too.

Black activists like to pointout two examples -- native American Indians and Japanese Americans -- who received reparations.

In both cases, there were paid by the US government. Not by private citizens, their estates,  their heirs, or their descendants.

Payments were made to specific extant Indian tribes, or members of tribes, as compensation for treaty violations.

Payments were also made to specific Japanese Americans, or their estates, who were illegally interned during WW II.

There were not general reparations for all Native Americans or all Japanese Americans.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 01, 2023, 01:38:53 PM
MN standing in for Matt Gaetz and finding the sources

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rDCdwhYel5k
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 01, 2023, 02:07:22 PM
MN standing in for Matt Gaetz and finding the sources

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rDCdwhYel5k

Let's be fair. Mn does not rely on Chinese Commie Party propaganda.
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Post by: murphstahoe on March 01, 2023, 06:25:54 PM
Let's be fair. Mn does not rely on Chinese Commie Party propaganda.

True this. The Epoch Times is Chinese Propaganda, but not from the Commie Party
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 02, 2023, 07:22:27 AM
Epoch Times readers are my faves.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 08, 2023, 07:06:03 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1633574849330262016

It's true, men are the best women
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 08, 2023, 07:07:21 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1633574849330262016

It's true, men are the best women

Dave Stewart and Danny Bonaduce agree.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 08, 2023, 07:53:18 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1633574849330262016

It's true, men are the best women
And they'll show it in women's power lifting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 09, 2023, 04:31:31 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1633574849330262016

It's true, men are the best women

Live and let live, man.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 07:20:34 AM
Live and let live, man.

Except when someone gets screwed over.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 09, 2023, 07:39:08 AM
In yesterday's fishwrap news, if I can present it accurately ......

At the request of a 22 year old, 15 and 17 year old brothers break into the home of the 22 year olds ex-girlfriend and murder the 23 year old mother of the 22 year old's child.
In her plea agreement with the brothers, the newly elected county attorney said "our goal is to treat kids like kids" and cites research suggesting children's brains are not fully developed until the age of 25. The plea agreement will send the brothers to juvenile detention for 2 years, and then probation to the age of 21.

Meanwhile, the governor signs an executive order protecting the rights of kids to gender affirming care, presumably under the thinking that 16 year old girls are capable of making an informed decision to have their breasts removed and boys can have whatever they want done to be done. They must be of sound mind and, what's left of it, body.
At puberty the the kids, maybe as young as 12, are eligible for puberty blocking hormones.

And to address the skyrocketing carjacking going on, the AG wants to investigate Hyundai and Kia about why they make their vehicles so easy to steal. Ellison says "the cars might as well have a giant bumper sticker that says 'steal me' on them.

Fortunately, if the education system continues to produce kids who can't read the theft rate should decline. Unless, I suppose, the inability of those under 25 to make sound decisions is a primary driving factor.
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Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 07:45:04 AM
In yesterday's fishwrap news, if I can present it accurately ......

At the request of a 22 year old, 15 and 17 year old brothers break into the home of the 22 year olds ex-girlfriend and murder the 23 year old mother of the 22 year old's child.
In her plea agreement with the brothers, the newly elected county attorney said "our goal is to treat kids like kids" and cites research suggesting children's brains are not fully developed until the age of 25. The plea agreement will send the brothers to juventile detention for 2 years, and then probation to the age of 25.

Meanwhile, the governor signs an executive order protecting the rights of kids to gender affirming care, presumably under the thinking that 16 year old girls are capable of making an informed decision to have their breasts removed and boys can have whatever they want done to be done.

And to address the skyrocketing carjacking going on, the AG wants to investigate Hyundai and Kia about why they make their vehicles so easy to steal. Ellison says "the cars might as well have a giant bumper sticker that says 'steal me' on them.

Fortunately, if the education system continues to produce kids who can't read the theft rate should decline. Unless, I suppose, the inability of those under 25 to make sound decisions is a primary driving factor.

Sounds like Murph and Tempo's Utopia.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 09, 2023, 09:43:36 AM
Waiting for alum and Ray to debunk Mn’s wingnut rant.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 09, 2023, 09:59:14 AM
Precedent being set for juvenile defense attorneys. Lol.
What happens if the 22 year old gets acquitted ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 09, 2023, 11:34:50 AM
In yesterday's fishwrap news, if I can present it accurately ......

At the request of a 22 year old, 15 and 17 year old brothers break into the home of the 22 year olds ex-girlfriend and murder the 23 year old mother of the 22 year old's child.
In her plea agreement with the brothers, the newly elected county attorney said "our goal is to treat kids like kids" and cites research suggesting children's brains are not fully developed until the age of 25. The plea agreement will send the brothers to juvenile detention for 2 years, and then probation to the age of 21.

Meanwhile, the governor signs an executive order protecting the rights of kids to gender affirming care, presumably under the thinking that 16 year old girls are capable of making an informed decision to have their breasts removed and boys can have whatever they want done to be done. They must be of sound mind and, what's left of it, body.
At puberty the the kids, maybe as young as 12, are eligible for puberty blocking hormones.

And to address the skyrocketing carjacking going on, the AG wants to investigate Hyundai and Kia about why they make their vehicles so easy to steal. Ellison says "the cars might as well have a giant bumper sticker that says 'steal me' on them.

Fortunately, if the education system continues to produce kids who can't read the theft rate should decline. Unless, I suppose, the inability of those under 25 to make sound decisions is a primary driving factor.

your wackadoo governor also gave rights to illegal aliens to get drivers licenses and former felons to vote... lol

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/mn-senate-passes-voting-rights-for-felons-drivers-licenses-for-all/

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Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 11:45:03 AM
your wackadoo governor also gave rights to illegal aliens to get drivers licenses and former felons to vote... lol

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/mn-senate-passes-voting-rights-for-felons-drivers-licenses-for-all/

If you've served your time, you should be able to vote. What's your position on Manafort and Roger Stone being able to vote, convicted of felonies but pardoned by Trump? They can vote but some drug dealer who didn't have Trump's favor can't after he finishes his sentence?

As for drivers licenses, this is the best exemple of the GOP putting their head in the sand on principle. You don't need a license to drive a car - all you need is a car and the keys. Licensing doesn't really give a *ton* of training - I got into a wreck shortly after getting my license and looking back on it, it was criminal that I passed the test (on the 2nd try). But it does at least have that bar - and more importantly licensing and registering and *insuring* has huge value. Unless you have a magic wand to get the large companies headed up by GOP donors to round up their illegals and deport them, licensing registering and insuring them reduces a lot of chaos.

Dovetails with things like "safe injection sites" for drugs. The drug addled are going to find those drugs. Sometimes you just need to admit the chaos exists and try to put a lid on it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 12:00:15 PM
looking back on it, it was criminal that I passed the test (on the 2nd try).

Burying the lede here. Now we can understand the love of the bicycle: you do not know the Rules of the Road!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 09, 2023, 12:00:58 PM
Waiting for alum and Ray to debunk Mn’s wingnut rant.

There is a major election coming up in 2024 and right-wingers have lost abortion as a tried and true "get 'em out to the polls" issue.  They NEED a trans war to get their voters out.  There are currently more than 300 bills pending in state legislatures that attack transgender health and well-being in one way or another.
https://translegislation.com/learn

I'm on the side of trans people, but I also recognize there are questions with regard to how the medical establishment should treat gender dysphoric children and teens, and as you'd expect the research on this topic is limited and unsettled.  It's both a difficult issue and a fairly recent one.  It hasn't been around long enough to generate a well-accepted body of careful research that follows transitioning kids all the way into adulthood.  Some evidence hints that there may be some problems with current standards of care, but we don't know for sure. 

This shouldn’t be a wedge issue.  The goal should be for policymakers to work with the medical community, transchildren and their parents in a bipartisan way to figure out what’s best for everyone.  I favor oversight and sensible regulation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 12:16:44 PM
Burying the lede here. Now we can understand the love of the bicycle: you do not know the Rules of the Road!

s/you do/the general public does/; shitheel
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 12:18:34 PM
There is a major election coming up in 2024 and right-wingers have lost abortion as a tried and true "get 'em out to the polls" issue.  They NEED a trans war to get their voters out.  There are currently more than 300 bills pending in state legislatures that attack transgender health and well-being in one way or another.
https://translegislation.com/learn

I'm on the side of trans people, but I also recognize there are questions with regard to how the medical establishment should treat gender dysphoric children and teens, and as you'd expect the research on this topic is limited and unsettled.  It's both a difficult issue and a fairly recent one.  It hasn't been around long enough to generate a well-accepted body of careful research that follows transitioning kids all the way into adulthood.  Some evidence hints that there may be some problems with current standards of care, but we don't know for sure. 

This shouldn’t be a wedge issue.  The goal should be for policymakers to work with the medical community, transchildren and their parents in a bipartisan way to figure out what’s best for everyone.  I favor oversight and sensible regulation.

The John Stewart clips about suicides amongst children with gender dysphoria should be pounded down over and over. Dovetails exactly with DeSantis' reputation as a bully. For DeSantis, children with gender dysphoria getting bullied is a feature, not a bug.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 12:18:57 PM
s/you do/the general public does/; shitheel

It appears car drivers know the Rules of the Road better than architects are who cyclists.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 12:20:46 PM
It appears car drivers know the Rules of the Road better than architects are who cyclists.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/auto-accident/car-accident-deaths/#:~:text=More%20than%2046%2C000%20people%20die,12.4%20deaths%20per%20100%2C000%20inhabitants.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 12:21:46 PM
Burying the lede here. Now we can understand the love of the bicycle: you do not know the Rules of the Road!

Who Is Most at Risk of Dying in a Traffic Accident?
Though fatal traffic accidents can happen unexpectedly at any time or place, there are risk factors that affect a person’s vulnerability on the road.

Age
Teen drivers (between the ages of 16 and 19) are more likely than any other age group to be involved in a car accident, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
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Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 12:22:53 PM
It appears car drivers know the Rules of the Road better than architects are who cyclists.
Leading Causes of Deadly Car Accidents
Unfortunately, human error and lack of responsible driving behavior accounts for the most fatalities on the road. These deaths could all be preventable. Fatal car accidents are most frequently caused by these leading factors:

Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs
Every day, 32 people in the United States die in drunk driving car crashes. That’s one person every 45 minutes.

Lack of Proper Seat Belt Use
Unrestrained vehicle occupants are more likely than restrained occupants to be fatally injured in a crash. In 2020, of those that were fatally injured in passenger vehicle crashes (aged 13 and older), only 44 percent of drivers and 41 percent of passengers were properly wearing their seatbelts.

Speeding
Speeding was a factor in 29 percent of fatal car accidents in 2020, and has been a factor in more than 25 percent of crash deaths over the past decade.

Distracted Driving
Distraction types vary and are difficult to quantify, but it is estimated that they accounted for more than 8 percent of all fatal motor vehicle crashes in 2020. Many were caused by cell phone use while driving.

Drowsy Driving
Driving while not fully awake and alert accounted for 1.6 percent of deadly traffic accidents in 2020.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 12:25:15 PM
Murphy and Alum, you both seem to be missing what I believe is Mn's point. I will spell it out for you at the risk that you were intentionally seeking to obscure the point:

If we can let kids make the decision about gender affirming care, that means they can also be tried for their decisions/actions that are felonious in nature.  Can't have it both ways. What Mn and Custard may, note MAY, be missing is the flip side: If you can convict kids of felonies, then why not let them decide the gender affirming care stuff?

Or, maybe we can try and figure this out on a case-by-case basis instead of a one-size-fits-all basis.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 12:26:34 PM
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/auto-accident/car-accident-deaths/#:~:text=More%20than%2046%2C000%20people%20die,12.4%20deaths%20per%20100%2C000%20inhabitants.

They do not break down how many accidents are caused by avoiding cyclists who do not follow the Rules of the Road.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 12:27:36 PM
Leading Causes of Deadly Car Accidents
Unfortunately, human error and lack of responsible driving behavior accounts for the most fatalities on the road. These deaths could all be preventable. Fatal car accidents are most frequently caused by these leading factors:

Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs
Every day, 32 people in the United States die in drunk driving car crashes. That’s one person every 45 minutes.

Lack of Proper Seat Belt Use
Unrestrained vehicle occupants are more likely than restrained occupants to be fatally injured in a crash. In 2020, of those that were fatally injured in passenger vehicle crashes (aged 13 and older), only 44 percent of drivers and 41 percent of passengers were properly wearing their seatbelts.

Speeding
Speeding was a factor in 29 percent of fatal car accidents in 2020, and has been a factor in more than 25 percent of crash deaths over the past decade.

Distracted Driving
Distraction types vary and are difficult to quantify, but it is estimated that they accounted for more than 8 percent of all fatal motor vehicle crashes in 2020. Many were caused by cell phone use while driving.

Drowsy Driving
Driving while not fully awake and alert accounted for 1.6 percent of deadly traffic accidents in 2020.

Murph and Tempo should be at the NFL combine presenting a safe driving/ride bicycles instead seminar.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 12:31:26 PM
They do not break down how many accidents are caused by avoiding cyclists who do not follow the Rules of the Road.

Of all my concern trolls, you are my favorite
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 01:01:24 PM
Of all my concern trolls, you are my favorite

I have that going for me!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 09, 2023, 01:06:39 PM
Murphy and Alum, you both seem to be missing what I believe is Mn's point. I will spell it out for you at the risk that you were intentionally seeking to obscure the point:

If we can let kids make the decision about gender affirming care, that means they can also be tried for their decisions/actions that are felonious in nature.  Can't have it both ways. What Mn and Custard may, note MAY, be missing is the flip side: If you can convict kids of felonies, then why not let them decide the gender affirming care stuff?

Or, maybe we can try and figure this out on a case-by-case basis instead of a one-size-fits-all basis.

I'm not sure it's that simple, but the Dems here appear to think having it both ways is not to be questioned.
One instance involves another person becoming a victim and losing her life.
The other instance involves kids making themselves the victim. Some will do fine. How many won't ?

And the transgender argument for adults, either 18 or 21 and older, is an entirely different argument than the one for 12-16 year old kids when it involves surgical procedures.

Walz taught high school kids. What's he thinking ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on March 09, 2023, 02:15:12 PM
The John Stewart clips about suicides amongst children with gender dysphoria should be pounded down over and over. Dovetails exactly with DeSantis' reputation as a bully. For DeSantis, children with gender dysphoria getting bullied is a feature, not a bug.

Makes sense the mentally ill would be more likely to commit suicide !

Love how DeSantis triggers all u soy boys
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 02:25:42 PM
I'm not sure it's that simple, but the Dems here appear to think having it both ways is not to be questioned.
One instance involves another person becoming a victim and losing her life.
The other instance involves kids making themselves the victim. Some will do fine. How many won't ?

Fairly certain Mn has blocked me, but this is the canonical GOP. The kids will make themselves the victim by taking treatment for gender dysphoria, instead of not getting treatment and having a high suicide rate instead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 02:30:16 PM
Fairly certain Mn has blocked me, but this is the canonical GOP. The kids will make themselves the victim by taking treatment for gender dysphoria, instead of not getting treatment and having a high suicide rate instead.

The problem is you can be obtuse.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 02:42:23 PM
The problem is you can be obtuse.
I'm actually quite thin, thanks to all the bike riding.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2023, 03:16:25 PM
I'm actually quite thin, thanks to all the bike riding.

LOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 09, 2023, 03:37:04 PM
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhYzqqs8pQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 09:09:27 AM
Except when someone gets screwed over.

You’re saying someone else got screwed over in this instance?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 09:53:59 AM
You’re saying someone else got screwed over in this instance?

Yeah, a biological woman. Just like the chick that tied Lia Swimmer with a Penis for 3rd place who was told sorry, not enough room for you as we want him on the winners podium and not you. That's unfair, don't you think?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on March 10, 2023, 11:46:18 AM
"APPARENTLY", good parenting is hereditary.  Hill billy heaven....

https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/lauren-boebert-grandmother-grandchild/73-813616b6-5490-4325-b4d5-1ae0b14fa1da
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 11:56:41 AM
"APPARENTLY", good parenting is hereditary.  Hill billy heaven....

https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/lauren-boebert-grandmother-grandchild/73-813616b6-5490-4325-b4d5-1ae0b14fa1da

Saw that. Was wondering how old the daughter was....and if she knew Jobu.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on March 10, 2023, 11:58:33 AM
Saw that. Was wondering how old the daughter was....and if she knew Jobu.

Lol, nope.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2023, 12:11:06 PM
Saw that. Was wondering how old the daughter was....and if she knew Jobu.

Her Son is going to be a father...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2023, 12:29:35 PM
I grew up just outside of Boulder, near the town of Longmont. I sure as hell did not have "Deion Sanders moves to a gated community in Longmont" on my 90's bingo card.

If there is a polar opposite of the term "Prime Time" - it's "Longmont"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 01:36:37 PM
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-illusion-of-a-frictionless-existence?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=61579&post_id=107023119&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

The Illusion of a Frictionless Existence

Eliminating everyday annoyances may be creating the most risk-averse generation in history.

Some people here may want to read this....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 10, 2023, 02:01:08 PM
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-illusion-of-a-frictionless-existence?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=61579&post_id=107023119&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

The Illusion of a Frictionless Existence

Eliminating everyday annoyances may be creating the most risk-averse generation in history.

Some people here may want to read this....
I stopped here ...
" There were the boomers with Peter Pan syndrome, ....."
I don't know nothing about Peter Pan syndrome.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 02:03:22 PM
I stopped here ...
" There were the boomers with Peter Pan syndrome, ....."
I don't know nothing about Peter Pan syndrome.

Nichi will explain it to you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 02:27:09 PM
Yeah, a biological woman. Just like the chick that tied Lia Swimmer with a Penis for 3rd place who was told sorry, not enough room for you as we want him on the winners podium and not you. That's unfair, don't you think?

What does any of that have to do with an “international women of courage award” awarded by the First Lady?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 02:32:10 PM
What does any of that have to do with an “international women of courage award” awarded by the First Lady?

You asked how someone can get screwed over this. I provided an actual example of how someone can get screwed in things such as this.

You do not believe there was any other biological woman who was entitled to the award over the dude dressed like a lady? There has to be someone out there in this big old world, some woman out there more deserving. Pick some lady in Afghanistan who is trying to get an education despite being banned from so doing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2023, 02:40:51 PM
You asked how someone can get screwed over this. I provided an actual example of how someone can get screwed in things such as this.

You do not believe there was any other biological woman who was entitled to the award over the dude dressed like a lady? There has to be someone out there in this big old world, some woman out there more deserving. Pick some lady in Afghanistan who is trying to get an education despite being banned from so doing.

Dude it's not the Lombardi trophy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 02:43:55 PM
Dude it's not the Lombardi trophy.

You are correct about that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on March 10, 2023, 03:03:17 PM
I grew up just outside of Boulder, near the town of Longmont. I sure as hell did not have "Deion Sanders moves to a gated community in Longmont" on my 90's bingo card.

If there is a polar opposite of the term "Prime Time" - it's "Longmont"

Hygiene?

Longmont has changed a lot in the last couple of decades.  It's got gated communities, world class breweries, and destination restaurants.  You still get a bigger bang for the buck there than in Boulder though. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2023, 03:29:13 PM
Hygiene?

Longmont has changed a lot in the last couple of decades.  It's got gated communities, world class breweries, and destination restaurants.  You still get a bigger bang for the buck there than in Boulder though.
Niwot

Hygiene was just a couple farms back then.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 05:48:27 PM
You asked how someone can get screwed over this. I provided an actual example of how someone can get screwed in things such as this.

You do not believe there was any other biological woman who was entitled to the award over the dude dressed like a lady? There has to be someone out there in this big old world, some woman out there more deserving. Pick some lady in Afghanistan who is trying to get an education despite being banned from so doing.

I was talking about the women’s courage award presented by Jill Biden. You brought up something unrelated.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 05:49:21 PM
I was talking about the women’s courage award presented by Jill Biden. You brought up something unrelated.

Yes, to support the position that some lady got screwed out of the award given to the dude.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 05:49:28 PM
Was there a number limit on people who could
win the award? I’m guessing a number women/people were presented the award.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 05:50:07 PM
Was there a number limit on people who could
win the award? I’m guessing a number women/people were presented the award.

Obviously some chick didn't get the award the dude did.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 05:52:30 PM
Obviously some chick didn't get the award the dude did.

Looks to me like multiple people did.

https://www.state.gov/2023-international-women-of-courage-award-recipients-announced/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 05:52:59 PM
Afterall, it’s the “women” of courage award. Not “woman.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 05:58:58 PM
Looks to me like multiple people did.

https://www.state.gov/2023-international-women-of-courage-award-recipients-announced/

And yet, some dude got an award meant for a lady.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 10, 2023, 06:26:06 PM
And yet, some dude got an award meant for a lady.
On International Women's Day no less.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 06:26:41 PM
On International Women's Day no less.

The part that seems to be overlooked
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 06:35:30 PM
And yet, some dude got an award meant for a lady.

Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 06:36:20 PM
On International Women's Day no less.

Thus the live and let live comment. If some man wants to be a woman why should you give a shit? It’s not your life.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2023, 06:36:26 PM
And yet, some dude got an award meant for a lady.

As I tried to hint and Tempo has tried to say - the award is not a zero sum game. They can give out as many as they want.
If some lady deserved the award, she got it. Had they chosen not to give the award to "some dude", that would not have opened a slot for some lady who didn't deserve the award.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 06:39:01 PM
As I tried to hint and Tempo has tried to say - the award is not a zero sum game. They can give out as many as they want.
If some lady deserved the award, she got it. Had they chosen not to give the award to "some dude", that would not have opened a slot for some lady who didn't deserve the award.

Seems simple, no?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2023, 06:41:58 PM
speaking of clown worlds, the cops are across the street. Get this, my neighbor works for Andreesen-Horowitz and got wind that pmarca was going to order all of their funded startups to pull their money from SVB, and he *shorted SVB stock*

Santa Clara Deputies serving warrants, with half a dozen people from the SEC
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 06:53:47 PM
Lol

I know, that is what is hilarious!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 07:00:03 PM
I know, that is what is hilarious!

That the award wasn’t taken away from anyone? Hahaha yeah, I know!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 07:56:02 PM
That the award wasn’t taken away from anyone? Hahaha yeah, I know!

Uh, no, that a lady's award was give to some dude.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 08:04:13 PM
Uh, no, that a lady's award was give to some dude.

Why would you give a fuck? It’s wasn’t deprived of anyone. It literally has Jack shit to do with you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 08:15:20 PM
Why would you give a fuck? It’s wasn’t deprived of anyone. It literally has Jack shit to do with you.

I guess you didn't have a divorced mother butting her head against the glass ceiling growing up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2023, 08:58:40 PM
I guess you didn't have a divorced mother butting her head against the glass ceiling growing up.
I see, this is just a pile of angst related to your father.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 10, 2023, 09:06:04 PM
In yesterday's fishwrap news, if I can present it accurately ......

At the request of a 22 year old, 15 and 17 year old brothers break into the home of the 22 year olds ex-girlfriend and murder the 23 year old mother of the 22 year old's child.
In her plea agreement with the brothers, the newly elected county attorney said "our goal is to treat kids like kids" and cites research suggesting children's brains are not fully developed until the age of 25. The plea agreement will send the brothers to juvenile detention for 2 years, and then probation to the age of 21.

Meanwhile, the governor signs an executive order protecting the rights of kids to gender affirming care, presumably under the thinking that 16 year old girls are capable of making an informed decision to have their breasts removed and boys can have whatever they want done to be done. They must be of sound mind and, what's left of it, body.
At puberty the the kids, maybe as young as 12, are eligible for puberty blocking hormones.

And to address the skyrocketing carjacking going on, the AG wants to investigate Hyundai and Kia about why they make their vehicles so easy to steal. Ellison says "the cars might as well have a giant bumper sticker that says 'steal me' on them.

Maryland House bill 1180 ....
If a kid under 25 commits armed car-jacking and murder in the first degree, the murder doesn't count.
"Proponents of the bill say that the human brain is not fully formed in the frontal lobes until age 25."

(https://i.ibb.co/6bYj64R/Screenshot-20230310-205258.jpg) (https://ibb.co/L6SV4Cz)

(https://i.ibb.co/VTgsLSf/Screenshot-20230310-205214.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nj7Fwcx)



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 10:12:28 PM
I guess you didn't have a divorced mother butting her head against the glass ceiling growing up.

Again, you speak from ignorance. And again, a man who chooses to identify as a woman isn’t taking anything from women. Especially in this case. Why are you not able to understand that they can give this award to anyone they deem worthy (meaning more than one at a time)? This is the simplest concept.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 10:20:25 PM
Maryland House bill 1180 ....
If a kid under 25 commits armed car-jacking and murder in the first degree, the murder doesn't count.
"Proponents of the bill say that the human brain is not fully formed in the frontal lobes until age 25."

(https://i.ibb.co/6bYj64R/Screenshot-20230310-205258.jpg) (https://ibb.co/L6SV4Cz)

(https://i.ibb.co/VTgsLSf/Screenshot-20230310-205214.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nj7Fwcx)

I’m gonna guess that bill gets defeated by about a 10–1 margin or better.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 10:37:02 PM
I see, this is just a pile of angst related to your father.

Interesting view. But expected.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 10:38:41 PM
Again, you speak from ignorance. And again, a man who chooses to identify as a woman isn’t taking anything from women. Especially in this case. Why are you not able to understand that they can give this award to anyone they deem worthy (meaning more than one at a time)? This is the simplest concept.

LOL. What an idiot.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 11:26:31 PM
LOL. What an idiot.

Explain.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 10, 2023, 11:33:13 PM
I’m PAMan: I am the only one to have a divorced mother that struggled. I also am outraged that a man who identifies as a woman stole an award intended for women (except of course he/she didn’t). But it outrages me, anyway. Because in my head it’s true (even though in reality it’s not). I assume a lot of shit and speak as if it’s fact, because in my head it is (even though it isn’t). Only a silly person would not agree with me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 10, 2023, 11:49:38 PM
LOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2023, 08:39:28 AM
Explain.

I guess it was not your wife that got screwed out of an award!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2023, 08:40:50 AM
I see, this is just a pile of angst related to your father.

I guess you didn't have a daughter who got left off the winners' podium to make room for the guy dressed as a girl.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 11, 2023, 09:12:58 AM
I guess you didn't have a daughter who got left off the winners' podium to make room for the guy dressed as a girl.
You just wait until 3 women keep a dude off the podium in USA Powerlifting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 11, 2023, 10:55:56 AM
I guess it was not your wife that got screwed out of an award!
I guess it was not your wife that's getting screwed at all.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2023, 10:56:33 AM
I guess it was not your wife that's getting screwed at all.

That's funny!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 11, 2023, 11:08:27 AM
I don't feel as dumb as 2008 when I saw "mortgages are going to adjust and these people won't be able to pay them" didn't result in me connecting the dots and shorting bank stocks. It's simple to understand "massive defaults bad, also drives down home prices at which point more defaults occur"

"Wow, the banks lent out a lot of money at super low interest rates and someone had to be buying all those 1% treasuries"  - the dots are there but less easy to connect, the first glance is "welp, you locked in a bad rate, but hey only 10 years to maturity on those T-bills!" but the reality is that marked to market, the banks have zero flexibility because they can't sell the assets, they have to hold to maturity or they can't meet deposits.

And how can the banks attract any deposits now? If the 2 year treasury is yielding 4%, then to compete, the banks need to offer the same amount, but they have huge amounts of 1-3% yielding debt in their portfolio. If they don't offer 3-4% on CD's, people will pull their money even if they aren't afraid of bank liquidity, just to find more attractive yields. It was such an obvious problem, but think the ship has sailed on shorting the banks.

I just saw a CNN clip of some startup founder who "got their money out of SVB". But then what the hell do you do with it? Put it into another bank? That has the same exact issues with their balance sheet but is just has more liquidity based on sheer size? Take delivery of dollar bills and put it in your mattress? Crypto? (no - not crypto, please)

Does feel like interest rates and yields have to drop now - if the banks start to wobble, the place to put your money is in treasuries. The risk is if rates go further up, you are stuck HTM just like the banks so you aren't liquid, but it feels like rates have to come down. Do you buy straight treasuries (not as simple) or a bond fund?

Awaiting our finance ninja Q97 to weigh in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 11, 2023, 01:06:52 PM
I knew English probably wasn't IVMP's first language. It appears he may have emigrated from Turkey:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a43062951/human-family-walks-on-all-fours-backwards-evolution/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 08:28:45 PM
I guess it was not your wife that got screwed out of an award!

For like the 5th time, no one got screwed out of an award.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2023, 08:32:22 PM
For like the 5th time, no one got screwed out of an award.

Sure someone did. The guy got the award that was meant for a woman.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 08:34:38 PM
Sure someone did. The guy got the award that was meant for a woman.

As Murph pointed out, everyone they felt was deserving of one, got one. You’re going to have to show me where there was a limited number of winners for me to buy this one. I thought you were the advocate for gay people. According to you they can be gay but not trans? You are such an arrogant piece of crap.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 08:36:43 PM
The guy who demonizes Dan Bernstein for a Count Fagula joke has decided people aren’t allowed to be trans. RandomAssLogicMan at it again.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2023, 08:42:21 PM
As Murph pointed out, everyone they felt was deserving of one, got one. You’re going to have to show me where there was a limited number of winners for me to buy this one. I thought you were the advocate for gay people. According to you they can be gay but not trans? You are such an arrogant piece of crap.

Dude won an award for women. It is not a gay or trans award. It was for women.

Glad to hear that if it was your daughter or mother  you would be fine with it. You were glad Title IX was passed so dudes can take spots on teams for women. Maybe you can take the spot of a woman on the women's golf tour.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2023, 08:44:08 PM
The guy who demonizes Dan Bernstein for a Count Fagula joke has decided people aren’t allowed to be trans. RandomAssLogicMan at it again.

I'll type slowly, as we all know reading comprehension and logic are not your forte. No one said that at all.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 08:57:15 PM
Dude won an award for women. It is not a gay or trans award. It was for women.

Glad to hear that if it was your daughter or mother  you would be fine with it. You were glad Title IX was passed so dudes can take spots on teams for women. Maybe you can take the spot of a woman on the women's golf tour.

I haven’t said a god damned thing about athletics. I’m talking about a transgender person who won an award of which 11 were handed out (so probably not a specific number i.e. an award that was “stolen” from a woman, which it was not).

You are either an advocate for gay/trans people or you are not. You seem pretty inconsistent. Surprise, surprise.

On the athletic field is the one place I might make an exception. I’m not sure what the right thing to do about men competing as women is. I’m pretty sure it’s an overblown “problem,” though. And I’m pretty sure no one is doing it just to gain an athletic advantage. I’d say maybe make trans athletes their own award or whatever. I’m not sure what to do about it, and it’s not my job to figure it out. I’m not going to hate on someone for identifying with the gender that makes them feel comfortable, though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 08:59:33 PM
I'll type slowly, as we all know reading comprehension and logic are not your forte. No one said that at all.

While defending the likes of of known dirtbags like Bobby Hull (and alleged dirtbag) Mike Clevinger, you’ve over and over demonized Dan Bernstein as the worst kind of person for being “homophobe,” (which isn’t even true). You make shit up randomly. That what you do.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 09:01:21 PM
But Bernstein works for The Score, which shills for Da Cub; so in The Book of PAMan they are the scum of the earth.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2023, 09:16:22 PM

You are either an advocate for gay/trans people or you are not. You seem pretty inconsistent. Surprise, surprise.

You are actually embarrassingly dumb. That has zilch to do with it. If you are gay man, you are still a man. If you are a gay woman, you are still a woman.  If you are trans, are you still a biological man or woman? Yes. If you transition, ok. If this was an International Trans Woman Day award, I'd be supportive. It wasn't.

But go ahead, be ecstatic when some guy  takes some girl's spot on the girl's softball team or gets a scholarship meant for girls. That's really fair.

Ironically enough, I was actually at The Baton just last week for one of its anniversary events.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 11, 2023, 09:26:19 PM
You are actually embarrassingly dumb. That has zilch to do with it. If you are gay man, you are still a man. If you are a gay woman, you are still a woman.  If you are trans, are you still a biological man or woman? Yes. If you transition, ok. If this was an International Trans Woman Day award, I'd be supportive. It wasn't.

But go ahead, be ecstatic when some guy  takes some girl's spot on the girl's softball team or gets a scholarship meant for girls. That's really fair.

Ironically enough, I was actually at The Baton just last week for one of its anniversary events.

Some woman got the award of "Being the PAMan's spouse" which was meant for a man, so there's that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 11, 2023, 09:29:45 PM
Some woman got the award of "Being the PAMan's spouse" which was meant for a man, so there's that.

More gay jokes from the faux progressive man of the people on top of Tempo's fandom of the patriarchy. Perfect!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 11, 2023, 09:33:48 PM
More gay jokes from the faux progressive man of the people on top of Tempo's fandom of the patriarchy. Perfect!

In with "I know you are but what am I?" before Tempo
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 11, 2023, 09:36:03 PM
In with "I know you are but what am I?" before Tempo

Who doesn't love juvenile humor?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 09:42:25 PM
More gay jokes from the faux progressive man of the people on top of Tempo's fandom of the patriarchy. Perfect!

PAMan: “Gay people can have rights, but they will be on MY terms! Because I have everything figured out.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 09:45:03 PM
You are actually embarrassingly dumb.

I’m not the one who can’t figure out the award wasn’t denied to a woman because it was awarded to a transgender person.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 09:46:16 PM
I'll type slowly, as we all know reading comprehension and logic are not your forte. No one said that at all.

You’ve done exactly that, probably a minimum of 10x.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 11, 2023, 09:47:20 PM
Dude won an award for women. It is not a gay or trans award. It was for women.



PAMan, the decider on what Trans people are entitled to. The arrogance on this guy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 12:19:47 AM
You are actually embarrassingly dumb. That has zilch to do with it. If you are gay man, you are still a man. If you are a gay woman, you are still a woman.  If you are trans, are you still a biological man or woman? Yes. If you transition, ok. If this was an International Trans Woman Day award, I'd be supportive. It wasn't.

But go ahead, be ecstatic when some guy  takes some girl's spot on the girl's softball team or gets a scholarship meant for girls. That's really fair.

Ironically enough, I was actually at The Baton just last week for one of its anniversary events.

I know you’re really obtuse, but again, I wasn’t talking about sports. Girls/women should not have to compete against biological men. I don’t know the complete answer to that puzzle, but I am mostly in agreement there. I also don’t think it’s nearly as big of a problem as it’s made out to be.

And again, no biological woman was denied this award because it went to a transgender. Which, legally is a woman. I think you can stop pretending you’re an advocate of gay/trans people now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 08:35:46 AM
PAMan: “Gay people can have rights, but they will be on MY terms! Because I have everything figured out.”

You are actually a complete simpleton.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 08:36:51 AM
I’m not the one who can’t figure out the award wasn’t denied to a woman because it was awarded to a transgender person.

"Transgender person"? Interesting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 08:39:21 AM
I know you’re really obtuse, but again, I wasn’t talking about sports. Girls/women should not have to compete against biological men. I don’t know the complete answer to that puzzle, but I am mostly in agreement there. I also don’t think it’s nearly as big of a problem as it’s made out to be.

And again, no biological woman was denied this award because it went to a transgender. Which, legally is a woman. I think you can stop pretending you’re an advocate of gay/trans people now.

Which legally is a woman? Where did you get that?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 08:46:17 AM
Tempo: cheers for guy winning the Best Actress at the Academy Awards and then claims a women was not screwed out of the Best Actress award.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 09:55:31 AM
I don’t ever want to hear you blast anyone for being a “homophobe” again. You are not an ally of LGBTQ people. Your arrogance and narcissism is off the charts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 10:00:25 AM
I don’t ever want to hear you blast anyone for being a “homophobe” again. You are not an ally of LGBTQ people. Your arrogance and narcissism is off the charts.

Why do you hate women? Oh, we know why.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: RandomLogicMan on March 12, 2023, 10:12:56 AM
Why do you hate women? Oh, we know why.

Being pro LGBTQ is anti-woman, because giving rights and recognition to these humans is “anti-woman.” Gender rights and recognition is a zero sum game.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 10:13:42 AM
Why do you hate women? Oh, we know why.

You are a garbage human being.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 10:18:14 AM
is
Being pro LGBTQ is anti-woman, because giving rights and recognition to these humans is “anti-woman.” Gender rights and recognition is a zero sum game.

Women Hater!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 10:20:01 AM
You are a garbage human being.

And you a whiny little bitch who can dish it out but can't take it.

Fucking crybaby. Go drive your Uber, son.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 10:23:17 AM
And you a whiny little bitch who can dish it out but can't take it.

Fucking crybaby. Go drive your Uber, son.

You have zero civility.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 10:25:29 AM
You have zero civility.
Lol. Hilarious if you actually think you have a scintilla of civility.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 10:26:36 AM
Lol. Hilarious if you actually think you have a scintilla of civility.

More than you, which admittedly, is a very low bar. It’s pretty hilarious you consider yourself an ally of gay people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 10:27:38 AM
I’ve never once stooped to the gross level of insults that you have on multiple occasions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 10:52:07 AM
I’ve never once stooped to the gross level of insults that you have on multiple occasions.

You sure about that?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 10:56:20 AM
You sure about that?

The difference is I use your own words against you. You just go for the low blow. “We know why you’re anti-woman!” Which, my posting history here is well documented. I’ve been mocked here multiple times for being what many felt was over the top pro-woman.”

The fact that you claim to be an ally for gay people, but consider equal recognition for transgender woman “anti-woman” shows you are not an ally of gay people. Or maybe you are, as long as it’s on your terms…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 10:59:29 AM
The claim that I’m anti-woman is completely off base. And my posting history supports that. But you, being the sewer dweller you are, saw an opportunity for a low personal jab and couldn’t resist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 11:01:45 AM
I post stuff like this to Facebook, because, you know, I’m “anti-woman.”

(https://i.postimg.cc/T3KsWb9Y/535184-D7-24-DB-44-C8-B663-BA8-D7-D721107.png) (https://postimg.cc/bZjg7sWK)screen capture windows 7 (https://postimages.org/app)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 11:04:25 AM
You can’t be pro-gay unless you’re also pro-trans, because then you’re just allowing for it on your terms. That’s why I mocked you for your arrogance.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 12, 2023, 11:10:39 AM
Lol. Hilarious if you actually think you have a scintilla of civility.
Yeah well the jerk store called, and they're running out of you!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on March 12, 2023, 11:11:28 AM
Who doesn't love juvenile humor?

Spark Mandriller, for one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 12, 2023, 11:11:34 AM
You can’t be pro-gay unless you’re also pro-trans, because then you’re just allowing for it on your terms. That’s why I mocked you for your arrogance.

Tempo - pro-tip - you are being trolled. And it's working.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 11:12:12 AM
Tempo - pro-tip - you are being trolled. And it's working.

And that says more about him than me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 11:13:17 AM
The difference is I use your own words against you. You just go for the low blow. “We know why you’re anti-woman!” Which, my posting history here is well documented. I’ve been mocked here multiple times for being what many felt was over the top pro-woman.”

The fact that you claim to be an ally for gay people, but consider equal recognition for transgender woman “anti-woman” shows you are not an ally of gay people. Or maybe you are, as long as it’s on your terms…

LOL. De Nile is not just a river in Egypt.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 12, 2023, 11:31:27 AM
And that says more about him than me.

You're having an argument with someone who may or may not even agree with what they are posting, they are simply posting things which will push your buttons. Just call him a farty pants and be done with it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 12, 2023, 11:38:02 AM
Patty Cake Man may actually  be anti trans.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 11:45:15 AM
Yeah well the jerk store called, and they're running out of you!

Well, at least you turned the page from gay jokes
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 11:46:48 AM
I post stuff like this to Facebook, because, you know, I’m “anti-woman.”

(https://i.postimg.cc/T3KsWb9Y/535184-D7-24-DB-44-C8-B663-BA8-D7-D721107.png) (https://postimg.cc/bZjg7sWK)screen capture windows 7 (https://postimages.org/app)

It is all performance art for Murph and you. No different than Tucker Carlson.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 11:48:01 AM
Patty Cake Man may actually  be anti trans.

Don't step in it, Nichi. Stick to arguing at the kids' table with IVMP.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 11:48:38 AM
Spark Mandriller, for one.

Now that is funny because it is true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 11:50:18 AM
You can’t be pro-gay unless you’re also pro-trans, because then you’re just allowing for it on your terms. That’s why I mocked you for your arrogance.
I have a feeling you are going to be pissed tonight if a biological woman wins Best Actress at the Oscar's.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 11:51:40 AM
You can’t be pro-gay unless you’re also pro-trans, because then you’re just allowing for it on your terms. That’s why I mocked you for your arrogance.

I like the projection here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 12, 2023, 11:58:11 AM
Pro-trans allies and advocates support top and bottom surgery for impressionable kids, whose brains reportedly may not be fully developed until the age of 25.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 12:02:20 PM
Pro-trans allies and advocates support top and bottom surgery for impressionable kids, whose brains reportedly may not be fully developed until the age of 25.

Not all of us. But I’m not really at a level of expertise to where I feel my thoughts are valid on this dilemma. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 12:02:50 PM
It is all performance art for Murph and you. No different than Tucker Carlson.

Talk about projection…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 12, 2023, 12:03:28 PM
Don't step in it, Nichi. Stick to arguing at the kids' table with IVMP.

I was going to call you Pathay man, but that would be copying McColley and I dunno what it means.

You now have to be pro LGBTQQIP2SAA

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 12:08:01 PM
Talk about projection…

I enjoy your armchair activism on The Facebook.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 12:09:39 PM
I was going to call you Pathay man, but that would be copying McColley and I dunno what it means.

You now have to be pro LGBTQQIP2SAA

It was Golf who coined "PAThey". IMVP may be a little correct that you have lost something off your fastball. You are still ok with me. So is Tempo.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 12:10:29 PM
Pro-trans allies and advocates support top and bottom surgery for impressionable kids, whose brains reportedly may not be fully developed until the age of 25.

But if you are under 25 you can't go to jail for killing people....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 12, 2023, 12:21:48 PM
Pro-trans is pro-trans, which means gender affirming surgery for kids.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 12, 2023, 12:27:42 PM
It was Golf who coined "PAThey". IMVP may be a little correct that you have lost something off your fastball. You are still ok with me. So is Tempo.

I can still pitch circles around  IVMP.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 12:28:06 PM
But if you are under 25 you can't go to jail for killing people....

Again, almost no one believes that should be the case. But let’s act as if 1% of political activists represent mainstream thought or governance.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 12, 2023, 12:29:54 PM
A woman who is an advocate for no biological males in women's sports does not have to be polite to someone who is making her feel uncomfortable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 12, 2023, 12:33:24 PM
Other than people in the position to make those decisions tho. 9 Democrats out of the 102 in the Md House co-authored the bill, and the Hennepin Cty Minnesota AG and the attorneys who agreed with her hold a similar position.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 12, 2023, 12:45:37 PM
Again, almost no one believes that should be the case. But let’s act as if 1% of political activists represent mainstream thought or governance.

I wonder what percentage of Republicans support MTG and that ilk?

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 12:54:39 PM
Other than people in the position to make those decisions tho. 9 Democrats out of the 102 in the Md House co-authored the bill, and the Hennepin Cty Minnesota AG and the attorneys who agreed with her hold a similar position.

So less than 10% of Democrats support the bill. Sounds like the legislation has an excellent chance of passing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 12, 2023, 01:11:55 PM
Jfc.
9% of the Md House Dems sponsored the bill that hasn't been voted on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 01:31:38 PM
Jfc.
9% of the Md House Dems sponsored the bill that hasn't been voted on.


Can’t wait to see how the vote goes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 01:32:36 PM
I’ll bet you posting rights this bill doesn’t become law in our lifetimes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 12, 2023, 01:46:00 PM
Pro-trans is pro-trans, which means gender affirming surgery for kids.

Nonsense.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 12, 2023, 01:53:40 PM
Nonsense.   
It's "gender affirming care" when kids are involved. Is that how it goes ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 12, 2023, 02:01:57 PM
So less than 10% of Democrats support the bill. Sounds like the legislation has an excellent chance of passing.

It's a pretty safe bet that the nine D sponsors know the bill won't pass. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 12, 2023, 02:04:29 PM
I'm sure the child of the 23 year old woman who was murdered point-blank in Minnesota by an impressionable kid, who faces juvenile detention to the age of 21, will be happy to know the law might not pass in Md.
All that's needed is an AG who thinks that brains may not be fully developed until the age of 25 if the legislature won't do it.

And it's probably just a coincidence that 2 states a 1000 miles apart have people thinking this way at the same time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on March 12, 2023, 02:13:02 PM
Let's see.  There's a teen suicide epidemic going on.  Granted, it's a complex problem that needs more than bumper sticker legislative solutions on either extreme.  That being said, I don't think that any form of suppression belongs in the tool kit.  It doesn't have a very good track record.   Beefing up the counseling services is a good place to start. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 12, 2023, 02:23:24 PM
Let's see.  There's a teen suicide epidemic going on.  Granted, it's a complex problem that needs more than bumper sticker legislative solutions on either extreme.  That being said, I don't think that any form of suppression belongs in the tool kit.  It doesn't have a very good track record.   Beefing up the counseling services is a good place to start.

True, but that is not as sexy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 12, 2023, 04:21:17 PM
I'm sure the child of the 23 year old woman who was murdered point-blank in Minnesota by an impressionable kid, who faces juvenile detention to the age of 21, will be happy to know the law might not pass in Md.
All that's needed is an AG who thinks that brains may not be fully developed until the age of 25 if the legislature won't do it.

And it's probably just a coincidence that 2 states a 1000 miles apart have people thinking this way at the same time.

Mn is super concerned over legislation that has almost no chance whatsoever to pass.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 12, 2023, 04:39:44 PM
New facility, The Loft in Brookfield, provides a safe space for teens with mental health struggles

"the Brookfield facility will offer mental health assessments, classes, and programs like yoga and meditation to any 14- to 18-year-old who wants or needs them."

'the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that about 44 percent of teens they surveyed reported extreme feelings of fear and hopelessness."

"Mental Health America found almost 60 percent of kids with major depression receive no mental health services at all"
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/the-loft-in-brookfield-teens-mental-health-struggles/

Better to get kids into something like this now, instead of locking them up later on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 12, 2023, 05:01:57 PM
https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-practice-loving-kindness-meditation-3144786
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 13, 2023, 08:07:52 AM
How's your bank doing today ?
In today's news. 🤡

"The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has been recognized as the Central Bank of the Year at this year's Central Banking Awards.
That's according to the NBU's press service, Ukrinform reports.

"In the Central Bank of the Year nomination, the National Bank of Ukraine won for the first time, having received international recognition for its effective work last year amid a full-scale war," the report reads."
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3681772-nbu-wins-central-bank-of-the-year-award.html

🇺🇦
SVB depositers will be kept solvent by the banks. We weren't told which banks tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 13, 2023, 09:27:36 AM
How's your bank doing today ?
In today's news. 🤡

"The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has been recognized as the Central Bank of the Year at this year's Central Banking Awards.
That's according to the NBU's press service, Ukrinform reports.

"In the Central Bank of the Year nomination, the National Bank of Ukraine won for the first time, having received international recognition for its effective work last year amid a full-scale war," the report reads."
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3681772-nbu-wins-central-bank-of-the-year-award.html

🇺🇦
SVB depositers will be kept solvent by the banks. We weren't told which banks tho.

Just happy Murph didn't have to ride his bike to SVB to try and pull out his money this AM.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 13, 2023, 09:44:28 AM
Just happy Murph didn't have to ride his bike to SVB to try and pull out his money this AM.

(https://i.ibb.co/ZN0Q2TL/schiller-X1-water-bike-designboom07.jpg) (https://ibb.co/stZTW3m)

Water wings, and a helmet, may be a good idea.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 13, 2023, 01:43:32 PM
Just happy Murph didn't have to ride his bike to SVB to try and pull out his money this AM.

Or First Republic, or Signature.

Moved the money into 6 month t-bills.

Be first, be smartest, or cheat. I don't cheat. And while I think I'm pretty smart, it's a hell of a lot easier to be first.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 13, 2023, 01:45:17 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/ZN0Q2TL/schiller-X1-water-bike-designboom07.jpg) (https://ibb.co/stZTW3m)

Water wings, and a helmet, may be a good idea.

That's actually a live shot from Speaker Kevin McCarthy's district, but he's probably off investigating the weaponization of the government for the benefit of transgender swimmers instead of working on his constituents being washed down the river.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 13, 2023, 02:17:18 PM
That's actually a live shot from Speaker Kevin McCarthy's district, but he's probably off investigating the weaponization of the government for the benefit of transgender swimmers instead of working on his constituents being washed down the river.

Do you need to withdraw your money from Barney Frank's bank too?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 13, 2023, 03:57:12 PM
Do you need to withdraw your money from Barney Frank's bank too?

You're his biggest customer!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 13, 2023, 03:58:51 PM
You're his biggest customer!

I'll play along. Are you saying I have made a lot of deposits there?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 13, 2023, 04:55:33 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/ZN0Q2TL/schiller-X1-water-bike-designboom07.jpg) (https://ibb.co/stZTW3m)

Water wings, and a helmet, may be a good idea.

How do you feel about this one, Mn?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/south-carolina-death-penalty-abortion-1234695566/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 13, 2023, 04:58:47 PM
How do you feel about this one, Mn?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/south-carolina-death-penalty-abortion-1234695566/

That one may pass.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 13, 2023, 05:02:33 PM
That one may pass.

Can’t wait to hear Mn’s opinion on it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 13, 2023, 05:11:34 PM
Can’t wait to hear Mn’s opinion on it.

I would enjoy the irony when it passes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 13, 2023, 08:49:44 PM
Can’t wait to hear Mn’s opinion on it.
Mn has blocked everyone and just laughs at the reply count going up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 10:53:14 AM
https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/14/at-wellesley-college-a-fight-over-whether-to-admit-trans-men/

Wellesley College proudly proclaims itself as a place for “women who will make a difference in the world.” It boasts a long line of celebrated alumni, including Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Nora Ephron.

On Tuesday, its students will vote on a referendum that has divided the campus and goes straight to the issue of Wellesley’s identity as a women’s college.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 11:27:38 AM
https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-lgbtq-lieutenant-governor-mcnally-instagram-f730f0c2ce2672ad149f80420e6adaf6

This dude should post here.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 14, 2023, 11:29:30 AM
https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-lgbtq-lieutenant-governor-mcnally-instagram-f730f0c2ce2672ad149f80420e6adaf6

This dude should post here.

Indeed. Now he can like your posts here instead of liking your instagram photos!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 11:30:19 AM
Indeed. Now he can like your posts here instead of liking your instagram photos!

That's funny, Murph!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 14, 2023, 11:56:40 AM
https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-lgbtq-lieutenant-governor-mcnally-instagram-f730f0c2ce2672ad149f80420e6adaf6

This dude should post here.

Tennesseans elected a map as their Lieutenant Governor?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 11:59:16 AM
Tennesseans elected a map as their Lieutenant Governor?

Isn't that the default (I know this is a dangerous word around here these days)?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 14, 2023, 01:12:07 PM
Once dated a girl who went to Wellesley. Regret letting that one get away.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 01:13:14 PM
Once dated a girl who went to Wellesley. Regret letting that one get away.
Never too late, Tempo.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 14, 2023, 01:14:19 PM
Never too late, Tempo.

She’s married, and lives in Seattle now. Think that ship has sailed.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 01:38:16 PM
She’s married, and lives in Seattle now. Think that ship has sailed.

So what? Go get her!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 02:12:27 PM
She’s married, and lives in Seattle now. Think that ship has sailed.

Let's road trip out there and devise a plan on the way there for you to win her back. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 02:35:28 PM
We could have t-shirts made to commemorate the trip: Tempo's Battle for Seattle.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 14, 2023, 02:36:10 PM
Let's road trip out there and devise a plan on the way there for you to win her back.

While listening to I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers on repeat.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 14, 2023, 03:15:04 PM
She’s married, and lives in Seattle now. Think that ship has sailed.

Nobody Facebook stalks like the Tempo!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on March 14, 2023, 05:19:41 PM
She’s married, and lives in Seattle now. Think that ship has sailed.

So she's still cheating on you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 14, 2023, 06:10:11 PM
Nobody Facebook stalks like the Tempo!

We’re still Facebook friends so no need to “stalk.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 14, 2023, 06:10:54 PM
So she's still cheating on you.

Entirely different person. But I’m guessing you realize this.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 11:17:08 PM
Entirely different person. But I’m guessing you realize this.

Chickengeorge with the dagger...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 14, 2023, 11:17:52 PM
So she's still cheating on you.

I do like the cut of your jib.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 02, 2023, 02:02:21 PM
"This morning, April 1, four glyptodon hybrid pups were born at the Zoo's Small Mammal House via a La Plata three-banded armadillo surrogate mother. Due to the massive size of an adult glyptodon, officials at the zoo expect the exhibit will eventually need to be renamed to the ‘Mammals of Unusual Size’ House. "

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/glyptodon-pups-born-smithsonians-national-zoo
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 03, 2023, 09:53:59 AM
I got about halfway through before I figured it out.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 04, 2023, 10:29:32 AM
https://twitter.com/cyberghostface/status/1642975662314258432?s=20
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 07, 2023, 08:34:21 AM
It'S tHe RuSsiANs again .....

Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
"The modifications could point to an effort of disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/politics/ukraine-war-plan-russia.html
👀
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 07, 2023, 10:27:48 AM
It'S tHe RuSsiANs again .....

Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
"The modifications could point to an effort of disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/politics/ukraine-war-plan-russia.html
👀

They have been busy: Not winning the Ukraine War and pushing people out of high rise windows.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 10, 2023, 09:48:50 AM
Big hitter, the Lama…

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/india/dalai-lama-apology-kissing-boy-video-intl-hnk/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 10, 2023, 10:21:06 AM
Bad Lama.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 10, 2023, 10:30:25 AM
Bad Lama.

I laughed. Well done.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 10, 2023, 08:32:31 PM
Big hitter, the Lama…

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/india/dalai-lama-apology-kissing-boy-video-intl-hnk/index.html

(https://i.imgur.com/r0ZYFRh.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 11, 2023, 09:50:29 AM

Not that it's surprising that moron Jack Posobiec tried to use this as political hackery (or that that moron ILLove thought Jack made a good tweet) but wouldn't the Catholic clergy be a WAY, WAY better analogy here?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 11, 2023, 11:30:22 AM
 ;D

(https://i.ibb.co/GFycTR5/Screenshot-20230411-112737-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cx0DLQr)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 11, 2023, 11:31:08 AM
Wait, Biden has met the Dalai Lama?!

Time to start impeachment proceedings.

You guys are like dogs with tennis balls, I swear.  Complete fucking idiots.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 11, 2023, 03:05:30 PM
Wait, Biden has met the Dalai Lama?!

Time to start impeachment proceedings.

You guys are like dogs with tennis balls, I swear.  Complete fucking idiots.

Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 11, 2023, 03:06:22 PM
Wait, Biden has met the Dalai Lama?!

Time to start impeachment proceedings.

You guys are like dogs with tennis balls, I swear.  Complete fucking idiots.

But multiple pictures of Trump with Epstein means nothing.to them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 16, 2023, 08:48:05 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11979125/PETA-says-human-beings-disgusting-behavior-led-rat-population-explosion-NYC.html

I am a member of a different PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 16, 2023, 10:19:51 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11979125/PETA-says-human-beings-disgusting-behavior-led-rat-population-explosion-NYC.html

I am a member of a different PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals.
And fortunately for you there has been a population explosion of rats for you to eat!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 17, 2023, 07:58:43 AM
I've never had rat meat.  As far as I know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on April 17, 2023, 09:14:44 AM
Sorry if someone already posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM-WS_4VWXM&t=488s
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 10, 2023, 09:43:50 AM
This fentanyl thing is getting out of hand
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/us/utah-mom-childrens-book-husband-killing-cec/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on May 10, 2023, 09:49:44 AM
Heard about that. Nuts. She’d probably fit in here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 10, 2023, 10:18:22 AM
Heard about that. Nuts. She’d probably fit in here.

[Makes mental note not to ever accept a drink brought to him by Tempo...]
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on May 10, 2023, 01:36:00 PM
This fentanyl thing is getting out of hand
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/us/utah-mom-childrens-book-husband-killing-cec/index.html
Saw this on the news this AM. Wacko nut job.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 10, 2023, 02:03:28 PM
Saw this on the news this AM. Wacko nut job.

We don't need to ban fentanyl. Fentanyl doesn't kill people. This is a mental health problem.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 15, 2023, 11:23:05 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jlTFpbY0Zo
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on May 15, 2023, 11:39:35 AM
I’ll bet ThePAMan LOVES Joe Scarborough.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 15, 2023, 12:52:59 PM
I’ll bet ThePAMan LOVES Joe Scarborough.

Know who he is, but never watch him.  I guess I don't love him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 15, 2023, 01:15:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jlTFpbY0Zo

They might show up. They might not. Who even knows these days. People are busy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on May 15, 2023, 03:44:35 PM
Know who he is, but never watch him.  I guess I don't love him.
Joe is OK. Not a douche bag like current or former Fux commentators.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on May 15, 2023, 03:47:31 PM
Know who he is, but never watch him.  I guess I don't love him.

You would, though. He’s a Conservative Republican (“former” I think?) who some Democrats find “likable.” He was part of Newt Gingrich’s “Revolution.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 15, 2023, 03:49:23 PM
You would, though. He’s a Conservative Republican (“former” I think?) who some Democrats find “likable.” He was part of Newt Gingrich’s “Revolution.”

I remember that he was part of Newt's cabal, loved to be on cable news nets when he was in office, and then left to do his own gig on cable. But that was 30ish years ago?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 15, 2023, 10:14:25 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/15/rudy-giuliani-sexual-assault-harassment-lawsuit-00097014
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 16, 2023, 07:00:57 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/15/rudy-giuliani-sexual-assault-harassment-lawsuit-00097014

Custard, please move to the WTF with the Right thread....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 25, 2023, 02:16:09 PM
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-25/nvidia-short-sellers-lose-2-3-billion-in-one-day-as-stock-soars?leadSource=uverify%20wall
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 25, 2023, 03:12:53 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-son-called-911-report-abuse-husband-jayson-2023-5#

US Congresswoman folks
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on June 02, 2023, 07:54:50 AM
https://remezcla.com/culture/watch-man-goes-viral-for-smashing-crown-after-wife-loses-beauty-pageant-in-brazil/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on June 16, 2023, 10:13:30 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/subaru-outback-leads-to-penn-state-professor-s-arrest-on-bestiality-charge/ar-AA1cDAQo?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=ce15385bd86e4bb4a480ccc6768cde94&ei=112

nuff said...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 19, 2023, 08:07:54 PM
This story made think of a Hemingway Novella

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/06/18/blue-marlin-fishing-competition-disqualified/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2023, 08:01:18 PM
Back in the day, young couples bought a house. Now they acquire living space..
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 21, 2023, 10:17:07 PM
Back in the day, young couples bought a house. Now they acquire living space..

George Carlin?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 21, 2023, 01:39:25 AM
https://abc7ny.com/george-floyd-protests-new-york-city-protest-nypd-police-brutality/13525736/#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20%2D%2D%20New%20York,during%20the%20summer%20of%202020.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 21, 2023, 10:19:23 AM
https://abc7ny.com/george-floyd-protests-new-york-city-protest-nypd-police-brutality/13525736/#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20%2D%2D%20New%20York,during%20the%20summer%20of%202020.

Were they protestors or rioters? There is a difference.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 21, 2023, 10:24:23 AM
Were they protestors or rioters? There is a difference.


according to reuters
Quote
People arrested on other charges, such as arson or property destruction, will be excluded from the settlement, which still requires approval by U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon.


my question is what did they get arrested for in the first place
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 21, 2023, 11:44:21 AM

according to reuters

my question is what did they get arrested for in the first place

Walked down the street and impeded traffic?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 21, 2023, 11:57:55 AM
Walked down the street and impeded traffic?

yeah I'm sure they were being peaceful and didn't do anything
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 21, 2023, 12:12:38 PM

according to reuters

my question is what did they get arrested for in the first place

being black in a Jason Aldean song
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 21, 2023, 12:14:08 PM
yeah I'm sure they were being peaceful and didn't do anything

If it was Chicago, that was later in the day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 30, 2023, 11:16:47 AM
https://www.news-gazette.com/sports/tate-whats-in-a-nickname/article_179e59de-e42d-5d2b-a7a2-a5062fe7e91a.html

Kingsisher backers are apparently organized.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 03, 2023, 11:59:56 AM
Wait for it...

https://www.thealtmanbrothers.com/agents/chase-koplow/

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 11, 2023, 04:31:51 PM
https://abc7chicago.com/walgreens-chicago-walgerens-near-me-classical-music/13630455/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 11, 2023, 05:11:55 PM
https://abc7chicago.com/walgreens-chicago-walgerens-near-me-classical-music/13630455/

I love classical music. I’d be inclined to loiter more.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 11, 2023, 05:40:09 PM
I love classical music. I’d be inclined to loiter more.

Classical, not "Classic Rock"...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 11, 2023, 06:56:37 PM
Classical, not "Classic Rock"...

Yes. I like both.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 11, 2023, 11:36:29 PM
Yes. I like both.

well its really loud and the same 4 songs over and over so you might get tired of it after a bit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 12, 2023, 09:13:17 AM
well its really loud and the same 4 songs over and over so you might get tired of it after a bit

Then he won"t loiter and Walgreen will be happy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 12, 2023, 03:28:48 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/5tThsTz3/IMG-2348.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 12, 2023, 03:30:48 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/5tThsTz3/IMG-2348.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Hopefully that isn't Jasn.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 12, 2023, 04:15:14 PM
More like JJ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 12, 2023, 06:22:20 PM
Sounds like something JudgeJudy would do. You know, just to make sure.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on August 15, 2023, 05:18:59 AM
being a member on illini sports forum and putting your pronouns on your profile

now that's a clown
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2023, 07:42:40 AM
being a member on illini sports forum and putting your pronouns on your profile

now that's a clown

Shots fired at Alum! Wow!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on August 15, 2023, 12:37:00 PM
Shots fired at Alum! Wow!

It was a wrong immature comment and I apologize
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 15, 2023, 12:39:40 PM
It was a wrong immature comment and I apologize
It's probably character traits like this that make woman #2 call you boo.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2023, 02:31:30 PM
It's probably character traits like this that make woman #2 call you boo.
And the other one to send bikini shots from the beach.  Who knew Jasn was really Mr. Sensitive Alan Alda?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 17, 2023, 11:58:19 AM
https://media.wazimo.com/images/a05e7deb538e5d1e86bdc70e1938223ba21af65455bf2f9f96ee6a4b10160b10.jpeg
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 17, 2023, 12:55:30 PM
https://media.wazimo.com/images/a05e7deb538e5d1e86bdc70e1938223ba21af65455bf2f9f96ee6a4b10160b10.jpeg

These days, even Bruce Jenner doesn’t have Bruce Jenner’s body.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 20, 2023, 12:44:11 AM
Took a kid down to Champaign for school today. His apartment had the overpowering smell of curry. Not kidding. The roommates had sprayed stuff on the walls, etc. before he got there and the smell was still strong.

Had Papa Dells. It was just ok.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 20, 2023, 12:47:11 AM
Was passing through Champaign some weeks ago and grabbed a couple of the Papa Del’s frozen pizzas to enjoy when I got back home. Against all odds, I thought they were better than what I remember eating in house.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 20, 2023, 10:37:35 AM
Took a kid down to Champaign for school today. His apartment had the overpowering smell of curry. Not kidding. The roommates had sprayed stuff on the walls, etc. before he got there and the smell was still strong.

Had Papa Dells. It was just ok.

“A kid.” As in some random kid?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 20, 2023, 11:35:15 AM
“A kid.” As in some random kid?

Yes. A random kid who happened to be in my house.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 20, 2023, 12:43:59 PM
Yes. A random kid who happened to be in my house.

How ironic he goes to U of I.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 20, 2023, 10:07:52 PM
How ironic he goes to U of I.

Hopefully it works out for him despite the curry stink of his apartment.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 21, 2023, 12:30:42 AM
Took a kid down to Champaign for school today. His apartment had the overpowering smell of curry. Not kidding. The roommates had sprayed stuff on the walls, etc. before he got there and the smell was still strong.

Had Papa Dells. It was just ok.

Talk to your governor about why they've decided to fund UIUC via International student admissions. Entirely possible the former tenant was an Indian kid from the burbs (or a white kid from the burbs who likes chicken tikka masala) but the international % is nonetheless way up from back in the day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 21, 2023, 08:22:55 AM
Fairly certain PAMan is well aware of these things
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 21, 2023, 10:19:49 AM
Fairly certain PAMan is well aware of these things

Aware that he should be lobbying the state government, or collecting signatures for a state tax increase. Oh yeah, the State of Illinois rejected a progressive income tax that would have increased taxes on the top bracket. Garbage in, garbage out.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 21, 2023, 11:25:59 AM
Aware that he should be lobbying the state government, or collecting signatures for a state tax increase. Oh yeah, the State of Illinois rejected a progressive income tax that would have increased taxes on the top bracket. Garbage in, garbage out.

yes we all know the state of illinois would wisely spend those additional funds on much needed investments in infrastructure, education and healthcare, and not to pay debts to send checks to pensioner retirees in florida and other states
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 21, 2023, 12:17:53 PM
Fairly certain PAMan is well aware of these things

Yes. Spark was mad at me for being aware of these things.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 21, 2023, 12:20:20 PM
Aware that he should be lobbying the state government, or collecting signatures for a state tax increase. Oh yeah, the State of Illinois rejected a progressive income tax that would have increased taxes on the top bracket. Garbage in, garbage out.

Laughable. Maybe the Purported Progressive Governor can unwind all of his offshore tax dodge mechanisms and pay his "fair share" first.

Oh, and I must have missed the part where the Dems unwound Trump and the GOP's SALT limits when they did control both houses and the presidency.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 21, 2023, 03:40:35 PM
yes we all know the state of illinois would wisely spend those additional funds on much needed investments in infrastructure, education and healthcare, and not to pay debts to send checks to pensioner retirees in florida and other states

It's no California, that's true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 30, 2023, 07:22:22 PM
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pickleball-court-presidio-heights-18336716.php
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 31, 2023, 02:11:11 PM
It is literally a clown world for this guy....

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/08/31/clown-fetish-professor-kent-northern-illinois-nicholls-state/70603544007/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 03, 2023, 10:01:41 AM
This girl comes in and starts cleaning house. Impressive.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12468465/amp/Girls-brawl-porta-potty-outside-country-music-singer-Morgan-Wallens-Pennsylvania.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on September 03, 2023, 10:34:40 AM
This girl comes in and starts cleaning house. Impressive.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12468465/amp/Girls-brawl-porta-potty-outside-country-music-singer-Morgan-Wallens-Pennsylvania.html
Hahaha. Thanks for the Sunday morning funnies.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2023, 10:58:23 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/04/us/texas-dennys-car-crash/index.html

They took away this architect's bike for running a stop sign so he ran into a building instead
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 05, 2023, 06:17:29 AM
That dude saved lives down the road by crashing into that Dennys.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 05, 2023, 07:43:42 AM
That dude saved lives down the road by crashing into that Dennys.

And trying to take out people who eat at Denny's. They are probably losers who have to actually go to their jobs in person.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 12, 2023, 12:48:35 PM
What an awesome story.... WTF is wrong with these people?

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/9/11/23869534/candidate-in-high-stakes-virginia-election-performed-sex-acts-with-husband-in-live-videos
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 12, 2023, 02:30:21 PM
What an awesome story.... WTF is wrong with these people?

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/9/11/23869534/candidate-in-high-stakes-virginia-election-performed-sex-acts-with-husband-in-live-videos

Do you say that about people who have OnlyFans/etc... page who aren't running for office?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 12, 2023, 03:04:27 PM
Do you say that about people who have OnlyFans/etc... page who aren't running for office?

No. The running for office is quite an important caveat.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on September 12, 2023, 03:06:52 PM
Video anyone?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 12, 2023, 07:45:18 PM
As long as it wasn’t with children or farm animals, who cares?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 17, 2023, 07:41:12 PM
Custard's son got his license and took care of one of those damn cyclists.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/retired-police-chief-was-intentionally-mowed-down-on-bike-by-teen-driver-disturbing-video-shows-hit-his-ass/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 17, 2023, 08:14:04 PM
Custard's son got his license and took care of one of those damn cyclists.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/retired-police-chief-was-intentionally-mowed-down-on-bike-by-teen-driver-disturbing-video-shows-hit-his-ass/

Death penalty too good for those dirtbags.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 17, 2023, 10:34:31 PM
Custard's son got his license and took care of one of those damn cyclists.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/retired-police-chief-was-intentionally-mowed-down-on-bike-by-teen-driver-disturbing-video-shows-hit-his-ass/

My kid would have made it look like it was the cyclist’s fault.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 17, 2023, 11:44:19 PM
My kid would have made it look like it was the cyclist’s fault.

Your kid would have missed the cyclist and hit the streetlight
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2023, 07:16:04 PM
I thought this was hilarious.

(https://i.postimg.cc/7hmZwKB5/IMG-4957.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/gLLWKHbp)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2023, 01:54:51 PM
https://x.com/nuclrgolf/status/1704853754766581789?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2023, 02:44:11 PM
Great, now we have cocaine addicted sharks.

https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/cocaine-sharks-attacking-florida-surfers
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2023, 02:47:04 PM
https://x.com/nuclrgolf/status/1704853754766581789?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ

Is that you on the golf course?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2023, 03:55:23 PM
Thoughts?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/263753263275959?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=0NULKw
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 21, 2023, 05:10:53 PM
Thoughts?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/263753263275959?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=0NULKw

People are stupid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 26, 2023, 01:30:46 AM
https://twitter.com/JonnyRoot_/status/1706412266806223335

😂😂😂😂😂

So much going on in this one
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 26, 2023, 08:32:44 AM
Next thing you know Tempo will be linking her football commentary.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 26, 2023, 09:35:26 AM
https://twitter.com/JonnyRoot_/status/1706412266806223335

😂😂😂😂😂

So much going on in this one

Stealing the spot of a Black woman to boot....pun intended.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 26, 2023, 11:12:39 AM
https://twitter.com/JonnyRoot_/status/1706412266806223335

😂😂😂😂😂

So much going on in this one

Deion stole all the players for his new juggernaut
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 26, 2023, 02:53:23 PM
Deion stole all the players for his new juggernaut

speaking of Deion I found this today as I was digging around for some usb cords lol

wonder if its worth anything, it was weirdly on the bottom of the clear box where i keep my valuableish cards so I could see it

(https://i.imgur.com/5EVtUgH.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/WH5oX2N.jpg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 27, 2023, 10:50:23 AM
(https://media.tenor.com/4QM4xcslLlcAAAAM/sweat-stand-up-soul-glow.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 27, 2023, 01:31:33 PM
https://x.com/edkrassen/status/1707007826432774571?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 27, 2023, 02:06:14 PM
https://x.com/edkrassen/status/1707007826432774571?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ

Right Wing: We can stop this by LOCKING THEM UP
Apple Wing: We can stop this when they figure out that stealing the phone is pointless.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 27, 2023, 02:07:44 PM
https://x.com/edkrassen/status/1707007826432774571?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ

Or - "Deterrents like jail aren't gonna be particularly effective at convincing a criminal too dumb to figure out they won't be able to fence the Iphone anyway"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 28, 2023, 10:40:50 AM
It’s 2023 motherfuckers, let the alligator in! You can allow anything else in this world (chicks with dicks), so what’s the issue…

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38512361/support-alligator-wally-denied-entry-phillies-stadium
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 05, 2023, 09:42:23 AM
😂 🤡 these stupid fucking racist liberals!! 😂 🤣 🥴

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1709728378339705099?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 05, 2023, 10:12:35 AM
😂 🤡 these stupid fucking racist liberals!! 😂 🤣 🥴

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1709728378339705099?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
"McCarthy, however, has stopped short of endorsing the idea publicly and repeatedly said they won’t use impeachment for political purposes, though he has said Mayorkas ought to resign.
“I think I told you long before I even got this job, he hasn’t been doing his job,” McCarthy recently told CNN. “I mean, who in America believes the border is secure? Even when he says that, you can look in his face, that he’s not being honest.”

While Jordan and GOP leadership have a private understanding that the impeachment of Mayorkas is inevitable, as CNN has previously reported, McCarthy has told members he wants more time for committees to hold hearings on the subject before they move on impeachment articles."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/politics/alejandro-mayorkas-impeachment-lobbying-republicans/index.html

McCarthy is booted out and 26 Federal regulations get waived and a section of the wall is now good to go. 🤷
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 05, 2023, 10:14:50 AM
I hope they all set up tent cities in Alum, Nichi, 57, and Murph’s back yards.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 05, 2023, 11:07:36 AM
I hope they all set up tent cities in Alum, Nichi, 57, and Murph’s back yards.

It is grape harvesting season and there isn't enough labor because the 'Merican Trump Supporters are too lazy to work.
Probably the orders came down from Jordan and Foley to let their workers in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 05, 2023, 11:08:23 AM
I hope they all set up tent cities in Alum, Nichi, 57, and Murph’s back yards.

Also: guess you aren't watching a lot of FOX news, ain't no more room for tents in my backyard because of all the homeless encampments
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 05, 2023, 11:18:58 AM
Also: guess you aren't watching a lot of FOX news, ain't no more room for tents in my backyard because of all the homeless encampments

(https://media.tenor.com/UwuGApRjFW0AAAAM/wink-lol.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 06, 2023, 03:02:03 PM
This is fucking hilarious.

(https://i.ibb.co/MZLdwdc/IMG-2204.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wB1tGtS)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 06, 2023, 03:32:47 PM
This is fucking hilarious.

(https://i.ibb.co/MZLdwdc/IMG-2204.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wB1tGtS)
The funds in question were appropriated during the Trump years and were apparently required to be dispersed, or whatever, by the end of the fiscal year which was Sept 30.
If I look at the calendar we are in October.
Biden says he requested Congress to redirect the funds but Schumer and Pelosi didn't, or couldn't, do it. The Republicans had no interest when the House majority changed.
What's hilarious is Mayorkas saying there's an urgent need when all he had to say was that they were required to use the funds by the end of the fiscal year, which was last month.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 06, 2023, 03:34:46 PM
Liberals regarding the “racist” wall Trump could’ve already built… 🥴
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 06, 2023, 04:59:59 PM
Actually, you can thank Trump and the U.S. Congress for this, not so much Biden.  The money for this 21-mile segment of the wall was allocated in 2019.  Biden tried to reappropriate or redirect the funds for another purpose, but Congress said no.  He’s now following through with the project.  I believe it has to be completed by the end of 2023. 

Biden could have possibly tied this up in red tape so the money would not have to be spent.  But I think he saw the political implications and decided it wasn't worth it.  Maybe he can build it with tissue paper.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 06, 2023, 05:12:33 PM
😂 you the White House press secretary?! You’re a fucking moron…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 06, 2023, 05:55:34 PM
Actually, you can thank Trump and the U.S. Congress for this, not so much Biden.

Correct, and I have.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 06, 2023, 06:07:59 PM
Can’t tell you how much the wall has improved my life and the lives of all Americans.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 06, 2023, 07:28:29 PM
Can’t tell you how much the wall has improved my life and the lives of all Americans.

Hopefully you do not want to file a.police report in Chicago or use a park district fieldhouse.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 06, 2023, 10:29:10 PM
Hopefully you do not want to file a.police report in Chicago or use a park district fieldhouse.

He’s safely insulated from the border crisis in white Itasca. He won’t start to pay attention until one takes his Uber gig and he has to take a 9-5 at The Outback.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 06, 2023, 10:35:44 PM
He’s safely insulated from the border crisis in white Itasca. He won’t start to pay attention until one takes his Uber gig and he has to take a 9-5 at The Outback.

You can work 9-5 at the Outback? That’s news to me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 06, 2023, 10:36:34 PM
He’s safely insulated from the border crisis in white Itasca. He won’t start to pay attention until one takes his Uber gig and he has to take a 9-5 at The Outback.

My feelings on this are identical to when I lived in the city.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 06, 2023, 10:36:47 PM
Jesus this is what passes for journalism these days? Grown ass adults parsing Twitter for hot takes?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 06, 2023, 10:38:45 PM
Itasca is 29% non-white for the record.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 06, 2023, 10:39:38 PM
What town are you in these days, Custard?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 06, 2023, 11:58:32 PM
Jesus this is what passes for journalism these days? Grown ass adults parsing Twitter for hot takes?

You just noticed this?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 12:01:26 AM
Itasca is 29% non-white for the record.


LOL. You volunteering to put up some Venezuelans escaping the Progressive Paradise? Appears that Mayor Johnson would like them out of the police stations and the locals don't want them in the park district fieldhouses taking away their youth programming.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 12:05:28 AM
Actually, you can thank Trump and the U.S. Congress for this, not so much Biden.  The money for this 21-mile segment of the wall was allocated in 2019.  Biden tried to reappropriate or redirect the funds for another purpose, but Congress said no.  He’s now following through with the project.  I believe it has to be completed by the end of 2023. 

Biden could have possibly tied this up in red tape so the money would not have to be spent.  But I think he saw the political implications and decided it wasn't worth it.  Maybe he can build it with tissue paper.

He could have sought re appropriation when they controlled both houses of Congress. They could have also repealed the Trump Tax on Blue States, but they were also too busy to do that. San Fran Nan must have been more focused on her husband's investment portfolio during that time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 07, 2023, 12:07:11 AM
You just noticed this?

I mean, I realized it, but I didn’t realize people would actually use it as evidence to support an argument.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 12:08:57 AM
I mean, I realized it, but I didn’t realize people would actually use it as evidence to support an argument.

Lazy journalism has become the norm.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 07, 2023, 01:46:28 AM


LOL. You volunteering to put up some Venezuelans escaping the Progressive Paradise? Appears that Mayor Johnson would like them out of the police stations and the locals don't want them in the park district fieldhouses taking away their youth programming.

Sometimes you are the most Republican sounding Democrat I've ever heard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 07, 2023, 01:47:24 AM
Lazy journalism has become the norm.

No, journalism has changed...no one buys newspapers anymore. Keep up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 07, 2023, 02:29:07 AM
The Taylor Swift stories are 100% real. I am certain. I know conservatives who think that high schoolers are allowed to dress up like cats and piss and shit in litter boxes at Lake Park high school.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 07:46:11 AM
No, journalism has changed...no one buys newspapers anymore. Keep up.

It has become even lazier which is why it is in the predicament it is currently in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 08:01:34 AM
Sometimes you are the most Republican sounding Democrat I've ever heard.

The problem may be you are not paying attention to what is actually going on. Because nothing in that post is untrue. I'm betting you were all "Viva Chavez" when he nationalized everything and appropriated land. Shocking that when things predictably went south, all the Venezualens would want to head North.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 07, 2023, 09:27:11 AM
I like that PAThey is capable of dissenting thought rather than the blind partisanship/identity politics I so often see on display.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 07, 2023, 09:31:28 AM
It has become even lazier which is why it is in the predicament it is currently in.

What predicament is that?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 07, 2023, 09:37:04 AM
I like that PAThey is capable of dissenting thought rather than the blind partisanship/identity politics I so often see on display.

You apparently have missed the many times I’ve criticized the Democratic establishment.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 07, 2023, 10:25:40 AM
I’ve seen some half hearted jabs at Biden. Don’t recall a lot else.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 11:59:51 AM
What predicament is that?

Seriously?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 07, 2023, 12:10:29 PM
I was gonna reply to that from him, but it’s a waste of time. Just let him keep his head buried in the sand…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 07, 2023, 03:30:33 PM
Some specifics would be nice. You guys just sound like old men yelling at clouds.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 07, 2023, 05:02:09 PM
You posted a bunch of links that were literally parsed material from Twitter passed off as journalism.

“Conservatives are big mad about X, I saw it on Twitter”

Meanwhile the original “conservatives” that they’re referencing were trolling in the first place.

It’s a vicious circle of bull shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 05:04:35 PM
You posted a bunch of links that were literally parsed material from Twitter passed off as journalism.

“Conservatives are big mad about X, I saw it on Twitter”

Meanwhile the original “conservatives” that they’re referencing were trolling in the first place.

It’s a vicious circle of bull shit.

Well, they are articles with a few conservatives shaking their fists in The Twitter Posts telling Taylor Swift to get off their lawn.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 07, 2023, 05:07:14 PM
The one about whether the vaccine or Taylor Swift would break Kelce’s heart first was pretty damn funny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 05:16:48 PM
The one about whether the vaccine or Taylor Swift would break Kelce’s heart first was pretty damn funny.

It is funny, but could use a cite supporting the claim about all the people who have had heart failure (or whatever heart break measure you want to use) due to the vaccine.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 07, 2023, 07:54:44 PM
It is funny, but could use a cite supporting the claim about all the people who have had heart failure (or whatever heart break measure you want to use) due to the vaccine.
From March of this year.

(https://i.ibb.co/s1Kvt9p/Screenshot-20231007-194720.jpg) (https://ibb.co/JpvRCjW)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36988252/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 07:56:40 PM
From March of this year.

(https://i.ibb.co/s1Kvt9p/Screenshot-20231007-194720.jpg) (https://ibb.co/JpvRCjW)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36988252/

284?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 07, 2023, 08:21:59 PM
284?
That means most of the people with thrombosis, strokes, myocarditis, heart attacks or cases of arrythmia were fortunate enough to live.
Cardiac events do occur.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 08:47:40 PM
That means most of the people with thrombosis, strokes, myocarditis, heart attacks or cases of arrythmia were fortunate enough to live.
Cardiac events do occur.

The article was talking deaths, I thought. 

Well, given that they are writing about Taylor Swift shows they are not serious people whose views should be respected or sought after.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 07, 2023, 09:14:24 PM
The article was talking deaths, I thought. 

Well, given that they are writing about Taylor Swift shows they are not serious people whose views should be respected or sought after.
You've got to get past the 1st sentence for the rest of the information.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 07, 2023, 09:50:40 PM
You've got to get past the 1st sentence for the rest of the information.

The right wing and sane people are dealing with alternative versions of information..
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2023, 09:52:41 PM
You've got to get past the 1st sentence for the rest of the information.

I think I'll take a pass on this one. I doubt Taylor Swift his killed 284 people while also saving who knows how many people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 08, 2023, 08:16:17 AM
The right wing and sane people are dealing with alternative versions of information..

Of course you’re a vaccine side effect denier.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 08, 2023, 08:18:26 AM
The right wing and sane people are dealing with alternative versions of information..
Are you trying to say that cardiac events don't occur ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 08, 2023, 08:22:38 AM
You posted a bunch of links that were literally parsed material from Twitter passed off as journalism.

“Conservatives are big mad about X, I saw it on Twitter”

Meanwhile the original “conservatives” that they’re referencing were trolling in the first place.

It’s a vicious circle of bull shit.

USA Today and Newsweek are “parsed material from Twitter?”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 08, 2023, 10:10:01 AM
Of course you’re a vaccine side effect denier.

JFC
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 08, 2023, 10:16:32 AM
Are you trying to say that cardiac events don't occur ?

He's saying consult with your doctor, listen to local public health officials and keep abreast of recommendations from medical associations.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 08, 2023, 10:23:44 AM
He's saying consult with your doctor, listen to local public health officials and keep abreast of recommendations from medical associations.
jfc
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 08, 2023, 10:24:05 AM
He's saying consult with your doctor, listen to local public health officials and keep abreast of recommendations from medical associations.

OMG you are so EXTREME! 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 01:26:56 PM
Of course you’re a vaccine side effect denier.

 
I'll side with Nichi and not Aaron Rodgers on this one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 01:27:33 PM
jfc

This round goes to Alum on a TKO.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 08, 2023, 02:47:15 PM
This round goes to Alum on a TKO.

Says the jabbed and boosted guy who has Covid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 08, 2023, 03:18:02 PM
Says the jabbed and boosted guy who has Covid.
In his defense, he may have co-morbidities which are nobody's business and he is open to information.
But the listen to your doctor, who is pretty much obligated to say what the health group says, or the listen to only certain public health experts like Fauci and Walensky but don't you be listening to former CDC Director Redfield comes across as more of a he swung and missed with that punch.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 03:24:51 PM
Says the jabbed and boosted guy who has Covid.

The last one takes 2 weeks to work. So they tell me now. Should have worn a mask....maybe I'd be in the hospital otherwise!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 03:26:38 PM
In his defense, he may have co-morbidities which are nobody's business and he is open to information.
But the listen to your doctor, who is pretty much obligated to say what the health group says, or the listen to only certain public health experts like Fauci and Walensky but don't you be listening to former CDC Director Redfield comes across as more of a he swung and missed with that punch.

Are doctors really that lockstep?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 08, 2023, 05:35:31 PM
You saw what happened to doctors who didn’t toe the line back in 2020 didn’t you?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 05:47:51 PM
You saw what happened to doctors who didn’t toe the line back in 2020 didn’t you?

So they are not all in lockstep then.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 08, 2023, 06:12:08 PM
Says the jabbed and boosted guy who has Covid.

Who is not in the hospital, and is not dead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 08, 2023, 06:18:17 PM
Who is not in the hospital, and is not dead.

Neither was I without it…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 08, 2023, 06:22:46 PM
Neither was I without it…

Sometimes Justin Fields wins a game. Doesn't mean he was a good draft pick.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 08, 2023, 06:23:20 PM
Neither was I without it…

Clearly you are Superhuman.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 08, 2023, 06:30:28 PM
Clearly you are Superhuman.

That’s just the thing, you’re mind is so warped/brainwashed that you think you have to be superhuman to not be…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 07:03:12 PM
Who is not in the hospital, and is not dead, unfortunately.

Fixed that for you!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 07:04:51 PM
Neither was I without it…

I'm guessing we are not close in age, but congrats.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 07:05:38 PM
Sometimes Justin Fields wins a game. Doesn't mean he was a good draft pick.

This makes up for the Beatles line in the other thread.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 08, 2023, 07:25:22 PM
Fixed that for you!
If you do die could ThePassiveAggresiveSon keep us posted until you come back ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 08, 2023, 08:09:33 PM
If you do die could ThePassiveAggresiveSon keep us posted until you come back ?

Sure.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 08, 2023, 08:40:13 PM
I'm guessing we are not close in age, but congrats.

I’m 42. You’re older, I know…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 08, 2023, 08:50:26 PM
Sure.
You haven't mentioned much of anything about symptoms. How's the other Covid patient doing ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 09, 2023, 03:38:54 AM
That’s just the thing, you’re mind is so warped/brainwashed that you think you have to be superhuman to not be…

If only the millions of non-superhuman people hadn’t been hospitalized or died.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 09, 2023, 04:12:37 AM
Quote from: Judge Judy link=topic=94.msg95479#msg95479

 date=1696807828
That’s just the thing, you’re mind is so warped/brainwashed that you think you have to be superhuman to not be…

Your mind is warped into thinking that because you had no major issues, there’s no reason for others to have serious problems.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 09, 2023, 05:51:41 AM
If only we didn't have mad scientists tinkering with viruses.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 09, 2023, 09:52:56 AM
Your mind is warped into thinking that because you had no major issues, there’s no reason for others to have serious problems.

Oh come on, that account is clear paraody, as opposed to Mn
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 09, 2023, 10:06:12 AM
You haven't mentioned much of anything about symptoms. How's the other Covid patient doing ?

It was as if I had a bad sinus infection where things had already set up shop in my throat and chest. The thing is that I had sinus surgery 3 weeks ago so my sinuses were ok, everything just drained into my chest. It was more annoying and tiring more than anything. I kept working, part-time at least, through it. A client today was surprised I had it last week as I was working on her stuff. She has had it 5x and said the last one knocked her out for a week. So maybe the boosters worked, considering all the morbidities I have (I do not think they are "comorbidities" at this point, just morbidities). If I had not taken the test, I probably would have gone to the game Friday night for the guys weekend and just tried to kill whatever it is I had with tequila and Jack like in the pre-COVID Era (damn you, Chinese Commie Bastards).

The other patient is doing fine. More aggravated than anything and itching to get to Costco.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 09, 2023, 10:43:10 AM
It was as if I had a bad sinus infection where things had already set up shop in my throat and chest. The thing is that I had sinus surgery 3 weeks ago so my sinuses were ok, everything just drained into my chest. It was more annoying and tiring more than anything. I kept working, part-time at least, through it. A client today was surprised I had it last week as I was working on her stuff. She has had it 5x and said the last one knocked her out for a week. So maybe the boosters worked, considering all the morbidities I have (I do not think they are "comorbidities" at this point, just morbidities). If I had not taken the test, I probably would have gone to the game Friday night for the guys weekend and just tried to kill whatever it is I had with tequila and Jack like in the pre-COVID Era (damn you, Chinese Commie Bastards).

The other patient is doing fine. More aggravated than anything and itching to get to Costco.
Good that you're on the upswing but it didn't seem to affect your posting.
And stop aggravating the other person.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 09, 2023, 10:45:25 AM
Good that you're on the upswing but it didn't seem to affect your posting.
And stop aggravating the other person.

I can play through the pain, like Jack Youngblood playing in the Super Bowl on a fractured leg.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 15, 2023, 09:34:51 PM
🤡 💀

https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1713560444135223730?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 15, 2023, 09:41:55 PM
🤡 💀

https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1713560444135223730?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

There was a story on this today. The chicks suing made shit up and the judge tossed the case, because, well, the other chicks voted the person in the sorority....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-trans-woman-joined-a-sorority-then-her-new-sisters-turned-on-her/ar-AA1icA06

Quote
“ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS,” it began.

The first thing they noticed were the pronouns — “she,” “her” — used by Judge Alan B. Johnson, an 84-year-old man who had been appointed during the Reagan administration.

The judge complained of having to wade through a lengthy “meandering” complaint in which the suing sorority sisters only “devote four-and-a-half pages to their actual claims.” He described some of their arguments as “plainly inaccurate.” He warned them that if they appealed or refiled the lawsuit they “should not copy and paste their complaint,” because of its weak arguments.

“With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the court will not define ‘woman’ today,” the judge concluded.

***

“The fact that this happened in a federal court in freaking Wyoming of all places. I can’t believe it!” she said. The national headquarters of Kappa Kappa Gamma sent a statement to The Washington Post applauding the judge’s “thoughtful and decisive ruling” upholding “a private organization’s right to choose their members.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 15, 2023, 09:54:13 PM
There was a story on this today. The chicks suing made shit up and the judge tossed the case, because, well, the other chicks voted the person in the sorority....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-trans-woman-joined-a-sorority-then-her-new-sisters-turned-on-her/ar-AA1icA06

Ok ok that makes more sense. My apologies…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 15, 2023, 10:01:08 PM
Ok ok that makes more sense. My apologies…

It is ok. It was a fucked up story in the media so it is understandable. At least you were man enough, Judge Judy, to admit maybe you were wrong. Unlike some other people around here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 15, 2023, 10:02:49 PM
Yes, I was wrong and I have compassion for her and the way she was treated. I had not seen that article/story before. Makes sense now…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 30, 2023, 02:46:06 PM
https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1718932851461087311

wow that is one ugly piece of shit fountain

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 30, 2023, 02:51:02 PM
https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1718932851461087311

wow that is one ugly piece of shit fountain

Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 03, 2023, 02:42:41 PM
So the math nerd gets prison? The subprime mortgage fraudsters got bailouts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 14, 2023, 09:43:03 AM
🤡 here’s your woke liberals in this country at work…

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1724429993416049008?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

And this is a great response to how fucked up our country is right now 💯

https://x.com/the4ourthbranch/status/1724431415670960617?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 14, 2023, 12:42:11 PM
That should go in the what is wrong with the left thread. They are not as insanely wrong as the right, but they let themselves be distracted by this utter foolishness.

Then the other stuff the right says about them -- like teaching CRT in grade school -- sticks.

Meanwhile, the left should be focusing on things that actually matter, like improving healthcare. public transportation, and education. Continuing to reform law enforcement and criminal justice. Fighting back against voter suppression, xenophobia, originalism ...

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 14, 2023, 12:48:39 PM
That should go in the what is wrong with the left thread. They are not as insanely wrong as the right, but they let themselves be distracted by this utter foolishness.

Then the other stuff the right says about them -- like teaching CRT in grade school -- sticks.

Meanwhile, the left should be focusing on things that actually matter, like improving healthcare. public transportation, and education. Continuing to reform law enforcement and criminal justice. Fighting back against voter suppression, xenophobia, originalism ...

Fighting against the tendency to fuck Italian basketball players...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 14, 2023, 02:05:49 PM
There was a story on this today. The chicks suing made shit up and the judge tossed the case, because, well, the other chicks voted the person in the sorority....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-trans-woman-joined-a-sorority-then-her-new-sisters-turned-on-her/ar-AA1icA06

More Proof that women shouldn't vote.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 14, 2023, 04:16:28 PM
More Proof that women shouldn't vote.

Or talk football!!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 14, 2023, 06:42:39 PM
Fighting against the tendency to fuck Italian basketball players...

https://x.com/goldingbf/status/1724394311511371911?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 15, 2023, 08:35:15 AM
Make it all make sense while there's a RICO trial going on down the street.   ;D

The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections certified most of the local elections from Nov. 7 today after a complete recount of all ballots.
https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2023/11/14/fulton-ballot-recount-conducted-ahead-of-election-certification/

"Some absentee advanced voting ballots were not initially counted, Fulton County’s elections superintendent told the Board of Registration and Elections during its meeting on Nov. 14."
"The number of missed ballots was small, she said."

Mountain Park elections, with the most votes cast in Mountain Park elections being 468 for City Council, still had not been certified as of press time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 15, 2023, 09:23:53 AM
Make it all make sense while there's a RICO trial going on down the street.   ;D

The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections certified most of the local elections from Nov. 7 today after a complete recount of all ballots.
https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2023/11/14/fulton-ballot-recount-conducted-ahead-of-election-certification/

"Some absentee advanced voting ballots were not initially counted, Fulton County’s elections superintendent told the Board of Registration and Elections during its meeting on Nov. 14."
"The number of missed ballots was small, she said."

Mountain Park elections, with the most votes cast in Mountain Park elections being 468 for City Council, still had not been certified as of press time.

Probably too busy responding to FOIA requests from crackpots to have the time to actually do their other duties. I'm sure they will get to it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 15, 2023, 10:03:30 AM
Meanwhile, 200 miles south ......

Originally posted 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, 2023

Updated 9:56 p.m. Nov. 7, 2023

VALDOSTA — Election officials are blaming a vote-counting discrepancy on state-mandated software that failed to completely load votes from Precinct 10, which votes at the Lowndes County Civic Center.

"Officials reported 4,492 ballots had been cast -- but said they believed that number was wrong. The three candidates for Valdosta mayor totaled 4,905 votes while the at-large city council seat's four candidates totaled 4,713.

About 8:45 p.m., officials updated the turnout numbers to show 5,450 ballots had been cast.

After officials re-uploaded the Precinct 10 ballots, the total of ballots cast was recorded as 5,758."
https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/update-software-blamed-for-miscount-in-valdosta/article_f655305c-7dcd-11ee-80c3-c703a772f627.html

🤡🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 15, 2023, 11:55:56 AM
🤡 here’s your woke liberals in this country at work…

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1724429993416049008?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

And this is a great response to how fucked up our country is right now 💯

https://x.com/the4ourthbranch/status/1724431415670960617?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

"In California, you can get all the fentanyl you want and poop on public streets, but don’t you dare let a kid wear face paint for a sport"

There's actually a shortage of fentanyl in CA, the red states cornered the market
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 15, 2023, 12:20:29 PM
"In California, you can get all the fentanyl you want and poop on public streets, but don’t you dare let a kid wear face paint for a sport"

There's actually a shortage of fentanyl in CA, the red states cornered the market

The old saying, "Don't confuse them with  facts ..."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 15, 2023, 12:37:40 PM
In the other thread, we talked about replacing migrant workers with laid off Americans. I

This has been a few years. We had one of the boy's girl friends over for a BBQ. We roasted a whole chicken. She said, "Oh, is this where chicken pieces come from?"

The young lady is a college grad and an office manager. She was also surprised by our garden. For example, didn't know onions and garlic grew in the dirt.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 15, 2023, 12:39:42 PM
This has been a few years. We had one of the boy's girl friends over for a BBQ. We roasted a whole chicken. She said, "Oh, is this where chicken pieces come from?"

The young lady is a college grad and an office manager. She was also surprised by our garden. For example, didn't know onions and garlic grew in the dirt.

Lol. So, your son (who I presume is 80 years old) is dating an absolute moron. You must be stoked about that.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 15, 2023, 12:53:46 PM
Lol. So, your son (who I presume is 80 years old) is dating an absolute moron. You must be stoked about that.

Was dating. That has been quite a few years. She is married and has kids now. Still hot though.

Far from a moron, she is highly educated and from a fairly upscale family. She always ate restaurant food or had meals prepared for her. She calls a frozen pizza baked in one of those ovens "home made."

She was simply ignorant about where food comes from. Chicken comes already cut up, breaded, and fried.
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 15, 2023, 01:03:26 PM
Was dating. That has been quite a few years. She is married and has kids now. Still hot though.

Far from a moron, she is highly educated and from a fairly upscale family. She always ate restaurant food or had meals prepared for her. She calls a frozen pizza baked in one of those ovens "home made."

She was simply ignorant about where food comes from. Chicken comes already cut up, breaded, and fried.

Sounds to me like he dodged a bullet. Maybe you should try to fuck her. I don't know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 15, 2023, 01:04:54 PM
Did you try to bang her? probably not. Was she ok being called "her"?

btw what town you live in so i can call you a moron on Saturday?

Do you have separate bathrooms for males and females at home?

Do you know what single occupancy means?

I don't hit on my son's girl friends / wives.

I live in elsewhere. I am not from anywhere.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 15, 2023, 01:08:27 PM
Sounds to me like he dodged a bullet. Maybe you should try to fuck her. I don't know.

I am trying to imagine someone like her trying to replace a migrant farm worker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 15, 2023, 01:38:58 PM
Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 15, 2023, 01:41:37 PM
Meanwhile, 200 miles south ......

Originally posted 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, 2023

Updated 9:56 p.m. Nov. 7, 2023

VALDOSTA — Election officials are blaming a vote-counting discrepancy on state-mandated software that failed to completely load votes from Precinct 10, which votes at the Lowndes County Civic Center.

"Officials reported 4,492 ballots had been cast -- but said they believed that number was wrong. The three candidates for Valdosta mayor totaled 4,905 votes while the at-large city council seat's four candidates totaled 4,713.

About 8:45 p.m., officials updated the turnout numbers to show 5,450 ballots had been cast.

After officials re-uploaded the Precinct 10 ballots, the total of ballots cast was recorded as 5,758."
https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/update-software-blamed-for-miscount-in-valdosta/article_f655305c-7dcd-11ee-80c3-c703a772f627.html

🤡🤡

The Republican warned us about this stuff! Yet the ones in GA seem to be the ones perpetrating it with the mandated software!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 22, 2023, 06:27:08 PM
Merry Xmas bozos!

Just took a photo of the story on WAND of your Governor Pritzker to post here, but the file size is  too large to post here! Put your Governor on a diet and you too can have a stud like Newsom!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on December 22, 2023, 10:49:22 PM
Merry Xmas bozos!

Just took a photo of the story on WAND of your Governor Pritzker to post here, but the file size is  too large to post here! Put your Governor on a diet and you too can have a stud like Newsom!
Newsom is an idiot.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 22, 2023, 11:04:50 PM
Looks like Murph took a field trip to Russian River today
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 23, 2023, 01:07:50 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/Bvs5tR74/IMG-6036.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/9D8wngjn)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 23, 2023, 01:09:02 PM
Shocked you’d joke about such serious business
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on December 24, 2023, 04:48:34 AM
Shocked you’d joke about such serious business

Next thing you know, he’ll be eating at Chik-fil-a and shopping at Hobby Lobby.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 24, 2023, 11:25:02 AM
Next thing you know, he’ll be eating at Chik-fil-a and shopping at Hobby Lobby.

Exactly! And going to DeSantis rallies with the Golf
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 24, 2023, 06:00:22 PM
Newsom is an idiot.

But not a fat idiot
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 24, 2023, 06:01:51 PM
Looks like Murph took a field trip to Russian River today

I did bring some Pliny through customs at STL then smuggled it over the Mississippi
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 08, 2024, 06:23:36 AM
Biden is looking forward to Austin getting back to work after the Secretary of Defense went AWOL for a week, while the unaware of the situation Deputy Secretary was on vaca in Puerto Rico.

That's what they're going with.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 08, 2024, 07:34:26 AM
Biden is looking forward to Austin getting back to work after the Secretary of Defense went AWOL for a week, while the unaware of the situation Deputy Secretary was on vaca in Puerto Rico.

That's what they're going with.

Sorry Mn, we cannot change defense secretaries or presidents because the next ones may be worse.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 09, 2024, 05:20:43 PM
Sorry Mn, we cannot change defense secretaries or presidents because the next ones may be worse.

Reference: Mattis -> Esper
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 09, 2024, 06:14:40 PM
Biden is looking forward to Austin getting back to work after the Secretary of Defense went AWOL for a week, while the unaware of the situation Deputy Secretary was on vaca in Puerto Rico.

That's what they're going with.

An unforced error that was poorly handled.  Having said that, prostates are hilarious... until you turn 50.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 09, 2024, 06:51:07 PM
Just one of those things, no big deal. No harm, no foul.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 11, 2024, 05:21:46 PM
🤡

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1745480579624120648?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 11, 2024, 07:04:33 PM
No mention that the school was used as a temporary emergency shelter from a storm for migrant families with children.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 08:08:44 AM
The editorial opinion in today's fishwrap is a reprint of a Jan 10 editorial in the Chicago Tribune.

'Trump should not be allowed to run for President because he would not sign a pledge ruled unconstitutional by the courts.'

That's it. Nothing to see here.
🤡🤡🤡🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 08:23:22 AM
The editorial opinion in today's fishwrap is a reprint of a Jan 10 editorial in the Chicago Tribune.

'Trump should not be allowed to run for President because he would not sign a pledge ruled unconstitutional by the courts.'

That's it. Nothing to see here.
🤡🤡🤡🤡

The venture capitalists running what's left of the Tribune company apparently think they have it good under Sleepy Joe.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 08:47:23 AM
The venture capitalists running what's left of the Tribune company apparently think they have it good under Sleepy Joe.
I'm having a difficult time believing that what I read was actually put in black and white in major metropolitan newspapers in the United States.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 08:51:47 AM
I'm having a difficult time believing that what I read was actually put in black and white in major metropolitan newspapers in the United States.

I see you are longing for the good ol' days of the MSM media. Blame the venture capitalists now running the newspapers in America.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on January 15, 2024, 08:55:05 AM
I see you are longing for the good ol' days of the MSM media. Blame the venture capitalists now running the newspapers in America.

Deregulation at it's finest. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 15, 2024, 11:12:07 AM
Things were different back in the 1800s.

(https://i.ibb.co/k4HSFrZ/IMG-3835.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Mc2CLjd)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 12:11:26 PM
The press is reverting back to the early days of The Republic where each newspaper was  an organ of political parties.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 15, 2024, 12:53:26 PM
I see you are longing for the good ol' days of the MSM media. Blame the venture capitalists now running the newspapers in America.

I remember when there were four daily newspapers in Chicago in the late 60s:  Daily News, Sun-Times, Tribune, and Today (formerly the American).  Very competitive; hard-nosed reporting; no-nonsense columnists; and a wide range of editorial opinion.         
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 01:36:10 PM
I remember when the 1st Amendment .....

Ah, forget it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 02:22:18 PM
I remember when the 1st Amendment .....

Ah, forget it.

LOL. Jefferson used his newspapers to basically defame Washington when he was Washington's VP and Washington had no clue Jefferson was behind it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 02:38:14 PM
LOL. Jefferson used his newspapers to basically defame Washington when he was Washington's VP and Washington had no clue Jefferson was behind it.
LOL. Advocating for disregarding protections afforded by the 1st Amendment when those protections have been upheld by the courts in this particular matter is the issue.
The Editorial Board can support whomever they damn well please.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 02:49:18 PM
LOL. Advocating for disregarding protections afforded by the 1st Amendment when those protections have been upheld by the courts in this particular matter is the issue.
The Editorial Board can support whomever they damn well please.

As we have seen recently, the Courts are open to changing their minds when it comes to longstanding precedent.  It was not that long ago people were kicked off the ballots, or denied law licenses, for not signing those things, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 03:30:08 PM
As we have seen recently, the Courts are open to changing their minds when it comes to longstanding precedent.  It was not that long ago people were kicked off the ballots, or denied law licenses, for not signing those things, right?
The courts didn't change their minds on this one tho. The Tribune is trying, and looks to be succeeding in some people's minds.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 03:35:06 PM
The courts didn't change their minds on this one tho. The Tribune is trying, and looks to be succeeding in some people's minds.

Not yet on the 1st. Second, I doubt it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 03:59:31 PM
Not yet on the 1st. Second, I doubt it.
The 2nd has absolutely nothing to do with the Chicago Tribune editorial.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 04:11:16 PM
The 2nd has absolutely nothing to do with the Chicago Tribune editorial.

LOL. Who's on 1st. What's on 2d. I don't know who's on 3d.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 04:16:47 PM
LOL. Who's on 1st. What's on 2d. I don't know who's on 3d.
The 3rd might be safe for a while.
The 4th ? It's shot already.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2024, 05:56:44 PM
The above conversation is unintelligible.

It makes sense Trump refused to sign a loyalty oath. Look at the heritage foundation's project 2025. Trump is fairly straightforward about what he intends to do.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 06:00:39 PM
The above conversation is unintelligible.

It makes sense Trump refused to sign a loyalty oath. Look at the heritage foundation's project 2025. Trump is fairly straightforward about what he intends to do.

I do not care is actually the shortstop.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2024, 06:01:28 PM
The 3rd might be safe for a while.
The 4th ? It's shot already.

The 4th A is "shot." Was that intentional?

I like "We have the right to bare arms."

In NYC, women have the right to bare more than their arms.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2024, 06:03:59 PM
I do not care is actually the shortstop.

You'll be signing a loyalty to Trump oath.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 07:08:50 PM
The above conversation is unintelligible.

It makes sense Trump refused to sign a loyalty oath. Look at the heritage foundation's project 2025. Trump is fairly straightforward about what he intends to do.
Does the editorial say 'Trump should not be allowed to run for President because he would not sign a pledge ruled unconstitutional by the courts.' ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2024, 07:21:05 PM
Does the editorial say 'Trump should not be allowed to run for President because he would not sign a pledge ruled unconstitutional by the courts.' ?

Project 2025 is not an editorial. It is a radical plan of action. A loyalty oath might be considered inconsistent with the goals.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 08:10:49 PM
Project 2025 is not an editorial. It is a radical plan of action. A loyalty oath might be considered inconsistent with the goals.
And Trump had whores piss on a hotel bed in Russia and knew about the Russian bounties on soldiers in Afghanistan.

Does the editorial say 'Trump should not be allowed to run for President because he would not sign a pledge ruled unconstitutional by the courts.' ?
Or is this simply acceptable because Trump will get us into wars and tweet mean things ?

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2024, 08:40:26 PM
Custard. Feel free to move this to the appropriate thread if needed.

(https://i.ibb.co/pLtkByq/Screenshot-20240115-203528.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZMnbpm9)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2024, 09:26:35 PM
Project 2025 is a radical plan of action put together by the heritage foundation.

A loyalty oath might be considered inconsistent with the goals.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2024, 09:41:08 PM
Custard. Feel free to move this to the appropriate thread if needed.

(https://i.ibb.co/pLtkByq/Screenshot-20240115-203528.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZMnbpm9)

Now that is something we can all agree on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 15, 2024, 10:38:12 PM
Seems like it fits in here quite nicely. Pretty remarkable how our own intelligence agencies have been weaponized against our own people for generations. It’s almost certainly happening now, even outside the scope of the normal NSA spying in the name of the Patriot Act BS. People who try to shine a light on this stuff…well you know what happens to them. Just doesn’t get talked about.

And people wonder why I don’t trust the goddamned news. If you didn’t see it yourself or implicitly trust someone who did, it might as well be political fan fiction.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 16, 2024, 11:23:35 AM
Custard. Feel free to move this to the appropriate thread if needed.

(https://i.ibb.co/pLtkByq/Screenshot-20240115-203528.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZMnbpm9)

The Republicans also held the White House when they US fought against the Confederacy and turned Robert E Lee into a Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey - now they protest the removal of statues of Robert E Lee.

Times change.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 16, 2024, 04:42:42 PM
The Republicans also held the White House when they US fought against the Confederacy and turned Robert E Lee into a Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey - now they protest the removal of statues of Robert E Lee.

Times change.

Holding institutions for their past transgressions is an interesting topic.

Do we blame the current FBI for the excesses of the Hoover era? 

Are modern Calvinist protestants responsible for  the Salem Witch Trials?

Is the current Roman Catholic Church responsible for Inquisitions and crusades.

Does the United States government owe reparations to the descendants of slaves and Jim Crow victims. How about extant corporations that profited from slavery?

Is the United States responsible for the harm the CIA et al caused in central and south america?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 16, 2024, 05:08:59 PM
Holding institutions for their past transgressions is an interesting topic.

Is the current Roman Catholic Church responsible for Inquisitions and crusades.

Does the United States government owe reparations to the descendants of slaves and Jim Crow victims. How about extant corporations that profited from slavery?


I'll stick to asking if the current Roman Catholic Church is responsible for covering up pedophilia amongst it's priests.

The US Government has a generalized responsibility to give more opportunity to people who have less opportunity than others because the playing field is not level. It isn't a coincidence that the descendants of slaves (and African Americans who have arrived post slavery) happen to be on the less level portion of that playing field, but even if it were, it's still the government's responsibility in a country whose mantra is that All Men Are Created Equal.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 16, 2024, 06:01:26 PM
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-underwear-clad-man-crashes-dick-morriss-live-shot-on-newsmax/

Well, Dick Morris was not sucking toes live on air, at least.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 19, 2024, 06:45:19 AM
If the FBI was asking banks for account holder transactions with Cabelas and Dicks etc along with purchases of religious texts, which religions were they targeting if they were looking for "extremists" ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 19, 2024, 12:50:42 PM
If the FBI was asking banks for account holder transactions with Cabelas and Dicks etc along with purchases of religious texts, which religions were they targeting if they were looking for "extremists" ?

Hopefully the armed wack job Christians. The armed wack job Muslims probably used cash.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 19, 2024, 02:11:21 PM
Hopefully the armed wack job Christians. The armed wack job Muslims probably used cash.
Family of God fearing devout Christians are terrified when FBI SWAT team wakes them at 6am looking for newly purchased Bible would make for a great headline.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 22, 2024, 04:18:48 PM
I found this a good metaphor for this year and had my buddy snap a photo
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on January 22, 2024, 06:57:26 PM
Quote
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that Border Patrol agents *are* allowed to remove razor wire installed by Texas.

What a great time to start bombing Yemen today as well.


USA is just winning so much these days
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on January 22, 2024, 07:50:38 PM
If the FBI was asking banks for account holder transactions with Cabelas and Dicks etc along with purchases of religious texts, which religions were they targeting if they were looking for "extremists" ?

The one with the Bank Dicks.  If indeed they were asking. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 02, 2024, 01:50:52 AM
https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1753191060380275134?s=20

Maybe he should pass a resolution for a cease fire in the city he's mayor of first?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 02, 2024, 02:52:31 AM
The late Rush Limbaugh called shit like that symbolism over substance. That is one of the things he got half right.

I don't know why the right gets all het up over it. Symbolic gestures are rooted in nice thoughts and spread good will. They are roughly the liberal equivalent, serve pretty much the same purpose, and are about as equally effective as sending thoughts and prayers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 02, 2024, 07:56:48 AM
https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1753191060380275134?s=20

Maybe he should pass a resolution for a cease fire in the city he's mayor of first?
Calling for a cease fire in school zones may be a good start, when be is not, allegedly, having to go to the hospital for panic attacks.

But it did its job of taking the attention away from his bungling of everything else.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 08:58:52 AM
The late Rush Limbaugh called shit like that symbolism over substance. That is one of the things he got half right.

I don't know why the right gets all het up over it. Symbolic gestures are rooted in nice thoughts and spread good will. They are roughly the liberal equivalent, serve pretty much the same purpose, and are about as equally effective as sending thoughts and prayers.

I think people on the right get upset about it because it’s the SOP for a lot of liberals in office.

Having a bleeding heart and wanting to help people is good.

Putting shitty symbolic half baked policies into law that favor criminals at the expense of the law abiding is bad. Same goes for some of the bad legislature around the environment and pollution and other regulations.

Activity doesn’t equal accomplishment. Virtue signaling is just that: a signal. It accomplishes nothing. It is posturing in its purest form and is a complete waste of time and energy. Pass good legislation and strike a balance.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 02, 2024, 09:14:12 AM
Minneapolis did the resolution in support of a ceasefire as one of their first actions after assuming office.
The mayor vetoed it.
Now there will be debate on whether to override the position of the, it shouldn't have to come to this, mayor who is Jewish.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 02, 2024, 10:49:30 AM

Activity doesn’t equal accomplishment. Virtue signaling is just that: a signal. It accomplishes nothing. It is posturing in its purest form and is a complete waste of time and energy. Pass good legislation and strike a balance.

As the wise man said - "Thoughts and prayers"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 11:01:44 AM
At least a prayer is a private wish for a miracle.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 02, 2024, 11:08:08 AM
At least a prayer is a private wish for a miracle.

I see that like me, you deleted your twitter account and don't watch FOX news
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 11:14:52 AM
I do have a dummy Twitter account I use to troll people on occasion and I haven’t watched cable news ever. Occasionally I will watch part of the local network news if it comes on after a ball game or something else.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 02, 2024, 11:21:29 AM
At least a prayer is a private wish for a miracle.

When it is posted or uttered publicly after a tragedy, it is just another worthless virtue signal (yes, I know that is redundant).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 02, 2024, 11:22:07 AM
I do have a dummy Twitter account I use to troll people on occasion and I haven’t watched cable news ever. Occasionally I will watch part of the local network news if it comes on after a ball game or something else.

And Tempo thought that was Jobu trolling him this whole time.....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 11:33:43 AM
When it is posted or uttered publicly after a tragedy, it is just another worthless virtue signal (yes, I know that is redundant).

The powerless setting up a made for TV press conference to demand a cease fire on the other side of the world is a little different than someone telling someone else that they have their thoughts and prayers after a tragedy. If that same someone does a press conference to get TV coverage for offering their condolences, then yeah that’s also bullshit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 02, 2024, 11:40:03 AM
The powerless setting up a made for TV press conference to demand a cease fire on the other side of the world is a little different than someone telling someone else that they have their thoughts and prayers after a tragedy. If that same someone does a press conference to get TV coverage for offering their condolences, then yeah that’s also bullshit.

It is still all virtue signaling, whether it is over 30 kids being shot at school or a terrorist controlled strip of land the size of Las Vegas.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 12:03:33 PM
I can’t agree that all condolence offering is virtue signaling
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 02, 2024, 12:07:33 PM
The powerless setting up a made for TV press conference to demand a cease fire on the other side of the world is a little different than someone telling someone else that they have their thoughts and prayers after a tragedy. If that same someone does a press conference to get TV coverage for offering their condolences, then yeah that’s also bullshit.

Doing something useless vs telling someone "We actively reject doing something meanigful"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 02, 2024, 01:33:25 PM
I can’t agree that all condolence offering is virtue signaling

What has anyone offering thoughts and prayers done about kids getting shot in or outside of schools other than offering thoughts and prayers? Nada. That's virtue signaling right up there with Gaza Ceasefire resolutions.

I didn't say all offers of condolences were virtue signaling....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 02:16:30 PM
They’re not trying to get a cease fire in Gaza or stop school shootings by offering condolences
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 02, 2024, 02:41:23 PM
They’re not trying to get a cease fire in Gaza or stop school shootings by offering condolences

Are they really offering condolences though? I remain skeptical. It is just something to say/post and move on with their day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 02:46:06 PM
Seems kinda sociopathic but sure

If it’s a publicity stunt then I’d question the motives but not so much in a funeral line or in person
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 02, 2024, 02:48:15 PM
Seems kinda sociopathic but sure

If it’s a publicity stunt then I’d question the motives but not so much in a funeral line or in person

We appear to be discussing different scenarios.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 03:11:02 PM
Guess we’ll just have to disagree to agree
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 02, 2024, 03:29:49 PM
I really do find it hilarious that the snowflakes are claiming the NFL rigged the playoffs to get Taylor Swift's boyfriend into the mix to help Joe Biden - given that all 31 owners (modulo the Packers distributed ownership) are billionaires and among some of the biggest donors to Trump
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2024, 05:05:17 PM
Is that really a thing?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 02, 2024, 06:30:08 PM
Are they really offering condolences though? I remain skeptical. It is just something to say/post and move on with their day.

I think it's all about feeling better, feeling like they did something about a hopeless mess. It enough people virtue signal / offer thoughts and prayers / make symbolic gestures/ spread good will, maybe things will be less fucked up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 02, 2024, 07:23:07 PM
Who hasn't been told,

"Our thoughts and prayers are with you. If you need anything at all, please don't hesitate to ask."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 03, 2024, 11:56:21 AM
That’s a lot more sincere and beneficial than a made for tv moral grandstanding
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 03, 2024, 12:15:36 PM
Who hasn't been told,

"Our thoughts and prayers are with you. If you need anything at all, please don't hesitate to ask."
This is what I said to my neighbor this morning after her husband was hauled away in an ambulance last night .
She thanked me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 03, 2024, 12:21:15 PM
This is what I said to my neighbor this morning after her husband was hauled away in an ambulance last night .
She thanked me.

It's a kind thing to say.

I have been told that. I don't ever actually ask for anything. If I need help, a close friend or family member is already there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 03, 2024, 05:46:30 PM
Weird hill to die on but ok
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 03, 2024, 05:48:47 PM
Thoughts and prayers for this discussion
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 03, 2024, 06:26:23 PM
Thoughts and prayers for this discussion

A lot of my cliches are sincere and well intended, theirs are cynical virtue signaling.

I am saying they are all well intended.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 05, 2024, 08:54:28 AM
I suppose this goes here, not that I have anything against geese tho. Except when they shit all over the place.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1754047131382378914
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 05, 2024, 09:12:39 AM
It's a kind thing to say.

I have been told that. I don't ever actually ask for anything. If I need help, a close friend or family member is already there.

But if you didn’t have a friend or a family member to help, you could have called them and they’d have helped. Which is more useful and sincere than publicity stunts and platitudes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 06, 2024, 02:24:52 PM
Sorry biological broads, you are not as good at volleyball as non-biological broads....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051969/Outrage-FIVE-transgender-students-dominate-volleyball-court-womens-college-varsity-game-biological-females-kicked-bench.html

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 06, 2024, 06:13:23 PM
Sorry biological broads, you are not as good at volleyball as non-biological broads....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051969/Outrage-FIVE-transgender-students-dominate-volleyball-court-womens-college-varsity-game-biological-females-kicked-bench.html

Wow no way  😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on February 06, 2024, 06:51:57 PM
Sorry biological broads, you are not as good at volleyball as non-biological broads....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051969/Outrage-FIVE-transgender-students-dominate-volleyball-court-womens-college-varsity-game-biological-females-kicked-bench.html
OM F-ING G!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 06, 2024, 07:28:47 PM
Sorry biological broads, you are not as good at volleyball as non-biological broads....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051969/Outrage-FIVE-transgender-students-dominate-volleyball-court-womens-college-varsity-game-biological-females-kicked-bench.html


Is that a problem ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 06, 2024, 07:57:17 PM
Thoughts and prayers to those women who suffered head injuries
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 06, 2024, 11:08:39 PM
Thoughts and prayers to those women who suffered head injuries

If they need anything at all they shouldn't hesitate to call Custard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 07, 2024, 12:11:58 AM
If they need anything at all they shouldn't hesitate to call Custard.

Couldn’t agree more!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 07, 2024, 10:07:38 AM
If they need anything at all they shouldn't hesitate to call Custard.

Or me !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 12, 2024, 01:37:37 PM
Story seems to have something for everyone....


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna138426

Shooter at Joel Osteen’s megachurch used rifle bearing the word ‘Palestine,’ officials say
The shooter was identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, but a motive for the incident at Lakewood Church in Houston remains unclear.

The shooter, identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, also made several statements during the course of the incident, but the officials declined to describe them. Law enforcement officials added that Moreno previously went by another, male name.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 12, 2024, 02:20:43 PM
Story seems to have something for everyone....


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna138426

Shooter at Joel Osteen’s megachurch used rifle bearing the word ‘Palestine,’ officials say
The shooter was identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, but a motive for the incident at Lakewood Church in Houston remains unclear.

The shooter, identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, also made several statements during the course of the incident, but the officials declined to describe them. Law enforcement officials added that Moreno previously went by another, male name.

ain't that the truth haha!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on February 12, 2024, 02:47:16 PM
Story seems to have something for everyone....


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna138426

Shooter at Joel Osteen’s megachurch used rifle bearing the word ‘Palestine,’ officials say
The shooter was identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, but a motive for the incident at Lakewood Church in Houston remains unclear.

The shooter, identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, also made several statements during the course of the incident, but the officials declined to describe them. Law enforcement officials added that Moreno previously went by another, male name.
Husband's family is Jewish from afternoon news reports.
So you have to have the 7 year old son there with you and he gets a bullet wound to the head?
She got past the security at the entrance with an AR15 plus a .22 rifle in a bag. ???


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 12, 2024, 10:54:12 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/FHm6SKK/Screenshot-20240212-123918-2.png) (https://ibb.co/km5KRxx)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 13, 2024, 10:09:06 PM
John Cleese has an anti-woke show on a conservative channel now? 🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 14, 2024, 12:04:52 PM
John Cleese has an anti-woke show on a conservative channel now? 🤣

What show, what channel?

He is clearly not a fan of censorship and cancel culture. Seems to align with SDP.

He needs money.

Thinks Americans don't get irony.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 15, 2024, 02:49:31 PM
Wow, that discrepancy is insane! But these facts are racist! 🤡

https://x.com/anthonycumia/status/1757990989262627085?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

https://x.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/1758030980399645128?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 15, 2024, 03:47:50 PM
Wow, that discrepancy is insane! But these facts are racist! 🤡

https://x.com/anthonycumia/status/1757990989262627085?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

https://x.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/1758030980399645128?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Shocking that people with less money on average, are more involved in crime than people with more money. Run the same stats based on average income....

But solving that problem would require giving more opportunity to them black folks so...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 15, 2024, 04:11:18 PM
Shocking that people with less money on average, are more involved in crime than people with more money. Run the same stats based on average income....

But solving that problem would require giving more opportunity to them black folks so...

Ja Morant and a host of others say hi 😂 it’s a cultural issue. Rap music encourages it, along with many more derogatory action and degrading of society. Don’t play dumb. I’m not afraid to say it. The longer rap sheet you have the more you’re respected in that culture. It’s truly sickening.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 15, 2024, 06:36:56 PM
Ja Morant and a host of others say hi 😂 it’s a cultural issue. Rap music encourages it, along with many more derogatory action and degrading of society. Don’t play dumb. I’m not afraid to say it. The longer rap sheet you have the more you’re respected in that culture. It’s truly sickening.

We don’t talk about that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 16, 2024, 10:36:46 AM
Ja Morant and a host of others say hi 😂 it’s a cultural issue. Rap music encourages it, along with many more derogatory action and degrading of society. Don’t play dumb. I’m not afraid to say it. The longer rap sheet you have the more you’re respected in that culture. It’s truly sickening.

Songs like
"I got friends in low places"
"Folsom Prison Blues"
"Cedartown, Georgia"
"Red Headed Stranger"
"Don't Take Your Guns to Town"
and don't forget
"Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on February 16, 2024, 11:10:39 AM
Songs like
"I got friends in low places"
"Folsom Prison Blues"
"Cedartown, Georgia"
"Red Headed Stranger"
"Don't Take Your Guns to Town"
and don't forget
"Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"


"Me and My Uncle"
"Mama Tried"
"You Never even call me by my Name"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 16, 2024, 12:46:15 PM
Songs like
"I got friends in low places"
"Folsom Prison Blues"
"Cedartown, Georgia"
"Red Headed Stranger"
"Don't Take Your Guns to Town"
and don't forget
"Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"

Some of my personal favorites:

"They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore"
"Get Your Biscuits in the Oven.and Your Buns in the Bed"
"We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You"
"Screw You, We're from Texas"
"New Year's Eve at the Gates of Hell"
"Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 16, 2024, 12:46:31 PM

"Me and My Uncle"
"Mama Tried"
"You Never even call me by my Name"

Big Iron
El Paso
Run ****** Run
****** in the Woodpile
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 16, 2024, 03:29:18 PM
Racist white people recorded racist songs a long time ago so it’s ok that modern black music glorifies violence, misogyny, drug abuse, and other socially reckless norms. Cool.

Remember this conversation happening years ago at OGHQ and Tempo said these gangsta rappers were just reflecting the culture they grew up in and witnessed. And I suppose they were/are, in the exact same way the hillbillies that wrote all these other songs were reflecting their upbringing.

In this classic case of whataboutism, we once again apply selective accountability with a healthy dose of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 16, 2024, 04:27:05 PM
Racist white people recorded racist songs a long time ago so it’s ok that modern black music glorifies violence, misogyny, drug abuse, and other socially reckless norms. Cool.

Remember this conversation happening years ago at OGHQ and Tempo said these gangsta rappers were just reflecting the culture they grew up in and witnessed. And I suppose they were/are, in the exact same way the hillbillies that wrote all these other songs were reflecting their upbringing.

In this classic case of whataboutism, we once again apply selective accountability with a healthy dose of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Red Solo Cup
Gin n Juice
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 16, 2024, 04:58:15 PM
Racist white people recorded racist songs a long time ago so it’s ok that modern black music glorifies violence, misogyny, drug abuse, and other socially reckless norms. Cool.

Remember this conversation happening years ago at OGHQ and Tempo said these gangsta rappers were just reflecting the culture they grew up in and witnessed. And I suppose they were/are, in the exact same way the hillbillies that wrote all these other songs were reflecting their upbringing.

In this classic case of whataboutism, we once again apply selective accountability with a healthy dose of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Someone is still honked off that gangsta rapper Eminem told blowhard Libertarian turned Trumper, Vivek Ramaswamy, to find a new introduction song for his rallies.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 16, 2024, 05:37:51 PM
 Is it me, or do libertarians tend to be covert bigots?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on February 16, 2024, 06:43:39 PM
Racist white people recorded racist songs a long time ago so it’s ok that modern black music glorifies violence, misogyny, drug abuse, and other socially reckless norms. Cool.

Remember this conversation happening years ago at OGHQ and Tempo said these gangsta rappers were just reflecting the culture they grew up in and witnessed. And I suppose they were/are, in the exact same way the hillbillies that wrote all these other songs were reflecting their upbringing.

In this classic case of whataboutism, we once again apply selective accountability with a healthy dose of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

"We're the most entertained and the least informed people on the planet"  Ted Kennedy 2007   This cuts both ways.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 17, 2024, 08:19:47 AM
Is it me, or do libertarians tend to be covert bigots?

Aren't you a closet libertarian?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 17, 2024, 01:44:42 PM
Aren't you a closet libertarian?

It's like its far opposite communism. Both sound good in theory, but don't work in practice.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 17, 2024, 01:47:56 PM
i like 90s country
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 17, 2024, 02:43:02 PM
wouldn't surprise me if the three clowns on here like taylor swift. probably while drinking their starcucks while screaming "yasssssssssss queen" with their BLM sticker on their electric car


fucking jokes

All hail Empress Swift!!!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 17, 2024, 03:20:50 PM
All hail Empress Swift!!!

His posts have a short shelf life.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 17, 2024, 04:06:00 PM
I got a chuckle out of that one
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 17, 2024, 04:07:58 PM
But solving that problem would require giving more opportunity to them black folks so...

Why don’t you help out by hiring a bunch of them at Nvidia and letting 10-12 of them live at each of your properties
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 17, 2024, 05:08:27 PM
His posts have a short shelf life.

The right wingers here are highly skilled at bundling their grievances.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 17, 2024, 06:42:30 PM
So glad the left doesn’t do that, I couldn’t handle it if both sides were.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 17, 2024, 11:01:19 PM
Any of you lefties even heard about the farmer protests in Europe?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 18, 2024, 12:42:50 AM
The right wingers here are highly skilled at bundling their grievances.

https://x.com/Motabhai012/status/1759033315708059749?s=20
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 18, 2024, 08:50:22 AM
So glad the left doesn’t do that, I couldn’t handle it if both sides were.

Is this an example of whataboutism?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 18, 2024, 10:25:01 AM
It'S A ComPLiMeNT  ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 18, 2024, 10:41:51 AM
I am just super relieved the left keeps their grievances to themselves. Frankly I’m not even sure what they are, and I’d like to keep it that way!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 18, 2024, 11:11:01 AM
I am just super relieved the left keeps their grievances to themselves. Frankly I’m not even sure what they are, and I’d like to keep it that way!

Looks like I touched a nerve.  I was commenting on a specific post from frankiew, and Custard runs immediately to his safe space: “both sides do it”.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 18, 2024, 11:14:35 AM
I am just super relieved the left keeps their grievances to themselves. Frankly I’m not even sure what they are, and I’d like to keep it that way!

So the short answer is "Yes.' A longer answer would be noting the hypocrisy, which is what "whataboutism" generally is.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 21, 2024, 11:24:28 AM
Any of you lefties even heard about the farmer protests in Europe?
You're referring to the uppity farmers in NATO countries who are on the wrong side of sound energy policy and Ukrainian imports ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 21, 2024, 12:23:09 PM
You're referring to the uppity farmers in NATO countries who are on the wrong side of sound energy policy and Ukrainian imports ?

Exactly!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 21, 2024, 01:34:17 PM
Looks like I touched a nerve.  I was commenting on a specific post from frankiew, and Custard runs immediately to his safe space: “both sides do it”.

The notion that bundling grievances is some uniquely right wing behavior is absolutely preposterous. The Declaration of Independence is a bundle of grievances. Grievance bundling is basically the foundation of modern political discourse. The only way you could think that this isn’t a pervasive behavior is if you insulate yourself only in one side of the discourse, which is what most people do.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 21, 2024, 01:39:05 PM
Traditionally, it's conservatives who oppose democracy and want the masses to shut up and obey.

Liberals (Lenin's useful idiots) traditionally support democracy, liberty, property rights etc.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 21, 2024, 01:47:09 PM
What Europe looks like is fascists attempting to exploit grass roots discontents and nationalist sentiments.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 21, 2024, 01:54:29 PM
What Europe looks like is fascists attempting to exploit grass roots discontents and nationalist sentiments.

ever wonder why this would be?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 21, 2024, 02:22:18 PM
You're referring to the uppity farmers in NATO countries who are on the wrong side of sound energy policy and Ukrainian imports ?

https://www.vox.com/2024/2/3/24059767/french-farmers-protests-eu-brussels
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 21, 2024, 02:22:28 PM
They have probably gone too far with free market reforms.

Backlash against the excesses and failures of politically correct cancel culture woke progressivism

Culture clash with Islamic refugees

The fundamental flaws of humans; greed, anger, stupidity.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 21, 2024, 02:24:30 PM
They have probably gone too far with free market reforms.

Backlash against the excesses and failures of politically correct cancel culture woke progressivism

Culture clash with Islamic refugees

Was told we needed to respect other cultures, even those that treat women like property.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 22, 2024, 10:31:01 AM
Pretty sure Terminator warned us about SkyNet 40+ years ago, but here we are building it anyways.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 22, 2024, 11:06:41 AM
Pretty sure Terminator warned us about SkyNet 40+ years ago, but here we are building it anyways.

Thanks, Murph?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 22, 2024, 12:11:44 PM
He surely encoded it to protect the champagne liberals
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 22, 2024, 01:48:17 PM
Mawk Levin says let the fwee Mawket fix it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 22, 2024, 03:09:56 PM
The Simpsons were AOTC....

https://www.the-sun.com/money/10460920/red-lobster-makes-change-deal-customers-losses/

Red Lobster makes change to all-you-can-eat deal after customers ate so much the restaurant suffered huge losses
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 22, 2024, 03:14:23 PM
I thought that happened years ago?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 22, 2024, 03:41:17 PM
May be history repeating itself.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 22, 2024, 08:33:53 PM
Still hodling Q97?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 23, 2024, 02:11:11 AM
Still hodling Q97?

Sold some 1000 calls lol if it goes at that price I'm cool with it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 23, 2024, 08:58:05 AM
"
President Biden @POTUS
With tax season underway, millions of Americans are preparing to pay what they owe.

Who wants to tell POTUS that his daughter just settled a tax lien from 2015 after repeated attempts to collect ?
Who wants to tell POTUS that the same guy who arrested Smirnov twice over the same charges so his DoJ can try again to keep him behind bars let some of his son's tax charges expire due to statute of limitations ?

President Biden @POTUS
I won't mince words.

Nuf said. Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 23, 2024, 09:05:39 AM
Good grief.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on February 23, 2024, 09:11:55 AM
Alabama Supreme Court:  Frozen embryos now count as a dependent write off. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 23, 2024, 09:35:53 AM
"
President Biden @POTUS
With tax season underway, millions of Americans are preparing to pay what they owe.

Who wants to tell POTUS that his daughter just settled a tax lien from 2015 after repeated attempts to collect ?
Who wants to tell POTUS that the same guy who arrested Smirnov twice over the same charges so his DoJ can try again to keep him behind bars let some of his son's tax charges expire due to statute of limitations ?

President Biden @POTUS
I won't mince words.

Nuf said. Lol

Soviets working overtime today spreading memes I see! They are pretty good a psyops (not so much at fighting wars). Already have maybe a third of the population under their spell?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 23, 2024, 09:48:01 AM
Soviets working overtime today spreading memes I see! They are pretty good a psyops (not so much at fighting wars). Already have maybe a third of the population under their spell?
You should tag the POTUS tweets with Community Notes. 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 23, 2024, 09:52:17 AM
You should tag the POTUS tweets with Community Notes. 😂

I would first have to be on a Soviet and Chinese Commie saturated social media in order to tag anything.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 23, 2024, 04:00:16 PM
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/military-tracking-balloon-western-us-military/
"Military aircraft have spotted the balloon and determined it is not a threat, but its origin and purpose are still unknown, the officials said."

Meanwhile, CBS is sending Catherine Herridge to investigate.

JK
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 25, 2024, 12:12:14 AM
4 days of televised funerals and 70 days of riots for George Floyd but we can’t talk about Laken Riley !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2024, 12:40:00 PM
An individual committed a brutal crime. A suspect has been arrested. The MAGA crowd is trying to cynically exploit the suspect's identity for partisan political purposes.

Republicans used to believe in individual responsibility and rejected identity politics.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 25, 2024, 01:12:40 PM
An individual committed a brutal crime. A suspect has been arrested. The MAGA crowd is trying to cynically exploit the suspect's identity for partisan political purposes.

Republicans used to believe in individual responsibility and rejected identity politics.

I hope this was tongue-in-cheek.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 25, 2024, 04:44:08 PM
Oh
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2024, 05:18:01 PM
I am thinking about skunks and spitting contests. Otherwise I might point out the irony of a semiliterate fool calling anyone dumb.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2024, 05:20:46 PM
Progressives often try to exploit gun violence to argue in favor of gun control. The right correctly points out that most gun owners are law abiding individuals.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 25, 2024, 05:26:59 PM
Oh
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2024, 05:29:18 PM
A recent migrant commits a crime, the alt-right wants to put all migrants and the President on trial.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 25, 2024, 05:39:39 PM
A cop kills a piece of shit and the progressive media stirs up months of national violence and looting and anti cop hatred

Illegal immigrants keep killing innocent Americans and ray wants to keep it hush hush

The insanity of the left and the suppression of the news they don’t like 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2024, 06:32:48 PM
A cop kills a piece of shit and the progressive media stirs up months of national violence and looting and anti cop hatred

Illegal immigrants keep killing innocent Americans and ray wants to keep it hush hush

The insanity of the left and the suppression of the news they don’t like

Police violence and murders by illegal aliens actually have a lot in common. Both are fairly rare and both receive disproportionate coverage.

The civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd was in response to 12 major highly publicized incidents over 7 years from 2014 - 2020. From 2017 - 2020, the police shot and killed almost 4000 total, roughly 1000 per year.

Illegal immigrants don't keep killing innocent Americans. The numbers are an average of 23 per year from 2017 - 2023. You are far more likely to be shot and killed by a cop.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 25, 2024, 07:49:31 PM
I hope this was tongue-in-cheek also.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 25, 2024, 08:34:34 PM
Police violence and murders by illegal aliens actually have a lot in common. Both are fairly rare and both receive disproportionate coverage.

The civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd was in response to 12 major highly publicized incidents over 7 years from 2014 - 2020. From 2017 - 2020, the police shot and killed almost 4000 total, roughly 1000 per year.

Illegal immigrants don't keep killing innocent Americans. The numbers are an average of 23 per year from 2017 - 2023. You are far more likely to be shot and killed by a cop.

Golf is far more likely to be killed by a US Capitol cop.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 25, 2024, 11:42:41 PM
 Deaths in 2021

102,001 by accidental poisoning
45,404 motor vehicles traffic
44,686 by accidental falls
26,328 by firearm suicides
20,958 by firearm homicides
5073 other homicides
4337 by drowning
1038 fatally shot by police
60 homicides by illegal aliens
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on February 26, 2024, 12:39:15 AM
The guy entered the country illegally and was released on parole due to Biden's border policies.
Reports say he went to NYC via U.S. taxpayer funds, I mean a bus.
He was charged with a crime involving soneone under 17.
Sanctuary cities don't talk to ICE.
He skipped his court date and went to Ga.
A person has been murdered.

He could have been deported before this murder happened.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 26, 2024, 02:13:07 AM
Venezuelan migrants save Denver girls in icy lake

They are Venezuelan immigrants who arrived in Denver in early September.

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/venezuelan-migrants-save-denver-girls-icy-water/

https://youtu.be/JkQePXSUAl8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 26, 2024, 09:35:00 AM
Oh
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 26, 2024, 10:14:39 AM
Deaths in 2023

NA by accidental poisoning
NA motor vehicles traffic
NA by accidental falls
24,000 est by firearm suicides
18400 est by firearm homicides
NA other homicides
NA by drowning
1116 fatally shot by police
29 homicides by illegal aliens

The most recent year for complete numbers is 2021.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 26, 2024, 10:19:38 AM
great stats from 3 years ago fraud

The most recent year for complete numbers is 2021. Not sure where you have been, but if you want detailed numbers for 2023, check back in two (3) or three (3) years.

You have to be a satire poster. That Effingham guy?

Murders by illegal aliens 2022: 62   
2023: 29   
This year, so far: 14
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 26, 2024, 11:03:44 AM
LOL..Effingham Dave didn't delete his posts like Jasn does.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 26, 2024, 11:22:04 AM
Yea
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 26, 2024, 11:43:40 AM
''


wonder why

numbers have increased so high, Biden is hiding it? hmmm

Homicides are actually down. The in depth analysis by the CDC always takes several years.

"The U.S. is on course to end 2023 with one of the largest annual drops in homicides on record, according to preliminary figures from AH Datalytics, a data analysis firm"
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 26, 2024, 11:44:13 AM
Homicides are actually down. The in depth analysis by the CDC always takes several years.

"The U.S. is on course to end 2023 with one of the largest annual drops in homicides on record, according to preliminary figures from AH Datalytics, a data analysis firm"
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop

That's Joe Biden's fault.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 26, 2024, 11:52:43 AM
Or perhaps reverting to pre pandemic levels.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 26, 2024, 11:56:16 AM
Or perhaps reverting to pre pandemic levels.

Joe Biden just cannot catch a break.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 26, 2024, 11:57:44 AM
Police violence and murders by illegal aliens actually have a lot in common. Both are fairly rare and both receive disproportionate coverage.

The civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd was in response to 12 major highly publicized incidents over 7 years from 2014 - 2020. From 2017 - 2020, the police shot and killed almost 4000 total, roughly 1000 per year.

Illegal immigrants don't keep killing innocent Americans. The numbers are an average of 23 per year from 2017 - 2023. You are far more likely to be shot and killed by a cop.

Politicizing homicide is never a wise thing to do.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 26, 2024, 11:59:35 AM
Or perhaps reverting to pre pandemic levels.

It appears a spike in inflation and violence were both pandemic related and transitory
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 26, 2024, 12:01:29 PM
It appears a spike in inflation and violence were both pandemic related and transitory

Trump can't catch a break.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 26, 2024, 12:43:24 PM
 ??? ??? 8) :(
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 26, 2024, 02:34:06 PM
well
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 26, 2024, 04:06:29 PM
Trump can't catch a break.

All he had to do was end the pandemic like he said he would. Or stop Gina from starting the pandemic. Double fail.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 26, 2024, 04:54:24 PM
clown world?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 26, 2024, 05:12:53 PM
All he had to do was end the pandemic like he said he would. Or stop Gina from starting the pandemic. Double fail.

That bitch, Gina. Screw her.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 26, 2024, 05:13:51 PM
Jason, stop modifying your posts so we can figure out how corporate has made you go completely off the rails.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 26, 2024, 05:59:36 PM
Jason, stop modifying your posts so we can figure out how corporate has made you go completely off the rails.

He got laid off months ago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 27, 2024, 06:13:17 AM
clown world more like clown usa
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 27, 2024, 11:06:31 AM
That bitch, Gina. Screw her.

Look, I'm going to be
real honest with you.
It's been a long time
since I've been with a man.
Spent a lot of time
with the ladies.
Looking to get back up
on that pogo stick.
You know what I'm saying?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 27, 2024, 11:08:47 AM
Look, I'm going to be
real honest with you.
It's been a long time
since I've been with a man.
Spent a lot of time
with the ladies.
Looking to get back up
on that pogo stick.
You know what I'm saying?

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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on February 27, 2024, 11:42:05 AM
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ySwkLJNKdBA
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on February 27, 2024, 11:49:22 AM
God damn, that movie has so many special, amazing moments.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 27, 2024, 02:34:49 PM
Is anyone currently making movies anywhere remotely close to what Apatow was doing back then? Seems like everyone has run out of ideas. Recently watched Role Models and I Love You, Man which are also amazing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on February 27, 2024, 02:45:11 PM
Old School. Wedding Crashers. All that same era.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 27, 2024, 03:06:54 PM
Yep
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 27, 2024, 04:42:31 PM
Is anyone currently making movies anywhere remotely close to what Apatow was doing back then? Seems like everyone has run out of ideas. Recently watched Role Models and I Love You, Man which are also amazing.

Have you seen Long Shot?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 27, 2024, 06:01:55 PM
Here's a good one.

A local pol, City Councilwoman running for County Supervisor hatched an amusing plan. Had a bunch of people write letters to the Editor of the Press Democrat in support of her.

Then she sent out a snail mail flyer with quotes from all those letters. The top heading of the flyer had the Press Democrat logo. Then a series of quotes - with no attribution to the letter writer. Reads as if it's a bunch of pulls from an endorsement by the paper.

But the Press Democrat endorsed one of her opponents.

I know this person IRL - so I've gotten the various asks for donations - "I'm in the fight of my life for the future of Northern California!" Wut? She's running in a jungle primary where the top 2 vote getters are certain to be Democrats, who will vote pretty much identically and none of whom have a particularly distinctive policy agenda. For the most part, nobody will have a differential in their life based on who wins - the only notable difference would be how well that person does their job in PR when there is a natural disaster.

Goes to show, as this forum well knows, it's all about the most non-partisan issue of them all - the Benjamins.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 27, 2024, 09:49:25 PM
At 7:45, Tucker at the Russian Grocery store.

"it's free, but there's an incentive to return it, and not bring it to your homeless encampment"

10 rubles. Eleven US cents. Even for a homeless Russian, that's a bargain. This before Tucker can't figure out that the homeless guy would then bash the contraption and extract his ten rubles.

What a fucking moron.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 27, 2024, 11:23:11 PM
Equally hilarious that he’s so out of touch he isn’t even aware the Aldi does the exact same thing in every town of 20k or more right here in the US
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on February 28, 2024, 10:15:12 AM
Police violence and murders by illegal aliens actually have a lot in common. Both are fairly rare and both receive disproportionate coverage.

The civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd was in response to 12 major highly publicized incidents over 7 years from 2014 - 2020. From 2017 - 2020, the police shot and killed almost 4000 total, roughly 1000 per year.

Illegal immigrants don't keep killing innocent Americans. The numbers are an average of 23 per year from 2017 - 2023. You are far more likely to be shot and killed by a cop.

Yet you link one kind of death (police on black) and kindly don’t want to talk about the other (illegal on white) and yes they do keep killing innocent Americans in increasing numbers amongst other serious crimes. Your willfully ignorant to things that don’t fit your narrative. A lot of police shootings are justifiable/defense. What percentage murders by illegals or justifiable ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 28, 2024, 01:13:02 PM
Yet you link one kind of death (police on black) and kindly don’t want to talk about the other (illegal on white) and yes they do keep killing innocent Americans in increasing numbers amongst other serious crimes. Your willfully ignorant to things that don’t fit your narrative. A lot of police shootings are justifiable/defense. What percentage murders by illegals or justifiable ?

Maybe it's just me, I hold the cops, who I pay with my tax dollars to hire and train - to a higher standard. I know you think they are just hooligan mercenaries who should not be held accountable ever.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 28, 2024, 01:36:02 PM
Maybe it's just me, I hold the cops, who I pay with my tax dollars to hire and train - to a higher standard. I know you think they are just hooligan mercenaries who should not be held accountable ever.

If you only did the same for your politicians and the handouts they’re giving illegals…

And many other crooked and fucked up things like handling other countries war mongering, money laundering schemes, trying to imprison a rival political candidate, etc…

We have tons of problems here, yet focus on all the other countries bullshit. Take care of here first. That’s one thing I’ll agree with Putin on. We have enough problems here at home. The money we’ve spent on Afghanistan, Ukraine, and other countries is mind boggling.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 28, 2024, 01:52:14 PM
Judge Judy a fan, apparently, of Bin Laden.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 28, 2024, 01:53:25 PM
If you only did the same for your politicians and the handouts they’re giving illegals…

And many other crooked and fucked up things like handling other countries war mongering, money laundering schemes, trying to imprison a rival political candidate, etc…

We have tons of problems here, yet focus on all the other countries bullshit. Take care of here first. That’s one thing I’ll agree with Putin on. We have enough problems here at home. The money we’ve spent on Afghanistan, Ukraine, and other countries is mind boggling.

Much like QAnon97, you say we should spend the money here but would then bitch about spending the money here, if it actually happened.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 28, 2024, 02:46:14 PM
Judge Judy a fan, apparently, of Bin Laden.

Nice deductive reasoning…

That’s exactly what it means! Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 28, 2024, 02:48:33 PM
Much like QAnon97, you say we should spend the money here but would then bitch about spending the money here, if it actually happened.

Nah, but this sentence above is the key ”if it actually happened”

Some ideas are fucking stupid and a waste of money. We have to have some sort of conflict so our politicians can launder their money. Much easier to do when it’s overseas and “national security”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 28, 2024, 03:25:22 PM
Nah, but this sentence above is the key ”if it actually happened”

Some ideas are fucking stupid and a waste of money. We have to have some sort of conflict so our politicians can launder their money. Much easier to do when it’s overseas and “national security”

I remain skeptical of your claim.

Look at it this way. Before we became the World's Policeman, there were 2 world wars in the span of less than 30 years. Zilch since then.

We also toppled the Soviet Empire (without a world war).

Now you doofuses want to go back to 1914. Yeah, that will work out well allowing the Soviets, Chinese Commies, and Iranians to run amuck.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 28, 2024, 04:28:15 PM
Nah, but this sentence above is the key ”if it actually happened”

Some ideas are fucking stupid and a waste of money. We have to have some sort of conflict so our politicians can launder their money. Much easier to do when it’s overseas and “national security”

GOP on wildfires in California - "Gavin should have raked the leaves. Also, the gays"
GOP on wildfires in Texas - "God's will"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 28, 2024, 04:51:36 PM
GOP on wildfires in California - "Gavin should have raked the leaves. Also, the gays"
GOP on wildfires in Texas - "God's will"

Who you talking to? I’m never said any of that. Wrong person, Murph…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 28, 2024, 04:56:35 PM
I remain skeptical of your claim.

Look at it this way. Before we became the World's Policeman, there were 2 world wars in the span of less than 30 years. Zilch since then.

We also toppled the Soviet Empire (without a world war).

Now you doofuses want to go back to 1914. Yeah, that will work out well allowing the Soviets, Chinese Commies, and Iranians to run amuck.

Putin is basically Hitler and we need to be willing to start WWIII in order to keep him from taking the part of a country that mostly wishes they were still part of Russia!

The Soviet empire we toppled has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, and you want us to fuck around and find out apparently…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 28, 2024, 05:07:49 PM
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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 28, 2024, 05:10:30 PM
Putin is basically Hitler and we need to be willing to start WWIII in order to keep him from taking the part of a country that mostly wishes they were still part of Russia!

The Soviet empire we toppled has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, and you want us to fuck around and find out apparently…

I hope this was meant to be tongue in cheek. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 28, 2024, 07:03:38 PM
Putin is basically Hitler and we need to be willing to start WWIII in order to keep him from taking the part of a country that mostly wishes they were still part of Russia!


Where do you get this shit from?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 28, 2024, 07:04:30 PM
I hope this was meant to be tongue in cheek.

Of course it isn't. He believes this shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 28, 2024, 10:19:28 PM
I hope this was meant to be tongue in cheek.

Of course
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 28, 2024, 10:22:54 PM
Of course it isn't. He believes this shit.

I believe you’re willing to go to war with Russia over a portion of Ukraine that wants to be part of Russia just because you have TDS and believe Putin is Hitler.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 28, 2024, 10:31:52 PM
I believe you’re willing to go to war with Russia over a portion of Ukraine that wants to be part of Russia just because you have TDS and believe Putin is Hitler.

That area has been part of Ukraine as long as there has been a Ukraine. It is as if the Hispanics in Texas wanted to have a chunk of Texas be part Mexico. At least Mexico would have a historical claim to the land, as opposed to Stalin moving Russians into the satellite states to salt the population.

Putin was a scumbag long before Trump was even involved in politics. But go ahead, defend him. Your kids will be over there  fighting them when they are old enough the way things are going with the Appeasement Party.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 28, 2024, 11:25:16 PM
https://apnews.com/article/lauren-boebert-son-arrested-905ba3bc63d00c8ff7d6504608bb91f3
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 28, 2024, 11:28:05 PM
The hispanics in Texas favor building a wall. It’s just not a similar situation at all.

But I get what you’re saying.

What it boils down to is we want Ukraine in our orbit. We don’t give a fuck about their sovereignty or democracy any more than we did about Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam or Korea or anywhere else we’ve gone into the last 70+ years. They have stuff we want.

Putin also wants it, so here we are.

And thanks to the progressives, yes my daughters probably will be the ones fighting some pointless war on the other side of the planet so the rich can get richer as they always do when war breaks out.

There was never a sincere effort to broker peace. Seems to me that if Ukraine ceded the portions (that perhaps were seeded by Soviets) in exchange for a hardcore agreement moving forward, this could have been avoided. Instead we forced Putin’s hand, and this apparently endless quagmire has ensured.

Alum talked about Afghanistan as a hopeless effort for an installed government…what makes anyone think the former actor/reality star de facto dictator Zelenskyy is going to be any different? I am old enough to remember when Democrats laughed about Trump being a former reality TV star. 🤷🏻‍♂️

All the propaganda hoopla about the handsome actor in his fake battle fatigues has been nice, but Ukraine is basically a tinpot dictatorship at this point with no infrastructure to support any sustainable democracy. It’s just a proxy power struggle over a valuable property.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 28, 2024, 11:28:45 PM
https://apnews.com/article/lauren-boebert-son-arrested-905ba3bc63d00c8ff7d6504608bb91f3

I wonder if this has any bearing on how much Golf wants to buttfuck her.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 29, 2024, 12:03:15 AM
'The name of the other person using the stolen credit card, believed to be a juvenile, was redacted."

Ring any bells?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 29, 2024, 07:17:30 AM
'The name of the other person using the stolen credit card, believed to be a juvenile, was redacted."

Ring any bells?

Somehow they’ll blame it on Trump!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 07:37:41 AM
I apparently imagined those multiple Ukrainian elections since 2014.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on February 29, 2024, 08:41:20 AM
https://apnews.com/article/lauren-boebert-son-arrested-905ba3bc63d00c8ff7d6504608bb91f3
Low life 18 year old kid with a 1 year old kid of his own. Damned great job by his low life parents. Stealing people's IDs, busting into cars, etc.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on February 29, 2024, 09:09:36 AM
I wonder if this has any bearing on how much Golf wants to buttfuck her.

That is her good side butt, he'll have to wait in line. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on February 29, 2024, 09:11:44 AM
Low life 18 year old kid with a 1 year old kid of his own. Damned great job by his low life parents. Stealing people's IDs, busting into cars, etc.

A driver's license is required to get behind the wheel but no regulation here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: frankiew on February 29, 2024, 09:24:50 AM
Lauren Boebert is hot

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 29, 2024, 09:46:33 AM
A driver's license is required to get behind the wheel but no regulation here.

Almost like our elections!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 29, 2024, 09:48:00 AM
Low life 18 year old kid with a 1 year old kid of his own. Damned great job by his low life parents. Stealing people's IDs, busting into cars, etc.

Liberals just make an excuse for the kid and blame PoVeRtY. Not sure how poverty correlates to crime, being it’d probably be easier, and safer, to get a fucking job! 🥴
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 29, 2024, 10:08:48 AM
The hispanics in Texas favor building a wall. It’s just not a similar situation at all.

But I get what you’re saying.

What it boils down to is we want Ukraine in our orbit. We don’t give a fuck about their sovereignty or democracy any more than we did about Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam or Korea or anywhere else we’ve gone into the last 70+ years. They have stuff we want.

Putin also wants it, so here we are.

And thanks to the progressives, yes my daughters probably will be the ones fighting some pointless war on the other side of the planet so the rich can get richer as they always do when war breaks out.

There was never a sincere effort to broker peace. Seems to me that if Ukraine ceded the portions (that perhaps were seeded by Soviets) in exchange for a hardcore agreement moving forward, this could have been avoided. Instead we forced Putin’s hand, and this apparently endless quagmire has ensured.

Alum talked about Afghanistan as a hopeless effort for an installed government…what makes anyone think the former actor/reality star de facto dictator Zelenskyy is going to be any different? I am old enough to remember when Democrats laughed about Trump being a former reality TV star. 🤷🏻‍♂️

All the propaganda hoopla about the handsome actor in his fake battle fatigues has been nice, but Ukraine is basically a tinpot dictatorship at this point with no infrastructure to support any sustainable democracy. It’s just a proxy power struggle over a valuable property.

Naïve and dangerous thinking.  Right out of the America First playbook from the 30s.     

If Custard had been in charge, China would have abosorbed Tawain.  North Korea would have invaded S. Korea and Putin would have succeeded in puting the band back together again.  The world would be a much more dangerous and chaotic place where our adversaries, including Iran, are emboldened.   

Appeasement doesn’t work with brutal authoritarians like Putin.  There’s a reason Sweden and Finland are joining NATO.  Their leaders understand Putin’s territorial ambitions in Eastern Europe.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 10:20:49 AM
Naïve and dangerous thinking.  Right out of the America First playbook from the 30s.     

If Custard had been in charge, China would have abosorbed Tawain.  North Korea would have invaded S. Korea and Putin would have succeeded in puting the band back together again.  The world would be a much more dangerous and chaotic place where our adversaries, including Iran, are emboldened.   

Appeasement doesn’t work with brutal authoritarians like Putin.  There’s a reason Sweden and Finland are joining NATO.  Their leaders understand Putin’s territorial ambitions in Eastern Europe.

I did laugh when "the progressives" are now allegedly war mongers. Can say a lot of things about the progressives, but that has not been on the radar despite their enabling the shooting of women in the vagina, the kidnapping of babies and old ladies, and the raping of women.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 10:24:22 AM
Won't it be awesome when The Supreme Court sides with Trump on the immunity issue and then Biden says, "Fuck you" and has Trump killed by Seal Team 6? Talk about ironic!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 29, 2024, 10:34:22 AM
Won't it be awesome when The Supreme Court sides with Trump on the immunity issue and then Biden says, "Fuck you" and has Trump killed by Seal Team 6? Talk about ironic!

Trump will die of suicide soon, I’m sure…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 29, 2024, 11:13:04 AM
I did laugh when "the progressives" are now allegedly war mongers. Can say a lot of things about the progressives, but that has not been on the radar despite their enabling the shooting of women in the vagina, the kidnapping of babies and old ladies, and the raping of women.

Maybe I’m missing something but it sure seems to me that the Biden/Harris/Mask/Vaccine/TDS Crew and the Pro Ukraine War Crew are one and the same. Maybe the true progressives are the ones that went to Cuba or whatever?

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 01:10:21 PM
Maybe I’m missing something but it sure seems to me that the Biden/Harris/Mask/Vaccine/TDS Crew and the Pro Ukraine War Crew are one and the same. Maybe the true progressives are the ones that went to Cuba or whatever?

Actually had forgotten where The Squad stand on Ukraine until a quick Goggle search reminded me of this about face...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/25/democrats-joe-biden-ukraine-war-russia-letter

So they are pro-Commie Appeasement like the Trumpers (but were told to shut their pie holes). Probably want to waste the money on healthcare for lab animals, or migrants, instead of on the pay for Joe and Jane 6 Pack who make ammo and rockets for freedom loving Ukrainians.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 29, 2024, 01:37:34 PM
Trump will die of suicide soon, I’m sure…

Or fall from a balcony.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 29, 2024, 02:30:04 PM
Or fall from a balcony.

I’ve heard hanged is a good way to commit the suicide.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 02:30:49 PM
Or fall from a balcony.
Or his plane will suddenly fall out of the sky. Because I read here that the US is no different than the Soviets.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 29, 2024, 02:35:36 PM
Or his plane will suddenly fall out of the sky. Because I read here that the US is no different than the Soviets.

Well Biden and others are trying to imprison a political opponent for political reasons. That’s the type of shit third-world countries do and Russia. Let him on the ballot and beat him fair and square. Everybody sees what’s happening and it’s a railroad job. They literally are throwing shit at a wall and hoping some stick.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 29, 2024, 02:46:42 PM
Well Biden and others are trying to imprison a political opponent for political reasons. That’s the type of shit third-world countries do and Russia. Let him on the ballot and beat him fair and square. Everybody sees what’s happening and it’s a railroad job. They literally are throwing shit at a wall and hoping some stick.

 !!!!!!

Everyone knows he committed criminal acts and has no business even being on the ballot.

That intelligent people support a criminal is mind boggling. Of course, that is the real reason why we have an electoral college.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 29, 2024, 03:13:56 PM
Trump will die of suicide soon, I’m sure…

Eating so many big macs you have a massive coronary and die isn't really considered suicide
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 29, 2024, 03:16:04 PM
They literally are throwing shit at a wall and hoping some stick.

Well, they threw shit at Trump's wall, it fell over, and a bunch of Mexicans ran in. Ergo - they caused the border crisis.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 03:17:09 PM
Well Biden and others are trying to imprison a political opponent for political reasons. That’s the type of shit third-world countries do and Russia. Let him on the ballot and beat him fair and square. Everybody sees what’s happening and it’s a railroad job. They literally are throwing shit at a wall and hoping some stick.

Oh bullshit.. how about not trying to pressure local officials to overturn the election and then set your mob on the Capitol?

The Chesebro doofus put the plan all in writing, if you are interested in reading his memos.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 03:20:31 PM
Wasn't the Pharma Bro, the Skrelli (sp) guy, criminally prosecuted under the same NY fraud statute that they just got the $400m judgment against the Trump Co.? Thought I had read that awhile ago. Where is Big10Man when you need him to Goggle something?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 04:55:43 PM
Never should have saved the whales....

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna141172

Humpback whales photographed having sex — and gay sex — for the first time

The sexual encounter, which occurred in waters west of the Hawaiian island of Maui in January 2022, was detailed in a new report.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 29, 2024, 05:04:39 PM
I did laugh when "the progressives" are now allegedly war mongers. Can say a lot of things about the progressives, but that has not been on the radar despite their enabling the shooting of women in the vagina, the kidnapping of babies and old ladies, and the raping of women.

There are certainly folks on the far left that share Custard’s isolationist views on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.   
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/04/us-politics-ukraine-russia-far-right-left-progressive-horseshoe-theory/)

Just like there were leftists (or so-called progressives) who were members of the America First Committee before WW2.  This group included socialists, communists, radicals and pacifists.  Some were union members and college students.   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee#:~:text=The%20America%20First%20Committee%20(AFC,450%20chapters%20at%20its%20peak

The Russian Revolution sympathizers back then, in particular, were in denial about Stalin’s totalitarian police state and suddenly got a dose of reality when the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939, which included a secret provision for partitioning the countries that lay between them.  Germany claimed Western Poland and part of Lithuania.  The Soviet Union was going to occupy Eastern Poland, the Baltic States and part of Finland.   
https://www.britannica.com/event/German-Soviet-Nonaggression-Pact

Fortunately, the isolationist members of the Democratic Party today represent a relatively small, powerless minority.  Let’s hope it stays that way.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 29, 2024, 05:21:43 PM
Many of my friends fall for the argument that we should take care of our own. It's as if helping others takes away from us. With a few notable exceptions, they consider themselves devout Christians.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 29, 2024, 05:39:47 PM
Well Biden and others are trying to imprison a political opponent for political reasons. That’s the type of shit third-world countries do and Russia. Let him on the ballot and beat him fair and square. Everybody sees what’s happening and it’s a railroad job. They literally are throwing shit at a wall and hoping some stick.

The Democrats see it as organic law and order; the retribution for crimes he has committed. Trump supporters see it as weaponizing the legal system. I think it’s pretty clear that both are happening. I expect Ds and Rs to disagree with me. This is how propaganda works: you have two sides getting two sides of the story and both believing they’re right.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 05:58:17 PM
The Democrats see it as organic law and order; the retribution for crimes he has committed. Trump supporters see it as weaponizing the legal system. I think it’s pretty clear that both are happening. I expect Ds and Rs to disagree with me. This is how propaganda works: you have two sides getting two sides of the story and both believing they’re right.

JFC. The fuckers plotted to overthrow the election. The dumbshit Chesebro put the plan all down in writing. The phone calls in GA are recorded. Sorry that seeking to hold those accountable for a plot to overturn the election is inconvenient for some of you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 29, 2024, 06:34:09 PM
Very little if anything would be happening legally to Donald Trump if he wasn’t eligible to run for President again.

That is a fucking fact.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 29, 2024, 07:26:17 PM
Very little if anything would be happening legally to Donald Trump if he wasn’t eligible to run for President again.

That is a fucking fact.

That is an opinion. Here is an actual fact:

Nothing criminal would be happening to him if he had conceded the election gracefully and turned in the classified documents.

As for investigations, he got off easy compared to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 29, 2024, 08:38:55 PM
Trying to remember which states changed statutes of limitations to pave the way for Clinton’s civil trials, maybe you guys can help me out?

These civil trials are absurd. Particularly this bank one. Victimless crime if it was even that, and definitely would not be taking place if he wasn’t running for president.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 29, 2024, 09:08:28 PM
Trying to remember which states changed statutes of limitations to pave the way for Clinton’s civil trials, maybe you guys can help me out?

These civil trials are absurd. Particularly this bank one. Victimless crime if it was even that, and definitely would not be taking place if he wasn’t running for president.

Don't know that NY changed the Statute of Limitations.

"... the statute of limitations bars claims, not evidence.”

Nice try though

Despite at least 7 investigations, they never found anything on the Clintons, other than Bill lying under oath about a  private relationship that had nothing to with Whitewater.

Whitewater
Travel Office
Vince Foster suicide
FBI Files
Benghazi
Her Emails
Clinton Foundation

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 29, 2024, 09:34:24 PM


These civil trials are absurd. Particularly this bank one. Victimless crime if it was even that, and definitely would not be taking place if he wasn’t running for president.

I dunno about absurd, but if the banks were repaid; it is hard to see the point. Kind of like charging someone with income tax evasion after they paid their back income taxes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 29, 2024, 09:37:34 PM
Major win for Republicans in budget negotiations.

[they] ... "secured a measure to bar the Department of Veterans Affairs from flagging veterans deemed mentally incompetent to the F.B.I.’s gun background check database without a court order."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 29, 2024, 09:58:13 PM
Very little if anything would be happening legally to Donald Trump if he wasn’t eligible to run for President again.

That is a fucking fact.

So you're saying our system of justice is rigged for the rich? Until they let the hoi polloi in on how rigged the game is - and only if they can convice the hoi polloi their entire life hasn't been based on exploiting said rigged game?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 29, 2024, 10:00:19 PM
I dunno about absurd, but if the banks were repaid; it is hard to see the point. Kind of like charging someone with income tax evasion after they paid their back income taxes.

He acquired loans at lower interest rates than he otherwise would have been given, saving him millions in interest. If he didn't default isn't the point, actuarial science is based on predictions, not done retroactively based on results.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 11:44:45 PM
Very little if anything would be happening legally to Donald Trump if he wasn’t eligible to run for President again.

That is a fucking fact.

Bullshit. They fucker tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power which was the hallmark of the system until the snowflake lost.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 29, 2024, 11:57:37 PM
Custard likes to think they changed the SOL on the sexual assault law just for Trump. 3,000 of those cases have been filed under that extended SOL. (Per the Failing NY Times.) Incredibly,  not all of them are against Trump.

It is also not as if Trump has been the only one charged under that NY financial fraud statute. There has been 70 cases brought under that statute. (It does not appear the Pharma Bro was one of them.)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 01, 2024, 02:03:14 PM
OK. I was reading about the Judge extending the SoL for evidence purposes in the civil bank fraud case. I thought that was questionable, but have not wrapped my head around it.

Wasn't thinking about the sexual assault case. 

"The Adult Survivors Act, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2022, lifted the state’s statute of limitations for one year to allow adults to file civil lawsuits for sexual misconduct no matter when it occurred.

...

Before 2019, an accuser in New York had to file a civil suit within three years of sexual misconduct.  That year, the state expanded its statute of limitation for some sex crimes to 20 years, but it did not allow for legal action in cases where the statute of limitations had already expired."
https://19thnews.org/2023/12/new-york-adult-survivors-act-sexual-assault/#:~:text=What%20is%20New%20York%27s%20Adult,no%20matter%20when%20it%20occurred.

I guess the lunatic fringe right wing thinks this was specifically to get Trump?

Were there lawsuits filed against Trump in Louisiana, California, and North Carolina?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 06, 2024, 04:31:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0x-CIzBs5c
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 06, 2024, 04:56:30 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0x-CIzBs5c

I thought they voted out all the SF Dumbassed Progressives yesterday?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 09, 2024, 07:58:57 AM
🤡

https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1766232655090045183?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 09, 2024, 08:07:04 AM
🤡

https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1766232655090045183?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Wonder if she complained about the privileges of her caste back in the homeland of her family.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on March 09, 2024, 08:14:48 AM
Wonder if she complained about the privileges of her caste back in the homeland of her family.

It’s crazy she’s probably here because of the opportunities she has in our country. Takes full advantage of them while shitting in it. Go back there and I’m sure they’d love to rape and pillage her for her “views” of men with “advantages.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 09, 2024, 01:08:40 PM
Wonder if she complained about the privileges of her caste back in the homeland of her family.

The remnants of the illegal caste system are still a part of Hindu culture. Sort of like the subtle residual effects of racism, sexism, etc on our culture.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 09, 2024, 01:13:20 PM
🤡

https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1766232655090045183?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Irony

https://twitter.com/demonfaz3/status/1766250006955045350?t=c5GZi8nMx6Edc3E9tW0gdA&s=19
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 09, 2024, 02:19:52 PM
https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1766168481970499636?t=lVItkcggXqPHJEVZpM823g&s=19
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 09, 2024, 02:31:26 PM
She helped write the bipartisan immigration bill in the Senate, then voted against it. The poor woman is going to get skewered. I feel bad for her.

https://youtu.be/McUO2aPOe-k
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 09, 2024, 03:10:29 PM
🤡

https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1766232655090045183?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

wonder if she knows that indian americans have higher household income than whites do
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 10, 2024, 09:33:07 PM
wonder if she knows that indian americans have higher household income than whites do

 Indian Americans who can get to the US start off with advantages beyond the average white person. A large percentage end up here via acceptance to US Universities, often in graduate school. 2nd+ Generation children are starting with that economic advantage.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 12, 2024, 11:57:03 PM
A A Ron Rod Gers - VP Nominee
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 14, 2024, 05:32:15 PM
You can say many things about various Illini athletes and the disconnect between their academic qualifications and the institution's academic reputation (especially in light of how hard it has become to get into the UIUC), but one thing can be said...

Cal let Aaron Rodgers in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 15, 2024, 09:44:54 AM
Looks like it's been amateur hour in Atlanta.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 15, 2024, 12:11:47 PM
Not very shocking. Just look at Tempo's posts most of the time....

https://studyfinds.org/americans-facts-opinions/

Americans Can’t Tell The Difference Between Facts And Opinions, Study Explains
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 15, 2024, 12:50:24 PM
Not very shocking. Just look at Tempo's posts most of the time....

https://studyfinds.org/americans-facts-opinions/

Americans Can’t Tell The Difference Between Facts And Opinions, Study Explains

That's their opinion
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on March 15, 2024, 08:43:53 PM
You can say many things about various Illini athletes and the disconnect between their academic qualifications and the institution's academic reputation (especially in light of how hard it has become to get into the UIUC), but one thing can be said...

Cal let Aaron Rodgers in.
There some dumb mofos at Berkeley. Jeez Louise.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 15, 2024, 10:07:40 PM
There some dumb mofos at Berkeley. Jeez Louise.

I posted that and then realized Rodger was gonna come to UIUC but we only offered him a slot as a walkon coming out of HS
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 15, 2024, 10:25:36 PM
I posted that and then realized Rodger was gonna come to UIUC but we only offered him a slot as a walkon coming out of HS

Ron Turner Classic
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 16, 2024, 07:59:49 AM
Looks like it's been amateur hour in Atlanta.
You take that back !!!!

These are highly compensated professionals at work, most likely perjuring themselves, doing what the DA campaigned on but, more importantly, performing God's work and defending democracy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 16, 2024, 08:17:30 AM
You take that back !!!!

These are highly compensated professionals at work, most likely perjuring themselves, doing what the DA campaigned on but, more importantly, performing God's work and defending democracy.
Too bad that what has transpired over the last month has had zero to do with the merits of the underlying case.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 16, 2024, 09:05:30 AM
Too bad that what has transpired over the last month has had zero to do with the merits of the underlying case.
Served up with an odor of mendacity and jury tainting on the side.  ;)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 27, 2024, 12:37:11 PM
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/24/03/37963370/trumps-djt-stock-is-worth-52x-more-than-nvidia-by-1-data-point
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 27, 2024, 12:46:11 PM
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/24/03/37963370/trumps-djt-stock-is-worth-52x-more-than-nvidia-by-1-data-point

Strong sell
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 28, 2024, 01:38:20 AM
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/museum-claims-dinosaurs-have-lgbtq-history-and-birds-are-queer

😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 28, 2024, 07:38:41 AM
I wonder what the real story is?

"... among the 1,500 species that have been observed engaging in homosexual activity."
 https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/extinction-countdown/gay-ducks-derail-repopulation-plan/

"we can no longer argue that humans are alone in their queerness or in their LGBTQ identities"
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/29/1101224759/what-queer-ducks-can-teach-teenagers-about-sexuality-in-the-animal-kingdom
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 28, 2024, 10:46:26 AM
Strong sell

You just have to be the first person to know the day he croaks. The only asset of the company are the rantings of an unhealthy 77 year old man, stock being driven up by his followers. He dies, it goes to zero. Until then, it's bitcoin
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 28, 2024, 12:19:26 PM
You just have to be the first person to know the day he croaks. The only asset of the company are the rantings of an unhealthy 77 year old man, stock being driven up by his followers. He dies, it goes to zero. Until then, it's bitcoin

isn't it pretty much just a copy of twitter with about 99% less users?  I have never been to the site but think I've seen screenshots of it before
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 28, 2024, 01:31:45 PM
Birds aren't real
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 28, 2024, 02:12:24 PM
I wonder what the real story is?

"... among the 1,500 species that have been observed engaging in homosexual activity."
 https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/extinction-countdown/gay-ducks-derail-repopulation-plan/

"we can no longer argue that humans are alone in their queerness or in their LGBTQ identities"
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/29/1101224759/what-queer-ducks-can-teach-teenagers-about-sexuality-in-the-animal-kingdom


reminds me of this
(https://i.ibb.co/843dzMM/brird9b4j0c31.webp)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 28, 2024, 06:24:58 PM
Homosexuality activity among ducks is simply a fact. Any who spends any time outdoors near water knows that.

The anthropologist was asked how he knew the fossilized remains belonged to the species homo erectus. He explained the bones were found in the same bed with another man.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 28, 2024, 06:39:19 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/HtMCGHL/Screenshot-20240328-182936-2.png)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 29, 2024, 10:04:27 PM
The NCAA swimming championships are this week. I follow them pretty closely

It's really a damn shame that Caitlin Clark has all these TV commercials and Gretchen Walsh and Claire Curzan don't.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 30, 2024, 07:28:15 AM
The NCAA swimming championships are this week. I follow them pretty closely

It's really a damn shame that Caitlin Clark has all these TV commercials and Gretchen Walsh and Claire Curzan don't.

Any guys competing with the ladies this year?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 30, 2024, 11:56:52 AM
The NCAA swimming championships are this week. I follow them pretty closely

It's really a damn shame that Caitlin Clark has all these TV commercials and Gretchen Walsh and Claire Curzan don't.

Maybe your political allies shouldn’t have devalued women’s swimming by letting men compete in it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 01, 2024, 05:51:42 PM
Maybe your political allies shouldn’t have devalued women’s swimming by letting men compete in it.

Checks out that instead of googling Claire Curzan, Lea Thomas is living rent free in your head
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 11, 2024, 09:12:13 PM
https://twitter.com/TheFCATeam/status/1770155780148281567?t=KDZhGdQkh4BkqE4wFtvSng&s=19

Sign up with these people and they will train you to be a Christian.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 12, 2024, 08:23:44 AM
Oh for fuck’s sake…

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1778773888001819031?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 12, 2024, 11:59:45 AM
Oh for fuck’s sake…

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1778773888001819031?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

https://grabien.com/story.php?id=468275

I don't necessarily agree with everything she said, but I think her comments are more nuanced.  Certainly not worth getting your panties in a wad.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 12, 2024, 12:00:38 PM
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=468275

I don't necessarily agree with everything she said, but I think her comments are more nuanced.  Certainly not worth getting your panties in a wad.

uh huh, sure bud
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 12, 2024, 12:45:48 PM
uh huh, sure bud

Agree with Alum here. Based on the whole comment my takeaway was that she was saying it was unique for Simpson, as a black guy, to win an acquittal despite 2 white people being killed. Fair point to raise, I guess, but it ignores the "class" issues that were present as well.

The person who Judge Judy cited is obviously being obtuse.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 12, 2024, 12:59:49 PM
Oh for fuck’s sake…

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1778773888001819031?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

I missed the part where she said black people felt connected to OJ because white people were killed.

I do think black people were far more likely to believe OJ was framed; especially since the victims were white.

At the time, anyone who was paying attention knew the police were not above  framing black (and brown) suspects. The belief was they were guilty of something.

Also, to this day, murders of whites remain a higher priority, especially prominent whites.

I am pretty sure that is what the lady is getting at. Not what the anti woke poster is trying to imply.

Woke traditionally means to be aware of racial prejudice and implicit racism, and to take appropriate action. The word has been to cover other forms of social injustice like sexism, homophobia, transphobia...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 12, 2024, 04:02:00 PM
She’d fit right in at NPR
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on April 12, 2024, 05:11:22 PM
Custard was a big fan of women's swimming until the trannies took over.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 12, 2024, 05:21:25 PM
Never was. Still not. Just a fan of defending women’s sports from biological men.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 12, 2024, 06:01:34 PM
Oh for fuck’s sake…

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1778773888001819031?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Please tell me this is out of context somehow?

What a world. Black people identify with OJ because he killed white people, and Trump because he's being persecuted.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 12, 2024, 06:04:45 PM
Never was. Still not. Just a fan of defending women’s sports from biological men.

Who the hell was not a fan of Amanda Beard? Natalie Coughlin? There's a reason Claire Curzan gets a whole lot of NIL money, and it's not just her gold medals.

Are you geh?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 15, 2024, 01:29:47 PM
l
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 16, 2024, 08:56:16 AM
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2024/02/15/authorities-say-missouri-man-staged-farm-accident-had-feet-cut-off/72613100007/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 19, 2024, 02:22:42 PM
Wow…

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1781381657054040489?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

https://x.com/theseanmitchell/status/1781381747172929739?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 19, 2024, 02:25:53 PM
Wow…

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1781381657054040489?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

I'm sure they'll be remembered just like that other idiot that self immolated outside the white house a month or so ago
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on April 19, 2024, 02:28:23 PM
Wow…

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1781381657054040489?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Wow is right.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 19, 2024, 02:30:04 PM
Seems kinda like fun. I mean, who hasn't thought about lighting himself on fire.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 19, 2024, 02:40:43 PM
Seems kinda like fun. I mean, who hasn't thought about lighting himself on fire.

Democrats. Bunch of non self immolating snowflakes
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on April 19, 2024, 02:47:14 PM
Update, veracity TBD: there appears to be a manifesto...
https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 19, 2024, 04:09:54 PM
Update, veracity TBD: there appears to be a manifesto...
https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

I await Spark's call on veracity. Loved The Simpsons references though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 19, 2024, 06:07:12 PM
Update, veracity TBD: there appears to be a manifesto...
https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

The only bad thing about this is that I didn't write it first. Simple awesome
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 19, 2024, 06:44:46 PM
The only bad thing about this is that I didn't write it first. Simple awesome

You are leaving the door open to someone wishing you had set yourself on fire too, you know....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 20, 2024, 09:24:53 AM
Aaron Sibarium
April 12, 2024
"UCLA medical school’s psychiatry department hosted a talk earlier this month that glorified self-immolation as a form of "revolutionary suicide," raising concerns from prominent doctors and deepening a public relations crisis that has embroiled the elite medical school."

"At UCLA, Izar and Moustafa, who are practicing psychiatrists, argued that self-immolation is a reasonable response to geopolitical events and that the taboo against it serves "the interests of power." By "perpetuating the stigma of self-immolation," they said, psychiatrists "discredit" resistance to "power structures" like "colonization," "homophobia," and "white supremacy," framing legitimate acts of protest as signs of psychiatric dysfunction."

https://freebeacon.com/campus/revolutionary-suicide-ucla-psychiatrists-cheer-self-immolation-in-leaked-audio/

This is probably not the advice most people should hear from a practicing psychiatrist.
Yesterday's self-immolator is no longer with us.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 20, 2024, 09:48:21 AM
These people are all sick.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 20, 2024, 10:28:53 AM
These people are all sick.
You're not supposed to say that.
🤣🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 20, 2024, 10:32:31 AM
Here you go from what I posted yesterday. This is a better/worse video. What a dumb motherfucker!

https://x.com/realmrtruthbomb/status/1781534681999257939?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Oh, and he’s still alive afterwards. Check this shit out… 🤯

https://x.com/immeme0/status/1781510578596389023?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Holy shit…

https://x.com/mrgunsngear/status/1781501960417341612?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 20, 2024, 11:26:02 AM
Aaron Sibarium
April 12, 2024
"UCLA medical school’s psychiatry department hosted a talk earlier this month that glorified self-immolation as a form of "revolutionary suicide," raising concerns from prominent doctors and deepening a public relations crisis that has embroiled the elite medical school."

"At UCLA, Izar and Moustafa, who are practicing psychiatrists, argued that self-immolation is a reasonable response to geopolitical events and that the taboo against it serves "the interests of power." By "perpetuating the stigma of self-immolation," they said, psychiatrists "discredit" resistance to "power structures" like "colonization," "homophobia," and "white supremacy," framing legitimate acts of protest as signs of psychiatric dysfunction."

https://freebeacon.com/campus/revolutionary-suicide-ucla-psychiatrists-cheer-self-immolation-in-leaked-audio/

This is probably not the advice most people should hear from a practicing psychiatrist.
Yesterday's self-immolator is no longer with us.
True.  But looking on the bright side, as I am Mr. Positive, as long as no one else was hurt it's better than having him run amuck on the streets and shooting up a school or workplace.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 20, 2024, 11:40:06 AM
True.  But looking on the bright side, as I am Mr. Positive, as long as no one else was hurt it's better than having him run amuck on the streets and shooting up a school or workplace.
You're suggestng that the 2 "practicing" psychiatrist's should have included that idea in their "talk" ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 20, 2024, 12:52:08 PM
Aaron Sibarium
April 12, 2024
"UCLA medical school’s psychiatry department hosted a talk earlier this month that glorified self-immolation as a form of "revolutionary suicide," raising concerns from prominent doctors and deepening a public relations crisis that has embroiled the elite medical school."

"At UCLA, Izar and Moustafa, who are practicing psychiatrists, argued that self-immolation is a reasonable response to geopolitical events and that the taboo against it serves "the interests of power." By "perpetuating the stigma of self-immolation," they said, psychiatrists "discredit" resistance to "power structures" like "colonization," "homophobia," and "white supremacy," framing legitimate acts of protest as signs of psychiatric dysfunction."

https://freebeacon.com/campus/revolutionary-suicide-ucla-psychiatrists-cheer-self-immolation-in-leaked-audio/

This is probably not the advice most people should hear from a practicing psychiatrist.
Yesterday's self-immolator is no longer with us.

Democrat conspiracy to rig the election by getting the Trump supporters to self-immolate
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 20, 2024, 02:48:21 PM
You're suggestng that the 2 "practicing" psychiatrist's should have included that idea in their "talk" ?

No, I'm suggesting that if you are wacked out enough to set yourself on fire, you are wacked out enough to shoot up a school or workplace. I'll take the idiots setting themselves in fire over that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 20, 2024, 03:22:33 PM
No, I'm suggesting that if you are wacked out enough to set yourself on fire, you are wacked out enough to shoot up a school or workplace. I'll take the idiots setting themselves in fire over that.
Dunno about the 1st part and he's not around to ask. But  I'm guessing he wanted to go where there would be tv cameras to film his last act.
He should have gone to Columbia instead of the protest area in front of the Trump trial. Maybe some of the Hamas at Columbia could have joined him.
I'm not sure that the school or workplace shooters, who shoot other people, would fit the profile of a person who just burns his/her ass to death.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 20, 2024, 03:25:15 PM
Dunno about the 1st part and he's not around to ask. But  I'm guessing he wanted to go where there would be tv cameras to film his last act.
I'm not sure that the school or workplace shooters, who shoot other people, would fit the profile of a person who just burns his/her ass to death.

They fit the profile that they are all nuts.

It apparently is the fault of The Simpsons.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 24, 2024, 10:27:04 AM
"The problem: Richards Academy failed to produce a single student who tested proficient in reading or math on the SAT, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. Nearly 80% of students are chronically absent. Nearly one out of every 10 students drop out of the high school. Less than 70% of students graduate high school in four years."
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-lauds-failing-community-school-wants-180-more/

Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 10:33:28 AM
"The problem: Richards Academy failed to produce a single student who tested proficient in reading or math on the SAT, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. Nearly 80% of students are chronically absent. Nearly one out of every 10 students drop out of the high school. Less than 70% of students graduate high school in four years."
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-lauds-failing-community-school-wants-180-more/

Lol

Sounds like Marcus Liberty would have been the valedictorian at that place
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 10:57:43 AM
Apparently there are well over 4,000 high schools in America that are worse?


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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 10:58:56 AM
Or maybe they are in that tier? Weird way to rank. I suppose when there are that many schools it makes sense on some level.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 24, 2024, 11:52:40 AM
Apparently there are well over 4,000 high schools in America that are worse?


(https://i.postimg.cc/nVDfjsdd/IMG-7264.png) (https://postimg.cc/z38c4fYW)

I don't really find that very difficult to believe, for a few reasons

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 11:56:31 AM
Don't know. A lot of people I know like to move in to places with good school districts. Weird, I know. I was made fun of by a certain dipshit on here for living where I live.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:05:35 PM
Lol.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:06:25 PM
Haha, lol. It's true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:09:05 PM
What did this dipshit say specifically? I don’t recall what (he) said (specifically).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:10:12 PM
What did this dipshit say specifically? I don’t recall what (he) said (specifically).

Something about how I live in a town that is a high percentage of white people, therefore I'm racist. Or something like that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:13:14 PM
Something about how I live in a town that is a high percentage of white people, therefore I'm racist. Or something like that.

Are you positive that wasn’t an extrapolation?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 12:14:31 PM
Don't know. A lot of people I know like to move in to places with good school districts. Weird, I know. I was made fun of by a certain dipshit on here for living where I live.

Chicago's selective schools, you know the ones that  dipshit progressives like Spark and you want to destroy, are very good.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 12:14:58 PM
Are you positive that wasn’t an extrapolation?

No, it is accurate. He nailed you on this one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:16:07 PM
Walter Payton Academy ranked #5 in the country. That’s the U.S. of A. For those following along at home.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:16:38 PM
No, it is accurate. He nailed you on this one.

Do you have the quote?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:17:21 PM
I might have said he was in a sheltered community. Pretty sure I never said he was “racist.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:19:12 PM
Or more accurately a community lacking diversity.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 24, 2024, 12:36:10 PM
Chicago's selective schools, you know the ones that  dipshit progressives like Spark and you want to destroy, are very good.

yes its amazing you take all the top students from all around the city and put them in a few schools, that surprisingly do well, lol

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:36:41 PM
You alluded to the fact that I live in a community that was a very high percentage of white people that I was a racist. You definitely did that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 24, 2024, 12:39:34 PM
Yes he did. And then months/years later in arguments, his defense is, “well I don’t remember, show me the exact quote.” Knowing damn well we have no idea where the fuck it is right now and making us look it up to prove him wrong. Like gtfo of here with that bullshit. Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on April 24, 2024, 12:39:48 PM
You alluded to the fact that I live in a community that was a very high percentage of white people that I was a racist. You definitely did that.

(https://i.imgur.com/0V4eORY.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:45:10 PM
You alluded to the fact that I live in a community that was a very high percentage of white people that I was a racist. You definitely did that.

No, I didn’t. I mentioned you lived in a community that was very white. I’m fairly sure you took it from there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:47:21 PM
Yes he did. And then months/years later in arguments, his defense is, “well I don’t remember, show me the exact quote.” Knowing damn well we have no idea where the fuck it is right now and making us look it up to prove him wrong. Like gtfo of here with that bullshit. Lol

Oh, so NOW (exact quotes) aren’t important. We can just go by recollection now…love the double standards around this place.

I guess that means I did join the Marines after 9/11…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:48:16 PM
I remember that time Judge Judy called Dee Brown the N word. That was awesome.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 12:49:26 PM
I decided to check in here, since I'm getting berated in my inbox for not having responded to a post on the Deuce.

I was quickly reminded why I do not look at the Deuce very often.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:52:08 PM
I decided to check in here, since I'm getting berated in my inbox for not having responded to a post on the Deuce.

I was quickly reminded why I do not look at the Deuce very often.

I didn’t check it for like two months. It was a mistake to come back.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:54:26 PM
No, I didn’t. I mentioned you lived in a community that was very white. I’m fairly sure you took it from there.

That's not what happened, and you know it.

Doesn't matter. What do you think the percentage is of people in my town that have cognitive disabilities? Any guesses?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 12:54:37 PM
TBF, sounds like you decided to be part of the problem
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:55:23 PM
I decided to check in here, since I'm getting berated in my inbox for not having responded to a post on the Deuce.

I was quickly reminded why I do not look at the Deuce very often.

So, what do you think, Spark? You ok with Tempo calling people fucking retards?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:55:55 PM
That's not what happened, and you know it.

Doesn't matter. What do you think the percentage is of people in my town that have cognitive disabilities? Any guesses?


You might have come to the conclusion I called you racist, but I’m pretty certain I never said that and likely never actually implied that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:56:33 PM
TBF, sounds like you decided to be part of the problem

Who are you talking to?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 12:56:52 PM
So, what do you think, Spark? You ok with Tempo calling people fucking retards?

Nope.  Told him as much, too.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:57:05 PM
So, what do you think, Spark? You ok with Tempo calling people fucking retards?

Job demands justice! I exercise my right to a trial by combat! Who will be my Champion?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:57:12 PM


You might have come to the conclusion I called you racist, but I’m pretty certain I never said that and likely never actually implied that.

You definitely probably likely implied that. And you know it, you fucking liar.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 12:57:15 PM
Who are you talking to?

Tempo.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:57:48 PM
Nope.  Told him as much, too.

yeah, right. lol

Hey, whatever.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 12:58:34 PM
Job demands justice! I exercise my right to a trial by combat! Who will be my Champion?!

I don't demand shit. lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 12:58:38 PM
Got me
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:59:09 PM
You definitely probably likely implied that. And you know it, you fucking liar.

Well if you say so, it’s obviously true. You’d never mislead anyone. Except to maybe announce your death.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 12:59:30 PM
I've never seen any indication that Jobu is a racist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 12:59:48 PM
I “definitely probably likely” did.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:00:13 PM
Well if you say so, it’s obviously true. You’d never mislead anyone. Except to maybe announce your death.

It is true. And I'm glad you're still butthurt about that. I guess that makes me a fucking retard. Right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:00:43 PM
I've never seen any indication that Jobu is a racist.

Because I'm not.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:01:31 PM
I've never seen any indication that Jobu is a racist.

And it’s likely no one ever said he was. Did I mention that he lived in a very white town? Yes. But we were talking about the diversity of our surroundings. That much I remember. There’s almost zero chance I called him racist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:02:20 PM
And it’s likely no one ever said he was. Did I mention that he lived in a very white town? Yes. But we were talking about the diversity of our surroundings. That much I remember. There’s almost zero chance I called him racist.

No, you definitely implied that I was racist by where I lived. Others here can attest to it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:02:39 PM
It is true. And I'm glad you're still butthurt about that. I guess that makes me a fucking retard. Right?

You don’t have to “produce,” it, but tell me the exact quote. Not what you think you remember.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:02:53 PM
And it’s likely no one ever said he was. Did I mention that he lived in a very white town? Yes. But we were talking about the diversity of our surroundings. That much I remember. There’s almost zero chance I called him racist.

Doesn't seem like your style, but neither did the last thing
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:03:38 PM
No, you definitely implied that I was racist by where I lived. Others here can attest to it.

Others also attested to my joining the Marines after 9/11, which I can one million percent guarantee I never said.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:05:37 PM
You are a marine though right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:06:00 PM
You are a marine though right?

Was.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:06:52 PM
I thought 'was' wasn't a thing
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:08:47 PM
Forget it. I'm not going to go back and look for it. It's not that important to me. You gave me shit about where I live, and the demographics. And laid it on thick that since I live where I live that I am racist. That definitely happened.

It's fine, honestly. I don't care. Think whatever you want. If you want to think that, do it. I can't stop you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:09:10 PM
I thought 'was' wasn't a thing

Haha, it's not. Unless he was dishonorably discharged.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:11:42 PM
I thought 'was' wasn't a thing

I knew that’s where you were going with that comment. You should know better than to think I’d conform to militaristic groupthink. I am a borderline pacifist today. I do not conform to accepted tropes and echoism.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:12:33 PM
Haha, it's not. Unless he was dishonorably discharged.

I was medically discharged about a year early for a neck injury sustained in a car accident. I did about 5 years.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:13:41 PM
I wonder if it’s got anything to do with a heavy population of hard-right, right-leaning overly self-assured white men who aren’t particularly welcoming to the opinions of minority populations?

Yeah, racism definitely raised in that thread
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:14:16 PM
Yeah, racism definitely raised in that thread

What about the aftermath of 9/11?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:15:01 PM
Almost a year ago to the day. Wow
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:15:07 PM
What about the aftermath of 9/11?

HQ is gone so can't look it up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:15:18 PM
Nice, where’d you’d find that?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:16:52 PM
I knew that’s where you were going with that comment. You should know better than to think I’d conform to militaristic groupthink. I am a borderline pacifist today. I do not conform to accepted tropes and echoism.

I didn't actually know it was 'militaristic groupthink'. I thought it was just how the Marines worked.  That you're 'always' a Marine.

I obviously recognize that your politics aren't super typical of a military guy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:17:14 PM
Nice, where’d you’d find that?

I searched your name and the term "divers"....it took me to the thread.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:17:27 PM
Well, anyway. Not sure of the percentage of us from Washington that have developmental or cognitive disabilities. Guessing average maybe?

Don't care to look up the demographics. Maybe Tempo can do it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:18:08 PM
Was in the Let's talk about something we all can agree on...thread
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:18:23 PM
That's not quite implying Jobu is a racist, but I at least see where it comes from.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:20:07 PM
I didn't actually know it was 'militaristic groupthink'. I thought it was just how the Marines worked.  That you're 'always' a Marine.

I obviously recognize that your politics aren't super typical of a military guy.

Every Marine (or any branch for that matter) that I've ever known is like that. Regardless of politics. Again, unless there was a discharge issue.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:20:36 PM
I didn't actually know it was 'militaristic groupthink'. I thought it was just how the Marines worked.  That you're 'always' a Marine.

I obviously recognize that your politics aren't super typical of a military guy.

I push back on the “always a Marine”
mantra because I’ve often found it’s just people patting themselves on the back extra hard. I once had a Marine Corps vet proudly tell me “killed more   n……ers in Vietnam than Vietcongs,” because they “give away your position, and ain’t no one gonna give away my position.” I can assure you he considered himself “a Marine for life.” No thanks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:21:58 PM
That's not quite implying Jobu is a racist, but I at least see where it comes from.

There were definite undertones. In multiple threads. He held it against me that I live in a downstate small town that is predominately white.

Is what it is. He can deny it, but it's true. I'm not going back to look it up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:22:09 PM
That's not quite implying Jobu is a racist, but I at least see where it comes from.

Not that you will see this, but it is clear from the context of what was being discussed what Tempo was getting at.

Jobu turned it around in him by posting the demographics of Itasca.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:22:13 PM
Every Marine (or any branch for that matter) that I've ever known is like that. Regardless of politics. Again, unless there was a discharge issue.

Medically discharged a year early for a neck injury sustained in a car accident, as I said.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:22:41 PM
There were definite undertones. In multiple threads. He held it against me that I live in a downstate small town that is predominately white.

Is what it is. He can deny it, but it's true. I'm not going back to look it up.

It is an entertaining sub thread in that thread.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:23:06 PM
I push back on the “always a Marine”
mantra because I’ve often found it’s just people patting themselves on the back extra hard. I once had a Marine Corps vet proudly tell me “killed more   n……ers in Vietnam than Vietcongs,” because they “give away your position, and ain’t no one gonna give away my position.” I can assure you he considered himself “a Marine for life.” No thanks.

Haha, yes. That's a lot like the Marines I've been around.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:23:33 PM
Not that you will see this, but it is clear from the context of what was being discussed what Tempo was getting at.

Jobu turned it around in him by posting the demographics of Itasca.

I remember that. I was probably trying to get under Jobu’s skin. FTR, I’d rather live in Itasca than Englewood, if that matters.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:24:06 PM
Medically discharged a year early for a neck injury sustained in a car accident, as I said.

I believe you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:24:47 PM
I remember that. I was probably trying to get under Jobu’s skin. FTR, I’d rather live in Itasca than Englewood, if that matters.

By inferring that I'm a racist. That's nice.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:25:08 PM
I push back on the “always a Marine”
mantra because I’ve often found it’s just people patting themselves on the back extra hard. I once had a Marine Corps vet proudly tell me “killed more   n……ers in Vietnam than Vietcongs,” because they “give away your position, and ain’t no one gonna give away my position.” I can assure you he considered himself “a Marine for life.” No thanks.

One bad apple spoils The Marines, but...ahhh I could go on and on about how you have fought against that line of reasoning when it is something you support.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:25:31 PM
Yes, we owe our military members a great deal of gratitude. Also, there are a lot of truly shitty people serving in the military.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:25:56 PM
It's fine. Think whatever you like. I live in Washington, IL. 15 minutes from a very bad neighborhood on the south end of Peoria. Does that give me any street cred, or nah?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:26:29 PM
One bad apple spoils The Marines, but...ahhh I could go on and on about how you have fought against that line of reasoning when it is something you support.

Wut.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:26:39 PM
Yes, we owe our military members a great deal of gratitude. Also, there are a lot of truly shitty people serving in the military.

Yes, there are. There are shitty people everywhere.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:26:54 PM
You think the Marines had “one bad apple?”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:27:15 PM
I remember that. I was probably trying to get under Jobu’s skin. FTR, I’d rather live in Itasca than Englewood, if that matters.

Or Lakeview. You made that clear with your feet despite your fondness for the Democratic Socialists of America agenda.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:28:17 PM
By inferring that I'm a racist. That's nice.

That's how the Democratic Socialists of America roll.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:28:33 PM
It's fine. Think whatever you like. I live in Washington, IL. 15 minutes from a very bad neighborhood on the south end of Peoria. Does that give me any street cred, or nah?

Peoria gives you some street cred. As i remembered that exchange I was basically hammering you for lack of street cred in my mind, not realizing Peoria was your backyard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:29:54 PM
Or Lakeview. You made that clear with your feet despite your fondness for the Democratic Socialists of America agenda.

Been a while since you got on with a good troll job! Keep it up!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:31:57 PM
Peoria gives you some street cred. As i remembered that exchange I was basically hammering you for lack of street cred in my mind, not realizing Peoria was your backyard.

Yeah, awful neighborhoods, murder, carjackings and basically any other crime is quite close.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:32:15 PM
By inferring that I'm a racist. That's nice.

Let’s not pretend you haven’t “inferred” a lot of shitty things about me. Truth is, neither of us is a saint, and neither is irredeemable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:34:06 PM
I remember that. I was probably trying to get under Jobu’s skin. FTR, I’d rather live in Itasca than Englewood, if that matters.

Now who's the racist
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:34:09 PM
Let’s not pretend you haven’t “inferred” a lot of shitty things about me. Truth is, neither of us is a saint, and neither is irredeemable.

I don't know. I'm not sure I've ever thought truly shitty things about you. But you're right. We are not saints.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:35:22 PM
'Tempo is a drunk, shitty dad' was like fully accepted and repeated here constantly.

As was 'JudgeJudy beats/abuses his daughter'.

That kind of shit is really fucked up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:38:03 PM
Now who's the racist

I’m racist because id rather live and raise my kid in a safe town with good schools than Englewood? FTR, I love and appreciate the south side, I just wouldn’t want to live in most of it. I’d maybe do Kenwood, Hyde Park, or Beverly. But no Mt Greenwood, too police officery for me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:38:14 PM
'Tempo is a drunk, shitty dad' was like fully accepted and repeated here constantly.

As was 'JudgeJudy beats/abuses his daughter'.

That kind of shit is really fucked up.

Haha, Robb came up with the Tempo drunk meme. Yes, I'll admit I kinda ran with it, which was shitty, but I never really thought that.

I was not involved in the JudgeJudy stuff.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:38:35 PM
I’m racist because id rather live and raise my kid in a safe town with good schools than Englewood? FTR, I love and appreciate the south side, I just wouldn’t want to live in most of it. I’d maybe do Kenwood, Hyde Park, or Beverly. But no Mt Greenwood, too police officers for me.

:)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:39:35 PM
Been a while since you got on with a good troll job! Keep it up!

You were playing the self-righteous role today...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:39:44 PM
I’m racist because id rather live and raise my kid in a safe town with good schools than Englewood? FTR, I love and appreciate the south side, I just wouldn’t want to live in most of it. I’d maybe do Kenwood, Hyde Park, or Beverly. But no Mt Greenwood, too police officers for me.

I like living in a safe town as well. It's nice.

You tried to make me feel like shit about it. It didn't work, but you tried.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:40:50 PM
'Tempo is a drunk, shitty dad' was like fully accepted and repeated here constantly.

As was 'JudgeJudy beats/abuses his daughter'.

That kind of shit is really fucked up.

To be fair, I don’t think I ever thought people really believed that (even Robb), but it was repeated a billion times, not just by him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:41:12 PM
I obviously appreciate a good, memorable meme, regardless of its veracity.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:41:28 PM
I like living in a safe town as well. It's nice.

You tried to make me feel like shit about it. It didn't work, but you tried.

That I WILL confess to.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:41:47 PM
I said before that Spark lost his cred. Not true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:42:54 PM
I obviously appreciate a good, memorable meme, regardless of its veracity.

The real question is did Caleb Williams really fail Wayne Whitlock?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:43:50 PM
It was repeated enough to where it didn’t matter if it was true, it was like 3 to 5, don’t think it will but wouldn’t be shocked if it did, Lorenzo, Shaka, Reggie Theus, and the list goes on…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:44:26 PM
It was repeated enough to where it didn’t matter if it was true, it was like 3 to 5, don’t think it will but wouldn’t be shocked if it did, Lorenzo, Shaka, Reggie Theus, and then list goes on…

And it will go on for another 3-5 years. At least.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:44:39 PM
The real question is did Caleb Williams really fail Wayne Whitlock?

If Adam Hoge says it, it’s gotta be true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:45:08 PM
And it will go on for another 3-5 years. At least.

Don’t hate that use of the 3-5 meme.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:45:21 PM
If Adam Hoge says it, it’s gotta be true.

I just wish it would have been Parkins. Or Mike North.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:45:33 PM
If Adam Hoge says it, it’s gotta be true.

Can we at least agree that this shit was funny?

Not even as an 'own Tempo' thing, it's just hilarious to me that this dude thought it worth his time to call you out by name.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:46:32 PM
Can we at least agree that this shit was funny?

Not even as an 'own Tempo' thing, it's just hilarious to me that this dude thought it worth his time to call you out by name.

That's actually the best part. And when that other dude said "Caleb Williams failed Wayne Whitlock." Man, that's gold.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:46:50 PM
It was repeated enough to where it didn’t matter if it was true, it was like 3 to 5, don’t think it will but wouldn’t be shocked if it did, Lorenzo, Shaka, Reggie Theus, and the list goes on…

All quality memes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:47:11 PM
I just wish it would have been Parkins. Or Mike North.

Mike North is PAMan’s guy. I don’t listen to Parkins anymore.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:48:11 PM
Maybe…I’ll give The Score another listen come football season. Or maybe one or two days after the draft even. I’ve been listening to music instead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:48:59 PM
All quality memes.

For sure, several I’m not even remembering I’m sure
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 01:49:10 PM
Mike North is PAMan’s guy. I don’t listen to Parkins anymore.

I never listened to him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:49:20 PM
Maybe…I’ll give The Score another listen come football season. Or maybe one or two days after the draft even. I’ve been listening to music instead.

What are you listening to
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:49:42 PM
Duh! I get all my takes from Bernstein and Parkins!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:49:52 PM
Mike North is PAMan’s guy. I don’t listen to Parkins’ anymore.

I thought Dan Macneil was PA's guy. Though they're pretty much the same person.

I've looked at a couple of North's tweets lately. Woof.

And yeah, good on not listening to Parkins.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:50:38 PM
What are you listening to

Radio. I’m a dinosaur that way. WXRT and Q101 (alternative) mostly.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:51:12 PM
I mostly listen to a podcast that I really like. Small town murder. By a couple of comedians.

You guys should give it a listen. It's great for long road trips. Or just sitting around even.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:51:16 PM
I don't even know what gets played on the radio anymore
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:51:52 PM
I mostly listen to a podcast that I really like. Small town murder. By a couple of comedians.

You guys should give it a listen. It's great for long road trips. Or just sitting around even.

I can exclusively do podcasts on long drives.  If I have a means to distract myself and miss it, I will take that opportunity.

I also suspect the podcasts I like, you guys wouldn't that much.  Could be wrong.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:52:04 PM
Favorite “newer” artists are Black Pumas, Nathaniel Rateliff, Noah Kahan. Really like a new song called Burial Ground by The Decemberists.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:53:19 PM
I never listened to him.

You posted his thoughts once. That’s the rule. “Tempo is a Greenie guy.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:53:36 PM
Favorite “newer” artists are Black Pumas, Nathaniel Rateliff, Noah Kahan. Really like a new song called Burial Ground by The Decemberists.

Haven't heard the new song but I typically like Decemberists.  Or at least I did in the Picaresque/Crane Wife era which is unfortunately 18-19 years ago now
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:55:01 PM
I can exclusively do podcasts on long drives.  If I have a means to distract myself and miss it, I will take that opportunity.

I also suspect the podcasts I like, you guys wouldn't that much.  Could be wrong.

Small Town Murder is basically where these guys select a small town where a terrible, or crazy murder occurred. They go through the demographics of the town, then describe what happened. Often, they make fun of a shitty police force, or the actual murderer him (or her) self. They never make fun of the victim or their family.

They also do "Crime in Sports", which is obvious, and also "Your Stupid Opinions," where they make fun of reviews.

They're funny dudes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:55:56 PM
I mostly listen to a podcast that I really like. Small town murder. By a couple of comedians.

You guys should give it a listen. It's great for long road trips. Or just sitting around even.

That actually sounds good. I’m intrigued by true crime stuff. Don’t think I’d go so far as to listen to it, but it intrigues me. I know that stuff is popular. I know there are a lot of great podcasts out there now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 01:57:29 PM
That actually sounds good. I’m intrigued by true crime stuff. Don’t think I’d go so far as to listen to it, but it intrigues me. I know that stuff is popular. I know there are a lot of great podcasts out there now.

It's true crime, with comedy mixed in. Give it a shot. They have full length episodes which can be up to 3 hours, or express episodes which are an hour.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 01:57:46 PM
That's actually the best part. And when that other dude said "Caleb Williams failed Wayne Whitlock." Man, that's gold.

Adam Hoge is lucky I don’t have a podcast.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:58:24 PM
I got really into Whose Line for awhile, so was looking for something to scratch that itch and found some improv comedy stuff that I enjoyed.  That's mostly what I've been into lately.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 01:58:42 PM
Adam Hoge is lucky I don’t have a podcast.

If you make one, 'Caleb Williams failed Wayne Whitlock' is a great title for it.

Maybe he'll come on as a guest even.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:00:11 PM
If you make one, 'Caleb Williams failed Wayne Whitlock' is a great title for it.

Maybe he'll come on as a guest even.

🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:00:27 PM
If you make one, 'Caleb Williams failed Wayne Whitlock' is a great title for it.

Maybe he'll come on as a guest even.

I would love for Tempo to question Caleb about going to that golf tournament. I would definitely listen to that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 02:01:57 PM
You posted his thoughts once. That’s the rule. “Tempo is a Greenie guy.”

I understand. I don't know how I would have posted his thoughts though, unless I had seen them posted elsewhere.

I do listen to Dumpy Dan McNeil's podcast.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:02:07 PM
I’d like to do a show like Pat Mayo and just talk PGA, NFL, NCAA Tournament and PGA, NFL DFS.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:02:58 PM
That's an original concept that no one else is doing so maybe it has a chance
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:03:17 PM
I understand. I don't know how I would have posted his thoughts though, unless I had seen them posted elsewhere.

I do listen to Dumpy Dan McNeil's podcast.


You did. That’s the same way you get your Score info.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 02:05:10 PM
Adam Hoge is lucky I don’t have a podcast.

I have been encouraging you over text to do a public response.

And while we are at it, we talked about going to an Illini football game. Will you pick a game? Maybe you can convince Spark to join us since my invitation to him via PM was not seen since he has me on block.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:05:42 PM
I would love for Tempo to question Caleb about going to that golf tournament. I would definitely listen to that.

I would ask him about that! Why were you gallivanting around the country when the Bears were waiting on your medicals?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:06:10 PM
I would ask him about that! Why were you gallivanting around the country when the Bears were waiting on your medicals?!

This is a hypothetical question and I can already feel his eyes start to roll at it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 02:06:19 PM


You did. That’s the same way you get your Score info.

Yeah that one website you linked to here where they all loved the old Score and now think it is too Woke.

But he was on McNeil's pod once, now that I think about it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:08:28 PM
This is a hypothetical question and I can already feel his eyes start to roll at it

I’d just like the future franchise quarterback of the Chicago Bears to explain why he wasn’t prioritizing the business of the Chicago Bears during one of the most important months of his life. Seems like a reasonable question to me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:09:23 PM
I’d just like the future franchise quarterback of the Chicago Bears to explain why he wasn’t prioritizing the business of the Chicago Bears during one of the most important months of his life. Seems like a reasonable question to me.

Yeah. We know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:09:29 PM
That it’s a serious question makes it easily twice as funny
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 02:09:36 PM
I have been encouraging you over text to do a public response.

And while we are at it, we talked about going to an Illini football game. Will you pick a game? Maybe you can convince Spark to join us since my invitation to him via PM was not seen since he has me on block.

Don't pick Dad's Day or MSU (those are spoken for, but in November anyway).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:10:33 PM
That it’s a serious question makes it easily twice as funny

You don’t think preparing for the draft should be his #1 priority the month before the draft?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:11:37 PM
I think this is exactly the kind of discourse that will be hilarious on your podcast
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:12:07 PM
Also no I don’t care that he went to the golf tournament.  The Bears don’t seem to either
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:13:23 PM
I realize it’s not the 1950s anymore, but I’d want to see my franchise quarterback show a high sense of urgency working with his new franchise, especially when he’s supposed to be “making an impression.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:14:37 PM
I want to see him play well and help the team win. If he doesn't, I'll bitch about that. Not whether he's at a golf tournament and not getting a physical that will most likely show that he's perfectly healthy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:14:56 PM
All indications are that he’s made a very good impression on the Bears
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:15:41 PM
Also no I don’t care that he went to the golf tournament.  The Bears don’t seem to either

I also don’t care that he went to the golf tournament. As a big PGA fan, I found that likable about him that he apparently likes golf. What I didn’t like is his cavalier attitude about things that the Chicago Bears deem quite important. I can promise you, Ryan Poles wanted his medicals sooner.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:16:26 PM
You can promise whatever you’d like, obviously.  The Bears didn’t seem to mind though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:19:14 PM
All indications are that he’s made a very good impression on the Bears

Yes, but they wasn’t always a given. Lots of scouts and GMs were miffed that Caleb didn’t do things the standard way. And yes, I get that those guys are crusty. I can assure you Poles wasn’t happy either, but it was obviously not enough to prevent interest in Caleb. Again, you guys confuse some mild criticism with condemnation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:20:37 PM
Not worth caring about. If he sucks, I'm not going to come back to whether Poles was pissed about his medicals.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:21:03 PM
You can promise whatever you’d like, obviously.  The Bears didn’t seem to mind though.

Once again, it’s not a zero sum game. “Caleb didn’t give us his medicals as soon as we wanted! NEXT!”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:21:06 PM
Yes, but they wasn’t always a given. Lots of scouts and GMs were miffed that Caleb didn’t do things the standard way. And yes, I get that those guys are crusty. I can assure you Poles wasn’t happy either, but it was obviously not enough to prevent interest in Caleb. Again, you guys confuse some mild criticism with condemnation.

You can assure me of whatever you’d like as long as we agree that you actually are just making it up and you have no way of knowing if any of that is true.

For all we know Caleb told Poles he was going and Poles told him shotgun a beer for me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:21:48 PM
Once again, it’s not a zero sum game. “Caleb didn’t give us his medicals as soon as we wanted! NEXT!”

You’re still talking about it pretty pointedly a month later
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:22:15 PM
Not worth caring about. If he sucks, I'm not going to come back to whether Poles was pissed about his medicals.

What if he sucks because of a cavalier attitude? Might that have been a window to a potential problem?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:22:59 PM
You’re still talking about it pretty pointedly a month later

I didn’t bring it up first, I don’t believe.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:23:51 PM
What if he sucks because of a cavalier attitude? Might that have been a window to a potential problem?

There isn’t really any indication of a “cavalier attitude”, whatever that means.  But it’s clear there’s a prt of you that hopes he sucks so you can come dunk on everyone for laughing at the golf tournament thing
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:24:15 PM
I didn’t bring it up first, I don’t believe.

You are definitely the only one who is serious and not laughing about it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:24:45 PM
Or maybe not cavalier, I don’t think that applies to Caleb; but a “I know what I’m doing and I’m doing it my way”
attitude? What if that contributes to any failure he might see?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:26:00 PM
If that happens we’ll almost assuredly never know about it unless he ends up in jail or something.  Which seems unlikely.

Pretty much every report about Caleb Williams for years is that he’s been singlemindedly set on being a great NFL player since like Middle School
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:26:13 PM
You are definitely the only one who is serious and not laughing about it

People here took a stance opposite me. Throw it on the very large pile.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:26:45 PM
Let’s put it this way: there are very very few situations where Caleb Williams sucks and I think that golf tournament has even the slightest bit of relevance to it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:27:56 PM
I know you’ll hate this but it’s extremely similar to the dumb “why isn’t Justin Fields watching tape and studying the playbook all the time” meme
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:29:20 PM
If that happens we’ll almost assuredly never know about it unless he ends up in jail or something.  Which seems unlikely.

Pretty much every report about Caleb Williams for years is that he’s been singlemindedly set on being a great NFL player since like Middle School


I don’t question his work ethic or desire. I question his ability to conform and lead a franchise. Even Tom Brady conformed at the end of the day. If Caleb wants to be some Maverick after a couple Super Bowl wins I’d have less of a problem with it.

For the milliontieth time, I think Caleb is a great prospect and will likely be very very good. It doesn’t mean I’m completely worry free.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:30:47 PM
I know you’ll hate this but it’s extremely similar to the dumb “why isn’t Justin Fields watching tape and studying the playbook all the time” meme

I disagree. The Bears weren’t waiting on vital information from Justin as he attended Bulls games.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:31:57 PM
Let’s put it this way: there are very very few situations where Caleb Williams sucks and I think that golf tournament has even the slightest bit of relevance to it

You are totally missing the point.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:32:15 PM
I disagree. The Bears weren’t waiting on vital information from Justin as he attended Bulls games.

We have no idea what the Bears thought of it.  We know publicly they didn’t seem to mind at all.  I think it’s fair to guess that they had discussions about it and had more information than we do about the situation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:32:32 PM
You are totally missing the point.

I followed your lead
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:33:42 PM
I had zero problem with Caleb attending a golf tournament. I was a little bothered by it because the franchise he’s in line to lead was waiting on vital information from him at the time. It just sends a poor message IMO. It’s not end of the world shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:35:11 PM
What if he sucks because of a cavalier attitude? Might that have been a window to a potential problem?

Nope. I would be shocked if he sucks because of his attitude.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:35:18 PM
I had zero problem with Caleb attending a golf tournament. I was a little bothered by it because the franchise he’s in line to lead was waiting on vital information from him at the time. It just sends a poor message IMO. It’s not end of the world shit.

But for all we know he had communicated to them exactly when he would do his medical stuff.  There is no indication this bothered anyone in the Bears organization, so why would it bother me?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:36:14 PM
We have no idea what the Bears thought of it.  We know publicly they didn’t seem to mind at all.  I think it’s fair to guess that they had discussions about it and had more information than we do about the situation.

So you really think Ryan Poles wasn’t at least a little miffed that Caleb made him wait for the medicals? That would be totally naive. If Poles’ attitude was “hey bro, whenever…” then that would bother me about Poles. Fire Poles (said no one)!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:37:28 PM
I can assure you, Poles wanted them at the combine. It doesn’t mean he wasn’t “willing” to wait. He obviously was.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:37:30 PM
So you really think Ryan Poles wasn’t at least a little miffed that Caleb made him wait for the medicals? That would be totally naive. If Poles’ attitude was “hey bro, whenever…” then that would bother me about Poles. Fire Poles (said no one)!

I have no clue.  There was certainly no indication that Poles minded.

I think it’s extremely likely Poles knew exactly when the medical stuff would happen, don’t you?  They seem to have been in near constant communication with Caleb
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:38:02 PM
I can assure you, Poles wanted them at the combine. It doesn’t mean he wasn’t “willing” to wait. He obviously was.

You keep saying stuff like “I promise,” and “I assure you,” but the truth is you have no idea how Poles felt about any of it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:38:46 PM
A GM is going to want that information as soon as he can get it, and they always got it at the combine, until this year.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:40:19 PM
So you really think Ryan Poles wasn’t at least a little miffed that Caleb made him wait for the medicals? That would be totally naive. If Poles’ attitude was “hey bro, whenever…” then that would bother me about Poles. Fire Poles (said no one)!

I have no idea.  Neither do you, though.

I think if Caleb said “hey I’m not doing medical for anyone at the combine but I got you in a few weeks when I come for my visit” then chances are good that Poles wasn’t too worried about it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:40:40 PM
No leader of a serious organization is going to say “whenever is great by me!” When waiting on extremely vital information. Sorry. Again, it wasn’t enough to get Poles to go to plan B. No one said or implied that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:40:49 PM
None of this is a big deal. That's why Hoge made fun of you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:41:47 PM
No leader of a serious organization is going to say “whenever is great by me!” When waiting on extremely vital information. Sorry. Again, it wasn’t enough to get Poles to go to plan B. No one said or implied that.

Frankly, I doubt you know how a “leader of a serious organization” thinks.  There’s no indication that Poles was upset or put off by it though.  People like you are the only ones I’ve seen upset about it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:42:43 PM
I guarantee you Poles was “worried” about his medicals. He’d be a piss poor GM if he wasn’t.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:43:06 PM
No leader of a serious organization is going to say “whenever is great by me!” When waiting on extremely vital information. Sorry. Again, it wasn’t enough to get Poles to go to plan B. No one said or implied that.

Extremely vital? He's a world class athlete. Chances are the medicals are fine. lol

Guessing Poles didn't give much of a shit. But maybe he was furious. Who knows and who cares. Again, if he sucks and he busts out, it isn't going to be because he handed in his medical shit differently than normal.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:43:35 PM
But clearly that’s who Poles wants, so of course he had no real choice but to wait.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:43:41 PM
I guarantee you Poles was “worried” about his medicals. He’d be a piss poor GM if he wasn’t.

haha, I doubt it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:44:54 PM
I guarantee you Poles was “worried” about his medicals. He’d be a piss poor GM if he wasn’t.

You have guaranteed, promised, and assured something but still not acknowledged that you have zero evidence supporting your claim or the means to know at all.  Which you don’t.

It’s clear YOU are upset that he waited to do medicals at his visit, but my guess is Poles knew that would be the case long before the combine.  You’re projecting your own thoughts onto Poles
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:45:36 PM
“Chances are.” You think GMs run their team by “chances are?” Downplaying medicals is pretty nuts. Hell, I’ve seen guys rejected in line joining the military and they’ll take almost anyone!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:47:56 PM
haha, I doubt it.

Did it “keep him up at night?” That’s not at all what I’m saying, but if you don’t think Ryan Poles put a very high value on his medicals then I have a two-flat in Englewood to sell you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 02:52:41 PM
You have guaranteed, promised, and assured something but still not acknowledged that you have zero evidence supporting your claim or the means to know at all.  Which you don’t.

It’s clear YOU are upset that he waited to do medicals at his visit, but my guess is Poles knew that would be the case long before the combine.  You’re projecting your own thoughts onto Poles

A competent GM is going to want the #1 pick in the draft’s medicals as soon as he can get them. It’s common sense. Doesn’t mean it’s a deal breaker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 02:54:25 PM
A competent GM is going to want the #1 pick in the draft’s medicals as soon as he can get them. It’s common sense. Doesn’t mean it’s a deal breaker.

And he knew he would get them, likely knew when he would get them, and he got them.

You're projecting your own views onto Poles and 'guaranteeing' he feels the same way you do.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:54:47 PM
I'm pretty certain that the number one overall pick in the draft is going to be fine on medicals. Sure, they obviously want them, but the chances of those medicals being bad are pretty fucking slim, don't you think?

And, even if they said something bad, when do you need them in order to determine that you're going in a different direction?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:55:24 PM
I'm just having trouble understanding why medicals are so important to have at a certain time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 02:57:10 PM
Tempo, stop using all your good stuff here. Save it for our podcast.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 02:58:47 PM
Tempo, stop using all your good stuff here. Save it for our podcast.

Good point. He's blowing his wad.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 24, 2024, 03:02:48 PM
I disagree. The Bears weren’t waiting on vital information from Justin as he attended Bulls games.

Just to improve…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:08:36 PM
And he knew he would get them, likely knew when he would get them, and he got them.

You're projecting your own views onto Poles and 'guaranteeing' he feels the same way you do.

Of course he knew he would get them, it doesn’t mean he didn’t want them sooner. What if Caleb’s medicals came back with a problem and then Poles had 3 less weeks to adjust accordingly?

No corporate GM is going to happily sit around waiting several weeks on vital information that will determine the very direction of his company when it’s information he could have today. That is not the way these people operate, and thinking they do operate that way is height of naiveté.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:09:19 PM
Again…NOT A DEAL BREAKER, as Caleb is the obvious #1 choice.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 03:12:57 PM
Of course he knew he would get them, it doesn’t mean he didn’t want them sooner. What if Caleb’s medicals came back with a problem and then Poles had 3 less weeks to adjust accordingly?

No corporate GM is going to happily sit around waiting several weeks on vital information that will determine the very direction of his company when it’s information he could have today. That is not the way these people operate, and thinking they do operate that way is height of naiveté.

I'm going to guess they had a plan of what they would do if there was some glaring issue with his medicals, which was obviously a longshot from the beginning.

The point is it WASN'T information he could have today.  But he almost certainly knew exactly when he would get it, so my guess is he wasn't too worried about Caleb doing fun stuff in the meantime.  That's not a guarantee or an assurance because I'm not in the business of projecting my views onto others and guaranteeing they agree, but I have seen no indication anywhere that anyone in Bears organization was particularly worried about the medicals coming at his visit instead of the combine.  I've seen you and other people (mostly, surely coincidentally, people who loved Fields and have been weirdly critical of Williams for months before this) complain about it, but nobody who actually is involved.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 03:13:56 PM
Again…NOT A DEAL BREAKER, as Caleb is the obvious #1 choice.

No is saying you're claiming it should've been a deal breaker, you can stop repeating that.

We're saying it's a dumb thing to be worried about at all.  Especially the part about the golf tournament.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 03:14:47 PM
Of course he knew he would get them, it doesn’t mean he didn’t want them sooner. What if Caleb’s medicals came back with a problem and then Poles had 3 less weeks to adjust accordingly?

No corporate GM is going to happily sit around waiting several weeks on vital information that will determine the very direction of his company when it’s information he could have today. That is not the way these people operate, and thinking they do operate that way is height of naiveté.

You don't think that Poles had a contingency plan in place in the event Caleb had multiple sclerosis or something? Did you think he would sit there and say, well, we don't have the medicals, so I guess we just have to sit and wait.

Lol, come on. Leaders always have plans for when things don't work out. Poles had a plan if Caleb had cystic fibrosis or an enlarged heart or something.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 03:16:36 PM
Oh shit. Caleb has stage 4 breast cancer. We're fucked now. What are we going to do?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 24, 2024, 03:17:37 PM
Tempo you LOVED Fields being a part of the Chicago community and going to games from other sports. Why the sudden change regarding Williams doing it?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 24, 2024, 03:19:23 PM
You don't think that Poles had a contingency plan in place in the event Caleb had multiple sclerosis or something? Did you think he would sit there and say, well, we don't have the medicals, so I guess we just have to sit and wait.

Lol, come on. Leaders always have plans for when things don't work out. Poles had a plan if Caleb had cystic fibrosis or an enlarged heart or something.
Restaurant managers have contingency plans in place also.
Or, at least they should. Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:23:52 PM
Just to improve…

Again, not at all the same thing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:24:18 PM
Restaurant managers have contingency plans in place also.
Or, at least they should. Lol

Eat shit, nerd.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 03:24:51 PM
But what if Fields was mediocre this year because he spent his time at the Bulls game instead of studying the playbook
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:25:17 PM
Tempo you LOVED Fields being a part of the Chicago community and going to games from other sports. Why the sudden change regarding Williams doing it?!

This place would be so much better if the reading comprehension were at at least an 8th grade level.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 03:26:26 PM
But what if Fields was mediocre this year because he spent his time at the Bulls game instead of studying the playbook

Fair question actually
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 03:29:35 PM
LOL, it was absolutely not a fair question
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:31:18 PM
But what if Fields was mediocre this year because he spent his time at the Bulls game instead of studying the playbook

Then I guess they’d have traded him. Again, you guys don’t understand the point at all. Ryan Poles is going to want that information as soon as he can get it (but yes, he’d also be “willing” to wait for it if need be). But it wasn’t really “needed,”
It was preferred by Caleb. I just don’t like the message it sends. I’d rather have someone who prioritizes the business of the Chicago Bears as they are getting ready to make him the 1st pick in the draft. Is it a deal breaker FOR THE 900th TIME, NO…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 24, 2024, 03:34:11 PM
Eat shit, nerd.
You did have contingency plans, didn't you ?
And the Bears probably have contingency plans for every pick that they have in the draft. Including the #1 pick.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 03:35:09 PM
Fair question actually

We now that he sucked because he was too busy going to the Bulls game AND studying the Bible instead of the playbook.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 03:38:32 PM
LOL, it was absolutely not a fair question

Tempo wants it both ways.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:52:34 PM
You did have contingency plans, didn't you ?
And the Bears probably have contingency plans for every pick that they have in the draft. Including the #1 pick.

The Bears never even had dinner or a sit down with DeSean Watson. There are typically stones that go unturned. As their clear #1 choice how do we know most of the resources weren’t directed at Caleb? I would think the decision between Daniels and Maye (or whomever) would require more due process. That’s also 3 less weeks you have to hammer out a trade if you pursue that option.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:55:21 PM
No CEO is going to be “totally fine!” with waiting 3 weeks for vital information to the direction of his company, if that’s information he could totally have today.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 03:57:17 PM
No CEO is going to be “totally fine!” with waiting 3 weeks for vital information to the direction of his company, if that’s information he could totally have today.

How many times are you going to say that?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 03:57:30 PM
While the Bears are waiting out Caleb Williams, other teams are finalizing their plans. Could be a major wrench in any potential trade option.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 03:58:51 PM
While the Bears are waiting out Caleb Williams, other teams are finalizing there plans. Could be a major wrench in any potential trade option.

Yeah. Well, it's a good thing that his medicals were fine. You know, since there was a 99.99999% chance that they would be.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:00:15 PM
How many times are you going to say that?

Maybe as long as it takes common sense to prevail.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:00:58 PM
How many potential number 1 overall picks in the history of any sport have flunked a physical?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:01:19 PM
Yeah. Well, it's a good thing that his medicals were fine. You know, since there was a 99.99999% chance that they would be.

That’s a high percentage. What if they weren’t?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 04:01:41 PM
My opinion is common sense even when almost no one else agrees with it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:01:55 PM
That’s a high percentage. What if they weren’t?

How many potential number 1 overall picks in the history of any sport have flunked a physical?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:03:25 PM
Larry Ogunjobi’s medicals were fine until they weren’t.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:03:59 PM
That’s a high percentage. What if they weren’t?

Again, the chances of that were so astronomically slim that it's not worth considering. That's why Hoge called you out. And you're bitching about this because they didn't keep Fields.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 04:04:51 PM
Betting Adam Hoge knows the price of the orange chicken he bought.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:05:10 PM
Larry Ogunjobi’s medicals were fine until they weren’t.

Oh. Was he a potential number 1 overall pick?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:06:51 PM
Betting Adam Hoge knows the price of the orange chicken he bought.

Probably takes his car to a mechanic for oil changes tho
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 04:10:27 PM
I love the Ogunjobi example since he turned his medicals in on time and came back clean, even got drafted a couple rounds ahead of his projection.  Doing medicals at the combine didn’t prevent something coming up later

He’s also about to enter his .. 7th? Year in the league?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 04:15:27 PM
I wonder if the Bears have done another physical on Caleb this week.

What if something popped up in the last month?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:17:54 PM
I wonder if the Bears have done another physical on Caleb this week.

What if something popped up in the last month?

Could happen. He probably smokes 3 packs a day and eats red meat for every meal.

Hell, he could be missing a limb for all we know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:27:15 PM
How many potential number 1 overall picks in the history of any sport have flunked a physical?

Again, I find it really hard to believe that a GM on the verge of making a franchise altering pick that will likely determine whether or not he keeps his job would have such a laissez faire attitude toward the medicals of his future franchise quarterback. I could be wrong, but I highly doubt it.

This is the highest stakes in the sports world, not tiddly winks. It’s a no-brainer that any GM would definitely prefer to have such vital information sooner, rather than multiple weeks later. Caleb is the “generational” quarterback prospect in this draft, and this is a new era of player empowerment. Being Caleb is the near unanimous #1 pick, I’m sure Poles was willing to wait it out, if not thrilled to do so.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:30:10 PM
Oh. Was he a potential number 1 overall pick?

No, but he was signed and cut loose, and not nearly as vital as a franchise quarterback.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:30:33 PM
I wonder if the Bears have done another physical on Caleb this week.

What if something popped up in the last month?

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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:30:59 PM
It's just not a big deal. And they got the medicals. And he's fine. So it's not a fucking problem. Damn, man.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:33:10 PM
You don't think that Poles had a contingency plan in place in the event Caleb had multiple sclerosis or something? Did you think he would sit there and say, well, we don't have the medicals, so I guess we just have to sit and wait.

Lol, come on. Leaders always have plans for when things don't work out. Poles had a plan if Caleb had cystic fibrosis or an enlarged heart or something.

Again, it’s not just that, but yes, sometimes teams don’t do their homework on others (see, Ryan Pace/DeSean Watson). And again, it’s less time to build up a trade market for the pick if that’s something he’s interested in.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 04:35:04 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/vHfc0xjN/IMG-7266.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

It's not a strawman, I'm just making fun of you.

I'm not actually worried, nor do I think you are, about something having come up in the last few weeks.

Your example was an odd one though.  A guy who passed his physical at the combine, but later couldn't sign with a team after he failed one.  Then signed a 3yr/$28m deal with a different team (who he apparently passed a physical for).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:35:50 PM
Actually, you guys are right, it’s just the franchise and Poles’ career at stake. I’m sure Poles was totally cool to wait several weeks unnecessarily. Would have been a good time to take a 17 day trip to Europe!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 24, 2024, 04:35:59 PM
Could happen. He probably smokes 3 packs a day and eats red meat for every meal.

Hell, he could be missing a limb for all we know.

What if he has a vagina?!😳
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:36:24 PM
Again, it’s not just that, but yes, sometimes teams don’t do their homework on others (see, Ryan Pace/DeSean Watson). And again, it’s less time to build up a trade market for the pick if that’s something he’s interested in.

Ok, but that didn't happen. He's fine. And Ryan Pace isn't here.

How much time to you need to build up a trade market for the number 1 fucking overall pick when this draft is loaded with talented quarterbacks and receivers? Come on, man. You just wouldn't have given any kind of a shit about this if you didn't want them to keep Fields and trade that pick.

The medicals on Caleb came back fine. Just like everyone thought they would.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:37:17 PM
Actually, you guys are right, it’s just the franchise and Poles’ career at stake. I’m sure Poles was totally cool to wait several weeks unnecessarily. Would have been a good time to take a 17 day trip to Europe!

Now you're coming around.

The medicals are fine on him, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:37:50 PM
What if he has a vagina?!😳

Oh. Well, then the Bears would be the most diverse franchise in football.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 04:38:17 PM
Again, it’s not just that, but yes, sometimes teams don’t do their homework on others (see, Ryan Pace/DeSean Watson). And again, it’s less time to build up a trade market for the pick if that’s something he’s interested in.

Maybe they knew Watson was a dirtbag?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 24, 2024, 04:38:25 PM
You just wouldn't have given any kind of a shit about this if you didn't want them to keep Fields and trade that pick.

This is 💯 🎯
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 04:38:57 PM
Actually, you guys are right, it’s just the franchise and Poles’ career at stake. I’m sure Poles was totally cool to wait several weeks unnecessarily. Would have been a good time to take a 17 day trip to Europe!

It's pretty clear that there's nothing too small for you to criticize Caleb Williams for and he isn't even drafted yet.  This shit is going to be absolutely insufferable this year.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 04:39:23 PM
What if he has a vagina?!😳

Since you will be at the draft, maybe you can do a "cup check," so to speak.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 04:39:54 PM
Jobu is right.  Just like the huge majority of the criticism Tempo has for Williams, it's not actually about Caleb Williams at all.  It's about Fields still.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 04:40:31 PM
Oh. Well, then the Bears would be the most diverse franchise in football.

Far more diverse than Washington and Itasca. Schools definitely not good as those two towns.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 24, 2024, 04:42:09 PM
Since you will be at the draft, maybe you can do a "cup check," so to speak.

Tempo, note the usage of another classic meme....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:43:19 PM
Far more diverse than Washington and Itasca. Schools definitely not good as those two towns.

Oh, far more diverse.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:46:17 PM
It's pretty clear that there's nothing too small for you to criticize Caleb Williams for and he isn't even drafted yet.  This shit is going to be absolutely insufferable this year.

It could be worse than the constant Fields dick sucking we all witnessed last season.

It's a high bar to reach, but it's possible.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:49:13 PM
It’s a lot like college coaches who don’t like the portal, but know that if they are going to survive they have to roll with the times.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:49:29 PM
It could be worse than the constant Fields dick sucking we all witnessed last season.

It's a high bar to reach, but it's possible.

JFC
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 04:53:01 PM
It’s a lot like college coaches who don’t like the portal, but know that if they are going to survive they have to roll with the times.

No, it's not like that at all. What the fuck are you talking about?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 04:55:44 PM
No, it's not like that at all. What the fuck are you talking about?

Sure it is. Caleb Williams is probably the most empowered NFL prospect of all-time. How is that much different?
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Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 04:58:10 PM
Obviously not given that rookies used to negotiate their contracts, but post-rookie scale how is he any more “empowered” than any other presumptive #1 pick?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 24, 2024, 05:00:38 PM
If he is somehow empowered, that doesn’t do anything for the rest of the rookies in the league. So it’s nothing like the portal at all.

Peyton Manning and John Elway were empowered as fuck. That, also, is not like the portal.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 24, 2024, 05:26:36 PM
Oh. Well, then the Bears would be the most diverse franchise in football.
The Bears are already a diverse franchise.

They suck at running the ball, passing the ball, stopping the run, stopping the pass, and special teams.
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Post by: ILLove1997 on April 24, 2024, 05:34:35 PM
The Bears are already a diverse franchise.

They suck at running the ball, passing the ball, stopping the run, stopping the pass, and special teams.

😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 05:47:26 PM
He’s already rich. He’s the best prospect in 10 years. It’s the era we live in. If Caleb wanted to force a trade he could have pretty easily done so.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 05:48:26 PM
If he is somehow empowered, that doesn’t do anything for the rest of the rookies in the league. So it’s nothing like the portal at all.

Peyton Manning and John Elway were empowered as fuck. That, also, is not like the portal.

He is empowered, not a 4th rounder. Yes, they are the only comps.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 05:49:04 PM
It could be worse than the constant Fields dick sucking we all witnessed last season.

It's a high bar to reach, but it's possible.

Trying to have a civil disagreement with you is like trying to drink from a sewer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 05:50:42 PM
Dealing with him is similar to dealing with the portal. Your mid-round picks are probably no more empowered than normal.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 05:53:09 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/mggg3sX6/IMG-7267.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/GH6RrZ1k)

Funny, coming from the two guys who took me seriously when I said they should institute a mandatory transgender QB rule.
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Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 05:55:01 PM
Oh. Was he a potential number 1 overall pick?

A football player that fails a physical is a football player that fails a physical. What does his position matter?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 05:56:24 PM
I wonder if the Bears have done another physical on Caleb this week.

What if something popped up in the last month?

I would assume there’s something in the bylaws that prevents teams from requiring random physicals every other day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 06:03:31 PM
Jobu is right.  Just like the huge majority of the criticism Tempo has for Williams, it's not actually about Caleb Williams at all.  It's about Fields still.

Okerrrr
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Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 06:03:54 PM
No criticism of Caleb will stand! No matter how minor!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 06:04:48 PM
I’d still be drafting him tomorrow, and it’s not a tough decision.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 06:06:53 PM
Tempo, note the usage of another classic meme....

The rare one that isn’t attributed to me.
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Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 06:51:49 PM
I would assume there’s something in the bylaws that prevents teams from requiring random physicals every other day.

Probably in the CBA.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 06:52:59 PM
No criticism of Caleb will stand! No matter how minor!

Your criticisms are about the car he drives, a silly video on social media, that he went to a golf tournament.

Criticize his game all you want, but this sort of shit is beyond silly.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 06:54:00 PM
Probably in the CBA.

Yes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 06:54:54 PM
Your criticisms are about the car he drives, a silly video on social media, that he went to a golf tournament.

Criticize his game all you want, but this sort of shit is beyond silly.

At best you’re one for three here, but hey, if you were a baseball player you’d be killing it!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 06:58:44 PM
You're saying you DIDN'T criticize him for two of those three things?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 24, 2024, 07:25:47 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/mggg3sX6/IMG-7267.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/GH6RrZ1k)

Funny, coming from the two guys who took me seriously when I said they should institute a mandatory transgender QB rule.

Hey we’re not the “retarded faggots”

Sorry, had to add the quotes…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 07:56:17 PM
You're saying you DIDN'T criticize him for two of those three things?

JFC
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 07:57:53 PM
You're saying you DIDN'T criticize him for two of those three things?

No, I didn’t. Man. You are just whiffing on so many levels.

“Tempo is mad Caleb went to a golf tournament…”

Actually…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 08:36:43 PM
I literally would not even know about any of the three things I mentioned if you had not complained about them here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 24, 2024, 09:00:02 PM
I literally would not even know about any of the three things I mentioned if you had not complained about them here.

I’ve said repeatedly what my “concerns” are, and you repeatedly only hear half of what I say.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 24, 2024, 09:43:01 PM
Well yes.  You add to it.

"I'm worried about his car because it may mean he's full of himself."

"I'm worried about this social media video because it may mean he's full of himself."

"I'm worried he went to this golf tournament because it may mean he's full of himself".

They are all absurd and stretchy 'criticisms'.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 25, 2024, 12:50:39 AM
JFC dude, and you like to accuse me of being disingenuous.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 25, 2024, 12:52:07 AM
We’re done discussing any of that if you’re going to continue to misrepresent what I’ve said (over and over).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 25, 2024, 01:56:19 AM
For the 11th time, I’ll try to explain what I’m talking about in regards to “his car!” I never once said “Can’t draft Caleb, look at the car he drives!” What I said is that I would be curious enough to ask if there have been any noticeable changes in Caleb since “getting paid.” I can assure you, had I been given a couple million dollars at 21 I’d have been out there making some questionable decisions. I even remember multiple Chicago Bears saying fortune and fame became a distraction for 50 year old Mike Ditka in the mid 80s, and believe me, that dude had a lot more than just coaching the Bears on his mind. He was everywhere.

Even Custard agreed it seemed like a point POTENTIAL interest. About a week after I said that, I heard Dave Wannstedt say that teams will hire private investigators to look into the top prospects. I wasn’t even talking that level of scrutiny, I was implying I’d ask a handful of people around Caleb and the program if they’ve noticed any changes in his personality. “OMG that’s way too much scrutiny!”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 25, 2024, 02:00:26 AM
I have ZERO problem with Caleb attending a golf tournament, it actually makes me LIKE him more. But I did think it’s not the best look to be farting around while important business of the Chicago Bears, the franchise he’s likely to be leading for the next 15 years is on the back burner. I want someone who shows a high level of urgency during perhaps the biggest month of his life.

My concern level on this? A 2, maybe 3 on a scale of 10. OMG that’s too much scrutiny!

As I’ve said multiple times, minus a serious revelation, I am drafting this kid if I’m Ryan Poles. OMG so unfair to Caleb!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 25, 2024, 06:15:02 AM
So I will say this…I am willing to concede that my (mostly pretty minor!) “concerns” about Caleb could easily turn out to be overly skeptical. I’d also confess that some of my skepticism is likely born of my lack of desire to see a change at quarterback.

Are you willing to concede that maybe (just maybe!) your eagerness to give him a complete pass on literally every conceivable critique could also be a mistake? I’d be surprised if you did. I can’t think of a single thing you’ve “dinged” him for.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 25, 2024, 07:11:27 AM
In 12 hours Roger Goodell will announce, 'with the #1 pick in the 2024 NFL draft the Chicago Bears select USC QB Caleb Williams.'
And then everybody fights over the rights to the remaining 5 QBs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 25, 2024, 07:55:10 AM
Adam Hoge and Mark Carman would enjoy this.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: spark mandrill on April 25, 2024, 09:42:28 AM
So I will say this…I am willing to concede that my (mostly pretty minor!) “concerns” about Caleb could easily turn out to be overly skeptical. I’d also confess that some of my skepticism is likely born of my lack of desire to see a change at quarterback.

Are you willing to concede that maybe (just maybe!) your eagerness to give him a complete pass on literally every conceivable critique could also be a mistake? I’d be surprised if you did. I can’t think of a single thing you’ve “dinged” him for.

I have not given him “a complete pass on literally every conceivable critique” in any way, that’s purely made up.  I’ve said he tends to big play hunt in a way that needs to be reigned in in the NFL, that he tends to try to make every play incredible when that isn’t necessary even if he “can” make the play.  I’ve said he carries the ball away from his body in a way that will result in fumbles and he needs to fix it.  I watched the Notre Dame game and said he needs to be careful about trying to do too much and compounding mistakes with risky throws instead of taking easy ones which he did in that game.  Those are all IMO reasonable, valid criticisms of him.

I do not think his car or the video or the golf tournament are remotely reasonable criticisms or signs that he has some bad attitude or character flaw.  Those types of things are the stretchy desperate seeming “critiques” that people are making fun of.  If you want to criticize his play, have at it.  I may not agree but at least that’s a relevant thing that actually matters.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 25, 2024, 02:34:07 PM
Let’s hear it for Twitter!

https://x.com/mcgeefletch/status/1783493959735447897?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 25, 2024, 02:39:20 PM
I’m offended
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on April 25, 2024, 02:43:40 PM
You should be. Those hats are offensive. I wouldn't wear one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 03, 2024, 06:42:30 AM
Custard, this wasn't you, was it?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/02/pizza-delivery-driver-shot-wrong-driveway/73526036007/

A teenage pizza delivery driver who parked in the wrong driveway of a Middle Tennessee home is recovering from a scare after police said a homeowner shot at him multiple times.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 03, 2024, 07:03:49 AM
Custard, this wasn't you, was it?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/02/pizza-delivery-driver-shot-wrong-driveway/73526036007/

A teenage pizza delivery driver who parked in the wrong driveway of a Middle Tennessee home is recovering from a scare after police said a homeowner shot at him multiple times.
Shot at 7 times and he's "recovering from a scare".

 :D :D
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Post by: ThePAMan on May 03, 2024, 08:19:23 AM
Shot at 7 times and he's "recovering from a scare".

 :D :D

Homeowner shoot as accurately as a Chicago cop!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 03, 2024, 12:45:00 PM
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-supporters-wearing-diapers
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Post by: ThePAMan on May 03, 2024, 12:47:13 PM
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-supporters-wearing-diapers

I think I saw Golf in one of those photos.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on May 03, 2024, 05:47:53 PM
Custard, this wasn't you, was it?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/02/pizza-delivery-driver-shot-wrong-driveway/73526036007/

A teenage pizza delivery driver who parked in the wrong driveway of a Middle Tennessee home is recovering from a scare after police said a homeowner shot at him multiple times.

Told them fuckers 1000 times NO OLIVES
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 06, 2024, 12:40:40 PM
Just because, I have the Sioux Falls Animal Shelter 50 bucks "In Honor of Cricket". I suspect they are getting many such donations
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 06, 2024, 12:50:41 PM
Just because, I have the Sioux Falls Animal Shelter 50 bucks "In Honor of Cricket". I suspect they are getting many such donations

That's funny. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on May 06, 2024, 03:20:46 PM
Just because, I have the Sioux Falls Animal Shelter 50 bucks "In Honor of Cricket". I suspect they are getting many such donations

That's fantastic!  All my future gifts to the local Humane Society will honor Cricket.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 13, 2024, 11:26:04 PM
Department of Irony Department

Butker claimed the negative parts of society in recent years can be blamed on “bad leaders who don’t stay in their lanes.”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4661793-kansas-city-chiefs-kicker-blasts-biden-pro-choice-movement-in-commencement-speech/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 13, 2024, 11:30:08 PM
Department of Irony Department

Butker claimed the negative parts of society in recent years can be blamed on “bad leaders who don’t stay in their lanes.”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4661793-kansas-city-chiefs-kicker-blasts-biden-pro-choice-movement-in-commencement-speech/

No mention of anyone walking out.
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Post by: murphstahoe on May 14, 2024, 12:42:49 AM
No mention of anyone walking out.

While he did not shut up and kick footballs - he did stay in the lane of speaking at a highly religious institution
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 14, 2024, 12:57:06 AM
No mention of anyone walking out.

Butker wants to make America great again like the 50’s

When NFL players had to have offseason jobs to make ends meet and had paltry safety equipment and injuries were pretty much career and even life ending
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 14, 2024, 07:24:07 AM
While he did not shut up and kick footballs - he did stay in the lane of speaking at a highly religious institution

I guess he was able to read the room, at least in this case.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 14, 2024, 07:37:17 AM
Failed to read the room ....

(https://i.ibb.co/bWH0PzL/Screenshot-20240514-063959-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FxsrKgJ)

Jerry Seinfeld was booed for being Jewish while giving his commencement speech at Dook.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 14, 2024, 09:52:44 AM
Failed to read the room ....

(https://i.ibb.co/bWH0PzL/Screenshot-20240514-063959-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FxsrKgJ)

Jerry Seinfeld was booed for being Jewish while giving his commencement speech at Dook.

And now for the rest of the story:
https://nationalpost.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-duke-graduation-speech
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Post by: ThePAMan on May 14, 2024, 09:55:53 AM
And now for the rest of the story:
https://nationalpost.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-duke-graduation-speech

Shocking that the media loves to play up all the cosplay going on these days on campuses.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 14, 2024, 09:56:23 AM
Failed to read the room ....

(https://i.ibb.co/bWH0PzL/Screenshot-20240514-063959-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FxsrKgJ)

Jerry Seinfeld was booed for being Jewish while giving his commencement speech at Dook.

It was past his nap time!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 14, 2024, 10:11:22 AM
Shocking that the media loves to play up all the cosplay going on these days on campuses.

I guess it depends on how a person defines the "media" these days, or how they get their "news".  The walkout wasn't covered by our local newspaper, radio or TV stations. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 14, 2024, 10:44:34 AM
The walkout wasn't covered by our local newspaper, radio or TV stations. 

And you found out about it here ? Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 14, 2024, 10:55:15 AM
And you found out about it here ? Lol

Yep.  I didn't realize Jerry Seinfeld was still alive. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 14, 2024, 11:17:09 AM
Yep.  I didn't realize Jerry Seinfeld was still alive.

I saw him live 2 and a half weeks ago

definitely not as good as he was when I saw him like 10 years earlier
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 14, 2024, 11:28:42 AM
I saw him live 2 and a half weeks ago

definitely not as good as he was when I saw him like 10 years earlier

He set the bar pretty high with his TV sitcom.  Would love to have seen him back in the day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 14, 2024, 12:40:14 PM
I guess it depends on how a person defines the "media" these days, or how they get their "news".  The walkout wasn't covered by our local newspaper, radio or TV stations.

Was at the gym early last week and the CBS Evening News was covering the encampment at Sacramento State University. I just started laughing to myself...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 14, 2024, 12:42:57 PM
He set the bar pretty high with his TV sitcom.  Would love to have seen him back in the day.

He's got that Pop Tart movie currently on The Netflix or whatever.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on May 14, 2024, 03:48:00 PM
He set the bar pretty high with his TV sitcom.  Would love to have seen him back in the day.

I saw him back in the day. My cousin was engaged to a guy who was a bouncer at The Comedy House in Little Rock Arkansas. We arrived about an hour early and my cousin’s fiancé and Jerry were outside chatting. I talked to Jerry for about 10 minutes. This is actually before his show blew up. So late 80s, very early 90s. Was backstage with him after the show and our group asked him if he was going to go out drinking with us. He mulled it over a bit and said he was tired and headed back to his room. I was that close to partying with Jerry Seinfeld. My cousin and the bouncer guy never got married.
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Post by: ThePAMan on May 14, 2024, 03:49:22 PM
I saw him back in the day. My cousin was engaged to a guy who was a bouncer at The Comedy House in Little Rock Arkansas. We arrived about an hour early and my cousin’s fiancé and Jerry were outside chatting. I talked to Jerry for about 10 minutes. This is actually before his show blew up. So late 80s, very early 90s. Was backstage with him after the show and our group asked him if he was going to go out drinking with us. He mulled it over a bit and said he was tired and headed back to his room. I was that close to partying with Jerry Seinfeld. My cousin and the bouncer guy never got married.

Did she go back to the room with Jerry?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on May 14, 2024, 04:19:01 PM
Before the show I told him I was a fan of his work (seen him on Carson and Letterman). Told him one of my favorite bits he does, and he ended up using it in the show that night.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on May 14, 2024, 04:19:25 PM
Did she go back to the room with Jerry?

Sure.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on May 14, 2024, 04:24:18 PM
Can’t say if Jerry was in the back room with her, but she was seen in the back room with Fusilli Jerry.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 14, 2024, 05:17:09 PM
I saw him back in the day. My cousin was engaged to a guy who was a bouncer at The Comedy House in Little Rock Arkansas. We arrived about an hour early and my cousin’s fiancé and Jerry were outside chatting. I talked to Jerry for about 10 minutes. This is actually before his show blew up. So late 80s, very early 90s. Was backstage with him after the show and our group asked him if he was going to go out drinking with us. He mulled it over a bit and said he was tired and headed back to his room. I was that close to partying with Jerry Seinfeld. My cousin and the bouncer guy never got married.

Thumbs up!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 14, 2024, 06:07:25 PM
Can’t say if Jerry was in the back room with her, but she was seen in the back room with Fusilli Jerry.

ouch
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 14, 2024, 08:01:50 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/14/gayle-king-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-cover/

Drops mic. May as well lock the thread as nothing will top this one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 14, 2024, 08:14:15 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/14/gayle-king-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-cover/

Drops mic. May as well lock the thread as nothing will top this one.
You looked ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 14, 2024, 09:45:04 PM
You looked ?

I can't un-see it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 16, 2024, 11:58:21 AM
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/new-cicero-illinois-ordinance-bans-alcohol-after-midnight/

Cicero closing bars at midnight? WTF? Even Oak Park has 1AM licenses. Park Forest is now 1AM.  This is bullshit. Well, Berwyn still has 3AM licenses.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 22, 2024, 10:08:28 AM
All you clowns can argue about COVID or Trump's trial but I HOLD THE FATE OF THE MARKET IN MY GRUBBY HANDS
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 22, 2024, 12:07:46 PM
All you clowns can argue about COVID or Trump's trial but I HOLD THE FATE OF THE MARKET IN MY GRUBBY HANDS

get back to work
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 23, 2024, 01:06:32 AM
(https://media.scored.co/post/xpF60D2uA3qb.jpeg)

This newspeak sure is clown world appropriate
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 23, 2024, 10:33:45 AM
(https://media.scored.co/post/xpF60D2uA3qb.jpeg)

This newspeak sure is clown world appropriate

Still diamond hands buddy?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on May 23, 2024, 11:11:15 AM
I am hearing unhoused instead of homeless a lot.

I gather the point of that is they have homes -- tents under viaducts etc?

I can see where words like offender or perpetrator might be a problem since there are wrongful convictions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 23, 2024, 11:20:57 AM
Still diamond hands buddy?


yep my may 1000 calls expired, now sold June 1200's

premiums are so juicy for so out of the money lol

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 23, 2024, 11:21:38 AM
I am hearing unhoused instead of homeless a lot.

I gather the point of that is they have homes -- tents under viaducts etc?

I can see where words like offender or perpetrator might be a problem since there are wrongful convictions.

what is the problem?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on May 23, 2024, 11:27:55 AM
I am hearing unhoused instead of homeless a lot.

I gather the point of that is they have homes -- tents under viaducts etc?

I can see where words like offender or perpetrator might be a problem since there are wrongful convictions.

1:26, for the impatient

https://youtu.be/h67k9eEw9AY
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 23, 2024, 02:36:20 PM
(https://media.scored.co/post/xpF60D2uA3qb.jpeg)

This newspeak sure is clown world appropriate
Relax. This only relates to a single rehab program for offenders, not all Illinois laws.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on May 23, 2024, 04:02:54 PM
Relax. This only relates to a single rehab program for offenders, not all Illinois laws.

For now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on May 23, 2024, 07:34:03 PM
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/new-cicero-illinois-ordinance-bans-alcohol-after-midnight/

Cicero closing bars at midnight? WTF? Even Oak Park has 1AM licenses. Park Forest is now 1AM.  This is bullshit. Well, Berwyn still has 3AM licenses.

No one wants to be out that late in those towns.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 24, 2024, 09:51:43 AM
No one wants to be out that late in those towns.

Tempo, wrong again! Shocking!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 25, 2024, 08:15:00 AM
He's not supposed to say this with such conviction. https://twitter.com/i/status/1793635135021355264

Meanwhile, 🤫
"Two Jordanian nationals were known to federal authorities before they attempted to breach security at Quantico Marine Corps Base."
"The second man crossed the U.S. from Mexico to California six weeks ago, on April 8, 2024. The next day, the U.S. Border Patrol issued a notice to appear before an immigration judge and, later that day, released the man into the U.S.

Just 24 days later, on May 3, 2024, ICE agents detained both men after military police at Quantico’s main gate on Fuller Road said the driver of a box truck ignored commands to wait patiently on the side of the road while they worked to identify the two men inside the truck, who did not have ID. Instead, the driver hit the gas and collided with a hydraulic barricade, known on base as a vehicle denier."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on May 25, 2024, 08:19:22 AM
They’re not sending their best
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 25, 2024, 08:52:24 AM
They’re not sending their best
Guy had $10g to spend
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 25, 2024, 09:05:04 AM
Guy had $10g to spend
Depending on where he ends up he may get that $10g back in benefits shortly.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 25, 2024, 09:05:44 AM
They’re not sending their best
He seems honest tho.  ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on May 29, 2024, 07:50:10 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/0MjLt2W/IMG-3749.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QNFVdQq)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 29, 2024, 08:23:41 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/0MjLt2W/IMG-3749.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QNFVdQq)

https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 30, 2024, 07:10:33 AM
"There was a subtle change in the flags being flown at San Francisco City Hall last Saturday when a banner that has been there for decades was taken down ........"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-francisco-stops-flying-appeal-to-heaven-flag-that-landed-justice-alito-in-hot-water/ar-BB1ni4Xv?ocid=BingNewsSerp

🤡🤡🤡
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on May 30, 2024, 09:56:27 AM
"There was a subtle change in the flags being flown at San Francisco City Hall last Saturday when a banner that has been there for decades was taken down ........"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-francisco-stops-flying-appeal-to-heaven-flag-that-landed-justice-alito-in-hot-water/ar-BB1ni4Xv?ocid=BingNewsSerp

🤡🤡🤡

Should have taken the flag down sooner and announced it publicly.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 30, 2024, 10:54:04 AM
"There was a subtle change in the flags being flown at San Francisco City Hall last Saturday when a banner that has been there for decades was taken down ........"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-francisco-stops-flying-appeal-to-heaven-flag-that-landed-justice-alito-in-hot-water/ar-BB1ni4Xv?ocid=BingNewsSerp

🤡🤡🤡

That is good stuff, Mn
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on May 30, 2024, 01:45:24 PM
So all of San Francisco is basically Todd and Margo from Christmas Vacation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 30, 2024, 02:28:27 PM
https://x.com/CWBChicago/status/1796154591811186878

insane enough to run over a cop and insane enough to be an account for the city?  lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on May 30, 2024, 02:35:48 PM
https://x.com/CWBChicago/status/1796154591811186878

insane enough to run over a cop and insane enough to be an account for the city?  lol

Sounds about right for the Progressives running the city into the dumpster.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on May 30, 2024, 02:58:45 PM
If we just give them enough chances eventually they’ll get it right! /ray
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on May 30, 2024, 04:14:40 PM
https://x.com/CWBChicago/status/1796154591811186878

insane enough to run over a cop and insane enough to be an account for the city?  lol

They had to come up with some reason to let a driver off the hook for running over a pedestrian, which is a crime but society thinks it should not be
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 02, 2024, 07:17:31 PM
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1797323117896896574

This is glorious 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 02, 2024, 11:27:04 PM
Sometimes the diverse elements of the Party of correct pronouns and diversity have conflicting interests
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 05, 2024, 04:14:05 PM
Do people actually think Bowen Yang is funny?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 12, 2024, 02:19:37 PM
https://www.themainewire.com/2024/06/maine-is-handing-out-free-boofing-kits-to-help-fentanyl-addicts-squirt-drugs-up-their-butts/

why don't people like paying taxes?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 14, 2024, 10:31:01 AM
🤡 🌎

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1801632184929030367?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 14, 2024, 11:02:51 AM
🤡 🌎

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1801632184929030367?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

There has to be some 3D chess opportunity in the world today. Conservatives HATE regulation. A "No U Turn" sign is a regulation. But removing the sign "because gay" is ridiculed, despite it producing a result that Conservatives like.

Maybe the Democrats need to raise taxes because low taxes discriminate against immigrants. Abortion restrictions result in more gay babies, so we need to restrict abortion to increase the gay population. etc...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2024, 11:37:53 AM
WTF is wrong with these assholes?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 14, 2024, 12:10:37 PM
WTF is wrong with these assholes?

Someone just probably hated that they couldn't take a U-Turn in some place, and decided to make a weird tangential argument in order to get rid of the restriction
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Illinifan5775 on June 14, 2024, 02:24:50 PM
🤡 🌎

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1801632184929030367?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
WTF! Can't be serious.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2024, 02:42:32 PM
WTF! Can't be serious.

And people wonder why Trump has a chance. Fucking progressives doing dumb shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 14, 2024, 02:53:58 PM
WTF! Can't be serious.

Unfortunately it is 🤷🏻‍♂️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 14, 2024, 02:54:11 PM
And people wonder why Trump has a chance. Fucking progressives doing dumb shit.

Bingo!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 14, 2024, 02:55:43 PM
Society will keep pushing and pushing boundaries, and eventually it will have to reset itself…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 14, 2024, 03:17:02 PM
🤡 🌎

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1801632184929030367?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

A little context: 

The signs that were put up in the 1990s as a way to clamp down on the gay cruising scene in certain LA neighborhoods.   
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-27-ls-26163-story.html

Most of them were taken down in 2011.  Local residents and businesses argued the signs had outlived their intended use and were stigmatizing their neighborhoods.     
https://laist.com/news/silver-lake-decides-to-tear-down-it
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 14, 2024, 03:20:47 PM
Bot
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 14, 2024, 03:39:43 PM
A little context: 

The signs that were put up in the 1990s as a way to clamp down on the gay cruising scene in certain LA neighborhoods.   
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-27-ls-26163-story.html

Most of them were taken down in 2011.  Local residents and businesses argued the signs had outlived their intended use and were stigmatizing their neighborhoods.     
https://laist.com/news/silver-lake-decides-to-tear-down-it

😂 yes, you are absolutely a bot. What the fuck?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 14, 2024, 03:48:10 PM
Have to admit, it's getting harder and harder to figure out who generates the most manufactured outrage here:  Judge Judy, Custard or Mn. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2024, 04:34:48 PM
Bot
I laughed.

Those claiming "bot" appear to have become the "bots" themselves.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2024, 04:35:15 PM
Have to admit, it's getting harder and harder to figure out who generates the most manufactured outrage here:  Judge Judy, Custard or Mn.

How does QAnon97 get left off the list?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2024, 04:35:38 PM
😂 yes, you are absolutely a bot. What the fuck?!

Context is King!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2024, 04:36:33 PM
A little context: 

The signs that were put up in the 1990s as a way to clamp down on the gay cruising scene in certain LA neighborhoods.   
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-27-ls-26163-story.html

Most of them were taken down in 2011.  Local residents and businesses argued the signs had outlived their intended use and were stigmatizing their neighborhoods.     
https://laist.com/news/silver-lake-decides-to-tear-down-it

Interesting.

Don't understand how U Turn signs stigmatize a street, but ok.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 14, 2024, 04:41:57 PM
Interesting.

Don't understand how U Turn signs stigmatize a street, but ok.

I don't think it was about stigmatizing a street.  You have to keep in mind why the signs were put up in the first place.  Times have changed and the locals thought they should come down. 
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2024, 04:46:29 PM
I don't think it was about stigmatizing a street.  You have to keep in mind why the signs were put up in the first place.  Times have changed and the locals thought they should come down.

I get that, but how is a U Turn sign stigmatizing? That I will have to read up on when I have time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 14, 2024, 04:54:46 PM
LOL at the idea manufactured outrage is some right wing exclusive. That’s precious.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 14, 2024, 07:05:27 PM
Interesting.

Don't understand how U Turn signs stigmatize a street, but ok.
Feelings can do that.

Shouldn't city maintenance workers be taking the sign down ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 14, 2024, 09:06:45 PM
Feelings can do that.

Shouldn't city maintenance workers be taking the sign down ?

Good call. Union should file a grievance.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 14, 2024, 09:51:20 PM
Good call. Union should file a grievance.

The remaining nine No U-turn cruising signs were removed by public works staff, except for the one that was used as a photo-op to highlight the event.  Kinda like a photo of local government officials with shovels in their hands at a groundbreaking event for a new building or facility. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 14, 2024, 10:12:17 PM
Now they need to take all the 1970’s era snowmobile route signs down in small towns in NE Illinois.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 14, 2024, 10:24:06 PM
Gotta take the speed limit signs down too. I’m sure gay people were profiled and pull over for speeding on their way to meet other gay people 🤷🏻‍♂️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 14, 2024, 10:27:17 PM
I’m sure the railroad signs were welcomed…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 14, 2024, 11:47:38 PM
Now they need to take all the 1970’s era snowmobile route signs down in small towns in NE Illinois.

If the route signs no longer serve a useful purpose, and that's what the local elected officials and residents want, so be it.

Traffic signs go up and some come down all the time due to changes in local conditions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 14, 2024, 11:53:48 PM
Don’t want to stigmatize the lackluster snowfall of recent decades
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 14, 2024, 11:58:20 PM
Don’t want to stigmatize the lackluster snowfall of recent decades

Sounds like the route signs may be coming down and snowmobilers will be heading up to Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 15, 2024, 07:35:52 AM
Sounds like the route signs may be coming down and snowmobilers will be heading up to Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Watch out Mn for way more gays looking for other gays up your way soon! Either protect your bunghole, wear salmon pants and join them, or do a couple U-turns to show off…

Good luck!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 15, 2024, 12:56:07 PM
Watch out Mn for way more gays looking for other gays up your way soon! Either protect your bunghole, wear salmon pants and join them, or do a couple U-turns to show off…

Good luck!
Thanks for your concern but I try not to frequent the bars where groups of gays are parking their sleds.

But then again, I don't frequent any bars during sled season.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 15, 2024, 01:08:46 PM
Watch out Mn for way more gays looking for other gays up your way soon! Either protect your bunghole, wear salmon pants and join them, or do a couple U-turns to show off…

Good luck!

I think I found the perfect Mother's Day gift for Judge Judy.  20% off!
https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/design/snowmobile+lgbt+rainbow+snowmobiling+ride+mens+premium+tank+top-D656b22d0f8ea0e06e0a0bfda?sellable=nOkLB7E7Jps2p7XEl5kD-916-15
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Post by: ThePAMan on June 15, 2024, 03:21:14 PM
I think I found the perfect Mother's Day gift for Judge Judy.  20% off!
https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/design/snowmobile+lgbt+rainbow+snowmobiling+ride+mens+premium+tank+top-D656b22d0f8ea0e06e0a0bfda?sellable=nOkLB7E7Jps2p7XEl5kD-916-15

That's great.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on June 20, 2024, 07:53:59 PM
Let me get this straight.  LA gov signs a bill requiring the 10 commandments be posted in every classroom?   I think the horse is behind the carriage here.  Hey gov, don't you think it would be better to teach those kids how to read first? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 20, 2024, 10:04:54 PM
I was wondering how long it would take left wing outrage about this to reach HQ2!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on June 20, 2024, 10:24:59 PM
Just a bit longer than getting a response. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2024, 01:56:33 AM
I was wondering how long it would take left wing outrage about this to reach HQ2!

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
“Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break! -- Kurt Vonnegut, published at least 19 years ago
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2024, 02:00:27 AM
https://youtu.be/CE8ooMBIyC8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 21, 2024, 06:11:50 AM
Teachers teach. Governors govern.

The Governor of the Great State of Minnesota, who ran on a platform of education, absolved his Department of Education of any criminality in its lack of oversight of a $250 million fraud scheme.

Rather than saying there will be accountability and expectations in his Dept of Education after an Office of Legislative Auditor report critical of the DoE, he comes up with 'nobody at the DoE has been found to have done anything illegal' and 'we can always do better'.

Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2024, 09:37:37 AM
Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women by their Vagina. He was found civilly liable for doing just that. He was convicted of a felony for charged related to paying hush money to another woman. Yet half the country thinks he is fit to serve as President, and a disturbing number think he's a messenger from GD.

Terrence Shannon was [wrongfully] accused of grabbing a woman by the vagina, and there were a significant number of Illini fans who thought he was unfit to represent the University on a basketball court.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 21, 2024, 10:18:41 AM
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
“Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break! -- Kurt Vonnegut, published at least 19 years ago

I go to church probably 45 Sundays a year (sometimes I’m out of town or sick or something) and volunteer a lot. I can’t recall anyone ever saying that the Ten Commandments should be in the classroom, and certainly not with any tears in their eyes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 21, 2024, 10:25:23 AM
https://youtu.be/CE8ooMBIyC8

I agree with Carlin
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 21, 2024, 10:30:50 AM
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
“Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break! -- Kurt Vonnegut, published at least 19 years ago

It’s almost like you’re doing exactly what you’re accusing conservatives of doing to stereotype illegals… ironic and weird huh 🤔 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on June 21, 2024, 10:49:15 AM
I agree with Carlin

Everything I needed to know in life, I learned from George Carlin! Gone too soon.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 21, 2024, 10:57:48 AM
Teachers teach. Governors govern.

The Governor of the Great State of Minnesota, who ran on a platform of education, absolved his Department of Education of any criminality in its lack of oversight of a $250 million fraud scheme.

Rather than saying there will be accountability and expectations in his Dept of Education after an Office of Legislative Auditor report critical of the DoE, he comes up with 'nobody at the DoE has been found to have done anything illegal' and 'we can always do better'.

Lol

I always used to think my Democrat friends were nuts for always wanting more money for education.  After all, most people aren’t getting into teaching for the riches and notoriety.  As I’ve gotten older and watched a lot of good teachers I know leave education for other pursuits, typically because of politics and bureaucratic nonsense, I’ve thought a time or two that maybe we should pay these people more.

In some ways it’s the same decline that’s hit police forces—keep lowering the entry standards, pay like shit, force them into a never ending cycle of red tape and “Gentle Parenting/Policing” school of thought nonsense, and then everyone wonders why the end product is garbage. About the only people left to do the work are people who can’t do much of anything else in society—the conservative ones choose law enforcement and the liberal ones tend towards education/government.

So given all that, it’s sadly unsurprising that 250 million went missing and they are just passing the buck.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 21, 2024, 11:20:29 AM
Let me get this straight.  LA gov signs a bill requiring the 10 commandments be posted in every classroom?   I think the horse is behind the carriage here.  Hey gov, don't you think it would be better to teach those kids how to read first?

Look on the bright side.  Kids will have a new game, which commandment shall we break today.  Or how many can you break in one day.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2024, 11:29:13 AM
It’s almost like you’re doing exactly what you’re accusing conservatives of doing to stereotype illegals… ironic and weird huh 

It's more like I am quoting Kurt Vonnegut and George Carlin..

If the shoe doesn't fit, by all means don't wear it. Tell people who want to post the 10 C. In public buildings to stfu. Maybe suggest the beatitudes instead.

You have seen how conservatives who go against Trump and his lunatic fringe are treated. That's a reality.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2024, 11:32:28 AM
,"the most vocal Christians among us" are important words in the Vonnegut quote.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 21, 2024, 11:48:34 AM
I always used to think my Democrat friends were nuts for always wanting more money for education.  After all, most people aren’t getting into teaching for the riches and notoriety.  As I’ve gotten older and watched a lot of good teachers I know leave education for other pursuits, typically because of politics and bureaucratic nonsense, I’ve thought a time or two that maybe we should pay these people more.

In some ways it’s the same decline that’s hit police forces—keep lowering the entry standards, pay like shit, force them into a never ending cycle of red tape and “Gentle Parenting/Policing” school of thought nonsense, and then everyone wonders why the end product is garbage. About the only people left to do the work are people who can’t do much of anything else in society—the conservative ones choose law enforcement and the liberal ones tend towards education/government.

So given all that, it’s sadly unsurprising that 250 million went missing and they are just passing the buck.

Those who can't do, teach. Don't know where I heard/read that....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2024, 01:01:02 PM
Those who can't do, teach. Don't know where I heard/read that....

And those who can't teach, tell / teach others how to teach.

Like, those who don't know have a clue how to raise children, tell others how to raise their children.

Education is mostly inspiring the kids to want to learn, instilling intellectual curiosity.  Then it's possible to save them time by teaching them how to think. Really, though, once the fire is lit, no one can stop them. I attended fairly good schools, but they were largely a waste of time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 21, 2024, 01:13:10 PM
I attended fairly good schools, but they were largely a waste of time.
Yep.
Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 21, 2024, 01:14:13 PM
Yep.
Lol

😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 21, 2024, 02:42:41 PM
Those who can't do, teach. Don't know where I heard/read that....

Teaching ain't beanbag these days. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2024, 02:43:24 PM
99% of what I learned was self motivated on my own time.

School was mostly incredibly dumbed down. I pretty much finished the course work in the first week, and spent the rest of the term tutoring other students.
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Post by: illiniray on June 21, 2024, 02:45:06 PM
😂

No doubt that went over both of your dim witted heads.
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Post by: ThePAMan on June 21, 2024, 02:45:56 PM
Oh, far more diverse.

Tempo's Itasca in the news!

https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/21/us-attorneys-office-files-blistering-motion-supporting-haymarket-centers-discrimination-lawsuit-against-itasca/#comments

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 21, 2024, 03:54:53 PM
99% of what I learned was self motivated on my own time.

School was mostly incredibly dumbed down. I pretty much finished the course work in the first week, and spent the rest of the term tutoring other students.
Biden says he was a gifted student also.
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Post by: Custard on June 21, 2024, 06:14:49 PM
I was a (small) public school kid but that was a long time ago. My kids are in private school and it will stay that way. Ms Custard grew up wanting to be a teacher and taught elementary school for 4 years after college. Left for 1/10 the headaches and 5x the pay at age 26. I originally was against private school, but she insisted. In retrospect, I am glad she did. It’s been worth every penny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 22, 2024, 02:56:41 AM
Biden says he was a gifted student also.

Never said I was gifted.
I do technically qualify for mensa, but never bothered with that. I always thought I was stupid.

School was just too easy and incredibly boring. I slept through much of it. That was before the liberal self esteem crowd dumbed it down even worse.



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 22, 2024, 12:29:34 PM
I was a (small) public school kid but that was a long time ago. My kids are in private school and it will stay that way. Ms Custard grew up wanting to be a teacher and taught elementary school for 4 years after college. Left for 1/10 the headaches and 5x the pay at age 26. I originally was against private school, but she insisted. In retrospect, I am glad she did. It’s been worth every penny.

Next to religious institutions, private schools are a great place to groom and abuse kids. Hope they ran a background check on the administrators and teachers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 22, 2024, 12:49:39 PM
Of course they do. I had to do a background check to be a chaperone on a field trip to a state park before school got out this spring.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 22, 2024, 01:12:56 PM
Of course they do. I had to do a background check to be a chaperone on a field trip to a state park before school got out this spring.

Did you use Tempo as a reference?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 22, 2024, 01:42:02 PM
Of course they do. I had to do a background check to be a chaperone on a field trip to a state park before school got out this spring.

That sounds awfully boring.  Next time, take a walk on the wild side and escort those kids to a drag show in Nashville.     
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Post by: Custard on June 22, 2024, 02:24:26 PM
I’m not sure they’re old enough to grasp the concept of celebrating undiagnosed mental illness 🤷🏻‍♂️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 22, 2024, 02:27:11 PM
Did you use Tempo as a reference?

He probably wouldn’t vouch for me if he found out my license was suspended 🤫
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 22, 2024, 02:41:36 PM
I’m not sure they’re old enough to grasp the concept of celebrating undiagnosed mental illness 🤷🏻‍♂️

Aah...the old “gays are sick” poppycock.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 22, 2024, 04:05:31 PM
Aah...the old “gays are sick” poppycock.

Oh yeah they all live long fulfilling lives  ::)

With lower life expectancy and a 40% suicide rate for trans people
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Post by: Custard on June 22, 2024, 04:36:33 PM
Oh yeah they all live long fulfilling lives  ::)

With lower life expectancy and a 40% suicide rate for trans people

Only cuz people are mean to them and they’re oppressed and you aren’t celebrating them enough!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 22, 2024, 04:37:19 PM
Oh yeah they all live long fulfilling lives  ::)

With lower life expectancy and a 40% suicide rate for trans people

Send them to Christian re-education camps!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 22, 2024, 05:07:39 PM
I’d say maybe instead of celebrating the symptoms of mental illness we should be encouraging proper treatment. The singer of Nashville based Rainbow Kitten Surprise, a trans person who is currently a girl I think, is a prime example of how resources and medication can help. Most trans people don’t have those resources, so instead the left insists we should pretend this is normal, and worse, celebrate them as brave heroes. This phenomenon is essentially what happens when participation trophy and gentle parenting reach a full-blown lack-of-accountability zenith.  Let’s stop normalizing untreated mental illness and get these people the help they need.
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Post by: Custard on June 22, 2024, 05:09:48 PM
Is Charlie more than one person? Lol these people want to change our language to suit their deeply irrational sensitivities.

(https://i.ibb.co/Y8RF8P3/IMG-6037.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Gkx4kn0)
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Post by: ridingthegrange on June 22, 2024, 05:13:12 PM
Went to a moderate size farmer's market this morning for the first time this season.  The produce was great but the clientele was surprisingly hefty.  Seems unusual for this part of the country known to be fitter and leaner than most.  Not that there weren't a few lookers, but WTF?  My belief that two opposing views can be concurrently true was again reinforced by some side by side yoga pants. 
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Post by: ridingthegrange on June 22, 2024, 05:15:48 PM
Is Charlie more than one person? Lol these people want to change our language to suit their deeply irrational sensitivities.

(https://i.ibb.co/Y8RF8P3/IMG-6037.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Gkx4kn0)

Makes little sense unless maybe Charlie's a they?  Can't be sure as I don't run in those circles.
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Post by: alum74 on June 22, 2024, 05:59:33 PM
I’d say maybe instead of celebrating the symptoms of mental illness we should be encouraging proper treatment. The singer of Nashville based Rainbow Kitten Surprise, a trans person who is currently a girl I think, is a prime example of how resources and medication can help. Most trans people don’t have those resources, so instead the left insists we should pretend this is normal, and worse, celebrate them as brave heroes. This phenomenon is essentially what happens when participation trophy and gentle parenting reach a full-blown lack-of-accountability zenith.  Let’s stop normalizing untreated mental illness and get these people the help they need.

Don't forget to list your medical qualifications and affiliations: 

Custard, MD, Director of the Non-Traditional Sexual Relations Department, Moms for Liberty Academy of Medicine

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 22, 2024, 10:52:10 PM
Teachers teach. Governors govern.

The Governor of the Great State of Minnesota, who ran on a platform of education, absolved his Department of Education of any criminality in its lack of oversight of a $250 million fraud scheme.

Rather than saying there will be accountability and expectations in his Dept of Education after an Office of Legislative Auditor report critical of the DoE, he comes up with 'nobody at the DoE has been found to have done anything illegal' and 'we can always do better'.

Lol

The Governor of the Great State of Mississippi was involved in fraudulently funneling taxpayer money to the University of Southern Mississippi to build a volleyball stadium
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 22, 2024, 10:53:45 PM
I go to church probably 45 Sundays a year (sometimes I’m out of town or sick or something) and volunteer a lot. I can’t recall anyone ever saying that the Ten Commandments should be in the classroom, and certainly not with any tears in their eyes.

Speak quietly and carry a big ballot
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 22, 2024, 10:55:51 PM
99% of what I learned was self motivated on my own time.

School was mostly incredibly dumbed down. I pretty much finished the course work in the first week, and spent the rest of the term tutoring other students.

Guess you weren't in ECE 313 or 411 then.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 22, 2024, 10:56:59 PM
Of course they do. I had to do a background check to be a chaperone on a field trip to a state park before school got out this spring.

did they quiz you on the ten commandments?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 22, 2024, 10:58:04 PM
Oh yeah they all live long fulfilling lives  ::)

With lower life expectancy and a 40% suicide rate for trans people

It's almost as if the deck is stacked against them!
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Post by: illiniray on June 24, 2024, 12:56:29 AM
Guess you weren't in ECE 313 or 411 then.

Did I fail to mention I was talking about public elementary, jr. high, and high school? The most difficult courses were Algebra II and Calculus.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 24, 2024, 01:05:57 AM
I was a (small) public school kid but that was a long time ago. My kids are in private school and it will stay that way. Ms Custard grew up wanting to be a teacher and taught elementary school for 4 years after college. Left for 1/10 the headaches and 5x the pay at age 26. I originally was against private school, but she insisted. In retrospect, I am glad she did. It’s been worth every penny.

I know a guy that taught science classes in a public high school for years. Great guy, with a great family. He gave it up about 20 years ago, basically because the kids were out of control.
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Post by: Custard on June 24, 2024, 11:14:56 AM
Don't forget to list your medical qualifications and affiliations: 

Custard, MD, Director of the Non-Traditional Sexual Relations Department, Moms for Liberty Academy of Medicine

The truly sad thing is that it doesn’t take a doctorate to recognize that it’s mental illness.

Tens of millions of Americans take a daily antidepressant or anxiety pill, most with significant side effects, for relatively mild clinical depressive or anxiety disorders. (Mental illness)

But people who have gender dysphoria that go into debt to mutilate their bodies and take hormones to chase a reality that they can never, ever achieve is fine and dandy!

These same people are many, many times more likely to attempt or commit suicide than the former group of people who have recognized mental illness, and it’s not simply because they’re marginalized, but because they had mental illness to begin with!

The progressive argument around the gender issues seems to be based around not believing what my own eyes and brain tell me, backed with self-serving and tenuous-at-best research. Scary when participation trophies and gentle parenting have trickled down to medicine and research. Like George Carlin said 30 years ago, “People have been bullsh*tted by the system into believing that if you change the name of the condition, somehow you'll change the condition”

The progressive left:

“Destigmatize mental health, normalize conversations and effective forms of treatment!”

Also the progressive left:

“(insert condition here) is NOT a mental health issue, they just need love and compassion”

Gay people are called gay for a reason. Generally some of the happiest, most upbeat people I come across. Most of the trans people I’ve been around have some serious issues that they need genuine help with, not progressive enablement to keep grasping at all the wrong straws.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 24, 2024, 01:29:04 PM

Gay people are called gay for a reason. Generally some of the happiest, most upbeat people I come across. Most of the trans people I’ve been around have some serious issues that they need genuine help with, not progressive enablement to keep grasping at all the wrong straws.

and by help you mean a big heaping dose of FUCK YOU
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 24, 2024, 01:50:50 PM
The truly sad thing is that it doesn’t take a doctorate to recognize that it’s mental illness.

Tens of millions of Americans take a daily antidepressant or anxiety pill, most with significant side effects, for relatively mild clinical depressive or anxiety disorders. (Mental illness)

But people who have gender dysphoria that go into debt to mutilate their bodies and take hormones to chase a reality that they can never, ever achieve is fine and dandy!

These same people are many, many times more likely to attempt or commit suicide than the former group of people who have recognized mental illness, and it’s not simply because they’re marginalized, but because they had mental illness to begin with!

The progressive argument around the gender issues seems to be based around not believing what my own eyes and brain tell me, backed with self-serving and tenuous-at-best research. Scary when participation trophies and gentle parenting have trickled down to medicine and research. Like George Carlin said 30 years ago, “People have been bullsh*tted by the system into believing that if you change the name of the condition, somehow you'll change the condition”

The progressive left:

“Destigmatize mental health, normalize conversations and effective forms of treatment!”

Also the progressive left:

“(insert condition here) is NOT a mental health issue, they just need love and compassion”

Gay people are called gay for a reason. Generally some of the happiest, most upbeat people I come across. Most of the trans people I’ve been around have some serious issues that they need genuine help with, not progressive enablement to keep grasping at all the wrong straws.

That's the problem with sanctimonious right-wingers like you.  You think you're expert on everything.  Just give it a rest. 
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 24, 2024, 02:02:42 PM
I'm not sure anyone else here thinks Custard thinks that he is an expert on everything.
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Post by: murphstahoe on June 24, 2024, 02:06:17 PM
I'm not sure anyone else here thinks Custard thinks that he is an expert on everything.

Two posts above is Custard bloviating about his expertise.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 24, 2024, 02:33:28 PM
and by help you mean a big heaping dose of FUCK YOU

Sure buddy
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 24, 2024, 02:39:43 PM
I specifically said it doesn’t take an expert to see something isn’t adding up here.  Not sure we need to be trained and credentialed experts to weigh in on our experiences (which probably just means a $250k diploma from a leftist institution of higher learning anyways)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 24, 2024, 02:49:32 PM
blah blah blah
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 24, 2024, 03:46:07 PM
"The word gay by the 1890s had an overall tinge of promiscuity — a gay house was a brothel. The suggestion of immorality in the word can be traced back at least to the 1630s

...

The slang meaning "homosexual" (adj.) begins to appear in psychological writing in the late 1940s, evidently picked up from gay slang and not always easily distinguished from the older sense:

...
More:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/gay
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 24, 2024, 03:53:38 PM
I am impressed by Custard's performance here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on June 24, 2024, 04:08:59 PM
I am impressed by Custard's performance here.

He is just making shit up. Gays are not called gay because they are joyful.

People who don't fit into defined orders and assigned roles are not sick. They are just different.

White guys need someone to feel superior too. Women can vote.  Black people have civil rights. Gays and lesbians are out and liberated.

We still got trannies and illegals though.

There is a reason why so dam many people are treated for anxiety and depression. The world is a fucked up, frightening, and sad place. You work your ass off so you can enjoy golden years retirement, then you are too fucking old and sick. So you get pissed, blame the deep state, and support Trump.

/S
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 24, 2024, 04:21:29 PM
2 years for Ed Burke. What a clown world. Lock that fucker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 24, 2024, 05:00:09 PM
I specifically said it doesn’t take an expert to see something isn’t adding up here. 

An expert on expertise!
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Post by: ThePAMan on June 24, 2024, 09:04:46 PM
An expert on expertise!

That is funny
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 25, 2024, 10:11:25 AM
This Mn's Mother?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mtq12qTWnUk

Jill Biden - 8 years younger than Joe Biden. But the Google says it's true so...

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 25, 2024, 12:10:51 PM
Yeah man, you tell me this isn’t fucking mental illness. Again, why the fuck is this necessary?! 🤡

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1805586065236922799?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 25, 2024, 02:30:50 PM
Yeah man, you tell me this isn’t fucking mental illness. Again, why the fuck is this necessary?! 🤡

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1805586065236922799?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Started off as a catchy tune and then started meandering
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on June 25, 2024, 04:05:11 PM
Quote
Is gender dysphoria a mental disorder?
Because gender dysphoria is included in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, also called the DSM, it is diagnosed as a mental disorder, experts said. (The DSM is the handbook used by health care professionals as the authoritative guide in diagnosing mental disorders.)

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But the gender incongruence — having a gender identity that’s not the one assigned at birth — isn’t what makes gender dysphoria a mental disorder. Having clinically significant dysphoria around the incongruence is what makes it a disorder, Ahuja said.

“Like all DSM illnesses, one key component of depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, all of that, is that you have to be functionally impaired by it, otherwise it doesn’t count as a diagnosis,” he added.

Gender dysphoria’s inclusion in the DSM is also necessary for access to gender-affirming care — so for The Trevor Project’s DeChants, whether gender dysphoria is in the DSM is partly a pragmatic issue.

“We do need to do more to destigmatize and help folks understand that being trans is not being mentally ill,” he said. “I would like to see moving away from the DSM.”


https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/19/health/is-gender-dysphoria-mental-disorder-treatment-wellness


Basically, like George Carlin said, we’ve been bullshitted into thinking changing the name of the condition changes the actual condition. We need to destigmatize mental illness, but we also need to change the diagnosis because it’s stigmatized. Which is it, boys?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on June 25, 2024, 04:42:55 PM

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/19/health/is-gender-dysphoria-mental-disorder-treatment-wellness


Basically, like George Carlin said, we’ve been bullshitted into thinking changing the name of the condition changes the actual condition. We need to destigmatize mental illness, but we also need to change the diagnosis because it’s stigmatized. Which is it, boys?

3...2...1...George Carlin *eyeroll*   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 25, 2024, 04:51:05 PM
This is crazy!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 25, 2024, 05:28:55 PM
He is just making shit up. Gays are not called gay because they are joyful.

People who don't fit into defined orders and assigned roles are not sick. They are just different.

White guys need someone to feel superior too. Women can vote.  Black people have civil rights. Gays and lesbians are out and liberated.

We still got trannies and illegals though.

There is a reason why so dam many people are treated for anxiety and depression. The world is a fucked up, frightening, and sad place. You work your ass off so you can enjoy golden years retirement, then you are too fucking old and sick. So you get pissed, blame the deep state, and support Trump.

/S

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6WxBifA9nG/?igsh=MWlqNWp6OGZmNjI2aA==
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 25, 2024, 06:38:48 PM

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/19/health/is-gender-dysphoria-mental-disorder-treatment-wellness


Basically, like George Carlin said, we’ve been bullshitted into thinking changing the name of the condition changes the actual condition. We need to destigmatize mental illness, but we also need to change the diagnosis because it’s stigmatized. Which is it, boys?

Maybe YOU are the one that is mentally ill???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WdtAj8jYMM
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 25, 2024, 07:43:44 PM
Search for victims of flooding in South Dakota was doing great until Kristi Noem shot the search dogs for nipping a chicken
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 25, 2024, 08:01:30 PM
From the Wiki ....

"Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'.[1]

In the 1960s, gay became the word favored by homosexual men to describe their sexual orientation.[3] By the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century, the word gay was recommended by major LGBT groups and style guides to describe people attracted to members of the same sex,[4][5] although it is more commonly used to refer specifically to men.[6]

The Wiki backs up Custard. Sorry, Ray.
Illove may have a point.

And thePAMan is correct.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 25, 2024, 11:20:09 PM
From the Wiki ....

"Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'.[1]

In the 1960s, gay became the word favored by homosexual men to describe their sexual orientation.[3] By the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century, the word gay was recommended by major LGBT groups and style guides to describe people attracted to members of the same sex,[4][5] although it is more commonly used to refer specifically to men.[6]

The Wiki backs up Custard. Sorry, Ray.
Illove may have a point.

And thePAMan is correct.

you want a cookie?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 26, 2024, 12:33:40 AM
you want a cookie?

I guess he just proved you aren’t an expert on expertise…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 26, 2024, 07:03:43 AM
I guess he just proved you aren’t an expert on expertise…

He may be an expert on experts of expertise though?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on June 26, 2024, 09:37:17 AM
He may be an expert on experts of expertise though?

He may be a bitch though too!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 26, 2024, 09:44:31 AM
He may be a bitch though too!

You're their best selling model!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 27, 2024, 12:03:16 PM
This is pretty damn hysterical, general consensus on company slack is that most of it is fake. I can't say I completely agree because after about 3 paragraphs I had to stop reading because it's so utterly douchey. I'd rather watch tonight's debate than continue reading this.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-its-like-to-be-a-newly-rich-nvidia-engineer.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 27, 2024, 03:13:37 PM
Apparently hits too close to home?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 27, 2024, 04:38:49 PM
Apparently hits too close to home?

Hits over at Google, maybe.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 13, 2024, 09:21:05 PM
🤡

https://x.com/defiantls/status/1812279275078475909?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 13, 2024, 09:55:01 PM
🤡

https://x.com/defiantls/status/1812279275078475909?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Twitter rots your brain. Shut that shit off
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 13, 2024, 09:56:05 PM
🤡

https://x.com/defiantls/status/1812279275078475909?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Harry should have used /s. Maga Republicans tend to lack innate sarcasm detectors. 

Usually, something like this causes people to jump back a little, self reflect, and find common ground.

I can't believe maga would blame Trump's opponents, given his and their own unprecedented levels of personal nastiness.

Also, they are the ones who talk about 2nd amendment solutions.

The hypocrisy is deeply rooted on both sides, but exceptionally so on the hard right. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 14, 2024, 09:14:17 AM
Projection…

https://x.com/iggyb70/status/1812281899076739117?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 14, 2024, 12:38:08 PM
Projection…

https://x.com/iggyb70/status/1812281899076739117?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

distain
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 14, 2024, 06:45:49 PM
UIUC put a Starbucks in the Mechanical Engineering building. WTF

The new (“new”) ECE building is freaking sweet though
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 16, 2024, 10:16:42 AM
🤡 and some of you want him for President 😬

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1813074657077305577?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 16, 2024, 10:29:58 AM
This is the response?! What in the actual fuck is this bullshit?! She 🤡 should resign…

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1813230135233159563?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on July 16, 2024, 10:47:46 AM
It was clear that the Secret Service needed to be comprehensively rebuilt more than three years ago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 16, 2024, 10:49:42 AM
This is the response?! What in the actual fuck is this bullshit?! She 🤡 should resign…

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1813230135233159563?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

why do you hate cops?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 16, 2024, 10:50:13 AM
🤡 and some of you want him for President 😬

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1813074657077305577?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Why do you want the schools doing the parent's job? Socialist much?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 16, 2024, 11:33:24 AM
This is the response?! What in the actual fuck is this bullshit?! She 🤡 should resign…

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1813230135233159563?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

I need to see a transcript. Your sauce is not credible.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 16, 2024, 12:01:20 PM
This is the response?! What in the actual fuck is this bullshit?! She 🤡 should resign…

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1813230135233159563?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

She's not fit to guard a bag of potato chips.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 16, 2024, 12:46:46 PM
She's not fit to guard a bag of potato chips.

Trump wants to be Commander in Chief, he's not fit to take out a blind wounded commie soldier.

She's a manager. Peter principle.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 16, 2024, 01:45:06 PM
🤡 and some of you want him for President 😬

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1813074657077305577?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

"The law bans school rules requiring teachers and other staff to disclose a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation to any other person without the child’s permission. Proponents of the legislation say it will help protect LGBTQ+ students who live in unwelcoming households. But opponents say it will hinder schools’ ability to be more transparent with parents." -- ABC
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 16, 2024, 02:25:53 PM
She's not fit to guard a bag of potato chips.

She is not a field agent.

Sounds like the decision on that outer perimeter was probably left up to and made by locals. How do they explain that without sounding like blame shifter Trump? Also, I suspect jurisdictions can be sensitive.

I would guess they conclude the inner perimeter controlled by the SS was too limited.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 16, 2024, 02:30:47 PM
She is not a field agent.

Sounds like the decision on that outer perimeter was probably left up to and made by locals. How do they explain that without sounding like blame shifter Trump? Also, I suspect jurisdictions can be sensitive.

I would guess they conclude the inner perimeter controlled by the SS was too limited.

You can conclude whatever the fuck you would like. I can too…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 16, 2024, 02:36:43 PM
Trump wants to be Commander in Chief, he's not fit to take out a blind wounded commie soldier.

She's a manager. Peter principle.

Trump is a sleazy confidence man, failed businessman, a successful reality TV star, and former one term President. Scholars rank him anywhere from 41st to 45th as a President..

She is likely a DEI hire.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 16, 2024, 02:39:57 PM
You can conclude whatever the fuck tou would like. I can too…

It's a free country with Internet where the right wing has their own set of alternative facts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 16, 2024, 02:42:04 PM
Trump is a sleazy confidence man, failed businessman, a successful reality TV star, and former one term President. Scholars rank him anywhere from 41st to 45th as a President..

She is likely a DEI hire.

The left has their alternative facts as well 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 16, 2024, 02:52:25 PM
Wait… 😂 how is that possible director of SS?!

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1813291920535486718?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 16, 2024, 02:56:10 PM
The left has their alternative facts as well 😂

They probably do. I am not the left. I am center right. I was a firm Republican until the N
nationalists took over.

My default settings are free markets, free trade, free speech, private property, gun rights, drug legalization, open borders, low taxes, less regulation ... I even once  supported privatization schemes.

I have moderated my anti-government positions since the great recession. Not that I trust the government, I just no longer trust "the invisible hand"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 16, 2024, 02:59:24 PM
It appears local cops were in charge of the outer perimeter. Be patient and get a life.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on July 16, 2024, 03:29:54 PM
They probably do. I am not the left. I am center right. I was a firm Republican until the N
nationalists took over.

My default settings are free markets, free trade, free speech, private property, gun rights, drug legalization, open borders, low taxes, less regulation ... I even once  supported privatization schemes.

I have moderated my anti-government positions since the great recession. Not that I trust the government, I just no longer trust "the invisible hand"

Funny, me too! Weird how “different” we are…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 16, 2024, 03:42:55 PM
DEI hires are the worst.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 17, 2024, 08:56:34 AM
Tough to protect against an inside job.....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 23, 2024, 02:19:20 PM
WTF is going on in Nashville?

https://apnews.com/article/nazis-tennessee-nashville-antisemitic-193fddb42fe3f5d577ffaa6a3ab10b3f

Go beat up some of those "new country" stars that are all hat, no cattle, if you know what I mean.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 23, 2024, 02:39:04 PM
Go beat up some of those "new country" stars that are all hat, no cattle, if you know what I mean.

I am all for that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 05, 2024, 11:05:03 AM
For the RFK Curious d00fuses here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqX-vDMOEbQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 05, 2024, 05:00:44 PM
Tempo's Itasca in the news!

https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/21/us-attorneys-office-files-blistering-motion-supporting-haymarket-centers-discrimination-lawsuit-against-itasca/#comments

That’s two minutes (if that) from where I live.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 05, 2024, 05:02:06 PM
I had 6 years of Catholic schooling and 6 years of public. A nice mix. Public college.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2024, 12:05:07 PM
Paper straws will kill you. Use plastic.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19440049.2023.2240908

Many food contact materials (FCMs) and reusable plastics in the food industry contain poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of synthetic pollutants that are known to be potentially harmful for wildlife, humans, and the environment. PFAS may migrate from FCMs to food consumed by humans. As a replacement for plastics, often paper and other plant-based materials are used in commercial settings. This also applies to drinking straws, where plant-based and other presumably eco-friendly straws are increasingly used to reduce plastic pollution. In order to make these materials water-repellent, PFAS are added during manufacturing but can also already be present early in the supply chain due to the use of contaminated raw materials. In the present study, we examined the PFAS concentrations in 39 different brands of straws, made from five materials (i.e. paper, bamboo, glass, stainless steel, and plastic) commercially available on the Belgian market. We combined both targeted and suspect-screening approaches to evaluate a wide range of PFAS. PFAS were found to be present in almost all types of straws, except for those made of stainless steel. PFAS were more frequently detected in plant-based materials, such as paper and bamboo. We did not observe many differences between the types of materials, or the continents of origin. The presence of PFAS in plant-based straws shows that they are not necessarily biodegradable and that the use of such straws potentially contributes to human and environmental exposure of PFAS.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 08, 2024, 12:57:26 PM
Paper straws will kill you. Use plastic.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19440049.2023.2240908

Many food contact materials (FCMs) and reusable plastics in the food industry contain poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of synthetic pollutants that are known to be potentially harmful for wildlife, humans, and the environment. PFAS may migrate from FCMs to food consumed by humans. As a replacement for plastics, often paper and other plant-based materials are used in commercial settings. This also applies to drinking straws, where plant-based and other presumably eco-friendly straws are increasingly used to reduce plastic pollution. In order to make these materials water-repellent, PFAS are added during manufacturing but can also already be present early in the supply chain due to the use of contaminated raw materials. In the present study, we examined the PFAS concentrations in 39 different brands of straws, made from five materials (i.e. paper, bamboo, glass, stainless steel, and plastic) commercially available on the Belgian market. We combined both targeted and suspect-screening approaches to evaluate a wide range of PFAS. PFAS were found to be present in almost all types of straws, except for those made of stainless steel. PFAS were more frequently detected in plant-based materials, such as paper and bamboo. We did not observe many differences between the types of materials, or the continents of origin. The presence of PFAS in plant-based straws shows that they are not necessarily biodegradable and that the use of such straws potentially contributes to human and environmental exposure of PFAS.

Why am I not suprised you drink beer from a straw
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 08, 2024, 01:15:48 PM
Paper straws will kill you. Use plastic.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19440049.2023.2240908

Many food contact materials (FCMs) and reusable plastics in the food industry contain poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of synthetic pollutants that are known to be potentially harmful for wildlife, humans, and the environment. PFAS may migrate from FCMs to food consumed by humans. As a replacement for plastics, often paper and other plant-based materials are used in commercial settings. This also applies to drinking straws, where plant-based and other presumably eco-friendly straws are increasingly used to reduce plastic pollution. In order to make these materials water-repellent, PFAS are added during manufacturing but can also already be present early in the supply chain due to the use of contaminated raw materials. In the present study, we examined the PFAS concentrations in 39 different brands of straws, made from five materials (i.e. paper, bamboo, glass, stainless steel, and plastic) commercially available on the Belgian market. We combined both targeted and suspect-screening approaches to evaluate a wide range of PFAS. PFAS were found to be present in almost all types of straws, except for those made of stainless steel. PFAS were more frequently detected in plant-based materials, such as paper and bamboo. We did not observe many differences between the types of materials, or the continents of origin. The presence of PFAS in plant-based straws shows that they are not necessarily biodegradable and that the use of such straws potentially contributes to human and environmental exposure of PFAS.

Or consider a reusable metal straw, but make sure you use it at least 150 times. 
https://www.sandia.org/sandia-area-blog/the-impact-of-reusable-and-biodegradable-straws
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 08, 2024, 01:42:13 PM
Or use your mouth like a man
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 08, 2024, 02:44:10 PM
Exactly. Fuck straws.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2024, 03:00:06 PM
LOL. What if your kid wants a straw?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 08, 2024, 03:12:39 PM
LOL. What if your kid wants a straw?

Let the boy watch, and learn how a man does it.

https://youtu.be/AKM3pyktIXw?si=Rs8R2QHnvGfCNQaQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 08, 2024, 05:21:49 PM
LOL. What if your kid wants a straw?

BTC as always
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2024, 06:43:38 PM
BTC as always

I'll admit I don't know how old their kids are  or if QAnon97 has any. Kids love straws.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 08, 2024, 08:47:03 PM
DEI hires are the worst.

Does learning about the history of racism in the United States make you ashamed of your identity?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 08, 2024, 08:49:18 PM
Does learning about the history of racism in the United States make you ashamed of your identity?

I can answer this one for him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 08, 2024, 10:20:46 PM
Does learning about the history of racism in the United States make you ashamed of your identity?

Spectacularly off-target.

My paternal side fled Germany to escape religious persecution in 1848-49, and my great great great grandfather enlisted and fought for four years in the Illinois Infantry Civil War.

My grandmother is a DAR and can trace her family’s American roots back to 18th century New England. Her side of the family also fled persecution.

No one in my family ever owned or condoned slavery, and actively fought against it for the entirety of our time here in America.

I’ve been a history and Civil War buff since I was in elementary school. I’m intimately familiar with American history, and I’ve no shame for being born white, unlike Tempo.

DEI hires suck, a lot of people that they are intended to further are embarrassed by them, and a lot of companies are moving away from them because they don’t add value to their organizations.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2024, 10:44:59 PM
I had The Lady GaGa's Born This Way playing in my head while reading Custard's backstory. Suck it, haterz!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 08, 2024, 11:14:01 PM
None of my ancestors ever had anything to do with slavery so I am guilt free.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 08, 2024, 11:35:51 PM
Spectacularly off-target.

...DEI hires suck, a lot of people that they are intended to further are embarrassed by them, and a lot of companies are moving away from them because they don’t add value to their organizations.

Your family history means diddly-squat, but thanks for sharing.

Who could blame a company for cutting back on its DEI initiative in the current political environment.  SCOTUS affirmative action decision, anti-DEI bills, Republican AG harassment and social media firestorms are all part of a very predictable right-wing backlash.

But the DEI news isn't all bad. In fact, it's pretty encouraging.  Many companies still see the benefits and are carrying on with their programs or retooling them to better explain their purpose. 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2024/03/05/are-companies-quiet-quitting-dei/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 09, 2024, 12:11:12 AM
My family history means a lot in the context of Ray’s challenge.

Also, DEI still sucks, but I’m glad it got someone in your family a job they didn’t otherwise deserve.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 09, 2024, 01:08:01 AM
My family history means a lot in the context of Ray’s challenge.

Also, DEI still sucks, but I’m glad it got someone in your family a job they didn’t otherwise deserve.

Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft say hi
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 09, 2024, 01:41:43 AM
DEI means some get jobs they deserve despite not being white males born on second base.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 09, 2024, 01:46:13 AM
My family history means a lot in the context of Ray’s challenge.


That was actually a standard objection to DEI.

We often don't recognize our own racial micro-aggressions
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 09, 2024, 02:34:45 AM
DEI means some get jobs they deserve despite not being white males born on second base.

He’s proud of his family history and being white. Unlike me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 09, 2024, 02:36:37 AM
Your family history means diddly-squat, but thanks for sharing.

Who could blame a company for cutting back on its DEI initiative in the current political environment.  SCOTUS affirmative action decision, anti-DEI bills, Republican AG harassment and social media firestorms are all part of a very predictable right-wing backlash.

But the DEI news isn't all bad. In fact, it's pretty encouraging.  Many companies still see the benefits and are carrying on with their programs or retooling them to better explain their purpose. 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2024/03/05/are-companies-quiet-quitting-dei/

There isn’t a racist bone in his families’ history. It’s been researched.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 09, 2024, 02:39:18 AM
None of my ancestors ever had anything to do with slavery so I am guilt free.

My ancestors were probably too poor to own slaves. But my dad being from Mississippi, I’m guessing they would have and did (if they could afford them, which they probably couldn’t). Wish my bloodline wasn’t so racist. Off to give myself 40 lashes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 09, 2024, 02:41:55 AM
I had The Lady GaGa's Born This Way playing in my head while reading Custard's backstory. Suck it, haterz!

I know of two Lady GaGa songs. Pokerface (though I couldn’t hum it), and Shallow (which is a good song).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 09, 2024, 03:57:14 AM
What I find incredible is that minority DEI hires sometimes (often?) didn’t deserve to get the job, yet every white person who got hired clearly deserved the job (and even some that didn’t).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 09, 2024, 04:48:55 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/P99gNFP/IMG-6551.jpg) (https://ibb.co/z77ZrQB)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 09, 2024, 05:28:52 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/P99gNFP/IMG-6551.jpg) (https://ibb.co/z77ZrQB)

🎯
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 09, 2024, 05:40:42 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/P99gNFP/IMG-6551.jpg) (https://ibb.co/z77ZrQB)

Being white is a tough job! It ain’t for everyone!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 09, 2024, 10:50:43 AM
The point of diversity, equity, and inclusion is to counteract traditional uniformity, favoritism, and exclusiveness.

While there has been improvement, women and racial or ethnic minorities have been disadvantaged. The reason for the improvement is because of DEI. Diversity is also an inherent good, but as with all good things, it has to be cultivated.

Some white males complain that losing their advantage places them at a disadvantage.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 09, 2024, 11:11:04 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/P99gNFP/IMG-6551.jpg) (https://ibb.co/z77ZrQB)

I know, it is tough. Black males have it so much easier. They only have to deal with things like being pulled over by the police and searched for no reason, and possibly being shot.

Or being denied a credit card, a mortgage, or a job for which  they are otherwise qualified.

Or being treated like an an affirmative action hire if they do get a job.

I am not even going to get into so-called micro-aggressions,  real or imagined; intended or unintended. Those are just part of life. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 09, 2024, 05:08:16 PM
Fucking microaggressions

Gtfooh 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 09, 2024, 05:11:19 PM
Fucking microaggressions

Gtfooh 😂

Seems like Nichi just macro aggravated you!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 09, 2024, 05:58:08 PM
Seems like Nichi just macro aggravated you!

Activated my belly laugh
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 10, 2024, 01:07:58 PM
This Willie brown Helicopter story is the gift that keeps on giving
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 12, 2024, 11:17:09 AM
This will not be for the faint of heart

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-x-twitter-livestream-83d6d07fc0ffef4151c96fc56aeec9ee
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 12, 2024, 11:40:14 AM
Live interview? I think they mean live throating.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 12, 2024, 04:39:02 PM
Maybe Harris should ask for the Iranians to interfere with the livestream and release the Trump campaign emails.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 14, 2024, 12:13:31 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/politics/kfile-michele-morrow-january-6-comments/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 14, 2024, 04:11:50 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/30SkRVK/Screenshot-20240813-203050-2.png) (https://ibb.co/9qyGZBP)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 14, 2024, 08:47:16 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/30SkRVK/Screenshot-20240813-203050-2.png) (https://ibb.co/9qyGZBP)

That looks about right. Especially Wisconsin.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 14, 2024, 08:52:18 PM
Is this real?! 😳 if so this is fucking mental illness…

https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1823733505710547098?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 14, 2024, 09:40:18 PM
Is this real?! 😳 if so this is fucking mental illness…

https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1823733505710547098?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Hasn't she had mental problems? Guess that's what happens when you are on Nickelodeon and date Seth McFarlane.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 15, 2024, 02:57:43 AM
Is this real?! 😳 if so this is fucking mental illness…

https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1823733505710547098?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Apparently she’s had years of substance abuse and psychiatric issues. Sad.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 15, 2024, 08:00:00 AM
Anyone seen what’s going on in Europe? Let the “migrants” do whatever they please and arrest the native citizens for saying anything about it ?  Europe is falling !

https://x.com/stillgray/status/1823417249169911814?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 08:57:13 AM
Anyone seen what’s going on in Europe? Let the “migrants” do whatever they please and arrest the native citizens for saying anything about it ?  Europe is falling !

https://x.com/stillgray/status/1823417249169911814?s=46

Putin should be recruiting those cats to fight for him instead of pussy Soviets!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 11:41:13 AM
Utter bullshit.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/7/22912054/uk-grossly-offensive-tweet-prosecution-section-127-2003-communications-act
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 15, 2024, 11:51:14 AM
Utter bullshit.

Oh have a cow why don’t ya!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 12:06:15 PM
Is it true the EU sent a letter trying to preemptively censor Musk and Trump before the whatever-it-was?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 12:39:11 PM
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-britain-riots-tweet-df3df49e7ba70b5af68f4fafa2fb4e68

https://apnews.com/article/uk-southport-stabbing-online-misinformation-1dcd23b803401416ac94ae458e5c9c06
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 12:43:46 PM
Should deliberately spreading political disinformation be protected free speech?

In the United States it almost always is.

 In the UK not if it is grossly offensive?  Not if it is intended to incite criminal acts?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 12:44:26 PM
Ahh yes the UK Ministry of Truth has released their reports rife with “Far Right” dog whistles. I’m sure all the unrest is for no reason whatsoever other than the protesters are racist, right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 01:02:59 PM
There were stabbings at some concert. The right wing successfully blamed it on an asylum seeker and this instigated riots.

The actual perp is a 17 or 18 year British subject from Wales whose parents emigrated from Rwanda.  His name was not released until he was charged?

 https://www.thefire.org/news/uk-government-issues-warning-think-you-post
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Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 01:10:25 PM
We should respect other cultures. At least that is what the progressives say (when it is convenient).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 01:37:52 PM
We should respect other cultures. At least that is what the progressives say (when it is convenient).

There might be a middle ground between cultural chauvinism or bigotry and condoning the intolerable..
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 01:51:33 PM
There might be a middle ground between cultural chauvinism or bigotry and condoning the intolerable..

Nope, we are told we must respect the cultures of others (except when it is inconvenient for the Progressives).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 15, 2024, 02:40:43 PM
Is it true the EU sent a letter trying to preemptively censor Musk and Trump before the whatever-it-was?

Yeah, what was that, anyway? 

https://x.com/parody_pm/status/1823250466265878564?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ
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Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 06:54:58 PM
Nope, we are told we must respect the cultures of others (except when it is inconvenient for the Progressives).

I don't know anyone who believes or says that without qualifying what they mean by respect.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 07:03:13 PM
I don't know anyone who believes or says that without qualifying what they mean by respect.

So we get to pick and choose after all? Shocker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 07:13:50 PM
So we get to pick and choose after all? Shocker.

Compassion with discernment. Tolerance with boundaries. Respect also means promoting mutual understanding.

I think some might tend use our welcome mat as a door mat to wipe their feet. Some on the left might  let them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 07:29:36 PM
Compassion with discernment. Tolerance with boundaries. Respect also means promoting mutual understanding.

I think some might tend use our welcome mat as a door mat to wipe their feet. Some on the left might  let them.

So you get to pick and choose. Got it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 16, 2024, 09:11:08 AM
So you get to pick and choose. Got it.

It’s again, a pronoun thing. He/they/them/us. BUT only the left and progressives get to decide who can/gets to use them and what’s acceptable. How fitting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 16, 2024, 09:21:50 AM
I have to admit, I have not studied up on the pronouns, and how they are used.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 16, 2024, 09:23:59 AM
I have sex with men, but I’m not gay! - Lindsey Graham.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 16, 2024, 09:54:42 AM
I have sex with men, but I’m not gay! - Lindsey Graham.

I guess this is who Alum was referring to then?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 16, 2024, 10:26:20 AM
It’s again, a pronoun thing. He/they/them/us. BUT only the left and progressives get to decide who can/gets to use them and what’s acceptable. How fitting.

So...where do I go to get permission from the left or progressives for the pronouns I might want to use?  Is there a special tribunal or review board where I would submit an application? 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 16, 2024, 11:26:31 AM
So...where do I go to get permission from the left or progressives for the pronouns I might want to use?  Is there a special tribunal or review board where I would submit an application?

Did “you” (is that acceptable to refer to “you” as?!) just not see above?! Only “they” get to use “them” or else “they” will criticize “them.”

Got “it?!” Good.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 16, 2024, 11:35:40 AM
I wanna be a cat.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 16, 2024, 11:45:31 AM
Did “you” (is that acceptable to refer to “you” as?!) just not see above?! Only “they” get to use “them” or else “they” will criticize “them.”

Got “it?!” Good.

Here are my pronouns:
I/Don't/Give/A/Shit/If/Someone/
Uses/Or/Doesn't/Use/Pronouns
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 16, 2024, 11:47:29 AM
Meow.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 16, 2024, 11:47:42 AM
And meow is my pronoun.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 16, 2024, 11:51:17 AM
And meow is my pronoun.

Congratulations,.  Your pronoun is hereby approved!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 16, 2024, 11:52:20 AM
I wanna be a cat.

You are one hip cat.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 16, 2024, 12:10:36 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/tTDVpF45/IMG-6688.png) (https://postimages.org/)

(https://i.postimg.cc/hvjQjhJq/IMG-6693.png) (https://postimg.cc/r0BwZVCh)

post a picture (https://postimages.org/)
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Post by: Chickengeorge on August 16, 2024, 12:13:16 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWOWXHGAgeA
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 16, 2024, 12:20:59 PM
Is it true the EU sent a letter trying to preemptively censor Musk and Trump before the whatever-it-was?

(https://i.postimg.cc/jdGC0RbC/IMG-6640.png) (https://postimg.cc/tYN9FQ7H)
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Post by: murphstahoe on August 16, 2024, 04:08:39 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/tTDVpF45/IMG-6688.png) (https://postimages.org/)

(https://i.postimg.cc/hvjQjhJq/IMG-6693.png) (https://postimg.cc/r0BwZVCh)

post a picture (https://postimages.org/)

Speaking of crushing the SAT - Donald Trump dropping the "More than 100% of new jobs have gone to Migrants"

Next thing you know, the Chiefs will win 18 out of 17 games
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 21, 2024, 04:23:56 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/dave-portnoy-left-with-egg-on-his-face-after-steve-kerr-loser-claim/ar-AA1pb5Cu?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=db96fef466094883b6118512d636354c&ei=26

Perhaps not the best way to grow your brand
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 07, 2024, 05:09:58 PM
https://www.si.com/onsi/athlete-lifestyle/relationships/bill-belichick-24-year-old-girlfriend-photo-dump-proves-why-coach-again
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 07, 2024, 05:55:22 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/dave-portnoy-left-with-egg-on-his-face-after-steve-kerr-loser-claim/ar-AA1pb5Cu?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=db96fef466094883b6118512d636354c&ei=26

Perhaps not the best way to grow your brand

Portnoy's Complaint?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 07, 2024, 06:00:26 PM
Portnoy's Complaint?

Timely retort, Nichi!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 09, 2024, 09:27:24 AM
LOL

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1843496521633018345?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 09, 2024, 03:13:44 PM
The liberal National Hurricane Center has said that the storm surge into Tampa Bay will be "unsurvivable"

Fortunately we have a brave man in a MAGA hat and a sailboat who has volunteered to FACT CHECK the woke NOAA
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 09, 2024, 04:53:26 PM
Think it’s down to cat 3 and weakening
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 09, 2024, 04:56:04 PM
Come on weather channel get it together

(https://i.ibb.co/WPYxTL8/IMG-7437.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wwx0vfG)
(https://i.ibb.co/55X2xvk/IMG-7438.jpg) (https://ibb.co/JzWCF2q)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 10, 2024, 01:15:23 AM
Come on weather channel get it together

(https://i.ibb.co/WPYxTL8/IMG-7437.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wwx0vfG)
(https://i.ibb.co/55X2xvk/IMG-7438.jpg) (https://ibb.co/JzWCF2q)

that flooding and storm surge is truly fake news
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 10, 2024, 10:43:13 AM
DeSantis got all huffy in a presser this AM regarding total damage from Milton, for some reason trying to minimize it. But to do so, he compared it to Ian and Helene. Not sure if he gets the irony that 5 years ago we used to talk about Andrew, which happened decades ago, and now he's downplaying Milton because it wasn't as bad as last week's hurricane.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 10, 2024, 02:15:17 PM
Why are you so obsessed with DeSantis and Florida?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 10, 2024, 02:24:15 PM
Why are you so obsessed with DeSantis and Florida?

because my family owns property there that took 2 years to get fixed up Post Ian due to that fucker's mismanagement.
A condo my parents - including my dad with Parkinson's, wanted to retire to, but it was inaccessible for a massive time due to DeSantis' stupidity
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 10, 2024, 02:43:17 PM
What did he do to fuck up their property and how could he have done better?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 10, 2024, 03:25:16 PM
What did he do to fuck up their property and how could he have done better?

Now liberals like Murph are saying DeSantis controls the weather. Fucking idiots!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 10, 2024, 03:37:10 PM
He’s still mad desantis didn’t lock down Florida for 3 years
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 10, 2024, 03:51:50 PM
He’s still mad desantis didn’t lock down Florida for 3 years

No state "locked down" for three years.  And Forida implemented many of the same protective health measures as other states did in the first eight months of the pandemic.  When the Delta variant hit in November 2020, some states extended their measures for another six months.  Others like Florida didn't.
https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/did-florida-get-it-right-against-covid-19#:~:text=Florida%20did%20well%20because%20it,promoted%20vaccination%20among%20the%20elderly
   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 10, 2024, 04:13:46 PM
I gather he is saying DeSantis mismanaged the recovery from Ian.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 10, 2024, 04:15:27 PM
What did he do to fuck up their property and how could he have done better?

DeSantis' policy on immigrant visas created a labor shortage right at the time the state needed lots of that sort of labor for reconstruction of Lee County. Materials were also in short supply because the port was clogged up due to similar labor issues. Delivery of materials was also bogged down because road clearance and reconstruction by FDOT was to the level even the Iraqi's would scoff at.

His utility commission was completely fubar, and water/power were not restored to the north stretch of Hickory for over a year, despite the utilities NOT being in a labor crunch - utilities share their skilled workers who pretty much go from disaster to disaster. Good luck with the 3 million in Florida out of power now if North Hickory had to wait a year post Ian. The condo had to buy multiple generators at their own expense and run them to power A/C units such that units undamaged by the storm surge didn't become mold infested while we awaited power.

In disaster areas, best practice is to streamline permitting. 18 months after Ian, our condo building still did not have permitting to replace what was an existing elevator. We finished a kitchen remodel (plenty of labor to do interiors - because those types of skilled workers were picking their asses because external construction was going at a snails pace in Lee County). In order to get the countertops to the unit, we had to hire a crane and put the granite through the window because there was still no elevator.

There were additional permitting problems with the reconstruction of the pool house and plumbing to the poolside bathroom, which had existed for over 40 years - to the point that the HOA just punted completely on rebuilding the poolhouse, going with only a pool.

Debris removal in Lee County - Ft Meyers Beach, Bonita, and Naples, was ineffective, delaying the ability to access parts of the building and for safe beach access.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 10, 2024, 04:16:41 PM
He’s still mad desantis didn’t lock down Florida for 3 years

who cares if it's locked down if you don't have electricity, sewer, or water
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 10, 2024, 04:19:10 PM
He’s still mad desantis didn’t lock down Florida for 3 years

So are the kids who got The COVID and are now having strokes?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 10, 2024, 04:21:19 PM
So are the kids who got The COVID and are now having strokes?

Fake news!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afam2nIae4o
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 10, 2024, 04:24:39 PM
No state "locked down" for three years.  And Forida implemented many of the same protective health measures as other states did in the first eight months of the pandemic.  When the Delta variant hit in November 2020, some states extended their measures for another six months.  Others like Florida didn't.
https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/did-florida-get-it-right-against-covid-19#:~:text=Florida%20did%20well%20because%20it,promoted%20vaccination%20among%20the%20elderly
 

I was being dramatic.

Florida was less restrictive in the summer of 2020 than Chicago was in May 2021. Source: I was in both at those times.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 10, 2024, 04:32:10 PM
I was being dramatic.

Florida was less restrictive in the summer of 2020 than Chicago was in May 2021. Source: I was in both at those times.

Yeah, we all know you are a drama queen. 

And you're telling me that neither Florida or Chicago were in "lock down" mode when you visited.  Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on October 10, 2024, 05:04:29 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/0yqYsxb/IMG-7447.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Zzdc20D)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 10, 2024, 07:49:51 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/CwwXg8B/Screenshot-20241010-193550-2.png) (https://ibb.co/9ppf6gn)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 10, 2024, 08:52:28 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/CwwXg8B/Screenshot-20241010-193550-2.png) (https://ibb.co/9ppf6gn)

We'll see how it plays out for the shit head. He has this psychic need to say "see, Florida is A-OK" when he says the storm wasn't as bad as they predicted, but that just means "it didn't hit Tampa, but Sarasota and Punta Gorda got completely fucked"

And there is no rooftop on the Rays stadium. It was pretty bad. He's trying but he's gonna be in a corner when people just start saying "fuck this shit, I'm out". People will eventually leave their ancestral homeland if it gets bad enough, but if you have a state full of transients, they aren't gonna put up with much of anything
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 11, 2024, 01:42:07 PM
low key underrated part of this...

A lot of midwesterners took their nest eggs and retired to Florida. Even the ones whose houses didn't get completely trashed in the series of hurricanes, are putting a lot of thought into getting out.

The ones that stay are going to be paying a shitload of money for insurance or just going naked. The ones that leave are going to have a hell of a time trying to sell their homes. Stock market at an all time high but retirees losing half their nest egg in the Florida housing market will not end well
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 11, 2024, 03:19:51 PM
low key underrated part of this...

A lot of midwesterners took their nest eggs and retired to Florida. Even the ones whose houses didn't get completely trashed in the series of hurricanes, are putting a lot of thought into getting out.

The ones that stay are going to be paying a shitload of money for insurance or just going naked. The ones that leave are going to have a hell of a time trying to sell their homes. Stock market at an all time high but retirees losing half their nest egg in the Florida housing market will not end well

Also underrated: Florida is going broke one way or the other. Either the state is going to have to bail out underinsured homeowners or homeowners whose insurer went broke and didn't pay out - or property values in Florida are gonna crash. Florida has no state income tax - relying heavily on property taxes... and that pot will crater if home values crash
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 11, 2024, 03:26:47 PM
Also underrated: Florida is going broke one way or the other. Either the state is going to have to bail out underinsured homeowners or homeowners whose insurer went broke and didn't pay out - or property values in Florida are gonna crash. Florida has no state income tax - relying heavily on property taxes... and that pot will crater if home values crash

Florida state government has already engaged in socialism, errr, I mean, insurance, when it created the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation....

https://www.citizensfla.com/who-we-are
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 11, 2024, 08:46:58 PM
Florida state government has already engaged in socialism, errr, I mean, insurance, when it created the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation....

https://www.citizensfla.com/who-we-are

it's already going broke
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 11, 2024, 09:48:06 PM
it's already going broke

Does that surprise you?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 12, 2024, 07:47:02 PM
Does that surprise you?

It was DeSantis’ idea so… no
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2024, 09:29:56 AM
because my family owns property there that took 2 years to get fixed up Post Ian due to that fucker's mismanagement.
A condo my parents - including my dad with Parkinson's, wanted to retire to, but it was inaccessible for a massive time due to DeSantis' stupidity

You’re an illionaire with a B and having to sit around and wait for someone to fix your parents’ CONDO?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2024, 09:32:00 AM
Why not just buy them a 2 1/2 million dollar home in Santa Barbara?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 14, 2024, 10:50:21 AM
Why not just buy them a 2 1/2 million dollar home in Santa Barbara?

Because he’s a liar…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 14, 2024, 10:50:47 AM
You’re an illionaire with a B and having to sit around and wait for someone to fix your parents’ CONDO?

He’s a liar…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 11:06:37 AM
He’s a liar…

Nothing gets past the judge
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 11:07:30 AM
Why not just buy them a 2 1/2 million dollar home in Santa Barbara?

The only thing worse than Southern California is Florida. So yeah, it would be an upgrade, but not much of one
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 14, 2024, 11:50:47 AM
Nothing gets past the judge

If I was a billionaire, I would gift every one of you on here $10,000 and not even think twice. I’d do it just because.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 14, 2024, 12:02:57 PM
The only thing worse than Southern California is Florida. So yeah, it would be an upgrade, but not much of one

Florida beats the hell out of a lot of places. Down here right now at the in-laws having a blast.

(https://i.ibb.co/266sr3f/IMG-7475.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QccCVv1)
(https://i.ibb.co/mJsCwC1/IMG-7493.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nr2svsZ)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 14, 2024, 12:04:24 PM
Florida beats the hell out of a lot of places. Down here right now at the in-laws having a blast.

(https://i.ibb.co/266sr3f/IMG-7475.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QccCVv1)
(https://i.ibb.co/mJsCwC1/IMG-7493.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nr2svsZ)

It’s because you have money and he doesn’t. Also he’s a liar, you’re not…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 14, 2024, 12:06:23 PM
I’m pretty sure he has more money than me but is mad he had to pitch in his own money to fix the in-laws place rather than DeSantis using other people’s money to fix it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2024, 12:13:47 PM
The only thing worse than Southern California is Florida. So yeah, it would be an upgrade, but not much of one

Carmel-by-the-Sea?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2024, 12:15:56 PM
Florida beats the hell out of a lot of places. Down here right now at the in-laws having a blast.

(https://i.ibb.co/266sr3f/IMG-7475.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QccCVv1)
(https://i.ibb.co/mJsCwC1/IMG-7493.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nr2svsZ)

Looks nice. What town is that?


In-laws? Aren’t you banging a new chick every month?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 14, 2024, 12:47:23 PM
Carmel-by-the-Sea?

I don't think Carmel is considered part of Southern California.  Favorite place in CA is Encinitas and favorite place in FL is Dunedin.  Both states are nice to visit, but that's about it. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 02:09:48 PM
I’m pretty sure he has more money than me but is mad he had to pitch in his own money to fix the in-laws place rather than DeSantis using other people’s money to fix it.

I'm from California, it would be my money either way.

The problem is that we fixed it up, but there is still a pile of sticks across the road that used to be a trailer park. That's the part you didn't put in your photo.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 14, 2024, 02:10:08 PM
Looks nice. What town is that?


In-laws? Aren’t you banging a new chick every month?

Santa Rosa Island.

That was a bit I used to do that was dispelled.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 02:12:17 PM
Carmel-by-the-Sea?

Central Coast is not Southern California. Carmel is pretty awesome. What's really wild about Carmel is, you think of it as this super expensive ritzy place, but we have friends who moved there because the high school is pretty good and the housing was *cheap* compared to the Bay Area. Like it used to be pricier, but outside of places that are literally inside the 17 mile drive that run into 8-9 figures, prices have stayed pretty stable while the Bay Area got silly.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 02:12:47 PM
lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 02:13:32 PM
Santa Rosa Island.

That was a bit I used to do that was dispelled.

So I'm not a billionaire and you're having boring once a month missionary.

Noted.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 14, 2024, 02:13:37 PM
I spent a week in CbtS last August, definitely northern end of central coast
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 14, 2024, 02:14:51 PM
We probably really do missionary once a month. Very infrequent. Like other things better.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2024, 02:38:03 PM
I don't think Carmel is considered part of Southern California.

That was my point.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2024, 02:38:54 PM
He trashed SoCal so I offered another option for his parents.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2024, 02:40:53 PM
Central Coast is not Southern California. Carmel is pretty awesome. What's really wild about Carmel is, you think of it as this super expensive ritzy place, but we have friends who moved there because the high school is pretty good and the housing was *cheap* compared to the Bay Area. Like it used to be pricier, but outside of places that are literally inside the 17 mile drive that run into 8-9 figures, prices have stayed pretty stable while the Bay Area got silly.

Again, you trashed SoCal so I offered something more palatable.
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Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 02:44:35 PM
He trashed SoCal so I offered another option for his parents.

my parents aren't leaving Boulder. Ever. They just snowbird a decent amount in Bonita, especially since my sister in Lafayette (Indiana, not Colorado) also does the same.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 14, 2024, 02:49:38 PM
Santa Rosa Island.

That was a bit I used to do that was dispelled.

Not retracted?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 05:17:26 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWM5rbwR24
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2024, 05:25:49 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWM5rbwR24

This guy is pretty good, he makes one key point but then doesn't take it to the next level.

Harris discusses a 25k credit for first time home buyers. What good is that going to do you if your *insurance* is 10k per year.
In many areas, insurance is getting to the point where insurance costs are as much as the mortgage. And you can't get a mortgage without insurance.

So we end up in a situation where the only feasible housing market is cash buyers who self insure, in some parts of the country. Anywhere near a tree that might burn or a river that might flood.

My insurance in MV is 1/5th the amount of the insurance on the Tahoe place, despite being worth 4x as much. Or is it worth even more, given who can buy the Tahoe place at what price if insurance is what it is? I don't own a lot on the property, there is a very real consideration to paying off my loan (at 3% !!!) just so I can go naked on the insurance. But if I do that, I have to stop the VRBO due to liability, or just get a liability rider. 

It will be very interesting to see the Florida condo market when the special assessments start rolling in for the HOAs. If you try to go naked to lower the HOA, some people will say screw it and sell. If you don't, other people will say screw it and sell.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 29, 2024, 10:30:45 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14014349/Influencers-drowned-yacht-party-refusing-wear-life-jackets-ruin-selfies-tans-police-say.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 06, 2024, 03:07:59 PM
the dude that screwed up my train commute yesterday. Probably Custard

https://www.ktvu.com/news/standoff-petaluma-high-speed-chase-suspect-jumps-water
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 06, 2024, 04:31:10 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14014349/Influencers-drowned-yacht-party-refusing-wear-life-jackets-ruin-selfies-tans-police-say.html

Surprised they couldn’t float.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on November 11, 2024, 02:55:38 PM
Just thinking about those Fulton County election workers living in Rudy's penthouse makes me smile.  Sometimes, there is justice in this world!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 11, 2024, 03:46:22 PM
Morons 😂 🤡 there’s actually women on my Facebook crying saying the Trump administration is gonna make them all Handmaids. Then do stupid shit like this. Just fucking ignorance…

https://x.com/ianonpatriot/status/1855814221109313748?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 11, 2024, 03:59:47 PM
Morons 😂 🤡 there’s actually women on my Facebook crying saying the Trump administration is gonna make them all Handmaids. Then do stupid shit like this. Just fucking ignorance…

https://x.com/ianonpatriot/status/1855814221109313748?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Completely wrong. Only the women in the South will be handmaids!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 12, 2024, 07:40:35 AM
News alert: No one is doing that. But congrats on letting it rev you up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 12, 2024, 07:07:04 PM
False flag?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 15, 2024, 11:36:49 PM
That Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight was more boring than a 30-0 run in the Elite 8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 16, 2024, 09:38:08 AM
You mean a 0-30 “run” in the elite 8?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 20, 2024, 12:32:05 AM
Linda McMahon Chosen to Be Education Secretary
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 20, 2024, 07:35:37 AM
Linda McMahon Chosen to Be Education Secretary

Look at the bright side, she isn't going to be in the job long when she closes the education department.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 20, 2024, 07:55:00 AM
She’ll actually be overqualified to run it once it’s closed. No one needs an education anyway, they just need a rich daddy to buy them degrees, like Daddy Trump did for Donald.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 20, 2024, 08:14:03 AM
She’ll actually be overqualified to run it once it’s closed. No one needs an education anyway, they just need a rich daddy to buy them degrees, like Daddy Trump did for Donald.

Or suck a dick and fuck guys like Kamala…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 20, 2024, 08:48:03 AM
Or suck a dick and fuck guys like Kamala…

Yeah, a woman can only become an attorney general a US senator and a vice president by fucking her way there, am I right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 20, 2024, 10:07:14 AM
Yeah, a woman can only become an attorney general a US senator and a vice president by fucking her way there, am I right?

A white male can only be successful with a silver spoon…

And I didn’t say a/any woman. I was specifically referring to Kamala…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 20, 2024, 12:11:29 PM
A white male can only be successful with a silver spoon…

Good use of irony, since I am a white male billionaire who had no silver spoon
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 20, 2024, 12:24:30 PM
Good use of irony, since I am a white male billionaire who had no silver spoon

Other than being a white male?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 20, 2024, 12:31:21 PM
Other than being a white male?

I see what you did there
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 20, 2024, 04:31:44 PM
https://x.com/thebabylonbee/status/1859341007839453226?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 20, 2024, 07:59:52 PM
A white male can only be successful with a silver spoon…

And I didn’t say a/any woman. I was specifically referring to Kamala…

Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 21, 2024, 08:28:37 AM
Let's suppose someone knows about an extensive crime ring involving sexual misconduct and the use of our tax dollars as hush money. Instead of reporting this, they use it as political leverage. isn't that multiple crimes?

What if a political leader threatens to destroy Congress people's political careers if they don't vote a certain way? Isn't that a crime?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 21, 2024, 10:10:38 AM
Let's suppose someone knows about an extensive crime ring involving sexual misconduct and the use of our tax dollars as hush money. Instead of reporting this, they use it as political leverage. isn't that multiple crimes?

What if a political leader threatens to destroy Congress people's political careers if they don't vote a certain way? Isn't that a crime?

Trump already had Epstein killed
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 21, 2024, 11:09:28 AM
Progressive snowflakes strike again!

https://amp.tmz.com/2024/11/21/jussie-smollett-conviction-overturned-by-illinois-supreme-court/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 21, 2024, 11:50:23 AM
Trump is trolling everyone so hard with these picks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 21, 2024, 12:29:10 PM
Big win for JJ!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/mike-johnson-transgender-women-ban-capitol-bathrooms.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on November 21, 2024, 12:42:54 PM
I don't think Spark likes Mike Johnson very much.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 21, 2024, 02:35:50 PM
Progressive snowflakes strike again!

https://amp.tmz.com/2024/11/21/jussie-smollett-conviction-overturned-by-illinois-supreme-court/

Kimm Foxx special!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 21, 2024, 05:04:24 PM
Kimm Foxx special!

A brilliant Soros backed DEI installment to the Chicago justice system
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 21, 2024, 05:57:09 PM
A brilliant Soros backed DEI installment to the Chicago justice system

Just another incompetent Progressive. Redundant, I know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 21, 2024, 06:42:23 PM
Trump is trolling everyone so hard with these picks.

And that’s what we’re looking for in a good POTUS, right? Troller in Chief!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 21, 2024, 08:25:47 PM
*Does this mean MTG won't be releasing her information?

*Dunno if he is qualified, don't agree with his policies or politics, but Duffy seems like a true believer and a decent person. Kind of a Pence type. I'd be surprised to see him linked to any sex, bribery, or extortion scandals.
 
(https://i.ibb.co/gtWBvpQ/Screenshot-20241121-193654-2.png) (https://ibb.co/GCMbsLG)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 26, 2024, 03:36:46 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/san-francisco-crime-ricci-wynne-pimp-fox-news-b2653886.html

Fox News guest who slams San Francisco’s crime and drug use is arrested for working as pimp

Self-styled ‘video vigilante’ Ricci Wynne is known for his content recording homeless drug users in San Fransisco

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 26, 2024, 07:10:24 PM
Looks like the only people they’ll bother to arrest out there are the critics
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 26, 2024, 07:21:03 PM
Looks like the only people they’ll bother to arrest out there are the critics

😂😂😂
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Post by: alum74 on November 27, 2024, 07:39:38 AM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/san-francisco-crime-ricci-wynne-pimp-fox-news-b2653886.html

Fox News guest who slams San Francisco’s crime and drug use is arrested for working as pimp

Self-styled ‘video vigilante’ Ricci Wynne is known for his content recording homeless drug users in San Fransisco

Another genius.  Does Trump have his DEA chief yet?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 30, 2024, 10:05:56 AM
Boise State women's volleyball team pretending to take the high road vs San Jose State by forfeiting the conference semifinal instead of letting SJSU win fair and square. Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 05, 2024, 03:40:08 PM
https://abc7news.com/post/former-apple-employees-arrested-fraud-donation-program-hop4kids/15620902/

These dumbasses probably making 200k base with at least that in stock comp and benefits decide to steal the 3k per year charitable contribution match - donating the 3k to the charity and then getting the whole 6k (their original plus match) back from the charity after paying off the mole at the charity. Then of course taking the 3k deduction from their taxes.

So now, no fat salary and 5 years in jail. Come on - if you're gonna be corrupt, you gotta have a better ROI than that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 07, 2024, 06:56:11 AM
From what I read, the NYC judge in the Daniel Penny trial tossed out his verdict form after the prosecution dropped the manslaughter charge and essentially told the jury to not be bothered with charge 1.
Seems kinda like can you get me a guilty on charge 2 please ? Just skip what I told you about needing to arrive at a verdict on charge 1 before you can go to charge 2.
(https://i.ibb.co/2tVZLfX/Screenshot-20241207-065742-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/R0rjMVL)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 07, 2024, 01:12:43 PM
Judge Judy, picture taken, just for you, in Illini Ice Arena "Men's" washroom last night...

(https://i.postimg.cc/crX4Zg9n/PXL-20241207-053237084-MP.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/crX4Zg9n)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 07, 2024, 01:51:24 PM
Judge Judy, picture taken, just for you, in Illini Ice Arena "Men's" washroom last night...

(https://i.postimg.cc/crX4Zg9n/PXL-20241207-053237084-MP.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/crX4Zg9n)

For the poor guys who accidentally get their period in between periods…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 07, 2024, 02:04:09 PM
Judge Judy, picture taken, just for you, in Illini Ice Arena "Men's" washroom last night...

(https://i.postimg.cc/crX4Zg9n/PXL-20241207-053237084-MP.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/crX4Zg9n)

There no genitals in that pic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 07, 2024, 03:19:29 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/kVbLfGBZ/IMG-20241207-151702.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/kVbLfGBZ)
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Post by: Custard on December 07, 2024, 04:20:48 PM
🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2024, 12:13:16 PM
From what I read, the NYC judge in the Daniel Penny trial tossed out his verdict form after the prosecution dropped the manslaughter charge and essentially told the jury to not be bothered with charge 1.
Seems kinda like can you get me a guilty on charge 2 please ? Just skip what I told you about needing to arrive at a verdict on charge 1 before you can go to charge 2.
(https://i.ibb.co/2tVZLfX/Screenshot-20241207-065742-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/R0rjMVL)

Penny not guilty.
Lol Alvin Bragg
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 09, 2024, 12:35:30 PM
Open season on the mentally ill?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 09, 2024, 12:54:12 PM
Open season on the mentally ill?

In a world where some woman can say "You gotta Hawk Tuah, and spit on that thing" on a camera phone and 6 months later has so much notoriety she can pull a multi-million dollar crypto scam, I would say, yes, it's true.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2024, 01:08:19 PM
Open season on the mentally ill?

If you are going to be a wack job and threaten people on a train, yes. Where was this nutjob's parent when he was being a douchebag on the train? Fuck these assholes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2024, 04:15:56 PM
Maybe he was just being loud.

https://x.com/i/status/1866174103931015270
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2024, 04:27:28 PM
Maybe he was just being loud.

https://x.com/i/status/1866174103931015270

Seems pissed about Soto going to the Mets.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 09, 2024, 04:39:32 PM
If you are going to be a wack job and threaten people on a train, yes. Where was this nutjob's parent when he was being a douchebag on the train? Fuck these assholes.

Hoping that Trump would stop the fentanyl instead of just being a parent. Damn people always trying to rely on big government
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 09, 2024, 04:46:51 PM
Here's one.

My sister is doing a remodel in West Lafayette, because you know, the Murphy's are real estate barons.

Anyway, the remodel is getting punked because they can't just put good, solid, modern siding and windows onto the house. You see, the neighborhood -  which is basically right off campus and has a bunch of ramshackle homes that are all hodge podged together and don't have a lot of money piled into them because for the most part are student rentals - was declared "historic" so any repairs have to match the "historic" nature of the neighborhood.

Regulation! Big Government!

Who lobbied for those regulations? The chair of the Tippecanoe County GOP. Who doesn't even live in the neighborhood.

Everything is hypocrisy, we should just get over it already. It's pathetic - in this case "historic" means "we hadn't invented better shit yet, the people who built these houses would have killed for modern plumbing"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2024, 06:05:12 PM
If you are going to be a wack job and threaten people on a train, yes. Where was this nutjob's parent when he was being a douchebag on the train? Fuck these assholes.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/opinion/jordan-neelys-father-blames-racism-and-system-for-sons-death-but-where-was-he/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 09, 2024, 06:27:22 PM
https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/opinion/jordan-neelys-father-blames-racism-and-system-for-sons-death-but-where-was-he/

So the son was addicted to drugs and that's the father's fault.

But drug overdoses in Appalachia are Mexico's fault.

Checks out.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2024, 07:08:37 PM
So the son was addicted to drugs and that's the father's fault.

But drug overdoses in Appalachia are Mexico's fault.

Checks out.

Where was the dad when the kid needed him? Sounds like he was nowhere to be found. Only being in the courtroom to feign outrage is way too late.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 09, 2024, 09:12:13 PM
Where was the dad when the kid needed him? Sounds like he was nowhere to be found. Only being in the courtroom to feign outrage is way too late.

Where were all these people bitching about Mexican Fentanyl when their kids OD'd? Only showing up to bitch that Trump should build a wall instead of taking care of their kids.

right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2024, 09:34:33 PM
Where were all these people bitching about Mexican Fentanyl when their kids OD'd? Only showing up to bitch that Trump should build a wall instead of taking care of their kids.

right?

No real difference except  this guy was a serial assaultist on public transportation. The kid's dad only shows up now so he can file some lawsuit against the guy who had to deal with the loser's  BS on the train. I don't see the yahoos from West Virginia, for example, just showing up so they can sue someone.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 09, 2024, 09:51:41 PM
No real difference except  this guy was a serial assaultist on public transportation. The kid's dad only shows up now so he can file some lawsuit against the guy who had to deal with the loser's  BS on the train. I don't see the yahoos from West Virginia, for example, just showing up so they can sue someone.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/purdue-pharma-supreme-court-opioid-settlement/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 09, 2024, 09:57:24 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/purdue-pharma-supreme-court-opioid-settlement/index.html

You mean the bankruptcy creditors like States, local governments, hospitals, etc. that sued them? Not really comparable to this scenario. But keep trying.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 10, 2024, 09:12:22 AM
Where was the dad when the kid needed him? Sounds like he was nowhere to be found. Only being in the courtroom to feign outrage is way too late.

I’m gonna point out that article was written by a guy who was fatherless. Clearly has daddy issues, so I’m guessing everything is Daddy’s fault in his opinion.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 10, 2024, 09:15:43 AM
So the son was addicted to drugs and that's the father's fault.

But drug overdoses in Appalachia are Mexico's fault.

Checks out.

And Big Pharma. It’s always someone else’s fault when the perpetrators/victims are white. Black fathers are absent, so of course it was his father’s fault…fits the narrative perfectly. It’s his father’s fault that white man choked him out.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 10, 2024, 09:16:26 AM
A white man trained to kill I might add.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 10, 2024, 09:25:51 AM
And Big Pharma. It’s always someone else’s fault when the perpetrators/victims are white. Black fathers are absent, so of course it was his father’s fault…fits the narrative perfectly. It’s his father’s fault that white man choked him out.

You’re such an ally. Kudos.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 10, 2024, 11:35:50 AM
regardless of how you get to that point, if your kid dies, it would suck

I don't think it's useful to throw shade at a parent grieving their child.

The situation was FUBAR. The dead kid was a mess. The kid who killed him... - the situation could have been handled in a manner that didn't end up in a death. Shit happens. We try to make less of it happen.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 10, 2024, 11:43:59 AM
regardless of how you get to that point, if your kid dies, it would suck

I don't think it's useful to throw shade at a parent grieving their child.

The situation was FUBAR. The dead kid was a mess. The kid who killed him... - the situation could have been handled in a manner that didn't end up in a death. Shit happens. We try to make less of it happen.

As someone who actually rides public transportation, fuck these crazy and/or doped up assholes. If their parents won't do anything about them, what happens happens when they fuck with people just trying to get to work.

Normalizing lunatics and junkies on public transportation is one of the reasons a Trump won.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 10, 2024, 11:47:06 AM
As someone who actually rides public transportation, fuck these crazy and/or doped up assholes. If their parents won't do anything about them, what happens happens when they fuck with people just trying to get to work.

Normalizing lunatics and junkies on public transportation is one of the reasons a Trump won.

I didn't normalize it. I just said - if your kid dies it would suck. I don't think you're disagreeing, just making the standard HQ2 strawman argument.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 10, 2024, 11:53:02 AM
As someone who actually rides public transportation, fuck these crazy and/or doped up assholes. If their parents won't do anything about them, what happens happens when they fuck with people just trying to get to work.

Normalizing lunatics and junkies on public transportation is one of the reasons a Trump won.

and to this point - you could extend this to say it doesn't matter if the cartels are providing fentanyl, we can't normalize high school kids who go to a party and pop pills and end up getting one laced with too much fentanyl and die, it's their parents fault.
Just because their parents are rich white people - they can still be useless parents who deserve to have their kid die. Nope. Good parents can have bad results, bad parents can have good results. We weep for dead kids. Period.

(Note - while I think the cartels are evil sons of bitches, I don't think we can stop that problem by putting gestapo on the border, I posted a ways back about a drug bust in Lincoln that involved a lot of meth, cocaine, and fentanyl, and it was all white guys. If they can't get it from the cartels, they end up breaking bad and figure out how to synthesize it themselves. I don't know how we get kids back on bud light and an occasional doobie, but stopping the availability of fentanyl is like saying if we all stay home for 3 months and wear masks, we can eradicate COVID).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 10, 2024, 12:20:24 PM
and to this point - you could extend this to say it doesn't matter if the cartels are providing fentanyl, we can't normalize high school kids who go to a party and pop pills and end up getting one laced with too much fentanyl and die, it's their parents fault.
Just because their parents are rich white people - they can still be useless parents who deserve to have their kid die. Nope. Good parents can have bad results, bad parents can have good results. We weep for dead kids. Period.

(Note - while I think the cartels are evil sons of bitches, I don't think we can stop that problem by putting gestapo on the border, I posted a ways back about a drug bust in Lincoln that involved a lot of meth, cocaine, and fentanyl, and it was all white guys. If they can't get it from the cartels, they end up breaking bad and figure out how to synthesize it themselves. I don't know how we get kids back on bud light and an occasional doobie, but stopping the availability of fentanyl is like saying if we all stay home for 3 months and wear masks, we can eradicate COVID).

The dude who got choked out was homeless, crazy and gooped up on goop. His mother was murdered by her boyfriend and stuffed into a suitcase. He was a serial harasser on public transportation. Dad was nowhere to be found until he sniffed a payday.

This is not about whatever strawman you have been talking about.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 10, 2024, 12:30:27 PM
Dad was nowhere to be found until he sniffed a payday.

Good parents can have bad results, bad parents can have good results. We weep for dead kids. Period.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 10, 2024, 01:28:25 PM
Good parents can have bad results, bad parents can have good results. We weep for dead kids. Period.

I'm not weeping for dirtbags
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 10, 2024, 01:31:03 PM
"Every menace to society began as a child who was neglected, violated or mistreated." -- the Post article

Does this explain Trump?

Seriously, what a crock of shit. This asshole thinks fathers can somehow prevent schizophrenia?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 10, 2024, 01:37:10 PM
"Every menace to society began as a child who was neglected, violated or mistreated." -- the Post article

Does this explain Trump?

Seriously, what a crock of shit. This asshole thinks fathers can somehow prevent schizophrenia?

I'm eagerly awaiting a recap of the neglect, violation, and mistreatment of Luigi Mangione
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 10, 2024, 01:37:19 PM
If you believe science and statistics the effect of having a decent father in a kid’s life is pretty profound.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 10, 2024, 02:17:27 PM
What was Elon Musk's father like? I read he fathered children with 2 of Elon's step daughters. Also that Elon's relationship with with his father was strained.

Trump's grandfather was allegedly a pimp and a draft dodger. Trump's dad was no saint either.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 10, 2024, 03:12:59 PM
regardless of how you get to that point, if your kid dies, it would suck

I don't think it's useful to throw shade at a parent grieving their child.

The situation was FUBAR. The dead kid was a mess. The kid who killed him... - the situation could have been handled in a manner that didn't end up in a death. Shit happens. We try to make less of it happen.

Again, I can testify first hand that Marines are trained to kill. They don’t teach you to do “just enough to overcome your enemy combatant” in the battlefield.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 10, 2024, 04:22:38 PM
12 people who heard all of the testimony found him not guilty after the prosecution decided to drop the 1st charge.
Nonetheless, many of the people of New York are now wondering if a good samaritan will come to their aid when they are threatened. And that may include the women in the subway car who thanked Penny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 10, 2024, 05:11:54 PM
Reminds me of a story. About 40 years ago I was in NYC GCS with 2 guys. Now I was not small, 6-2 or 3 in shoes and about 185. The other two guys were bigger. One of them was an Olympic athlete.

We saw a thief using his cane to try and steal a woman's purse. So we approached in an intimidating manner and he had to back off.

The would be thief then approached a cop. He was pointing at us and waving his arms around and yelling.

Cop looks over at us and looks at the thief and shrugs, like whaddya expect me to do? Thief walked away all disgusted. He was doing his job, gets harassed by three tourists, and the cop did nothing.

It was fun getting around on the subway and ferry. Came across a few crazy people talking to nobody. Everyone just ignored them.

NYC reminded me of riding on an airplane and looking out the window.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 10, 2024, 05:16:42 PM
Reminds me of a story. About 40 years ago I was in NYC GCS with 2 guys. Now I was not small, 6-2 or 3 etein shoes and about 185. The other two guys were bigger. One of them was an Olympic athlete.

We saw a thief using his cane to try and steal a woman's purse. So we approached in an intimidating manner and he had to back off.

The would be thief then approached a cop. He was pointing at us and waving his arms around and yelling.

Cop looks over at us and looks at the thief and shrugs, like whaddya expect me to do? Thief walked away all disgusted. He was doing his job, gets harassed by three tourists, and the cop did nothing.

It was fun getting around on the subway and ferry. Came across a few crazy people talking to nobody. Everyone just ignored them.

NYC reminded me of riding on an airplane and looking out the window.

Quote from: V

White privilege at its finest.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 10, 2024, 05:44:19 PM


The thief, the old lady with the purse, the cop, myself, and one of my two friends were white.

There were some black guys dressed in fur coats and pirate hats  using the pay phones.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 10, 2024, 07:28:24 PM


Where was that quote pulled from?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 10, 2024, 07:29:04 PM
The "white privilege at its finest" quote.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 10, 2024, 07:53:14 PM
The "white privilege at its finest" quote.

Inspired by Tempo34.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 10, 2024, 09:25:31 PM
Inspired by Tempo34.

So I never said it. let me get this straight; I get chastised for not punctuating your direct quote correctly, but you get to make comments up whole cloth? Is that how we're operating here?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 11, 2024, 10:47:41 AM
So I never said it. let me get this straight; I get chastised for not punctuating your direct quote correctly, but you get to make comments up whole cloth? Is that how we're operating here?

It is something you thought. So it was inspired by you. Accurately.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 11, 2024, 11:36:59 AM
I thought it was a funny story. Plus, it is a true story. I didn't see any white privilege. I don't think that was even a concept yet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 11, 2024, 12:50:18 PM
I thought it was a funny story. Plus, it is a true story. I didn't see any white privilege. I don't think that was even a concept yet.

Quote from: V

Of course you didn't see any white privilege.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 11, 2024, 02:43:13 PM
It is something you thought. So it was inspired by you. Accurately.

Ohhhh, that’s interesting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 11, 2024, 02:56:21 PM
Ohhhh, that’s interesting.

I know,  right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 11, 2024, 03:59:23 PM

😂😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 11, 2024, 05:17:24 PM
I know,  right?

It’s good to know that we now have the right to attribute quotes to people who never said attributed quote. I’m looking forward to employing that tactic.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 11, 2024, 05:42:04 PM
It’s good to know that we now have the right to attribute quotes to people who never said attributed quote. I’m looking forward to employing that tactic.

You already do
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 12, 2024, 11:57:26 AM
talented athletes and musicians get too much of a platform

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/entertainment/elton-john-legalizing-marijuana-mistake/index.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 13, 2024, 03:12:38 PM
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-tragedy-of-jordan-neely-and-daniel

Custard's Guy DeBoer qouted....

Quote
The Tragedy of Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny
If not for America's prohibition on involuntary commitment, they would probably have never met.
Quote
Neely entered the train at 2nd Avenue loudly complaining of hunger and thirst, throwing down his jacket and shouting that he didn’t care if he went back to jail, even for a life sentence, and that he was “ready to die.” Penny pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, and his attorneys have argued that he was trying only to restrain Neely, not to kill him. (Passengers other than Penny were worried about what Neely, judging from his own words and demeanor, might do).

Quote
On the left, many activist groups and elected figures rejected the verdict out of hand. Some tried to depict Neely as a man pushed to the limit by poverty, and whose difficulties end there—despite the fact that Neely had been picked up two years earlier for breaking a 67-year-old woman’s nose and fracturing her orbital bone as she exited the subway, in exactly the type of random, violent outburst to which the severely mentally ill are sometimes prone. On the right, meanwhile, many have argued that Penny shouldn’t be tried, but celebrated as a hero and even a patriot, with seemingly very little recognition that a man, Neely, is now dead—or even that he, or any others suffering under similar circumstances, were ever deserving of sympathy to begin with.

Quote
Confined in the car with Neely and a bunch of frightened and vulnerable people, Penny can hardly be said to have gone in search of a proving ground that day. The question of whether he misapplied the choke that must have seemed like the least of all bad options was rightly a main focus of the trial.

What shouldn’t be in dispute, however, is that the status quo regarding crime, mental health, and homelessness is intolerable. America needs a real conversation about the decades of failed policy that conspired to put Neely—and Penny—in harm’s way.

Quote
And while the statistical relationship between deinstitutionalization and mass incarceration is unclear, people suffering from severe mental illness are, in fact, more likely to commit violent crimes, and our current revolving-door setup does very little to meaningfully deter people from that path.

Quote
Neely’s too-short life is a case-in-point for whom the current system fails. In and out of jails and hospitals for the past decade, Neely was 14 when his mother was murdered by his stepfather. Her remains were discovered in a suitcase discarded on the shoulder of the Henry Hudson Parkway, and when he was 18, Neely testified in the murder trial. Contemporaneous reports compiled since his discharge from foster care at age 21 depict a man of profoundly wrecked psyche, who suffered from major depression, schizophrenia, PTSD, the destabilizing effects of synthetic cannabinoids, and the associated bodily ravages of severe mental illness and life on the streets.

Released from Rikers Island on a plea deal following his attack on the 67-year-old subway passenger two years ago, Neely was required to complete a 15-month stay in an intensive inpatient treatment center. He walked out after 13 days. Three months after that, he was dead. And his case isn’t unusual: according to one journalist, of the more than 45,000 individuals “engaged” by the NYPD in the subway system in 2022, only 7,700 accepted assistance. Too often, when offered assistance (however dubious), psychiatrically unwell people prefer to go it alone—as the courts have established is their right. As the critic and author Freddie DeBoer has argued, “Our mental health crisis is not merely a crisis of access; it is also a crisis of refusal.”

Quote
Jordan Neely deserved better—as did Daniel Penny, who ought still to be an anonymous student, unfamed and unhated, one among millions who work and study quietly in this city. But no matter whether you support the trial outcome or not, what a broader sense of justice requires of us is to look unflinchingly at the status quo surrounding mental health and homelessness and decide if it’s the best we, as a wealthy, modern country, can do. The answer should be “No.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 13, 2024, 06:35:02 PM
You already do

Haha not very much, I get roasted here if I leave out a comma on one of your quotes. I at least try to stick to things you've said or implied, instead of making things up whole cloth.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 13, 2024, 07:48:54 PM
FDB usually gets it right. When he’s not in the throes of his own bipolar episodes, that is.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 14, 2024, 08:24:31 AM
'Nobody did anything illegal' was the VP candidate's response when asked how the state missed what has been described as the largest fraud case in U.S. history.
Walz was referring to state employees not doing anything illegal in the state's lack of oversight.
We'll add another one from the fishwrap, lol.

(https://i.ibb.co/BP4Sp6L/Screenshot-20241214-075759-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/1nswgXZ)

EIDBI is a state and federal funding program for kids under 21 with autism.
And Walz said the state couldn't stop funding them without a conviction. But it appears as tho the state never tried to convict anyone. They called up the feds instead, and they had to do their investigation.
The number of autism services program centers went from 41 in 2018 to 328 last year.
And our AG ? His name was being tossed around to be the Harris/Walz AG. 👌
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 14, 2024, 09:35:34 AM
Nm
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 17, 2024, 07:35:48 AM
Ooops. 🤡

(https://i.ibb.co/71K0Nmj/Screenshot-20241217-072317-Chrome.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 17, 2024, 09:29:30 AM
Trouble in the 51st state ?

https://x.com/i/status/1868741492552110185
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 18, 2024, 03:03:25 PM
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz conceded that his previous behavior that is at the center of a House Ethics Committee report was “embarrassing, though not criminal.”

In a post on X in response to CNN’s reporting on Wednesday that the committee has voted to release the report, Gaetz emphasized that he was “FULLY EXONERATED” by a separate Department of Justice probe.

And he said he “NEVER had sexual contact with someone under 18” — a claim that is addressed in the House Ethics report, CNN has previously reported.

“My 30’s were an era of working very hard - and playing hard too. It’s embarrassing, though not criminal, that I probably partied, womanized, drank and smoked more than I should have earlier in life. I live a different life now,” he said.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on December 18, 2024, 03:39:38 PM
So the cutoff for "youthful indiscretion" is now 40?

“I was just a kid in my thirties!”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 18, 2024, 03:43:08 PM
So the cutoff for "youthful indiscretion" is now 40?

“I was just a kid in my thirties!”

I'm hoping to push the cutoff into the 60s
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 18, 2024, 04:19:34 PM
I'm hoping to push the cutoff into the 60s

Trump's shooting for 80, so it's possible!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 14, 2025, 02:50:22 PM
Very Silicon Valley - we got a new greek fast food joint on our street, from 11-2 today they had free lunch.

All these highly paid tech engineers waiting in line well over an hour to get a free gyro. I picked up a chicken breast and some rice at the grocery and made a nice lunch instead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 14, 2025, 03:00:01 PM
Very Silicon Valley - we got a new greek fast food joint on our street, from 11-2 today they had free lunch.

All these highly paid tech engineers waiting in line well over an hour to get a free gyro. I picked up a chicken breast and some rice at the grocery and made a nice lunch instead.

Don't all these companies provide free lunches so they work through lunch?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on January 14, 2025, 03:08:29 PM
Don't all these companies provide free lunches so they work through lunch?

And arcade games and pool tables and ping pong and foosball. Of course, if you have time to do that shit, you're not working hard enough.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 14, 2025, 03:11:11 PM
And arcade games and pool tables and ping pong and foosball. Of course, if you have time to do that shit, you're not working hard enough.

Too many lazy Americans "working" out there, obviously.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 14, 2025, 03:19:38 PM
Don't all these companies provide free lunches so they work through lunch?
What is this lunch when at work stuff you're referring to ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 14, 2025, 03:38:47 PM
What is this lunch when at work stuff you're referring to ?

Murph will explain how the H1-Bs they exploit have to do working lunches.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 14, 2025, 05:29:50 PM
And arcade games and pool tables and ping pong and foosball. Of course, if you have time to do that shit, you're not working hard enough.

Shall we compare market cap per employee, you and I?

Or is it just that you work hard and I work smart?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 14, 2025, 06:05:49 PM
Too many lazy Americans "working" out there, obviously.

https://images.app.goo.gl/ZwroqvL2U9Zkvv8A9
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 14, 2025, 06:53:53 PM
https://images.app.goo.gl/ZwroqvL2U9Zkvv8A9

Dilbert?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 14, 2025, 07:32:07 PM
Dilbert?

he's an asshole but like Musk, the product is good
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2025, 07:53:44 AM
he's an asshole but like Musk, the product is good

The Twotter is now a good product?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2025, 08:20:17 AM
From the New Yorker, apparently ......
" Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine, also declined an offer to meet with the alleged victim.”
https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/14/ernst-and-collins-refused-to-meet-hegseths-rape-accuser/

And from the Twotter acct of the distinguished "moderate Republican" Senator from Maine ......
"Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
Contrary to the assertion in the New Yorker article, I never turned down a meeting with Mr. Hegseth’s accuser.
I was never contacted by her or her attorney."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2025, 10:18:18 AM
From the New Yorker, apparently ......
" Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine, also declined an offer to meet with the alleged victim.”
https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/14/ernst-and-collins-refused-to-meet-hegseths-rape-accuser/

And from the Twotter acct of the distinguished "moderate Republican" Senator from Maine ......
"Sen. Susan Collins
@SenatorCollins
Contrary to the assertion in the New Yorker article, I never turned down a meeting with Mr. Hegseth’s accuser.
I was never contacted by her or her attorney."

It is hilarious that people considered the possibility that any of the nominations would be tanked when it came time to actually vote. More hilarious that everyone on the Hill obviously personally hated Matt Gaetz or else he would have been approved as well.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2025, 10:24:27 AM
It is hilarious that people considered the possibility that any of the nominations would be tanked when it came time to actually vote. More hilarious that everyone on the Hill obviously personally hated Matt Gaetz or else he would have been approved as well.
It is hilarious when the Twitter refutes the New Yorker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 15, 2025, 10:40:41 AM
It is hilarious that people considered the possibility that any of the nominations would be tanked when it came time to actually vote. More hilarious that everyone on the Hill obviously personally hated Matt Gaetz or else he would have been approved as well.

Have to agree.  I thought Gabbard was the most vulnerable of the Trump nominations, but she'll get through.  As long as Republicans in Congress remain terrified of the consequences to their careers and their families’ lives if they defy Trump, they won’t push back on anything he wants. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2025, 10:43:47 AM
It is hilarious when the Twitter refutes the New Yorker.

Of course!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2025, 11:59:53 AM
Lots of interesting reading here;

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-short-history-of-threats-received-by-donald-trumps-opponents

Obviously, there are other sides to the story. Still, Trump is very public about denigrating anyone who gets in his way. It appears he might use others to privately threaten their families.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2025, 12:05:08 PM
Quote
Billy Long, Trump’s Nominee to Lead the IRS, Touts a Credential That Tax Experts Say Is Dubious
The former representative from Missouri, who once pushed to abolish the IRS, has marketed himself as a certified tax and business advisor after attending only a three-day seminar.
https://www.propublica.org/article/billy-long-irs-trump-certified-tax-business-advisor-missouri
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2025, 12:16:18 PM
Lots of interesting reading here;

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-short-history-of-threats-received-by-donald-trumps-opponents

Obviously, there are other sides to the story. Still, Trump is very public about denigrating anyone who gets in his way. It appears he might use others to privately threaten their families.
The other side ......

(https://i.ibb.co/hVSWTrs/ap24195813259181.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Rcq0Jt2)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2025, 12:23:10 PM
The other side ......

(https://i.ibb.co/hVSWTrs/ap24195813259181.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Rcq0Jt2)

Inside job as we all know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2025, 12:25:33 PM
New Yorker sticking to their story

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-pressure-campaign-to-get-pete-hegseth-confirmed-as-defense-secretary
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 15, 2025, 12:32:56 PM
The Twotter is now a good product?

Touche. I was talking about the cars and the spaceships
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2025, 12:49:24 PM
New Yorker sticking to their story

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-pressure-campaign-to-get-pete-hegseth-confirmed-as-defense-secretary
Uhh, no. Susan Collins responded to that New Yorker story.

(https://i.ibb.co/44PPz2m/Screenshot-20250115-124813-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/bNzzTFW)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2025, 01:09:57 PM
I'm thinking The New Yorker is saying that is a "fake denial."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 15, 2025, 01:14:29 PM

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/15/how-right-wingers-rushed-to-dei-hire-pete-hegseth/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 15, 2025, 01:55:32 PM
I'm thinking The New Yorker is saying that is a "fake denial."
What Collins has said ....
An intermediary contacted her.
They were told she would think about a meeting with the accuser or her lawyer.
They were told the lawyer or the accuser should contact the committee doing the confirmation hearing. Collins is not a member of the Armed Services Committee.
Collins says she never heard back.

'I'll think about it' and the suggestion to contact the confirmation hearing committee instead and not hearing back from the intermediary, the accuser or her lawyer doesn't come across as a declination.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 15, 2025, 02:08:33 PM
It's pretty sad the Senate is going to confirm Hegseth.

The GOP controls the presidency, so one would presume a pretty hawkish Sec Def, maybe some random pushback on various cultural initiatives. Might not be what I would prefer "exactly", but frankly Sec Def isn't exactly an office mostly shaped by what we consider partisan theory, like say maybe Transportation.

Transportation in a GOP administration might prioritize more money for highways, reduce subsidy for electric cars (modulo vice president Musk), and less for bike/ped projects, subways, prefer freight rail to passenger, etc... There is a reasonably clear differentiation in priority.

Sec Def is pretty straightforward. You want someone who has been a high level manager in the Defense Dept or a civilian Defense contractor, who has experience running a monster size organization.

Hegseth is a lightweight.

Kaine had a pretty good line of questioning, regarding the assault allegations in Monterey. Hegseth kept going back to "never charged"/etc... but he did do a settlement and he said it was a "shakedown". Kaine said "so you were blackmailed" and Hegseth tried to wobble away from it. The Secretary of Defense should not be someone who puts themselves into a position to have a "shake down" happen.

I'm even less concerned about RFK. If he starts a program to eliminate measles vaccines requirements for public school, that's bad policy in my opinion, but Trump won the election so they get to pick the policies. I don't like the pick but I'm hard pressed to just say he's flat out incompetent.

Sec Def is not a policy position. It's an experience position. Bad pick.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 15, 2025, 02:13:38 PM
What Collins has said ....
An intermediary contacted her.
They were told she would think about a meeting with the accuser or her lawyer.
They were told the lawyer or the accuser should contact the committee doing the confirmation hearing. Collins is not a member of the Armed Services Committee.
Collins says she never heard back.

'I'll think about it' and the suggestion to contact the confirmation hearing committee instead and not hearing back from the intermediary, the accuser or her lawyer doesn't come across as a declination.

Meh. She always talks tough at the start before falling into line. We have seen this act time after time. It is what it is.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on January 15, 2025, 06:54:09 PM
Meh. She always talks tough at the start before falling into line. We have seen this act time after time. It is what it is.

... concerning.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 16, 2025, 09:24:41 AM
The one fucking day I have to show up in person to a federal court hearing and it is a citizenship swearing in day and security is backed up for miles....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 16, 2025, 09:28:29 AM
The one fucking day I have to show up in person to a federal court hearing and it is a citizenship swearing in day and security is backed up for miles....
What did you get charged with ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 16, 2025, 10:10:15 AM
What did you get charged with ?

Being an American citizen.....

Apparently they can follow the rules to gain citizenship but not those for getting through security.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 16, 2025, 10:19:02 AM
Being an American citizen.....

Apparently they can follow the rules to gain citizenship but not those for getting through security.
Good luck, especially if you're there for a client.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 13, 2025, 12:14:15 PM
I know Mn posted some review of the halftime show, but if there was any evidence needed that I have left the Zeitgeist, I watched 5-6 videos about the show, and a Josh Johnson video "explaining the Kendrick vs Drake beef for White People" and...

I still don't get it. Like - my understanding has gone up zero percent.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on February 13, 2025, 12:20:46 PM
I know Mn posted some review of the halftime show, but if there was any evidence needed that I have left the Zeitgeist, I watched 5-6 videos about the show, and a Josh Johnson video "explaining the Kendrick vs Drake beef for White People" and...

I still don't get it. Like - my understanding has gone up zero percent.

who cares its extremely unimportant anyway
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 13, 2025, 12:40:54 PM
who cares its extremely unimportant anyway

But I saw white women on social media telling people how it was the best artistic moment ever and we don’t have a right to criticize it
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 13, 2025, 12:46:37 PM
But I saw white women on social media telling people how it was the best artistic moment ever and we don’t have a right to criticize it

I'm not talking about the super bowl show. I just don't get the concept of a "diss track", or why 2 extremely wealthy men are writing songs dissing each other. Then again John wrote "How do you Sleep"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 13, 2025, 12:47:15 PM
who cares its extremely unimportant anyway

So is Illini basketball. All we are is dust in the wind.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 13, 2025, 01:38:37 PM
But I saw white women on social media telling people how it was the best artistic moment ever and we don’t have a right to criticize it

Sounds like the NFL and Fox got what they wanted: people who don't care about football watching and people still talking about this. They already have us sucked in. Genius on their part!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 13, 2025, 09:30:35 PM
Sounds like the NFL and Fox got what they wanted: people who don't care about football watching and people still talking about this. They already have us sucked in. Genius on their part!

I haven’t thought about it at all other than when people keep bringing it up. If the game had been worth a fuck people wouldn’t even be talking about it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 13, 2025, 09:45:36 PM
The same party that doubled the IRS is now suing to stop Americans from seeing our government’s accounting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 13, 2025, 10:49:02 PM
The same party that doubled the IRS is now suing to stop Americans from seeing our government’s accounting.

 The same party that lied about the IRS is lying about USAID.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 23, 2025, 07:40:42 PM
https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1893836241306841284?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 23, 2025, 08:10:50 PM
https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1893836241306841284?s=46

A lot of antiscience, antvax, antisocial, agitprop out there.

If I had a job that mandated immunizations; I would get them..

My wife and I got all our shots voluntarily. Covid, flu, pneumonia, RSV.  Both over 70. Never had a bad reaction.

We seldom catch a cold.

I have been sicker this week than I've been for years. Earache, sore throat, nasty cough, body aches, fatigue, chills, sweating, low grade  to no fever. I will feel better one day, then crappy the next.

Should I blame the shots I got last fall?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 28, 2025, 12:16:49 PM
How the fuck does a young woman who works for the Government and whose single issue they are thinking about is their access to IVF, weigh all this and end up voting for Trump?

We're fucked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77WjtNoCta4
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 06, 2025, 09:22:09 AM
Who ya got ?

https://x.com/i/status/1897621162693161442
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on March 06, 2025, 03:47:23 PM
AOC with the shiv in her boot.  No contest!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 06, 2025, 03:57:34 PM
What a bunch of clowns.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 06, 2025, 04:20:18 PM
AOC with the shiv in her boot.  No contest!
What a bunch of clowns.
Fortunately we have a Clown World thread.
If AOC puts the boot in her mouth, I'd give her a fighter's chance vs the clown from Nevada.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 06, 2025, 05:14:09 PM
Fortunately we have a Clown World thread.
If AOC puts the boot in her mouth, I'd give her a fighter's chance vs the clown from Nevada.

face it, you aren't looking at her boot, you're looking at her booty. Unless you're one of them transtesticles. Maybe you are.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 11, 2025, 10:16:47 PM
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5325306/trump-elon-musk-tesla
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 14, 2025, 04:07:00 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/5XN67YbH/IMG-9459.jpg) (https://ibb.co/WNb6TDmJ)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 14, 2025, 04:44:58 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/5XN67YbH/IMG-9459.jpg) (https://ibb.co/WNb6TDmJ)

This meme would go better if RFK Jr didn't look like Lestat with Sunburn
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 15, 2025, 11:35:48 AM
Clearly poor water management. Maybe Trump will open their dams

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-fires-fire-evacuation-stillwater-leedy/64194180
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 15, 2025, 08:41:25 PM
Clearly poor water management. Maybe Trump will open their dams

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-fires-fire-evacuation-stillwater-leedy/64194180

wildfires  are perfectly normal

nothing to see here
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 15, 2025, 09:17:40 PM
Trump and Elmo are draining the swamp. A low level Customs and Borders director has been charged with stealing 2 months rent from FEMA and lying about it to the FBI.

The Director was approved for assistance to repair water damage to her basement. She also indicated her home was uninhabited and was granted 2 months money for rent and utility assistance. Evidence gathered by the FBI indicates she and husband still lived in the home. Bank records indicate the money was not used for rent. When interviewed by the FBI, she denied any wrongdoing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 15, 2025, 09:36:16 PM
wildfires  are perfectly normal

nothing to see here

I haven’t driven across Oklahoma in close to 20 years, but I do remember thinking it was weird seeing the road signs that said “Do Not Drive Into Smoke”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 15, 2025, 09:55:44 PM
Trump and Elmo are draining the swamp. A low level Customs and Borders director has been charged with stealing 2 months rent from FEMA and lying about it to the FBI.

The Director was approved for assistance to repair water damage to her basement. She also indicated her home was uninhabited and was granted 2 months money for rent and utility assistance. Evidence gathered by the FBI indicates she and husband still lived in the home. Bank records indicate the money was not used for rent. When interviewed by the FBI, she denied any wrongdoing.

Uh, what's wrong with this?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 15, 2025, 10:34:28 PM
Uh, what's wrong with this?


It's being hyped on the right as rooting out deep state corruption. I first came across this story in blog that bragged about how Trump is ignoring lower court orders.

From the NYT

"FEMA approved funds for the repairs as well as two months of rental assistance, specifying the money was to be used for rent and essential utility costs while she was in temporary housing, according to the criminal complaint. The complaint said she received about $6,300 from the agency."

It doesn't say how much of that was for repairs and how much was for rent.

I am glad they are focusing efforts on 55 year old black women in low level manageable positions receiving questionable chump change.

"Ms. Baker-Hill, 55, is a career customs employee and the director of an agency center focused on the automotive and aerospace industries."

The FBI was apparently looking at other things when they became suspicious of Baker-Hill.

Perhaps her agency was investigating automotive and aerospace contracts?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 16, 2025, 08:01:49 AM
A director of a governmental agency had to actually apply for the funds, from another governmental agency, before the funds could be approved.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 16, 2025, 08:35:23 AM
Yeah, don't see the issue with this one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 16, 2025, 08:43:19 AM
I don't know how much of the whopping  6300 was for rent, but it will take a lot of those to balance the budget. I am guessing the cost of the investigation exceeds that.

At this point, they haven't decided whether to even seek an indictment, or if so, if it would be a felony or a misdemeanor. They did put on her on unpaid administrative leave.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 16, 2025, 09:08:31 AM
I don't know how much of the whopping  6300 was for rent, but it will take a lot of those to balance the budget. I am guessing the cost of the investigation exceeds that.

At this point, they haven't decided whether to even seek an indictment, or if so, if it would be a felony or a misdemeanor. They did put on her on unpaid administrative leave.

Lock the bitch up or deport her to Gaza. Fucking thief.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 16, 2025, 09:54:13 AM
I don't know how much of the whopping  6300 was for rent, but it will take a lot of those to balance the budget. I am guessing the cost of the investigation exceeds that.

At this point, they haven't decided whether to even seek an indictment, or if so, if it would be a felony or a misdemeanor. They did put on her on unpaid administrative leave.   
$1 of a fraudulent application by a director of a governmental agency is too much
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 16, 2025, 10:06:58 AM
Guessing Ray also supports the $900 or less “it’s not a crime” theft laws they’ve implemented on the Murph coast.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 16, 2025, 10:10:51 AM
Guessing Ray also supports the $900 or less “it’s not a crime” theft laws they’ve implemented on the Murph coast.
Apples and tomatoes. One was considered legal, the other isn't.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 16, 2025, 10:24:14 AM
Obama was also anti-immigrant, apparently

https://x.com/kathleenwinche3/status/1899981171385127408?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 16, 2025, 10:40:23 AM
I thought it was innocent until proven guilty. Or in Trump's case, innocent even after proven guilty. This woman hasn't even been indicted, and they're parading with her head on a spike.

The thing is,  Elon has been boasting about uncovering billions in fraud, and this is all they have? Where are the indictments for big $$$ fraud?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 16, 2025, 11:02:53 AM
Obama was also anti-immigrant, apparently

https://x.com/kathleenwinche3/status/1899981171385127408?s=46

after all these years, still, nobody is cracking down on employers who illegally hire undocumented workers. It's like the way a lot things work; nod nod, wink wink.

Not that I agree with Obama, or Trump, or Biden. I would start by decriminalizing simple unlawful entry. Make it equal to a parking ticket. Then set something up so x number of migrants can work here legally with some form of a tax ID. Determine the number by assessing the need.

I sort of agree with Trump on taking an aggressive approach against the gangs and Cartels.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 16, 2025, 03:02:32 PM
Those vegetable farmers you were talking about in eastern K3 county hire a lot of a season migrant labor. One of the farmers once showed me the social security information one of the migrants had given him when he started working there. The number on it was 123-45-6789.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 16, 2025, 03:44:23 PM
I have heard gossip that some of the factories have poor attendance on certain days. Then ICE coincidentally shows up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 16, 2025, 06:52:34 PM
Trump and Elmo are draining the swamp. A low level Customs and Borders director has been charged with stealing 2 months rent from FEMA and lying about it to the FBI.

The Director was approved for assistance to repair water damage to her basement. She also indicated her home was uninhabited and was granted 2 months money for rent and utility assistance. Evidence gathered by the FBI indicates she and husband still lived in the home. Bank records indicate the money was not used for rent. When interviewed by the FBI, she denied any wrongdoing.

actual fraud waste and abuse. This shit does happen.

Who figured it out? Elon - or the FBI, which we are going to dismantle?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 16, 2025, 06:55:42 PM
Guessing Ray also supports the $900 or less “it’s not a crime” theft laws they’ve implemented on the Murph coast.

You support defunding the people who uncovered this shit. Like firing people at the IRS in charge of catching tax cheats.

If you think taxation is theft, don't fire the IRS. Have congress eliminate the income tax. But you see, the GOP isn't against the income tax, they are against being taxed personally. So it's better to keep the income tax, tax the suckers, then cheat on the taxes and fire the IRS agents.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 16, 2025, 07:03:32 PM
Those vegetable farmers you were talking about in eastern K3 county hire a lot of a season migrant labor. One of the farmers once showed me the social security information one of the migrants had given him when he started working there. The number on it was 123-45-6789.

Your story always goes "he didn't know" or "there was nothing he could do about it". Bullshit.

I have a gardener who was born in Mexico, who takes care of a lot of our yard as a side hustle. No - I didn't vet his SSN.

What I did do, was rely on the vetting of Ferrari-Carano vineyards, where he has worked for 20 years. Ferrari-Carano is owned by Bill Foley (owner of the Vegas Knights), who has donated massive amounts to Trump. Surely Bill Foley would not be in violation of the law?

Winery was previously owned by Gary Carano, uncle of Gina Carano, noted wingnut. But at least Gary Carano took care of his workers. Foley sounds like a major dick. Been great for me as my guy has more availability and needs to hustle more because Foley cut his overtime, and Carano also owned a bunch of local housing stock that he let his workers use for free as in kind compensation, Foley started charging them rent.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 16, 2025, 07:05:04 PM
I have heard gossip that some of the factories have poor attendance on certain days. Then ICE coincidentally shows up.

but what would the guy with SSN 123-456-7890 have to worry about? If Custard thinks those farmers don't know the workers are illegal, I have a bridge to sell him. It's painted International Orange - very Illini
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 16, 2025, 10:38:04 PM
Your takeaway was that the farmer didn’t know the employee’s social security info was bogus? He showed it to me specifically because he knew it was BS and thought it was funny.

You guys say that they need to crack down on employers, but if they need labor, these illegals can provide it for the right price, and they are able to meet documentation requirements, what employer is going to blow the whistle on themselves? The government clearly doesn’t care, why should they?

As always with you guys, the people that are here illegally using falsified documents to get jobs are the good guys. Local people trying to run a family business and meet regulation requirements are the bad guys.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 16, 2025, 11:27:06 PM
Your takeaway was that the farmer didn’t know the employee’s social security info was bogus? He showed it to me specifically because he knew it was BS and thought it was funny.

You guys say that they need to crack down on employers, but if they need labor, these illegals can provide it for the right price, and they are able to meet documentation requirements, what employer is going to blow the whistle on themselves? The government clearly doesn’t care, why should they?

As always with you guys, the people that are here illegally using falsified documents to get jobs are the good guys. Local people trying to run a family business and meet regulation requirements are the bad guys.

If the people here illegally are the bad guys, why isn't your buddy the farmer calling ICE?

More to the point, why didn't YOU call ICE on them?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 16, 2025, 11:29:20 PM
but what would the guy with SSN 123-456-7890 have to worry about? If Custard thinks those farmers don't know the workers are illegal, I have a bridge to sell him. It's painted International Orange - very Illini

nod nod, wink wink. Like calling hush money / nda payments legal expenses. Or tax free perks. Or paying student athletes back before it was legal. Or dare I say fudging  fema apps?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2025, 01:06:29 AM
If the people here illegally are the bad guys, why isn't your buddy the farmer calling ICE?

More to the point, why didn't YOU call ICE on them?

I don’t think everyone that comes across illegally is a bad person. I suspect the vast majority of the ones that come here for work are good people, and it’s good for us to have their labor. Have never really been concerned about it in the past.

I do think what’s happened the last several years has been a complete debacle, and a lot of bad people have come across that shouldn’t be here. Glad we are at least making an attempt to send that faction back and bust up the cartels.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 17, 2025, 07:33:21 AM
If Trump wants to pivot away from Stephen Miller's nonsense and focus on criminal gangs; I can support that to an extent.

The biggest problem with the right wing is they think they can get rid of demand by disrupting the supply.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2025, 07:48:34 AM
If Trump wants to pivot away from Stephen Miller's nonsense and focus on criminal gangs; I can support that to an extent.

The biggest problem with the right wing is they think they can get rid of demand by disrupting the supply.

I haven’t seen them flying planes full of maids and dry wallers and roofers back, have you? Seems to have been pretty laser focused on the worst elements that have entered the country, which is something I think we would all support. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Disrupting supply has been the strategy by both sides for pretty much forever until the torrent that flowed across the past several years. Not just on border crossings, but drugs, etc. Obviously with mixed results, but I don’t think an open border with no ramifications for entering is the answer either, just like it wasn’t the answer for Portland to legalize hard drugs.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 17, 2025, 07:53:36 AM
Nichi falling for the trap of arguing on behalf of alleged gang members....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 17, 2025, 08:11:10 AM
Nichi falling for the trap of arguing on behalf of alleged gang members....

I just said the exact opposite.   

Trump ran on Stephen Miller's idiotic plan to deport everyone here illegally, including farm workers, etc..

If Trump wants to pivot to going after gangs, I tend to support that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 17, 2025, 08:19:58 AM
I don't think the libertarian approach of just legalizing vices is the answer. I am not even that big fan of legalized gambling.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 17, 2025, 08:27:54 AM
Nichi falling for the trap of arguing on behalf of alleged gang members....

I understand where you are going. Trump is using some obscured wartime law to deport gang members without due process. He ignored court orders to stop it.

Anyone who says he should not violate due process rights and should obey court orders is accused of arguing on behalf of gang members.

I have no sympathy for the gang members. I would stil be cautious about this kind of reasoning.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 17, 2025, 10:06:12 AM
I understand where you are going. Trump is using some obscured wartime law to deport gang members without due process. He ignored court orders to stop it.

Anyone who says he should not violate due process rights and should obey court orders is accused of arguing on behalf of gang members.

I have no sympathy for the gang members. I would stil be cautious about this kind of reasoning.

Bad facts make bad law. It is coming in this instance.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 17, 2025, 10:27:49 AM
Only a judge, not the President, should decide if US designated foreign terrorists are allowed to stay in the country, or be returned from international airspace to the country.
It's especially fitting that the judge be the FISA Court judge who gave probation to the FBI lawyer who misled the FISA Court in the Carter Page FISA application.
It's especially fitting that the judge be the judge who authorized 2017 subpoenas on 2 Congressmen, Jason Foster and the current FBI Director, Kash Patel in Russiagate.
Foster is still trying to unseal the subpoenas.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 17, 2025, 12:07:15 PM
I haven’t seen them flying planes full of maids and dry wallers and roofers back, have you? Seems to have been pretty laser focused on the worst elements that have entered the country, which is something I think we would all support. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Disrupting supply has been the strategy by both sides for pretty much forever until the torrent that flowed across the past several years. Not just on border crossings, but drugs, etc. Obviously with mixed results, but I don’t think an open border with no ramifications for entering is the answer either, just like it wasn’t the answer for Portland to legalize hard drugs.

The GOP wasn't particularly concerned about disrupting the supply Richard Sackler was providing
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 17, 2025, 01:08:10 PM
That Judge and lawyers who oppose Trump should clearly be charged with treason.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2025, 01:52:17 PM
That Judge and lawyers who oppose Trump should clearly be charged with treason.

Obviously not, but it was a pointless, stupid stunt to appease who, exactly?

Deporting gang members here illegally is wildly popular, even if an obscure policy was used and mid-air court orders were ignored. Perhaps especially so, after being told for year there was nothing Joe could do.

Only the most deranged of the TDS crowd could oppose it, and only on the grounds of “due process” and “obeying court orders.” It’s the wrong battle for Democrats to fight right now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 17, 2025, 02:13:28 PM
Why does Trump need to involve the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport gang members here illegally?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2025, 03:42:44 PM
Why does Trump need to involve the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport gang members here illegally?

He’s said for months he planned to use it to get these assholes out of here without having it tied up in the bureaucracy and racking up expenses indefinitely. I don’t see the problem.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 17, 2025, 03:58:21 PM
He’s said for months he planned to use it to get these assholes out of here without having it tied up in the bureaucracy and racking up expenses indefinitely. I don’t see the problem.

He could simply use expedited removal. Why is it important for him to exercise war powers? You don't find that significant?

Summary Proceedings Involving Deportation WIthout a Legal Hearing

"Many foreign nationals are removed from the U.S. through various types of summary proceedings, without any involvement by a judge. Perhaps the most common type of summary proceeding is expedited removal. This discussion focuses on the other two main types of summary proceedings, which are known as reinstatement of removal and administrative removal. A foreign national may be subject to removal without a hearing before a judge in a few other rare cases that are not covered here."
https://www.justia.com/immigration/deportation-removal/deportation-without-a-hearing/#:~:text=Many%20foreign%20nationals%20are%20removed,summary%20proceeding%20is%20expedited%20removal.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2025, 04:33:53 PM
He could simply use expedited removal. Why is it important for him to exercise war powers? You don't find that significant?

Summary Proceedings Involving Deportation WIthout a Legal Hearing

"Many foreign nationals are removed from the U.S. through various types of summary proceedings, without any involvement by a judge. Perhaps the most common type of summary proceeding is expedited removal. This discussion focuses on the other two main types of summary proceedings, which are known as reinstatement of removal and administrative removal. A foreign national may be subject to removal without a hearing before a judge in a few other rare cases that are not covered here."
https://www.justia.com/immigration/deportation-removal/deportation-without-a-hearing/#:~:text=Many%20foreign%20nationals%20are%20removed,summary%20proceeding%20is%20expedited%20removal.

Not really, but I am also not spending time parsing every detail of what Trump does trying to find reason to get mad or offended. To me it appears that the EO declaring these violent/gang illegals as essentially invaders then invoking the war powers grants more sweeping authority and fewer potential roadblocks to executing the roundups.

Will I be upset if he uses this to round up maids and roofers who aren’t causing any problems? Yes. But maybe we should let it play out a little before we play the “it’s a constitutional crisis” card. These people never should have been here to begin with, and I really don’t give a shit what strings the the admin has to pull to get them out of here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 17, 2025, 04:38:01 PM
Not really, but I am also not spending time parsing every detail of what Trump does trying to find reason

Good. There is no reason to what he does.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 17, 2025, 07:07:11 PM
Why does Trump need to involve the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport gang members here illegally?

More red meat for the MAGAs.  Apparently using current law is not giving Trump the flashy visuals of mass deportations he was expecting.  Trump’s initial immigration actions have been largely underwhelming in terms of the number of deportations he continually claimed would happen during the campaign.

They just sent all of the migrants that were being held at Guantanamo (which was only about 40 people) back to the US because Trump's DOJ was going to have to appear in court in the next week or so to face a lawsuit over the detentions because only a few of the migrants being detained remotely fit the description that Trump claimed (“dangerous criminals”). 

It's true that nobody is losing sleep over gang members being deported, but Trump sold a false narrative that he can't deliver on and is now desperately casting about for ways he can use to convince his cult that the false narrative might still be true.  Sadly, the way he's going to do that is treat migrants who have not committed a crime and have no criminal record like violent criminals.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 17, 2025, 09:31:15 PM
It's true that nobody is losing sleep over gang members being deported, but Trump sold a false narrative that he can't deliver on and is now desperately casting about for ways he can use to convince his cult that the false narrative might still be true.  Sadly, the way he's going to do that is treat migrants who have not committed a crime and have no criminal record like violent criminals.

While I am sure you desperately want this to be true, I don’t think it makes much sense. As he does, he bloviated about mass deportations beyond just criminal elements, but also hinted at primarily focusing on criminals. That’s what they’ve done to this point, and the base aka “cult” seems to be ecstatic about it. Don’t think he needs to go after regular folks just to appease the relatively small radical element that wants them all gone at the risk of alienating a bunch of the others that wanted exactly what we’ve been getting.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 10:46:25 AM
While I am sure you desperately want this to be true, I don’t think it makes much sense. As he does, he bloviated about mass deportations beyond just criminal elements, but also hinted at primarily focusing on criminals. That’s what they’ve done to this point, and the base aka “cult” seems to be ecstatic about it. Don’t think he needs to go after regular folks just to appease the relatively small radical element that wants them all gone at the risk of alienating a bunch of the others that wanted exactly what we’ve been getting.

Trump ad on TV just now.

"We are sending a clear message. If you are here illegally, we will find you, and we will deport you."

Doesn't seem very ambiguous.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 18, 2025, 11:49:28 AM
Trump ad on TV just now.

"We are sending a clear message. If you are here illegally, we will find you, and we will deport you."

Doesn't seem very ambiguous.

The Trump gang knew they couldn't remove “11 million people”.  They have nowhere near the ICE staff or facilities. So the plan was to launch a huge, loud, PR blitz with lots of tough talk and video of planes taking a few dozen people away so they could throw red meat to the MAGA base and fool them into thinking lots was being done. 

Trump spent his first weeks in office emphasizing a mass deportation campaign aimed at criminals who are in the country illegally.  That’s fine, but it looks like Trump isn't content with targeting undocumented immigrants.  His administration is now testing its power to deport any non-citizen it feels like without just cause or due process.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/18/trump-deportation-plans-concerns-00234545
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 18, 2025, 11:52:37 AM
And yet the number of people trying to get in has dropped precipitously and Progressives and Nichi are stuck defending gang bangers and Hezbollah members....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 12:06:09 PM
The low key most amusing part is Riley Gaines, of "I lost to a man in my swim race" fame - rallying behind Trump because transgender and her husband who is a british citizen being deported
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 12:11:08 PM
The low key most amusing part is Riley Gaines, of "I lost to a man in my swim race" fame - rallying behind Trump because transgender and her husband who is a british citizen being deported

Which - is pretty amusing - she finished tied for 5th in her only event at NCAAs. Had Thomas never entered the NCAAs, nobody would have ever heard of Riley Gaines and she'd be muddling along in dental school. Maybe. Thomas made her entire "career"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on March 18, 2025, 12:16:37 PM
And yet the number of people trying to get in has dropped precipitously and Progressives and Nichi are stuck defending gang bangers and Hezbollah members....

Border crossings have been steadily declining for a while now, a trend that started under Biden’s term.  Trump deserves credit too with the “tough talk”. 

Now what to do with those here is a completely different matter.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 12:21:52 PM
And yet the number of people trying to get in has dropped precipitously and Progressives and Nichi are stuck defending gang bangers and Hezbollah members....

Murph chiming in to victim blame women who lost to men at women’s sports.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 12:31:38 PM
Murph chiming in to victim blame women who lost to men at women’s sports.

She's a victim of Trump, and I'm blaming her for making herself the victim? Is that your implication? So something bad happened to her, because of Trump?

She didn't like Thomas' inclusion in the race. Enough examples exist in this space, that it's pretty much baked in that there will be changes going forwards. But Trump was promising to deal with her top issue pronto - an issue that will resolve regardless of Trump's election - so she voted for him despite Trump being so bad for her on other issues that were previously fine, which Trump has now fucked up.

According to you... because if she's a "Victim" - who is she a victim of, if not Trump?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 12:57:56 PM
She's a victim of Trump, and I'm blaming her for making herself the victim? Is that your implication? So something bad happened to her, because of Trump?

She didn't like Thomas' inclusion in the race. Enough examples exist in this space, that it's pretty much baked in that there will be changes going forwards. But Trump was promising to deal with her top issue pronto - an issue that will resolve regardless of Trump's election - so she voted for him despite Trump being so bad for her on other issues that were previously fine, which Trump has now fucked up.

According to you... because if she's a "Victim" - who is she a victim of, if not Trump?

Fake news. He couldn’t get a green card because as a healthy young man he refused the Covid vaccine. Back in late January Trump removed the only obstacle he had to getting it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 01:09:20 PM
Fake news. He couldn’t get a green card because as a healthy young man he refused the Covid vaccine. Back in late January Trump removed the only obstacle he had to getting it.

Say you don't know how hard it is to get a green card without saying it.

I have a co-worker who has had to renew his visa 7 times - 14 years, while awaiting a green card. He's a manager at Nvidia. Gaines husband is a college student and swimmer, now he's trying to run a swimming pools construction company without much success.

Occam's razor - the vaccine thing was probably a non-issue but she can use her notoriety to get someone without any real qualifications to jump the line. Kudos to her.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 01:21:24 PM
Has he been married to a US citizen for three years and do his papers say the only thing he needed to finalize the green card was to get vaccinated?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 01:48:53 PM
Top story on Fox, NPR, NBC is ceasefire agreement in Ukraine. On CNN, it’s way down the list, after Judge Roberts rebuking Trump, Trump’s chilling use of executive power, Trump’s use of Kennedy Center, and a Russian political theorist talking about Trump. Over on MSNBC the ceasefire isn’t even mentioned as they are running with a headline about the silver lining of democrat’s current unpopularity and the same exact Judge Roberts headline as 1-2, followed by about a dozen other anti-Trump grievances. Mother Jones hasn’t heard about the cease fire yet either, their major headline is the constitutional crisis that is shipping fuckheads out of our country. What’s happening on the BlueSkyy?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 18, 2025, 01:53:14 PM
The low key most amusing part is Riley Gaines, of "I lost to a man in my swim race" fame - rallying behind Trump because transgender and her husband who is a british citizen being deported

She did not lose I thought. I thought she tied him/her and they would not let Gaines on the medal stand, preferring him/her to be up there when they tied for third.

If that is the case, I can understand why she is so pissed off. That was stupid on the NCAA's part and completely backfired.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 18, 2025, 01:56:39 PM
She did not lose I thought. I thought she tied him/her and they would not let Gaines on the medal stand, preferring him/her to be up there when they tied for third.

If that is the case, I can understand why she is so pissed off. That was stupid on the NCAA's part and completely backfired.

I was a little bit off:

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/riley-gaines-i-left-there-with-no-trophy-after-tie-with-lia-thomas-kentucky-standout-disappointed-with-ncaa/

After that race, Thomas and Gaines shared the fifth-place podium, but Gaines said that Thomas was given the only fifth-place trophy for the event. Gaines told The Daily Wire that an NCAA representative told her, “Hey, I just want to let you know, we only have one fifth place trophy, so yours will be coming in the mail. We went ahead and gave the fifth place trophy to Lia, but you can pose on the podium with the sixth place trophy.”

NCAA assholes sucking Thomas' cock...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 18, 2025, 01:58:04 PM
Murph chiming in to victim blame women who lost to men at women’s sports.

They passed Title IX just so people with dicks can swim with chicks
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 18, 2025, 02:00:11 PM
Top story on Fox, NPR, NBC is ceasefire agreement in Ukraine. On CNN, it’s way down the list, after Judge Roberts rebuking Trump, Trump’s chilling use of executive power, Trump’s use of Kennedy Center, and a Russian political theorist talking about Trump. Over on MSNBC the ceasefire isn’t even mentioned as they are running with a headline about the silver lining of democrat’s current unpopularity and the same exact Judge Roberts headline as 1-2, followed by about a dozen other anti-Trump grievances. Mother Jones hasn’t heard about the cease fire yet either, their major headline is the constitutional crisis that is shipping fuckheads out of our country. What’s happening on the BlueSkyy?

Huh?

https://nypost.com/2025/03/18/world-news/trump-and-putin-discuss-cease-fire-proposal-with-ukraine-white-house/

Russia rejects full cease-fire, but agrees to stop attacks on energy and ‘infrastructure’ in two-hour Trump call
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 02:06:42 PM
Energy and intrastructure cease fire, you know what I meant. I’ve seen it referred to that which is why I used the term.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 18, 2025, 02:10:11 PM
Energy and intrastructure cease fire, you know what I meant. I’ve seen it referred to that which is why I used the term.

I did not, as I had not seen the news until I saw your post.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 18, 2025, 02:10:58 PM
The Family Custard will be disappointed by this year's SF Pride Parade....

 https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/longtime-sponsors-bail-on-sf-pride-20226582.php
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 02:38:45 PM
The Family Custard will be disappointed by this year's SF Pride Parade....

 https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/longtime-sponsors-bail-on-sf-pride-20226582.php

That’s really disappointing as we had plans to take in wholesome corporate sponsored hedonism right there in Gomorrah itself. 😔
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 02:55:38 PM
Has he been married to a US citizen for three years and do his papers say the only thing he needed to finalize the green card was to get vaccinated?

Being married to a US Citizen doesn't mean you get a green card. I have plenty of co-workers who joke about that, having moved here on H1-B, marrying a US Citizen, and still not having a green card a decade later. So they fly back to Mumbai or Dubai or London for 3 weeks every 2 years to renew their visa.

One laughs that eventually instead of his wife sponsoring him for a green card, his son will when the son turns 18.

She's just making that shit up for click bait for stupid people. And you swallowed the hook.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 02:56:39 PM
Top story on Fox, NPR, NBC is ceasefire agreement in Ukraine. On CNN, it’s way down the list, after Judge Roberts rebuking Trump, Trump’s chilling use of executive power, Trump’s use of Kennedy Center, and a Russian political theorist talking about Trump. Over on MSNBC the ceasefire isn’t even mentioned as they are running with a headline about the silver lining of democrat’s current unpopularity and the same exact Judge Roberts headline as 1-2, followed by about a dozen other anti-Trump grievances. Mother Jones hasn’t heard about the cease fire yet either, their major headline is the constitutional crisis that is shipping fuckheads out of our country. What’s happening on the BlueSkyy?

Well, the figured the ceasefire in Ukraine was fake news like the cease fire in Israel
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 02:59:23 PM
Being married to a US Citizen doesn't mean you get a green card. I have plenty of co-workers who joke about that, having moved here on H1-B, marrying a US Citizen, and still not having a green card a decade later. So they fly back to Mumbai or Dubai or London for 3 weeks every 2 years to renew their visa.

One laughs that eventually instead of his wife sponsoring him for a green card, his son will when the son turns 18.

She's just making that shit up for click bait for stupid people. And you swallowed the hook.

I didn’t know anything about it until you brought it up. 17 seconds of research showed nearly everything you said about the situation was not true. The original story you were citing off the cuff was simple “gotcha” clickbait, just like when you and Robb would post with glee any time someone who questioned the vaccine supposedly died of Covid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 03:09:50 PM
She did not lose I thought. I thought she tied him/her and they would not let Gaines on the medal stand, preferring him/her to be up there when they tied for third.

If that is the case, I can understand why she is so pissed off. That was stupid on the NCAA's part and completely backfired.

They were tied fifth. Almost a second behind 4th. In a 200 free that's an eternity. I mean, it's a pretty solid accomplishment just to make the Division I NCAA cut, let alone qualify for the finals, so to say "she was a shitty swimmer" is being a major asshole. I swam in High School and Riley Gaines would have beat me by an entire pool length at my best. Even if I had modern swim techniques and a race suit, she'd still smoke me.

But at that level, there is a very huge leap between the top couple swimmers and someone who finishes 5th. Like - "Lottery Pick for the NBA" and "played a little semi-pro ball in Estonia". The NCAA's are this week and for most races, the winner is already known barring injury or DQ. Gretchen Walsh won 4 medals at the Olympics, set 9 WR's at short course worlds. She's not gonna get challenged by someone who didn't make the finals of US Trials.

This said, I think we still need to have separate categories for transgender athletes. It's an a priori good to have humans compete in sports, so I don't think we just drop someone off the map. And the category would be so small that it might not be an NCAA division - if you want to swim competitively you can swim Masters. Masters races are already raced mixed gender by seed times, with winners sorted by overall time, so it doesn't cost the meet organizer anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtX33M2nrM
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 03:13:33 PM
I didn’t know anything about it until you brought it up. 17 seconds of research showed nearly everything you said about the situation was not true. The original story you were citing off the cuff was simple “gotcha” clickbait, just like when you and Robb would post with glee any time someone who questioned the vaccine supposedly died of Covid.

She claims he would have his green card if he had been vaccinated. That's at best misleading. If there was a rule holding up his application because of vaccination status, removal of that rule doesn't mean he gets a green card. He's been here 3 years. Means he's probably not even near the front of the line. Even as a white european.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 03:22:43 PM
Just got a photo of my sister and brother in law in Cork.

I'd post it, but while she's enjoying a Guinness, that asshole is drinking a Corona. fucking hoosier.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2025, 07:29:34 PM
Custard's ineptness is really on display here, why isn't he taking his act to the big leagues for $$$?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL3C5K3-RZk
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 09:45:01 PM
Custard's ineptness is really on display here, why isn't he taking his act to the big leagues for $$$?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL3C5K3-RZk

Pshhh, I can’t even get anyone to donate to HQ2.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 11:48:30 PM
She claims he would have his green card if he had been vaccinated. That's at best misleading. If there was a rule holding up his application because of vaccination status, removal of that rule doesn't mean he gets a green card. He's been here 3 years. Means he's probably not even near the front of the line. Even as a white european.

Just means he needs to reapply under the new rules. Get back to me when he actually gets deported.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2025, 11:51:57 PM
Just got a photo of my sister and brother in law in Cork.

I'd post it, but while she's enjoying a Guinness, that asshole is drinking a Corona. fucking hoosier.

On this we can wholeheartedly agree. If you think it is skunked here, just imagine how it tastes after it crosses the Gulf of America and the whole Atlantic. I want to kick his ass on your behalf. I bet I could.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 19, 2025, 12:39:46 PM
On this we can wholeheartedly agree. If you think it is skunked here, just imagine how it tastes after it crosses the Gulf of America and the whole Atlantic. I want to kick his ass on your behalf. I bet I could.

Turns out it was actually my neice. Fucking Boilermaker.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2025, 12:42:27 PM
niece
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 19, 2025, 01:00:01 PM
niece

Not only are you a literal nazi, you're also a spelling nazi. Congrats.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 19, 2025, 01:02:26 PM
I’m actually staying in hotel on the edge of Purdue campus tonight. Probably wander into Harry’s this evening for not a Corona.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 19, 2025, 01:06:14 PM
I’m actually staying in hotel on the edge of Purdue campus tonight. Probably wander into Harry’s this evening for not a Corona.

You really do live the high life with your exotic travel itinerary.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 19, 2025, 01:11:48 PM
You really do live the high life with your exotic travel itinerary.

It’s one of the nicest on-the-corporate-travel-plan hotels in the whole area!

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 19, 2025, 02:04:58 PM
Murph chiming in to victim blame women who lost to men at women’s sports.

Can you name 3 instances this has actually happened?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2025, 02:06:16 PM
I’m actually staying in hotel on the edge of Purdue campus tonight. Probably wander into Harry’s this evening for not a Corona.
Can you find out why a team with 2 1st team players, including the player of the year,  finished 3-6 ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 19, 2025, 02:46:27 PM
Can you find out why a team with 2 1st team players, including the player of the year,  finished 3-6 ?

I’ll ask around.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2025, 03:13:57 PM
I’ll ask around.
I was joking, maybe half-joking, but not a very convincing finish for Purdon't.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 19, 2025, 03:19:03 PM
Thought you were talking about football there for a minute and then I realized Purdue’s not even 3-9 good.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2025, 04:06:31 PM
Thought you were talking about football there for a minute and then I realized Purdue’s not even 3-9 good.
I'm not sure Ryan Walters got a fair shake at PU but I see he's back to being a DC at Washington.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 19, 2025, 04:07:08 PM
Can you name 3 instances this has actually happened?

Caitlyn Jenner was not undefeated in the Decathlon
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 29, 2025, 10:49:10 AM
Not to be outdone by the Minnesota TDS bill, somebody did try to shoot the guy in the head, someone in California has proposed an "act", the sponsor's words, in honor of a coward who "allegedly" shot a guy in the back and then ran away.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 30, 2025, 12:51:53 AM
Not to be outdone by the Minnesota TDS bill, somebody did try to shoot the guy in the head, someone in California has proposed an "act", the sponsor's words, in honor of a coward who "allegedly" shot a guy in the back and then ran away.

Could you be any less specific?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 31, 2025, 09:58:40 AM
My son doesn't like scrambled eggs. Never has.

Somehow, he will eat this product called "Just Eggs" which is some sort of vegan protein fake eggs. Certainly they are trying to make them just like eggs, maybe they aren't doing a very good job if he will eat them and not scrambled eggs (really, this is just some psychological thing with him - we hope he finally just will eat actual eggs because the protein in the eggs is probably better for him).

Why clown thread? We went to Whole Paycheck yesterday - not a single egg in the joint. But they had "Just Eggs". And it's not like people weren't interested, they were pulling out pallets of the shit (hell if I know what they taste like).

Go figure. Thanks Trump.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on April 01, 2025, 03:18:12 PM
https://x.com/theonlydsc/status/1906529215551316075?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 01, 2025, 03:22:34 PM
https://x.com/theonlydsc/status/1906529215551316075?s=46

Lol. Looks busy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 04, 2025, 12:30:20 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/QF3q1xxd/Screenshot-20250404-121528-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/MDxj3JJ6)

(https://i.ibb.co/JwY2FSJD/Screenshot-20250404-121658-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cSWtXsn4)

There was more to the story.
He did go to a job interview earlier that day. He wasn't going to get hired.
He did have a backpack delivery that he made

"A 10-year-old child, stated that she, her father (Chris Louis), and her two siblings had walked to McDonald’s from [an apartment complex]," police said in the report. "She further stated that her father left to deliver a backpack to [the apartment complex] and told her he would return shortly. The child also mentioned that her father frequently left them alone."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/georgia-dad-who-went-viral-after-leaving-his-3-kids-at-mcdonalds-for-a-job-interview-was-doing-something-else-police/ar-AA1CeTIs?ocid=BingNewsSerp#
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on April 04, 2025, 12:32:27 PM
Now he can afford a baby sitter. And a lawyer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 04, 2025, 12:35:41 PM
Now he can afford a baby sitter. And a lawyer.
Good points.
There must be a creative way for you to present this little tidbit of a story during your Diversity CLE sessions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 04, 2025, 12:44:59 PM
https://97x.com/florida-man-lemonade-stand-refill/

There's more to the story. The children were actually adult midgets being used by the woman as a front to sell the lemonade. The lemonade was from McDonalds, which has a free refills policy
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 04, 2025, 12:19:37 PM
Lock him up!

https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/06/03/felony-filed-against-peoria-attorney-accused-trying-vote-twice-april-election/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on June 04, 2025, 12:45:48 PM
Lock him up!

https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/06/03/felony-filed-against-peoria-attorney-accused-trying-vote-twice-april-election/

Oh shit. I wonder if that's PeoriaSteve!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on June 04, 2025, 01:15:44 PM
Oh shit. I wonder if that's PeoriaSteve!

Lock him up and throw away the key then
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 04, 2025, 01:58:22 PM
I think Steve was younger.
Maybe this is him/her ?
https://www.wcbu.org/local-news/2025-03-26/peoria-county-assistant-states-attorney-arrested-for-alleged-possession-of-a-stolen-firearm
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on June 04, 2025, 03:15:38 PM
I think Steve was younger.
Maybe this is him/her ?
https://www.wcbu.org/local-news/2025-03-26/peoria-county-assistant-states-attorney-arrested-for-alleged-possession-of-a-stolen-firearm

Once again Illinois is against this guys 2nd amendment rights
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 05, 2025, 12:00:14 PM
how did we miss this gem?

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/license-plate-reader-camera-data-security-concerns/73-9c570252-9d1c-4e5c-b042-c12392aa1081

Quote

DENVER — Denver will stop using its automatic license plate reader cameras after every city council member voted against a contract extension with Flock.

They voiced concerns about data security and potential immigration enforcement access. Flock camera data is accessible to more than 80 law enforcement agencies, some of which have committed to cooperating with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 05, 2025, 12:28:11 PM
how did we miss this gem?

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/license-plate-reader-camera-data-security-concerns/73-9c570252-9d1c-4e5c-b042-c12392aa1081



They apparently wanted to get their voices heard about license plate readers before the guy who murdered 4 in Moscow, Idaho pled guilty to murdering the 4 and got caught because of a Colorado license plate reader.
smdh

I did laugh a little at this gem of a 'it's ok to call a socialist a democratic socialist because it sounds more better' front page story in today's fishwrap.

(https://i.ibb.co/5XW4R5Vq/Screenshot-20250705-050345-Samsung-Internet.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Gfvp5Vjg)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 05, 2025, 12:47:21 PM
I am not sure what planet some here have been living on. Maybe Mars?  In the United States, the term Democratic Socialism is used interchangeably with Social Democracy. It refers to a mixed economy -- free market capitalism with some central planning / public funding / social insurance.

Democratic Socialism can also mean socialism achieved via democratic elections rather than violent revolution. So the context matters.

It is never used to make socialism sound  better. Rather, Social Democracy staves off socialism by addressing the excesses, inequities, and other shortcomings of free markets.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 05, 2025, 01:25:56 PM
I am not sure what planet some here have been living on. Maybe Mars?  In the United States, the term Democratic Socialism is used interchangeably with Social Democracy. It refers to a mixed economy -- free market capitalism with some central planning / public funding / social insurance.

Democratic Socialism can also mean socialism achieved via democratic elections rather than violent revolution. So the context matters.

It is never used to make socialism sound  better. Rather, Social Democracy staves off socialism by addressing the excesses, inequities, and other shortcomings of free markets.
The Black mayoral candidate has said he supports seizing the means of production.
Not repeating that position during the primary race was a good idea.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 05, 2025, 02:15:59 PM
The Black mayoral candidate has said he supports seizing the means of production.
Not repeating that position during the primary race was a good idea.

I publicly supported Cato style libertarianism at one time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 05, 2025, 02:25:03 PM
I am not sure what planet some here have been living on. Maybe Mars?  In the United States, the term Democratic Socialism is used interchangeably with Social Democracy. It refers to a mixed economy -- free market capitalism with some central planning / public funding / social insurance.

Democratic Socialism can also mean socialism achieved via democratic elections rather than violent revolution. So the context matters.

It is never used to make socialism sound  better. Rather, Social Democracy staves off socialism by addressing the excesses, inequities, and other shortcomings of free markets.

Yes, the Commie Piece of Hamas Supporting Shit running Chicago is a DSA who believes in free markets. What the fuck are you smoking these days, Nichi? In the words of Joe Biden, c'mon man.....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 05, 2025, 02:37:41 PM
Yes, the Commie Piece of Hamas Supporting Shit running Chicago is a DSA who believes in free markets. What the fuck are you smoking these days, Nichi? In the words of Joe Biden, c'mon man.....

Does he support a revolution of the proletariat?

What does having sympathy for Palestinians have to do with planned economies with public ownership or  financing?

"Democratic Socialism can also mean socialism achieved via democratic elections rather than violent revolution. So the context matters."

That in fact is the literal meaning.

'It is never used to make socialism sound  better. ...".

I addressed that comment.

Social Democracy did  stave off communist socialism by addressing the excesses, inequities, and other shortcomings of free markets.

The imprecise use of Democratic Socialism does create confusion. Bernie points to Denmark as an example. Republican assholes point to Venezuela..

It means one or the other. It is not used to make socialism sound better.

Using socialism as a pejorative is a way of making predatory capitalism sound better.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 05, 2025, 02:46:28 PM
The Black mayoral candidate has said he supports seizing the means of production.
Not repeating that position during the primary race was a good idea.

“The black mayoral candidate?” Does he have a name?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 05, 2025, 02:51:02 PM
"Democratic Socialism can also mean socialism achieved via democratic elections rather than violent revolution. So the context matters."

So Democratic Socialism can be a propaganda campaign to achieve socialism down the road.
Thanks for clearing it up.

Mamdani is a member of the State Socialists in Office bloc and has advocated for seizing the means of production.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 05, 2025, 02:51:30 PM
Does he support a revolution of the proletariat?

What does having sympathy for Palestinians have to do with planned economies with public ownership or  financing?

"Democratic Socialism can also mean socialism achieved via democratic elections rather than violent revolution. So the context matters."

That in fact is the literal meaning.

'It is never used to make socialism sound  better. ...".

I addressed that comment.

Social Democracy did  stave off communist socialism by addressing the excesses, inequities, and other shortcomings of free markets.

The imprecise use of Democratic Socialism does create confusion. Bernie points to Denmark as an example. Republican assholes point to Venezuela..

It means one or the other. It is not used to make socialism sound better.

Using socialism as a pejorative is a way of making predatory capitalism sound better.

Nichi, he does not believe in free markets. C'mon man. He's a commie, Hamas supporting, piece of shit who is carrying on the destruction of Chicago started by the Lori Lighthead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 05, 2025, 02:51:35 PM
“The black mayoral candidate?” Does he have a name?
Yes
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 05, 2025, 02:53:52 PM
I publicly supported Cato style libertarianism at one time.

As far as we know, you were never the mayor of a large American city. Though, I trust you more than the current Chicago Clown.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 05, 2025, 03:12:34 PM
"Democratic Socialism can also mean socialism achieved via democratic elections rather than violent revolution. So the context matters."

So Democratic Socialism can be a propaganda campaign to achieve socialism down the road.
Thanks for clearing it up.

Mamdani is a member of the State Socialists in Office bloc and has advocated for seizing the means of production.

It isn't a propaganda campaign to achieve socialism down the road. Literal Democratic Socialists openly want to achieve socialism via elections.

Guys like Bernie conflate Social Democracy with Democratic Socialism.

If Republicans keep going down the roads of White Nationalism, Predatory Monopolism, and Neo-Mercantilism; literal Democratic Socialism will become more popular.

If we are going to have centrally planned economies by corporate monopolies in their private interests; why not instead have government central planning in the public interest?

Try reading an authentic left site like  Democratic Socialists of America, the  Jacobin, or Mother Jones
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 05, 2025, 03:37:58 PM
"Democratic Socialists openly want to achieve socialism"

As I said, thanks for clearing that up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 05, 2025, 03:44:06 PM

If Republicans keep going down the roads of White Nationalism, Predatory Monopolism, and Neo-Mercantilism; literal Democratic Socialism will become more popular.

You sure about that? The last election, and the changes in voting seen in certain "blocks," suggests otherwise.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 05, 2025, 03:54:14 PM
You sure about that? The last election, and the changes in voting seen in certain "blocks," suggests otherwise.
He's spewing democratic socialism propaganda which. I'm told, will achieve
socialism.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 05, 2025, 04:35:46 PM
Yes

What is it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 05, 2025, 04:51:37 PM
You sure about that? The last election, and the changes in voting seen in certain "blocks," suggests otherwise.

I should say socialism ought to become more popular. Maybe people will celebrate   closing of rural hospitals, dismantling of fema, more bad economic news, ICE brown shirt tactics

Socialism becoming more popular is not a good thing and is avoidable. To start, Medicaid should be replaced with universal healthcare, not cut
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 05, 2025, 04:58:37 PM
Nichi, he does not believe in free markets. C'mon man. He's a commie, Hamas supporting, piece of shit who is carrying on the destruction of Chicago started by the Lori Lighthead.

LOL

I was there for 9 days last week or so and it was pretty nice, had a fantastic time with my friend.  Only drama I saw was a pro Iran protest, and some homeless fucker trying to give me a fentanyl laced dollar.  But I kept to all the nice areas I know for the most part.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 05, 2025, 08:17:44 PM
What is it?
Zohran Mamdani
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 05, 2025, 08:43:12 PM
Zohran Mamdani

Oh, I thought it was ”the Black guy.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 05, 2025, 09:47:42 PM
Oh, I thought it was ”the Black guy.”
Are you referring to the NYC mayoral candidate ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 06, 2025, 12:09:27 AM
Are you referring to the NYC mayoral candidate ?

No those are the israel cock smokers
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 04:37:04 AM
Are you referring to the NYC mayoral candidate ?

The Black mayoral candidate.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 06, 2025, 06:24:59 AM
The Black mayoral candidate.
The one who isn't currently the mayor in NYC ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 08:48:07 AM
The one who isn't currently the mayor in NYC ?

I suppose so, otherwise he’d be “The Black mayor.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 06, 2025, 09:21:37 AM
I suppose so, otherwise he’d be “The Black mayor.”
I don't believe the current Black mayor has advocated for seizing the means of production so that, by default, pretty much leaves it to the other NYC mayoral candidate as the man who advocated for it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 09:36:59 AM
I don't believe the current Black mayor has advocated for seizing the means of production so that, by default, pretty much leaves it to the other NYC mayoral candidate as the man who advocated for it.

The Black one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 06, 2025, 09:41:19 AM
The Black one.
The man whose name you mentioned a week or so ago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 09:51:25 AM
The man whose name you mentioned a week or so ago.

The Black mayoral candidate.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 06, 2025, 10:02:12 AM
The Black mayoral candidate.
Yes. Zohran Mamdani.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 10:39:58 AM
Yes. Zohran Mamdani.

The Brown guy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 06, 2025, 10:53:52 AM
The Brown guy.
Who are you referring to now ?
Surely not the non-American who indicated he was African-American on his application for admission to the university his Dad had worked at and may still have been on staff at the time of the application.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 01:12:08 PM
Black/Brown. Either way, it’s important we distinguish this. His name is not that important.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 01:22:44 PM
He has a lot in common with Pocahontas apparently
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 01:28:23 PM
Only a true Democrat would call Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 01:29:20 PM
Only a true Democrat would call Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas!

She is a lying idiot, so of course you defend her.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 06, 2025, 01:54:21 PM
Black/Brown. Either way, it’s important we distinguish this. His name is not that important.
Claiming to be American when someone isn't should matter.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 02:09:18 PM
Mn’s people!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1fxGWrP5So/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 02:10:01 PM
Claiming to be American when someone isn't should matter.

He’s not American?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 06, 2025, 02:18:35 PM
smdh. Too funny. 😂😂😂😂😂

He wasn''t when he tried to scam the Columbia admissions system.
He wasn't African-American either.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 02:37:26 PM
smdh. Too funny. 😂😂😂😂😂

He wasn''t when he tried to scam the Columbia admissions system.
He wasn't African-American either.

So you’re saying he lied? Kind of like Trump did to get out of Vietnam?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 06, 2025, 02:55:25 PM
So you’re saying he lied? Kind of like Trump did to get out of Vietnam?
'Allegedly lying' isn't quite the same as indicating being an African-American when not an American or African-American.

I'm sure you know that tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 03:24:29 PM
'Allegedly lying' isn't quite the same as indicating being an African-American when not an American or African-American.

I'm sure you know that tho.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 03:29:02 PM
The guy who’s told 31,000 documented lies, been found guilty of sexual assault and frauded charities (might) have lied about having feet too sore to go Vietnam! I nominate Mn for Cuck of the Year 2025 (heck, let’s make it in perpetuity).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 03:31:06 PM
And I forgot to include his 34 felonies! EVERYONE else is CORRUPT! Trump is the ONLY honest one!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 03:36:57 PM
Thanks for confirming that the Hamas Supporting Socialist Scum who is the Dem nominiee for NY mayor has a lot in common with Trump. And you dispute my assertion that the Progressives are the flip side of the coin opposite the Trumpers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 03:37:22 PM
LOLOLOLOLOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 03:38:40 PM
Yes, we are “opposite” of Trumpers; you have that correct.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 03:44:50 PM
Yes, we are “opposite” of Trumpers; you have that correct.

Correct, same coin, different sides.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 03:46:10 PM
Correct, same coin, different sides.

Yep. We are identical except for the fact I oppose virtually everything they stand for. Identical.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 03:50:15 PM
Yep. We are identical except for the fact I oppose virtually everything they stand for. Identical.

Proving once again that you refuse to grasp simple concepts. Maybe one of your friends on The MySpace can explain it to you
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 03:55:18 PM
Proving once again that you refuse to grasp simple concepts. Maybe one of your friends on The MySpace can explain it to you

I’ve heard that lame shit before. You’re not the first to bring it up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 03:55:49 PM
Outside of opposing everything about fascism, you’re just like them!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 03:58:00 PM
Outside of opposing everything about fascism, you’re just like them!

Nichi would say Communism is the flip side of fascism. So, maybe that helps.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 04:06:24 PM
Nichi would say Communism is the flip side of fascism. So, maybe that helps.

I’m not a communist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 04:08:28 PM
And certainly not a fan of any of Stalin or Mao’s work.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 04:10:12 PM
I’m not a communist.

Ok. But maybe you get the concept of, so called, left wing fascism being Communism
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 04:10:54 PM
Leave it to PAMan to not understand the difference between a modern American Progressive and a Stalinist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 04:14:49 PM
Leave it to PAMan to not understand the difference between a modern American Progressive and a Stalinist.

There are differences, sure. But the progressives are as authoritarian in their ways as the Trumpers are. No difference in that way between them and you guys
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 04:52:00 PM
There are differences, sure. But the progressives are as authoritarian in their ways as the Trumpers are. No difference in that way between them and you guys

Yeah, I don’t think so.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 04:56:54 PM
Yeah, I don’t think so.

Of course you don't
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 05:08:56 PM
Of course you don't

Somehow I don’t think a Scandinavian style government resembles Trumpism all that much.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 05:19:17 PM
Somehow I don’t think a Scandinavian style government resembles Trumpism all that much.

Yeah, that is exactly what they are aiming for when they cheer on a Luigi guy shooitng insurance executive dirtbags in the streets.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 05:37:40 PM
Yeah, that is exactly what they are aiming for when they cheer on a Luigi guy shooitng insurance executive dirtbags in the streets.

At least you admit he was a dirtbag.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 05:39:16 PM
How many people did that executive kill? More than a couple, I’d bet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 05:41:33 PM
Tempo again proving the point.... Well done {golf clap}, well done.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 06:47:19 PM
Tempo again proving the point.... Well done {golf clap}, well done.

Meh, you cheerlead kids getting massacred.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 09:25:25 PM
Meh, you cheerlead kids getting massacred.

You relish kids getting washed away in a storm so you can blame Trump.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 10:11:17 PM
You relish kids getting washed away in a storm so you can blame Trump.

No, that saddens me. And angers me. Republicans are the ones who take joy in unnecessary death. “Everyone dies!”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 10:22:55 PM
No, that saddens me. And angers me. Republicans are the ones who take joy in unnecessary death. “Everyone dies!”

Then maybe we should wait to assign blame until after the facts are in so that action can be taken to prevent it from happening again.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 10:31:07 PM
Then maybe we should wait to assign blame until after the facts are in so that action can be taken to prevent it from happening again.

It’s fucking Texas. It’ll happen again. Shit like this always happens in Texas. See: 2021 Ice Storm. They don’t fucking learn.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 10:32:36 PM
It’s fucking Texas. It’ll happen again. Shit like this always happens in Texas. See: 2021 Ice Storm. They don’t fucking learn.

Alrighty then.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 10:33:16 PM
Then maybe we should wait to assign blame until after the facts are in so that action can be taken to prevent it from happening again.

Like school shootings?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 10:36:49 PM
Like school shootings?

Well, don't they allow teachers to arm themselves in quite a few school districts now?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 06, 2025, 10:37:57 PM
Sounding more like this is all about scoring points politically after all....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 10:39:18 PM
Well, don't they allow teachers to arm themselves in quite a few school districts now?

LOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 10:39:31 PM
Sounding more like this is all about scoring points politically after all....

https://x.com/fiercefreckled/status/1941957415785619567?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 06, 2025, 10:40:12 PM
Well, don't they allow teachers to arm themselves in quite a few school districts now?

“But I’m the ultimate Democrat!” - ThePAMan
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on July 06, 2025, 11:29:39 PM
It’s fucking Texas. It’ll happen again. Shit like this always happens in Texas. See: 2021 Ice Storm. They don’t fucking learn.

From what I’ve read so far, an overtaxed NWS largely did its job, but questions have been raised over whether more could have been done by local and state authorities to warm people about the potential for flash flooding.   
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/texas-hill-country-floods-warning-forecast-nws/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/climate/texas-flooding-forecast-response?utm_campaign=peeling-back-the-onion&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=www.status.news

The Texas legislature may want to reconsider a bill that would provide grants to counties to improve communications and flood warning systems, particularly in areas that are prone to catastrophic floods. 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 07, 2025, 12:26:21 AM
From what I’ve read so far, an overtaxed NWS largely did its job, but questions have been raised over whether more could have been done by local and state authorities to warm people about the potential for flash flooding.   
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/texas-hill-country-floods-warning-forecast-nws/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/climate/texas-flooding-forecast-response?utm_campaign=peeling-back-the-onion&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=www.status.news

The Texas legislature may want to reconsider a bill that would provide grants to counties to improve communications and flood warning systems, particularly in areas that are prone to catastrophic floods. 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/

The guy in the video I just posted addresses that very issue
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 07, 2025, 12:28:38 AM
The guy whose job that would’ve been took a retirement package from DOGE back in April
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 07, 2025, 08:10:46 AM
Can't believe Alum is defending Trump by posting reports to the contrary of Tempo's narrative! What a cad!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 07, 2025, 08:33:06 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/whJ90QX6/Screenshot-20250707-083024-Chrome.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)

I'm going with they're Tempo's Facetime bots.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 07, 2025, 12:26:21 PM
Can't believe Alum is defending Trump by posting reports to the contrary of Tempo's narrative! What a cad!

If you watched the video I posted you’d see that’s not what’s happening.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 07, 2025, 12:51:56 PM
If you watched the video I posted you’d see that’s not what’s happening.
Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 07, 2025, 01:15:24 PM
Lol

LOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 07, 2025, 02:18:06 PM
LOL

LOL.... I guess....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 07, 2025, 02:24:45 PM
LOL.... I guess....

L.O.L.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 07, 2025, 10:01:33 PM
https://x.com/fiercefreckled/status/1941957415785619567?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ

I definitely trust fiercefreckled’s info for sure.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 08, 2025, 08:21:39 AM
I definitely trust fiercefreckled’s info for sure.

He’s no Don Trump Jr or MyPillowGuy, but he seems mostly reliable.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on July 08, 2025, 08:27:49 AM
https://enewspaper.denverpost.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=c861931d-b4c1-434c-b017-5a5c7751501f&utm_email=241AE4AA947894E5A481541C85

The grift that keeps on giving.  Sweet dreams Mike!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 08, 2025, 08:30:49 AM
https://enewspaper.denverpost.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=c861931d-b4c1-434c-b017-5a5c7751501f&utm_email=241AE4AA947894E5A481541C85

The grift that keeps on giving.  Sweet dreams Mike!

Seems to require a Denver Post sub
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 08, 2025, 09:27:17 AM
The failing NYT sets off TDS victims with some irrelevance, gets criticized for exploiting the deaths of people, changes course and has a London writer tell readers 'how to help' and then tells its readers about avoiding scams but fails to include the NYT and their role in scams and fraud.
  ;D ;D ;D

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"Beware of scams
Natural disasters provide ample opportunity for scammers and fraudsters who prey on people ......" (https://nl.imgbb.com/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on July 08, 2025, 12:01:16 PM
Seems to require a Denver Post sub

A judge fined two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell $3,000 apiece Monday for filing a motion riddled with AI-generated errors in a case that resulted in a jury finding Lindell liable for defamation over false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Judge Nina Y. Wang, of the U.S. District Court in Denver, found attorneys Christopher I. Kachouroff and Jennifer T. DeMaster violated court rules when they filed a motion that featured numerous errors, including misquotes from caselaw and citations from nonexistent cases.

Kachouroff acknowledged using generative artificial intelligence to draft a motion during a pretrial hearing after the mistakes were found.

Kachouroff initially argued that the error-ridden motion was filed by mistake. However, the version that Kachouroff said was the correct one still contained “substantive errors,” including some that weren’t in the filed version of the motion, and it had timestamps that did not align with his claims, Wang found.
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She said “contradictory statements and the lack of corroborating evidence” failed to persuade her that the AI-assisted filing was an inadvertent error, versus sanction-worthy negligence.

The judge also found Kachouroff’s responses, in which he tried to shift responsibility and suggested that the court attempted to “blindside” him over the errors, “troubling and not well-taken.” As Wang sought to determine if the AI-assisted motion was filed out of simple human error or was sanction-worthy, she wrote that neither Kachouroff nor DeMaster provided the court with “any explanation as to how those citations appeared in any draft of the Opposition absent the use of generative artificial intelligence or gross carelessness by counsel.”

Wang wrote that “this Court derives no joy from sanctioning attorneys who appear before it.” She settled on the $3,000 fines as “the least severe sanction adequate to deter and punish defense counsel in this instance.”

Kachouroff and DeMaster did not immediately return requests for comment Monday.

Lindell is not liable for the fines. Last month, he and his media company, FrankSpeech, were ordered to pay $2.3 million to Eric Coomer, the former director of security for Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, after the jury returned its verdict. Lindell, one of the most prominent pushers of the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, had called Coomer “treasonous” and accused him of committing crime
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 08, 2025, 12:32:19 PM
A judge fined two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell $3,000 apiece Monday for filing a motion riddled with AI-generated errors in a case that resulted in a jury finding Lindell liable for defamation over false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Judge Nina Y. Wang, of the U.S. District Court in Denver, found attorneys Christopher I. Kachouroff and Jennifer T. DeMaster violated court rules when they filed a motion that featured numerous errors, including misquotes from caselaw and citations from nonexistent cases.

Kachouroff acknowledged using generative artificial intelligence to draft a motion during a pretrial hearing after the mistakes were found.

Kachouroff initially argued that the error-ridden motion was filed by mistake. However, the version that Kachouroff said was the correct one still contained “substantive errors,” including some that weren’t in the filed version of the motion, and it had timestamps that did not align with his claims, Wang found.
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She said “contradictory statements and the lack of corroborating evidence” failed to persuade her that the AI-assisted filing was an inadvertent error, versus sanction-worthy negligence.

The judge also found Kachouroff’s responses, in which he tried to shift responsibility and suggested that the court attempted to “blindside” him over the errors, “troubling and not well-taken.” As Wang sought to determine if the AI-assisted motion was filed out of simple human error or was sanction-worthy, she wrote that neither Kachouroff nor DeMaster provided the court with “any explanation as to how those citations appeared in any draft of the Opposition absent the use of generative artificial intelligence or gross carelessness by counsel.”

Wang wrote that “this Court derives no joy from sanctioning attorneys who appear before it.” She settled on the $3,000 fines as “the least severe sanction adequate to deter and punish defense counsel in this instance.”

Kachouroff and DeMaster did not immediately return requests for comment Monday.

Lindell is not liable for the fines. Last month, he and his media company, FrankSpeech, were ordered to pay $2.3 million to Eric Coomer, the former director of security for Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, after the jury returned its verdict. Lindell, one of the most prominent pushers of the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, had called Coomer “treasonous” and accused him of committing crime

FAKE NEWS! Trump won in 2020!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 09:17:41 AM
“When you send a message, there’s no guarantee that it’s received, so someone needs to follow up,” he said. “In the weather forecast offices, the one who follows up with that is the position called the warning coordination meteorologist. And guess what, there is no WCM in the San Antonio/Austin weather forecast office, because that’s one of the positions that was lost in the cuts from this administration.”
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5388436-texas-flooding-flash-flood-camp-mystic-trump-cuts-noaa-nws-fema-national-weather-service/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 10, 2025, 11:36:36 AM
When you took time off from work whether it be a vacation, sick time or any other reason were your job functions assigned to another department or to anyone in specific ? Or were they completely ignored ?

Mine weren't.

When someone retired, were there job functions assigned to others ?
Mine were.

When Rachel Frazin's supervisor takes time off, does she have someone to report to ?
I'll assume that she does.

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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 04:23:27 PM
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-08/macarthur-park-immigration-sweep-photo-opp
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 04:26:20 PM
If there weren't journalists like Rachel Frazin and Gustavo Arellano; would we still get these stories?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 04:31:08 PM
The Trump apologists argued that his guys to the NWS haven't happened yet, so it's not his fault. Not true. He and his ex boyfriend did cut staff. It appears those cuts had an impact, and the worst is yet to come.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 05:10:48 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-measles-cases-hit-highest-number-33-years/story?id=123564379
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 10, 2025, 06:14:40 PM
The Trump apologists argued that his guys to the NWS haven't happened yet, so it's not his fault. Not true. He and his ex boyfriend did cut staff. It appears those cuts had an impact, and the worst is yet to come.
Oh, it "appears, you say". You're not certain tho. Are you ?

Nobody knows yet, because they've been too fucking busy to pay attention to the NYT, and everybody's stories about "could" and "may" and "appears" from employees under the Biden administration, ex-NWS, ex-NOAA employees, union officials or any others.

It's been less than a week. They've got work to do.

And Rachel Frazin quoted the person from during the Biden administration who said "could".
A journalist could ask for other possibilities than the one mentioned. Or, I suppose, just quote the person and leave it at that.
I'm not reading the other one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 10, 2025, 06:21:42 PM
All the qualifiers in these articles are fucking hilarious
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 06:48:28 PM
'appears' means the evidence points that way.

Claiming things with certainty they don't exactly know is what the right wing does.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 06:49:58 PM
All the qualifiers in these articles are fucking hilarious

I find the intellectual honesty refreshing. I can see why the Trump crowd would think it sounds funny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 07:03:07 PM
There is nothing definitive yet, but the evidence indicates staffing cuts may have hampered getting the message out.

"Tom Di Liberto, a former NOAA climate scientist and public affairs specialist, told The Hill he believes that even with the staffing cuts, the administration should still be able to get the forecast out.

However, he warned that other functions that help the NWS do its job such as building relationships could be diminished by the cuts."

“My big concern is, when it comes to the staffing shortages and the loss of expertise, that we’ve lost, not only their knowledge … knowledge of their regions — what areas flood, what areas are most of concern — but we also lost the relationships with existing partners and external partners,” Di Liberto said."

The worst part is they are cutting research.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 10, 2025, 07:05:47 PM

I'm not reading the other one.

Good idea. The guy is one of those birthright citizens. You wouldn't want to be exposed to his take on events.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on July 10, 2025, 08:53:16 PM
'appears' means the evidence points that way.

Claiming things with certainty they don't exactly know is what the right wing does.

Maybe the term obliterates is operative here?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on July 10, 2025, 11:25:04 PM
There is nothing definitive yet, but the evidence indicates staffing cuts may have hampered getting the message out.

"Tom Di Liberto, a former NOAA climate scientist and public affairs specialist, told The Hill he believes that even with the staffing cuts, the administration should still be able to get the forecast out.

However, he warned that other functions that help the NWS do its job such as building relationships could be diminished by the cuts."

“My big concern is, when it comes to the staffing shortages and the loss of expertise, that we’ve lost, not only their knowledge … knowledge of their regions — what areas flood, what areas are most of concern — but we also lost the relationships with existing partners and external partners,” Di Liberto said."

The worst part is they are cutting research.

Interesting article about Kerr County's efforts to seek federal and state funding to improve its flood warning system.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-s1-5461091/texas-flooding-warning-system-fema

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 11, 2025, 06:48:15 AM
There is nothing definitive yet, but the evidence indicates staffing cuts may have hampered getting the message out.

And in an effort to justify your, and the media, speculation your 1st sentence includes ..........
"indicates" ...... "may have"

smdh
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 11, 2025, 07:05:11 AM
Good idea. The guy is one of those birthright citizens. You wouldn't want to be exposed to his take on events.
Does he mention the Border Patrol agents ambushed and shot ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 11, 2025, 07:10:41 AM
A "protester"
"apparently firing"
"some kind of weapon"

https://x.com/i/status/1943458132887282157

I guess 'Gunman shoots at federal law enforcement agents' just wouldn't tell the whole story.

And days earlier ....

"What we're hearing: The grassroots wants more. "Some of them have suggested ... what we really need to do is be willing to get shot" when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios.

"Our own base is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough ... [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public," the lawmaker said.
A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them "civility isn't working" and to prepare for "violence ... to fight to protect our democracy."

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/democrats-trump-resistance-violence-congress

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 11, 2025, 02:48:47 PM
A "protester"
"apparently firing"
"some kind of weapon"

https://x.com/i/status/1943458132887282157

"The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward in the search for someone who appeared to fire a pistol at federal immigration agents during protests "

apparently, some kind, appeared to..

My wife was in the tv room. I was in the kitchen. She asked me if it was raining. I said it appears to be.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 11, 2025, 02:53:55 PM

we're hearing, have suggested,  base is telling us,  constituents have told them "

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/democrats-trump-resistance-violence-congress
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 12, 2025, 06:49:50 AM

My wife was in the tv room. I was in the kitchen. She asked me if it was raining. I said it appears to be.

Was it raining ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 13, 2025, 10:50:48 AM
Was it raining ?

Evidently
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 13, 2025, 12:12:44 PM
Evidently
In a similar situation Ms No one might say to me, as she has been known to do, "why don't you just answer the question ? It's a simple yes or no answer."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 13, 2025, 02:16:16 PM
In a similar situation Ms No one might say to me, as she has been known to do, "why don't you just answer the question ? It's a simple yes or no answer."

Why didn't you?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 13, 2025, 04:48:55 PM
Why didn't you?
I probably did. In 2, not just 1, words or more.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 13, 2025, 10:28:55 PM
I probably did. In 2, not just 1, words or more.

"Fuck You"?
or
"Fuck you, bitch"?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 14, 2025, 09:52:14 PM
"Fuck You"?
or
"Fuck you, bitch"?

Yes dear
No dear
Wash, rinse, repeat unless it is something meaningful, like, "We are eating steak" or "We are watching Becoming Led Zepplin."  The latter of which just occured last week.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 15, 2025, 10:37:03 AM
I meant to go watch the Led Zeppelin movie when it was in the theaters but didn’t get around to it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 15, 2025, 04:51:51 PM
I meant to go watch the Led Zeppelin movie when it was in the theaters but didn’t get around to it.

It is on The Netflix
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 18, 2025, 01:39:14 PM
At 21 minutes, Andy Roddick on Bill Ackman shoehorning his way into a Professional tennis tournament match

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXXA1RIFB8
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 21, 2025, 08:02:00 AM
https://x.com/nimbusd82/status/1946740978196557973?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 21, 2025, 10:34:01 AM
https://x.com/nimbusd82/status/1946740978196557973?s=46

One has a new TV contract and expansion team payments coming in. The other only had Jamie Lee Curtis watching. I may not watch either, but sure sounds like the players are in a good position to demand a substantial raise (solely due to that Clark lady).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 21, 2025, 12:18:30 PM
One has a new TV contract and expansion team payments coming in. The other only had Jamie Lee Curtis watching. I may not watch either, but sure sounds like the players are in a good position to demand a substantial raise (solely due to that Clark lady).

The WNBA is a good metaphor for Government. The existence of the WNBA gives young girls someone to watch playing basketball who is "like them", so maybe they pick up a ball and play hoops. Go out for the HS team, maybe play some pickup ball in college, maybe even play college ball. They do this instead of volleyball or swimming or tennis or the drama club.

A decade or so later, they might go to a WNBA game or two, not enough that the league makes money. But when their hubby asks if they can get seasons tickets to the Sacramento Kings, she says sure why not, because she likes basketball. Maybe she buys a t-shirt. She watches the NBA finals.

The league loses 40 million a year? If instead of trying to expand viewership for the NBA with American women, they decide to go after European or Asian Men, that costs a lot more than 40 million a year. The NFL probably spends more than that for each game they play in Europe, for games that are only profitable because they get the added TV revenue from having a game at 8:30 AM Central for the degenerates who usually don't care about Jacksonville vs Arizona.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 21, 2025, 02:59:01 PM
The WNBA is a good metaphor for Government.

A place for otherwise useless black women to have jobs?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 21, 2025, 03:38:14 PM
A place for otherwise useless black women to have jobs?

Holy shit 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 22, 2025, 12:15:18 AM
Not sure I get the government analogy either.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 22, 2025, 01:39:14 PM
A place for otherwise useless black women to have jobs?
Say the NBA is a place for otherwise useless black men to have jobs without actually saying it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 22, 2025, 01:48:08 PM
Not sure I get the government analogy either.

OK, try this one. It's a "Loss leader".

The government does not make a profit from building roads. The government spends money on roads, but gets nothing back in return, modulo a few toll roads.

But the existence of roads means that we can go to work and make money, and sell things to people who want things, sometimes by them driving or biking or walking on those roads to get to a store. All of those activities generate sales and income taxes, far in excess of what it costs to pave the roads. Roads do make a profit in and of themselves, they enable a profit in a larger context. And really if you are doing it properly, you don't measure it in terms of the taxes generated down the line - people's lives are better because there are roads, and while that isn't measurable in a P&L statement, it can be worth investing in roads for people to have better lives. When I buy an ice cream cone and eat it, I now have less money, making it a bad financial decision, but I like ice cream and the benefit from getting that ice cream cone might be more valuable than the money.

The NBA loses some money running the WNBA, but the WNBA draws more people into the overall basketball ecosystem of the NBA, where the real money is made. And some of the return is just general goodwill. not measurable in dollars and cents (though that's probably a very small part of the motivation here).

The NBA is thriving. MLB not so much. Coincidence? The NFL is creaming themselves over Taylor Swift attending Chiefs games. Increases their bottom line.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 22, 2025, 02:03:46 PM
I get the tax write off angle
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 23, 2025, 01:36:03 PM
Say the NBA is a place for otherwise useless black men to have jobs without actually saying it?

Oh you're right, most NBA players would be doctors, lawyers and astronauts, if not for the sport
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 23, 2025, 05:34:22 PM
Oh you're right, most NBA players would be doctors, lawyers and astronauts, if not for the sport

But you won't say that - you save your public shade for the women. We get it - your struggles with women are well documented.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 23, 2025, 05:40:03 PM
But you won't say that - you save your public shade for the women. We get it - your struggles with women are well documented.

At least he now has more time for his bowling game
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 23, 2025, 11:30:53 PM
But you won't say that - you save your public shade for the women. We get it - your struggles with women are well documented.

LOL I got too many women and too little time these days... what a clusterfuck
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 24, 2025, 10:42:58 AM
LOL I got too many women and too little time these days... what a clusterfuck

OnlyFans is quite a thing, or so I hear and you can confirm
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 24, 2025, 11:27:03 AM
OnlyFans is quite a thing, or so I hear and you can confirm

The simps that give money to that are pathetic losers, literally they should all kill themselves for being so pathetic

Picking up women these days is literally the easiest thing ever, like just be fit and act like a man and they flock to you, they are begging for men and not these pathetic boys that act like girls that are so common under 35 years old.  Not sure if its the water, the porn addiction, the screen life or what, but most men under 35 act like bitches and the women will tell you that, its pretty funny.  And then there's the dating apps which are such a huge waste of time, but another good way to get leads if you're tall and have your shit together.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 24, 2025, 11:38:46 AM
The simps that give money to that are pathetic losers, literally they should all kill themselves for being so pathetic

Picking up women these days is literally the easiest thing ever, like just be fit and act like a man and they flock to you, they are begging for men and not these pathetic boys that act like girls that are so common under 35 years old.  Not sure if its the water, the porn addiction, the screen life or what, but most men under 35 act like bitches and the women will tell you that, its pretty funny.  And then there's the dating apps which are such a huge waste of time, but another good way to get leads if you're tall and have your shit together.

Are you sure they don't have penises?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 24, 2025, 11:41:47 AM
Are you sure they don't have penises?

Lol!   Spotting a tranny in person is not difficult.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 24, 2025, 12:20:18 PM
Lol!   Spotting a tranny in person is not difficult.

Why are you around so many trannies? I guess you do live in Sparks....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 24, 2025, 12:21:53 PM
The simps that give money to that are pathetic losers, literally they should all kill themselves for being so pathetic

Picking up women these days is literally the easiest thing ever, like just be fit and act like a man and they flock to you, they are begging for men and not these pathetic boys that act like girls that are so common under 35 years old.  Not sure if its the water, the porn addiction, the screen life or what, but most men under 35 act like bitches and the women will tell you that, its pretty funny.  And then there's the dating apps which are such a huge waste of time, but another good way to get leads if you're tall and have your shit together.

well, you really told me! What a sucker I was just getting married and staying married. I could have been a "playah", not some salt of the earth god fearing American.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 24, 2025, 12:50:25 PM
Lol!   Spotting a tranny in person is not difficult.

Add alcohol to the mix.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 24, 2025, 01:27:09 PM
well, you really told me! What a sucker I was just getting married and staying married. I could have been a "playah", not some salt of the earth god fearing American.

Consider yourself lucky it has worked out.  The odds are not in your favor at this point.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 24, 2025, 02:33:41 PM
Add alcohol to the mix.

Sounds like you're speaking from experience!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 24, 2025, 03:10:51 PM
Sounds like you're speaking from experience!

100%
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 24, 2025, 03:12:57 PM
The simps that give money to that are pathetic losers, literally they should all kill themselves for being so pathetic

Picking up women these days is literally the easiest thing ever, like just be fit and act like a man and they flock to you, they are begging for men and not these pathetic boys that act like girls that are so common under 35 years old.  Not sure if its the water, the porn addiction, the screen life or what, but most men under 35 act like bitches and the women will tell you that, its pretty funny.  And then there's the dating apps which are such a huge waste of time, but another good way to get leads if you're tall and have your shit together.

This is spot on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 24, 2025, 03:47:46 PM
This is spot on.

Donald Trump and Bill Clinton support this message
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 24, 2025, 04:19:09 PM
Consider yourself lucky it has worked out.  The odds are not in your favor at this point.

I'm an American. I rely on hard work and planning, not luck. Your ex-wife was not unlucky she married you, she just made a big mistake.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 24, 2025, 04:25:58 PM
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2025/07/24/chuck-e-cheese-arrest-by-tallahassee-police-photos-video/85355422007/

Even Chuck E. Cheese is a Trump-like grifter
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 24, 2025, 07:39:00 PM
I'm an American. I rely on hard work and planning, not luck. Your ex-wife was not unlucky she married you, she just made a big mistake.

she made a long series of mistakes for 10 years
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 25, 2025, 05:35:21 PM
she made a long series of mistakes for 10 years

giving you her number
taking your call
agreeing to a date
agreeing to more dates
agreeing to get married
getting married
staying married

yeah, that's a series
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 28, 2025, 10:01:04 AM
"Democratic Socialists openly want to achieve socialism"

As I said, thanks for clearing that up.
How socialists redefine democratic socialism in an attempt to minimize the term.
Swap the words. No one will notice. Lol

(https://i.ibb.co/WNQ5YwJH/Screenshot-20250728-095613-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SD2y98C6)


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 28, 2025, 11:06:09 AM
How socialists redefine democratic socialism in an attempt to minimize the term.
Swap the words. No one will notice. Lol

(https://i.ibb.co/WNQ5YwJH/Screenshot-20250728-095613-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SD2y98C6)

allow me to define socialism for you

The Government owning controlling shares in a formerly private company

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/25/1256217315/nippon-us-steel-golden-share
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 28, 2025, 05:10:09 PM
How socialists redefine democratic socialism in an attempt to minimize the term.
Swap the words. No one will notice. Lol

(https://i.ibb.co/WNQ5YwJH/Screenshot-20250728-095613-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SD2y98C6)

As I have pushed here repeatedly, the terms Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism are frequently conflated in the United States. However, in some circles, and especially in Europe, they are clearly distinguished.

Social Democracy = a mixed economy. Primarily free markets with some central planning.

Similarly  fascism, conservativism, neo-liberalism, capitalism, monopolism, and nationalism all tend to get lumped together in the USA. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on July 29, 2025, 12:17:29 AM
As I have pushed here repeatedly, the terms Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism are frequently conflated in the United States. However, in some circles, and especially in Europe, they are clearly distinguished.

Social Democracy = a mixed economy. Primarily free markets with some central planning.

Similarly  fascism, conservativism, neo-liberalism, capitalism, monopolism, and nationalism all tend to get lumped together in the USA.

@Tempo34
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 29, 2025, 12:31:56 AM
As I have pushed here repeatedly, the terms Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism are frequently conflated in the United States. However, in some circles, and especially in Europe, they are clearly distinguished.

Social Democracy = a mixed economy. Primarily free markets with some central planning.

Similarly  fascism, conservativism, neo-liberalism, capitalism, monopolism, and nationalism all tend to get lumped together in the USA.

TL; DR
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 29, 2025, 07:50:41 AM
Other than the gaslighting, notice any differences ? Lol
It's to serve a purpose similar to Abrego Garcia being a 'Maryland man', the Manhatten shooter being 'possibly white' or the Honduran illegal immigrant drunk driver, with a previous DUI, who killed 2 Minnesota teenagers a 'Wisconsin woman'.
The "social democrat" story vs the "democratic socialist" story presented by, and about, the same people.

(https://i.ibb.co/WNQ5YwJH/Screenshot-20250728-095613-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SD2y98C6)
(https://i.ibb.co/396HvKV8/Screenshot-20250729-072056-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/sdxrC7cD)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2025, 12:14:35 PM
https://chronicleillinois.com/news/cook-county-news/chicago-man-charged-with-hate-crimes/

Philip Dominguez is the fella who allegedly spray painted swastikas and "ICE Rules" on a Latino community center and the state senator's district office.

Like Philip is his real first name!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 29, 2025, 05:54:21 PM
I love that many conservatives can’t tell the difference between Denmark and Venezuela.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 29, 2025, 05:56:22 PM
Maybe these Democrats are just very gregarious?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 29, 2025, 06:57:56 PM
By and large
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2025, 07:54:38 PM
Maybe these Democrats are just very gregarious?

We know better. They hate America and capitalism.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 29, 2025, 08:05:49 PM
Maybe they don't care much for crony capitalism, monopolies, and rigged markets? Or socialization of risks with privatization of profits?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2025, 08:11:19 PM
Maybe they don't care much for crony capitalism, monopolies, and rigged markets? Or socialization of risks with privatization of profits?

Ot they just hate America and want it to be Commie Lite. Go to Europe if you want Commie Lite.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 29, 2025, 08:15:46 PM
Ot they just hate America and want it to be Commie Lite. Go to Europe if you want Commie Lite.

If you don't want fairer and better healthcare, education, transportation, and public safety; then what's the point of being a Democrat?

Honest question.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2025, 08:28:53 PM
If you don't want fairer and better healthcare, education, transportation, and public safety; then what's the point of being a Democrat?

Honest question.

What does that have to do with preventing people from having the opportunity to reach their potential  and innovate instead of everyone being mired in whatever they are mired in over there. You want no innovation or chance to do what you want? Move there and leave America to those escaping that crap.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 29, 2025, 08:50:51 PM
What does that have to do with preventing people from having the opportunity to reach their potential  and innovate instead of everyone being mired in whatever they are mired in over there. You want no innovation or chance to do what you want? Move there and leave America to those escaping that crap.

You think having better and fairer education, transportation, public safety, and and healthcare would prevent people from reaching their potential?

People aren't leaving Social Democracies to come here, but you knew that.

We have central planning. By a handful of corporate monos in their private interests.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 29, 2025, 08:56:49 PM
Reaching our true potential via innovation:

AI Overview

The United States has the highest incarceration rate among developed nations, with 541 prisoners per 100,000 residents in 2022, according to the World Prison Brief. This rate means that approximately 1 in every 185 people in the US are incarcerated. While the total number of prisoners in the US is around 1.8 million, this figure includes those in local jails, state prisons, and federal prisons, according to the World Prison Brief.

*******

AI Overview

Drug addiction in the United States

Drug addiction, also known as substance use disorder (SUD), is a widespread public health crisis impacting millions of Americans across various demographics.

Prevalence

Over 48.5 million Americans aged 12 and older (16.7% of the population) had a SUD in the past year, according to the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

Drug use disorders (DUD) specifically affected approximately 27.2 million Americans aged 12 or older in the past year.

Over 70 million Americans (24.9%) reported using illegal drugs or misusing prescription drugs at some point in the last year.

Roughly 25% of individuals who use illicit drugs are likely to develop an addiction.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2025, 09:09:37 PM
You think having better and fairer education, transportation, public safety, and and healthcare would prevent people from reaching their potential?

People aren't leaving Social Democracies to come here, but you knew that.

We have central planning. By a handful of corporate monos in their private interests.

Western Europe is, and has been, stagnant for decades.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2025, 09:12:02 PM
Reaching our true potential via innovation:

AI Overview

The United States has the highest incarceration rate among developed nations, with 541 prisoners per 100,000 residents in 2022, according to the World Prison Brief. This rate means that approximately 1 in every 185 people in the US are incarcerated. While the total number of prisoners in the US is around 1.8 million, this figure includes those in local jails, state prisons, and federal prisons, according to the World Prison Brief.

*******

AI Overview

Drug addiction in the United States

Drug addiction, also known as substance use disorder (SUD), is a widespread public health crisis impacting millions of Americans across various demographics.

Prevalence

Over 48.5 million Americans aged 12 and older (16.7% of the population) had a SUD in the past year, according to the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

Drug use disorders (DUD) specifically affected approximately 27.2 million Americans aged 12 or older in the past year.

Over 70 million Americans (24.9%) reported using illegal drugs or misusing prescription drugs at some point in the last year.

Roughly 25% of individuals who use illicit drugs are likely to develop an addiction.

Freedom to be idiots. They don't have jail birds or dope heads in Europe?

We also definitely handle diversity in the populace far better than they do over there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2025, 09:15:01 PM

People aren't leaving Social Democracies to come here, but you knew that.


Wasn't European immigration10% of all US immigration as of 2022?

Yeah, no Irishmen, Eastern Euros have been immigrating to Chicago lately.. C'mon man!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 29, 2025, 09:48:52 PM
What does that have to do with preventing rich fucking people from having the opportunity to reach their potential  and innovate instead of everyone being mired in whatever they are mired in over there. You want no innovation or chance to do what you want? Move there and leave America to those escaping that crap.

fixed
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 29, 2025, 09:50:46 PM


Drug addiction in the United States

Drug addiction, also known as substance use disorder (SUD), is a widespread public health crisis impacting millions of Americans across various demographics.

Prevalence

Over 48.5 million Americans aged 12 and older (16.7% of the population) had a SUD in the past year, according to the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

Drug use disorders (DUD) specifically affected approximately 27.2 million Americans aged 12 or older in the past year.

Over 70 million Americans (24.9%) reported using illegal drugs or misusing prescription drugs at some point in the last year.

Roughly 25% of individuals who use illicit drugs are likely to develop an addiction.

to be fair, that's mostly genetic - we have a lot of fucking stupid people
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 29, 2025, 10:44:49 PM
fixed

Because only already rich people succeed in the United States.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 29, 2025, 11:10:16 PM
Because only already rich people succeed in the United States.

Indeed, whatabout Jeff Bezos - his parents weren't billionaires. Checkmate!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 29, 2025, 11:34:39 PM
We know better. They hate America and capitalism.

LOL. Emphasis on the LO and the L.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 30, 2025, 12:18:41 AM
Earthquake in Russia - Gavin Newsom sounded the alarm for tsunami warning. President Trump commented RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA - HOAX HOAX HOAX
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 30, 2025, 08:24:43 AM
Other than the gaslighting, notice any differences ? Lol

(https://i.ibb.co/WNQ5YwJH/Screenshot-20250728-095613-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SD2y98C6)
(https://i.ibb.co/396HvKV8/Screenshot-20250729-072056-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/sdxrC7cD)
I guess not.

Venezuela doesn't poll so well. How about Denmark instead ?
Yeah, that's it. Maybe Esme will do it even tho she did label the Minneapolis mayoral candidate a democratic socialist a week ago.
"Fateh is currently running as a Democratic Socialist."
By WCCO Staff, 
Updated on: July 21, 2025 / 8:20 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota

And the DSA says he's a member.

(https://i.ibb.co/MxzzZsPX/Screenshot-20250730-075817-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9kxxcNyM)

Someone here has said "democratic socialists openly want to achieve socialism"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 30, 2025, 09:11:31 AM
😭😭😭

https://x.com/i/status/1950371075298381932
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on July 30, 2025, 09:34:14 AM
Earthquake in Russia - Gavin Newsom sounded the alarm for tsunami warning. President Trump commented RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA - HOAX HOAX HOAX

Soon ICE Barbie will appear on the beaches in a Barbie-styled wetsuit to save potential victims.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 30, 2025, 12:13:06 PM
It is not all that hard.

The terms Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy are often used interchangeably with inexact meanings.

Strictly speaking, Venezuela is an example of Democratic Socialism. Why? Because socialist economic policies were adopted via the democratic process, rather than by Marxist revolution.

Denmark is an example of a Social Democracy. The economy is mixed; primarily free markets, but with some central planning to mitigate the shortcomings and excesses of predatory capitalism.

Due to the bullshit Two Party system, Social Democrats and Democratic Socialists are lumped together in the USA. Just like Conservatives and Nationalists are lumped together.

TLTRFM
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 30, 2025, 12:51:15 PM
How is that democracy doing in Venezuela these days?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 30, 2025, 01:14:02 PM
It is not all that hard.

The terms Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy are often used interchangeably with inexact meanings.

Strictly speaking, Venezuela is an example of Democratic Socialism. Why? Because socialist economic policies were adopted via the democratic process, rather than by Marxist revolution.

Denmark is an example of a Social Democracy. The economy is mixed; primarily free markets, but with some central planning to mitigate the shortcomings and excesses of predatory capitalism.

Due to the bullshit Two Party system, Social Democrats and Democratic Socialists are lumped together in the USA. Just like Conservatives and Nationalists are lumped together.

TLTRFM

lofl

Who advocates for defunding the police ? The democratic socialists or the social democrats ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on July 30, 2025, 01:42:34 PM
to be fair, that's mostly genetic - we have a lot of fucking stupid people

because we keep letting low IQ immigrants into the country
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 30, 2025, 03:23:15 PM
because we keep letting low IQ immigrants into the country

Yeah, not sure that is the problem in, say, West Virginia. The whole "Florida Man" thing does not feature an "immigrant." Low IQ, definitely, but not an "immigrant."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 30, 2025, 04:03:19 PM
Calling Venezuela a properly functioning democracy seems like a huge stretch. It’s a hell of a lot closer to a dictatorship.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 30, 2025, 04:05:12 PM
lofl

Who advocates for defunding the police ? The democratic socialists or the social democrats ?

I would say that’s a fringe subset of the Democratic Socialists. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 30, 2025, 04:06:20 PM
Also, “defunding the police” is a vague term. I’d be for defunding them to some degree. They don’t need a lot of the military equipment they get for example.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 30, 2025, 04:36:40 PM
lofl

Who advocates for defunding the police ? The democratic socialists or the social democrats ?

The GOP. They prefer to defund the police and just go with strict military control. The police do things like help old ladies cross the street, and also they do things like investigate rape allegations against GOP politicians, and pull over Matt Gaetz for DUI. Useless. The military takes orders man, go beat up some Mexicans.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 30, 2025, 04:37:23 PM
because we keep letting low IQ immigrants into the country
I work with thousands of immigrants. Every single one of them has a higher IQ than you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 30, 2025, 04:47:09 PM
I would say that’s a fringe subset of the Democratic Socialists. 
Also, “defunding the police” is a vague term. I’d be for defunding them to some degree. They don’t need a lot of the military equipment they get for example.
You're not an elected Congressperson and AOC appears to disagree.
“Defunding police means defunding police,” the congresswoman said in a statement. “It does not mean budget tricks or funny math.

And the Wiki describes her as a member of the Democratic party, not as in a fringe subset of democratic socialists.
"She is a member of the Democratic Party."

The Minneapolis mayoral candidate advocates for defunding the police and he's endorsed by the DFL ( the Democratic-Farm-Labor party), who are Democrats to the rest of the world. It would be difficult to label him as in a fringe subset of democratic socialists if he's endorsed by the Democratic party.

But heh, anything to get him elected. Maybe even say he's a social democrat.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 30, 2025, 05:07:06 PM

Who advocates for defunding the police ? The democratic socialists or the social democrats ?

It probably depends on who is using the terms, how they are using them.

Republicans call for defunding social programs that help people. Defund the Police is a semi-sarcastic retort that means different things to different people.

- Downsizing -- Reduce some of the funding that goes to law enforcement and divert it to proven crime prevention programs.

-Completely defund current effed up law enforcement and start over with a reformed version that serves the public.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 30, 2025, 05:09:22 PM
I would say that’s a fringe subset of the Democratic Socialists.

C'mon man. You can't be serious
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 30, 2025, 05:10:50 PM
Lot of deflection and denial here
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 30, 2025, 05:12:05 PM
The GOP. They prefer to defund the police and just go with strict military control. The police do things like help old ladies cross the street, and also they do things like investigate rape allegations against GOP politicians, and pull over Matt Gaetz for DUI. Useless. The military takes orders man, go beat up some Mexicans.

Yes. They want to defund social services, including those provided by police, and divert  money from community policing to authoritarian style policing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 30, 2025, 05:16:25 PM
AI Overview

The slogan "Defund the Police" became prominent during the George Floyd protests in 2020. It has different interpretations, but generally refers to reallocating or redirecting funding from police departments to other social services and community support initiatives.

Here are the key aspects of the "Defund the Police" movement

Reallocation of funds: This is the core idea. Instead of increasing police budgets, proponents suggest diverting funds to areas like education, housing, healthcare, mental health services, and community-based violence prevention programs.

Emphasis on addressing root causes of crime: The belief is that by investing in social services and community development, the underlying issues that contribute to crime (poverty, lack of opportunity, mental health crises) can be addressed, ultimately reducing the need for police intervention.

Demilitarization of police: The movement also advocates for reducing the militaristic aspects of policing, including acquiring military-grade equipment.

Shifting responsibilities: Some proponents advocate for specialized teams, like mental health professionals or social workers, to handle situations that don't require armed officers, such as mental health crises or homelessness interventions.

Varying degrees of reduction: While some activists advocate for the complete abolition of existing police systems, others propose more modest cuts and reforms.

Rethinking public safety: The movement aims to redefine what constitutes public safety and envision new models that prioritize community well-being and preventative approaches rather than relying primarily on law enforcement to address all societal problems.

It's important to note that the "Defund the Police" movement has faced criticism and controversy. Some argue that it would lead to increased crime rates and reduced public safety. However, proponents counter that investing in community programs can be a more effective way to reduce crime in the long term.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 30, 2025, 05:46:42 PM
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among the proponents of the call to defund the police, and a recent post on her Instagram story on the subject quickly went viral, after it was screenshotted and shared by Twitter user Ashley Quan. Asked, "What does an America with defunded police look like to you?" Ocasio-Cortez responded, "It looks like a suburb."

"Affluent white communities already live in a world where the choose to fund youth, health, housing etc more than they fund police," Ocasio-Cortez explained. "When a teenager or preteen does something harmful in a suburb (I say teen bc this is often where lifelong carceral cycles begin for Black and Brown communities), White communities bend over backwards to find alternatives to incarceration for their loved ones to 'protect their future,' like community service or rehab or restorative measures. Why don't we treat Black and Brown people the same way?

"Why doesn't the criminal system care about Black teens' futures the way they care for White teens' futures?" AOC continued. "Why doesn't the news use Black people's graduation or family photos in stories the way they do when they cover White people (eg Brock Turner) who commit harmful crimes?"

Affluent White suburbs also design their own lives so that they walk through the world without having much interruption or interaction with police at all aside from community events and speeding tickets (and many of these communities try to reduce those, too!)

Just starting THERE would be a dramatically and radically different world than what we are experiencing now.

http://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/in-the-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-was-asked-about-defunding-police-and-her-answer-went
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 30, 2025, 08:13:16 PM
Hilarious, yet dangerously delusional.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 30, 2025, 08:33:36 PM
C'mon man. You can't be serious

I’m very serious. Have Bernie and Pocohantes called for defunding the police? If so, I missed it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on July 30, 2025, 08:35:24 PM
PAMan is the Richard Nixon of Democrats.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 30, 2025, 09:40:28 PM
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among the proponents of the call to defund the police, and a recent post on her Instagram story on the subject quickly went viral, after it was screenshotted and shared by Twitter user Ashley Quan. Asked, "What does an America with defunded police look like to you?" Ocasio-Cortez responded, "It looks like a suburb."

"Affluent white communities already live in a world where the choose to fund youth, health, housing etc more than they fund police," Ocasio-Cortez explained. "When a teenager or preteen does something harmful in a suburb (I say teen bc this is often where lifelong carceral cycles begin for Black and Brown communities), White communities bend over backwards to find alternatives to incarceration for their loved ones to 'protect their future,' like community service or rehab or restorative measures. Why don't we treat Black and Brown people the same way?

"Why doesn't the criminal system care about Black teens' futures the way they care for White teens' futures?" AOC continued. "Why doesn't the news use Black people's graduation or family photos in stories the way they do when they cover White people (eg Brock Turner) who commit harmful crimes?"

Affluent White suburbs also design their own lives so that they walk through the world without having much interruption or interaction with police at all aside from community events and speeding tickets (and many of these communities try to reduce those, too!)

Just starting THERE would be a dramatically and radically different world than what we are experiencing now.

http://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/in-the-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-was-asked-about-defunding-police-and-her-answer-went
She didn't come close to answering the question because she doesn't know the answer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 30, 2025, 11:02:47 PM
I’m very serious. Have Bernie and Pocohantes called for defunding the police? If so, I missed it.

2 people. How about the commie scum bastards that either run or will run Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis? Let's start there
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 31, 2025, 07:59:20 AM
The Minneapolis mayoral candidate moved to Minnesota from DC in 2016 after failing to win a school board seat . He was somehow placed into various govt jobs, and lost a Mn House representative race in 2018.
He won a senate race 2 years later. His 1st electoral win put him in the Mn Senate in 2020 and his campaign manager was convicted of perjury regarding absentee ballots. He faced an ethics violation over campaign expenditures.
He repaid $11,000 in campaign funds from Feeding Our Future and is on video celebrating with group members over their court case to continue the funding of a program that has resulted in 50 convictions and guilty pleas. With more to come.
In 2022, 6 years after moving to Minnesota and 2 years after his 1st electoral win he was appointed chair of the Senate Higher Education committee and vice chair of the Senate Human Services Committee.
The Minnesota Department of Education was the controlling agency in the Feeding Our Future program.

This is not normal. Nor is a man, who may or may not have run a lemonade stand as his only business experience, winning the Democratic primary for NYC mayor.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 31, 2025, 08:25:47 AM
Speaking of not normal.

(https://i.ibb.co/mrMty8Cn/Screenshot-20250731-080340-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zW0b2Jh3)

The recipent was also later awarded a conviction in the Feeding Our Future fraud by the DOJ. I've seen no pics of the award.
According to court documents, Abukarwas the founder and executive director of Action for East African People, a non-profit which she enrolled in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future and Sponsor A. Between October 2020 through 2022, Abukar falsely claimed to be serving as many as 5,000 children a day at her various sites in Bloomington, Minneapolis, Savage, and St. Paul. In total, Abukar fraudulently received approximately $5.7 million in fraudulent Federal Child Nutrition Program funds. As part of the scheme to defraud, Abukar also paid more than $330,000 in kickbacks to a Feeding Our Future employee. Abukar spent millions on real estate, including a 37-acre commercial property in Lakeville and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase an aircraft in Nairobi, Kenya.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 31, 2025, 01:14:38 PM
She didn't come close to answering the question because she doesn't know the answer.

Or perhaps nuanced answers go over the heads of literalists who aren't even trying to understand?

I get the irony of "Defund the Police" as a slogan.

Using it was probably a bad idea. It motivated the base, but alienated numbskull Republicans -- the same  type who have trouble sorting our the distinction between Nordic style Social Democracies and shit hole socialist dictatorships chosen via "elections"

The difference between policing in white suburbs and black neighborhoods is what is meant by "Defund the Police"

The AI summary gets into details.

I know it's hard to see things from another perspective.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 31, 2025, 01:20:05 PM
I was going for a walk. Some big tough looking black guys crossed to the other side of the street to avoid me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 31, 2025, 01:21:52 PM
2 people. How about the commie scum bastards that either run or will run Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis? Let's start there

They help offset the nationalist populist fascists that are running the federal government.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 31, 2025, 01:42:55 PM
Or perhaps nuanced answers go over the heads of literalists who aren't even trying to understand?

I get the irony of "Defund the Police" as a slogan.

Using it was probably a bad idea. It motivated the base, but alienated numbskull Republicans -- the same  type who have trouble sorting our the distinction between Nordic style Social Democracies and shit hole socialist dictatorships chosen via "elections"

The difference between policing in white suburbs and black neighborhoods is what is meant by "Defund the Police"

The AI summary gets into details.

I know it's hard to see things from another perspective.
A "nuanced answer" ?
There was no answer.

What was your reason for not leaving the country ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 31, 2025, 01:46:58 PM
A "nuanced answer" ?
There was no answer.

She was asked what Defund the Police would look like. She said s suburb. She goes on to give a detailed explanation.

If that doesn't fit your preconceived notions; that means you were wrong.

You maybe thought it meant taking all the money away from law enforcement. It actually means shifting priorities; for example more for crime prevention
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 31, 2025, 02:38:43 PM
Speaking of not normal.

(https://i.ibb.co/mrMty8Cn/Screenshot-20250731-080340-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zW0b2Jh3)

The recipent was also later awarded a conviction in the Feeding Our Future fraud by the DOJ. I've seen no pics of the award.
According to court documents, Abukarwas the founder and executive director of Action for East African People, a non-profit which she enrolled in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future and Sponsor A. Between October 2020 through 2022, Abukar falsely claimed to be serving as many as 5,000 children a day at her various sites in Bloomington, Minneapolis, Savage, and St. Paul. In total, Abukar fraudulently received approximately $5.7 million in fraudulent Federal Child Nutrition Program funds. As part of the scheme to defraud, Abukar also paid more than $330,000 in kickbacks to a Feeding Our Future employee. Abukar spent millions on real estate, including a 37-acre commercial property in Lakeville and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase an aircraft in Nairobi, Kenya.

She's practically Brett Favre. And I don't mean Packers Brett Favre, I mean Vikings Brett Favre, cooked Urlacher style
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on July 31, 2025, 02:39:32 PM
A "nuanced answer" ?
There was no answer.

What was your reason for not leaving the country ?

He's hoping to be selected for the jury in Trump's child sex ring trial
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on July 31, 2025, 06:56:10 PM
‘Sleepy’ Trump, 79, Struggles to Stay Awake as Dr. Oz Rambles On
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 31, 2025, 09:44:47 PM
They help offset the nationalist populist fascists that are running the federal government.

Multiple idiots don't make good governance
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on July 31, 2025, 09:45:50 PM
It may not be normal, but then again a pedo is President. Maybe we should start at the top and work our way down.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 01, 2025, 06:39:03 AM
She was asked what Defund the Police would look like. She said s suburb. She goes on to give a detailed explanation.

If that doesn't fit your preconceived notions; that means you were wrong.

You maybe thought it meant taking all the money away from law enforcement. It actually means shifting priorities; for example more for crime prevention
This Ashley Quan ?
Like, totally.


Ashley
@ashley_quan
.
@AOC
's answer to "what does defund the police look like?" was "a suburb" and that is totally gonna be my answer from now on

You're going with AI in support of an AOC ?
 

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 01, 2025, 07:17:59 AM
This Ashley Quan ?
Like, totally.


Ashley
@ashley_quan
.
@AOC
's answer to "what does defund the police look like?" was "a suburb" and that is totally gonna be my answer from now on

You're going with AI in support of an AOC ?

I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

The AI summary provided exactly what it is -- a general summary of what is meant Defund by the Police.

 AOC specifically said it would like a suburb. She posted that answer at her website.

 You seem to be confusing the AI summary with AOC's answer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 01, 2025, 09:32:56 AM
I see no reason to tout the ramblings of a democratic socialist and "that is totally gonna be my answer from now on."

Or touting Ashley Quan either:

Ashley
@ashley_quan
·
Oct 24, 2019
I want to be @AOC when I grow up

 ;D

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 01, 2025, 09:50:49 AM
I see no reason to tout the ramblings of a democratic socialist and "that is totally gonna be my answer from now on."

Or touting Ashley Quan either:

Ashley
@ashley_quan
·
Oct 24, 2019
I want to be @AOC when I grow up

 ;Dr

You brought up Ashley Quan.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 01, 2025, 11:19:40 AM
You brought up Ashley Quan.
Did you post what appears to be from a 5 year old AOC press release ?
Or did a democratic socialist bot post it ?

"Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among the proponents of the call to defund the police, and a recent post on her Instagram story on the subject quickly went viral, after it was screenshotted and shared by Twitter user Ashley Quan."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 01, 2025, 12:01:48 PM
I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

The point Mn is trying to make is that we should ignore that the only jobs President Trump has created this century are sex slaves for Epstein
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 01, 2025, 12:31:38 PM
Did you post what appears to be from a 5 year old AOC press release ?
Or did a democratic socialist bot post it ?

"Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among the proponents of the call to defund the police, and a recent post on her Instagram story on the subject quickly went viral, after it was screenshotted and shared by Twitter user Ashley Quan."

Do you know how to click on links?

http://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/in-the-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-was-asked-about-defunding-police-and-her-answer-went

Did you think think something AOC said in 2020 has an expiration date?

I know you would rather tell us what AOC really meant.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 01, 2025, 03:41:18 PM
The press release says 'someone who wants to be like me when she grows up posted my nonsense answer of if you defund the Chicago police then Chicago will look like Lake Forest. And all of the Twitter followers of the female who wants to be like me when she grows up made it go viral'.

Hang a banner.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 01, 2025, 03:46:40 PM
The press release says 'someone who wants to be like me when she grows up posted my nonsense answer of if you defund the Chicago police then Chicago will look like Lake Forest. And all of the Twitter followers of the female who wants to be like me when she grows up made it go viral'.

Hang a banner.

We should hang a banner.

EPSTEIN DIDN'T KILL HIMSELF - TRUMP DID
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 01, 2025, 04:30:33 PM
I made it easier to read for slow Republicans.


"Affluent white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health, housing etc more than they fund police."

 'These communities have lower crime rates not because they have more police, but bc they have more resources to support healthy society in a way that reduces crime."

"When a teenager or preteen does something harmful in a suburb (I say teen bc this is often where lifelong carceral cycles begin for Black and Brown communities),"

"White communities bend over backwards to find alternatives to incarceration for their loved ones to "protect their future," like community service or rehab or restorative measures."

"Why don't we treat Black and Brown people the same way?"

"Why doesn't the criminal system care about Black teens' futures the way they care for White teens' futures? Why doesn't the news use Black people's graduation or family photos in stories the way they do when they cover White people (eg Brock Turner) who commit harmful crimes?"

"Affluent White suburbs also design their own lives so that they walk through the world without having much interruption or interaction with police at all aside from community events and speeding tickets (and many of these communities try to reduce those, too!)"

Link:
http://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/in-the-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-was-asked-about-defunding-police-and-her-answer-went
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 02, 2025, 05:53:03 AM
Thanks for posting what the democratic socialist said. Again.
Other than being a recruiting pitch, it's still nonsense.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 02, 2025, 09:24:33 AM
We all know spending money on crime prevention in cities is a bunch of nonsense. That only works in suburbs.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 02, 2025, 10:44:59 AM
We all know spending money on crime prevention in cities is a bunch of nonsense. That only works in suburbs.

Golf and QAnon97 accept this sarcasm as fact.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 02, 2025, 11:27:55 AM
We all know spending money on crime prevention in cities is a bunch of nonsense. That only works in suburbs.

Probably has a lot to do with race…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 02, 2025, 12:53:43 PM
Made the mistake of parking in a free spot requiring me to walk by all the wack jobs outside the Oak Park Farmers Market. I asked the DSA fella concerned about gender affriming care if he knew Nichi and if he was a Democratic Socialist or a Social Democrat. That, thankfully, symied him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 02, 2025, 01:45:01 PM
I don't think this article from the DI had an expiration date:

Don’t confuse ‘social democracy’ and ‘democratic socialism’
By Austin Stadelman, Columnist
September 5, 2018


"Democratic socialism refers to the anti-capitalist philosophy that the public controls as the means of production through a planned economy. Resources and labor are distributed according to what the society, whether that be through means like state or planning committees, deems appropriate.

Social democracy, on the other hand, accepts the market principles of capitalism while emphasizing the importance of collective bargaining and unionization, regulatory overwatch and an adequate welfare system."

"This confusion in large part stems from Senator Sanders incorrectly identifying himself as a democratic socialist, to which he is not, as he is not even a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). He is an Independent whose beliefs align with those of a social democracy, showcased by his high praise for the Nordic model countries.

Yet since he self-describes as a democratic socialist, his supporters also inaccurately describe themselves, or at least the ideas, as democratically socialist. The actual philosophy of democratic socialism is based in an anti-capitalist planned economy. That is not how the Nordic model operates nor is it what Mr. Sanders endorses either, as they both support the free trade and the movement of goods based on liberal economic theory."

More: https://dailyillini.com/opinions/2018/09/05/dont-confuse-social-democracy-and-democratic-socialism/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 02, 2025, 03:48:35 PM
He's hoping to be selected for the jury in Trump's child sex ring trial

Good one Murph!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 05, 2025, 09:33:23 AM
It appears as tho her district is due to 2020 redistricting, the same thing that Tx Dems left Tx to try to prevent.
They did draw a nice district map. It just missed you ThePAMan. 😂

https://x.com/i/status/1952489938013827485
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 05, 2025, 10:24:54 AM
This might be a mistranslation.

(https://i.ibb.co/G4JdY0mc/Screenshot-20250805-102148-2.png) (https://ibb.co/5g91p6ZB)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 05, 2025, 10:30:47 AM
This might be a mistranslation.

(https://i.ibb.co/G4JdY0mc/Screenshot-20250805-102148-2.png) (https://ibb.co/5g91p6ZB)

it's also a nothingburger

Mn must get really pissed when they die the Chicago River green on St Paddy's Day
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 05, 2025, 11:57:04 AM
When you can't count on @EndWokeness or The Blaze to accurately translate Spanish to English, what can you count on?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 05, 2025, 12:04:17 PM
Her press release didn't address the translation so it must have been ok with her. But she did respond with "I am from both Guatemala and Chicago, Illinois."

The wiki ....
Born
June 2, 1983 (age 42)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 05, 2025, 12:07:34 PM
It appears as tho her district is due to 2020 redistricting, the same thing that Tx Dems left Tx to try to prevent.
They did draw a nice district map. It just missed you ThePAMan. 😂

https://x.com/i/status/1952489938013827485

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, PATRIOT!

Ok...now back to our regular programming:

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein?!?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 05, 2025, 12:32:15 PM
Her press release didn't address the translation so it must have been ok with her. But she did respond with "I am from both Guatemala and Chicago, Illinois."

The wiki ....
Born
June 2, 1983 (age 42)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

But was she on the Island with Trump? Probably not - way too old.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 05, 2025, 07:22:25 PM
The walls are closing in

https://x.com/i/status/1948406877944983692

Walz closing in

(https://i.ibb.co/WppqvCzb/Screenshot-20250805-191929-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/G33BQmMK)

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 05, 2025, 07:41:47 PM
The walls are closing in

That's what Epstein said!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 05, 2025, 08:56:56 PM
Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-justice-department-judges-courts.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Trump DoJ losing "the presumption of regularity"

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 08:27:13 AM
Feuer is a bit 😂 on the partisan side.
He helped move the Russia hoax early. Devlin Barrett, who contributed to the column, did the same.

Tell us about Judge Boasberg's comments during a March Judicial conference and the misconduct charge recently filed against him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 06, 2025, 11:51:28 AM
Feuer is a bit 😂 on the partisan side.
He helped move the Russia hoax early. Devlin Barrett, who contributed to the column, did the same.

Tell us about Judge Boasberg's comments during a March Judicial conference and the misconduct charge recently filed against him.

what's his take on the "Epstein hoax"?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 06, 2025, 12:19:07 PM
The Russian interference was not a hoax.

The misconduct change is an example.

"The complaint is hogwash, say legal scholars. “This is the sort of laughable thing that should go straight into the trash,” writes Joyce Vance on Substack. “Even if it’s referred for investigation, because it came from the Justice Department and the court feels some need to show it took it seriously, it shouldn’t go anywhere.” That view was shared by Thomas Lee, a professor at Fordham Law School, who tells me: “it's hard to see what he is alleged to have said violates any judicial ethics rules.” And Radhika Rao, a professor at the UC San Francisco Law School, calls the charges “ridiculous – nowhere near grounds for impeachment!”"

"What’s ironic and shameless is that the complaint keeps insisting that “Boasberg’s actions have harmed the integrity and public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary” when it’s politically charged stunts like this that sow mistrust in our justice system."

'But maybe that’s the long game: to erode faith in our judicial branch – which, as it now stands, is the only check against Trump’s authoritarianism."

"The more immediate goal is obvious: to silence judges through thuggery. And what better way to achieve that objective than to make an example of an establishment judge like Boasberg. The message is clear: if you make a critical remark or rule against us, we’ll come after you using the full force of the government."

https://viviachen.substack.com/p/is-justice-roberts-a-dolt-pam-bondi
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 06, 2025, 12:51:37 PM
Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-justice-department-judges-courts.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Trump DoJ losing "the presumption of regularity"

Even worse is the way federal judges are having their well thought out decisions obliterated for a desired political result by John Roberts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 01:03:04 PM
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 01:03:13 PM
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 01:28:10 PM
The Russian interference was not a hoax.

The misconduct change is an example.

"The complaint is hogwash, say legal scholars. “This is the sort of laughable thing that should go straight into the trash,” writes Joyce Vance on Substack. “Even if it’s referred for investigation, because it came from the Justice Department and the court feels some need to show it took it seriously, it shouldn’t go anywhere.” That view was shared by Thomas Lee, a professor at Fordham Law School, who tells me: “it's hard to see what he is alleged to have said violates any judicial ethics rules.” And Radhika Rao, a professor at the UC San Francisco Law School, calls the charges “ridiculous – nowhere near grounds for impeachment!”"

"What’s ironic and shameless is that the complaint keeps insisting that “Boasberg’s actions have harmed the integrity and public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary” when it’s politically charged stunts like this that sow mistrust in our justice system."

'But maybe that’s the long game: to erode faith in our judicial branch – which, as it now stands, is the only check against Trump’s authoritarianism."

"The more immediate goal is obvious: to silence judges through thuggery. And what better way to achieve that objective than to make an example of an establishment judge like Boasberg. The message is clear: if you make a critical remark or rule against us, we’ll come after you using the full force of the government."

https://viviachen.substack.com/p/is-justice-roberts-a-dolt-pam-bondi
Without looking it up, what is the essence of what Boasberg said ?

The article has a link to Bove's text messages that takes you to ..........
The Guardian.
Without looking it up, what was Bove's comment ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 01:34:58 PM
Even worse is the way federal judges are having their well thought out decisions obliterated for a desired political result by John Roberts.
Not that Roberts is the only justice to render the opinion of the court but this is how things work here. SCOTUS can overrule district court judges. The reverse is not the way it's supposed to work.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 06, 2025, 02:43:46 PM
This all goes to the influence of big money.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 06, 2025, 02:56:54 PM
Bove also "fired prosecutors who brought charges against January 6 rioters and requested a list of FBI agents who worked on the cases."

He didn't defy a court order because there was no order to defy. Wow!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 06, 2025, 03:12:28 PM
Not that Roberts is the only justice to render the opinion of the court but this is how things work here. SCOTUS can overrule district court judges. The reverse is not the way it's supposed to work.

But judges often rely on precedent, but under Trump we get activist Judges!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 03:18:51 PM
Bove also "fired prosecutors who brought charges against January 6 rioters and requested a list of FBI agents who worked on the cases."

He didn't defy a court order because there was no order to defy. Wow!
Because their job was done and they knew their appointments had an end date.
So. The agents were also told that if they had followed dept policy they had no concerns.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 03:20:38 PM
But judges often rely on precedent, but under Trump we get activist Judges!
What's the success rate of the activist judges vs SCOTUS ?

Hint: it's not good.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 06, 2025, 03:26:21 PM
What's the success rate of the activist judges vs SCOTUS ?

Hint: it's not good.

The current right wing activist court has ruled in favor of Trump.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 06, 2025, 03:29:46 PM
Because their job was done and they knew their appointments had an end date.
So. The agents were also told that if they had followed dept policy they had no concerns.

did you post that with a straight face?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 06, 2025, 03:50:13 PM
Trump’s DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm
Firings by Trump administration spark worries about weakening the rule of law.

July 19, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/19/justice-career-prosecutors-staff-firings-trump/

“Trump’s DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm”
July 19, 2025, 7:18 am
authoritarian threats in US, Department of Justice, election subversion risk

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151019
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 06, 2025, 04:15:08 PM
The current SCOTUS are the activist judges.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 06, 2025, 06:44:38 PM
"Others the Justice Department dismissed include career attorneys who worked on the prosecutions of Trump and those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."

"The firings — often made without explanation — aren’t normal. Prosecutors and other federal employees are typically fired only when they do something improper or fail to perform their duties."

“‘Unusual’ is the wrong word — it’s unheard of,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service ...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 06, 2025, 08:17:56 PM
Trump’s DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm
Firings by Trump administration spark worries about weakening the rule of law.

July 19, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/19/justice-career-prosecutors-staff-firings-trump/

“Trump’s DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm”
July 19, 2025, 7:18 am
authoritarian threats in US, Department of Justice, election subversion risk

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151019

No need for prosecutors. We just get the Chief J out there to say WHATEVER MAN, HE'S GUILTY AS SHIT
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 09:41:22 PM
Trump’s DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm
Firings by Trump administration spark worries about weakening the rule of law.

July 19, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/19/justice-career-prosecutors-staff-firings-trump/

“Trump’s DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm”
July 19, 2025, 7:18 am
authoritarian threats in US, Department of Justice, election subversion risk

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151019
Nice headlines but they're both paywalled to me.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 06, 2025, 09:56:28 PM
"Others the Justice Department dismissed include career attorneys who worked on the prosecutions of Trump and those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."

"The firings — often made without explanation — aren’t normal. Prosecutors and other federal employees are typically fired only when they do something improper or fail to perform their duties."

“‘Unusual’ is the wrong word — it’s unheard of,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service ...

Hey Max. I'll explain. You are corect, the dismissals aren't normal but the 1st ones you mentioned prosecuted the guy. And the ones hired to prosecute Jan 6 were no longer needed.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 06, 2025, 10:40:47 PM
"Others the Justice Department dismissed include career attorneys who worked on the prosecutions of Trump and those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."

"The firings — often made without explanation — aren’t normal. Prosecutors and other federal employees are typically fired only when they do something improper or fail to perform their duties."

“‘Unusual’ is the wrong word — it’s unheard of,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service ...

Chaos and uncertainty is the point.  Trump and his minions want everyone in the federal government beholden to their whims and fits of pique.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 07, 2025, 10:46:22 AM
Hey Max. I'll explain. You are corect, the dismissals aren't normal but the 1st ones you mentioned prosecuted the guy. And the ones hired to prosecute Jan 6 were no longer needed.

I don't know of anyone who was hired exclusively to prosecute Jan 6. Can you provide a link?

There were career prosecutors that worked on Jan 6 who were fired.

Firing career prosecutors as revenge for protecting Trump is incredibly bad form.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 07, 2025, 11:03:06 AM
OK, now we have a "Republican" President trying to order a US Company to fire their CEO.

Banana Republic. Also: Communism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/07/trump-calls-intel-ceo-resign/

President Donald Trump called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign Thursday, picking up on controversy over his investments in China.

“The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday morning.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 07, 2025, 03:02:07 PM
https://www.2news.com/news/local/driver-says-she-ran-herself-over-arrested-for-dui-in-reno-crash/article_820464d9-3f9a-414e-9bc2-d0b7c756f348.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 07, 2025, 03:39:33 PM
https://www.2news.com/news/local/driver-says-she-ran-herself-over-arrested-for-dui-in-reno-crash/article_820464d9-3f9a-414e-9bc2-d0b7c756f348.html

Was this before or after your date with her?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 07, 2025, 04:12:32 PM
OK, now we have a "Republican" President trying to order a US Company to fire their CEO.

Banana Republic. Also: Communism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/07/trump-calls-intel-ceo-resign/

President Donald Trump called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign Thursday, picking up on controversy over his investments in China.

“The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday morning.

Epstein has Trump's little adderall-powered brain working overtime generating distraction stories and issues. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 07, 2025, 05:13:44 PM
I don't know of anyone who was hired exclusively to prosecute Jan 6. Can you provide a link?

There were career prosecutors that worked on Jan 6 who were fired.

Firing career prosecutors as revenge for protecting Trump is incredibly bad form.
Your AI not working ?

Some were temporary hires due to the caseload. The media  may be referring to some of the 'career prosecutors' as the temporary hire prosecutors who were given permanent status by Biden after the election but before he left the White House..
The Trump administration ended those prosecutions so the extra prosecutors were no longer needed by the DOJ.

If any of the fired ones were involved in the filing of conspiracy charges, that's fine.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 07, 2025, 06:02:19 PM
I laughed at the AI line.

Nichi, you, like many others, need to realize the rules have changed. To the victor goes the spoils. Also, just imagine if that dumbshit Merrick Garland understood it and actually prosecuted Trump for his actual damned crimes at the start instead of doing whatever it was he was doing.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 07, 2025, 06:39:52 PM
I laughed at the AI line.

Nichi, you, like many others, need to realize the rules have changed. To the victor goes the spoils. Also, just imagine if that dumbshit Merrick Garland understood it and actually prosecuted Trump for his actual damned crimes at the start instead of doing whatever it was he was doing.
Garland's work did bring about the SCOTUS immunity position, which may be beneficial to Obama.
Unless they file a Pinkerton charge.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 07, 2025, 06:46:15 PM
I laughed at the AI line.

Nichi, you, like many others, need to realize the rules have changed. To the victor goes the spoils. Also, just imagine if that dumbshit Merrick Garland understood it and actually prosecuted Trump for his actual damned crimes at the start instead of doing whatever it was he was doing.
He was probably spreading himself too thin by going after parents of school kids, Catholic churches and protecting abortion clinics.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on August 07, 2025, 07:54:49 PM
I laughed at the AI line.

Nichi, you, like many others, need to realize the rules have changed. To the victor goes the spoils. Also, just imagine if that dumbshit Merrick Garland understood it and actually prosecuted Trump for his actual damned crimes at the start instead of doing whatever it was he was doing.

Exactly.  Garland acted like we're in some semblance of normality.  He was too conscious of looking too political instead of treating obvious criminal behavior like it should have been treated..  Hopping on one foot, blindfolded and barking like a dog to get those classified documents instead of locking him up.  He and. Mitch are going to regret their lack of action for perpetuity.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 07, 2025, 08:11:14 PM
Delete

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 07, 2025, 08:24:46 PM
Your AI not working ?

Some were temporary hires due to the caseload. The media  may be referring to some of the 'career prosecutors' as the temporary hire prosecutors who were given permanent status by Biden after the election but before he left the White House..
The Trump administration ended those prosecutions so the extra prosecutors were no longer needed by the DOJ.

If any of the fired ones were involved in the filing of conspiracy charges, that's fine.

You are basically admitting what Trump did, but spinning it.

Prosecutors who don't support the Trump agenda are no longer needed, so they are fired without cause.

Trump has done what he accused Dems of doing: politicized and and weaponized the DoJ.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 07, 2025, 08:27:35 PM
I laughed at the AI line.

Nichi, you, like many others, need to realize the rules have changed. To the victor goes the spoils. Also, just imagine if that dumbshit Merrick Garland understood it and actually prosecuted Trump for his actual damned crimes at the start instead of doing whatever it was he was doing.

You just got done accusing Dems of being no different than Trumpers. Now you are pissed off that they are different and maintain a semblance of ethics.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 07, 2025, 08:29:01 PM
Garland's work did bring about the SCOTUS immunity position, which may be beneficial to Obama.
Unless they file a Pinkerton charge.

Huh? Does this stuff come from Alex Jones?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 07, 2025, 08:32:12 PM
He was probably spreading himself too thin by going after parents of school kids, Catholic churches and protecting abortion clinics.

Oh my! What was Garland thinking?

Parents have a right to assault school board members.

Pro lifers have a right to bomb medical clinics that provide women's reproductive services.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 07, 2025, 08:37:38 PM
He was probably spreading himself too thin by going after parents of school kids, Catholic churches and protecting abortion clinics.

I did not have Mn defending pedophile priests on my bingo card, but he's defending our pedophile president and his buddy Epstein so it makes sense
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 07, 2025, 08:45:40 PM
He and Mitch are going to regret their lack of action for perpetuity.

Doubt Mitch feels any remorse.  He wanted to have it both ways.  He wanted Trump gone but didn't want to do anything himself so the GOP could hold on to his MAGA voters.  To the extent Mitch even cares about his legacy, he will focus on what he set out to do - get a conservative SCOTUS and judges.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 07, 2025, 09:45:40 PM
Oh my! What was Garland thinking?

Parents have a right to assault school board members.

Pro lifers have a right to bomb medical clinics that provide women's reproductive services.
School boards don't have the right to cover up rapes.
Praying outside of an abortion clinic is not bombing.
 
Fertlity clinics were bombed.,
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 07, 2025, 09:53:59 PM
You are basically admitting what Trump did, but spinning it.

Prosecutors who don't support the Trump agenda are no longer needed, so they are fired without cause.

Trump has done what he accused Dems of doing: politicized and and weaponized the DoJ.   
No. I'm explaining it.

No one is above the law doesn't apply anymore  ;D ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 07, 2025, 09:58:25 PM
One school board mishandled a situation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 07, 2025, 10:01:25 PM
Was this before or after your date with her?

After

I shit you not I'm in the process of writing a book about dating these days.  I have got some fuckin amazing stories from the last year alone
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 07, 2025, 10:14:06 PM
The school boards pushing books such as Gender Queer mishandled a situation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 07, 2025, 10:16:33 PM
School boards don't have the right to cover up rapes.
Praying outside of an abortion clinic is not bombing.
 
Fertlity clinics were bombed.,

So you're saying you're cool with the Catholic Church covering up rapes??
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2025, 07:31:15 AM
Garland's work did bring about the SCOTUS immunity position, which may be beneficial to Obama.
Unless they file a Pinkerton charge.

All Obama needs to worry about is the time to deal with Trump's bullshit. This is all going to badkfire on the Soviet supported Dirtbag in Chief
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2025, 07:34:13 AM
Exactly.  Garland acted like we're in some semblance of normality.  He was too conscious of looking too political instead of treating obvious criminal behavior like it should have been treated..  Hopping on one foot, blindfolded and barking like a dog to get those classified documents instead of locking him up.  He and. Mitch are going to regret their lack of action for perpetuity.

They are going to all regret it when President Omar locks all the MAGAs up in the new FEMA detention camps and no one bats an eye.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2025, 07:35:46 AM
You just got done accusing Dems of being no different than Trumpers. Now you are pissed off that they are different and maintain a semblance of ethics.

Reading and comprehension is a skill. I said the fucking  scum Progressives are the flip side of the same coin as the Trumpers. They have no ethics either.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2025, 07:37:50 AM

No one is above the law doesn't apply anymore  ;D ;D

Now that's funny
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 08, 2025, 10:46:30 AM
Reading and comprehension is a skill. I said the fucking  scum Progressives are the flip side of the same coin as the Trumpers. They have no ethics either.

The major difference being that Jayapal, Omar, etc... will never sniff any actual powere, but the Trumpers are running the country.

If you don't think there is a ton of daylight between AOC/Mamdani and Ilhan Omar, you're smoking the good stuff.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2025, 10:50:10 AM
The major difference being that Jayapal, Omar, etc... will never sniff any actual powere, but the Trumpers are running the country.

If you don't think there is a ton of daylight between AOC/Mamdani and Ilhan Omar, you're smoking the good stuff.

AOC appears ambitious enough to say anything to get elected
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 08, 2025, 10:58:01 AM
AOC appears ambitious enough to say anything to get elected

Nobody gets into those positions without ambition, but she's also very smart. Her core policy ideas are solid. And she can use the right "Woke" words and give tribute to "pronouns" without making it central to her messaging.

e.g. she will point out why tariffs are bad, completely fuck over the US consumer AND US businesses - while subtly using gender neutral language
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 08, 2025, 11:10:39 AM
Huh? Does this stuff come from Alex Jones?
No
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 08, 2025, 11:18:35 AM
Nobody gets into those positions without ambition, but she's also very smart. Her core policy ideas are solid. And she can use the right "Woke" words and give tribute to "pronouns" without making it central to her messaging.

e.g. she will point out why tariffs are bad, completely fuck over the US consumer AND US businesses - while subtly using gender neutral language

Apparently portrying her as having ICE raid heaven, detain Dora The Explorer so she could be a masseuse at Mar a Lago, and shooting Krypton in the face was not as offensive to her as having a team of makeup artists constantly reconstructing her face.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kristi-noem-slams-south-park-1236340265/

Damn it, quoted the wrong Murph quote...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 08, 2025, 12:16:29 PM
Apparently portrying her as having ICE raid heaven, detain Dora The Explorer so she could be a masseuse at Mar a Lago, and shooting Krypton in the face was not as offensive to her as having a team of makeup artists constantly reconstructing her face.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kristi-noem-slams-south-park-1236340265/

Damn it, quoted the wrong Murph quote...

We cool - any shade thrown at Noem is good shade
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 08, 2025, 03:01:01 PM
Trump is making another run at redoing the census. Last time, the courts blocked him. If I recall correctly, the SC didn't intervene
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on August 08, 2025, 09:11:16 PM
Interesting thread… enjoy AI responses while it still tells the truth and not woke narratives !

https://x.com/garbagehuman24/status/1953408274365137193?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 09, 2025, 12:06:37 PM
Interesting thread… enjoy AI responses while it still tells the truth and not woke narratives !

https://x.com/garbagehuman24/status/1953408274365137193?s=46

The numbers given for Black appear to be inaccurate. They might be for black.males..

Should we talk about the historical events and misguided policies that contributed to the cultural malaise of black neighborhoods in the United States? Or just ignore that?

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 10, 2025, 09:35:14 PM
The numbers given for Black appear to be inaccurate. They might be for black.males..

Should we talk about the historical events and misguided policies that contributed to the cultural malaise of black neighborhoods in the United States? Or just ignore that?

Things were going a lot better before Great Society.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 10, 2025, 10:05:05 PM
Things were going a lot better before Great Society.

I was thinking more along these lines:

AI Overview

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was a horrific event where a white mob attacked the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a prosperous African American community known as "Black Wall Street". The attack, which began on May 31 and lasted into June 1, resulted in the destruction of hundreds of businesses and homes, and an estimated 300 deaths. The massacre was a period of intense racial violence and its legacy continues to impact Tulsa today.

The Tulsa Race Massacre serves as a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of racial violence and the ongoing struggle for racial justice

The Tulsa Race Massacre wasn't an isolated incident, but rather one of many instances of racial violence in the United States. Other notable events include the Red Summer of 1919, characterized by widespread white supremacist terrorism and riots across the country.

Specific examples from that period include the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919, and the Washington D.C. race riot of 1919. Additionally, other events like the Memphis riots of 1866, the New Orleans massacre of 1866, and the Opelousas massacre of 1868 also reflect a pattern of racial violence in the US.

Here's a more detailed look at some of these incidents:

Red Summer (1919):
This period saw numerous racial conflicts, with white mobs attacking Black communities in various cities. The Chicago Race Riot, for example, resulted in 38 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Memphis Riots (1866):
Following the Civil War, tensions between Irish and African American communities in Memphis led to riots where 46 African Americans were killed and many more injured, according to Wikipedia.

New Orleans Massacre (1866):
A protest by Black activists advocating for voting rights in New Orleans was met with violence by white mobs and police, resulting in at least 34 deaths and many more injuries.

Opelousas Massacre (1868):
In Opelousas, Louisiana, white residents attacked and killed African Americans, including prominent Black leaders, after a dispute over a Black newspaper.

Asbury Park Riots (1970):
This incident involved seven days of rioting, looting, and destruction in Asbury Park, New Jersey, leaving over 180 people injured and causing millions of dollars in damages.

Other incidents:
The list of mass racial violence incidents is extensive, including events in cities like New Orleans, Camilla, and even in the western US, like the Marias Massacre of 1870 where the U.S. Army killed over 200 Piegan Blackfeet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 10, 2025, 10:16:49 PM
Let's not forget the shortcomings of the Great Society and the efforts by Republicans to sabotage programs.

factors that contributed to violent urban black culture

AI Overview

Factors influencing urban violence in some Black communities are complex and multifaceted, drawing on a confluence of historical and contemporary issues. These include:

1. Structural disadvantage
Socioeconomic inequality: Poverty and unemployment rates disproportionately affect some Black communities, leading to feelings of frustration, hopelessness, and alienation, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These factors are often rooted in historical and ongoing systemic racism, leading to disparities in areas like education, employment, and housing.

Concentrated disadvantage and residential segregation: These factors are linked to higher levels of violence, irrespective of individual socioeconomic status within a given community. This is because concentrated disadvantage can erode local systems of informal social control and collective efficacy, potentially fostering environments where violence is more likely to occur.

Educational inequality: Lack of access to quality education and educational inequality are linked to violence and limited opportunities.

2. Legacy of racism and discrimination
Historical oppression and racial trauma: The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing institutional racism creates intergenerational trauma and stress, impacting the mental health and well-being of Black communities.

Systemic inequality and limited opportunities: This legacy has created and perpetuated disadvantages in Black communities, impacting access to resources, opportunities, and ultimately, influencing experiences with crime and violence.

3. Subcultural adaptations
Exposure to violence: Experiencing or witnessing violence, especially during childhood, can increase the likelihood of both victimization and perpetration.
"Code of the Streets": In some areas with concentrated disadvantage, a "code of the streets" may develop, where violence is tolerated and expected as a part of daily life, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

4. Other contributing factors
Police brutality and lack of trust: Experiences with aggressive policing, racial profiling, and police brutality contribute to a lack of trust in law enforcement and other institutions, impacting community safety and potentially leading to more violence.

Limited resources and services: Many Black neighborhoods lack adequate public and private investment, leading to a shortage of resources, such as quality schools, healthcare centers, recreational facilities, and social services, which can contribute to the challenges faced by residents.

Role of media and cultural representations: Negative media portrayals and cultural narratives can perpetuate harmful stereotypes and contribute to a cycle of violence.

It's important to note
These factors are not isolated but interconnected, creating a complex web of challenges in some Black communities.

This is not a reflection of an inherent characteristic of Black culture, but rather a consequence of systemic issues, says the Urban Institute.

Focusing on prevention and intervention strategies that address these underlying systemic factors, such as investing in education, creating economic opportunities, addressing historical injustices, and improving community-police relations, is crucial for promoting safety and justice in these communities.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 10, 2025, 10:43:00 PM
I want LBJ to come back from the dead just to kick Trump's ass.  You know he'd do it, too.  Without any hesitation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 11, 2025, 12:06:19 PM
Things were going a lot better before Great Society.

If I gave you a time machine - would you go back to that era?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 12, 2025, 12:20:35 PM
Gag

Quote
A new bill recently introduced in Congress is called the "Make Entertainment Great Again Act," but it focuses narrowly on one particular venue: the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

Presented by Republican Rep. Bob Onder of Missouri on July 23, the bill would rename the modernist, cream-colored building the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts. A national symbol of the arts, the Kennedy Center has hosted thousands of performances on its seven stages since it opened in 1971. Renaming the venue after President Trump has been under discussion since February, when the president took over the organization's board of trustees.

"Since he was elected as chairman of the Kennedy Center's board of trustees, President Trump has been working to preserve the integrity [of] the fine arts by ending woke programming and rebalancing the Kennedy Center's $234 million budget, which had normalized operating in the red," Onder's office wrote in a statement.

"You would be hard pressed to find a more significant cultural icon in the past 40 years than President Trump," the congressman is quoted as saying. "President Trump's love and mastery of entertainment has stood the test of time and allowed him to capture Americans' attention for decades."
More: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5483848/kennedy-center-trump
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 12, 2025, 12:38:41 PM
If I gave you a time machine - would you go back to that era?

I’ve heard the 60s were a lot of fun. Would be weird seeing intact black families though. (Ourside of the south anyways)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 12, 2025, 01:02:15 PM
Gag
More: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5483848/kennedy-center-trump

I doubt you were going any time soon anyway. Just turn it into a FEMA camp.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 12, 2025, 04:29:58 PM
I’ve heard the 60s were a lot of fun. Would be weird seeing intact black families though. (Ourside of the south anyways)

I'm sure that being a MAGA PATRIOT the first thing you'd be doing in the 1960's would be running to the doctor to pay him to say you have bone spurs, you pussy
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on August 12, 2025, 04:31:49 PM
I'm sure that being a MAGA PATRIOT the first thing you'd be doing in the 1960's would be running to the doctor to pay him to say you have bone spurs, you pussy

Good one, Murph
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 12, 2025, 05:27:03 PM
Someone is stealing Judge Judy's bit. Wonder if Mn was at this place at the time....

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna224562

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

Gerika Mudra, 18, went to dinner in April with a friend in Owatonna, about an hour south of Minneapolis. When she went to the restroom, a server followed her inside and banged on the stall door while saying, “This is a women’s restroom. The man needs to get out of here,” according to Gender Justice, a Minnesota gender-equality organization that filed the charge on Mudra’s behalf.

Mudra, a biracial lesbian who is not transgender, said she’s been in similar situations before, where people have suggested she’s in the wrong restroom, but when she tells them she’s a woman they leave her alone. However, when she came out of the stall at Buffalo Wild Wings and told the server, “I am a lady,” she said the server responded, “You have to get out now,” according to a statement shared by Gender Justice.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 12, 2025, 07:15:04 PM
Someone is stealing Judge Judy's bit. Wonder if Mn was at this place at the time....

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna224562

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

Gerika Mudra, 18, went to dinner in April with a friend in Owatonna, about an hour south of Minneapolis. When she went to the restroom, a server followed her inside and banged on the stall door while saying, “This is a women’s restroom. The man needs to get out of here,” according to Gender Justice, a Minnesota gender-equality organization that filed the charge on Mudra’s behalf.

Mudra, a biracial lesbian who is not transgender, said she’s been in similar situations before, where people have suggested she’s in the wrong restroom, but when she tells them she’s a woman they leave her alone. However, when she came out of the stall at Buffalo Wild Wings and told the server, “I am a lady,” she said the server responded, “You have to get out now,” according to a statement shared by Gender Justice.

The "person" who wrote this article is fucking woke - they assigned "They/Them" pronouns to "The Server"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 13, 2025, 01:30:49 AM
I'm sure that being a MAGA PATRIOT the first thing you'd be doing in the 1960's would be running to the doctor to pay him to say you have bone spurs, you pussy

If Papa Custard hadn’t gone to the University of Illinois he would have been drafted, died in fruitless canopy jungle warfare (worthy fucking adversary!) and this forum would not even exist.

You’re welcome!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 13, 2025, 06:21:45 AM
Trump's lottery number in the 1968 draft lottery was 356. He wasn't going anywhere.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 13, 2025, 10:58:58 AM
Someone is stealing Judge Judy's bit. Wonder if Mn was at this place at the time....

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna224562

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

Gerika Mudra, 18, went to dinner in April with a friend in Owatonna, about an hour south of Minneapolis. When she went to the restroom, a server followed her inside and banged on the stall door while saying, “This is a women’s restroom. The man needs to get out of here,” according to Gender Justice, a Minnesota gender-equality organization that filed the charge on Mudra’s behalf.

Mudra, a biracial lesbian who is not transgender, said she’s been in similar situations before, where people have suggested she’s in the wrong restroom, but when she tells them she’s a woman they leave her alone. However, when she came out of the stall at Buffalo Wild Wings and told the server, “I am a lady,” she said the server responded, “You have to get out now,” according to a statement shared by Gender Justice.

I miss the good old days when "tomboys" could hit the high school ladies' room without some Karen demanding to see if she has a weiner.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 13, 2025, 11:18:34 AM
Guess Jasn knows how to get to see some boobies now at corporate
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 13, 2025, 12:10:03 PM
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1955567880298476010

Sort of like in LA, where he sent 4,000 National Guard troops and nearly all of them did very little for a few months, then were demobilized.

The goal is a photo op.  And he hopes for a clash with activists.  Beyond that there are no orders, no mission, no plans.  Just like everything else Trump does.  This action is largely performative.  Trump’s is our Showbiz Fuhrer.  He's not running a junta; he's producing a reality show.  The National Guard are the extras.   

Maybe they can get to the bottom of the Epstein files.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 13, 2025, 12:27:22 PM
If Papa Custard hadn’t gone to the University of Illinois he would have been drafted, died in fruitless canopy jungle warfare (worthy fucking adversary!) and this forum would not even exist.

You’re welcome!

bullshit. He used the fake bone spurs excuse. The pussy doesn't fall far from the pussy
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 13, 2025, 12:28:10 PM
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1955567880298476010

Sort of like in LA, where he sent 4,000 National Guard troops and nearly all of them did very little for a few months, then were demobilized.

The goal is a photo op.  And he hopes for a clash with activists.  Beyond that there are no orders, no mission, no plans.  Just like everything else Trump does.  This action is largely performative.  Trump’s is our Showbiz Fuhrer.  He's not running a junta; he's producing a reality show.  The National Guard are the extras.   

Maybe they can get to the bottom of the Epstein files.

DOGE indeed
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 13, 2025, 12:28:53 PM
Trump's lottery number in the 1968 draft lottery was 356. He wasn't going anywhere.

dunno about that, but do know that if he were called to serve, he would find a way out. War is for suckers and losers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 13, 2025, 12:45:17 PM
dunno about that, but do know that if he were called to serve, he would find a way out. War is for suckers and losers.

People of means rarely fight in modern wars unless it’s existential in nature. While I’m appreciative of those who fought in Vietnam in a pointless conflict, I can also understand why people who had an out took it. Zero percent chance your kids would fight in a similar conflict—you’re too smart for that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 13, 2025, 01:35:11 PM
People of means rarely fight in modern wars unless it’s existential in nature. While I’m appreciative of those who fought in Vietnam in a pointless conflict, I can also understand why people who had an out took it. Zero percent chance your kids would fight in a similar conflict—you’re too smart for that.

well, there is some daylight between you, and Trump's public persona. He would never get up on stage and say that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 13, 2025, 03:04:55 PM
Trump's lottery number in the 1968 draft lottery was 356. He wasn't going anywhere.

I am pretty sure that was the 1970 draft for dob 1944 to 1950. Trump had been exposed to the draft prior to that and received several deferments. It is not hard to look up.

"A lottery drawing – the first since 1942 – was held on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970; that is, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950"
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Post by: Hal9000 on August 13, 2025, 03:31:19 PM
I am pretty sure that was the 1970 draft for dob 1944 to 1950. Trump had been exposed to the draft prior to that and received several deferments. It is not hard to look up.

"A lottery drawing – the first since 1942 – was held on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970; that is, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950"

Illiniray, I can help you. All you needed to do was ask.

Yes. Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War:

Four student deferments (while attending Fordham University and later the University of Pennsylvania, 1964–1968).

One medical deferment in 1968, classified as 1-Y (later 4-F) due to bone spurs in his heels.

That medical deferment kept him from being eligible for service unless in a national emergency, and it effectively exempted him from the draft.

I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do, illiniray. The thread I started should be used for questions such as these. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error. Moderator, this thread can serve no purpose any more. It should be locked.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 13, 2025, 07:57:38 PM
https://youtu.be/K4WCtYDtgbM
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 14, 2025, 09:11:52 AM
Hal,
Who received the most deferments and who received their medical deferment first, Joe Biden or Donald Trump ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 14, 2025, 10:25:21 AM
Hal,
Who received the most deferments and who received their medical deferment first, Joe Biden or Donald Trump ?

But ..., wait for it, ... whatabout Joe Biden!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 14, 2025, 10:33:45 AM
But ..., wait for it, ... whatabout Joe Biden!
" It is not hard to look up. "
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 14, 2025, 10:39:13 AM
https://youtu.be/K4WCtYDtgbM
Sorry, but unless you've posted this in other sites you're not included in the millions of social media users peddling "false and defamatory statements."

"millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide."
"A source told Fox News that he did not meet the deadline."
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/melania-trump-threatens-legal-action-against-hunter-biden-over-false-epstein?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 14, 2025, 10:41:42 AM
" It is not hard to look up. "

You're right this time. Rather than admit you were wrong about Trump, your reply was 'whatabout Joe?'
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 14, 2025, 11:02:55 AM
You're right this time. Rather than admit you were wrong about Trump, your reply was 'whatabout Joe?'
I don't believe I was wrong. I had the incorrect year but I do remember where I was watching tv on the day of the lottery. Was Trump called by his draft board pre-draft lottery ?
If not, he was going nowhere.

Then Trump's draft number in the lottery also meant he was going nowhere.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Hal9000 on August 14, 2025, 11:49:06 AM
Hal,
Who received the most deferments and who received their medical deferment first, Joe Biden or Donald Trump ?

Here’s the direct answer to your question:

Joe Biden and Donald Trump both received a total of five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era:

Joe Biden received five student deferments—while he was an undergraduate and later in law school—and then, in April 1968, was reclassified as 1-Y (available only in a national emergency) due to asthma as a teenager.

Donald Trump likewise received five deferments—four for educational purposes (college) and a fifth medical deferment based on bone spurs in his heels.

So the answer is that they received the same number of deferments—five each.

Additional Context
Biden’s deferments:

Student deferments were common at the time for full-time undergraduates and graduate students.

His medical classification in 1968, 1-Y due to asthma, meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency—effectively exempting him from service.

Trump’s deferments:

He got four student deferments while attending Fordham University and the Wharton School, plus one medical deferment due to bone spurs.

His medical deferment has drawn scrutiny—he himself described the condition as "temporary" and "minor" and has been criticized for the ease with which it was obtained.

In short: neither received more deferments than the other—they both had five.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 14, 2025, 12:38:03 PM
Here’s the direct answer to your question:

Joe Biden and Donald Trump both received a total of five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era:

Joe Biden received five student deferments—while he was an undergraduate and later in law school—and then, in April 1968, was reclassified as 1-Y (available only in a national emergency) due to asthma as a teenager.

Donald Trump likewise received five deferments—four for educational purposes (college) and a fifth medical deferment based on bone spurs in his heels.

So the answer is that they received the same number of deferments—five each.

Additional Context
Biden’s deferments:

Student deferments were common at the time for full-time undergraduates and graduate students.

His medical classification in 1968, 1-Y due to asthma, meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency—effectively exempting him from service.

Trump’s deferments:

He got four student deferments while attending Fordham University and the Wharton School, plus one medical deferment due to bone spurs.

His medical deferment has drawn scrutiny—he himself described the condition as "temporary" and "minor" and has been criticized for the ease with which it was obtained.

In short: neither received more deferments than the other—they both had five.

So Hal, why is it that only Trump’s get talked about in the media, and not Biden’s?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Hal9000 on August 14, 2025, 12:44:53 PM
So Hal, why is it that only Trump’s get talked about in the media, and not Biden’s?!

Judge Judy, I enjoy your TV show. Here is your answer:

The main reason you hear more about Donald Trump’s Vietnam draft deferments than Joe Biden’s is that the type of deferments, the circumstances behind them, and how they’ve been publicly discussed are very different — and that difference shapes media coverage.

Here’s the breakdown:

1. The nature of the deferments

Donald Trump: Received five deferments — four for education (common for college students at the time) and one for a medical reason (“bone spurs” in his heels). That last deferment has drawn attention because the bone spur diagnosis was reportedly given by a doctor whose daughters later said it was a favor to Trump’s father. This makes it a “story” in the sense that it raises questions about privilege and influence.

Joe Biden: Received five deferments — all for education while in college and law school — and then a medical deferment for asthma. Biden’s medical deferment is less frequently questioned because asthma is a documented, chronic condition and he had mentioned it in earlier contexts.

2. How the candidates themselves talk about it

Trump has made strong public statements about military service, criticizing others for avoiding it, which invites scrutiny of his own record.

Biden rarely criticizes others over military service in the same way, so the press hasn’t had the same “hypocrisy” angle to latch onto.

3. The political and narrative fit

Trump’s deferment story fits into broader media narratives about him benefiting from family wealth and privilege.

Biden’s deferments, while similar in count, don’t align as neatly with a “special treatment” or “hypocrisy” storyline in most reporters’ eyes.

4. Historical context
During the Vietnam era, student deferments were very common; millions of men received them. Medical deferments were also common, but ones perceived as questionable — especially when the person later downplays the war or criticizes others — tend to draw more attention.

If you strip away the political spin, both men had multiple deferments and avoided Vietnam, but Trump’s deferments — especially the bone spur one — have been treated as a richer “investigative” and “character” story for journalists.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 14, 2025, 12:51:55 PM
So Hal, why is it that only Trump’s get talked about in the media, and not Biden’s?!

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Biden-deferred-disqualified-from-Vietnam-duty-3196927.php

https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2008/08/deferments_asthma_kept_biden_o.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/16/fact-check-biden-received-multiple-draft-deferments-vietnam/5809482002/

https://www.armytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2021/01/21/dodging-and-deferring-trump-wasnt-the-only-potus-to-avoid-the-draft/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 14, 2025, 04:59:43 PM
I do remember where I was watching tv on the day of the lottery.

OK Boomer
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 14, 2025, 05:03:27 PM
So Hal, why is it that only Trump’s get talked about in the media, and not Biden’s?!

Because Biden’s son enlisted in the military and served in regions funded by heroin production and  Trump’s son funded the enemy by snorting heroin
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 14, 2025, 05:05:52 PM
Baker Mayfield was recently asked what it’s like living in Florida.

“Did you know you can just leave literally anything on the street or in an alley here, and some dirty man in an old truck will magically appear to take it?" Mayfield said.

"Anywhere else, you’d have to call a service, pay a fee, and beg someone to haul it away. Here? Nah. The man is already out there. Always circling your hood. Collecting trash.”

According to Mayfield, it doesn’t matter what you put out there. “Moldy couch? Broken table? Rusted-out grill? Put it curbside and within hours, some dude in a beat-up Ford F-150 will scoop it. I swear, he’s got the reflexes of a jungle cat. Tears well up in my eyes just thinking about it.”

Mayfield called it an “unspoken bond” between every Floridian and the mysterious junk collector.

“Doesn’t matter if you live on millionaire row or in the hood, he’s always near. And you never see him. One time I put a trampoline with broken springs in my alley and pointed cameras at it. I saw motion… then it was gone. No person in frame. Just gone within ten minutes. Where did it go? Is he fixing it? Selling it? Living on it? I don’t care. It’s gone. That’s all that matters. And somehow, we’re both better for it.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 14, 2025, 10:34:01 PM
Because Biden’s son enlisted in the military and served in regions funded by heroin production and  Trump’s son funded the enemy by snorting heroin

I think Hunter was doing plenty of the latter.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 14, 2025, 10:35:16 PM
Baker Mayfield was recently asked what it’s like living in Florida.

“Did you know you can just leave literally anything on the street or in an alley here, and some dirty man in an old truck will magically appear to take it?" Mayfield said.

"Anywhere else, you’d have to call a service, pay a fee, and beg someone to haul it away. Here? Nah. The man is already out there. Always circling your hood. Collecting trash.”

According to Mayfield, it doesn’t matter what you put out there. “Moldy couch? Broken table? Rusted-out grill? Put it curbside and within hours, some dude in a beat-up Ford F-150 will scoop it. I swear, he’s got the reflexes of a jungle cat. Tears well up in my eyes just thinking about it.”

Mayfield called it an “unspoken bond” between every Floridian and the mysterious junk collector.

“Doesn’t matter if you live on millionaire row or in the hood, he’s always near. And you never see him. One time I put a trampoline with broken springs in my alley and pointed cameras at it. I saw motion… then it was gone. No person in frame. Just gone within ten minutes. Where did it go? Is he fixing it? Selling it? Living on it? I don’t care. It’s gone. That’s all that matters. And somehow, we’re both better for it.”

They put all that stuff in containers and ship it to California tent cities!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 15, 2025, 01:46:39 PM
I think Hunter was doing plenty of the latter.

solid point

They each have 2 (more aged) sons. Biden batted 50%, Trump pitched a shutout
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 16, 2025, 11:11:38 AM
Watch out, Custard.

Tennessee hiker dies after being bitten by venomous snake, officials say - ABC News https://share.google/psKMyRURdHQnt5WaM
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 18, 2025, 08:39:59 PM
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1aKDTgg6pc/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Hal9000 on August 19, 2025, 12:43:00 PM
Please refrain from seeking to disabuse others regarding my postings. I am infallible and you only will bring ridicule upon yourselves.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 19, 2025, 01:31:11 PM
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1aKDTgg6pc/

Feels very AI
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 19, 2025, 01:32:50 PM
Watch out, Custard.

Tennessee hiker dies after being bitten by venomous snake, officials say - ABC News https://share.google/psKMyRURdHQnt5WaM

The dumb fuck picked up a rattle snake 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on August 19, 2025, 01:37:47 PM
Baker Mayfield was recently asked what it’s like living in Florida.

“Did you know you can just leave literally anything on the street or in an alley here, and some dirty man in an old truck will magically appear to take it?" Mayfield said.

"Anywhere else, you’d have to call a service, pay a fee, and beg someone to haul it away. Here? Nah. The man is already out there. Always circling your hood. Collecting trash.”

According to Mayfield, it doesn’t matter what you put out there. “Moldy couch? Broken table? Rusted-out grill? Put it curbside and within hours, some dude in a beat-up Ford F-150 will scoop it. I swear, he’s got the reflexes of a jungle cat. Tears well up in my eyes just thinking about it.”

Mayfield called it an “unspoken bond” between every Floridian and the mysterious junk collector.

“Doesn’t matter if you live on millionaire row or in the hood, he’s always near. And you never see him. One time I put a trampoline with broken springs in my alley and pointed cameras at it. I saw motion… then it was gone. No person in frame. Just gone within ten minutes. Where did it go? Is he fixing it? Selling it? Living on it? I don’t care. It’s gone. That’s all that matters. And somehow, we’re both better for it.”

LOL, that's hilarious

and honestly, I'm gonna test that theory here over the next few weeks
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 21, 2025, 03:30:23 AM
Just had a funny little flashback to when the lab leak theory was racist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 21, 2025, 06:19:12 AM
Just had a funny little flashback to when the lab leak theory was racist.
I'm sorry to hear that.
At 3:30 am ?  :(
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 21, 2025, 06:42:06 AM
Just had a funny little flashback to when the lab leak theory was racist.
There was some funny stuff going on.

"But that information never reached Trump’s Presidential Daily Brief in January or February 2020, a former senior White House national security official told the DCNF.

“Customer #1 was getting nothing related to the origins,” he said"

https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/20/exclusive-fauci-deep-state-cabal-suppressed-intel/

And people are still trying to get 50,000 pages of Ralph Baric's work thru FOIA. It's not going so well for them.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on August 21, 2025, 10:26:52 AM
 Wait, he read a PDB?  Fake news!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 21, 2025, 11:41:59 AM
So MN gets his info from daily caller.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 21, 2025, 11:46:54 AM
So MN gets his info from daily caller.
Give it a shot. Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 21, 2025, 11:57:17 AM
Give it a shot. Lol

Mental masturbation for the right wing. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 21, 2025, 12:47:13 PM
Mental masturbation for the right wing. 
Emily Kopp has covered covid for years, has worked at NPR and under Debbie Stabenow, the former Democratic Senator from Michigan. She's an investigative reporter who does deal in FOIA requests.

From a FOIA request re the National Center for Medical Intelligence June 2020 documents...
Secret/Not for foreign nationals,which means it's a national security concern.

"A trio of scientists at the National Medical Intelligence Center (NCMI) within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) began by February 2020 to link traces of lab manipulation in the COVID virus to research in Wuhan.

The DIA higher-ups were also weighing the genetic analysis pushed by Fauci’s allies in the “Proximal Origin” paper.

By May 2020, the NCMI scientists had concluded that the paper was deeply flawed, documents show. But their rebuttal was rejected by senior officials at DIA as a “scholarly product” and not disseminated.

By June 2020, the NCMI scientists had compiled what one official described as a “smoking gun”: Documents, obtained by U.S. Right to Know through a FOIA lawsuit, showed NCMI spy scientists had detected signatures of engineering in the genome, and that these signatures pointed back to research proposals from the Wuhan and Baric labs.

(https://i.ibb.co/3yBMfLVB/Screenshot-20250821-122502-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/6Rg1vfGg)

Sorry but I don't have anything from CBS that can be creatively edited at their pleasure as long as it avoids "blatant slander and libel".

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 21, 2025, 02:40:08 PM
AI Overview

Determining the precise origin of COVID-19, whether from a lab leak or natural spillover, remains a complex and debated topic.
Based on intelligence assessments and scientific discussions:

Intelligence Community: The US Intelligence Community remains divided on the most likely origin.

Four elements and the National Intelligence Council lean towards natural exposure to an infected animal.

The Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation lean towards a laboratory-associated incident.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and one other agency are unable to determine the precise origin, as both hypotheses face challenges with conflicting reporting. The CIA has reportedly shifted its assessment towards the lab leak theory, but maintains "low confidence" in this finding.

Scientific Community: The scientific community largely favors the natural origin hypothesis, citing evidence such as:
Strong evidence of animal spillover at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan.
Genomic analysis showing the virus's phylogenetic relationship to SARS-like bat viruses.

Research indicating that SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged through natural evolution and recombination events between various hosts like bats and pangolins.

Other considerations:
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is located near the Huanan Seafood Market, leading to speculation about its potential role in a lab leak.

Some intelligence reports suggest risky research methods and breaches of laboratory safety rules at the WIV.
However, no definitive evidence has been shared to support a lab leak.

China has denied the Wuhan lab's responsibility and has been accused of hindering the global investigation.
In conclusion, while there are differing views and ongoing investigations, no conclusive evidence definitively proves either a lab leak or a natural origin for COVID-19. It's crucial to acknowledge the complexities and avoid hasty conclusions based on incomplete information or biased perspectives.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 21, 2025, 02:47:58 PM
Emily Kopp has covered covid for years, has worked at NPR and under Debbie Stabenow, the former Democratic Senator from Michigan. She's an investigative reporter who does deal in FOIA requests.

From a FOIA request re the National Center for Medical Intelligence June 2020 documents...
Secret/Not for foreign nationals,which means it's a national security concern.

"A trio of scientists at the National Medical Intelligence Center (NCMI) within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) began by February 2020 to link traces of lab manipulation in the COVID virus to research in Wuhan.

The DIA higher-ups were also weighing the genetic analysis pushed by Fauci’s allies in the “Proximal Origin” paper.

By May 2020, the NCMI scientists had concluded that the paper was deeply flawed, documents show. But their rebuttal was rejected by senior officials at DIA as a “scholarly product” and not disseminated.

By June 2020, the NCMI scientists had compiled what one official described as a “smoking gun”: Documents, obtained by U.S. Right to Know through a FOIA lawsuit, showed NCMI spy scientists had detected signatures of engineering in the genome, and that these signatures pointed back to research proposals from the Wuhan and Baric labs.

(https://i.ibb.co/3yBMfLVB/Screenshot-20250821-122502-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/6Rg1vfGg)

Sorry but I don't have anything from CBS that can be creatively edited at their pleasure as long as it avoids "blatant slander and libel".

Scientists continue to debate whether the spike protein's greater transmissibility arose naturally or in a laboratory, with some attributing these traits to recombination and selection in animal hosts. 

As Ray pointed out, the origin of COVID-19 remains a mystery.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 21, 2025, 04:23:31 PM
Sorry but I don't have anything from CBS that can be creatively edited at their pleasure as long as it avoids "blatant slander and libel".

Try watching Fox News. Oh yeah, they do defamation (slander and libel). How about  Alex Jones? Joe Oltmann? Newsmax? Rand Simberg? Mark Steyn? Project Veritas? Breitbart? The current President?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 25, 2025, 11:31:35 PM
If there was any doubt this guy is a moron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaCXh2qk1eM
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 26, 2025, 12:03:47 AM
Try watching Fox News. Oh yeah, they do defamation (slander and libel). How about  Alex Jones? Joe Oltmann? Newsmax? Rand Simberg? Mark Steyn? Project Veritas? Breitbart? The current President?

You should probably hold CBS, a traditional national network, to a higher standard than niche commentators or broadly partisan outlets. What they did was wildly misleading at a critical time in the election cycle. I get that you preferred the outcome of the edited footage and as such are inherently biased and can’t be objective in any way, but I do think there’s a path where you could at least try to seek objectivity from the major networks while letting the tribes find their confirmation bias dopamine fixes on the niche channels. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 26, 2025, 04:49:28 PM
I hold CBS, a traditional national network, to a higher standard than Fox News. What 60 minutes did was normal normal editing due to time restraints. What Fox does is blatant lying. But I'm inherently biased and can’t be objective in any way.

fify
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 26, 2025, 06:09:13 PM
Donald is working on the big problems

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cracker-barrel-stock-jumps-as-company-reverts-to-old-logo-after-trump-weighs-in-160813894.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 26, 2025, 06:47:46 PM
You should probably hold CBS, a traditional national network, to a higher standard than niche commentators or broadly partisan outlets. What they did was wildly misleading at a critical time in the election cycle. I get that you preferred the outcome of the edited footage and as such are inherently biased and can’t be objective in any way, but I do think there’s a path where you could at least try to seek objectivity from the major networks while letting the tribes find their confirmation bias dopamine fixes on the niche channels.

You still crying about this?  News outlets (even FOX) have the right to edit their content, and they do so because of time constraints.  The only difference here is that Trump and his cult are still bitching and moaning, playing the victim.     
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 26, 2025, 09:07:45 PM
Time Constraints. LOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 26, 2025, 10:22:56 PM
Time Constraints. LOL

AI Overview

Editing interviews to fit time constraints is a very common practice in media production. In almost any pre-recorded interview for a news segment, podcast, or television show, the full conversation is cut down to its most relevant and engaging points to fit the allotted time.

Why interviews are edited for time
Conciseness: Editing removes filler words, irrelevant digressions, long pauses, and repeated information. This makes the interview more focused and efficient for the audience.

Audience retention: Unedited, raw footage of a long interview can be boring for the average listener or viewer. Condensing the content helps to maintain audience interest and deliver the key takeaways quickly.

Production logistics: News and other media programs have specific and non-negotiable time slots. The final edited version of an interview must be a precise length to fit within the schedule.

Highlighting key information: Producers and editors will choose the most impactful soundbites and quotes to create a coherent narrative or highlight the most important parts of the conversation.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 26, 2025, 10:25:29 PM
More:

While editing for time is normal, media outlets operate under ethical standards to ensure the practice is not misleading. Reputable journalists must:
Preserve meaning: The edited version should accurately reflect the interviewee's intended meaning, tone, and substance.

Avoid taking quotes out of context: Altering the context of an answer to misrepresent a person's remarks is considered unethical and can carry legal risk.

Handle "cleanup" carefully: Removing stumbles or filler words ("ums" and "ahs") is generally acceptable, but overly "cleaning up" an answer can sometimes make it sound unnatural.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 27, 2025, 12:37:17 AM
Yeah that’s all fine and well but also not at all what happened.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 27, 2025, 05:45:08 AM
"Time constraints"
We'll attribute it to "time constraints" and that's our story and we're sticking to it.
 ;D
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 27, 2025, 07:02:29 AM
It is called 60 Minutes for a reason I heard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 28, 2025, 08:01:07 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/nsKQz724/Screenshot-20250826-142105-2.png) (https://ibb.co/WWRBgk97)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 28, 2025, 08:05:01 PM
Everything is under control. No help is needed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/chicago-reigns-as-country-s-homicide-capital-for-13th-straight-year/ar-AA1BrTDC
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 28, 2025, 08:19:01 PM
Everything is under control. No help is needed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/chicago-reigns-as-country-s-homicide-capital-for-13th-straight-year/ar-AA1BrTDC

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/cost-national-guard-deployment-washington-dc

So that is how much it costs to pick up trash in DC.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 28, 2025, 08:57:09 PM
AI Overview

For the entire year of 2024, Chicago recorded the most homicides overall with 573 murders, while St. Louis, Missouri, had the highest murder rate per capita at 48.6 per 100,000 people, according to a Wirepoints analysis. Other cities with high murder rates include Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan.

By Total Murders
Chicago: Had the highest number of homicides in 2024, with a total of 573 murders, marking the 13th consecutive year it was considered the nation's homicide capital by total count.

By Homicide Rate Per Capita

St. Louis, Missouri:
Had the highest murder rate at 48.6 homicides per 100,000 people in 2024, which was the third consecutive year it led the nation in per capita rates.

Baltimore, Maryland:
Followed St. Louis with a homicide rate of 35.2 per 100,000 people in 2024.

Detroit, Michigan:
Had a homicide rate of 37.0 per 100,000 people in 2024.

Jackson, Mississippi:
Had a reported rate of approximately 78 per 100,000 people, making it the highest rate among cities with at least 100,000 people.

Other Cities with High Rates
Memphis, Tennessee: Had a high violent crime rate with 145 murder victims recorded in the first eight months of 2024.

New Orleans, Louisiana: Had a rate of 40.6 per 100,000 people.

Cleveland, Ohio: Had a rate of 33.7 per 100,000 people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 28, 2025, 09:58:51 PM
AI Overview

For the entire year of 2024, Chicago recorded the most homicides overall with 573 murders, while St. Louis, Missouri, had the highest murder rate per capita at 48.6 per 100,000 people, according to a Wirepoints analysis. Other cities with high murder rates include Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan.

By Total Murders
Chicago: Had the highest number of homicides in 2024, with a total of 573 murders, marking the 13th consecutive year it was considered the nation's homicide capital by total count.

By Homicide Rate Per Capita

St. Louis, Missouri:
Had the highest murder rate at 48.6 homicides per 100,000 people in 2024, which was the third consecutive year it led the nation in per capita rates.

Baltimore, Maryland:
Followed St. Louis with a homicide rate of 35.2 per 100,000 people in 2024.

Detroit, Michigan:
Had a homicide rate of 37.0 per 100,000 people in 2024.

Jackson, Mississippi:
Had a reported rate of approximately 78 per 100,000 people, making it the highest rate among cities with at least 100,000 people.

Other Cities with High Rates
Memphis, Tennessee: Had a high violent crime rate with 145 murder victims recorded in the first eight months of 2024.

New Orleans, Louisiana: Had a rate of 40.6 per 100,000 people.

Cleveland, Ohio: Had a rate of 33.7 per 100,000 people.
As I said "Everything is under control. No help is needed."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 28, 2025, 10:42:22 PM
AI Overview

No, Chicago is not the murder capital of the U.S., and has seen historic declines in violent crime and homicides in the first part of 2025. While Chicago did have the highest murder rate among U.S. cities with over one million people for seven consecutive years, this is a specific statistic, not an overall claim of being the capital. Other cities and counties may have higher overall murder rates, and the national homicide rate has been decreasing, with Memphis, TN having higher rates in its home county in a recent July 2025 report, according to USAFacts.

Clarifying the "Murder Capital" Claim

Misleading Term:
The term "murder capital" is often used politically, but it doesn't reflect a definitive statistical title for a city.

Specific Context:
While Chicago's murder rate for large cities was high, this only compared it to other large cities and didn't consider smaller cities or counties.

Declining Crime:
In the first eight months of 2025, Chicago experienced significant drops in violent crime, homicides, and shooting incidents, contradicting the idea that the city remains at the top of the list.

Factors to Consider for Homicide Rates

Population Density:
Homicide rates can vary significantly depending on the population size of a city, with larger cities often having higher numbers of crimes.

Geographic Areas:
A city's overall rate can be influenced by the rates in smaller neighborhoods, not just the city as a whole.

Data Sources:
Statistics can be reported differently by various government agencies, leading to conflicting information.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 28, 2025, 11:09:24 PM
AI Overview

No, Chicago is not the murder capital of the U.S., and has seen historic declines in violent crime and homicides in the first part of 2025. While Chicago did have the highest murder rate among U.S. cities with over one million people for seven consecutive years, this is a specific statistic, not an overall claim of being the capital. Other cities and counties may have higher overall murder rates, and the national homicide rate has been decreasing, with Memphis, TN having higher rates in its home county in a recent July 2025 report, according to USAFacts.

Clarifying the "Murder Capital" Claim

Misleading Term:
The term "murder capital" is often used politically, but it doesn't reflect a definitive statistical title for a city.

Specific Context:
While Chicago's murder rate for large cities was high, this only compared it to other large cities and didn't consider smaller cities or counties.

Declining Crime:
In the first eight months of 2025, Chicago experienced significant drops in violent crime, homicides, and shooting incidents, contradicting the idea that the city remains at the top of the list.

Factors to Consider for Homicide Rates

Population Density:
Homicide rates can vary significantly depending on the population size of a city, with larger cities often having higher numbers of crimes.

Geographic Areas:
A city's overall rate can be influenced by the rates in smaller neighborhoods, not just the city as a whole.

Data Sources:
Statistics can be reported differently by various government agencies, leading to conflicting information.

Hi AI, what is the common denominator in US cities with the highest murder rates and murder numbers?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 29, 2025, 08:18:45 AM
AI Overview

No, Chicago is not the murder capital of the U.S., and has seen historic declines in violent crime and homicides in the first part of 2025. While Chicago did have the highest murder rate among U.S. cities with over one million people for seven consecutive years, this is a specific statistic, not an overall claim of being the capital. Other cities and counties may have higher overall murder rates, and the national homicide rate has been decreasing, with Memphis, TN having higher rates in its home county in a recent July 2025 report, according to USAFacts.

Clarifying the "Murder Capital" Claim

Misleading Term:
The term "murder capital" is often used politically, but it doesn't reflect a definitive statistical title for a city.

Specific Context:
While Chicago's murder rate for large cities was high, this only compared it to other large cities and didn't consider smaller cities or counties.

Declining Crime:
In the first eight months of 2025, Chicago experienced significant drops in violent crime, homicides, and shooting incidents, contradicting the idea that the city remains at the top of the list.

Factors to Consider for Homicide Rates

Population Density:
Homicide rates can vary significantly depending on the population size of a city, with larger cities often having higher numbers of crimes.

Geographic Areas:
A city's overall rate can be influenced by the rates in smaller neighborhoods, not just the city as a whole.

Data Sources:
Statistics can be reported differently by various government agencies, leading to conflicting information.

As I said "Everything is under control. No help is needed."

Posted without the use of AI.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 29, 2025, 09:59:18 AM
I’m loving how hard the media is trying to downplay the precipitous drop in DC crime since the crackdown
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 29, 2025, 10:58:03 AM
I’m loving how hard the media is trying to downplay the precipitous drop in DC crime since the crackdown

i'm loving how hard you are trying to downplay the ridiculous increase in prices since Jan 20, 2025
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 29, 2025, 11:19:28 AM
I’m loving how hard the media is trying to downplay the precipitous drop in DC crime since the crackdown

Care to provide some evidence?  ABC, CBS, The Hill, BBC, CNN and others have published articles in the last few days noting the drop in crime rates.  These articles have also included supportive comments from the mayor.

I've seen a couple of articles where crime experts have suggested waiting another 3 weeks or so to report data in order to improve accuracy because the reporting of crime always lags.  One expert questioned how the National Guard troops were being deployed.  Another would like to see a breakdown of the arrests and how they are being processed.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on August 29, 2025, 11:43:47 AM
i'm loving how hard you are trying to downplay the ridiculous increase in prices since Jan 20, 2025

All the staple items I buy are the cheapest they’ve been in years. Gas, milk, eggs, etc. Beef is high because demand for better protein is up because the economy is so good.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 29, 2025, 11:57:14 AM
All the staple items I buy are the cheapest they’ve been in years. Gas, milk, eggs, etc. Beef is high because demand for better protein is up because the economy is so good.

I said downplay but misspelled lying.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 29, 2025, 01:00:46 PM
Hi AI, what is the common denominator in US cities with the highest murder rates and murder numbers?

*Residual effects of historical factors such as Jim Crow, redlining, ...
*Traditional underfunding of education and crime prevention programs.
*Over reliance on militarized policing.
*Poor relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
*Emphasis on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
*Saturation of guns and illegal drugs
*Recent improvement despite Republican sabotage efforts

Posted without the aid of AI. Note that I have a bad right rotator cuff and carpal tunnel in both hands, making this difficult.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 29, 2025, 01:16:49 PM
The sarcastic reply to AI response practically writes itself. Murder inequality?

Hi AI, what is the common denominator in US cities with the highest murder rates and murder numbers?

AI Overview

The common denominator in US cities with high murder rates and numbers includes economic hardship, concentrated poverty and unemployment, and the disproportionate impact of violence on historically disadvantaged communities and specific demographic groups, particularly young Black males.

Other contributing factors include a lack of resources for public safety, isolation from social supports, and the presence of firearms.

Key Common Factors:

Economic Disadvantage:
Cities with high murder rates often experience significant economic hardship, high poverty rates, and unemployment, which can drive individuals to criminal activity for income.

Concentrated Disadvantage:
Violence is often concentrated within specific, disadvantaged neighborhoods within cities, a phenomenon known as "murder inequality".

Demographic Disparities:
Black males, particularly those aged 15 to 44, face significantly higher homicide rates compared to other demographic groups.

Resource Shortages:
A lack of resources for public safety and policing can impact a city's ability to address and prevent violence, contributing to higher homicide numbers.

Social and Environmental Stressors:
Factors like isolation from social supports, which were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, can contribute to volatile environments that increase violent crime.

Firearm Accessibility:
The prevalence of firearms is a significant factor in the high rates of gun homicides in affected cities.

Why This Pattern Exists:

Systemic Inequality:
These factors are interconnected and often stem from historical and systemic inequalities that create environments where violence is more likely to occur.

Localized Impact:
Focusing on the specific, high-crime areas within cities provides a more accurate picture of the threat and can inform more effective prevention strategies.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on August 29, 2025, 02:07:30 PM
Hal, is "the" singular or plural ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 29, 2025, 02:26:20 PM
Hal, is "the" singular or plural ?

pronouns, man, pronouns. obsessed with pronouns.

Trump abused "the" underaged women. Plural

there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on August 29, 2025, 04:32:58 PM
All the staple items I buy are the cheapest they’ve been in years. Gas, milk, eggs, etc. Beef is high because demand for better protein is up because the economy is so good.

“U.S. companies have an unwelcome message for inflation-weary consumers: Prices are going up."

“Companies including Hormel Foods, J.M. Smucker and Ace Hardware said this week they would raise prices for reasons ranging from higher meat costs to tariffs. Large retailers like Walmart, Target and Best Buy said some tariff-related price increases are already in place. More are on the way."
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariffs-higher-prices-forecast-5233d6c4?st=GGGcV1

SILENCE....I WILL TAKE OVER YOUR COMPANIES.....THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
--Chairman Trump
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 29, 2025, 04:55:10 PM
All the staple items I buy are the cheapest they’ve been in years. Gas, milk, eggs, etc. Beef is high because demand for better protein is up because the economy is so good.

Illini Football tickets are up in price this year. But you are an Iowa fan so what do you care, they can't give away their tickets.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on August 29, 2025, 05:19:28 PM
I’m loving how hard the media is trying to downplay the precipitous drop in DC crime since the crackdown

I’m loving that so-called traditional conservatives (or even “moderates”) are cheerleading Martial Law.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on August 29, 2025, 06:41:51 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/vxynZdZW/Screenshot-20250828-230007-2.png) (https://ibb.co/1fyW8X8N)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 01, 2025, 01:33:21 PM
“U.S. companies have an unwelcome message for inflation-weary consumers: Prices are going up."

“Companies including Hormel Foods, J.M. Smucker and Ace Hardware said this week they would raise prices for reasons ranging from higher meat costs to tariffs. Large retailers like Walmart, Target and Best Buy said some tariff-related price increases are already in place. More are on the way."
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariffs-higher-prices-forecast-5233d6c4?st=GGGcV1

SILENCE....I WILL TAKE OVER YOUR COMPANIES.....THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
--Chairman Trump

Your anger once again misplaced when it comes to food.

Using policy to justify collusion to increase margins is BS. The middlemen make most of the money already in the food industry.

Almost none of the supply chain for a Smucker or Hormel is under pressure from tariffs. Feed for livestock is dirt cheap, and it’s made here.

Hormel just may price themselves out of the shitty canned meat market if they aren’t careful.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on September 01, 2025, 02:09:16 PM
Your anger once again misplaced when it comes to food.

Using policy to justify collusion to increase margins is BS. The middlemen make most of the money already in the food industry.

Almost none of the supply chain for a Smucker or Hormel is under pressure from tariffs. Feed for livestock is dirt cheap, and it’s made here.

Hormel just may price themselves out of the shitty canned meat market if they aren’t careful.

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-08-25/us-retail-giants-raise-prices-and-seek-new-import-sources-due-to-tariffs.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ross-will-test-raising-prices-monitor-customer-impacts-execs-say/ar-AA1Lly7V

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/sony-is-raising-prices-on-ps5-consoles-you-can-blame-tariffs/ar-AA1KTPoS

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/home-depot-becomes-the-latest-company-to-raise-their-prices-due-to-trump-s-tariffs/ar-AA1KOIbl

https://www.msn.com/en-
us/money/economy/half-of-companies-increasing-prices-in-response-to-tariffs/ar-AA1KKw6X

Custard is highly skilled at polishing Trump turds.   

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 01, 2025, 10:45:03 PM
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-08-25/us-retail-giants-raise-prices-and-seek-new-import-sources-due-to-tariffs.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ross-will-test-raising-prices-monitor-customer-impacts-execs-say/ar-AA1Lly7V

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/sony-is-raising-prices-on-ps5-consoles-you-can-blame-tariffs/ar-AA1KTPoS

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/home-depot-becomes-the-latest-company-to-raise-their-prices-due-to-trump-s-tariffs/ar-AA1KOIbl

https://www.msn.com/en-
us/money/economy/half-of-companies-increasing-prices-in-response-to-tariffs/ar-AA1KKw6X

Custard is highly skilled at polishing Trump turds.

None of that has anything to do with food.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on September 01, 2025, 11:43:12 PM
None of that has anything to do with food.

Easy fix: 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/trump-tariffs-food-prices.html

https://www.eatingwell.com/new-tariffs-affected-foods-11787328

https://www.cfr.org/article/consumers-should-brace-themselves-higher-food-prices

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5428344-trump-tariffs-food-grocery-prices/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 02, 2025, 07:15:03 AM
Alum off to a strong start to September!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 02, 2025, 07:27:30 AM
The 1st article is from July
"President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs scheduled to begin on Aug. 1 could "
Lol

The 2nd article is close to a month old.
"President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs scheduled to begin on Aug. 1 could "
Keep sweating it out. Lol

The 3rd article is a month old.
"Consumers Should Brace Themselves ......"
All of that energy devoted to bracing was wasted. Lol

And the 4th, from a month ago also.
"How Trump’s tariffs could affect your grocery bill"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 02, 2025, 08:08:32 AM
Easy fix: 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/trump-tariffs-food-prices.html

https://www.eatingwell.com/new-tariffs-affected-foods-11787328

https://www.cfr.org/article/consumers-should-brace-themselves-higher-food-prices

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5428344-trump-tariffs-food-grocery-prices/

You nailed it with your own article:

Quote
That said, not every item in Americans’ grocery baskets could see price increases.

Many agricultural products from Mexico and Canada, including some fruits, vegetables and meat products, are reportedly exempt under a trade agreement negotiated during Trump’s first term.

Potential duties on other imports and countries are still being worked out. Trump struck a trade deal with the European Union this week that established a 15 percent duty on goods from the bloc. But wine and spirits, for instance, still need to be negotiated, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this week.

“The Administration has consistently maintained that the cost of tariffs will be borne by foreign exporters who rely on access to the American economy, the world’s biggest and best consumer market,” a White House spokesperson wrote in a statement.

Every month the prices and inflation are much flatter than expected and the TDS folks can’t make sense of it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 02, 2025, 08:11:32 AM
Minnesota gas prices are down over 10% from a year ago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 02, 2025, 08:33:47 AM
Inflation has been tamed, grocery prices are going great, and the job market is booming. Gives new meaning to Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 02, 2025, 08:59:22 AM
Inflation has been tamed, grocery prices are going great, and the job market is booming. Gives new meaning to Trump Derangement Syndrome.

What a time to be alive!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on September 02, 2025, 10:11:08 AM
People are noticing higher prices at grocery stores and restaurants. 

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-sentiment-weakens-august-inflation-expectations-rise-2025-08-15/?taid=689f8f6f0e01240001800427

Wait until the tariffs take full effect.  We're in the 'find out' part of fucking around.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 02, 2025, 10:33:07 AM
Around Aug 1 there are 4 articles stating could, could, should and could.

2 weeks later, public opinion polls showed that "U.S. consumer sentiment softened in August as households anticipated higher goods prices because of import tariffs."

Where would the public get these 'anticipations ?' 🤫🤷
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 02, 2025, 10:37:11 AM
https://youtu.be/PDJ_Mz8ftqI
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 02, 2025, 10:45:12 AM
Oh, looky here looky here. Lol

Trump's approval rating drops the following week

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/08/21/president-trump-approval-rating-latest-polls-show-failure-to-gain-ground/85761641007/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on September 02, 2025, 10:54:57 AM

Where would the public get these 'anticipations ?' 🤫🤷

Every time they step into a grocery store or restaurant. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 02, 2025, 11:26:33 AM
The 1st article is from July
"President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs scheduled to begin on Aug. 1 could "
Lol

The 2nd article is close to a month old.
"President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs scheduled to begin on Aug. 1 could "
Keep sweating it out. Lol

The 3rd article is a month old.
"Consumers Should Brace Themselves ......"
All of that energy devoted to bracing was wasted. Lol

And the 4th, from a month ago also.
"How Trump’s tariffs could affect your grocery bill"

The conditional there is what is known as the "Taco trade"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 02, 2025, 11:27:11 AM
Minnesota gas prices are down over 10% from a year ago.

This happens in failing states.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 02, 2025, 12:06:01 PM
People are noticing higher prices at grocery stores and restaurants. 

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-sentiment-weakens-august-inflation-expectations-rise-2025-08-15/?taid=689f8f6f0e01240001800427

Wait until the tariffs take full effect.  We're in the 'find out' part of fucking around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srH8f_Fa82A
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 02, 2025, 12:13:36 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srH8f_Fa82A

Maybe Mn should watch this... here you have this rich CEO of McDonalds, very antiseptically going over their business model and saying things like "well, some of the people in the middle to lower income tiers, maybe they're just skipping a meal, and we see that in lower breakfast revenue"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 02, 2025, 12:21:41 PM
Man, I don't know. Prices at McDonald's are pretty damn ridiculous now.

They're in danger of pricing out the trash that they depend on...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 02, 2025, 02:06:15 PM
Gas in my neighborhood is nowhere near record cheap. And neither are groceries.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 02, 2025, 02:53:54 PM
Man, I don't know. Prices at McDonald's are pretty damn ridiculous now.

They're in danger of pricing out the trash that they depend on...

I don't really eat at McDonalds, but sounds like a quarter pounder meal has crossed the $10 mark.

McDonalds is supposed to be 5 bucks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 03, 2025, 03:04:02 PM
Was at the doctors office this morning and whatever TV program was on in the background was talking about how fast food restaurants are bringing back extra value meals because they’ve lost so many customers due to out of hand prices.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 03, 2025, 03:33:22 PM
Was at the doctors office this morning and whatever TV program was on in the background was talking about how fast food restaurants are bringing back extra value meals because they’ve lost so many customers due to out of hand prices.

We grilled out some chicken kabobs yesterday. Two chicken breasts, an onion, green pepper. Even organic at whole paycheck, and if you toss in a buck for amortized cost of olive oil and spices, we were out like 12 bucks, for 5 decent kabobs. A few years ago maybe that's 9 bucks.

Go out to eat around here, probably 25-30 bucks, maybe they throw 30 cents worth of rice on the plate. Groceries are up but labor costs are the real issue. With the fast food places it's also them trying to grab as much profit margin as possible. The rubicon has been crossed. I eat out like... never. It wouldn't bankrupt me but it just fucking pisses me off so I just can't do it. An omelet is not 20 bucks homie.

And they crossed the rubicon. They can bring back lower prices but they've built into me the behavior that we just cook. Period.

I'll eat out when we go to Vegas. Which - is only happening because we are going to the Broncos game. And we are staying way off strip. My sister is stopping at Costco on the way to the hotel to get a case of water and beer. I never did *like* paying for a beer in Vegas, but sometimes you just don't feel like putting quarters into the VP machine or sitting down at a table and waiting for service, and beer at the bar in the casino was like half of a bar in SF so who cares - but now a beer in Vegas is MORE than one in SF. Hell, it's probably as cheap at the Raiders game as it is at Aria.

Back in the day, I was at the Mirage and hanging in the sports book watching the Illini, I think this was circa Kiwane Garris. A waitress just was bringing me beers, I was tipping her but the beers were comped. Then they moved to where you had to get a ticket for a beer when you made a bet, but they were pretty much just giving them away for any bet. I've been told at Bellagio sports book, to get a beer comp you have to make FIVE HUNDRED in wagers.

fuck the corporations. Except Costco.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 03, 2025, 04:16:33 PM
I don't really eat at McDonalds, but sounds like a quarter pounder meal has crossed the $10 mark.

McDonalds is supposed to be 5 bucks.

Yes. And I'm going to show my age a little bit here, but whatever.

Seems like every time I bitch about McDonalds prices, someone always says, well, get the app. There are great deals on there!

No. Fuck that. I hate that shit. Why should I have to have an app on my phone to get a good deal on shit food? Especially when you put the order in the fucking app, show up to the place and some kid is like, derrr, I don't see your order here.

Taco Bell pisses me off with that too. There are some things that are only available on their stupid fucking app. Why?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 03, 2025, 04:46:32 PM
Yes. And I'm going to show my age a little bit here, but whatever.

Seems like every time I bitch about McDonalds prices, someone always says, well, get the app. There are great deals on there!

No. Fuck that. I hate that shit. Why should I have to have an app on my phone to get a good deal on shit food? Especially when you put the order in the fucking app, show up to the place and some kid is like, derrr, I don't see your order here.

Taco Bell pisses me off with that too. There are some things that are only available on their stupid fucking app. Why?

Just about every business tries their best to force you to use their app these days. I’m with you on principle—I don’t go along with it most of the time. McDonald’s is one of the rare exceptions because I do like a couple things from there every so often, and using the app is the only way it’s somewhat justifiable. Even though it’s usually something I get when I’m traveling for work and using the company card anyways, but again it’s the principle of the thing. If they want to give me what I want for half the price of ordering at the kiosk or the speaker by using the app, fuck it. But I totally get where you’re coming from.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on September 03, 2025, 06:35:17 PM
I remember when the cop in Ferguson said that Michael Brown charged at him and every Democrat in the country insisted that it couldn't be true because no one would ever charge at a cop who's pointing a gun at them. And then they put body cams on all the cops and now we see a new video every week of some deranged freak doing exactly that !
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on September 03, 2025, 07:54:17 PM


Taco Bell pisses me off with that too. There are some things that are only available on their stupid fucking app. Why?

Ever read the terms and conditions of those apps?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 04, 2025, 06:43:32 AM
Was at the doctors office this morning and whatever TV program was on in the background was talking about how fast food restaurants are bringing back extra value meals because they’ve lost so many customers due to out of hand prices.
I read something in the last couple of days from the CEO who said that they've been losing customers for years.
In the video the guy says that for the last, wait for it, 4-5 years the company has seen increased costs and increases in employee wages.

What happened 4-5 years ago, say around 2020-2021 ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 04, 2025, 06:49:37 AM
There are some things that are only available on their stupid fucking app. Why?
They don't have to employ a human being to take your order.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 04, 2025, 07:29:43 AM
They don't have to employ a human being to take your order.

What does that have to do with whether a certain item is available to order only on the app? Humans still have to make the food...whether you order it on an app or tell some pimple faced dipshit named Carl.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 04, 2025, 07:29:53 AM
Ever read the terms and conditions of those apps?

Lol, no
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 04, 2025, 08:02:02 AM
What does that have to do with whether a certain is available to order only on the app? Humans still have to make the food...whether you order it on an app or tell some pimple faced dipshit named Carl.
Increasing app use with the lower prices reduces the number of "pimple faced dipshit named Carl" employees. The remaining people, who's wages have increased, are still putting the food together and bat signal Carl isn't there to upsell your order.

Let's ask Carl. He's been well respected here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 04, 2025, 08:10:57 AM
If I want the super special yummy style taco, I should be able to walk into the restaurant and say I want the super special yummy style taco. I don't want to hear, I'm sorry, you can only order the super special yummy style taco on our super glitchy piece of shit app that may or may not save your order and may or may not be secure.

Carl is standing there anyway. He's fucking there. All he would have to do is punch a button on a computer and I get my super special yummy style taco. If I can only order it on the app, I get something else instead because I don't have the damn app. He's still fucking there, whether I have the app or not.

Sorry, it's stupid.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Chickengeorge on September 04, 2025, 08:14:04 AM
McDonald's sucks. Never eat there, but was craving a Royale with cheese a couple months ago and it was shit. Threw most of it out. The fries were bland as fuck, too. Recall the nuggets not being bad and I do like the breakfast burrito, though.

Culvers is about the only fast food burger joint I go to. And yes, it's all stupid money now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 04, 2025, 08:15:39 AM
McDonald's sucks. Never eat there, but was craving a Royale with cheese a couple months ago and it was shit. Threw most of it out. The fries were bland as fuck, too. Recall the nuggets not being bad and I do like the breakfast burrito, though.

Culvers is about the only fast food burger joint I go to. And yes, it's all stupid money now.

Royale with cheese. Lol

Culver's is fucking legit. I hate their drive thru tho.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 04, 2025, 08:21:22 AM
If I want the super special yummy style taco, I should be able to walk into the restaurant and say I want the super special yummy style taco. I don't want to hear, I'm sorry, you can only order the super special yummy style taco on our super glitchy piece of shit app that may or may not save your order and may or may not be secure.

Carl is standing there anyway. He's fucking there. All he would have to do is punch a button on a computer and I get my super special yummy style taco. If I can only order it on the app, I get something else instead because I don't have the damn app. He's still fucking there, whether I have the app or not.

Sorry, it's stupid.
Yep. Some people will use the app for the lower prices and some will just not go to McDonald's as much as they used to because corporate won't give them app prices on in-store orders.
Like the CEO said, customer counts are down.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 04, 2025, 09:25:50 AM
I’ve saved a ton of money with the McDonald’s app. I use it more than I’d like to admit, because I’m in a car a lot and my 10 year old loves McNuggets. But I’ve saved a lot of money with it. I’ve cut back on how much I eat, though. I usually just get a $2 biscuit or a free mcchicken.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 04, 2025, 09:26:21 AM
I was also anti-app but a buddy convinced me to download it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 04, 2025, 09:29:16 AM
What would Carl say ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 04, 2025, 09:30:27 AM
Spackler? “It’s in the hole?!”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 11:22:42 AM
I remember when the cop in Ferguson said that Michael Brown charged at him and every Democrat in the country insisted that it couldn't be true because no one would ever charge at a cop who's pointing a gun at them. And then they put body cams on all the cops and now we see a new video every week of some deranged freak doing exactly that !

Michael Brown just needed to upload the Cop App. Then it would have all been fine. But fuck that. I hate the apps.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 11:25:05 AM
If I want the super special yummy style taco, I should be able to walk into the restaurant and say I want the super special yummy style taco. I don't want to hear, I'm sorry, you can only order the super special yummy style taco on our super glitchy piece of shit app that may or may not save your order and may or may not be secure.

Carl is standing there anyway. He's fucking there. All he would have to do is punch a button on a computer and I get my super special yummy style taco. If I can only order it on the app, I get something else instead because I don't have the damn app. He's still fucking there, whether I have the app or not.

Sorry, it's stupid.

It's not hard to put Mn in his place because basically anything anyone says, Mn wants to be a troll and say the opposite bullshit, but I really appreciate Jobu doing this version. Fuck the apps.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 11:26:23 AM
I’ve saved a ton of money with the McDonald’s app. I use it more than I’d like to admit, because I’m in a car a lot and my 10 year old loves McNuggets. But I’ve saved a lot of money with it. I’ve cut back on how much I eat, though. I usually just get a $2 biscuit or a free mcchicken.

You're gonna pay all that money back in health care costs. Fuck McDonalds.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 04, 2025, 11:28:18 AM
You're gonna pay all that money back in health care costs. Fuck McDonalds.

He's not going to pay anything. County taxpayers will pick up the tab.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 11:29:28 AM
He's not going to pay anything. County taxpayers will pick up the tab.

Tempo plays 3D chess
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 04, 2025, 11:59:49 AM
I agree with Carl
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 12:12:44 PM
I agree with Carl

nice try. He's still popping his zits on your quarter pounder. That's his favorite feature of the app.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 01:06:52 PM
call me AOTC
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/mcdonald-s-ceo-raises-alarm-about-new-customer-behavior/ar-AA1LT6Qx?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=68b9d1ccbe734be0825920c13f3d4f2d&ei=21

The food-at-home (bought at grocery stores) CPI grew 2.2% from July 2024 to July 2025.
The food away-from-home (restaurant or fast food) CPI increased 3.9% from July 2024 to July 2025.

Over the last few years, McDonald’s average prices per item grew around 40%, according to several reports. The chain faced harsh criticism, but until now, it attributed these increases to the rising cost of food, writes TheStreet’s Veronika Bondarenko.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 04, 2025, 02:15:52 PM
But they said paying them $15 an hour wouldn’t change anything!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 03:58:00 PM
But they said paying them $15 an hour wouldn’t change anything!

If the McDonalds around here tried to pay $15, they would have zero employees (let's assume the statewide minimum was eliminated).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 04, 2025, 05:25:54 PM
But they said paying them $15 an hour wouldn’t change anything!

Conservatives are always focused on the wrong people. God forbid the CEO only make $8 million instead of $18 million. Surprised he’s only at $18 mil tbh. I’m guessing that’s a lowball total.

(https://i.postimg.cc/CM7c4T11/IMG-3057.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/QVBgXzcG)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 05:37:23 PM
Conservatives are always focused on the wrong people. God forbid the CEO only make $8 million instead of $18 million. Surprised he’s only at $18 mil tbh. I’m guessing that’s a lowball total.

(https://i.postimg.cc/CM7c4T11/IMG-3057.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/QVBgXzcG)

It hasn't been amplified enough but eventually this guy is going to have to answer for it. People are struggling, and the problem he has is that McDonald's bottom line has been impacted by lower income people making new choices like "skipping breakfast".

People having to skip breakfast isn't a problem in and of itself. The problem is that he isn't getting that 8 bucks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 04, 2025, 09:09:46 PM
It hasn't been amplified enough but eventually this guy is going to have to answer for it. People are struggling, and the problem he has is that McDonald's bottom line has been impacted by lower income people making new choices like "skipping breakfast".

People having to skip breakfast isn't a problem in and of itself. The problem is that he isn't getting that 8 bucks.

Correct. CEOs aren’t the enemy because they command a high compensation. That comp package is a drop in the bucket of their earnings and if he fucks up, he’s out and won’t ever hold a job like that again. He’ll be fine, of course, but he probably did something along the way to be the CEO of a giant corporation.

There are 2.15 million employees in the McDonald’s system. Fire the CEO, distribute his salary amongst those 2.15 million employees, and tell me how much difference that makes those employees.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 04, 2025, 09:26:38 PM
Correct. CEOs aren’t the enemy because they command a high compensation. That comp package is a drop in the bucket of their earnings and if he fucks up, he’s out and won’t ever hold a job like that again. He’ll be fine, of course, but he probably did something along the way to be the CEO of a giant corporation.

There are 2.15 million employees in the McDonald’s system. Fire the CEO, distribute his salary amongst those 2.15 million employees, and tell me how much difference that makes those employees.

right. he's the enemy because he doesn't give a fuck about anyone, not just his employees. The company goes through machinations to save pennies by making their food shittier and shittier, and paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to gauge just exactly how many extra pennies they can charge for a happy meal without losing the sale. Advertise to kids with stupid toys in the happy meal that makes the kid happy for a second but they end up at the doctor obese. Oh, the parents should navigate their kids food choices - newsflash we have a lot of undereducated gullible people in this country and they will get quickly addicted to crap, especially if all they can afford is soylent McNuggets.

Did you miss my post - the guy is unhappy that people can't afford to eat breakfast BECAUSE IT HURTS HIS PROFIT - not because of malnutrition and poverty.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 04, 2025, 09:54:27 PM
right. he's the enemy because he doesn't give a fuck about anyone, not just his employees. The company goes through machinations to save pennies by making their food shittier and shittier, and paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to gauge just exactly how many extra pennies they can charge for a happy meal without losing the sale. Advertise to kids with stupid toys in the happy meal that makes the kid happy for a second but they end up at the doctor obese. Oh, the parents should navigate their kids food choices - newsflash we have a lot of undereducated gullible people in this country and they will get quickly addicted to crap, especially if all they can afford is soylent McNuggets.

Did you miss my post - the guy is unhappy that people can't afford to eat breakfast BECAUSE IT HURTS HIS PROFIT - not because of malnutrition and poverty.

Shots fired at Tempo!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 05, 2025, 01:40:51 AM
(https://i.postimg.cc/YqnDGk51/IMG-3066.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/6yZfFs53)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 05, 2025, 01:43:41 AM
And then there are the huge golden parachutes for failed CEOs. Sometimes in the hundreds of millions. Yeah, they’ve got it rough.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 17, 2025, 11:04:48 AM
This is some great shit.

5 months ago, Trump administration bans Nvidia from selling chips to China. Jensen being Jensen, Trump summons Jensen to DC, and Jensen convinces Trump to lift the ban.

Then China bans Chinese companies from buying the chips that they were banned from buying by the US a few months ago, and Speaker Johnson calls it an act of war.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/china-us-nvidia-chip-ban.html

"Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson called China an “adversary” of the U.S. on Wednesday after a report that the country has told tech companies to stop buying Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 17, 2025, 11:56:03 AM
Then China bans Chinese companies from buying the chips that they were banned from buying by the US a few months ago, and Speaker Johnson calls it an act of war.

The best part of this is that, as a condition of lifting the ban on sales of Nvidia chips to China, Trump negotiated a deal that the Government gets 15% of the sales of the chips.

The Chinese then say fuck you 15% of nothing is zero. Trump is playing Checkers, the CCP is playing Chinese Checkers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 17, 2025, 03:40:06 PM
the CCP is playing Chinese Checkers.

(https://i.postimg.cc/8jpYfNq1/b74.gif) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 18, 2025, 12:08:55 PM
Murph, didn't you deride Intel as going down the shitter?

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/18/2025/nvidia-to-invest-5b-in-rival-intel
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 18, 2025, 12:38:08 PM
Murph, didn't you deride Intel as going down the shitter?

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/18/2025/nvidia-to-invest-5b-in-rival-intel

Buy low...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 18, 2025, 12:48:23 PM
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/local-man-fired-for-giving-barista-his-name/

My "name" on my Starbucks app is "Vaccinated" - I did it as a joke years ago, but I ended up keeping it because since I'm an old fart, it means my drink ends up in the "V" section and is a very long name, so I can quickly tell which drink is mine without my reading glasses. Also, the baristas know exactly whose order it is and they will pull my mobile order in because I tip and will chat with them if they aren't too busy (I order it while walking over with the dog).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 18, 2025, 01:19:36 PM
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/local-man-fired-for-giving-barista-his-name/

My "name" on my Starbucks app is "Vaccinated" - I did it as a joke years ago, but I ended up keeping it because since I'm an old fart, it means my drink ends up in the "V" section and is a very long name, so I can quickly tell which drink is mine without my reading glasses. Also, the baristas know exactly whose order it is and they will pull my mobile order in because I tip and will chat with them if they aren't too busy (I order it while walking over with the dog).

Oh, such a great story to tell at your inauguration! Such a nice and likable  billionaire!

“He mows his own lawn everybody!!!”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 18, 2025, 01:30:13 PM
Oh, such a great story to tell at your inauguration! Such a nice and likable  billionaire!

“He mows his own lawn everybody!!!”

wut?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 18, 2025, 02:27:10 PM
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/local-man-fired-for-giving-barista-his-name/

My "name" on my Starbucks app is "Vaccinated" - I did it as a joke years ago, but I ended up keeping it because since I'm an old fart, it means my drink ends up in the "V" section and is a very long name, so I can quickly tell which drink is mine without my reading glasses. Also, the baristas know exactly whose order it is and they will pull my mobile order in because I tip and will chat with them if they aren't too busy (I order it while walking over with the dog).

Damn, you really are that guy, aren’t you? Amazing!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 18, 2025, 02:35:59 PM
Damn, you really are that guy, aren’t you? Amazing!

The guy that needs reading glasses? Congrats on your young eyes

The guy who tips the barista? Congrats on being a cheap ass. On brand

Dog hater? Figures.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 18, 2025, 02:43:36 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0LgNt_Jv30

This ought to be funny. TPUSA is going to go from a well spoken but crafty snivily dude who relies on logical fallacies to run over 19 year old college students in debates, to the person responsible for this gem

"I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and a the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa or should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we can be able to build up our future"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 18, 2025, 04:43:13 PM
I thought MTG said the Jews were going to take it over? Was hoping I, if not Alum as an ally (since he is accused here of being a "kike bot" ), would get the cushy gig.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 18, 2025, 04:44:31 PM
I thought MTG said the Jews were going to take it over? Was hoping I, if not Alum as an ally (since he is accused here of being a "kike bot" ), would get the cushy gig.

Thank God it wasn’t Ben Shapiro. No pun intended…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 18, 2025, 04:59:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0LgNt_Jv30

This ought to be funny. TPUSA is going to go from a well spoken but crafty snivily dude who relies on logical fallacies to run over 19 year old college students in debates, to the person responsible for this gem

"I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and a the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa or should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we can be able to build up our future"

Couldn’t wait for the body to get cold, or she’d have missed out on the Big Grift.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 18, 2025, 06:08:07 PM
Couldn’t wait for the body to get cold, or she’d have missed out on the Big Grift.

It's like winning the lottery. She gets the money and the kids but doesn't have to go through the divorce or split custody.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 19, 2025, 12:19:04 AM
It's like winning the lottery. She gets the money and the kids but doesn't have to go through the divorce or split custody.

And people like you and tempo think you’re the good guys 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 04:04:39 AM
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CTQRf8fgg/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 19, 2025, 09:32:22 AM
And people like you and tempo think you’re the good guys 😂

Seriously though, why does a family with 12 million dollars need a GoFundMe?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 19, 2025, 09:43:42 AM
Seriously though, if Kirk wasn't assassinated there wouldn't have been a GoFundMe.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 10:34:13 AM
And people like you and tempo think you’re the good guys 😂

There are four kinds of people here.

Tempo - literal culture warrior on the left
Custard - shitposting troll
Murph - ironic troll
Mn - literal culture warrior on the right
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 10:34:41 AM
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CTQRf8fgg/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Fmo5F3mZh/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17Bn6jGFbM/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CHnZSuSaA/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19v96VQbtS/?mibextid=wwXIfr

walled garden, deleted.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 10:35:22 AM
Seriously though, if Kirk wasn't assassinated there wouldn't have been a GoFundMe.

Kirk's entire life was a GoFundMe
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 19, 2025, 10:53:14 AM
Seriously though, if Kirk wasn't assassinated there wouldn't have been a GoFundMe.

Right, but why do they need one? They’re millionaires 12x over.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 19, 2025, 10:54:16 AM
If Kimmel got murdered by a crazed person I wouldn’t think his family would
need one, either.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 19, 2025, 10:55:41 AM
Right, but why do they need one? They’re millionaires 12x over.

No one says that anybody actually has to contribute
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 19, 2025, 10:56:00 AM
I’d say GoFundMes for people like this are even more ridiculous than people donating to Trump to pay his legal fees.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 19, 2025, 10:59:21 AM
No one says that anybody actually has to contribute

No fucking shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 19, 2025, 11:00:13 AM
My point is if you want to donate money give it to people who actually need it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 11:04:51 AM
There are four kinds of people here.

Tempo - literal culture warrior on the left
Custard - shitposting troll
Murph - ironic troll
Mn - literal culture warrior on the right

I’m offended! What am I, chopped liver?! My feelings matter too! #inclusion #manwhoidentifiesasawomanonhere #discriminationbymurph #transrights that you are trying to suppress!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 11:06:26 AM
walled garden, deleted.

Offensive!

You just don’t like me because I’m really a man who is a woman on here! You’re have transphobia!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 11:08:00 AM
My point is if you want to donate money give it to people who actually need it.

AKA you! That’s so progressive of you!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 19, 2025, 11:10:25 AM
Right, but why do they need one? They’re millionaires 12x over.
Send her a text and ask. I'm sure she'd be flattered. Maybe the money will be used to supprt the 60,000+ requests for chapters or for membership efforts.

Now do the $100 million FireAid benefit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 19, 2025, 11:11:05 AM
My point is if you want to donate money give it to people who actually need it.

Feel free. It is allegedly still a free country
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 19, 2025, 11:12:02 AM
No fucking shit.

Then why you bitching about people deciding how to spend their money?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 19, 2025, 11:12:36 AM
AKA you! That’s so progressive of you!

No. Not me. Kids with cancer. A head start program. A food shelter. Start there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 19, 2025, 11:13:17 AM
No. Not me. Kids with cancer. A head start program. A food shelter. Start there.

There's no way that you've donated to any of those programs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 11:16:33 AM
Then why you bitching about people deciding how to spend their money?

Because he’s not getting it. Jealousy and envy are evil sins…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 11:18:27 AM
No. Not me. Kids with cancer. A head start program. A food shelter. Start there.

What’s stopping you from doing that?! You want others telling you how to spend… wait, never mind, you obviously do being an extreme progressive…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 11:21:26 AM
So you just wanna preach to others what to do with their money. Got it. Man, that sounds like a great way to live with others spending your money. I love your ideology! Now I can see why it’s failed!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 19, 2025, 11:27:00 AM
No. Not me. Kids with cancer. A head start program. A food shelter. Start there.
Wrong kid with cancer. His parents are Trumpers.
Wrong head start program. They have white Christians in the program.
Wrong food shelter program. Learn to code and buy your own food.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 19, 2025, 11:46:34 AM
Guess what? We do not allow people to spend their money any way they want. For example; we can't legally buy cocaine or hire hit men. Our ability to purchase alcoholic beverages or view certain types of programs is severely restricted.

Also, wealth is not created in a vacuum. Business benefits from incorporation, national defense, law enforcement, public research, transportation, education, healthcare, etc.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 11:55:44 AM
I’m offended! What am I, chopped liver?! My feelings matter too! #inclusion #manwhoidentifiesasawomanonhere #discriminationbymurph #transrights that you are trying to suppress!

Judy - sock puppet
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 11:56:54 AM
Send her a text and ask. I'm sure she'd be flattered. Maybe the money will be used to supprt the 60,000+ requests for chapters or for membership efforts.

Now do the $100 million FireAid benefit.

Some of that money will be used to help the relatives of the 300 million americans who died during the Biden administration due to Venezuelan Fentanyl
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 11:58:53 AM
Then why you bitching about people deciding how to spend their money?

Strawman. He's bitching about people who don't need the money grifting off of people who do need the money.
I for one don't really have a problem with that. I mean, caveat emptor sure, but it can still piss me off. Hardly the worst example in the modern world, when we have TrumpCoin, etc...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 12:00:16 PM
There's no way that you've donated to any of those programs

Last year I posted that anyone who had a good cause, I'd donate 50 bucks of my money and get Nvidia to match it.

Even Q97 gave me a worthwhile cause. Tempo - crickets. He can't even donate someone else's money!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 12:02:23 PM
Wrong kid with cancer. His parents are Trumpers.
Wrong head start program. They have white Christians in the program.
Wrong food shelter program. Learn to code and buy your own food.

The irony being that this is the crux of the GOP's thrust to end Government programs because you know, these things should be done voluntarily via charity. Which is basically the GOP saying that rather than pay taxes to assist programs like that for all children, if we do it with charity, we can funnel our donations solely to the demographics we approve of.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 12:04:38 PM
Strawman. He's bitching about people who don't need the money grifting off of people who do need the money.
I for one don't really have a problem with that. I mean, caveat emptor sure, but it can still piss me off. Hardly the worst example in the modern world, when we have TrumpCoin, etc...

Man, what would Tempo (or anyone on here for that matter) do without you mansplain’ everything to them!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 12:05:45 PM
Man, what would Tempo (or anyone on here for that matter) do without you mansplain’ everything to them!

they'd have to rely on your womansplaining!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 12:07:05 PM
Last year I posted that anyone who had a good cause, I'd donate 50 bucks of my money and get Nvidia to match it.

Even Q97 gave me a worthwhile cause. Tempo - crickets. He can't even donate someone else's money!

Should I mortgage everything to buy as much Nvidia stock right now as possible?! Is it too late?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 12:08:16 PM
they'd have to rely on your womansplaining!

I made a damn good living (as you can clearly see on TV reruns, still makin that $$) off doing exactly that!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 19, 2025, 12:10:23 PM
they'd have to rely on your womansplaining!

I do find it bothersome that I have to continually tuck my penis between my legs instead of just chopping it off because I don’t have Tempo paying for my health insurance!

Tempo, you want to donate to that good cause?! I’ll give you my cashapp handle…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 12:11:10 PM
I do find it bothersome that I have to continually tuck my penis between my legs instead of just chopping it off because I don’t have Tempo paying for my health insurance!

Tempo, you want to donate to that good cause?! I’ll give you my cashapp handle…

short enough you can probably just tape it down.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 19, 2025, 12:18:07 PM
Don't Trumpers benefit disproportionately from the social programs they hate?

AI Overview

There is significant evidence that many counties with strong support for Donald Trump and the Republican Party are heavily reliant on social programs, such as Medicare, Social Security, and federal-level Medicaid benefits.

Disproportionate reliance on social safety net

Research from the Economic Innovation Group published in late 2024 revealed a strong correlation between voting patterns and reliance on government transfers.

The study found that Donald Trump received 63% of the vote among "significantly reliant counties," where at least a quarter of personal income comes from government transfers like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

In contrast, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris tended to perform better in counties with minimal reliance on government transfers.

Geographic and demographic factors
This pattern is driven by several demographic and geographic factors, with many rural areas that lean Republican showing a higher need for government assistance.

Older populations in rural areas: A 2025 analysis by the USDA found that rural counties have a higher proportion of older residents compared to urban areas, leading to increased reliance on federal benefits like Social Security and Medicare.

Persistent poverty: These high-dependency, often-rural counties have higher poverty rates and lower wages, making residents more reliant on the social safety net to make ends meet.

Medicaid reliance: A KFF Health News analysis found that more than two-thirds of the counties with the biggest growth in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) between 2008 and 2025 had voted for Trump in the 2020 election.

Conflicting attitudes
Despite high rates of participation, many Republican voters express skepticism toward the same programs that benefit their communities.

Views on government aid: A Pew Research Center poll in mid-2024 found that Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say that government aid to the poor does more harm than good.

Skepticism toward welfare: A 2019 Cato Institute survey found that 68% of Republicans believe that welfare creates dependency, while 71% of Democrats think it helps people get back on their feet.

Republican Medicaid enrollees: A June 2025 KFF poll found that even among Republican enrollees in Medicaid, many were divided on whether the Trump administration's policies would ultimately strengthen or weaken the program, though majorities of Democrats and Independents thought it would be weakened.

Differing views on specific programs: While there are broad partisan differences regarding programs for the poor, Pew data from 2012 indicated that Democrats and Republicans use Social Security and Medicare at roughly equal rates. This may explain why support for these programs is strong across the political spectrum, even as Republicans are more critical of means-tested programs like food assistance.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 19, 2025, 12:38:44 PM
Seriously though, if Kirk wasn't assassinated there wouldn't have been a GoFundMe.

It's a fund raising opportunity.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 12:46:34 PM
It's a fund raising opportunity.

Clearly Robinson was paid by Kirk's wife in order to generate some cash flow
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 19, 2025, 02:17:57 PM
https://www.threads.com/@james_david_walley/post/DOudfhQCW-n?xmt=AQF0DxxvjuajT0uRSWrqfs8h6yG8YxqA5aYy8MJ3En3_rg&slof=1
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 02:44:11 PM
https://www.threads.com/@james_david_walley/post/DOudfhQCW-n?xmt=AQF0DxxvjuajT0uRSWrqfs8h6yG8YxqA5aYy8MJ3En3_rg&slof=1

yet another app for me to deal with? pass
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 19, 2025, 03:51:10 PM
Last year I posted that anyone who had a good cause, I'd donate 50 bucks of my money and get Nvidia to match it.

Even Q97 gave me a worthwhile cause. Tempo - crickets. He can't even donate someone else's money!

Oh man is that ever some pure gold
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 19, 2025, 03:58:24 PM
Keith Olbermann makes a good point:

"There are bigger issues in play. It is clear now that there were two different public Charlie Kirks. On the left we saw a slick but rather run-of-the-mill hate monger who mocked Democratic victims of political violence and wanted to see public executions. On the right, they literally never saw those videos. They only saw a 'beautiful man, armed only with a bible' preaching family values. How? Different social media feeds."

Seriously, I had heard of Kirk, but what little I knew of him came from secondary accounts. I gather that is true of most people on both sides.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 04:55:03 PM
Oh man is that ever some pure gold

You may be the top shitposter, but anyone can shitpost willy nilly. It takes real talent to be an equal opportunity shitposter
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 19, 2025, 04:57:38 PM
Seriously, I had heard of Kirk, but what little I knew of him came from secondary accounts. I gather that is true of most people on both sides.

75% of the country barely knew who this guy was - but the 15% of the country that loved him really thinks that 75% needed to have a moment of silence for him and have flags at half staff.

75% is probably an understatement.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 12:12:58 AM
There's no way that you've donated to any of those programs

I have. And I used to volunteer at a food shelter. And that’s not the fucking point, anyway. If you’re going to donate money, don’t donate it to fucking millionaires. That was the point. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 12:14:22 AM
Because he’s not getting it. Jealousy and envy are evil sins…

Seriously, STFU.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 12:15:47 AM
So you just wanna preach to others what to do with their money. Got it. Man, that sounds like a great way to live with others spending your money. I love your ideology! Now I can see why it’s failed!

They can do whatever the fuck they want, but giving it to people 40x richer than they are is fucking stupid. In fact, I think you should cut a $2,000 check to Charlie right now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 12:18:22 AM
Then why you bitching about people deciding how to spend their money?

Hey, you want to give money to people who don’t need it? Have at it. Have a good time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 12:29:37 AM
Seriously though, if Kirk wasn't assassinated there wouldn't have been a GoFundMe.

Seriously though, a GoFundMe is usually for funeral costs or medical costs. Why does someone in the top half of the top 1% need a GoFundMe? But by all means; send them your money, it’s yours. I was just trying to make a suggestion. Sorry I hurt so many feelings.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2025, 12:50:38 AM
Keith Olbermann makes a good point:

"There are bigger issues in play. It is clear now that there were two different public Charlie Kirks. On the left we saw a slick but rather run-of-the-mill hate monger who mocked Democratic victims of political violence and wanted to see public executions. On the right, they literally never saw those videos. They only saw a 'beautiful man, armed only with a bible' preaching family values. How? Different social media feeds."

Seriously, I had heard of Kirk, but what little I knew of him came from secondary accounts. I gather that is true of most people on both sides.

Social media feeds are poison, and people should eschew them at all costs. Nothing is driving division and hatred moreso than the algorithms feeding you exactly what you want to see.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2025, 01:33:15 AM
Seriously though, a GoFundMe is usually for funeral costs or medical costs. Why does someone in the top half of the top 1% need a GoFundMe? But by all means; send them your money, it’s yours. I was just trying to make a suggestion. Sorry I hurt so many feelings.

From the WGAF file comes this perfect example of why Judy calls you out for being envious and bitter. Sorry the world left you behind, but your decisions have a lot more to do with your personal plight than anything Charlie Kirk, white evangelicals, or Donald Trump ever did or said.

You can wear your white guilt on your sleeve and post shit online about how you’re an ally to the marginalized and distressed and depressed and transitioning and Ukrainians and your support of LBGTQIA+ folks in your neighborhood. You can prefer “exotic” dark haired women even though natural blondes are like a single digit percentage of the global population.

All of these things are great. But seriously, use your intellect and go out and make some money bro
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 06:24:21 AM
From the WGAF file comes this perfect example of why Judy calls you out for being envious and bitter. Sorry the world left you behind, but your decisions have a lot more to do with your personal plight than anything Charlie Kirk, white evangelicals, or Donald Trump ever did or said.

You can wear your white guilt on your sleeve and post shit online about how you’re an ally to the marginalized and distressed and depressed and transitioning and Ukrainians and your support of LBGTQIA+ folks in your neighborhood. You can prefer “exotic” dark haired women even though natural blondes are like a single digit percentage of the global population.

All of these things are great. But seriously, use your intellect and go out and make some money bro

JFC you guys are insufferable
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 20, 2025, 07:41:58 AM
Social media feeds are poison, and people should eschew them at all costs. Nothing is driving division and hatred moreso than the algorithms feeding you exactly what you want to see.

And HQ2! It's the original Cesspool!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 08:10:15 AM
I was getting some conservative shit in my feed for a while, must’ve been the Marjorie Taylor Green fantasy porn. I downloaded.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 20, 2025, 08:10:28 AM
JFC you guys are insufferable

It’s weird because we all think you are…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 20, 2025, 08:29:26 AM
Social media feeds are poison, and people should eschew them at all costs. Nothing is driving division and hatred moreso than the algorithms feeding you exactly what you want to see.
Yep.
"what little I knew of him came from secondary accounts. I gather that is true of most people on both sides.

I guess we're at the point that most people on the left never heard of Charlie Kirk but they appear to be damn sure that he was the person secondary accounts on the left and who knows what foreign country accounts portrayed him to be.
So he got murdered.
And we're told that Kimmel has been treated unfairly because he told a fabrication, wouldn't apologize, told ABC that he was going to double down on his fabrication and ABC told him "No, you're not going on tv."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 08:33:19 AM
It’s weird because we all think you are…

Yeah, I get that. But I’m not the one obsessed with what’s in people‘s underwear. And believe it or not I don’t want any of yours or custard’s money. I’m also not the one cheerleading a fascist president.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 08:35:45 AM
And it always amuses me that custard tries to pass himself off as a moderate.. he probably thinks John McCain was a RINO. An actual moderate would be my cousin who thinks Trump is a Dipshit and understands his moral failings, but doesn’t always have the highest opinion of unions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 08:55:08 AM
Shit, I think I just got cancer.

(https://i.postimg.cc/D0HZdc3L/IMG-3294.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/V09mzn6k)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 20, 2025, 11:28:18 AM
Social media feeds are poison, and people should eschew them at all costs. Nothing is driving division and hatred moreso than the algorithms feeding you exactly what you want to see.

Shut up you snowflake liberal
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 20, 2025, 11:29:21 AM
And HQ2! It's the original Cesspool!

This board is what keeps me off facebook and twitter. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 20, 2025, 11:30:53 AM
And it always amuses me that custard tries to pass himself off as a moderate.. he probably thinks John McCain was a RINO.

Once again, you are confusing shitposting and trolling with reality.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 20, 2025, 01:35:30 PM

And we're told that Kimmel has been treated unfairly because he told a fabrication, wouldn't apologize, told ABC that he was going to double down on his fabrication and ABC told him "No, you're not going on tv."

Did you even see what Kimmel said?

He told a joke. He didn't say anything disrespectful about Charlie Kirk..

Brendan Carr pressured ABC to punish him. Carr said it could be done the easy way to hard way. He suggested affiliates could lose broadcast licenses.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5546764/fcc-brendan-carr-kimmel-trump-free-speech



Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2025, 01:40:41 PM
Tempo (amongst many others) has become radicalized since Trump reclaimed office. As such, he considers moderate Democrats like PAM to be politically opposed because they reject progressive values.

Actual progressives are a minority within the party, and even though the  Biden administration let the crazies take the reins for a while, they don’t speak for the majority and they’re going to keep losing Democrats elections.

Not sure the big tent is big enough for the both of you!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 20, 2025, 02:13:56 PM
Did you even see what Kimmel said?

He told a joke. He didn't say anything disrespectful about Charlie Kirk..

Brendan Carr pressured ABC to punish him. Carr said it could be done the easy way to hard way. He suggested affiliates could lose broadcast licenses.



What was the joke ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 20, 2025, 02:43:56 PM
What was the joke ?

I'll bite. He joked about maga doing everything they could to portray the shooter as someone other than one of them to score political points. He then joked about how President Trump is grieving by using visuals
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 20, 2025, 03:45:06 PM
What was the joke ?
Lee Corso and Mn walk into a bar. Which one pays for the drinks?

Neither. Mn is too cheap, and Corso is dead.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 20, 2025, 03:53:22 PM
I'll bite. He joked about maga doing everything they could to portray the shooter as someone other than one of them to score political points. He then joked about how President Trump is grieving by using visuals
That's a good one Ray.

He was murdered by a MAGAt is quite the joke after the left spent the weekend saying Robinson was a conservative from a conservative family and some saying he was a right wing extremist.

The family said Robinson leaned left and the Gov said he leaned left and the people investigating the murder said Robinson leaned left.
With that in mind, Kimmel went on stage to say Kirk was murdered by MAGA, told ABC he wouldn't apologize and would double down and the dumbass got himself suspended.
Who doubles down to their employer over what they meant to be a joke ?
If it was a joke, a really bad joke, by a "comedian" with failing ratings he could have apologized for his "joke" rather than double down and he'd probably still have his job.


Kimmel can learn to code or flip burgers.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 20, 2025, 04:18:50 PM
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hugh langston poems (https://poetandpoem.com/Langston-Hughes/poems)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 20, 2025, 04:23:25 PM
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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 20, 2025, 04:30:38 PM
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Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2025, 09:17:20 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/MkrHY0z0/Screenshot-20250920-115031-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/fdfWhw3w)

You still think what he said was a joke, that’s funny
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 20, 2025, 10:05:42 PM
You still think what he said was a joke, that’s funny

sat·ire
/ˈsaˌtī(ə)r/
noun
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 20, 2025, 10:06:45 PM
I must have missed the joke. Maybe it was obscured by the Illini football team
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 20, 2025, 10:20:37 PM
I must have missed the joke. Maybe it was obscured by the Illini football team

Watch the live clip. The audience laughs. I don't think they were laughing with maga. They were probably laughing at them. Maybe that is why they got their feelings hurt.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 20, 2025, 10:28:55 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/0pQbVy4D/Screenshot-20250920-222501-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hxCz1FQ7)

(https://i.ibb.co/60JzfpxH/Screenshot-20250920-115319-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PGzKfbnc)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 20, 2025, 11:19:46 PM
Watch the live clip. The audience laughs. I don't think they were laughing with maga. They were probably laughing at them. Maybe that is why they got their feelings hurt.

Hold the boat….the paying sycophants in the captive audience laughed at the “joke?”

WOW!

Mn already did a great job of pointing out how fucked up the whole monologue was, but here you are still leaning into a “joke” that accuses MAGA of killing Charlie Kirk.

Obviously that’s your ultimate wet dream which is why you are defending known misogynist Jimmy Kimmel, who rebranded himself as a bleeding heart liberal to salvage his career. 

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 20, 2025, 11:57:45 PM
Tempo (amongst many others) has become radicalized since Trump reclaimed office. As such, he considers moderate Democrats like PAM to be politically opposed because they reject progressive values.

Actual progressives are a minority within the party, and even though the  Biden administration let the crazies take the reins for a while, they don’t speak for the majority and they’re going to keep losing Democrats elections.

Not sure the big tent is big enough for the both of you!

I’ve never heard a more right-wing sounding Democrat. Ever.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 12:08:13 AM
I’ve never heard a more right-wing sounding Democrat. Ever.

You do get all your views from The Twotter Echo Chamber. And Parkins.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 04:52:53 AM
Never heard of a democrat who is anti-teacher.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 04:56:11 AM
Or who relishes an aggressive and confrontational police force.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 05:00:48 AM
Or that seems particularly fond of punitive punishment for even small infractions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 07:52:06 AM
Never heard of a democrat who is anti-teacher.

Who us anti-teacher? I do object to any teachers' union that puts the interests of the adults over the kids and who stymie educating kids.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 07:52:42 AM
Or who relishes an aggressive and confrontational police force.
LOL 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 07:54:57 AM
Or that seems particularly fond of punitive punishment for even small infractions.

This is why the progressive scum lose us national elections. Soft on crime.

Maybe you should move back to Chicago and experience things firsthand. Oh, yeah, you moved out because of the schools and crime.
No irony at all here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 08:43:08 AM
“Soft on crime” says the guy who wanted to lock up Scottie Scheffler and throw away the key for making a right turn to enter a golf tournament.

The charges were dropped, the officer received “corrective action,” and the Louisville police chief resigned a month later over the incident.

PAMan, were you at all critical of the Minneapolis police over George Floyd, I honestly don’t remember.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 08:45:22 AM
This is why the progressive scum lose us national elections. Soft on crime.

Maybe you should move back to Chicago and experience things firsthand. Oh, yeah, you moved out because of the schools and crime.
No irony at all here.

You speak from ignorance quite often. I didn’t move out for those reasons. I moved out because his mother is a lifelong suburbian and wanted to remain closer to her family. But keep spewing your uninformed opinions as fact.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 08:47:21 AM
I have mentioned that the town we live in is safe and has good schools, but I never said that’s why I moved.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 21, 2025, 09:49:06 AM
“Soft on crime” says the guy who wanted to lock up Scottie Scheffler and throw away the key for making a right turn to enter a golf tournament.

The charges were dropped, the officer received “corrective action,” and the Louisville police chief resigned a month later over the incident.

PAMan, were you at all critical of the Minneapolis police over George Floyd, I honestly don’t remember.
"Soft on crime" is something Iryna Zarutska can not say.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 21, 2025, 10:08:01 AM
Watch the live clip. The audience laughs. I don't think they were laughing with maga. They were probably laughing at them. Maybe that is why they got their feelings hurt.
The audience laughs after Kimmel showed the clip of Trump.
The laughter had nothing to do with Kimmel's attempt to continue the 'Kirk was killed by a conservative' that Matthew Dowd started and the left continued with the Groyper theory.

Matthew Dowd, fired without the Kimmel uproar, said that Kirk may have been shot by a celebrating supporter.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Conservatives are shot frequently by celebrating supporters. gmafb

Dowd then said everybody in the newsroom understood what he was trying to say.
Maybe, just maybe, Dowd explained the problem as a 'yeah, I'm an idiot and so are they.'
But no, he went on to say that he apologized and if everyone would follow him on his path towards redemption that they too will come to see the light.

There is no joke in saying that a man who has not been laid to rest died at the hands of his supporters after family and law enforcement said otherwise.
None.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 21, 2025, 10:19:02 AM
The audience laughs after Kimmel showed the clip of Trump.
The laughter had nothing to do with Kimmel's attempt to continue the 'Kirk was killed by a conservative' that Matthew Dowd started and the left continued with the Groyper theory.

Matthew Dowd, fired without the Kimmel uproar, said that Kirk may have been shot by a celebrating supporter.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Conservatives are shot frequently by celebrating supporters. gmafb

Dowd then said everybody in the newsroom understood what he was trying to say.
Maybe, just maybe, Dowd explained the problem as a 'yeah, I'm an idiot and so are they.'
But no, he went on to say that he apologized and if everyone would follow him on his path towards redemption that they too will come to see the light.

There is no joke in saying that a man who has not been laid to rest died at the hands of his supporters after family and law enforcement said otherwise.
None.

Tempo ate this shit up! Still hasn’t said he was wrong (said he would if untrue).
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 10:26:40 AM

There is no joke in saying that a man who has not been laid to rest

I agree with this part. It's all premature..let there be a period of mourning. There is plenty of time to try to sort it all out after the funeral. 

That applies to both sides. The body wasn't cold and Trump was blaming liberals. Anyone who didn't declare Kirk a martyred saint was accused of celebrating his death.

A few actually did. It's called free speech.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 21, 2025, 10:36:23 AM
I agree with this part. It's all premature..let there be a period of mourning. There is plenty of time to try to sort it all out after the funeral. 

That applies to both sides. The body wasn't cold and Trump was blaming liberals. Anyone who didn't declare Kirk a martyred saint was accused of celebrating his death.

A few actually did. It's called free speech.

Well it was a dude who his parents stated leaned more liberal as of late and was “heroically” defending his trans lover according to a weird CNN reporter who tried to dramatize it as a love story. Trump wasn’t wrong in blaming liberals.

“Anyone who didn't declare Kirk a martyred saint was accused of celebrating his death. A few actually did. It's called free speech.” That’s disingenuous and frankly just plain false…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 21, 2025, 10:42:25 AM
I agree with this part. It's all premature..let there be a period of mourning. There is plenty of time to try to sort it all out after the funeral. 

That applies to both sides. The body wasn't cold and Trump was blaming liberals. Anyone who didn't declare Kirk a martyred saint was accused of celebrating his death.

A few actually did. It's called free speech.
Somebody has to argue against the left accusing Kirk's supporters of shooting him.
Otherwise, people will believe what they see on MSNBC, CNN, ABC or in media.

This is bullshit and you know it.
"Anyone who didn't declare Kirk a martyred saint was accused of celebrating his death."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 12:39:14 PM
“Soft on crime” says the guy who wanted to lock up Scottie Scheffler and throw away the key for making a right turn to enter a golf tournament.

The charges were dropped, the officer received “corrective action,” and the Louisville police chief resigned a month later over the incident.

PAMan, were you at all critical of the Minneapolis police over George Floyd, I honestly don’t remember.

Proving my point with Schefter. He disobeyed instructions at an accident site where someone was killed. But he's an entitled golfer with a good lawyer. Shocker.

They should have not killed Floyd. The cop acted like an idiot. Deserves to be in jail.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 12:41:01 PM
You speak from ignorance quite often. I didn’t move out for those reasons. I moved out because his mother is a lifelong suburbian and wanted to remain closer to her family. But keep spewing your uninformed opinions as fact.

Sure. Good to see you wear the pants and fled your Social Democrat Paradise for a white suburb at the drop of a hat
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 12:46:17 PM
Somebody has to argue against the left accusing Kirk's supporters of shooting him.
Otherwise, people will believe what they see on MSNBC, CNN, ABC or in media.

Out of context bullshit like this is basically the reason why the left had to respond. The sword cuts both ways.

Quote
This is bullshit and you know it.
"Anyone who didn't declare Kirk a martyred saint was accused of celebrating his death."

No it isn't. It's sarcasm. A bit of an exaggeration, but not much.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 12:50:49 PM

They should have not killed Floyd. The cop acted like an idiot. Deserves to be in jail.

The right wing celebrated Floyd's death. Also, the deaths of some other black men killed by police. They said they deserved it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 21, 2025, 01:14:20 PM
Out of context bullshit like this is basically the reason why the left had to respond. The sword cuts both ways.

No it isn't. It's sarcasm. A bit of an exaggeration, but not much.
The left has to respond ?

MSNBC, before anyone knew anything other than Kirk had been shot, airs Dowd saying it may have been a supporter celebrating who shot Kirk.
Then the Groyper bullshit, then Kimmel.

The left didn't respond. The right did.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 21, 2025, 01:19:19 PM
The right wing celebrated Floyd's death. Also, the deaths of some other black men killed by police. They said they deserved it.
Cool. Kirk's death was payback. The left isn't "even" yet. Not yet.
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Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 01:39:02 PM
Cool. Kirk's death was payback. The left isn't "even" yet. Not yet.

No. That's sick.

It's the hypocrisy/ double standards. Really on both sides to an extent. Worse on the right as of now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 01:41:49 PM
"Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech.

And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment.

Keep America free."
7:23 PM · May 2, 2024

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1786189687260103119?t=2yQioNNHxHxw3hRFOm-4ww&s=19
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Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 01:46:35 PM
Where was Nichi when certain college campuses were bowing to Heckler Vetos?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 01:57:40 PM
Where was Nichi when certain college campuses were bowing to Heckler Vetos?

Still a Republican then. I didn't leave until 2016. Was still libertarian until 2020ish.. I was anti speech codes anti cancel culture.

Been consistent on this.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 02:28:54 PM
Tempo ate this shit up! Still hasn’t said he was wrong (said he would if untrue).

Waiting to find out more. I have not kept up on the last 5 days or so. Trending the opposite direction last I could tell, though. Might have to wait until the trial to get credible information.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 02:32:27 PM
Proving my point with Schefter. He disobeyed instructions at an accident site where someone was killed. But he's an entitled golfer with a good lawyer. Shocker.

They should have not killed Floyd. The cop acted like an idiot. Deserves to be in jail.

Scheffler had zero to with the death. Why are you making it sound like he did. Again, the officer was reprimanded and the police chief fired. Yet you wanted them to throw away the key on Scheffler.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 21, 2025, 02:34:22 PM
Proving my point with Schefter. He disobeyed instructions at an accident site where someone was killed. But he's an entitled golfer with a good lawyer. Shocker.

They should have not killed Floyd. The cop acted like an idiot. Deserves to be in jail.

I once “disobeyed” (ie misunderstood) a police officer’s instructions on marathon day downtown (and took a wrong turn). Fortunately, a police officer didn’t throw himself at my car.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 21, 2025, 02:55:09 PM
Or that seems particularly fond of punitive punishment for even small infractions.

Making fun of Trump is not a small infraction, bud
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 21, 2025, 03:02:46 PM
Somebody has to argue against the left accusing Kirk's supporters of shooting him.
Otherwise, people will believe what they see on MSNBC, CNN, ABC or in media.

This is bullshit and you know it.
"Anyone who didn't declare Kirk a martyred saint was accused of celebrating his death."

Kimmels problem was that he was making the point that the “right” was really really really focused on making damn sure that it wasn’t “one of us” because that would destroy their narrative.

This is not an implication that it was a MAGA, just pointing out that MAGA sure as hell hopes it’s not.

This is really bad framing in 2025. Too much nuance - it’s not a positive assertion, it’s pointing out the lack of a negative assertion.

Our pal Mn can attest that modern Americans will take ANYTHING out of context!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 21, 2025, 03:05:37 PM
Cool. Kirk's death was payback. The left isn't "even" yet. Not yet.

Wow. You really are nuts. This isn’t a game.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 21, 2025, 03:11:55 PM
I once “disobeyed” (ie misunderstood) a police officer’s instructions on marathon day downtown (and took a wrong turn). Fortunately, a police officer didn’t throw himself at my car.

A cop pulled me over for riding onto the entrance of the Golden Gate Bridge. That’s the access to the bus stop, I was catching a bus to Sonoma.

He yelled at me to get on the sidewalk, I told him “I will not - riding on the sidewalk is illegal, are you actually ordering me to stop doing the legal thing and do something illegal?”

He said “there’s a sign back there that says bikes prohibited”. I pointed at the sign 30 yards ahead that says “bikes prohibited” (after the bus stop) and said “does it look like that sign? Or is it a magical invisible sign only cops can see”

This is called “white privilege” if I had been black he would have arrested me because reasons
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 03:39:01 PM
The left has to respond ?

MSNBC, before anyone knew anything other than Kirk had been shot, airs Dowd saying it may have been a supporter celebrating who shot Kirk.
Then the Groyper bullshit, then Kimmel.

The left didn't respond. The right did.

Sep. 10, 2025, 6:14 PM EDT / Updated Sep. 11, 2025, 12:11 PM EDT
By Jonathan Allen and Amanda Terkel
WASHINGTON — While politicians of both parties largely coalesced to mourn Charlie Kirk after he was shot and killed Wednesday at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump blamed the "radical left" for the conservative activist's death.

"For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals," he said in a video message Wednesday night. "This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirks-death-prompts-outpouring-shock-grief-condemnations-polit-rcna230472
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 21, 2025, 03:44:45 PM
No. That's sick.

It's the hypocrisy/ double standards. Really on both sides to an extent. Worse on the right as of now.
They tried to assassinate Trump twice and they did assassinate Kirk, but yeah, it's worse on the right.
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Post by: Judge Judy on September 21, 2025, 03:54:07 PM
They tried to assassinate Trump twice and they did assassinate Kirk, but yeah, it's worse on the right.

That’s not even counting all the riots and destruction the left has caused. He’s right, it’s sickening…

George Floyd was doped up on fentanyl and wouldn’t have died if wasn’t…
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Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 03:56:42 PM
George Floyd was doped up on fentanyl and wouldn’t have died if wasn’t…

You just can't help it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 21, 2025, 04:00:49 PM
You just can't help it.

Hey man, it’s the truth…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 04:09:45 PM
They tried to assassinate Trump twice and they did assassinate Kirk, but yeah, it's worse on the right.

Who is the they?

I said the double standard exists on both sides, but is currently worse on the right. The double standard. The hypocrisy. The do as I say, not as I do.

You are making my point.
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Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 04:11:40 PM
Hey man, it’s the truth…

Yes, toxicology reports from George Floyd's autopsy showed that he had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system when he died in May 2020. The drugs found in his system were also linked to a history of opioid addiction.
However, the medical evidence does not indicate that drugs were the cause of his death:

Cause of death The Hennepin County medical examiner ruled the manner of death a homicide and cited "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression" as the cause. An independent autopsy commissioned by the family also ruled it a homicide due to asphyxiation.

Medical testimony During Derek Chauvin's trial, medical experts testified that George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen caused by the officers pinning him down. One expert testified that Floyd's drug use had no impact on his death, adding that a healthy person would also have died under the same circumstances.

Overdose evidence An emergency medicine physician explained that a fentanyl overdose causes sedation and slowed breathing, which contradicts the video evidence of Floyd struggling and begging to breathe.
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Post by: murphstahoe on September 21, 2025, 04:45:03 PM
They tried to assassinate Trump twice and they did assassinate Kirk, but yeah, it's worse on the right.

It's definitely worse on the left. When the right tries to assassinate people, they don't fail.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 05:35:31 PM
Scheffler had zero to with the death. Why are you making it sound like he did. Again, the officer was reprimanded and the police chief fired. Yet you wanted them to throw away the key on Scheffler.

I didn't say he did. He ignored a cop at a death investigation. Lock the entitled Trumper up!
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Post by: ThePAMan on September 21, 2025, 05:38:10 PM
Lock up Tempo. He's a danger on the roads!
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Post by: illiniray on September 21, 2025, 11:55:08 PM
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GRkGUDswQ/


https://youtu.be/EMOKL7qTVu0
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 22, 2025, 12:37:57 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/3mvbpjmG/Screenshot-20250921-233236-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8gbwrfgT)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 22, 2025, 10:38:26 AM
That’s not even counting all the riots and destruction the left has caused. He’s right, it’s sickening…

George Floyd was doped up on fentanyl and wouldn’t have died if wasn’t…

I tend to think someone putting most of their weight on your neck for almost 10 minutes might do the trick.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 22, 2025, 10:48:02 AM
Necks are tricky
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 22, 2025, 10:52:39 AM
That’s not even counting all the riots and destruction the left has caused. He’s right, it’s sickening…

George Floyd was doped up on fentanyl and wouldn’t have died if wasn’t…

I see. George Floyd was able to get Fentanyl in 2020. Who the fuck was the loser president back then who didn't secure the border?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 22, 2025, 10:55:56 AM
A cop pulled me over for riding onto the entrance of the Golden Gate Bridge. That’s the access to the bus stop, I was catching a bus to Sonoma.

He yelled at me to get on the sidewalk, I told him “I will not - riding on the sidewalk is illegal, are you actually ordering me to stop doing the legal thing and do something illegal?”

He said “there’s a sign back there that says bikes prohibited”. I pointed at the sign 30 yards ahead that says “bikes prohibited” (after the bus stop) and said “does it look like that sign? Or is it a magical invisible sign only cops can see”

This is called “white privilege” if I had been black he would have arrested me because reasons

No, he would have told to turn around and put your hands behind your back, then shot you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 22, 2025, 12:17:46 PM
No, he would have told to turn around and put your hands behind your back, then shot you.

I guess I'm an optimist
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 22, 2025, 01:29:57 PM
I guess I'm an optimist

Really? Wow. Yeah, that's a no brainer, clean shot. MAGA approved.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 22, 2025, 02:00:58 PM
Really? Wow. Yeah, that's a no brainer, clean shot. MAGA approved.

Fucking adult bicyclists are the worst
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Post by: murphstahoe on September 22, 2025, 02:05:06 PM
Fucking adult bicyclists are the worst

that distinction is reserved for Bret Bielema
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Post by: Reacher on September 22, 2025, 05:08:09 PM
that distinction is reserved for Bret Bielema

🗑️
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2025, 07:44:08 PM
Sep. 10, 2025, 6:14 PM EDT / Updated Sep. 11, 2025, 12:11 PM EDT
By Jonathan Allen and Amanda Terkel
WASHINGTON — While politicians of both parties largely coalesced to mourn Charlie Kirk after he was shot and killed Wednesday at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump blamed the "radical left" for the conservative activist's death.

"For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals," he said in a video message Wednesday night. "This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirks-death-prompts-outpouring-shock-grief-condemnations-polit-rcna230472

Glad you’re finally coming around. Of course the constant hyperbolic rhetoric is dangerous. But that’s the whole point.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2025, 07:48:12 PM
No, he would have told to turn around and put your hands behind your back, then shot you.

Cops don’t even arrest black people for smashing and grabbing in broad daylight in California.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 22, 2025, 07:54:01 PM
Cops don’t even arrest black people for smashing and grabbing in broad daylight in California.

let's try it out. Call your "one black friend" and have him come smash and grab the Union Sq Tiffany's in broad daylight and get some baubles for your harem. He won't get arrested!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2025, 10:10:45 PM
let's try it out. Call your "one black friend" and have him come smash and grab the Union Sq Tiffany's in broad daylight and get some baubles for your harem. He won't get arrested!

That’s like one of the 15 places or so they might actually protect. Safer bet is a minority owned store, as no one in SF pays attention to black on black or black on Hispanic crime. Same goes in Chicago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 23, 2025, 08:16:42 AM

I said the double standard exists on both sides, but is currently worse on the right. The double standard. The hypocrisy. The do as I say, not as I do.

A good way to fight hypocrisy is with a high powered scoped rifle is quite an argument.

And from the guy who shot up the ABC facility .........
 "For hiding Epstein & ignoring red flags. Do not support Patel, Bongino, & AG Pam Bondi. They’re next. – C.K. from above."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 23, 2025, 12:42:04 PM
A good way to fight hypocrisy is with a high powered scoped rifle is quite an argument.

A hammer is a much better tool.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 23, 2025, 02:24:02 PM
A hammer is a much better tool.

That guy was a lone wolf.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 23, 2025, 02:25:18 PM
A hammer is a much better tool.

You should get your hammer (and sickle!) and organize a bike ride on DC!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 23, 2025, 02:48:35 PM
You should get your hammer (and sickle!) and organize a bike ride on DC!

Strawman
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Post by: Reacher on September 23, 2025, 02:49:28 PM
Cops don’t even arrest black people for smashing and grabbing in broad daylight in California.

Just blacks?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 23, 2025, 03:48:30 PM
This whole banning Antifa thing is BS. If Antifa were an organization, Tempo wouldn't be posting because he'd be TEXTING STOP 24/7 to try to get Antifa to stop with the fundraising emails
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 23, 2025, 03:57:12 PM
I suppose I have to chill out on calling Nazis Nazis on Twitter.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 23, 2025, 04:05:49 PM
I suppose I have to chill out on calling Nazis Nazis on Twitter.

Saddest part is I’m actually halfway serious.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 23, 2025, 04:08:26 PM
Saddest part is I’m actually halfway serious.

TDS and COVID have broken many a leftist. Look what’s become of Robb. Are you next?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 23, 2025, 04:10:53 PM

Quote
Ingraham: They said you took $50,000 in cash in a bag from an undercover FBI agent… Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.

Sure thing....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 23, 2025, 04:40:31 PM
Sure thing....

If the Supreme Court says it's not illegal, it's not illegal.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 23, 2025, 10:08:37 PM
Sure thing....
Why didn't the Biden administration charge him ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 23, 2025, 10:25:39 PM
Why didn't the Biden administration charge him ?

Because bribery has yet to occur.

It's not illegal to accept money. There has to be a quid pro quo to be a bribe, not just a promise of a future favor. Also, there can't be conspiracy involving an undercover FBI agent.

Does that help?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 24, 2025, 05:49:20 AM
Because bribery has yet to occur.

It's not illegal to accept money. There has to be a quid pro quo to be a bribe, not just a promise of a future favor. Also, there can't be conspiracy involving an undercover FBI agent.

Does that help?
What was the point of Dilanian's piece ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 24, 2025, 07:25:26 AM
Why didn't the Biden administration charge him ?

Because the bribe was relating to contacts that could be awarded if Trump won. If he awarded the contracts, the charge would increase from conspiracy to commit bribery to actual bribery. So the feds were waiting to see what would happen 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 24, 2025, 08:30:11 AM
Because the bribe was relating to contacts that could be awarded if Trump won. If he awarded the contracts, the charge would increase from conspiracy to commit bribery to actual bribery. So the feds were waiting to see what would happen 
I have a funny feeling that the Biden administration, or whoever was making decisions, would have preferred increasing the chances of a Harris win in 2024 with Homan charges or the appearance of of potential bribery in a Trump administration if Trump won over a Homan charge if Harris won.
Any. Day. Of. The. Week.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 24, 2025, 10:36:35 AM
I have a funny feeling that the Biden administration, or whoever was making decisions, would have preferred increasing the chances of a Harris win in 2024 with Homan charges or the appearance of of potential bribery in a Trump administration if Trump won over a Homan charge if Harris won.
Any. Day. Of. The. Week.

The Biden DOJ, for better or worse, isn't the Trump DOJ.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 24, 2025, 10:44:12 AM
The Biden DOJ, for better or worse, isn't the Trump DOJ.
There are nice people on both sides.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 24, 2025, 11:33:51 AM
There are nice people on both sides.

So I've heard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 24, 2025, 11:38:21 AM
Guy who shoots migrants and those in ICE custody is anti-ICE?

Ok....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15130133/Joshua-Jahn-Dallas-ICE-sniper-migrants-Texas.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: bringbackself on September 25, 2025, 05:33:58 AM
A cop pulled me over for riding onto the entrance of the Golden Gate Bridge. That’s the access to the bus stop, I was catching a bus to Sonoma.

He yelled at me to get on the sidewalk, I told him “I will not - riding on the sidewalk is illegal, are you actually ordering me to stop doing the legal thing and do something illegal?”

He said “there’s a sign back there that says bikes prohibited”. I pointed at the sign 30 yards ahead that says “bikes prohibited” (after the bus stop) and said “does it look like that sign? Or is it a magical invisible sign only cops can see”

This is called “white privilege” if I had been black he would have arrested me because reasons


my gosh
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 25, 2025, 10:32:03 AM

my gosh

how's that bathroom at McDonalds?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 25, 2025, 12:49:17 PM
Guy who shoots migrants and those in ICE custody is anti-ICE?

Ok....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15130133/Joshua-Jahn-Dallas-ICE-sniper-migrants-Texas.html

Yeah, not really... Just someone whose trolling ended up consuming him.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

Quote
His abrasive humor is where his friends’ opinions on him diverge the most, with some describing it as amusing but others as grating — especially as his online persona bled into real life.

“I mostly stopped talking to him when he took his 4chan/irony stuff into daily interactions,” one friend told me. “He was becoming unbearable … once he dropped out of college he had no obligation to be social and none of us reached out due to his edgelord behavior.”

I wasn’t able to find anyone with insight into Jahn’s more recent views, something that his friends said was unsurprising given his withdrawal from social life over the past few years.

“If you’re having trouble finding people besides immediate family who knew him, that’s part of the story,” one friend said. “Every mutual friend drifted away over that kind of edgelord behavior.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 25, 2025, 02:28:22 PM
Yeah, not really... Just someone whose trolling ended up consuming him.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

All this time I called Custard a "shitposter" when really all he is is an "edgelord" whatever the fuck that is
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 25, 2025, 03:25:52 PM
All this time I called Custard a "shitposter" when really all he is is an "edgelord" whatever the fuck that is

Sounds like sig material for Custard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 25, 2025, 11:05:16 PM
Edgelord sounds way cooler than shitposter. I’m flattered.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 25, 2025, 11:59:10 PM
Edgelord sounds way cooler than shitposter. I’m flattered.

Edgelord - N - A gay male top who is proficient at getting as close to the edge of orgasm during anal sex, but can stop and prolong the penetrative sex and eventually climax intensely, having delayed his orgasm several times.

Glad you're flattered.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 26, 2025, 12:13:24 AM
Edgelord - N - A gay male top who is proficient at getting as close to the edge of orgasm during anal sex, but can stop and prolong the penetrative sex and eventually climax intensely, having delayed his orgasm several times.

Glad you're flattered.

I’ve heard a lot of pickup lines before, but this one takes the cake.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 26, 2025, 01:02:20 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/NnrF40YV/Screenshot-20250923-183356-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/S7c6Lkvs)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 26, 2025, 10:02:33 AM
I’ve heard a lot of pickup lines before, but this one takes the cake.

"Takes the cake" - is that what you fellas call it?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 26, 2025, 10:07:59 AM
"Takes the cake" - is that what you fellas call it?

How about, “this one TRUMPS them all…”

Better?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 26, 2025, 10:12:40 AM
How about, “this one TRUMPS them all…”

Better?!

Bazinga!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 26, 2025, 10:15:27 AM
Bazinga!
oh I see, you're not a top, you're a bottom

Catching, not pitching...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 26, 2025, 10:30:27 AM
Edgelord - N - A gay male top who is proficient at getting as close to the edge of orgasm during anal sex, but can stop and prolong the penetrative sex and eventually climax intensely, having delayed his orgasm several times.



Sounds about right.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 26, 2025, 11:42:23 AM
oh I see, you're not a top, you're a bottom

Catching, not pitching...

Why are you so concerned about his sexuality?! Hypocrites. Making gay jokes, how beneath your kind. You sure love to call the right out for this shit, yet here we are. Again, hypocrites.

A billionaire on an Illini message board talking shit. Also, a liar. Go figure.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 26, 2025, 11:47:03 AM

Sounds about right.

Thanks for the confirmation. You should know…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 26, 2025, 01:59:26 PM
Judy, shut the fuck up.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 26, 2025, 03:20:55 PM
Why are you so concerned about his sexuality?! Hypocrites. Making gay jokes, how beneath your kind. You sure love to call the right out for this shit, yet here we are. Again, hypocrites.

A billionaire on an Illini message board talking shit. Also, a liar. Go figure.

Shut up you Gooner.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 26, 2025, 03:22:03 PM
Judy, shut the fuck up.

Judy is a bigger buzzkill than the Indiana Hoosier Football Team
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 26, 2025, 03:49:44 PM
Judy, shut the fuck up.

Suck my cock, faggot…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 26, 2025, 03:50:17 PM
Shut up you Gooner.

In the famous words of another bitch on here, “kewl…”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 26, 2025, 03:50:37 PM
Suck my cock, faggot…

He'd have to find it first. I'll let him borrow my microscope if that helps!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 26, 2025, 03:50:47 PM
Judy is a bigger buzzkill than the Indiana Hoosier Football Team

Cry some more… BILLIONAIRE! 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 26, 2025, 03:51:23 PM
Cry some more…

no crying today, my kid got his SAT scores back. Time to crack an early beer.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 26, 2025, 04:48:16 PM
no crying today, my kid got his SAT scores back. Time to crack an early beer.

What did he get?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 26, 2025, 06:09:02 PM
In the famous words of another bitch on here, “kewl…”

Someone is cranky today.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on September 26, 2025, 06:50:25 PM
Someone is cranky today.

Yeah Jobu telling people to STFU…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 26, 2025, 09:37:57 PM
What did he get?

1570
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 27, 2025, 08:44:03 AM
Yeah Jobu telling people to STFU…

He’s showing he’s an equal opportunity STFUer
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 27, 2025, 06:19:45 PM
Did Judy get mad about that?

Oh no
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 27, 2025, 06:20:02 PM
He’s showing he’s an equal opportunity STFUer

Always have been
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 28, 2025, 06:46:35 PM
They say Portland is war-ravaged. As I sipped my iced pumpkin latte, strolling past historic Victorians and boutiques selling $300 clogs, I had to ask…
War-ravaged…by what? Gentrified minimalism and too many options for artisanal cheese?

On NW 23rd, the only thing in ruins is my willpower. I went in for toothpaste at Zupans and came out with a block of truffle cheddar, a ceramic soap dish made by someone named Sage, and a sense of calm I can only describe as “suburban witch chic.”

They say it’s chaos. But I see women in Eileen Fisher cardigans debating olive oil varieties. I see dogs, so many dogs, most of whom eat better than I do.

If there’s a battle here, it’s over parking. Or trying to leave Powell’s with only one book. And I couldn’t help but wonder…

If this is war, where do I enlist?

#WarRavagedPortland
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on September 28, 2025, 08:32:35 PM
How the New York Times uses weasel words to normalize authoritarianism
https://presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-the-new-york-times-uses-weasel-words-to-normalize-authoritarianism/
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Post by: alum74 on September 28, 2025, 10:39:53 PM
How the New York Times uses weasel words to normalize authoritarianism
https://presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-the-new-york-times-uses-weasel-words-to-normalize-authoritarianism/

The news organization that pimped the Whitewater nonsense and used Dick Cheney as a background source for the Iraq invasion? How unremarkable of them. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on September 29, 2025, 10:21:54 AM
https://archive.ph/4Ol58

Some men who use steroids say the drugs come with an unexpected side effect: a sudden change in who they are sexually attracted to.

***
The drugs are controversial, with mountains of evidence linking them to low sperm counts and shrinking testicles.

But a small subset of male users are now reporting a change in sexuality.
In a social media post titled 'Why the f**k is trenbolone turning me homosexual?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 29, 2025, 10:26:30 AM
Oh man. So a guy gets the roid rage, then wants to tear apart male buttholes.

Yeesh.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on September 29, 2025, 10:48:39 AM
You mean that's not normal?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on September 29, 2025, 11:02:28 AM
You mean that's not normal?

Idk. Glad I never tried steroids.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on September 29, 2025, 11:18:58 AM
Oh man. So a guy gets the roid rage, then wants to tear apart male buttholes.

Yeesh.

Explains Custard. I feel bad for giving him shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on September 30, 2025, 06:15:00 PM
I remember what happened to Lyle Alzado and the male buttholes he cared about the most. No steroids for this guy.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 02, 2025, 07:04:01 PM
I'd pay a ton of money to watch this.

Phil Mickelson - great golfer. Seems like a fun guy. Not particularly bright.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/phil-mickelson-has-challenge-for-gavin-newsom-after-calling-him-out-during-ryder-cup/ar-AA1NL4VA?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=68def42a1f1d4e12ac94f271ca46dca1&ei=20


The SEC alleged that Walters told Mickelson material, nonpublic information about Dean Foods,[115] and the SEC fined Mickelson the equivalent of the $931,000 profit he made from trading Dean Foods stock as well as interest of $105,000.[116] In 2017, Walters was convicted of making $40 million on Davis's private information from 2008 to 2014 by a federal jury. At that time, it was also noted that Mickelson had "once owed nearly $2 million in gambling debts to" Walters
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Post by: illiniray on October 03, 2025, 04:05:32 PM
FAA sets unprecedented drone restrictions over Chicago as feds step up immigration arrests

"The Federal Aviation Administration set the sweeping restrictions Wednesday at the request of the Department of Homeland Security.  Updated Oct 2, 2025, 4:12pm CDT
The Federal Aviation Administration has imposed unprecendented restrictions on unmanned drones across much of the Chicago area as federal law enforcement steps up its immigration arrests in and around the city.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security asked the FAA to set the sweeping 12-day restriction against private drone that started Wednesday, an FAA spokesperson said in a statement. An FAA alert on the restriction says the restrictions are for “special security reasons” without further explanation."
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/02/faa-drone-zone-homeland-security

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 03, 2025, 04:28:32 PM
In other news. A federal agency provides for security with respect to drones for federal agents who may be arresting people who may have violated federal law.

It shouldn't be necessary but apparently is, if it's unprecedented.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on October 03, 2025, 04:34:36 PM
Oh, hey MN!

Fuck you, you piece of shit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 03, 2025, 04:40:49 PM
In one sentence, that's what happened.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 03, 2025, 04:40:54 PM
Oh, hey MN!

Fuck you, you piece of shit

it had to be said
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 03, 2025, 04:41:40 PM
In one sentence, that's what happened.

You got fucked, you piece of shit?

I see.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 03, 2025, 05:44:37 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/GfwsH2n7/Screenshot-20251003-190518-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Y49D0kP2)
random dice game (https://freeonlinedice.com/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 04, 2025, 12:21:29 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/GfwsH2n7/Screenshot-20251003-190518-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Y49D0kP2)
random dice game (https://freeonlinedice.com/)

There’s a hell of a mess to clean up all right and I don’t think it’s their own this time.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 04, 2025, 09:19:17 PM
There’s a hell of a mess to clean up all right and I don’t think it’s their own this time.

You and your PRONOUNS
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 10, 2025, 05:15:54 PM
This, by definition, is clown world all the way around. How did the dude think this was a woman in the first place?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2119744/trans-woman-jailed-hiding-male-genitalia
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 10, 2025, 05:36:47 PM
This, by definition, is clown world all the way around. How did the dude think this was a woman in the first place?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2119744/trans-woman-jailed-hiding-male-genitalia

He knew, he was into it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 10, 2025, 10:59:04 PM
He knew, he was into it.

This may be your best post of all time
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 13, 2025, 02:26:37 PM
Q97 already in the ditch

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0R25PwLugWaVQSeyE1mAcEvNjzaRcfjB2cg5ZnmrrC1GS8zqum4McsrL82Lvny3Vel&id=100069266617492&mibextid=wwXIfr
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 13, 2025, 05:32:08 PM
Fact: Middletown OH has a higher violent.crime rate than Chicago IL.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 13, 2025, 10:37:28 PM
Q97 already in the ditch

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0R25PwLugWaVQSeyE1mAcEvNjzaRcfjB2cg5ZnmrrC1GS8zqum4McsrL82Lvny3Vel&id=100069266617492&mibextid=wwXIfr

Lol im in the bay tonight, driving back tomorrow morning, thankfully i have new tires amd 4wd
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 14, 2025, 05:18:07 AM
Fact: Middletown OH has a higher violent.crime rate than Chicago IL.

Oh give me a break. Crime rate is what liberals point to in order to divert attention to sheer volumes of violent crime. The overall numbers are relevant and the reasons behind it are vastly different than some small town. No one with half a brain thinks that Middletown Ohio has the same systemic issues that Chicago does. And particularly certain areas of the city. Junk cherry picked stats.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 14, 2025, 06:32:16 AM
Chicago can have more homicides on a Saturday than Middletown has in a year, or 2 years, or 3 years.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 14, 2025, 07:54:38 AM
Minneapolis organizers are canceling the long running 5 days in December Holidazzle and the July Aquatennial traditions due to downtown safety concerns and lack of foot traffic.

The decades of Democrat mayors may end soon with the election of a socialist.
Good job, Dems.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2025, 11:23:06 AM
LOL you guys can’t be fucking serious. Oh, that’s right, you’re not.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 14, 2025, 11:54:49 AM
I picked Middletown because the VP is from there. He was just mouthing off about the high violent crime rate in Chicago.

Chicago has 2.721 million people, with a population density of 2.721 million.

Middletown, Ohio's population is 50,987, with a density of 1,950.61 per square mile.

It is not an astute observation that there is going to more total violent crimes in Chicago It isn't a valid comparison. Crime rate might be a better comparison. Even better,  look at individual neighborhoods in Chicago.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on October 14, 2025, 12:23:06 PM
Even better,  look at individual neighborhoods in Chicago.

Don’t worry, ICE is…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2025, 01:10:12 PM
Chicago can have more homicides on a Saturday than Middletown has in a year, or 2 years, or 3 years.

good, good. Feel your anger! Now finish the progressives by saying "CHICAGO HAS MORE PEDOPHILES THAN THE OVAL OFFICE, SO STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES!"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 14, 2025, 01:12:33 PM
Minneapolis organizers are canceling the long running 5 days in December Holidazzle and the July Aquatennial traditions due to downtown safety concerns and lack of foot traffic.

The decades of Democrat mayors may end soon with the election of a socialist.
Good job, Dems.

Sounds like a change in priorities for the downtown business group (i.e., shift to a winter monthslong campaign vs. a four-day event) and the need to find new leadership and partners to host Holidazzle and Aquatennial.  The group still wants to be involved in both events.   
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/holidazzle-evolves-into-winterapolis/

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/minneapolis-downtown-councils-major-update-on-future-of-aquatennial-holidazzle

Hope you and your family have an opportunity to attend one of the Winterapolis events. 


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2025, 01:20:02 PM
Sounds like a change in priorities for the downtown business group (i.e., shift to a winter monthslong campaign vs. a four-day event) and the need to find new leadership and partners to host Holidazzle and Aquatennial.  The group still wants to be involved in both events.   
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/holidazzle-evolves-into-winterapolis/

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/minneapolis-downtown-councils-major-update-on-future-of-aquatennial-holidazzle

Hope you and your family have an opportunity to attend one of the Winterapolis events.

Mn also thinks Minneapolis has gone to hell under Democratic mayors in that the Metrodome hasn't had a final four in years.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on October 14, 2025, 04:25:03 PM
Don’t worry, ICE is…

I have noticed. They are focused on low crime suburban neighborhoods where they face little to no actual resistance. Yesterday, they took down a frightened 15 year old girl.

Good stuff for anyone that enjoys watching large, heavily armed masked men throw small women to the pavement.
 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2025, 04:43:26 PM
I picked Middletown because the VP is from there. He was just mouthing off about the high violent crime rate in Chicago.

Chicago has 2.721 million people, with a population density of 2.721 million.

Middletown, Ohio's population is 50,987, with a density of 1,950.61 per square mile.

It is not an astute observation that there is going to more total violent crimes in Chicago It isn't a valid comparison. Crime rate might be a better comparison. Even better,  look at individual neighborhoods in Chicago.

I looked over their famous people list. It’s actually pretty impressive for a town of 52k
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2025, 04:44:07 PM
good, good. Feel your anger! Now finish the progressives by saying "CHICAGO HAS MORE PEDOPHILES THAN THE OVAL OFFICE, SO STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES!"

🥇
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 14, 2025, 04:45:54 PM
I have noticed. They are focused on low crime suburban neighborhoods where they face little to no actual resistance. Yesterday, they took down a frightened 15 year old girl.

Good stuff for anyone that enjoys watching large, heavily armed masked men throw small women to the pavement.

(https://i.postimg.cc/05SQPZ1f/IMG-3737.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/hhSg0Ljz)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 14, 2025, 08:16:41 PM
I have noticed. They are focused on low crime suburban neighborhoods where they face little to no actual resistance. Yesterday, they took down a frightened 15 year old girl.

Good stuff for anyone that enjoys watching large, heavily armed masked men throw small women to the pavement.
 
This take down ?

https://x.com/i/status/1977129080492638320

This is a Chicago Police arrest of a burglary suspect in 2024. I think she may have been 27 years old.
Don't burgle.
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Post by: illiniray on October 14, 2025, 08:33:23 PM
This take down ?

https://x.com/i/status/1977129080492638320

This is a Chicago Police arrest of a burglary suspect in 2024. I think she may have been 27 years old.
Don't burgle.

No  That was intentional misinformation from DHS liars.

Official Misinformation: A top official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, initially posted false information online claiming the video was an old, unrelated Chicago Police Department arrest for burglary, a claim proven to be inaccurate by local police statements and video analysis.

AI Overview
A video has gone viral showing a young woman, identified as 18-year-old Evelyn (a U.S. citizen), being violently pulled from a car, thrown to the ground, and pinned face down by a federal agent in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, on Friday, October 10, 2025.

Details surrounding the incident include:

The Incident: The video, circulated widely on social media, shows unmarked law enforcement vehicles swarming a street and an agent pulling the young woman from the passenger seat of a car. She can be heard shouting, "I'm not resisting!" during the arrest. Reports also mentioned the agent appeared to place a knee on her neck.

The Context: Evelyn and her two friends were reportedly in the area monitoring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity and attempting to warn neighbors about their presence.
The Response: The woman and her friends were detained for several hours at the Hoffman Estates Police Department parking lot before being released without charges.

Agency Identification: The officer involved was wearing a vest with "ERO" (Enforcement and Removal Operations), a division of ICE, branding.

Official Misinformation: A top official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, initially posted false information online claiming the video was an old, unrelated Chicago Police Department arrest for burglary, a claim proven to be inaccurate by local police statements and video analysis.

Local Police Statement: The Hoffman Estates Police Department confirmed that ICE agents were present in their area and came to the local police department to file a report regarding an incident that occurred during their enforcement, but stated their officers were not involved in or assisting with the immigration enforcement itself, in adherence to the Illinois Trust Act

Aftermath: Evelyn's parents have spoken out, describing their daughter as shaken by the experience, and are planning legal action. U.S. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi has condemned the arrest and demanded transparency from the DHS.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 14, 2025, 08:52:58 PM
Sounds like a change in priorities for the downtown business group (i.e., shift to a winter monthslong campaign vs. a four-day event) and the need to find new leadership and partners to host Holidazzle and Aquatennial.  The group still wants to be involved in both events.   
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/holidazzle-evolves-into-winterapolis/

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/minneapolis-downtown-councils-major-update-on-future-of-aquatennial-holidazzle

Hope you and your family have an opportunity to attend one of the Winterapolis events. 



Yep. They're changing priorities out of need.
Attendance at the 2 festivals is down because of safety concerns people have with going downtown for evening and nighttime events.
Foot traffic is down during the day.
The Downtown Council is trying to revitalize downtown. Safety concerns and reduced foot traffic forced their hand. They're going to focus on the return to work crowd and try to get them to stay downtown for whatever.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2025, 09:36:46 PM
Yep. They're changing priorities out of need.
Attendance at the 2 festivals is down because of safety concerns people have with going downtown for evening and nighttime events.
Foot traffic is down during the day.
The Downtown Council is trying to revitalize downtown. Safety concerns and reduced foot traffic forced their hand. They're going to focus on the return to work crowd and try to get them to stay downtown for whatever.

Maybe Minneapolis is just boring. SF's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival set all time attendance records.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 14, 2025, 09:55:45 PM
Obviously, Murph hasn’t been to downtown MPLS since Covid era policies destroyed it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on October 14, 2025, 10:09:38 PM
Yep. They're changing priorities out of need.
Attendance at the 2 festivals is down because of safety concerns people have with going downtown for evening and nighttime events.
Foot traffic is down during the day.
The Downtown Council is trying to revitalize downtown. Safety concerns and reduced foot traffic forced their hand. They're going to focus on the return to work crowd and try to get them to stay downtown for whatever.

I've served on planning committees for downtown events.  Safety is always a priority, but producing a big outdoor event has other challenges like setup, infrastructure, and funding to build a temporary venue.  It's also important to have multiple partners and an extensive volunteer network.

The downtown business group doesn't want to produce AND promote these two large events primarily by itself.  The group wants to find partnering organizations.  Maybe they will, maybe they won't.  Meanwhile they are smart to look at a series of smaller events that take place throughout the winter months. 

I hope they succeed.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 14, 2025, 11:24:43 PM
Obviously, Murph hasn’t been to downtown MPLS since Covid era policies destroyed it.

I haven't been there since the weather sucked there. e.g. I've never been there.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on October 15, 2025, 06:36:16 AM
I've served on planning committees for downtown events.  Safety is always a priority, but producing a big outdoor event has other challenges like setup, infrastructure, and funding to build a temporary venue.  It's also important to have multiple partners and an extensive volunteer network.

The downtown business group doesn't want to produce AND promote these two large events primarily by itself.  The group wants to find partnering organizations.  Maybe they will, maybe they won't.  Meanwhile they are smart to look at a series of smaller events that take place throughout the winter months. 

I hope they succeed.


The Aquatennial originated 85 years ago to showcase The City of Lakes in the summer. I think they've probably figured out a thing or two about the challenges of running the event. They have little control over the safety concerns that people may have with respect to crime in Minneapolis.

The Holidazzle is the newbie. It's only been around for close to 35 years. Downtown was all lit up for Christmas, stores had their window fronts decorated and people shopped the stores and lined the streets for the Christmas parades.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on October 15, 2025, 08:46:37 AM
Went to Minneapolis when the kids were little and went to some hotel with a waterpark near the Mall of America.

It was fine.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 15, 2025, 01:05:29 PM
Went to Minneapolis when the kids were little and went to some hotel with a waterpark near the Mall of America.

It was fine.

My sis lives there and yeah I didn't get to see any of the somalian neighborhoods during my travels there, but apparantely they are a problem.  Probably like any city in the US there's good parts and really shitty parts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on October 15, 2025, 01:32:01 PM
My sis lives there and yeah I didn't get to see any of the somalian neighborhoods during my travels there, but apparantely they are a problem.  Probably like any city in the US there's good parts and really shitty parts.

Probably. I kinda don't think we need the military marching through. But hey, what the fuck do I know.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on October 22, 2025, 11:36:29 AM
This is hysterical.....

Illinois man arrested after pretending to be rocker Sammy Hagar https://share.google/h3kTSz0gntWXeObuk

“He said he was on tour but needed to cash a royalty check,” a bank teller told police. “He was wearing red sunglasses and smelled faintly of margarita mix, so I thought it was actually him.”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on October 22, 2025, 11:55:38 AM
This is hysterical.....

Illinois man arrested after pretending to be rocker Sammy Hagar https://share.google/h3kTSz0gntWXeObuk

“He said he was on tour but needed to cash a royalty check,” a bank teller told police. “He was wearing red sunglasses and smelled faintly of margarita mix, so I thought it was actually him.”

Is it margarita mix or MD20/20? That's probably where the confusion lies.

When I was like 19, I snuck MD into some pepsi cans to watch 4th of July fireworks. That's the last time I drank it. I'll just leave it at that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 22, 2025, 02:21:55 PM
I saw some MD branded drinks at a liquor store the other day in San Diego. I think they were going after the Buzz Ball type segment, and I’m 100% sure they are terrible.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on October 22, 2025, 02:29:49 PM
I saw some MD branded drinks at a liquor store the other day in San Diego. I think they were going after the Buzz Ball type segment, and I’m 100% sure they are terrible.

You probably could have paid 2 or 3 dollars for one and reported back...
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on October 22, 2025, 02:32:01 PM
I don't know if this is still a thing, but in Decatur (ugh, fuck), there's a convenience store that sells "purple drink." It's basically grape kool aid in a gallon milk jug spiked with god knows what kind of foul liquor. You can get a gallon of this poison for like $1.50. Although thanks to the radical left and inflation, it's probably like 2 dollars now.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 22, 2025, 02:45:28 PM
You probably could have paid 2 or 3 dollars for one and reported back...

About 15 years ago I was on some island in the Carribbean, it was the last day there and I was walking down this trail from the resort buildings to the spa center. Thought a nice massage prior to flying back to the states sounded nice. Anyways, some fella had a little stand set up along the trail and was selling piña coladas in freshly halved coconuts to passersby. I also thought one of these drinks sounded nice. Turns out the bathtub rum or whatever the hell liquor he was putting in these things was like gasoline, I got terrible heartburn and ended up puking my guts out before I even got to my massage appointment. To this day I can’t stand even the smell of piña colada anything. Those MD drinks were piña colada flavored, and I assume the rum/liquor was of similar quality to that experience years ago, so it was a hard pass for me.

I did get a few bombers of Pliny the Elder and a jalapeño IPA which were really good.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on October 22, 2025, 02:48:34 PM
I don't know if this is still a thing, but in Decatur (ugh, fuck), there's a convenience store that sells "purple drink." It's basically grape kool aid in a gallon milk jug spiked with god knows what kind of foul liquor. You can get a gallon of this poison for like $1.50. Although thanks to the radical left and inflation, it's probably like 2 dollars now.

Sounds about right
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on October 22, 2025, 02:54:29 PM
About 15 years ago I was on some island in the Carribbean, it was the last day there and I was walking down this trail from the resort buildings to the spa center. Thought a nice massage prior to flying back to the states sounded nice. Anyways, some fella had a little stand set up along the trail and was selling piña coladas in freshly halved coconuts to passersby. I also thought one of these drinks sounded nice. Turns out the bathtub rum or whatever the hell liquor he was putting in these things was like gasoline, I got terrible heartburn and ended up puking my guts out before I even got to my massage appointment. To this day I can’t stand even the smell of piña colada anything. Those MD drinks were piña colada flavored, and I assume the rum/liquor was of similar quality to that experience years ago, so it was a hard pass for me.

I did get a few bombers of Pliny the Elder and a jalapeño IPA which were really good.

Haha, we went on a Bahamas cruise with my dipshit BIL and his wife. When we got there, we went to the beach, and these dudes had a stand set up. For 20 dollars you could drink as much as you wanted. And yes, they had it all set up in the coconuts, rum, punch mixers, etc.

Well, my son and SIL proceed to take advantage of this deal and drink their 20 dollars worth, and probably then some. As we're headed back to the boat, my SIL (lightweight pussy) proceeds to puke out the window of the shitty taxi van we're riding back in.

When we got there, the driver was acting all kinds of pissed off, and bitching at me. I was like idk, he got sick. Probably because you're a shitty driver lol. Then I said let's go everyone.

This asshole then starts screaming and talking about calling the cops. I was like, dude, fucking relax. He had a bit too much to drink and got a little sick. He was like, I'm gonna have you thrown in jail blah blah. You need to pay to clean my car.

I was like fuck. Fine. How much do you need. Dude says 5 dollars. I laughed and said yeah? 5 dollars. Damn. That's pretty steep.

I gave him 5 dollars and we walked off. Then we went to Senor Frogs and my SIL puked there too. I was like fuck, man.

We got back on the boat and he slept it off.

The end
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 23, 2025, 03:27:56 PM
Shit head Stephen A Smith on ESPN implying that the Billups/Rozier charges are because Trump is coming after the NBA.

That dude didn't jump the shark. He was born already jumped.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on October 23, 2025, 04:36:35 PM
Shit head Stephen A Smith on ESPN implying that the Billups/Rozier charges are because Trump is coming after the NBA.

That dude didn't jump the shark. He was born already jumped.

If that was the case, it would have included Bad Bunny.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on October 23, 2025, 07:34:58 PM
Shit head Stephen A Smith on ESPN implying that the Billups/Rozier charges are because Trump is coming after the NBA.

That dude didn't jump the shark. He was born already jumped.

And he issued a public apology to Jasmine Crockett!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 23, 2025, 09:47:05 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpLc4X1votI
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on October 23, 2025, 10:05:32 PM
meanwhile the NCAA   https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46689420/ncaa-allows-athletes-bet-pro-sports-starting-nov-1
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on October 30, 2025, 10:05:35 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ii1ROzeSwU
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 01, 2025, 12:16:05 AM
It’s Halloween, and once again we are reminded that the world is not what it used to be. There are sickos who put bad stuff in kids bags these days.

Word from Schaumburg is some sicko has been putting Chicago Bears tickets in kids bags
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 05, 2025, 07:31:16 AM
https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/us-news/brawl-breaks-out-at-texas-bass-pro-shop-grand-opening-over-bathroom-dispute/

Judge Judy can report on whether he was involved in this fracas.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 05, 2025, 08:00:41 AM
https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/us-news/brawl-breaks-out-at-texas-bass-pro-shop-grand-opening-over-bathroom-dispute/

Judge Judy can report on whether he was involved in this fracas.
Rumor has it that jasn was going to Odessa for the grand opening.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 05, 2025, 08:10:08 AM
Rumor has it that jasn was going to Odessa for the grand opening.

I’ve been to Odessa. You been to Odessa? You keep Odessa out yo mouf’.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 05, 2025, 08:56:14 AM
Rumor has it that jasn was going to Odessa for the grand opening.

I can officially report that our jasn is actually a woman and has a VAG-INA…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 05, 2025, 09:42:08 AM
I can officially report that our jasn is actually a woman and has a VAG-INA…

Plot twist. Minus the part about a woman having a vagina.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 05, 2025, 09:43:04 AM
That explains his/her fixation on the Cubs, and lack of quality football takes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 05, 2025, 11:24:21 AM
Plot twist. Minus the part about a woman having a vagina.

All women have vaginas. That is not disputable…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 05, 2025, 12:18:33 PM
All women have vaginas. That is not disputable…

Plural?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 05, 2025, 12:46:19 PM
Plural?

All women have a VAG-INA…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 05, 2025, 01:08:24 PM
All women have a VAG-INA…

Presumably you know because you look at yours in the mirror daily, after writing your congressman to tell him to suppress the Epstein files.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 09, 2025, 02:51:28 PM
Custard didn’t know who to root for in this one….

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/marin-headlands-stabbing-cyclist-conzelman-road/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 09, 2025, 03:30:59 PM
Custard didn’t know who to root for in this one….

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/marin-headlands-stabbing-cyclist-conzelman-road/

(https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyMjZ0cG9ha2toY3ZwN3c1eXlhd2w1OTFjM3RiZ2h3MTYxaG5icG55eiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/AtqZF342yL1S0/200.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 18, 2025, 03:14:15 PM
So Larry Summers - this guy was the fucking Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard University.

And he's emailing Epstein for *dating advice*?

The more shit comes out these days the more I realize that there are just a lot of fucking doofuses out there. Me personally, I never asked anyone for dating advice, I just went out and went with it. If you are missing some "trick" or "strategy" at the start and that's what sinks you, well, it wasn't gonna go anywhere anyway. But sure as hell, if I was Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard, I wouldn't think I'd need a trick - basically "I'm Keith Hernandez". But sure as shit I wouldn't be emailing a known sex offender.

Why were any of these fuckwads - Trump, Clinton, Gates, Dershowitz, PRINCE FUCKING ANDREW - in this shithead's orbit? You're in the position they were in and *this* is they guy you spend time with? Confide in?

I was in a Fraternity at UIUC. Take 80-90 undergrads from a big ten school in the 80's, and you're gonna have a dozen or so bad skeevy apples, no way to screen it out. But sure as shit by the time I was 25 or so, I knew who they were and even when they are on some email distribution, I need nothing to do with them. These fuckheads SOUGHT OUT Epstein.

What the hell is wrong with people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 18, 2025, 03:54:13 PM
So Larry Summers - this guy was the fucking Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard University.

And he's emailing Epstein for *dating advice*?

The more shit comes out these days the more I realize that there are just a lot of fucking doofuses out there. Me personally, I never asked anyone for dating advice, I just went out and went with it. If you are missing some "trick" or "strategy" at the start and that's what sinks you, well, it wasn't gonna go anywhere anyway. But sure as hell, if I was Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard, I wouldn't think I'd need a trick - basically "I'm Keith Hernandez". But sure as shit I wouldn't be emailing a known sex offender.

Why were any of these fuckwads - Trump, Clinton, Gates, Dershowitz, PRINCE FUCKING ANDREW - in this shithead's orbit? You're in the position they were in and *this* is they guy you spend time with? Confide in?

I was in a Fraternity at UIUC. Take 80-90 undergrads from a big ten school in the 80's, and you're gonna have a dozen or so bad skeevy apples, no way to screen it out. But sure as shit by the time I was 25 or so, I knew who they were and even when they are on some email distribution, I need nothing to do with them. These fuckheads SOUGHT OUT Epstein.

What the hell is wrong with people.

Why do you hate America?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 18, 2025, 04:29:12 PM
Why do you hate America?

Because I'm a Californian. Not only that, I'm a Californian who grew up in Colorado, so that's about as insufferable as it gets, like it's the only thing worse than a Coloradoan who grew up in California.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 18, 2025, 09:10:38 PM
Because I'm a Californian. Not only that, I'm a Californian who grew up in Colorado, so that's about as insufferable as it gets, like it's the only thing worse than a Coloradoan who grew up in California.

Everything makes so much more sense now when you put it this way.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 18, 2025, 09:52:43 PM
So Larry Summers - this guy was the fucking Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard University.

And he's emailing Epstein for *dating advice*?

The more shit comes out these days the more I realize that there are just a lot of fucking doofuses out there. Me personally, I never asked anyone for dating advice, I just went out and went with it. If you are missing some "trick" or "strategy" at the start and that's what sinks you, well, it wasn't gonna go anywhere anyway. But sure as hell, if I was Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard, I wouldn't think I'd need a trick - basically "I'm Keith Hernandez". But sure as shit I wouldn't be emailing a known sex offender.

Why were any of these fuckwads - Trump, Clinton, Gates, Dershowitz, PRINCE FUCKING ANDREW - in this shithead's orbit? You're in the position they were in and *this* is they guy you spend time with? Confide in?

I was in a Fraternity at UIUC. Take 80-90 undergrads from a big ten school in the 80's, and you're gonna have a dozen or so bad skeevy apples, no way to screen it out. But sure as shit by the time I was 25 or so, I knew who they were and even when they are on some email distribution, I need nothing to do with them. These fuckheads SOUGHT OUT Epstein.

What the hell is wrong with people.

None of it makes sense until you accept that there is no way this went down organically. You shouldn’t always rely on Occam’s Razor, but you do.

Epstein was planted for the purpose of generating blackmail material against a fair number of the most powerful people in the West. It’s the only conclusion that’s somewhat rational.

“Who might do such a thing?” You might ask.

Any ideas?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on November 18, 2025, 10:00:03 PM
None of it makes sense until you accept that there is no way this went down organically. You shouldn’t always rely on Occam’s Razor, but you do.

Epstein was planted for the purpose of generating blackmail material against a fair number of the most powerful people in the West. It’s the only conclusion that’s somewhat rational.

“Who might do such a thing?” You might ask.

Any ideas?

Spark?!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 18, 2025, 10:26:20 PM
Spark?!

🏳️‍🌈
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on November 18, 2025, 11:34:03 PM
None of it makes sense until you accept that there is no way this went down organically. You shouldn’t always rely on Occam’s Razor, but you do.

Epstein was planted for the purpose of generating blackmail material against a fair number of the most powerful people in the West. It’s the only conclusion that’s somewhat rational.

“Who might do such a thing?” You might ask.

Any ideas?

Let's see.  Who did Epstein work for?
A. Mossad
B. MI6
C. Saudi Intelligence
D. CIA
E. All of the above

I guess I'm not surprised that you are a Jeffrey Epstein truther.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 18, 2025, 11:48:15 PM
None of it makes sense until you accept that there is no way this went down organically. You shouldn’t always rely on Occam’s Razor, but you do.

Epstein was planted for the purpose of generating blackmail material against a fair number of the most powerful people in the West. It’s the only conclusion that’s somewhat rational.

“Who might do such a thing?” You might ask.

Any ideas?

Epstein filmed the pee tape!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on November 19, 2025, 08:19:18 AM
Let's see.  Who did Epstein work for?
A. Mossad
B. MI6
C. Saudi Intelligence
D. CIA
E. All of the above

I guess I'm not surprised that you are a Jeffrey Epstein truther.

Russia?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on November 19, 2025, 09:35:55 AM
Let's see.  Who did Epstein work for?
A. Mossad
B. MI6
C. Saudi Intelligence
D. CIA
E. All of the above

I guess I'm not surprised that you are a Jeffrey Epstein truther.
The Clintons
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 19, 2025, 11:11:05 AM
Let's see.  Who did Epstein work for?
A. Mossad
B. MI6
C. Saudi Intelligence
D. CIA
E. All of the above

I guess I'm not surprised that you are a Jeffrey Epstein truther.

A and D are the same thing
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 21, 2025, 10:34:15 AM
A and D are the same thing

Zionists definitely, but higher up the food chain than ThePAZionist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 21, 2025, 10:36:37 AM
Zionists definitely, but higher up the food chain than ThePAZionist.

So I want you to think.....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 21, 2025, 10:37:24 AM
Zionists definitely, but higher up the food chain than ThePAZionist.

Like he would even tell you 😂
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 21, 2025, 10:43:47 AM
Like he would even tell you 😂

I have my eyes on you since you are close to blowing our conspiracy wide open, don't you worry about it....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 21, 2025, 10:51:40 AM
I have my eyes on you since you are close to blowing our conspiracy wide open, don't you worry about it....

Theres a conspiracy theory that the CIA popularized the term conspiracy theory, relating in particular to those who questioned the JFK assassination 🤔
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on November 21, 2025, 10:58:54 AM
Theres a conspiracy theory that the CIA popularized the term conspiracy theory, relating in particular to those who questioned the JFK assassination 🤔

I reported this post to my contacts....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 21, 2025, 03:38:45 PM
So I want you to think.....

PAMan is a 33rd degree Zionist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 23, 2025, 12:53:20 PM
In Florida watching Caleb Fumble away a game at Doc’s boathouse

This morning made some scrambled eggs with Custards vaunted cheap Trump Costco eggs.

I needed 6 eggs to make a 3 egg omelet. His cheap eggs are in fact cheap - they are not XL, they are “large” and by “large” I mean medium

At Publix the shittiest factory farm white size L Eggs were 4.69 a dozen. Vital farms XL were 9.99, same as California. So much for DeSantis’ brilliance

Shrinkflation is not just Trumps penis

On the 1 mile drive between Publix and my parents condo - FIFTEEN for sale signs. Yeah everyone is moving to Florida
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 23, 2025, 11:52:18 PM
That would be ballsy if Costco was selling large eggs below the weight threshold set by the USDA for large eggs!

Yes, Publix in touristy areas are notoriously expensive.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 24, 2025, 07:13:08 AM
I worked at Publix when I briefly lived in Sarasota. Lol many moons ago
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 24, 2025, 01:00:54 PM
That would be ballsy if Costco was selling large eggs below the weight threshold set by the USDA for large eggs!

Yes, Publix in touristy areas are notoriously expensive.

By touristy you mean “still a gigantic mess after a hurricane four years ago, blighted with for sale signs in front of homes full of mold”?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 24, 2025, 01:01:40 PM
That would be ballsy if Costco was selling large eggs below the weight threshold set by the USDA for large eggs!

Yes, Publix in touristy areas are notoriously expensive.

What’s ballsy is saying prices went down by comparing the price of XL eggs a year ago to L eggs today
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on November 24, 2025, 04:25:41 PM
🤷🏻‍♂️ Regular L eggs still running around $2 a dozen here and milk was $2.12 yesterday. There’s a little chicken farm down the road that has a sign out for $4 a dozen.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on November 24, 2025, 09:23:52 PM
Didn’t need eggs today, but looked like large eggs (the cheap ones) were $3.39ish
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on November 25, 2025, 07:15:45 AM
🤷🏻‍♂️ Regular L eggs still running around $2 a dozen here and milk was $2.12 yesterday. There’s a little chicken farm down the road that has a sign out for $4 a dozen.

ain't nothing "Regular" about size L eggs
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: IlliniGolf on December 03, 2025, 06:51:12 AM
For Custard Fart and Tempo !!!

(https://i.ibb.co/G6jmBFy/IMG-1647.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nGSpZR9)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on December 03, 2025, 10:11:54 AM
For Custard Fart and Tempo !!!

(https://i.ibb.co/G6jmBFy/IMG-1647.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nGSpZR9)

why do you hate Russia?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 04, 2025, 08:53:42 AM
Extinction. Lol
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 04, 2025, 08:55:48 AM
The earth’s Caucasian population is closer to 15% btw
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 04, 2025, 08:56:26 AM
Although I’m sure there are people who wish that was 95%.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 04, 2025, 12:26:23 PM
Although I’m sure there are people who wish that was 95%.

Keep doing all you can for the minority 85% though
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 12, 2025, 07:06:42 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15374649/Berri-Vikram-Saratoga-Winery-Tesla-Arrested-California.html

Millionaire mental health entrepreneur, 41, has huge meltdown at upscale Bay Area winery before going on rampage in his Tesla, police say

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on December 12, 2025, 08:12:07 AM
Keep doing all you can for the minority 85% though

I’m a race traitor!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 12, 2025, 08:17:23 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15374649/Berri-Vikram-Saratoga-Winery-Tesla-Arrested-California.html

Millionaire mental health entrepreneur, 41, has huge meltdown at upscale Bay Area winery before going on rampage in his Tesla, police say

Dang, I thought Jobu lived in Washington!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 12, 2025, 11:09:01 AM
From a Norwegian girl:

"Hey Donald. You say you want more people from Norway. Do you really think we will come to lunatics who send in the National Guard against their own people, take away health care from people, arrest innocent people in concentration camps, are racist, shut down education & research, banning books, are against women voting & having abortions, are friends with Putin, are against gay, autism & disabled people,want to abandon Europe & and has an administration full of incompetent morons from Fox News!"
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 12, 2025, 03:59:44 PM
From a Norwegian girl:

"Hey Donald. You say you want more people from Norway. Do you really think we will come to lunatics who send in the National Guard against their own people, take away health care from people, arrest innocent people in concentration camps, are racist, shut down education & research, banning books, are against women voting & having abortions, are friends with Putin, are against gay, autism & disabled people,want to abandon Europe & and has an administration full of incompetent morons from Fox News!"

Sounds she’s a good little indoctrinated leftist like Greta.

This guy from France visited Texas and was surprised it wasn’t like he was told it was going to be.

https://x.com/libertycappy/status/1999273463077589081?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on December 12, 2025, 04:16:54 PM
Sounds she’s a good little indoctrinated leftist like Greta.

This guy from France visited Texas and was surprised it wasn’t like he was told it was going to be.

https://x.com/libertycappy/status/1999273463077589081?s=46

Artificial as heck, but funny and credible. A real Frenchmen would be more comfortable in Austin TX than rural southern Indian. Texas is a big place and not every place is welcoming.

Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 12, 2025, 11:32:51 PM
Artificial as heck, but funny and credible. A real Frenchmen would be more comfortable in Austin TX than rural southern Indian. Texas is a big place and not every place is welcoming.

Texas is wildly diverse but still maintains some of its Wild West roots. It’s a cool lesson in evolving but maintaining a valuable culture. Southern Indiana is more southern than a lot of Tennessee is in some ways.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on December 13, 2025, 07:47:28 AM
Texas is wildly diverse but still maintains some of its Wild West roots. It’s a cool lesson in evolving but maintaining a valuable culture. Southern Indiana is more southern than a lot of Tennessee is in some ways.

I could tell from watching Live PD back when it was on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on December 13, 2025, 10:50:51 AM
Yeah, southern Indiana might just be the most rural, hillbilly, trailer park, meth capital of the world…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on December 13, 2025, 12:44:44 PM
There are a few cool spots but mostly just a complete lack of any kind of culture at all
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 29, 2025, 09:46:55 AM
Old George with a good one!

https://enewspaper.dailycamera.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=e6952ac5-0b7c-4609-9068-8b3b5c40a6d3&share=true
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 08, 2026, 10:09:49 AM
Always trust content from Custard and Chappelle!

https://x.com/soveyx/status/2008954959140933940?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 10, 2026, 12:02:07 PM
It'S tHe RuSsiANs again .....

Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
"The modifications could point to an effort of disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/politics/ukraine-war-plan-russia.html
👀

Russia is a security threat. Carry on.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 10, 2026, 12:18:02 PM
It'S tHe RuSsiANs again .....

Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
"The modifications could point to an effort of disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/politics/ukraine-war-plan-russia.html


RuSsIA is a national security threat. Carry on.

Edit: oops twice is nice!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 10, 2026, 01:59:02 PM
You can’t tell me or convince me it’s not mental illness… 🤡

https://x.com/55sweetthing/status/2009823848070283567?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 10, 2026, 02:06:20 PM
You can’t tell me or convince me it’s not mental illness… 🤡

https://x.com/55sweetthing/status/2009823848070283567?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

The young woman with self image issues, or the asshole prick who somehow felt a need to belittle her?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 10, 2026, 02:09:54 PM
RuSsIA is a national security threat. Carry on.

Edit: oops twice is nice!

iS tHeRe soMe rhYMe oR rEAsoN fOR tHIs?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 10, 2026, 02:21:39 PM
The young woman with self image issues, or the asshole prick who somehow felt a need to belittle her?

Both. It’s a microcosm of where we’re at as a country. All of it. Both sides…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ridingthegrange on January 25, 2026, 11:41:11 AM
While everyone's distracted, Trump's mini-me, Bill Pulte, is playing games with lending institutions for perceived short term interest gains.  This trust fund brat got his riches from decades of the family home building business using almost exclusively undocumented workers.  He's the one trying to dig up accusations on James, Comey, Powell etc...  Seems that grand juries and career prosecutors aren't buying it.  I dub thee  "The Big Short".

https://apnews.com/article/pulte-mortgages-bonds-fannie-mac-freddie-mae-bd96e67f56910cbda81b7b9b3a54516c
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 25, 2026, 02:12:25 PM
No one should be surprised. It might just be part of the plan to make literally every area shit, so they can steal in the light of day. Trump is master of weapons of mass deception.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 26, 2026, 09:26:12 AM
No one should be surprised. It might just be part of the plan to make literally every area shit, so they can steal in the light of day. Trump is master of weapons of mass deception.

Democrats have recently made a lot of formerly great places shit, like MPLS, SF, LA, NYC. I’ve been to all recently since their downfall and seen it with my own two lying eyes. How do you feel about these things that have already happened versus your alarmist fever dreams that may happen?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 26, 2026, 10:47:22 AM
Democrats have recently made a lot of formerly great places shit, like MPLS, SF, LA, NYC. I’ve been to all recently since their downfall and seen it with my own two lying eyes. How do you feel about these things that have already happened versus your alarmist fever dreams that may happen?

I moved to SF in 1995. It's light years better and more cool than it was back then. Not even close. Huge chunks of the Mission District were no fly zones, as was Hayes Valley. Both are key commercial corridors right now. Market Street's renovation has been a godsend. The closing of the Great Highway as a pedestrian zone, as well as many slow streets/parklets have rejuvinated many spots.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 26, 2026, 02:21:27 PM
Can't speak for MPLS, SF, LA, NYC; but have been a resident of IL for 66 years. Although I mostly grew up in ECI, spent a lot of time in Chicago. It's not perfect. There are isolated neighborhoods that need to do better.

Overall, there has been significant improvement. Improvements have been due to government regulations, not voluntary private enterprise. I was always a bit of an outdoorsman, so I look at air and water quality.

*******
AI Overview

Chicago is significantly better off environmentally than 60 years ago, with drastically cleaner air and water due to regulations like the Clean Air Act and infrastructure improvements. The city's water meets EPA standards, and the river, once an open sewer, now supports ecosystems. However, challenges remain, as some neighborhoods still face higher pollution levels and the city has extensive lead pipe issues. 

Improvements in Water and Air Quality 

*Water: The Chicago River has undergone a "renaissance," shifting from a heavily polluted industrial channel to a revitalized public asset. The Metropolitan
Water Reclamation District (MWRD) has implemented massive projects like the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) to manage stormwater and reduce pollution.

*Air: Air quality has improved, with a 37% decrease in \(PM_{2.5}\) (fine particulate matter) since 2000, reducing the heavy smog that was common in the 1960s and 70s.

*Lifespan: Improved air quality has led to increased life expectancy, as noted by studies on the impact of the Clean Air Act. 

Persistent Challenges

*Environmental Justice: While overall pollution is down, lower-income and minority neighborhoods often face higher,, localized pollution, according to a 2023 air quality report.

*Lead Pipes: Chicago has more lead service lines than any other city in the world.

*Sewer Overflows: Despite advancements, heavy storms can still cause combined sewer overflows (CSOs) that dump waste into the river.

While the environment is cleaner than 60 years ago, these ongoing issues indicate that work is still required to achieve environmental equality.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 27, 2026, 11:53:25 PM
Can't speak for MPLS, SF, LA, NYC; but have been a resident of IL for 66 years. Although I mostly grew up in ECI, spent a lot of time in Chicago. It's not perfect. There are isolated neighborhoods that need to do better.

Note I didn’t say anything about Chicago.

I’ve been to the other cities many times over the last 20+ years and have seen their decline. Was in SF 2.5 years ago (before they cleaned it up for Xi) and LA/SD a few months ago, MPLS twice in last two years, NYC in October of 23.

Tempo keeps talking about which side of history people want to be on, but I sure as fuck don’t want to be on the side of the people that ran Minneapolis (and these other cities) into the goddamn ground.

It used to be a beautiful, safe city you could walk around anytime of the day or night. I couldn’t believe my eyes the last time I was there. It’s like a dystopian hell escape downtown. Same for Saint Paul. No one is outside, there’s no nightlife, people at the hotel are telling you not to be outside after dark. There are weeds growing everywhere.

That’s what these people are fighting to save? It’s already lost. And the people that oversaw losing it are the same people lying to you about what’s happening there right now. All they’re doing is trying to prevent the collapse of the house of cards that they have built. They’re not going to give up their rampant fraud and destruction of the cities without a fight.

Of course, no one other than MN and I have been there recently, so we’re a bunch of assholes for pointing out what you can clearly see when you go there. Hilarious.

In California even the damn tourist attractions are run down, everything looks like it needs a scrubbing and a new coat of paint, most public places smell like weed and urine. You go to the beach and the toilets in the restrooms are overflowing with shit and everyone seems to be too stoned to care. At least they haven’t fucked up the natural beauty there yet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 28, 2026, 11:53:26 AM
Some people I know visited Minneapolis last year and came away with a different impression. I remember they talked about the downtown area being pedestrian and family friendly..
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 28, 2026, 04:38:22 PM
In California even the damn tourist attractions are run down, everything looks like it needs a scrubbing and a new coat of paint, most public places smell like weed and urine. You go to the beach and the toilets in the restrooms are overflowing with shit and everyone seems to be too stoned to care. At least they haven’t fucked up the natural beauty there yet.

Dude you live in West Virginia
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 28, 2026, 05:04:39 PM
Dude you live in West Virginia

Tennessee? But parts of Tennessee are very much like W. Virginia.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 28, 2026, 05:49:57 PM
Bezos must need another small yacht to fit inside his smaller yacht that goes into his bigger yacht. “But don’t you even talk about taxing him more or I will fight you tooth and nail and call you a commie!” - ThePAMan

(https://i.postimg.cc/NFCBr5Qd/IMG-5164.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/N2XW3G9X)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 28, 2026, 06:01:20 PM
Bezos must need another small yacht to fit inside his smaller yacht that goes into his bigger yacht. “But don’t you even talk about taxing him more or I will fight you tooth and nail and call you a commie!” - ThePAMan

(https://i.postimg.cc/NFCBr5Qd/IMG-5164.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/N2XW3G9X)

Looks like boycotting businesses of rich people actually ruins their businesses. Who knew?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 28, 2026, 08:07:09 PM
Yep, Bezos is ruined.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 28, 2026, 08:21:12 PM
Looks like boycotting businesses of rich people actually ruins their businesses. Who knew?

Seems to say here more reliance on AI and less bureaucracy are the motivations for cutting. Did not see anything about boycotts or declining sales.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/amazon-cuts-16000-jobs-globally-broader-restructuring-2026-01-28/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 28, 2026, 09:29:14 PM
Seems to say here more reliance on AI and less bureaucracy are the motivations for cutting. Did not see anything about boycotts or declining sales.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/amazon-cuts-16000-jobs-globally-broader-restructuring-2026-01-28/

Closing Amazon grocery stores isn't related to declining sales? Layoffs at WaPo not tied to boycotting subscriptions? Ok, if you say so..... Anything to continue financially supporting Musk and Trump, I guess
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 01:37:18 AM
Closing Amazon grocery stores isn't related to declining sales? Layoffs at WaPo not tied to boycotting subscriptions? Ok, if you say so..... Anything to continue financially supporting Musk and Trump, I guess

You watch a lot of NFL right?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 01:39:46 AM
Closing Amazon grocery stores isn't related to declining sales? Layoffs at WaPo not tied to boycotting subscriptions? Ok, if you say so..... Anything to continue financially supporting Musk and Trump, I guess

Clean up your own house, hypocrite.

(https://i.postimg.cc/KYFtqtqV/IMG-5168.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Yvn4jLwf)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 01:49:44 AM
Looks like no more NFL, MLB, or NHL for PAMan. So sad…

https://frontofficesports.com/nfl-mlb-nba-owners-2024-election-trump-harris/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 01:54:11 AM
Let’s hope college sports are Trump free, because that’s all PAMan has left.

https://youtu.be/aAW4LwlttrA
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 05:43:22 AM
I’ll make ThePAMan a deal; when he gives up watching the NFL, MLB, and NHL, I’ll stop listening to The Score and using The Twotter.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 29, 2026, 07:45:02 AM
You watch a lot of NFL right?

Last I checked, I'm not the one ridiculously claiming that I'm waging war on a daily basis against oligarchs, fascists, Nazis, etc  by typing on The Twotter.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 29, 2026, 07:47:20 AM
Clean up your own house, hypocrite.

(https://i.postimg.cc/KYFtqtqV/IMG-5168.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Yvn4jLwf)

Looking like you should boycott the NFL and The Twotter as part of your daily delusional war on Oligarchy, Fascism, Trump, Nazis, etc
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 29, 2026, 09:47:27 AM
Looking like you should boycott the NFL and The Twotter as part of your daily delusional war on Oligarchy, Fascism, Trump, Nazis, etc

He told Elon to fuck off on his own platform!

Not as brave as Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents or kicking their taillight out, but brave nonetheless!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 10:33:45 AM
Last I checked, I'm not the one ridiculously claiming that I'm waging war on a daily basis against oligarchs, fascists, Nazis, etc  by typing on The Twotter.

Nice try.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 10:34:21 AM
Looking like you should boycott the NFL and The Twotter as part of your daily delusional war on Oligarchy, Fascism, Trump, Nazis, etc

Deflection.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 10:34:45 AM
He told Elon to fuck off on his own platform!

Not as brave as Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents or kicking their taillight out, but brave nonetheless!

We should probably both be executed for our crimes.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 10:35:28 AM
BTW Custard, I’m pretty certain Jesus is disappointed in you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 10:37:16 AM
Last I checked, I'm not the one ridiculously claiming that I'm waging war on a daily basis against oligarchs, fascists, Nazis, etc  by typing on The Twotter.

The guy who has harangued me for years for listening to The Score (which essentially makes me a J6er) is trying to pretend it was never “about that” for him.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 29, 2026, 12:07:33 PM
Nice try.

You have said it yourself. To paraphrase Custard, factual and verifiable!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 12:08:49 PM
You have said it yourself. To paraphrase Custard, factual and verifiable!

You keep accusing me of contributing to Trump, but all of a sudden “it’s not about that!”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 29, 2026, 12:09:41 PM
The guy who has harangued me for years for listening to The Score (which essentially makes me a J6er) is trying to pretend it was never “about that” for him.

Just pointing out your inconsistencies. You hate oligarchs, fascists, Nazis, she Trump, battling then online on a daily basis, yet support them economically. Hmmmmm.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 29, 2026, 12:10:18 PM
You keep accusing me of contributing to Trump, but all of a sudden “it’s not about that!”

Ahhh, it is though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 12:12:39 PM
So sad you no longer get to watch professional sports.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 29, 2026, 01:19:22 PM
BTW Custard, I’m pretty certain Jesus is disappointed in you.

Perhaps so, but probably not for the reasons you think he is.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 29, 2026, 08:24:37 PM
Perhaps so, but probably not for the reasons you think he is.

Definitely for the reasons I think he is.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 29, 2026, 11:28:37 PM
Definitely for the reasons I think he is.

The “playing Jesus” bit is probably one of the most pathetic bits you’ve done here, which is saying a lot. It still falls short of the sad Trump bit, though. I feel quite confident he has bigger bones to pick with me than me wanting the laws and borders of our land to be upheld and criminals to be expelled.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 30, 2026, 01:19:30 AM
The “playing Jesus” bit is probably one of the most pathetic bits you’ve done here, which is saying a lot. It still falls short of the sad Trump bit, though. I feel quite confident he has bigger bones to pick with me than me wanting the laws and borders of our land to be upheld and criminals to be expelled.

Bullshit. You either know the teachings of Jesus, or you don’t. Or you don’t care. And we’ve gone way past “expelling criminals.”

I don’t think you’ve commented on my suggestion of prosecuting those who hire “illegals.” Why is that?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 30, 2026, 01:21:38 AM
This “we couldn’t really pretend to know (what Jesus would think)” act is lame; and insulting to the teachings of Christ.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on January 30, 2026, 03:18:34 AM
The notion Jesus would be a pro-Trump “I voted for this!” MAGAt is flat out delusional.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 30, 2026, 06:46:07 AM
How did the Democrats go from this to where they’re at now on immigration in less than 20 years?

https://x.com/overton_news/status/2016604647952154746?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 30, 2026, 07:13:36 AM
How did the Democrats go from this to where they’re at now on immigration in less than 20 years?

https://x.com/overton_news/status/2016604647952154746?s=46
The Democrats had their immigration infrastructure in place, Biden surrendered our borders and called for a surge at the border during the 2020 primaries.

The Democrats never cared about the trafficked kids, the women raped and abused on their way to the border, the people who died on their way to the border, or the US citizens being raped and murdered.

And now, after viewing the U.S. border as a minor inconvenience for entry into the country, they view the border as a line that may not be crossed for any deportation efforts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 30, 2026, 11:15:38 AM
How did the Democrats go from this to where they’re at now on immigration in less than 20 years?

https://x.com/overton_news/status/2016604647952154746?s=46

The Democrats haven't really changed. HRC's quoted rhetoric is a little over the top, but the Clintons were only slightly left of center -- the crime bill, welfare reform.

What happened is Trump has dragged the Republicans well to the right of Reagan and the Bushes on immigration.

Obama removed more Trump. It's the details. The who, what, where, when, and why..
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 30, 2026, 11:25:53 AM
https://x.com/greg_price11/status/2016983302293344333?s=46
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on January 30, 2026, 11:35:46 AM

The Democrats haven't really changed. HRC's quoted rhetoric is a little over the top, but the Clintons were only slightly left of center -- the crime bill, welfare reform.

What happened is Trump has dragged the Republicans well to the right of Reagan and the Bushes on immigration.

Obama removed more Trump. It's the details. The who, what, where, when, and why..

So basically we’re back to being upset about mean tweets
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 30, 2026, 11:47:40 AM
The Democrats had their immigration infrastructure in place, Biden surrendered our borders and called for a surge at the border during the 2020 primaries.

The Democrats never cared about the trafficked kids, the women raped and abused on their way to the border, the people who died on their way to the border, or the US citizens being raped and murdered.

And now, after viewing the U.S. border as a minor inconvenience for entry into the country, they view the border as a line that may not be crossed for any deportation efforts.

-1

These are made up tales that have been refuted here multiple times.

Most people care about rape and murder victims, but the Republican leadership is using them as props to stir up ethnic hatred

"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here, even though some time back, they may have entered illegally". -- Ronald Reagan 1984

I think most Democrats would agree with this. Republicans not so much.

"Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then while they are working and earning here, they pay taxes here. And when they want to go back, they can go back... Open the border both ways".-- Ronald Reagan 1980
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 30, 2026, 11:49:20 AM
So basically we’re back to being upset about mean tweets

Huh?

The concern is about the tactics ICE has been using. Tom.Homan promised changes. We shall see.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 30, 2026, 11:57:55 AM
Huh?

The concern is about the tactics ICE has been using. Tom.Homan promised changes. We shall see.

Seems to be going just fine in areas that are not liberal controlled and sanctuary cities harboring criminals…

This is exactly what liberals want to rile up the voters before midterms. They love this chaos they created because it’s their only opportunity to try and win. It’s calculated and they want bad things to happen. It’s like starting a fight and then blaming the other side when they fight back. Hopefully most don’t fall for it…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 30, 2026, 12:00:06 PM
-1

These are made up tales that have been refuted here multiple times.

Most people care about rape and murder victims, but the Republican leadership is using them as props to stir up ethnic hatred

"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here, even though some time back, they may have entered illegally". -- Ronald Reagan 1984

I think most Democrats would agree with this. Republicans not so much.

"Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then while they are working and earning here, they pay taxes here. And when they want to go back, they can go back... Open the border both ways".-- Ronald Reagan 1980
They haven't been refuted tho.

You conveniently gloss over 4 years of the Biden administration to find quotes from 40 years ago that have nothing to do with the current left efforts to protect people with criminal records and orders for deportation signed by judges.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 30, 2026, 12:04:41 PM
Huh?

The concern is about the tactics ICE has been using. Tom.Homan promised changes. We shall see.
Nope. It's the tactics that Walz and Frey are using that are the concern.
With their refusal to cooperate, ICE is forced to do detainments in public rather than in a jail.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 30, 2026, 12:17:26 PM
Nope. It's the tactics that Walz and Frey are using that are the concern.
With their refusal to cooperate, ICE is forced to do detainments in public rather than in a jail.

ICE needs to get judicial warrants. Tom Homan hinted they might do that.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on January 30, 2026, 12:22:18 PM
ICE needs to get judicial warrants. Tom Homan hinted they might do that.

Wait, so you’re against unlawful/illegal entry/immigration?! 🤔
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 30, 2026, 12:25:17 PM
They haven't been refuted tho.

You conveniently gloss over 4 years of the Biden administration to find quotes from 40 years ago that have nothing to do with the current left efforts to protect people with criminal records and orders for deportation signed by judges.


We have been over the 4 years of the Biden Admin numerous times. My hands are getting worn out reposting the same information over and over.

Nobody is shielding anyone with actual criminal records and judicial warrants.

Most of the people arrested by ICE have no criminal history and no judicial warrants..

We have been over this as well, with documentation..
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 30, 2026, 12:29:57 PM
ICE needs to get judicial warrants. Tom Homan hinted they might do that.
The left wants that demand.
An order of removal from an immigration judge is, and has been, sufficient.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 30, 2026, 12:47:09 PM
Wait, so you’re against unlawful/illegal entry/immigration?! 🤔

Unlawful entry should be decriminalized. It is already almost always a civil offence in practice..

We should have the work permit system that Reagan endorsed 46 years ago.

I support amnesty for those who have already been here and working honest jobs for years. Especially for dreamers.

Focus efforts on drug smuggling, human trafficking, hard core gangsters .....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 30, 2026, 01:34:41 PM


We have been over the 4 years of the Biden Admin numerous times. My hands are getting worn out reposting the same information over and over.

Nobody is shielding anyone with actual criminal records and judicial warrants.

Most of the people arrested by ICE have no criminal history and no judicial warrants..

We have been over this as well, with documentation..
A order of removal from an immigration judge is a lawful order.

There doesn't need to be a criminal conviction.

There doesn't need to be a judicial warrant to deport someone with an order of removal from an immigration judge.

Until Congress changes immigration practices the current practices stand.


Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on January 30, 2026, 03:06:54 PM
A order of removal from an immigration judge is a lawful order.

There doesn't need to be a criminal conviction.

There doesn't need to be a judicial warrant to deport someone with an order of removal from an immigration judge.

Until Congress changes immigration practices the current practices stand.

I've seen a lot of people who hate Mexicans, but dude you REALLY hate Mexicans.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 30, 2026, 03:31:54 PM
A order of removal from an immigration judge is a lawful order.

There doesn't need to be a criminal conviction.

There doesn't need to be a judicial warrant to deport someone with an order of removal from an immigration judge.

.Until Congress changes immigration practices the current practices stand

You are correct. There doesn't have to be a criminal conviction. Except we were told they are only going after the worst of the worst. We the people aren't going to tolerate ICE and Border Patrol occupying our neighborhoods to round up people whose only crime was unlawful entry.

One issue is whether a signed order of removal with an.administrative order is sufficient to make an arrest.

******
AI Summary

Based on recent 2026 reports, ICE agents may attempt to enter homes without a judicial warrant if they possess a final order of removal from an immigration judge and a signed administrative warrant (Form I-200), particularly after knocking and being refused entry. While traditionally a judicial warrant was required, recent memos suggest a shift allowing agents to use administrative warrants for home entry.

*Key points regarding this situation include:

*Administrative vs. Judicial Warrants: ICE uses administrative warrants (signed by an ICE supervisor) rather than judicial warrants (signed by a judge or magistrate) to authorize arrests.

*Policy Shift: A January 2026 memo indicated that ICE agents are authorized to force entry into a home if they have a final order of removal and an administrative warrant, following a "knock and announce" procedure.

*Constitutional Concerns: This practice is considered controversial by legal experts, with some arguing that entering a home without a judicial warrant violates the U.S. Constitution, despite the internal ICE authorization.

*Your Rights: While ICE asserts authority to enter with administrative warrants, individuals generally have the right to keep their door closed and ask to see a warrant signed by a judge.
********

I am pretty sure the current regime doesn't give a shit what Congress says
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 31, 2026, 08:52:01 AM
Nope. It's the tactics that Walz and Frey are using that are the concern.
With their refusal to cooperate, ICE is forced to do detainments in public rather than in a jail.

They could just review the court records, as anyone can, and sit on front of jails and wait for the crininals to come out, can't they?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 31, 2026, 09:48:12 AM
They could just review the court records, as anyone can, and sit on front of jails and wait for the crininals to come out, can't they?

(https://i.ibb.co/cSxTBqpW/Screenshot-20260131-095535-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/q3x1S64H)

Minnesota law enforcement could just cooperate with federal law enforcement instead of hiding behind the 'we're not going to enforce immigration law' argument when cooperating would allow immigration enforcement to enforce immigration law. Couldn't they ?

Other jurisdictions appear to be quite capable of cooperating without baselessly falling back on the 'it's not our job' excuse.

There are Minnesota jurisdictions outside of the Twin Cities that actually support ICE operations. ICE members are able to go to restaurants, perform their duties, and sleep at night at a hotel without having to listen to the Democrat party street militia band.

Has the Lt Governor of Illinois suggested to people that they 'put your body on the line' ?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 31, 2026, 12:49:31 PM
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Minnesota law enforcement could just cooperate with federal law enforcement instead of hiding behind the 'we're not going to enforce immigration law' argument when cooperating would allow immigration enforcement to enforce immigration law. Couldn't they ?


How about answering the question?

They broke down a door and dragged an old man outside in his underwear for no reason. If they had just checked the correct website; they would have found the guy they were looking for. He was in a Minnesota prison.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 31, 2026, 01:11:11 PM
AI review 21 sources

Sanctuary cities are jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, primarily by declining to honor "detainers" issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for individuals in local custody. These policies, which began in the 1980s, are designed to enhance public safety by encouraging immigrant communities to report crimes without fear of deportation.

The conflict often hinges on the distinction between administrative warrants (issued by ICE) and judicial warrants (issued by a court), with many sanctuaries only honoring the latter.

ICE Detainers (Form I-247)

*Definition: An ICE detainer, or "ICE hold," is a nonbinding request from ICE to a local law enforcement agency (LEA) to maintain custody of a person—who would otherwise be released—for up to 48 hours to allow ICE to take them into custody.

*Legal Status: Federal courts have frequently found that holding individuals solely on the basis of a detainer is illegal and may violate Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful detention.

*Sanctuary Policy: Most sanctuary policies instruct local agencies to refuse these requests, as they are not legally binding commands, and to refrain from notifying ICE about release dates.

Administrative Warrants (Forms I-200, I-205

"Definition: These are civil immigration warrants signed by an ICE supervisor or agent, not an independent judge or magistrate. They authorize the arrest of a noncitizen for immigration purposes.

*Limitations: Because they are not reviewed by a judicial branch officer, they do not authorize nonconsensual entry into a private residence.

*"Secret" Directive: As of early 2026, a legal challenge arose regarding a previously undisclosed ICE directive suggesting that a "Warrant of Removal/Deportation" (Form I-205) could be used to enter homes without consent, which civil liberties advocates argue conflicts with the Fourth Amendment.

Judicial Warrants

"Definition: A warrant issued by a federal or state judge/magistrate based on a finding of probable cause

*Authority: A judicial warrant authorizes law enforcement to make an arrest, search, or seizure, and must be complied with, including entry into private homes.

*Sanctuary Requirement: Many sanctuary jurisdictions will only cooperate with ICE if they provide a judicial warrant, citing the need for constitutional compliance.

History

*1980s Origins: Sanctuary policies originated in the 1980s when religious organizations provided sanctuary to Central American refugees fleeing civil war, which the Reagan administration classified as "economic migration".

*First Municipalities: San Francisco was the first to adopt a formal "City of Refuge" ordinance (No. 12-h) in 1989, prohibiting the use of city resources for federal immigration enforcement.

*2017–Present: The Trump administration attempted to revoke federal funding for sanctuary cities, resulting in legal battles over the scope of 8 U.S.C. § 1373, which concerns information sharing.

Rationale

*Public Safety & Trust: The primary argument is that when local police act as immigration agents, immigrants stop reporting crimes, making communities less safe.

"Resource Allocation: Local jurisdictions argue that detaining immigrants for civil infractions is a federal responsibility and a waste of local taxpayer money and police resources.

*Constitutional Protection: Supporters argue that complying with ICE requests without a judicial warrant violates the Fourth Amendment rights of residents.

Recent Developments (2025–2026)

*Stricter Detentions: An ICE memo issued around July 2025 instructed Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers that individuals who entered without inspection were generally no longer eligible for bail, aiming for expedited removal.

*Increased Detainers: Some cities, such as Boston, saw a sharp rise in detainer requests (57 in 2025 vs. 15 in 2024), despite local policies to reject them.

*Litigation: Legal challenges are currently addressing whether administrative warrants can be used to enter private homes, with lawsuits arguing they violate the Fourth Amendment.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on January 31, 2026, 01:15:08 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/cSxTBqpW/Screenshot-20260131-095535-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/q3x1S64H)

Minnesota law enforcement could just cooperate with federal law enforcement instead of hiding behind the 'we're not going to enforce immigration law' argument when cooperating would allow immigration enforcement to enforce immigration law. Couldn't they ?

Other jurisdictions appear to be quite capable of cooperating without baselessly falling back on the 'it's not our job' excuse.

There are Minnesota jurisdictions outside of the Twin Cities that actually support ICE operations. ICE members are able to go to restaurants, perform their duties, and sleep at night at a hotel without having to listen to the Democrat party street militia band.

Has the Lt Governor of Illinois suggested to people that they 'put your body on the line' ?
So they can review the file and go to the person's house.

Except they have a law against that because they want to encourage reporting of crimes without fear that the reporter will be deported. That's the point behind the laws. Like Nichi said.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on January 31, 2026, 01:24:05 PM
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Other jurisdictions appear to be quite capable of cooperating without baselessly falling back on the 'it's not our job' excuse.

There are Minnesota jurisdictions outside of the Twin Cities that actually support ICE operations.

Other jurisdictions most likely don't have the same issues. Consider the rationales:

Rationale

*Public Safety & Trust: The primary argument is that when local police act as immigration agents, immigrants stop reporting crimes, making communities less safe.

"Resource Allocation: Local jurisdictions argue that detaining immigrants for civil infractions is a federal responsibility and a waste of local taxpayer money and police resources.

*Constitutional Protection: Supporters argue that complying with ICE requests without a judicial warrant violates the Fourth Amendment rights of residents.

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Has the Lt Governor of Illinois suggested to people that they 'put your body on the line' ?

Citing Illinois probably doesn't help your case much. The Chicago area is still enduring operation midway blitz. And we were only invaded by 2 or 3 hundred feds
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 02, 2026, 06:01:57 PM
Finally got a video of Custard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhBV5YenbQM
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 02, 2026, 10:22:44 PM
Finally got a video of Custard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhBV5YenbQM

You just can’t wait to see my thick wiener in my speedo in a couple weeks.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 04, 2026, 02:07:37 AM
The fact that Custard has a speedo means there’s about a 65% chance he’s gay. Which could explain his feelings about women.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 04, 2026, 02:08:08 AM
It means he’s gay, or actually from New Jersey.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 04, 2026, 08:19:12 AM
It means he’s gay, or actually from New Jersey.

Thought he was from Kankakee....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 04, 2026, 09:05:42 AM
Thought he was from Kankakee....

Kankakee Shore?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 04, 2026, 04:11:25 PM
I was literally born on the shore of the Kankakee
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 04, 2026, 04:16:35 PM
LOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 04, 2026, 05:40:04 PM
Hearing in case of Border Patrol shooting of Chicago woman postponed

https://abc7chicago.com/post/marimar-martinez-shooting-judge-expected-rule-texts-photos-fed-agents-brighton-park/18540018/

"My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies"

https://abc7chicago.com/post/marimar-martinez-shooting-chicago-woman-testifies-border-patrol-brighton-park-capitol-hill/18538016/

https://youtu.be/bkRJUwaofss
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 04, 2026, 05:45:58 PM
Momence bar owner killed ‘execution style,' sheriff says; suspect considered ‘armed and dangerous'

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/momence-bar-owner-killed-execution-style-sheriff-says-suspect-considered-armed-and-dangerous/3885643/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 05, 2026, 09:31:19 AM
https://x.com/thechiefnerd/status/2019399220697133390?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 05, 2026, 09:38:37 AM
https://x.com/thechiefnerd/status/2019399220697133390?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

It’s called comedy. You clearly are unfamiliar with Jim Carrey’s politics.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 05, 2026, 09:40:02 AM
https://x.com/thechiefnerd/status/2019399220697133390?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

(https://i.postimg.cc/rwQSCCLM/IMG-5304.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 05, 2026, 03:24:05 PM
https://x.com/thechiefnerd/status/2019399220697133390?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

https://x.com/i/status/1972043915038474359
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 05, 2026, 04:46:30 PM
Momence bar owner killed ‘execution style,' sheriff says; suspect considered ‘armed and dangerous'

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/momence-bar-owner-killed-execution-style-sheriff-says-suspect-considered-armed-and-dangerous/3885643/

Wasn’t there a bad homicide at the Burger King there years ago too? I feel like there was one at a restaurant in Grant Park too at some point. Just lots of people being killed in bars and restaurants up and down route one.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 05, 2026, 04:53:01 PM
I was robbed at gun point closing a restaurant. To Mn’s disappointment, I was not murdered, though.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 05, 2026, 05:32:47 PM
I was robbed at gun point closing a restaurant. To Mn’s disappointment, I was not murdered, though.

Justin Fields is among us who are thankful that didn't happen. Khalil Mack though....
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 05, 2026, 08:20:29 PM
I like Khalil Mack, he just wasn’t worth the price. Especially considering the Bears didn’t know what they had at QB and HC.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 05, 2026, 09:00:02 PM
Wasn’t there a bad homicide at the Burger King there years ago too? I feel like there was one at a restaurant in Grant Park too at some point. Just lots of people being killed in bars and restaurants up and down route one.


The double murder at the BK wss 2007. They never solved that one.

I think The Line is close to the county line. They got the perp right away. Not an immigrant. Black guy from Hammond..Back in the day that would have aroused racial tensions. There is talk about doing a GoFundMe to pay for a hit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 04:17:48 AM
RFK being RFK

https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2019401394273366285?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 06, 2026, 08:28:33 AM
RFK being RFK

https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2019401394273366285?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ

Did you, uh, listen to him or read the study or the comments?

(https://i.ibb.co/RpY8x2PQ/IMG-2650.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wNBt9yCp)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 08:35:16 AM
Did you, uh, listen to him or read the study or the comments?

(https://i.ibb.co/RpY8x2PQ/IMG-2650.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wNBt9yCp)

It's ok to ask questions, it's another for the Secretary of Health to proclaim "schizophrenia can be cured by diet" based on one study by one doctor.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 06, 2026, 09:17:51 AM
It's ok to ask questions, it's another for the Secretary of Health to proclaim "schizophrenia can be cured by diet" based on one study by one doctor.

He’s pointing out new evidence that dietary modification and eating whole foods can be life-changing for people with mental illness. For most people exercise alone is more effective than antidepressant medication for depression. How often do you hear that? You don’t because big Pharma (your buddies) don’t profit from someone going for a run.

It’s not like we just found out yesterday that our diet is killing us in more ways than one. We need all the data and info we can into the hands of the public to do everything they can to eat better and stop this crisis.

Then he goes on to encourage people to eat healthy real foods. Talk about making a mountain out of a fucking molehill. Is there anything you won’t find to bitch about?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 09:37:57 AM
From what I can see, studies INDICATE schizophrenia can be AIDED and IMPROVED by diet. I don't see anything about it "being a CURE."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/politics/kennedy-keto-diet-schizophrenia.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 09:38:45 AM
Copied from the No Longer Failing NYT.

Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia
The claim vastly overstates preliminary research into whether the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet might help people with the disorder, experts said.


Listen to this article · 4:53 min Learn more
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 09:42:25 AM
"PRELIMINARY."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: alum74 on February 06, 2026, 10:59:43 AM
"PRELIMINARY."

If you are a scientist, you know how often preliminary results turn into bupkis.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 11:15:15 AM
I mean, this is just another day in Washington DC

https://x.com/adamemedia/status/2019673031858385101?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 06, 2026, 01:59:36 PM
He makes a slip of one word in what was otherwise a very good, well-intentioned message and that’s what you’re going to hone in on. And I’m in a cult. LOL

Wait til you find out what they’re learning just 1 mg of Lithium Orotate supplementation can do for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Or what DHA supplementation can do. Our diets have been trash for decades now and are at the core of our health crisis. Many things that our bodies evolved to use are no longer present in our diet in any meaningful amounts. Pharmaceuticals aren’t the way out of this. Fixing what we put into our bodies is.
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Post by: murphstahoe on February 06, 2026, 02:39:31 PM


It’s not like we just found out yesterday that our diet is killing us in more ways than one. We need all the data and info we can into the hands of the public to do everything they can to eat better and stop this crisis.


whatever fatty
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Post by: Custard on February 06, 2026, 03:36:32 PM
whatever fatty

This is the best trope on the message board. The guy with a personal trainer in great shape advocating for good health being called a fatty by the guy with gout 
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Post by: Jobu on February 06, 2026, 04:09:33 PM
6'1, 235 15% body fat. "I'm in great shape!"

Ok, fatass.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 04:11:00 PM
He makes a slip of one word in what was otherwise a very good, well-intentioned message and that’s what you’re going to hone in on. And I’m in a cult. LOL

Wait til you find out what they’re learning just 1 mg of Lithium Orotate supplementation can do for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Or what DHA supplementation can do. Our diets have been trash for decades now and are at the core of our health crisis. Many things that our bodies evolved to use are no longer present in our diet in any meaningful amounts. Pharmaceuticals aren’t the way out of this. Fixing what we put into our bodies is.

A “slip?” It’s totally purposeful. As PAMan would certainly agree, words matter.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 04:11:43 PM
He makes a slip of one word in what was otherwise a very good, well-intentioned message and that’s what you’re going to hone in on. And I’m in a cult. LOL

Wait til you find out what they’re learning just 1 mg of Lithium Orotate supplementation can do for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Or what DHA supplementation can do. Our diets have been trash for decades now and are at the core of our health crisis. Many things that our bodies evolved to use are no longer present in our diet in any meaningful amounts. Pharmaceuticals aren’t the way out of this. Fixing what we put into our bodies is.

Who is “they?”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 06, 2026, 04:17:05 PM
Sweet, they are reversing cognitive decline in mice. I look forward to RFK’s proclamation in the next few days that we should get humans on this program ASAP

(https://i.postimg.cc/vTjNS7d7/IMG-5324.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Post by: Custard on February 06, 2026, 06:12:51 PM
6'1, 235 15% body fat. "I'm in great shape!"

Ok, fatass.

Correct!

(https://i.ibb.co/ksxZdt6w/IMG-2653.jpg) (https://ibb.co/C3zLrfsY)
(https://i.ibb.co/wrx3gsHm/IMG-2654.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7N68C4cm)
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Post by: ThePAMan on February 07, 2026, 12:44:12 AM
I'm enjoying this meme. Custard will enjoy  my next carb laden tailgate.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 07, 2026, 09:37:56 AM
I'm enjoying this meme. Custard will enjoy  my next carb laden tailgate.

I ate the hell out of those Meijer BBQ chips
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 07, 2026, 11:23:23 AM
We all knew that chopping your penis off makes you a better athlete, but who knew that enlarging it could, too?


https://youtu.be/MFGuTwj3f58
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Jobu on February 07, 2026, 01:47:22 PM
Fatass
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 11, 2026, 05:41:58 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/gene-simmons-says-rap-doesn-t-belong-in-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-i-don-t-come-from-the-ghetto/ar-AA1W9hEy?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=698cf7565434452f9779ffb3d47d681b&ei=37
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 12, 2026, 10:46:19 AM
But but but, they’re just fishermen!!! 😂

https://x.com/buzzpatterson/status/2021759393432473639?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 12, 2026, 11:11:37 AM
But but but, they’re just fishermen!!! 😂

https://x.com/buzzpatterson/status/2021759393432473639?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

Cocaine.

You see, Trump actually could give 2 shits about Fentanyl. But he's worried about his son's cocaine addiction.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on February 12, 2026, 11:17:51 AM
Cocaine.

You see, Trump actually could give 2 shits about Fentanyl. But he's worried about his son's cocaine addiction.

Yeah yeah, you’ve got it all figured out…
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 12, 2026, 11:27:12 AM
Yeah yeah, you’ve got it all figured out…

First time you've told the truth here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 12, 2026, 02:13:36 PM
But but but, they’re just fishermen!!! 😂

https://x.com/buzzpatterson/status/2021759393432473639?s=46&t=nLWTarDKWNHMqYhTVD-LQQ

If you can't tell the difference between a submarine and a fishing boat; I can't help.you.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 12, 2026, 03:01:11 PM
I’m not sure I believe anything that comes from this administration.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 12, 2026, 03:11:36 PM
I’m not sure I believe anything that comes from this administration.

Proceed with caution.

(https://i.postimg.cc/76gpZ5mQ/IMG-5418.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/wyjWWjKh)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 12, 2026, 03:15:20 PM
Secretary of Health and Human Services, and personal hero to Custard, ladies and gontlemen.

https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2022030285571822052?s=46&t=taZJ_d5ITWr6Hq3PUZDUiQ
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on February 14, 2026, 05:16:15 PM
Having a beer in South Lake where is Q97
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on February 18, 2026, 12:07:42 AM
When a transgender person kills someone, it's because they are transgender.

When an black person kills someone,, it's because they are black.

When an illegal alien kills someone, it's because they are an illegal alien.

But when a white Trump supporter kills someone, it's not because they are white or a Trump supporter. In fact, it's most likely the victims fault.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 18, 2026, 01:15:18 AM
When a transgender person kills someone, it's because they are transgender.

When an black person kills someone,, it's because they are black.

When an illegal alien kills someone, it's because they are an illegal alien.

But when a white Trump supporter kills someone, it's not because they are white or a Trump supporter. In fact, it's most likely the victims fault.

Turns out the people in each of the first three camps protect their respective tribe in exactly the same way as the people in the fourth example protect theirs.

It’s probably not inappropriate at this stage to point out that pumping adolescents full of hormones and SSRIs so society can let them be who they want to be may have some lasting repercussions down the road. Last I checked, gender dysphoria is still classified as a mental disorder and should be identified and treated as such. Not celebrated and enabled as to avoid hurting any feelings.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 10:07:34 AM
When a transgender person kills someone, it's because they are transgender.

When an black person kills someone,, it's because they are black.

When an illegal alien kills someone, it's because they are an illegal alien.

But when a white Trump supporter kills someone, it's not because they are white or a Trump supporter. In fact, it's most likely the victims fault.

Sounds about white. I mean right.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 10:12:39 AM
Turns out the people in each of the first three camps protect their respective tribe in exactly the same way as the people in the fourth example protect theirs.

It’s probably not inappropriate at this stage to point out that pumping adolescents full of hormones and SSRIs so society can let them be who they want to be may have some lasting repercussions down the road. Last I checked, gender dysphoria is still classified as a mental disorder and should be identified and treated as such. Not celebrated and enabled as to avoid hurting any feelings.

It’s pretty clear that Custard loves him some RFK Jr., and takes all the cues. Take partial truths (sometimes minimally so) and state them as undeniable facts.

(https://i.postimg.cc/c1wwgPQr/IMG-5503.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/F1F7wWC4)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on February 18, 2026, 11:24:44 AM
It’s pretty clear that Custard loves him some RFK Jr., and takes all the cues. Take partial truths (sometimes minimally so) and state them as undeniable facts.

(https://i.postimg.cc/c1wwgPQr/IMG-5503.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/F1F7wWC4)

Sure, and you have these people you’re quoting changing the names and labels as if that somehow makes it all better.
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Post by: ThePAMan on February 18, 2026, 12:33:56 PM
That trans that shot up his ex wife and kids at the high school hockey game seemed well adjusted.. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 12:34:52 PM
Sure, and you have these people you’re quoting changing the names and labels as if that somehow makes it all better.

You mean like doctors, and mental health experts?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 12:36:31 PM
That trans that shot up his ex wife and kids at the high school hockey game seemed well adjusted..

So was this local guy that killed his family trans?

https://abc7chicago.com/post/2800-acacia-terrace-buffalo-grove-il-murder-news/12513783/
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Post by: ThePAMan on February 18, 2026, 12:50:00 PM
So was this local guy that killed his family trans?

https://abc7chicago.com/post/2800-acacia-terrace-buffalo-grove-il-murder-news/12513783/

Possible
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Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 01:10:53 PM
Possible

Well that’s it then. Irrefutable evidence trans people are very dangerous.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 07:26:13 PM
Trans?

https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/us-news/texas-dad-shoots-own-daughter-dead-after-big-argument-about-president-trump/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 07:32:22 PM
Trans?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/austin-drummond-tennessee-man-accused-of-killing-4-pre-trial/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 07:35:05 PM
Trans?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/12/fatal-shooting-dc-glover-park/
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 18, 2026, 07:36:34 PM
Trans?

https://people.com/cheer-mom-who-killed-daughter-inside-las-vegas-hotel-room-had-lost-custody-years-11908858
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on February 18, 2026, 09:44:43 PM
Trans?

https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/us-news/texas-dad-shoots-own-daughter-dead-after-big-argument-about-president-trump/

You are recycling old news articles already posted here.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on February 19, 2026, 02:13:50 AM
You are recycling old news articles already posted here.

But trans?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 03, 2026, 05:14:52 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/C3S73R8L/Screenshot-20260224-154501-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PvVhvqjk)
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Post by: ThePAMan on March 03, 2026, 05:18:26 PM
Sure looks like Epstein has the hots for Eleanor Roosevelt.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 04, 2026, 10:22:05 AM
Sure looks like Epstein has the hots for Eleanor Roosevelt.

Who could blame him?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 04, 2026, 02:46:09 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kalshi-bets-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-death-b2932018.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 04, 2026, 02:49:04 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kalshi-bets-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-death-b2932018.html

LOL I’ll bet the Trumps got their cut.
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Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2026, 05:26:25 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/polymarket-gamblers-threaten-israeli-journalist-missile-strike-wager

Big investors in poly market…

Donald Trump Jr
And
My wife’s old roommate from Wrigleyville
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 18, 2026, 06:40:44 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/polymarket-gamblers-threaten-israeli-journalist-missile-strike-wager

Big investors in poly market…

Donald Trump Jr
And
My wife’s old roommate from Wrigleyville

Old news. They can’t do anything else worth a fuck, but those Trump’s sure can grift.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/kalshi-names-donald-trump-jr-as-strategic-advisor-to-prediction-market-firm.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 18, 2026, 06:42:34 PM
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-backs-kalshi-and-polymarket-as-states-move-to-ban-prediction-markets
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 18, 2026, 10:12:51 PM
Old news. They can’t do anything else worth a fuck, but those Trump’s sure can grift.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/kalshi-names-donald-trump-jr-as-strategic-advisor-to-prediction-market-firm.html

What’s the grift here?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 18, 2026, 10:20:04 PM
What’s the grift here?

Bet on war.
War happens.
???
Profit
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 19, 2026, 01:00:37 AM
X
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 19, 2026, 06:30:06 AM
Bet on war.
War happens.
???
Profit

Essentially. The Trump family are profiting from decisions Donald makes. What qualifications does Don Jr have to be a consultant for Kalshi?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 19, 2026, 07:04:44 AM
What qualifications does Don Jr have to be a consultant for Kalshi?
Dunno, but it seems to be a bit of cart before the horse.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: ThePAMan on March 19, 2026, 07:06:46 AM
His qualifications are cash money and his name. As old as the republic itself.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 19, 2026, 09:59:21 AM
It's corruption.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 19, 2026, 10:12:51 AM
Essentially. The Trump family are profiting from decisions Donald makes. What qualifications does Don Jr have to be a consultant for Kalshi?

Kalshi gets a tiny cut from each wager. So the more wagers that happen, the more Kalshi makes.

The Trump family, by controlling the White House, can cause the sort of chaos that creates more things to bet on. More money has been bet on the Iran War than on the Super Bowl. Which - that's fucking sad. We can sit here and grouse all we want, but that's just fucking sad and a sign of western decline.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 19, 2026, 10:46:51 AM
I get sports gambling, but Kalshi shouldn’t be legal IMO. Betting on war is insane.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 19, 2026, 11:08:38 AM
"President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Monday that Cuba would be ideal for the U.S. to take over because of pleasant weather and it is not prone to hurricanes."
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 20, 2026, 10:08:59 PM
UConn has a player named “Solo Ball” - his nickname is “Ms Custard let him have one tonight”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 21, 2026, 03:16:37 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/60qXzXQf/Screenshot-20251229-223354-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Kx8KdKn3)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 21, 2026, 06:53:43 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/60qXzXQf/Screenshot-20251229-223354-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Kx8KdKn3)

Let me guess, Trump is not your president?
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 21, 2026, 06:55:29 PM
Let me guess, Trump is not your president?

I’m sorry I compared you to Solo Ball. His shooting percentage is way higher than yours
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on March 21, 2026, 07:06:24 PM
I’m sorry I compared you to Solo Ball. His shooting percentage is way higher than yours

Dang I must have missed it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 21, 2026, 07:12:05 PM
Let me guess, Trump is not your president?

Sadly, he was dully elected.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 21, 2026, 07:13:49 PM
UConn has a player named “Solo Ball” - his nickname is “Ms Custard let him have one tonight”
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on March 22, 2026, 08:20:57 AM
Sadly, he was dully elected.
Twice. Some will dully say 3 times.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 22, 2026, 04:07:18 PM
Twice. Some will dully say 3 times.

Impeach him for violating the 22nd amendment
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on March 22, 2026, 04:11:55 PM
Twice. Some will dully say 3 times.

Some are morons.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 22, 2026, 08:50:55 PM
Twice. Some will dully say 3 times.

Some are idiots.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on March 22, 2026, 09:37:52 PM
Twice. Some will dully say 3 times.
Mn thinks Florida drew up a perfect last play
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: illiniray on March 23, 2026, 02:04:08 PM
Let me guess, Trump is not your president?

"The board also announced it had renamed the facility the Trump Kennedy Center, a change scholars and lawmakers say must be initiated by Congress, and physically added the president's name to the building's facade.'

Trump is basically fucked up.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/trump-sued-preservation-kennedy-center/70821479
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 13, 2026, 01:44:59 PM
Peak LOL is one of the remaining leaders of Iran tweeting to the Pope, condemning the fact that Trump insulted the Pope - Glory be to Allah.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 13, 2026, 08:57:25 PM
Peak LOL is one of the remaining leaders of Iran tweeting to the Pope, condemning the fact that Trump insulted the Pope - Glory be to Allah.

Even Iranians know the power of TDS.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 13, 2026, 09:42:52 PM
Even Iranians know the power of TDS.

anti catholic m f'er. Knew it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 13, 2026, 10:27:06 PM
anti catholic m f'er. Knew it.

I’m a Protestant
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 13, 2026, 11:02:02 PM
I’m a Protestant

Anti-Catholic!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 13, 2026, 11:18:49 PM
Anti-Catholic!

nailed it. Probably Klan
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 13, 2026, 11:47:40 PM
Anti-Catholic!

Ha. You don’t believe in God and mock people that do.

As we learn more, modern scientists and intellectuals are coming around to the idea that there’s a framework to the universe that suggests intelligent design.

Tempo BTC as usual.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 13, 2026, 11:58:03 PM
nailed it. Probably Klan

My heritage is almost entirely German with a smidge of French, so not many big slave or racist folks in my bloodline.

It’s the ones from the British Isles you gotta watch out for. Some high ranking Murphs in the history of KKK!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 14, 2026, 12:05:39 AM
Ha. You don’t believe in God and mock people that do.

As we learn more, modern scientists and intellectuals are coming around to the idea that there’s a framework to the universe that suggests intelligent design.

Tempo BTC as usual.

I mock people who call themselves Christian and don’t act like Christians. I am very warm to a Christ-like brand of Christianity.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 14, 2026, 12:06:56 AM

As we learn more, modern scientists and intellectuals are coming around to the idea that there’s a framework to the universe that suggests intelligent design.



LOL LOL LOL
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 14, 2026, 12:38:13 AM
Ha. You don’t believe in God and mock people that do.

As we learn more, modern scientists and intellectuals are coming around to the idea that there’s a framework to the universe that suggests intelligent design.

Tempo BTC as usual.

Trump doesn’t believe in God and insults THE POPE
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 14, 2026, 06:48:48 AM
Even Iranians know the power of TDS.
Among other people.

The front page of today's fishwrap.

(https://i.ibb.co/vxRNbzZd/Screenshot-20260414-064639-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/N6b0XYZN)
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Custard on April 14, 2026, 11:44:35 AM
Among other people.

The front page of today's fishwrap.

(https://i.ibb.co/vxRNbzZd/Screenshot-20260414-064639-Chrome.jpg) (https://ibb.co/N6b0XYZN)

Amazing
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 14, 2026, 02:09:13 PM
And Trump also mocks people that believe in God. Not to their faces, but in his actions.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 14, 2026, 03:57:40 PM
My heritage is almost entirely German with a smidge of French, so not many big slave or racist folks in my bloodline.


Well then Seig Heil!
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Reacher on April 14, 2026, 07:05:48 PM
Germans are quite racist.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: murphstahoe on April 14, 2026, 08:08:36 PM
Gallego Dismissed Rumors of a ‘Flirty’ Swalwell, Highlighting a Culture of Silence

Pro-tip - if there’s a rumor a 45 year old congressman is flirting with his 20 year old female staffers, it’s true, and he’s probably sending them n00ds.

Gallego should be expelled for calling it “flirty”.
Title: Re: WTF is up with this Clown World?
Post by: Judge Judy on April 14, 2026, 08:20:38 PM
Germans are quite racist.

That’s quite the racist statement…
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 14, 2026, 08:25:00 PM
Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

Not the onion
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Post by: Custard on April 14, 2026, 10:59:15 PM
My paternal side was here almost 100 years before WWII, my paternal grandmother is a daughter of the American revolution. My great great great grandfather fought with the Illinois Cavalry in the Civil War.

American slave owners were overwhelmingly of British descent. My family fought them.

My grandfather just missed going to WWII, but volunteered to fight in Korea in his kid 20s because he felt bad he didn’t get to go fight the Nazis.
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Post by: Custard on April 15, 2026, 06:55:54 AM
Buried deep in the morning NYT email about illegal immigrants being scared to file their taxes was a bit of good news that Murph and Co will hate:

Quote
Plenty of taxpayers who are in the country legally, though, are starting to benefit from the tax cut that Republicans passed last year, reports Andrew Duehren, who covers tax policy. He spoke with more than three dozen taxpayers about that, up and down the income ladder.

Many told him they had received their largest refund in years, allowing them to pay down debt, save more or cover the cost of a vacation or a new bed. That was true of higher earners especially. “I thought it could be five figures, but it was still a little more, and a welcome surprise,” one told Andrew.
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 15, 2026, 10:57:00 AM
My paternal side was here almost 100 years before WWII, my paternal grandmother is a daughter of the American revolution. My great great great grandfather fought with the Illinois Cavalry in the Civil War.

American slave owners were overwhelmingly of British descent. My family fought them.

My grandfather just missed going to WWII, but volunteered to fight in Korea in his kid 20s because he felt bad he didn’t get to go fight the Nazis.

The big mistake we made was putting the Nips in internment camps instead of the Krauts
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 15, 2026, 11:00:14 AM
Buried deep in the morning NYT email about illegal immigrants being scared to file their taxes was a bit of good news that Murph and Co will hate:

People getting larger refunds is not good news. It underscores the horrible financial literacy of our populace that they celebrate giving the federal government an interest free loan. I make sure I owe money in April.

Sadly for a lot of Americans they are so poor with money it actually works out for the best because if they use having withholding that is too high as a forced savings instead of just well, saving
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Post by: illiniray on April 15, 2026, 11:13:15 AM
People rely on that big spring refund to pay off their winter heating bill before the utility companies shuts them off.
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 15, 2026, 11:21:40 AM
People rely on that big spring refund to pay off their winter heating bill before the utility companies shuts them off.

If only they had lower withholding and just you know, paid the bill over the course of the winter.
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Post by: Custard on April 15, 2026, 12:57:37 PM
People getting larger refunds is not good news. It underscores the horrible financial literacy of our populace that they celebrate giving the federal government an interest free loan. I make sure I owe money in April.

Sadly for a lot of Americans they are so poor with money it actually works out for the best because if they use having withholding that is too high as a forced savings instead of just well, saving

Told ya you’d hate it
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 15, 2026, 12:59:43 PM
Told ya you’d hate it

Told ya you would not get into UIUC today with that 300 verbal SAT
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Post by: Judge Judy on April 15, 2026, 04:53:50 PM
Germans are quite racist.

Muslims are terrorists…

I mean if you can make a claim about certain people, why can’t I 🤔…
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Post by: ThePAMan on April 15, 2026, 06:10:31 PM
Muslims are terrorists…

I mean if you can make a claim about certain people, why can’t I 🤔…

Wow. Matching Tempo at his own game.....
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Post by: Reacher on April 16, 2026, 02:51:40 AM
Wow. Matching Tempo at his own game.....

Encouraging Dipshittery is never a good look.
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Post by: Reacher on April 16, 2026, 02:53:07 AM
Muslims are terrorists…

I mean if you can make a claim about certain people, why can’t I …

I’m guessing you’ve never left the country.

Not “all” Germans are racist. Not “all” terrorists are Muslims, and not all Muslims are terrorists (even though Fox News has convinced you of this).
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Post by: Reacher on April 16, 2026, 02:59:06 AM
Nm
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Post by: Reacher on April 16, 2026, 02:59:50 AM
Muslims are terrorists…

I mean if you can make a claim about certain people, why can’t I 🤔…

https://www.dw.com/en/racism-in-germany-widespread-but-more-subtle-than-before/a-76461895
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Post by: Reacher on April 16, 2026, 03:04:11 AM
Muslims are terrorists…

I mean if you can make a claim about certain people, why can’t I 🤔…

(https://i.postimg.cc/Hn7wwZPS/IMG-6307.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0KPKxfvm)
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Post by: Reacher on April 16, 2026, 03:06:34 AM
I’m guessing you’ve never left the country.

Not “all” Germans are racist. Not “all” terrorists are Muslims, and not Muslims are terrorists (even though Fox News has convinced you of this).

Originally, I meant “the country” as the USA.  But I’m going to double down on downstate Illinois…
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Post by: Custard on April 16, 2026, 08:36:25 AM
Kamala complaining about gas prices today but in 2022 when they were higher than now telling us it was just the price to pay for democracy

https://x.com/immeme0/status/2044606175816176028?s=46
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Post by: ThePAMan on April 16, 2026, 09:39:22 AM
Encouraging Dipshittery is never a good look.

The irony!
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 16, 2026, 09:48:03 AM
The irony!
🤷
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 16, 2026, 11:28:25 AM
Kamala complaining about gas prices today but in 2022 when they were higher than now telling us it was just the price to pay for democracy

https://x.com/immeme0/status/2044606175816176028?s=46

Gas prices are higher today than when Trump took office. He promised to lower prices. He lied.

The thing here is - I think Kamala - who put out that shit statement - is an idiot, just like you do. We are both right.
You - think Trump - who has broken every campaign promise - is Jesus Christ reborn. I disagree. Only one of us - me - is right.
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 16, 2026, 04:08:22 PM
Excerpt from Custard’s new book is out

“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” Custard wrote in the journal.

He added: “My kids waited patiently in the car.”
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Post by: Reacher on April 18, 2026, 06:19:44 PM
The Onion, or real story?

(https://i.postimg.cc/CL6kn6yb/IMG-6335.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/YhYhJRCS)
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Post by: Reacher on April 18, 2026, 06:30:56 PM
Apparently shot and killed by her own partner and former boyfriend.

https://youtu.be/Eweh4AElJAk
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Post by: ThePAMan on April 18, 2026, 08:35:51 PM
Apparently shot and killed by her own partner and former boyfriend.

https://youtu.be/Eweh4AElJAk

Uh,. where have you been on this one? That hapoened 10 months ago.
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Post by: Reacher on April 18, 2026, 09:29:39 PM
I don’t spend 16 hours a day combing sports and news like you do. And it’s been in the news the last 24 hours as the video says “new details.” I believe the video was just released yesterday.
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Post by: Judge Judy on April 18, 2026, 10:53:35 PM
I don’t spend 16 hours a day combing sports and news like you do. And it’s been in the news the last 24 hours as the video says “new details.” I believe the video was just released yesterday.

So speaking on things you’re uninformed on again… 🤔
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Post by: illiniray on April 18, 2026, 11:08:54 PM
Maybe Republicans are right. Has the pope even read the Bible? | Opinion
Rex Huppke
USA TODAY
Updated April 15, 2026

Is it just me, or does it seem like Pope Leo XIV won’t stop talking about religion?

He’s all “the Gospel says this” and “Jesus taught us that” – dude, we get it, you’re head of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church. But does that really make you an expert?

As our Catholic Vice President JD Vance, who has a book coming out on his conversion to Catholicism, said, “I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.”

Exactly. Vance has been a Catholic since 2019, the year Lil Nas X’s "Old Town Road" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, so I’d take his warning seriously, Pope. He’s seven years deep into the Catholic faith – you don’t wanna mess with him. He’s part of the new Catholicism, the one that’s afraid to say “transubstantiation” because it sounds woke and has “trans” in it.

All this started when Pope Leo took a ridiculous “war is bad” stance and found himself facing off against U.S. figures like Vance, President Donald Trump, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and even Fox News host Sean Hannity, who recently asked of the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics: “Have you even read the Bible?”

That’s a great question, Sean. We know President Trump has definitely read the Bible, because he sold ones with his name on them, and I can’t imagine he’d sell a product he can’t 100% guarantee. Does Pope Leo sell a Bible with his name on it? That’s the kind of question the Vatican needs to answer before its leader goes out and opines on whether it’s moral to kill lots of people to distract from a child sex trafficking scandal.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/04/15/trump-johnson-just-war-doctrine-catholic-pope-leo/89629589007/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPMjc1MjU0NjkyNTk4Mjc5AAEeg6u28E-dOZjAVppfHcrnOMYVOJ0rkAEHSS3fBgJqTWwX3E-w4WTOj_r3TTQ_aem_SfZBLWerBB7h8o61XZnpdg
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Post by: ThePAMan on April 19, 2026, 06:58:29 AM
I don’t spend 16 hours a day combing sports and news like you do. And it’s been in the news the last 24 hours as the video says “new details.” I believe the video was just released yesterday.

We know. We can tell you spend 16 hours a day combing through Twotter Soviet, Chinese, and Itanian bots.
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 19, 2026, 07:11:52 AM
I don’t spend 16 hours a day combing sports and news like you do. And it’s been in the news the last 24 hours as the video says “new details.” I believe the video was just released yesterday.
People put 'breaking news' or things like 'new details' on their posts so people click on them and share them. That's how monetization works. Post any stupid shit and somebody will spread it and the original poster may get monetized.

I don't think HQ2 does monetization but if you've found a way to get monetized on HQ2 you can tell us. Lol.
Other than that, maybe keep it to your Tik Tok, X and Blueskyy accounts.
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Post by: Reacher on April 19, 2026, 02:26:29 PM
People put 'breaking news' or things like 'new details' on their posts so people click on them and share them. That's how monetization works. Post any stupid shit and somebody will spread it and the original poster may get monetized.

I don't think HQ2 does monetization but if you've found a way to get monetized on HQ2 you can tell us. Lol.
Other than that, maybe keep it to your Tik Tok, X and Blueskyy accounts.

It was local tv, you twat.
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 19, 2026, 03:19:09 PM
I don't think HQ2 does monetization but if you've found a way to get monetized on HQ2 you can tell us. Lol.
Other than that, maybe keep it to your Tik Tok, X and Blueskyy accounts.

HQ2 had an Nvidia employee who was hinting "buy our stock" in 2018. $10,000 of Nvidia in 2018 is now worth 5 million.

Not my fault if you failed to take the hint.
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Post by: ThePAMan on April 19, 2026, 05:31:02 PM
It was local tv, you twat.

And you apparently missed the story almost a year ago.
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Post by: Reacher on April 19, 2026, 07:04:09 PM
And you apparently missed the story almost a year ago.

No, I heard about it.
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Post by: Reacher on April 19, 2026, 07:04:45 PM
Just because you don’t remember me talking about it doesn’t mean I didn’t hear about it.
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Post by: Reacher on April 19, 2026, 07:05:25 PM
I had mostly forgotten about it, though.
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Post by: ThePAMan on April 19, 2026, 09:09:22 PM
No, I heard about it.

Now you are just flat out making stuff up!
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Post by: Somewhere in Mn on April 20, 2026, 08:18:07 AM
It was local tv, you twat.
ThePAMan pointed out that the "new details" occured 10 months ago.

As I tried to explain, people put claims like 'breaking news' and 'new details' to get clicks on their posts. The embedded post can be from 10 months ago on local tv but the 'new details' is solely to generate clicks.

I was referring to the post, not the embedded tv report, and the 'new details' worked as designed, you twat.
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Post by: Reacher on April 20, 2026, 08:26:17 AM
IDGAF. Fuck off.

I’m pretty sure the video being released was “new details” asswipe.
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Post by: Reacher on April 20, 2026, 08:28:33 AM
Here you go, fuckfaces.

(https://i.postimg.cc/7YVpjPXm/IMG-6357.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Post by: murphstahoe on April 20, 2026, 08:46:09 AM
FBI's Kash Patel vows lawsuit over Atlantic article claiming he abuses alcohol