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Message Thread | This response ↓  Political thread for the week of October 13th - theBard October 13, 2025, 0:00:26 lol Chuck Grassley thinks the Trump Admin cares about the constitution or laws - assassin Yesterday, 21:14:32 Do not read comments* - Stu Yesterday, 21:29:22 Trump lashing out at Thomas Massie, says he "must be thrown out of office"* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 19:17:33 Got to get rid of every GOPer that wants to see Epstein files* - UofIL6 Yesterday, 22:12:37 If they do finally seat the Arizona representative - RVA Today, 5:57:07 Yup. We are living in an episode of House of Cards* - WhitmansFolly Today, 7:38:57 Eh, he does that a lot.* - complainant Yesterday, 19:29:05 hey jlocke-you thought 10s of thousands of criminals... Try 10 - Taz Yesterday, 18:38:40 Holy shit, Trump just commuted George Santos sentence - Sounder Yesterday, 17:20:20 Party of LAW AND ORDER* - VIV Yesterday, 21:03:28 this is the 10th republican congressman to be pardon or get clemency from Trump - assassin Yesterday, 18:01:19 like everything in politics, pardons have turned into a tit for tat game - snipes824 Yesterday, 17:36:53 I read this as "fat tit," as in the Moobs Men looking out for one another.* - complainant Yesterday, 18:15:07 I was wondering if it was Trump's tit and Santos tat, or vice versa?* - Sounder Yesterday, 18:21:48 Pardons have always been a bit "icky" - Sounder Yesterday, 18:05:15 of course he was right. and now it's a snowball - snipes824 Yesterday, 18:11:38 Trump pardoning himself feels inevitable - Sounder Yesterday, 18:36:10 What a gross tweet. Such a scumbag* - UofIL6 Yesterday, 17:24:54 How they they say that no man is above the law with a straight face anymore?* - Sounder Yesterday, 17:35:09 BECAUSE THE HYPOCRISY IS THEIR ENTIRE POINT* - Sammich Yesterday, 18:07:04 I thought the cruelty was the point* - Sounder Yesterday, 18:22:24 years of practice* - torinese Yesterday, 17:46:28 Episcopalians mad at ICE - ATL Yesterday, 14:52:00 just realized we're going to have to explain to "swing" voters in 2028 - Sammich Yesterday, 14:54:57 Yep. Turns out leaving the governance of the country to “people who don’t pay attention” was bad for - ATL Yesterday, 14:56:40 Saw a poll today for 2028 presidential election that had Newsom ahead of Vance 47-46 - meanjeans Yesterday, 14:19:51 Nope. The problem is still disinformation. They don't "like" what's happening. - complainant Yesterday, 14:56:59 Or if they do see what’s happening they assume it’s disinformation due to the FAKE NEWS campaign* - Tortillini Yesterday, 17:34:15 Yeah. It annoys me when people say Democrats have a comms problem. - doubledown Yesterday, 15:16:47 They had Newsom ahead?! Yikes. What was the margin of error? * - jjlocke923 Yesterday, 14:44:32 Fuck off, dumbass! - Kajagoogoo Yesterday, 21:11:09 They gave Vance 20 points* - Stu Yesterday, 15:08:07 Your mom* - Sammich Yesterday, 14:49:09 new all purpose political answer* - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 14:55:04 Things are going to get much worse over the next 3 years. - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 14:33:12 It will be interesting to see if people want to keep their hand on the stove for that long. - Toonces Yesterday, 15:10:08 Faux News will tell them it's still Biden's fault. - WhitmansFolly Today, 7:40:58 Once people see Vance on TV for more than 2 minutes/day his numbers would - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 14:25:21 He sucks so badly* - Sounder Yesterday, 14:47:43 Right but those numbers mean if he wasn’t boring and he was kind of likable, people are totally fine - meanjeans Yesterday, 14:41:04 42% of people don't know Lays Chips are made of potatoes - assassin Yesterday, 14:21:51 "To the best of my knowledge we've never had a president that solved one war." - assassin Yesterday, 13:31:50 I don't think there is a single credible journalist in that entire room - Sounder Yesterday, 13:36:41 there's no reason for any sane person to pay attention to what he says - Sammich Yesterday, 14:40:23 I think he’s probably telling the truth. - DT Yesterday, 13:45:16 Also, he ended the press conference with an F bomb* - Sounder Yesterday, 13:47:06 as in “F* JD Vance”?* - memyselfandillini Yesterday, 14:03:01 When you absolutely loathe having to answer to the public - RVA Yesterday, 9:12:30 I'm sure whoever said it thought it was hysterical - Sounder Yesterday, 10:42:58 Only one drink on that menu - ATL Yesterday, 10:45:47 4 words too many* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes Yesterday, 9:38:57 When does / and what happens when these ICE yahoos try to pick up the wrong person - TarheelIllini Yesterday, 8:59:51 so far it seems like they've been smart, at least in that specific way - Sammich Yesterday, 9:22:46 7th circuit leaves in place injunction against the national guard. HWBush:Obama/Trump - gvibes October 16, 2025, 22:47:27 Sounds like a bunch of federal LE agents got doxxed - ATL October 16, 2025, 22:26:57 No good can come of that * - jjlocke923 October 16, 2025, 22:42:29 Disagree* - Stu Yesterday, 3:55:48 Was probably a mistake to leave government IT up to big balls* - ATL October 16, 2025, 23:20:23 Nothing will come from it. ICE agents are cowards. Judges stand in there, sentence mafia, no mask. - cpsteine October 16, 2025, 23:09:17 US Southern Command leader stepping down early, only 1 year into his tenure - DT October 16, 2025, 19:00:51 Undefeated* - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 19:38:25 Yesss - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 17:47:56 John Bolton and Smartmatic next to be indicted on the vengeance tour - assassin October 16, 2025, 16:25:31 Oh no! - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 18:07:25 i just hope both sides lose* - VIV Yesterday, 8:53:54 lol of course he used an AOL email * - assassin October 16, 2025, 18:08:34 "Welcome! You've got classified mail!"* - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 18:12:46 This is almost as serious as what Hegseth did, especially the part about forthcoming attack plans. - complainant October 16, 2025, 18:21:04 Good one.* - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 18:24:27 Trump Peace Prize Update - Sounder October 16, 2025, 15:23:27 That’s his MO for peace; threaten to kill people if they don’t agree* - timmer October 16, 2025, 16:00:22 Does anyone think this peace is going to last any length of time? - Stu October 16, 2025, 15:41:36 No, but then he gets a chance to double count it.* - SurfTheBoneyard October 16, 2025, 15:56:06 We've got to be at 11 or 12 solved wars by now.* - Warrin'_Illini October 16, 2025, 16:05:07 Only Trump can fix it - Sounder October 16, 2025, 15:42:25 Down goes Mitch! - Sounder October 16, 2025, 15:12:42 Goddamit. I just felt sympathy for Mitch McConnell* - Herman Blume October 16, 2025, 18:27:18 I think he said, “Dude.”, there at the end* - timmer October 16, 2025, 15:59:42 He look incredibly feeble - Sounder October 16, 2025, 17:04:43 He had polio. He's always been lame.* - complainant October 16, 2025, 17:25:32 He's one of a handful of people, along with Trump - Sounder October 16, 2025, 19:20:40 Fucking hell, can someone with some sense please enact term limits for the legislative branch* - GrandmotherPearlsJam October 16, 2025, 15:56:57 Enact? That's not how it works. But this is probably more about polio anyway.* - complainant October 16, 2025, 17:04:24 ICE has kidnapped at least 170 citizens during their reign of terror - assassin October 16, 2025, 12:10:33 How many violent criminal illegal immigrants did they get? * - doubledown October 16, 2025, 12:42:12 A stat I saw recently was that a bit under 30% of those they detained had any criminal conviction - DT October 16, 2025, 16:17:48 I believe that it has been tens of thousands, this calendar year alone * - jjlocke923 October 16, 2025, 13:31:12 No you don’t believe that* - PapaDels October 16, 2025, 18:53:02 Nothing he posts is in good faith. He's a Temu Skankhunt42.* - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 10:19:06 You know that we know that you and the administration are lying, right?* - Chicago1995 October 16, 2025, 15:53:24 Liar - MojoJojo October 16, 2025, 15:28:45 You're such a twat. - Kajagoogoo October 16, 2025, 14:02:47 The biggest cunt imaginable* - Sounder October 16, 2025, 15:34:10 There are bigger, but fewer cuntier. * - doubledown October 16, 2025, 15:43:59 Gaping, dripping, stinky, cunty* - Sounder October 16, 2025, 15:44:51 I use the Australian version which isn't anatomically related. * - doubledown October 16, 2025, 15:52:04 Actually, 50 trillion * - Dark Knight October 16, 2025, 13:53:20 No, that's the number of people they have saved from fentanyl overdoses* - Sounder October 16, 2025, 15:50:53 LOFL* - Chilango October 16, 2025, 13:36:10 it's gonna get so much worse - Sammich October 16, 2025, 12:41:41 yup. the standard mayoral response of "immigration is a federal issue" is no longer good enough to - torinese Yesterday, 17:01:02 Had a nice convo with an pleasant older lady from Victoria BC - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 10:53:16 You know that either she or her friend(s) are lying, right? - jjlocke923 October 16, 2025, 13:47:26 You know that you are a huge gaping cunt, right?* - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 15:12:15 ENOUGH ALREADY, DUDE! - Kajagoogoo October 16, 2025, 15:32:58 *snickers** - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 17:46:45 I don’t believe her for a second* - Sounder October 16, 2025, 11:08:28 Even if not true, at a minimum the rumors are out there and believable... - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 11:19:21 For sure, Canadians are big mad (rightfully so) - Sounder October 16, 2025, 15:44:19 Múltiple Canadians have said that if there's an upside to the Trump presidency... - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 18:56:56 I don't think Carney gets elected without Trump* - Sounder October 16, 2025, 19:24:20 Meh, if they're anything like ICE they don't think the rules apply to them. - Warrin'_Illini October 16, 2025, 15:51:57 This thing about launching celebratory missiles over the CA highway can’t be real, right?* - OB25 October 16, 2025, 9:44:45 The Meidas Touch bros would never lie or try to manipulate the public.* - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 10:26:47 ... says the guy who gets his news from Russia Today.* - complainant October 16, 2025, 11:13:06 Did Ukraine win yet? - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 11:16:59 ^^Not a denial^^* - Chilango October 16, 2025, 12:12:30 I don't get news from Russia Today. - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 12:18:20 That's true. He merely gets his news from people who *work* for RT. Big difference.* - complainant October 16, 2025, 12:34:02 John Mearsheimer works for Russia Today? - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 12:45:44 Where do you read his stuff? In their legacy texts or does he publish on more current things?* - Chilango October 16, 2025, 13:35:19 His substack is a decent start.* - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 13:43:40 Um ... yes? - complainant October 16, 2025, 13:34:49 Um... No. - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 13:54:41 Oh look, you changed the subject! Damn that's a clever tactic.* - complainant October 16, 2025, 11:34:36 Sorry, I thought when you decided to jump into this California story with your dipshit Russia Today - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 11:45:58 The subject remains "credible sources of information." Another good deflection, though.* - complainant October 16, 2025, 11:58:02 Incorrect. The subject remains "clowning complainant"* - Chuck Woodaby October 16, 2025, 12:03:37 Pretty sure they’ve all dreamed about firing on California. Hopefully this scratches the itch… - haighter October 16, 2025, 9:49:34 They're just working their way up to making carpet bombing acceptable.* - Stu October 16, 2025, 10:02:11 Man, what makes a certain kind of autocrat want to build victory arches... - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 7:49:56 Built by the druids… - SurfTheBoneyard October 16, 2025, 9:33:27 "This needs to be at least...three times bigger!"* - Sammich October 16, 2025, 9:28:55 The emporer has no clothes* - Sounder October 16, 2025, 9:24:40 Translation: We are weaponizing the government against our political rivals... - KingTalkyTiki October 15, 2025, 16:49:52 You must own the honor - Mmancubfan October 15, 2025, 20:45:25 What statement Tiki made, and be specific, shows he hates the United States?* - ATL October 15, 2025, 21:44:01 "Hate America" has been running 24/7 on OAN and Newsmaxxx* - WhitmansFolly Yesterday, 7:24:18 *crickets* - Chilango October 16, 2025, 8:02:38 *crickets* - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 7:18:36 Ok Mr Polio. Where is your buddy Yoyo. He can’t be litigating in LA 24/7.? - Mmancubfan October 15, 2025, 21:49:43 First, thanks to a vaccine discovered in Pittsburgh, I evaded polio. Second I don’t know. - ATL October 15, 2025, 21:58:02 Where is YOYO. What happened? I miss that asshat. - Mmancubfan October 15, 2025, 22:23:29 I don’t know. There are like 1.5 billion of us. We don’t keep tabs on each other.* - ATL October 15, 2025, 22:44:56 And they were all in my Costco Sunday afternoon* - Stu October 16, 2025, 4:47:53 Assimilated! Nothing more american than buying a lot of shit at costco on a sunday afternoon* - gvibes October 16, 2025, 9:25:56 Re: I don’t know. There are like 1.5 billion of us. We don’t keep tabs on each other.* - Mmancubfan October 15, 2025, 22:49:05 There is never a lay down with you. Just hold your breath. - Mmancubfan October 15, 2025, 22:16:51 Whatever you're drinking, do please share* - Taz October 15, 2025, 22:26:03 This is just really, really, really pathetic and sad* - IlliniRunner October 16, 2025, 0:40:47 This is America. Please write in English. * - doubledown October 15, 2025, 21:00:52 He said he would like to sleep with Sounder* - Stu October 15, 2025, 21:02:26 Why am I catching strays here?* - Sounder October 16, 2025, 9:23:03 Hey! - KingTalkyTiki October 15, 2025, 20:59:02 That’s all you got Mensa? - Mmancubfan October 15, 2025, 21:19:09 For you? - KingTalkyTiki October 15, 2025, 21:38:58 You're fat? - complainant October 15, 2025, 21:04:56 Ain't no one called me skinny since 1986 - KingTalkyTiki October 16, 2025, 7:29:07 Taking a real chance boiling this kettle the way they are. - doubledown October 15, 2025, 17:06:46 You may be falsely assuming that what you describe isn’t what they want to happen. - OB25 October 15, 2025, 19:08:54 So ... he nailed it?* - complainant October 15, 2025, 19:16:07 Any guesses on when the shutdown ends?* - opossum jenkins October 15, 2025, 15:47:13 Whenever they destroy the Epstein files* - ATL October 15, 2025, 21:21:47 Two weeks. - illinijohn October 15, 2025, 20:05:15 just before Halloween; they are worried about Thanksgiving travel* - memyselfandillini October 15, 2025, 19:50:26 When the air traffic control system breaks down? - jfinsocal October 15, 2025, 18:29:55 Yeah one of the recent times it was shut down about 30 days. Then flights started getting delayed. - meanjeans October 15, 2025, 18:31:39 My guess is 30-45 days - Sounder October 15, 2025, 16:23:31 November something* - assassin October 15, 2025, 15:51:08 Hegseth orders Gravy Seals back to Texas. - complainant October 15, 2025, 15:20:13 Without getting to eat an Italian Beef or Deep Dish Pizza? - KingTalkyTiki October 15, 2025, 16:52:05 It just hit me, these guys are going to be rounding people up at polling places on election day - meanjeans October 15, 2025, 15:53:29 This is the case* - Chilango October 16, 2025, 13:38:04 Trump could put the army in Chicago, only let white people vote and it'd still go blue. - Warrin'_Illini October 15, 2025, 16:11:57 I don’t mean just Chicago, I mean borderline house and senate races, swing states * - meanjeans October 15, 2025, 18:28:57 I've got some bad news about Ed Martin.* - complainant October 15, 2025, 16:06:32 The battle of Chicago ended up about the same for them as the battle of the Alamo I guess * - ATL October 15, 2025, 15:21:52 It’s only 7 guys being sent home* - OB25 October 15, 2025, 15:35:57 They all died?* - Chuck Woodaby October 15, 2025, 15:27:52 Why tf are we spending 40 billion on freaking Argentina * - gvibes October 15, 2025, 14:58:08 Because Milei is based * - illiniranger October 15, 2025, 15:53:40 two guesses - VIV October 15, 2025, 15:39:11 to prove that libertarianism and free markets work, duh* - ECEIllinois October 15, 2025, 15:29:05 Haven't looked into it but read that some hedge fund and Bessent buddies will benefit greatly. * - Tuscy October 15, 2025, 15:09:36 Just assuming their president said something nice about Trump a few times.* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes October 15, 2025, 15:00:52 Trump threatened them yesterday if that dude isn’t reelected he’s pulling the funds* - assassin October 15, 2025, 15:16:24 Milei not up for reelection. It was a threat if Milei loses a majority in the legislature * - illiniranger October 15, 2025, 15:56:57 ah, well, same shit, different toilet* - assassin October 15, 2025, 15:59:34 Guy on today’s Odd Lots podcast had a nuanced take. Made it sound like the best possible - John Coctostan October 15, 2025, 18:42:58 John Rocker has entered the group chat - Sounder October 15, 2025, 11:32:26 It’s amazing how the racists suddenly feel emboldened to spew whatever racist shit - GMAW October 15, 2025, 17:59:05 if you talk badly about Charlie Kirk though, you lose your job or your visa* - assassin October 15, 2025, 18:12:01 Does he know where the CEO of the company is from? - EffinIllini October 15, 2025, 12:15:04 Probably worried he'd spill his drink if he drives himself* - WhitmansFolly October 15, 2025, 19:42:27 Surely he's capable of using a cupholder. - EffinIllini October 16, 2025, 13:55:09 At least he gave us Kenny Powers* - CWR10 October 15, 2025, 11:54:09 Nostalgia tours are really getting out of control* - Sammich October 15, 2025, 11:41:11 The normalization of this sort of open racism is a natural expected outcome - Sounder October 15, 2025, 11:46:21 I miss the good old days when John Rocker kept these opinions to himself.* - Chuck Woodaby October 15, 2025, 11:50:21 I forgot what John Rocker looks like - Sammich October 15, 2025, 11:48:24 You're in luck. His profile pic is from 30 years ago to help you remember. * - doubledown October 15, 2025, 12:02:31 I just saw an updated photo, his head is enormous* - Sounder October 15, 2025, 12:06:14 Judging from the various social media play by play, seems SCOTUS is about to end voting rights - UofIL6 October 15, 2025, 10:57:17 which rights in particular do you mean? Do you prefer racial gerrymanders or partisan ones?* - Potomac October 15, 2025, 14:22:52 the partisan ones are racial, it’s an unbelievably weak argument* - memyselfandillini October 15, 2025, 19:53:12 This case seems like the elimination of racial voice leading to political gerrymander* - UofIL6 October 15, 2025, 15:02:35 Which will lead to +19 gerrymandered seats. Democracy manifest. * - assassin October 15, 2025, 11:23:12 I read somewhere that this would allow blue states to further gerrymander as well, although it - Warrin'_Illini October 15, 2025, 14:27:37 Red states are intent on doing it. Blue states can either get shit in order or get used to losing* - UofIL6 October 15, 2025, 15:21:29 Eventually there has to be a point where they get over their skis - RVA October 15, 2025, 11:34:34 yeah, like when the only votes that matter are in one party’s primary - memyselfandillini October 15, 2025, 19:55:44 Let's suppose Maryland follows through on trying for all 8 seats as Dems - Potomac October 15, 2025, 14:29:21 obviously it’s massive disenfranchisement no matter who is doing it* - memyselfandillini October 15, 2025, 19:57:14 Are you asking the same questions of Greg Abbott or the governor of Missouri?* - ATL October 15, 2025, 15:20:17 It's bad when both sides do it, right? Biden should have told CA and NY to do this in 2021.* - Warrin'_Illini October 15, 2025, 14:38:36 If they're counting on all of those 2024 brown votes to stay consistent - Sounder October 15, 2025, 11:35:53 And Dems are too committed to the appearance of fairness to return fire. * - doubledown October 15, 2025, 11:26:38 This* - UofIL6 October 15, 2025, 11:29:15 I can't speak for everyone, but Newsom and Pritzker seem ready to play hardball* - Sounder October 15, 2025, 11:35:06 with what? isn't it mostly rhetoric?* - torinese October 15, 2025, 11:57:11 There is a a referendum on the ballot to redistrict California if necessary* - Sounder October 15, 2025, 11:59:05 for IL yes, but they've already done their job - assassin October 15, 2025, 11:58:55 This has been decades in the making. Rich people invented democracy to protect their wealth. - doubledown October 15, 2025, 11:05:37 Also: were all about extolling the virtues of representative democracy - KingTalkyTiki October 15, 2025, 13:04:02 if Curtis Yarvin did not exist, it would be necessary for the billionaire class to create him* - Sammich October 15, 2025, 11:08:48 Yarvin is naive if he thinks monarchy can be sustained in a country with more guns than people. - doubledown October 15, 2025, 11:22:08 uiuc's pri hit with $21M in sponsored projects cuts. link inside - lcubed October 15, 2025, 9:08:44 Just a reminder that while we tear ourselves apart politically, China has been preparing to.. - LeatherneckIllini October 15, 2025, 7:20:33 Maybe I’m naive, but I feel like there’s two different ways to look at this…. - OB25 October 15, 2025, 9:47:00 I'm just glad that the guy who just went to work for a cybersecurity venture capital firm - Chuck Woodaby October 15, 2025, 9:26:40 Taiwan is a foregone conclusion. Part of the reason for trying to build fabs here. - doubledown October 15, 2025, 7:43:42 We’ve already lost. But that’s not necessarily so terrible. - DT October 15, 2025, 8:05:40 That seems like the "nice enemy" evaluation. - ghost_of_clt October 15, 2025, 8:23:59 Is there a button in Beijing that turns off the bacon curer? - RVA October 15, 2025, 11:39:54 Assuming the machinery/buildings seized are functional * - ghost_of_clt October 15, 2025, 11:43:18 Point, Luddites* - RVA October 15, 2025, 11:46:58 Bitcoin isn’t real, and ownership is just a name on a piece of paper. - doubledown October 15, 2025, 9:01:46 My Bitcoin comment isn't about the coin itself. It's the farms that can flip on/off 200GW of power - ghost_of_clt October 15, 2025, 9:10:31 We still have nukes. China's issue is how to manage our decline - larue33 October 15, 2025, 8:47:52 love that we're entering our own Russia era of decline with force* - OrangeSox October 15, 2025, 9:19:11 yes but the cooking oil prices* - memyselfandillini October 15, 2025, 7:27:11 They still haven't sworn in the Arizona representative - RVA October 15, 2025, 5:50:30 Apparently IU administration is trying to censor their student newspaper. - IlliniRunner October 15, 2025, 1:15:34 glad to see dartmouth backed out of the "higher ed compact" - Nobster October 15, 2025, 7:46:28 Rodenbush’s directive than statement seem to me to be in conflict - TarheelIllini October 15, 2025, 6:31:21 The email was relaying the instructions received from higher up. * - doubledown October 15, 2025, 7:38:20 groyper-occupied government - ECEIllinois October 14, 2025, 22:30:07 That's not what I'd expect from an official govt account. I'm skeptical, in fact, of its legitimacy* - RVA October 15, 2025, 6:02:30 you may want to wake up then* - memyselfandillini October 15, 2025, 6:05:56 ooo - assassin October 15, 2025, 11:19:25 Ack! Sorry RVA.* - memyselfandillini October 15, 2025, 20:02:16 Just going full Nazi at this point. * - doubledown October 14, 2025, 22:45:46 Ah yes, openly calling for ethnic cleansing. Lovely. * - assassin October 14, 2025, 22:45:20 Some young fascist missed the "Who you should definitely not step to" day of ICE training - KingTalkyTiki October 14, 2025, 21:42:39 Tiki, do you mind knocking it off with calling people c**ts? * - jjlocke923 October 14, 2025, 21:47:12 Can I still call you a cunt? * - doubledown October 14, 2025, 22:37:22 OOO - KingTalkyTiki October 14, 2025, 22:26:55 Stop responding to him. Stop the act. Stop it. * - assassin October 14, 2025, 22:11:42 You are so clueless. On just about every topic you post about, including this one. - jjlocke923 October 14, 2025, 22:22:58 Oh enlighten us wise one! - WhitmansFolly October 14, 2025, 22:52:54 I’m sorry Tiki hurt your feelings and you feel the need to lash out at your betters. - assassin October 14, 2025, 22:44:32 I suppose it’s just a word. No different than calling someone a f***ot. * - jjlocke923 October 14, 2025, 22:52:16 Oh Hans, not quite. - WhitmansFolly October 14, 2025, 23:04:52 Use whatever words you want. Nobody is stopping you. * - doubledown October 14, 2025, 23:01:33 lol look at that mask slip* - assassin October 14, 2025, 22:55:17 Yup* - Chilango October 15, 2025, 14:55:56 Trump is an absolutely deranged menace - Sounder October 14, 2025, 16:37:18 Seems like he had a nice little boondoggle to the Middle East.* - Mrap24 October 14, 2025, 16:40:41 Exploded another boat off of the coast of Venezuela - ISeeDeadHawkeyes October 14, 2025, 14:51:58 why not just step up coast guard enforcement and intercept them when they're in our water?* - ECEIllinois October 14, 2025, 15:11:29 Because he can kill them with impunity instead* - snipes824 October 14, 2025, 15:13:48 Because that doesn't lead to a regime change. - Chuck Woodaby October 14, 2025, 15:13:21 I am very curious as to how all of this is working. And who the fuck is getting in these boats to - cpsteine October 14, 2025, 14:55:48 another bold strike from the man who objectively deserves the Nobel Peace Prize - assassin October 14, 2025, 14:55:05 I don't think this is helping his chances of getting into heaven* - Sounder October 14, 2025, 16:59:05 Trump threatening China with not buying "Cooking Oil" from them - Stu October 14, 2025, 14:51:17 I don't thiink we ever imported much cooking oil from China?* - ECEIllinois October 14, 2025, 15:04:43 Apparently it's used cooking oil for biofuels. * - larue33 October 14, 2025, 16:38:06 We apparently do, but I doubt China gives a crap*. - Stu October 14, 2025, 15:12:28 he really wants to teach them a Wesson* - Sammich October 14, 2025, 14:54:58 it's all smoke and mirrors with this admin* - lcubed October 14, 2025, 15:02:33 lol good one * - jjlocke923 October 14, 2025, 14:59:38 *jumpsinroflcopterandfliesaway* - Tuscy October 14, 2025, 14:58:57 leaders of Young Republican groups have their telegram chats leaked - assassin October 14, 2025, 13:21:46 Built like lead dancers in a Jardiance commercial* - EffinIllini October 15, 2025, 12:11:18 Not that there’s anything wrong with it but those are all just photos of chubby trans men* - ATL October 14, 2025, 16:46:04 They're all fat, white, edge-lord dorks... * - haighter October 14, 2025, 15:00:12 Not all white. * - doubledown October 14, 2025, 15:40:34 increasingly non-white* - ECEIllinois October 14, 2025, 16:23:16 Oof. Those people are screwed. - Chuck Woodaby October 14, 2025, 13:55:47 lol. or the most senior adviser to the president!* - cpsteine October 14, 2025, 14:48:26 Nah, the president prefers the ones who don't get caught.* - Chuck Woodaby October 14, 2025, 15:25:25 They're actually not what I'd expect. In fact, I am skeptical of their legitimacy * - jjlocke923 October 14, 2025, 13:31:51 Lol. I don't expect to hear from you again on this.* - cpsteine October 14, 2025, 14:53:22 We've seen the other board. We know exactly what kind of shit you people post. * - doubledown October 14, 2025, 14:48:18 I'm not on "the other board" * - jjlocke923 October 14, 2025, 14:58:48 This doesn’t pass the smell test - TarheelIllini October 14, 2025, 15:41:22 I appreciate hearing other people’s views. - jjlocke923 October 14, 2025, 15:59:54 Oh, you sad little Cunt.* - KingTalkyTiki October 14, 2025, 16:50:09 I'm skeptical of your possessing two functioning brain cells. - theBard October 14, 2025, 14:06:36 Well of course, but you're an idiot. So there's that. - Kajagoogoo October 14, 2025, 14:02:08 Why would you question their legitimacy? None of the participants quoted in the article did.* - Sammich October 14, 2025, 13:54:53 The one guy claimed he couldn’t verify their accuracy in what seemed like a clear non-denial denial* - DocWalk20 October 14, 2025, 14:04:59 look, we said a lot of stuff LIKE that...but those exact phrases? - assassin October 14, 2025, 14:32:31 Needed more racist and Nazi references?* - Chicago1995 October 14, 2025, 13:50:40 More apologies and people getting fired by GOP officials apparently.* - SurfTheBoneyard October 14, 2025, 13:52:26 They were known as...."The Unfuckables" * - Jersey October 14, 2025, 13:29:49 I remember when conservatives hated this type of government censorship - snipes824 October 14, 2025, 11:10:07 I love that the MAGA crowd wants these Facebook peeps locked up for doxing. - WhitmansFolly October 14, 2025, 11:50:51 Except that there’s been no violence against ICE and it’s really starting to piss them off. * - doubledown October 14, 2025, 11:24:31 Right, you know if there was evidence of this they’d be blasting it out across the internets - Jackie October 14, 2025, 13:19:29 Officer was pecked to death by two guys in inflatable chicken suits last week. Horrific.* - DT October 14, 2025, 14:25:40 have you even considered the psychic trauma caused by watching a frog gyrate?* - Sammich October 14, 2025, 14:27:58 They're not guided by principles. They're guided by tribalism and personal advancement.* - complainant October 14, 2025, 11:13:33 Hey gvibes and ECE, have you heard about the patent tax Lutnick is floating? - ATL October 14, 2025, 10:03:34 fucking idiots. raise income taxes on 1M+ earners, hike up estate tax, abolish loopholes.* - cpsteine October 14, 2025, 14:57:51 Interesting. So how is the value of a patent determined? - EffinIllini October 14, 2025, 14:07:26 However it’s done, I’m sure Trump and his inner circle will be accepting bribes to alter the #* - DT October 14, 2025, 14:32:39 So some wealthy donor has a problem with a patent troll? Is that what’s happening? * - doubledown October 14, 2025, 11:58:07 Vaguely. Kind of weird considering how pro patentee the current office is otherwise* - gvibes October 14, 2025, 11:13:57 But if you can get a vig, you gotta do it* - ghost_of_clt October 14, 2025, 13:30:37 Props to Trump for whatever role he had in getting the rest of the hostages released. - doubledown October 14, 2025, 9:26:29 Also there’s like a 90% chance he and everyone is spiking the ball at the 10 yard line - John Coctostan October 14, 2025, 12:43:26 Not sure if this is real but…. - Mrap24 October 14, 2025, 9:36:51 Agreed, though he wants credit for ending a 3,000 year old conflict once and for all... - Tuscy October 14, 2025, 9:29:22 He also thinks everyone else should walk away from old grudges. - Stu October 14, 2025, 9:30:42 I’d like to report a murder - Mrap24 October 13, 2025, 22:55:11 Not since a GOP president sent his masked secret police in, Jim - KingTalkyTiki October 14, 2025, 8:16:56 Ope* - Taz October 14, 2025, 6:36:59 Democratic messaging....as usual - UofIL6 October 13, 2025, 15:35:28 The Democrats managed to make everyone hate them for their Israel-Palestine policies - DT October 13, 2025, 16:49:36 Well on the bright side they've really seemed to have learned from it *gigantic fart noise* * - Warrin'_Illini October 13, 2025, 17:03:55 The old guard isn't up for this moment... - KingTalkyTiki October 13, 2025, 16:24:22 *sigh* Yep. They are their own worst enemy. - Kajagoogoo October 13, 2025, 15:38:00 Same as it ever was.* - Warrin'_Illini October 13, 2025, 15:37:40 LOL at the Republicans mad about this post - ECEIllinois October 13, 2025, 14:17:32 2nd Amendment nutters are apparently losing their minds over the DoJ creating a gun registry. - doubledown October 13, 2025, 13:25:52 Trump is blabbing in Egypt and his speech is all slurred, weak and shaky - Stu October 13, 2025, 13:20:05 I can imagine it now, "he done made peace in the middle east and god called him home" - ATL October 13, 2025, 13:26:39 Dotz - Sounder October 13, 2025, 13:30:31 As opposed to the previous dozen times he’s rambled? - Sounder October 13, 2025, 13:26:16 Trump likes to jerk - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:51:11 it's such a nothing in the grand scheme but also so illustrative of how much of a knob he is* - VIV October 13, 2025, 13:11:51 Correct, he can’t do anything normal* - Sounder October 13, 2025, 13:13:41 DC crime appears to have ticked up slightly since Trump sent in the National Guard? - ATL October 13, 2025, 11:27:25 What about DC Cab and DC Talk?* - Sammich October 13, 2025, 11:39:31 Recent discovery of a long pattern of grooming/sexual assault for the latter - RVA October 13, 2025, 13:22:25 "He attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the 1980s" - ATL October 13, 2025, 13:25:43 Trump admitted he's not a Jesus Freak - Taz October 13, 2025, 13:17:47 that's unpossible* - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:28:27 Mass shootings in MS and SC this weekend. Sad - MC October 13, 2025, 11:23:12 More liberal blue state crime * - VIV October 13, 2025, 12:08:51 Moore and Pritzker and Newsome should send the National Guard to these high crime states* - ATL October 13, 2025, 11:23:58 There is no place where Trump looks more out of place and ridiculous - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:02:57 I'm really tired of the phrase "nobody is above the law" coming from supporters of - doubledown October 13, 2025, 9:56:42 On Day 1, Trump signed an EO against "weaponizing the DOJ" - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:03:34 willful hypocrisy is as close as a human being can get to controlling reality itself - Sammich October 13, 2025, 11:10:34 What happens after this will be really interesting - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:15:44 Need to take a two pronged approach - DT October 13, 2025, 13:29:24 At first I thought you meant "decorum" - illinijohn October 13, 2025, 13:23:17 I think there’s a pretty clear agreement between Trump and Bondi, Kash, etc. that they’ll get - Toonces October 13, 2025, 11:29:52 I feel like pardons just up the difficulty a little bit - DT October 13, 2025, 13:08:54 Founders probably should have given SCOTUS and Congress control of some of the guns. * - doubledown October 13, 2025, 13:12:54 I wish Democrats had the stones to test whether SCOTUS would interpret - doubledown October 13, 2025, 11:48:28 I think that they're afraid to know the answer to that one* - Sounder October 13, 2025, 12:12:23 The biggest question is will Trump try to pardon himself, and is that legal?* - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:30:39 Trump thinks Biden was president on Jan. 6. This is not a smart man.* - Toonces October 13, 2025, 9:30:04 The word you are looking for is demented. He is not compos mentis* - IlliniRunner October 13, 2025, 9:41:03 compost mintis -- your rotting garbage smells minty fresh! * - illinijohn October 13, 2025, 16:42:57 Why isn't his health and mental state being discussed 24/7?* - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:04:02 Well, it isn't in the news because owners are either on board with MAGA or - doubledown October 13, 2025, 11:12:59 the latter is the saddest* - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:19:20 gotta admit I've been surprised at the level of capitulation* - Sammich October 13, 2025, 11:13:38 I've said this many times - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:16:58 I’ll be dead, but my guess is when histories are written in 50 years… - DT October 13, 2025, 13:35:15 Because it doesn't matter? His cabinet isn't removing him and his supporters don't care either way* - haighter October 13, 2025, 11:07:55 It always matters, even if his enablers don't think it matters* - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:08:39 Israeli hostages freed, Israel releases Palestinian prisoners - TarheelIllini October 13, 2025, 8:47:09 So nice the Palestinians can now return to their homes.* - Warrin'_Illini October 13, 2025, 9:15:38 Too bad they have none, amiright* - Stu October 13, 2025, 9:28:08 comedic penalty: 15 minute time out for stepping on Warrin's joke.* - complainant October 13, 2025, 9:34:04 I'm not convinced it was a joke* - Stu October 13, 2025, 9:35:03 It was.* - Warrin'_Illini October 13, 2025, 9:43:52 So funny* - Stu October 13, 2025, 9:46:34 all good news. * - VIV October 13, 2025, 8:55:40 it's great news but i'm a cynic and think this is all a PR stunt - DanSaint October 13, 2025, 9:07:00 Hostages going home is always a positive - ISeeDeadHawkeyes October 13, 2025, 9:17:38 I agree....and I do question his motives. I just think things explode again once he's gone - DanSaint October 13, 2025, 9:23:25 Trump's motives are sycophantic adolation and a Nobel Peace Prize - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:06:14 Not sure I'm willing to put that on him though - ISeeDeadHawkeyes October 13, 2025, 9:29:50 100%* - VIV October 13, 2025, 9:22:16 Doesn’t matter even if it is, people held captive for 2 years were returned to their families* - OB25 October 13, 2025, 9:15:59 agreed. as I said...it's great news. I just question motivation is all* - DanSaint October 13, 2025, 9:24:07 Here's a summary for you Dan - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:37:55 Trump's motives are self interest - Sounder October 13, 2025, 11:08:01 A PR stunt? How so? * - jjlocke923 October 13, 2025, 9:13:57 that once he leaves the ceasefire ends and hostilities resume* - DanSaint October 13, 2025, 9:22:28 i give it a week or until Orange Douchbag in Chief leaves the area* - DanSaint October 13, 2025, 8:50:16 China suffering under Trump tariffs - Stu October 13, 2025, 4:39:33 meanwhile our farmers are needing bailouts and we're giving Argentina $20B * - VIV October 13, 2025, 8:56:25 The Argentine bailout helps Americans, though. - ghost_of_clt October 13, 2025, 11:15:15 Fucking awful. * - VIV October 13, 2025, 13:15:02 He’s showing them!!* - Mrap24 October 13, 2025, 6:50:58 Happy Mike Madigan Reports To Prison Day!* - Poldark October 13, 2025, 4:18:42 « Back to index | View thread »