Silly Bob. It's just that Trump is galaxybrain smart and these are all just genius strategic moves Archived Message Posted by KingTalkyTiki on November 21, 2024, 12:11:11, in reply to "The clown show continues*" We just aren't smart enough to see that. I'm sure if that ditzy broad had been elected, this whole process would be a circus. ...just ask Throwsize...well, if he ever comes back. Message Thread: | This response ↓ Leopards Eating People's Faces 2025 - let the schadenfreude begin - complainant November 9, 2024, 15:05:40 We now will have an "AI and Crypto Czar". Return to Czarism. Cool! - Stu December 6, 2024, 6:50:31 That’s nothing new—goes back to Clinton, I think - DT December 6, 2024, 12:29:05 Leigh Ann Caldwell says DOGE will demand federal employees come back to the office, and expects mass - complainant December 5, 2024, 22:37:45 Many companies have done the same successfully and with good reason - Potomac December 6, 2024, 12:03:42 *woosh** - complainant December 6, 2024, 13:01:05 The data show that blanket return to office mandates have little benefit and can result in losing - ATL December 6, 2024, 12:59:34 Vivek also says he will insist they work 10 hour days - Stu December 6, 2024, 6:48:22 I’m sure investors will like that and it will boost government share price.* - DT December 6, 2024, 4:48:42 And will have a minimal effect on savings. Heard a radio piece on this. Won’t save as much as - illini thunder December 5, 2024, 23:21:49 In July I’m eligible for early retirement. If they pull this shit and offer it…. - LeatherneckIllini December 5, 2024, 23:17:56 i'll never be a republican but you make it really, really, really tempting* - suburbanmyth December 6, 2024, 12:12:31 I’ve begun thinking about this lately for the first time. - opossum jenkins December 6, 2024, 6:44:44 It’s not a very good chance - timmer December 6, 2024, 2:53:22 they can demand whatever they want. they have no authority* - memyselfandillini December 5, 2024, 22:50:21 When you're co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency, the Authority is Total.* - complainant December 5, 2024, 23:05:55 Interesting read on GOPers starting to quietly push back on some of Trump's policy plans - AintHatin December 5, 2024, 10:34:40 Along the same lines ExxonMobil CEO pushes back on Trump’s climate agenda - ATL December 6, 2024, 13:03:56 Well, I hope nobody here is depending on social security. - WhitmansFolly December 5, 2024, 8:55:47 He’s got a fairly impressive resume, so I’m keeping an open mind - DT December 5, 2024, 9:15:14 His resume is smoke and mirrors. - WhitmansFolly December 5, 2024, 9:24:06 Best auctioneer in the Ozarks 7 years running tapped to run the IRS - Tortillini December 4, 2024, 21:43:49 ooo - AintHatin December 5, 2024, 10:36:45 Should have picked Herschel Walker to replace Danny Werfel.* - DT December 5, 2024, 4:43:17 Lol - gvibes December 4, 2024, 12:01:50 when did trump lose 80 lbs?* - VIV December 5, 2024, 8:56:30 Ozempic is a wonder drug* - Sammich December 5, 2024, 9:16:25 i think the best part is the level beyond advanced is Trump. good stuff* - John Coctostan December 4, 2024, 12:03:16 Does that work for afflictions? - SurfTheBoneyard December 5, 2024, 6:10:52 reports that meatball Ron is under consideration as Secretary of Defense* - ECEIllinois December 3, 2024, 23:07:17 This is rhetorical, but Trump does realilze - Sounder December 4, 2024, 11:44:42 Only one qualification matters to him, which, of course, you know* - bjl63 December 5, 2024, 8:54:57 In theory, DeSantis has qualifications. - larue33 December 4, 2024, 11:53:55 Yeah, I disagree with Desantis politically and he’ll manage the department in ways I don’t like - snipes824 December 4, 2024, 11:59:10 is he the most qualified of all the picks so far?* - Nobster December 4, 2024, 11:57:00 Jay Bhattacharya is a good pick for NIH - IlliniOllie December 5, 2024, 9:01:50 Rubio for State is a normal choice.* - DT December 5, 2024, 4:48:17 Burgum seems like the kind of pick any R president might make. - larue33 December 4, 2024, 12:00:43 sounds like a deal where he appoints lara trump to replace Rubio then gets sec def. what a world* - John Coctostan December 4, 2024, 7:31:17 He's got this thing and it's fucking golden and he's just not giving it up for fuckin' nothing.* - Chuck Woodaby December 4, 2024, 11:41:15 I thought Susie Wiles hated him more than Trump does - CanHartlebHireSnider December 3, 2024, 23:30:47 He's term limited, right?* - gvibes December 3, 2024, 23:11:53 yeah I think so* - ECEIllinois December 3, 2024, 23:31:10 Steelworkers - larue33 December 3, 2024, 19:19:17 isn’t biden making the decision on this one?* - Ari Gold December 3, 2024, 20:13:24 I want more of this. It’s the only way out of this mess* - Desert December 3, 2024, 19:55:17 Oh boy, have I got a meme for you!* - complainant December 3, 2024, 20:49:58 hmm I thought Biden was against the deal at the union's behest* - ECEIllinois December 3, 2024, 19:53:16 He did. The article seems to be talking about one local leader who is upset - John Coctostan December 3, 2024, 19:59:37 They are or were, but absent a takeover, US Steel is likely history.* - Stu December 3, 2024, 20:17:04 Meidas Touch is all you need to know. - Chuck Woodaby December 3, 2024, 20:15:09 I could have sworn biden came out against it too* - snipes824 December 3, 2024, 19:56:10 What a shame. - complainant December 3, 2024, 19:31:19 That’s the good stuff.* - Toonces December 3, 2024, 19:30:03 Get ready to say goodbye to Scumbag Hegseth* - Stu December 3, 2024, 17:40:35 It’s hard to tell which picks were serious, and which were meant to be thrown out. * - doubledown December 3, 2024, 18:19:41 There was no strategy here. He nominated the guy with a strong jaw line he saw on TV - IlliniRunner December 3, 2024, 18:21:54 Now get rid of Gabbard, and the we'll be down to just the expected awful choices * - larue33 December 3, 2024, 18:01:37 Wonder if she would survive an FBI background check - Stu December 3, 2024, 18:46:17 Could any vice chair of the DNC?* - Chuck Woodaby December 3, 2024, 18:54:10 could the president-elect?* - VIV December 3, 2024, 18:56:12 Could you?* - Chuck Woodaby December 3, 2024, 19:03:32 more than trump could, but i'm also not up for public office. * - VIV December 3, 2024, 19:06:44 good for you.* - Chuck Woodaby December 3, 2024, 19:13:26 well, i've never been convicted of a felony, so....* - VIV December 3, 2024, 20:47:13 congrats* - Chuck Woodaby December 3, 2024, 20:55:36 When even the Fox News folks are knifing him…* - SurfTheBoneyard December 3, 2024, 17:53:14 TRUMP CAN’T BE WORSE FOR GAZANS!!!!1111!!! - GMAW December 2, 2024, 13:23:22 I’m so glad I live and work within 2 miles of a primary nuclear target - timmer December 2, 2024, 17:01:02 want me to post on here the unclassified FEMA nuke laps from the 70/80s? - LeatherneckIllini December 3, 2024, 18:08:18 want me to post one from 2015?* - Chuck Woodaby December 3, 2024, 18:24:16 Oh ok... - Chuck Woodaby December 3, 2024, 18:25:53 Reminds me to stock up on peanut butter* - Stu December 3, 2024, 20:40:15 got a dog in your bomb shelter?* - Chuck Woodaby December 3, 2024, 20:56:18 That reminds me of a coworker story - Stu December 3, 2024, 20:57:53 here is a cover shot… - LeatherneckIllini December 3, 2024, 18:14:32 nm* - LeatherneckIllini December 3, 2024, 18:08:18 nm* - LeatherneckIllini December 3, 2024, 18:08:18 Putin would never nuke his BFF/lover* - Stu December 2, 2024, 17:20:43 Yeah, like DJT will spend any meaningful time in the swamp - timmer December 2, 2024, 17:27:55 and in case you are curious..... - suburbanmyth December 2, 2024, 15:43:54 explain how what he threatens is worse than today.... - suburbanmyth December 2, 2024, 15:27:26 what part of netanyahu's rod has biden succeeded in sparing..... - suburbanmyth December 2, 2024, 15:28:57 two rods don’t make a right. And it sounds like Trump is proposing 2 rods * - memyselfandillini December 2, 2024, 15:44:43 laydown noted* - suburbanmyth December 2, 2024, 15:54:26 huh? your argument is simply “it couldn’t get any worse”. That seems - memyselfandillini December 2, 2024, 16:33:53 Can't be worse for Gazans. Could be worse for Iran... and Lebanon... and Syria.* - Chuck Woodaby December 2, 2024, 13:35:42 "hit harder" than anyone in the history of the United States? I think the good people of Japan... - haighter December 2, 2024, 13:33:51 Those tricky Jews are to blame (autofill).* - complainant December 2, 2024, 13:31:44 Hegseth again - larue33 December 2, 2024, 10:59:45 Seems like he is a fair representation of republican leadership, I don't see what the problem is. - gvibes December 2, 2024, 13:39:19 A few of these people aren't going to get confirmed, and I think he's one of them - Sounder December 2, 2024, 11:02:00 Elon Musk to leave… - Stu December 1, 2024, 5:11:19 What some people will do to get away from Trump. Amirite?! * - illinijohn December 3, 2024, 17:50:54 His engineering team should definitely launch him into space.* - complainant December 1, 2024, 5:25:42 Nah, find a bunch of economists to design his ship* - Stu December 1, 2024, 5:59:02 there are hindus all over this administration; may have to re-think my allegiances* - suburbanmyth November 30, 2024, 19:49:17 Big Gujarat population in North Texas. Did those milfs follow a particular creed? - complainant November 30, 2024, 20:25:01 Kash Patel to head the FBi is official * - gvibes November 30, 2024, 19:17:50 Little 4D chess here? Get Patel scrapped so others go through? * - MC November 30, 2024, 22:53:32 Nah. Kash is a true believer and won’t push back on anything. * - assassin November 30, 2024, 23:13:14 i think we're up to 8D or 9D chess per this logic* - suburbanmyth November 30, 2024, 23:10:49 Such a savvy strategic move. Thank goodness we didn't elect that idiot broad... - KingTalkyTiki November 30, 2024, 21:49:07 so she's not an idiot? got it * - Throwsize December 1, 2024, 16:41:16 What can go wrong* - Mrap24 November 30, 2024, 19:48:41 Not great, Bob* - AintHatin November 30, 2024, 19:33:57 Interesting analysis of why progressives are hurting Democrats: - JeffFrank November 28, 2024, 7:43:42 Not sure I buy the conclusion. The same data could also be used to conclude… - Desert November 28, 2024, 11:07:10 Now I have to post this song: - JeffFrank November 28, 2024, 13:59:12 Remember these two clowns? - JeffFrank November 28, 2024, 7:45:29 Good thing trump has already solved the Mexican border crisis and no tariffs are needed * - gvibes November 27, 2024, 22:52:53 Next up, a national say no to fentanyl campaign!* - assassin November 27, 2024, 23:42:27 2000!* - VIV November 27, 2024, 11:16:21 Yikes - gvibes November 27, 2024, 8:32:57 Rashomon time!!* - MtHoodIllini November 27, 2024, 18:35:46 It's almost as if the entire administration sucked and people had seen enough. * - haighter November 27, 2024, 10:34:47 Does the Bay have a Sinclair channel or do you have to look online? - complainant November 27, 2024, 15:04:10 Oh, for sure,. you know they have one - Sounder November 27, 2024, 15:20:15 You know how far left you all have to be when you make me look like the right wing? - haighter November 27, 2024, 17:43:25 just as reliably comical and dumb as ever - suburbanmyth November 30, 2024, 23:12:10 You were gone for awhile… - haighter December 1, 2024, 16:39:39 I'm not a left-winger, and Trump's fans aren't right-wing. But thinking the Biden administration is - complainant November 27, 2024, 22:00:07 dumb dumb hot take* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 18:09:52 Biden’s term is far and away the best administration since 2000. - DT November 27, 2024, 13:42:56 "Far and away" is a stretch. It's been a cavalcade of calamities. I'm not going to try and convince - Chuck Woodaby November 27, 2024, 13:59:45 name 12 fails creating your so called cavalcade. thats 1 every 4 months - memyselfandillini November 27, 2024, 15:28:49 I'm talking since 2000. And I don't have the spare time to dump in that box.* - Chuck Woodaby November 27, 2024, 17:04:33 "It's my ball!"* - complainant November 30, 2024, 23:56:41 You’re not. * - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 13:59:29 I think saying shit like this is part of what lost the election - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:07:51 If you like his “accomplishments” the only competitor is Obama - Potomac November 27, 2024, 18:04:38 I’m open to hearing a positive case for Trump or W - DT November 28, 2024, 4:42:09 The deficits we’re running are mostly due to W and Trump between the tax cuts and - ATL November 27, 2024, 18:09:41 Those comments are why debate is fruitless * - Potomac November 27, 2024, 18:10:34 Why?* - ATL November 27, 2024, 19:49:21 Ok* - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 19:16:21 who raised the fuel prices that led to the escalation? - memyselfandillini November 27, 2024, 15:31:10 I’m not making a political argument. I’m making a historical one. - DT November 27, 2024, 14:36:26 For sure, there are tangible policy achievements in a tough environment* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 15:16:07 You're all over the place man. Did you want the administration to sell itself - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 14:09:26 I want them to try to meet voters where they are - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:13:38 I don't think they were doing that at all. - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 14:22:23 It's so much more complicated than that - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:27:08 The Tea Party was a response to America electing a black man as President. - doubledown November 27, 2024, 14:50:38 It's way more complex than that* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 15:13:04 Well no shit. Everything is. But Republicans held the Presidency, Senate and House for nearly - doubledown November 27, 2024, 15:23:06 *Tom Daschle and Harry Reid kick pebbles* * - Chuck Woodaby November 27, 2024, 17:45:58 Biden (and his administration) had a marketing and messaging problem. - ghost_of_clt November 27, 2024, 14:16:59 I think we're assuming the average far is far more informed - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:18:35 It doesn't help that the right has a propaganda machine posing as their "go to" - WhitmansFolly November 28, 2024, 20:54:25 I am not. They (Biden administration) clearly had a marketing and messaging problem. * - ghost_of_clt November 27, 2024, 14:20:26 I agree, but I also think it was perhaps just a losing battle - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:24:38 The Muslim refugees in Europe want Sharia, honor killings, etc. The Mexicans want to build garages - complainant November 27, 2024, 15:12:27 Part of that is the decline and atomization of the media landscape* - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 14:23:33 Joe Rogan, man, fucking Joe Rogan* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:25:09 fuck your facts, and your feelings* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 13:57:45 I don't think many people actually thought that though. Some may use it as a rationalization - longsnapper November 27, 2024, 10:58:32 I don't think people had to go through a policy by policy analysis to have Biden / Harris fatigue. * - haighter November 27, 2024, 11:10:21 Anyone who had this should have died of Trump dysentery* - LWillhite November 27, 2024, 17:08:41 Certainly no one has Trump fatigue* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 11:46:43 Clearly not enough voters. * - haighter November 27, 2024, 13:04:04 Sadly not enough voters* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 13:37:53 Woke fatigue is bigger* - JeffFrank November 27, 2024, 13:08:38 I agree, dipshits like you always talking about woke is completely exhausting* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 13:34:59 Yeah, I'm not buying that at all. That's like being tired of mayonnaise or something else boring. - longsnapper November 27, 2024, 11:15:04 I think that people were “tired” of the administration, B/C they were in charge during Covid - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 11:20:05 they were tired of a fictional administration created with a firehose of lies - assassin November 27, 2024, 13:39:07 I guess they just didn't have the money to counter those lies.* - Chuck Woodaby November 27, 2024, 13:41:05 100 days wasn't enough time - Sounder November 27, 2024, 13:53:59 So they went with almost zero days.* - Chuck Woodaby November 27, 2024, 13:59:35 They did some things well, they did some things very poorly - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:04:55 It was a death by a thousand cuts.* - Chuck Woodaby November 27, 2024, 14:07:05 Trump got roughly the same number of votes all three times he ran - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:09:12 having KJP as your only line of defense down the stretch was....unwise. * - assassin November 27, 2024, 13:43:22 multi-hyphonate box checker KJP* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 13:52:12 That was bad, which made it all the more frustrating that Harris either wouldn't or couldn't - Warrin'_Illini November 27, 2024, 13:17:16 She was in a total lose lose situation - Sounder November 27, 2024, 13:37:01 I disagree. I think most people know the VP job is mostly ceremonial and it's easy to say - Warrin'_Illini November 27, 2024, 13:48:50 yeah, I'm pretty pissed off at what a mess they have made - Sounder November 27, 2024, 13:50:56 Respectfully, this is batshit fucking insane. - VIV November 27, 2024, 17:23:14 This, I don't understand. Regardless of who wins, I want them to do a fucking stellar job... - haighter November 27, 2024, 14:01:27 Normally I would agree with you, but it feels obvious to me - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:03:04 Speaking of not learning from mistakes... - Chuck Woodaby November 27, 2024, 14:06:09 There is plenty of time to figure out how to reach voters - Sounder November 27, 2024, 14:11:23 You're mud-wrestling a pig. The pig likes it.* - complainant November 28, 2024, 23:59:46 You aren't a partisan hack.* - Chuck Woodaby November 27, 2024, 14:02:43 Not the actual lockdown parts of covid* - gvibes November 27, 2024, 11:50:30 Sure, but they were in charge during the fallout, and most recently. - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 11:55:00 the good news is there won't be any more lockdowns - Sounder November 27, 2024, 11:56:42 Biden sucks, please take my rights away instead!* - KCWildcat November 27, 2024, 11:27:31 Biden/Harris implicit in Israeli War crimes - Sounder November 27, 2024, 12:13:36 transing up the kids* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 11:03:48 Don't judge me by the almighty, judge me by the alternative* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 10:50:40 Not to give excuses for these morons but Biden really fucked everyone over by clinging to power for - Warrin'_Illini November 27, 2024, 8:52:03 Yeah I think dems were pretty much doomed whenever Biden decided to run again* - gvibes November 27, 2024, 8:55:09 He has looked so happy ever since Harris lost. He should be remembered as nothing besides the guy - Warrin'_Illini November 27, 2024, 9:01:56 Not that it even matter now, but this will absolutely destroy his legacy* - Sounder November 27, 2024, 11:05:41 I couldn’t fucking care less about his “legacy”* - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 11:20:34 well then you ain't getting no Fresca!* - Sammich November 27, 2024, 11:21:12 Smails jokes aside, I don't think Sounder cares about his legacy either - Sammich November 27, 2024, 11:23:26 I couldn't care less about his legacy - Sounder November 27, 2024, 11:48:50 I agree, it’s more my frustration with the political media, which often seems more concerned - IlliniRunner November 27, 2024, 11:35:40 Well said* - TarheelIllini November 27, 2024, 17:56:59 bears level stupid* - torinese November 27, 2024, 8:44:05 Just absolutely reinforcing the problem was at the top.* - PDO November 27, 2024, 9:53:02 It seems D-Ryan has overtaken R-Duarte in CA-13 with 99% of the vote counted - UofIL6 November 26, 2024, 20:23:56 Start the steal!* - VIV November 26, 2024, 20:32:33 Kash Patel is under consideration for head of FBI - Sounder November 26, 2024, 16:05:15 ...but Kamala wasn't that smart according to Throwsize. - KingTalkyTiki November 26, 2024, 21:15:18 His friend Yo-yo took every opportunity to insult her intelligence, too. It must be frustrating to - complainant November 26, 2024, 21:19:55 Nm - DT November 26, 2024, 15:39:36 This must be what people in Europe felt like - DT November 26, 2024, 15:39:35 Scout?* - bbonb November 26, 2024, 16:03:04 King Joffrey kind of looks like Trump's kid - Sounder November 26, 2024, 15:55:47 Eat at motherfuckin Arby’s * - Jackie November 26, 2024, 15:49:17 Hang in there DT. Biden will be out in 8 weeks.* - Chuck Woodaby November 26, 2024, 15:48:28 LOL. Well played.* - DT November 26, 2024, 16:44:03 leopards eating leopards, inside edition - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:15:35 ah crap, the original tweet is from an Onion knockoff - Sammich November 26, 2024, 12:17:36 I think Musk is publicly in favor of ending EV subsidies* - gvibes November 26, 2024, 12:31:45 classic pulling up the ladder once you get to the top* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:43:53 the underlying point still stands though* - suburbanmyth November 26, 2024, 12:22:53 They will absolutely come for each other sooner than later - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:30:32 i'm talking about the hypocrisy* - suburbanmyth November 26, 2024, 13:00:30 the hypocrisy will be inevitable* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 13:03:26 as will the raping - ATL November 26, 2024, 13:41:16 We have truly entered an era where real news and parody news - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:19:25 ... How did you see X Angel Death X tweet in the first place?* - longsnapper November 26, 2024, 12:22:14 Elon's trash algorithm* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:26:11 Eh. If you follow topics, rather than people, you'll encounter all sorts.* - complainant November 26, 2024, 12:37:35 I don't really pay that much attention to who it's from - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:40:21 Same.* - complainant November 26, 2024, 12:51:31 That’s how we wound up with Trump as president* - snipes824 November 26, 2024, 12:43:35 I said interesting, not true or false* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:45:03 Sure..... That's what they all say* - HamptonSki November 26, 2024, 12:37:19 ooo - Sammich November 26, 2024, 12:16:49 IDKWTM?* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:17:43 That's the worst person you know* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes November 26, 2024, 12:20:15 sammich? - IlliniSax05 November 26, 2024, 12:27:38 American astronauts left an upper decker at the Russian space station. - complainant November 26, 2024, 0:40:08 Tupper #dechr* - VIV November 26, 2024, 6:19:33 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, 10% on China - ECEIllinois November 25, 2024, 17:56:43 Ferris Bueller tried to teach us - Sounder November 26, 2024, 16:09:22 I can't wait for Gen Z to realie how much avocado toast is going to cost* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 15:52:49 Mexico claps back - Sounder November 26, 2024, 11:57:36 Wait until people find out where fruits and vegetables come from in the winter.* - SurfTheBoneyard November 26, 2024, 12:03:36 Do I want tomatoes on that?!? What do I look like? A railroad tycoon?* - KingTalkyTiki November 26, 2024, 12:25:37 If you have to think twice about adding guacamole at Chipotle - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:27:03 Gonna need to stock up on tequila before January.....* - KingTalkyTiki November 26, 2024, 12:38:30 But when I taste tequila, baby I still see ya - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:43:22 Get ready for $5/pound bananas* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:04:53 Lucille will be proven right!* - Sammich November 26, 2024, 12:09:19 nice* - VIV November 26, 2024, 12:26:42 LOL* - KingTalkyTiki November 26, 2024, 12:24:51 LMFCO* - Jackie November 26, 2024, 12:13:48 Market doesn’t seem to believe this will happen* - cpsteine November 26, 2024, 11:31:34 last time Gary Cohn stole papers off his desk to prevent him withdrawing from trade agreements - ECEIllinois November 26, 2024, 12:46:14 The way this has been delivered gives him a lot of leeway to declare victory based only - gvibes November 26, 2024, 11:35:36 what is the end goal of the threat? - Sounder November 26, 2024, 11:38:05 I think he is very smooth brained and genuinely thinks costs of tariffs are - gvibes November 26, 2024, 11:44:20 Mexico will pay for the Wall!!! Believe me!!!* - Stu November 26, 2024, 11:54:22 I know facts don't matter, but I keep thinking about how Obama - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:01:10 Correct, and no one is going to convince him otherwise - Sounder November 26, 2024, 11:47:37 Fentanyl related deaths are already dropping - CanHartlebHireSnider November 26, 2024, 11:51:09 dotz - Sounder November 26, 2024, 11:33:08 Jesus, how am I going to afford my fentanyl?* - Stu November 25, 2024, 21:17:33 "Fentanol" is the new "Nucular"* - ATL November 26, 2024, 9:26:13 has Jesus answered yet? asking for a friend?* - lcubed November 26, 2024, 8:41:27 He said Fentanyl doesn't damage your soul, so no worries.* - Stu November 26, 2024, 9:08:25 I found out yesterday that RFK used to be a heroin addict* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 11:35:07 Buy American!* - illini222 November 25, 2024, 21:36:47 Also, looks like the Trump Bibles will be unaffordable* - Stu November 25, 2024, 22:04:43 Let me be the first to say I’ll believe the “ALL products” part when I see it. * - haighter November 25, 2024, 20:40:00 It befuddles me that people voted for him thinking he wouldn't do all the things - Sounder November 26, 2024, 11:15:04 I didn't vote for him but I'm gambling that the "ALL products" thing is horseshit... - haighter November 26, 2024, 11:24:29 I still think that's a distinction without a difference, though. It'll be a carve out for his cronie - longsnapper November 26, 2024, 11:28:36 Wait until they explain the Big Ag lobby to RFK Jr. - Sounder November 26, 2024, 11:34:22 Sure...they're always cronies carveouts. * - haighter November 26, 2024, 11:33:55 Not like this, though. Not this overt* - longsnapper November 26, 2024, 12:25:31 good people on both sides* - Sounder November 26, 2024, 12:29:20 Does that even matter, though? We saw that media reports of inflation contributed to inflation, - longsnapper November 26, 2024, 6:24:10 The first line in the body of your post is not true.* - Carl Spackler November 26, 2024, 8:10:49 Yes, it is. Well, the price increase was very disproportionate to the cost increase* - longsnapper November 26, 2024, 9:14:49 That’s also not true. - Carl Spackler November 26, 2024, 9:18:15 I worked for one of the largest private food companies in the world at the time. Supplying - longsnapper November 26, 2024, 9:30:29 Ah, I worked for one of the largest CPGs at the time, so different parts of supply chain. - Carl Spackler November 26, 2024, 10:34:30 those margin ups add up along the supply chain, which naturally would cause some economists to call - torinese November 26, 2024, 11:36:49 Yeah, by the time it hit you, it was probably already baked in* - longsnapper November 26, 2024, 10:35:26 My bad on jumping in all Koolaid man and making a blanket statement* - Carl Spackler November 26, 2024, 10:41:50 Supply chain issues, labor shortage, etc. - WhitmansFolly November 26, 2024, 8:40:06 DOJ suing 'potato cartel' over price fixing - assassin November 26, 2024, 12:00:55 They're weren't really supply chain or labor issues to the scale that people think. - longsnapper November 26, 2024, 9:13:55 I think I beg to differ with the no real supply chain issues part... - haighter November 26, 2024, 11:07:19 Sure. He could change his mind about any of this at any point. * - VIV November 25, 2024, 21:19:38 Exception applications should be accompanied by a Bitcoin transaction reference. * - doubledown November 25, 2024, 20:47:49 If you want some immediate pain from this, we import 4 million barrels of Canadian crude oil per day - VIV November 25, 2024, 19:47:59 Immigration is Biden's fault but let's have tariffs until our neighbors fix the problem!* - Orangeillini November 25, 2024, 19:26:01 Man the big ag companies must be pushing REALLY hard against the deportations - John Coctostan November 25, 2024, 19:24:12 Where do you think ag equipment is built?* - longsnapper November 25, 2024, 20:03:02 Of course Deere and Cat would be mad about this. ADM, Tyson, etc are not* - John Coctostan November 25, 2024, 20:08:50 Ah, yes, less so. That makes sense* - longsnapper November 25, 2024, 20:16:42 Right, i came across something earlier (sorry no link) saying big ag is lobbying hard against - John Coctostan November 25, 2024, 20:22:10 I work in big ag and in general obviously very conservative leaning - opey8 November 25, 2024, 21:07:21 And home builders… - SurfTheBoneyard November 25, 2024, 19:25:33 Well. This fucks up my Thanksgiving.* - Carl Spackler November 25, 2024, 19:21:34 Respectfully, how does something that may or may not happen two months from now - Sounder November 26, 2024, 11:16:28 STOP BUYING MEXICAN TURKEYS!* - Illiniphil November 26, 2024, 8:48:33 Didn’t Trump sign a free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico?* - CanHartlebHireSnider November 25, 2024, 19:21:07 Free for me, not for thee* - PapaDels November 25, 2024, 19:45:07 Trump Bibles going up.* - SurfTheBoneyard November 25, 2024, 19:13:35 Can't wait for Trump to credit this for something that is alreay happening - gvibes November 25, 2024, 19:12:45 deaths rose more than 50% under trump. less than 10 under biden in 2 yrs, now net decrease? - Nobster November 26, 2024, 8:00:00 also isn't Mexico already sending migrants back to their own southern border?* - ECEIllinois November 25, 2024, 19:23:34 Canada reading this like 50 Cent watching Floyd Mayweather* - Sammich November 25, 2024, 18:57:36 Seems like an awesome time to work for a Canadian company. - tvillini November 25, 2024, 18:56:39 What the actual fuck. * - VIV November 25, 2024, 18:48:26 Oh man, we have caravans AFTER the election now too?* - OB25 November 25, 2024, 18:39:30 And to think lumber prices were just starting to even out - BradUnderwoodforprez November 25, 2024, 18:30:27 good thing my cottage is mostly complete* - gvibes November 25, 2024, 19:00:59 Stock up on produce and maple syrup now* - opey8 November 25, 2024, 18:24:27 Only I didn’t say fudge* - Jackie November 25, 2024, 19:15:49 Hey what’s the best way to store a 4 year supply of avocados?* - ECEIllinois November 25, 2024, 18:57:53 Automobiles, electronics, machinery…* - PapaDels November 25, 2024, 18:34:19 um, vermont?* - torinese November 25, 2024, 18:27:17 Morons* - PapaDels November 25, 2024, 18:21:20 thank you for your attention in this matter* - Nobster November 25, 2024, 18:00:28 Some fucking galaxy brain shit from Bessent here - ATL November 25, 2024, 14:36:48 Holy fucking shit* - Desert November 25, 2024, 18:06:17 you may have to choose between food, rent, and medicine, but there is no inflation. - ghost_of_clt November 25, 2024, 14:48:14 I saw that. I'm sure folks cutting consuming because of higher prices - IlliniRunner November 25, 2024, 14:44:22 That is kind of literally a big part of the argument that tariffs would not be inflationary. - gvibes November 25, 2024, 16:52:31 Hope they have fun when they realize what the American public actually wants is deflation* - Carl Spackler November 25, 2024, 16:57:00 H5N1 is going to be "lit" as the young people like to say.* - complainant November 25, 2024, 17:13:53 planning to kick trans soldiers out of the military again* - ECEIllinois November 24, 2024, 20:37:16 People who never had the honor or courage to serve making judgements... - KingTalkyTiki November 25, 2024, 11:21:53 Hard to trust soldiers that are so willing to switch teams* - HamptonSki November 24, 2024, 20:39:34 On the other hand, natural ability to break down then reassemble their weapon.* - DT November 25, 2024, 6:11:20 Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget. - WhitmansFolly November 24, 2024, 20:14:39 But I already don't want to go to work. - Tortillini November 25, 2024, 9:37:16 Dots - DT November 25, 2024, 10:25:52 Thank you because YES* - Jackie November 25, 2024, 11:05:13 LOL. Now another All-In podcaster disingenuously promoting a flat tax - Carl Spackler November 24, 2024, 10:44:24 Either complete idiots or completely disingenuous * - gvibes November 24, 2024, 10:54:22 I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt on many issues. The flat tax BS has been debunked…. - DT November 24, 2024, 10:59:41 Tax reform is an issue like immigration Dems need to get in front of with a plan - CoronaTheirAss November 24, 2024, 11:05:59 What "reform" do you think is needed?* - gvibes November 24, 2024, 11:57:26 The stuff that got the tech bros to red pill - increase the marginal rates above $1M, eliminate - ATL November 24, 2024, 12:39:33 I can almost guarantee CTA isn't talking about those things* - gvibes November 24, 2024, 20:51:01 Chicago Transit Authority?* - ATL November 24, 2024, 20:58:41 Do you guarantee or "guarantee"?* - CoronaTheirAss November 24, 2024, 20:54:48 They’re extraordinarily wealthy. No chance they’re stupid.* - ATL November 24, 2024, 10:57:03 Agree to disagree. * - Chicago1995 November 25, 2024, 8:49:59 (I was being facetious)* - ATL November 25, 2024, 9:00:22 It was early. Sarcasm director wasn't awake* - Chicago1995 November 25, 2024, 11:07:01 Apparently trump nominated someone pro union as head of labor? - gvibes November 23, 2024, 15:29:35 he also has an extremely pro-choice HHS who is actively vetoing pro-life people in his staff* - suburbanmyth November 23, 2024, 19:22:01 Where are you reading that? Only thing I saw somewhere was that vaccine "skepticism" - gvibes November 23, 2024, 20:31:54 Funny if pubs try to tank it but Dems cover the votes - CanHartlebHireSnider November 23, 2024, 15:32:42 Bessent did end up getting the treasury nod. I think probably a good thing for the economy * - gvibes November 23, 2024, 12:44:58 Why?* - longsnapper November 23, 2024, 13:20:22 I think he is probably opposed to the tariff regime trump wants* - gvibes November 23, 2024, 15:28:32 Everything I've read indicates he's pro-tariff, pro-crypto, pro-corporate advantages.* - longsnapper November 23, 2024, 18:58:08 We are grading on a curve here. He should be better than Lutnick. - gvibes November 23, 2024, 19:18:42 Only Trump could go to Soros* - CanHartlebHireSnider November 23, 2024, 12:51:01 this whole Soros as boogieman thing to me is tiresome... - Throwsize November 23, 2024, 19:02:48 Just your standard right-wing antisemitic trope* - cpsteine November 25, 2024, 11:29:20 Sure. Was making a joke - CanHartlebHireSnider November 23, 2024, 19:15:39 Why Asian-Americans are abandoning the party of Turki: - JeffFrank November 23, 2024, 6:42:21 Just read anything Tiki posts and you’ll know why they are abandoning. - HamptonSki November 23, 2024, 13:15:34 If they're not talking to the people with poor English skills, I want to know what those people are - complainant November 23, 2024, 12:50:38 The author works for a conservative think tank. - ATL November 24, 2024, 8:53:26 Mmmmmm Shen Yun * - illini thunder November 23, 2024, 12:54:26 Yo-yo! Gorka as counterterrorism director!* - gvibes November 22, 2024, 19:46:16 THE DRAGON OF BUDAPEST* - VIV November 23, 2024, 13:13:22 Enrrroute! In the Mus-Tang!* - SurfTheBoneyard November 22, 2024, 20:18:26 The stripper trim. * - doubledown November 22, 2024, 20:20:22 Phrasing* - ATL November 23, 2024, 7:30:15 ART WAR* - ECEIllinois November 22, 2024, 20:09:27 Lol* - DT November 22, 2024, 19:54:13 Former Illini Scott Turner named HUD secretary* - ECEIllinois November 22, 2024, 19:25:26 Kelly Loeffler Ag?* - JeffFrank November 22, 2024, 23:23:40 Poor Ben Carson* - Stu November 22, 2024, 19:36:18 Was he a WR in the 80s? * - illini thunder November 22, 2024, 19:35:15 CB also ran track Beat Rutgers * - Poldark November 22, 2024, 19:44:51 Right. Nice * - illini thunder November 22, 2024, 19:57:34 Bessent likely to be the Treasury pick - Tortillini November 22, 2024, 19:22:13 Olympia High School’s own Kelly Loeffler for Ag Sec.* - nash November 22, 2024, 17:28:10 so Trump Media crypto is gonna happen then* - ghost_of_clt November 22, 2024, 23:37:56 Real salt of the earth, common clay type.* - longsnapper November 22, 2024, 18:27:59 y'know....* - IlliniRunner November 22, 2024, 18:48:24 Wasn't she caught up in some shady business dealings?* - WhitmansFolly November 22, 2024, 18:26:21 Whitewater? * - illini thunder November 22, 2024, 19:25:26 Perfect for the party then * - ATL November 22, 2024, 19:08:22 Maybe thinking of when she got kicked out of the WNBA?* - Potomac November 22, 2024, 19:06:23 That’s what moved her to the top of the list* - shua November 22, 2024, 19:01:05 She can be in charge of my seeds whenever she wants* - HamptonSki November 22, 2024, 18:01:45 Ahhh yes, when I think of detasseling corn and picking beans…. - ATL November 22, 2024, 17:38:35 You can take the girl out of Central IL…* - nash November 22, 2024, 18:10:45 Flannel and Carhartt futures up.* - SurfTheBoneyard November 22, 2024, 17:57:02 I can't believe we're doing the trans people in bathrooms thing again - Sounder November 22, 2024, 15:48:28 As a dude, there is nothing I want more than hearing a woman take a dump* - IlliniJuice07 November 22, 2024, 17:59:41 If only dems would stop talking about it, it would no longer be an issue* - John Coctostan November 22, 2024, 17:19:40 “I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality.” “No one should be discriminated against" - Mace, not - gvibes November 22, 2024, 17:04:43 One unfortunate lesson from this campaign is that overt bigotry wins elections* - Herman Blume November 22, 2024, 17:32:15 When Nancy Mace entered congress she feuded with MTG on the GOP freshman group chat - CanHartlebHireSnider November 22, 2024, 17:08:35 Politicians say whatever it takes to be elected or keep power - illini thunder November 22, 2024, 17:11:24 2016 Trump is damn near a statesmen compared to 2024 Trump… - OB25 November 22, 2024, 16:43:56 It's been years since he answered a question that coherently* - Sounder November 22, 2024, 17:31:08 That’s cause he has dementia* - HamptonSki November 22, 2024, 16:50:01 I’d say “Sun downing stage” * - illini thunder November 22, 2024, 16:53:18 But how much of that is intentionality vs. lack of caring vs. mental decline at this point?* - DocWalk20 November 22, 2024, 16:49:07 I’m sure it’s a mixture of all those things* - OB25 November 22, 2024, 17:43:31 What do you mean by “we”?* - HamptonSki November 22, 2024, 16:39:33 Nancy Mace gets more and more horrible as time goes on* - JeffFrank November 22, 2024, 16:32:48 OMG: - JeffFrank November 22, 2024, 16:37:05 stupid staged nonsense * - memyselfandillini November 22, 2024, 18:29:17 Our friend (I say our, but she’s really my wife’s friend) just graduated from dook - TarheelIllini November 22, 2024, 16:23:19 In Belgium there was one locker room at the pool everyone changed in - opey8 November 22, 2024, 16:13:46 I propose more public bathrooms go the way of the new “all gender” ones at SeaTac. - DocWalk20 November 22, 2024, 15:54:52 Huh, it’s like the bathroom on an actual aircraft * - illini thunder November 22, 2024, 16:52:45 Thalia Hall coed* - JeffFrank November 22, 2024, 16:33:20 MCI has those too* - ECEIllinois November 22, 2024, 16:05:49 Silicon Valley VC wants "collective sacrifice" for lower taxes - ECEIllinois November 22, 2024, 14:11:14 Fuck this motherfucker and all his motherfucking buddies* - Jackie November 22, 2024, 17:20:59 +1* - DT November 22, 2024, 18:23:47 +2* - opey8 November 22, 2024, 19:43:44 Reminder that this guy and his podcast buddies are the same ones that begged for a bailout for SVB* - Carl Spackler November 22, 2024, 15:02:58 DOGE is going to be a train wreck that is hard to look away from.* - OB25 November 22, 2024, 14:58:18 No it won’t. It’ll mostly be a vehicle to reduce cost and regulations for musk and cronies - John Coctostan November 22, 2024, 15:56:58 reminiscent of 90s Contract with America, about which this was said - memyselfandillini November 22, 2024, 16:15:04 "Don't worry, everyone. You're all in this together."* - Sammich November 22, 2024, 14:31:48 exactly. he can - memyselfandillini November 22, 2024, 15:56:25 Billionaires asking people to “get by with less” - snipes824 November 22, 2024, 14:31:46 Guillotine time approaches* - assassin November 22, 2024, 14:54:54 The Vance Administration promises to be entertaining.* - complainant November 22, 2024, 15:45:07 and their poor voters asking for more of it. thats the true cherry on top* - John Coctostan November 22, 2024, 14:33:01 LOL* - Carl Spackler November 22, 2024, 14:31:15 so, socialism. * - assassin November 22, 2024, 14:30:18 I suggest we sacrifice him first. * - doubledown November 22, 2024, 14:19:16 Do you know who balanced the budget last? William fucking Jefferson Clinton - TarheelIllini November 22, 2024, 14:18:11 Fuck that motherfucker. - KingTalkyTiki November 22, 2024, 14:15:14 ad for his podcast* - Sammich November 22, 2024, 14:16:10 with David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya* - ECEIllinois November 22, 2024, 14:16:34 the worst people. I love that PG hates sacks. affirmation* - cpsteine November 23, 2024, 3:47:30 Silicon Valley Bro bullshit. Self congratulating right place right time MFers* - memyselfandillini November 22, 2024, 16:06:22 He makes them seem charming and personable by comparison.* - Chuck Woodaby November 22, 2024, 14:17:53 Exactly. I thought Kalakanis could be something else. Then I heard him having to play devil’s - DocWalk20 November 22, 2024, 15:51:31 So, the House may be slightly interesting for a while, right? - UofIL6 November 22, 2024, 11:46:46 gaetz not going to serve upcoming term. that report is really really bad. can't wait til it leaks!* - John Coctostan November 22, 2024, 10:52:31 We already know what it says - Sounder November 22, 2024, 11:30:02 while house wives watch? I assume this is just scratching the surface* - CoronaTheirAss November 22, 2024, 11:37:00 While Roger Stone sat in the corner of the room wearing a Gimp mask - Sounder November 22, 2024, 11:41:34 I thought he resigned his seat, would he (or anyone) be allowed to say “just kidding” - Mrap24 November 22, 2024, 10:59:53 He resigned his seat in this congress. I think he could still be seated in the next couldn't he? - haighter November 22, 2024, 11:03:00 he said today that he won't be seated next congress. hence the post* - John Coctostan November 22, 2024, 11:08:22 He didn't just resign from this Congress. He said that he wouldn't take the oath for the next one. - Chicago1995 November 22, 2024, 11:06:13 Election hasn't been certified though - CanHartlebHireSnider November 22, 2024, 11:27:40 Counterpoint...he's a lying sack of shit. * - haighter November 22, 2024, 11:25:53 Marty Makary at FDA - whoever he is* - MC November 21, 2024, 20:10:06 Booo. More hot chicks please* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 20:24:56 Huh. Staunch advocate for universal masking - Stu November 21, 2024, 20:15:48 Pam Bondi for AG* - gvibes November 21, 2024, 17:41:45 It’s nice to see one that’s just run of the mill corruption. * - doubledown November 21, 2024, 20:33:15 reading that Pam is a best case scenario for non-MAGA. DOJ will function but likely ineffectively* - MC November 21, 2024, 20:09:26 He’s a pedo but I liked Gaetz’s politics and on-field priorities. She’ll have big shoes to fill.* - Toonces November 21, 2024, 19:35:04 I’m gonna miss his adopted cabana boy storyline but I look forward to the next plot twist.* - Tortillini November 21, 2024, 20:07:15 She led two lawsuits aiming to repeal Obamacare. Hardly disqualifying. - ATL November 21, 2024, 18:58:18 Meh. Lots of people hate Obamacare. - SurfTheBoneyard November 21, 2024, 19:17:34 The only people who like ObamaCare are rich Democrats who never have to use it - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 20:31:19 As an independent contractor, its been a life saver, actually - PDO November 22, 2024, 9:00:56 Not in Illinois, it's been a terrible experience anytime I've tried to use. - HamptonSki November 22, 2024, 11:35:57 truly the dumbest takes - John Coctostan November 22, 2024, 8:09:49 Have you ever had to use it?* - HamptonSki November 22, 2024, 11:36:13 Just a troll take. You're not arguing with a serious poster.* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes November 22, 2024, 9:20:38 meh i'm not going to argue or engage with him but i think the facts in this case do matter - John Coctostan November 22, 2024, 10:52:03 LOL. - IlliniRunner November 21, 2024, 23:08:09 And tell the government to get their hands off my Medicare* - Herman Blume November 21, 2024, 19:41:54 Dick Biondi for DJ* - VIV November 21, 2024, 18:56:30 Ben Carson for HUD* - Stu November 21, 2024, 18:58:01 Hud for Johnny Carson* - LWillhite November 22, 2024, 10:33:27 so she's very friendly with scientologists. huh* - ECEIllinois November 21, 2024, 18:47:43 and dropping investigations involving Trump * - ghost_of_clt November 21, 2024, 19:15:13 She’s from Tampa area* - CanHartlebHireSnider November 21, 2024, 18:51:07 Since when did all the hot chicks join the Republican Party?* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 18:40:13 grab ‘em by the p*ssy* - bbonb November 21, 2024, 19:40:18 That’s part of the initiation process* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 20:28:04 you don’t say? - suburbanmyth November 21, 2024, 18:02:41 When I saw the news I thought “yonuts”* - Tortillini November 21, 2024, 18:54:31 When I saw the news I thought Deeznuts* - ATL November 22, 2024, 5:56:59 Alina Hobba is gonna be pissed* - WhitmansFolly November 21, 2024, 17:57:53 She's got a room full of "No Tax On Tips" stickers to keep her company * - ghost_of_clt November 21, 2024, 19:13:41 I guess it shouldn’t surprise with Susie Wiles that Trump is mostly picking people from Florida* - CanHartlebHireSnider November 21, 2024, 17:53:39 America is Florida man of the world* - KCWildcat November 21, 2024, 18:30:37 not Paxton or Lee or of that ilk* - ECEIllinois November 21, 2024, 17:51:54 They don’t take the time to think about anything, do they?* - Stu November 21, 2024, 17:51:34 These are not serious people* - Sounder November 21, 2024, 17:52:42 312 electoral votes is pretty damn serious* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 18:41:33 MILF, call me* - Sounder November 21, 2024, 17:43:44 <Wisch>I went to law school with her brother</Wisch>* - ATL November 21, 2024, 17:42:09 this administration is going to be more shambolic than his first, isn’t it?* - bbonb November 21, 2024, 13:09:53 This isn't going to be Godfather 2.* - Chuck Woodaby November 21, 2024, 13:13:37 Agreeing with Marjorie Taylor-Green was NOT on my radar, yet here we are. - longsnapper November 21, 2024, 12:11:55 seems more like a clumsy attempt at extortion on Gaetz's behalf* - Sammich November 21, 2024, 12:24:08 oOo - KingTalkyTiki November 21, 2024, 12:23:29 So... except the president-elect, or him too?* - uofi1998 November 21, 2024, 12:17:30 The ultimate threat of a good time. * - doubledown November 21, 2024, 12:13:51 Gaetz pulls out* - UofIL6 November 21, 2024, 11:31:23 I vote Ginger Gaetz* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 13:24:59 i'll say pam bondi* - suburbanmyth November 21, 2024, 13:13:28 it's Judge Jeanine time baby, let's go* - assassin November 21, 2024, 12:53:18 Judge Jeanine or Ken Paxton will be next* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes November 21, 2024, 12:50:31 Hey look the party that called Dems Groomers and Pedos for four years... - KingTalkyTiki November 21, 2024, 11:58:14 that report must really be damning* - John Coctostan November 21, 2024, 11:45:31 I think it's also underrated how much GOP politicians despise Matt Gaetz - CanHartlebHireSnider November 21, 2024, 12:02:38 Congressman does drugs and bangs prostitues. Used Venmo for all transactions. News at 11.* - Chuck Woodaby November 21, 2024, 11:48:00 just wait until the next nominee is worse, like Rudy or Sidney Powell* - Orangeillini November 21, 2024, 11:39:56 Ken Paxton. Lock it up* - memyselfandillini November 21, 2024, 11:43:37 good chance Trump the next nominee might be even worse, no?* - ECEIllinois November 21, 2024, 11:38:58 Yeah, that’s always the paradox with trump* - snipes824 November 21, 2024, 12:27:15 Yes. He will also be corrupt, but maybe intelligent, experienced, and/or effective* - gvibes November 21, 2024, 12:14:28 yup* - ECEIllinois November 21, 2024, 12:43:04 Sergio Lavrov - Stu November 21, 2024, 11:41:09 The clown show continues* - RSMBob November 21, 2024, 11:38:24 Silly Bob. It's just that Trump is galaxybrain smart and these are all just genius strategic moves - KingTalkyTiki November 21, 2024, 12:11:11 He resigned from the House, right? Can he go back, and if so, I assume the report can be released?* - UofIL6 November 21, 2024, 11:38:13 If he does go back the report gets released.* - SurfTheBoneyard November 21, 2024, 11:59:36 In the next Congress?* - Chuck Woodaby November 21, 2024, 12:01:06 Resigned for this term. I think he can be seated for the next one.* - Chuck Woodaby November 21, 2024, 11:40:23 I don’t see how he could ‘go back’* - Stu November 21, 2024, 11:40:02 Because he won his election and hasn’t been seated yet for the next congress - CanHartlebHireSnider November 21, 2024, 11:44:53 Oh.. ok! Still weird. Then they’d have to release the report.* - Stu November 21, 2024, 11:58:00 Which was a very strange move unless this was always the plan.* - Chuck Woodaby November 21, 2024, 11:46:39 Was she too old?* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 11:37:36 phrasing?* - EffinIllini November 21, 2024, 11:33:47 Yes, intentional* - UofIL6 November 21, 2024, 11:34:13 ooo - EffinIllini November 21, 2024, 11:35:45 Part of a deal to keep the report from being released, no doubt. * - doubledown November 21, 2024, 11:32:52 Fuck these guys, release it anyway* - opey8 November 21, 2024, 11:34:09 Well this is promising, when a normally civil Senator is finally showing some claws. - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 19:52:02 Finally a Democrat throws a baseless allegation out there just to stir up shit - HamptonSki November 20, 2024, 22:10:51 “Baseless” is making quite the Herculean effort here. * - doubledown November 21, 2024, 7:51:19 Link?* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 12:53:56 Consider the source. - KingTalkyTiki November 21, 2024, 12:25:41 Meh. You’ve been shitting on veterans daily for the past two weeks* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 21:19:27 Good. No more Mr. Nice Guy.* - Stu November 21, 2024, 7:11:13 She’s not paid! She’s just a useful idiot!* - gvibes November 21, 2024, 0:09:23 wanna trade? we'll give you josh hawley* - VIV November 20, 2024, 20:08:35 This thread features a new car crash every time I open it. * - illini November 20, 2024, 18:37:43 Musk and Vivek’s first pass at actions within their new department - Carl Spackler November 20, 2024, 17:41:18 cut VA health care?* - gvibes November 20, 2024, 20:32:10 The whole point is to make everything completely ineffective so they can privatize and monitize - opey8 November 21, 2024, 7:13:42 *removes green line from over complicated virtue signaling flag** - DT November 21, 2024, 6:52:10 Welp, shouldn't have been "suckers" and "losers". - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 20:54:04 Really showing your true colors here. Even telling vets to fuck off* - HamptonSki November 20, 2024, 22:11:57 OOO - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 23:27:38 Fuck off.* - complainant November 20, 2024, 22:16:00 Not a vet, but noted. Can you even lift your arms anymore after all this flailing?* - HamptonSki November 21, 2024, 7:18:58 Really showing your true colors here. Even telling HamptonSki to fuck off - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 23:47:16 Happy to. - complainant November 21, 2024, 0:02:09 This shows a pretty profound misunderstanding of government - DT November 20, 2024, 19:33:10 why are you taking any of this at face value? - John Coctostan November 21, 2024, 7:41:18 Wait, are you saying these people are idiots who don't know what they're doing? - complainant November 20, 2024, 20:08:52 Right. I thought "government efficiency" would be focused on improving processes, - ECEIllinois November 20, 2024, 20:06:07 No you didn’t * - IlliniRunner November 20, 2024, 20:19:09 I just assumed it would be impoundment after impoundment after impoundment * - MC November 20, 2024, 18:35:15 Early retirement? Oh. Would be great if i got that and then turned around… - LeatherneckIllini November 20, 2024, 18:29:58 Won’t happen. Right now tgese people are in a bull in a china shop phase - Stu November 20, 2024, 19:12:37 i’m going to bookmark this lol* - LeatherneckIllini November 20, 2024, 20:25:26 Hiring more people and adding more bureaucracy to reduce bureaucracy and people. Genius. - complainant November 20, 2024, 17:59:10 There won’t be any people - Stu November 20, 2024, 18:17:29 Know what else will burn? All the national parks* - Stu November 20, 2024, 17:56:16 Not if they rake them* - TarheelIllini November 20, 2024, 20:04:58 Elon will say it’s a waste of money to rake them, because they aren’t burning yet* - Stu November 20, 2024, 20:08:58 I’ve been advocating for a toned down approach on trans issues, which I largely still agree with - snipes824 November 20, 2024, 15:23:07 That lady has lost her damn mind. - WhitmansFolly November 22, 2024, 7:07:48 you either stick of up for rights or decency. or you play in the mud like they want with no - John Coctostan November 20, 2024, 18:00:30 So what you’re saying is only if there’s grass in the field, then play ball* - HamptonSki November 20, 2024, 18:03:19 I was told they just didn’t want them to play sports* - Herman Blume November 20, 2024, 17:40:21 Yes you can let it go unresponded to. The point is the response* - CoronaTheirAss November 20, 2024, 16:39:07 She's for THEM, not for US. - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 16:03:17 Yeah you are, You can say that again* - HamptonSki November 20, 2024, 17:38:17 The cruelty is the point - Sounder November 20, 2024, 15:57:52 99% of Americans have no idea who Nancy Mace is or what she is talking about - HamptonSki November 20, 2024, 16:03:54 She’s chair of the UAP Committee* - Stu November 20, 2024, 17:52:03 United Automotive People?* - HamptonSki November 20, 2024, 17:59:39 I think people mostly just wanted cheaper groceries* - ECEIllinois November 20, 2024, 16:02:32 And those people won’t be happy so they need to be distracted with other stuff like this* - OB25 November 20, 2024, 17:17:03 By deporting all the people who make the groceries* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 16:04:05 She wants the attention. She wants the response. She thinks this is a win for her. - Chuck Woodaby November 20, 2024, 15:35:57 A rat done bit my sister Nell... * - haighter November 20, 2024, 15:49:38 All definitely true* - snipes824 November 20, 2024, 15:42:56 NATO is an obvious priority. - larue33 November 20, 2024, 11:45:32 destabilization of international relations and multi-national organizations - Sounder November 20, 2024, 13:18:40 Ukraine just fired US made missles into Russian for the first time. - Chuck Woodaby November 20, 2024, 13:35:07 Is Massie one of Putin's US holdings? It's hard to keep track. * - doubledown November 20, 2024, 13:48:58 Incredibly stupid people think so.* - Chuck Woodaby November 20, 2024, 13:50:02 If it walks like a Russian asset and quacks like a Russian asset, it’s a…. - Stu November 20, 2024, 18:18:42 Do you concede that Putin owns a handful of congressmen and senators, but Massie just isn’t one? - doubledown November 20, 2024, 14:05:57 welp... - Chuck Woodaby November 20, 2024, 14:08:23 LOL* - HamptonSki November 20, 2024, 16:05:09 Those comments don't seem to relate to the current situation. * - larue33 November 20, 2024, 13:48:03 Great, go ahead and impeach him, let Harris be President for a couple of months* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 13:46:55 <MAGA> But I already bought my 45 - 47 hat! <MAGA> - UofIL6 November 20, 2024, 15:13:13 What did he say in 2004? Massie cut that off.* - ATL November 20, 2024, 13:37:37 Obama is clean?* - Chuck Woodaby November 20, 2024, 13:38:35 Clean as all those weddings he bombed to ashes* - HamptonSki November 20, 2024, 18:02:00 Mikey, is he clean? Is he brown?* - VIV November 20, 2024, 15:42:22 Can you dispute that assertion?* - ATL November 20, 2024, 13:38:59 Putin just went from six to noon.* - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 13:09:53 Not without pharmaceutical assistance. 9:45, tops.* - complainant November 20, 2024, 13:18:32 I'll bite, what are the modifications needed for a big dick toilet - Sounder November 20, 2024, 11:56:28 The water is 12" from the rim. I thought I needed one. - Chuck Woodaby November 20, 2024, 12:07:57 Great for the guy, but what about his wife? - DT November 20, 2024, 13:33:37 how does this affect kneeling to pee?* - VIV November 20, 2024, 13:06:41 I'm going to need some sort of schematic.* - Chuck Woodaby November 20, 2024, 13:13:04 If you have to ask… * - illini November 20, 2024, 12:04:30 This seems like a question for Big Johnson t-shirts.* - DT November 20, 2024, 12:00:24 Maybe Giant Dong can tell you. On the other hand, I think he was the one who posted - complainant November 20, 2024, 11:59:50 Or, so that it doesn't when you're standing up peeing #bigdickproblems* - UofIL6 November 20, 2024, 11:57:45 The pool of willing applicants is probably small. And they need to be people who won't 25th him.* - complainant November 20, 2024, 11:53:39 Truth Social investors thought they would get rich when idiot boy won. - BoCool November 20, 2024, 11:05:32 Live look in at me reading this - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 11:44:22 He’s gonna be in a tough spot when they cut his social security and medicare as well. - doubledown November 20, 2024, 11:24:39 Makes me wonder if I should start taking SS now (at 63 1/2) rather than wait for the cuts* - RSMBob November 20, 2024, 11:41:10 Everyone should take SS at 62 - Stu November 20, 2024, 11:44:38 play stupid games, win stupid prizes* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 11:09:12 Pretty hard to find sympathy for a guy like that.* - Chicago1995 November 20, 2024, 11:08:31 He doesn't need our sympathy! - WhitmansFolly November 20, 2024, 19:40:47 just hold until they merge with X, then to the moon!* - Sammich November 20, 2024, 11:07:32 Competent and effective government matters - Sounder November 20, 2024, 9:41:04 I feel like people don’t appreciate the scale of cabinet departments or the leadership challenge - DT November 20, 2024, 5:50:07 You would think that the obvious incompetencies of the pandemic - Sounder November 20, 2024, 9:44:56 you mean PLANdemic!!! You face diaper wearing woke gender caring baby bitch!!!! Pew pew - longsnapper November 20, 2024, 9:55:52 I honestly had forgotten the term "face diaper" - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:04:22 But ear diaper (or maxi pad?) is good* - opey8 November 20, 2024, 10:09:41 It makes me laugh every time* - illini21 November 20, 2024, 10:08:43 It legitimately bums me out that we'll never do any real analysis - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:13:53 I think the Trump admin fumbled the response badly, but it hardly mattered - DT November 20, 2024, 11:17:46 Public health shot their wad on Covid, and used up every last shred of public capital and trust - IlliniOllie November 20, 2024, 13:03:16 I can’t agree with this post enough* - GMAW November 20, 2024, 18:11:18 I agree there were many mistakes. But the disease also mutated. - CoronaTheirAss November 20, 2024, 13:44:33 1st off, I'd place much more blame on the anti-vaccine sentiment on the right wing infosphere - IlliniRunner November 20, 2024, 13:34:16 The problem was the mandates and the creation of a washed/unwashed society based on vax status - GMAW November 20, 2024, 18:15:34 I think you are absolutely wrong that there wasn’t a public health reason for vaccine mandates. * - IlliniRunner November 20, 2024, 20:21:11 GMAW should show us on the doll where the authority figures touched him. - complainant November 21, 2024, 22:34:26 I draw a massive distinction between how the pandemic was dealt with - Sounder November 20, 2024, 13:58:11 Good thing we aren't appointing a health official - Sounder November 20, 2024, 13:07:54 The people who tried to do real analysis were shouted down. We were told to trust the science - meanjeans November 20, 2024, 10:53:13 Do these Real Analysts also work on carburetors?* - complainant November 20, 2024, 11:11:55 My favorite part of it all - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:57:42 Do any of those children live in homes with adults?* - complainant November 20, 2024, 11:10:26 As Sammich said, I have zero fucking interest in actually relitigating all of this* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 11:35:10 I’m not sure it was ever really litigated. The people that wanted to force cloth masks on 2-year - meanjeans November 20, 2024, 14:04:38 I still see people in masks in Seattle on the regular - Sounder November 20, 2024, 14:14:17 The folks who I don’t get are the ones wearing masks while walking/running/biking outside * - IlliniRunner November 20, 2024, 15:11:30 If adults are choosing to do it, whatever. I feel bad for the kids whose parents are still forcing - IlliniOllie November 20, 2024, 14:17:28 But you only see them when they're exposed to Ollies, so you might be projecting your paranoia. - complainant November 20, 2024, 14:40:13 fortunately I haven't seen much or any of that - Sounder November 20, 2024, 14:26:42 Republicans - Caring about public education. 2020-2021* - longsnapper November 20, 2024, 11:11:35 if you motherfuckers relitigate this again, I will hunt you down and take a runny shit on your face - Sammich November 20, 2024, 10:58:57 There have been eleventy bazillion political posts since the election, but *this* is off-limits?* - IlliniOllie November 20, 2024, 13:06:02 I was trying to nip it in the bud before you showed up - Sammich November 20, 2024, 13:21:16 trauma* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 13:08:48 I hope you enjoy your Taco Bell lunch.* - Chuck Woodaby November 20, 2024, 11:55:52 Yikes. Message received.* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:59:58 I think it reinforced a lot of known information about avoiding communicable disease. - complainant November 20, 2024, 10:49:45 I'm not sure I agree on the effective masking - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:52:31 Was your grandma's mask certified by any accredited agency? - complainant November 20, 2024, 11:27:46 1. Don't be fat. 2. Don't be old. 3. Don't be immunocompromised. - haighter November 20, 2024, 11:00:21 Even with all of the Social isolation, masking, etc. we still had 100s of thousands of excess deaths - IlliniRunner November 20, 2024, 11:33:09 That would have forced groups two and three into isolation* - Chicago1995 November 20, 2024, 11:10:14 Yea...instead we all got to experience it (at least in the bluest of blue). * - haighter November 20, 2024, 11:16:29 We did. - Chicago1995 November 20, 2024, 11:26:21 dotz - Sounder November 20, 2024, 11:37:20 I might be in the minority, or maybe my consent was just really well manufactured, - longsnapper November 20, 2024, 11:18:51 I didn't mind the mask business for myself...but it was all performative... - haighter November 20, 2024, 11:29:02 That's okay. As long as the people who want to avoid disease are made aware of effective masking and - complainant November 20, 2024, 11:38:53 So we agree? Awareness is fine. Mandates were the problem* - IlliniOllie November 20, 2024, 12:52:36 What's a mandate? Your antipathy/antagonism toward preventative measures suggests to me that you - complainant November 20, 2024, 13:12:59 the anti mandate crowd is a fucking joke - Sounder November 20, 2024, 13:20:08 I think some of them get it. But they're not the loud ones. - complainant November 20, 2024, 13:35:17 And the mandates themselves weren’t serious in any way…cover your face… - haighter November 20, 2024, 13:27:38 It would indeed have been better had we had all the accumulated knowledge about this disease - IlliniRunner November 20, 2024, 13:37:53 We knew within weeks that it was *by far* more serious for the very old and the very fat - IlliniOllie November 20, 2024, 14:09:18 So in your scenario, which group would logically listen and act appropriately? - longsnapper November 20, 2024, 14:12:00 If they were given honest, up-front information, I think they'd be a lot more likely - IlliniOllie November 20, 2024, 14:35:57 Yo Ollie. You're fucking NUTS. - complainant November 21, 2024, 23:57:51 I recall at the time a quote: governance is done with a machete, not a scalpal - Sounder November 20, 2024, 14:11:06 And competent leadership.* - complainant November 20, 2024, 13:50:05 Yes.* - complainant November 20, 2024, 13:30:08 That would have been awesome. We're in agreement. * - haighter November 20, 2024, 11:41:01 people never came back, and it decimated the commercial real estate market* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 11:38:38 This doesn't seem to be a downside. - Chicago1995 November 20, 2024, 13:30:26 You'd have had people going around coughing on fast, old, immunocompromised people. - longsnapper November 20, 2024, 11:09:16 The problem is that 2/3 of the country is a fat - Sounder November 20, 2024, 11:07:24 I've sure if it happens again we'll be more prepared - Sounder November 20, 2024, 9:57:21 I’m prepared. I’m gonna catch it as fast as I can and head straight to Trump country. * - doubledown November 20, 2024, 10:19:56 The difference being, Trump has no interest in making progress or driving improvement. - Illiniphil November 20, 2024, 8:53:50 2 questions: (a) is IBM still around; (2) do federal agencies really care about - bbonb November 20, 2024, 7:08:24 as someone employed in the private sector their entire life, there are A LOT of people that are just - torinese November 20, 2024, 8:04:25 Flat plus inflation is pretty common YTY. If you don't spend, budget goes down* - opey8 November 20, 2024, 8:15:17 Short answer is yes - DT November 20, 2024, 7:21:14 I look forward to the GOP crapping the bed and telling / convincing the population - TarheelIllini November 20, 2024, 6:39:34 I think this time around they're finally going to have to own governance - Sounder November 20, 2024, 9:44:14 I bet you Matt Schlapp regularly craps the bead with his boy toy.* - ATL November 20, 2024, 6:45:33 Oz will head a department with annual spending around 1.5 trillion - opey8 November 20, 2024, 6:39:18 I worked in government 25 years; I’ve seen many people like them before - Stu November 20, 2024, 6:07:56 I think I've been lucky and generally had really good management throughout my fed career. - Tortillini November 20, 2024, 7:38:34 You were supposed to confirm, asshole - Stu November 20, 2024, 7:54:47 Fuck* - Tortillini November 20, 2024, 8:40:52 What did you do if you don’t mind me asking?* - TarheelIllini November 20, 2024, 6:54:19 A lot of electric generation/transmission/distribution work for the public utilities commission* - Stu November 20, 2024, 7:04:32 That explains the bluster, blame others, dynamic. I see it out here too by literally both sides* - Desert November 20, 2024, 10:59:00 Is this in the right place?* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 11:08:25 I worked for the EPA in DC in the 90's - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:01:03 I personally knew Obama's chief negotiator to the UN on climate change - Stu November 20, 2024, 10:22:38 I was on the house floor when NAFTA was approved - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:30:53 I think to the GOP that's a feature, not a bug. This is "starve the beast" by a different method. - ATL November 20, 2024, 5:57:45 Agreed. CNN interviewed a former Trump White House staffer this morning - WhitmansFolly November 20, 2024, 6:47:23 Would be hilarious if Grassley kills the RFk nomination due to HFCs opposition * - gvibes November 19, 2024, 21:14:23 always thought that big ag/corn interest would be the most likely opposition* - ECEIllinois November 19, 2024, 21:31:44 Pharma is high on his bogeyman list too.* - ATL November 20, 2024, 6:37:25 He’s not at ag so it shouldn’t matter but who knows* - gvibes November 19, 2024, 21:54:48 FBI Director Kash Patel?! - doubledown November 19, 2024, 21:09:58 Marco Rubio is fine. - assassin November 19, 2024, 21:33:48 Yeah. Rubio's a 25th perecentile pick for most admins. - Chicago1995 November 20, 2024, 8:55:26 Depends. Do you want someone who can balance a checkbook? - complainant November 20, 2024, 0:41:51 Fine is a relative term for Donald Trump. * - assassin November 20, 2024, 0:48:21 that was Burgum* - ECEIllinois November 19, 2024, 21:32:23 Indiana gonna Indiana. - doubledown November 19, 2024, 20:42:08 Hoosiers gonna Hoosier.* - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 21:25:22 Call me crazy but it sure seems like Trump is intentionally building an inept govt * - MC November 19, 2024, 18:16:32 he's just prioritizing loyalty to him above all else - ECEIllinois November 19, 2024, 18:58:43 This is also about change for change’s sake - Stu November 19, 2024, 19:56:19 Yeah seems like typical trump being trump. I think he wanted his pilot to be the head of the FAA.* - Toonces November 19, 2024, 19:03:36 This is about the 25th Amendment. He doesn't want to be removed.* - complainant November 19, 2024, 19:16:04 William Buckley was just ahead of his time. Random people from the phone book… - DT November 19, 2024, 18:56:00 You're crazy. - Illiniphil November 19, 2024, 18:51:30 zero interest here * - Throwsize November 19, 2024, 18:26:37 Well now I feel bad because my post was a shitpost. Though Gaetz is a really bad one* - MC November 19, 2024, 20:56:18 It occurred to me that the “strategic” comment on RFK was probably… - DT November 20, 2024, 7:37:55 But keep begging for attention here for your cover band, probably need more charity benefits - RVA November 19, 2024, 19:19:07 Come on* - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 20:22:41 WTF, dude. * - VIV November 19, 2024, 19:54:15 I can take my lumps if I'm the only person getting whiplash - RVA November 19, 2024, 20:46:07 You're not. But the breadth of leeway given suggests to me that a lot of these people saw Mr. Dong - complainant November 19, 2024, 22:53:29 Or I’ve known him for 25 years and I can disagree with him without wishing him cancer. * - VIV November 19, 2024, 22:59:35 Boy, that strawman didn't stand a chance. I hope it was cathartic for you. Namaste.* - complainant November 19, 2024, 23:47:02 I mean, we all might want to learn to play an instrument. - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 20:17:12 The show raised money for cancer. Let’s fuck on that because we disagree with the politics. - VIV November 19, 2024, 20:20:34 Good people do bad things; bad people do good things. * - Chicago1995 November 20, 2024, 8:59:24 you think throwsize is a bad person?* - VIV November 20, 2024, 10:26:10 I’ve seen no sign he’s a bad person - Stu November 20, 2024, 11:13:11 Yes. - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 10:37:53 No. Just think he's a person. - Chicago1995 November 20, 2024, 10:34:33 i'm not saying that alone makes him a good person. * - VIV November 20, 2024, 10:42:58 I think a lot of people would be willing to drink beer & jam 50 year old covers for a captive audien - complainant November 20, 2024, 10:41:12 yeah, let's not pretend for a minute that his jam session - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:59:23 What a horrible thing to say** - jjlocke923 November 20, 2024, 14:12:20 I'd imagine it was sexier 40 years ago. Same for the groupies.* - complainant November 20, 2024, 11:21:14 you are so damn broken* - VIV November 20, 2024, 11:20:02 yes* - Sounder November 20, 2024, 10:33:50 fucking ridiculous.* - VIV November 20, 2024, 10:43:15 When people show you who they are....* - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 10:47:47 yeah, i've known him for over 25 years. * - VIV November 20, 2024, 10:50:30 Nearly 20 years here. - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 10:56:02 shocked at what?* - VIV November 20, 2024, 10:56:50 That other people would think he's not a good guy* - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 10:59:20 No lies detected * - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 10:04:01 “Fuck on that”? - Stu November 19, 2024, 21:08:13 Dunk on that?* - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 21:18:10 How are we supposed to root for people's wives to rot of cancer if Throw is out there raising money - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 20:24:02 Wait. What did I miss?* - VIV November 19, 2024, 20:42:04 Throw insinuated that Sounder has a weak hand shake. Chad linked to it. - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 20:46:58 well no one’s gonna top that. - VIV November 19, 2024, 22:06:17 Wow. I assume he got banned from that board? ** - jjlocke923 November 19, 2024, 20:59:11 You would think that, wouldn't you - Sounder November 19, 2024, 21:02:23 Do we have a moderator?* - Stu November 19, 2024, 21:02:52 OFC* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 21:04:36 Gee-zus* - MC November 19, 2024, 20:56:53 Fuck him, he can eat shit - Sounder November 19, 2024, 22:52:53 Link?* - Stu November 19, 2024, 20:35:13 It’s a reference to Sounder / SF on the other board - Potomac November 19, 2024, 20:42:44 He deleted the post but embedded copies remain* - Potomac November 19, 2024, 20:50:50 Never mind, Chuck has it above* - Potomac November 19, 2024, 20:51:59 Holy shit. * - VIV November 19, 2024, 20:44:27 Ugh on both* - Stu November 19, 2024, 20:43:22 The other board is gentler, and more polite. I can see why they'd be offended.* - complainant November 19, 2024, 20:46:57 You also missed the part where I got fully doxxed - Sounder November 19, 2024, 21:04:19 That's how they acted when they WON the election? - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 21:24:30 It's how they acted after Sounder got drunk (I assume) and went over there and embarrassed himself.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 21:31:32 That excuses doxxing? - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 21:32:23 If you are going wish death on wives, challenge people to fights, and threaten - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 21:46:19 He should definitely be banned there. - KingTalkyTiki November 20, 2024, 8:57:44 Yeah, this was clearly about a handshake and nothing else - Sounder November 19, 2024, 22:51:41 He also showed up the day before the election and spiked the football on the 5 yard line... - haighter November 19, 2024, 21:54:03 Oh, ok! Sounds nice!* - Stu November 19, 2024, 20:50:59 literal lol* - CoronaTheirAss November 19, 2024, 20:27:08 I was kidding. I didn't rag on his show. - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 20:23:14 I like him as a person despite disagreeing with his politics. * - VIV November 19, 2024, 20:24:23 Good on ya'* - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 20:25:57 I liked his post, as you'd expect.* - complainant November 19, 2024, 19:58:15 Not a surprise. * - VIV November 19, 2024, 20:21:10 Always fun when the mask slips.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 19:57:38 Several times you've thrown out a post and when folks offfer substantive countering thoughts - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 18:59:16 Again, we've seen this happen before - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 19:13:05 You are scared to step foot in a red state yet you call out others for being scared of pushback? - HamptonSki November 19, 2024, 19:58:10 Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 18:48:49 Oz? Gabbard? RFK? * - larue33 November 19, 2024, 18:33:20 Oz seems like an odd pick because he’s a doctor for an administrators job - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 18:42:49 Like when he said opening up schools during COVID might kill 2-3% of kids, but was necessary? - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 19:20:10 I think the majority opinion now is that our back to school policies were substandard - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 19:50:39 What about when he recommended drinking your own piss? - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 21:30:27 I don’t see him recommending it and I’m not sure how this is relevant to anything - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 23:25:55 He conditioned his support of Oz on his continuing to support Medicare and Medicaid* - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 19:00:17 Yes I know* - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 19:00:52 aside from spending a large part of his career peddling quack treatments?* - assassin November 19, 2024, 18:45:50 I love we've already forgotten about Hegseth* - assassin November 19, 2024, 18:41:22 He's fucking pathetic. No skills whatsoever. No one can defend that.* - Stu November 19, 2024, 18:42:56 He's #2 on my list behind Gaetz - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:42:09 A Russian asset for DNI. Why didn't he just cut to the chase and appoint Sergei Lavrov?* - Stu November 19, 2024, 18:36:11 I think he's talking about you, Stu: - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 19:01:50 He says Hilary supporters are worse than the ‘50s McCarthyism - Stu November 19, 2024, 19:13:45 Valid* - Stu November 19, 2024, 19:04:31 nm * - Throwsize November 19, 2024, 18:36:00 This was pathetic. Own it* - UIHuskie November 19, 2024, 18:50:03 no fuck you. every single time i try to have a discussion here it is an immediate pile on - Throwsize November 19, 2024, 18:54:07 You are so, so close. So close. - Chicago1995 November 20, 2024, 9:02:04 Fuck me? You posted it, not me. Defend it* - UIHuskie November 19, 2024, 19:23:01 Hey, he's mad at me because I let you all know he voted for Trump. - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 19:26:12 You like being a bully, don’t you? This board would be much better if - jjlocke923 November 19, 2024, 19:49:32 Classic jjlocke923* - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 20:18:30 We weren't bullying. We were wondering what he meant* - gvibes November 19, 2024, 19:57:20 I was bullying...but he's a MAGA supporter.... - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 20:21:03 Hey! - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 18:58:21 Did I miss something more exciting than "zero interest?"* - complainant November 19, 2024, 19:25:23 He just said he liked the Tulsi and RFK picks "strategically." Many people - gvibes November 19, 2024, 19:49:33 From what I can tell, the RFK Jr appointment was some genius strategic appointment.* - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 19:28:04 how dare you have to defend your opinions* - assassin November 19, 2024, 18:56:43 You called the dead bear cub worm brain anti-vaxxer guy - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:56:39 Remember he didn't vote for the mixed race lady because she wasn't smart enough - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 19:03:31 “She’s a fucking moron”* - Stu November 19, 2024, 19:17:30 He said that? Perfect.* - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 19:22:46 Wow this post made it only seven minutes? Must've been a doozy* - OrangeSox November 19, 2024, 18:49:54 Just remember it's an internal tug of war between him desperately wanting to be liked and accepted.. - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 18:54:54 expressing support for RFKjr is certainly a choice. * - assassin November 19, 2024, 18:51:25 Let's just give him a chance see what happens - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:53:54 ooo - assassin November 19, 2024, 18:47:13 Do you think RFK is qualified to run a trillion dollar hedge fund? Would you invest with him? - DT November 19, 2024, 18:46:09 I think being on Putin's payroll should disqualify Gabbard, but maybe that's just me. * - larue33 November 19, 2024, 18:39:51 And RFK's anti-vax stance might be one of his least crazy beliefs. * - larue33 November 19, 2024, 18:41:04 I don't understand people's hard on for her - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:41:03 nm - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 18:42:12 Hasn’t disqualified Trump * - ATL November 19, 2024, 18:40:19 "strategically" - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:37:25 Bobby Brainworms!* - MtHoodIllini November 19, 2024, 18:37:00 How do you like the RFK pick "strategically"? He's 100% crackpot* - gvibes November 19, 2024, 18:36:50 I think the Gaetz pick was a thank you for supporting him and allowing him a way out from the....... - MtHoodIllini November 19, 2024, 18:32:55 ooo - ATL November 19, 2024, 18:27:39 i like Lutnick... met him before, back in my Lehman days * - Throwsize November 19, 2024, 18:30:31 But what about Linda McMahon? And do you think that the promised 10% tariff is inflationary? - ATL November 19, 2024, 18:33:39 nm * - Throwsize November 19, 2024, 18:41:04 Yeah, please show your work on this on. I don't understand how that's true. And, - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 19:03:39 When in history have they done that?* - ATL November 19, 2024, 18:43:05 Specifically, he's building a government of people who are going to warn him - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:25:59 Linda McMahon has to settle for Education til Vivek kills it - assassin November 19, 2024, 16:28:55 I miss Bell Biv DeVos already - Tortillini November 19, 2024, 22:12:08 First Sec of Ed to ever... - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 17:04:52 Pledge of Allegiance to be replaced with reciting the words to Hulk Hogan entry music.* - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 16:32:14 Every teacher enters the classroom to the John cena song* - gvibes November 19, 2024, 16:59:41 Folding chair to the head if they so much as mention slavery* - Herman Blume November 19, 2024, 17:07:48 "If you smell what Home Ec is cooking!** - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 17:02:36 far too inclusive. republicans would never fight for the rights of every man. * - assassin November 19, 2024, 16:36:40 Did Trump campaign feed swatting list to Russian operatives? - complainant November 19, 2024, 15:26:48 swatting?* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:37:39 They call the police from a blocked number and say they’ve got hostages. Police, hopped up on donut - doubledown November 19, 2024, 15:43:18 I guess I'm glad that I don't know about shit like this* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:46:25 Happened in town back in August* - Dilbert November 19, 2024, 16:22:08 I think I remember hearing something about it WRT Whitmer* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 16:25:37 Vegas police did it last week. - assassin November 19, 2024, 15:44:52 Michigan Sec of State (twice), a bunch of media figures, the Georgia polling place bomb threats - complainant November 19, 2024, 16:08:02 From Russia, With Liv* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 16:11:24 Dr. Oz? * - doubledown November 19, 2024, 15:21:09 Fetterman is excited to confirm him - OrangeSox November 19, 2024, 16:40:53 “If” is the hardest working word in that quote. * - doubledown November 19, 2024, 16:49:04 'Member when everyone was calling Fauci a hack? Pepperidge Farms remembers* - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 15:43:34 He's probably more qualified than RFK Jr. * - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:48:23 A small gang of wild monkeys is more qualified than RFKJ. * - doubledown November 19, 2024, 15:52:46 my focus is on who can do the most damage - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:57:18 Don’t hold your breath, they’re all getting in - TarheelIllini November 19, 2024, 17:15:19 As recently as last week there was still talk of imprisoning Fauci - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:47:45 Funding the research (and then lying about it) that possibly killed 7 million people* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 15:55:54 "possibly" is doing he-man level work there* - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 18:06:23 Not really. It's more "probably" at this point.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 18:28:30 no, no it isn't. All of the proponents of the lab-leak theory - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 18:33:19 please show your work on that claim - serious scientists have not rejected it - Potomac November 19, 2024, 18:54:29 OoOoOoO - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 19:10:00 Sorry, 2022 is ancient history on COVID. Please try for 2024.* - Potomac November 19, 2024, 19:11:39 LOL* - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 20:20:36 Was that an actual reply? - Potomac November 19, 2024, 20:39:45 Ok, a scientific study from 2024: - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 23:14:36 Time to end this one-sided discussion - Potomac November 20, 2024, 6:08:55 Again you keep on referring to scientific evidence of a lab leak. All I have seen is conjecture - IlliniRunner November 20, 2024, 9:03:31 Well if you're unconvinced I guess Fauci is off the hook for funding it and then LYING about it. - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 23:46:14 How embarrassing.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 20:25:48 Yes I agree. But not in the direction you’re thinking. * - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 23:15:34 If you can't trust a bunch of NIH funded scientists back in 2022 who can you trust?* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 19:14:36 I’d deflect from the actual scientific study presented there to if I were you. * - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 23:17:51 trust will be absolutely dismal in the next pandemic or crisis* - Potomac November 19, 2024, 19:16:20 You mean like the FBI?* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 18:50:02 What evidence did they provide in support of that conclusion? - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 19:08:05 He's not lying. You're lying.* - complainant November 19, 2024, 17:56:51 What's your rebuttal to this intro from Reason magazine? - Potomac November 19, 2024, 19:00:53 Sure, okay. I say that not everybody who writes for Reason is a kook, which phrasing is as weighted - complainant November 20, 2024, 9:39:35 So let me get this straight...He funded the research, lied about it, and it's reasonable to - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 19:38:02 Did the NIH fund gain of function research in Wuhan?* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 18:28:02 It's this kind of misinformation that I simply don't know how we can possibly combat* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:05:56 what do you think of NIH Deputy Director Tabak's testimony this year? - Potomac November 19, 2024, 19:10:40 Yes, it's misinformation. In a Murdoch tabloid. (Why didn't you mention that?) - complainant November 20, 2024, 10:28:02 If hosting companies were liable, or at least required to maintain information on users, it would - complainant November 19, 2024, 18:16:44 I'm sorry they didn't cover this for you on MSNBC in between your fap sessions on the latest - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 18:55:34 good deal. need total breakdown of services before anything changes* - John Coctostan November 19, 2024, 15:29:40 lmao, it's all trolling* - Blazer November 19, 2024, 15:27:35 Good thing that Trump isn't obsessed with reality television* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:24:21 and the new Transportation Secretary is,.. - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:20:57 He's married to former RW:SF participant and Fox talking head Rachel Campos - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 16:27:53 He is a fine choice. Of Trump’s cabinet picks he is top of qualified * - JacobRDaugherty November 19, 2024, 15:39:55 for people who'd rather not click - Sean Duffy* - complainant November 19, 2024, 15:24:39 Should I know who that is?* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:36:49 judging by your initial post on the matter you seemed to know exactly who it was * - Throwsize November 19, 2024, 15:42:20 No, I just think it's funny he keeps giving positions to former reality stars and tv personalities* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:45:59 They cant all be…checks notes…Mayor of South Bend Indiana. * - haighter November 19, 2024, 18:35:20 You mean Harvard educated, Oxford Rhodes Scholar, Naval Lieutenant - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:49:39 Oooh…so NOW you want to list full resumes? Gotcha. For some reason you didn’t for Sean Duffy. * - haighter November 19, 2024, 18:57:43 And 9 year congressman from Wisconsin who was a District Attorney before that. * - haighter November 19, 2024, 15:23:49 ooo - doubledown November 19, 2024, 14:09:24 Today I saw a guy driving a Kia Soul with a “PROUD TO BE HETEROSEXUAL” bumper sticker - ATL November 19, 2024, 18:06:06 almost seems like a (literal) false flag op - Sammich November 19, 2024, 14:10:49 Dems are slaves to rules and norms, while the GOP plays it as a raw power game. - Toonces November 19, 2024, 13:52:12 The Dems have completely lost the white working class - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:58:40 "Black and Brown" folks still vote overwhelmingly for the Democrat on the ticket... - haighter November 19, 2024, 14:53:29 the last time more than 50% of white voters voted for the Dem presidential candidate was 1964* - Sammich November 19, 2024, 14:09:35 Is this really true? - Sounder November 19, 2024, 14:12:20 surprised me as well - Sammich November 19, 2024, 14:13:07 Even Obama? - Sounder November 19, 2024, 14:17:48 Obama got 43% of wypipo in 2008 and 39 in 2012 - Sammich November 19, 2024, 14:20:06 Looks like Clinton came the closest* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 14:22:24 These charts completely blow my mind (and frankly are depressing) - Sounder November 19, 2024, 14:21:14 The Southern Strategy worked. Preaching protectionism brought in the stragglers. - complainant November 19, 2024, 14:35:11 Stupidity finds a way. * - doubledown November 19, 2024, 14:36:35 I'm sure the civil rights act timing is just a coincidence* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 14:11:02 A friend just sent this, which I thought was interesting - Sounder November 19, 2024, 12:37:54 Other thing about this and so many of the other narratives being spun out there… - OB25 November 19, 2024, 14:58:30 C'mon, man, you can't be that naive - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:22:11 I feel like you must have misunderstood what I was saying. - OB25 November 19, 2024, 15:41:52 I hear what you're saying, but it feels like a lot more than 2-3% swung - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:49:37 There are bigger issues for sure, and I do think a lot of people less enthusiastically voted Dem… - OB25 November 19, 2024, 15:52:32 There simply has to be some soul searching - Sounder November 19, 2024, 16:01:15 Ah, so now we get to the crux of the issue. Should have figured this was classic Sounder - Blazer November 19, 2024, 18:01:11 You call, or imply, that the working class who votes for GOP candidates is "stupid"... - haighter November 19, 2024, 16:18:53 I'm going the other way. I was always a staunch defender of the working class... - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 16:45:04 Always sad to see people completely dismiss their white trash upbringing - HamptonSki November 19, 2024, 20:23:45 I'm tired of trying to have empathy and mutual respect - Sounder November 19, 2024, 17:07:10 Two things can be true at the same time - Sounder November 19, 2024, 16:25:05 If this thread has proven one thing... - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 16:36:07 Fuck off, scumbag* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 16:40:03 Or it could be that their votes are a repudiation of your values...not that you didn't explain... - haighter November 19, 2024, 16:32:47 Are you implying that the Republicans have any interest in making white working class their equal?* - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 16:49:39 I mean...it's the base of their party collective body, isn't it? * - haighter November 19, 2024, 17:07:40 "Their equal"* - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 17:37:17 If we're talking about party leadership, I don't believe either one wants working folks... - haighter November 19, 2024, 17:44:07 Okay, well that is different than being their equal. You're essentially saying that Republicans - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 18:43:03 I don’t think so? Maybe I am…what I’m saying is…. - haighter November 19, 2024, 18:52:32 I understand that. What I'm saying is that Democrats need to do a better job of clarifying WHY - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 19:00:29 I know, we're saying they've been duped - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:00:06 That's part of the ruse - Sounder November 19, 2024, 17:33:04 Correct. You don't promise them toxic waste. You promise them you'll save unborn babies - complainant November 19, 2024, 17:43:30 Nothing you said relates at all to my post. The working class of America... - haighter November 19, 2024, 17:40:58 If it makes you feel any better, I also think you're one of the stupid voters* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:01:03 Well...we voted for the same stupid candidate for President, so stupid is as stupid does. * - haighter November 19, 2024, 18:02:01 You love to play this blue collar man of the people routine - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:04:04 I just don't despise people that don't agree with me politically like you do. * - haighter November 19, 2024, 18:08:14 I only despise the people who despise me - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:11:43 I don’t believe that. * - haighter November 19, 2024, 18:39:37 I don't really care what you think - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:53:09 You posted there today. You obsessively pour over that board. We aren’t as different… - haighter November 19, 2024, 19:02:15 Dude, where do you think I'm from? - Sounder November 19, 2024, 16:39:22 I'll add "ECI" to the list of things you don't understand.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 16:45:11 Trust me, I'm like an anthropologist when I go back there* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 16:46:21 lmfao* - Blazer November 19, 2024, 18:23:56 I bet. Now tell me what you think "ECI" stands for* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 16:53:21 East Central Illinois - Sounder November 19, 2024, 16:57:48 We're talking about a swing of 8 million voters from 2020-2024 - Blazer November 19, 2024, 15:26:58 How to lie with numbers - Sounder November 19, 2024, 15:42:18 OB said we're talking about 2% of the population - Blazer November 19, 2024, 17:59:02 Technically, you are correct, - Sounder November 19, 2024, 18:43:32 230,000 people get off the couch in the blue wall and this whole conversation seems silly-er* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 15:36:43 Word* - Blazer November 19, 2024, 17:59:34 Not bad. A lot of that was very insightful ** - jjlocke923 November 19, 2024, 14:48:19 Jeezus that’s whole lot of terrible * - illini thunder November 19, 2024, 14:22:40 Scout?* - opey8 November 19, 2024, 13:45:20 I really hated that for a lot of reasons, but most notably that it still tries to describe… - OB25 November 19, 2024, 13:28:21 When Sarah Palin talked about two Americas, she wasn't wrong - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:32:05 Counterpoint: Yes she was. - complainant November 19, 2024, 13:51:23 CNN interviewed the head of Oklahoma schools yesterday - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:55:07 guy stayed in character for the entire interview. next level grifting* - torinese November 19, 2024, 14:12:32 The interviewer could hardly hide her disdain* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 14:22:00 Two Americas is Bomani Jones* - HamptonSki November 19, 2024, 13:41:04 Two Americas was MLK - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 13:38:11 yeah, I'm sure that Palin was intellectually curious enough - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:39:25 I didn't say that. I said other politicians were such as Obama and John Edwards - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 13:41:23 And those don't accurately encapsulate it either. Think about Pacifica and Walnut Creek... - haighter November 19, 2024, 13:33:37 For sure, there's a suburban tier - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:38:37 This is a profoundly dumb list* - Blazer November 19, 2024, 13:16:17 I think there are some good points and some misguided points in there - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:25:09 What are some good points? At least, ones that provide any real insight or - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 13:27:20 1,6, and 10* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:30:28 I mean 10 is just a flat out lie. 1 is also twisted in that any definition that shows - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 13:44:20 I completely disagree on 10 - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:47:18 Just not personal freedoms for other people * - PapaDels November 19, 2024, 14:00:21 For sure, we're selfish AF* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 14:02:02 That's like saying Americans don't like drinking because of hangovers - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 13:56:51 Excactly. Is it what most Americans believe? Probably - Blazer November 19, 2024, 14:15:46 10 I could see except people are only anti-government overreach on policies they disagree with - OB25 November 19, 2024, 13:38:17 You'll get no disagreement on #6 - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:42:15 If Americans have not accepted managed decline, why the hell have we elected the last two presidents - ATL November 19, 2024, 13:06:28 Or maybe I was focusing on the "decline" part when I should have focused on "managed"* - ATL November 19, 2024, 13:21:40 if you told me a trump supporter typed that with only his non-dominant hand, i'd believe you* - VIV November 19, 2024, 12:58:13 I wish failed British comedians would stop commenting on American politics.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 12:53:57 I have no idea who this person is - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:11:01 Are there any funny British comedians? * - doubledown November 19, 2024, 13:06:51 I fart in your general direction* - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 13:24:00 A couple* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 13:16:37 I always liked the cross dresser guy* - ATL November 19, 2024, 13:09:35 Russell Brand used to be funny - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:11:51 Rich Gervais feels like that Inglourious Basterds meme* - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 13:15:52 Isn't the Meme Django Unchained?* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:21:37 No - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 13:24:35 I have seen the movie and I don't know what that means* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:25:45 nm - IlliniRunner November 19, 2024, 13:41:18 Or Sounder is calling Gervais "Rich"* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 13:43:30 that was just a typo* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:48:00 This though I didn't see what Runner said* - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 13:44:20 We'll always have the Golden Globes* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:20:34 The British have their own problems - biclops November 19, 2024, 13:01:04 Yes, if there's anything the global culinary marketplace has endorsed, it's the primacy of brit food - ATL November 19, 2024, 13:11:32 First they came for the meat pies, and I said nothing* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:13:06 Old Dry Keith would roll over in his grave - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 13:02:48 I just realized the same dude wrote both articles - CanHartlebHireSnider November 19, 2024, 13:13:00 Meh.* - Chicago1995 November 19, 2024, 12:53:03 nobody in America or anywhere else actually wants a meritocracy - Sammich November 19, 2024, 12:48:26 "..they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone... - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 12:45:01 While the reality might be comical, he's not wrong that that sentiment is very common* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 12:47:28 He's a right-wing troll/provocateur. And he's shopping at the wrong store. - complainant November 19, 2024, 12:54:35 See my edit to the post. I wasn't laughing at the thought being common.. - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 12:49:42 True, but honestly isn't it one of the biggest "problems" with our system - Sounder November 19, 2024, 12:58:41 True, but honestly isn't it one of the biggest "problems" with our system - Sounder November 19, 2024, 12:58:41 so everybody says Dems should just drop the social issues stuff. Stop talking about it, 'trans' - John Coctostan November 19, 2024, 8:52:11 You can't protect people's right if you can't win elections* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:36:51 What does winning do for you if you have to dispense with your values to achieve it? - doubledown November 19, 2024, 11:11:53 the soon-to-be-5 trump appointed SCOTUS justices laugh at this. - VIV November 19, 2024, 12:16:00 Agreed. Hardly anyone takes this stance on economic issues - DT November 19, 2024, 13:47:38 I'm not suggesting we dispense with our values - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:14:01 Lia Thomas is like the homeless guy shitting in haighter's alcove. - complainant November 19, 2024, 11:59:20 I went to the Kraken game on Sunday - Sounder November 19, 2024, 12:04:29 My experience in traveling through the "liberal democracies" we envy tells me they don't - complainant November 19, 2024, 12:20:17 Are you referring to other countries - Sounder November 19, 2024, 12:22:04 I was thinking about Canada and Scandinavia. And now I'm thinking about "right-wing" politics in - complainant November 19, 2024, 12:33:20 I was in Ireland and England this summer - Sounder November 19, 2024, 12:36:53 Don't just let Nancy Mace own the issue. She's a hypocrite on it - illini222 November 19, 2024, 9:47:14 I thought this was going to me about when she got the rules at the Citadel rewritten on her behalf - RVA November 19, 2024, 10:56:15 Nancy Mace is a piece of shit* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:48:09 Nancy Grace is a piece of shit* - VIV November 19, 2024, 12:51:03 that goes without saying* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:32:39 I don’t think that’s what most people are saying - snipes824 November 19, 2024, 9:33:52 On this note, it’s worth mentioning that Obama opposed gay marriage in the 2008 campaign - DT November 19, 2024, 11:44:13 the overton window moves left- generally. - VIV November 19, 2024, 12:23:04 fortunately land acknowledgments are very niche - Potomac November 19, 2024, 10:04:38 Admittedly, I don't get out much. :) I was at a Krannert play last week and they did - Philo November 19, 2024, 11:02:52 This will be a huge surprise to you, but they do a land acknowledgement - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:37:54 They do before Blackhawks gamed as well. It's fine, but I think we can question - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 10:52:26 guilt over name and logo?* - Potomac November 19, 2024, 11:04:31 100%. There's zero sincerity, it's the Wirtzs pulling out all stops to keep the logo* - HamptonSki November 19, 2024, 12:19:54 I was going to say something, then I noticed who asked the question.. - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 12:07:23 That page has more bullshit than a Trump rally* - HamptonSki November 19, 2024, 13:16:41 I was / am curious about longsnapper’s opinion - Potomac November 19, 2024, 12:57:21 I don't think it's guilt. I think it's proactive good will that is, at least in part, - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 13:21:58 That's it 100% - KingTalkyTiki November 19, 2024, 16:49:01 If you're actually intellectually curious about the history of native american mascots - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:27:56 Well, what's the history? Why did so many schools choose native American mascots? - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 13:34:26 I kind of love that the a big reason they never changed the team name - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:10:48 Always liked the color scheme * - Potomac November 19, 2024, 12:58:09 it's a top 5 uniform in all of professional sports* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 13:02:21 Oh, it's virtue signalling boiled down to its purest essence* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:54:38 you're parsing this 100x more finely than every swing voter - John Coctostan November 19, 2024, 10:00:35 The Democrats aren't the ones amplifying these issues - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:39:01 Maybe the Dems need to use that tactic - bjl63 November 19, 2024, 10:40:43 I can't fully explain why, but the rules are just different for Democrats - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:44:54 Andy beshear won in Kentucky without throwing trans people under the bus - snipes824 November 19, 2024, 10:09:12 taxpayer funded surgeries for inmates was DOJ policy under Trump - Sammich November 19, 2024, 10:25:32 The Trump team did a deep dive on everything Kamala ever said until they found something from 2019 - RVA November 19, 2024, 10:51:35 Every person I know who cares about that topic is a right wing fringe lunatic* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:45:44 There's an electorally appealing middle ground between caving on hateful shit like this - GMAW November 19, 2024, 10:15:27 is there? I think the majority of people that care enough are anti trans period* - John Coctostan November 19, 2024, 11:13:11 literally everyone I know who cares about this issue (there are three) - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:26:28 Those people aren't voting for Democrats in any case - GMAW November 19, 2024, 11:17:55 Keep in mind that youth sports is an overwhelming central priority for 90% of parents - DT November 19, 2024, 11:53:13 You have to deal with people where you find them - GMAW November 19, 2024, 11:59:41 It's crazy to me - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:57:56 This has been my experience as well - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:34:53 Probably. And i think you're right to a point. I think and my experience is, in a real wordl - John Coctostan November 19, 2024, 11:27:54 To your last point about the dark heartedness - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:37:55 Remember that time (like a week ago) when you wished for someone's wife to die a horrible, painful - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 11:42:52 I wished him death because he's a terrible fucking human being - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:45:00 Oh OK, so when you said, "I hope your wife rots away from cancer - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 11:53:59 empathy and compassion are a social contract - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:56:58 Yep, they're called mothers and fathers.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 11:24:48 Has there been more than one example of a trans woman winning a meaningful - larue33 November 19, 2024, 10:42:00 Here's the first result of my Google search of "transgender women winning sports competitions" - GMAW November 19, 2024, 11:04:13 In general, I would say that preventing trans girls and women from competing - larue33 November 19, 2024, 11:42:11 70% of the country disagrees with you on sports - GMAW November 19, 2024, 11:56:44 What percentage of people thought Jackie Robinson should be kept out of the majors? - larue33 November 19, 2024, 12:01:51 Seems like a co-ed league is the obvious answer here. - complainant November 19, 2024, 12:11:21 What is the purpose of having women’s sports at all?* - GMAW November 19, 2024, 12:09:24 I think the value of women's sports - larue33 November 19, 2024, 13:23:56 The vast majority of the country disagrees with you - GMAW November 19, 2024, 15:05:26 I expect the majority you cite would disagree with your proposed policy - larue33 November 19, 2024, 16:31:51 Oh FFS. Limiting women's sports to biological women isn't "bigotry"* - GMAW November 19, 2024, 16:57:01 What is the purpose of having sports at all? * - larue33 November 19, 2024, 12:13:08 Answer my question and I'll answer yours* - GMAW November 19, 2024, 13:03:07 Cancelling sports entirely because we shouldn't define who can participate - OrangeSox November 19, 2024, 12:38:30 Lea Thomas and the volleyball chick - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:47:39 She has a micro penis, testicles and XY chromosomes. - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 11:04:15 Khelif is such a side show. Not a trans issue. She was AFAB* - gvibes November 19, 2024, 12:04:30 It's a biological male punching biological females in the face issue. - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 12:16:42 Unless she's your wife, then it becomes a little murky. Especially if you're running for Senate - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 12:26:15 cool.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 12:27:33 It's up to each sports organization to decide participation eligibility - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:10:07 It's not fair to the females she is fighting that she is not a biological female.* - Chuck Woodaby November 19, 2024, 11:13:34 Conservatives - fighting for women's athletic rights since 2024* - longsnapper November 19, 2024, 11:36:49 Ha* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:38:24 I don't disagree - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:14:51 I think this is also politically problematic. I think many people aren't comfortable with the idea - CoronaTheirAss November 19, 2024, 10:21:56 Public opinion polls are far more mixed on bathrooms than they are on sports* - GMAW November 19, 2024, 10:25:51 I didn't mean to disagree with you on sports - CoronaTheirAss November 19, 2024, 10:27:24 Here's the thing - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:42:38 I think the issue with Lia Thomas is that she transitioned "late" - ISeeDeadHawkeyes November 19, 2024, 10:56:40 Penn* - Poldark November 19, 2024, 11:43:57 Yep, but my main point still remains* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes November 19, 2024, 12:00:24 Wisch sidejack: man I hate that both Trump and Musk went to Penn* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 11:45:55 Full disclosure, it seems ridiculous to me that she is allowed to compete (for my alma mater) - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:57:46 So what do you want to do about it? What is the appropriate Dem response? * - haighter November 19, 2024, 9:28:13 the morally correct thing is to stand up for her rights. the politically wise thing is to do - John Coctostan November 19, 2024, 10:01:08 Can't we just convince trans people to be less vocal - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:49:12 But in this instance...where the House is proposing rules for the upcoming House... - haighter November 19, 2024, 10:27:03 morally? Make a big stink about it, do whatever they can to gum up the works. politically - John Coctostan November 19, 2024, 11:11:48 that it's shameful and hateful* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:49:43 Fight for the people that need fighting for, even if you lose sometimes. * - doubledown November 19, 2024, 9:34:27 I completely disagree with this - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:52:32 That's fine on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. It's a proven loser as a presidential platform... - Illiniphil November 19, 2024, 9:42:49 Democrats talked about the economy and jobs too. Sadly, they also had to respond to constant - doubledown November 19, 2024, 9:53:26 I love that the stimulus package and Biden got blamed for inflation - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:51:47 Georgia appellate court cancels the king's hearing. - complainant November 18, 2024, 23:22:08 A lot of these meatpacking and food production plants are located in red states (who in theory - Warrin'_Illini November 18, 2024, 16:29:54 I’m just waiting for DOGE to come after defense spending in Senators’ home states - Stu November 18, 2024, 17:48:05 Does anyone think these cost-cutting tools will be used for anything other than - gvibes November 19, 2024, 0:24:55 I'm sure that Trump the "no new wars" dove will cut military spending - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:55:38 *Ding* - EffinIllini November 19, 2024, 9:57:06 what happens first? - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:56:47 Probably the first* - EffinIllini November 19, 2024, 11:12:44 They are already talking about cutting medicaid and food stamps. - larue33 November 19, 2024, 8:22:54 The Elon / Trump relationship has "Mooch 2.0" written all over it. * - haighter November 18, 2024, 18:46:39 The big difference is Musk needs Trump way more than mooch did. - longsnapper November 18, 2024, 18:50:03 All that spending is safe. We’ll just refuse to pay the interest on our debt.* - ATL November 18, 2024, 18:42:29 So, how do you think Trump will get around the 22nd to run for a 3rd term? - doubledown November 18, 2024, 15:35:15 He won’t; and neither Congress nor any court would agree* - Potomac November 18, 2024, 18:48:15 I don't think his health and/or is his mind will hold for four more, let alone a campaign.* - Chicago1995 November 18, 2024, 16:06:27 He's like the killer in a horror movie - KingTalkyTiki November 18, 2024, 17:38:20 He is going to die before then. He already had one mini stroke* - Stu November 18, 2024, 16:03:04 And if that happens, you know what the Dems can do about it? - timmer November 18, 2024, 15:38:25 the conspiracy theory rumor - Sounder November 18, 2024, 15:51:20 This is such a ridiculous idea from people with real problems to worry about * - Potomac November 18, 2024, 18:53:50 Did I say anyone was worrying about it?* - Sounder November 19, 2024, 0:22:46 it wouldn't keep coming up here and elsewhere if some people weren't worried* - Potomac November 19, 2024, 8:03:21 I mean, we thought there would be a peaceful transition of power last time - Sounder November 19, 2024, 10:50:43 Those people are idiots...the plain text of the 22nd Amendment: - Desert November 18, 2024, 16:53:58 You guys are still talking about laws as if we don’t live in a dictatorship * - meanjeans November 18, 2024, 18:39:29 I know this is serious and I don't want to diminish the danger I think trump can do... - IlliniSax05 November 19, 2024, 8:01:19 Wat...* - haighter November 18, 2024, 18:51:01 Just for the record, I'm agreeing with you that such a plan is absurd - Sounder November 18, 2024, 17:50:30 The counting shall not be to two, except on the way to three* - memyselfandillini November 18, 2024, 17:40:18 What's the enforcement mechanism? * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 17:37:16 The rules being the 22nd Amendment?* - SurfTheBoneyard November 18, 2024, 16:34:39 Vance as President, Trump as VP* - Desert November 18, 2024, 15:37:54 Not possible* - Potomac November 18, 2024, 18:47:03 12th amendment says fuck that * - MC November 18, 2024, 18:01:49 I think he will quickly remember that he actually hates being President - Sounder November 18, 2024, 15:36:19 I think he loves it - bjl63 November 18, 2024, 16:04:43 And staying out of court * - TarheelIllini November 18, 2024, 18:29:58 I'm sure Vegas has a timeline for President Vance. Pardons first, then golf.* - complainant November 18, 2024, 15:40:32 I would very much like a POTUS passing to get a mourning day off whilst in DC - timmer November 18, 2024, 15:40:11 I mean, Carter is basically a mummy* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 15:52:18 That motherfucker is going to live to 100. * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 15:38:42 I wonder if anyone is examining the swing states for GOP election fraud - memyselfandillini November 18, 2024, 14:54:24 GOP election fraud?!? P'shaw!! - Kajagoogoo November 18, 2024, 15:23:12 When the NLRB is killed, do you think all Trump's simple jacks will still think he's - doubledown November 18, 2024, 14:36:40 yes, because they are stupid* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 14:42:30 Good lord….you deserve to keep losing. * - haighter November 18, 2024, 15:14:53 Until the fever of stupidity and misinformation is broken, - Sounder November 18, 2024, 15:17:10 I thought the Bezos-as-Dr. Evil thing was just a great long term ruse, like - memyselfandillini November 18, 2024, 14:40:42 Mars adventurism is the stupidest conceivable fever dream for the insanely wealthy. - complainant November 18, 2024, 15:37:19 Why aren’t democrats pointing out that deporting a million low wage workers and imposing a blanket - ATL November 18, 2024, 12:10:13 Because they’re not good at politics….they think people are smart - TarheelIllini November 18, 2024, 14:47:11 They actually think the average voter plays with dog shit for fun. - Chuck Woodaby November 18, 2024, 14:49:04 "like a stress ball" still haunts me* - VIV November 18, 2024, 14:50:02 it’s too late to pologize* - memyselfandillini November 18, 2024, 14:41:52 They did, but those who only watch Faux News didn't get the memo.* - WhitmansFolly November 18, 2024, 12:56:44 More people watch nothing at all. * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 13:01:37 They don't vote, either. Fox viewers vote.* - complainant November 18, 2024, 16:07:31 stupid sexy Flanders* - Sammich November 18, 2024, 13:17:06 ooo - assassin November 18, 2024, 13:22:43 and studies have demonstrated that the people who watch Fox News - Sounder November 18, 2024, 13:02:35 Because the only thing that out mouthbreathing voting populace understands is touching the hot stove - KingTalkyTiki November 18, 2024, 12:53:12 why didn't harris spend some of the billion dollars she got in donations on ads saying any of this? - VIV November 18, 2024, 12:22:33 I agree. Biden and she just absolutely flubbed the messaging over the past 4 years.* - ATL November 18, 2024, 12:24:44 You're missing the point - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:29:20 And whining about it for the last 8 years has been a killer strategy. - Chicago1995 November 18, 2024, 14:12:35 You will get no argument from me - Sounder November 18, 2024, 14:17:28 Probably, yes. - Chicago1995 November 18, 2024, 14:22:35 It's not my problem or concern anymore - Sounder November 18, 2024, 14:24:55 Given your posting, I think it's still your concern. ;)* - Chicago1995 November 18, 2024, 14:29:14 I'm pissed off and embarassed to live in this country - Sounder November 18, 2024, 14:41:33 Not a luxury everyone has. * - Chicago1995 November 18, 2024, 14:57:19 That is correct, and not my problem either* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 14:58:10 Until it is ....* - Chicago1995 November 18, 2024, 15:18:32 the only way Trump impacts me - Sounder November 18, 2024, 15:20:26 Hope that's true. - Chicago1995 November 18, 2024, 15:21:38 dotz - Sounder November 18, 2024, 15:24:01 How blind are you?* - VIV November 18, 2024, 13:09:52 How stupid are you?* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 13:11:02 you think the democrats don't have their own pocketed media and i'm the stupid one. * - VIV November 18, 2024, 13:50:19 I think the absurdity of both sides ism is how we got here - Sounder November 18, 2024, 13:52:40 my god* - VIV November 18, 2024, 14:03:14 I can't keep rehashing this, think what you think - Sounder November 18, 2024, 14:04:14 It's cute you think this level of policy nuance resonates - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:24:30 it's easy - VIV November 18, 2024, 12:55:52 It's not that easy. - Chicago1995 November 18, 2024, 14:14:25 if it was easy, Trump wouldn't be President again* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:59:04 They didn’t even try this at all. That’s my point. They fucked up. - VIV November 18, 2024, 13:01:40 Well, they did try: - IlliniRunner November 18, 2024, 13:08:49 in a world where a non-zero number of people think "Obamacare" is separate from the ACA - Sammich November 18, 2024, 13:16:23 In highsight they should have probably spent more time trying to woo democrats and Biden voters.* - Chuck Woodaby November 18, 2024, 13:13:09 I had a thought yesterday about Joe Rogan - Sounder November 18, 2024, 13:21:33 If you told somebody in 1955 that Ronald Reagan would be president in 1985 - Chuck Woodaby November 18, 2024, 13:38:30 Wasn't that what all the twerking was supposed to accomplish?* - HamptonSki November 18, 2024, 13:20:52 What does it matter at this point? Needs to actually happen first before anyone believes it* - OB25 November 18, 2024, 12:21:10 *eyeball point** - KingTalkyTiki November 18, 2024, 12:53:41 tariffs happened in 2018. we spent like $60B bailing out soybean farmers because of it. * - VIV November 18, 2024, 12:23:33 But I don't know how much any of that had a direct impact on people's lives - IlliniRunner November 18, 2024, 12:52:19 It sure as shit had an impact on farmers* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:55:34 Farmers? You mean the recipients of the largest socialist program in the country?* - longsnapper November 18, 2024, 13:00:14 Did their price per bushel go up? Because they would like that. - complainant November 18, 2024, 13:58:40 Looks like it went down toward the end of Obama, and up after Trump. - complainant November 18, 2024, 14:02:31 who are like 2% of the population* - IlliniRunner November 18, 2024, 12:57:21 That's a higher percentage of the population than trans people* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 13:35:16 Ok* - IlliniRunner November 18, 2024, 14:15:41 exactly, the only way they will believe the truth is to experience the pain - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:21:59 because people are stupid and won't believe it* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:18:56 MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN - ATL November 17, 2024, 15:02:06 RFK jr. looks like that Liver King guy who's always in my twitter feed.* - Warrin'_Illini November 18, 2024, 10:54:17 I get that it's a medical condition, but are we supposed to take medical advice - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:56:44 part of his brain was eaten by a worm, and he will tell anyone who will listen - Sammich November 18, 2024, 10:58:14 Which story is crazier, the bear or the chainsaw whale skull?* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 11:00:19 The bear. * - ATL November 18, 2024, 12:04:30 every second counts* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:23:29 here's the thing - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:32:22 There is, but that will get lost in his other cuckoo stances on issues… - SurfTheBoneyard November 18, 2024, 10:47:29 Oh, for sure, I feel like I'm being gaslighted with this entire administration* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:51:33 It's not an administration, so you should stop thinking of it like that. It's an attack. * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 10:53:31 part of me wants them to be as incompetent as I think they are going to be - Sounder November 18, 2024, 11:04:27 scenario 2 involves a lot of collateral damage* - memyselfandillini November 18, 2024, 14:57:51 They can do both at once. And probably will. * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 11:26:00 sadly I think you are correct* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 11:55:42 Maybe stores will start selling steroids next to the homeopathy and we can all get jacked. * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 10:48:57 And hydroxychloroquine.* - DocWalk20 November 18, 2024, 10:58:26 We started out friends* - Sammich November 18, 2024, 10:41:10 It was cool, but it was all pretend* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:42:09 ooo - Sammich November 18, 2024, 9:24:23 i bet he has a tanning bed in his house* - lcubed November 18, 2024, 9:36:14 Is he mad that he didn't get to scrape it off the road himself? * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 9:35:25 and how old is that food, by the time it is put in front of them? I'm sure it's had to be reheated.. - shua November 18, 2024, 7:15:51 Maybe he had McDonalds install the proper machinery and kitchen on his plane? - haighter November 18, 2024, 7:33:55 Quarter pounder is always fresh, never frozen, my friend* - longsnapper November 18, 2024, 7:44:20 It’s been a long time since I worked at McDonald’s but I’m pretty sure both the .25# and 1# patties - ATL November 18, 2024, 10:26:27 Do you seriously think nothing has changed since you worked there with Kamala Harris - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:33:16 I just would not expect them to get better.* - ATL November 18, 2024, 10:34:25 That is fair, I am surprised they are fresh - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:38:04 I do not believe they are "fresh"...it's been a long time since I've been in a McDonalds... - haighter November 18, 2024, 10:50:44 I made the patties. They are fresh, never frozen.* - longsnapper November 18, 2024, 11:01:13 two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese - Sounder November 18, 2024, 11:02:14 Those are frozen * - ATL November 18, 2024, 12:03:40 Google it, opie. * - assassin November 18, 2024, 10:56:20 You don't think McDonald's uses flat tops? - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:55:38 I 200% live in a fast food bubble. * - haighter November 18, 2024, 11:26:41 then maybe STFU about it* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 11:55:14 I said I thought everything came in frozen. Big fucking deal. Calm down, sister. * - haighter November 18, 2024, 12:04:54 You also said they didn't think they had a flat top - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:06:34 I thought it was all reheated. Their "flattop" is a dual sided electric griddle that cooks... - haighter November 18, 2024, 12:09:51 the video I posted says you're wrong* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 12:21:17 The video you posted at the 3 minute mark. "McDonalds hamburgers are never flipped... - haighter November 18, 2024, 13:35:49 Yes, but shockingly, things change over the last two (3?) decades. The quarter pound patties - longsnapper November 18, 2024, 10:27:59 they were better when they were frozen - Sammich November 18, 2024, 9:25:04 It's the best fast food hamberder, hands down.* - Warrin'_Illini November 18, 2024, 8:39:27 In-N-Out double double animal style* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 9:29:20 That’s why they’re killer. * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 8:03:13 It terms of value, it's up there among the best* - longsnapper November 18, 2024, 8:05:17 Guess who was treating?* - memyselfandillini November 17, 2024, 17:09:21 the unfortunate staffer who had to call in the order* - Sammich November 18, 2024, 8:52:23 This is the stupidest fucking timeline.* - KingTalkyTiki November 17, 2024, 15:44:04 If it makes you feel any better, it’s probably gonna get way stupider. * - doubledown November 17, 2024, 21:59:22 Which confirmation hearing will be wilder: Gaetz, RFK, Hegseth, or Gabbard - Sounder November 18, 2024, 0:18:48 Gaetz has too many enemies and no friends - Stu November 18, 2024, 6:49:00 I see no way that Gaetz gets confirmed if they actually have a confirmation - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:39:42 Confirmation? Hearing? - complainant November 18, 2024, 1:23:09 Yeah, they’re gonna run the trick play to let him have recess appointments. * - doubledown November 18, 2024, 6:40:51 Mcconnell has already said he won't allow it* - Sounder November 18, 2024, 10:37:28 That requires him staying true to his word and beliefs. * - ghost_of_clt November 18, 2024, 10:44:32 Will be another proof point for why Trump is the alpha this country needs* - CWR10 November 18, 2024, 7:36:27 I would put serious money this will happen - TarheelIllini November 18, 2024, 7:30:52 You can just type Trump* - longsnapper November 18, 2024, 7:31:52 So Trump now only has a plurality of the popular vote. - ATL November 16, 2024, 18:26:29 does it matter?* - VIV November 18, 2024, 8:48:30 Probably no longer * - ATL November 18, 2024, 9:32:07 Why did it before? - VIV November 18, 2024, 9:33:44 Would temper a more traditional politician to have a narrow edge in the house and senate plus a slim - ATL November 18, 2024, 9:44:40 Maybe, but it wouldn't Trump.* - VIV November 18, 2024, 10:20:23 Looks like it will be very, very close. Still counting votes today. - Potomac November 18, 2024, 6:27:11 I *think* it's all California (wtf California?). Cook Political Report thinks it'll be a plurality - ATL November 18, 2024, 7:11:53 Please keep us updated** - jjlocke923 November 16, 2024, 20:24:16 always love to see the mask slip* - suburbanmyth November 17, 2024, 23:39:49 I will, troll* - ATL November 17, 2024, 6:27:22 Phew. No mandate. That’s a relief. - doubledown November 16, 2024, 18:28:34 Yep, no reason to think that Trump voters are stupid - Sounder November 15, 2024, 17:03:13 Ask yourself what’s more likely to occur - TarheelIllini November 15, 2024, 20:33:36 Neither is going to occur, so we need to be as ruthless as they are - Sounder November 16, 2024, 10:53:40 Exactly…..so we have to lie, lie, lie - TarheelIllini November 16, 2024, 13:27:15 You don't even have to lie that much. - WhitmansFolly November 16, 2024, 21:48:24 You should be in politics. Sounds like you’ve got the smarts for it** - jjlocke923 November 16, 2024, 16:15:43 He wouldn't be the first slumlord to enter politics* - Dilbert November 16, 2024, 17:24:21 There is no way we actually do any of that* - Sounder November 16, 2024, 15:41:24 And, of course, it fails to address the problem, entirely. Let us pummel the equine deceased. - complainant November 16, 2024, 16:55:53 I mean the Dem presidential candidate flat out said the first one. - OB25 November 15, 2024, 17:27:37 But on the second one. How would that even work? - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 17:37:57 Trump flat out said kids were going to school… - SurfTheBoneyard November 15, 2024, 19:13:16 Maybe? There's *video* evidence. - complainant November 15, 2024, 20:39:44 Do you think one parent involved in a losing dispute over whether their child can get - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 17:49:42 That's not what Trump was talking about -- not that he knows what he was talking about. * - Chicago1995 November 15, 2024, 18:02:02 And also not how the question in the survey was posed. * - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 18:05:19 The question also didn’t frame it as happening during the school day either. - OB25 November 15, 2024, 18:29:02 This isn't about what Trump said or believes. - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 18:05:04 Already does. If a divorce isn’t civil, one parent is given ultimate authority over a child’s/ - illini thunder November 15, 2024, 17:57:08 "One parent involved in a LOSING dispute"* - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 18:02:04 Well, that’s currently not allowed by law. * - illini thunder November 15, 2024, 18:17:09 Incorrect.* - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 18:17:38 Yeah, my bad - illini thunder November 15, 2024, 19:44:24 That's OK. It's a complicated question. I didn't expect you to be able to grasp it. - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 20:06:50 Tell me how it’s okay for parent with non medical rights of child to legally get - illini thunder November 15, 2024, 20:10:36 Senate Bill 107 signed into law by Gavin Newsom in 2022 allows for my question to happen. - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 20:14:18 lol - illini thunder November 15, 2024, 20:27:18 Get your brother to explain it to you. - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 20:28:50 What's a losing dispute?* - complainant November 15, 2024, 20:45:18 One they didn't win.* - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 21:06:26 It seems like that parent would also be involved in a winning dispute. - complainant November 16, 2024, 18:45:22 This cat is delicious, by the way.* - complainant November 15, 2024, 17:20:36 Shocking. Truly nobody could have foreseen this - John Coctostan November 15, 2024, 15:47:24 But we were told these are only white liberal concerns - Blazer November 15, 2024, 17:15:06 It's like Democrats with trans boxers* - ATL November 15, 2024, 16:48:32 How do they do with trans briefs?* - DocWalk20 November 15, 2024, 16:57:47 Sorry about that leopard we tried to warn you about for months.* - KingTalkyTiki November 15, 2024, 16:14:12 It’s certainly not surprising. - DT November 15, 2024, 16:13:14 All objective observers were clear that… - SurfTheBoneyard November 15, 2024, 16:39:01 What is the half a loaf you think Biden was giving? - DT November 15, 2024, 17:13:10 What were the terms of the cease-fire proposal presented by the Biden Administration?* - longsnapper November 15, 2024, 17:20:00 the chance for change is almost entirely in one direction though - John Coctostan November 15, 2024, 17:18:04 I think the Trump policy on the West Bank will be the clearest change in policy… - Carl Spackler November 15, 2024, 16:34:44 I don’t know. There’s a LOT of real estate to be rebuilt and sold* - memyselfandillini November 15, 2024, 19:25:20 Trump repeatedly bragged of being the most pro Israel president in history. - larue33 November 15, 2024, 16:32:41 I very much disagree with your last sentence - John Coctostan November 15, 2024, 16:17:48 Sucks to be them* - Stu November 15, 2024, 15:50:09 Unfortunately, I don't think they make violins that small.* - complainant November 15, 2024, 16:09:45 I suppose someone ingenious could make a quantum violin - Stu November 15, 2024, 16:21:03 this board should read this (trans issues are an absolutely self-inflicted wound... - suburbanmyth November 15, 2024, 13:29:23 One of the more annoying parts is that the Trump administration will waste so much time on culture s - RVA November 15, 2024, 17:36:53 I'll take a dozen chocolate please.* - Ari Gold November 15, 2024, 16:41:29 I agree that the Dems were the dopes in this game of rope a dope here. - ATL November 15, 2024, 14:43:55 As I have previously said - Stu November 15, 2024, 15:10:28 also it was an own goal by Kamala in that video clip that ended up getting played over and over - ECEIllinois November 15, 2024, 15:10:11 "Let's start by making sure trans people aren't the victims of violence, job and housing bias, etc. - ATL November 15, 2024, 16:42:47 I'm pretty right-wing about telling small business owners whom they must hire to represent them. - complainant November 15, 2024, 16:59:40 Yeah. I tend to support the children and families on this… - SurfTheBoneyard November 15, 2024, 14:52:44 Are these your words or someone else's? - longsnapper November 15, 2024, 14:23:13 how many game snaps?* - suburbanmyth November 15, 2024, 14:54:21 Andrew Sullivan I think* - gvibes November 15, 2024, 14:28:49 Except, she didn't campaign on the issue. RW Media fed people lies and they lapped it up - ntb November 15, 2024, 13:40:04 Alas, the Bud Light marketing team was just the mouthpiece of the current Kamala administration - RVA November 15, 2024, 15:45:40 She campaigned on it last time and it bit her - snipes824 November 15, 2024, 13:56:26 The Trump BoP provided gender affirming care. A point that the Harris campaign never made. - ATL November 15, 2024, 14:53:27 Isn’t that the law?* - gvibes November 15, 2024, 14:15:56 Apparently, yet most others (that I know of) don’t have a video defending said law - snipes824 November 15, 2024, 14:19:58 trans & elite sports will likely be settled by 2028* - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:11:28 I doubt the trans issue will be any less divisive - Sammich November 15, 2024, 14:19:30 I no longer care about doing what's right - Sounder November 15, 2024, 15:34:23 Yep, the targeting of the problem will shift at right wing agitators need another distraction - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 15:01:12 What specifically do you mean when you say gender affirming care for minors? - Dikta November 15, 2024, 14:48:03 the SCOTUS case this term will receive major attention* - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:58:37 I'm willing to cede the issue - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:20:41 There are no trans in elite sports. There are hardly any trans in amateur sports - snipes824 November 15, 2024, 14:13:21 A numbers argument will get no traction - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:21:13 I mean the boxers weren't even trans* - ECEIllinois November 15, 2024, 14:47:26 I understand the world I live in. The truth still matters to me - snipes824 November 15, 2024, 14:26:02 If you think numbers matter as "truth", watch Chuck's clip of John Oliver - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:28:33 Jesus* - snipes824 November 15, 2024, 14:31:30 The latest controvery is this volleyball player at San Jose State* - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:22:34 What media are you consuming that this is in your field of view?* - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 14:46:59 it's in the NY Times / Athletic dated Nov 14* - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:59:34 The only reason I know about this stuff - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:49:20 if she's such an unfair advantage, why is she playing at SJSU instead of Nebraska?* - ECEIllinois November 15, 2024, 14:45:38 And the biggest recent issue, the Olympic boxer, wasn’t even trans. - gvibes November 15, 2024, 14:17:58 it was an insane and needless position to take - suburbanmyth November 15, 2024, 14:01:37 Agree, but she wasn’t the only one in that primary to go that route - snipes824 November 15, 2024, 14:11:03 the party of science has been criminally stupid ( and morally wrong) about - suburbanmyth November 15, 2024, 13:49:43 I agree with you* - Dikta November 15, 2024, 14:44:59 Wash Post editorial that seems to agree (a bit more gently) - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:04:13 Here's the part that bothers me - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:15:54 NZ weight lifter already competed: - JeffFrank November 15, 2024, 14:06:09 ooo - WhitmansFolly November 15, 2024, 14:28:36 Individual sports can make their own rules, at least for now* - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:07:48 Uhhh, "flamboyent trans officials"? * - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 13:54:42 Sam Brinton is an absolutely ridiculous human being* - Sounder November 15, 2024, 13:56:26 Sam Brinton, Dylan Mulvaney, Jeff Marsh et al have done so much damage to people that - Dikta November 15, 2024, 14:59:30 Luggage thief: - JeffFrank November 15, 2024, 14:00:34 This is literally the first time I've heard of this person. * - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 14:00:00 This is the problem - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:02:55 I think you are dead wrong about this. There is a distinction between folks being worried about - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 14:07:07 It seems pretty clear how easy it is to manipulate and scare people - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:10:01 Amazing* - JeffFrank November 15, 2024, 14:00:52 ^^^ Fox News watchers versus Fox News non-watchers, in a nutshell.* - complainant November 15, 2024, 14:04:29 For sure, but it's completely weaponized* - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:08:06 And I scan Fox, MSNBC, and CNN* - JeffFrank November 15, 2024, 14:06:45 don’t play dumb* - suburbanmyth November 15, 2024, 13:56:17 I honestly do not have any idea what you're talking about here* - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 13:59:30 Let me help you out - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:01:00 the horror. - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 14:04:20 don’t play dumb* - suburbanmyth November 15, 2024, 14:07:10 This is an even sillier take. The candidates don’t get to decide what voters find important - GMAW November 15, 2024, 13:44:26 It's funny you think Harris saying anything would have mattered to people who watch Fox News, etc. - ntb November 15, 2024, 13:48:58 Welcome to the board. Put an asterisk at the end of your subject if your post has no info inside.* - JFG November 15, 2024, 14:20:28 what % of the American population do you think regularly watches Fox News? - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:16:50 43 % of Americans watch Fox News at least a few times a month - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:38:32 It wouldn’t. It’s funny you think 100 percent of the people who voted for Trump watch FoxNews* - GMAW November 15, 2024, 13:49:44 Hell, most of the people who voted for Trump watch no news* - Sounder November 15, 2024, 13:51:54 I did not vote for Trump and I stopped watching TV news - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:05:56 I'm not talking about TV news - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:19:34 You should probably stop thinking only your opponents are dumb / uninformed - Potomac November 15, 2024, 14:24:58 The difference is that Harris voters, at worst, just want to let people live their lives. - longsnapper November 15, 2024, 14:58:23 that is a really dumb, broad statement to make - Potomac November 15, 2024, 15:01:29 I know a lot. You know Trump voters who have no interest in controlling how people live their lives? - longsnapper November 15, 2024, 15:06:30 You may "know a lot" but it's still lacking considerable insight* - Potomac November 15, 2024, 15:45:55 ooo. - longsnapper November 15, 2024, 15:48:51 I realizing that thinking people are dumb is a losing proposition - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:29:16 Allow John Oliver to retort: - Chuck Woodaby November 15, 2024, 13:38:41 Poorly, indeed. Walking into a cancer benefit dinner and yelling WHAT ABOUT HEART DISEASE - GMAW November 15, 2024, 13:41:13 Yeah, fuck them marginalized weirdos! * - doubledown November 15, 2024, 13:36:26 Ridiculous take* - GMAW November 15, 2024, 13:39:21 You're missing the point - Sounder November 15, 2024, 13:38:46 I didn't need to leave this board to have single-person pronouns theysplained to me.* - complainant November 15, 2024, 13:41:19 Mike Johnson says the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz should not be released - GMAW November 15, 2024, 12:46:08 Shoooocccckkkkiiiinnnnggg. Johnson is such a worm* - WhitmansFolly November 15, 2024, 14:09:45 this board should read this (trans issues are an absolutely self-inflicted wound.... - suburbanmyth November 15, 2024, 13:23:57 I think there are two versions of that voter - Chicago1995 November 15, 2024, 13:46:04 It is so depressing that "Kamala represents they/them. Trump represents you" drove Trump support - Desert November 15, 2024, 13:41:48 Lia Thomas did do much damage to the cause* - JeffFrank November 15, 2024, 13:50:19 Not responding to it was malpractice though.* - Chicago1995 November 15, 2024, 13:47:57 Unfortunately agree. The Democrats never talked about the stuff the GOP accused them of focusing on - Warrin'_Illini November 15, 2024, 13:54:21 And it hurt them with swing/non-core Democratic voters.* - Chicago1995 November 15, 2024, 13:57:33 While I probably agree with you, it was an incredibly effective political ad - Sounder November 15, 2024, 13:44:33 I agree to some extent. I think Harris could have snuck through by going full populist - IlliniRunner November 15, 2024, 13:39:57 The two people I know who voted for Trump who live in Seattle - Sounder November 15, 2024, 13:30:20 How many people do you know irl who voted for Trump? Approximately ** - jjlocke923 November 15, 2024, 15:05:46 We live in truly stupid times.* - Warrin'_Illini November 15, 2024, 13:35:34 yes that is well established* - Sounder November 15, 2024, 14:54:18 It's depressing but not surprising that appealing to people's worst instincts works. - Herman Blume November 15, 2024, 13:28:33 He's not wrong, though, trans issues is a major flipping point on how people vote - Sounder November 15, 2024, 13:32:07 I dont think you have to sacrifice the group though - ISeeDeadHawkeyes November 15, 2024, 13:41:04 100 percent* - GMAW November 15, 2024, 13:47:45 I've been wondering how much "Rachel Levine" empowered suicidal youngsters/GOP operatives. - complainant November 15, 2024, 13:39:09 I had to google who that was, but yeah, the photo and that photo of the bald dude - Sounder November 15, 2024, 13:54:53 There are no consequences for hypocrisy anymore. The people who know don’t care - snipes824 November 15, 2024, 13:20:43 Of course he did. There's nothing surprising about any of this. - Chicago1995 November 15, 2024, 13:14:36 The guy who has his son as his porn buddy - Sounder November 15, 2024, 12:52:51 they are proudly and boisterously hypocritical, because they don't think there are any consequences - Sammich November 15, 2024, 12:51:02 Did we talk about Musk’s plan to save $900 billion in government spending? - Carl Spackler November 15, 2024, 11:42:03 I read it as his report on what wasteful spending was in 2023 not what he has planned - illini thunder November 15, 2024, 15:50:26 don't read the comments* - Sammich November 15, 2024, 12:10:11 That’s among the dumber things I’ve ever seen.* - DT November 15, 2024, 12:04:56 I don't know man, imagine how much better the debt would be w/o that 8k lobster tank* - opey8 November 15, 2024, 12:20:31 He’s not a smart person. * - doubledown November 15, 2024, 12:10:04 He has a serious mental disability. * - doubledown November 15, 2024, 12:02:29 The Department of Government Efficiency is no more - HamptonSki November 15, 2024, 11:17:10 complete success. they’ve already streamlined by cutting themselves* - memyselfandillini November 15, 2024, 13:21:19 let that sink in* - Sammich November 15, 2024, 11:20:14 Huh, Sylvester Stallone spoke at Trump’s party last night. Didn’t know he was MAGA * - MC November 15, 2024, 9:39:29 For those interested Jon Stewart has a new podcast. The latest episode was an interesting listen - ATL November 15, 2024, 7:43:41 I don't know about anyone else, but I'm done with political podcasts. * - doubledown November 15, 2024, 8:56:50 I don't know about anyone else, but I don't understand starting political podcasts.* - EffinIllini November 15, 2024, 9:00:24 Not sure that he's intending to make it a political podcast - ATL November 15, 2024, 9:02:38 People will listen and then the person who started it can make money. * - doubledown November 15, 2024, 9:02:04 I think he meant starting to listen to them* - Sammich November 15, 2024, 9:03:49 Oh, then I don't know. I don't even remember why I listened to my first one. Something to do, maybe. - doubledown November 15, 2024, 9:08:09 Congratulations on your appointment to HHS* - Sammich November 15, 2024, 9:12:05 I'm not qualified for that. I wouldn't have any idea how much fluoride should be in the water. * - doubledown November 15, 2024, 9:27:56 You spelled "fluoride" correctly. I think you're overqualified* - Sammich November 15, 2024, 9:40:35 It must have autocorrected. * - doubledown November 15, 2024, 9:43:13 autocorrect = woke control of our language - memyselfandillini November 15, 2024, 13:25:14 ooo - ATL November 15, 2024, 9:29:17 OK, but I really don't think you appreciate how reckless this is. * - doubledown November 15, 2024, 9:43:42 *ding* * - EffinIllini November 15, 2024, 9:05:13 Musk thinks Musk is full of crap - ghost_of_clt November 15, 2024, 6:55:10 Trump2.0 is tiring already and it’s still weeks away. Oof * - MC November 14, 2024, 22:29:47 Did I miss the talk on Vivek and RFK wanting to jail Fauci? It’s all over Twitter jfc * - illini thunder November 14, 2024, 20:59:37 Lay off the tweeter, man* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 21:22:36 Bro. * - doubledown November 14, 2024, 21:23:41 Look, there are a lot of threats regarding Trump that are very real - Sounder November 14, 2024, 21:31:53 Visual representation of Trump's "make america great again" plan: - longsnapper November 14, 2024, 18:58:51 POV: you ordered a dictator on Wish* - DT November 14, 2024, 19:09:05 Beats hearing a tedious personal anecdote about a dictator from Wisch* - Tortillini November 14, 2024, 19:48:19 I was in NY one time and the roads were closed around the UN for Kim Jong Un’s motorcade - DT November 15, 2024, 5:57:44 ***Golf clap*** - HamptonSki November 15, 2024, 7:33:34 Not bad* - Tortillini November 15, 2024, 7:09:39 I think this is all distraction for us while he’s emptying the treasury * - memyselfandillini November 14, 2024, 18:48:11 "Thank you, Governor Polish"* - ECEIllinois November 14, 2024, 18:25:48 Imagine planting your flag for Palestine and sitting out the election or voting for Trump. - longsnapper November 14, 2024, 18:18:51 let's see how many palestinians die under marco/trump's watch versus biden/blinken's...... - suburbanmyth November 15, 2024, 0:23:58 Enlighten us then, what’s their agenda?* - Carl Spackler November 15, 2024, 6:28:48 This was plainly obvious* - Blazer November 14, 2024, 21:45:35 I think the idiots have finally gotten me to relent and be a terrible person. I’m going to lose - voiceofreason November 14, 2024, 19:11:27 I'll still feel bad about whatever happens to them. * - doubledown November 14, 2024, 20:15:38 When that Uncommited guy went and started begging Biden to do something - gvibes November 14, 2024, 19:55:16 Is this how conservatives feel all the time? - Sounder November 14, 2024, 19:47:39 Pretty much* - WhitmansFolly November 15, 2024, 6:51:19 Welcome brother* - John Coctostan November 14, 2024, 19:31:46 I’m maybe more worried about means than ends - DT November 14, 2024, 19:27:21 yeah, the january 6th pardons, the corruption, the self-dealing, the weaponization of the DOJ - snipes824 November 14, 2024, 19:56:58 But dems HAMMERED the whole rule of law/democracy thing and basically nobody voted on it - John Coctostan November 14, 2024, 20:35:09 yeah, I was talking about myself. I don't think any of that is going to move the needle for most - snipes824 November 14, 2024, 20:50:18 I know numerous conservatives that said they'd give up freedoms for safety - opey8 November 14, 2024, 20:41:08 a person convicted of 32 felonies, twice impeached - Sounder November 14, 2024, 20:38:55 I have a concept of some sympathy * - TarheelIllini November 14, 2024, 19:39:37 BuT bIdEn AnD kAmAlA aRe FaCiStS* - IlliniRunner November 14, 2024, 18:24:14 Fascist Socialist Communists to be precise. - SurfTheBoneyard November 14, 2024, 18:35:35 The progressives in my socials who were going to boycott the election just thought they were facists - IlliniRunner November 14, 2024, 18:44:43 Not so fast, polio: Trump transition team pushing back on rfk jr? - ATL November 14, 2024, 18:16:51 Some might call that yesterday's news.* - Chuck Woodaby November 14, 2024, 18:25:35 Ironically they were playing “living in the past” by Jethro Tull at the pizza place yesterday * - ATL November 14, 2024, 18:50:28 Classic ATL* - HamptonSki November 14, 2024, 18:35:42 Crossover Tennis Post: Vivek claimed last Friday or Saturday he was playing his first pro tourney - PDO November 14, 2024, 18:04:46 Apparently he’s besties with Ben Shelton, who surprisingly is a major Trumper* - HamptonSki November 14, 2024, 18:24:27 Well...that's not entirely accurate. He got asked for a picture, and he obliged. - PDO November 14, 2024, 18:41:52 A lot of people feel that way about Ben Elton, too. - complainant November 14, 2024, 19:05:36 LOL, this isn't a cabinet, this is a junk drawer* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 17:10:20 Colbert had a great joke - Stu November 14, 2024, 17:52:32 What everyone knew, but Trump is nothing if not transactional - UofIL6 November 14, 2024, 15:12:23 Nm* - John Coctostan November 14, 2024, 16:15:31 See also: every President-elect ever.* - voiceofreason November 14, 2024, 15:47:13 Not like this. Not even close. * - doubledown November 14, 2024, 16:28:41 Yep. Which is why the last 4 years of soros running the FCC had been so bad - John Coctostan November 14, 2024, 16:16:19 you had me for a minute there* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 16:17:14 This is where the boths sides ism hits a fever dream for me - Sounder November 14, 2024, 15:58:25 Maybe, but hits different when jail is the other option. Even Kamala said no thanks to RFK* - UofIL6 November 14, 2024, 15:50:56 RFK Jr. gets the HHS* - ECEIllinois November 14, 2024, 15:04:46 Does he oppose advertising prescription drugs? - gvibes November 14, 2024, 17:55:52 Might clean up the food industry maybe? Doubtful. - MC November 14, 2024, 18:57:14 I'll take getting McDs to switch back to beef tallow* - ECEIllinois November 14, 2024, 18:25:20 He opposes prescription drugs. But - Stu November 14, 2024, 18:09:22 Is there a chance he doesn't get confirmed?* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 16:20:28 not on your life, he killed a brain worm!* - Sammich November 14, 2024, 16:45:57 Zero chance of confirmation. He could still have the job though. - Orangeillini November 14, 2024, 16:28:24 Yes.* - Stu November 14, 2024, 16:22:09 ooo - assassin November 14, 2024, 15:56:23 I know Trump said he was going to do this, but I didn't actually think he would - Sounder November 14, 2024, 15:48:40 ..and just like that, the next generation of Americans had English teeth.* - KingTalkyTiki November 14, 2024, 15:29:25 And many contracted Polio and Measles * - Dark Knight November 14, 2024, 16:13:14 Bring back the chx pox parties * - TarheelIllini November 14, 2024, 18:18:49 Highest ranking worm in government other than Arrakis.* - SurfTheBoneyard November 14, 2024, 15:27:34 You could sorta laugh through the crying at the other ones. This one’s actually deadly* - snipes824 November 14, 2024, 15:15:02 SecDef seems like a body count job. * - illini November 14, 2024, 16:36:20 Yeah true. I guess I’m thinking in terms of replacement level Republican - snipes824 November 14, 2024, 16:52:04 If we are talking about pre-Trump Republican cabinet officials, I think that's completely wrong. - larue33 November 14, 2024, 18:24:40 That’s what I’m saying. They’re replacement level in the Trump era - snipes824 November 14, 2024, 18:48:51 The others are, too. * - larue33 November 14, 2024, 16:04:22 Deadly? How so? ** - jjlocke923 November 14, 2024, 16:10:16 Ok; you need to educate yourself on what HHS does. - Stu November 14, 2024, 16:24:24 My question had to do with “the others”** - jjlocke923 November 14, 2024, 17:24:52 it's not real. stop it. * - assassin November 14, 2024, 16:27:02 It’s very real.* - Stu November 14, 2024, 16:36:20 JJ. not HHS* - assassin November 14, 2024, 16:41:36 It’s just Art.* - Stu November 14, 2024, 17:02:17 I expect a Russian asset being in charge of intelligence will get people killed, - larue33 November 14, 2024, 16:19:56 So at what point do "normal Republicans" realize they made a colossal fucking mistake? - RVA November 14, 2024, 15:13:34 RVA, we gave them No Choice. eyeroll* - memyselfandillini November 14, 2024, 18:45:25 Allow me to rephrase, do the "don't call me a bigoted dumbass, this is best for my investments" folk - RVA November 14, 2024, 15:55:45 yes* - assassin November 14, 2024, 16:00:35 Jared Polis is touting him on twitter as we speak.* - Toonces November 14, 2024, 15:38:38 apparently Polis, like RFK, is against vaccine mandates - Sammich November 14, 2024, 15:43:31 related - assassin November 14, 2024, 15:44:43 They are all for this. This is what they want* - IlliniRunner November 14, 2024, 15:35:27 Never. Once you mentally 'accept' Trump, you accept all the BS that comes with it* - UofIL6 November 14, 2024, 15:30:13 I don't accept this. Once there is a major calamity, and becomes apparent his administration has... - Stu November 14, 2024, 15:35:22 This is the world we chose* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 15:51:03 Never. They will find someone else to blame when some happens that impacts them - Mrap24 November 14, 2024, 15:27:50 LOL* - HamptonSki November 14, 2024, 15:27:13 When there is a major crisis and his appointees fail and resort to infighting and blame - Stu November 14, 2024, 15:26:16 I don’t think cabinet nominations even show up on the radar of most everyday folks. - jjlocke923 November 14, 2024, 15:24:03 Lofl. - WhitmansFolly November 14, 2024, 15:32:48 No, really. I don’t think ANY of these nominations get the attention of mainstream America. - jjlocke923 November 14, 2024, 15:38:42 Well, I hope they are paid up on their Leopard Face Eating insurance then* - WhitmansFolly November 14, 2024, 15:43:19 If regulation is removed, consumer or legal protections eroded, and things get shitter for folks - IlliniRunner November 14, 2024, 15:47:34 Always great to have the dimwits in your corner - WhitmansFolly November 15, 2024, 6:59:50 Classic jjlocke923* - KingTalkyTiki November 14, 2024, 15:30:04 He's right. 90% of folks simply don't care/are not aware of who's in the cabinet. - IlliniRunner November 14, 2024, 15:37:58 because they are typically mainstream and unremarkable* - suburbanmyth November 14, 2024, 15:26:33 Do any of them really care about this? A lot of them probably like him.* - Warrin'_Illini November 14, 2024, 15:15:43 Yikes* - UofIL6 November 14, 2024, 15:07:08 Norfolk Southern CEO for Transport Secretary up next we can assume. * - assassin November 14, 2024, 15:10:40 Isn't he the guy who got fired for boffing their GC? - ATL November 14, 2024, 15:25:39 I'm legit not sure if this is real or not - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:41:21 It's real, but the follower count is fabricated. Elon started it at 1M cuz he's a crazy person* - OrangeSox November 14, 2024, 12:00:33 I don't think I was aware that manipulating user count was an actual thing* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 16:18:31 as i said below- having two heads of the Department of Government Efficiency is *chefs kiss* * - VIV November 14, 2024, 11:23:40 Nothing more efficient than a job that requires 80+ hour work weeks* - OB25 November 14, 2024, 11:14:35 1.1M followers that quick? Call me skeptical * - MC November 14, 2024, 11:08:34 turns out the guy who is running the department - Sounder November 14, 2024, 11:17:08 It's Elon. There's a million Russian bots* - longsnapper November 14, 2024, 11:09:19 Gotta be fake. There are no high IQ small government revolutionaries. * - doubledown November 14, 2024, 10:48:29 It has a million followers and is followed by Trump himself - Sounder November 14, 2024, 11:00:25 I wish we’d thought about examining operations to cut costs. - DT November 14, 2024, 10:46:22 maybe someone could refer Elon to this Wikipedia page - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:51:38 They are planning on cutting Social Security* - JacobRDaugherty November 14, 2024, 10:56:52 C'mon, you're not that stupid, and they're not that stupid - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:58:38 nobody who currently holds the reins of power is either of the things you mentioned* - Sammich November 14, 2024, 11:11:59 I said politician - Sounder November 14, 2024, 11:18:51 nobody in Congress holds the reins - Sammich November 14, 2024, 11:52:52 Did you see what Elon did to Twitter?* - JacobRDaugherty November 14, 2024, 11:06:35 Elon has no power to do anything in this instance* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 11:17:59 He’s kind of an idiot. * - doubledown November 14, 2024, 10:54:49 If they don't bring Sam Brownback on board, we'll know they aren't serious.* - complainant November 14, 2024, 10:56:41 The problem just can't be that the vast majority of money is spent on things that - gvibes November 14, 2024, 10:51:10 Everyone thinks someone else's base is the one that should close. * - haighter November 14, 2024, 11:13:43 It's worth the read, for the comments alone. - Stu November 14, 2024, 10:44:07 Led me down a rabbit hole on valentina gomez. Crazy ex nestle purina employee that calls - GhostofPokeyStixPast November 14, 2024, 12:19:09 Coach would do a helluva job* - EffinIllini November 14, 2024, 11:55:25 most are cloaked in multiple layers of irony* - Sammich November 14, 2024, 11:02:11 10/10, no notes - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:12:06 Is Kelli-Ann going to get a job?* - TarheelIllini November 14, 2024, 9:58:37 no but she's going to give a lot of hand and blow jobs* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:13:11 If you want to post like this, do I have a board for you* - TarheelIllini November 14, 2024, 10:46:13 Dude* - Jackie November 14, 2024, 10:16:55 I agree, this shit should stop* - JacobRDaugherty November 14, 2024, 10:41:33 welcome to the incivility of Donald Trump's America - Sounder November 14, 2024, 11:01:37 you're spiraling. didn't you say you were gonna take 4 years off from paying attention to politics? - VIV November 14, 2024, 11:18:53 C'mon, they've been saying for years that Harris sexed her way to the top - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:22:41 you might need some time away from a screen. maybe go camping and leave your phone at home* - VIV November 14, 2024, 10:31:57 It's November in the Pacific Northwest - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:34:36 The inside could have just been your subject line. * - haighter November 14, 2024, 10:50:54 yeah, i'm not a big camping guy, either. i'll revise to suggest sounder go sit on a beach somewhere* - VIV November 14, 2024, 10:56:48 some beach, somewhere - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:59:48 if only you could go somewhere else. * - VIV November 14, 2024, 10:36:24 It’s gross when anyone does that shit* - Jackie November 14, 2024, 10:24:15 probably* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 10:33:56 Handjobs are the worst. * - doubledown November 14, 2024, 10:26:53 you could always wear gloves* - VIV November 14, 2024, 10:32:58 List below all the Black Trump nominees.* - Stu November 14, 2024, 9:23:24 Somebody wake up Ben Carson.* - Warrin'_Illini November 14, 2024, 10:02:55 You gotta assume eventually someone will point out to him that there should be a token black - Sounder November 14, 2024, 9:51:31 After he asks about Herman Cain.* - SurfTheBoneyard November 14, 2024, 10:03:28 and Frederick Douglass* - Sammich November 14, 2024, 10:10:45 His #1 advisor is an African-American* - HamptonSki November 14, 2024, 9:48:22 No more DEI hires. Only the best of the best now* - snipes824 November 14, 2024, 9:44:43 Recess-jack: while I think Trump’s push for recess appointments is mostly about avoiding oversight - DT November 14, 2024, 7:16:00 I think I've read that this avoids FBI background checks? * - Tuscy November 14, 2024, 10:11:47 Sure, that's why they're doing it, it's all about efficiency* - Sounder November 14, 2024, 9:53:01 Already? - MC November 13, 2024, 22:21:15 ......rocket ships to nowhere.....* - Warrin'_Illini November 14, 2024, 10:29:02 Musk better be careful. Trump won't hesitate to deport his ass back to Africa too* - HamptonSki November 14, 2024, 7:16:51 Good thing he can’t be President, I guess. - SurfTheBoneyard November 14, 2024, 7:23:30 Only if he can figure out a way to confiscate his assets - DT November 14, 2024, 7:22:00 Trump was probably sick of him by the second day. * - doubledown November 14, 2024, 7:13:21 I’d actually read that the opposite way - DT November 14, 2024, 7:03:38 Yep* - ATL November 14, 2024, 9:27:33 That’s definitely what’s going on, but his advisors are also probably right in their assessment… - OB25 November 14, 2024, 9:14:29 Yep. Next up are the leaks that Trump isn’t actually in power, it’s Elon. - Carl Spackler November 14, 2024, 7:24:07 Yeah, I’m sure Trump likes repeatedly hearing the same joke that he only laughed at the first time.* - doubledown November 14, 2024, 7:21:05 Nit…..tfg doesn’t laugh* - TarheelIllini November 14, 2024, 10:48:14 yeah agreed* - CoronaTheirAss November 14, 2024, 7:09:43 Elon is way too weird for Trump not to tire of him very quickly* - OB25 November 13, 2024, 22:52:30 “Elon won't go home. I can't get rid of him." -Trump* - gvibes November 13, 2024, 22:37:42 surprised it took a week* - Sammich November 13, 2024, 22:35:16 to start getting anonymously sourced articles about incompetence, dysfunction, and evil within the - biclops November 13, 2024, 22:43:17 I don’t think people want to hear anymore - Sounder November 14, 2024, 9:28:15 Melania not moving into the White House - biclops November 13, 2024, 18:14:54 She needs a lot more money in her marriage contract to do that* - Drippy November 13, 2024, 19:01:21 She’s totally banging Hulk Hogan* - HamptonSki November 13, 2024, 18:45:41 Sounds like Laura Loomer’s music * - ATL November 13, 2024, 18:17:43 Or Elonia's* - WhitmansFolly November 13, 2024, 18:30:30 Or Ivanka’s* - Stu November 13, 2024, 18:44:15 Gaetz resigning his house seat immediately - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 18:05:54 His district must be a Goober's paradise. - WhitmansFolly November 13, 2024, 19:54:14 Far western end of the panhandle. * - VIV November 13, 2024, 20:18:47 So basically Alabama. That explains it* - WhitmansFolly November 13, 2024, 20:58:00 It’s America’s taint. * - doubledown November 13, 2024, 20:13:59 You don't say..... - Jersey November 13, 2024, 18:47:09 If it includes more sexual misconduct they might just pencil him in as the pres nominee in ‘28* - CWR10 November 13, 2024, 19:42:01 Fuck him. Publish it anyway* - opey8 November 13, 2024, 19:18:48 so easy to leak the report* - bbonb November 14, 2024, 8:03:54 Exactly. Homework has been done. Should go ahead and turn it in* - DocWalk20 November 13, 2024, 19:22:30 Absolutely. It’s not like resigning to become Attorney General gives him some privacy claim - DT November 13, 2024, 19:24:13 Senate could do the funniest thing now…* - SurfTheBoneyard November 13, 2024, 18:13:25 They're just gonna recess appoint him, right? * - Taz November 13, 2024, 19:48:14 Collins and Murkowski are concerned! - bjl63 November 14, 2024, 9:43:05 If he doesn't get confirmed, that would be *chef's kiss** - Illiniphil November 13, 2024, 19:06:58 Kind of ironic that the Department of Government Efficiency will have two people heading it, right?* - VIV November 13, 2024, 17:33:02 When do we get Boebert as Education Secretary? * - doubledown November 13, 2024, 17:20:51 Never, they’re eliminating it. * - assassin November 13, 2024, 17:24:51 Tulsi Gabbard as National Intelligence director is actually not *that* bad all things considered - Blazer November 13, 2024, 17:11:24 Maybe, if you ignore her being on Russia's payroll. Seems problematic to me. * - larue33 November 13, 2024, 17:54:16 And then the 3 boomers that buy everything they are marketed respond in unison. - Chuck Woodaby November 13, 2024, 20:33:06 It will be more efficient, because she can share our intelligence directly with Putin.* - complainant November 13, 2024, 17:53:48 DOGE at work!* - ArtVandelay November 13, 2024, 18:03:30 I have a low bar for her* - Stu November 13, 2024, 17:18:18 There’s a pill for that Stu!* - IlliniRunner November 13, 2024, 17:53:58 It requires daily penile stretching and strengthening exercises* - Stu November 13, 2024, 17:55:13 is this the secret johnson and trump have been winking around about? - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 16:45:36 Is it that bonkers? Adjourning congress and recess appointments are in the constitution* - gvibes November 13, 2024, 17:04:22 Glenn Greenwald on X defending the Gaetz nomination - GMAW November 13, 2024, 16:25:17 Greenwald is fine. I get it... he wronged the security state and they convinced a bunch of dupes - Chuck Woodaby November 13, 2024, 17:13:01 this is a misfire* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 17:18:20 2 for 2 on my "otherwise intelligent" responded right away. - Chuck Woodaby November 13, 2024, 17:22:22 the endless contrarianism catches up with everyone* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 17:30:54 Remember when you used to listen to Rush just so that you would "know thy enemy?". - Chuck Woodaby November 13, 2024, 17:35:48 OOO - Stu November 13, 2024, 17:54:18 Nah, you’re wrong. Old Glenn Greenwald hated everyone and had an ideological position - GMAW November 13, 2024, 17:16:37 Grifting for the right pays better than the left* - HeatMizer November 13, 2024, 16:31:52 Maybe. Didn't Kamala burn through $1 billion and is now in the hole? What a waste.* - Warrin'_Illini November 13, 2024, 16:35:31 What do you mean?* - longsnapper November 13, 2024, 17:23:09 Harpo Industries doesn't come cheap* - OrangeSox November 13, 2024, 17:04:40 Cardi B don't twerk for free* - Poldark November 13, 2024, 16:53:44 It was Megan Thee Stallion not Cardi B. Come on Detlef!* - HamptonSki November 13, 2024, 17:17:03 my bad. Cardi B was reading off her smartphone at the podium. - Poldark November 13, 2024, 17:22:50 nothing to see here.* - Ari Gold November 13, 2024, 16:38:31 Gaetz does have some seemingfully genuine pro-consumer/anti big business inclinations. - gvibes November 13, 2024, 16:27:45 He was careful not to criticize Trump for them, and noted that Trump “often” - GMAW November 13, 2024, 16:35:42 very damaged individual; always has been* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 16:26:22 O/U on when Trump fires his first appointee? - Stu November 13, 2024, 16:21:54 at least one of them will be gone before inauguration* - Sammich November 13, 2024, 16:22:37 hopefully, it's trump!* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 16:54:13 I wouldn't exactly be thrilled to have a Yarvinite in the oval office - Sammich November 13, 2024, 16:58:17 What's the word we use now instead of "retarded"? Because this is whatever that is. * - doubledown November 13, 2024, 16:06:22 A pedophile and sex trafficker as AG and a white nationalist as SOD? - WhitmansFolly November 13, 2024, 16:52:04 Himey’d?* - Stu November 13, 2024, 16:09:13 kakistocracy* - IlliniRunner November 13, 2024, 16:08:42 those spicy cheeto things?* - Sammich November 13, 2024, 16:09:48 It was a nice run, America. We pretty much ruled the 1900s - timmer November 13, 2024, 15:28:44 The Soviet Union won WWII, but 1989 to 1993 was pretty good. - complainant November 13, 2024, 16:00:16 Remember drain the swamp?* - Sounder November 13, 2024, 15:37:11 I read somewhere that if you didn't officially think "The American Century" was over yet... - KingTalkyTiki November 13, 2024, 15:36:44 Harris didn't go on Rogan for fear of progressive backlash. - gvibes November 13, 2024, 15:09:08 if they were actually concerned about progressive backlash, they'd have stopped Israel - assassin November 13, 2024, 16:24:35 How do you think President Biden would or could have stopped it?* - longsnapper November 13, 2024, 18:34:34 right? surrounded by idiots who think we are dumber than they are* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 16:35:59 Judging by reactions of some on this board, they assumed correctly" - longsnapper November 13, 2024, 16:00:42 feel like this is just the campaign covering their butts by blaming progressives* - ECEIllinois November 13, 2024, 15:17:34 There has to be some reason she refused to do it. The schedule one seemed like bullshit* - gvibes November 13, 2024, 15:19:09 my guess is the campaign just didn't trust her to speak extemporaneously for 3 hours* - ECEIllinois November 13, 2024, 15:45:40 bingo* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 16:05:29 You Crack me up. 1.5 weeks ago, you were positive that kamala was winning and the polls were wrong - Taz November 13, 2024, 16:16:49 I thought she would win narrowly while being mediocre - Potomac November 13, 2024, 16:46:09 i've never said anything other than she is an idiot..... - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 16:22:48 You came with actual receipts of direct experience - Sounder November 13, 2024, 19:50:31 In 2016, you loved her. Kamala, not the Ugandan Giant* - Stu November 13, 2024, 16:25:12 Joe Rogan wasn't going to move the needle for Harris* - Sounder November 13, 2024, 15:15:40 I’ve settled on the idea that the campaign was lost as soon as Biden announced he was running * - meanjeans November 13, 2024, 16:01:58 Yuuuuuuup* - IlliniRunner November 13, 2024, 16:51:35 Power is a hell of a drug.* - KingTalkyTiki November 13, 2024, 16:03:46 Yeah, that wasn't gonna help with his audience. - KingTalkyTiki November 13, 2024, 15:34:55 She lost ground to Biden in every single demographic group - Sounder November 13, 2024, 15:36:06 It's too soon to say that. - larue33 November 13, 2024, 15:48:30 Oh FFS* - GMAW November 13, 2024, 15:15:32 an idiot surrounded by idiots* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 15:11:46 i wonder what george santos is getting* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 15:05:40 buttsex?* - Stu November 13, 2024, 15:28:53 Don Jr. and Eric have to be pretty bummed right now - RVA November 13, 2024, 14:55:34 Matt Gaetz as attorney general* - gvibes November 13, 2024, 14:31:59 Less than 3 years practicing law, at a firm currently with 9 lawyers in a backwoods FL beach town - Desert November 13, 2024, 17:41:29 Apparently, Matt wasn’t their first choice - Stu November 13, 2024, 16:08:30 Someone who is a current member of the bar? * - doubledown November 13, 2024, 16:24:38 *ND Fans* “Rudy… Rudy… Rudy….” - SurfTheBoneyard November 13, 2024, 16:23:59 LOFL. - SurfTheBoneyard November 13, 2024, 15:45:12 they may not need one if Mike Johnson doesn't have one - assassin November 13, 2024, 15:52:09 Need an entire chamber to vote on it per Matt Glassman - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 16:17:11 That doesn’t say an entire chamber. It says a chamber. As in the majority of it* - John Coctostan November 13, 2024, 19:35:46 Would that actually be a problem? He'd have 50 senators, no?* - gvibes November 13, 2024, 16:28:21 it's not about Gaetz, it's about immediacy, if you believe Elon* - assassin November 13, 2024, 16:19:49 Narrator…* - CWR10 November 13, 2024, 16:06:12 Elections have consequences* - gvibes November 13, 2024, 16:01:47 yes. it truly needs to get bad for anything to change* - John Coctostan November 13, 2024, 16:04:31 the Arby's response to this is that the new media ecosystem won't let the change happen - Sammich November 13, 2024, 16:07:28 maybe, but i'd say the last two elections maybe point the opposite - John Coctostan November 13, 2024, 16:10:51 Everyone competent at DoJ should leave now* - Stu November 13, 2024, 15:44:54 As Elie Mystal said, Gaetz is probably better than many alternatives - IlliniRunner November 13, 2024, 15:37:20 Jesus Fucking Fuck. * - doubledown November 13, 2024, 15:32:54 C'mon. He *did* practice law, briefly. - complainant November 13, 2024, 15:35:31 recess appointments - Sounder November 13, 2024, 15:30:22 Is one of Loomer or MTG going to get a spot?* - OB25 November 13, 2024, 15:27:00 I heard a rumor that Trump stopped hanging out with Laura Loomer - Sounder November 13, 2024, 15:31:30 Amazing that the folks who call everyone a "groomer" nominated an actual pedophile - GMAW November 13, 2024, 15:22:35 Might as well make everything as absurd as possible* - CWR10 November 13, 2024, 15:14:05 Does Gaetz get to take over the investigation into himself? Subpoena himself? - ghost_of_clt November 13, 2024, 15:07:18 this is how Donald signals to the REAL traffickers that their justice is coming - Sammich November 13, 2024, 15:12:24 Seems like a trial balloon to see how far Trump can push things with Congress* - GMAW November 13, 2024, 15:03:21 Kind of also my theory. - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 15:30:34 Wait until DocNetYoutube is nominated for the FCC to cover Gaetz * - ghost_of_clt November 13, 2024, 16:26:24 Agree. plus when blocked, allows him to rail at the deep state and push the bounds on exec action* - John Coctostan November 13, 2024, 15:08:43 He could've picked another loyalist like Mike Lee who would easily clear Senate confirmation* - ECEIllinois November 13, 2024, 15:08:20 probably phase 2* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 15:12:08 i think this has to be right; or like trump promised him the nom but wouldn't do much to.... - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 15:04:59 Yep, they’re going to arrest Obama for something * - MC November 13, 2024, 15:02:17 give me all of it..... - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 14:55:54 just makes me think what a huge mistake Biden made making Garland his AG - ECEIllinois November 13, 2024, 14:41:07 The Dems lacking backbone and thinking the best of Americans... - KingTalkyTiki November 13, 2024, 14:59:44 yep; there is no trump presidency without this monumental mistake* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 14:54:44 That guy is a spineless pussy* - Sounder November 13, 2024, 14:41:53 My god.* - voiceofreason November 13, 2024, 14:39:56 Man the first few picks were like normal GOP stuff. The last handful are holy shit - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 14:39:22 there won't be confirmation hearings lol* - ECEIllinois November 13, 2024, 14:41:38 Thune accepts recess appointments? - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 14:48:03 lol Republicans will always end up caving* - ECEIllinois November 13, 2024, 14:48:48 I mean I think they’ll end up caving on votes - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 14:51:58 never stop making predictions* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 15:13:02 At the very least, it seems like AG and Defense - Sounder November 13, 2024, 14:50:07 I can assume a change in consent age laws?* - VIV November 13, 2024, 14:38:34 This is surreal - Sounder November 13, 2024, 14:37:48 Chortle. I knew the run on normies wasn't going to last long.* - Warrin'_Illini November 13, 2024, 14:34:07 lmao* - ECEIllinois November 13, 2024, 14:33:56 oh good, attorney general matt gaetz. - assassin November 13, 2024, 14:31:20 that would seem to have 0 chance of confirmation* - John Coctostan November 13, 2024, 14:33:56 Profiles in cowardice* - Sounder November 13, 2024, 14:39:30 Trump handing Putin the keys to the Intelligence, names Tulsi DNI - assassin November 13, 2024, 14:14:05 I expect that will be the end of our allies sharing intelligence with us. * - larue33 November 13, 2024, 15:52:45 Seems like a great time to attack the United States.* - complainant November 13, 2024, 15:57:32 Can someone give me the TL;DR version of why tulsi is associated with Putin - GhostofPokeyStixPast November 13, 2024, 14:18:50 she's been parrotting pro-Assad and pro-Putin propaganda for a decade* - assassin November 13, 2024, 14:24:08 Gracias* - GhostofPokeyStixPast November 13, 2024, 14:42:25 Best looking Cabinet in history? We know Trump doesn't care about brains* - HamptonSki November 13, 2024, 14:18:40 Cruise for tiki - Stu November 13, 2024, 12:03:15 what's this about having to give up one's citizenship to leave the country?* - Sammich November 13, 2024, 13:16:53 If I wanted to spend 4 years on a boat, I would have chose the Navy over the Army. - KingTalkyTiki November 13, 2024, 12:41:42 it's been a week now and i barely have thoughts but here are a few.... - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 11:40:34 He ain't even going to hit 50% of the popular vote (probably). Honestly, given how unpopular - gvibes November 13, 2024, 12:44:56 Agreed, could have been way worse in both the House and Senate. - Warrin'_Illini November 13, 2024, 13:25:16 absolutely* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 12:46:03 100% agree on messaging/media. It's a big gap right now* - UofIL6 November 13, 2024, 11:51:19 Trump won on earned media, which people choose to watch. Especially in 2016. Since then, he's had - complainant November 13, 2024, 12:30:56 He won because people hated inflation, felt the economy wasn't working for them - IlliniRunner November 13, 2024, 12:47:04 But they also don't actually know what the economy is doing for them. - gvibes November 13, 2024, 13:02:11 right; messaging gap..... - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 13:38:26 If we waft Sinclair, Fox and Epoch Times under your nose enough, you're eventually going to smell it - complainant November 13, 2024, 13:59:30 Correct.* - complainant November 13, 2024, 13:34:44 I kind of agree. I think even conventional news was constantly hammering home inflation - IlliniRunner November 13, 2024, 13:23:21 Plus a lot of these people had jobs that they wouldn't have in even an average economy. - jfinsocal November 13, 2024, 13:43:11 and scene* - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 12:42:16 Rick Scott eliminated on the 1st ballot in the GOP senate leadership election - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 11:03:12 This says a lot about senators’ private thoughts about the incoming administration - Stu November 13, 2024, 11:19:00 I think it most speaks to Trump's repeated suggestion that Congress' function for the next four - GMAW November 13, 2024, 11:21:47 With the way he's raiding Congress for his cabinet, it's almost like he doesn't need or care about - Warrin'_Illini November 13, 2024, 11:40:59 people keep saying this; are these swing districts? - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 11:44:29 Yes, but that would require a special election in most cases, and would reduce the GOP margin - IlliniRunner November 13, 2024, 12:20:57 Maybe, but it's a razor thin margin currently. I'm sure ol' Trump knows what he's doing though.* - Warrin'_Illini November 13, 2024, 11:49:01 They caught the car, so they've gotta figure out how to start prying this thing out of his - doubledown November 13, 2024, 11:26:50 Yep, it's an encouraging sign.* - Tortillini November 13, 2024, 11:25:01 really? seems like deck chairs to me... - suburbanmyth November 13, 2024, 11:32:11 Wow* - GMAW November 13, 2024, 11:11:36 Thune it is* - WhitmansFolly November 13, 2024, 11:09:27 Been in leadership a long time. - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 11:17:49 Isn’t he just asking everyone to be an “acting” dept head so they don’t have to be confirmed? * - haighter November 13, 2024, 11:31:34 No. Acting heads need to already be employees of the department. - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 11:38:56 That's probably the one I care the most about - Sounder November 13, 2024, 11:24:45 Undergrad degree from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles - Sounder November 13, 2024, 11:13:37 South Dakota getting sucked dry - Stu November 13, 2024, 11:13:06 Trump didn’t endorse him. But anyway, good effing riddance. - Stu November 13, 2024, 11:04:54 normal people are cheering this musk thing. and have no idea that it's just a pathway - John Coctostan November 13, 2024, 9:09:33 I've heard the possibility of Musk getting to divest his shares is $TSLA tax free - longsnapper November 13, 2024, 9:44:05 I think this will go the way of the RFK vaccine commission or the Kris Kobach vote fraud panel - CanHartlebHireSnider November 13, 2024, 9:27:50 there's no way he doesn't get some personal regulatory benefit out of it* - John Coctostan November 13, 2024, 13:29:23 Nonfunctional EPA, OSHA, SEC, FTC and FEC will probably affect people's lives. Or are you suggesting - doubledown November 13, 2024, 9:19:19 I think he'll lose focus after he gets what he wants - John Coctostan November 13, 2024, 9:23:45 I hope Turki watched the Daily Show last night* - JeffFrank November 13, 2024, 8:32:11 ooo - JeffFrank November 13, 2024, 8:35:50 More from CBS Sunday Morning: - JeffFrank November 13, 2024, 9:11:40 Better from CBS Sunday Morning: - EffinIllini November 13, 2024, 11:23:51 It's truly impressive how much you'll just gorge yourself on mass media bullshit.* - longsnapper November 13, 2024, 9:17:42 And frozen Costco meals* - HamptonSki November 13, 2024, 9:24:28 Between Elon buying twitter and that period when Biden was trying to ban TikTok - UofIL6 November 13, 2024, 8:02:16 In the past, incompetent top appointees were supported by the mass of career officials - DT November 12, 2024, 19:05:32 There is zero stopping him from making the FBI a one-party organization loyal to him* - meanjeans November 13, 2024, 6:38:26 It will all come undone when there is a major crisis of some sort* - Stu November 12, 2024, 19:50:09 H5N1 is showing potential.* - complainant November 12, 2024, 22:00:25 How about HER2-* - Stu November 13, 2024, 4:34:29 He’s going to make it so that no history books can ever be written about him - timmer November 12, 2024, 20:36:24 Trump is a bad guy but it’s going to be a good 4 years. Calling it now. - Toonces November 12, 2024, 20:06:10 We are past due for a good Depression, with rioting in the streets - Stu November 12, 2024, 20:26:10 Hoping real world Fallout. With all the hours I've played, I'm totally prepared! - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 20:34:00 Someone is delusional alright * - ATL November 12, 2024, 20:24:35 Good for who?* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:18:07 Massive deficit spending juices the economy* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 20:27:29 Yes, the point I'm trying to get across is, again, this is going to be 20-30 years - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:30:02 I’ll be dead and won’t care - TarheelIllini November 12, 2024, 20:52:42 20-30 years you say? hmmm *Chinscratchy** - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 20:36:00 Do you think Daniel Penny is a good guy or a bad guy?* - JeffFrank November 13, 2024, 0:53:01 Good for most of America.* - Toonces November 12, 2024, 20:23:15 If Trump came in, golfed 4 days a week and - WhitmansFolly November 12, 2024, 22:10:01 Do you think he won’t do the tariffs, or do you not know how they work? * - doubledown November 12, 2024, 20:27:09 I think he'll get talked out of most tariffs because the economy will already be good and he won't - snipes824 November 12, 2024, 20:34:37 As much of that will happen as of the border wall his first four years* - Stu November 12, 2024, 20:43:59 I wish I had your faith. but your post-uconn oracle chops have been severely diminished* - snipes824 November 12, 2024, 20:46:15 All sorts of practical matters will prevent even 10% of that - Stu November 12, 2024, 21:02:02 Shit* - Tortillini November 12, 2024, 21:15:01 Yeah, they might call on the military to face the enemy within* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 21:06:45 I have a name.* - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 21:15:01 Your name is Turki* - JeffFrank November 13, 2024, 8:32:29 I don’t think he will be successful in implementing the tariffs he wants to. - gvibes November 12, 2024, 20:28:36 he can implement them via executive action. doesn't need legislation. * - VIV November 12, 2024, 20:54:16 I know. We’ll see* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 21:03:37 Why not? * - doubledown November 12, 2024, 20:33:08 Because I think there are enough sane people around to stop him. - gvibes November 12, 2024, 20:37:56 These are the people who saw what happened to their predecessors… - SurfTheBoneyard November 12, 2024, 20:41:17 Who are these sane people that you're referring to? And why does everyone think - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:39:56 Bessent for one. Also he talked tariffs during his last presidency too. And implented very little - gvibes November 12, 2024, 20:43:11 That's why we had to bail out Iowa's farmers. - complainant November 12, 2024, 22:40:23 What happened to most "sane" people who disagreed with him last admin - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 20:39:12 In what aspects, specifically?* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:25:07 These foreign leaders treat trump like the business Michael Jordan. This guy is as American as - Toonces November 12, 2024, 20:32:20 foreign leaders do not like trump. putin, netanyahu, orban, erdogan, MBS, kim jong un, yes - snipes824 November 12, 2024, 20:43:48 No, but they respect the crazy. They are Jodie Foster going up against the late, great - Toonces November 12, 2024, 20:49:53 Just another in a long line of Trump voters undone by the dreaded, simple follow up question. - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:55:38 I might be wrong, but I’m fairly certain Toonces isn’t a Trump fan. - IlliniRunner November 13, 2024, 0:39:00 I’m definitely not a trump fan, but I do think people will need to come to grips with his - Toonces November 13, 2024, 7:52:43 But you, and people in general, can't even define what success is. And since you say it's not transf - longsnapper November 13, 2024, 8:06:46 I do think it’s unique to Trump. And success will be measured in the level of war/peace in the - Toonces November 13, 2024, 8:36:48 These are all ethereal definitions. Other than relative low inflation & unemployment, - longsnapper November 13, 2024, 9:04:00 Which leaders and how does that respect help the majority of Americans?* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:36:12 Which leaders? * - doubledown November 12, 2024, 20:34:11 All of them. He’s successfully branded himself as Mr. USA.* - Toonces November 12, 2024, 20:38:54 Struggling to make the connection between this and him being respected by world leaders - OB25 November 12, 2024, 20:41:46 You can just admit you only know 4 world leaders' names* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:40:34 If an animatronic Ronald McDonald showed up in your office - Toonces November 12, 2024, 20:43:12 #not my leader. Team Grimace* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:45:02 *Looks at board full of middle-aged, hetero, white dudes* - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 20:19:42 If he gets what he wants on health care, a lot of this board has preexisting conditions. * - doubledown November 12, 2024, 20:22:00 Funny thing is a lot of his supporters hate Obamacare… - SurfTheBoneyard November 12, 2024, 20:25:51 What income level?* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:21:28 The poors here may be hurt, sure. - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 20:37:47 Making over 300k a year. - IlliniRunner November 12, 2024, 20:23:51 Every president ever has faced a crisis of some kind - opey8 November 12, 2024, 20:16:20 For WH Harrison it was the sniffles.* - SurfTheBoneyard November 12, 2024, 20:18:52 Y'know, I'd gladly pay whatever tax break I'm certainly not going to even see - RVA November 12, 2024, 18:47:08 "central casting" doing a lot of work here [e: was supposed to be about Hegseth]* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 19:01:35 And this is round 1. Lord knows what barrel scrapings will be in the cabinet in 2026.* - DT November 12, 2024, 18:52:14 Judge Janine for AG??* - assassin November 12, 2024, 18:53:59 Right now Harriett Meiers is crying in a corner* - ATL November 12, 2024, 19:39:21 I have a soft spot for her. The court could use a few regular non-appellate lawyers* - ECEIllinois November 12, 2024, 19:44:10 Or a non-lawyer.* - complainant November 12, 2024, 21:35:46 Co-sign. IIRC she was managing partner of Baker Botts right? The idea that a big law managing - ATL November 12, 2024, 19:51:17 Elon and Vivek will increase efficency. - assassin November 12, 2024, 18:40:12 Well that will be rife with conflicts of interest… - SurfTheBoneyard November 12, 2024, 20:37:35 So he gave them a fake department to run* - ECEIllinois November 12, 2024, 19:29:24 Those guys are gonna HATE each other* - AintHatin November 12, 2024, 19:28:45 oOo - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 19:37:19 it will take them four years to agree on the font to use on their letterhead * - biclops November 12, 2024, 19:35:25 Apparently they only get until 2026. - assassin November 12, 2024, 19:46:38 well they should at least have the cardstock for their business cards picked out by then* - biclops November 12, 2024, 19:53:34 I can’t believe Donald prefers Vivek’s card to mine. * - assassin November 12, 2024, 19:56:59 If I was willing to give Trump more credit I’d think this was hilarious and intentional.* - DT November 12, 2024, 19:33:56 Starting your efficiency effort with two co chairs is….not efficient* - John Coctostan November 12, 2024, 19:16:02 Trump has now eliminated negative one departments* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 19:27:26 Wait until he gets started on reducing the national debt! - SurfTheBoneyard November 12, 2024, 19:36:20 DOGE. These are not serious people.* - PDO November 12, 2024, 19:04:02 AYFKM. lmao* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 19:05:01 Sentient shitstain who was frustrated he couldn't go Kent State on American citizens... - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 18:18:19 really have we come down to this personal shit? runner i didn't expect it from you. - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 19:09:28 Throw, all I did was correct a typo that Tiki had in his post. He referred to Tooldresser originally - IlliniRunner November 12, 2024, 20:20:04 I can vouch. He's an innocent bystander.* - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 20:41:49 Facts be damned. Runner has now insulted his children.* - complainant November 12, 2024, 21:56:11 *Pearls clutched** - KingTalkyTiki November 13, 2024, 14:53:49 Well, I got nothing else going on... - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 19:36:44 ...and my L car was really crowded and had to stop at Paulina for like 15 minutes - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 19:41:13 *backs away* you need some help bro * - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 19:42:35 I'm not the one running around shouting "FUCK OFF" at people because of something said... - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 19:44:50 you hate me. why do you keep engaging me? please just go away - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 19:46:57 I just said your name, and mentioned your admitted affinity for fascist leaders. - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 19:49:24 you are scorched earth on the world. that's on you. - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 19:53:11 Not world, just MAGA like yourself. - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 20:05:50 Actually, I don't want to instigate* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:09:49 Probably a good call. - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 20:32:11 dude, why would i engage you. other than to inquire why i should engage you? - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 19:38:21 *Taps post above** - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 19:41:44 i'm frankly sorry i ever met you - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 19:44:00 MAGA fan regrets ever meeting me. - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 19:47:50 Your attitude that infects the left is rocket fuel for MAGA* - JeffFrank November 12, 2024, 19:59:01 who you wanna pick for the next cabinet spot? choose a name at random, won't be any worse* - RVA November 12, 2024, 19:14:36 yoyo * - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 19:34:20 Apparently on the other board you can fully dox people without any ramifications - Sounder November 12, 2024, 19:14:29 Dude you kind of lost your mind over there* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 19:59:09 Ok bad idea - gvibes November 12, 2024, 20:01:46 The Skirmish in Spokane* - Dilbert November 12, 2024, 20:07:34 hesitating to comment... i've met both in person - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 20:07:07 No need for this. If that's something going on somewhere else, leave it there* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:08:48 Meh. Sounder brought it up* - Dilbert November 12, 2024, 20:10:31 The doxxing, yes. The cage match between him and someone else, no.* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 20:12:36 You are worse than the covid version of yourself right now* - Dilbert November 12, 2024, 19:51:07 i will admit to meeting people. i have met a lot of people. - Throwsize November 12, 2024, 19:33:03 ..but buddying up with doxers? Not a dealbreaker. - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 19:43:47 Does he even need a panel?* - Sammich November 12, 2024, 19:04:02 I just want to understand how a seemingly reasonable person could vote for this guy. I don’t get it* - doubledown November 12, 2024, 18:51:06 Throwsize. Tooldresser hasn’t expressed his concerns about our views on him - IlliniRunner November 12, 2024, 18:36:33 Ah thanks, fixed.* - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 18:37:25 Never go full Stalin... - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 18:25:48 Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary. wtf* - ECEIllinois November 12, 2024, 18:15:00 Scott Jennings is waiting for his phone call/appointment* - WhitmansFolly November 12, 2024, 20:02:02 I wonder how kooky the nominations have to get to risk blowing confirmation... - SurfTheBoneyard November 12, 2024, 19:13:07 I thought he was going to ask them all the be "acting" so they don't have... - haighter November 12, 2024, 22:20:35 Seems better (?) than Mike Flynn, who was my guess.* - Tortillini November 12, 2024, 18:59:41 Although I don’t know anything about him so of course he could be worse.* - Tortillini November 12, 2024, 19:02:49 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL* - VIV November 12, 2024, 18:59:13 lol we’re all gonna die for the dumbest reason. * - illini November 12, 2024, 18:44:15 Dmytro Firtash would have been too obvious. Hegseth is a meathead. He won't notice. - complainant November 12, 2024, 18:22:40 ...the fox news guy?* - assassin November 12, 2024, 18:19:57 Yeah* - TarheelIllini November 12, 2024, 18:26:49 a Koch funded lobbyist for war criminals that doesn't believe in germs. perfect. * - assassin November 12, 2024, 18:36:37 Also on his third wife whom he impregnated while still married to wife two* - opey8 November 12, 2024, 18:52:36 And wants to privatize the VA* - opey8 November 12, 2024, 18:50:10 Please get someone @ FTC who knows what battles to fight - Potomac November 12, 2024, 17:59:36 If Lou Dobbs said it, it must be true.* - complainant November 12, 2024, 19:43:35 I have no idea what you mean - Potomac November 12, 2024, 20:07:58 click to cancel is amazing* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 19:07:37 What job will the pillow guy get?* - TarheelIllini November 12, 2024, 17:47:00 AG* - WhitmansFolly November 12, 2024, 20:03:09 Defense Secretary* - Stu November 12, 2024, 17:52:24 Mods: please delete* - Stu November 12, 2024, 18:20:31 Food taster* - PapaDels November 12, 2024, 17:49:26 White Nationalists not thrilled about Kash Patel at CIA. - complainant November 12, 2024, 17:04:08 He nominated Ratcliffe for CIA. All the Bush people - CanHartlebHireSnider November 12, 2024, 17:05:27 I posted something false - ATL November 12, 2024, 16:57:19 Either fake news or very recent cuz he posted this morning* - Taz November 12, 2024, 17:03:03 I still see him on there. It's important to respect people's preferred pronouns* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 17:02:54 Misgendering people is a big deal at Twitter.* - complainant November 12, 2024, 17:02:28 lol. Elonia? - WhitmansFolly November 12, 2024, 16:59:25 so far, nothing as remotely bad as pompeo or jeff sessions - suburbanmyth November 12, 2024, 16:30:00 Kristi Noem head of homeland security - Sounder November 12, 2024, 15:43:29 She can secure my homeland anytime she wants* - HamptonSki November 12, 2024, 17:19:34 Lulz. * - harb November 12, 2024, 17:21:54 Yeah but DHS doesn't actually do anything, so it's fine. Security theater* - gvibes November 12, 2024, 16:30:14 Poor Leatherneck. Doesn’t do anything.* - Stu November 12, 2024, 17:16:11 What is the right number of employees 'managed' then? - Dilbert November 12, 2024, 16:29:38 Gina Raimondo did fine from Rhode Island’s 1M population - Potomac November 12, 2024, 16:34:18 I know nothing about her specifically, but I think being a Governor… - DT November 12, 2024, 16:26:20 Mayor Pete went from South Bend to DoT* - Potomac November 12, 2024, 16:25:12 how many employees did homeland security have in 1994 (World Cup) and 1996 (Olympics)?* - Chuck Woodaby November 12, 2024, 15:59:57 It's easier to make people hate the government and want a smaller one.... - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 15:53:51 South Dakota - Stu November 12, 2024, 15:47:06 Do we really need two Dakotas?* - Sounder November 12, 2024, 15:50:22 It would make more sense if she were in charge of the Dept of Murdering Small Animals* - Stu November 12, 2024, 15:59:36 She's killed more animals than any Hatian immigrant* - Sounder November 12, 2024, 16:03:53 ...and a Wyoming?* - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 15:57:37 I like them both and will be in SD in a couple of weeks. I say we should have 4 Dakotas. - Warrin'_Illini November 12, 2024, 15:57:30 Fuck it, we’re doing five Dakotas* - Tortillini November 12, 2024, 17:16:07 Can’t wait to check out Southeast/Northeast Dakota - Stu November 12, 2024, 17:18:24 SD is the best state. ND not so much. Get yourselves a Corn Palace, people!* - Stu November 12, 2024, 16:00:39 SD is pretty nice* - Sounder November 12, 2024, 16:03:05 I'll take your word for it. Hard pass.* - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 16:24:59 The western half of SD is awesome. Easily the most beautiful of the “bread basket” - GhostofPokeyStixPast November 12, 2024, 16:34:04 Again, more SD for you. Hard pass from me* - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 18:36:37 Yep. Illegally spread my wife’s ashes at the base of Mt. Rushmore last fall - Stu November 12, 2024, 17:08:43 ND was pretty empty. I did spend a night in Fargo and had a great time. I've posted this - Warrin'_Illini November 12, 2024, 16:02:43 Looked it up. North Dakota has ~10,000 state employees. 134/10,000 residents. - ATL November 12, 2024, 15:50:12 I'm guessing a lot of those jobs are related to public lands* - Sounder November 12, 2024, 15:51:10 Washington - 91* - ATL November 12, 2024, 16:00:38 Aren't public lands generally federal in the west?* - ATL November 12, 2024, 15:59:54 Not for long…* - GhostofPokeyStixPast November 12, 2024, 16:34:58 Mike Huckabee announced as ambassador to Israel* - ECEIllinois November 12, 2024, 13:19:05 lol* - Herman Blume November 12, 2024, 15:12:17 dang it, I really wanted that EPA director job - Tooldresser November 12, 2024, 15:10:59 Zeldin has it backwards. PFAS hawk and Climate Change dove. What are we even doing here?* - ATL November 12, 2024, 15:16:20 all you have to do is let Trump donors do whatever they want. it's not hard. * - assassin November 12, 2024, 15:13:28 I don't think he'd have any problems. - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 15:18:43 My Pillow guy to helm FDA* - Herman Blume November 12, 2024, 15:17:29 RFK Jr. being in charge of something is actually bone chilling* - Sounder November 12, 2024, 15:44:21 MORE RAW MILK BABY, YEAHHHHHHH* - assassin November 12, 2024, 15:56:12 The fact that these obsequious d-bags are getting paid off is demoralizing * - PapaDels November 12, 2024, 15:05:06 Is the Israel ambassadorship really a plum gig? - DT November 12, 2024, 16:34:56 It is when acceleration of the war there is part of your religious worldview. * - assassin November 12, 2024, 20:01:18 Fair point but I could have put my comment elsewhere in this thread* - PapaDels November 12, 2024, 17:16:10 True. Objection withdrawn.* - DT November 12, 2024, 17:49:23 Speed up that apocalypse baby* - assassin November 12, 2024, 14:50:52 Huckabee Tel Aviv FC* - Sammich November 12, 2024, 13:19:55 Pointer-led terrorist cells are on notice. - Sammich November 12, 2024, 10:12:14 Woof indeed * - Jackie November 12, 2024, 11:05:20 Smotrich: Trump Presidency to allow Israel to claim sovereignty over the West Bank - Carl Spackler November 12, 2024, 6:17:09 it's funny how much you guys rely on what's to come versus what's actually happened..... - suburbanmyth November 12, 2024, 9:34:11 [nit] ordnance [/nit]* - complainant November 12, 2024, 9:50:58 eh, both apply really* - RVA November 12, 2024, 10:28:33 I bet that will go well * - TarheelIllini November 12, 2024, 8:49:49 I've seen a lot of Israelis joke that they will need to restrain America's Middle East aggression - CanHartlebHireSnider November 12, 2024, 8:19:58 I mean Biden and Harris did not help with their smug, tone-deaf approach to the Arab community. - Warrin'_Illini November 12, 2024, 8:18:46 Reportedly also said Ukraine should focus on peace, not land and they should accept - opey8 November 12, 2024, 6:46:50 When is he going to fall down the stairs out of a window?* - complainant November 12, 2024, 7:11:56 Nominating an ex-Soros guy as treasury secretary* - ECEIllinois November 11, 2024, 22:41:05 It’s like Trump is purposefully trolling Tucker wing* - CanHartlebHireSnider November 11, 2024, 23:34:28 Bessent? That would be bad for a LOT of people* - longsnapper November 11, 2024, 23:30:13 Why? I know nothing about him other than he’s a crypto guy.* - Tortillini November 12, 2024, 7:13:21 Big crypto, but most importantly will back tariffs, increase in government spending, and - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 7:26:00 women & lgbqt+ right may seem little to you, they are pretty fucking large - larue33 November 12, 2024, 8:34:33 No they aren't.* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 8:54:56 51.5% just told us they aren't* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 8:55:32 But if the price of eggs goes up a buck under Trump, MAGA is over. * - doubledown November 12, 2024, 9:22:59 No because it's Biden's fault.* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 9:25:16 This post is missing a couple of important words.* - complainant November 12, 2024, 7:29:12 What do mean?* - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 7:34:03 Your sentences would be comprehensible if you added subjects, objects and - complainant November 12, 2024, 7:44:57 My dearest Complainant, I must write to you of dark tidings... - longsnapper November 12, 2024, 8:05:29 This was fantastic* - IlliniRunner November 12, 2024, 15:51:51 this is wonderful. dark, but wonderful. * - assassin November 12, 2024, 12:13:23 lol, please do this more often* - RVA November 12, 2024, 9:29:46 *swoon** - complainant November 12, 2024, 8:07:42 Those of us with an IQ over 80 and who aren’t actively trying to be a prick - GMAW November 12, 2024, 7:51:46 Are you trying to be a prick now? - complainant November 12, 2024, 8:05:01 it's (SIC)* - Poldark November 12, 2024, 9:54:46 Thank you.* - complainant November 12, 2024, 10:24:53 Tom Homan named border czar - complainant November 11, 2024, 20:16:23 So the first thing they’ll be doing is going after families. * - doubledown November 11, 2024, 21:26:24 I look forward to every story of it happening to a Trump voter* - Sounder November 11, 2024, 21:40:41 I don’t. A lot of people only voted for him because they’re uninformed. Now their lives are - doubledown November 11, 2024, 22:12:34 Some people can only learn by actually touching the hot stove. - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 0:50:39 Except in your analogy, we've been telling them for years that the stove is hot - Taz November 12, 2024, 3:30:24 That is a more apt analogy fo' sho'.* - KingTalkyTiki November 12, 2024, 8:23:36 Sadly, they need to feel the pain to understand that their decisions have consequences - Sounder November 12, 2024, 0:05:59 Ignorance is no excuse. I'm compassionate, but we've been screaming from the mountaintop - Taz November 11, 2024, 22:28:24 You Have Said The Actual Truth.* - complainant November 11, 2024, 22:34:05 Scorched Earth* - Sounder November 12, 2024, 0:12:59 You break it, you bought it. * - assassin November 11, 2024, 22:19:10 Wrong thread. - complainant November 11, 2024, 22:16:02 From the same thread. - complainant November 11, 2024, 21:59:57 I've never felt so scorched earth in my life - Sounder November 11, 2024, 22:01:11 Rachel Maddow had a good piece about it tonight. - complainant November 11, 2024, 21:32:03 Gotta start early. at only an estimated 88 billion a year. - assassin November 11, 2024, 21:30:33 I know it’s not something scribbled on the Apple Notes app, but promised tariffs already affecting - ATL November 10, 2024, 7:38:26 FAFO - Pennsylvania manufacturing edition - complainant November 9, 2024, 18:53:46 Even olds who believe Fox News knew that story was fake. Flailing!!!!* - HamptonSki November 9, 2024, 21:19:23 LOL* - suburbanmyth November 9, 2024, 19:28:32 Nothing sadder - Chuck Woodaby November 9, 2024, 19:08:40 Ruthkanda Forever* - OB25 November 9, 2024, 19:21:54 yeah, if it's in the same format as a celebrity apology, it's probably just as true* - Sammich November 9, 2024, 19:12:57 Oh, in that case, tariffs will make products cheaper. - complainant November 9, 2024, 19:21:37 No one is doubting the policy effects, but that story is almost certainly made up / exaggerated* - OB25 November 9, 2024, 19:26:32 Uh - Chuck Woodaby November 9, 2024, 19:25:20 oOo - KingTalkyTiki November 9, 2024, 18:58:23 The only thing that might save them is how incompetent Trump is. - doubledown November 9, 2024, 15:50:40 And lazy. He will certainly make some moves on deportation - DT November 9, 2024, 16:29:44 Yeah i think this is what people are missing this time around. Of course he won’t do the work. But - John Coctostan November 9, 2024, 17:14:47 Maybe, but Miller can't do it all himself. He's going to have to rely on underlings who, - doubledown November 10, 2024, 8:04:28 And even if you have a workforce full of motivated high achievers… - DT November 10, 2024, 8:43:23 He isn't the one that has to maintain focus, though - opey8 November 9, 2024, 16:33:41 A lot of those people are also lazy idiots. Not all, of course, but probably most. - doubledown November 10, 2024, 7:58:20 Nit: golfing monkey* - Tortillini November 9, 2024, 16:58:30 They're not coming for me, just the bad people* - Sounder November 9, 2024, 15:38:45 And luckily, racial profiling has never been a thing in the US * - WhitmansFolly November 9, 2024, 16:46:16 Delete* - Potomac November 18, 2024, 18:54:55 they're gonna get splinters from pulling that ladder up so fast* - Sammich November 9, 2024, 15:25:45 Had a friend that owned a bar in the hood...once told LBK and I the story.. - KingTalkyTiki November 9, 2024, 15:43:41 nm - KingTalkyTiki November 9, 2024, 15:43:38   Searching