Voltaire

It's 2023. We just blame MAGA for everything. At least the pro-Palestine people got the "F Joe Biden" part right, just for the wrong reasons. That's his problem, the left incubates various different types of snake eggs under their big tent that don't all play nice with each other. When you're a corrupt self-serving Democratic Party leader, your job is to placate the different factions of snakes and dimwits into a unified force without letting any of them realize you're full of sh*t. Controlling the media, big tech, and the university system helps.

Me neither. I probably should though. She has an album called 1989, which would imply it has an 80s sound and would appeals to people who like 80s music, but I've not bothered to look into it.

Rinse Repeat vs Purdue. Finally a real test and game worth watching next week at Penn State

Well, it's not as bad as people taking "Raiders' Haters Revenge" and shortening it to "Raiders." I couldn't imagine. So the Michigan season starts with the bullsh*t about getting suspended for buying a kid a hamburger. "It's not about that, it's about hosting him over COVID lockdown bullsh*t bullsh*t." Oh, Fock off. I don't care about that. I care that the non-conference schedule is missing anyone decent... Eastern Carolina, UNLV, and Ball State. I tuned in for half of Eastern Carolina... focking awful. If you're putting a beatdown like that on great/good/halfway decent team... I'm down with it. These Eastern Carolina guys are the players left over after the SEC and ACC comes through, outmanned at every position, and doing the best they can. Ditto UNLV and Ball State. Then there's this spying scandal that actually does seem to have legs. I'll defend Michigan for the hamburger thing, but not this. This is on them. And it's not like they're playing any good teams. Thus far, their conference opponents are hardly any better than their non-conference ones. They're spying on teams that aren't very good to begin with. It's embarrassing. Then you turn to Michigan State and everything is discombobulated. Mel Tucker embarrassed them, the program is struggling, though they did win today. This football team has had recent success but things fell apart when Mel was caught with his pants down, literally, and there's really a chance they are on the precipice of permanent decline and irrelevance unless they get some incredible coach... the guy on local sports talk radio, MSU homer Mike Valenti, is really pounding the drum for Urban Meyer. My God. The man knows how to win college football games better than anyone else out there that may be available, but c'mon? How can you fire a guy for phone sex guy, then hire Urban Meyer whose 10x worse?

Not that it matters, but I don't rightly know the number of black folks posting here. I treat everyone like a 51 y/o white guy. Even if I learn differently, I still treat them that way because I don't have hardly anything different to say from one person to the other anyways. When interacting with LC, not a focking thing changed before and after he said he was mulatto. I don't care.

I didn't check his driver's license; since I didn't need to provide my photo ID to post here, I doubt he did either. I'm just taking at his word what he says about himself. According to him he's mulatto, mother is a West Indies black woman from Barbados; take it for what it's worth.

It would have been a horrible thing to ask for if that conversation had ever happened. It didn't. It's a long phone call, people don't have an hour to listen to it, so I don't blame you or anyone else for not doing so. Since I personally cannot imagine dedicating another hour in this lifetime to that phone call myself, I don't expect you to do that either, especially at this late date. Look, the media is deliberately deceiving the public about Trump asking for Rothleswhatever to find 12000 votes and people choose to just buy it rather than look into it themselves. Anyway, the way the phone call goes, Trump makes a lot of claims about fraudulent voting and suspicious activity in the state, look here are 5000, look there are 10000, look there are 300000. To his telling it all sounds really shady but if it is or not, they never had a local investigation to confirm or deny his claims. It's something that never got conducted. Just know this much: The crux of the thing though is Trump is asking him to comb through, look at this shady thing, that shady thing, that shady thing, seeing if he can identify 12000 illegally cast ballots to toss. If that offends you so be it. But at no point does he ask Roethleswhatever to manufacture 12000 ballots, which is what the media paints it as. It's really a blatant case of the media misleading people.

Wow! Michigan State beat Nebraska. The way this season is going with the HC fired and kids leaving the program, glad they had the pieces. Hopefully they find a coach who can right the ship before they go the way of Illinois or Indiana into also-ran status.

That's got to be amazing. I hope you two get along well in each other's company.

My one college football team got to 8-0 with the toughest opponent on their schedule being Rutgers, it's games are uncompetitive and not interesting, and despite only scheduling nobodies all year, the team still cheats to win those games anyways. In related news, the team is also caught up in another stupid scandal that revolves around buying a kid a hamburger, but I'm not holding that one against them like the NCAA does. My other college team has been in freefall, leaderless, and hasn't won a game since the head coach got suspended/fired for having phone sex with a rape survivor advocate. Meanwhile, the entirety of college football is on its ear. The NCAA has embraced the bullsh*t that is the transfer portal, and one of the premier conferences will fold in a couple of months. So it's not exactly a great time to be a college football fan, especially for me.

I don't know how many people here are black because it seldom comes up. I only know of two: Peenie and League Champion. There are surely more but behind the keyboard, who can tell, we're all the same color. Most people just type and don't talk about their race. I like peenie, am glad she's here and have always gotten along with her. I admire her willingness to come back despite the abuse she gets, plenty of which is race related and out of line. League Champion doesn't lead with being mulatto, and you wouldn't guess it, but he's open about it when its relevant to the topic at hand. I don't know that he's ever gotten any grief over it. ---- More generally, we have racists here and when I see threads that look geared towards that, I don't open them, let alone participate. It leaks out into other threads. Personally, I'm far more interested in conservatives making inroads within the black and hispanic communities than placating race deadenders. LC is further right than I am. As for peenie, ah, peenie's daughter and uncle see through the left's BS, as for peenie herself, I've seen twenty years of her taking two steps forward and two steps back.

First, note how Russia didn't attack anyone during Trump's presidency as it did under Bush the Dumber (Georgia), Obama (Crimea), and Biden (Ukraine). Also Trump kept the Obama-era sanctions from the Crimea invasion on place. Second... here's President Trump warning both the Germans they are too reliant on Russian oil and urging NATO members to up their share of military budgets. Third, here's President Trump blocking the oil pipeline from Russia to Germany with sanctions https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-sanctions-block-putins-pipeline/ and here's Biden lifting those sanctions. https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114185/documents/HHRG-117-GO00-20211028-SD006.pdf Fourth, Trump sold weapons to Ukraine that Obama had blocked. These are four cases of Trump taking a harder line against Russia than either Biden or his boss took. He also expelled dozens of Russian officials after the Kremlin poisoned that guy in Britain, and he blew up Syrian bungholes despite Russian protests. Some of us have a memory that goes back before the "we have always been at war with Eastasia"-esque propaganda of the MSM.

Wordle 868 4/6 🟨🟨 🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LOL turned lemons into lemonade. Only had three letters but since they didn't go in the most convenient places, most words I could come up with didn't fit.

This is exactly right. When conservatives address black audiences, they see them and treat them like adults and equals with respect, unlike liberals who dumb down their talk and treat black people like retards. White liberals dumb themselves down when they speak to black people, a new study contends - The Washington Post

False. Race is 100% your obsession. Race is front and center on your minds not ours. Conservatives take the high ground of treating all people equally based on the content of their character, can see reality. Wheras liberals make it a point to notice and adjust their parochial approach and treat some people more equal than others.

This. Leftoids see rampaging lunatics of darker pigmentation tearing apart cities in the US or committing atrocities in Israel and immediately wring their hands and feel shame how they let these poor cutsie wootsie innocents down and blame themselves. At least the leftoids can take comfort knowing they're better than us who have no sympathy/tolerance for the bullsh*t and identify the savages at the gates for what they are.

No jokes here. My condolences, Ed. RIP edsr.

What exactly are you arguing here? That the Afghanistan withdrawal wasn't a fiasco?

I remember seeing "Lemonade Stand" at the state fair and thinking how cool it was. It was a 2D poorly animated lemonade stand and the entire game was they tell you the temperature and you figure out what the optimal price to sell lemonade at. It was super cool; I could control/interact with something on a tv screen and earn fake money.

Michael Landon, John Ritter, Coach from Cheers, both of the two old lady baliffs on Night Court before Roz.

This is all so focking pathetic.

I thought we did that already. Maybe we only gave them NYC. There's so much overlap, its hard to differentiate.

The US withdrew from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021. With that in mind, check out this timeline of Biden's approval rating. Biden approval polling tracker (reuters.com)

He's off to a really bad start. I'll give him a few more threads to see if he is capable of rational discussion elsewhere.

Wordle 867 3/6 🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Thought I had a deuce. Would have been the first in a long time, but no. Getting a 4th letter and all those yellows blocking two spaces led me right to it.