Sean Mooney

Nothing I would say would stand up for you as enough. It's fine. I get your game. And either way- I said a lot of it was in the way the argument was framed that was fear mongering. Michael Moore has an opinion and is operating with facts and figures in many cases but the way he edits his stuff is fear mongering. Same with Kirk.

He said plenty of things that weren't fact of faith based over the years. He had an image he created that made him money.

This is the quote people are pointing too....I'm giving the full context of it: On the day after the April 2023 event, the Media Matters for America website published a transcript of Kirk's remarks, with the quote appearing in bold:

It was more in the way things were edited together and framed to sell tickets. Essentially he was creating a character he portrayed. Doesn't mean he didn't believe the things he was saying but he pushed it to bring in money, not necessarily change anything.

Where did I say that? There is difference of opinion and there is fear mongering. They are different things. Kirk trafficked more in the second one which is his right to do so. He would dress it up to look like difference of opinion but then put those videos online edited together to stereotype young leftists and push agendas that made him money.

Outrage not in anger or violence but outrage based in that there is a push to fear monger against groups of people in the country for a variety of reasons and he was running these events based around pushing that fear as a selling point. And I don't begrudge the hustle. It made him a ton of money and gave him a high profile in the GOP circles The speaking is controlled and calm but it's based around outrage towards groups of people.

And they were wrong both times...

They were. He used a lot of that to create the image and profile that made him a lot of money. It was outrage based but it was presented in a controlled outrage manner. Either way- shooting him over it is stupid.

100% agree. I can understand someone differing in opinion from Kirk. I can understand debating that opinion with him. I can understand getting angry in debating that opinion with him. But shooting someone in cold blood like that is ##### cowardly and childish and does nothing to solve anything. There is zero excuse for this in a civilized society and it's sad and maddening to see that people across the board have not learned anything from the events that we've seen transpire over the years due to political differences. I feel bad for Kirk's wife and kids, and I hope the dipsh!t who did this is brought face to face with the justice system and suffers the consequences he readily deserves

I'm not really being glib. I may disagree with @Cdub100 on a lot of things politically but he is closer to right on the AI stuff. We as a society are basically training robots to take our jobs from us and everything. The issue will become then that the job need will change and you won't have enough people to fill those needs which will lead to more robots and innovation. I'm not saying it will happen in my lifetime per se but it is coming and it is permeating more sectors of society than people want to admit at this point.

MO is just a dumbazz concern troll on the Internet. Why do you guys give him oxygen? He puts up all these links and Twitter accounts of "child abuse" or poorly edited or out-of-context videos that "prove" Biden is a serial kiddie diddler. But then when a guy runs for President promising in part to out all of it (which he did) and MO votes for him (which he did) and then the President does d!ck all about it MO decides it is about Biden or tries to gloss over everything. MO doesn't care that kids were potentially diddled (whether Trump did it or not- and I still believe he didn't) because his loyalty is to the "R" and to nothing else. He's a pile of garbage with eyes. Either scroll past his stuff or block him and don't give him anymore meat to chew on (like the guys did that he wants his President to protect apparently). And he will do what he always does- he will ask me a question, or call me a pedo supporter, or something equally stupid....and I'll ignore him.

Maybe what needs to happen is some Democrat left wing weirdo needs to make a tin foil laden, badly edited video of Trump writing a letter, speaking about his daughter's body, and touching young girls. MO and Utilit99 would post it 100 times a day then I'm sure.....I mean- surely they would never try to gloss over a Republican who has teen girl on his hands.

AI is the new undocumented workers

Idiot wants to try and say the first Trump year is Biden's even though Trump quickly did a bunch of things through executive orders.

Why do you keep entertaining him?

MO is just a window licker. I'd ignore him

Yup. Credit to FOX News for bringing in people to push against this nonsense in Florida.

The story is that these people were building the plan and helping to set it up to potentially train the people who will work there. Not sure how much of that is true, but I'm glad we could glean stuff about people from the backs of their heads.

So let's call 2020 a wash and almost all of 2021 because of COVID stuff. But to be fair let's start in July of 2021. These are the unemployment rate landmarks. July 2021- 5.4% January 2022- 4% July 2022- 3.5% January 2023- 3.4% July 2023- 3.5% January 2024- 3.7% (so up YOY) July 2024- 4.2% __________________________________ January 2025- 4% July 2025- 4.2% August 2025- 4.3% It is slightly below where it was at this point in Trump's first term. What stands out to me is- Trump was a known quantity and should have been able to get this back down under 4% again as he had during his first presidency. I think a lot of the stuff he is doing are unforced errors and so far- so far- it is clear his tariff battles aren't bringing jobs back, and any jobs he may have gained back is being offset by jobs he contracted in certain sectors.

The more interesting thing will be how the numbers are revised later on. Also, there is no point in trying to dunk anything on this. It's a bad number today. We all know it. Some of us will be honest about it

How much of the world is a conspiracy to you? Is it hard to function in life thinking there are so many conspiracies are out there?

That will help get recruits.

That is so incredibly dumb.

Yup. If you believe in your convictions you stay on and try to push for your beliefs. Quitting and running away comes off as just grandstanding and now you've done something that will not help you make any kind of change.

Glad in fantasy football I took a lot of stock in Lamb and Williams and Pickens. The latter didn't show up quite as much last night but the targets will come. Carter being an idiot and getting taken out of the game affected the defensive gameplan quite a bit and you can see the Eagles defense is ordinary without him. The Dallas defense got better as they went on but too much lack of discipline in the first half buried them in a spot they couldn't recover from. I guess the gameplan for the Eagles was to run and avoid throwing to the wide receivers but that seems like a strange plan given the allocation of money to the top 2 receivers. Hurts is really good though and you can see he is playing with a different type of confidence. The biggest thing for the Eagles will be how fast can that defense come together. The offense will score points, but trying to win games by having to score 27-35 points a week (on average) isn't wise. Also, they need to figure out the 2nd cornerback position. Lamb was eating Adoree Jackson's lunch the entire time and that signing of Jackson- which looked bad at the time- looked worse last night.