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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 23, 2018, 08:44:36 AM »

Everyone who isn't able to grasp the possible scenarios that are playing out here is really missing out. This is pretty fascinating, historic stuff.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Another school shooting

« on: February 23, 2018, 07:10:31 AM »

Quote from: sys on February 22, 2018, 11:50:38 AM

it drives me crazy when people dismiss/disparage the nra's influence as being about money.

it's very convenient and intellectually dishonest for people opposed to this position to dismiss the nra as a lobbyist organization buying influence with money, because it intimates that the prevailing gun policy has somehow been achieved dishonestly or against the electorate's wishes. however, that is not accurate. the nra enjoys influence because a lot of americans believe very strongly that their right to possess firearms should not be infringed in any way and vote accordingly. they have influence because our democracy functions as designed.

There seems to be quite a bit of divergence between the electorate and legislators (who also happen to diverge very little with the NRA). See poll numbers on things like background checks and assault weapons bans.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office

« on: February 21, 2018, 02:14:49 PM »

The right hand man of the now gone President/COO came into my conference room office looking for a box. He was packing up the stuff in his office because he's transitioning out of the company (which is unsurprising given the right hand man thing). He then compared his situation to my boss's. News to me!

So, I went into my boss's boss's office to find out what's going on. Apparently, my boss is not going to be employed by the company, but basically doing the same work on a contract basis (and have other clients). So, it looks like I'm not really going to have a boss going forward. I have previous experience in this area!

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 21, 2018, 01:07:13 PM »

Quote from: libliblibliblibliblib on February 21, 2018, 12:21:30 PM

I've been listening to a podcast about Watergate and it's pretty lol how republicans are acting exactly the same as back then.

It's all the liberal media and butthurt Dems!

Old law and order Ronnie reags even said the burglars shouldn't be punished because they were just trying to help nixon win and weren't criminals in their hearts

The similarities are truly incredible. Including so many ways in how the administration tries to subvert the special investigation. Humans just do the same stupid crap over and over.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 21, 2018, 12:17:07 PM »

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/966374953544241152
https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/966101080944898049

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office

« on: February 20, 2018, 04:26:55 PM »

People are buying tickets to micro wrestling.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 20, 2018, 08:20:10 AM »

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/965951526001930246

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: I miss _Fan

« on: February 19, 2018, 09:27:38 PM »

Counterpoint: the arguments people used to have back in the good old days, though fun, were ultimately REALLY stupid.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office

« on: February 19, 2018, 03:54:40 PM »

So, President/COO Charlie Sheen door guy is gone as of 1/1/18. Seems like he and the the owner/CEO weren't seeing eye to eye. Since then, the other owner guy, Roy, who before was merely a silent partner, has moved into an office and has been, I don't know, doing stuff.

I'm not really sure how old Roy is. Retirement age. The first time I met him, he walked into my conference room office, said, "So, what is it you do around here," pulled up a chair, and sat down. I immediately thought, "OH crap," sat up striaght, and tried to make myself sound as important as possible. Then, he pulled out his phone and showed me live video streams from about 25 cameras in his brand new airplane hangar packed full of shiny airplanes ready for use in who knows what sort of commercial aviation endeavor. Then, he asked me if I knew anything about QuickBooks, adding that they were having some issues with it at the airport.

The next time I saw him, he pulled out his phone again. More airplane hangar live streams. After that, live streams of a couple hotel lobbies, bars, and restaurants. He explained how he had a camera on the point-of-sale touchscreen in order to monitor if customers were getting charged or comped for drinks. I understand that he also owns a strip club that he won in a poker game, but the streams he showed me were all G-rated. I told him to let me know if he still needed help with QuickBooks. He replied, "Okay! I'm not bashful!"

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 18, 2018, 10:51:23 PM »

Thanks to everyone who regularly drops by this thread in order to tell us that the latest indictment/plea/whatever is a total non-issue and how little they care about it.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: PyeongChang 2018 XXIII Olympic Winter Games

« on: February 18, 2018, 07:48:56 PM »

Quote from: K-S-U-Wildcats! on February 18, 2018, 07:06:30 PM

Oooboy. https://screengrabber.deadspin.com/how-nbc-flubbed-its-super-g-coverage-reported-the-wron-1823104438

I happened to see this broadcast. It was incredible. If anything, the screw up just made it better because it underscored how amazing the upset was. That girl didn't know WTF was going on when she got done and saw the results.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 18, 2018, 04:41:17 PM »

I don't see how it's supposed to be ridiculous for anyone to suggest that facebook had an influence yet at the same time supposed to be an absolute certainty that it did not. Why the asymmetry?

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 18, 2018, 03:38:46 PM »

Quote from: wetwillie on February 18, 2018, 03:26:38 PM

Case closed.

Are you really not smarter than this? Maybe you're just not. I don't know. I never noticed your posting before.

Dax, FSD, KSUW, WC08, wetwillie. Good to know.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 18, 2018, 03:19:30 PM »

I'm not really into the election results stuff, but there are plenty of things to consider beyond your gut instinct that tells you no one voted because of facebook.

https://twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/964668033066127361

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 18, 2018, 08:28:13 AM »

Whose side does he appear to be on?

https://twitter.com/MatthewNussbaum/status/965224772543098880

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency

« on: February 17, 2018, 09:07:22 AM »

https://twitter.com/markberman/status/964737911710199808
https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/964864433674752000

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: book recommendations

« on: February 16, 2018, 04:53:46 PM »

I like sci-fi movies. So, I try to get into sci-fi books. But I just can't do it. Just recently failed with Ubik, which takes place in the future (1992) and everything is both futuristic and also coin operated.

So, after that, I read "All the Pretty Horses." It was GREAT. I never knew a Western could be so intellectually stimulating and philosophically interesting. I want to read a bunch more Cormac McCarthy now.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump owns Russia

« on: February 16, 2018, 01:04:44 PM »

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/964575092859637761

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP

« on: February 16, 2018, 01:00:43 PM »

Pays for sex on the reg.

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We got naked + had sex.” As McDougal was getting dressed to leave, Trump did something that surprised her. “He offered me money,” she wrote. “I looked at him (+ felt sad) + said, ‘No thanks - I’m not ‘that girl.’ I slept w/you because I like you - NOT for money’ - He told me ‘you are special.’ ”

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