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OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys

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  1. I like that he did this on venmo, which is obnoxiously not private and requires a memo line on each. Venmo: “For?” Greenberg: “Underage 😽(wink wink if you know what I mean). But not in Florida. In another state. Which requires interstate travel.”
  2. Murdering and .... Murdering and .. Murdering and ..... Murdering and murdering and Murdering and .... .... ... illegally voting. Fucking weirdos. Saw this story when he was arrested. What a fun twist.
  3. miss, hit. I actually didn’t really think Bacon was bad, but he just sort of stuck out a little from the rest of the cast like he didn’t really fit in. I googled afterward and evidently he was a last second replacement for Michael Keaton, which would have been pretty excellent. Evidently Keaton got into an argument with Clint Eastwood and left the set.
  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/11/jeff-flake-liz-cheney-republican-party/ Opinion in WaPo from Jeff Flake Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2019. “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” — George Orwell Near the beginning of the document that made us free, our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” There you have it. From the very beginning of America, our freedom has been predicated on truth. For without a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, our democracy will not last. On Wednesday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will most likely lose her leadership post within the House Republican Conference, not because she has been untruthful. Rather, she will lose her position because she is refusing to play her assigned role in propagating the “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. Cheney is more dedicated to the long-term health of our constitutional system than she is to assuaging the former president’s shattered ego, and for her integrity she may well pay with her career. Story continues below advertisement No, this is not the plot of a movie set in an asylum. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your contemporary Republican Party, where today there is no greater offense than honesty. It seems a good time to examine how we got to a place where such a large swath of the electorate (70 percent of Republican voters, according to polling) became willing to reject a truth that is so self-evident. This allergy to self-evident truth didn’t happen all at once, of course. This frog has been boiling for some time now. The Trump period in American life has been a celebration of the unwise and the untrue. From the ugly tolerance of the pernicious falsehood about President Barack Obama’s place of birth to the bizarre and fanatical fable about the size of inauguration crowds, to the introduction of the term “alternative facts” into the American lexicon, the party’s steady embrace of dishonesty as a central premise has brought us to this low and dangerous place. Story continues below advertisement I don’t know what will happen to Cheney politically after Wednesday. For me, I knew that I couldn’t support Trump’s election or reelection after his seminal falsehood about Obama’s birth certificate, to say nothing of the cascade of untruths, from the trivial to the consequential, that followed daily. I had hoped that, over time, my Republican constituents would feel differently about the former president, or at least value a Republican who pushed back, and that I could stand for reelection in 2018 with a reasonable chance of surviving a Republican primary. It soon became apparent that Republican voters wanted someone who was all in with a president that I increasingly saw as a danger to the republic. That could not be me, so I spoke out instead and didn’t stand for reelection. When I became an unwitting dissident in my party by speaking in defense of self-evident truths, I assumed that more and more of my colleagues would follow me. I remain astonished that so few did. Congresswoman Cheney, I know how alone you must be feeling. But just know that history keeps the score, not Kevin McCarthy or Elise Stefanik. In January 2018, three years before the Capitol insurrection, I said the following on the Senate floor: Story continues below advertisement “Mr. President, let us be clear. The impulses underlying the dissemination of such untruths are not benign. They have the effect of eroding trust in our vital institutions and conditioning the public to no longer trust them. The destructive effect of this kind of behavior on our democracy cannot be overstated.” Three years later, it’s clear that I didn’t know the half of it. The destructive effect of the president’s behavior — and the willingness of Republican elected officials to indulge, excuse, defend, justify and, in many cases, just roll with it — has taken a devastating toll. It is elementary to have to say this, but we did not become a great nation by believing or espousing nonsense, or by embracing lunacy. And if my party continues down this path, we will not be fit to govern. Story continues below advertisement Cheney has proved her fitness, and today it seems that adherents to the “big lie” will cast her out. Hold your head high, congresswoman. Those of us who believe in American democracy and who live in objective reality are grateful that you have chosen to take a stand for truth — self-evident truth — regardless of the consequences
  5. do any of these pipe bombs blow up into funny shapes?
  6. Strange participation trophy smack. But re: the first tweet, isn’t that just a factor of there not being a huge delta between women and men in the Republican Party? So women plus anything would be over half.
  7. I'm starting to tentatively root for it. I think he can't win but with him off the ballot I think we are in a real threat of backsliding based on lack of voter enthusiasm.
  8. It's not raw score, its based on the delta against a future without him. Will they do better without him? No. These "feelings" get them to the polls and get money in the coffers. Would Rubio have beaten Biden? Or some troll like Hawley? The average redneck wouldn't give two shits about them and they'd bring down the whole party. They are at a point where they don't have any policy ideas, and Trump takes up so much oxygen he can hide all that. No one else can.
  9. Uh, no thanks. We are here for eExperts, not actual experts.
  10. Also, it’s quaint to think he’d do the same today. Who cares what’s in the news about him? His fanboys will interpret it as something great.
  11. Interesting cartoon, but very opaque. I see it shows a fox in a henhouse. Is there anything here that might give me a hint as to what it’s getting at? Ah! Yes! The title is Fox in a Henhouse. Now we’re on the same page.
  12. Lol. “you’re not here for a, you know, very specific crime are you? no reason.”
  13. Add the tens while peeking at the ones to see if I’ll be carrying a one. Then get the last digit from the ones 4 + 2 + (is there an extra +1? Yes. Then +1) Tens place is 7 8 + 7, last digit = 5, so ones place is 5.
  14. He said standing. That’s a law word. What more do you want?
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