As far as running for office, while I donāt agree with all your takes, I think you should. Youād have most of our votes. We actually know that you give a fuck.
As far as honest policy discussions or negotiations I think itās fair to say both sides have fucked this issue in the ass royally and that both sides need this issue. As a rallying point. Donāt believe me see the third paragraph:
did any of you protest mass deportations under any administration with a Democrat in office? Because, if not, most peopleās outrage today holds zero weight with me right now. Where does the Cheeto rank in terms of mass deportations over the Presidents of the last 25 years? 35? Would he be this hard ass right now if the border situation over the last four years had not imploded? We all know heās a hard ass but would he be this demonstrative about making sure there is zero entry? And scaring off anyone from even trying? Where were the same or similar protestors under other administrations? Or is it a rule that itās only one sides fault and you just get outraged when that side is in power?
Since I was a kid (yes no shit) I have wanted us to invest south of the border and bring business and commerce there. I have always wanted a reasonable path to citizenship for people but one that makes sense. I have also always wanted to have a secure border. I want people to have to apply for citizenship while they have been granted resident status in this country. And I do think being granted resident status ought to come with conditions as well. I donāt think itās cool people overstay their visas for a decade. I donāt think people should be allowed to cross over to this country by any means without going thru proper channels. I donāt believe any of what I wrote about makes me a xenophobic racist asshole.
I think this should always apply to ALL citizens of other countries no matter the race nor country of origin of the person. I think every single country on this planet has šÆ right to protect and secure their borders and to deny visas or allow visas or to allow or to deny citizenship to whomever they want (donāt want.) Which means based on my being a phantom SK means i probably aināt going to be getting many visas accepted in my lifetime. I donāt see the problem at all in what I just wrote period. I think corporations bear tremendous responsibility for this. I donāt agree with how the current administration is handling this issue AT ALL NOR do I think the previous administration did our country any favors and actually made the situation worse. IMO the previous administration poured gasoline on an already large fire.
Quoting to say there are many good ideas and some when combined may be the right solution to a particular problem. Quoting to say also that there a lot of bad ideas and wrong solutions that FEEL good to say them or to employ them but can and have led to even bigger problems. And some big problems not a soul is willing to compromise on.
what we have here is a lot of wannabe political candidates who donāt have the stones to run for any office of any kind. And I am speaking for myself also.
And while Fit Lump or whatever the shit her knockers are called at least she had the STONES to run for something and won at one point. At least she had the stones. We have a lot of lawyers where when arguing before a Judge there is case precedent and a right way to rule and a wrong way for the Judge to rule based on the law.
But these same posters apply this black and white nonsense and it effects every take on this board and they use these takes to bludgeon anyone who disagrees with them about any issue period,
Teachers and coaches should not do this to young people in their charge. Parents should not if their son or daughter comes home from school say āoh thatās your take on this issue go to your room you Commie/Libtard/Maga assholeā¦the sky is blue and not indigo bc I say it is!ā
we have too many people coasting on whatever shit they whiffed off MSNOW or CNN or Fox News hot take of the hour and have decided thatās enough to bludgeon people with.
Most of us aināt bad mother fuckers, we just want to discuss an issue in a way that might yield real ideas. Automatically putting someone into a fucking box bc they heard or read something and want to discuss it is shit.
Just a few months ago many on this platform said civility is dead and we cannot afford to be civil and we must rise upāso if you NOW want to discuss an issue and find solutions and to compromise itās bc you no longer have the upper hand. No other reason. If you had the upper hand now you wouldnāt want to be open to any new ideas. Some of you went from burn it all down to now wanting to talk about immigration and so forth. Why?
and as far as the current administration: has anyone gone to the Orange Cheetoās office and proposed a solution? Any ideas or is the strategy just to be anti-Cheeto everything and just playing the banjo outside ICE and harassing agents and their families and hoping that might work? Protests can be effective but in the absence of real solutions or proposals they just seem like a bunch of people pissed they arenāt in power. I donāt see many in opposition to the current status quo offering solutions at all, just resistance to what has been offered.
Thatās my take as a PROUD INDEPENDENT and people have the right to hate me for it. I aināt maga and I aināt a socialist and Iām somewhere in the fucking middle on many many issues. But I can be swayed and I admit i can be wrong. I can also be right. same as the rest of you jackholes.
But if anyone wants to provide PROOF or documentation that PROVES that immigration did NOT dramatically rise under the previous administration from a credible accepted source have at it. As I said Iām all eyes and all ears.
Some of you that routinely scold or label or browbeat posters have forgotten something:
it has become quite obvious to most of us on the receiving end of your nonsense that none of you assholes can solve any real issues. yet some of you wield your posts on this board SOLELY to scold or label or browbeat others because some of you truly believe that you stand on some kind of higher moral or ethical ground or intelligence level.
Little secret: YOU DONāT. You donāt have ownership of the right take on every opinion or idea or political position, not a single one of us does. Period.
At most, what some of you self proclaimed experts do is to post knee jerk responses to a post like you have an automatic need to put the poster in a some kind of vile or terrible box. They disagree and donāt endorse your own bullshit so they must be called out and humiliated and scolded. Right?
For those of you who do this: thatās a YOU problem. Those of you who do this bullshit arenāt qualified to judge a hot dog eating contest much less to claim to know what is in the hearts and minds of any other poster with whom you happen to disagree.
Every goddamn time I post anywhere on this god forsaken site I get quoted by at least 4-8 of you fucks either lecturing me or pointing out how stupid I am or putting me or others into some kind of box. No matter whether you are wrong or right about a posterādoesnāt matter. Itās ok to humiliate them or put them into some type of horrible box. Bc you need them to be in it.
for me, this shit stops now. Iām just going to call it out. Iām beyond sick of the bullshit thought police on this board. People who donāt wear a badge but immediately drown out all discussion of every issue. Endorse what I say or you will get accused of being something youāre not. We have had quite enough of this nonsense. Quite enough.
Iād tell you to kiss my ass but some of you self proclaimed thought police have your heads shoved so far up your asses that all you see is brown. So Any response to my post will just be dripping with your own self deluded bullshit anyway.
so fire away assholes. šš¼
Yeah I snuck a ton of members from my international serial killer chat group in. They are harmless. They just want to study serial killers in the home states they came from. Nothing to worry about.
All kidding aside, our country over the last couple of years has allowed the floodgates to be open. Too late to pretend we didnāt let in people capable of carrying out a terrorist attack either. And Iām well aware we have enough homegrown assholes of our own to deal with already. Damn.
āThough the fictionalized Being Charlie is ānot my life,ā as Nick Reiner told People, the family confirmed at the time of its release that it closely mirrored their real-life dynamics.
āIād rather have you alive and hating me than dead on the streets,ā the filmās Rob Reiner figure, David, says in a climactic confrontation with his son, Charlie. āSo what do you want me to do?ā
āYou donāt have to do anything,ā Charlie replies. Then he suggests that mental illness is the real problem, not drugs. āIt was never about the drugs. All I ever wanted was a way to kill the noise. But the more I used the louder it got.ā
Nick Reiner told AOL in 2016 that he ādidnāt bond a lotā with his father when he was growing up. But Rob Reiner said at the time that āour relationship had gotten so much closerā while making the film.
āI said it to his face. I'll say it on the air: He was the heart and soul of the film and any time I would get an opportunity to work with him I would do it,ā Rob told NPR. āHe's brilliant and talented and he's going to figure out his path.ā
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Huge deal for my momās age group as watching the soaps was a 5 day a week routine. Wasnāt that Christopher Cross (not written for the couple) used for Luke and Laura? This wasnāt just a coupling of two characters on a show it was THE couple. How sad. š¢ I was never into their love story, bc of problematic storylines like rape which I still cannot believe they did even back then.
RIP. š¹
https://people.com/anthony-geary-dead-general-hospital-luke-8609934
The actor died on Sunday, Dec. 14 following complications from an operation three days prior, TV Insider reported. āIt was a shock for me and our families and our friends," Gearyās husband, Claudio Gama, told the outlet in a statement. "For more than 30 years, Tony has been my friend, my companion, my husband.ā
The thing is the mass murder/shooting in Australia happenedāwe have all seen the clips and the heroic actions of Ahmed. And yet people will deny it happened. That I will never understand. It happened. Admitting the holocaust or the horrible events of October 7th is something they cannot do, admitting further that those atrocities were wrong is something they cannot do. Because I guess it invalidates their own hatred? Own victimhood? Itās bizarre to me that we still have people to this day all over the world that are denying October 7th or the Holocaust even happened. And I suppose they will deny the events of Sunday too. Damn. š¢
I will always love that it was Robās romance with Michele (RIP to both š¹) that inspired him to change the ending of When Harry Met Sally so the two characters would get together in the end. I cannot find any humor in any of this and I know itās surly but damn. And if itās true that their own son whom they helped in every way for years murdered them both with a knife⦠š damnit.
Heard same rumors and hope itās not true about the son. What a terrible day. My initial thought was bc itās the first day of Hanukah that it was an unknown bad actor but now am seeing way too many rumors about the son. So tragic. Feel terribly for their family. Robās incredible body of work gave a lot of joy to so many. Solid work. RIP to him and his lovely wife. Fuck.
Just from an article to give more info:
āLAFD paramedics were called to the home on Chadbourne Avenue around 3:30 p.m.
Within a few minutes, LAPD officers were dispatched to the home for a report of an, "ambulance death investigation," which is LAPD terminology when officers are called by firefighters to the discovery of a death.
Neighbors said Reiner and his wife live in the home, and property records indicate they own the home.ā
Two people aged the same ages as Rob Reiner and his wife (names not mentioned) found deceased in Reinerās house. Oh no. š„
Damnit
https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/14/two-dead-bodies-found-rob-reiner-house/
another link also names are not mentioned.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/2-found-dead-at-brentwood-mansion-owned-by-director-rob-reiner/3815886/?amp=1
I mean this shit with rivers isnāt sustainable but fucking A Seattle is a good team that they are playing Not a bad start for someone who hasnāt played professionally in 1800 plus days and is kinda overweight and old and shit. He looks happy though. Good for him if they can hold.
I mean Rivers just needs to not turn that ball over and Indy is a good enough team. What pissed me off is they kept playing Daniel Jones these past weeks on a fractured leg basically and then he gets an Achilles on the other last week. They should have let him recuperate and played another QB. Instead he couldnāt plant and throw well and they lost games while he was pretty injured to beging with.
TD Rivers go old man go!
Yes officially eliminated and there is no path period even if they won out their last few games. Their loss combined with other teams winning sealed it. Done.
Minshew will still always be a cool story. As big of a fan as I was early on with Mahomes and I was an huge believer and fan and the Chiefs, Iām over it now and just want them eliminated and Taylor swift out of the post season. Lol. š I just fucking over the ref calls they routinely get and want fresh new blood in the playoffs this year. Period.
bye chiefs. Was watching the RZ as I was typing and it was behind yall. Bye bye.