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  1. 37 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Shouldn't OSHA have guidelines on this?

    Probably, although the local laws are probably more restrictive.  And any decent size contractor has a strong motivation in keeping their Recordable Incident Rate low.  But, the unions may be pushing rules that provide some additional break time.  And that's not a terrible thing.   

  2. 8 hours ago, The Dog said:

    🤮

    The last two cut off: 

    ...they were 16 but looked 20.

    xii:   "I think of you as my daughter.  Is that weird?" - which Giuliani said will engaging in sexual contact with Ms. Dunphy.  

     

  3. 4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Yes, right wing talking points can be effective because they're overly simplistic and they count on the other side not being able to counter act them with similarly simple talking points.  Newsome knocked it out of the park by not following standard Dem answers.  Hence why Newsome saying that other countries have worse inflation rate so how is that Biden's fault if not demonstrating how well Biden is doing.  Or that Biden has created more jobs than the last 3 GOP presidents combined. Or that even if Biden's job creation is a post-COVID bump why is the unemployment rate at a historic low?

    You can't reply with a doctorate level thesis about why the GOP speaker is wrong. Have a few canned sentences that even a moron can understand.  When you make a point, don't let them switch to another topic. Force them to reply to your response.  Newsom made Hannity look like a 1st grader.

    As far as Newsom on the big stage, he will have to address the question on "do you want America to be California."  That GOP message will play in swing states. He will need to show how CA is in better than GA, AZ, WI, MI or PA. You can't be defensive. Instead he would need to stand proud of CA. 

    EDIT: I think a Dem CA governor could be elected President. Newsom's biggest problem is that he was the SF mayor. That's different since even liberal Dems struggle to explain SF.

    I think you are still giving people way too much credit for tracking anything.  "My Aunt Buela went to LA to be on the Price is Right, and she said there was a homeless guy pissing on a toddler.  A toddler!  Ain't no way I want that for America!"  That's the level of political discourse in America.  

    Great, he compared our inflation rate against the UK.  Do you think Hannity's audience believes the UK (or any European country) is the baseline?  The baseline is whatever they think it should be.  

     

     

  4. 18 hours ago, Foosters said:

    Going to be honest, it sounds like you're just regurgitating right wing talking points. Organized theft rings? High Taxes? 

     

    As we learned with Hillary, right wing talking points are effective in winning elections.  There were a ton of independents and even Democrats who believed, or at least half-believed, the absurd bullshit the right wing nutcases had been saying for years about Clinton.  There are more who believe that California is failing.  Shit, there was an article in the Atlantic about SF being a failed state.  Citing reality or a nuanced understanding of reality doesn't really matter.  It would be really hard to work through those talking points in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.   

    But, California is extremely productive for fundraising.  With his connections, he would build a massive war chest in the primaries. 

  5. 1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

    CNN showed a graphic this morning that only 48% of all Americans polled agree with the indictments. It just bottles the mind

    48% agreed/35% disagreed/17% didn't know 

    It's really tough to win a general election while supporting Trump with those numbers.   

    But, for Republicans, it's 67% who disagree with the charges. 

    Hard to win a primary if you support the rule of law here. 

     

     

     

     

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  6. 14 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Here's some nightmare fuel for those who fear the evil Nazi dead:

    I don't know what's creepier: the skull still wearing his Stahlhelm, or the fact that people have been drinking water from the reservoir for 70 years.

    That's got to be a weird dynamic.  Do you celebrate when your dead Nazi great-grandfather is returned?  What's the protocol here? 

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  7. 18 minutes ago, ABSR said:

    But they DON'T need buffer states.  They say they do, but NATO has not invaded anyone.  Others have begged to join NATO and to join the EU and free world/free economy, but there is no imminent invasion except by Russia against anyone it thinks it can bully.

    And without Crimea they still have access to warm water ports on the Black Sea as they have other territory that is on the Black Sea.

    The real problem is that they are aggy, and have the little brother, red headed step child, small man syndromes where they want everyone to think and treat them like they are the greatest at everything and bow down to them.  Meduza had an article where they got quotes from Russians who did not and don't support the Ukranian war, but then say... "But now that we are in the war we HAVE TO WIN", even as they say how horrible what they are doing is. 

    I am sure not everyone thinks this way, but it is somewhat of an ingrained Russian cultural perspective.

     

    https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/06/03/the-only-thing-worse-than-war-is-losing-one?utm_source=email&utm_medium=briefly&utm_campaign=2023-06-06

    The potential of the Ukrainian economy is a bigger threat to the Russian power brokers than NATO.  Ideally, Ukraine wins this war, they continue to make progress in countering corruption, the west pours a shitload of investment into the country, the average Ukrainian has their standard of living greatly increased, and the average Russian watches it all from a very close distance, both geographically and culturally.  At that point, all the discussions on arm treaties and pipelines won't make any difference.  It will boil down to people wanting a better life for themselves and their children, and Putin being in the way of that.  

    [I assume this has already been said a bunch of times, a bunch of different ways, on this thread.]

     

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  8. 22 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

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    Edit: Wait, I see, you're posting something about the Nord Stream pipeline. Unfortunately, it only appears for a second on my computer and then disappears. So I have no idea what you're posting. Presuming it is about the leaked intelligence that connects it to Ukraine, I don't see why that should have much credence. It was apparently an anonymous source that couldn't be corroborated. If Russia wanted to blame Ukraine, setting up intelligence to blame Ukraine before you the explosion would be a good way to do it. 

    1. Pretty much all human intelligence sources are anonymous to the public.  The European spy agency who fed the CIA the information knows who it is. It's not like it was posted on a message board.    

    2. That doesn't necessarily mean the Ukrainians did it.  It would be surprising if they didn't have conceptual plans drawn up on how to blow up the pipelines.  But it does demonstrate they perceived some advantages in destroying it.  

    3. I still absolutely do not fucking care if they did.  They are fighting for their lives. 

     

     

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  9. And while you know that Tuco doesn't fuck possums, as an attorney you want Tuco to go on the record stating that he doesn't fuck possums, so that people are then asking "wait, why is Tuco talking about fucking possums? He's denying it, but if he doesn't fuck possums, why is he even talking about it in the first place?  Does he fuck possums?"

    It easier when they play dead.
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  10. 46 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    OK, first, there's a vast difference between TwiceHorn's "There's no guarantee that this will happen" and going full fatalistic "nothing will happen."

    Secondly, it's absolutely fair to say that the "nothing is going to happen" dumbwits are showing levels of intelligence inappropriately low for a chordate because literally every argument you made, right here in this post, yet again, has already been addressed, beaten down, torn apart and shredded.

    It is possible that nothing will happen. But if nothing happens, it is not going to be for the reasons you're saying. It's going to be because trials are by their nature unpredictable, because any time you get any case in front of 12 people you cannot possibly know the outcome, what judge you'll get, how he'll handle the case. Just about every other so-called "justification" from the "nothing will happen" crowd makes me wonder if you find yourselves regularly outsmarted by nearby garden snails.

    Now, I understand.  You think there is a reasonable chance that nothing will happen, but, in such a situation, the people who said nothing would happen are still stoopid, because they didn't correctly map out why nothing happened.  Sure "people are involved" has been shredded, but "any time you get any case in front of 12 people you can't possibly know the outcome..." is the kind of insightful, hard-hitting, analysis I come to this board for.  

    Seriously, invest less in convoluted insults.  They aren't paying off. 

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  11. 43 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    This is so important. 

    An opinion that Trump won't face consequences is merely a prediction of an outcome. Fine.

    Suggesting that action is pointless because one cannot guarantee a suitable resolution is poison.

    Anyone saying impeachment was pointless because Trump wouldn't be convicted was playing into exactly what Rimbo describes. The impeachment served a purpose at a number of levels. At the very least it proved how vile and traitorous the GOP has become.

    Don't give in to facile hopelessness. 

    I think you are extrapolating way too much.  I'm certainly not saying this shit shouldn't be pushed as far as it can be pushed.  But, calling the "nothing is going to happen" crowd stupid is fucking asinine.  There is plenty of shit that should have stuck, but didn't.  And, as much as I may appreciate the legal analysis, the reality is there is no precedent - legally or politically - for sending an expresident or future candidate to prison.  The legal consequences here aren't like some trigonometric proof we can work through in a vacuum.  People are involved.  Politics are involved.  I certainly hope Trump goes to prison and I recognize that is one of the several possible outcomes.  But if the last six years have demonstrated anything, it's there is wide chasm between logic and reality.   

    Y'all believe he is going to prison.  Cool.  I hope you're right.  You want to throw shit at everyone who would lay money the other way?  Go fuck yourself.  Not everyone has to agree with you.  

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  12. See, if I were y'all, I'd be concerned about historical parallels.
    Hitler didn't gain control of Germany until AFTER his prison stay.

    …after serving nine months of a five year sentence.
  13. i mean TwiceHorn sitting here showing y'all the tooth y'all put under your collective pillow last night and the roll of quarters where the money that replaced it came from and the fingerprints on the pillow when he lifted your head up to make the exchange, and y'all are still screaming that you still believe that it was the tooth fairy
    it's comical at this point

    You seem very concerned about whether people think Trump will have any consequences. Not sure why.

    Question for the board: let’s assume Trump is convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. How confident are you that Biden wouldn’t pardon him prior to that sentence starting? 100%? 75%?
  14. 2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    Those of you who keep saying this... are y'all even paying attention?

    Yeah.  For the last 7 years or so. What channel were you watching?

    I would think Trump's most solid legal defense would be to claim that he is a lying piece of shit.  His vulnerability to prosecution is based on him speaking honestly to people in a room.  He could have been looking at a Denny's menu and claiming it was secret war plans.  Would that really seem unlikely or out of place considering what we know about him?  Shit, they could bring in a couple hundred million character witnesses who would testify that he just says stupid shit all the time, and for no particular reason. 

    I doubt Trump would make such a claim, which makes me smile a bit. 

  15. On 5/27/2023 at 5:49 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    Frozen conflict, such that Russians are invading Russia and discovering that Russia is a paper tiger without adequate numbers to defend their border?

    Frozen?  Who here would have taken "frozen" at the start of the invasion?  History is full of invaded countries that simply maintained continuous resistance eventually resulting in the defeat of a superpower. A stalemate is just another version of a Russian embarrassment.  The idea that Ukraine is capable of result cleaner than that is just a testament to how badly Russia fucked up.  "Ukrainian counteroffensive liberates Crimea" was not on anyone's bingo card at the start of this shit - certainly not on Putin's nor the average Russian's.  Now it's a real possibility.  

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  16. Note that in this one, the Step 1 entity is the Step 4 entity.
    FvxRJE3WwAAagAC?format=jpg&name=900x900
    So, you can collapse all that conspiratorial shit into:
    CEFC Infrastructure pays Owasco PC $100k.

    So, this nefarious plot started after Biden was no longer VP and prior to him running for Presidency. The Chinese are so sneaky.
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  17. 34 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    I think Rudy's best shot is the "She was working for me!  What did she expect?" defense.

    I mean, to a certain degree, I buy that.  She claims she was offered $1M per year as a business development manager.  Really?  I assume Rudy G is basically a one horse stable at this point.  I also assume Rudy doesn't need much help in getting his name out there.  Does anyone believe that $1M per year is the going rate for a BD manager in that situation?

    I like that her website includes her modeling work. 

    Am I being too cynical here?  

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  18. 14 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    So I can’t be the only one who’s kinda wondering how Tucker thinks white men fight, right?

    I mean, right?

    Yeah, a lynch mob would never gang up on someone.  

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  19. 18 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    I've got my views and you have yours. It's all good. 

    Stop being a twat.  It's a discussion board and you've got probably 50+ posts in this thread.  Don't act like you're above it all when your complete bullshit is called out. If you don't want to talk about it, then stop talking about it.  It's pretty fucking simple.  

  20. On 4/22/2023 at 8:33 AM, TreatyOak said:

    Well, truthfully, you got me there good, and seriously, congrats on your success and I hope your project is a great success! You were the one who started the insult parade, which is not like you.
     

    Regardless, I concepted and wrote our commercials, and participated in shooting, editing, color correcting, etc, for international brands that Hollywood directors chose to shoot for our NYC ad agencies for over 3 decades and also worked w big Hollywood talent, some before they got famous and some after. As someone who has worked extensively on shoots, I do think Baldwin is culpable. I know that’s not a popular view here but who here is surprised that the powerful Hollywood player somehow got his charges dropped while the others didn’t?

    Truth

     

    Cool. Did you figure out that the role of film "producer"  doesn't really exist for commercials?  In film, a major element is financing - convincing people to invest in the film because it will sell enough tickets.  That just doesn't exist for a commercial.  I'm sure there are people with the title "producer", but it is obviously not the same role.  I mean, I shot a couple music videos, and there was someone with the title "producer" for those, but her main role was to get the donuts and beer.  I'm going to take a wild guess and say Baldwin never brought donuts and beer for the crew. Fucker.  

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  21. [twice]yeah but since thomas didn't explicitly say he was giving judgements in exchange for gifts, there's absolutely nothing we can do about it because the judiciary is without fault[/horn]

    Do you think that statement (the first part) is incorrect?
    Fuck, the courts have backed up that politicians can profit from their positions as long as they don’t exchange “official acts” for compensation. (See Governor McDonnell.). Acknowledging the fucked up system is a necessary precursor to changing it.
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  22. What is amazing to me is we are still talking about disclosure rather than ethics of act itself. Sure, Thomas not disclosing it is a red flag he knew how unethical it was. But disclosing it doesn’t cure the problem.

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