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UpperWestside

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  1. Nico not shutting up is just strange. Take the all-time L on this trade and just stop talking.
  2. TFG absolutely sent Vance out there to call them peasants as a way to both demean and humiliate their populace, but also as a means of putting himself above a fellow authoritarian leader. TFG has praised Xi for how he runs China with an iron fist, but one thing authoritarians like him want more than anything else is to be at the top of the chart of despots. The language though is reminiscent of how the United States portrayed Japan in the 20's and 30's. We refused to look at them as equals with the Washington Naval Conference being one of the biggest slap in the face moves given to a country in the 20th Century for no other reason than racism playing a large role. That one naval conference set Japan on a path of getting even that ended with a war between the two countries 20 years later. Just wait until TFG starts to pull out some of the insults directed at Japan during those two decades such as how they can't shoot accurately because of how their eyes look. That one is definitely locked and loaded and ready to be used by Vance within the next year or so in order to further demean and dehumanize them.
  3. Luka, even in his pudgy form, is the best player in the league not named Jokic. He can slow down a game and it'll play out to how he wants it to. The guy controls a game better than anyone since, and believe me I hate to invoke this player's name as much as anyone else would, Chris Paul in his prime. Minny does have a deeper team. You guys are better. We have a guy who won a Make-A-Wish dream to play in the NBA in Hayes. I think any level-headed Lakers fan realized that this year was going to be tough sledding in the playoffs without a viable center. You can't just ask a 40 year old LeBron to fill that role consistently in a small ball lineup. I like Reaves quite a bit, but this is a step up for him. It's one thing to Pistol Pete your way through the regular season. Now you have to do it consistently when the lights are the brightest. I would say this series will be a litmus test of sorts for him and whether or not he gets included in trade offers over the summer. I think he can play under the brightest lights, but it's up to him to mentally get over that hump. The best players figure it out. The mentally weak wind up playing on lottery teams their entire career. The Wolves are the better team with an ascendant young star in Edwards. I won't bet against Luka mainly because of seeing him carry Dallas on his back last year. I don't need to tell any of the Mavs fans this since they saw him up close for years. I would bet on LeBron having himself a really good game three followed by the bottom falling out in game 4 for LA and then game 5 deciding who ultimately wins the series.
  4. It’ll go back 2-2.
  5. What I have learned about Doncic in his career is that there are certain players he enjoys humiliating repeatedly. Booker is one, Gobert is another and the Mavs as a franchise are 3rd, but quickly moving up the rankings.
  6. I love drinking coffee. Not a coffee snob other than I stay away from coffee that has a definitively bitter and acidic taste. A couple of the brands here have a smooth flavor and the price has not gone through the roof yet. Sometimes I’ll buy Kcup pods that are on sale. One of the good things about working in a restaurant is access to free coffee, especially if the brand they use tastes good.
  7. Oh the enlisted has plenty of magats, especially the younger guys in their 20’s
  8. I think we are thinking in terms of the world we live in. The world a soldier lives in is one entirely different from ours. Again they have a very clearly defined oath they adhere to. I trust that the people who can make the order to turn against the populace will not do so. I also think that people like McRaven still get updates from friends on what is going on. That would go for Milley as well. Those guys know exactly what is transpiring inside the branches of service. TFG is a paper tiger without the world’s most powerful military doing his bidding. Dictators rely on the armed forces to carry out atrocities for them. I do not believe this will be how it goes. We may have a period of years of fascist morons running the government, but we’ll see I guess. I think in the end we survive, but the rebuild with the world will be going on long after we are all gone. We are not to be trusted, at all.
  9. I get all of this too. I sang in the choir in a black church in The Bronx called Parkchester Baptist. It was a traditional Baptist church and I loved it. A woman was the minister and she was great at delivering a Good Word. That church reminded me of singing in the choir at a black church in Oak Cliff when I was younger. I prefer the older songs and love to sing them.
  10. One of the nicest celebrities I ever met was that faith. Rainn Wilson was so cool to everyone. I didn’t go up to him. He came to me and said hello and shook my hand while I was working. I remember him saying God Bless you to everyone and thanking them for stopping by to say hi while he was having lunch outside on the patio.
  11. I understand you completely and how you feel. I had thought of spending Easter at a church here. Then I decided that God is everywhere so instead I went to the beach for a few hours, got in the water and swam and just enjoyed the morning and thanked God for another day. I have been in spiritual ruts before. Most of my own making. You’ll get past this feeling, but just remember that God is wherever you are. You don’t need to be in a fancy church building to feel God. Keep doing your charity work and stick to the basic tenets of being a Christian according to what Jesus said. Everyday you get the chance to make someone’s life better that may never be able to return the favor. Feel the joy in that and the rest will follow.
  12. I believe that our military stays independent of a political party. There are few things to me that are the bedrock of American society. One of those is our military. They are what provides us the opportunity to live in relative peace at home when people like TFG aren’t in charge. I have maintained that when push comes to shove that they will not see against the American people. If it takes them stepping in once TFG crosses that final red line so be it. Take all the traitors with him in Congress and the Supreme Court and drop them off on Snake Island off the coast of Brazil.
  13. So many cowards in the media. They will be remembered for their complicity when we come out of this eventually.
  14. And that would be the point where we would see the country descend into complete chaos. I will posit that if history is a guide that that would be the point where our military steps in to stop the further degradation of the country by removing TFG. People can laugh and have skepticism, but the commanders in charge of our military take that Constitutional Oath seriously. At that point TFG is an enemy to the American people. I know, I know he’s been that since the moment he announced in 2015. That is more a final straw type deal if that scenario comes to pass.
  15. I don’t think Drudge is a big fan of TFG.
  16. Please rule that presidents can serve more than 2 terms again so he can be pulled out of the presidential “mothball” fleet to defeat dotard in 2028.
  17. I’d be okay with relocating the two to Oklahoma, permanently.
  18. Spent 15 years hanging out in South Dallas. No issues whatsoever understanding anything that was said. That made the movie more fun to watch. However, I would say a good bit of this board should do what you said and wait for subtitles or they’ll be completely lost.
  19. Enjoyable movie, especially in 4DX. Michael B. Jordan is going to have quite the career when he is done. The guy is just good in whatever he is in.
  20. Well you finally did it Texas. You've stolen from everyone else in the state that you could except, you know, children. Congratulations on finally crossing the threshold from run of the mill grifters to now taking advantage of kids. This is the moment that education in Texas ceased to exist in any meaningful form. Sure, there will be teachers who hang in there to do right by kids that they know have no hope, but eventually those teachers will be run off and that's when you really go full 3rd world education. Hopefully everyone that has the ability to get out does. For those that don't hopefully some other states throw a life raft to you to get you out of the cesspool. Oh and I remember saying a couple of years back that I would no longer make fun of Abbott for being in a wheelchair. Well now he's done the thing that angers me the most and that's using children's education to turn a profit while screwing hundreds of thousands of kids over. Hot Wheels you are a trash human being. I don't wish death on you. To the contrary I hope you live to 130 and that you eventually have to meet some of the kids whose lives you messed with. I hope they succeed in spite of you and that one day they come back and get control of the state and make your life a living hell every single moment you are still here you worthless limp-legged clown. I'd say you'd stand up to them, but that tree kinda took care of that a few decades ago. Anyone that supports Abbott I hope a tree finds you as well.
  21. When the bill comes for the United States it is going to be hell to pay from the rest of the world. Generations of people are going to hate the US and I completely understand and agree with how they are going to think of us even if I vehemently oppose the aid being stopped just like almost all of us in this forum.
  22. I need Jesus in the school name for a 3rd time. And your school should only be about teaching kids how to make a brisket. That's it. They want to eat lunch each day? Better show up at 3am ready to cook or go home hungry.
  23. Good choice with the Kiwis. Nice folks who are pretty understanding about the craziness going on here. Same with the Aussies I meet.
  24. The mountains are a maga paradise, but you know there are a few sane people up there. You just have to search a bit. I can recall meeting some people there that definitely were not candidates for the cult. I think that one good idea is to buy a small plot of land up there just as a possible refuge in case you need it. I know land prices are much higher now, but look around and at least see what is available. Some land backs right up into BLM lands so it gives you more room to roam or places to be at in case the entirety of diet breaks down. Hopefully that last part does not come to pass.
  25. Part of me wants to just shrug this post off as a nonsensical rant, but it’s not that simple. Saying get help here does nothing either because there have been too many of these rants from this poster to count. I just hope they find a modicum of peace in their life. No more no less.
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