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UpperWestside

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  1. Would you want your child shaking hands with a traitor? What a blessing that he left early.
  2. It’d be great if UEFA and CONMEBOL just said screw you and went and had their own World Cup. Even just UEFA leaving the competition would totally FUBAR the whole thing.
  3. I have said here I believe in the WNBA thread that I believe the NBA investment in the sport monetarily is a rounding error to them. I have never had an issue with the NBA keeping the league afloat and I think that’s been great that they do it. I want girls to be able to see women playing the game at a high level and to perhaps have someone they will look up to. Clark fits that bill as the first real generational talent that is bringing fans to the arena and more people tuning in and watching the games when they are streamed or on cable. I hope that Juju comes back 100 percent healthy because she is part of a select group that can ball and make it look easy. Bueckers is one this year that can also get it. I believe Collier organized that Unrivaled league. She is clearly killing it so far this season. The WNBA should pounce on promoting her. I am not optimistic that they will, but they should I think that all of the players in the WNBA should be thankful for the uptick in attention paid to the sport instead of some of the ridiculous things said because of the color of Clark’s skin. She plays the game in a way that the rest of the league doesn’t. It’s fun to watch. Find other players who fit the bill and promote the heck out of them and grow the sport here and abroad. I guess the best phrase to use is strike while the iron is hot.
  4. His mobility in the biggest stunt in the whole movie was just ridiculous. I have to give that man credit for going out there and performing the stunt several times as well as the months and months of preparation it took to pull it off. I do not think we will ever see another actor or actress do this. As a performer he’s just incredible.
  5. I’m laying on the beach and I can’t stop laughing at this post. This is the best one in this entire thread. Throwing in Romanowski was the icing on the cake.
  6. I am a fairly reserved person that does not talk a great deal when I am not working. However if someone came up to me and asked me how I would go about messaging my response would be "If elected I will on day one go after every single elected official that supported a traitor in the White House. I will also make it a point to make sure that our attorney general does their job this time around and makes it clear that an attack on democracy is an attack on Americans as well. These people will be dealt with in court and they won't have to wait long to face the music." I do not want to hear candidates from the Democratic Party ever again tell me they are working with anyone from the party filled with grifters and traitors. Just full stop on that. It is not a winner to try to work with liars and thieves who willingly stood by while the president raked in billions from foreign governments that then went into his own personal coffers. People who allowed that to happen are cowards who do not deserve to work in government and honestly should be in prison for a complete dereliction of the oath that they took to the Constitution. Whenever that day comes that Democrats can flush out thousands upon thousands of government officials at the national, state and local level, well, that will be when this country starts anew. No one can predict the when of that. The how is the simple part. People vote with their wallet (And obviously not always wisely) and they get angry and get in the streets when the wallet runs dry. You can run the gamut of history and see that happen repeatedly. We are no exception to this. We just have bigger and more dangerous weapons at our disposal with our military. Social issues are extremely important to me and almost all of you, but you beat these cowards on issues related to a voter's bank account and how they can do better for their family. Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese fascist movement of the 1920's and 30's all did it. They all appealed to how they could get their fellow citizens to believe they could make them wealthier as a collective. It was all lies of course, but people will believe exceptional lies when they feel they are not getting what they deserve. TFG just lied and lied and lied and lied some more to get votes. It worked because we live in an era when our populace should be the most educated in history with all the access we have to information. Instead we are the laziest we have ever been at getting factual information. We give people a lower standard of education on purpose. Our monetary policy, as astutely pointed out here by most of you, benefits those with the biggest wallets. This happens when people BELIEVE THE BIG LIE. There is no other way for billionaires to bilk the system without the support of millions of average Americans who think they will do better under an authoritarian regime. By the time they find out that's not the case it's too late. We are where Italy was at in the late 20's, but we have far more money being taken by those who need it the least. Until we see millions of people out in the streets demanding that that money be returned to the average American household nothing is going to change.
  7. Clark got a new one pissed at her yesterday in 2022 1st overall pick Rhyne Howard. Howard decided to attempt to give her the business. I will go to the points you have made about how these women are upset with Clark and say that they have been doing the same thing she is doing. Well let's start with the 2022 1st overall pick and her stats since entering the league. The team has a 49-70 overall record since she joined. Howard stats. Keep in mind that she's a 6'2" guard. That's a big guard in the WNBA. She averages 17pts 4.6 reb and 3.2 ast per game for her career. She shoots 37 PERCENT from the field. 34 percent from deep and eFG of 45.9 She has a 16.9 PER for her career. 37 percent from a high usage guard that apparently also feels like she's getting screwed over by all of the attention on Clark. Those are Angel Reese numbers. I don't think I need to say how much better Clark's numbers are than those or that at the moment Clark is sporting a 25.2 PER this season. These players are so incredibly dumb and then to have morons like Stephen A. Smith saying they have a point (They don't) makes all of this so laughable. Sit and watch a game with Clark on the floor and then watch the game without her on the floor. The difference in play is astounding. Clark is just better than any player in WNBA history. It's not even that close. To paraphrase a quote from Bobby Knight. Clark is like General Patton out there. All of the ones complaining about her are a bunch of Colonel Klinks.
  8. Haliburton got pissed around that time about the overrated poll. When he kicked it up a notch he took everyone else on the roster with him.
  9. Definitely go see this one. I will go back to watch it in 4DX. Saw it in IMAX, but this feels like a 4DX movie. The time I had today was too early to see it in that format. IMAX was still really good and I really enjoyed one of the characters that was brought back. Real full circle moment that was actually really cool because of something they said to Ethan.
  10. @Bateshorn nailed it on the 3rd reply in the thread.
  11. I was watching the game today. This was the biggest thing I took away from watching that game. Clark gave her teammates two chances in the last 30 seconds to win it. They failed both times. She should have forced Atlanta to double her before giving the ball up the first time. The 2nd time she should have been given the ball back after the inbounds play. Overall it was like watching a player get dropped into a game from 20 years in the future. Her skill level was so far ahead of everyone on the court. She makes split second decisions on offense that no women’s basketball player can make. It is what makes her so popular with her fans. It is also what creates so much jealousy. It’s a completely unnecessary jealousy. It’s not her fault she possesses a skill level that no one else in the league has. #24 for the Dream, Brionna Jones, moved at the speed of Kendrick Perkins. I mean I was watching and trying to figure out exactly how she is in the WNBA. It was somewhat amazing to see just how advanced Clark is two games into her 2nd year in comparison to established players. If the other players in this league would just get behind her they’d make a windfall of money doing so. I am not confident the players on other teams in this league are smart enough to do that.
  12. I would concur with all of that. As a society their mentality has been a mess now for several centuries. It’s no wonder that democracy got less than 10 years when you see what the average Russian is used to. What I looked at for the eight decades since the war was the Russian World War II cult. In a way it’s fascinating how that cult took hold in society, but at the same time hanging your hat on the war’s outcome has not gone so well for their nation as a whole. That’s kinda Russia in a nutshell. Even when given a chance to advance and modernize across the board they just stick with what they know so here we are with their newest despot. Putin won’t be the last one they have. It would take the western world going in there during the next Russian societal and governmental collapse and remaking the entire country. Won’t happen, but that’s what it would take.
  13. FIFY It's a full-blown cult. It does not matter what a Democrat actually believes, says or does. If their orange god says something then that's gospel truth to the GQP. How you fight through that is above my pay grade, but my hope is that leaders like AOC, Crockett, Pritzker, Moore, Sanders and many others across the country have a plan for this.
  14. I played that game a month after launch because a friend asked me to join him on the Skullcrusher server. I took a NE hunter and did MM so I could have a bunch of HP while I sat at stables on the GM grind. My pet was a cat from Winterspring and I named him Vince Young and went against an Orc hunter for months who named his pet Reggie Bush. Played for 8 years and then one more during Covid when there was nothing to do so I joined to play Vanilla again. I am guessing @immamac is an UD rogue or Tauren Druid as his original character.
  15. At this point I do not care if every Tesla catches on fire. Just a completely worthless car company that needs to be shuttered. If you have one of these vehicles from America’s worst grifter I wish spontaneous combustion on it.
  16. Everything that happens in regimes like this does come across as avoidable, but to the folks in it they are swept up in the euphoria of the movement. In a way none of it is avoidable when millions of people leave common sense at the door and go full blown cult members. It sucks, but that’s where we are at. You just attempt to mitigate the damage as much as possible and do what you can to enjoy life with those you love.
  17. Mexico's version of the Trojan Horse really needs some work.
  18. It's not that Americans are not seeing it. It's that even people who didn't vote for him do not care about that as a priority. Many have families and are doing all they can just to make it day-to-day. When your society functions like ours is currently it will either keep following the moron leading it off the cliff and into the ocean or it lets everything run its course. I think using history as a guide that this will be a hard fall and a massive rebuild of the country on every level. We will make it to the other side of all of this, but when or how is anyone's guess. Just know that regimes like this do not last. The collapse of them can be catastrophic, but we will make it through. It's the repairing all of the damage for the next 20-30 years just to get a reset with the rest of the world that will be the hardest.
  19. Reese is a loose cannon that will never play on a team in the WNBA that can win a title until she figures out that she is not a 1st or 2nd option. Clark has the entire top floor rent free. The foul was not excessive, but she did know what she was doing. Meanwhile Clark puts up another triple double and pistol whips the Sky by 35. One player is an all-time talent that will win multiple titles and the other can’t figure out the mystery of the successful layup.
  20. Hook it right up into my veins. The only team in sports I want to see fail is THOSE GUYS. Good on the Knicks for obliterating them today.
  21. The Knicks being good and doing it with the Nova guys make them a fun team to watch. The Pacers are really cool too though.
  22. I only stop through here anytime I want a good laugh or to see who our future grifters will be. If these people would just admit that crypto is a gigantic pyramid scheme I'd have a modicum of respect for their hustle. Trying to pretend this is anything other than that is a disingenuous lie at best and outright thievery at worst.
  23. I spent a bit of time in the last week sharing some of what I know about history with a couple of younger people. It was kinda cool to see the light go on for each of them in learning some things they did not really know anything about. I think that all of you are really intelligent folks. If you are not having a great day find someone else that is not as well and teach them something they know very little about. It’ll make you feel better and you will have made someone else’s day better by educating them about something new. There are days where I’d just assume not leave my apartment or talk to anyone. I’ll do it because I do not know who I will meet or what I may learn about this great big world from someone else.
  24. Look on the bright side. You won’t have a shortage of friends here to represent you in court when one of Elmo’s Nazi taxis gives you the Hot Wheels treatment.
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