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Gatorubet

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  1. You say that name two more times and I’ll…..!! I imagine him driving the country in his RV, intently studying the rules of every new campground, searching for some ambiguity so that he can provoke an event to create a reason to file another lawsuit.
  2. I believe it has to do with the number of news copters with cameras, per capita…
  3. Never grows old…
  4. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/12/missouri-paid-sick-leave-repeal You could always ask Josh Hawley to look under his sofa coaches for change. He seems like a caring guy.
  5. Yeah. I haven’t read the suit, so I don’t even know the basis for her blathering. I think Kentucky has a one-year statute of limitations for anything non-auto, and as far as I know, she has no official capacity now. I focused on standing because I couldn’t understand why some mutt faced MAGA can object to gay marriage because she’s three Bud Lights in. If I recall correctly, the state changed the law to hold that clerks don’t have to sign off on marriage licenses, which sort of mooted her last dumbass attempt. So if she’s not a clerk now, and she has no official duties requiring her to be involved in gay marriage at all, it seemed to be like she was just yelling at clouds. And nah - I’m not interested in it enough to read about her lawsuit. Just another many times married Christian who ignores what Jesus said about divorce and focuses instead on gay marriage… which Jesus had nothing to say about at all.
  6. Is standing no longer a thing? Or am I too dim to figure out that it is what Roberts says it is?
  7. i’m sure our friends in Canada are going to shake this off, and they will be doing yuuuuge amounts of business with us soon.
  8. “Tariff a little, delay a little, tariff a little, delay a little - cheep, cheep, cheep (talk a lot…delay a little more…)”
  9. His screen name is “Hate”?
  10. Quit whining, asshole, you wanted change - and you got change! But at least you and your employees had a lot of fun sharing Facebook posts about illegals going to Alligator Alcatraz. That, and thoughts and prayers, should be enough to make it through the coming stagflation.
  11. Engineering and business majors? I generally agree. Although I could never set up a little political science shop on the corner and make a living, the older I get the more I value the traditional liberal arts education I received at UF. Being required to take sociology and history and psychology and humanities credits with my poli-sci courses - I feel that gave me a better chance to learn critical thinking and to more easily understand when you are being bullshitted in a political situation. Granted, job opportunities were more law school or rental car counter or barista due to that. I remember talking to an engineer neighbor a long time ago about some Charlie Daniels political screed that the neighbor loved. I laughed and asked him if he knew anything about rhetoric or if he knew anything about logical fallacies. I told him he should study rhetoric so he could instantly recognize things in the Charlie Daniels manifesto (that contained several “no true Scotsman”statements, and referenced “wine drinking liberals”, etc.) I told him once you recognize how rhetoric and fallacies were put out there to deceive and manipulate you, you will instantly have a better idea who to trust and what information to discard or what to pursue in a validity search. To be clear, I’m not saying that is the only way to be a critical thinker, or that only people with a liberal arts education are critical thinkers. But it has been my experience that having the skill to solve engineering problems with physics and mathematics (courses I could never pass in 1000 years) does not translate as well to understand when you are being manipulated and grifted by people like Trump. Through no fault of their own - or their education - they are more susceptible to being victims of the type of rhetoric they often fall for. Because they are simply unaware that rhetoric is a system and a skill employed to convince and manipulate people - using specific techniques that have been identified for thousands of years and are still very effective. Even at the high school level there should be mandatory courses on rhetoric to hopefully reduce the number of gullible people falling for what is obvious bullshit - at least obvious bullshit that is readily apparent to a lot of other people.
  12. I think the United States still has that apartment in Veracruz
  13. UEC (my uranium play) has been slowly creeping up as well about a 1/3 increase so far this year. if America is gonna turn its back on solar, nuclear power may be the other future option.
  14. “something of Babylon” - Calvin, Knox or Hus, probably
  15. “Page does not attend Country Day” and “awkward explanation of why Comus doesn’t roll” kill me.
  16. …and an ignorant person‘s idea of a smart person. Trump’s sixth grade level communication style is a perfect fit for most of his fans. There is a reason why he has overwhelming support of voters with just a high school education - and why the more educated a person is the less likely they are to vote for him.
  17. I wonder whether he just shot everybody near him - or whether he directed his wrath at the people who made fun of him. If people are intentionally cruel to other people and karma pays them back in a way exponentially stronger than their shitty treatment of others, I have far less sympathy for them getting shot.
  18. This is true. All the Texas oil people hated one aspect of New Orleans - no matter how much money they had - it would not magically allow them to join Comus or Momus or Proteus or Rex. Nor a 100% guarantee to join the Boston Club. The top end of New Orleans high society was not inclusive at all. Now, none of that is a good thing, and it evokes bullshit nostalgia for a level of nativism and racism that is not healthy. It apes more of a British class system thing. I did get a chuckle out of the old Volvo thing. They were a fixture at many Garden District mansions. Gaudy display of wealth is seen as uncouth by the wealthy, although it is the epitome of what poor people think of as rich.
  19. Probably not a good idea to send these scammers dick pics - but there’s nothing illegal about sending them a Geoduck image.
  20. some for sure. I don’t know the 2020 versus 2024 demographic data.
  21. That like a combination of sassy and prissy…. when your brain tells you it wants to skip….but your subconscious knows there are people with cameras.
  22. no. But I’m getting lots of texts from people who have reviewed my resume from various sources - and they all think I would be ideal to work for them. It apparently entails an hour of work a day for which they’ll pay me $9000 a month. Seems legit… despite me not having a resume and all.
  23. What’s the average age of Hobby lobby shoppers in the colored poster board section? if it is church leader, I’m assuming he’s taking pedo pics
  24. I heard it was, "CAN YOU DO THAT RECTALLY… AND WOULD YOU LIKE A SEMEN SAMPLE?”. But, yeah.
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