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1 hour ago, mchookem said:

wait...'the government' contacted surly posters bc of their posts here??

man. i mean i feel like i spend a lot of time perusing this site, but apparently i don't spend enough. i had no idea this was a thing that happened 😳

Yeah I'm gonna call bullshit on that. Sounds like something that someone would say in DT or 6SJ to score some sweet rep from the fascists, and then is repeated until they believe it. 

@immamac did that actually happen?

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Just now, Captainant said:

Yeah I'm gonna call bullshit on that. Sounds like something that someone would say in DT or 6SJ to score some sweet rep from the fascists, and then is repeated until they believe it. 

@immamac did that actually happen?

Yes, have you not seen the thread? 

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2 minutes ago, immamac said:

Yes, have you not seen the thread? 

Feds came to surly because of some posts about trump getting his ear cut, and not because of raydog or txtow?

And no, I didn't see the thread until after y'all memory holed everything 

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6 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Feds came to surly because of some posts about trump getting his ear cut, and not because of raydog or txtow?

And no, I didn't see the thread until after y'all memory holed everything 

The thread in ipihb

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3 minutes ago, immamac said:

The thread in ipihb

Huh, hadn't browsed over there in some time, thanks for the visibility.

Would it be possible for surly to set up a canary statement or something along those lines to let us know (in a legally compliant way) when those requests come through?

 

It's funny though that they didn't give a shit when half of DT was talking about how much they'd like to go take care of protesters themselves and were glad that violence was being done in the name of their political preferences 

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Wait.  So the gov contacted posters about their pr0n posts in a VERY non political part of this site (which is apparently where Hook1997 hangs out) and this is an example of political extreme both sideism??   

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2 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:
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“I’m so glad we’re in this war together,” said an aircraft mechanic who went by the name Oath Keeper Bill. “We need you healthy and strong. Have you been following the latest news on medbeds?”

“Oh yeah. They’re here, and they can heal anything,” someone else responded. “Cancer. Dementia. Broken bones. Arthritis. Forty-five minutes in one of those beds, and you’ll never be in pain again.”

“Come on,” Michael said. “Really?”

Of all the wild conspiracies he’d discovered on Patriot Party News, the concept of medbeds had initially struck Michael as the most far-fetched, even if it was also among the most popular. Every few days, someone else on the platform shared an illustration of a futuristic-looking chamber, sometimes with a doctored image of Trump superimposed in the foreground. The founder of the site, Armour, sometimes mentioned videos or podcasts about medbeds that had become popular on the far-right corners of Telegram, Discord and Rumble, and Michael clicked on the links, as did millions of others.

The videos claimed with no evidence that the U.S. military was already in possession of advanced, or possibly even alien, technology that could cure all disease and extend human life. There were said to be at least three types of medbeds already in existence in secret military tunnels. One, a “holographic medbed,” scanned the body to instantly diagnose and then heal any sickness, no matter how severe. Another bed was able to regenerate personal DNA so people could regrow missing limbs in a few minutes. A third was designed for reverse aging and could rewind people’s bodies to the age and condition of their choosing.

The only holdup, according to the videos, was that a collection of liberal billionaires kept hoarding the technology for themselves. On the Patriot Party News audio feed, people speculated that medbeds wouldn’t be available to the public until Trump was back in control of the White House, at which point everyone would be invited to make appointments for free at a secret underground military base.

“We are about to cross that start line into our medbed future,” said an Australian woman who called herself Skye Prince and claimed to be a military expert, in a video shared on Patriot Party News that has been viewed several million times. “We are leaving a life of poverty, ill health, uncertainty, and moving into wealth, abundance, perfect health. You could almost say we are about to be born again.”

“Thank God the wait is almost over!” Michael heard someone say on the audio channel in the last days of spring. “Medbeds are finally coming. I hope I can get my mom to the front of the line since she’s Stage 4.”

“Amen. I need an appointment for my husband after his latest stroke,” someone else responded.

Stupid. Fucking. Morons.

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Someone needs to do a follow up with Chesebro (any relation to Kenneth?) in 30 days to verify that his snake oil treatment didn’t do jack shit.

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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Any explanation why these liberal billionaires are withholding these from Biden?

 

I was wondering if Trump knew of all this medbed technology, why wasn't one installed at Mar-A-Lago (he's a billionaire, so he could afford one, right?) and take advantage of it himself.  Can't quite figure out why these patriots haven't thought this all the way through.

 

 

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nevermind (it was AI)

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Fuck it. I'm reposting just because it's funny, even though it's apparently not real because it still applies to Kimberly Gargoyle.

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Any explanation why these liberal billionaires are withholding these from Biden?

Kind of an obvious question, isn’t it? Somehow it never crossed their minds. Our military has this cure-all, fountain-of-youth technology but the Commander in Chief who they insist has dementia hasn’t availed himself of it. But when Trump gets back into office, they and their meemaws are going to be invited to the secret underground base for free treatments.

Makes perfect sense.

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Kind of an obvious question, isn’t it? Somehow it never crossed their minds. Our military has this cure-all, fountain-of-youth technology but the Commander in Chief who they insist has dementia hasn’t availed himself of it. But when Trump gets back into office, they and their meemaws are going to be invited to the secret underground base for free treatments.
Makes perfect sense.

When you understand that these people are walking weaponized abject stupidity, it all makes sense.
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Single and down to mingle!

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

That shit was whiter than a mayo and marshmallow fluff sandwich.

On a paper plate in a snowstorm.

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https://defector.com/reid-rasner-nazi-trinket-ebay-store?giftLink=5ad53252f2f36c3130a7f5b9b6c2f8d8

 

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One lucky eBay user recently purchased a stunning Mountain Dew wall clock. 

The clock is in excellent condition. It’s 18 inches in diameter, which is larger than a standard-sized wall clock. It was listed on eBay for $33.35, plus $17.25 shipping. It says “MOUNTAIN DEW” in big letters. Whoever bought it can put it in their kitchen, or a room with a mini-fridge; they can point and say, “It’s Mountain Dew O’Clock” and then Do the Dew anytime.

Also, they can tell admiring guests that the clock was sold to them by a candidate for the United States Senate.

 

 

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Since announcing his Senate candidacy in late summer of 2023, self-anointed businessman Reid Rasner has been barnstorming the state of Wyoming, pressing his case to towns of dozens of people that he’s more MAGA than incumbent Sen. John Barrasso. Over the same time span, it seems Rasner has sold upwards of 1,600 items on eBay, including a Jamal Murray T-shirt, a “vintage” 2XL Ed Hardy hoodie that the buyer complained smelled of “cheap perfume,” countless Christmas ornaments, and a Nazi trinket described in shorthand as “Original from WW2 Reich finance admin.” 

 

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Rasner, 40, is Barrasso’s only real GOP competition, but he’s nevertheless going to get crushed during Wyoming’s primary on Aug. 20. He’s so off-putting that another far-right Wyoming politician—Rep. Harriet Hageman, a Donald Trump sycophant who flattened Liz Cheney in 2022—reportedly sent Rasner a cease-and-desist letter, because his social media posts suggested he’d earned her endorsement (he had not). His public speaking style is best characterized as a somehow lower-energy Ron DeSantis doing a Trump impression.

 

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But hey, Rasner’s eBay operation is undeniably robust. His recently submitted financial disclosure form—a required document for Senate candidates—shows about $70,000 in eBay store income in 2023 alone. Unlike his Senate run, his eBay store is also well endorsed: 5,100 items sold in total, with a 99.5 percent positive feedback rating. 

And yet, Rasner has glossed over his eBay bonafides. His Ballotpedia pageinstead makes the absurd claim that he’s a “prominent American entrepreneur and political figure, known for his role as the Founder and CEO” of his own financial investment firm. He chose not to tout his eBay wheelings and dealings on the campaign trail until I, a prominent American journalist known for my role as the Founder and CEO of portfolio site Alex-Shultz.com, found his store and asked him about it. (There aren’t very many eBay stores in and around Casper, Wyoming, it turns out.)

“Reid is an entrepreneur and supports free enterprise. His eBay store is an example of what millions of Americans do to support themselves every day,” his campaign wrote in a statement. Rasner declined a formal interview request, though, so I was left to my own devices to trace his political aspirations and, more importantly, dig around his eBay collection for the good stuff. And the other, not-good stuff.

Reid Rasner says he was born and raised in Wyoming. He lived in Nevada for a bit, and ran for city council in Las Vegas, where he garnered 74 votes. He did not win. Now, Rasner is back in Wyoming and gunning for the U.S. Senate, a puzzling attempt at a promotion akin to going from editorial assistant to the editor-in-chief. Rasner was encouraged to make this leap, he’s said, by nameless friends and business clients. 

“I’ve got my finger on the heartbeat I think of not just Wyoming, but of America, and I can really feel the pulse,” he told the Powell Tribune last October.The same month, he sold a cream-colored, medium-sized fedora for $30. “Arrived FAST. In immaculate condition! Could not be any happier!” the fedora buyer wrote. Rasner also sold a pack of Hot Wheels, and a display case, for $20.

On April 24, Rasner’s eBay store sold a She-Hulk eyeshadow palette for $10, to rave reviews. On April 26, Rasner told Cowboy State Daily that he’s traveling 2,500 miles per week as part of his effort to convince GOP voters to embrace him in Wyoming’s primary. He claimed to have awakened at 3:15 a.m. on the day of that interview, and said he’s clocking 16- to 18-hour days, a combination of campaigning and his job at his financial services firm, which is called Ominvest. He did not make mention of his eBay store, which is called Omnisellers, or how many hours a day that takes up while he’s on his Mark Wahlberg grindset. 

Rasner also provided Cowboy State Daily with the platonic reality TV show quote: “I’m not here to make friends,” he said of his insurgent campaign. Rasner’s happy-go-lucky social media photos with Hageman and State Rep. John Bear, among others, certainly imply otherwise. Unfortunately he doesn’t have a relationship with the politicians he was photographed next to, and they were not happy with him after he posted those photos. “What he’s doing is ugly politics,” Bear told Cowboy State Daily on May 3. The same day, Omnisellers sold off a “Chevy GMC Truck Instrument Cluster Speedometer” for $59.96. (“It's perfect just what I wanted,” the buyer wrote.)

On the issues, there’s little daylight between Rasner and Barrasso, the third-highest-ranking member of the Senate Republican Conference, a septuagenarian who stands behind octogenarian Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at pressers. Both Rasner and Barrasso are Trump loyalists. They are staunchly anti-abortion. Rasner has pointed to his opposition to funding the war in Ukraine, and his call for term limits, as two of the central differences between him and the incumbent. He’s repeatedly criticized Barrasso for (just barely) acknowledging the existence of climate change. Barrasso does not care about climate change, to be clear; he spent years dodging straightforward inquiries about whether it was real, in fact, and worried aloud that a Green New Deal would lead to the end of ice cream, cheeseburgers, and milkshakes. But one time in 2021, he made the mistake of outright admitting climate change is both real and man-made (though we shouldn’t do anything meaningful about it). That was a step too far for Rasner, who recently posted a drawing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the queen of the Green New Deal, dog-walking her pet, Barrasso.

Unlike Barrasso, Rasner does not have lots of staff and funding. He reportedly has a “volunteer bodyguard” who watches out for him at certain campaign stops for reasons unknown. When I called Rasner in the hopes of doing an interview about his eBay store, what sounded like a 20-year-old kid answered and identified himself as Rasner’s campaign manager. I was connected to his communications director, who was perfectly kind, and also sounded like a kid. 

The point is: I am genuinely perplexed at how Rasner is maintaining a full-fledged eBay store while campaigning around a vast state. I assume he’s got some help at home. Indeed, some of the photos that are posted by Omnisellers include a pair of hands that seem to belong to a person who’s older than 40. Whatever his methods and techniques, Rasner has this eBay stuff down to a science. For upwards of five years, his store has been firing on all cylinders. Rasner regularly leaves reviews of other eBay store buyers and sellers he works with, too: “AAA+ ebayer!!” was the go-to for a while, followed by a temporary switchover (“Great transaction!!!!”), and lately, we’re back to variations of “AAA+ ebayer!!”

Anytime Omnisellers is marketing a knick-knack—like an insanely creepy 1950s Christmas elf or separate, insanely creepy Christmas elf ornaments—Rasner (or whoever is helping him) places a measuring stick next to the item for sale. Omnisellers will also sometimes include a can of chicken soup as a sizing comparison. Many items are photographed on top of a washer. See: This untested hand crank telephone from the 1940s. And this collection of Princess Diana commemorative stamps from around the world. And this sombrero.

There is little rhyme or reason to what Rasner is offering up. Omnisellers doesn’t have many big-ticket items; I didn’t spot anything for more than a few hundred dollars. One of the most expensive listings is a package of 59 Blu-Ray movies for about $250. I have no idea if these are from Rasner’s personal collection, or just Blu-Rays he grabbed and is flipping again. 

That applies to pretty much all of the more than 1,100 items on the Omnisellers store. There’s a healthy selection of clothing, especially shirts that are not advisable to wear in public, like a kid-sized Tennessee Titans Marcus Mariota jersey, a “Life is Crap” T-shirt where a sad stick-figure woman is falling off a motorcycle, and a T-shirt that says “I’m still young enough to chase girls … downhill.” I spotted Crocs with chili peppers emblazoned on them. This 76ers crewneck is actually pretty cool.

I also noticed a fair amount of old-school audio equipment, including $4 Walkman in-ear headphones listed as new, and a set of portable CD playersbeing sold “for parts.” Perhaps my favorite listing, besides the Mountain Dew clock, is the Risk board game, board only, “for replacement or decoration.” For just $9.99 plus shipping and handling, the person out there who has all their Risk pieces but no board can get back to playing the game they love.

It appears that Rasner is making a mistake by highlighting his financial services firm over his eBay business while out on the campaign trail. Financial advice is boring. Nobody cares about the national debt and balancing the budget. Rasner needs to talk about how hard he had to work to obtain a Dale Earnhardt clock, and how he’s trying to make a few bucks of profit off it. Rasner should tout his thousands of solid eBay reviews, and let the world know how quickly he’s shipping stuff out. It’s Rasner’s last and best shot at closing the gap against Barrasso in the month ahead. Or, if nothing else, it’ll help lay the groundwork for his 2028 presidential run. It’ll still be Mountain Dew O’Clock then, too.

 

 

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I like how all of Rasner's promo material shows the Tetons but he's from the Casper area.   I guess he doesn't like this photo of Casper then:

 

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7 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

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But hey, Rasner’s eBay operation is undeniably robust. His recently submitted financial disclosure form—a required document for Senate candidates—shows about $70,000 in eBay store income in 2023 alone. Unlike his Senate run, his eBay store is also well endorsed: 5,100 items sold in total, with a 99.5 percent positive feedback rating. 

And yet, Rasner has glossed over his eBay bonafides. His Ballotpedia pageinstead makes the absurd claim that he’s a “prominent American entrepreneur and political figure, known for his role as the Founder and CEO” of his own financial investment firm. He chose not to tout his eBay wheelings and dealings on the campaign trail until I, a prominent American journalist known for my role as the Founder and CEO of portfolio site Alex-Shultz.com, found his store and asked him about it. (There aren’t very many eBay stores in and around Casper, Wyoming, it turns out.)

“Reid is an entrepreneur and supports free enterprise. His eBay store is an example of what millions of Americans do to support themselves every day,” his campaign wrote in a statement. Rasner declined a formal interview request, though, so I was left to my own devices to trace his political aspirations and, more importantly, dig around his eBay collection for the good stuff. And the other, not-good stuff.

Reid Rasner says he was born and raised in Wyoming. He lived in Nevada for a bit, and ran for city council in Las Vegas, where he garnered 74 votes. He did not win. Now, Rasner is back in Wyoming and gunning for the U.S. Senate, a puzzling attempt at a promotion akin to going from editorial assistant to the editor-in-chief. Rasner was encouraged to make this leap, he’s said, by nameless friends and business clients. 

“I’ve got my finger on the heartbeat I think of not just Wyoming, but of America, and I can really feel the pulse,” he told the Powell Tribune last October.The same month, he sold a cream-colored, medium-sized fedora for $30. “Arrived FAST. In immaculate condition! Could not be any happier!” the fedora buyer wrote. Rasner also sold a pack of Hot Wheels, and a display case, for $20.

On April 24, Rasner’s eBay store sold a She-Hulk eyeshadow palette for $10, to rave reviews. On April 26, Rasner told Cowboy State Daily that he’s traveling 2,500 miles per week as part of his effort to convince GOP voters to embrace him in Wyoming’s primary. He claimed to have awakened at 3:15 a.m. on the day of that interview, and said he’s clocking 16- to 18-hour days, a combination of campaigning and his job at his financial services firm, which is called Ominvest. He did not make mention of his eBay store, which is called Omnisellers, or how many hours a day that takes up while he’s on his Mark Wahlberg grindset. 

Rasner also provided Cowboy State Daily with the platonic reality TV show quote: “I’m not here to make friends,” he said of his insurgent campaign. Rasner’s happy-go-lucky social media photos with Hageman and State Rep. John Bear, among others, certainly imply otherwise. Unfortunately he doesn’t have a relationship with the politicians he was photographed next to, and they were not happy with him after he posted those photos. “What he’s doing is ugly politics,” Bear told Cowboy State Daily on May 3. The same day, Omnisellers sold off a “Chevy GMC Truck Instrument Cluster Speedometer” for $59.96. (“It's perfect just what I wanted,” the buyer wrote.)

On the issues, there’s little daylight between Rasner and Barrasso, the third-highest-ranking member of the Senate Republican Conference, a septuagenarian who stands behind octogenarian Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at pressers. Both Rasner and Barrasso are Trump loyalists. They are staunchly anti-abortion. Rasner has pointed to his opposition to funding the war in Ukraine, and his call for term limits, as two of the central differences between him and the incumbent. He’s repeatedly criticized Barrasso for (just barely) acknowledging the existence of climate change. Barrasso does not care about climate change, to be clear; he spent years dodging straightforward inquiries about whether it was real, in fact, and worried aloud that a Green New Deal would lead to the end of ice cream, cheeseburgers, and milkshakes. But one time in 2021, he made the mistake of outright admitting climate change is both real and man-made (though we shouldn’t do anything meaningful about it). That was a step too far for Rasner, who recently posted a drawing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the queen of the Green New Deal, dog-walking her pet, Barrasso.

Unlike Barrasso, Rasner does not have lots of staff and funding. He reportedly has a “volunteer bodyguard” who watches out for him at certain campaign stops for reasons unknown. When I called Rasner in the hopes of doing an interview about his eBay store, what sounded like a 20-year-old kid answered and identified himself as Rasner’s campaign manager. I was connected to his communications director, who was perfectly kind, and also sounded like a kid. 

The point is: I am genuinely perplexed at how Rasner is maintaining a full-fledged eBay store while campaigning around a vast state. I assume he’s got some help at home. Indeed, some of the photos that are posted by Omnisellers include a pair of hands that seem to belong to a person who’s older than 40. Whatever his methods and techniques, Rasner has this eBay stuff down to a science. For upwards of five years, his store has been firing on all cylinders. Rasner regularly leaves reviews of other eBay store buyers and sellers he works with, too: “AAA+ ebayer!!” was the go-to for a while, followed by a temporary switchover (“Great transaction!!!!”), and lately, we’re back to variations of “AAA+ ebayer!!”

Anytime Omnisellers is marketing a knick-knack—like an insanely creepy 1950s Christmas elf or separate, insanely creepy Christmas elf ornaments—Rasner (or whoever is helping him) places a measuring stick next to the item for sale. Omnisellers will also sometimes include a can of chicken soup as a sizing comparison. Many items are photographed on top of a washer. See: This untested hand crank telephone from the 1940s. And this collection of Princess Diana commemorative stamps from around the world. And this sombrero.

There is little rhyme or reason to what Rasner is offering up. Omnisellers doesn’t have many big-ticket items; I didn’t spot anything for more than a few hundred dollars. One of the most expensive listings is a package of 59 Blu-Ray movies for about $250. I have no idea if these are from Rasner’s personal collection, or just Blu-Rays he grabbed and is flipping again. 

That applies to pretty much all of the more than 1,100 items on the Omnisellers store. There’s a healthy selection of clothing, especially shirts that are not advisable to wear in public, like a kid-sized Tennessee Titans Marcus Mariota jersey, a “Life is Crap” T-shirt where a sad stick-figure woman is falling off a motorcycle, and a T-shirt that says “I’m still young enough to chase girls … downhill.” I spotted Crocs with chili peppers emblazoned on them. This 76ers crewneck is actually pretty cool.

I also noticed a fair amount of old-school audio equipment, including $4 Walkman in-ear headphones listed as new, and a set of portable CD playersbeing sold “for parts.” Perhaps my favorite listing, besides the Mountain Dew clock, is the Risk board game, board only, “for replacement or decoration.” For just $9.99 plus shipping and handling, the person out there who has all their Risk pieces but no board can get back to playing the game they love.

It appears that Rasner is making a mistake by highlighting his financial services firm over his eBay business while out on the campaign trail. Financial advice is boring. Nobody cares about the national debt and balancing the budget. Rasner needs to talk about how hard he had to work to obtain a Dale Earnhardt clock, and how he’s trying to make a few bucks of profit off it. Rasner should tout his thousands of solid eBay reviews, and let the world know how quickly he’s shipping stuff out. It’s Rasner’s last and best shot at closing the gap against Barrasso in the month ahead. Or, if nothing else, it’ll help lay the groundwork for his 2028 presidential run. It’ll still be Mountain Dew O’Clock then, too.

 

 

The Dark Rider of the Apocalypse sure did clean up nice. Life's hard on the little creatures.

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Hey I’m back from my trip to Facebook and being called a liberal plant so now we can get back to our regular scheduled program of y’all calling me a Tumpstet…. It’s amazing how logical views are shunned by both sides because they don’t fit their narrative…. Need an example see the negs I got on the last page for idk because people are close minded on both sides..  got the most negs on the last page by literally saying the government is watching this site because of things said on this forum…. A couple jackasses we’re like no that’s not true you’re full of shit you Trumpster…. Guess what I wasn’t and I’m not. Close minded as the other side some of yall are and your no better than the people you ridicule or atleast you don’t act like it at all. 

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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

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But hey, Rasner’s eBay operation is undeniably robust. His recently submitted financial disclosure form—a required document for Senate candidates—shows about $70,000 in eBay store income in 2023 alone. Unlike his Senate run, his eBay store is also well endorsed: 5,100 items sold in total, with a 99.5 percent positive feedback rating. 

And yet, Rasner has glossed over his eBay bonafides. His Ballotpedia pageinstead makes the absurd claim that he’s a “prominent American entrepreneur and political figure, known for his role as the Founder and CEO” of his own financial investment firm. He chose not to tout his eBay wheelings and dealings on the campaign trail until I, a prominent American journalist known for my role as the Founder and CEO of portfolio site Alex-Shultz.com, found his store and asked him about it. (There aren’t very many eBay stores in and around Casper, Wyoming, it turns out.)

“Reid is an entrepreneur and supports free enterprise. His eBay store is an example of what millions of Americans do to support themselves every day,” his campaign wrote in a statement. Rasner declined a formal interview request, though, so I was left to my own devices to trace his political aspirations and, more importantly, dig around his eBay collection for the good stuff. And the other, not-good stuff.

Reid Rasner says he was born and raised in Wyoming. He lived in Nevada for a bit, and ran for city council in Las Vegas, where he garnered 74 votes. He did not win. Now, Rasner is back in Wyoming and gunning for the U.S. Senate, a puzzling attempt at a promotion akin to going from editorial assistant to the editor-in-chief. Rasner was encouraged to make this leap, he’s said, by nameless friends and business clients. 

“I’ve got my finger on the heartbeat I think of not just Wyoming, but of America, and I can really feel the pulse,” he told the Powell Tribune last October.The same month, he sold a cream-colored, medium-sized fedora for $30. “Arrived FAST. In immaculate condition! Could not be any happier!” the fedora buyer wrote. Rasner also sold a pack of Hot Wheels, and a display case, for $20.

On April 24, Rasner’s eBay store sold a She-Hulk eyeshadow palette for $10, to rave reviews. On April 26, Rasner told Cowboy State Daily that he’s traveling 2,500 miles per week as part of his effort to convince GOP voters to embrace him in Wyoming’s primary. He claimed to have awakened at 3:15 a.m. on the day of that interview, and said he’s clocking 16- to 18-hour days, a combination of campaigning and his job at his financial services firm, which is called Ominvest. He did not make mention of his eBay store, which is called Omnisellers, or how many hours a day that takes up while he’s on his Mark Wahlberg grindset. 

Rasner also provided Cowboy State Daily with the platonic reality TV show quote: “I’m not here to make friends,” he said of his insurgent campaign. Rasner’s happy-go-lucky social media photos with Hageman and State Rep. John Bear, among others, certainly imply otherwise. Unfortunately he doesn’t have a relationship with the politicians he was photographed next to, and they were not happy with him after he posted those photos. “What he’s doing is ugly politics,” Bear told Cowboy State Daily on May 3. The same day, Omnisellers sold off a “Chevy GMC Truck Instrument Cluster Speedometer” for $59.96. (“It's perfect just what I wanted,” the buyer wrote.)

On the issues, there’s little daylight between Rasner and Barrasso, the third-highest-ranking member of the Senate Republican Conference, a septuagenarian who stands behind octogenarian Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at pressers. Both Rasner and Barrasso are Trump loyalists. They are staunchly anti-abortion. Rasner has pointed to his opposition to funding the war in Ukraine, and his call for term limits, as two of the central differences between him and the incumbent. He’s repeatedly criticized Barrasso for (just barely) acknowledging the existence of climate change. Barrasso does not care about climate change, to be clear; he spent years dodging straightforward inquiries about whether it was real, in fact, and worried aloud that a Green New Deal would lead to the end of ice cream, cheeseburgers, and milkshakes. But one time in 2021, he made the mistake of outright admitting climate change is both real and man-made (though we shouldn’t do anything meaningful about it). That was a step too far for Rasner, who recently posted a drawing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the queen of the Green New Deal, dog-walking her pet, Barrasso.

Unlike Barrasso, Rasner does not have lots of staff and funding. He reportedly has a “volunteer bodyguard” who watches out for him at certain campaign stops for reasons unknown. When I called Rasner in the hopes of doing an interview about his eBay store, what sounded like a 20-year-old kid answered and identified himself as Rasner’s campaign manager. I was connected to his communications director, who was perfectly kind, and also sounded like a kid. 

The point is: I am genuinely perplexed at how Rasner is maintaining a full-fledged eBay store while campaigning around a vast state. I assume he’s got some help at home. Indeed, some of the photos that are posted by Omnisellers include a pair of hands that seem to belong to a person who’s older than 40. Whatever his methods and techniques, Rasner has this eBay stuff down to a science. For upwards of five years, his store has been firing on all cylinders. Rasner regularly leaves reviews of other eBay store buyers and sellers he works with, too: “AAA+ ebayer!!” was the go-to for a while, followed by a temporary switchover (“Great transaction!!!!”), and lately, we’re back to variations of “AAA+ ebayer!!”

Anytime Omnisellers is marketing a knick-knack—like an insanely creepy 1950s Christmas elf or separate, insanely creepy Christmas elf ornaments—Rasner (or whoever is helping him) places a measuring stick next to the item for sale. Omnisellers will also sometimes include a can of chicken soup as a sizing comparison. Many items are photographed on top of a washer. See: This untested hand crank telephone from the 1940s. And this collection of Princess Diana commemorative stamps from around the world. And this sombrero.

There is little rhyme or reason to what Rasner is offering up. Omnisellers doesn’t have many big-ticket items; I didn’t spot anything for more than a few hundred dollars. One of the most expensive listings is a package of 59 Blu-Ray movies for about $250. I have no idea if these are from Rasner’s personal collection, or just Blu-Rays he grabbed and is flipping again. 

That applies to pretty much all of the more than 1,100 items on the Omnisellers store. There’s a healthy selection of clothing, especially shirts that are not advisable to wear in public, like a kid-sized Tennessee Titans Marcus Mariota jersey, a “Life is Crap” T-shirt where a sad stick-figure woman is falling off a motorcycle, and a T-shirt that says “I’m still young enough to chase girls … downhill.” I spotted Crocs with chili peppers emblazoned on them. This 76ers crewneck is actually pretty cool.

I also noticed a fair amount of old-school audio equipment, including $4 Walkman in-ear headphones listed as new, and a set of portable CD playersbeing sold “for parts.” Perhaps my favorite listing, besides the Mountain Dew clock, is the Risk board game, board only, “for replacement or decoration.” For just $9.99 plus shipping and handling, the person out there who has all their Risk pieces but no board can get back to playing the game they love.

It appears that Rasner is making a mistake by highlighting his financial services firm over his eBay business while out on the campaign trail. Financial advice is boring. Nobody cares about the national debt and balancing the budget. Rasner needs to talk about how hard he had to work to obtain a Dale Earnhardt clock, and how he’s trying to make a few bucks of profit off it. Rasner should tout his thousands of solid eBay reviews, and let the world know how quickly he’s shipping stuff out. It’s Rasner’s last and best shot at closing the gap against Barrasso in the month ahead. Or, if nothing else, it’ll help lay the groundwork for his 2028 presidential run. It’ll still be Mountain Dew O’Clock then, too.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Oh good,

both sides guy is back. 

This place would be much better if there were more of me around but yea I’m sorry this is a one sided one think place like everyone says it is….  I leave.   Y’all just keep slapping yourselfs on the back for the one thought y’all agree on over and over. 

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45 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

Hey I’m back from my trip to Facebook and being called a liberal plant so now we can get back to our regular scheduled program of y’all calling me a Tumpstet…. It’s amazing how logical views are shunned by both sides because they don’t fit their narrative…. Need an example see the negs I got on the last page for idk because people are close minded on both sides..  got the most negs on the last page by literally saying the government is watching this site because of things said on this forum…. A couple jackasses we’re like no that’s not true you’re full of shit you Trumpster…. Guess what I wasn’t and I’m not. Close minded as the other side some of yall are and your no better than the people you ridicule or atleast you don’t act like it at all. 

Oh, puh-lease. You got a grand total of 6 negs from 4 individuals spread over 3 posts on the last page. Meanwhile, a fucking Aggie on a Texas board got 56 pos reps in a single post.

Let's do the math: If we are to assume 56 posters read your extended tantrum on that page (it's likely much higher), that means only 7% felt compelled to shoot you the finger.

That's quite the inquisition you suffered from this cabal of the closed-minded.

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2 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

This place would be much better if there were more of me around

There were a whole shitload of us who used to be like you pre-Surly, and quite a few even pre-Shaggy if you go back through our posting histories.

At some point in the past decade or maybe a little longer back, something happened, and a whole shitload of us found ourselves having abortions, ODing on Fentanyl, crossing the border illegally (which is weird because most of us are American citizens) and voting for liberals or something.  I don't know what that thing is.

Let me think....what caused a bunch of us to switch sides....

Maybe it was this

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or this

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or this

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Maybe Surly scientists can't crack the equation.

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7 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

Hey I’m back from my trip to Facebook and being called a liberal plant so now we can get back to our regular scheduled program of y’all calling me a Tumpstet…. It’s amazing how logical views are shunned by both sides because they don’t fit their narrative…. Need an example see the negs I got on the last page for idk because people are close minded on both sides..  got the most negs on the last page by literally saying the government is watching this site because of things said on this forum…. A couple jackasses we’re like no that’s not true you’re full of shit you Trumpster…. Guess what I wasn’t and I’m not. Close minded as the other side some of yall are and your no better than the people you ridicule or atleast you don’t act like it at all. 

Aw poor baby did getting six negs make your feefees fall down go boom? Poor widdle victim

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