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*The official* "It's a Clown World, after all." thread.

Motorcharge said:
Stopped watching the NFL entirely when they started this shit in 2019.
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Me too. Or, me also. When they trotted out BLM shit on the pitchers mound opening day at Dodger Stadium, where the race segregation boundary was first broken by the Dodgers with Jackie Robinson. That player was on the team for his skill, attitude and true value to the team. He had some ugly moments facing true hatred and bigotry. He persevered with dignity and class. Fuck what a downward slide in the human condition it was to get up and turn off Colin Kaepernick. :shaking:
 
Penetrode Offroad said:
If black people get reparations Im opening up a wheel shop. :mr-t:
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Uh, you can do that now. Keep cinder blocks on hand so you can repo 'em

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CA just basically nixed the whole thing with a 30-60 BILLION dollar budget shortfall. :usa:
 
Roverhound said:
That's the stupidest thing I've heard today. Those marks are used to align the tube in the machine that fills it so the printing is always oriented in the correct position when it is crimped.
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It's make believe, and either a joke, a troll job, or a flat earther using AI to say flat earth stuff. Those are Joe Rogans words rearranged by a computer.
 
Be nice or die. funny how catholic hospitals can't do the same. REmember this is ACCUSED of...

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MA Hospital Might Deny Patients Care If They’re Accused Of Microaggressions

A Massachusetts hospital has implemented a policy that would conceivably deny care for a person accused of microaggressions such as words that are “hostile” or “vulgar,” a refusal to see a staff member based on stating any opposition to their claimed gender, or the prospective patient’s “body...
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nahmus said:
you know what the entry point to talking to white america is?

Hi. or maybe Hello if were feeling formal. Can't use good morning because that's racist now
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As someone who says good morning at any hour of the day, why is that considered racist?

Southernfriedcj8 said:
How does a president have the authority to do this? Do they have a slush fund?

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White House cancels $5 billion in student debt for 74k borrowers​


WASHINGTON — In a new wave of student loan forgiveness, the Biden administration is canceling $5 billion in debt for 74,000 borrowers, many of whom worked in public sector jobs for more than a decade.

President Joe Biden said that 44,000 of Friday’s approved borrowers were having their education debt wiped clean after 10 years of public service, and that those borrowers included teachers, nurses and firefighters. Nearly 30,000 borrowers have worked toward repayment for at least 20 years but “never got the relief they earned through income-driven repayment plans,” Biden said in a statement.
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The last paragraph in your quote makes it sound like it's people who already qualified but either hadn't filed the paperwork correctly or the government was dragging their feet filing the paperwork.
Essentially, Biden is taking an existing program (where if you took a public sector job that they were having a hard time filling (likely due to low pay) and paid your student loan payments the government would forgive a chunk of your debt after X years), finding people who had already qualified for student loan forgiveness but the paperwork wasn't completed, pushing through the paperwork and calling that student loan forgiveness (which was going to be a blanket forgiveness with no real qualifications IIRC).

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This one may be in one of the many Trump thread. I don't read them.

Cliff's:

The Fulton County DA had an affair with a married attorney and went on a cruise out of Miami that he paid for a trip to Napa that he paid for after she hired him as a special prosecutor for the Trump criminal case. "Wade was paid at least $653,000 and potentially as much as $1m for legal fees as one of the lead prosecutors on the Trump case, and the filing alleged Wade then paid for trips he took with Willis to Napa Valley and the Caribbean."

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Fani Willis had travel paid for by special prosecutor in Trump case, filing shows​

The Fulton county district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia had travel paid for by a special prosecutor she hired for the case and with whom she is alleged to have been involved in an improper relationship, according to a court filing on Friday.


Bank records for Wade attached as an exhibit to the filing, submitted by the wife of the special prosecutor Nathan Wade in a divorce proceeding, showed that the district attorney, Fani Willis, was named as a travel companion on at least two trips while the Trump investigation was ongoing.

Related: Judge hints that Trump’s election interference trial might be delayed

The records could bolster allegations in a recent filing made by Trump co-defendant Michael Roman – director of Trump’s 2020 election-day operations – seeking to have Willis relieved of bringing the Fulton county racketeering case against Trump and his allies because of conflicts of interests arising from her alleged ongoing relationship with Wade.

The relationship between Willis and Wade threatens to undercut the case because it raises potential conflict of interest concerns that could see the district attorney’s office disqualified for continuing with the prosecution.

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The transactions from Wade’s credit card statements attached as an exhibit show that Wade paid for at least two trips during the criminal investigation into Trump that named Willis as a travel companion.

The first trip, dated 4 October 2022, involves a flight from Atlanta to Miami. Wade paid for a ticket for himself and for Willis. Separately, on the same date and without any names attached, the statement shows Wade’s credit card was used to make two purchases with Royal Caribbean Cruises, for $1,284 and $1,387.

The second trip, dated 25 April 2023, involves a flight from Atlanta to San Francisco. Wade again paid for a ticket for himself and for Willis. Separately, on 14 May 2023, Wade’s credit card was used to make two purchases of $612 and $228 with a Doubletree hotel in Napa Valley, California.

Roman’s motion claimed Willis personally profited from the contract. Wade was paid at least $653,000 and potentially as much as $1m for legal fees as one of the lead prosecutors on the Trump case, and the filing alleged Wade then paid for trips he took with Willis to Napa Valley and the Caribbean.

The motion included no proof of the allegations. Roman’s lawyer Ashleigh Merchant, a respected local attorney who publicly endorsed Wade when he ran to be a Cobb county superior judge 2016, has said the claims were based on sources and records from Wade’s divorce proceeding that remains under seal.

Willis has not directly addressed the allegations, and a spokesperson has said the district attorney’s office would speak through its court filings.

The allegations are scheduled to be addressed next month after the Fulton county superior court judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding in the Trump case, set an evidentiary hearing for 15 February. The date comes two weeks after the judge in the divorce case holds a hearing on whether to unseal.

Wade started divorce proceedings the day after he was hired as a special prosecutor on the Trump case. The divorce turned contentious last year, after Jocelyn Mayfield Wade complained that her husband had failed to disclose his finances, including income from working on the Trump case.

The complaint resulted in Wade being held in contempt by the Cobb county superior court judge Henry Thompson and, in January, Willis herself was subpoenaed for information relating to Wade’s work. The subpoena ordered her to sit for a taped deposition on 23 January.

On Thursday, Willis accused Wade’s wife of “conspiring with interested parties in the criminal election interference case to use the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass and oppress District Attorney Willis” in a motion to quash, and sought a protective order to avoid the deposition.

The court filing with Wade’s bank records attached as exhibits was submitted by Jocelyn Mayfield Wade’s lawyer on Friday. The Guardian is part of a media coalition to unseal the divorce case and obtained a copy of the reply brief before it was filed on the public docket.
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Commentary: If you want to leave, fine. But don't insult California on the way out​

To the people leaving California: May the road rise to meet you as you seek better lives in new places. Now, can you please extend some goodwill to those of us who remain?

Several friends and members of my extended family have moved out of this state, so I can understand the factors that drive such decisions. But reasons to leave don’t explain the impulse to insult California on the way out.


More than 800,000 Californians moved away in 2022, and many thousands more left last year. Often, the departees, cash in hand from the sale of their $1-million bungalows, feel the need to express disdain for their home state, and even some anger too.

The urge to rationalize a difficult decision can be powerful, and trading an overpriced 900-square-foot home in L.A. for a mansion in Texas often comes with a big catch: You need to stay indoors half the year and make good use of all that extra, climate-controlled space.

As we watch you — our aging parents, our friends, our neighbors with kids the same age — eye Idaho and Nevada for home listings, we hear the digs against California. Some are subtle, and some less so.

I remember one relative last year who, regaling me with tales of the charming small town he found several states away, said that his neighbors admonished him to not “bring those weird California ways” to his new home.


And which ways would those be? I have a hunch it isn’t California’s low property tax rate and zoning rules that conspire to push up home values so homeowners can sell their houses for a huge profit.

Perhaps it’s our embrace of LGBTQ+ Californians. Or it’s our liberal politics, with the state Republican Party shrunk to irrelevance after its vicious attempt in 1994 to marginalize immigrants with Proposition 187.

Perhaps I’m sensitive because California — and especially Los Angeles — used to be the place people would come. And plenty still move here, especially immigrants. I come from an immigrant family blessed by the working-class riches our state once offered.

But it doesn’t work out for everyone, and I’ve seen people decide to leave without verbally trashing the place.

Take my former neighbors Joe and Shannon. They left L.A. for New England in 2020, one more departure of a family from our block. They explained why the move was right for them and told us something I’ll never forget: This is a great neighborhood, and “you guys belong here.”

California is big, powerful and therefore tempting to disparage. We have 39 million people, Hollywood and Shohei Ohtani. This state is a haven for reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights, but income disparity and the housing crunch are critical problems we have to fix for progressive ideals to match the reality on the ground.

If you must leave California for Texas, Arizona, New England or anywhere else, don’t be a person who trash-talks the home of 39 million people. You don’t hear many new Californians (they exist!) bash Nebraska or Minnesota.

Instead, be a Joe and a Shannon.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
 
Take my former neighbors Joe and Shannon. They left L.A. for New England in 2020, one more departure of a family from our block. They explained why the move was right for them and told us something I’ll never forget: This is a great neighborhood, and “you guys belong here.”

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DT75FLH said:
Take my former neighbors Joe and Shannon. They left L.A. for New England in 2020, one more departure of a family from our block. They explained why the move was right for them and told us something I’ll never forget: This is a great neighborhood, and “you guys belong here.”

:homer::laughing::laughing::laughing::lmao::lmao::lmao:
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That entire op ed reads like satire. It's comedy gold, Jerry!
 
It's the LA Times which is circling the drain financially, propped up by billionaire puss-tard owners flushing millions down the drain every month.
 
Memphis is quickly becoming another Chicago and Knoxville seems to be following along.

 
Thumping said:
Memphis is quickly becoming another Chicago and Knoxville seems to be following
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You mean memphrica? Not a city I thought was nice. Stopped at the bass pro and all the security and cameras really drove that point home.
 
BDK said:
If that's in Memphis, why is there a Seattle PD badge in the upper right corner?
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I'm not sure why but it says a gas station in Memphis. It's posted by the Arkansas police department. But anyone that is familiar with Memphis isn't surprised 🤷
 
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Looks like Ron White.

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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson wins women's event, increasing chances of potential LPGA card​



Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson is attempting to become the first transgender woman to earn an LPGA Tour card, and she improved her chances this week.

Participating in the NXXT Women's Pro Tour based in Florida, Davidson won the tour's Women's Classic Wednesday.

Davidson, according to a since-deleted post on X (via Reduxx), was three strokes back with four holes to go but completed the comeback after two playoff holes against Lauren Miller.
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Southernfriedcj8 said:
This one may be in one of the many Trump thread. I don't read them.

Cliff's:

The Fulton County DA had an affair with a married attorney and went on a cruise out of Miami that he paid for a trip to Napa that he paid for after she hired him as a special prosecutor for the Trump criminal case. "Wade was paid at least $653,000 and potentially as much as $1m for legal fees as one of the lead prosecutors on the Trump case, and the filing alleged Wade then paid for trips he took with Willis to Napa Valley and the Caribbean."

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Fani Willis had travel paid for by special prosecutor in Trump case, filing shows​

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Nobody cares if it derails the case because it was never about finding him guilty.
 
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