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For everything wrong with trump that moment with the lectern was actually pretty funny and well handled.

Also bill Maher is a moron. I’ve believed that since the first time I saw his “political commentary,” as a high schooler in the 90s

Joke 1: It’s probably best that she screwed that up. We don’t need a 200 year old capitol building getting hit by lightning.

joke 2: the good news is that we can see what her hands are doing.

37 minutes ago, Koolblue13 said:

<President Chocolate Chip Cookie>

 

On 5/13/2024 at 1:54 AM, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

 

 

LOL, this is always my retort when MAGAts simultaneously claim that the Jan 6 protests were peaceful and any violence that occurred was because of Antifa agitators.  If that's true, they should be extra-motivated to prosecute those people.

That whole Harrison Butker thing was even weirder coming from him.

The two stars on that team are the QB, married to a former pro soccer player, and the TE, dating one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the world.  Meanwhile the kicker is yapping about restoring traditional gender roles from the 1700s.

Based on the remaining possibilities and what's announced, I'm pretty confident on:

Week 3: Dallas (assuming Baltimore hosts Washington in Week 6, this is pretty much the only game Dallas can play in week 3 as Baltimore and Cincy have to play each other in week 3)

Week 6: @ Baltimore (I don't see who else they could play in this week)

And then its one of three possibilities:

Possibility 1/2: 

Week 7: Carolina

Week 12: @ Cincinnati

Week 13: Tennessee/Bye

Week 14: Tennessee/Bye

Possibility 3 (this was the one I prematurely deduced earlier):

Week 7: Bye

Week 12: Carolina

Week 13: Tennessee

Week 14: @ Cincinnati

Nevermind my earlier schedule-- there's some oddities to the rumor site I saw.

It says Dallas, Baltimore and Cincinnati have to be away during week 3 presumably because the Rangers, Orioles and Reds are all at home that Sunday (and the ThNF and MNF games have already been announced), which isn't possible given that all of their remaining away games are against each other, or opponents who've already announced their opponents for week 3. My guess is that the NFL makes the Ravens play in Cincinnati and puts Dallas on the road in Washington but that's me guessing.  That also destroys my logic about the Ravens hosting the Commanders in Week 6.

15 minutes ago, Command The 414 said:

Yeah don’t know if that post I responded to was the actual schedule or just a possibility 

It was my inductive reasoning based on what's announced and what's left.

For example, Baltimore has to play some combination of Dallas, Cleveland, and Cincy x2 in weeks 5,10,12,14 because those are the only way to mathematically fit those into the schedule. Also their only common remaining week with the Chargers is week 3. That means the only common week available for them to play Washington is Week 6.

Likewise if theres truth to the fact that Dallas has to be away in Week 3, that means they have to be at Wasington that week.  Their only other away game is Atlanta and Atlanta already has a game announced.

Here's what I deduced based on this site tracking schedule rumors (2024 NFL Schedule Release - Google Drive) and some inductive reasoning:

Week 1 (Thu Sep 5 to Mon Sep 9): at Tampa

Week 2 (Thu Sep 12 to Mon Sep 16): NY Giants

Week 3 (Thu Sep 19 to Mon Sep 23): Dallas

Week 4 (Thu Sep 26 to Mon Sep 30): at Arizona

Week 5 (Thu Oct 3 to Mon Oct 7): Cleveland

Week 6 (Thu Oct 10 to Mon Oct 14): at Baltimore

Week 7 (Thu Oct 17 to Mon Oct 21): Bye

Week 8 (Thu Oct 24 to Mon Oct 28): Chicago

Week 9 (Thu Oct 31 to Mon Nov 4): at NY Giants

Week 10 (Thu Nov 7 to Mon Nov 11): Pittsburgh

Week 11 (Thu Nov 14 to Mon Nov 18): at Philadelphia

Week 12 (Thu Nov 21 to Mon Nov 25): Carolina

Week 13 (Thu Nov 28 to Mon Dec 2): Tennessee

Week 14 (Thu Dec 5 to Mon Dec 9): at Cincinnati

Week 15 (Thu Dec 12 to Mon Dec 16): at New Orleans

Week 16 (Thu Dec 19 to Mon Dec 23): Philadelphia

Week 17 (Wed Dec 25 to Mon Dec 30): Atlanta

Week 18 (Thu Jan 2 to Sun Jan 5): at Dallas

EDIT:

- Updated to show Week 17 includes Christmas games.

59 minutes ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

 

 

That's not a podium, that's a lectern.  Sarah needs to learn English.

Delete

17 hours ago, Metalhead said:

. My uncle, a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel C-130 pilot, retired Alaska Airlines Captain, and WVU Aeronautical Engineer, just sat there and didn't make a sound.

about ten years ago, I went on a ski trip with a friend and some people I didn’t know. When I got there I learned that it was a situation where someone had rented a condo and then invited friends, who invited friends, etc. there was 3-4 degrees of separation across the entire group and it ended up working great though. One night at dinner we were talking about vaccines, and one guy made a comment essentially saying, “well you don’t know what’s in those things or how well they test them.” I’m pretty sure it was boiler plate conversation-making and not the beginning of some kind of unhinged rant. Regardless, what happened next was glorious. It turned out that one person in the group worked for the cdc in Atlanta and another worked in R&D for a drugmaker— the ensuing verbal beat down was amazing.

Ugh, that's one of those moments where you just resist the temptation to call out the idiot, and just follow up with, "So... just so I understand... you think Ukraine should join NATO?"

8 hours ago, Destino said:

There are worse way to get your ass kicked. 

There are men who pay large amounts of money for that sort of thing, so I'm told. 

On 4/16/2024 at 4:26 PM, Cooked Crack said:

Wonder how this guy is doing

Sadly, I'm guessing the reality is worse than the joke-- I'm guessing he got paid to post something like that and dozens of less savvy followers blindly followed his lead.  It's the same thing when some mega free agent demands getting paid in Crypto.  He's getting paid in cash, but some Crypto company is paying him to publicly make that demand.

LOL, when I was in college, I joined a Thursday night bowling league with some friends.  I always ended up being the driver because I had a car.  One of my teammates would get absolutely hammered starting at dinnertime on Thursday because he didn't have class on Friday.  He was always entertaining at bowling night.

One night I drive everyone to the bowling alley and he's sitting in the rear right seat (opposite me, the driver).  I park and we all get out, except for Mike, and he starts freaking out-- screaming at us and punching the back of the front passenger seat. I finally calm him down enough to ask him what's wrong and he says, "YOU JERKS ARE TRYING TO LOCK ME IN HERE.  HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET OUT OF THE CAR?!?!?" I was really confused for a second until I realized what was wrong-- I calmly said to him, "Mike... this is a four-door car."

He calmly looks at me and his slurred, yet stoic voice, he says, "You can never tell anyone this happened." And then he got out.

2 hours ago, Captain Wiggles said:

Services were paid for out of his campaign funds. That's a felony lady. 🤷🏻‍♂️

lol yeah— my favorite part of all this was Rudy Giuliani admitting all this on live tv, wondering what the outrage was about, and not realizing he was spilling the beans on a felony.

2 hours ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

Somewhere out there Kyle Rittenhouse and Ethan Couch are watching this meme and breathing a sigh of relief.

13 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

OJ's history of domestic violence against Nicole is well documented and I don't believe for a second that he just started battering women at that point in his life.  I think her story about what was covered up is certainly possible.  

I think we're debating two different things-- 

It's certainly possible that OJ had a DV incident in college and I wouldn't be shocked if any actual evidence came out.

But this person's account from 30 years ago, about two incidents that happened almost 30 years before then raises a lot of red flags for me. It's heavily dramatized, fails a few logical checks, there's no way to fact check it, and it was posted on social media by someone who doesn't use their real name. Many parts of that story are possible, but that's different than being believable- I don't find that account believable at all.  There's too many unsaid things that would have to be true that don't make any sense, namely:

- The University covered up for OJ for years and either the President didn't know or didn't care until that day in 1995; at this point OJ had been arrested more than 6 months prior, so I'm certain he'd fielded a lot of questions about one of his most famous alumni in preceding months

- Kardashian and Shapiro showed up to USC's campus together to make a large donation to cover up a sensitive matter, rather than meet privately somewhere off-campus.  (As a comparison point, for a $100k donation, I can probably get Northwestern's president to come to my house for dinner, unfortunately I don't have $100k or a desire to have dinner with him).

- They handed him a check which would've been physically handled and seen by multiple people before getting deposited, when a wire transfer (especially for a large sum) would suffice

- Despite the fact that he's been answering questions about OJ for 6+ months at this point, the University President is so distraught that in a moment of weakness, he confides all this to a random undergrad student that works for him, despite a level of secrecy that requires NDAs

- The University President also let this person hold the check where she'd presumably see the amount of the donation; even that could've been damaging as if she somehow got pulled into the legal mess, her "NDA" is invalidated and her knowledge of the amount would make it much easier to find financial transactions supporting this story

- The NDA somehow expired when OJ died; USC is also complicit in this, so it makes no sense to make her silence only contingent on OJ's lifespan

I'm not a defender of OJ by any means, but I do think this person trying to earn twitter points by making up a story knowing people will eat it up.

I hate being the guy sounding like he’s defending OJ yet here we are— that story sounds incredibly fake.
 

Even if all of the parts about OJ are true and the university covered it up, there’s no way they’d simultaneously be that secretive while also telling some random college junior working in the administration office.  Also why would she sign the NDA at that point? They’d have to pay her to even do so. And then he let her hold the donation check?

Besides all of that she points to her background as a criminal justice major as to why she was able to recognize Robert Shapiro and Robert Kardashian. Seriously? I was a 14-year-old on the east coast and I knew exactly who they were. There’s no way they could’ve been seen together on USCs campus in early 1995 and not created a major uproar about why they were there. If they really wanted to pay off the university, they would’ve invited him somewhere off campus to hand him the check.

The whole thing just reads like a bad legal drama.

(for the record, I completely believe that OJ had a history of domestic violence with Nicole and murdered her and her boyfriend that night… it’s just all this conjecture I find nonsensical)

29 minutes ago, Berggy9598 said:

Just my opinion but I don't think CTE had anything to do with it. He was very calculated and very good at crafting a persona tailor made for the West L.A "aristocracy"  his fits of violent rage were reserved for Nicole. 

I'll agree to disagree on this one.  He was married for 12 years before he married Nicole and his ex-wife has repeatedly denied any domestic violence issues. I could see why she'd deny it in the year's after their divorce-- she'd just be his bitter ex-wife since he was still a beloved figure.  But she could've literally claimed anything in the past 30 years and we'd believe it.  The multiple DV incidents with Nicole were well-documented, but the fact that he didn't have them with his first wife lead me to believe something changed-- that's not typical of an abuser.

Also since so many people are reminiscing about the Bronco chase in June 1994, I highly recommend you watch the ESPN documentary “June 17” (if you haven’t already seen it).

It’s about the sports world that day— the US Open golf tournament, opening day of the World Cup in the US, the oj chase, knicks-rockets in the NBA finals, and the rangers Stanley cup parade in New York.

the best part is there’s little to no narration in the documentary. It’s just random tv clips as if you’re changing channels on tv, which is how most of us remember that evening.

51 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

Add in Hernandez background it was a recipient for disaster, perfect storm.  Is that the case with OJ?  Let's look at his brain and then talk about it.  I don't want to blow off CTE anymore then I want to jump right into it, it's somewhere in the middle and more we understand that more hinest conversation can be about...man, hate to say this, potentially seeing these storms coming.

Just for everyone's clarity here (since I brought up CTE in this thread).  I actually don't care about CTE when it's comes to causality.  If he murdered , then he murdered and his victims deserve justice.  I care more because it's another proof point of how awful the NFL was with the entire issue.  

Two of Hernandez' murders happened because a guy spilled a drink on him at a club, so Hernandez followed them home and shot at their car.  Even in the worst-case scenario, that should've been a bar fight, a night in jail, a fine, some community service and probation.

OJ, Aaron Hernandez, Junior Seau and Mike Webster are the Mount Rushmore of CTE.  I really hope they get to scan his brain. 

12 hours ago, tshile said:

Yeah there’s multiple options that im not sure why you’d pick one when there’s a better alternative

 

most of them suck but I’ll take the money and never getting sick again. 

Lol yeah,if you have the $100M, you can easily afford the other things (eg: cars and houses) or they don't matter (eg: your credit score)

I'm taking the $10M upfront, $200k monthly and no sickness