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NFL News: Most of it today surrounds the reactions to what happened in Minneapolis, as well as the systemic racism inherent in most justice systems.

(Before anyone goes off on me as a Canadian trying to sound superior, I remind you that I didn’t say just the US system. Canada has its own racial injustice issues, starting with First Nations.)

  • The man who blackballed Colin Kaepernick had this to say about the unrest in his league’s home cities, and I guess the rest of America too:

  • And a very stupid man who used to work in that office chimed in about three years too late.

  • The Players Coalition, which came out of the NFL’s response to Kaep’s kneeling, had this to say:

  • Jed York released a statement & a financial pledge to local organizations, which was immediately swamped by people reminding him how he’d dumped Kaep in the first place.

The man people keep referencing throughout the NFL’s reaction had his own piece to say:

and the rest of the players followed his lead, with Russell Wilson adding his Russell Wilsonness to it all.

Fortunately, corporate America reached out to its white fanbase to let them know there are greater priorities right now,

which, let me tell you, hosts a variety of colourful comments both for & against. YOU WILL want to wipe out humanity after reading those.

Well, while the rest of the world burns,

at least we can have the consistency that is MXC. Tonight’s episode – “Physical Fitness vs. the Music Industry”

“The highly toned versus the highly tuned.” Bobby Shoemaker will never be the same again.

Tonight’s … entertainment?:

  • Wrasslin’:
    • Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
  • NASCAR XFINITY Series:
    • Cheddar’s 300 – 7:00PM | FS1 / TSN
  • 30 for 30 –  ESPN2
    • 7:00 PM – “Lance” – part 1
    • 9:00PM – “Lance” – part 2
  • The Titan Games – 8:00PM | NBC
    • Action continues in the Central division, where the winner moves on to face a pro Titan on Mt. Olympus in the consummate athletic test. Dwayne Johnson hosts, with boxer Claressa Shields and ex-NFL lineman Joe Thomas serving as pro Titans.
  • Botched – 9:00PM | E! / 10:00PM | E! Canada
    • A Cartel Crew bombshell can’t keep fat in her booty seeks advice from Dr. Dubrow, while another patient who had plastic surgery from a dentist hopes for a breast revision redemption. Dr. Nassif attempts an 11th rhinoplasty on a patient.
  • KBO League:
    • Lotte Giants vs. Kia Tigers – 5:25AM | ESPN / TSN3
      • rebroadcast at 9:00AM (TSN3) and 2:00PM (ESPN)

A somewhat satisfactory evening of diversion from the chaos all around. Unless it’s your place on fire.

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Dunstan

Jesus fucking Christ. LAPD Chief just said that George Floyd’s death is on the hands of the people who demonstrated or looted last night as much as on the officers.

THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, ASSHOLE

Of course, what he really means is, “cops have to kneel on n*****s necks because so many of them are violent thugs.”

This fucker needs to resign ASAP.

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Sharkbait

Im sure he thought Rodney King had it coming too.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

He’s backpedaling already, of course, but his statement really encapsulates the cop-viewpoint in a nutshell.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Sharkbait

…Or not.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Sorry, edited because I posted twice. The original is below; the dildo headline, since this is a + comment.

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Don T

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Don T

“Pussies”
-Brick

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Brick Meathook

I hate violence by everybody. Besides, the shields block their shotgun blasts.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

Good for them. I just hope they’re not busting heads five minutes after the photo-op, since that’s been the progression of events lately.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Duchess

Hope everyone’s been staying safe

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Which circle of hell are we in now?

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Duchess

we are in all circles at once.

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Redshirt

Hey, Super Bowl XIII is on NBC Sports Network. That is one of the few scenarios where I openly root for the Steelers.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

Poor John Daly. That man needs a drink and a smoke stat.

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Brick Meathook

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herodotus450

Benny Hill finally discovered Photoshop*
*or whatever they use for videos

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Sharkbait

…and wait until you hear where it came from

Section 124?
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Viva La Tabula Raza

Guess I’ll continue to work from home until the civil war that the president clearly wants is over. It’ll be interesting to see which way my USAF bosses want to lean. Before last Monday, it seemed that there was an undercurrent of “we’re going to do what’s best” from leadership, rather than “we’re gonna suck Trump’s dick on the coronavirus reopening even if it kills all our service members.” But this new thing, I don’t know how that’s gonna play out. The 4-star in charge of my command had a couple of conciliatory rally-round-the-flag ooh-rah we are understanding emails out today, but they were pretty mealy mouthed, so who knows what our orders will end up being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_pTtypgHQo

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Redshirt

In case anyone needs a football fix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnFCAbR84RA

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Senor Weaselo

So much promise for that season coming off an AFC Championship Game appearance… and then Vinny went down and the season was over.

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Redshirt

I dunno. To me its when they put Rick Mirer in.

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Senor Weaselo

Well, that was after Vinny went down, so that might be splitting hairs.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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“Ribbed for her pleasure.”

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Redshirt

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I don’t think the concept of aging was properly explained to Jeri Ryan.

(First Picture: Early 30s Second Picture: 51)

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

They have doctors for that.

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SonOfSpam

“I’m 7 of 9”

“Hi, I’m” (looks down) “2, soon to be 3”

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“Your hair smells GREAT!”

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*Uses any excuse to….. pull out that line.

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Brick Meathook

They have phone apps that can do that.

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Dunstan

Just think that Barack Obama became president because a guy decided that just fucking Jeri Ryan at home wasn’t interesting enough.

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Beerguyrob

7 of 9?

Jeff Fisher approves.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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SonOfSpam

You rang?

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The Spam-o-lert (TM)

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Sharkbait

But are you a Viking?

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Well, he’s always want to be a lumberjack.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Don T

Well, since you put it that way.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

Trying to write tonight, and the distractions are causing typos.

WCS, apologies in advance if you’re referred to as WACS, WCA or WVD in the next ep.

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WCS

WCA is my non-union, Mexican counterpart.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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SonOfSpam

Just make sure I’m still handsome and witty, like in Episode, um…

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

FUCK. I have not put you in yet. Dammit, I apologize.

So, um… Do you want to be a chimpanzee or a mutant…?

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SonOfSpam

Ok, I was really just doing my best Brick Meathook impression.

Love your writing, don’t need to be a subject. But if I were…maybe a sentient meat-like product.

Or a pretty princess.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Just say “Ook” with deep meaning. It’s all in your eyes.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

Or both…!

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

There are many varieties of those meat-like products to which you refer.
https://www.spam.com/varieties?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItvKe_4Xi6QIVDdbACh1_VgOTEAAYASAAEgK1VfD_BwE

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He can wait…..

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Gratliff

Hippo has pulled himself away from futbol manager and taken to the streets
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Don T

Gotta be a Drew Lock rally.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Quite correct; the stuff on top of the fridge doesn’t need touching.

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herodotus450

Women can’t resist the Pyramid Power.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

The fridge looks suspiciously like it’s color is Harvest Gold.

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herodotus450

And really isnt a fridge just a pyramid with it’s top temporarily removed?

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I had one that was the ever popular “avocado green” from that same era. It had cubes on it, so women were never as interested as they were with the pyramids.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

My folks bought a place in 1998 that had been built in the 70s, complete with avocado green appliances and lime green shag carpeting. It was fucking horrible, but they got all that shit taken care of finally.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Had a few apartments furnished with such. But booze, weed, and sex made them tolerable.

*Whether anybody else was there or not.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

My dad smoked weed at the time they moved in, and they both still drinks booze, but I don’t want to think about that other, since they were in their 60s at the time (as I am now, dammit).

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I was talking about my apartments…… my parents had mush older furnishings.

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Senor Weaselo

I wish I lived right on the Queens-Nassau border to have a one-man loophole protest going back and forth between the city and not the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBBBt4TdOQ

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Senor Weaselo

The things that are certain in America: Extrajudicial murder, corporate pillaging, and Jim Dolan being incompetent.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29253388/knicks-explain-lack-public-comment-email-msg-employees

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Redshirt

Me reading Facebook and seeing everyone’s reaction to Trump’s speech:
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Man, I don’t even….

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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The old style tanning salons gave you cancer, but were a lot better.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

“Mom?”

-Cheryl Tiegs

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Okay; that is some deep research into the ol’ spank bank!! Well done.

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WCS

I’ve got a weird feeling about this scenario tonight…
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Viva La Tabula Raza

I wonder how dude is going to munch muff with that helmet thing on.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Sharkbait

America:
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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

With all the violence and the rioting and the looting, let’s not forget that another 730 Americans died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

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Unsurprised

Lucky

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Sharkbait

This will hasten the second wave, then Twitler will (try*) to postpone the election.

*There is no way he knows the states set elections, not the feds.

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ballsofsteelandfury

It’ll be a lot more in a week and a half…

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I have never been more ashamed of a President

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Considering all since Feb. 2020, that is really saying something.

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Redshirt

Finally, President Buchanan can rest in peace knowing he’s no longer the worst president ever.

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SonOfSpam

Dubya gave him a run for his money. (Well, Cheney anyway)

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Fronkenshteen

Hello brothers. Its all over here in the old yew ess of ay. The south has indeed risen again, and the results are fatal. They have the presidency, the senate, the military, the cops, the AG, the Supreme Court, the lower courts, and a favorability rating (for Trump) at well over 40%, even in these dire times. Putin has won. He’s giggling and ordering up methuselahs of champagne one after the other. The democratic republic has swirled down the bowl and Americans are CELEBRATING IT. Flawless victory, Vlad. God help the righteous kiddos who’re gonna get the shit kicked out of them tonight. God love you all. And let’s hear it, for the memory of the United States of america.

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Unsurprised

The South never fell, and Russia has nothing to do with this. But in general, yeah, shit’s all fucked up. It’s always been all fucked up.

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Sharkbait

Think people still wish Joe Theisman to “Break a Leg” Whenever he goes on camera?

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Gratliff

Every time I hear his voice

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Yes.

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Unsurprised

Yes, because everyone hates him

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Unsurprised

The photos my brother is sending me of the national guard along Melrose and elsewhere reminds me so fucking much of living in D.C. after 9/11. I think of how instead of that going away (which I was for a while stupid enough to believe) it has in the decade since (when I was last in D.C.) and undoubtedly moreso since 2016 hardened like dogshit in a den into an ottoman of oppression where the entire city is militarized and under a bunker mentality that somehow blends in seamlessly with the gentrification and the security theater-happy bougie assholes living in Penn Quarter and erasing U Street from existence (fun fact: a friend from college is one of the biggest realtors gentrifying U Street because everyone I know IRL is horrible). L.A. is notorious for spending the last two decades Manhattanizing and turning the city into the hellhole Bunker Hill/DTLA has become. So the next decade or two are going to be miserable as fuck because this ratchet only turns one way and it’s not towards justice.

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Brick Meathook

Gentrifying U street out of existence? I’ve got a lot more history in D.C. than you do, and U Street only started becoming anything again in the mid 1990s. Before that, it had been a burned-out hulk of destruction for 30 years. It had been destroyed by rioters in 1968 and burned to the ground, and no money would dare go near there again. Before the riots it was a stable middle-class neighborhood with a nice business district.

Rioting killed that neighborhood for thirty years, and left nothing but poverty and pestilence and misery.

But you keep on rooting on rioters. I’d be more impressed if you actually got out there with them instead of watching it on TV.

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Don T

Yeah. Your approval carries so much weight.

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Brick Meathook

Nobody needs my approval for anything. But if you’re going to root on mob violence, at least be a man and join the mob.

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Gratliff

Ah, you’re saying he should become a cop

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I remember riding into DC in 68 right after the 14th Street riots, my dad driving his 1966 Buick Wildcat with his .32 cal P Beretta on the bench seat between us. Can’t remember for the life of me why I was with him in such a fraught area, doesn’t seem like it would be a sensible thing.

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Brick Meathook

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ballsofsteelandfury

I’ve been watching all the Andy Sidaris films lately. So good!

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

He seems like a new Russ Meyer

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ballsofsteelandfury

He was. I’m surprised you don’t know all about him.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

Kind of, although I find Sidaris less interested in the occasional shock value Meyer indulged in, and more interested in a straight up mix of low-budget action and boobs.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I thought this was about Amy Sedaris’s brother David, and thinking this seems really out of a gay writer/journalist/comedian’s swim lane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sedaris

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Redshirt

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Bring back above ground testing so we can have a real dinocroc.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Gilligan is down front; this Latin monster is SERIOUS.

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Gratliff

Can’t wait for the government-approved anti-police violence protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gje3HiouzvQ

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

They did that for G-8, why not now.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Need to call in some heavy hitter.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

Ah, Bridgette Monet…! Truly one of the most beautiful women to do x-rated movies.

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litre_cola

That’s when pubes were a thing!

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Some people just can’t see the forest for the trees.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

“My god, that woman is giving birth to a poodle!”

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

The good ol’ days!

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Don T

Ooh, a Mike Hunt script. His vulva repartee is legendary..

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

^
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Watches porn, reads the credits.

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litre_cola

During cigarette of course. Good ole days you could smoke in an adult theatre

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

And in restaurants, schools, ball games, amusement parks…

Wait, how the hell are we not all dead already?

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Coming soon, apparently, if you read the news..

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Among other things!
—Paul Rubens

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Ha! Speaking of getting set up by the cops!

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scotchnaut

“I’d like to point out that all of you are God-denying savages!”

-A guy wearing a red shirt

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Redshirt

I never called you savages.

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Gumbygirl

Channel 7 said that looters broke into a medical mj dispensary, but someone inside chased them off with a fire extinguisher. There’s a good joke in there, but I’m too sad to make it.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The only way to tell if that is true is if these same people then went and broke into the Doritos warehouse….. and then just stayed there.

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Don T

Cheeto dust is probable cause

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Doubles as fingerprint dust.

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Beerguyrob

I will always approve of an Animal House reference.

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SonOfSpam

Well, it’s definitely time for a really stupid and futile gesture.

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Redshirt

I hate to give Trump credit but he held it together with that photo op, what with that Bible most assuredly burning his hand to the touch.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Maybe this was it?

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Redshirt

Can a GIF be a banner?

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I’m really surprised that the “Covid19, up 28-3 over Racism at the half” comment didn’t make the banner.

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Redshirt

Because they were up 21-3 at the half. They were up 28-3 with 2:17 to go in the 3rd.
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Viva La Tabula Raza

Well, that’s my mis-remembering, not the original poster’s (can’t remember who made the original post). I probably was the one that inserted the “at the half” part. Old and memory turning to jello.

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Senor Weaselo

That’s why it was upside-down.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He does like a lot of shit in there, especially the old testament stuff….. well he would if he could read more the a few words at a time.

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Redshirt

“Well, that its for Malachi. Time to see what this New Testament is all about. ‘Love thy neighbor’? ‘Those without sin, cast the first stone’? ‘HE TURNED DOWN ALL THE KINGDOMS AND GLORY?!’ What hippie bullshit is this?!”

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I should have said ESPECIALLY.

In Luke 14:26 Jesus preaches that hatred is absolutely necessary to be a disciple.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.”

Deuteronomy 25:11–12

If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

I could go on and on, but what’s the point.

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Dunstan

That second one also amuses me. Like, that’s an AWFULLY specific rule. I get the feeling that some scribe had an agenda.

“Again with the third person in genital grabbing? Let it go, Jebidiah, it’s been five years.”
“Yeah, and my balls are STILL SORE!”

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WCS

Not sure what is happening in dahntahn Yinzburgh right now, but there’s been multiple protests all afternoon. These have been peaceful, and surprisingly large. Looks like things might be getting weird.

I’ll keep watching this.

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ballsofsteelandfury

There was a press conference in LA today with all the police organizations. The message was basically: we support peaceful protests. If looting starts, we will stop it.

So, essentially, the gloves are off.

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Gratliff

No they don’t. They just want the narrative that the people they’re going after aren’t peaceful. All those tv cameramen were truly a menace to society and had to be stopped.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

If they supported peaceful protests, they’d allow them to remain, y’know, peaceful.

Instead they fire tear gas into non-threatening crowds, pepper spray civilians with their hands raised in the air, and attack journalists for recording it all.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Again, that’s not the case everywhere. In LA, we went through it before. Things are different here. Not necessarily the case in the rest of the country.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

L.A. ain’t that special. The history of the LAPD is problematic from its inception, yeah, but those problems were never properly addressed. And, given the city’s cultural mix, they should have been, decades ago.

But the end result is the same as it is in many other cities: rampant authoritarian aggression backed by unneeded militarization.

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ballsofsteelandfury

It’s not that way in LA.

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rockingdog

Found a funny:

If unemployment exceeds 30% and distrust of the political process becomes widespread, there is a danger that the United States will enter what historians call The Cool Zone.

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Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Well, just learned the people who planned the fiery protest in Lady Commander’s area on Saturday are doing one nearby me tonight now too. Considering it’s pretty blatantly in a Best Buy parking lot, I expect dumb people will do dumb things.

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Redshirt

That reminds me, I gotta start a protest at Lowes. I need lumber to replace my deck.

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litre_cola

Can you grab me a screen door? 72 by 30.

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Don T

Meters? Fancy!

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Why are you building a submarine?

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rockingdog

Sexy press/field reporters walking along with the protesters are sexy

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Redshirt

There was a protest today?

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Viva La Tabula Raza

The really historically important entertainment tonight is going to come on news feeds from cities around the country. But who wants to watch that? I’m depressed enough as it is.

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Beerguyrob

That’s why it’s MXC Monday, baby.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

We need movies with big ‘gators.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

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Bonus: gap-toothed Lauren Hutton.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

‘Gator movies unite!

*Most should be “free” viewing somewhere.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I think people get CGI bitten in half and remain conscious, so they are obviously great.

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Gratliff

Wonder how many people thought this wasn’t the reality in America. It was always going to be like this in the end. They were never going to let another civil rights movement happen. Now we have a rose garden speech about peace with explosions in the background while every PD in every major city is about to bring its fist down with the full blessing of the executive branch.
https://twitter.com/bbcease/status/1267582823428501508

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BaldingSpiritually

Curious if the 2A guys who were calling cops nazis only a month ago are going to honor their word and stand up to police fascism

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ballsofsteelandfury

This isn’t about stopping another civil rights movement. It’s about stopping looters and riots and property damage.

Many protests have happened today peacefully. When shit turns violent, instigated by the assholes that don’t care about racial equality, this is what will happen.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The line is blurry; many PDs will use it as an excuse to use excessive force and violent confrontational tactics whether peaceful or not. Also there are people turning things violent with different agendas and employers. All kinds of peaceful protests have been squelched recently and that is the mode a lot of PDs are in.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

“The assholes that don’t care about racial equality.”

So…the cops…?

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ballsofsteelandfury

They’re not all bad. It just seems that way.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

If you have one bad cop and nine good cops that won’t turn him in, you have ten bad cops.

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ballsofsteelandfury

It’s not that simple

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

It is, which is the unfortunate part. You give someone unfettered authority with zero restraint or consequences, and this is what happens.

That’s not a vastly unsolvable equation, it’s instead a fairly simple formula for abuse.

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Brick Meathook

Because this country today would never elect Lyndon Johnson as President.

(actually, back then they elected JFK and then LBJ had him bumped off)

Regardless, the greatest civil rights hero in American History is Lyndon Johnson, both as Senate Majority Leader in the 1950s and as President in the 1960s. Other people made speeches; LBJ passed laws.

Franklin Roosevelt couldn’t get elected today either, because the country would never accept a rich New Yorker who inherited all his money. Not unless FDR this time played up the whole crippled thing in order to get the pity votes from the left.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Actually, the 1957 Civil Rights Act LBJ rammed through as Senate Majority Leader was pretty toothless, mostly lip-service. He even told the resistant Senators to vote for it, telling them “C’mon, we’ve got to throw the ni**ers a bone.” (parphrased, but he did use the n-bomb in his pitch). But the Civil Rights stuff he got passed when he was prez WAS phenomenal, and probably much more significant than anything JFK might have had enacted. So maybe Lee Harvey was a blessing in disguise for PoC after all.
Robert Caro’s five-volume biography of LBJ is basically a history of the 20th century in America, and worth every minute you spend reading it. I’ve read the four already-released volumes twice already; I hope I (and Mr. Caro) live long enough to see the last one. He started the first one in 1972, was suppose to only be a trilogy, but Caro found too much about the dude to limit it to three books. He also wrote a really great book about Robert Moses, the dude that destroyed NYC with all his urban renewal and freeway projects. He was more of a cruel bastard than LBJ, who at least had some redeeming qualities, which have been buried by history and modern memory.
First electrical co-op in Texas was a result of LBJ lobbying FDR for a waiver on the requirements/rules regarding distribution of Rural Electrification Administration funds (by definition/rule, the TX Hill Country was too sparsely populated), and I still get my monthly light bill from that very same Pedernales Electrical Co-Op same as I have for 30 years now.
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Gratliff

LBJ is what happens when the right sociopath at the right time gets drunk with power. Sometimes you get a Trump; sometimes you get legacy-obsessed psycho who recognizes the difference between the right and wrong side of history and can’t get his dick hard unless he thinks schools will teach about his greatness.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

I regret that I have but a single +1 to give.

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Brick Meathook

LBJ worshipped FDR and was a committed “New Dealer.” He understood power like no other person in American history, and he was committed to civil rights since his youth. He broke the “Solid South” by being one of them, becoming their leader, and then shoving the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act down their throats. They would never have passed otherwise and no one else could have done it. The Vietnam War ate him alive. Both of you need to read a real history book.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I don’t see where you disagree with what I posted, except my reading of it is that LBJ only worshipped FDR as long as it was politically expedient and he could get something out of it for his constituency while he was still in Congress; he was very opportunistic. He distanced himself from FDR and the New Deal as time went on and TX leaned further right (both Rs and Ds) from the 40s onward. But I definitely agree about how he played the civil rights stuff and Medicaid etc off against a lot of congress-critters that opposed him, and managed to get a lot of stuff done by playing off the memory of JFK. The first hundred days after the assassination were very productive for him and the country. Definitely a schizo; different aspects of his personality are hateful and other aspects quite admirable.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Unfortunately for LBJ, he stepped on a hard dick of history that was the Bouncing Betty called Viet Nam. Destroyed him as thoroughly as what’s happening now should destroy the Tangerine Nightmare.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

because the country would never accept a rich New Yorker who inherited all his money.

Ummmm….. yeah.

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

Well, not a non-orange one…

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Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Okay. Comment withdrawn.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I think we may be in store for a little ultra-violence this week.
—Alex

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ballsofsteelandfury

Military deployed! I saw it in 1992 and it was effective in ending the violence.

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yeah right

I just got a text alert saying they moved the curfew up to 5:00 PM. Better be getting my ass out of here soon. Good thing I’m only about 2 miles away from home.

Jesus.

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Brick Meathook

I was at the Whole Foods in El Segundo when everybody’s iPhone gave off that screeching Amber Alert alarm announcing a 6:00 PM curfew. There could have been (and should have been) a riot in that store.

Plus, there’s an evil wind blowing tonight. I think it’s a Santa Ana.

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