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#641 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 302 weeks ago
The new Q psychosis is Trump is the shadow president and will be inaugurated on March 3rd.
Another thing some of them believe is Biden is really Trump wearing a Biden suit.
Another is Biden is really JFK Jr. wearing a Biden mask like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible.
Total insanity.
I always have to remind myself that there are actual living breathing humans here who believe this stuff no matter how batshit insane it sounds.
#642 Re: The Garden » NFL 2019 » 302 weeks ago
Tampa Bay's defense is nothing special. I don't even think they rank in the top 10. If they do, they barely make it.
I think they are top 10 in points allowed which is a pretty important stat to me. Brady played like shit in the 2nd half and definitely got bailed out by his D. Lafleur coached a shitty game which helped.
Rodgers did play better than Brady. His team just fucked up at the worst possible time.
Not surprised about the AFC CG, but the Bills coach settling for FG made no sense. If you're going to play that type of defense against Mahomes in which he chews up the damn clock. You have to maximize your own offensive possesions and not settle for FG. You have to match them score for score.
It's a decent SB matchup I just don't know if Brady can put together one entire game of good qb play. I'm rooting for TB, Brady isn't going to be playing much longer and to be honest he only was a thorn in my team's side for maybe one playoff game years ago. I know this one NYJ who hates him much much more.
#643 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 303 weeks ago
The flow of conversation has already changed but I want to comment on the race topic a few pages back....
Im with Flagg all the way. Poverty is the main issue. Actually it's how your community deals with it that is the problem.
The central valley has many poor neighborhoods. The absolute worst was the west side when it was majority black.... second worst is the west side when the Mexicans took it over.
Is it racist to acknowledge this? You tell me. While telling me, come down here and I'll give you a 2 am cruise of these neighborhoods and I'll take a safe guess on which neighborhood you'll beg me to skip.
Hint: It's not the poor white neighborhood.
It seems to be a simplistic yet complex issue at the same time. It's also an issue where everyone is afraid to inject any honesty into the mix for fear of being branded the grand Wizard of the KKK. So nothing ever changes.
The trajectory were currently on isn't the answer. Pretending everything is racist, whining about privilege, etc just makes it worse. I remember on the Reddit feminist sub before it was banned for not believing women have penises, there were some black women on there talking about how this shit is half pandering, half talking down to them. They were right...and it's something the Dems need to figure out quick. Donald Trump was pulling minorities in for fucks sake.
If the Dems had the answer, their cities wouldn't contain massive shit hole black communities that rival Somalia's crime rate.
Aunt Jemima isn't racist. No one thinks about racism when eating pancakes...not even David Duke or Jesse Jackson. The white meth heads in Stockton are not privileged. The answers we seek are not in that direction.
This is a really good post. There's a similar area in the state I live in. It's been like that for DECADES. Drugs, homlessness etc. They have tried to clean it up but efforts always fail or it always just stays the same. It's not race or anything. It's that these people are poor and congregate in that one area. I just don't know how they can solve it. It's socioeconomic and it's trying to get these people off of the streets and into some sort of normalcy. I really wish the government would just spend more money of those type of initiatives instead of all the other pork and shit they waste on.
#644 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 303 weeks ago
Listening to Biden talk compared to Trump, night and day.
Trump has these totally weird pauses when he speaks too. Totally disrupts the flow of whatever he's trying to say.
#645 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 303 weeks ago
Machete is way cooler than I remembered. Myb i didnt even see the first and rented the sequel on redbox, i dunno. Barely remember it but wish i saw it in theaters.
Jessica Alba is terrible in it lol, almost a parody. I doubt its her voiceover and they constantly cut away every 3 seconds to a cutaway shot because she cant hold a scene. Made me realize how great Uma Thurman was in Pulp Fiction.
Jessica Alba is a really crappy actress. The only movie she was in that I found semi-interesting was some horror film called The Eye. Otherwise, she basically needs to be in only tv shows.
#646 Re: The Garden » NFL 2019 » 303 weeks ago
Drew Brees has been done for 2 years. It was painfully obvious watching him this year he didn't have the arm strength. They blew it those 2 years (2017 and 18) in the playoffs when he still had arm strength.
I think GB easily handles TB.
If Mahomes plays, I except the Chiefs to win. Bills don't have a run game like the Browns did.
And honestly, GB VS KC is the best match up.
#647 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 303 weeks ago
I claim black people have been oppressed in America. I use slavery and segregation as my basis. What’s your claim? They need to get over it?
Isn't this kind of obvious to most people? I thought it didn't need explanation. I guess I was wrong here.
#648 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 303 weeks ago
This is a disturbing story if true:
A woman seen wearing a white nationalist T-shirt and directing people towards Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 is now under investigation for possibly stealing the Speaker of the House’s laptop and planning to sell it to Russia’s secret service.
Riley June Williams, 22, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is currently on the run from authorities after video footage captured inside the Capitol clearly shows her taking an active role in directing the insurrection.
But the FBI is now investigating an altogether more troubling accusation.
According to a former love interest of Williams, who contacted the FBI’s tip line in the days after the attack, Williams had stolen a laptop or hard drive from Pelosi’s office, which she planned to give to the Kremlin.
These details were included in an affidavit filed on Sunday evening by FBI agent Jonathan Lund outlining the criminal case against Williams.
“[The witness] also claimed to have spoken to friends of Williams, who showed [the witness] a video of Williams taking a laptop computer or hard drive from Speaker Pelosi’s office. [The witness] stated that Williams intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.”
The witness said that the sale had fallen through for “unknown reasons” and that Williams either destroyed the computer device or still has it.
Lund added that the Russia allegations are still under investigation.
The affidavit says Williams has changed her telephone number and deleted her social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Telegram, and Parler since Jan. 6.
Wiliams was first identified over the weekend by UK broadcaster ITV, which published a report about Williams’ activities inside the Capitol.
The report spoke to Williams’ mother, Wendy Williams, who confirmed that her daughter had “just took off” and hadn’t said where she was going. She confirmed her daughter was the person seen directing people “upstairs, upstairs, upstairs” towards Pelosi’s office.
“She took a sudden interest in Trump’s politics and far-right message boards,” Wendy Williams said.
#649 Re: The Garden » NFL 2019 » 303 weeks ago
2021 is going to be a waste for the Bears. They are going to fire Pace and Nagy and then you'll wonder why they didn't do it now instead of delaying the inevitable.
Big picture though, you gotta wonder whether or not this duo can build a consistent winner long term. If not, you're just wasting more years of Eddie Jackson, and Khalil Mack's prime.
I think Allen Robinson's probably gone too. In his NFL career he's had Blake Bortles and the Bears' qb's to catch passes from.
#650 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 303 weeks ago
The modern matches are kind of unexciting as well. Most of the time I see a bunch of moves that build up toward a sequence that usual involves a finisher being kicked out of. Oh yeah that too, finishers are severly devalued now days. It seems like everyone kicks out of one and makes them less exciting when used.
Anyway, there's no psychology or storytelling within matches anymore I've noticed. It's just kind of people doing a bunch of moves with very little rhyme or reason. I rag on HHH, but the guy does actually try to tell a story when he does/did wrestle, he just needed someone to reign in his excesses, and cut out the fat and not have every match go 30 minutes or so.
