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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19710 on: August 29, 2019, 11:18:53 PM »

The sock puppet in chief.  But tries to disguise it as a principled stand against foreign involvements and messy geopoliticking, no doubt.  Phony isolationism.  I wonder if Vlad realized what an astonishingly useful fool he was getting for his money.

I actually see Putin watching the news from his office holding his palms down in a slow motion, saying "Donald, take it down a notch.  You are giving away the game."
Who’s your source, Lawrence O’Donnell?

Still sad your fraud punk needs mobsters to co-sign his notes and wipe his nose for him?

O’Donnell has the goods and is hoping trump is dumb enough to sue him.

Trump may in fact be dumb enough.

Time to change your diaper again, Red.
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Will the Supreme Court grant trump work release to attend the republican national convention?

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Re: Campaign Trail
« Reply #19711 on: August 29, 2019, 11:30:22 PM »

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/08/susan-collins-dispenses-niceties-accepts?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=20044

Susan Collins and Paul LePage, a match made in campaign heaven.

If one wanted a way to disabuse people of their belief in her being a moderate, she certainly found a good way to do it!
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19712 on: August 29, 2019, 11:44:28 PM »

He does have bi-annual flowerings of adding a tidbit or two to the conversation, but not enough to balance the unprovoked nastiness.
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Will the Supreme Court grant trump work release to attend the republican national convention?

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19713 on: August 29, 2019, 11:54:25 PM »

The sock puppet in chief.  But tries to disguise it as a principled stand against foreign involvements and messy geopoliticking, no doubt.  Phony isolationism.  I wonder if Vlad realized what an astonishingly useful fool he was getting for his money.

I actually see Putin watching the news from his office holding his palms down in a slow motion, saying "Donald, take it down a notch.  You are giving away the game."
Who’s your source, Lawrence O’Donnell?

Still sad your fraud punk needs mobsters to co-sign his notes and wipe his nose for him?

O’Donnell has the goods and is hoping trump is dumb enough to sue him.

Trump may in fact be dumb enough.

Time to change your diaper again, Red.

A perfectly fine post, as the banning of a longtime brother ensues.  Must be Silver's potty-mouthed nephew.

Be well, Utley.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19714 on: August 29, 2019, 11:58:12 PM »

No, thanks.

He's one of us.  That should be enough.
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I have attempted to impose a ban on the poster known as HamiltonIII.

Thats a bad call

Josh,

I also have some doubts.   Ham delivers the kind of open race baiting that you don't see much nowadays - he doesn't even bother code switching.   To me, that's something kind of useful to watch, to get an idea of what sort of shit is in people's heads out there. 

I would actually like to engage with him on posts...

A poster who repeatedly attempts to reveal the name and residence of another poster, even after he has said he would stop, is not "one of us" to me, despite his having been around the NYT message boards far longer than I.

That he has threatened me with the same, going so far as to post my picture and (attempt to) talk about my private life just exacerbates the problem.

He was given warning after warning. He either chose not to change or could not change. Either way, he had gone over the top too many times.



Kid, if Bankshot is willing to have him back then I'll probably undo the ban - but also, I will probably not stay, myself. He is too volatile, IMO.

Don't put it on me, I've posted with that asshole for years, and shown him for what he is, a coward and a perverted creep with no sense of decency.

The Troll can rot in the hell of his own twisted mind.

Fuck him.

In general, as in 99.999% of the time I'm not for banning posters, and I'm a little surprised that Josh banned Ham/utley/etal, but as best as I can tell he did so, because  boz asked a very good tongue-in-cheek question of Josh in the NFL forum, where earlier today, hammy, out of the blue, with no provocation, defamed me again.

To paraphrase, boz wanted to know if it was ok to post someone's name and address and then falsely accuse them of being a sexual predator of children, and it was ok, he had a list and some scores he wanted to settle.

Josh understood the logic of boz's question.

Hammy has been doing this shit for years, targeting mostly me, but I've seen him threaten Josh, and drop personal reference in menacing manners to yank and cap with veiled threats about the nature of their private family lives. And then there is the unconscionable racism he routinely targets Knicks with. Hammy is a very damaged and a very angry person with little self-control.

Now I don't care about the insults, I'll get into a flame war with anyone just for fun, but I do care that the fuck-up posted private information (address phone #) which in the hands of a sociopath could result in a very dangerous situation, for only for me but for other members of my family.

And he did it several times.

And he did it after saying he was surprsiedhe could do something that underhanded and mean.

A normal adult with a half-way formed sense of right and wrong would never act this way. Hammy was not normal. He was a sociopath.

Again and this can't be repeated enough,

FUCK HIM.

Because he's too stupid and too impotent to sucessfully argue his opinions, he tries to coerce other posters into silence with his vile behavior and lies.

It didn't work with me and it never will, and ithat pissed off and frustrated the pathetic troll to no-end.

So kid you're wrong. he is not one of us.

He's an amoral vile piece of shit.

And probably always will be.

FUCK HIM
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19715 on: August 30, 2019, 08:33:34 AM »

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19716 on: August 30, 2019, 09:04:33 AM »

JOSH ET AL.

I don't much follow the NFL forum, so was unaware of that level of trolling.   My earlier comment no longer applies - he should be banned.  I'm a web admin elsewhere and not sure how you would get so much personal info with just IP addresses, so gotta say there is some nasty hacking skill there (or very obsessive detective work).  That's a basic breach of message board law, anywhere.   I'll continue my (possibly fruitless) study of racism with our remaining dog whistlers. 
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19717 on: August 30, 2019, 09:40:54 AM »

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19718 on: August 30, 2019, 11:41:57 AM »

JOSH ET AL.

I don't much follow the NFL forum, so was unaware of that level of trolling.   My earlier comment no longer applies - he should be banned.  I'm a web admin elsewhere and not sure how you would get so much personal info with just IP addresses, so gotta say there is some nasty hacking skill there (or very obsessive detective work).  That's a basic breach of message board law, anywhere.   I'll continue my (possibly fruitless) study of racism with our remaining dog whistlers.

bart several of us Elbian's have posted together for over 20 years, (starting on NY Time's forums and other forums) and over the years have swapped war stories, personal info and sports chatter and other assorted bullshit, and became a small community of sorts.  I made a rookie mistake when signing up for the NYT forum, (ie user name) and paid for it years.  lIRC Red (Jim) made the same mistake.

Most of us treated the personal info of the community carefully, as we understood basic privacy matters.  The troll didn't. Through his obssesive internet stalking he tried to use it as leverage and to silence, hurt or embarass people.  He was and is a shit head.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19719 on: August 30, 2019, 12:38:31 PM »

Yeah, I think it was around 2000 that I got on the fringes of the old NYT forae - mostly the mysteries of science, and later the film forum.  "Bartonphink" was the moniker back then.  And briefly, Nilsson.  I lurked in the Books forum more than posted, but remember some of the luminaries there.  There was a talking dog (at least it typed) from Cleveland who was quite amusing. And an intelligent hamster.  In politics, I remember various characters and weird trolls.  Xerxes and JimMengele, of course.  And some guy who raved about conspiracies in Lockport, New York, and feared, what was it, Jewish dentistry?  (if he'd seen "Marathon Man," he might have directed his phobia more accurately towards Nazi dentistry) 

If I'd been as tuned into politics then to the degree that I am now, I might have surrendered thousands of more hours of my free time to the web. 
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19720 on: August 30, 2019, 01:05:37 PM »

Fox News seems to be shirking its role as Trump Sycophant....


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CAVUTO: You’re only human. I get that. Who likes to be corrected? But you are the president. It comes with the job, just like checking what you say and do comes with my job.

After all, I’m not the one who said tariffs are a wonderful thing; you are.

Just like I’m not the one who said Mexico would pay for the wall; you did.

Just like I’m not the one who claimed that Russia didn’t meddle in the 2016 election; you did.

Now, I’m sorry you don’t like these facts being brought up, but they are not fake because I did. What would be fake is if I never did, if I ignored all the times you said you loved your old Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, until you didn’t, had no plans to dump your homeland security secretary, until you did, called Chinese President Xi Jinping an “enemy” just last week and a great leader this week.

Sometimes, you don't even wait that long. Last week, you expressed an appetite for background checks, before arguing just hours later our background checks are already strong.

These aren’t fake items. They’re real items, and you really said them, just like you never paid to silence a porn star, until it turns out you did, never ordered your former White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Bob Mueller, until we learn you tried.

Fake is when it’s wrong, Mr. President, not when it’s unpleasant, just like it isn’t and wasn’t fake when you said the “Access Hollywood” tape wasn’t real, when it was, or that you inherited a depression from Barack Obama, when you didn’t, or that you ripped quantitative easing when he was president, but are furious the Federal Reserve isn’t doing the same for you now that you’re president....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/30/fox-newss-commendable-necessary-rebuke-trump-demand-sycophancy/

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19721 on: August 30, 2019, 01:51:03 PM »

Facebook just said that I posted "hate speech."

The Facebook page for UNICEF showed a video of Muslim refugees in a horrible crowded refugee camp in Greece, and here is my reply...

"Greece is small, and Greece is already full of Greeks. Send the migrants somewhere else. Send the Muslim migrants to Dubai, and to Abu Dhabi.

Salute,

Tony V."

In my mind that is not hate speech, and I asked them to review it.

Salute,

Tony V.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19722 on: August 30, 2019, 02:12:24 PM »

 Are you okay with sending the Muslim refugees here, to the U.S., Tony?
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19723 on: August 30, 2019, 02:25:19 PM »

Are you okay with sending the Muslim refugees here, to the U.S., Tony?

They already are, the Muslims are coming to Michigan, and to other areas.

The USA is for everyone. I respect the words on our Statue of Liberty.

And if the Muslims come here then they need to respect the Christians and Jews, etc.

Everyone in the USA needs to get along as Americans.

But, the UNICEF post was about trying to squeeze refugee Muslim people into a country that is already full of people, Greece is just a tiny nation. So, I suggested that they send the Muslim refugees to wealthy Muslim areas where they have plenty of room, and where they will be welcomed.

We will see what they say after they review it.

Salute,

Tony V.


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #19724 on: August 30, 2019, 03:12:23 PM »

It is crazy how fast someone can be red flagged for hate speech, even if no hate was intended.

Then it is on your record that you have been posting hate speech on social forums. 

We will see what they say when they review it.

Salute,

Tony V.
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