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Gatorubet

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  1. …and Jimmy Stewart flew 20 combat missions in a B-24, including missions over Berlin and Nuremberg (that was flying into Flack Alley). He enlisted as a private and ended the war as a Colonel. He was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses with Oakleaf clusters, the Air Medal, and a Croix de Guerre. He was a freaking Brigadier General in the Air Force reserve. John Wayne took the movie roles of better actors who were serving in the war.
  2. “The second half might, but the third half sure won’t.” - MAGA
  3. two giant racist pieces of shit, btw Edit. I misread that. I thought it was Glenn Ford not John Ford. Batjack (Waynes production company) had a white’s only employment policy that was written in the bylaws. he liked Latino women, but he wanted no Tejano participation in the Alamo movie. screw that draft dodger.
  4. I forget what football game I was watching this weekend when this long commercial extolling the joys of Las Vegas came on. I imagine that the next meeting of Clark County bankruptcy attorneys will be filled with high-fives and Champagne corks popping.
  5. I wouldn’t want Americans in my country either.
  6. Yeah, Russia did not withdraw from Kyiv because their tank columns were destroyed and their logistics sucked so bad they had no ammo or gas - they withdrew because of requests from Europe….and got played by Ukraine. V-boggers sympathetic to the war did not like what Putin said in China. Several bloggers noted that the entire meeting was to show that China was now the center of power, and that people like Putin were vassals. One of the pro military bloggers said that he felt humiliated by Putin telling the world that Europe and Ukraine played Russia. That is not the look of the leader of anti-western countries, but the sad story of being made a chump and telling it on yourself in front of your boss. Another V blogger said that Moscow was filled with festivals that were all free, and there was free music and art and everyone in Moscow had never had more to do for free. The blogger liked it to a woman who bought and wore a beautiful expensive dress, even though her husband lost a limb in combat and her children had nothing to eat, but she had a pretty dress and went to the party anyway. This was on Constantine’s Inside Russia YouTube channel, and he said the degree of criticism of Putin by the pro military V bloggers was the most extreme he had seen. Apparently Russians don’t seem to care so much if everyone views them as war criminals, just as long as they are viewed as powerful war criminals who are respected and feared.
  7. I never said it did. But it is not true that they are ignoring his change of position on Epstein. They aren’t ignoring it. They are pissed. Will they be pissed enough not to support him? That is an entirely different question, and the answer is - no.
  8. Yeah, I got that from your previous post and assumed it would be a real reach for them to prevail. The ability to be found on searches is certainly an important issue like Sydney said, so essentially I was asking him to focus on marketing (since the odds of him winning this were slim), and if he’s going to be prohibited from marketing the way they were, they’d best get on it finding a new way to market that is effective using different descriptors. I’m sure I did a bad job of explaining that - and my first post did not indicate my assumptions on the chance of success in the court fight.
  9. No. I would never suggest calling a hamburger a “ground beef sandwich”. So you are absolutely correct that it is a bad idea to market with shitty phrases that will not produce results on searches. Which is why I suggested you talk to marketing/advertising people before you decide to go to the mattresses. In case there was a way to market your product that was not in violation of the competitor that would still reach your customers. If you’ve already done that, my suggestion is moot. If you haven’t done that, but feel that your opinion on marketing is better than marketing experts, then rock on my brother and see if the courts will give you some relief. Best of luck in any event.
  10. Perhaps a silly question, but is the description that they use the only description by which people can understand your product or services are related to a specific geographical region? By that I mean, if the bully is preventing you from advertising “New Orleans Sex Toys”, can you advertise “Crescent City Sex Toys”? There is a common human emotional reaction that opposes change, especially when the change is forced upon you - and you have had years of us before the threatened change. I assume that prior use is something that everyone at your shop is comfortable with (and is ubiquitous in your advertising). I guess I’m suggesting you step back from ‘battle mode’ and chat with some advertising/marketing gurus to see if there is an alternative marketing strategy that could separate you from them (maybe in a more catchy way) while retaining the reference to your product/services and geographic territory associated with them. Also, maybe take a look at their products and services and see if there’s anything they do where they have left themselves unprotected, trademark wise, so you can trademark that even if you don’t use it or intend to use it yet - but might serve as a bargaining chip on the other issue. Caveat: I know less about this area of the law than any other lawyer on this board, so anything I say should be given the lack of Creedence it deserves
  11. What is the response from your clients who were holding out for lower rates before they pulled the trigger? Are they jumping at this or does Hope spring eternal and they’re still sidelining it waiting for better rates?
  12. Over 40% of his voters are pissed at the way he’s handling the Epstein files. I honestly can’t think when he’s pissed his base off on a subject this much. Then again, while they remain in Team MAGA partisan denial, they are still aware (in parts of their brains that they are not allowed to access) of friends and family losing their jobs - or seeing their businesses fail/suffer because of tariffs. I think the Epstein issue allows them to transfer some of the unhappiness that they are not allowed to express about Trump‘s overall presidency in a way where they can be critical - yet still be seen as legit MAGA/Qanon and not viewed by neighbors and peers as anti-Trump. Remember the TTom J6 screed. In his deranged brain vomit post he focused very much on QAnon pedo issues. Trump was fighting with generals from his bunker - and when he won they were going to arrest all the Democrats and send them to Gitmo for trial and execution. I mean, it was really the thing he cared most about. And on this one issue, Trump not being transparent results in the drip, drip, drip Chinese water torture of multiple new revelations - like the honeypot sting and the billionaire GOP backer being on the list. By not releasing everything at once he is insuring that the story will not go away. And as QAnon and MAGA were the biggest champions of the Epstein story, and the biggest champions of a deep state cover-up, Trump telling his base that this was all invented by Democrats essentially lumps his believer base in with woke libtards.
  13. 47% of the morons who voted for the orange turd in ‘24 say that Trump is not handling the Epstein files matter well. Do tell…
  14. https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-penchant-for-bullshit-explains-maga-anger-about-the-epstein-files-263983
  15. fify
  16. Oh, uh, there won't be any money Pig Cleti…but when your farms fail, you will receive our thoughts and prayers…So you got that goin' for you, which is nice.
  17. You sure of that? 401(k) is for employment income and all….
  18. cross posting this in both the Epstein and Trump economy threads. WTH?
  19. Holy shit! That’s immortal David Ferrie
  20. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/appeals-court-ruling-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations-unlawful Wait! OUR Fifth Circuit?? I only have one explanation
  21. Yeah. Some become roadkill and wind up in Central Park.
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