The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread

[flatdawgs 1256]

1 hour ago, workswithseed said:

Definitely, an asshole I may be, but it was torture my first year. I seriously was depressed. I don't want that for anyone going through winter up here. 

I'm from here, and yeah - lights are your friend during the "cozy season" lol. I've been to a lot of places (maybe almost as many as Inka) and the summers up here are unparalleled anywhere, but the piper must be paid and now is the time. Getting up into the mountains helps if you get into the snow stuff; the sun is normally out more up there on the east slopes. I've met quite a few expat Texans in the past few years who've made the move.

[PRONG HORN 3106]

18 hours ago, Captainant said:

This was because of the repeated death threats they were getting exclusively from trump supporters. Fuck you, you fucking propagandizing liar

 

 

Where is the propaganda?  In the quote from the tweeter, or the video of the FEMA employee?  Where is the lie?  

 

 

[Captainant 27442]

4 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

 

 

Where is the propaganda?  In the quote from the tweeter, or the video of the FEMA employee?  Where is the lie?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tovarich, is a lie of omission, da?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pacman 7324]

Britt being targeted by jigsaw and her pack of misfits. What kind of logical leaps does it take to pretend Scott isn't a status quo senator?

Edited 4 hours ago by pacman

[TwiceHorn 31265]

6 minutes ago, pacman said:

Britt being targeted by jigsaw and her pack of misfits. What kind of logical leaps does it take to pretend Scott isn't a status quo senator?

MOAR!  MOAR!

[wildcat09 29228]

14 hours ago, C-Man said:

 

I beg to differ a little bit with wildcat and agree with DNA. I admittedly spent time in the news game and have a journalism degree. I wouldn't call WaPo or the NYT "fascist collaborators" really. Leadership really let us down but more than anything, they failed in doing their civic duty in letting somebody like Trump and his endless stream of bullshit go unchecked. For the first time in this nation's history, one candidate (and now cult party) weren't playing by any of the rules that were adhered to for the first 250 years of this nation's existence. They're used to people playing by the rules. MAGA doesn't do that. Add in something like FOX News which isn't a news organization and never was. It's a propaganda machine that was created to combat a perceived liberal media slant.

The answer isn't to create the liberal version of Fox News. That won't work, certainly not on those that could possibly see the shit sandwich we're all about to be served and perhaps stray slightly to other sources of news. They aren't all of a sudden tuning into hyper-partisan liberal media. I think the "old guard" institutions need to decide to get in the fight -- the real fight -- or die of obsolescence.

It's been a long day with body blow after body blow so what the fuck do I know really? I'm just stressed to the gills thinking about the next two years at a min before we can hopefully start cutting into the MAGA/GOP cabal in the legislatures. I just hope there's a country left to save at that point.

Nope, they're fascist collaborators. That doesn't mean there aren't people at those institutions that do good journalism, but their ownership have fully committed to collaborating with fascism. This is why they sanewashed Trump before the election and buried stories about him loving Hitler in the 25th paragraph in a story on A12 while front-paging Biden's "garbage" line for days.  This is why Bezos pulled the op-ed board's Kamala endorsement. Hell, it's why they put stories about Claudine Gay on the front page like 10 times in one month last year, and why they heel every time Chris Rufo orders them to do so. They thought a Trump presidency would be good for their businesses and invested in him accordingly.

And this isn't "for the first time in this nation's history," he's been the Republican candidate the last 3 fucking elections. They didn't do a better job of covering him because they didn't want to. Because they're collaborators. Sure, once he takes office they'll pretend to be all about checking him again to try to get those subscriptions back, but they're no more than controlled opposition and should under no circumstances be trusted and certainly not financially rewarded by liberals for their collaboration.  

[Nivek 16853]

38 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Nope, they're fascist collaborators. That doesn't mean there aren't people at those institutions that do good journalism, but their ownership have fully committed to collaborating with fascism. This is why they sanewashed Trump before the election and buried stories about him loving Hitler in the 25th paragraph in a story on A12 while front-paging Biden's "garbage" line for days.  This is why Bezos pulled the op-ed board's Kamala endorsement. Hell, it's why they put stories about Claudine Gay on the front page like 10 times in one month last year, and why they heel every time Chris Rufo orders them to do so. They thought a Trump presidency would be good for their businesses and invested in him accordingly.

And this isn't "for the first time in this nation's history," he's been the Republican candidate the last 3 fucking elections. They didn't do a better job of covering him because they didn't want to. Because they're collaborators. Sure, once he takes office they'll pretend to be all about checking him again to try to get those subscriptions back, but they're no more than controlled opposition and should under no circumstances be trusted and certainly not financially rewarded by liberals for their collaboration.  

Translation:  corporate media

[Goofyboy 3198]

When this bromance dies - the fireworks should be good:

[InkaUtexas 25497]

Let them deal with it in a cage max. winners get MarALago and Ivanka.

[RDCanecutter 26249]

1 hour ago, pacman said:

Britt being targeted by jigsaw and her pack of misfits. What kind of logical leaps does it take to pretend Scott isn't a status quo senator?

Britt is Officially Disliked by Magatrons and Trumpanzees because of her Shelby lineage. (Richard Shelby, last human senator from Alabama, who publicly wrote in a vote instead of voting Roy Moore, and encouraged others to do the same. Never mind that Shelby brought all kinds of jobs to the state-- they hated that too.)

Instead of trying to act like Shelby Jr., Britt has tapped into a 19th century Theatre handbook on conveying weeping courage fit to rend the audience's heart. Or maybe it's her AI programming confusing all human signals at once.

If so, Scary Puppet Loomer best take care lest machine guns and flame throwers pop out of Britt's Fembot titties.

[G650 14086]

I don't even know where to put this, but this is fucking awesome.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/14/the-onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-in-bankruptcy-auction.html

[The Dog 43794]

r/LeopardsAteMyFAce and r/Project2025Award are goldmines today. Spoilering for size:

 

Spoiler

 

[Sbbruin 21711]

I was just listening to NPR on my way in, and they were talking with some Brown professor about Trump's plan to shutter the Dept of Education.  He was explaining that essentially the role of the DofE is to provide funding for underserved districts, and to pay for special ed and special needs programs.  Essentially to attempt to level the playing field as much as possible so that wealthy communities with much larger property tax bases don't gain too great of an advantage over poorer communities with lower prop tax bases.  His point was that while yes, some of these underfunded districts are in poorer inner city neighborhoods, a much larger portion on in rural communities in...you guessed it, largely red states.  So when your shitty rural Arkansas district gets even shittier, well, enjoy.

[Incredulity 11560]

11 hours ago, flatdawgs said:

I'm from here, and yeah - lights are your friend during the "cozy season" lol. I've been to a lot of places (maybe almost as many as Inka) and the summers up here are unparalleled anywhere, but the piper must be paid and now is the time. Getting up into the mountains helps if you get into the snow stuff; the sun is normally out more up there on the east slopes. I've met quite a few expat Texans in the past few years who've made the move.

I'd also add that the damp cold is harder to deal with than dry cold.  39 and pouring rain with a heavy wind is legit cold, cold.  15(maybe even colder), no wind with the sun shining is much more tolerable, IMPO.

[DixonHur 11171]

1 minute ago, Sbbruin said:

I was just listening to NPR on my way in, and they were talking with some Brown professor about Trump's plan to shutter the Dept of Education.  He was explaining that essentially the role of the DofE is to provide funding for underserved districts, and to pay for special ed and special needs programs.  Essentially to attempt to level the playing field as much as possible so that wealthy communities with much larger property tax bases don't gain too great of an advantage over poorer communities with lower prop tax bases.  His point was that while yes, some of these underfunded districts are in poorer inner city neighborhoods, a much larger portion on in rural communities in...you guessed it, largely red states.  So when your shitty rural Arkansas district gets even shittier, well, enjoy.

Those fuckers are probably home schooling anyway

[usmc0331horn 934]

8 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I was just listening to NPR on my way in, and they were talking with some Brown professor about Trump's plan to shutter the Dept of Education.  He was explaining that essentially the role of the DofE is to provide funding for underserved districts, and to pay for special ed and special needs programs.  Essentially to attempt to level the playing field as much as possible so that wealthy communities with much larger property tax bases don't gain too great of an advantage over poorer communities with lower prop tax bases.  His point was that while yes, some of these underfunded districts are in poorer inner city neighborhoods, a much larger portion on in rural communities in...you guessed it, largely red states.  So when your shitty rural Arkansas district gets even shittier, well, enjoy.

They're all just sped daycare centers anyway these days but this is going to be a complete shitshow and I'm pulling up a chair.

[tx 3 putt 76322]

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33837]

and they're not even in power yet. this is all marinating and tenderizing for when the real face-eating starts to happen

[flatdawgs 1256]

16 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

I'd also add that the damp cold is harder to deal with than dry cold.  39 and pouring rain with a heavy wind is legit cold, cold.  15(maybe even colder), no wind with the sun shining is much more tolerable, IMPO.

You're not wrong. It is, along with the 100+ degree humid weather in the Gulf countries, the most miserable weather there is. We are masters of layering when it's time to be outside (and honestly stay in a lot, plus it's dark 15 hours a day in December anyway). However, you're an hour away from the cold, clearer weather in the mountains, and two hours from the high desert (and there are about 6 billion daily flights to Hawai'i, Tahiti, Mexico for when you just can't stand it any more, usually by February lol).

IMPO the summers more than make up for it - 80, sunny, light until 10pm, no humidity, few if any bugs. Winter is the price we pay for the beautiful, verdant scenery.

[TwiceHorn 31265]

28 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I was just listening to NPR on my way in, and they were talking with some Brown professor about Trump's plan to shutter the Dept of Education.  He was explaining that essentially the role of the DofE is to provide funding for underserved districts, and to pay for special ed and special needs programs.  Essentially to attempt to level the playing field as much as possible so that wealthy communities with much larger property tax bases don't gain too great of an advantage over poorer communities with lower prop tax bases.  His point was that while yes, some of these underfunded districts are in poorer inner city neighborhoods, a much larger portion on in rural communities in...you guessed it, largely red states.  So when your shitty rural Arkansas district gets even shittier, well, enjoy.

In a more rational timeline, those functions of DoE could be reassigned elsewhere in the bureaucracy, as they were prior to 1979.

But not in this timeline, I'm afraid.

[Red Five 40633]

7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

It's been nine fucking days. He won't even be president for another two months. 

[InkaUtexas 25497]

7 minutes ago, Red Five said:

It's been nine fucking days. He won't even be president for another two months. 

yes, but in those 9 days he has made some pretty big decisions.

[Chad Fuck 17561]

1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

yes, but in those 9 days he has made some pretty big decisions.

I'm gonna try 

for the kingdom if I can

'cause it makes me feel like I'm a man

[mdmost 42845]

The Reese Witherspoon gif is going to get a lot of play in this thread whenever Muslims whine about what happens the next 4 years.