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 3107]

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 27447]

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 7328]

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 8 hours ago by pacman

[TwiceHorn 31269]

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 29237]

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 16857]

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 3201]

When this bromance dies - the fireworks should be good:

[InkaUtexas 25507]

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

[RDCanecutter 26250]

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 14104]

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 43802]

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

 

Spoiler

 

[Sbbruin 21723]

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 11564]

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 11197]

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 940]

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 76350]

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33841]

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 31269]

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 40650]

7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

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

[InkaUtexas 25507]

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 17563]

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 42860]

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.

 

[usmc0331horn 940]

I just don't understand what the voters on the fence or who swung to Trump want other than Kamala not being president or for her to magically prevent a genocide from happening when she's not even president yet. Why so reactive to swing from Biden back to Trump when it is actually going to fuck up and disrupt many of their poor little uneducated lives and make their lives worse? Why is the voting public so idiotic? Is it their nonstop consumption of social media and goods in a hyper-capitalistic society where they think that only the extreme right can make their lives better and allow them to consume even more social media and consumer goods? The illegal porn act is gonna make them happy af.

[workswithseed 2035]

24 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

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.

Having water go down your shirt as you weld with 30 degree weather is just torture.

I've learned that staying under buildings is where it's at. Seriously, those dock workers are made of stronger stuff than I. 

[DixonHur 11197]

34 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

I'm struggling to understand how Trump "played" them?  

We have years and years of data telling us how Trump viewed the Israel/Palestine issue, from his close friendship to Bibi to moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. 

He's been telling you who he is for over a decade ...it's your fault for not listening. 

[Sawbonz 27422]

[DixonHur 11197]

[G650 14104]

 

[SydneyCarton 47873]

18 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

I'm struggling to understand how Trump "played" them?  

We have years and years of data telling us how Trump viewed the Israel/Palestine issue, from his close friendship to Bibi to moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. 

He's been telling you who he is for over a decade ...it's your fault for not listening. 

Agreed, but Americans are low information everything. That being said, never has this gif been more appropriate:

5 minutes ago, G650 said:

 

Who's this dummy? 

[Sbbruin 21723]

7 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Who's this dummy? 

[Gatorubet 30088]

42 minutes ago, G650 said:

 

it’s kind of like the time she poured acid on her face because she had a very vain boyfriend who was focused on her appearance rather than her intellect.  She figured once she had the plastic surgery to correct the disfigurement he would see how much prettier she was now than before - because he cared about looks - and would eventually fall for her brain. 

Alas….he broke up with her via text an hour after the acid thing, saying, “So long, meatloaf face”.

[G650 14104]

1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

Agreed, but Americans are low information everything. That being said, never has this gif been more appropriate:

Who's this dummy? 

Generic far left dipshit is all I know

[BrickHorn 18189]

3 hours 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.

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, fuck ‘em. On the other hand, education is the only way out of fascism. Further eroding the quality of rural schools will only expand the ignorant mob. And it’s not like these dipshits will ever understand the consequences. Replacing secular curricula with religion, pseudoscience, and ahistorical, performative patriotism is exactly what they want. They’ll be blissfully ignorant.

Theres not much schadenfreude to be had from a bunch of idiots enjoying the fuck out of becoming even worse citizens.

[Superhero 8773]

I fucking love this thread.

[Ghost of LL 15486]

19 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, fuck ‘em. On the other hand, education is the only way out of fascism. Further eroding the quality of rural schools will only expand the ignorant mob. And it’s not like these dipshits will ever understand the consequences. Replacing secular curricula with religion, pseudoscience, and ahistorical, performative patriotism is exactly what they want. They’ll be blissfully ignorant.

Theres not much schadenfreude to be had from a bunch of idiots enjoying the fuck out of becoming even worse citizens.

But on the other-other hand, we're going to need a steady supply of low-skill, low-wage workers if Trump is going to undertake his mass deportation.  And I can think of few better places to get those workers than rural Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Texas once the federal government cuts their communities off from the federal largesse that keeps them inhabitable.

[mdmost 42860]

[pacman 7328]

3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

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.

I am trying to find the source but I did read a random comment that at least some of the funding sources will transition to HHS.

[CTC2 2745]

32 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

But on the other-other hand, we're going to need a steady supply of low-skill, low-wage workers if Trump is going to undertake his mass deportation.  And I can think of few better places to get those workers than rural Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Texas once the federal government cuts their communities off from the federal largesse that keeps them inhabitable.

Pilgrim’s Pride chicken ranches in East Texas will go out of business. 

[SimonBolivar 10914]

9 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

Pilgrim’s Pride chicken ranches in East Texas will go out of business. 

Nah,

[Brisketexan 104593]

27 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

Pilgrim’s Pride chicken ranches in East Texas will go out of business. 

Dude.  You do not long game.

1) Destroy public education.

2) Remove child labor laws (see Arkansas as a leader of the pack).

3) Deport brown people who work at chicken plants for $11 per hour.

4) Fill jobs with uneducated 10 year olds for $8 per hour.

5) PROFIT.

You Make America Great Again by getting kids out of those evil librul schools, and putting them to work in the factories and the fields, like the good lord intended.  And if the struggling American family needs more money, well.....have more kids!  All those wage-earners under one roof, why, that's how you really make it in the world.  If it worked for our great grandparents, it'll work for us!  And by the way, have a few more kids than you thought you needed, because....we're bringing deadly childhood diseases back, baby!

[Goofyboy 3201]

Protect your kids:

Geneva – Worldwide, there were an estimated 10.3 million cases of measles in 2023, a 20% increase from 2022, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Doctors attribute this to a declining vaccinations. Shocking.

[Sbbruin 21723]

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Dude.  You do not long game.

1) Destroy public education.

2) Remove child labor laws (see Arkansas as a leader of the pack).

3) Deport brown people who work at chicken plants for $11 per hour.

4) Fill jobs with uneducated 10 year olds for $8 per hour.

5) PROFIT.

You Make America Great Again by getting kids out of those evil librul schools, and putting them to work in the factories and the fields, like the good lord intended.  And if the struggling American family needs more money, well.....have more kids!  All those wage-earners under one roof, why, that's how you really make it in the world.  If it worked for our great grandparents, it'll work for us!  And by the way, have a few more kids than you thought you needed, because....we're bringing deadly childhood diseases back, baby!

[wildcat09 29237]

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Dude.  You do not long game.

1) Destroy public education.

2) Remove child labor laws (see Arkansas as a leader of the pack).

3) Deport brown people who work at chicken plants for $11 per hour.

4) Fill jobs with uneducated 10 year olds for $8 per hour.

5) PROFIT.

You Make America Great Again by getting kids out of those evil librul schools, and putting them to work in the factories and the fields, like the good lord intended.  And if the struggling American family needs more money, well.....have more kids!  All those wage-earners under one roof, why, that's how you really make it in the world.  If it worked for our great grandparents, it'll work for us!  And by the way, have a few more kids than you thought you needed, because....we're bringing deadly childhood diseases back, baby!

Look at brisket being optimistic. Those jobs will be unpaid internships.

[Brisketexan 104593]

Just now, Sbbruin said:

A snapshot of American greatness right there.

Shit, at this point, I'm looking at getting into the textile biz, figure it'll be taking off soon.  I hear the name "Triangle Shirtwaist Company" is available.

[Brisketexan 104593]

Just now, wildcat09 said:

Look at brisket being optimistic. Those jobs will be unpaid internships.

You missed the other alternative.  Repeal the 13th amendment. It is a communist restraint on commerce.

[dcbc 14404]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

A snapshot of American greatness right there.

Shit, at this point, I'm looking at getting into the textile biz, figure it'll be taking off soon.  I hear the name "Triangle Shirtwaist Company" is available.

The next civil war might actually be fought over textiles.  

[InkaUtexas 25507]

Nah, musk will have us all wearing mobile starlink sails.

[wildcat09 29237]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You missed the other alternative.  Repeal the 13th amendment. It is a communist restraint on commerce.

Naw, they'll just find a way for Roberts to render it ineffective. Congress never passed any enabling legislation seems like a slam dunk argument.