@raphjd

LOL to quote the Republicans in the 1990s, and the Democrats in the 2010's... and quite honestly, both sides in the 2020s:

You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

@raphjd

Fox news isn't the same as the Yahoo channels & Russian propaganda sites you so often use as sources....

Pedophiles are awful people. They can be found in all walks of life: some are conservatives, some are liberals, some are green-party activists, some are communists, some are nazis, some are white, some are black... you get the idea.

@raphjd

I'm sorry - but tempers are flaring over abortion rights on BOTH sides now...

You show 20-plus violent attacks on pro-life protesters
Others will show you 20-plus violent attacks on pro-choice protesters

A LOT of bad actors on both sides - and absolutely no room in the middle.

These are local counties to me (Hillsborough is the county for Tampa, Pasco is the county just to the North).

What happens in this video is not at all atypical, and I think what happened is what SHOULD have happened.

• She ran a stop sign
• She got pulled over & was upset
  -- so far perfectly normal and fine --
• she got belligerent, then she got her husband involved
• she got even MORE belligerent & wouldn't even listen to her husband when he said she needed to calm down.
  ... then the shit hit the fan...

The husband (a Sheriff's Deputy in the larger Hillsborough County) tries to defend his wife (with her constant goading and whining in the background) and decides to try to play a "professional courtesy" card to get her out of it... only (possibly because of the wife's behavior, possibly not) the ticketing officer says no.

Had he left it there, she'd have gotten a ticket and all would be done... but noooo

She continues to be belligerent - not even willing to let the Deputy say the "spiel" he's got to about options - and the husband starts in on the "professional courtesy" thing. He insists on talking to a supervisor, he really thinks escalating things is going to get him somewhere...

It does... it gets him a perjury charge and a return ticket to the unemployment office. He let his wife goad him into getting him a criminal charge AND the loss of his job/career.

Here's a simple rule: when you mess up, admit it and move on!

My grandfather said: when you find yourself in a hole, the first step is always the same: stop digging

This guy kept digging & finally hit a sewer line full of shit! And for what he did, he got the punishment he deserved.

As a cop, you have my respect and my thinks for doing a job that is difficult on its BEST days! But respect and thanks is not the same as carte-blanche to break the law, or let your wife do so! You still have to follow the same laws the rest of us do!

IMHO, cudos to the Pasco Sheriff's office for following up professionally, and cudos to the Hillsborough Sheriff's office for dismissing a bad egg when it was revealed.

I'm currently 58, he is 35. Just 3 years together so far. But in addition to being different generations, we're also different races: I'm Irish/American, he's Vietnamese/American.

@raphjd

Yeah - just down to the bottom of the first page of this nonsense was TLDR:

• The Red Flag law the Senate passed doesn't REQUIRE IT, it just provides federal backing to states who DO already (including Florida!). (And Red Flag laws have been upheld by wide margins in SCOTUS rulings... so "unconstitutional" is just plain wrong...
• Democrat activists are NOT still harassing SCOTUS members at their homes. The idiot who showed up with plans to kill Justice Kavanaugh kinda scared some sense into them (or, it made the optics bad - either way, they stopped... for now)... not saying they won't start up again, but the assertion they're still doing so is just plain wrong.
• The moron who was arrested outside Justice Kavanaugh's residence didn't get far enough to warrant the assertion that it was an attempted assassination. But that doesn't make what he did, or his intentions any less dastardly... still, word choice matters!
• The Dems already passed the legislation increasing (expanding to the entire families) security for SCOTUS members. That's water under the bridge, and complaints that Dems are stopping it are just wrong. DID they fail to act quickly when the Senate passed it? YES! Did they do so nefariously? Depends on who you ask WHEN! (Context matters too!)... mostly, Dems didn't think it a high priority, so it wasn't fast tracked... until the Kavanaugh incident - at which point it WAS quickly passed.

And that's only in the first paragraph!

Not that some of the points made aren't valid, just that they're presented in patently FALSE ways!

A waste of time to read... save yourselves....

@raphjd

Yup - any Gov't body who doesn't do exactly what @raphjd wants is dirty!

It couldn't possibly be a LEGAL thing - after all, the Justice Department wouldn't have any decent LAWYERS to decide those things...

NAH! Has to be that they're crooked and covering shit up!

@raphjd

This is what happens when political parties DON'T do the proper investigations of their candidates!

This dude was only a few hundred votes shy of being the Governor of Florida! (We got Ron DeSantis instead - so we're still mostly a shit-show of incompetence! But that's been Florida for DECADES now! There's a REASON Trump relocated here after his presidency: he's among friends here - CRAZY people are as common as green grass & palm trees here!)

He had previously been the mayor of Tallahassee (the State Capitol, but a very small town still). Surely SOMEONE knew of his predilection for hard drug use and male prostitutes from back then?

@raphjd

Agreed (qualified immunity should not apply to cops doing criminal things)

Bad cops need to be identified, prosecuted, and removed (at least from the force, if not from society - eg.: prison)

That doesn't mean all cops are bad. Extrapolation from single incidents is just plain wrong.

@raphjd

Not at all - the shit-show in Seattle didn't get any support from me (when BLM rioters essentially took over parts of Seattle in 2020)...

AOC & Bernie seldom see any love from me, but I don't stand for them being accused of terrible (false) things just because your Russian masters want to drive a wedge between Americans (real ones). I also don't stand for Leftist attacks on Sen Cruz or Sen Paul. (That doesn't mean I support everything Sen Paul does or says - he's a crackpot and an idiot, IMHO)...

But you can't be swayed by FACTS! You have your OPINIONS, and in spite of any FACTS, your opinions are ALWAYS right! Damned right!

EVERYONE has the right to protest our Government! INCLUDING ILLEGAL ALIENS! That's one of the things about the US that makes us BETTER than most other countries... we don't just give and protect the rights of CITIZENS - we apply those same rights and protections to ALL PEOPLE!

While the rally with Trump on the morning of Jan 6 was completely LEGAL and I have (and had) no issue with that protest, the parts that came later WERE criminal (hence so many who have pleaded GUILTY to actual, serious crimes!)

Another analogy: walking up to my door and ringing my doorbell isn't a crime. Neither is it a crime if you do that and run away! But if you ring my doorbell ... and THEN break my door down? Well, THAT is a CRIME!

@raphjd

I think I speak for many others in responding that we wish you'd go back to Mother Russia!

But wait - was it personal attacks, unrelated to the topic, that got me banned? Or was it just your (ab)use of your "powers" on a whim because you tire of people calling out your Russian-Propaganda-Fed bullshit!

The gentle readers of this forum can decide that for themselves...

On topic - where was the attempt by the film crew to interact, much less interfere, with MoC who didn't want them there?
Where were the weapons?
Where was the gallows?
Did they have an agenda - something they wanted to get the Gov't to do? Some law to pass or overturn? Some lawmaker they wanted to target?

Inquiring minds (clearly, not yours) want to know!

For the record, they were recording a dog-puppet doing comedy bits around the office building (a puppet who smokes a cigar - funny? I don't think so, but apparently others do... and I'm of the opinion of let them be them - if they like it, let it be!)

Oh, and that's another thing... they were NOT in the Capitol, they were in an Office Building next to the Capitol. So uh... there goes another piece of your "house of cards" argument!

BTW: My new neighbor hired a black kid from our neighborhood to mow his lawn, and he's only paying him $20/week! That's less than ANY of the professional lawn companies charge - so I'm guessing my new neighbor is a slave trader or owner or ... there has to be SOME way to make this look like he's abusing that boy because he's BLACK! Right? It CAN'T BE that the kid asked him for the job (because he mows other lawns in the neighborhood) and the pay is exactly what the boy ASKS for in payment? NO! That wouldn't be HEATED and DIVISIVE! MUST FIND A WAY TO TWIST THIS STORY INTO A WHITE SUPREMACY STORY!

Or, not!

@raphjd

Hmmm - did they break in? Did they pillage the place?

Seems to me you're conflating "legitimate protests" - which includes the first half of the events on Jan 6 - with insurrection (attempting to overthrow the Government vs just influence it) - which includes the OTHER half of the events on Jan 6.

No amount of fake comparisons will reduce the absurdity of the Jan 6 insurrection.

Your comparison is akin to "Look! He lit a match!" (to light a cigarette) and comparing that to "Look! He burned down half of Arizona! But he did it with a match!"

One is a completely legitimate thing to do. The other is a significant crime. The fact that a match was involved in both doesn't vilify the smoker, and neither does it excuse the arsonist!

Bringing it back home:
It wasn't the protesting on Jan 6 that made it an insurrection. There are LITERALLY (in the old sense) protests in Washington, DC EVERY SINGLE DAY!

No, it was the breaking into the capitol, it was the threats of violence against current officials of our Gov't, it was the massive destruction of Gov't property, and it was the attempt to STOP the Gov't body from performing its civic duty... THAT'S what made it an insurrection! (What? the treats weren't real? Then why the gallows on the steps of the Capitol?)

Not every fire is arson, and not every protest is an insurrection!

@flyboy8v2

It works for me - which means there may be an issue that's blocking you.

Step 1: See if your ISP is blocking your DNS by:
a) open a command prompt (or powershell) window. Windows 11 now calls that a "Windows Terminal"
b) enter the command "nslookup www.gay-torrents.net"
c) the output will first report the DNS server used, THEN show you the results of the query... that should be an IPv4 & IPv6 pair of addresses.

If your ISP is blocking that site's DNS, just change your DNS setting - in Windows 7 and later, you can go directly to the Network Connections Control Panel by "run"ning "ncpa.cpl" - open your connection, look to ipv4 settings, and manually change them. I recommend 1.0.0.1 & 1.1.1.1 (both from CloudFlare).

Step 2: See if your ISP (or your country - depending on where you live) is blocking your access.
IF your DNS is resolving properly above, then check your connectivity to the site...

Blocks like these usually don't go by names, they go by IP address - so run the command: "tnc www.gay-torrents.net http" and then (for completeness) "tnc www.gay-torrents.net -Port 443"

Because I'm on an IPv6 connection, I show a failure on the http connection for ipv6, but a success on the port 443 test. Forcing IPv4, I get success at both.

IF this test fails, then you're being blocked by a firewall on your ISP's network. You will have to use a VPN to get around that.

I hope this helps!

WikiDude

@raphjd

To your mind (what there is of one), IMPERFECT justice is no justice at all.

Anarchy

So long as you (and your ilk) are in charge... but wait... in charge? That's not anarchy!

Reminds me of the old one-liner: "when I'm elected King, I'll fix everything wrong with the USA!"

@raphjd

The NY Times is a liberal newspaper. They admit as much.

Complaining that they hire BLM-favorable reporters is like complaining that Fox hired Tucker Carlson or Steve Doocy!

OMG! Did you hear that BLACK BAPTIST CHURCH down the street hired a new BLACK pastor?

Like 90% of your diatribes, this is FAKE NEWS...

@raphjd said in House Republicans Accuse Rep. Adam Schiff of Allowing Colbert Staff Into Capitol:

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You git - you banned me because of a post - a NEW TOPIC - I posted... but you, on your high horse, are never wrong, so I guess that whole posting will likely be deleted now...

c'est lat vie!

I guess the war in Ukraine won't end tomorrow after all, because my post about Walmart being unfairly targeted for an attempted Juneteenth celebration product won't be read, so the Russians will continue the war!

Seem disconnected? yeah... look in the mirror...

@raphjd said in Texas Woman Pleads Guilty to 26 Voter Fraud Felonies:

@djsoapbubble

Are you saying this is fake news?

FAKE NEWS? As-in the Trump definition of "fake news" (which is: it's not important enough to be "news") - then yes, this is fake news...

Not to be confused with wrong or invalid information...

Truthful, yes... fake news, also yes!

Regardless of the port of entry (Macedonia), the port of Origin is Putin & the Russian KGB.

This is par for the course.

As I pointed out: like most click-bait, the headline is somewhat misleading, if not entirely wrong. In this case:

• Senator implies US Senator, but no US Senator is implicated...
• DFL implies ties to the US Democratic Party, but is actually the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party (though, in national politics, they caucus with the national Democratic Party). Just an aside: the DFL is "large and in charge in MN politics - holding nearly, if not, every statewide office... they are implicating one of their own here...
• Voter Fraud is highlighted in the title, but the voter fraud portion of the charges are minimal: they delivered mail-in ballots inappropriately. The real "ethics crimes" here are the misuse of funds... no small issue, but not in the headline!

Go figure!

@Spintendo

You are arguing with a rock. @raphjd is the site administrator (not the site owner, but damn near as high up in this site's orgainzation)... I've been pointing out that his articles come from Russian-sponsored troll sites (you call them click farms - I like it) for years now... he just calls me names and ignores the obvious anti-American bias and divisiveness.

BTW: @raphjd does not live in the US - he is in the UK. His infatuation with US politics goes hand in hand with his adoration of all things Trump and belief that authoritarian rule (by someone he politically agrees with) is the best form of Government. "Off with their heads!"

Oh, and while he used to let the politics section run "fast and furious", he's decided lately to (ab)use the power he holds as Administrator to ban people who challenge him. Just so you're warned...

This one was a keeper for me... While I didn't like the 30-minute episode format, i really liked the story - and I think there's plenty of room for more exploration - like Tao (a straight? friend of lead character Charlie's) budding attraction to trans friend Elle...

Like the above poster, I also watched this series with a teary eye - because my own childhood awakening was NOTHING AT ALL like this! I was bullied, attacked - physically and verbally - and ostracized because I was "different" in High School, and even still in College! It wasn't until my first career job that I ever met anyone else "normal" like me! LOL

I've downloaded and kept a version of this - for one, I have a 16 y/o who is struggling with his sexual identity.

And I very much look forward to new seasons!