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July LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of July?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

2 3.92%

John Kelly

18 35.29%

Jared Kushner

1 1.96%

Wilbur Ross

4 7.84%

Ben Carson

0 0%

Rudy Giuliani

1 1.96%

Scott Pruitt

15 29.41%

Kellyanne Conway

2 3.92%

Rod Rosenstein

3 5.88%

Write-in

5 9.80%

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07-18-2018 , 12:34 PM

#951

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

yikes

07-18-2018 , 12:40 PM

#952

zikzak

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CBS, BBC, Time, Al Jezeera, CNN, & others all have Nicaragua stories today, but you really have to hunt to find them. If you don't know to look, you'll never see them.

07-18-2018 , 12:41 PM

#953

Jiggymike

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Never understood the appeal of boarding first. I want to spend the absolute bare minimum of my time in an airplane.

I haven’t been on a plane in the last year and a half and can’t say I miss it at all. Traveling is great but have been able to take 3 to 4 road trips in that span anyway.

My only desire on the plane is to be seated next to my wife even if her routine consists of handing me her glasses and laying down on me to sleep while tasking me with figuring out how to make sure her glasses remain unbroken. Aisle seat also preferable.

Cliffs on Nicaragua?

07-18-2018 , 12:44 PM

#954

Huehuecoyotl

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So yeah, remember those entrepreneurial Macedonian kids who started their own websites and made lots of money off of feeding polarization, mostly the right wing kind? Turns out they weren't as self made as one would believe

Quote:

Media outlets from around the world descended upon Veles to tell the story of how the so-called fake news teens — many of whom had a shaky understanding of English — made large sums of money from digital ads shown next to their misleading stories about US politics.

But after reviewing social media posts, government records, domain registry information, and archived versions of fake news sites, as well as interviewing key players, BuzzFeed News, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and the Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia can now reveal that Veles’ political news industry was not started spontaneously by apolitical teens.

Rather, it was launched by a well-known Macedonian media attorney, Trajche Arsov — who worked closely with two high-profile American partners for at least six months during a period that overlapped with Election Day.

One of those Americans, Paris Wade, is now running for office in Nevada. Arsov also employed other American and British writers, including at least one who currently works for US right-wing conspiracy site Gateway Pundit.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...is-wade-libert

07-18-2018 , 01:33 PM

#955

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Never understood the appeal of boarding first. I want to spend the absolute bare minimum of my time in an airplane.

I usually fly first class and it feels quicker. The 15 mins extra you sit in the plane would have been the 15 mins you sit outside with all the gross airport people. Plus you are first off so it’s actually quicker in a real sense. Theoretically you could arrive exactly through the gate right before take off and save 5 mins but that would cause me psychological damage in arriving just in time.

07-18-2018 , 01:59 PM

#956

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by dth123451

Still hold cheating against ZeeJustin

He was a kid. His brain wasn't even formed yet. And also it was about the least evil kind of cheating you could do imo.

07-18-2018 , 02:12 PM

#957

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

He was a kid. His brain wasn't even formed yet.

Not sure if this is serious, but in related "just a kid, brain not even formed" news: Milwaukee Brewers All-Star pitcher Josh Hader tweeted some pretty ugly **** when he was 17

Quote:

After Hader surrendered a three-run homer in the eighth inning, several Twitter users — starting, it seems, with an account named MLB Insider Dinger — found and retweeted messages Hader sent as a 17-year-old. The tweets included numerous uses of the n-word and an allusion to “white power” next to an emoji of a closed fist. One tweet read only, “I hate gay people.” Another referenced wanting women only for sex, cooking and cleaning.

“It’s just something that happened,” Hader, a former All-Met from Old Mill who grew up in Anne Arundel County, said after the game. “I was 17 years old. As a child, I was immature. I obviously said some things that were inexcusable. That doesn’t reflect on who I am as a person today. That’s just what it is.”

Quote:

Hader repeated his age and the time passed since the tweets. While he was nearly an adult when he sent them and not, as he called himself once, a “child” at the time, Hader insisted the tweets would not reflect on him.

07-18-2018 , 02:18 PM

#958

ecriture d'adulte

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 5,914

Quote:

Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce

Also the pre takeoff cocktail.

07-18-2018 , 02:23 PM

#959

TrollyWantACracker

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 4,184

In his defense, I am sure that a few years of playing professional baseball in the Midwest will cure you of any racism.

07-18-2018 , 02:33 PM

#960

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

Not sure if this is serious, but in related "just a kid, brain not even formed" news: Milwaukee Brewers All-Star pitcher Josh Hader tweeted some pretty ugly **** when he was 17

JFC you guys act like ZeeJustin molested kids or something. He multl-accounted and went through a **** ton of consequences for it. Is no one ever allowed redemption for anything in the poker world?

As far as the other - much more troubling obviously. But still not beyond redemption. Plenty of white supremacists much older than him have changed their stripes.

07-18-2018 , 02:46 PM

#961

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

JFC you guys act like ZeeJustin molested kids or something. He multl-accounted and went through a **** ton of consequences for it. Is no one ever allowed redemption for anything in the poker world?

idk why this is a response to me, I just asked you if "he was a kid with a not fully formed brain" is a serious defense of someone who was old enough to play a lot of poker on the internets. Sure, he should probably be forgiven for multiaccounting, idk, it's been a long time since I cared that much about interwebz poker scandals.

07-18-2018 , 02:48 PM

#962

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

19 year-olds do really stupid ****. I did really stupid **** when I was 19. I'd like to think I'm a different person now.

07-18-2018 , 02:48 PM

#963

bobman0330

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Quote:

Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce

Why would you be waiting at the gate rather than in the SkyLounge?

07-18-2018 , 02:53 PM

#964

Namath12

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07-18-2018 , 03:28 PM

#965

pvn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Just flew Southwest, don't think ever have before. They have managed to come up with and implement the absolute worst possible way to board an aircraft. Kind of impressive.

be careful, Southwest has an army of cultists who think everything they do is revolutionary

07-18-2018 , 03:33 PM

#966

pvn

Guest

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MrWookie

It's actually the fastest way to load and airplane in current use.

but so what? Airlines do care about how long it takes to get a plane boarded, but only up to a point. Airplane utilization is a big deal but for most domestic aircraft there is a huge dead period that can't be realistically used (i.e. most domestic aircraft spend the night parked somewhere) so there's a limit to how many segments a plane can fly in a day. Shaving five minutes off of boarding isn't going to provide enough extra time to squeeze one more segment in.

Most airlines care a lot more about keeping elites happy, which is why they board using "illogical" systems.

07-18-2018 , 03:41 PM

#967

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

Why would you be waiting at the gate rather than in the SkyLounge?

I was comparing contrasting the two experiences of paying extra for first class or early boarding. Of course whenever you fly first class there is a diamond lounge or gold lounge or whatever. My point is it seems quicker overall if you board earlier than wait . For example to San Diego I flew first class in Alaskan air. In my trip to San Fran I flew coach in southwest. Either way I don’t like waiting and I also hate the three seats instead of two wedging. If it was my own money, I have never bought an airplane ticket, I would probably just bear coach.

07-18-2018 , 03:43 PM

#968

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

Waiting at the gate instead of boarding early is one of the reasons people pay for preboarding. In a southwest type situation you get one of the front seats, and when you exit you don’t have to wait 8 hours for everyone to leave.

07-18-2018 , 03:46 PM

#969

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

19 year-olds do really stupid ****. I did really stupid **** when I was 19. I'd like to think I'm a different person now.

THIS

07-18-2018 , 04:00 PM

#970

All-In Flynn

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Read the replies to have a ****ty rest of the day. Watching the donkey establishment rat**** AOC in real-time is horrible and fascinating in equal measure.

07-18-2018 , 05:38 PM

#971

.Alex.

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,672

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

The last 100 posts should have already let you know that no one in this forum (outside of +rep and maybe one other poster) has any clue about the modern poker world.

07-18-2018 , 06:33 PM

#972

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I couldn’t have said it better. I don’t think teens are anywhere close to developed enough. For example when I was a teenager my friend stabbed her mom until she died. There were some nuts who thought she should get the death penalty
and obviously a big news story in my kansas suburb. Giving a child the death penalty is totally rediculous, and now that she’s older she’s one of the nicest people in Kansas City.

07-18-2018 , 06:35 PM

#973

spaceman Bryce

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Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

Regardless of what you wrote when you were 17 no matter what it was “ I was 17” should be a slam dunk defense,assuming the person is at least 25 now and didn’t do anything violent.

07-18-2018 , 08:18 PM

#974

markksman

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Everyone should really stop using Facebook for anything and encourage others to do the same. They contributed to this mess we are in and show no signs of adequately correcting course.

Zuckerberg is clearly one of the luckiest people ever because he is not very bright and still became a real billionaire.