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May LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

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

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

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John Kelly

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Jared Kushner

0 0%

Ty Cobb

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Ben Carson

3 6.38%

Ryan Zinke

0 0%

Scott Pruitt

3 6.38%

Kellyanne Conway

2 4.26%

Rod Rosenstein

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05-07-2018 , 05:08 PM

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Graduations are generally awful except for maybe pre-school.

05-07-2018 , 05:10 PM

#302

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Graduations are generally awful except for maybe pre-school.

Very true. It felt like 6 hour lecture more than a joyful ceremony. I actually didn't want to attend mine and instead get my diploma mailed to me. But my family insisted on attending since I was the first in my family to get a degree and I complied.

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Twenty years from now, every student is going to go to the stage with a pro-wrestling gimmick and a choreographed ring walk.

Hopefully, they all choose The Ultimate Warrior so that the ceremony could be done with faster.

05-07-2018 , 05:14 PM

#303

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Twenty years from now, every student is going to go to the stage with a pro-wrestling gimmick and a choreographed ring walk.

Hopefully, they all choose The Ultimate Warrior so that the ceremony could be done with faster.

Old man yells at cloud.

The last graduation I went to was my daughter's HS graduation last year. Nothing abnormal happened at all.

05-07-2018 , 05:32 PM

#304

Chips Ahoy

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Originally Posted by bobman0330

A neat vignette of how predominantly black behaviors get coded as "ill-mannered" and (not by you) worthy of physical restraint. If the concern about people yelling is that other people won't be able to hear the names being read because other families are celebrating, why not just read the names louder? If people are dancing on the stage, why not just share their apparent joy?

bingo.

05-07-2018 , 05:57 PM

#305

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Old man yells at cloud.

Yup.

Though I always loved The Ultimate Warrior's entrance. Would die laughing to see every graduate shaking the dean's hand the way The Warrior shook the ropes before stepping into the ring.

05-07-2018 , 06:41 PM

#306

6ix

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

I happened to watch this Saturday night when it said 'posted a few seconds ago' and there were already a ton of views and comments. One day I'll get my first 'first'.

Powerful video though I'm wondering how the audio-only edit will work.

05-07-2018 , 06:55 PM

#307

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Childish Gambino reminds me a bit of Tommy Wiseau.

05-07-2018 , 07:23 PM

#308

6ix

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Can someone give me the cliff notes version of why the This is America video is genius? There's a lot of shooting but that's about all I can comprehend.

I think it's genius because it's openly mocking and deriding the very people praising it but I might be in the minority.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.6e794c10b842

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Glover’s character, who appears to represent how white American culture oppresses black people...

Err, not quite.

05-07-2018 , 07:34 PM

#309

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This is pretty funny imo. Fans of both seem to hate it.

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/sta...16875866218499

05-07-2018 , 07:39 PM

#310

Noze

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Oh man, why Grimes?

05-07-2018 , 07:39 PM

#311

dth123451

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Elon Musk is losing his ****ing mind. He went off Jeff Skilling style on an analyst call last week; Tesla is burning through cash at a staggering rate, not helped by the idiotic Solar City merger he jammed through, was recently downgraded to junk, and is completely ****ed.

05-07-2018 , 07:47 PM

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I actually just found out yesterday that the smoking hot British host in Westworld is his ex wife. Huh.

05-07-2018 , 07:47 PM

#313

suzzer99

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Holy crap at that story about Schneiderman. What the **** is wrong with people?

05-07-2018 , 07:56 PM

#314

PoppaTMan

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GRIMES NO

05-07-2018 , 08:15 PM

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https://twitter.com/maeve_mcdermott/...43404671234048

I find this genuinely entertaining.

05-07-2018 , 08:34 PM

#316

suzzer99

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Grimes looks like a Ferengi. The hottest ferengi ever. But still.

05-07-2018 , 09:24 PM

#317

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Yeah on this development TSLA was up $8 a share today.

05-07-2018 , 09:26 PM

#318

suzzer99

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The anti-abortion crowd should have a lot of fun with this.

05-07-2018 , 09:35 PM

#319

6ix

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No matter what tragedies we go through, we dance through them. It’s both a coping mechanism and a shame. I think Donald is saying that the things we do to be able to deal with this world also don’t allow us to fully comprehend what is happening to and around us. Whether we’re doing the Gwara Gwara, the shoki, the wop or the Nae Nae, around the diaspora, we move because maybe we’re afraid that if we stop, so does our fight. Whether we’re in post-apartheid South Africa or Trump’s America, we are constantly presented with enemies we wanna A-town stomp away.

In what I see as an indictment to hip hop and new rap, Gambino dances with all the might he can muster, with a fake smile plastered to his face as he raps “Look how I’m geeking out/ I’m so fitted / I’m on Gucci / I’m so pretty.”

As he’s doing all of this, the place around him is literally burning in chaos. There’s a car on fire, there’s protests, there’s cops chasing people. And all he can muster in that moment is to talk about designers and what he looks like. DRAG FOLKS THEN, DONALD. DRAG US FOR FILTH!

Black joy is a form of resistance in a world that loves Black pain but where is the room for the fight if we want to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil?

https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2018...ld-glover.html

05-07-2018 , 09:38 PM

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Yeah on this development TSLA was up $8 a share today.

Tesla jumped $8 a share on news that Elon was dating some really weird singer? Makes as much sense as most market news I guess.

05-07-2018 , 09:42 PM

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When NPR does music reviews that calls for instantly changing the station. Listening to someone review or analyze music is the third most horrible sound behind a baby crying and someone talking about their dream.