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Postby shafnutz05 » Sat Oct 17, 2020 9:57 am

What the ****?!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/europe/p ... index.html
An 18-year-old Moscow-born man of Chechen origin has been identified as the suspect in Friday's beheading of a schoolteacher in a suburb of Paris, a French judicial source told CNN Saturday.

The victim was Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher at a secondary school in the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine area, according to the French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer. Blanquer said Saturday that Paty was murdered "for teaching a class that had to do with one of the pillars of democracy -- freedom of expression."
Multiple French media outlets, including CNN affiliate BFMTV, reported that the teacher recently showed controversial caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed to his students as part of a lesson on freedom of speech. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, some Muslim parents complained to the school about the teacher's decision to use one or more of the cartoons as part of a discussion about the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

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Postby Tomas » Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:35 am

In this week, Biden's election likelihood declined by 6+% on Betfair (from 1/1.435 to 1/1.575, i.e 63.5%), all under very heavy trading (currently $177M+ total betting volume, more than $1M per day coming these days)

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Sat Oct 17, 2020 11:28 am

There must be some sort of Trump get together this morning. They all gathered at the old Gander Mountain parking lot where giant eagle used to be and Phantom fireworks is now further up 22.
Thanks for the invite :?

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Postby King Colby » Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:26 pm

So town hall nodding lady is... gifted i guess

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Postby Morkle » Sat Oct 17, 2020 2:37 pm

The FBI is investigating whether emails that were published by the New York Post related to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, are connected to a possible Russian influence operation to spread disinformation, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The newspaper said in its story Wednesday that it had obtained a hard drive from Rudy Giuliani containing the emails, and that the messages were found on a laptop that had been left last year at a Delaware computer repair shop for service but never retrieved.

The unlikely account of how the emails surfaced raised immediate questions about Russian involvement, particularly because U.S. officials have warned that Russia — which backed Trump’s 2016 campaign through hacking and a covert social media campaign — is interfering again this year.

The episode is being investigated as part of a possible Russian influence operation, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press to discuss an ongoing matter. It underscores the extent to which Giuliani, through his activities, is a risk to a White House that spent years shadowed by a federal investigation into whether Trump associates had coordinated with Russia.

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Postby Morkle » Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:24 pm

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and one of President Donald Trump's personal lawyers, said in an interview with The Daily Beast that there was a "50/50" chance one of his associates was a spy for Russia.

"The chance that Derkach is a Russian spy is no better than 50/50," Giuliani said, referring to his associate, the Ukrainian government official Andrii Derkach whom the US Treasury Department in September designated for sanctions over his "attempting to influence the US electoral process."

The former mayor told The Daily Beast he believed the sanctions against Derkach were the result of "an intelligence ploy to try to create problems for Trump." As The Daily Beast noted, a number of Giuliani associates have been arrested by US law enforcement or otherwise barred from entering the US.

When asked if he was worried that the information he had provided to The New York Post as part of its recent series of reports about stolen data from a hard drive that supposedly belonged to Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was the result of the 2019 hacking of Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings, where the younger Biden served on the board beginning in 2014, Giuliani told the outlet it "wouldn't matter," and asked "what's the difference?"
I feel like Rudy has sunk a long long way down since being America’s Mayor.

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Postby Troy Loney » Sat Oct 17, 2020 7:30 pm



There has to be some inbreeding in the Trump line.

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Postby blackjack68 » Sat Oct 17, 2020 7:57 pm

He is the dullest in a line of dim bulbs.

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Postby Troy Loney » Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:03 pm

You have to be almost perfectly sheltered to think that a mansion in Delaware is unattainable on a Senator's salary.

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Postby blackjack68 » Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:07 pm

As noted in the comments, they bought that house for $185,000 in the 70s and sold it over 25 years ago.

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Postby Troy Loney » Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:12 pm

As noted in the comments, they bought that house for $185,000 in the 70s and sold it over 25 years ago.
What a combo, not only is the point you are trying to make you look stupid, but you are even using false info.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:15 pm

I love it when people just make things up.

This guy must be from Westmoreland County.


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Postby Dickie Dunn » Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:04 pm

“Put everyone in jail who doesn’t agree with me!”

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Sat Oct 17, 2020 11:24 pm

President Donald Trump called on Friday night for Joe Biden and his family to be jailed, escalating his attacks on his Democratic opponent over unsupported accusations as he struggles to reverse his deficit in the polls.

“Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary,” Trump declared at a rally in Macon, Georgia, stoking the crowd that chanted “lock him up” in favor of the Democratic candidate’s imprisonment.

“We’ve learned over the last couple of months: Joe Biden is a corrupt politician,” Trump said to his supporters, “and the Biden family is a criminal enterprise.”
The **** sack on this corrupt ****.

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Postby MWB » Sat Oct 17, 2020 11:28 pm

It’s just words.

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Postby willeyeam » Sat Oct 17, 2020 11:33 pm

President Donald Trump called on Friday night for Joe Biden and his family to be jailed, escalating his attacks on his Democratic opponent over unsupported accusations as he struggles to reverse his deficit in the polls.

“Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary,” Trump declared at a rally in Macon, Georgia, stoking the crowd that chanted “lock him up” in favor of the Democratic candidate’s imprisonment.

“We’ve learned over the last couple of months: Joe Biden is a corrupt politician,” Trump said to his supporters, “and the Biden family is a criminal enterprise.”
The **** sack on this corrupt ****.
Honestly, whether it's in 4 months or 4 years, it'll be great for some administration to lay out all the sht Trump did while he was in office without all his minions there to cover it up anymore

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:40 am

With the obvious disclaimer that Twitter is a cesspool, I've seen quite a few comments (including several, shockingly, from teachers) that the guy in France that had his head cut off by yet another Islamic throwback essentially had it coming. He did a really shitty thing by daring to insult thepedophile prophet and he shouldn't have been surprised by the result.

It never ceases to amaze me that western culture is expected to constantly adapt and become more tolerant, yet a murderous, backwards religion/culture that is at odds with virtually every facet of Western liberal democracy is expected to be accommodated without question.

If evangelicals were half as violent/insane as much of the Islamic world over perceived "blasphemy" , there would be nonstop bloodshed in the streets. But the left wing, bizarrely, goes out of their way to defend and lavish praise on a religion that gleefuly tortures and murders LGBT people, stones women for holding hands, hates black people, etc. The blind spot is maddening and fascinating at the same time.

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Postby eddy » Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:55 am

With the obvious disclaimer that Twitter is a cesspool, I've seen quite a few comments (including several, shockingly, from teachers) that the guy in France that had his head cut off by yet another Islamic throwback essentially had it coming. He did a really shitty thing by daring to insult thepedophile prophet and he shouldn't have been surprised by the result.

It never ceases to amaze me that western culture is expected to constantly adapt and become more tolerant, yet a murderous, backwards religion/culture that is at odds with virtually every facet of Western liberal democracy is expected to be accommodated without question.

If evangelicals were half as violent/insane as much of the Islamic world over perceived "blasphemy" , there would be nonstop bloodshed in the streets. But the left wing, bizarrely, goes out of their way to defend and lavish praise on a religion that gleefuly tortures and murders LGBT people, stones women for holding hands, hates black people, etc. The blind spot is maddening and fascinating at the same time.
One of my best friends is islamic and none of those things apply to him except that's his religion. He escaped his country and came to ours when he was a kid because he probably wouldn't have survived staying where he was. He still practices his religion and is against everything you mentioned above.

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Postby Tomas » Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:58 am

Biden continues to drop in prediction markers. This morning, his election chances are traded at 1 to 1.635 (61.1%) on Betfair. Those odds are very similar to his post-debate chances, a sizable drop from his recent maximum of 69+%, and imply "within the margin of error" election.

ElectionBettingOdds do not include Betfair, but still show the same trend.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:18 am

So what you’re saying is that Trump shitting all over himself in another debate the week before the election will once again help Biden?

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Postby eddy » Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:19 am

With the obvious disclaimer that Twitter is a cesspool, I've seen quite a few comments (including several, shockingly, from teachers) that the guy in France that had his head cut off by yet another Islamic throwback essentially had it coming. He did a really shitty thing by daring to insult thepedophile prophet and he shouldn't have been surprised by the result.

It never ceases to amaze me that western culture is expected to constantly adapt and become more tolerant, yet a murderous, backwards religion/culture that is at odds with virtually every facet of Western liberal democracy is expected to be accommodated without question.

If evangelicals were half as violent/insane as much of the Islamic world over perceived "blasphemy" , there would be nonstop bloodshed in the streets. But the left wing, bizarrely, goes out of their way to defend and lavish praise on a religion that gleefuly tortures and murders LGBT people, stones women for holding hands, hates black people, etc. The blind spot is maddening and fascinating at the same time.
One of my best friends is islamic and none of those things apply to him except that's his religion. He escaped his country and came to ours when he was a kid because he probably wouldn't have survived staying where he was. He still practices his religion and is against everything you mentioned above.
The reason I said this was because you never cease to be amazed that western culture is expected to constantly adapt and become more tolerant, but this is what they are doing when they escape that culture. It's easy for me to adapt and be more tolerant because that's literally what we should be doing to be better people. That also doesn't mean I support these horrific crimes.

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Postby blackjack68 » Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:05 pm

Did I really just see a Biden commercial featuring the Blind Pig bar with Sabotage by the Beasties playing?

Amazing

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Postby Viva la Ben » Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:07 pm

Lol I just went on YouTube to post it here.

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