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Discussion: New Bob Woodward book - “War”

nan said:

This group was indicated but when they actually showed up to defend themselves the charges were dropped.  

No. The indictment still stands and these men are all still wanted by the FBI. 

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/boris-alekseyevich-antonov

Stop making **** up. 

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Discussion: Meet the Mets (For Mets Fans Only!)

ml1 said:

Also, I'm thinking of Jerry Ryan tonight. During the 2015 postseason run Soul29 arranged viewing parties and Jerry was there each night cheering for "DANIEL MURPHY!!"

Jerry would be loving this. 

"FRANCISCO LINDOR!!"

I miss this ficking guy. 

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Discussion: Twitter is a Private Company

Good to see another successful Falcon Heavy launch, too. And soon we'll know so much more about Europa, even though we should attempt no landing there.

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

Got the QB again today. Two words were guesses, but I think I had them lodged somewhere in my subconscious.

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Discussion: Fast Food Abominations we Love

Jaytee said:

add chipotle spicy mayonnaise… it’s my favorite

I am a lifelong member of a select group of gastronomes who hate mayonnaise. Oh, the tales of tribulation we can tell.

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Discussion: New Bob Woodward book - “War”

I think there is a fair discussion to be had about the fact that some people’s expectations run a little wild when the media reports on certain things. 

For instance, starting in 2016 and moving forward it became clear that a group in Russia was using social media to try to influence American voters. That influence was pretty clearly designed to benefit Donald Trump. Moreover evidence started to emerge about possible contacts between those Russians and members of the Trump campaign. Also questions about whether the Russian government, and Putin specifically, were directly involved in this. 

I think a lot of people took that narrative and tried to very publicly draw a lot of conclusions about Donald Trump’s direct culpability in all this. Then when all the investigation was complete, people were dismissive of the end results. They’d been reading for months about a video of Donald Trump in a Moscow hotel getting peed on by Russian prostitutes while Vladimir Putin sat nearby and planted fake Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop then sending it to James Comey via FedEx in October 2016. So when the actual results of investigation came out, of course it was disappointing, and it allowed some people to say it was all a hoax. 

This has had the unfortunate effect that any information which comes out about Trump and Russia gets filed under the same “Russiagate was a hoax!” banner. If Trump had Abbott testing machines sent to Putin for his personal use, that should not have been kept a secret. If he wanted to make a case that it was in the interest of the United States to help a foreign government manage a dangerous pandemic, they should have openly said so.  I can spin it: If Putin had died of COVID that could have been very destabilizing. Boom. People would have gotten mad but it would be over. 

Also, a former President having private phone calls with a foreign leader, especially Russia, is not okay. Trump is in possession of all kinds of sensitive information in his head. And, according to articles about the book, he asked to be left in private to have those conversations. Nobody from the US other than Trump knows what he said to Putin. It doesn’t matter what they talked about … the conversations should not have been private. 

So we end up with headlines that oversell the facts, and pundits speculating on TV and online. And a real problem gets dismissed because it doesn’t live up the the hype. 

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Discussion: Two MMS students hit by a car

When prospect is finished paving the Andretti brothers and sisters will come flying through. The only way to stop this madness is to have police presence handing out tickets like Halloween candy. 

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

just got an early QB  :bz

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Discussion: Two MMS students hit by a car

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Jaytee said:

why don’t you take Essex off of elmwood and go around to Springfield ave? 

Answer: street after street of stop signs,

In other words, effective traffic calming measures

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Discussion: Fast Food Abominations we Love

Pry open a Popeye’s biscuit. Tear off chicken breast meat, or chicken tender, of approximate matching biscuit size. Insert between halves. Enjoy an abomination of a Southern chicken biscuit sandwich.

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