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War Room Lounge v130: How many gat balls it hold? How many yeeter skeeters does it pew

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I was in the Maasai Mara when I was 18 on safari. Asked the locals which animal they feared most and they all said Hippos. Everyone. “They will come of the water, bite down on you, and you head and legs will come off”. Scary.
Weird. I was on safari six years ago and when I asked the same question all the guide said was "shhhh, rhinos have great hearing, we don't want to spook them."

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Hey, trying to find a thread but can’t think of the right buzzwords for it to actually show up in Sherdogs search

Was the only about a Vietnam vet shooting cops with an M14, holding them off at 200 yards with wounded officers in the yard. Until the police came with an armored personnel carrier to make the approach

Can’t find the news story on it searching google but I know it happened

Anyone remember that thread so that I can find the stories and see the follow up of it?

How long ago?
Edit: sounds like this story. It was your thread?
 
Note: I haven't verified all the facts in this yet, so take it with a grain of salt.

I had an interesting conversation with my gf last night. I read about how one of the officers, Lane, involved in the George Floyd death had been on the job for 3 days or something. He made several verbal attempts to get Chauvin off Floyd’s neck, but it was not enough to prevent the death. I felt bad for the guy; he’s less than a week on the job and in a probationary period. Chauvin was a 20 year vet. He’s in a position where he has to either escalate against the vet officer and risk his career, or sit back and let it happen. At the time he might not have expected that Floyd was going to die as a result of his inaction, and he certainly didn't expect the country to blow up about it. In hindsight, he chose poorly and he’s going to face consequences for it.

It made us wonder that if this hadn’t come to light, or if Floyd survived, what would Lane's career be like? The job as it is today attracts people drawn to power, and as a system it is bigger than any good intentioned individual within it. What would happen if he was in a similar situation years from then? Would he have stood up to other officers in the future when he felt he was more secure? Would he quit in frustration? Would he eventually be worn down into apathy?
I saw a picture of the 4 officers charged with the crime. Chauvin had the eyes of a shark, someone born to be a predator. There were some studies that reported domestic abuse rates for LEO families are several times higher than the average; incidentally, Chauvin's wife filed for divorce soon after he was in custody.
Lane’s red puffy eyes looked like he hadn’t slept in days. The other 2 officers that held Floyd down while Chauvin killed him, their eyes looked dead. We concluded that the enforcers are sometimes the victims of a broken justice system.

What type of eyes do you have ? @senri
 
Apparently the Ahmaud Arbery video is much longer and to everyone's surprise the portion that was leaked was the portion that was supposed to exonerate the McMichaels.
 
Think I'm done with Vikings. It has jumped the shark, badly. It was always playing real loose with historical accuracy, with Athelstan's and Alfred's arc. etc. but skipping over Athelred's kingship and pretending Bjorn Ironside was a son of Rollo, Duke of Normandy is where I get off.

Read Michael Hirst's (creator and sole writer) AMA and it was horrendous. He is so out of touch.

I have ordered the Tales of Ragnar Lodbrok and his Sons online though. It's supposed to come with a bunch of commentary, different transcriptions and the Kings of Sweden Chronicle.
 
So my brother called me last night asking me about elite :eek::eek::eek::eek: rings and if Ive ever heard of them. I say..."well actually..."

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I keep seeong more and more random people talking about conspuracy theories from an informed standpoint. And talking about them like theyre obviously true. Times are a changing boys. The "cters" are winning. Pretty soon people will be ridiculing you for denying obvious things. Sweet, sweet vindication.
 
Apparently the Ahmaud Arbery video is much longer and to everyone's surprise the portion that was leaked was the portion that was supposed to exonerate the McMichaels.
Did i read this right?
 
Which thread? We can't have endless OP's for the same topic just because the first thread on the topic doesn't ask the exact question or create the exact narrative that someone wants. Otherwise the War Room would segregate politically. It's a shitstorm of threads about the Floyd case at the moment, with every tiny, half arsed thought apparently thinking it deserves it's own thread.
The thread I am referring to was my thread:

We've Reached the Mad Emperor Phase, And It's Terrifying to Behold

It's combined my analysis...
Just a reminder: some of us suggested way back in 2016 that electing an emotional three year-old might one day have negative consequences... in the off chance there was a crisis to deal with.

Most of you MAGA bois laughed.

You pointed at the stock market. You pointed at the employment numbers. You told us that we were crazy and had TDS.

Well, here we are. 100k Americans dead due to a pandemic with another 20-40k likely to come in the next month. Experts say the numbers could have been half, had this administration taken early warnings seriously.

Now in a moment of civil unrest, the Sociopath in Chief's first and only instinct is to sic the military on his own people.

This is not a surprise.

This is not an accident.

This is a consequence of dereliction of responsibility by a cynical, myopic electorate who blithely assumed that the worst couldn't happen.

Below is just some of Trump's history of calling for violence against minorities and opponents.

... with a source citing why Trump's knee-jerk penchant towards brute force should be no surprise to people familiar with his history:
For Trump, the time is always ripe to throw kerosene on his own dumpster fire.

In other crises, in other eras, there have been presidents who understood their most basic duty: to calm the violence and protect the people. In this crisis, however, we have a president who built his entire political career as a gold-painted tower to incite violence.

Trump was happily inciting police violence a year after charges were dropped against several Baltimore officers who somehow allowed Freddie Gray to die of severe neck injuries in the back of their paddy wagon.

Then again, Trump took out a full-page ad calling for the death penalty for the five boys and young men wrongfully arrested as the Central Park Five in 1989. Just last year he refused to apologise for his racist incitement in that case.

During his 2016 campaign, he encouraged his supporters to assault protesters. “Knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK,” he said on the day of the Iowa caucuses. “I promise you I will pay for the legal fees.” Later in Las Vegas, he said the security guards were too gentle with another protester. “I’d like to punch him in the face,” he said.

Sure enough, a protester was sucker-punched on his way out of a rally the following month.

No wonder Trump was sued for incitement to riot by three protesters who were assaulted as they left one of his rallies in Kentucky. The case ultimately failed, but only after a judge ruled that Trump recklessly incited violence against an African American woman by a crowd that included known members of hate groups.

So when he stood, as president, and told a crowd of police officers to be violent with arrested citizens, it wasn’t some weird joke or misstatement, no matter what his aides claimed afterwards. “When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see ’em thrown in, rough, I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice.’

Trump can no more end today’s violence than he can manage a pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 Americans, or create the jobs that will rescue more than 40 million unemployed.

Faced with a threefold crisis of racial, health and economic disasters, we have a three-year-old in the Oval Office.

Our get-tough president started his day by telling the nation’s governors that the world was laughing at them – a recurring nightmare that he loves to project on to everyone else.https://www.theguardian.com/comment...5VXUsqTKwhYUr6rb_EvnTC3rKo#Echobox=1591086097

Yet, for some reason, it got dumped into page 48 of "Trumps Trolls the Media..."

I think I am a member of this forum in fairly good standing-- the only infraction I've ever received was overturned and formally apologized for. I am a platinum member. I've started like three threads in the last three months.

I don't get to have my own little soapbox from time to time?
 
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So my brother called me last night asking me about elite :eek::eek::eek::eek: rings and if Ive ever heard of them. I say..."well actually..."

<{yearp}>

I keep seeong more and more random people talking about conspuracy theories from an informed standpoint. And talking about them like theyre obviously true. Times are a changing boys. The "cters" are winning. Pretty soon people will be ridiculing you for denying obvious things. Sweet, sweet vindication.
Man, you sound really hard up for vindication if you have to dredge it out of that well. "Sweetness" notwithstanding.
 


Wassup with this video? Why is The Rock so white looking? Lol has he always looked this light?? Is it the juice?

Note: I haven't verified all the facts in this yet, so take it with a grain of salt.

I had an interesting conversation with my gf last night. I read about how one of the officers, Lane, involved in the George Floyd death had been on the job for 3 days or something. He made several verbal attempts to get Chauvin off Floyd’s neck, but it was not enough to prevent the death. I felt bad for the guy; he’s less than a week on the job and in a probationary period. Chauvin was a 20 year vet. He’s in a position where he has to either escalate against the vet officer and risk his career, or sit back and let it happen. At the time he might not have expected that Floyd was going to die as a result of his inaction, and he certainly didn't expect the country to blow up about it. In hindsight, he chose poorly and he’s going to face consequences for it.

It made us wonder that if this hadn’t come to light, or if Floyd survived, what would Lane's career be like? The job as it is today attracts people drawn to power, and as a system it is bigger than any good intentioned individual within it. What would happen if he was in a similar situation years from then? Would he have stood up to other officers in the future when he felt he was more secure? Would he quit in frustration? Would he eventually be worn down into apathy?
I saw a picture of the 4 officers charged with the crime. Chauvin had the eyes of a shark, someone born to be a predator. There were some studies that reported domestic abuse rates for LEO families are several times higher than the average; incidentally, Chauvin's wife filed for divorce soon after he was in custody.
Lane’s red puffy eyes looked like he hadn’t slept in days. The other 2 officers that held Floyd down while Chauvin killed him, their eyes looked dead. We concluded that the enforcers are sometimes the victims of a broken justice system.

Yea the rookie cop got it bad imo. Vet cop would slap and embarrass him if he tried to do anything, and even if he was successful in breaking up the vet it would have cost him his future career-wise. He wasn't winning no matter how things turned out.
 
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