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Old Feb 17, 2026 | 12:54 PM
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Old Feb 17, 2026 | 02:38 PM
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Minor point of contention: why does the meter have 2 decimal places? Can you arrest .05 people?
Old Feb 17, 2026 | 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by rleete
Minor point of contention: why does the meter have 2 decimal places? Can you arrest .05 people?
Valid point. I believe it indicates that there's not even the whiff of ink from a blank indictment in the air.
Old Feb 18, 2026 | 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
To answer the question of if I think these things are real, I attempted to cross check but it's not easy to find anything that doesn't circle back to the same post and links. And corporate media won't touch any of it and wouldn't likely be truthful if they did.

"Eastasia has always been at war with Eurasia" from 1984, and "Wars, and rumors of wars" from the Bible come to mind. There will be so much information that people won't know what to believe.







https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HBDNYOWX...jpg&name=large

It's only real if it doesn't come from the media first.
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It's the BBC...again. Do not invite them to Seder.
Old Feb 18, 2026 | 07:17 AM
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A woman sent Epstein a photograph of her baby, thanking him for his "unbelievable generosity" after an enormous sum appeared in her bank account, a number she said she had never seen before. Let me spell out what that means since nobody else seems willing to. A mother sold her infant child to a known pedophile and child sex trafficker for sexual abuse. That baby was not purchased for adoption. That baby was purchased by a man who ran a global child rape network. A woman took a payment, sent a photo of the product, and thanked the buyer. That is what is sitting in these files right now. So the next time you hear some cable news ghoul or podcast influencer describe this as a scandal involving "barely legal women," you remember that a mother sold her baby to a pedophile to be raped and sent a thank-you note for the wire transfer, and then you decide for yourself whether "barely legal women" remotely covers the scope of what was happening here.
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Old Feb 18, 2026 | 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Braineack

There's an economic term called "marginal propensity to consume."
"The proportion of disposable income which individuals spend on consumption is known as propensity to consume. MPC is the proportion of additional income that an individual consumes. For example, if a household earns one extra dollar of disposable income, and the marginal propensity to consume is 0.65, then of that dollar, the household will spend 65 cents and save 35 cents."

What that doesn't say directly is that if someone has a tendency to save nothing and they get a windfall, they will continue to save nothing.
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there are truths in this world:
never seen a skinny person drinking diet coke and never seen a rich lottery winner.
Old Feb 18, 2026 | 06:31 PM
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NYC wants a $127 Billion budget.

The ENTIRE state of Florida has a $117 Billion budget.

NYC has 8.8 million people.

Florida has ~ 22 million people..
Old Feb 18, 2026 | 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
NYC wants a $127 Billion budget.

The ENTIRE state of Florida has a $117 Billion budget.

NYC has 8.8 million people.

Florida has ~ 22 million people..
Florida Man has obviously been too busy being outlandish to have learned pro-level graft from all the transplanted NYers.Just give it a couple more years.
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This is well worth the listen. Bob Woodward was an intelligence plant, but now based on old documents the rest of the story gets fleshed out as to who and why.

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Roger Stone is a ******* character. And yet, he was there.
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Trump just won the war for Ukraine? Really? Interesting take at least...

https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/20...ntury-n4949697
Old Feb 20, 2026 | 05:48 PM
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Is this really the world we live in now?

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...-turn-n2671620
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Originally Posted by poormxdad
Is this really the world we live in now?

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...-turn-n2671620
I suspect that we’ve always had homicidal crazy people around, but now they can be “trans” and are considered “stunning and brave” by effing idiots everywhere. Being trans is proof against the underlying insanity, and said idiots can then blame society at large when the craziness brings the killing.
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Can't get any crazier than this....
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Originally Posted by xturner
I suspect that we’ve always had homicidal crazy people around, but now they can be “trans” and are considered “stunning and brave” by effing idiots everywhere. Being trans is proof against the underlying insanity, and said idiots can then blame society at large when the craziness brings the killing.
I'm, talking about this part.

A deep dive then showed that he and Rhonda were first cousins once removed when they tied the knot in 1992.

Dorgan had deliberately targeted his family at the high school hockey game in Pawtucket on Monday, killing Rhonda, their son, Aidan, and leaving her parents, Gerald and Linda Dorgan, fighting for their lives.

[…]

Edward Dorgan and his wife, Eva Dorgan, lived in Smithfield, Rhode Island, at the time with their two sons, Raymond Dorgan and Robert J. Dorgan.

Robert J. Dorgan was the father of the trans shooter Robert Dorgan, and Raymond Dorgan fathered Gerald Dorgan, who was a victim in the shooting and remains in critical condition with his wife, Linda.

Gerald and Linda were the parents of Rhonda Dorgan, who would marry the Robert Dorgan who would go on to massacre his family before turning the gun on himself.

[…]

According to the outlet, what this means is that Edward Dorgan is the killer’s grandfather and the great-grandfather of his murdered wife, making Rhonda and Robert Dorgan first cousins once removed.

Rhode Island is one of about 20 US states that legally permits first cousins to marry, but the Ocean State is one of a small handful of states that allows avunculate marriage — between uncle and niece or aunt and nephew — under certain religious or cultural circumstances.

[…]

Dorgan had six kids by three different women, three of them with Rhonda: Aidan, 23, who was pursuing an engineering degree, Ava, 20, a nursing student, and Colin, 17, who was playing the night of the attack.
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