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Jet Fuel Johnny said:
I think you probably could nowadays.

"During the last polar vortex, houses were kept warm and with power. Roads were cleared by 10AM."
"During the wind storm, the tax money spent to force the power companies to upgrade the systems ensured that power was quickly restored."
"My administration had filled 1.2 million potholes on federal roads and enabled the counties of the state to fill in another 12.5 million potholes!"
"My administration has inspected all of the dams in the state and has repaired over a third of them, some of them getting maintenance for the first time since 1992."
"Coming up for reelection, I'd like to inform the public that the Q3 bridge inspections has been finished, bringing 50% of our bridges to "Great" condition after three years of repair."

You could run the fuck on that.

Add in: "I'll get/keep troons out of girls sports, CRT out of schools, make the school board answer to parents again, and ensure that predatory teachers aren't grooming your children!"

And you'll be golden.
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That sounds too sensible and logical.🌈
 

Man charged with threatening Biden said he was ‘coming to the White House,' Secret Service alleges​

A Kansas man is facing charges after he allegedly threatened to harm President Joe Biden, according to court documents released Friday.

Scott Ryan Merryman, first called a police department in Independence, Kansas on Tuesday and told officers that he was on his way to Washington, D.C. to see the president, a Secret Service agent said in an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint.

Agents located and interviewed Merryman on Wednesday in a parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Hagerstown, Maryland. Following a search, the man was found in possession of three rounds of ammunition and a spotting scope, but no weapons, the agent said.

Merryman then called the White House Switchboard on Thursday and made threats against Biden, saying he was “coming to the White House, and was going to cut off the head of the snake/anti-Christ,” the agent alleged.

The Secret Service contacted Merryman after the White House operator informed the them of the call. During that conservation, Merryman allegedly said he was coming for "sleepy Joe" with "three bullets no guns."

Merryman has been charged in the U.S. District Court of Maryland with making threats against the President of the United States and interstate communication containing a threat to harm.

The charges against Merryman was first reported by the Daily Beast.

Also contained in the affidavit were screenshots of social media posts shared from Merryman’s Facebook page, published between Tuesday and Thursday, which contained “a series of increasingly threatening verbiage.”

In a post from Tuesday, Merryman said he was going “on a God led journey to our nations capital” and asked his followers to “watch my strategic moves for the coming days." In a post from Wednesday, that appears to have been deleted, Merryman wrote, “There will be a miracle at the White House. I believe Joe Biden is the AntiChrist now and he will suffer a fatal head wound.”

Merryman has been taken into custody, a senior law enforcement official confirmed Saturday.

It's unclear whether Merryman had legal representation.

The U.S. Attorney for Maryland was unable to be reached for comment on Saturday.
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My opinion? The man saw a grocery receipt and lost his shit.
 
CrippleThreat said:
My opinion? The man saw a grocery receipt and lost his shit.
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Merryman then called the White House Switchboard on Thursday and made threats against Biden, saying he was “coming to the White House, and was going to cut off the head of the snake/anti-Christ,” the agent alleged.
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Hate to break it to him, but Biden is far, far too dumb to be the antichrist.
 
The NY legislature's Hochul Seal of Approval map is coming down now (in piecemeal) and aggressive gerrymandering has occurred, as expected. It's not as extreme as some freaks were calling for though at least. New York moves from being 20D-7R to being 22D-4R. I myself have gone from being in a very competitive district to being in a solidly fortified (D) district that voted above Biden+15 in 2020. A full map including NYC's districts will be out sometime shortly.
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At least Katko's gone, I guess.
 
Oxous said:
The NY legislature's Hochul Seal of Approval map is coming down now (in piecemeal) and aggressive gerrymandering has occurred, as expected. It's not as extreme as some freaks were calling for though at least. New York moves from being 20D-7R to being 22D-4R. I myself have gone from being in a very competitive district to being in a solidly fortified (D) district that voted above Biden+15 in 2020. A full map including NYC's districts will be out sometime shortly.
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At least Katko's gone, I guess.
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And hopefully McCarthy arrives. As a (sane) Democrat, I'll vote for Thomas Suozzi in the primary for the lulz. Either that, or Jumaane Williams.
 
Oxous said:
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More like Hochul Kiss of Death.

Bitch has done more destruction in a short amount of time than what Cuomo and DeBlasio did when they were in office. How ANYONE can still suport this bitch is mind-boggling, but then again there are people that still unironically support Biden, so what do I know.
 
Oxous said:
The NY legislature's Hochul Seal of Approval map is coming down now (in piecemeal) and aggressive gerrymandering has occurred, as expected. It's not as extreme as some freaks were calling for though at least. New York moves from being 20D-7R to being 22D-4R. I myself have gone from being in a very competitive district to being in a solidly fortified (D) district that voted above Biden+15 in 2020. A full map including NYC's districts will be out sometime shortly.
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At least Katko's gone, I guess.
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I love that District 24 literally wraps around Rochester District 25. The only thing that surprises me is that Syracuse and Ithaca are in the same district, that had to have been a "compromise."

Also, notice that this map has 10 districts. New York City gets 16 districts all to itself and the entirety of "Upstate" gets 10 despite Upstate having 10 million people to NYC's 9 million.
 
Jet Fuel Johnny said:
I think you probably could nowadays.

"During the last polar vortex, houses were kept warm and with power. Roads were cleared by 10AM."
"During the wind storm, the tax money spent to force the power companies to upgrade the systems ensured that power was quickly restored."
"My administration had filled 1.2 million potholes on federal roads and enabled the counties of the state to fill in another 12.5 million potholes!"
"My administration has inspected all of the dams in the state and has repaired over a third of them, some of them getting maintenance for the first time since 1992."
"Coming up for reelection, I'd like to inform the public that the Q3 bridge inspections has been finished, bringing 50% of our bridges to "Great" condition after three years of repair."

You could run the fuck on that.

Add in: "I'll get/keep troons out of girls sports, CRT out of schools, make the school board answer to parents again, and ensure that predatory teachers aren't grooming your children!"

And you'll be golden.
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iirc Stern joked about running on "I'll fill the potholes" for mayor of NYC until people starting getting behind it?
 
Salubrious said:
I love that District 24 literally wraps around Rochester District 25. The only thing that surprises me is that Syracuse and Ithaca are in the same district, that had to have been a "compromise."

Also, notice that this map has 10 districts. New York City gets 16 districts all to itself and the entirety of "Upstate" gets 10 despite Upstate having 10 million people to NYC's 9 million.
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Here's District 10:
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I don't even get why they drew it like that. It's literally impossible to draw a district in NYC that isn't safe blue. Literally impossible.
 
Oxous said:
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I don't even get why they drew it like that. It's literally impossible to draw a district in NYC that isn't safe blue. Literally impossible.
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Because they have to make sure that it is Gerrymandered for the correct blue person. Even in one party districts, there will arise new divisions to fight over who gets to blame whites the most.
 
elite_club said:
Because they have to make sure that it is Gerrymandered for the correct blue person. Even in one party districts, there will arise new divisions to fight over who gets to blame whites the most.
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This, largely caving up the prog vote to either quarantine them or split their support,
 
SeniorFuckFace said:

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I hope big tech owners enjoy their spot in Hell at this point.
Oxous said:
Lindsey Graham just can't help himself from showing his true colors today, I suppose. Opposed to Trump pardoning 1/6 prisoners and actively cheerleading one of Biden's SC justice candidates. South Carolina GOP is a shitshow.
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Seriously Graham the 1/6th prisoners should not be treated so harshly. Well BLM rioters burned, looting and murdered several people and just got a slap on the rist.
The Big O said:
I will say this is more important than ever for local/state elections too, as evidenced by Youngkin's campaign in Virginia. He kept his campaign as on-point as possible unlike how McAuliffe went all-in with celebrity endorsements and other Democrat IdPol cliches that belittled the constituency. It was ultimately enough to get Youngkin over the final hurdle.

These days, inflation, fuel prices, supply shortages, crime rates, gainful employment, and other basic things you'd see on the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs are being noticed constantly by Joe and Jane American. Anybody who campaigns on restoring those basic needs instead of the fully-automated luxury gay space communism you see at the top of the hierarchy will have much better odds at success.
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Honestly depending on the states celebrities endosements won't save you. I mean after the whole trannie rape shitshow I doubt being endosed by John Legend is going to save you form angry and betrayed parents.
CrippleThreat said:
My opinion? The man saw a grocery receipt and lost his shit.
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And that case I'm sure plenty of people have "threatened" Biden at this point.
SSF2T Old User said:
More like Hochul Kiss of Death.

Bitch has done more destruction in a short amount of time than what Cuomo and DeBlasio did when they were in office. How ANYONE can still suport this bitch is mind-boggling, but then again there are people that still unironically support Biden, so what do I know.
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There's a reason why we call them citidiots here in upstate New York
 
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FAT_KHAZAR_MILKERS said:
Oh no! I'm surprised STEM isn't overrun with black men.
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Now I am a European, so I guess you can ignore this, but: honestly they might be the smarter ones.
I suffered through a STEM college and I all got for it was a very expensive toilet paper (granted I didn't attend MIT). Every mid level tech company guy I talked with said that it's the higher ups who want the degrees and if they could they'd just make some more involved interview process to weed out those who know of the craft and those who don't. Instead what we have is people wasting 3+ years of their lives sitting through interesting but mostly unrelated classes and then the big multinational companies just hire anyone and everyone with a degree and teach the basics of the technologies you'll need anyway (well, they just buy some subscriptions on pluralsight, but it's the same deal).
Don't think that the average STEM college is a mythical institution that breeds smart and talented people. there is around 1 truly talented guy, who was already very smart to start with, for every 20-30 students and I've seen people dumber than a sea urchin get a STEM degree and a cushy tech job later. And if you want to feel really bad as an American, just realize these are the kinds of graduates your tech companies outsource their jobs to.
 
Oats12345 said:
Seriously Graham the 1/6th prisoners should not be treated so harshly.
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They should be Pardoned.

It was a fucking Glow Op, the FBI entrapped American Citizens just like they did to retard goatfuckers in the early 2000s. The Entire FBI should be shut the fuck down.
 
The Bovinian Derivative said:
Now I am a European, so I guess you can ignore this, but: honestly they might be the smarter ones.
I suffered through a STEM college and I all got for it was a very expensive toilet paper (granted I didn't attend MIT). Every mid level tech company guy I talked with said that it's the higher ups who want the degrees and if they could they'd just make some more involved interview process to weed out those who know of the craft and those who don't. Instead what we have is people wasting 3+ years of their lives sitting through interesting but mostly unrelated classes and then the big multinational companies just hire anyone and everyone with a degree and teach the basics of the technologies you'll need anyway (well, they just buy some subscriptions on pluralsight, but it's the same deal).
Don't think that the average STEM college is a mythical institution that breeds smart and talented people. there is around 1 truly talented guy, who was already very smart to start with, for every 20-30 students and I've seen people dumber than a sea urchin get a STEM degree and a cushy tech job later. And if you want to feel really bad as an American, just realize these are the kinds of graduates your tech companies outsource their jobs to.
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Literally the only reason to get a computing degree in America is because, as you said, HR reps need something to weed out candidates. That's it. There's nothing you can't learn in an Udemy class for $12.99 and can't prove with a Certification or just building your own website as a portfolio. The only thing college is good for is so that HR doesn't automatically throw your resume in the trash if it even makes it past the automatic filter without those missing keywords.
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
Let's talk about infrastructure.

I'm gonna borrow someone else's words on this.


In case you missed it, the Fern Hollow Bride in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania collapsed when I municipal bus drove over it and ten people were injured.

Recently it came to light that in 2018 a man walking his dog noticed the bridge structure was rusted through and Tweeted the city about it.

That is just over three years ago.

According to the Post-Gazette article linked above:

[Mr. Kochanski] said it was just chance that he took the photo. He walks underneath the bridge at least twice a week with his dog, but, on that day, he happened to look up and noticed the detached beam, as well as some cable supports that seemed to have been added more recently to replace any function that the detached beam had provided. From that point on, it worried him.

“Until they removed the rusted beam, I’d look up every time I walked beneath the bridge,” he said. “But after that, I kind of figured it was taken care of and I gradually forgot about it.”

Mr. Kochanski had seen online that the last documented inspection appeared to have been 2017. Told that Mayor Ed Gainey said Friday morning that there was a much more recent inspection just four months ago, in September, he was stunned.

“If that’s true, then somebody did a pretty miserable job of inspecting,” he said.

According to 2CBS Pittsburgh:

Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse: Fern Hollow Bridge Had ‘Poor’ Rating Since 2011

Inspectors have listed the Fern Hollow Bridge in poor condition for more than a decade, although they said other local bridges are actually in worse condition.

Inspectors began listing the bridge in poor condition as far back as 2011, and as recently as last September.

In 2017, inspectors recommended it be overhauled “because of general structure deterioration and inadequate strength,” and recommended a restoration project estimated at $1.5 million. That project was never funded.

Now here is an interesting article from April, 2021:

Hundreds of Miles of New Bike Lanes Coming to Pittsburgh
Checking in with the Bike(+) Plan in Pittsburgh.

According to the article, the city of Pittsburgh is making progress on a plan that would bring the city’s total of bike lanes above 250 miles. The city last year added 13 miles of bike facilities to an existing 60 miles, according to Karina Ricks, the director of mobility and infrastructure for the city, who is cited throughout the article touting the benefits of bike infrastructure.

This is an image straight from the city’s Bike(+) master plan:

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Apparently getting safely home on municipal busses because the brides don’t collapse isn’t on that list.

Here is another:

Historic Shadyside intersection has become official point of Pride

The corner of Ellsworth and Maryland Avenues has more significance than meets the eye.

In the mid-1990s, when LGBTQ Pride marches in Pittsburgh were small and grassroots, Richard Parsakian and others in the community held a homemade rainbow flag over that intersection.

And now the corner has been memorialized with a recently installed public art project to mark its significance. The intersection is filled with a collage of colors and shapes to represent every group of the LGBTQ community and to signify to visitors and Pittsburghers alike the role the area played in the fight for equal rights.

Now I will be the first to admit that I am not a structural engineer. But I am a PE in metallurgical engineering and I can tell you that it takes a long fucking time to rust entirely through a girder like that.

I’d also say, albeit slightly outside of my area of expertise, that there is clearly something wrong with the bridge’s drainage system if the Salt from the roads covered the steel sub structure and wasn’t safely drained away from it.

Also, again not as a structural engineer but someone who a lot about the strength of steel, I’m having a hard time understanding how two tension rods are an adequate replacement for a girder.

Let’s put this all together.

The city was well aware that the Fern Hollow Bridge was in poor condition for over a decade.

They did some hackneyed fix to it and it passed inspection barely five months before it collapsed.

The city couldn’t find the money to fix that bridge, or others in worse condition, but dies have the money for bike lanes to achieve some Woke goals of reducing car emissions and letting people walk to places where they can buy fresh vegetables.

Bike paths for suburban yuppies to bike to the Whole Foods and LGBT street murals.

That is the government’s priorities.

Not fixing bridges with sub structures that have rusted through.

And when the Federal Government gets involved what do they do?

Secretary Paternity Leave tells us how roads and bridges are racist.

I think the problem with the Fern Hollow Bridge was structural corrosion not structural racism. But what do I know, I’m just an straight white male engineer who believes in objective facts and that 2+2=4.

Our government tells us we’re racist if we don’t pass a trillion dollar infrastructure bill but the entire time our government knew the bridges were rusty and needed replacement but spent money on bike paths and gay crosswalks until the bridge collapsed and tax paying citizens got hurt.

This is a perfect example of the decadent bullshit that our nation has become.
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People should be absolutely furious about this. 'Uwu, we can haz bike lanes!' instead of fixing fucking bridges so they don't collapse.
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What kind of retard wants to bike and walk around in weather that's near freezing half the year.
 
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