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So, bottom line, no. Just wondering if that was one of the instances in which you were trying to “correct” someone else’s misunderstanding. Carry on.

Are you talking about the time you quoted Irish law to me on the abortion issue?

Hoax. What do you call a priest who ministers to pedophiles? A priest who ministers to pedophiles. What do you call a priest who is a pedophile? A pedophile priest. And, for what it’s worth, I have never, in my decades in this profession, heard the phrase “pedophile lawyer.” Not once. Have a nice day, hoaxer.

Hoax. I’m not jealous. I don’t need the validation of Internet randos. Apparently you do. Sad!

What a crock of hoax. There is no disinformation and, despite your best efforts to cast yourself as the victim in this inane dispute, the fact remains that you used what best could be described as a double entendre. Instead of apologizing, you’ve defended your misconduct, whined about your purported victim hood, and absurdly accused somebody else of defaming you. The chef’s kiss is that you have the temerity to accuse somebody else of dishonesty. What a joke.

But you had time to find the Bolton stuff. The point is well made: Bolton can’t conclusively debunk the “losers and suckers” allegation to the extent Bolton wasn’t with Trump for the entirety of the time in question.

Throwing down Matt Judon in the Baltimore opener made me love the kid. Climbing the pocket on the throw to Bob Foster showed me he could do “it.” The Dallas game showed me he could win in big moments in hostile environments. And the Rams comeback was the game where I knew he had put it all together. The kid is everything we have waited for since Kelly retired.

How do the “suckers and losers” feel about Trump? FYI, John Kelly still hasn’t denied that Trump made the reported comment. Stand back and stand by.

Good information. Looks like Trump’s closest parallel might be Woodrow Wilson, not Andrew Jackson. Wilson and Trump both attempted to ignore a pandemic, and both condone racism. The only difference is that Wilson at least had a legitimate reason for downplaying the 1918 pandemic.

Great point, great post, great thread. Agreed. It’s incredible that someone who claims to love and support law enforcement would pull a stunt like the Sunday parade.

Spot on. And the person casting the gross accusation still has not apologized.

Incorrect, particularly when a possessive is in the mix. And, given the gravity of the allegation, caution should have been exercised and unambiguous parlance should have been used.

Yeah, this is another bad post. Mean-spirited, humorless, and unintelligent. Lots of people think this is a bad post. And, if you’re not careful, lots of people will think you’re a bad poster, irrespective of what the mutual admiration society of which you’re a part may say.

And if you want to play the grammar game, and if you had no intent to cast me as a pedophile, perhaps you should have said “lawyer for pedophiles” (which, to be clear, is untrue). But you didn’t. “Vile” is overused on this board, but to casually cast someone as a pedophile is a vile, disgusting, and unacceptable thing. You deserved what you got. And, instead of whining about how you now allegedly have become the victim, perhaps you could apologize for the gross insinuation that you casually cast into the public domain.

Hoax. You’re not being defamed. You did the defaming. And you mention “legally absurd” in your post. What a joke.

Who evaluates quality of posts and posters? Because, let’s be honest. A lot of people think the post you just made is of poor quality.

Biden actually cares about something besides himself. Like this country. And he tells the truth, which is anathema to Trump.

Pure hyperbole. Who precisely wants to see “this place . . . torn down?” From what I can tell, that’s a reshaping of another imagined position, e.g., that those who disagree with Donald Trump and the current administration “hate America” and “want to see it destroyed.” It’s weird not being there. I drive by the stadium on game days if we’re out and about just so I can see the place. Sad, bizarre, strange, etc. I hope we’re back for a playoff game and for next year, but I have my doubts on both of those fronts.

That is twisted that somebody would do something like that.

https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-07-31-Democratic-Party-Platform-For-Distribution.pdf

Persecution. That made me chuckle. Here’s the deal. He who owns the site makes the rules. The fact that advertisements appear on the site indicate that, to at least a certain extent, it is a business. My sense of the tenor here is that this place was a right-wing echo chamber for a long time that slowly became conspiratorial in conjunction with the rise of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Some people with different viewpoints, e.g., moderate to left wing beliefs grounded in truth, science, and fact, began to patronize this forum—perhaps in view of the pandemic and the increased work from home/down time—and began to challenge the positions and views taken by what formerly was the vast majority of community members who post on this site. Some of those challenges were and are based on humor, satire, and sarcasm, e.g., characterizing right-wing tropes such as mass voter fraud and the lies that accompany that theory as a “hoax” and “fake news.” That was not accepted well. Instead of engaging in civil discourse and dialogue grounded in things such as truth, science, and fact, many extreme right or alt-right posters defaulted to denigrating those with different views. I can’t speak to precisely how many times I have been called a “pedo,” “vile,” “soulless scum,” “idiot,” “3rd Chair,” “deeply stupid,” etc. But it’s a lot. None of it is bothersome, and some of it can be taken in good humor (3rd Chair is actually kind of funny). But other insults, frankly, would be disturbing if attached to my real name. I can guarantee that somebody who slandered me as a “pedo” in conjunction with my given name would receive suit papers in short order. And it wouldn’t be a summons with notice, either. Much of the vitriol also is tiresome. Let’s return to the point about this being an ad-based community. Surely there’s a balance between promoting discourse (it attracts eyeballs and clicks) and permitting dialogue that actually runs off customers. I sense that the site owner recognized that the insult of some of his customers had become too vitriolic and too mean-spirited. I wouldn’t want to be responsible for that kind of dialogue, and I suspect that he doesn’t either. So, in the end, a decision in furtherance of that point was made. I respect it. And I’ll note the irony in the extreme right alt-right crowd complaining about the “death” of an anonymous Internet username during a pandemic in which over 200,000 Americans have died—many without sympathy here and many of them needlessly for reasons well explained in other parts of this forum. So perhaps this “ban” issue is best summarized this way: it is what it is.

Nope. I found him amusing. And truthful, for what it’s worth. To my knowledge, he/she didn’t do anything that others with a contrary viewpoint haven’t done and don’t do.

Explain what to me? How HCQ isn’t a prophylactic with respect to COVID-19? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638 Or how the drug doesn’t help hospitalized COVID-19 patients? https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-halts-clinical-trial-hydroxychloroquine Or how the FDA has cautioned against the use of HCQ w/r/t COVID-19 outside of a hospital or a clinical setting? https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or Science, 1; HCQ and “Doc,” 0. Delusion amplified by steroid use. Not a good combination for a guy with the nuke codes. For once I agree with Don Jr./Uday. Hoax. Interesting how yesterday’s presser revealed favorable information about the president, but potentially (and, frankly, likely) unfavorable information was shielded by HIPAA? Nope. He looks like a guy who has benefitted from steroids, who gasped for breath last night, and who has yet to reach the critical stage of this virus. Right on. Coming from the guy who took a helicopter ride to a hospital because he had the virus.

Not to mention the fact that there are probably hundreds of thousands of “long haulers” who experience effects of virus exposure for weeks and even months. Virus “casualties” aren’t limited to moralities.

I’ll make sure I do it with zinc and vitamin D. Hoax. Just like the utility of hydroxychloroquine in combating COVID.