Im here and a paid member because of your urging. Posts like yours is why the board is boring.
@bradstevens @ohioguy you see this shit?!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha - yeah. There is a fine line between conversation starters and homework/prep work. I always had a love/hate relationship with the dating apps. I have some great stories from using them though.
When has loudly whining about something ever made it better?
Read the declaration of Independence—particularly the list of grievances.
Years ago when Buzz123 was in charge of the old cooler he was never bashful about calling out idiotic posts. Of course we don’t have a forum cop like him, but that shouldn’t give those whose thinking can’t get past a 4 letter word a belief that they are Thomas Jefferson with their repetitive nonsense.
So you like having moderation based on content?
okay. You aren’t bored. Got it.
No, I'm saying too much Trump isn't a valid reason for being bored. There's plenty of non-Trump content for you to engage.
Plays off that he is incapable of starting his own threads or bringing up a subject that he wants to discuss
A bit like when he claimed on the other board that there is some stuff about trump that he doesn't like but he won't mention it until another poster stumbles on it.
If you want the ratio of trump threads to go down, then start some non-Trump related threads.
Regardless of what you think of Trump, you have to admit he is a very polarizing figure. It's naturally going to lead to more discussion and more heated debate. And the more posters forgive/condone/defend his actions, the more other posters are going to bring up stuff and say "are you really going to defend this?" and the cycle continues.
Trump sucked and then he died.Trump fatigue has ruined this place for me,
Trump hand bruise
Trump leg edema
Trump Redskins
Trump, Off the wall
Trump Epstein
Trump Russia
Trump 1 v. 20
Trump does some important stuff. Nobody wants to talk about that, instead they talk about Trump, MAGA, MTG or something.
Is that the present tense you’re closetly seeking?
@bradstevens ha - OK, here's a good story.
I mentioned it on the 'old' board last summer, but I matched with a woman who, early on, told me she voted for Trump and was planning to do so again in November. She assured me she wasn't a 'crazy' MAGA supporter, and since she seemed nice and was very attractive, I thought I'd at least broaden my outlook.
Let's put a pin in that thought for a moment.
One day last summer, I drove over to see her ( she lived a little over 2 hours away) and we had a nice, summer day planned. This was our third date, I think. Any way I get over there and she's not home, but a guy doing some contract work was. I decided to sit on the front porch and she pulls up from a Starbucks run with her mom. So, yeah, I met the mom on the third date.
Any way, we go in and we talk with the contractor. He says that he thinks he'll be done by midafternoon. At first we were going to stick around until he was finished, but she asks him if he's good if we head to lunch. He says as long as we're good with it, he does this sort of thing all the time. She goes ahead and pays him, tells him the front door will lock behind him and to call if he needs anything.
We go have a nice lunch with plans to kind of bop around the shops near where we ate and after lunch she asks me if it's weird that the contractor hasn't left yet (she has a security app on her phone that tells her when the doors in her house open/close and hadn't been alerted that her door had opened). I say I'm not sure. Initially she's a little worried because he was an older man. I think she's probably worried that he might've had a heart attack and passed out or something. She asks if it'd be weird if she turned on the internal house cameras she has to see if he's OK.
She turns the camera on and her eyes get the size of saucers and he face goes pale. She has a hint of tears in her eyes as she hands me the phone.
"What's going on here?"
As I look at the phone, I try to come up with any reasonable, plausible explanation for what I'm pretty sure I'm seeing. Right there - live on her phone - you see the contractor sitting at her dining room table - definitely NOT doing what he was contracted to do. His shirt is noticeably raised over his belly. He's holding his phone in one hand. You can't see his other hand because it's under the table on/near his lap (imagination should suffice here).
Something spooks him - she thinks he probably noticed the light on the camera on her bookshelf - he stands up, straightens his shorts and pulls down his shirt, grabs his stuff and beelines it for the door. She gets a notification that her front door opens/shuts.
We get back and I go in first. She goes through her personal stuff and nothing is missing and it doesn't appear he's gone through anything. She asks me to wipe down the chair and table. She's drained and wants to take a nap, so she lays down for a bit.
I end up falling asleep on her couch and I'm awakened by her hurrying into the room I'm in and she's on the phone. It's her mom, telling her to turn on Fox News because Trump just got shot. We're watching in disbelief.
She hangs up with her mom and we keep watching. One of her best guy friends calls her and for some reason she answers on speaker. "Those motherf*&king liberals did this. They actually tried to kill him!" This goes on for a bit with lots of profanity tossed at 'the left.'
Her uncle calls and she tells him I'm there. He wants to talk with me. It's clear she's told him about me and he presumes I'm some sort of commie pinko liberal and our conversation is like some real world version of the back and forths we've all had on the water cooler. It was all exhausting. We watched the coverage for a bit longer and just went to bed.
She did end up telling some of her family about the contractor and people had different ideas of what she should/shouldn't do. She ended up calling the police and filing a report, but I don't believe anything major happened. I think she may have issued a complaint with the BBB.
We ended up getting together a few more times, but it sort of fizzled out. I thought she was great in a lot of ways and politics really weren't a big reason things didn't work out. She was a lot of fun and I do wish her well, but as they say, things worked out for the best.
Zero times infinity is zero. Learn some math before you attempt your insults.Overall, it’s night a day difference between him and Biden.
it is a night and day difference. anyone with an ounce of objectivity recognizes trump is infinitely better than biden and harris. 8 years of those two and my god. unfortunately trump is getting bored. he's probably going to arrest all of the obamas now lol
You take yourself way too seriously.another issue is that some of the very dumbest posters on the wc made it over and we lost some solid postersTrump fatigue has ruined this place for me,
Trump hand bruise
Trump leg edema
Trump Redskins
Trump, Off the wall
Trump Epstein
Trump Russia
Trump 1 v. 20
Trump does some important stuff. Nobody wants to talk about that, instead they talk about Trump, MAGA, MTG or something.
ALL current politics in one thread on a politics and policy board?! Kinda makes sense for the next three years. Spares some oxygen for other threads.Put all the Trump junk in the Flood the Zone thread. Problem solved.