GeauxVII

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The average new pickup costs $60K when can I expect me free pickup?

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that's not seriously your rebuttal, is it?

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keep adding to the list !!

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do we even need too? frick, just one of those two is plenty. Fulton didnt even fail a fricking PED test, how can faking a test be worse than actually failing it?

edit: the point of all this is to keep PEDs out of CFB, but naturally the NCAA has to put the focus on themselves and not the athletes, the spotlight has to be on them, they're the star, so if you try to trick them, they'll get personally offended and throw a hissy fit.

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Why?

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Russia sanctions us.

since 2014, theyve had a total ban on all American dairy, beef, pork, poultry, fish, fruit, vegetables, and nuts, as well as some prescription drugs. as a result, we have a $10B trade deficit with Russia.

despite endless tweeting about our trade and tariff deals with the G7 and EU, trump has actually never said a word about those deals with Russia.

oh but Im sure he has a perfectly harmless reason for that.

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Oh, you mean the case where the police were 100% justified in the shooting

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the cop who killed Sterling (Blane Salamoni) was fired for violating the BRPD "use of force" policy, after "escalating the deadly encounter from the moment he arrived at the convenience store."

the bodycam footage shows the first officer, Howie Lake, walk up to Sterling and tell him to put his hands on the car, which is fine.

then, less than 6 seconds after this began, with no explanation from anyone as to why the police were there or what they wanted with Sterling, Salamoni takes his gun out, points it at Sterlings head and threatens to kill him

Salamoni at 0:08 - "Don't move bra, stop."

Sterling at 0:10 - "What I did? Sir, what I did, sir?"

Salamoni at 0:14 - "Don't fricking move..."

Salamoni now has his gun out, level on Sterlings head. He starts screaming.

Salamoni at 0:15 - "...I'll shoot your fricking (unintelligible), put your fricking hands on the car. Put your hands on the car, Im'a shoot you in your fricking head, you understand me. Don't you fricking more or Im'a shoot you in your fricking head, you hear me? DON'T YOU frickING MOVE!"

Sterling at 0:28 - "Alright, hold up, hold up man, you're hurting my arm. I'm serious, what happened man?"

Sterling still has no idea whats happening, all he knows is that two cops walked up behind him in the dark 30 seconds ago, put a gun to his head and threatened to kill him.

He was outside this store selling CDs, something he had done for 6 years, with the owners permission.

Yes he apparently had a gun in his pocket. So what. Louisiana is an open carry state, thats perfectly legal, and theres no evidence it ever left his pocket. store video and the store owner back that up.

less than a minute later he was dead.

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Name them ... the ones you claim they're protesting on behalf of, if you will. Be specific.

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from Eric Reids op-ed in the New York Times...





so, to be specific, Alton Sterling.

i think its more the principal. since 2011 it feels as if every possible thing that could go wrong has gone wrong. its not only been 7 fricking years of bad luck at every turn, but its been 7 fricking years of getting worked over by the SEC and NCAA at every turn.

personally, Im good. Im done with that. enough is enough. Im tired of being treated like some cute little novelty program. we're LSU. we should be scary, not scared, we have that in us if we're willing to turn it lose. we're the 800 pound gorilla with a chainsaw with a dick. its time we started to act like it.

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Message...your actions have consequences. Sometimes those aren’t fair.

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its not like he jaywalked and got hit by a car, as if the action and consequence were immediate and impossible to undo.

when you have 18 months to think a punishment over, you can make it fair. unless you dont want to.