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Technically, even if she doesn't eat, Danielle won't be starving a month and a half from now.

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One of the Cornell grads (big time feminist lesbo who lives in Brooklyn) that I know was bitching about that on social media not that long ago. She was so pissed that a guy with a high school diploma was making more money in the oilfield than she was as a professional chef.

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These people can always go to work in the oil field. There is nothing stopping them. They won't because in a lot of cases those jobs are hard or there is hardship involved with holding those jobs.

She is paid based on the value she supplies to the world at large, so is oilfield guy. She just chose poorly.

With all it's issues, let's not forget we get the privilege of paying the highest combined sales tax in the nation as well.

Louisiana is really expensive to live in. We have the highest combined sales tax, the second highest car insurance rates, The second highest home insurance rates and so on.

For the luxury of paying those prices, you get abysmal roads, to be listed at the bottom of almost every metric and the main city in your state is a financially broken and poorly run joke.

Looking good Louisiana, looking real good...

While not inline exactly with the first post, this was a story I wanted to share.

We had a good soldier in my unit whose tolerance for BS was so small it couldn't be measured with modern scientific instruments. He had a wife and small child and re-enlisted after his first 3 years. He also had a certification as a diesel mechanic before joining the army.

After his original enlistment date passed, his paycheck didn't show up. He was patient and complained up the chain of command to his NCO's. A month goes by, his PAYCHECKS doesn't show up.

The following day, Specialist Davenport wasn't in the formation. A few days later our platoon sergeant and squad leader find him at a local shop working on a diesel truck. He'd found another job.

They told him "You are AWOL, we are going to do....". He interrupted them and said "I quit being a soldier when you decided to quit paying me. Start paying me again and I might show up, you guys dropped the ball not me. I have a wife and child to feed, screw off."

A few days later Spc. Davenport showed back up in formation and not another word was spoken about it.

My mother was told the same thing in 1971. She didn't have an abortion.

Here I am, all this time later. I'm still perfectly healthy even though I'm an old fart.

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LA DMV literally lie to you about what you need to do to fix things and actively make it impossible to rectify any issues THEY caused.

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You can find all the DMV policies online. Every time I go, I find and print out the appropriate policy and bring it with me.

I've educated them on their policies more than once.

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Yes. I'm convinced it's pavlovian. Any time Trump or anyone from the Trump world shows up on screen, it's met with an audible noise of disgust.

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If you've read the book 1984, Orwell describes exactly what you are seeing. It's referred to in the book as "Two Minutes Hate".

"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp"


This is the same exact response that most of the folks on the left have when they see or someone mentions Trump. They have a visceral hate for him and most can't even explain in detail why. I've heard "He's just a bad person", from someone who could give zero specifics. If they could give specifics, it was some word salad sound bite from one of the talking heads they listen to.

Once you realize what it for what it is, it' almost sad.

In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assasination, I told my son "today, everything changed". I couldn't articulate exactly why or in what way it would manifest itself, but I knew it had.

Several days later I woke up one morning with the phrase "We have just lost the initiative" going through my head. If you've ever seen "Blackhawk Down", it's the phrase that General Garrison utters once the Blackhawk helicopter goes down. It's the recognition that the entire mission has devolved from one of offensive to one of defensive and the soldiers who were on offense, would be lucky to get out alive.

After thinking about this for several days, a simple post on facebook made me realize exactly what that meant. One of my liberal friends posted some inane comment about the tylenol thing and referrred to the folks on the right as "evil" or something similar.

At that moment, I realized why everything had changed. The folks on the left can't gain or maintain votes by arguing the issues. They aren't better on basically any measurable metric that there is. The only 'thing' they have is that they have convinced their voters that conservatives are 'evil' and you must vote for the left because of that fact.

One of their adherants has commited an act so public and so dispicable, they can't say their supporters are standing on moral high ground. Add to that the fact that normal everyday citizens got to see at least one person they know that supports the left also support the murder of Charlie Kirk publicially without hesitation. The leaders of the left have repeated easliy disprovable lie after lie about Charlie Kirk as if it justifies his murder.

The facade has come down. The illusory moral high ground that was occupied by the left vanished instantly. For years the left desperately grasped to victimhood to allow the illusion that the right is evil, but no one believes the farce anymore.

Those on the left aren't victims, those on the left create victims. Now, nobody can deny it.

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The earpiece cord was clipped to the left collar of his shirt and wrapped around behind his neck. So when he is hit, the earpiece flies off, pulling the shirt, which is why the shirt jumps.

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This doesn't make any sense though from a physical mechanism perspective.

The earpiece cord, that wasn't under enough tension to disturb the "hang" of his shirt, suddenly AND prior to the bullet hitting his neck, instantly developed significant tension, sufficient to rip itself off of the shirt all while pulling it upward in a violent motion hard enough to pull the shirt up high enough to cover his neck?

You may be right, but I just don't see how it's possible.

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It only makes sense for the shirt to be forced up by a bullet ricocheting off the vest.

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I’m not quite sure how no one else seems to grasp this. What must be true for his shirt to suddenly jump up?

Also, the guy that made the video is an idiot. I watched the first 30 seconds, that was all it took.

The reason the guy in the video says the exit would shows up after the deformation on the right side of his head is because the entrance wound is covered by his shirt that is moved upward and blocks the view of the entrance wound.

The reason he head deforms on the other side is because of the hydraulic shockwave caused by the energy of the bullet. Remember, we are mostly water, which is incompressible.


The only person being lied to is you OP.

Charlie Kirk was a good man and deserved better than to meet his end this way.