Ohiopirate02

There is video of this that shows he is doing exactly what it looks like he is doing. I did not listen to the audio to see what he was saying.

I suspect Justin and his team are planning on a jury trial and the word salad is a way to prime the potential jury pool into hating Blake. Blake is an imperfect victim and it did not take much to get the online public to hate her back in August. Why not craft a statement where each major publication can pick and choose which version of "she's a liar" they want to run with? Just as long as the news outlets are running the story. Tik-Tok has run with the story with users digging up old footage to trash Blake for things she said and did when she was on Gossip Girl. It really takes but a nudge for the internet to hate on one specific woman. I do have to wonder if they will continue this strategy with the Tik-Tok ban set to actually happen and people fleeing both Meta and Twitter in droves.

Yeah, Zuckerberg and Meta lobbied for the ban because they were losing people (and money) to Tik-Tok and they could not buy it. Meta has tried to copy the success of Tik-Tok with their Instagram Reels, but that does not run on the Tik-Tok algorithm and is therefore an inferior product. So, the only other option for them was to ban it. Also, Meta works with the US government in ways ByteDance was never going to so the US government has a stake in this. The US government does not want the Chinese government to have access to data they cannot have.

Is it really "woke" to acknowledge the context in which these Confederate monuments came into being? Or discuss the real reasons for the American Civil War which are laid out quite clearly in historical documents? Or are historians just setting the record straight after decades of misinformation and propaganda?

I know lawyers are supposed to vigorously defend their clients, but there's something off-putting in the language used in that statement. It makes me think that Justin cannot win without publicly smearing Blake. If you're version is the correct version, then you do not need a thesaurus to come up with multiple ways to say the other party is a liar.

Does #11 mean he's going to end plastic surgery as we know it? I'm asking because almost all elective plastic surgery is gender-affirming including the work Elon has had done.

This is one of those things where how the events unfold will matter more to his base than the actual events. Because, yeah, they do not care if the "right" people get shot under the "right" circumstances. But, if sending out the troops to take care of a group of people doing whatever directly affects them, then they would care. Well, care about how that inconvenienced them and probably still blame the group of people who were shot instead of the person who ordered the shooting.

Newt Gingrich was leading the charge against Bill when he was actively cheating on his second wife with a staffer 20 years his junior. He also cheated on wife #1 with wife #2 when wife #1 was battling cancer.

I have not done the research to see if this is in some etiquette book, but I do understand the intent behind it and do follow it. Ideally the person footing the bill takes charge at the table and lets you know their order well before the server shows up. They should be the one who sets the tone for the meal by ordering the appetizers and bottle of wine and leading the conversation as to which entrees they are willing to pay for. Something like "I heard this place does a great rib eye" "or the last time I was here the salmon was delicious" or even "I am craving the chicken, but don't let that stop you from ordering the lobster." Because sometimes you want to treat your guest but you really do want the least expensive entree on the menu. I also follow the rule when dining out on another person's dime I will not order anything I cannot afford if the checks were separate.

I wonder how Elon and DOGE feel about this. Because this department will be doing jack shit but taking figure from the other departments of the federal government like the IRS who deal with the tariffs collected from the American companies who pay them when items are imported.

The CEO of Walgreens just admitted that the anti-theft measures the company put into place were costing them sales. https://fortune.com/2025/01/14/walgreens-ceo-anti-shoplifting-backfired-locks-reduce-sales/ What cracks me up about this is the company will put in all of these measures when the most logical solution is to hire more staff. People will get used to things being locked up if the store is staffed properly. But staffing stores properly costs the company money and someone has to think of the shareholders.

As much as I hated those absurd stickers with a picture of Joe Biden saying "I did that" pointing to the gas price, I feel the Dems needs to do something similar to Trump. Someone really needs to make the public aware that the higher costs that will happen with those tariffs are solely the fault of Trump.

It's because the GOP saw this and went into action to preserve their power. They got some major assists from people like Rupert Murdoch and other heads of media, and figured out how to make social media like Facebook work for them.

It's not even women. I have two men on my staff and the looks on their faces whenever I remind them that they can just hang up on phone calls when it's obvious the person on the other end of the line is trying to sell us something is priceless. They are horrified that I am willing to be that rude and have given them license to do the same.

I have also noted that one of the reasons why people allow a scammer the moment needed to hook them is because they do not want to appear to be rude. I have no qualms about appearing rude. Most of the time I do not have to even push back because I'm rude and have no time for bullshit.