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JD Vance speech: Amazon funded Black Lives Matter so riots would destroy rival retailers

 

I miss the local bookie. They were always going to have some soft line that hadn't moved in four days before kickoff. Or, in one case, thought the radio replay of the races at Oaklawn were being carried live - instead of on about a 30-minute delay - which meant you could past post on him.

 

When my dad was serving in the Army in Germany in the early 50s, he would make money betting against rubes who didn't know the games they were listening to were replays.

 

You tell me who’s the sociopath. (beyond his running mate)?

 

The smell test always worked with either one of them.

Trump was a scumbag (and a known joke) in 1984 and he is one today.

 

My local bookie in Brooklyn when I was growing up was killed, allegedly because he wasn’t reporting all of the bets upstairs. My bookie in law school was arrested because the deli he wan apparently was a front for a huge drug operation.

So I stopped unless I went to Vegas and then eventually started using Draft Kings on my iPad.

 

At my first newspaper job one of the young MEs in the sports department ran the football pool every week for a bookie. Somehow he got busted and indicted. But the publisher, who was exceptionally well-connected in that north Jersey way, stood up for him and the charges were eventually dismissed. The ME went on to have a long career there. He told me the worst part of the whole ordeal was driving to the courthouse every day and hearing it from his Dad.

 

We going all HUAC up in this bitch.

House Oversight investigating Walz over 'longstanding connections' to China - KVRR Local News

 

It's all good per the fukchead CS Monitor, normalizing Vance's crazy talk as "pugnacious rhetoric".

 

Part of the trouble for the old heads like me and @Alma is that these polite Victorian tropes and idioms of mainstream journalism are no longer up the task of describing what's actually happening.

Firebrand, etc.

 

It’s obviously low-hanging fruit, but I wish Dems would spend a day or two mocking them for this.

“Trump can’t even pronounce Kamala’s name correctly. How can he fix the border if he can’t do something as simple as getting his opponent’s name right?”