@#95 ... "The rest of you" was. Poor choice of words. I don't mean you four or five people on this thread, I mean the drudge majority posters in general as a group. That's a lot to type each time. Suggest a Better way to refer to that cohort and I'll use it. ...

Thanks for back-tracking from your original assertion.

... I mean the drudge majority posters in general as a group ...

Maybe... "many here," or "some posters here?"

Not too much typing in that.

:)

@#91 ... Was that you love cops and the left hates them. ...

Yeah, that seems to be the basic premise of my view of those comments.

I'm not yet convinced that I should place that person into the category of ...

@#88 ... Yes, is Lampy ok, I thought you liked it. ...

Compared to the other appellations that have been tossed at my comments, yeah, Lampy is OK.

:)

Get some sleep.

@#40 ... Anyone with a brain knows this can't continue as it is now. ...

OK, my first question is...

How do you define "anyone with a brain?"

Is that an euphemism for ~those who have bought into the Trump cult?"

@#78 ... Your reading comprehension is ----, then yiou cherry pick parts of posts to try to prove a point you fabricated in your own head. ...

Actually, no.

In #22 you said...

... I remember that week very very well, because I had just returned here after a long hiatus. There was NOBODY on the DR speaking up for the Capitol Police. I have no need to prop up myself. I could kick your ass up and down Constitution Avenue till you scream like the punk ass lying man child you are. I just get a little pissed when intellectually decrepit ----s like you LIE. So yeah, I'm triggered. You are not because you've never had to face anything more threatening in your life than someone pulling your ponytail. ...

That does not look like cherry-picking to me.

Your opinion may vary.

@#82 ... Lampy those are truly all typos. Nit intentional. ...

So, I'm still "Lampy?"

:)

@#78 ... Your reading comprehension is ----, then yiou cherry pick parts of posts to try to prove a point you fabricated in your own head. You are Pathetic, intellectually dishonest. I'll bet you've been divorced at least a couple times., and you come here just to feel powerful. Done with you once again. ...

OK, ad hominem attack aside.

You said in #15...

... I was literally the only person here defending Capitol Police in the weeks after Jan 6, the rest of you were calling for the resignations of their leadership and terminations of the rank and file for their failure to protect the whiny ass legislators who were in no actual danger whatsoever but wanted to take selfie videos instead of following the 15 layer safety plan in place for them every single day. ...

That does not appear to be a correct statement, on so many levels.

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@#73 ... I unplonj everyone because it gets confusing to follow a thread when some of the posts are missing. ...

Can you be more specific?

thx.

@#69 ... Ok LMPY, now you are playing word games. ...

OK, so I seemed to have gone from direct replies as in #26

to ...

#34 ... L,pay ... (this one is curious, probably a typo, or not)

to ...

##39 ... Lamp ...

to ...

@#63 ... Lampy ...

@#69 ... LMPY ...

Not really a sign of someone's comments that I would expect who might want to contribute to a discussion instead of derailing or disrupting that discussion.

More from the article...

... Initially, Biesk ignored it. He knew that his son played around with crypto, but to have turned a small fortune before bedtime was too far-fetched. "We didn't really believe it," says Biesk. But when the phone started to ring off the hook and his wife was flooded with angry messages on Instagram, Biesk realized that his son was telling the truth"if not quite the full story.

Earlier that evening, at 7:48 pm PT, Biesk's son had released into the wild 1 billion units of a new crypto coin, which he named Gen Z Quant. Simultaneously, he spent about $350 to purchase 51 million tokens, about 5 percent of the total supply, for himself.

Then he started to livestream himself on Pump.Fun, the website he had used to launch the coin. As people tuned in to see what he was doing, they started to buy into Gen Z Quant, leading the price to pitch sharply upward.

By 7:56 pm PT, a whirlwind eight minutes later, Biesk's son's tokens were worth almost $30,000"and he cashed out. "No way. Holy ----! Holy ----!" he said, flipping two middle fingers to the webcam, with tongue sticking out of his mouth. "Holy ----! Thanks for the twenty bandos." After he dumped the tokens, the price of the coin plummeted, so large was his single trade. ...

@#10 ... He wants to eliminate birthright citizenship ... Must uphold the law.

@#46 ... So Laura, if you find that thread from Jan 5, pull it out so I can see who insisted nothing bad could ever happen at the Capitol. Pretty much everything I said came true and a little vindication would feel good. ...

That seems to be a rather drastic different aspect to what you have been espousing.

So now, it is "pretty much everything I said" ....

Continuing to apparently back away from prior comments that have been questioned.

OK, I have to ask, what percentage of your prior comments are true? What is the percentage goal that needs to be attained to reach the assertion, "pretty much everything I said?"

@#8

Pres-elect Trump did not win a majority of the votes cast in 2024.

So, a majority of voters in the United States opposed Pres-elect Trump being President.

Pres-elect Trump's theme song?

Pres-elect Trump seems to be saying to nom Hegseth, you're on your own. If you can convince the Senate to confirm you, I am behind you.

If you can't, well, tough breaks, I've got backups. And good luck with those future lawsuits.

@#39 ... but don't try too hard to tie it all together in a bow. ...

I'm not trying to wrap anything in a bow.

... I DO remember when the discussion here was lively, and banterous, and filled with intelligent and vigorous disagreement. ...

Well, yeah. Welcome to an Internet discussion forum.

... It has gotten to the point where there is one accepted platform of beliefs (left), and anyone who expresses an opposing viewpoint (more to the right) is branded as part of the enemy camp ...

I don't see that.

I see discussions of differing ideas and opinions, e.g., this one.

Yeah, there are some (imo, too many, ad hominem attacks here, likely due to the openness of this most august discussion board), but now you seem to be backing away from attributing those attacks from the replies in general.

... It's hard for me to believe that you all really enjoy the narrow,, confining echo chamber you built here. ...

Wait, what?

I built here?

I have nothing to do with the construction or the operation of this site.

Let me say that again.

I have nothing to do with the construction or the operation of this site.

Where did you come up with that view?

@#5 ... My guess is, her lyrics are what every teenage girl sings to herself (whether in reality or fantasy)....

Combine that with her skimpy stage costumes to pull in the horny males, and you have a pop sensation.

@#34 ... and I can't specifically recall who said what ...

Thanks for admitting that.

... I can say for sure that nobody, absolutely nobody had my back in that fight to speak of for the J6 cops in the early days. ...

I am not convinced of that.

... Why now? The hypocrisy and insincerity of folks who invoke the injured cops of J6 are often the same people who figuratively pissed all over the cops who were attacked in the streets for weeks on end the previous summer. It is disgusting. ...

"the previous summer"

OK, this seems to be more than just J6 for you.

And I will say, there were issues about the comments of "the previous summer." But those issues are not where this thread has evolved into. Or do you want it to go there?

And, I will say, OK, repeat, the comments of that previous summer were not good, imo.

That aside... maybe you need to separate those two issues you have.

Combining then has seemed to reduce the gravitas of your posts on this thread.

Interesting tune. Apropos?

@#26 ... You may recall me actually TELLING you that ...

Actually, I heard about those tactics on (and I am reluctant to say this because it may open up so many other comments, but I will) ....

I heard that from a talking head on MSNBC, not from you.

... but the initial reporting treated police like they were all coconspirators in on the whole thing. ...

OK, now you make that asserttion, but in a prior message, the aspect you seemed to object to was...

#13

... your fellow Drudge Reporters were shredding the Capitol Police. ...

So, which is it, the initial reporting, of "your fellow Drudge Reporters?"

And, if I may ask, why the apparent morphing of your opinion?

@#22 ...I remember that week very very well, because I had just returned here after a long hiatus. There was NOBODY on the DR speaking up for the Capitol Police. ...

I also remember that time because it was an unruly Trump-induced mob attacking the basis of our Government.

I have not posted comments against the Capital police. Period. Full Stop.

Maybe you did not see the comments I did post?

My opinion and comments at the time were not the result of a focus group, as you seem to allege.

My opinion and comments at the time were the result of a Trump-fueled mob attacking the Constitution.

My comments in support of the Capital Police were, and I still uphold them, in support of police providing protection against an unruly mob (I'm being kind in that latter comment, fwiw).

But I have to ask, why, after all this time, are you raising this unsubstantiated allegation?

Why is this so important to you now?

@#8 ... Cartoon ...

You are being too kind.

As a person who grew up on Looney Tunes cartoons (can you say Bugs Bunny? I knew you could), the cartoon appellation is too much of a compliment for Pres-elect Trump's behaviour hawking that perfume.

Maybe, ~sap-sucking ingrate~ might be a better appellation?

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~It was an accident. The gun fell out of the box and happened to be pointed at his head when it went off as it hit the floor.~

@#13 ... Nope. ...

Then ... what was the purpose of your strafing run?

@#15 ... I was literally the only person here defending Capitol Police in the weeks after Jan 6 ...

Uh ... no.

@#13 ... Anyone who says that isn't how it went is a liar. ...

Back then I noted the videos of Capital Police officers opening doors. But I also noted that they may have been doing it to try to quell the mob attacking the Capitol, i.e., at that point they knew they were in a losing proposition, so they went to alternative tactics.

Looking at the videos of the Capital Police trying to protect the Capitol from the mob, why should they not be praised for their service?

@#9 ... ACAB ...

I disagree.

As I have stated many, many times in the past, I have issues (significant issues) with bad cops.

But I also have acknowledged the good officers.