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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #175 on: February 12, 2022, 02:48:37 PM »
That can't be real. It just can't. If it is, one's spider senses need to start tingling as one ponders why a billionaire wants this appointment.

The [tinfoil] in me keeps thinking someway somehow this has something to do with gun control
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #176 on: February 12, 2022, 03:21:15 PM »
Ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped for Pentagon post
https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/ex-nyc-mayor-michael-bloomberg-tapped-for-pentagon-post/

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Wednesday he had selected Bloomberg to head the Defense Innovation Board.

The board provides advice to senior defense leaders on how to fast-track innovation to meet national security threats.

It worry about the DoD playing politics, but this is from the Defense Secretary so it is a political appointment. 
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #177 on: February 12, 2022, 03:31:28 PM »
Yeah but as Ben asked why would a billionaire even want this appointment?
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #178 on: February 12, 2022, 04:06:31 PM »
Yeah but as Ben asked why would a billionaire even want this appointment?

As an opportunity to sell influence and force people to do your will?   ;/

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #179 on: February 12, 2022, 04:31:21 PM »
Our armed services are going full green soon so at this point what does it matter?
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #180 on: February 12, 2022, 07:58:08 PM »
Yeah but as Ben asked why would a billionaire even want this appointment?

Access to secret programs, intellgence, and control of military assets.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #181 on: February 12, 2022, 08:43:01 PM »
Access to secret programs, intellgence, and control of military assets.

I wasn't even considering those because I try to still believe that people don't want to go so far as to destroy their own country, but at this point it's naive for me to do so. Plus it's Bloomberg, who's a pretty slimy character.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #182 on: February 12, 2022, 09:53:42 PM »
I wasn't even considering those because I try to still believe that people don't want to go so far as to destroy their own country, but at this point it's naive for me to do so. Plus it's Bloomberg, who's a pretty slimy character.

Country? Nation? such quaint notions you have.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #183 on: February 21, 2022, 05:09:30 PM »
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/02/21/there-was-something-very-wrong-with-these-teachers-cupcakes-n2603427

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Cynthia Perkins, 36, admitted to a slew of disturbing sex crimes, including child pornography, second-degree rape and mingling of harmful substances, when she took a plea deal in Livingston on Monday.

The teacher and her now-ex-husband, Dennis Perkins, were arrested in 2019 on more than 150 sex crime-related charges — including sexually abusing a child together.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #186 on: March 03, 2022, 11:27:57 AM »
Yeah but as Ben asked why would a billionaire even want this appointment?
Honestly, I think these billionaires have other people managing all their money (China?) and have little to do.  So they look for things to enhance their image and brag about at their parties.  That means political office, charitable activities, political activism, prestigious appointments.  I doubt most involve doing much of anything.   
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #187 on: March 03, 2022, 11:47:52 AM »

Honestly, I think these billionaires have other people managing all their money (China?) and have little to do.  So they look for things to enhance their image and brag about at their parties.  That means political office, charitable activities, political activism, prestigious appointments.  I doubt most involve doing much of anything.   


Access to secret programs, intelligence, and control of military assets.

I tend toward kgbsquirrel's explanation.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #188 on: March 03, 2022, 12:21:46 PM »
Honestly, I think these billionaires have other people managing all their money (China?) and have little to do.  So they look for things to enhance their image and brag about at their parties.  That means political office, charitable activities, political activism, prestigious appointments.  I doubt most involve doing much of anything.   
Sort of like what the Vice Presidency has become?
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #189 on: March 03, 2022, 06:57:39 PM »
Girl is farting into jars and selling them for $1,000 and people are buying them
Says she is making 1.5 million a/month

Twitch eGirl Amouranth Is Selling $1,000 Toot Jars & People Are BUYING THEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1A4c3Cbu9o

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #190 on: March 03, 2022, 07:16:56 PM »
I am not willing to click on any links related to that story, but ten to one she outsources most of her fart jars no matter what she tells people.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #191 on: March 03, 2022, 07:19:42 PM »
I am not willing to click on any links related to that story, but ten to one she outsources most of her fart jars no matter what she tells people.


it's a The Quartering video, you're safe.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #192 on: March 04, 2022, 09:01:58 PM »
Big difference between tranny and queer. I can tolerate either in the world just don’t force me to call it normal because 3% of something is not a norm.

at some point they changed the definition of "tolerate",  Which I generously describe as nothing more than "leave alone". 
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #193 on: March 05, 2022, 01:26:29 PM »
I'm glad to see that at least one state is now saying they will prosecute those who "transition" children. Seems like life sentence material.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #196 on: March 07, 2022, 10:00:46 AM »
Damn racist moths:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/04/world/gypsy-moth-spongy-moth-name-change-scn/index.html

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Previously known as “gypsy moth,” the species Lymantria dispar is now “spongy moth,” according to the Entomological Society of America, which makes the Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms List, an essential database for anyone working with insects.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #197 on: March 07, 2022, 11:32:18 AM »
Girl is farting into jars and selling them for $1,000 and people are buying them
Says she is making 1.5 million a/month

Twitch eGirl Amouranth Is Selling $1,000 Toot Jars & People Are BUYING THEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1A4c3Cbu9o


I am pretty sure Amouranth is not the first to sell fart jars.  I have no idea why anyone would buy them.  I assume they take the whole Onlyfans thing too far.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #198 on: March 07, 2022, 09:24:29 PM »
I am pretty sure Amouranth is not the first to sell fart jars.  I have no idea why anyone would buy them.  I assume they take the whole Onlyfans thing too far.

Chrissie Mayr Discovers MASSIVE SCAM From OnlyFans & Adult Content Creators!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYsrF0sCEJ0

She talks about getting contacted by a 3rd party offering "chat" services.  They would supply people to chat with onlyfans subscribers (she isn't on onlyfans).  So people who think they are interacting directly with the woman they are giving money to are actually messaging with some contractor.  From what I have seen, the goal is to establish a personal connection to the people to rope them into continuing subscription and giving more money.  It seems a lot of people take it a bit too far.

So it's just like those phone sex commercials on television.
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« Reply #199 on: March 07, 2022, 10:06:52 PM »
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