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I assume he wasn't included because he's in another league. No? I'll see myself out.

Says we trained at Port Melbourne, not a lot of options there. Maybe Goodwin's telling porkies to keep supporters and media out. TBH I'm shocked at the notion that anyone would want to watch Melbourne (of all teams) training to glean some sort of secret success sauce.

If you're not working in PR or politics, your talents are being wasted. Brilliant.

I don't know what you mean. I haven't read about Toumpas v Wines in at least an hour. What more do you want?

Sometimes I worry that you read too much demonland Nasher, such is your uncanny ability to predict our behaviours. I can't imagine what a toll that would take on a person. R U OK?

Agreed. Plus I don't think either of those team will gift us the frees North did within our forward 50. Goldstien's high tackle and McDonald's gift pass to Garlett come to mind. There were more but those are the ones I could remember off the top of my head. Both of those teams can hit targets. North can't. Neither of those team have Majak Daw holding down a backline spot. Apart from the first quarter he was a complete liability for North. He couldn't outmark Petracca 1-on-1 despite the significant size difference. Massive spud.

I feel sick

The sheen on Jonsey's head is not accurate enough for my liking.

That is 100% correct. He stays at the resort in his capacity as POTUS. The government pays for his room and the rooms for all his entourage/security. They pay the owner of Mar-a-lago, who is Trump. He literally profits from staying at his own resort. He did this in his first weekend as POTUS. It's outrageous, but the GOP and his sycophantic follows don't seem to care. Again, if a Democrat did this they would call for a revolution. A few hours ago his National Security Adviser resigned. You know, the guy who replaced the last guy who was fired for lying to the VP. Oh and Trump tweeted last week that his National Security Adviser wasn't going anywhere (because a week before that, Trump fired his Secretary of State so questions were asked). But Trump assures us that he "has the best people". What a joke. Edit: Forgot to mention John Dowd has also retired. Dowd was the head of Trump's legal defence regarding the Mueller investigation.

I thought only Islamic Fundamentalists blew themselves up? Austin Bombing Suspect a Homeschooled Christian Conservative This has been a crazy week.

Summons Issued for Trump in Emoluments Case Trump has been a naughty boy by not disclosing his assets: They argue that Trump’s refusal to divest from his sprawling business empire — in particular, the Trump International Hotel in downtown D.C. — has meant that foreign governments have directly paid the Trump Organization for hotel bookings and events. Article says he has 3 weeks to respond as he's been included as a personal defendant. Also for anyone thinking he can just pardon himself - these are cases heard by State courts, the President cannot pardon himself (or be pardoned by another President) for State level crimes, only Federal ones. I believe this is one the reasons Robert Mueller has disclosed to the New York Attorney General his findings so far, so that New York can charge him with State-level money laundering (or whatever the charge ends up being) if he tries to pardon himself Federally. This assumes the Mueller investigation leads to charges against Trump himself, which it may not. I posted a list of those Mueller has indicted so far previously in this thread. Remember, Americans made Carter give up his Peanut farm, but somehow it's ok that Trump still owns a massive multi-national conglomerate and owes massive debts to the banks he now has power to legislate over. Seems fair.

God [censored] damnit

Love the tracc one

A student died. You were wrong. Your callousness doesn't negate that fact. CNN covered the story. You were wrong. Your ignorance doesn't negate that fact. In this case, the armed teacher killed the gunman and saved lives. This has happened before, and in other cases armed security guards have had no effect. I posted a story about a teacher with a gun who accidentally fired it in a classroom and injured 3 students. But you haven't responded to that. I assume you'd say "well that's the price you pay for security", which is interesting given you live in Australia where school shootings do not occur. For whatever reason (cultural, legal, whatever) we do not have this issue. We did not solve it with guns in schools, what makes you think America can? Arming teachers is moronic. This guy explains it much better than I can. It's a very long twitter thread but well worth the read. I suspect the accusation that you're a troll is correct.

He has no idea. Literally said you wouldn't see this story on cnn, and I provided a link demonstrating that you can in fact find it on cnn. He said no students were killed. Gunman was a student. He is living in a fantasy land.

Yeah this is not a good place if you value your sanity. I try to stay away but relapse constantly.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/20/us/maryland-school-shooting-resource-officer-response-trnd/index.html This is why people don't take you seriously. That's CNN covering the incident. It's not being ignored by 'the liberal media' or whatever. Also, the gunman was a student. So one student was killed - you should keep this in mind. My god, how much cool-aid did you drink? Only last week a trained, armed teacher accidentally injured 3 students when he lets his gun go off: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-15/three-injured-as-teacher-accidentally-discharges-gun-in-class/9550762 Amerca's gun laws are [censored]. Trump isn't helping here at all. From memory (cbf with sources atm, too late at night), he's said: - We need to arm teachers - We should take away people's guns and ignore due process (I'm astounded the '2nd amendment people' still support him after this). - Ridiculed a Republican Senator for being in the pocket in the NRA - Was a massive recipient of NRA funding during his Presidential campaign He's inconsistent and not helpful at all.

Yeah feels the same doesn't it. I have a feeling there will be more sickening revelations when Mueller finishes his investigation. Assuming Trump doesn't replace Rosenstein with someone who'll fire him as Nixon did. Mueller's already indicted the following: 1) George Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty in October to making false statements to the FBI. 2) Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty in December to making false statements to the FBI. 3) Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chair, was indicted in October in Washington, DC on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, false statements, and failure to disclose foreign assets — all related to his work for Ukrainian politicians before he joined the Trump campaign. He’s pleaded not guilty on all counts. Then, in February, Mueller filed a new case against him in Virginia, with tax, financial, and bank fraud charges. 4) Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide and Manafort’s longtime junior business partner, was indicted on similar charges to Manafort. But he has now agreed to a plea deal with Mueller’s team, pleading guilty to just one false statements charge and one conspiracy charge. 5-20) 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies were indicted on conspiracy charges, with some also being accused of identity theft. The charges related to a Russian propaganda effort designed to interfere with the 2016 campaign. The companies involved are the Internet Research Agency, often described as a “Russian troll farm,” and two other companies that helped finance it. The Russian nationals indicted include 12 of the agency’s employees and its alleged financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin. 21) Richard Pinedo: This California man pleaded guilty to an identity theft charge in connection with the Russian indictments, and has agreed to cooperate with Mueller. 22) Alex van der Zwaan: This London lawyer pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Rick Gates and another unnamed person based in Ukraine source coz I was too lazy to type them all out, was just the first thing I googled when I looked for a list of Mueller's indictments.

Previously we knew about them leveraging huge amounts of data for political campaigns, but the revelation that the data may have been both obtained and used illegally is new, to me at least. The channel 4 videos also have the CEO admitting to interfering with foreign elections, setting honey traps, bribes etc which are also of course illegal. Seriously watch them. They're startling.

Funny you should say that, the Brits worked it out and are currently producing a series. First 3 episodes are out. https://www.channel4.com/news/data-democracy-and-dirty-tricks-cambridge-analytica-uncovered-investigation-expose Only last week I posted in the fake news thread a report citing an Oxford study that said right wingers share and believe more fake news than left wingers. And now we see why - they were being deliberately fed this crap to win elections by a sophisticated and illegal campaign. It's not that they are worse people or more vulnerable - they were targeted in a very specific way. Oh and today a Fox News commentator quit saying he didn't want to be part of the propaganda machine: "Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration," wrote Ralph Peters, a Fox News "strategic analyst." "Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed," he wrote. "Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers." Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomnamako/ralph-peters?utm_term=.bk7QALjAQ#.imG3dwyd3 So lets say it's 4 years ago. You're a reasonable conservative. You watch Fox News as your source of factual information. It degenerates into a "propaganda machine" (as quoted by Ralph Peters, above) without you noticing. At the same time your Facebook page subtly starts to contain more and more false and misleading information about political matters. Information specifically designed by Cambridge Analytica to ensure you vote the right the way. This is political advertising but illegally not labelled as such, and therefore bypasses the normal alarm bells that overlay your rationality when you are exposed to political ads. Now 4 years later, your guy is President and is talking about firing the man investigating his campaign for the very crimes perpetrated against you on your Facebook feed. But you don't care, because Cambridge and Fox have done such a great job reducing your ability to objectively evaluate politics that you believe everything they spew at you. But your guy won. And all you are about is winning, because politics is now sport. Since I know a lot of you won't watch the channel 4 investigation I linked, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica literally says "It doesn't matter if it's untrue as long as they believe it". Steve Bannon was on the board of Cambridge Analytica. They were an integral part of the Trump campaign. I highly recommend you watch those videos, only about 15 minutes each. As an aside, @Ethan Tremblay I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say that judging from your postings over the past year I reckon you've visited /pol more than a few times. Get out dude, it's a cesspool. I strongly suspect it's where Cambridge seeded these memes in the first place, and is what Mark Turnbull (from the video above) was referring to when he said the "bloodstream of the internet". If I'm off the mark, I apologise, it's just the sense I get from a few of your posts.

Yup, this is it right here. FTA schedule has nothing to do with how good a team is and everything to do with how much Channel 7 can get from advertisers. Carlton draws viewers. We do not. The AFL pays lip service to Friday nights being a "reward for performance" but the Carlton example from the last few years is a clear example to the contrary.

Clearly Kane Cornes has been smoking the wacky tobaci.

Me too. Apparently the standards for a year 6 English essay are higher than a newspaper article. Staggering.