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Quoted: Yeah, but from the Air Force. Lots of my family members are AF Veterans, and they will tell you that the PT is NOT difficult. View Quote Long gone are the days of slogging out a 1 1/2 mile run in 13 min or < and limping it to Sqdn BBQ For Beer and Brats with a follow on night of Dorm party alcohol fueled debauchery . A lot of Airmen don't adjust eating style after basic/tech school and three squares of unhealthy chow hall food + Beer + no physical training because who wants to do that after a 14hr duty day= Chunky Airmen failing PT ( BFI ) and getting the boot. |
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Quoted: In Austin https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/168790/Screenshot_2020-07-26_Actual_Commie_AK_p-1520537.JPG View Quote Holy smokes |
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He is an anarcho libertarian.
He has libertarian likes, he also has a number of anarchist likes. The anarchy brings him in league with the other anarchy communists on the stage. He views the commies as allies in whatever struggle he is dealing with against the State. Attached File |
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Quoted: No fucks given. If he is half as intelligent as you give him credit for he should have known better however his critical thinking skills are definitely in question. I would never, ever, ever associate myself with marxists/socialists/communists, BLM/Antifa are groups I would avoid association with at all costs. He gladly laid down with the dogs and got up with the fleas as they say. That's his choice, his responsibility and his end result to be accountable for. View Quote I am not giving him credit for anything. I'm questioning the conventional wisdom that everyone is trying to pigeonhole him as a Marxist when the evidence clearly shows otherwise. |
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Quoted: Yeah, but from the Air Force. Lots of my family members are AF Veterans, and they will tell you that the PT is NOT difficult. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Look back a bit. PRT failure was mentioned. Looking at pictures of the deceased it seems plausible. Yeah, but from the Air Force. Lots of my family members are AF Veterans, and they will tell you that the PT is NOT difficult. You'd be surprised. The minimum 1.5 mile run time for dudes under 25 was like 11:27 just before I got out. Even before I got hurt I couldnt break 12 minutes. I ended up doing the dumbass walk test for 4 years in a row because I couldn't run more than 1/4 mile without being in agony. Pushups were 45 in a minute, sit ups 54, and waist was 36 or something. Shit wasnt THAT easy, but it wasnt impossible to pass. I guess they changed it for men under 30 is like 13:36 now which is still an 8:45 mile. Min pushups is 33, 42 situps, and waist is 39" which seems fat as shit but there are some bigger guys are are just built like brick shithouses that were failing when it was lower. Everyone except for the old and lazy meet waist with ease. |
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Quoted: He is a hard-core libertarian who hates cops. Look at his FB profile if you don't believe me. https://www.facebook.com/garrett.foster.52438. I would also like to know how you are able to discern that all the people he was marching with are, in fact, Marxists. A ton of shit on his page is stuff I see posted regularly by people of Arfcom themselves. Just because he made a shitty decision doesn't make him a Marxist - especially when there's hard evidence to the contrary with everything he posted online (including overt posts against Marxism) - but it sure helps everyone feel better about themselves when they express their joy that he's dead I suppose. View Quote He went, armed, to an illegal riot organized by Marxist scum. I don't give a fuck what his idiotbook page SAYS, I will, however, look at what he DID and make a judgement. He's a good commie. |
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Quoted: I am neither Antifa nor BLM. What I am, is someone who attempts to point out the other side when everyone starts engaging in groupthink. Fact: the driver got arrested. Speculation: It is Austin, and given current political climate, the driver was guaranteed to get arrested regardless of how legitimate his self defense claim might be. My point is this: right now we can be fairly certain there are multiple protestors who have given witness statements to the police. And we can be fairly certain they're all going to side with Garrett. Do you or I think any of them are going to claim Garrett pointed a weapon first? So we're going to see a defendant who claims he was in fear because Garrett pointed a rifle at him, and because of the crowd surrounding him. We are going to see a bunch of witnesses who claim he drove right up, and immediately, without provocation, drew and fired on Garrett. The defense is going to move to suppress that interview and any social media posts. Whether they succeed at it or not is hard to say given the uncertainties of a trial in Austin. Right now I'd say the driver is probably fucked. I do not believe we are ever going to see any evidence of Garrett having opened fire, and he's going to be painted as a heroic martyr trying to save his quadriplegic black wife from a crazed gunman out to murder protestors. It's Austin. You can do the math of where things go from there. View Quote Well, you're experience as a criminal prosecutor or defense attorney may be different than mine. But in my experience (sixty felony jury trials, about a dozen of them murder trials, one of them as a defense attorney), all of that stuff you are worried about, gets straightened out before trial. People like the kind of idiots who join AntiFA and BLM are not nearly as good at fooling the court system, as they always think they will be. And, you don't count the witnesses for each side to see who wins. It's quality of testimony, not quantity. Plus, as a prosecutor, the worst murder cases to try, were where the defendant pleads self-defense. They were really tough even when I knew it was BS. (The non-BS ones never made it out of Grand Jury). With an affirmative plea of self-defense, there is one issue and one issue only, for a jury to decide. Was it reasonable to believe that an armed man, part of a mob in a riot situation, running up to your car and surrounding it meant you harm? I don't even think it's a close question. It doesn't matter if the dead guy didn't shoot at him, (of course, it's a slam dunk, try it with your eyes closed, half drunk, and still win, if he did). And, the standard of proof here, isn't more likely than not, like a civil case. This is beyond a reasonable doubt. That's what the judge will tell the jury in the instructions." Do you find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant's belief that the deceased was about to attempt to inflict death or serious bodily harm on him, was unreasonable, based what he believed to be true at the time? It's a tough standard. And, the first thing I would be doing, as a defense attorney, was asking for a change of venue due to pre-trial publicity and the defendant's inability to get a fair trial. And, I would be appealing that ruling if I lost. Because, any normal jury would probably see it that way. Again, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as your belief was reasonable. That's it. You may notice, of those sixty jury trials, only one was as a defense attorney. That one case was a murder case I won, (not that long ago, after I retired from my law enforcement federal agent job that I had after being a prosecutor), where I came to believe later, that my client was guilty as sin. I never tried another one as a defense attorney. It wasn't that I was so good. It's that the prosecutor was so bad. They are hard cases and he wasn't that good. |
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Quoted: Yes it does. Run it through an audio program. Compare the blasts to known rifle and pistol shots. You'll see the curves are different. View Quote I've been shot at with an AK. That audio sucks, and doesn't sound like any rifle fired at me. But, hey, apparently, this place is filed with SMEs when it comes to the sound of gunfire, especially when recorded with a shitty mic on a phone in an otherwise loud environment..... |
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Interview with the mother says the victim shot first. Unless there is something I am missing the first shots were from the report of a rifle (almost certainly the shooters AK-47) and the next shots sounded like they were from the victims pistol.
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Quoted: Will there be any "rest in power" lowers https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/104619/5CDBD995-B7D9-4DD5-83E1-913CA31F92AD_jpe-1520604.JPG View Quote |
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Quoted: Interview with the mother says the victim shot first. Unless there is something I am missing the first shots were from the report of a rifle (almost certainly the shooters AK-47) and the next shots sounded like they were from the victims pistol. View Quote Well communists lie so... |
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Quoted: The commie label is because the friend of my enemy is my enemy. He is marching with Antifa and BLM. So he's guilty of the company he chooses to keep. View Quote |
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Quoted: Is this the hill you want to fall on? You are trying so hard to spin shit. How many times do you need to hear the assessment of people smarter than you or news reports before it sinks in your dense noggin??? View Quote Spin what? I'm glad the commie got smoke checked. I think it's a good, nay, GREAT shoot even if the occupant of the vehicle fired first. I hope that is clear enough. I don't, however, agree that the audio is compelling that the first shots are an AKM. But, hey, maybe all those smarter guys got shot at more than me and remember it better. I do have pretty bad tinnitus...... |
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Quoted: Interview with the mother says the victim shot first. Unless there is something I am missing the first shots were from the report of a rifle (almost certainly the shooters AK-47) and the next shots sounded like they were from the victims pistol. View Quote Like the "Eyewitness" who claimed that Saint Michael Brown of Ferguson had his hands UP & cried out "Don't Shoot!!" |
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Off he goes in to the wild blue yonder....
Not much of a loss. Sometimes stupid hurts. He got hurt. HE gone. |
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Quoted: You're attacking a point I wasn't making. How about in reply I paste another meme he had up on his page to make you really mad: https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/108776394_3348235695228433_8187307361398059395_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=2d5d41&_nc_ohc=u3Y6nXWarLYAX8q9_Xb&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=3ebc0cd8ed7e63a66dc3ec7a571a600c&oe=5F452941 [ETA] Not that I agree with the "kidnapping" nonsense in case anyone thinks otherwise, but it is thought-provoking. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: He was ready and willing to use his arms against fellow Americans that didn't agree with him politically. Whether he meant to shoot or just intimidate doesn't mean shit. He's a turncoat to core American ideals of democracy and freedom of thought. He got what was coming to him. You're attacking a point I wasn't making. How about in reply I paste another meme he had up on his page to make you really mad: https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/108776394_3348235695228433_8187307361398059395_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=2d5d41&_nc_ohc=u3Y6nXWarLYAX8q9_Xb&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=3ebc0cd8ed7e63a66dc3ec7a571a600c&oe=5F452941 [ETA] Not that I agree with the "kidnapping" nonsense in case anyone thinks otherwise, but it is thought-provoking. Self-admitted trolling by Mods? We’ve reached a new low I guess |
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Quoted: He is a hard-core libertarian who hates cops. Look at his FB profile if you don't believe me. https://www.facebook.com/garrett.foster.52438. I would also like to know how you are able to discern that all the people he was marching with are, in fact, Marxists. A ton of shit on his page is stuff I see posted regularly by people of Arfcom themselves. Just because he made a shitty decision doesn't make him a Marxist - especially when there's hard evidence to the contrary with everything he posted online (including overt posts against Marxism) - but it sure helps everyone feel better about themselves when they express their joy that he's dead I suppose. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Well, he was armed, marching in an illegal riot with Marxist scum, so there's that......... He is a hard-core libertarian who hates cops. Look at his FB profile if you don't believe me. https://www.facebook.com/garrett.foster.52438. I would also like to know how you are able to discern that all the people he was marching with are, in fact, Marxists. A ton of shit on his page is stuff I see posted regularly by people of Arfcom themselves. Just because he made a shitty decision doesn't make him a Marxist - especially when there's hard evidence to the contrary with everything he posted online (including overt posts against Marxism) - but it sure helps everyone feel better about themselves when they express their joy that he's dead I suppose. He was pretty clearly a big-L Libertarian, there’s a certain strain of them that are currently eating up the BLM propaganda because of the fuck cops/fuck the state angle apparently. His FB page is essentially straight Jo Jorgensen memes, and with Jorgensen quoting murdering terrorist Angela Davis recently I’m hardly surprised. |
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Quoted: I am neither Antifa nor BLM. What I am, is someone who attempts to point out the other side when everyone starts engaging in groupthink. Fact: the driver got arrested. Speculation: It is Austin, and given current political climate, the driver was guaranteed to get arrested regardless of how legitimate his self defense claim might be. My point is this: right now we can be fairly certain there are multiple protestors who have given witness statements to the police. And we can be fairly certain they're all going to side with Garrett. Do you or I think any of them are going to claim Garrett pointed a weapon first? So we're going to see a defendant who claims he was in fear because Garrett pointed a rifle at him, and because of the crowd surrounding him. We are going to see a bunch of witnesses who claim he drove right up, and immediately, without provocation, drew and fired on Garrett. The defense is going to move to suppress that interview and any social media posts. Whether they succeed at it or not is hard to say given the uncertainties of a trial in Austin. Right now I'd say the driver is probably fucked. I do not believe we are ever going to see any evidence of Garrett having opened fire, and he's going to be painted as a heroic martyr trying to save his quadriplegic black wife from a crazed gunman out to murder protestors. It's Austin. You can do the math of where things go from there. View Quote |
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This is why I don't venture outside the Riot thread much.
So many white knights trying to defend a dead fucking commie....yes commie. You march in support of Marxism/communism, guess what you're now one of them. Libertarians are still retards fwiw. |
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Good shoot, one less asshole protester to worry about.
Now if they could just change the RoE on those idiots shining lasers.... |
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View Quote A quadriplegic who can move her arms? That's magic |
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guess his sit and spin wife will be rollin all the way to the bank
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Quoted: I am not giving him credit for anything. I'm questioning the conventional wisdom that everyone is trying to pigeonhole him as a Marxist when the evidence clearly shows otherwise. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: No fucks given. If he is half as intelligent as you give him credit for he should have known better however his critical thinking skills are definitely in question. I would never, ever, ever associate myself with marxists/socialists/communists, BLM/Antifa are groups I would avoid association with at all costs. He gladly laid down with the dogs and got up with the fleas as they say. That's his choice, his responsibility and his end result to be accountable for. I am not giving him credit for anything. I'm questioning the conventional wisdom that everyone is trying to pigeonhole him as a Marxist when the evidence clearly shows otherwise. Most people here called him a Terrorist, which he was. |
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Quoted: In the other thread, goldtop post this link https://m.facebook.com/AustinPolice/videos/325649065275255/?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2FAustinPolice%2F&_rdr The vid at the link is police briefing in which the captain says it appears that the "victim" aimed the rifle at the car. 5 shots were from driver, 3 shot were from another protester who fired at the car as it went by. The driver left the scene, and called 911. They told him to pull over, and came and picked him up, and secured the evidence. They also picked up the other protestor who fired at the driver (hopefully for attempted murder) View Quote @WesJanson looks like your theory was correct. |
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Quoted: Fuck anyone associating with or preaching racist hate Fuck anyone marching with BLM at 'angry' protests at this late stage in the game Fuck anyone who harasses a motorist Fuck any civilian who pulls a gun on a motorist simply because he won't obey, or fires before the vehicle is actively crushing people Fuck anyone who gets "Rest in Power" written in the newspaper story about their 'heroic' deeds Fuck active or former servicemen who forget their oath to defend the constitution and defect to the side of racist commie tyrants In short, fuck this guy. And fuck anyone trying to stand up for him. View Quote You read my mind. Well stated! |
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Quoted: Cross posting from the riot thread: So I went frame by frame in that video and I'm seeing muzzle flash from what looks like in front of the car at the 40s mark, or am I crazy? https://i.ibb.co/1QYw4VS/shot1f.jpg Larger res https://i.ibb.co/QHb0RcZ/shot2f.jpg View Quote Welcome back |
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Somebody in this thread posted Alcohol Fetal Syndrome earlier. Considering the appearance of his face and head, his physical (and perhaps mental) problems in the AF, and his behavior as a civie certainly wouldn't rule that out.
Yes or no, he ended up dying a useful idiot. Poor guy. |
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Quoted: The first shots were in the open. The return fire was muffled. Logical to believe they came from within the car. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Jeez people, just stop. They're DIFFERENT. That's it. Shit audio doesn't give you the information to start IDing specific weapons. The first shots were in the open. The return fire was muffled. Logical to believe they came from within the car. ..or were fired from someone on the opposite side of the car, as it departed. Everyone here is desperately wanting to ignore that we have an individual openly admitting they fired three rounds at the car. Three rounds...just like gets heard at the end of the video. Seriously, a bunch of you guys are going to be in utter denial when it comes out that AK dipshit never got a round off, unless someone releases a better quality video. |
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Quoted: Cross posting from the riot thread: So I went frame by frame in that video and I'm seeing muzzle flash from what looks like in front of the car at the 40s mark, or am I crazy? https://i.ibb.co/1QYw4VS/shot1f.jpg Larger res https://i.ibb.co/QHb0RcZ/shot2f.jpg View Quote I figured it out... Attached File |
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Quoted: The still image from the video is inconclusive, IMO, in determining if the rifle was raised or not. Let's remember that it IS legal to open carry, so if the driver is to claim self defense, he's going to need more than just "guy had a slung rifle and shouting at me". Again, scenarios in which self defense isn't going to win: Driver drew and shot first, absent the rifle being pointed. Driver drew and Garrett pointed his rifle, at which time driver opened fire. We know nothing about the driver or his motivations. Don't be so quick to say that just because the dead guy was a protestor, that the shooter is automatically a Real American Hero. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: All witness statements contain bias. Sorting through the bullshit is what makes the difference. If Garrett fired rounds and every protestor denies it, then the question becomes where the bullets went. If he hit the car with any shots, that's abso-fuckunglutely going to come out at trial, because the protestors can't hide holes in a car. Assume that they picked up the brass he fired. Assume they lie, sure. But there will be physical evidence somewhere, unless he fired those rounds straight up into the air. Again, my money is that the driver is going to claim he saw Garrett with a rifle, and opened fire first. Then the question is going to be whether Garrett was aiming at him or not. That's going to wind up being impossible to prove one way or another, if no further video or photo evidence comes out beyond that still frame of Garrett's arm. Prosecution can also argue that Garrett was responding to the deadly force threat of the driver pointing at him first. I have no doubt the protestors will claim that, although getting all the stories to coincide might be challenging. Open armed groups on the street in proximity and agitating against each other is inherently dangerous. Mistakes will get made, and people wind up dead as a result. It's simply an inevitable outcome on a national scale, that for X number of armed activists encountering other armed people, Y number of shootings will occur in a given time period. Not saying it's right or wrong, or offering any judgment at all...simply pointing out the factual inevitability of such circumstances. There are at least three or four possible scenarios where self defense looks viable, seeing how the video clearly shows the dead guy pointing his rifle at the car. 1. Dead guy pointed gun at driver for no reason, or because he thought driver was going to escape their BLM roadblock. Got shot. 2. Dead guy saw driver was armed at their BLM roadblock and pointed his gun at driver. Got shot. 3. Dead guy decided driver was trying to escape their road block and fired rounds at the driver. Got shot. 4. Dead guy decided driver was trying to escape their road block and fired warning shots into the street or somewhere. Got shot. The one possible not self defense scenario. 1. Driver pulls over, asks for directions, dead guy comes up to be helpful, carelessly flags the driver with his muzzle, driver yells, "Surprise, mother fucker" and shoots him. Let's think which of those are most likely true. The still image from the video is inconclusive, IMO, in determining if the rifle was raised or not. Let's remember that it IS legal to open carry, so if the driver is to claim self defense, he's going to need more than just "guy had a slung rifle and shouting at me". Again, scenarios in which self defense isn't going to win: Driver drew and shot first, absent the rifle being pointed. Driver drew and Garrett pointed his rifle, at which time driver opened fire. We know nothing about the driver or his motivations. Don't be so quick to say that just because the dead guy was a protestor, that the shooter is automatically a Real American Hero. Based on the video and some still images out there, it is self defense. Doesn't matter who shot first. Doesn't matter if AK guy even pointed the rifle at him. A reasonable person would fear serious bodily injury in the driver's situation. |
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Quoted: You'd be surprised. The minimum 1.5 mile run time for dudes under 25 was like 11:27 just before I got out. Even before I got hurt I couldnt break 12 minutes. I ended up doing the dumbass walk test for 4 years in a row because I couldn't run more than 1/4 mile without being in agony. Pushups were 45 in a minute, sit ups 54, and waist was 36 or something. Shit wasnt THAT easy, but it wasnt impossible to pass. I guess they changed it for men under 30 is like 13:36 now which is still an 8:45 mile. Min pushups is 33, 42 situps, and waist is 39" which seems fat as shit but there are some bigger guys are are just built like brick shithouses that were failing when it was lower. Everyone except for the old and lazy meet waist with ease. View Quote Where is the coefficient or added time for the ascot? A squid wants to know. |
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Quoted: And there's a lot of overlap between libertarians and Arfcom; what's your point? As far as his criticism of Marxism is concerned: I posted a link to his webpage so you can click through it for yourself. Here's one example: https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/75486134_2992999137394044_1030823912323153920_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=Egw0ya02kJIAX_zh4ga&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=43b65bfcba06a4c788ae7e76592b3aea&oe=5F423DDC View Quote |
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Quoted: ..or were fired from someone on the opposite side of the car, as it departed. Everyone here is desperately wanting to ignore that we have an individual openly admitting they fired three rounds at the car. Three rounds...just like gets heard at the end of the video. Seriously, a bunch of you guys are going to be in utter denial when it comes out that AK dipshit never got a round off, unless someone releases a better quality video. View Quote Don't bother. I've been told that the first shots have to be an AK. Because, reasons. I've said it didn't sound like any AK fired at me. I was called an idiot. Now, PD says AK guy never fired, car guy fired 5, medic fired three. Crickets..... |
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Quoted: You're attacking a point I wasn't making. How about in reply I paste another meme he had up on his page to make you really mad: https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/108776394_3348235695228433_8187307361398059395_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=2d5d41&_nc_ohc=u3Y6nXWarLYAX8q9_Xb&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=3ebc0cd8ed7e63a66dc3ec7a571a600c&oe=5F452941 [ETA] Not that I agree with the "kidnapping" nonsense in case anyone thinks otherwise, but it is thought-provoking. View Quote Oh you’re not wrong. We are a fickle bunch. Mask or no mask.. light beer or regular beer? |
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