JiminyCricket

re: Are "human rights" a real thing and why should I care?

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/11/26 at 1:44 pm to BrodyDad

Are rights in general a real thing at all? One has to decide if rights are a real thing first before establishing what our opinions of them and their enforcement should be.

re: Sorry But I Have To Call Out Some People For Hyping Up An Anticipated Bad Jobs Report

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/11/26 at 1:15 pm to LuckyTiger

HailHail stackedddddd

SFP fooooooked.

re: Rasmussen poll from 2/5: Who did a better job as president…Biden 48%, Trump 40%

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/10/26 at 1:02 pm to SPEEDY

I'm not entirely shocked tbh. Americans have short memories. Trump hasn't been perfect but they are forgeting that lots they don't like that is happening now are results of what Biden did or didn't do. Take immigration for example. If Biden and the left did their job, you wouldn't have nearly the need for the ICE raids you do now, but Trump is the bad guy for cleaning Biden's mess.

I do agree he needs to clean up the unforced errors but it's not shocking the guy who has to make the unpopular decisions to clean up disasters from the last guy would take some popularity hits along the way.

re: This is just an honest question…

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/10/26 at 10:27 am to JPLSU1981

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My opinion of basketball is absolutely jaded in a negative way because of our program. But basketball to me requires the least strategy/scheming/planning of all the sports and is why I don’t really enjoy it.This is overly simplistic….Shoot it, sometimes it goes in, sometimes it doesn’t.

If LSU is playing, of course I want to win and be good, but I’m just not a basketball fan. The sport at all levels just doesn’t have much appeal to me.

All that said, if LSU had a winning program, I’d be watching and rooting for the Tigers. But if we stink, it’s really really easy to not a give a F about the program. I’ve been through periods of stink in our other programs and am never as apathetic towards those programs when we’re not good.

Basketball CAN be a lot of fun when it's done right. The momentum swings, the crowd, one team going on a run and the other team needing a TO to stop the bleeding, offenses running effeciently where it almost looks like a coordinated dance. All of those are fun aspects of the game. You could make an argument that the game has gotten incredibly stale though in the way lots of teams play it and I think that's more of an issue of how the modern game is played rather than the game itself being flawed.

Tiger Rant

re: Folks Who Only Shower At Night

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/10/26 at 9:16 am to Hoyt

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Is your face and hair not oily?

If I took a hot shower twice a day, my skin and hair would be dry af. I don't even take hot showers at all anymore. I go lukewarm.

re: This is just an honest question…

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/10/26 at 9:01 am to KWL85

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Some of you see everything thru your kool-aid glasses. Sports don't become politically left or right. Some players express their opinions. If you don't agree, then you throw stupid labels on them. Sports is only political if you make it political to you. All sports are games of competition. Quit making it something it is not.

I don't think I could disagree more. Making the case that we have only seen players on an individual basis making political statements and sports leagues have not touched politics is just flatly untrue.

I suppose you could make an argument that sports in their purest form aren't political but to pretend that sports leagues like the NFL and NBA haven't taken political stances is simply inaccurate.

As for college basketball, I haven't checked out for political reasons. I've checked out because LSU hasn't been any good. It's hard to get excited when you're playing for nothing and your team is terrible.

Tiger Rant

re: A good description of the difference of Islam and Christianity

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/10/26 at 8:57 am to Bass Tiger

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Yeah, the 72 virgins thing is pretty crazy, what does a female martyr receive if she does Allah's will?

Admittedly, I haven't done a deep dive into that but a did have that same question and apparently, women receive "whatever brings them the highest and most joy and contentment." What that actually is supposed to look like, I'm not really sure.

re: A good description of the difference of Islam and Christianity

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/10/26 at 7:55 am to Mike da Tigah

Islam seems like a religion written by a pervy dude, mostly because it was.

In Christianity, the reward is the Lord himself.

In Islam, the reward is getting laid a bunch.

re: MAGA and TDS people need to quit this crap, we all know which one was best halftime show

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/9/26 at 1:50 pm to conservativewifeymom

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Actually, the best response, if being called the r word, is 'yes, yes I am.'

It works with BOTH Republican and racist.

The other day, my sister in law called on a rant about how evil ICE is and she made one point and kinda froze at my reponse.

SIL; "I mean they're going after mostly brown people. Not white people like you but mostly brown people. You're just okay with that?"

Me; "Yeah."

SIL; "*Long pause on the line*............ But...........why are you okay with that?"

Me; "Because it wasn't 10 million Irishmen that crossed the southern border."

It was like her brain short circuited. :lol:

re: Inside Dem Socialists’ extreme plan for Los Angeles — seizing property, replacing cops and

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/9/26 at 1:45 pm to djmed

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Inside Dem Socialists’ extreme plan for Los Angeles — seizing property, replacing cops and closing jails

A radical left-wing group in Los Angeles has published a shocking 40-page roadmap to transform the nation’s second-largest city into a bizarre socialist experiment.

The Democratic Socialists of America’s LA chapter wants to straight-up seize private property through a “creative use of eminent domain,” take control of your neighborhood grocery store, and replace cops with unarmed social workers while shutting down jails.

Their Communist fever dream wishlist includes banning Airbnbs, grabbing golf courses for public housing, allowing noncitizen immigrants to vote in local elections, enforce a school curriculum that supports social justice, and eliminating all fossil fuel use by 2035.

A non-exhaustive but rather exhausting list of just some of their demands is below:

Honestly, if there was a way to contain it to LA, I'll tell them to knock themselves out. Go get you some.

re: MAGA and TDS people need to quit this crap, we all know which one was best halftime show

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/9/26 at 1:43 pm to extremetigerfanatic

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People only take so much til they say frick you to your face. Well, Americans do.

Agreed on all points. I think the media did a masterful job, when they had a monopoly on information, of convincing right leaning people that they were the weird ones, the dying breed, the outsiders so to speak. Once that monopoly was broken and you had trailblazers that were willing to speak up on their right leaning values, I think people discovered that it was all a facade. It was all a control mechanism and they aren't weird or crazy. It became okay to be a right leaner. One of the results of this, though, has been that the far left has gotten even crazier and more demented in the face of a growing red populace.

re: MAGA and TDS people need to quit this crap, we all know which one was best halftime show

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/9/26 at 1:25 pm to Pragmatist2025

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My wife was called a racist because she hated it and called a leftist POS because she watched it. I think we are living in a simulation.

I do love seeing how many based women are just not giving a rat's arse anymore about being called names. We taught women to be nice and cordial for decades but it seems like right leaning women have just about had enough of it.

re: MAGA and TDS people need to quit this crap, we all know which one was best halftime show

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/9/26 at 1:21 pm to The1TrueTiger

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This whole SB half time battel is dumb as shite, but it is exposing all the racist.

Do you ever get tired of trotting out the "racist" line? It doesn't at all get stale to you?

re: “She’s so pretty… why don’t we just let her get raped?” says an angry leftist woman

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/9/26 at 1:19 pm to Rex Feral

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She's 100% right. The whole thing about AWFUL's is misplaced empathy. Women are born with an innate desire to take care of the helpless. Feminism has taught them have a husband and family is slavery. Since they don't have a family to take care of, they replace them with whatever is the cause de jour.

Yep. It's been awesome to see her get even more cemented in her political opinions as we have aged. Not that she was ever a liberal or anything near it, but she has just gotten so much more bold to speak up than she was as a younger woman. It's a good thing gentlemen to be married to a based, Jesus following woman that loves America and God's word. :usa:

re: “She’s so pretty… why don’t we just let her get raped?” says an angry leftist woman

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/9/26 at 1:01 pm to L.A.

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

I asked Mrs Cricket (no pics) one time what she thought about these liberal women and she had a pretty interesting take. She's of the opinion that God created women with certain qualities about them such as caretaking, motherly instincts, protection of her young, etc. Like everything the enemy does, he takes what God made good and perverts it for the purposes of evil so in this case, he used the media and the world to convince women that having children and raising a family is giving into the patriarchy and should be rejected entirely. Only problem is that those instincts are still in there so liberal white women have replaced family with political lost causes. They defend these political causes (abortion, illegal immigration, LGBTQ, etc) with the ferocity that they SHOULD be defending their own children instead of murdering them. The evil and debauchery has only accelerated as the deception has increased and thus we have the modern american liberal white woman. Full of anger and venom.

I'm glad I married that woman. :lol:

re: “She’s so pretty… why don’t we just let her get raped?” says an angry leftist woman

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/9/26 at 12:55 pm to L.A.

Imagine the inconceivable amount of propaganda and deception liberal white women must have eaten up over the year to stand in a young woman's face and wish rape upon her simply because she doesn't want to murder her baby.

re: This flu is no joke

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/5/26 at 3:33 pm to Jim Rockford

I had flu A this year and it’s the worst I’ve maybe ever felt. Brutal.

re: At least we didn't lose a division game to a foreign land

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/5/26 at 1:34 pm to rt3

That's like a 19 hour time difference from California. I'm sure the league is going to sandwich that game around a BYE for both teams but that travel is going to be brutal.

Saints Talk

re: Do you think it’s true,

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/4/26 at 2:27 pm to reelingintheyears

I don't think it's debatable at this point. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave immigration speeches during their candidacies that were as right wing as you'll find by today's standard. Obama used drones to kill Americans without due process being followed, they'd wanna hang Trump for doing that. Obama said he believed marriage was between a man and a woman. MANY of the things the media has call Trump a literal Nazi for was part of the mainstream democrat platform just 10-15 years ago.

I'm old enough to remember when the left bought it that Mitt Romney was the most racist, far right candidate in history; yeah, that Mitt Romney.

re: Nebraska Teacher, 26, Facing 20 Years in Prison for Dating High School Graduate, 19

Posted by JiminyCricket on 2/4/26 at 9:44 am to Jake88

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Once she has graduated what is his power over her? If there was a quid pro quo, wouldn't he have had to cash in on his end before she graduated?

I could maybe, MAYYYYBE, get on board with a district policy that said you could risk losing your job if you get with a freshly graduated student but jail time in this case is wild.