After greed weaseled out of the bet, and wouldn't self-ban himself, I heeded BC's advice and simply put him on ignore.

The results are the same.

Thanks BC.

@Aaron Coleman and @Josh Stowers preview the 2024 season:

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Another reason I hate August. The damned State Fair of West Virginia starts in less than two weeks. Animals, congestion, filth, people in campers, bad food, you name it.

I hate Fair week. All the restaurants raise their prices to gouge the tourists. My Starbucks coffee will cost me $10 if I even dare to venture out. The place is not even really West Virginia’s Fair. It is privately owned and the cartel of landowners who control it make a killing.

Will use this thread to keep track:

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I always thought this was odd, and hypocritical:

Conservatives tend to drive UAW made domestics while liberals who overwhelmingly support the UAW and vice-versa tend to drive non-union made foreign vehicles...




Not surprisingly my daily driver is a Ram.

The non-union brands in the red include Hyundai, Kia, Volvo with the majority of non-union brands being in the blue.

The ‘Elon Paradox’: He sells Teslas–but you’d expect him to drive a Ram. Here’s what your car says about your politics
BYMike Shannon and Will Feltus
June 6, 2023 at 3:13 PM EDT


Over the past year, Elon Musk's political views have diverged from those of Tesla owners.
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Politics, cars, and the internet collided when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially began his presidential campaign in a Twitter interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. While unconventional, the launch was in some ways fitting. Mr. DeSantis’ chief challenge, to borrow from a 2016 Barack Obama line, is convincing GOP voters they are ready for “that new car smell.”

Buying a car, after all, is a lot like choosing a president.
It’s a major decision, one that Americans typically live with for about eight years. Like voters, prospective buyers do significant research and comparison shopping. They consider performance, reliability, appearance, and how promised benefits might meet their needs.

Yet while facts matter, buying a car remains a very emotional decision, often more heart than head. How does the car make me feel? What will it make others feel about me?
More than any other consumer purchase, your car choice–much like your vote–is an expression of your personality, your values, and yes, even your politics.
We’ve been tracking the politics of consumers for 20 years by analyzing the Nielsen Scarborough and GfK MRI datasets, which include hundreds of thousands of annual in-depth interviews with American adults. We’ve explored the partisan differences among beer drinkers, sports fans, fast-food eaters, and retail shoppers. Car owners are one of the more intriguing consumer groups.

Today, when it comes to the politics of cars, it’s a Ram v. Tesla world​

As the bubble chart shows, Ram pickup owners are very, very Republican, with GMC drivers registering a close second. GOP drivers clearly love their made-in-the-USA trucks and SUVs. (Notably, the British brand Land Rover, formerly a high-R index brand, has moved to the center-left as it has become more of a luxury line appealing to urbanites.)

On the other side, Tesla is the most Democratic car make by a long shot. Its position is unsurprising given one of its key selling points–no carbon emissions–is a priority for progressives. The Tesla lineup also currently lacks a truck or big SUV, favored by Republicans.
Politically, Tesla has occupied the space previously held by Subaru in 2012 and Volvo in 2004 on the automotive left. Over time, both those carmakers’ bubbles have migrated toward the less partisan middle as they have grown their market shares.
Residents of the San Francisco area–home to Elon Musk’s Twitter–have the nation’s highest concentration of Tesla owners, more than three times the national average, according to the Nielsen Scarborough data. The next top Tesla markets are also Democratic strongholds: Denver, Honolulu, and Los Angeles.

Over the past year, the politics of Tesla drivers and those of Mr. Musk have diverged sharply. Mr. Musk’s partisan evolution has created what we call the Elon Paradox–he is selling Teslas, but you might expect him to be driving a Ram.
The Elon Paradox generates political headwinds for Tesla sales. A November 2022 Morning Consult survey revealed that Tesla’s net favorability among Democrats had declined by 20 percentage points. The December Quinnipiac poll showed only 7% of Democrats holding a favorable opinion of Mr. Musk.
While it may be too soon to know whether Democrats’ increasingly negative opinions of Musk will hurt Tesla sales, a golden rule in politics and business is that you don’t want to get out of step with your base.

One way to address such a divergence is to grow your customer base. And Mr. Musk has a plan.

The new Tesla Cybertruck is slated to go on sale later this year–and, according to early reports, demand is off the charts. Mr. Musk has no problem jumping the lengthy reservations list: He announced at Tesla’s recent shareholder meeting that the Cybertruck will be his daily driving vehicle.
In March, Musk tweeted, “Cybertruck will change the look of the roads. Finally feels like the future.” That future seems to be one in which truck and big SUV buyers will be making their first Tesla showroom visit, broadening the brand’s political base, and marking another milestone in the supernatural resilience Musk has shown in his business career.
Mike Shannon is a partner at the management consulting firm Vianovo in Austin, Texas. Will Feltus is the senior vice president for research and planning at National Media in Alexandria, Virginia.

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The next couple of weekends will be huge for Charles Huff and his staff as multiple official visitors will be on campus. Starting tomorrow, an impressive group of four recruits will be visiting MU. Details below:

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Those of you who think the government, at any level, was part of the trump assassination should show your face in this thread. When posting, please name which agencies you feel are possibly or definitely part of this:

My least favorite month. Hot, humid. Crabapple trees have a spotted virus of some kind. About the only good thing is the marigolds. I must have done something right because mine have massive flowers and are two feet tall. Didn’t know they grew that large.

More info coming out on the Russian prisoner swap. This is a continuation to the story a while back that involved Biden trading a drug smuggling lady basketball player for an international arms dealer.

Reuters link

I don't know how I missed up until a few days ago that 3-on-3 basketball is an Olympic sport. I love 3-on-3, but it's stupid that it is a sport. It's just as stupid that the U.S. uses a bunch of bums on their squad. Canyon Barry, Rick's 30 year old son, is on the team. He played at College of Charleston for three years and Florida for one year. Just like his dad, he shoots his free throws underhanded which should automatically disqualify him from representing the country. Kareem Maddox is on the team. 34 years old, played at Princeton, played overseas (most recent was seven years ago), and then was a podcast producer. Dylan Travis played D2 basketball and was a high school gym teacher before being asked to play. Jimmer Fredette is the biggest name, but he hasn't even played professionally in five years and is 35.

The rules are wonky. Alternating possessions instead of make-it, take-it. After a score, the defense can rip the ball out of the net and start possession once they get the ball passed the arc. No checking, whistle, etc. Games are timed instead of to a certain score.

The U.S. team was so bad that it didn't even qualify for the 2020 games.

Between this 3-on-3 shit and handball in the Olympics, I think I can recruit some people and beat both of the U.S. teams.

tTheir policies and their bleaters are destroying everything they touch.

This poor woman gets the shit knocked out of her, by a man, in the boxing ring at the olympics, in 45 seconds. The years of work she had to put in to compete in womens boxing, her life long dream. Destroyed by the policies and delusions of leftists.

Board bleaters must be proud.... You all suck and are part of the problem. Pedo-Joe, Commi-la Harris, homObama...etc are all in on this shit.

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in Paris Thursday after Carini abandoned the match 46 seconds after it began, saying afterward that one punch from Khelif "hurt too much" to continue.

"At my first Olympics, I was 17 years old, so I hadn't even fully developed as a woman, so I couldn't imagine getting inside the ring with a biological man," Shields said.

"I don't even see how the Olympics done something like this."

How many of you libs and libertarians are members of this?

Here's how they killed that Hamas asshole in Iran. Whoever did this operation has giant balls.

I gifted you all the article, should be no pay wall. It's worth the read.

Bomb Smuggled Into Tehran Guesthouse Months Ago Killed Hamas Leader

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/...unlocked_article_code=1._k0.Xo1d.CNjNcc05NrJP

Ok, that's bizarre.

And the media is paying a lot of attention to it, because anyone with a brain finds it bizarre.

But what grabbed my attention more is Trump saying something connected to this that is utterly fvcking incorrect.

"Christians are not known as a big voting group. They don’t vote."

WTF? Even after controlling for all other factors (race, education, income, you name it), the single most likely group to vote in a Presidential election is "Christians who attend church at least once a week."

And I think these people know this. They weild that power and influence proudly. I'm all for reverse psychology, but damn he's insulting a big chunk of his base.

So Herd Christians, how does it feel to be told you are a bunch of worthless, non-patriotic lazy bums that don't show up on Election Day?

Based on bylaw B-10.7.2(e), the architect and/or chairman of this board has ultimate bet ruling authority. As a result, I have spent the last week spending substantial time going through the HN archives to research any bet regarding E.T. and the next presidential election.

The first bet that was both offered and accepted for the 2024 election was back in 12/20. As you can see, there was no mention of the Democratic candidate. The bet was only that trump would win in a landslide:

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MIchigan also made the bet very clear by reiterating it on the same day, and once again, there was a mention of trump but not requirement of the Democratic nominee:

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But then just over three years later, Michigan tried changing the bet that he both offered and agreed to with E.T. by trying to dictate who E.T..'s candidate was, which was not the original bet:

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Exactly a month ago today, Michigan confirmed that he agreed to the "original" bet, because E.T. kept copying-and-pasting Michigan's original bet. As mentioned, the original bet was the one back in 12/20 which is posted above:

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The first/original bet and the most recent one accepted by Michigan both had no restriction on E.T.'s candidate, just that if trump was running, he would win in a landslide. As a result, since that hasn't happened, E.T. is entirely permitted to regain his normal posting privileges. I would like to warn the deplorables to not misrepresent a bet in the future. This is your one and only warning, as a fellow deplorable has a history of posting forged receipts to lie about him fulfilling his end of a losing bet on here.

Congratulations and welcome back, E.T. God speed.

Even with bad weather, Paris did a great job with this. Their music ranged from heavy metal for a Marie Antoinette skit to Les Mis to Lady Gaga. Noah Lyles has a big personality and should bring home the gold a the world's fastest man. He also paints his fingernails.

Seeing all of these countries makes me want to visit/revisit all of them. Estonia has the flag with the best color scheme and Eswatini has the coolest flag:

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Anyone know something about this?

It seems to just be stuff that used to be on the internet for free, like hype videos, coaches pressers, etc. behind a $100 paywall. Apparently no live sports, which remain behind the ESPN+ paywall.

Sorry if you've already addressed this @Josh Stowers.

Shithole, USA (California) continues to crush the middle class, crush the poor and destroy itself with leftist/socialist/Marxist policies

Fewer hours for workers, higher prices and fewer customers...Who would have thought this would happen?

Democrat policies working for you! 🙄

Even if can(could) win, he will not be allowed to win. There are forces beyond his or any of his voters control to allow. The chance he can win is nearly zero, below 10%. He will not be allowed to win.

There is too much power against him not only in America but, in the world. I don't know where that leaves America or us, but the globalist and powers that be will not allow it.

All I can say is go to work, make what money you can, and keep an eye on things. Go vote of course, but just saying it likely will not matter. Even if he wins, he won't win.

Is anyone other than me sick of the continual begging by charities? Every shop and restaurant seems to want an extra buck or two when you get ready to leave.

I support the organizations i believe in, but I hate being put on the spot when leaving a retail store or restaurant. One place wouldn’t even let me add it to my credit card - had to be in cash.

Charities begging, along with the ever present tip screens, are starting to irritate me. I’m getting better at just saying, “No.”

First, it was Mary Trump years ago. Then, it was his own daughter who distanced herself from him a few years ago. Now, his nephew, Fred Trump, is not only endorsing Kamala, but he is absolutely bashing the ethics of trump:

EXCLUSIVE: A new conservative watchdog group is launching an interactive map that tracks instances of political violence "perpetrated by leftist organizations" in the U.S., it claims.

New Tolerance Campaign (NTC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, announced the launch of its "Hate Map," an interactive system that will allow users to track instances of political bias through an "unbiased, detailed account of incidents, ensuring a more balanced and thorough perspective."

"There are organizations and individuals across the country on the left today who are promoting, inspiring and, in some cases, directly engaging in physical violence against those with whom they disagree," Gregory T. Angelo, president of New Tolerance Campaign, told Fox News Digital in an interview.

NTC created a catalog of left-leaning groups with a history of events that turned violent, such as protests, vandalism, physical assaults, threats and intimidation.

Angelo specifically called out the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit they say "has become something of a partisan cudgel."

"Whether it's corporate boardrooms that have been infected by the woke mind virus, whether it is colleges and universities that continue on an ever leftward drift, or activist nonprofits like the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center, who have basically just started carrying water for America's progressive left, the institutions have been taken over by leftist forces going back decades," Angelo said.

The NTC president said some examples of recent violent incidents include the 2012 shooting at the Family Research Council, the 2017 shooting at a Republican practice session for the Congressional Baseball Game, and the attempted assassination of former President Trump this month.

"These were not isolated events. They’re part of a larger pattern of hate and violence promoted by the left," Angelo said.

"We are going to continue to catalog hate and the promotion of violence on the left," he said. "Sadly, I don't think that that number is going to be going down anytime soon. If anything, it's going to be going up, and we will be here as a resource for members of the media, for elected officials, for everyday Americans and people in academia to use this in their research when it comes to calling out hate across the country."

NTC said the map will consist of a wide range of coverage, be updated regularly and be a user-friendly interface, according to a press release obtained by Fox.

Efforts to reach the Southern Poverty Law Center for comment were unsuccessful at press time.