Someone Placed a Record-Setting Super Bowl Bet From His Phone

But he still had to drive two hours to do it in a legal state.

An estimated 31.4 million people will place a bet on the Super Bowl. Most of them won't drive two hours just to place that bet. And most of them won't lay down bets totaling $9.5 million.

That's how much mattress mogul Jim McIngvale bet on the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl. If they pull it off as the underdogs, he'll get a profit of $16.15 million. McIngvale started with a bet of $4.5 million with Caesars Sportsbook, which said it was the largest bet to ever be placed from the convenience of a mobile phone. When he placed another $5 million bet on the Bengals, Caesars said it was the largest legal wager in U.S. history, beating out a $4.9 million bet on the heavily favored St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI (they lost to a young upstart quarterback named Tom Brady).

McIngvale is fortunate he didn't have to go all the way to Las Vegas to place the bet, as he would have had to do before 2018, when the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. But the Supreme Court didn't legalize sports betting nationwide, it simply said Congress couldn't ban states from legalizing it.

That's why McIngvale still had to drive two hours from Houston to cross the Louisiana border. Despite its reputation as a do-as-you-please, leave-us-alone state, Texans have not been allowed to gamble as they please and any sportsbooks or casino operators trying to enter the state will not be left alone.

In Louisiana, legal sports betting on mobile devices finally launched in the last few weeks. Before then, McIngvale would have probably just gotten on a plane to Las Vegas (where he still would have had to register in person at a casino before placing a bet on his phone), because the alternatives were driving to a Mississippi casino or driving over the Tennessee border if he still wanted to place the record-setting mobile bet.

Nationwide, PlayUSA (a sports betting news and analysis website) estimates that $1 billion will be wagered legally on the Super Bowl. But that's only a fraction of the $7.6 billion that the American Gaming Association estimates will be wagered legally and illegally (though the vast difference may come from different methodologies). Less than half of the U.S. population lives in states with convenient mobile sports betting offered by multiple providers.

Texas doesn't have legalized sports betting, but clearly that doesn't mean people won't find a way to bet. In addition to casual bets between friends, dedicated bettors can try to find an illegal bookie or place a bet with an offshore sportsbook. They can also follow McIngvale's lead and simply travel to a state with legalized betting.

Or maybe Texas should just let Texans do as they please and let sportsbooks start operating in person and online.

Comments

[JesseAz]

While the truck convoy protests have been violence free with BBQ and bouncy castles... Democrats once again take to destroying buildings in protest.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-rioters-vandalize-buildings-block-traffic-after-amir-locke-death

[OpenBordersLiberal-tarian]

"Democrats once again take to destroying buildings in protest."

Never happened. Any property damage during Antifa / BLM demonstrations must have been the work of rightwing infiltrators.

#FieryButMostlyPeaceful

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Jan 6 proved that the Trump Cult can be just as violent as thugs who protest murderous cops.

[OpenBordersLiberal-tarian]

Indeed, as you've frequently pointed out, 1 / 6 was exactly like 9 / 11.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Indeed, as you've frequently pointed out, 1 / 6 was exactly like 9 / 11

Yes, the motives were the same in each case - to destroy American democracy.

[Sevo]

turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a trafficker in kiddie porn a TDS-addled asshole and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Mother's Lament]

They didn't, they were protesting it's destruction. But let's pretend you were right about their motives for a second.

Comparing a group who were let into the building by cops, broke two windows, sat in Pelosi's chair took some selfies, one was shot and another was beaten to death by cop, with men who deliberately flew four commercial airliners full of people into three buildings full of people, is psychotic even for you.

Never mind the fact that you and your bosses turned out to have lied about Sicknick's death, bringing zipties, smearing poo, having guns and molotov cocktails at the Capitol building, etc. just to make their Reichstag Fire seem worse.

You're truly a moral monster.

[Conscience]

The smeared substance is easier to get when a particular seal has been compromised.

[R Mac]

It’s believable that someone that would post links to child pornography doesn’t see the moral difference between 9/11 and 1/6.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

He’s a sociopath.

[R Mac]

Speaking of, been quite awhile since DOL posted here.

[JesseAz]

Still figuring out how felons could get a PPP loan and he couldn't. And looking for more special forces medals to buy off eBay to pretend he was SF.

[Mother's Lament]

DOL was one of the socks. Same guy who did KAR. Realized he overstepped things when he doxxed the family of a policeman who died, just to troll Chuck, so he's cooled down for a bit.

[Vexatious]

Yeah that guy was a complete shitweasel.

[wakarem]

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[JesseAz]

2 deaths at the hands of cops for j6. How many for the 100 days of violence?

And just as? Can you point me to the fires set, people killed on j6?

2 billion in insurer costs, so real costs closer to 3 billion, 27 dead directly linked to the riots and rioters for blm....

Yeap. Exactly equal shrike.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Sorry to disappoint but I don't defend arson by BLM thugs.

[Sevo]

turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a pathological liar, a trafficker in kiddie porn and a TDS-addled asshole, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Mother's Lament]

Sure you have. For example by fluffing for Open Societies who provided the arsonist's bail money.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Crazy bitch Candace Owens got caught in that lie:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/01/candace-owens/no-soros-and-foundation-do-not-pay-people-protest/

[R Mac]

Did you read your own link pedo?

“Snopes said that Open Society Foundations has donated $33 million to organizations that have worked with Black Lives Matter or worked to raise awareness during the Ferguson-related protests. However, they had never given money to groups for the express purpose of organizing protests with the movement.”

Politifact also used as evidence that Open Societies said they didn’t support violence. Well I’m convinced!

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

Statement "hitler killed millions of jews"

Politifact responce: false, there is no documented evidence that hitler physically killed a jew.

[Utkonos]

POLITFACT!!!!

[Mother's Lament]

"Did you read your own link pedo?
“Snopes said that Open Society Foundations has donated $33 million to organizations that have worked with Black Lives Matter or worked to raise awareness during the Ferguson-related protests."

Buttplug, read his own links?

He's busy fifty-centing. he doesn't have time for the superfluous. A headline is good enough.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

But your lie is this:

Open Societies who provided the arsonist's bail money.

[JesseAz]

Do you admit he funds the offices of the DAs who have been at the forefront of letting violent rioters off for virtually no penalties?

[JesseAz]

Also open societies list two people who essentially run the Bail Project.

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-justice-fellowships

It is like you don't think OSF use cutout organizations for funding lol.

Zoller is the head of the Bail Project.

[Mother's Lament]

"But your lie is Open Societies provided arsonist's bail money"

"Herp derp, I'll pretend Open Societies PAC's and lawyers who are defending them somehow don't count'

[Utkonos]

POLITFACT!!!!

[DesigNate]

He never reads his links and they often contradict whatever bullshit he is posting.

[Sevo]

turd is a pathological liar, a TDS-addled pile of shit and a trafficker in kiddie porn.
turd lies; it's all turd does,

[Conscience]

b-plug ..... interesting. The mere existance of such an item is evidence that the human body is not evolved for a particular behavior.

No moral judgement here, only a clinical, objective observation based in science, physics and biology.

[Mother's Lament]

Buttplug often invokes science, physics and biology, but has only a passing acquaintance, and he's completely unfamiliar with morality.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Jan 6:

Occupied Buildings burned down: 0
# of people killed: 1 (protester)

[JesseAz]

2 protestors. Babbitt and the woman in the tunnels.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Yes but the woman in the tunnels was asking for it, dressed like she was.

[Mike Laursen]

Number of attempts to violently interfere with peaceful, democratic, Constitutional transitions of one Presidential administration to the next: 1

Number of Vice Presidents threatened with hanging: 1

Number of Speakers of the House threatened: 1

Guess those stats don’t matter.

[R Mac]

Number of attempts to violently interfere with the peaceful confirmation of a US Supreme Court Justice: 1

Number of congressman shot by Bernie supporters: 1

Number of guillotines at left wing mostly peaceful riots in 2020: to many to count.

Number of Trump supporters assassinated in cold blood on a sidewalk: 1

Number of times Rand Paul was literally assaulted: 2

Man, this is easy.

[R Mac]

Number of times the president had to go into the White House bunker because of riots, celebrated by lefties like you: 1

[JesseAz]

The left has had multiple disruptions of congress and state houses as well.

Mike is just dumb.

[Mother's Lament]

Not as much dumb, as evil. He knows he's wrong.

[JesseAz]

You really are still stupid enough to believe the one hour riot would have changed anything. It is the only justification you have for being an authoritarian piece of shit.

[Mother's Lament]

Number of attempts to violently interfere with peaceful, democratic, Constitutional transitions of one Presidential administration to the next: 1

Oooops, what's this Mike?
https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/trump-inauguration-protests-womens-march/index.html

It's like Mike imagines we can't all remember the torched cars and pussyhats from five years ago.

Number of Vice Presidents threatened with hanging: 1

How about every single one of them? Pick a lefty DC protest that didn't feature gallows and a guillotine for Trump and Pence. The Kavanagh and BLM protests certainly did.
I guess in White Mike world turnabout is only fair play if you're not a prole.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/DJFreedomRocket/status/1492931174905389056?t=U9IUhNFXYlAKl4gRC1b7Nw&s=19

If they were willing to spy on the sitting President of the United States, what makes you think they didn't steal the very next Presidential election?

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1492687031494971392?t=crEmOxSFilzFH83GUGsU2A&s=19

Many far-leftist accounts unhappy about me for capturing undercover footage from last night's two hour black bloc protest in Minneapolis.

I'm accused of creating a narrative when all I do is literally capture and post footage as I see it without any commentary.

Although, I admit I do like the sound of "Rowdy Rebs"

[Link]

[Fats of Fury]

Priorities man, priorities! There's a multimillionaire being inconvenienced.

[Ken Shultz]

Fantasy football, daily fantasy leagues, and square grid office pools were ultimately ways people found around the restrictions on sports betting.

Las Vegas knows it, too, which is why offering daily fantasy football leagues is legal in 44 states, it's against the law in Nevada. The state doesn't want others competing with the taxpaying casinos for the local gamblers' business. There are legal brothels in Nevada, but you can't play in a daily fantasy football league!

"The Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) and the state Attorney General declared that [daily fantasy league sites like DraftKings and FanDuel] were operating illegally within the state because they had yet to register themselves with the GCB and procure a license. This prompted DFS operators to withdraw from Nevada, which they have continued to do so ever since.

https://www.online-gambling.com/us/nevada/daily-fantasy/

Whether we're talking about legal marijuana, alcohol sales, or gambling, the consistent factor is the local authorities finding a way to get paid. And once the local authorities are getting paid, they start working to protect these markets from outside competition.

It's the same thing with everything.

I've seen it happen with restaurants, where the other restaurant owners in a town will fight a new restaurant opening at every step and then call in code violations that are poorly described and weren't understood by the building contractors and the space planners. One does not simply walk into Mordor and open a restaurant. You can sell alcohol in Utah, but from the government's perspective, it's always, "What's in it for me?"

Government is the solution to a very few problems at most.

[CE]

And if they can't stop a new restaurant, they will try to stop it getting a liquor license so it won't be as profitable and fewer people will go there. I know one restaurant owner who would give customers a free beer for being his guest. Since he wasn't selling it, he didn't need a license.

[Formerly FreeRadical]

"Mattress Mac", as we in Houston call him, has a huge furniture store here. He's a local legend, and does really cool social charity things and helps a lot of people. Plus, he's sweet and warm and cuddly, and it's amazing how much people love our local furniture hawker.

Anyway, he always makes these huge bets. He generally does as part of a marketing campaign. He tells people, buy over two thousand dollars on a very expensive mattress, and if the Bengals, or whoever, win, your stuff is free. If I understand it correctly, he bets in the opposite direction. So I think he's covered regardless. I don't fully understand it.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Yeah, it is just a clever hedge. The $16 million he would win covers the cost of the "free" mattresses.

Anyone that needs a mattress buys one and pulls for the Bengals to win straight up (no line).

[Sevo]

turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd is also a TDS-addled asshole and a trafficker in kiddie porn,
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Bluwater]

I don't have a lot of sympathy for a guy who has the strings and buttons to pull off a multi-million dollar bet because he has to drive 2 hours... or get on a plane for that matter.

Nor do I have a problem with a state that hasn't opened up legalized gambling. If enough people don't like it, they will change it. Don't like the laws there, don't move there.

[Overt]

"Nor do I have a problem with a state that hasn't opened up legalized gambling. If enough people don't like it, they will change it"

But don't complain about it in an effort to get people to change it. Because Bluwater will have no sympathy for that. Harrumph.

[DesigNate]

Fuck that, the state government has no more business telling me if I can gamble then the feds do.

The Texas legislature routinely votes against legalizing gambling/casinos because they get lobbied by the casinos to the north. Doesn’t really matter who’s in office.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Come on down to unpainted Arizona!

[Utkonos]

I took one look at the headline and decided the comment section HAD to be more interesting than the article itself, and darned if I wasn’t right—-or my name ain’t Nathan P. Arizona!

[JesseAz]

Test.

[JesseAz]

Okay... reason seems to be eating all links from just the news dot com. What the actual hell. 3 different articles have a non post.

[JesseAz]

Can you even say justthenews....

[Mother's Lament]

Only in the clownworld timeline would I have expected an ostensibly libertarian magazine to engage in political censorship.

[JesseAz]

That site does silly things like have a tab linking their primary sources. Instead of links to Twitter or past articles without primary cites.

[JesseAz]

Was at the gym this morning and apparently the only news is trump flushing papers down a toilet which is so nonsensical as to not be believed. Everything he receives is printed. There are digital copies.

Yet the news has completely ignored theater lut of Durham about Hillary manufacturing trump russia including seemingly trying to hack into servers to create the impression.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-clinton-campaign-paid-tech-company-to-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers-durham-says

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Durham has no credibility, that is why. He is just Kenneth Starr rewarmed.

Trump has destroyed records in violation of current law.

As president, Trump made a habit of tearing up White House records, and the National Archives has said that it received some documents that had been taped back together and others that remained in tatters.

When he left office, Trump took some records to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where they were recently retrieved by the National Archives. White House call logs from Jan. 6 do not show any calls to or from Trump during the assault on the Capitol, despite public reporting that he spoke to lawmakers while it was under way, a source familiar with the records confirmed to NBC News.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/flushed-just-lost-history-trump-leaves-hole-record-rcna15939

Remember Hil-Dog's email server? This is blatantly criminal.

[JesseAz]

You truly have to be an idiot to believe the toilet flushing story lol.

And how does Durham have no credibility?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Didn't mention the toilet flushing bit.

But Fat Nixon certainly erased records of his phone conversations. Like Tricky Dick did his Watergate tapes.

[JesseAz]

Records have been found at the residences of most presidents post election, and promptly returned. The Clinton's had an entire closet full of FBI records. Obama was sending records back for years. Mar a lago was his second office just like Delaware is Bidens.

Are you honestly this ignorant? The documents were returned.

[JesseAz]

Post presidency *

And why is Durham who has emails, contracts, etc not credible shrike?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

White House call logs from Jan. 6 do not show any calls to or from Trump during the assault on the Capitol, despite public reporting that he spoke to lawmakers while it was under way, a source familiar with the records confirmed to NBC News.

They were ERASED.

Reading is fundamental.

[Sevo]

turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[R Mac]

Why doesn’t Durham have any credibility? Where do you think Sussman got the information from?

[Mother's Lament]

Lying is fundamental for you.

"Investigators have not uncovered any evidence that records were deleted or changed.
It's public knowledge that Trump used not only his personal cell phone to make calls but also the phones of his aides."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jan-investigators-find-gaps-trump-white-house-call/story?id=82802726

[Ken Shultz]

The walls are closing in!

. . . and this is, what, the 378th time the walls have been closing in since November of 2016?

[Mother's Lament]

Add a couple of zeros.

Everything Buttplug shills always turns out to be phony.

[mad.casual]

This is 12D chess, there's still something like 16,776,838 walls to go.

[JesseAz]

Lol. You cite yet another laughable story where even the cnn article regarding it said trump often used his phone or that of aids? They didn't even have conviction in their reporting.

You truly are an ignorant leftist shrike.

[Ken Shultz]

He rarely seems to understand what he reads. Some people think that means he's being dishonest. I suspect a reading comprehension problem. Maybe he's not smart enough to understand what he reads.

[Minadin]

It's a common problem among leftists.

Like Dunning-Kruger on Fentanyl.

[Vexatious]

Sandy Burglar stuffing documents down his pants? That’s a crime. Trump did nothing illegal.

Have you done anything illegal? Perhaps involving child pornography?

[DesigNate]

He has no credibility because the demfag said so. Just ignore the fact that shrike is a lying piece of shit.

[Sevo]

turd lies; it’s all he ever does. urd is a pathological liar, a TDS-addled asshole and a trafficker in kiddie porn, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
Turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Steele dossier

[Bluwater]

NBC News. LOL! The runner-up to CNN for Russiagate conspiracies and Brian Williams. And easily beating CNN if you count their satellites.

[mpercy]

He should have wiped it, like with a cloth.

[CE]

Eveything the media have said about Trump has turned out to be a fabrication. Why should this be any different?

[Mike Laursen]

“Everything”?

[R Mac]

Caw caw!

[DesigNate]

Every scandal at least.

[Longtobefree]

Sounds like a load of shit.

[JesseAz]

Ukrainian president is curious why the US hasn't shared all the evidence of an imminent Russian invasion with them.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukraine-president-demands-to-see-intel-on-potential-russian-invasion-only-provoking-panic

[JesseAz]

Thinking of leaving Ukraine as an American? Make sure you have your vax card!

U.S. citizens simply need to present “a valid U.S. passport and proof of COVID-19 vaccination,” according to the U.S. government. “Travelers are also encouraged to present a negative test result from a PCR or antigen COVID-19 test, which will facilitate entry into Poland.”

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What if a bunch of Karens and Nancy-boys gave a war?

[Union of Concerned Socks]

Nobody would come, that's for sure.

[Mother's Lament]

Seriously, we'll need a set of Nuremberg trials to deal with these bureaucrats, judges, politicians, and corporate media Julius Streichers after this.

[JesseAz]

There are more requirements on people fleeing a possible war than there are for illegal immigrants at the border.

[R Mac]

Link?

[Ken Shultz]

When we see these things play out in Canada, they really can help us gain perspective on our own country--and there's an interesting story playing our right now about conspiracy theories and "misinformation". Long before Trump, Reason's Jesse Walker wrote a book about conspiracy theories, showing that while conspiracy theories (or "misinformation") often tell us little about what's really happening in the world and why, they can tell us a lot about the people who pass them around.

When the Democrats were trying to remove Trump from office because of a conspiracy theory surrounding his supposed collaboration with the Russians, the story had little or nothing to do with what actually happened between Trump and the Russians in the real world. That conspiracy told us a lot, however, about the state of mind of the Democrats and their unwillingness to accept Trump's legitimate victory and support among average Americans in the Midwest. The progressives, in particular, weren't willing to accept what average Americans in the Midwest thought about them at all.

During the Obama presidency, plenty of Americans passed around a theory that Barack Obama wasn't really an American citizen--and was, therefore, ineligible to hold the office of president. Whether he was really born in Hawaii or somewhere else wasn't anywhere near as interesting as the fact that people came to question the loyalty of the American president to the United States. Obama's behavior (from the Paris Accords, to Wall Street, to his deal with the Iranians, etc., etc.), seemed to favor foreign interests and others at the expense of the United States and the American people. Trump had a field day after that with "America first".

I couldn't help but see the same kind of thing happening with Trudeau in Canada while I was reading this today:

"Misinformation has been a key weapon wielded by Canada’s protest movement, and critics of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have returned to one simmering falsehood: that Mr. Trudeau is the love child of the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro."

----The New York Times, February 12, 2022
,
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/12/world/canada-protest-trudeau#justin-trudeau-fidel-castro

LOL

Trudeau's mother was a highly publicized party animal, and Castro was a big hero to the leftists of her generation. She may have met with Castro on numerous occasions. Ultimately, however, the interesting story isn't about whether Justin Trudeau is actually Castro's love child. The interesting story is that an increasing number of Canadians are starting to believe that Trudeau is being driven by the concerns of the far left--to the determent of Canada--and he's willing to use Castro-like, authoritarian means to inflict his radical leftist agenda on average Canadians.

Forcibly moving the truckers will play into that, and as the conspiracy theory to cover up Justin Trudeau's true parentage grows, it will probably track his willingness to use the coercive power of the state to inflict himself on the unwilling--as well as the unwillingness of the Canadian people to be subjected to his rule. It's easy to see this happening from an American perspective because none of it is biased by Trump Derangement Syndrome. The Canadians who read the news in the U.S. for a perspective free of Canadians biases are smart. More of us Americans show do the same to get more of an objective perspective. Neither "misinformation" nor conspiracy theories and neither populism nor progressivism are unique to the United States.

[Ken Shultz]

https://flashbak.com/studio-54-trudeau-4/

The guy in the background, standing next to the dude dressed up like a matador, could be Hugo Chavez. Who knows what happened later that night? They say anyone who can remember what happened at Studio 54, wasn't really there.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

You Birther nutjobs never give up.

[Mother's Lament]

Ken's obviously being sarcastic, but you couldn't get that. You proved you can't into parody or sarcasm when you tried to copy OBL with your Ackbar sock.

Probably because lefties can't meme.

[Ken Shultz]

He thought I was being serious about Hugo Chavez banging Margaret Trudeau at Studio 54 in 1979?!

LOL

Oh my God, he's so stupid.

[Fats of Fury]

He's like a Muslim triggered by a Mohammed drawing. You aren't allowed to mention B***** O****'s BC even in the context of discussing other's belief in it. Blasphemer!

[Overt]

This is why I just advise people to post the general "Hey this guy posted child porn" and leave it at that. There is no reason to engage with him. Nothing he says ever convinces anyone, doubly so when the replies factually state that he was banned for posting child porn to this site.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Steele dossier

[Sevo]

turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a trafficker in kiddie porn a TDS-addled asshole, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
Turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Nardz]

Reason Magazine
Coastal bitches

https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1492639155658100745?t=2j_DAhqmvCS8KfVB1WZyew&s=19

I’m visiting Ohio from LA and I’m getting whiplash by how cheap everything is in comparison. I just bought 3 eclairs and a tea for $5. Like, what? Why aren’t we all living in Ohio?

[JesseAz]

Binion is a special dumbass.

Reason needs to hire writers not in the most bluest of enclaves. They aren't real libertarians. They are blue dog democrats.

[mad.casual]

Special doesn't begin to describe it. I have yet, in my life, to set foot in LA and I'm pretty sure that I've known since I was like 6 that prices were different there. How do you get to be an adult, let alone a political writer, and never see even one regional cost of living, income, home price, gas price, etc., etc., etc. map? I'm not even sure how such a brain functions. I mean, do you see footage of trailer parks on the news and just think "Middle class people in the Midwest must like living in trailers."?

[R Mac]

Ok, I live in Michigan, and if I could get 3 eclairs and a tea (I’d have coffee) for $5, I’d be suspect of the quality of the eclairs.

[Minadin]

Yeah, they were probably long johns and not proper eclairs. That's how we roll in the midwest.

Also, $5 seems low, should have been at least $6.

[R Mac]

Cream or custard, eh?

[Fats of Fury]

Binion changed his Cali dollars into Ohio currency before he left.

[Fats of Fury]

Yes but can you buy a cherry pie Billy Boy?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Bake that pie!

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1492870300073185281?t=fosr1U9fYZrqbjC4BJ5ZnQ&s=19

BREAKING: Lugansk statement: “Units of the 79th assault airborne brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces are getting prepared for the deployment as a tactical assault force into the Lugansk People’s republic”

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

U.S. Rig Count See Massive Climb On Higher Oil Prices
By Julianne Geiger - Feb 11, 2022, 12:08 PM CST

(Oilprice.com)

Rig count will soon triple over Trump era lows.

[OpenBordersLiberal-tarian]

See, this is why you provide such a valuable service. If not for you, I might actually be tempted to believe anti-Biden disinformation by wingnut.com operations like "CNN." Take this recent pile of nonsense: CNN Poll: Most Biden detractors say he's done nothing they like since becoming president

"The President's ratings have fallen across the board, the survey found. Just 41% approved of the way he's handling his job while 58% disapproved, a significant drop from his approval numbers in CNN polling last year ... Overall, Americans said, 57% to 41%, that the first year of the Biden administration has been more of a failure than a success ... Over the past two months, the twin challenges of widespread inflation and a deluge of coronavirus cases due to the Omicron variant appear to have hit Biden's ratings hard: His approval rating for handling the economy has dipped 8 points to 37% since early December, while his ratings for handling coronavirus have dropped 9 points to 45%."

But I know none of that is accurate. Because you're here literally every day doing your aggressive #DefendBidenAtAllCosts routine. You've instructed us to concentrate on the really important metrics like rig count. And the Warren Buffett Net Worth Index. Biden is doing a fantastic job by these standards, so all the mediocre polls must be Russian lies.

#LibertariansForBiden

[Mother's Lament]

"Drilling uptick because of catchup from Covid total shutdown is somehow magically indicative of an economic uptick" - t. Buttplug

See, this is how we all know you're a fifty-center, Shrike.

[Sevo]

turd lies. Period.

[Sevo]

turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a pathological liar, a TDS-addled asshole and a trafficker in kiddie porn, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
Turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Fats of Fury]

“Despite High Prices in Oil there's an Increase in Oil Rigs.” Fox Butterworth Fallacy.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1492860672627122176?t=hj0Jg9rBcZyYs0yNnXcF3w&s=19

The Special Counsel investigating wrongdoing that led to Russiagate, John Durham, filed a document accusing the Clinton campaign of paying tech operatives to spy on Trump campaign, then Admin, servers. See if you can find liberal outlets covering this.

Durham's filing is here. The accusations shouldn't be taken as truth yet. He says he will prove them at trial. But the way liberal outlets completely ignore this shows the bubble in which liberals live: they just have no idea about any of this:

This is part of the criminal case against Hillary's lawyer, Michael Sussman. He fed FBI, then CIA, the fabricated Alfa Bank story, and is accused of lying when telling FBI he wasn't representing any client. Question is whether this is leading to a broader conspiracy case.

The NYT/CNN/NBC axis flooded the zone every time Robert Mueller scratched his nose. They spent hours and hours deciphering his every sneeze. Actual criminal indictments from Durham of Hillary's lawyer or FBI operatives -- crimes that created Russiagate -- barely merit an article.

The two journalists who primarily promoted the Alfa Bank/Trump fraud -- @NatashaBertrand and @FranklinFoer -- were promoted. Both were hired by supreme Iraq War liar @JeffreyGoldberg, now editor of @TheAtlantic.

**This** -- not FB, Rogan, QAnon -- is the hive of disinformation.

Watch current Oscar nominee @DavidSirota talk to @KrystalBall and @esaagar about how the most frequent and destructive sources of disinformation are the largest media corporations that pretend to fight it:

Among the reason the media might want to cover the developments in John Durham's criminal probe of the fraudulent Alfa Bank story and the crimes committed to spread it: the Clinton 2016 official at the heart of it is now Biden's National Security Advisor in charge of Ukraine.

[Links]

[Mother's Lament]

**This** -- not FB, Rogan, QAnon -- is the hive of disinformation.

Yes, but don't forget Buttplug and his stories about Biden's positive impact on drilling, or how inflation doesn't exist, Mr. Greenwald. The clown is a hive of disinformation all by his lonesome.

[Minadin]

It's weird how we need more drilling rigs with pipelines cancelled. Uncanny.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1492840742338895874?t=2AvTqZtsDhclWzyww3-rag&s=19

This is deadass a real thing CNN published.
[Link]

[Mother's Lament]

"Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is a Jan. 6 moment"

And Buttplug is arguing above that J6 was the same thing as 9/11, so I guess Rogan referencing the title of a black comedian's skit makes him Osama bin Laden.

Fucking clownshows.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Sportsball betting. Sex workers. Oh, and legal weed.

The core libertarian values of Reason.

[Don't look at me!]

Nothing says freedom like betting on which millionaires will win the kid’s game.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

You forgot food trucks.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/sourpatchlyds/status/1492820217696817153?t=mzgQPJvrTAzQnophRBPPvA&s=19

In the last 24 hours, Norway lifted mandates, the head of Moderna completed dumping stock and deleted his Twitter account, and news broke of Pfizer pulling its vaccine application in India because a regulator wanted a local trial. ????

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Cultist de-programmed!

Keith Scott says January 6, 2021, was "the greatest day" of his life.

The 49-year-old had arrived in Washington, DC, as a member of the "Stop the Steal" movement, which believes former President Donald Trump's lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and marched to the US Capitol with them.
"I felt like a patriot that was standing beside our Founding Fathers speaking up against King George," Scott told CNN in an interview on the one-year anniversary of the insurrection.
A year on, Scott is blunt about the movement he was a part of, calling it a cult. His story is complicated -- he still believes much of the "Stop the Steal" propaganda, for example -- but his journey is illustrative of how Americans like him, who said he had never attended a Donald Trump rally, get caught up in a movement based on misinformation and how it takes over their lives.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/stop-the-steal-cult-january-6/index.html

[Mother's Lament]

Yeah, Stalin had people sign confessions too.
Congratulations fascist.

[JesseAz]

Judge Berman Jackson actually said in a ruling last week that the j6 protests weren't valid protests. Was amazing seeing a judge decide what is and isn't valid.

[Mother's Lament]

We'll need another Judges Trial as part of the new Nuremberg proceedings.

Crooked judges who assfuck the Constitution for bribes need to go to jail.

[Utkonos]

Judgment At Nuremberg put Klink in the klink so why not?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

You're like awesomely focused on Jan 6. It really was your 9/11, except worse. Much worse.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

It was on j6 2 people that hate progressives got killed by the stazi, while on 911 only 3k NY and a bunch of pentagon military polititions died, I would say not much of a loss

[Sevo]

turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a pathological liar, a TDS-addled asshole and a trafficker in kiddie porn, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
Turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1492874434725744643?t=eWUPE7Fjb2DbVretHQariA&s=19

Biden's National Security Advisor was involved in a illegal spying operation on the previous President

He is now escalating tensions with a nuclear power in Eurasia bc Biden's poll numbers are down

[Mother's Lament]

But remember, Trump droning an Iranian terrorist was WW3.

I know that the Democrats always accuse others first of things that they're planning on doing themselves, but I really hoped that was an exception to the rule.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1492965795869212684?t=D4G-OUpgL5hPIXaFQz1riA&s=19

BREAKING: In their call today President Zelensky invited Biden to visit Ukraine this week if he wants to stabilize the situation

[Mother's Lament]

I don't think Biden will be interested unless Burisma can cough up a few million more.

[Utkonos]

Zelensky should be pudding in an incentive for Biden to visit. Here’s one
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ukrainian-grain-pudding-236736

[CE]

He probably meant to type in 95,000.00, but the phone did an auto-correct to 9,500,000. I hate when that happens.

[CE]

But he still had to drive two hours to do it in a legal state.

Wait -- he CROSSED STATE LINES? Is that even legal?

[ShnorklingtonSchnoozenheimer]

Are these phone-based sports gambling promos sponsor paid content at Reason?

[Mother's Lament]

Since every other legacy media outlet has become incredibly corrupt, why shouldn't the Reasonistas enjoy a few brown envelopes?

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/Jusrangers/status/1492220598763896835?t=h7EL1qv6Pci0DXSzaI--gg&s=19

Governor Hochul is “not ready” for toddlers to unmask for early intervention services.

But she was ready to shed her own mask last night to party with Broadway stars.

We’re way past indifference.

This is downright cruelty.

[Don't look at me!]

Vote everyone out.

[Mother's Lament]

They're electorally fortifying against that possibility.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Then tar and feathers.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Based on the One Way Valveification theory of masking, the guy behind the mic is protecting her, but she's trying to kill him.

Because remember, his mask protects her, but his mask doesn't protect him.

[Longtobefree]

Masks protect only the profits of the manufacturer.

[Longtobefree]

CDC on masks and the real flu:
Unvaccinated Asymptomatic Persons, Including Those at High Risk for Influenza Complications
No recommendation can be made at this time for mask use in the community by asymptomatic persons, including those at high risk for complications, to prevent exposure to influenza viruses

[Don't look at me!]

Covid is not the flu!
It’s magical!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Thus only belief in magical leaders can save us.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Where's some left-leaning commenter to tell us that faith in magical leadership on the left is totes different (and much more sciencey) than faith on the right?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Treating Covid-19 Psychosis.

[Mike Laursen]

And then there are those who need treatment for anti-vaccine obsession and paranoia.

[R Mac]

Cite?

[Mother's Lament]

And then there are those who need to go to jail for taking bribes from Pfizer, insider trading on Pfizer stock, politically censoring the world's premier medical journal because it condemned Pfizer's vaccine development process, libeling Fauci's old boss who has his name on the mRNA vaccine patents because he warned about dangers, etc.

[JesseAz]

Lol. Says the coward whose parents taught him he was immune to all risks.

You are amazingly ignorant. And risk intolerant. And freedom intolerant poor sea lion.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Right, because if you're double vaxxed but have (correctly) pointed out that the policies this country put in place were not only entirely unscientific, and entirely ineffective and are now being proven so by a quietly re-shuffling elite, then you're "anti vax".

Oh, and according to the Duplicitous Ken Doll, umm, an anti-semite, a racist, a misogynist and several other words he had to look up in a dictionary before he recorded his message from a secret bunker in another country.

[Mike Laursen]

“entirely”?

[DesigNate]

Yes, entirely. Mendacious much?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Well, off the top of my head, surgical masks don't work, cloth masks are nothing more than 'facial decorations'. The 6ft social distancing rule was completely arbitrary. We're one of the only countries in the world that doesn't recognize natural immunity as 'protected'. The lockdowns didn't make much difference although the data we have makes it difficult to tell. Masking and forcing children into remote learning did far more damage than it mitigated-- if it mitigated any at all.

Those are all the policy decisions. Don't get me started on just the observational science that DROVE the polices that was wrong. The vaccine is 100% effective. Whoops, no it's not (see dropping effectiveness as real-world data case in). "We can vaccinate our way to zero covid". Yeah. Fauci's constantly shifting statements on 'herd immunity' which he later admitted he lied about. The death count and all the accounting fraud that's taken place, the depths of which may never be known. The Lab Leak theory, and so on and so on.

I mean, I can go on, would you like me to?

The only thing that's true is the virus exists, it's particularly deadly to the old and infirm, or people with poorly managed co-morbidities. With the population at large, it's highly survivable (>99%), and its danger is nearly statistically insignificant to young children. Oh, and the vaccine is effective in that we have very good data that shows it mitigates the worst effects of the disease, but natural immunity is better and longer lasting.

[DesigNate]

Oh fuck off.

[Nardz]

High velocity lead vaccination is the best way

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Does this also work for climate paranoia, race and gender oppression paranoia, "fear" of getting a job and fending for yourself, and all the other existential worries of the modern left?

One positive indication: many of these people are so scared they are deciding not to have kids. With any luck, the paranoid genes will diminish in the human pool.

[ElvisIsReal]

How you write a 'mask in schools' post.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/blue-state-officials-dont-even-believe

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1492873618304372740?t=3YdHERwQFiDJWY1GVWcsQw&s=19

It now appears that banks are also acting to cut off donations to the Canadians truckers.
The implications of these actions for free speech and associational rights is immense.
[Links]

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Embrace the cashless society!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, donate to the "wrong" causes too often, and your mail-in ballot might just get lost.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1492937011514290182?t=WWIMLhUYvHHDuNrlMk690A&s=19

From NPR. The Woke Left intends to ignore the Constitution. They must be held accountable.
[Link]

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Now do "The Patriotic Right"

[JesseAz]

Why? Because you have to deflect from the left?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, only one side has said that fat is beautiful and promised infinite free healthcare.

[R Mac]

Someone didn’t click on the link again. Just immediately deflected. Such dishonest trash.

[Mother's Lament]

Lol, you didn't read the link, did you, Jeffy.

[DesigNate]

I appreciate your Twitter links, but fuck them (Twitter) so hard. Every time I click the second I start scrolling it tells me to sign in.

[Fats of Fury]

The Effects of Toxic Nuclear Waste

https://www.flickr.com/photos/66890686@N02/51880717255/in/dateposted-public/

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

You want to know how dumb people are? This is how dumb:

kids in school during the pandemic has been tough. In WA, at least 29,000 can’t be found.

"Disengagement isn't a new problem, but this is a different kind of magnitude," said a state education official. With thousands of kids not enrolled anywhere, some people are trying to find out where they have gone.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I bet sex-trafficked for the super bowl.

[Ken Shultz]

I just heard about Trudeau's comment about the truckers holding "unacceptable views".

That's the dumbest misstep since Hillary Clinton referred to Trump supporters as "deplorables"--except Hillary Clinton didn't subsequently arrest peaceful protesters. So, at least she couldn't be accused of actually arresting people for holding "unacceptable views".

Out Canadian commenters here, help us understand the likelihood of a no-confidence vote and Trudeau surviving it. Trudeau was already leading a minority government. and under these circumstances, isn't it likely that Trudeau's minority partners are likely to benefit in a new election at the Liberals' expense?

Maybe they think being a junior partner in a governing coalition is better than being the senior partner in the opposition coalition? Help us understand. The Canadian PM is arguably arresting people for having "unacceptable views", and there's no confidence vote?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Dude, he went way further than that. He literally called them all racists and misogynists.

[Ken Shultz]

Calling them names is one thing.

Arresting people because of their views is something else entirely.

[Cyto]

That was the point of calling them racist, white supremacists and terrorists who are homophobic and misogynistic. Gotta dehumanize them before you start mass arrests and other illegal actions ,(like stealing millions of dollars in donations, depriving citizens of food and shelter, etc)

[ElvisIsReal]

Yep.

[CE]

Trudeau should be red-faced over comments like that.

[mpercy]

“Today in the House, Members of Parliament unanimously condemned the antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and transphobia that we’ve seen on display in Ottawa over the past number of days. Together, let’s keep working to make Canada more inclusive.”

In a French-language TV interview during last fall’s unnecessary snap election, Trudeau said the following: “They are extremists who don’t believe in science, they’re often misogynists, also often racists. It’s a small group that muscles in, and we have to make a choice in terms of leaders, in terms of the country. Do we tolerate these people?”

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Someone isn't moderating in good faith.

[Mike Laursen]

Someone is posting blind YouTube links.

[Mother's Lament]

"blind YouTube links"

You're really something, White Mike.

[Kevin Smith]

And he lost.

[CE]

Yikes. 9.5M down the drain.

He even had enough cash to offer the ref a cut for not calling the clear facemask penalty against the Bengals' wide receiver on the third-quarter TD, but he still lost.

[Cyto]

That was one of the more difficult to believe missed calls... There are only 2 people anywhere near the actions, and at least 2 officials should have been primarily focused on that play. It isn't like it was subtle.

[Nardz]

Turned out to be a wash w/the phantom defensive hold they called on 3rd down in that last drive

[ElvisIsReal]

LOL exactly!

[CE]

It was actually very subtle, for a facemask. Just enough to turn the DB's eyes off the ball for a few seconds.

[ElvisIsReal]

Refs made up for it with the holding call that gave the Rams a first down instead of fourth.

[Agammamon]

Texas doesn't allow betting or abortions - but because they're happening elsewhere this a reason to stop preventing this?

[Mike Laursen]

There are actual human beings working at the Wuhan Lab. Good article with interviews of scientists at the lab:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/09/1044985/shi-zhengli-covid-lab-leak-wuhan/

“The two viruses may be related, but they sit on different evolutionary branches that diverged half a century ago…”

[Cyto]

All of which might have been useful 2 years ago.

But there was a Chinese team investigating and reporting on this back then. They had very different conclusions. And they were silenced.

And then there was a belated investigation (after the official story was enshrined with zero evidence).

Except the belated investigation was run by the people who stood to benefit most from whitewashing the whole thing. And apparently some key data and samples were also disappeared.

So now, 2 years too late, and after a raft of lies ( even if they accidentally aligned with the truth, they were lying in that they at a minimum did not know the truth).... Now we have a new official story.

Claiming that one strain used at the lab is different from the strain we see circulating is not a debunk of the lab leak hypothesis in any way.

If you don't want people to doubt your story, start by not waiting 2 years and not trying multiple fake stories first.

[Utkonos]

New Zealand authorities get DOWNRIGHT VICIOUS with anti-mandate protesters!! After subjecting them to Barry Manilow’s greatest hits blaring through loudspeakers on a loop, they switched to Baby Shark!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60371895
BASTARDS!!!

[Nardz]

Hack the donor list, dox donors. Classy move by the left.
Leftists must be put down.

https://twitter.com/ItsDeanBlundell/status/1493084406382313476?t=arFGv8Po5K_Sn1VKXvsQVg&s=19

I have the entire #GiveSendGo donor list. Just checking with legal. Nerds rule.

[Mother's Lament]

The "antifa" hackers were probably NSA and CIA.

[mad.casual]

"ATTENTION GIVESENDGO GRIFTERS AND HATRIOTS...

YOU HELPED FUND THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION IN THE US"

Almost too stupid to have been perpetrated by the left. Almost.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1493065567309336576?t=VZelea8eJaLfMXCUBEKvmw&s=19

GiveSendGo was hacked and this is the video they put on the redirected site:
[Link]

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1493056860638773248?t=LoPR63nQs9hGjqCMySluPQ&s=19

BREAKING: GiveSendGo, the crowdfunding website used by the Freedom Convoy, is now redirecting to the domain GiveSendGone[.]wtf.

A video from the Disney film Frozen now appears alongside a manifesto condemning the website and the Freedom Convoy.

An S3 bucket run by GiveSendGo was found to be leaking pics of drivers licenses, military IDs, passports, & other sensitive docs just days ago.

Source tells me that despite an attempted fix, the bucket was exploited again to allow the takeover of the site

GiveSendGo appears to have fixed the issue that redirected visitors to a website set up by hackers.

The hackers' domain at GiveSendGone[.]wtf also appears to be down.

The leaked data appears to include email addresses, IP addresses, zip codes, as well as names (although some users could have used fake names).

[Links]

[Nardz]

The thread, by the way, is full of leftists praising the hack and cheering for canceling the donors.

Remain peaceful at your own risk.

[ElvisIsReal]

This could never happen to us!!!

[RandyGoldy]

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