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Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
« on: June 16, 2025, 10:26:14 AM »
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  • :facepalm: But how many Dems out there actually believe it?  :facepalm:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

    “The podiatrist won’t treat my bunion because I’m not married!” 🦶🏼 

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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #1 on: June 16, 2025, 10:27:44 AM »
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  • :facepalm: But how many Dems out there actually believe it?  :facepalm:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

    “The podiatrist won’t treat my bunion because I’m not married!” 🦶🏼
    "Dems"? 

    The dem/repub thing needs to be eliminated from a Catholic's memory bank. It's all kayfabe. 


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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #2 on: June 16, 2025, 10:29:19 AM »
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  • "Dems"?

    The dem/repub thing needs to be eliminated from a Catholic's memory bank. It's all kayfabe.
    OK.  I finally looked up "kayfabe".

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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #3 on: June 16, 2025, 10:34:36 AM »
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  • "Dems"?

    The dem/repub thing needs to be eliminated from a Catholic's memory bank. It's all kayfabe.
    Suggest an alternative word. I no longer spend my time around people under age 55. 

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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #4 on: June 16, 2025, 10:38:13 AM »
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  • Suggest an alternative word. I no longer spend my time around people under age 55.
    I wasn't aware Kayfabe was a newer word. Even I can't keep up with the new words. :laugh1:

    Like: Circus or fake. Think WWE wrestling (which is fake, has a dramatic scene/story/entertainment)


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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #5 on: June 16, 2025, 10:45:08 AM »
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  • I wasn't aware Kayfabe was a newer word. Even I can't keep up with the new words. :laugh1:

    Like: Circus or fake. Think WWE wrestling (which is fake, has a dramatic scene/story/entertainment)
    Thanks. I wasn’t aware of the connection to wrestling, although I did know the Incredible Hulk or was it Hulk Hogan wasn’t real!

    I’m looking for a word to replace Dems/Repubs.

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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #6 on: June 16, 2025, 11:03:52 AM »
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  • Thanks. I wasn’t aware of the connection to wrestling, although I did know the Incredible Hulk or was it Hulk Hogan wasn’t real!

    I’m looking for a word to replace Dems/Repubs.
    Political Circus may be a good one. 

    Like, pro sports would be our modern "bread and circuses", but you may know that one, already.

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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #7 on: June 16, 2025, 11:24:06 AM »
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  • Hey, you’re right. I thought FOX was on Trump’s side!  
    https://www.fox5dc.com/news/more-than-30-people-taken-hospital-following-dc-military-parade

    Be a critical thinker. How many people were in D.C. during the parade?
    I wouldn’t think it at all unusual for 30 people to visit a hospital during a typical daytime period in such a populated area. Nowhere does the article link parade attendance to needing the services of a hospital. In fact, that figure seems kind of low to me.
    Notably, the article does state that there were zero arrests at the parade. 
    No mention is made of violence, rioting, vandalism, petty thievery, etc. 
    That means nothing, really. 

    I noticed in the local news that the nearest No Kings demonstration to me drew about 250 participants and that there were 14 arrests on charges for attempted arson, vandalism, public urination, indecent exposure, corrupting the morals of a minor, assault and battery, and shoplifting. One person was brought to a hospital, the victim of the assault. One pervert managed to rack up three of the charges, the urination, indecent exposure, and corruption of a minor. 


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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #8 on: June 16, 2025, 05:24:20 PM »
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  • Political Circus may be a good one.

    Like, pro sports would be our modern "bread and circuses", but you may know that one, already.
    "bread and circuses"  is a statement I just heard for the first time this week end.  Weird to see it on CI as well.
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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #9 on: June 16, 2025, 05:31:21 PM »
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  • "bread and circuses"  is a statement I just heard for the first time this week end.  Weird to see it on CI as well.
    You didn’t take ancient history?  Bread and circuses contributed to the downfall of Rome. 

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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #10 on: June 16, 2025, 05:49:21 PM »
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  • You didn’t take ancient history?  Bread and circuses contributed to the downfall of Rome.
    Nope my public school education was very poor.  And I am also not very good at all at book learning.  The discussion method is the best way I learn.  I guess I am supposed to learn it now.  :laugh1:
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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #11 on: June 16, 2025, 06:11:41 PM »
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  • :facepalm: But how many Dems out there actually believe it?  :facepalm:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

    “The podiatrist won’t treat my bunion because I’m not married!” 🦶🏼
    You have the Guardian in the USA? While I do read that garbage for the sake of "densification of bias", it's all hogwash really. Nothing really substantial with them. There is a joke in Britain that we call them the "Grauniad" because of their frequent typographical errors back in days of braodsheet papers.
    Some People call me a Radical Traditionalist but others call me Shizo.....Oh well :trollface:

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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #12 on: June 16, 2025, 06:40:19 PM »
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  • Nope my public school education was very poor.  And I am also not very good at all at book learning.  The discussion method is the best way I learn.  I guess I am supposed to learn it now.  :laugh1:
    Some of my public school teachers were good, a few excellent, a few abysmal, most just okay. Nearly all were very liberal, but they were old style liberals. You could actually disagree with them and live instead of getting cancelled, flunked, or CPS sent to take you away. You were fine so long as you could make a logical point and back up your argument.  
    It wasn't until my college years that I encountered modernist liberals. In the last ten years, taking a few post grad courses for my work, that’s all I encountered. My last professor looked like a combination of Hillary Clinton, Kamala hαɾɾιs, Nancy Peℓσѕι, and Cathy Hochul. She had that same hair style, too much foundation, a turkey neck, drawn on eyebrows and dense as a brick wall, obnoxious personality. 
    A lot of what I learned was from reading, not just sitting in class or sticking to the textbooks. Well stocked libraries and used book stores are temptations to me. It is sometimes necessary to extract me by force. Once, when I first discovered tradition, I accidentally got locked inside the bookstore of St. Agnes Church in Manhattan where they had a Latin Mass. I never went to it, but went inside out of curiosity and discovered a big bookcase of used books, old missals, prayer books, etc. Next thing I knew, the lights went out! Fortunately, I called out and got the attention of the custodian who unlocked the side door to let me out.
    There’s a lot of good reading online, but there’s still nothing like a real book! Paper and pen/pencils are something special, too!

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    Re: Ridiculous Clickbait Headline
    « Reply #13 on: June 16, 2025, 06:52:54 PM »
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  • You have the Guardian in the USA? While I do read that garbage for the sake of "densification of bias", it's all hogwash really. Nothing really substantial with them. There is a joke in Britain that we call them the "Grauniad" because of their frequent typographical errors back in days of braodsheet papers.
    Yes, we have them. I don’t “order” them; they just pop up on Google News with a lot of other trashy news sites. They’re always begging for donations to continue bringing you the latest Trumped up outrage. Since they’re free, I’ll read it for a laugh. 
    I’ll keep an eye out for typos! Some auto spell and AI renderings are hilarious! Too bad many people don’t get to enjoy them because they don’t know they are errors! :(