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May 11, 2020 8:49:30 GMT -4
Post by SteveUL on May 11, 2020 8:49:30 GMT -4
It States clearly .............Non Hockey Related . New to the site, and thanks for pointing out the obvious. I guess I'm just a bit disappointed to see that a QMJHL based discussion forum would be 90 percent Trump discussion.
With a league draft just weeks away, I would have expected to see 90 percent hockey discussion.
There are so many solid posters here such as Jack Bauer, Raimu and a few others.
Then there are the element where you look at their most recent 100 posts, and there might be five posts relavent to the game of hockey.
Not mentioning any names. No need to tell me that if I don't like this forum to head elsewhere. For the true hockey people here, please realize that there are a lot of us out here who enjoy your input. It is easy enough avoid this page ... I do it all the time. But this page is clearly marked as being "Trump" stuff, so if you come in here looking for hockey talk then you are an idiot. I am not a contributor on this page and rarely come here, but sometimes I just pop in to see what is going on. I see the same bunch of morons giving their very far left take on Trump and believing everything written by the Trump-hating media. But that's what interests them and so I stay away. I'm not a Trump supporter, I am Canadian. I see Trump as a dangerous idiot but I don't get to vote him in or vote him out. Nothing I can do about Trump so I stay away from here as the views of most on here are too far left for my liking, I'm more in the middle, and they gang up on you when you post anything opposing their views.
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May 11, 2020 9:01:29 GMT -4
Post by Jack Bauer on May 11, 2020 9:01:29 GMT -4
I see Trump as a dangerous idiot Takes a special kind of moron to come into a thread full of morons, say they listen to media who hates Trump, yet himself somehow come to the conclusion that Trump is a dangerous idiot meaning he agrees with the take of the morons.
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May 11, 2020 9:18:02 GMT -4
Post by Deleted on May 11, 2020 9:18:02 GMT -4
New to the site, and thanks for pointing out the obvious. I guess I'm just a bit disappointed to see that a QMJHL based discussion forum would be 90 percent Trump discussion.
With a league draft just weeks away, I would have expected to see 90 percent hockey discussion.
There are so many solid posters here such as Jack Bauer, Raimu and a few others.
Then there are the element where you look at their most recent 100 posts, and there might be five posts relavent to the game of hockey.
Not mentioning any names. No need to tell me that if I don't like this forum to head elsewhere. For the true hockey people here, please realize that there are a lot of us out here who enjoy your input. Since you're "not mentioning names" after naming names i'll let you know that some of us would love something to talk about. But this is the first time since 1918 we have no sports. No hockey, baseball, basketball, or football. QMJHL hockey, the #1 reason we all come here, might not play a game for another 18 months. We simply have no sports to talk about. "What ifs" are basically a waste of time as we dont know what teams are doing what as we dont know when the next season will be. And keep in mind the with the draft coming, perhaps no season ahead, and 99% of us dont watch any hockey below the Q so things like off topic discussion are where posts are going to happen. There's literally no relevant hockey information to post about. So while you dont name names, after naming names.....try keeping in mind what exactly you're asking for. Discussion on a sport with no activity and perhaps no upcoming season. It appears that I've gotten off to a bad start. I certainly had no intention of adding to the Trump discussion and I'm quickly finding out how things work here. I think I might have come along at the wrong time and stumbled upon a post that hit me the wrong way. It was a link to a story of two rednecks in a half ton truck shooting an unarmed black man. With no words other than the link provided by the poster, it seemed to imply that the shooting was Donald Trump's fault and we were all supposed to connect the invisible dots between the two. It hit me as a bit disappointing that such a fantastic hockey site had sunk to that level of posting. It was then pointed out to me that I shouldn't tell people what to discuss, and that there hasn't been much in the way of hockey to talk about. I was wrong and I apologized. In naming names, I mentioned two people who I have a great deal of respect for. I meant by not naming names that I would not do so in a negative way. Thank you for your response Jack. I count it privilege to be chided by the best poster on the board, and I mean that with the highest respect. Thank you for your guidance. I'll stick to hockey from now on. It's a great forum and very happy to be here.
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Trump
May 11, 2020 9:28:23 GMT -4
Post by Jack Bauer on May 11, 2020 9:28:23 GMT -4
Since you're "not mentioning names" after naming names i'll let you know that some of us would love something to talk about. But this is the first time since 1918 we have no sports. No hockey, baseball, basketball, or football. QMJHL hockey, the #1 reason we all come here, might not play a game for another 18 months. We simply have no sports to talk about. "What ifs" are basically a waste of time as we dont know what teams are doing what as we dont know when the next season will be. And keep in mind the with the draft coming, perhaps no season ahead, and 99% of us dont watch any hockey below the Q so things like off topic discussion are where posts are going to happen. There's literally no relevant hockey information to post about. So while you dont name names, after naming names.....try keeping in mind what exactly you're asking for. Discussion on a sport with no activity and perhaps no upcoming season. It appears that I've gotten off to a bad start. I certainly had no intention of adding to the Trump discussion and I'm quickly finding out how things work here. I think I might have come along at the wrong time and stumbled upon a post that hit me the wrong way. It was a link to a story of two rednecks in a half ton truck shooting an unarmed black man. With no words other than the link provided by the poster, it seemed to imply that the shooting was Donald Trump's fault and we were all supposed to connect the invisible dots between the two. It hit me as a bit disappointing that such a fantastic hockey site had sunk to that level of posting. It was then pointed out to me that I shouldn't tell people what to discuss, and that there hasn't been much in the way of hockey to talk about. I was wrong and I apologized. In naming names, I mentioned two people who I have a great deal of respect for. I meant by not naming names that I would not do so in a negative way. Thank you for your response Jack. I count it privilege to be chided by the best poster on the board, and I mean that with the highest respect. Thank you for your guidance. I'll stick to hockey from now on. It's a great forum and very happy to be here. Thank you for the kind words. But don't stick to anywhere specific here. You throw in your 2 cents where YOU want to. That's the idea here. If people disagree....they will respond to you. But yeah you picked the worst time in the history of internet messageboards to come on one and ask where all the content is. There's so much up in the air and so much unknown that it's hard to just talk hockey. The next time some of us see our teams it might be with no players in the lineup that we've seen play for our teams before. It's hard to talk about what it to come when there's a good chance there will be no 20-21 season. And a chance some of our teams actually may never play again.
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Trump
May 11, 2020 10:45:33 GMT -4
Post by SteveUL on May 11, 2020 10:45:33 GMT -4
I see Trump as a dangerous idiot Takes a special kind of moron to come into a thread full of morons, say they listen to media who hates Trump, yet himself somehow come to the conclusion that Trump is a dangerous idiot meaning he agrees with the take of the morons. My last word on this ... I can see Trump is dangerous because most of his decisions are based on making his family money (and him), and getting re-elected. But that doesn't excuse all the garbage that all of the media reports with their own skewed take on what gets said. You guys take that media crap at face value ... I don't. I like to think for myself.
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Trump
May 11, 2020 11:03:46 GMT -4
Post by Jack Bauer on May 11, 2020 11:03:46 GMT -4
Takes a special kind of moron to come into a thread full of morons, say they listen to media who hates Trump, yet himself somehow come to the conclusion that Trump is a dangerous idiot meaning he agrees with the take of the morons. My last word on this ... I can see Trump is dangerous because most of his decisions are based on making his family money (and him), and getting re-elected. But that doesn't excuse all the garbage that all of the media reports with their own skewed take on what gets said. You guys take that media crap at face value ... I don't. I like to think for myself. I don't take it all at face value, either. I can also think for myself. I've had no issues speaking up in his defense if I think people are being a bit ridiculous. Like with the mask factory stuff last week. But it's few and far between because he's simply just not a very nice person. But we're all not seeking out opinions to give our opinions validity like others are. I follow a few select social media sources for news and during the Trump/Clinton election I removed almost all American media from being followed by me as even I got sick of the 1 sided crap. Even now the media paints Joe Biden as having a 9 point lead. As if national polling numbers mean anything within the electorate college. But the left wing needs that momentum to make others think they're pulling for a 2nd place horse so they will switch teams by November. Reality is that only the numbers in very certain red states are all that matters. But for 6 months we're going to see national polls trying to influence an election.
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Trump
May 11, 2020 12:42:08 GMT -4
Post by SteveUL on May 11, 2020 12:42:08 GMT -4
My last word on this ... I can see Trump is dangerous because most of his decisions are based on making his family money (and him), and getting re-elected. But that doesn't excuse all the garbage that all of the media reports with their own skewed take on what gets said. You guys take that media crap at face value ... I don't. I like to think for myself. I don't take it all at face value, either. I can also think for myself. I've had no issues speaking up in his defense if I think people are being a bit ridiculous. Like with the mask factory stuff last week. But it's few and far between because he's simply just not a very nice person. But we're all not seeking out opinions to give our opinions validity like others are. I follow a few select social media sources for news and during the Trump/Clinton election I removed almost all American media from being followed by me as even I got sick of the 1 sided crap. Even now the media paints Joe Biden as having a 9 point lead. As if national polling numbers mean anything within the electorate college. But the left wing needs that momentum to make others think they're pulling for a 2nd place horse so they will switch teams by November. Reality is that only the numbers in very certain red states are all that matters. But for 6 months we're going to see national polls trying to influence an election. And on any given day you can find polling numbers that show that both guys are ahead (ignoring electoral college of course), and one media source will report from one polling source while the other takes the other polling source ... whatever fits their agenda. The media went off the rails about 5 years ago when Trump threw his hat in the ring. Anything coming from ANY US media source is suspect for me when it reports on something Trump did or said. Anybody relying on those sources and passing them off as fact are just guessing ... but it fits their agenda so they run with it. Even our CTV has gone off the rails when it comes to Trump. A guy like Captain Obvious has become so obsessed with Trump that he can't help himself. I had to block him from my Facebook years ago (probably four years now) because he would constantly post Trump articles, and he is still here daily because he can't help himself. I'm out ... I feel dirty being on this page.
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Trump
May 12, 2020 7:32:27 GMT -4
Post by Captain Obvious on May 12, 2020 7:32:27 GMT -4
Takes a special kind of moron to come into a thread full of morons, say they listen to media who hates Trump, yet himself somehow come to the conclusion that Trump is a dangerous idiot meaning he agrees with the take of the morons. My last word on this ... I can see Trump is dangerous because most of his decisions are based on making his family money (and him), and getting re-elected. But that doesn't excuse all the garbage that all of the media reports with their own skewed take on what gets said. You guys take that media crap at face value ... I don't. I like to think for myself. I don't think you need the media to see Trump is a wing nut, you just have to listen to him, check out his actions and retweeting of fringe groups. The media that is skewing reality is Faux news who conveniently look away when he is having a meltdown and pull out one of their Hillary Clinton headlines.
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Trump
May 17, 2020 14:54:17 GMT -4
Post by lirette on May 17, 2020 14:54:17 GMT -4
Don't worry guys, we'll be able to resume the CHL season on November 4th when corunavirus hoax magically disappears.
The democrats power is unmatched getting countries like Madagascar and Zimbabwe to participate in this elaborate scheme to wreck the global economy all to prevent trump rallies. Looks like folks can begin planning trips down south for early 2021.
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Trump
May 22, 2020 17:44:11 GMT -4
Post by Citris on May 22, 2020 17:44:11 GMT -4
New to the site, and thanks for pointing out the obvious. I guess I'm just a bit disappointed to see that a QMJHL based discussion forum would be 90 percent Trump discussion.
With a league draft just weeks away, I would have expected to see 90 percent hockey discussion.
There are so many solid posters here such as Jack Bauer, Raimu and a few others.
Then there are the element where you look at their most recent 100 posts, and there might be five posts relavent to the game of hockey.
Not mentioning any names. No need to tell me that if I don't like this forum to head elsewhere. For the true hockey people here, please realize that there are a lot of us out here who enjoy your input. I try not to post politics here too often, but there's a reason this board exists. The only time it bothers me is when it's allowed to bleed into the main boards, as we had a problem with recently. I might the furthest left person politically on this board, But I TRY not to let that slip that often. But I get why this is such an emotional thing for people because politics comes down to some really base level assumptions you make about the world, and it's really easy to see other people as actually evil if you disagree with them on some of these base level assumptions. We can all acknowledge problems exist, but the disagreements on the source of those problems are where the emotional fights start. Honestly if you're ever bored, one of the best, well-researched and most informative resources and easily digestible on what the differences between the left and right side of the political spectrum is the Alt-Right Playbook by Ian Danskin/ innuendo studios.
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Trump
Jun 1, 2020 22:29:26 GMT -4
Post by lirette on Jun 1, 2020 22:29:26 GMT -4
President Trump: "I'm an ally for all peaceful protestors"
Moments later....
Police use tear gas and shield strikes on peaceful protestors and journalists across from the Whitehouse so he can walk over to a church and hold a bible and pretend to be Christian in one of the most awkward looking photo ops I've ever seen.
With no end in sight lets examine a Donald Trump take on Tiananmen Square.
"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak." -Donald Trump, Playboy Magazine, 1990
Leader of the free world indeed.
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Trump
Jun 2, 2020 7:46:50 GMT -4
Post by Captain Obvious on Jun 2, 2020 7:46:50 GMT -4
President Trump: "I'm an ally for all peaceful protestors" Moments later.... Police use tear gas and shield strikes on peaceful protestors and journalists across from the Whitehouse so he can walk over to a church and hold a bible and pretend to be Christian in one of the most awkward looking photo ops I've ever seen. With no end in sight lets examine a Donald Trump take on Tiananmen Square. "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak." -Donald Trump, Playboy Magazine, 1990 Leader of the free world indeed. A real leader would have addressed Americans, acknowledged police murders and brutality and promised to make changes. Gradually this would have diffused the situation. The big problem is, it would have required empathy on his side, which he would have needed to fake. Instead he lights the powder keg by talking tough from his underground bunker and then teargassing quiet protesters for a cheap photo op at a church he never goes. It's great for throwing red meat to his racist base, but doesn't nothing to get him re-elected.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Jun 2, 2020 9:02:52 GMT -4
President Trump: "I'm an ally for all peaceful protestors" Moments later.... Police use tear gas and shield strikes on peaceful protestors and journalists across from the Whitehouse so he can walk over to a church and hold a bible and pretend to be Christian in one of the most awkward looking photo ops I've ever seen. With no end in sight lets examine a Donald Trump take on Tiananmen Square. "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak." -Donald Trump, Playboy Magazine, 1990 Leader of the free world indeed. A real leader would have addressed Americans, acknowledged police murders and brutality and promised to make changes. Gradually this would have diffused the situation. The big problem is, it would have required empathy on his side, which he would have needed to fake. Instead he lights the powder keg by talking tough from his underground bunker and then teargassing quiet protesters for a cheap photo op at a church he never goes. It's great for throwing red meat to his racist base, but doesn't nothing to get him re-elected.
I disagree. His base loves this. All he has to do is not lose much of his base. He doesn't have to earn any more votes to get re-elected. He could poll 20 points below Biden nationally. Means nothing due to the Electoral College. The only opinions that really matter are in places like Ohio and Florida. 100% of NY and California could be against Trump and it would have nothing to do with his re-election.
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Jun 2, 2020 9:17:15 GMT -4
Post by Captain Obvious on Jun 2, 2020 9:17:15 GMT -4
A real leader would have addressed Americans, acknowledged police murders and brutality and promised to make changes. Gradually this would have diffused the situation. The big problem is, it would have required empathy on his side, which he would have needed to fake. Instead he lights the powder keg by talking tough from his underground bunker and then teargassing quiet protesters for a cheap photo op at a church he never goes. It's great for throwing red meat to his racist base, but doesn't nothing to get him re-elected.
I disagree. His base loves this. All he has to do is not lose much of his base. He doesn't have to earn any more votes to get re-elected. He could poll 20 points below Biden nationally. Means nothing due to the Electoral College. The only opinions that really matter are in places like Ohio and Florida. 100% of NY and California could be against Trump and it would have nothing to do with his re-election. His base is nowhere close to get him re elected. The 25-30% of voters that are his base need another 20-30% of voters to jump on board. Right now No democrat will vote for him, he is getting his ass kicked with independants(which he won in 2016) and some republicans will either vote for Biden or stay home. In 2016 his base dd not win the election, it's GOP voters that may not like him but did not want a Democrat and Independants thinking he would actually "drain the swamp" that gave him the electoral college by a slim margin. He has been desperately trying to distract from Covid for 2 or 3 months by trying to create crisis on the Democratic side, similar to 2016 but nobody is biting and his polls keep getting worse, I saw one this morning that had him down by 12. Most have him down by 7-10 points. His only "accomplishment" was the economy(stock market and jobs numbers) and both have suffered major blows.
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Jun 2, 2020 9:27:51 GMT -4
Post by Jack Bauer on Jun 2, 2020 9:27:51 GMT -4
I disagree. His base loves this. All he has to do is not lose much of his base. He doesn't have to earn any more votes to get re-elected. He could poll 20 points below Biden nationally. Means nothing due to the Electoral College. The only opinions that really matter are in places like Ohio and Florida. 100% of NY and California could be against Trump and it would have nothing to do with his re-election. His base is nowhere close to get him re elected. The 25-30% of voters that are his base need another 20-30% of voters to jump on board. Right now No democrat will vote for him, he is getting his ass kicked with independants(which he won in 2016) and some republicans will either vote for Biden or stay home. In 2016 his base dd not win the election, it's GOP voters that may not like him but did not want a Democrat and Independants thinking he would actually "drain the swamp" that gave him the electoral college by a slim margin. He has been desperately trying to distract from Covid for 2 or 3 months by trying to create crisis on the Democratic side, similar to 2016 but nobody is biting and his polls keep getting worse, I saw one this morning that had him down by 12. Most have him down by 7-10 points. His only "accomplishment was the economy(stock market and jobs numbers) and both have suffered major blows. Only democrats care about his accomplishments. You still don't seem to get how this works. It's not a popularity contest or battle of who has no morals. It's who navigates the American political system the best. Joe Biden has been basically out of sight and out of mind to millions of Americans these last 3-4 months. Unless he makes huge gains in 3-4 red states he's waiting for Trump's base to turn on him in order to win. Could happen....but to say Trump is doing nothing to get himself re-elected is laughable. His base loved every ounce of that scene last night. Right down to turning the military on American protesters. The fact that Biden is the only thing between Trump and re-election should tell you how absolutely ass backwards the Democrats still are even after multiple years of Trump rule. Similar to Canadian Conservatives putting Scheer up against Trudeau in my opinion. The more people craved an alternative they got what was a younger version of the last guy they grew sour on. Only in this case it's an older and whiter male candidate with a political past ripe for the picking by Trump's strategists. The next 8 months or so are going to be an absolute train wreck down there.
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