Jake Barnett
@barnettjake
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IT Security by day // Contributor to https://t.co/jxGZn8C57q // Hobbies include Bowling, Long Range Target Shooting, Technology, Pro Sports including Combat Sports //
Austin, TX
Joined April 2009
Find me over on Bluesky. I won't be posting here much going forward.
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Amir Hestroni, Israeli internet troll and bigot, takes questions from the public.
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"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Superkick Party?". -CM Punk interviewing people backstage at Collision
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Whenever anyone in the Trump camp is pushed beyond a slogan/soundbyte shit gets real aggressive real quick.
MSNBC REPORTER: I covered the family separation crisis closely. Will we continue to see policies like separating 5,000 children deliberately from their parents?. DON JR: You mean the Obama administration?. R: You know they didn't do that, sir. DON JR: Just get out of here
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Trump ran the worst campaign I've ever seen and it seems as of right now that it didn't matter. There are too many of us willing to concede to fascism if it grants permission to be hateful bigots.
If Trump wins, there will be efforts to blame Russian interference or the Harris campaign or Biden, etc. That's all fair. But we need to be clear eyed that a huge swath of America likes what Trump is selling. Transphobia. Mass deportation. That's what he ran on. And here we are.
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@PBSImpulse9 Rece being confused and oblivious about the actual phrase like he's Ron Burgundy reading the teleprompter was hysterical.
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This picture of WWE Board Member George Barrios is not photoshopped in any way.
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Trump's entire legal strategy:
I'm not a mathematician but I think Trump just claimed that Mar-a-Lago is worth more than a billion dollars 😂
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Every credible study of undocumented workers shows they are taking on low wage, unpleasant, back-breaking jobs that Americans are not willing to do. Trump repeatedly asserting that these jobs are being "taken" from Black Americans is revealing to say the least.
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Poor Newsmax
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Cheeto Benito is in rare form today. This is an incredible deluge of racism, lies, and authoritarian promises to weaponize the government to punish his enemies. It's utterly shameful these speeches are observed nearly uncritically by legacy media.
I'm going to put together a thread covering Trump's campaign event in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Follow along for clips and commentary.
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Trump speeches are now pulled directly from Stormfront.
Trump mixes in some hatred of black migrants to go with the hatred of brown migrants: "These are among the worst criminals anywhere in the world. And they come from all over. A huge number is coming out of jails in the Congo."
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Der Pumpkinführer's final message to sway women voters has all of his typical charm.
Trump on Nancy Pelosi: "She's an evil, sick, crazy. B-- *mouths bitch* It starts with a B but I won't say it. I want to say it."
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It's hilarious to see Trump attempt to distance himself from a plan written by people who initially became notable in the Republican party because of their work on his campaigns or in his first administration.
Trump on Project 2025: "Some on the right -- severe right -- came up with this Project 25. And I don't even know . they're sorta the opposite of the radical left . I don't know what the hell it is . some of the things -- they're seriously extreme."
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The dominant religious dogma among theocrats in the GOP is that the soul enters the body at fertilization. They know how absurd the moral and ethical implications of this madness sound in an age of science and reason, so they are reduced to pathetic platitudes.
REPORTER: Do you believe discarding embryos is murder?. SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I believe in the sanctity of every human life -- I always have -- and because of that I support IVF.
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If you're relying on your opponent to tell you how "brutal" you were in negotiations, you're about 12 chess moved behind.
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Republicans promising and demanding the impossible is an election strategy. Greg Abbott told Texans that he would end all rape rather than place a rape exemptions in the draconian Texas abortion law. Now the coin flips and Johnson places impossible obstacles in front of reform.
Speaker Johnson is on the House floor right now suggesting that no immigration deal will be acceptable to him unless it completely eliminates illegal immigration -- something that will never happen
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Never fails to be accurate
THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE!. Jason Aldean responds PERFECTLY to Commies trying to cancel him. No crying.No apology.No surrender. “I’m a proud American. I love our country, I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bulls**t”. Crowd ROARS with USA chants. What a KING
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I know Fox News is right wing FUD 24/7 but it seems irresponsible even for them to allow the second person in the line of succession to the President intimate there are numerous active terror cells in the United States based completely on vibes.
BARTIROMO: By the way, how many terrorist cells would you estimate are in America right now? . SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know. It'd be conjecture on my part, but intuitively we know* this is a serious problem. *intuitively I know he's full of it
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Current Trump campaign strategy:
FAULKNER: Is JD Vance ready on day one? Trump did not answer that, Caroline. TRUMP CAMPAIGN SPOX: The more the American people get to know JD Vance -- unlike Kamala Harris -- the more they like him
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I will be particularly entertained when Louisiana Republicans have to weigh in on which particular denominations of Christianity will enter the Thunderdome to battle for the mantle of State Religion.
"Louisiana Republicans even gave the right-wing justices the history to use. We’re headed into a future that completely departs from a core tenet of American democracy — that the state cannot impose one specific religion on everyone."
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CM Punk while Jack Perry is still doing "real glass" references on PPV a year later:
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@CeeHawk These weirdos are highly invested in the fantasy of men transitioning in order to hit women in sports, yet seemed perfectly content when a guy who slapped his wife around in public spoke at the RNC a few weeks ago. Strange how violence against women is selectively objectionable.
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@CeeHawk You're going to need to have your head on a swivel if you ever find yourself in the Performance Center parking lot.
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From "We Shall Be Free" in 1992:. "When we're free to love anyone we choose,. When this world's big enough for all different views,. When we all can worship from our own kind of pew,. Then we shall be free.". He thought you were an asshole 30 years ago.
If you live in Tennessee, I recommend you never go to @garthbrooks new bar. They’re going to sell BudLight and apparently he thinks we’re "assholes" if we don’t like it. Make sure all your friends know that. 😉
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Anheuser-Busch stock at a 52 week high
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CNN: Ladies and Gentlemen we're going live from the Economic Club of New York where Donald Trump is set to unveil his second term domestic economic agenda. Trump:
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@charles270 We're all awaiting your magnum opus "At least it's not Syphilis: A Genital Warts Story".
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@NatbyNature @BretHart It was disgusting what happened to you both. I'm glad you didn't allow it to diminish the moment for your family.
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@TerryMatalas I'm glad we got to see more of Marina in Troi as time went on. She's got way more personality than she was allowed to portray at times. Same could be said for Gates.
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@CeeHawk You can understand how he convinced himself he could do MMA. That man has no self-preservation instincts at all.
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@wholesomefoxx Dude is built like an anime villain and knows half a dozen martial arts proficiently. You're gonna end up holding your own spleen in your hands.
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What it really boils down to with Main Roster vs. NXT is that when Takeover rolls around every few months, fans are rewarded for their investment in the product. With main roster, the weekly investment required for fans is higher, but the payoffs are fewer and far between.
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The @IAmJericho podcast with Nancy Benoit's sister Sandra Toffolini is very insightful, and will shatter your heart into a million pieces.
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If you're MJF and you find out Mark Henry and Paul Wight are making something like 4x your salary I bet you'd develop an eye twitch.
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This is much funnier after they both got two pieced by the only guy that ever got tickled during a UFC fight.
I believe the Usos can fight in real life. I don’t think either one of the Bucks can whip my ass.
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@atrupar MAGA: The Civil War was about States Rights!. Everyone: To do what exactly?. MAGA: . (mumbles incoherently).
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@Jayleejnr Big Swole said the same thing when she left AEW. The path to improvement and progression wasn't developed enough.
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@NotDrDeath Oh and he started banning people from his TV show, including executives of the company that would have valid reasons for conducting business there.
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@CeeHawk I'm especially curious about how a private employer telling you to shut up about conspiracy theories involves the First Amendment at all?.
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@CeeHawk My favorite Hogan lie was that he outdrank John Belushi at the afterparty for WrestleMania II, which was probably pretty easy considering he died 4 years before the show.
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@CeeHawk Will you please attend a debate with a discredited kook where the moderator is a dumb comedian that is openly hostile to science and in is painfully unaware of his own lack of objectivity?.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a guy who looks like he paid off a bunch of women to silence sex crimes more than Vince McMahon.
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All these disgraced moguls go through a period where they insist they are making a comeback despite the very significant social obstacles and obvious business downsides to doing so. This is the wounded ego of a proud man vocalizing a fantasy.
Vince, who now has known sexual misconduct allegations from 7 women, I think would only regain power at great cost to WWE, its media value, B2B partnerships & morale. Maybe he could install a new board. But how many more allegations are there? Does he reawaken SEC scrutiny?.
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Becky Lynch shitpost trolling her way to the WrestleMania Main Event is a fairly innovative way to reach the audience in 2019, all things considered. I wonder what the conversation would be like if Ronda was half as good at it.
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Don't often agree with Cornette but.
Another former great wrestler on the list of alien pod people duped by the world's most repugnant con man. Mark & Glen, you made it this long with everyone admiring you, then in the end you ruin your reputations AND try to destroy the country along with them. I'm ashamed FOR you.
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@atrupar It'd be much easier if these guys just admitted they have no interest in science or reason because of their religious dogmas, because their attempts to square the circle with pseudoscientific word salad are even more embarrassing.
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People openly sobbing after Cena leaves his jorts in the ring at WrestleMania will be one of the funniest visuals of all time in like 2030.
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"Momentum is everything" despite no one in WWE ever defining a tangible example of it.
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@RonFilipkowski They also wasted their best messaging tool, the convention, around calling Biden a dinosaur that was unfit to serve. No to mention Trump's speech making it very clear that he was in the same position.
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Trump and Vince McMahon both having paintings of themselves in 80's movie villain bitch boy yuppie clothes is another very specific thing they have in common.
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Michael Hayes backstage now after convincing Triple H Cody needed to go on last:
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@Less_HumbleTeej Billions of dollars can't save you from being mentally frozen at 23 years old.
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@atrupar As opposed to Aileen Cannon, who continues to prostrate herself in front of the altar of our reality's version of Biff Tannen from Back to the Future Part 2
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@NotDrDeath Triple H explaining to Kenny that he's allowed to sell in between offensive flurries
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Wigs for Kids website is already down. THE POWER OF DANIEL BRYAN IS REAL.
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@CeeHawk Much like with Cops, there is a lot of knee jerk hero worship that most folks probably wouldn't participate in if they had a full view behind the curtain. The Military is messy as hell.
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This match will end with both guys coming to an agreement that it was a bad idea from the start.
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I live in Austin, birthplace of one @WWEDustyRhodes. This morning at an intersection, I heard someone blasting his entrance music. #RIPDusty.
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@NotDrDeath Brock Lesnar guy only had one shirt so he could afford to go on the road and watch Lord Tensai.
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Vince should take that $270 Million he just withdrew from his WWE stock portfolio to fund the doomed XFL and use it to pay back the Saudi blood money and invest in some health insurance and annuities for the families of WWE talent.
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The Backstreet Boys coming in to fight The Mean Street Posse.
The fact that the biggest recording star on the planet is in a hardcore wrestling match is wild to think about. What would the equivalent have been in the Attitude Era?.
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