sneaky

Its impressive but there's a lot of auto tuning and air brushing in these ore recorded performances . We'll see what's real ...

It was definitely entertaining and he's talented but his style coupled with his age means he's not marketable

I'm not sure what the Idol contract is exactly like but I think on shows like this they own everything you ever wrote even before the contract.

And the contracts are long and take over your artistic control. Even success stories like Kelly Clarkson, a large chunk of her music is not authentically her.

I wouldn't sign

7 hours ago, TeamAudra said:

I couldn’t decide which one I liked better. LOL!

 

 

Ok then you are not nearly as unbiased as you like to pretend. But enjoy the circle jerk I suppose,

2 hours ago, TeamAudra said:

I think Jan 6th is pretty far down on the list of things average Americans are concerned about. It seems to be a favorite topic of Twitter liberals. I’m more forward looking, so I don’t pay much attention to it. 

Yes but the point is the right is going after Jackson for small potatoes quotes and trying to get sound bites (hi Ted Cruz). Yet they have no problem with Clarence Thomas deciding to rule in a case that is a clear conflict of interest.

Judge Thomas is probably kinda a nutcase too lets be honest.

I have a hunch that the people here against Judge Jackson are gonna be just fine with Thomas ruling on Jan 6 hearings

10 hours ago, TeamAudra said:

It’s simple. If you were born a male, compete against males, as this individual had done until this year (ranked something like 482nd among male swimmers in his event). No matter what they do, they will have an unfair advantage. This is ludicrous, and shouldn’t even be up for debate. That woman in the middle is an Olympic silver medalist, and she just lost to a dude who couldn’t hack it against male swimmers. How humiliating must that be? What’s to stop some low level male pro tennis player entering women’s tennis at this point. Or, gymnastics. Or, basketball…..

 

This needs to be nipped in the bud quick. 

 

I suspect if he was a top male swimmer, he’d still be competing against males.

I agree if you are male to female trans gender you probably shouldn't compete in sports for fairness sake.

But if you legislate against this its an easy case to be made for discrimination. And actually transgender people that transition are less than 1 percent of the population. It doesn't make sense to legislate such a rare scenario

2 hours ago, TeamAudra said:

I have no words for the absurdity of the fact that this was allowed. 
 

 

Its a difficult issue. If she had gone on puberty blockers and didn't go through male puberty then I'd say its probably ok but clearly this isn't the case here. 

You could solve this by changing it to female swimming league or male swimming league and that way its separated by biological sex. But a trans person can turn that around and say that your barring them from competition in the same way that hay people were barred from marriage or women were barred from having certain rights 

9 hours ago, TeamAudra said:

I’ve seen plenty of evidence of this happening in schools, posted on the Libs of TikTok Twitter feed. Young, woke adults like to tell their followers how woke they are, so there will always be material posted online. To what extent, and is it happening in Florida? I don’t know, but lots of young teachers have been indoctrinated in wokeness, so I would bet heavily that this is more than a “fear grab.”
 

Furthermore, Democrats deserve the beating they’re about to get for constantly lying about this being a “don’t say gay” bill.  Honestly, I don’t think DeSantis even wanted to have this battle. He hadn’t even read the bill until recently. Since Democrats and the media spent the last few weeks calling him a bigot for something he didn’t even come up with, he has no choice but to go on offense, which you can see from that video I linked last night, he excels at. This is going to backfire on the Democrats, big time. 
 

The Florida Legislature also passed a bill yesterday, banning CRT in schools and the workplace. It’s called the “Stop Woke Act.”  That one was part of DeSantis’ agenda. 

I'm sure the bill doesn't say "gay" but it does state that beyond K-3 any talk beyond the child's perceived development is banned. What does that even mean? Who decides? Can someone decide a 15 year old is not mature enough to know homosexuality or trans people exist?

Its probably a mistake for Republicans to cater to evangelicals again. Bush did that and that is one of the big reasons Democrats got smashed in 2008.  Even a lot of Christians now a days dont have the same rigid beliefs as 50 years ago. They had a good thing going with being against the covid authoritarianism but now they're going back to their roots. Not to mention, most of Florida is not culturally Southern. The Evangelical  thing is not as popular here. Not to mention its lost all credibility in the party of Trump

10 hours ago, TeamAudra said:

In case anyone missed it, Florida Democrats (actually, Democrats everywhere, tbh) want to teach little kids about sex and gender theory in public schools. The Florida legislature passed a bill banning this for grades K-3, and all hell has broken loose on the left. They’ve even made up a name for the bill, “Don’t Say Gay.” The word “gay” isn’t even in the bill, and there is no provision stating people can’t say that word. LOL. This bill specifically bans injecting this age-inappropriate material into curriculums for K-3. Yesterday, the woke CEO of Disney caved to the mob and came out against the bill. Here’s what DeSantis had to say about it.  
 

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Liberals overreached big time, and it’s going to come back to bite them in November. This is probably something like a 90-10 issue in favor of no sex and gender theory education for grades K-3, and DeSantis has 8 months and a huge campaign war chest to make sure everyone knows about it. This bill wasn’t even part of his agenda, but now it presents a huge opportunity for him, and other Florida Republicans. RIP Florida Democrats. 
 

I think we’ll see more Republicans around the country latch on to this as well. This is the CRT debate on steroids, because it doesn’t need to be explained to anyone. Wokeness is destroying the Democrat party. 

I cant even find the bill itself to read. But from my understanding from friends its very vague. It prohibits discussion that is "considered to be age inappropriate". What does that even mean? Its so arbitrary.

I think its just another fear grab by Republicans,their MO. Because I dont see any evidence that 5-8 year olds learn anything about sexuality in the classroom And no I cant verify that some wacky tick tock video is an actual teacher or not

But also Democrats and Republicans seem to have very different ideas about parental rights. The standard conservative line of thinking is that if a student comes out in school the parent should have the right to know. And I don't agree with that. There are a lot of parents that are terrible people and that could be a bad situation.

Its very sad about Ukraine and I do care. But I'm starting to hear hints from people about going to war. Probably more are coming from the Democrat side which used to be the party of peace. The majority of the time when we intervene in foreign conflicts or impose our will on conflicts we make things worse. If this starts to get to Hilter level then kill the bastard but  until then...

On 2/28/2022 at 1:40 AM, TeamAudra said:

This is horrifying. I’ve seen similar videos from Philadelphia and San Francisco. When did this become a thing?  
 

 

Honestly I just walked to my local grocerry store on the outskirts of the city and there was trash all over the place like that within a few hundred feet of the store. And I dont live downtown or what I would consider to be a ghetto area. I think its just America--to be frank a large chunk of Americans everywhere are self centered and hate to walk to the nearest trash can. Its a common sentiment in America that if it doesn't convenience me then I don't care.  Its a sickness of American culture

On 2/25/2022 at 8:43 AM, sneaky said:

 

For the first time in my life I'm thankful for my autism diagnosis. It just might prevent me from being drafted!

15 hours ago, Gmm99 said:

Yeah...that's what I fear as well. Biden ran a better campaign than 2016 Clinton. It's all voter apathy towards the Republicans. And historically, every president who ran for reelection during a war has won...correct me if I'm wrong. I keep on asking this like a broken record, but do you still think the Democrats are going to be outed by November?

Regarding campaigns, Republicans dont actually offer anything and have to resort to fear tactics to get votes. That's why they do stuff like that Dont say Gay Bill and Anti CRT (which Im against CRT too). They dont have any policies to offer people so they have to lobby based off what they're against

This is getting silly. I'm against what the Democrats seem to believe about covid vaccines but if your job is telling you to get the vaccine just get it or find a different job that works for you better. All this damn drama

Poor Cincy. Congrats Rammies

12 hours ago, monkshood said:

This is a great article that defines some of the major issues that cause inflation:

 

 https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/main-causes-of-inflation/

 

Items 3 and 5 are huge factors in the current environment.

 

See also:

 

https://www.based-politics.com/2022/02/12/have-real-wages-gone-up-or-down-since-joe-biden-took-office/

 

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/02/12/the-midterm-ads-write-themselves-biden-says-federal-workforce-will-be-getting-600000-new-electric-vehicle

I would argue that the main cause of inflation is COVID and the labor/ work shortages. For most people are response to COVID has been a net negative

46 minutes ago, TeamAudra said:

 

 

I won’t deny that many Republicans have been complicit, but it’s not because of “free market” policies. Both parties like to spend money we don’t have. Democrats prefer to be dependent on foreign oil, rather than take steps to produce more at home. I do not identify with either party. 
 

Which Democrat do you think you’ll support for Governor? Crist and Fried seem to be leading at the moment. 

Honestly, I haven't followed them much. Crist is my rep and he's milquetoast. I really don't know if I will vote.

4 years ago I was really invested in the mayor race and this time I didn't even bother to vote.

I've been kind of disgusted with how little Democrats have done with the house and Senate advantages. I know Sinema and Manchin are making things hard but there's ways to hold them to the fire if Dems actually cared. I will say Democrats have a real branding problem. They've only switched places with the Republicans of the 2000s and are now the party of the elites.

On 2/10/2022 at 10:53 PM, TeamAudra said:

They’re still going to get blown out.
 

Besides the fact that most people aren’t that stupid, many local municipalities, businesses and school districts will probably keep mask mandates in place for a while. It’s a religion for some of these people. 
 

Also…there are many other reasons to vote against Democrats in November. Inflation is more concerning to people than covid and masks right now. 
 

 

But apart from the COVID supply chain crisis, problems with inflation are caused by free market Republicans. Bush's free market policies were the cause of the last inflation crisis and housing crash

So it just came out that the Dolphins-at least in the past-rigged their games. For the first time, I'm actually starting to believe the NFL might be one big, scripted reality show

https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/cnn-president-jeff-zucker-resigns-says-he-failed-to-properly-report-workplace-relationship?fbclid=IwAR09sSvwBokNp0C7wljAUFedRSfJIohul0vcuvK_1_yGH0XpDS3WBeX7qb0

Cnn is just as cancerous as Fox news.

3 hours ago, monkshood said:

Yes to all of this

 

Hey, wait a minute... Did you take a red pill recently?

No just more disillusioned with Democrats. But I'm not becoming MAGA or anything. The policies don't appeal to me at all.

3 hours ago, TeamAudra said:

What about those who support all

of those things? It’s not an either, or situation. AOC is the poster child. She may help energize the 11% Carville talks about, but that’s all she needs to get re-elected in her district. This is who is leading your party, not Pelosi, Shumer, or Biden. 

I don't really follow all of Aoc's beliefs. She is a rep from the Bronx and doesn't have any affect over my life.

The ones running the party are Pelosi, Sinema and Machin. All basically just republicans that are slightly more liberal socially. They are the ones blocking the limited good Biden would be capable of doing

19 hours ago, TeamAudra said:

 

What exactly they define progressive as? Is progressive something like Bernie from 2016 that would call for Medicare for all free healthcare, more populism? Or is progressive the identity politics focused crowd who talk a lot about white privilege, abortion rights, and defunding the police? Because those people are actually economically moderate or conservative. That is the type of Democrats most companies are. They like to hang BLM signs and rainbow flags because its easy but don't care about stagnant wages and escalating cost of living.

I actually think someone like James Carville would be in the latter. He's an elitest.

6 hours ago, bswanson said:

i dont have problems with id but  why the need to close voting places and make people travel. and it seems most closed olling places are in minority neighborhoods, then they have to travel and wait 10 hours in line when they may have families to care for. if they opened more places less long lines and faser voting 

That's fair. I don't have all the education on the subject and its something I didn't understand the fuss about. I wonder if that is something the cities are doing rather than the Republican party