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Yes, the barcode will fool most scanners that bars/bouncers use. At least for the higher quality fakes.

I teach several topics at police academies, one of which is fraudulent document identification. These Chinese (and Russian) websites advertise fake IDs to get into bars and the like. You can get two decent quality fake IDs with your actual name and picture on it for $100 or less. They just need your real information to "verify" your identity (i.e. not law enforcement). Trouble is the real money isn't in selling you a fake, it's turning around and selling your personal identifying information. And there's no telling who gets that information, or where the money ultimately ends up. And all this occurs with the tacit approval of their government.

I wore my mask and grew a mullet and all I got was no football and mocking from my coworkers.

Clarity: by “Republicans” I meant the RNC. In context I’m talking about campaign strategy that doesn’t have much to do with the average “voting public republican,” if you will. And to say they’re blind is being charitable. It implies that they’re not just controlled opposition.

lol no Marcel still far superior in every way

Where did I mention anybody’s intelligence, in or out of the context of how they vote?

I mean yeah he should probably have more content than that but let's not pretend that there's more than one answer that MLJ would find "acceptable." It's a non-story that he's turning into a story about himself instead of asking tough follow-up questions. It's a journalistic failure.

He wasn't really asked about the texts or his attitudes either though, he was asked about the "things that have happened in this country" over the past couple months.

Right? Why bag on him on Twitter instead of asking a follow up?

I'm as down on Trump as anyone (well ok, not ANYONE) right now but at least he has some history of doing the right thing and appointing some good people. The country's divide isn't his fault, he's just the result of a deep divide that has existed since the 1950s, possibly earlier. If I lived in a swing state I'd register and vote for him because a Biden presidency results in some outcomes I don't particularly care for. And for the record: no, your rant was not readable.

I can't trust the Republicans to even do that right. Look at the current teacher situation: the government school teacher unions are screaming to the heavens that we should be educating our own children at home in an attempt to make Trump look bad. It's the right's biggest opportunity for a cultural win in generations and they're blowing it.

Yeah? What's that?

For all our sake, I hope you're right. But I think everyone predicting an electoral landslide for Trump this November because of the "silent majority" has their heads firmly buried in the sand, especially after Trump has betrayed the very principles that got him elected by those folks to begin with.

I'm not saying Joe's doing well. He isn't. I'm saying that the broader RNC strategy of pulling out every racial gaffe from the last 40 years of Joe's career isn't gonna win them elections. Polls suck but they can at least tell us what moves the needle and that ***** does not move the needle.

See, THIS is a winning campaign line.

lol like I said, feeble. Joe Biden is a traitor and a coward and he's going to sit in the oval office next January. Sad, just ***** sad.

I don't vote, and if I did I wouldn't vote for traitors. That said, the fact that Republicans are so snowblind they can't see what's right in front of them is why they're going to lose the White House this November. What exactly do you think is "winning" about this strategy? Do you think "never Hillary" voters give a ***** about whether Joe is a racist or not? Or black people, for that matter? Is pushing for a 2% increase in black Trump voters really the way to win this election? Let's be honest about it: Joe is right, black folks vote as a solid block. Black folks are why Prop 8 got passed in California and 90+% of them reliably vote blue every four years. Trying to win over a few of them is NOT how Trump can retain the WH in 2020. It just isn't. The only thing about this election that's more feeble than Joe Biden is the RNC's strategy to keep him out of Washington.

When will Republicans learn that "J0e is dUh rEAl r4ciST!!1!" is not a winning strategy?

They’ve bought into their own hype so much that they don’t realize that the fact that we like them is almost entirely dependent on the fact that they play for the TEAM we’re fans of. I wouldn’t give two ***** about the tre white goalie academy if he didn’t play for Buffalo. These dudes love to say “it’s a business” when they go get their big payday but suddenly when we’re talking about them skipping seasons it’s personal. Huh? It’s just business bro.

There's US law on the books for decades that tells businesses what sort of classes they cannot arbitrarily discriminate against. Stay in your lane, hoser.

Hello darkness my old friend...

I can think of a lot worse things corporations can (do) aspire to than "faithful steward." That said the Popeye's sandwich is stupid good and I'll just live with the withering looks from the ill-mannered folks that serve it.

The cat cult is almost as bad as the dog cult.

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There's one play from the Titans playoff game that makes me more optimistic about Lamar than the "it's just RGIII all over again" crowd. It's the Ravens first drive so there's like 10 minutes left in the first quarter (before the INT on the same drive). Throws an absolute dart to the sideline on an out or corner to the TE. Great footwork, great placement, great everything...until you watch the all-22 and realize he missed his first read (safety) entirely on a deep post for what would have been an easy TD. If he can slow that down and make that first read, it's 7-0 Ravens and a much different ballgame. Instead, the drive continues and some shoddy footwork and lackluster pass pro result in an INT (+15 yard penalty on none other than Lamar) that gets the Titans amped up and makes it look like the moment was too big for QB1...again.