'Use these cities as training grounds'

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Walmart greeter....

TeamGreen wrote:

You’re Canadian and you’re giving us shit?

BWAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA

You Can Not Make This Shit Up! 🇨🇦

Best country in the world! Enjoy your medical bankruptcy.....

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gti wrote:

Walmart greeter....

TeamGreen wrote:

You’re Canadian and you’re giving us shit?

BWAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA

You Can Not Make This Shit Up! 🇨🇦

gti wrote:

Best country in the world! Enjoy your medical bankruptcy.....

Funny.

I'm quite sure you have no idea of my "time spent" in the Great White North of Tabernak...? No worries.

In my Canuckian Adventures..I've helped more than a few of my northern friends come down here to see a doctor for orthopedics and whatnot. You see, they're athletes/working professionals/active-peeps and need an actual fucking doctor to perform a procedure in a realistic time-frame...oh, and they need a good ortho...too. 

So, there's always that. 

But, no worries. You go have a wonderful day and I hope your guys pull off an Epic MXON...tho, I'm really not stoked that Dylan isn't out there. He's got an MXON Top 10...or better...in him. Well...someday...hopefully. 

 

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10/3/2025 1:53pm
TeamGreen wrote:

Weren’t gonna let that slip by, were ya?!

Are you coming to A1?

Hope you’re doin’ well.

Bearuno wrote:
Funny you ask about A1 - just today I looked at the 2026 SX schedule, and have given thought to going to A1, through to A2.It...

Funny you ask about A1 - just today I looked at the 2026 SX schedule, and have given thought to going to A1, through to A2.

It all depends on a decision ( and, well $$$$ at hand ) to try to replace the utter piece of Garbage knee joint put into me last year, by an utter f**kwit  of a doctor. That time, the first weeks of 2026, appears to be when it can be done, by another Doctor I've had recommendations about.

Mind you, I may well be incarcerated, if I do go to a final appointment with said f**kwit doctor on the 20th of this month - beating the hell out of a 'renowned professor  of orthopedics' ( who's actually a  incompetent / dishonest p**k ) ) , would be frowned upon, methinks ...... She Who Must Be Obeyed, has suggested that I cancel the appointment, and be done with the b**tard. A lawyer mate, has suggested a Malpractice Suit.

Get it done over here and stay at the beach for a month or two...? 

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Just a philosophical question.......

I think that most of us can agree that one of the main purposes of the Second Amendment is to protect us from our government using the armed forces against its citizens, correct?  If we support using the armed forces against our fellow citizens, do we still need the Second Amendment?

🤔

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Get it done over here and stay at the beach for a month or two...? 

Mate, I'm not as 'comfortably off' as you, perhaps are. 😁

I'd say I'd be up for  something like 50K (USD - we hover around the 65c Exchange rate), well, probably far more than that,  to do it out of my own pocket in the USA.

I can get things done properly here, We've No shortage of Orthos here ( Human Body Carpenters as my first, and favorite Ortho from the 70s through to the 90s would say of his 'trade') , I just need to Not get conned by a f**kwit doctor, again.  

Problem I have, is a (young, medically progressive and innovative) Doctor I've been recommended to get, shares the same rooms / offices, in 2 places, with the B**tard that put the junk / crap joint into me. So, 'politics' between the Docs, could be very messy. 

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TeamGreen wrote:

Get it done over here and stay at the beach for a month or two...? 

Bearuno wrote:
Mate, I'm not as 'comfortably off' as you, perhaps are. 😁I'd say I'd be up for  something like 50K (USD - we hover around the 65c...

Mate, I'm not as 'comfortably off' as you, perhaps are. 😁

I'd say I'd be up for  something like 50K (USD - we hover around the 65c Exchange rate), well, probably far more than that,  to do it out of my own pocket in the USA.

I can get things done properly here, We've No shortage of Orthos here ( Human Body Carpenters as my first, and favorite Ortho from the 70s through to the 90s would say of his 'trade') , I just need to Not get conned by a f**kwit doctor, again.  

Problem I have, is a (young, medically progressive and innovative) Doctor I've been recommended to get, shares the same rooms / offices, in 2 places, with the B**tard that put the junk / crap joint into me. So, 'politics' between the Docs, could be very messy. 

Well, I simply hope you Get’er Done Well and make it our here.

Sending nothing but Positivity your way. 

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10/4/2025 7:11am
APLMAN99 wrote:
Just a philosophical question.......I think that most of us can agree that one of the main purposes of the Second Amendment is to protect us from...

Just a philosophical question.......

I think that most of us can agree that one of the main purposes of the Second Amendment is to protect us from our government using the armed forces against its citizens, correct?  If we support using the armed forces against our fellow citizens, do we still need the Second Amendment?

🤔

Arent the armed forces being used because certain city governments are ignoring what the citizens voted for, and,  allowing criminals free reign?

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10/4/2025 7:36am Edited Date/Time 10/6/2025 5:36am
TeamGreen wrote:

Weren’t gonna let that slip by, were ya?!

Are you coming to A1?

Hope you’re doin’ well.

Bearuno wrote:
Funny you ask about A1 - just today I looked at the 2026 SX schedule, and have given thought to going to A1, through to A2.It...

Funny you ask about A1 - just today I looked at the 2026 SX schedule, and have given thought to going to A1, through to A2.

It all depends on a decision ( and, well $$$$ at hand ) to try to replace the utter piece of Garbage knee joint put into me last year, by an utter f**kwit  of a doctor. That time, the first weeks of 2026, appears to be when it can be done, by another Doctor I've had recommendations about.

Mind you, I may well be incarcerated, if I do go to a final appointment with said f**kwit doctor on the 20th of this month - beating the hell out of a 'renowned professor  of orthopedics' ( who's actually a  incompetent / dishonest p**k ) ) , would be frowned upon, methinks ...... She Who Must Be Obeyed, has suggested that I cancel the appointment, and be done with the b**tard. A lawyer mate, has suggested a Malpractice Suit.

Oh man, that’s terrible…..sorry to hear about your knee.

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APLMAN99
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APLMAN99 wrote:
Just a philosophical question.......I think that most of us can agree that one of the main purposes of the Second Amendment is to protect us from...

Just a philosophical question.......

I think that most of us can agree that one of the main purposes of the Second Amendment is to protect us from our government using the armed forces against its citizens, correct?  If we support using the armed forces against our fellow citizens, do we still need the Second Amendment?

🤔

Arent the armed forces being used because certain city governments are ignoring what the citizens voted for, and,  allowing criminals free reign?

It’s possible that this is the rationale that some are using and some are believing. It could possibly be true. But it’s also how a tyrannical government would try to rationalize the use of the military against ‘rampant crime’ in a city that ranks 72nd in violent crime rates in the nation, right?  

Don’t get me wrong, Portland has its issues just like most places do if you focus on them. And there are plenty of things that I wish that their local government would do differently, but using the military against citizens is a pretty bad thing. Soldiers aren’t synonymous with police, they have completely different jobs and training. 

 

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Public safety is by far the main reason people agree to pay taxes. Many local and state politicians forget this. If local and state agencies won’t, or are not allowed to do their job, I’m okay with federal resources providing protection for these communities.These citizens need assistance just like during any disaster, natural or man made. 

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10/4/2025 10:45am Edited Date/Time 10/4/2025 10:45am
APLMAN99 wrote:
Just a philosophical question.......I think that most of us can agree that one of the main purposes of the Second Amendment is to protect us from...

Just a philosophical question.......

I think that most of us can agree that one of the main purposes of the Second Amendment is to protect us from our government using the armed forces against its citizens, correct?  If we support using the armed forces against our fellow citizens, do we still need the Second Amendment?

🤔

Arent the armed forces being used because certain city governments are ignoring what the citizens voted for, and,  allowing criminals free reign?

APLMAN99 wrote:
It’s possible that this is the rationale that some are using and some are believing. It could possibly be true. But it’s also how a tyrannical...

It’s possible that this is the rationale that some are using and some are believing. It could possibly be true. But it’s also how a tyrannical government would try to rationalize the use of the military against ‘rampant crime’ in a city that ranks 72nd in violent crime rates in the nation, right?  

Don’t get me wrong, Portland has its issues just like most places do if you focus on them. And there are plenty of things that I wish that their local government would do differently, but using the military against citizens is a pretty bad thing. Soldiers aren’t synonymous with police, they have completely different jobs and training. 

 

If some of the citizens are breaking the law and going unchecked by the local police then why in your opinion is using the military to enforce the law a bad thing? Shouldn’t someone be enforcing the law? Don’t the law abiding citizens deserve to live in crime free places where the law is being enforced ?

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10/4/2025 10:48am

Are these government employees still getting paid during the shutdown? 

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10/4/2025 1:10pm
TeamGreen wrote:

Weren’t gonna let that slip by, were ya?!

Are you coming to A1?

Hope you’re doin’ well.

Bearuno wrote:
Funny you ask about A1 - just today I looked at the 2026 SX schedule, and have given thought to going to A1, through to A2.It...

Funny you ask about A1 - just today I looked at the 2026 SX schedule, and have given thought to going to A1, through to A2.

It all depends on a decision ( and, well $$$$ at hand ) to try to replace the utter piece of Garbage knee joint put into me last year, by an utter f**kwit  of a doctor. That time, the first weeks of 2026, appears to be when it can be done, by another Doctor I've had recommendations about.

Mind you, I may well be incarcerated, if I do go to a final appointment with said f**kwit doctor on the 20th of this month - beating the hell out of a 'renowned professor  of orthopedics' ( who's actually a  incompetent / dishonest p**k ) ) , would be frowned upon, methinks ...... She Who Must Be Obeyed, has suggested that I cancel the appointment, and be done with the b**tard. A lawyer mate, has suggested a Malpractice Suit.

How can you sue when you got it for free? 🤔

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10/4/2025 1:12pm
avidchimp wrote:

Are these government employees still getting paid during the shutdown? 

Government employees get all their back pay after a deal is reached on the CR, the ones who had to work as well as the ones sent home.

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10/4/2025 10:20pm Edited Date/Time 10/4/2025 10:22pm
ToolMaker wrote:

How can you sue when you got it for free? 🤔

Didn't get it for free - we've got options for Private Health Insurance, and Medicare. 

Always have done. You Americans never seem to bother researching others systems, and just go for what you 'think' they are.

So, I paid the extra, for a High Zoot Joint.

The A Hole said he'd fit the joint required and that I approved / paid extra for, suitable for Full Sports Use, yet he fitted  the crap that is used for Palliative Care patients, just to ease their arthritis pain while lying in bed waiting to cark it.

So, suing the B**tard is on the cards - and, from a bit of research, he's done this sort of thing to people, a fair few times. Typical God Complex / Rip Off Others and the System individual, who has worked his way to the head of orthopedics in my local, enormous Hospital, and with a 'Professorship' to boot. But, it is difficult to sue these highly protected Drs. 

I think it's time to take the F**kwit down a peg or two. 

Though, my (very, Very) primitive side, would love to beat him to a bloody pulp. He has really f**ked me over. 

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10/4/2025 11:55pm
TeamGreen wrote:

Get it done over here and stay at the beach for a month or two...? 

Bearuno wrote:
Mate, I'm not as 'comfortably off' as you, perhaps are. 😁I'd say I'd be up for  something like 50K (USD - we hover around the 65c...

Mate, I'm not as 'comfortably off' as you, perhaps are. 😁

I'd say I'd be up for  something like 50K (USD - we hover around the 65c Exchange rate), well, probably far more than that,  to do it out of my own pocket in the USA.

I can get things done properly here, We've No shortage of Orthos here ( Human Body Carpenters as my first, and favorite Ortho from the 70s through to the 90s would say of his 'trade') , I just need to Not get conned by a f**kwit doctor, again.  

Problem I have, is a (young, medically progressive and innovative) Doctor I've been recommended to get, shares the same rooms / offices, in 2 places, with the B**tard that put the junk / crap joint into me. So, 'politics' between the Docs, could be very messy. 

To your last paragraph, that’s not a problem you have, that’s a problem Doctor Dipshit has if he wants to get offended at you going to a better doctor to have done what he should have done in the first place. Frankly, seems to me the dumbass should be paying for your next procedure in addition to you suing him. 

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Arent the armed forces being used because certain city governments are ignoring what the citizens voted for, and,  allowing criminals free reign?

APLMAN99 wrote:
It’s possible that this is the rationale that some are using and some are believing. It could possibly be true. But it’s also how a tyrannical...

It’s possible that this is the rationale that some are using and some are believing. It could possibly be true. But it’s also how a tyrannical government would try to rationalize the use of the military against ‘rampant crime’ in a city that ranks 72nd in violent crime rates in the nation, right?  

Don’t get me wrong, Portland has its issues just like most places do if you focus on them. And there are plenty of things that I wish that their local government would do differently, but using the military against citizens is a pretty bad thing. Soldiers aren’t synonymous with police, they have completely different jobs and training. 

 

If some of the citizens are breaking the law and going unchecked by the local police then why in your opinion is using the military to...

If some of the citizens are breaking the law and going unchecked by the local police then why in your opinion is using the military to enforce the law a bad thing? Shouldn’t someone be enforcing the law? Don’t the law abiding citizens deserve to live in crime free places where the law is being enforced ?

If its about law enforcement and increasing safety, why is the military not send to most dangerous cities first?

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APLMAN99 wrote:
It’s possible that this is the rationale that some are using and some are believing. It could possibly be true. But it’s also how a tyrannical...

It’s possible that this is the rationale that some are using and some are believing. It could possibly be true. But it’s also how a tyrannical government would try to rationalize the use of the military against ‘rampant crime’ in a city that ranks 72nd in violent crime rates in the nation, right?  

Don’t get me wrong, Portland has its issues just like most places do if you focus on them. And there are plenty of things that I wish that their local government would do differently, but using the military against citizens is a pretty bad thing. Soldiers aren’t synonymous with police, they have completely different jobs and training. 

 

If some of the citizens are breaking the law and going unchecked by the local police then why in your opinion is using the military to...

If some of the citizens are breaking the law and going unchecked by the local police then why in your opinion is using the military to enforce the law a bad thing? Shouldn’t someone be enforcing the law? Don’t the law abiding citizens deserve to live in crime free places where the law is being enforced ?

eins4eins wrote:

If its about law enforcement and increasing safety, why is the military not send to most dangerous cities first?

If it’s not about law enforcement , then what do you think it’s about? Seems like whats been going on has been pretty effective. 

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10/6/2025 3:56am

Just wait till Newsom or some other loser gets elected as the next president, they plan out the next pandemic and he sends troops into small town conservative communities because we aren’t following the “pandemic of 2029” protocols. Something like this may or may not happen, but what Donald is doing now is setting a dangerous precedent with the mechanisms being put in place for future use. 

In this particular instance it may make sense, but government will always try to leverage more power away from its citizens. It’s not a good avenue to go down imo. 

It makes far more sense and would be far more productive and proactive to consider the conditions which nurture and sustain such ill behavior. *Hint, hint, it’s a social-cultural problem that could be easily addressed but only at the cost or detriment to the 1% which benefit greatly from our society functioning as it currently does. 

The system is working exactly as intended for those that system is intended to benefit. 

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If it’s not about law enforcement , then what do you think it’s about? Seems like whats been going on has been pretty effective. 

If this method is effective, it makes me wonder even more why its not used in red cities with much higher numbers of violent crimes. What do you think?

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If it’s not about law enforcement , then what do you think it’s about? Seems like whats been going on has been pretty effective. 

eins4eins wrote:
If this method is effective, it makes me wonder even more why its not used in red cities with much higher numbers of violent crimes. What...

If this method is effective, it makes me wonder even more why its not used in red cities with much higher numbers of violent crimes. What do you think?

I think that anywhere in the country weather it’s blue or red , and crime is going unchecked by local law enforcement ,that the Fed should step in and enforce the law. 💯

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10/7/2025 2:11am
If some of the citizens are breaking the law and going unchecked by the local police then why in your opinion is using the military to...

If some of the citizens are breaking the law and going unchecked by the local police then why in your opinion is using the military to enforce the law a bad thing? Shouldn’t someone be enforcing the law? Don’t the law abiding citizens deserve to live in crime free places where the law is being enforced ?

eins4eins wrote:

If its about law enforcement and increasing safety, why is the military not send to most dangerous cities first?

If it’s not about law enforcement , then what do you think it’s about? Seems like whats been going on has been pretty effective. 

Trump is a corrupt authoritarian leader fixated on crushing half of the electorate that he considers to be his enemy. Together with his psychotic little sidekick Steven Miller he is manufacturing a crisis and deliberately provoking people in Democratic-led states and cities into violent confrontations which they can then exploit politically.

It's all bullshit propaganda - neatly presented in those provocative Homeland Security videos fed to you on social media - designed to divide your country, consolidate power and rule the country like the dictators he has always admired.

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10/7/2025 2:28am
eins4eins wrote:

If its about law enforcement and increasing safety, why is the military not send to most dangerous cities first?

If it’s not about law enforcement , then what do you think it’s about? Seems like whats been going on has been pretty effective. 

Trump is a corrupt authoritarian leader fixated on crushing half of the electorate that he considers to be his enemy. Together with his psychotic little sidekick...

Trump is a corrupt authoritarian leader fixated on crushing half of the electorate that he considers to be his enemy. Together with his psychotic little sidekick Steven Miller he is manufacturing a crisis and deliberately provoking people in Democratic-led states and cities into violent confrontations which they can then exploit politically.

It's all bullshit propaganda - neatly presented in those provocative Homeland Security videos fed to you on social media - designed to divide your country, consolidate power and rule the country like the dictators he has always admired.

It's all part of the plan, to declare an insurrection and cancel the mid-terms.

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Waiting for him to announce he's sending troops into a Republican city. Or even State. I predict it will be a long flipping wait.

I still can't believe people actually are supporting this. Maybe if a mayor asks for help from the Guard, sure send them help. But this is unreal. 

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eins4eins wrote:

If its about law enforcement and increasing safety, why is the military not send to most dangerous cities first?

If it’s not about law enforcement , then what do you think it’s about? Seems like whats been going on has been pretty effective. 

Trump is a corrupt authoritarian leader fixated on crushing half of the electorate that he considers to be his enemy. Together with his psychotic little sidekick...

Trump is a corrupt authoritarian leader fixated on crushing half of the electorate that he considers to be his enemy. Together with his psychotic little sidekick Steven Miller he is manufacturing a crisis and deliberately provoking people in Democratic-led states and cities into violent confrontations which they can then exploit politically.

It's all bullshit propaganda - neatly presented in those provocative Homeland Security videos fed to you on social media - designed to divide your country, consolidate power and rule the country like the dictators he has always admired.

I honestly haven’t watched any of your so called propaganda videos. I totally disagree with you and get the feeling that you’re the one that’s watching propaganda videos, not me. 

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Chicago needs an enema!!

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Sending Federal troops to manage a local/state issue is a slippery slope. What is the goal of these initiatives?  At best it’s a temporary solution to a long-term problem.  Trump’s target cities are the usual suspects, and his use of terms like “enemy within” indirectly labels many Americans as enemies. 

States’ right play a massive role in this country’s history.  Rolling in troops as law enforcement violates that balance between the states and the Feds. 

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10/7/2025 5:29am
tomm55x wrote:

Chicago needs an enema!!

And a colonic

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10/7/2025 5:47am
tomm55x wrote:

Chicago needs an enema!!

The whole world needs an enema and hopefully it can target ALL politicians across the entire political spectrum. Even more importantly, the institutions which act as “the man behind the curtain” need to be flushed as well. 

Our current model of staying alive is our biggest inhibitor to living well. I’d say the human race on a whole is operating at like 15-20% max. One little enema in one city ain’t gonna do shit. We need worldwide revolution 
 

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10/7/2025 5:54am
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Sending Federal troops to manage a local/state issue is a slippery slope. What is the goal of these initiatives?  At best it’s a temporary solution to...

Sending Federal troops to manage a local/state issue is a slippery slope. What is the goal of these initiatives?  At best it’s a temporary solution to a long-term problem.  Trump’s target cities are the usual suspects, and his use of terms like “enemy within” indirectly labels many Americans as enemies. 

States’ right play a massive role in this country’s history.  Rolling in troops as law enforcement violates that balance between the states and the Feds. 

Much like Trump, there is always a tweet for this. The hypocrisy of this administration is in full swing. 
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