Offside Chat Archives (2014-2021)

Sid put some busted-up rolls on the table, and honestly, there isn't any other option because where else is he gonna find anything else, you know? This is just what Walter Grant5 hooked him up with when he was grabbing those burgers. 😂lol😂rofl:

Jesse Sullivan5 said:Now, I was actually thinking about including a "ROFL" in this particular post—really leaning into the humor, you know?—but looking back, there isn't a single "ROFL" to be found anywhere! It's just a whole string of Facebook-style emojis instead. ☕

ROFLs? Those things got eaten by mice years ago.
Nobody’s using those stupid Facebook emojis either. 🤷

So, where were you guys actually sitting when you watched Real Madrid clinch their eleventh title? Just curious, you absolute losers from VB16 😂🤣😂

Sid brought out the only single roll he’d ever actually owned, tied it right up to a leash, and spent days just parading it all over town like it was some big deal, and then his buddy just ended up devouring the whole thing out of sheer frustration 😂

When is this absolute disaster of a forum actually going to start working properly? Even the search function is still completely broken. What the hell is even happening here?

And what exactly is it that you are searching for?

Well, here I am.
What’s on your mind?

I tried to "Google" Marcela Brozović and his crew to track down all those little poems they posted on the forum, but of course, the second I click on their profile to see what else they've been up to, I get totally screwed because I don't have the permissions for it.

Then I wanted to go back and check some of my own old posts just to see what I was even saying, but apparently, I can't even look at my own stuff.

Congrats to the new President! :klap:

Good grief, look at how many hateful posts we're dealing with this morning. 🍿

Am I the only one feeling this sting?

Not quite. I’m watching all this hysteria unfold and I find myself struggling to believe it. Do you truly not realize how many people have fallen for these spins? It’s as if everyone expects total chaos to erupt, as if they don't see that Trump is an exceptionally pragmatic individual—and as if he, much like his distasteful opponent, doesn't emerge directly from the very heart of the American establishment—or perhaps they simply don't see how easily Americans can be hooked by any bait placed before them.

Look, Trump might be a total jerk, but honestly, when you look at everything he’s actually pulled off in his life, especially with this final icing on the cake right at the end, I feel like we can all just tip our hats to him, truly. Respect where it's due.

I kind of expected this, since these polls always seem a bit predetermined. America is definitely diverse, but I guess a huge number of people there are dealing with some real struggles. Atlanta, for instance, is just tough—honestly, my drive from the airport to downtown felt a little like being in a war zone. It doesn't surprise me at all that Chicago’s inner ring, especially the South Side, is seeing such an escalation in shootings and violence. Trump offered them a narrative about fixing everything, and maybe people just bought into that story. Whether he actually wants to or can even make a dent in it is another thing entirely; I don't really believe things will change drastically for anyone, whether here in the States or anywhere else in the world.

If things are actually playing out the way you're describing down at the Atlanta airport, then honestly, a win for Trump is pretty much a mathematical certainty and exactly what we should all be expecting.

restlesssurfer97 said:Look, Trump might be a total jerk, but honestly, when you look at everything he’s actually pulled off in his life, especially with this final icing on the cake right at the end, I feel like we can all just tip our hats to him, truly. Respect where it's due.

Oh sure, let’s all give him a standing ovation for inheriting billions of dollars.

If anyone was destined to get played by Trump, it would have been someone like Hillary Clinton. At the end of the day, there isn't going to be much of a shift; after all, Washington is run by lobbyists and big money, not just pure politics. Sure, Trump will shake up the "political correctness" of the major Western powers, he'll act like a clown, he'll stumble, and he'll provide endless memes, but ultimately? He'll end up being just another Republican candidate. It's been crystal clear for years now that the Republicans are the ones holding all the cards.

Well, they had someone like Gavin Newsom as Governor of California too, so people managed just fine. Everything seems to be such a spectacle over there, though I guess I’m not a huge fan of how much the campaigns and the whole election process feel so personalized. You have these massive political parties behind everything, but in the first, second, third, or even hundredth place, it really just feels like it's all about Clinton and Trump.

Trump is basically the American version of a high-stakes tycoon.

I mean, Americans have already dealt with celebrity presidents and governors, and we survived the whole era of Hollywood types in office—so you’d think we could just assume things will work out because the real power moves happen behind the scenes. But then there's that other bit of old-school wisdom: everything keeps rolling along until it finally hits a wall. You can't mess with the People—they're always right, no matter what. That’s why the People won, choosing a man of the people who's actually here to build stuff and get things done. And honestly, that's usually how history turns out great.

Michelle Palmer6 said:Oh sure, let’s all give him a standing ovation for inheriting billions of dollars.

If anyone was destined to get played by Trump, it would have been someone like Hillary Clinton. At the end of the day, there isn't going to be much of a shift; after all, Washington is run by lobbyists and big money, not just pure politics. Sure, Trump will shake up the "political correctness" of the major Western powers, he'll act like a clown, he'll stumble, and he'll provide endless memes, but ultimately? He'll end up being just another Republican candidate. It's been crystal clear for years now that the Republicans are the ones holding all the cards.

And I don't know, I highly doubt the establishment would have worked this hard to keep Trump out of office if nothing were actually changing. It’s honestly infuriating to see how they humiliated him from every angle and how protected Hillary was, but we'll just have to wait and see.