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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: funk51 on November 11, 2020, 12:11:04 PM
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&t=5s election will be settled by a dance off between the two candidates with jennifer lopez will be judging the winner.
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biden for the win
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in other news it's lee haney's birthday today. V
Lee Haney
Height 5'11"
Born November 11, 1959 South Carolina
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1978
Mr Coastal USA - AAU, Teen, 4th
1979
Mr Coastal USA - AAU, Teen, 4th
Teen Mr America - AAU, Overall Winner
Teen Mr America - AAU, Tall, 1st
1980
Mr USA - AAU, HeavyWeight, 4th
1982
Junior Nationals - NPC, Overall Winner
Junior Nationals - NPC, HeavyWeight, 1st
Nationals - NPC, Overall Winner
Nationals - NPC, HeavyWeight, 1st
World Amateur Championships - IFBB, HeavyWeight, 1st
1983
Grand Prix England - IFBB, 2nd
Grand Prix Las Vegas - IFBB, Winner
Grand Prix Sweden - IFBB, 2nd
Grand Prix Switzerland - IFBB, 3rd
Night of Champions - IFBB, Winner
Olympia - IFBB, 3rd
World Pro Championships - IFBB, 3rd
1984
Olympia - IFBB, Winner
1985
Olympia - IFBB, Winner
1986
Olympia - IFBB, Winner
1987
Grand Prix Germany (2) - IFBB, Winner
Olympia - IFBB, Winner
1988
Olympia - IFBB, Winner
1989
Olympia - IFBB, Winner
1990
Olympia - IFBB, Winner
1991
Olympia - IFBB, Winner
Magazines
1983 January Vol 7, Num 1 Muscle Digest
1983 July Vol 1, Num 4 Flex
1983 August Num 108 Muscle Training Illustrated
1983 November Vol 5, Num 19 Muscle and Bodybuilder
1984 November Vol 44, Num 1 IronMan
1985 February Vol 46, Num 2 Muscle and Fitness
1985 March Vol 2, Num 12 Flex
1985 March Num 50 Muscle Mag International
1987 January Vol 46, Num 2 IronMan
1987 February Vol 4, Num 11 Flex
1987 September Vol 48, Num 9 Muscle and Fitness
1988 April Vol 6, Num 2 Flex
1989 January Vol 6, Num 11 Flex
1989 September Vol 3, Num 4 NPC News
1989 November Num 154 Muscle Training Illustrated
1990 February Vol 7, Num 12 Flex
1991 Vol 28, Num 13 Muscular Development
1991 January Num 163 Muscle Training Illustrated
1991 February Vol 8, Num 12 Flex
1991 February Vol 28, Num 2 Muscular Development
1991 September Vol 28, Num 9 Muscular Development
1991 December Vol 50, Num 12 IronMan
1992 May Vol 6, Num 2 NPC News
1993 January Vol 30, Num 1 Muscular Development
2007 November Vol 25, Num 9 Flex
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Gaspari didn't have a chance.
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Gaspari didn't have a chance.
he was too blocky and had an odd shape to him.
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Funk stop stalking funk51 ;D
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Why are people so heavily invested in politics so much? work out, be around your friends, drink, bang hoes, enjoy life, buy watches like xfactor, repeat
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Funk stop stalking funk51 ;D
I know , I'm sorry Mr. knight.
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Why are people so heavily invested in politics so much? work out, be around your friends, drink, bang hoes, enjoy life, buy watches like xfactor, repeat
I agree, life's too short, these politicians could give a shit about average people, that goes for both sides.
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Why are people so heavily invested in politics so much? work out, be around your friends, drink, bang hoes, enjoy life, buy watches like xfactor, repeat
There's a saying....'variety is the spice of life' which is what I think you are reminding us of here. On another note, we can do all these different things because we have the freedom to make our own choices, which is not the case everywhere in the world. Maybe that is why some people are so concerned about politics.
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TOP 20 RECIPIENTS OF FOR PROFIT PRISONS
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1. Donald Trump, Republican president..........$124,000
2. Cory Gardner, Republican.....Senate... ........$66,475
3. Mitch McConnell.....R......... ....Senate...........$62, 463
4. David Perdue..........R....... ......Senate...........$52,325
5. Shelley Capito.........R........ .....Senate...........$46,000
6. Henry Cueller...........D..... ........House........... .$42,700
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10. Doug Collins.............R... ...........House........ ....$24,000
11. Martha McSally..........R...... ........Senate.......... .$23,475
12. Steve Scalise.............R... ...........House........ ....$17,081
13. Dan Crenshaw............R... ...........House........ ....$15,300
14. Ben Sasse................... R..............Senate... ........$15,000
15. Sanford Bishop............D..... .........House.......... ..$13,500
16. Thom Tillis.................. ..R..............Senate. ..........$13,045
17. Jerry Moran..................R ...............Senate... ........$12,500
18. Kevin McCarthy............R... .............House...... .....$10,778
19. Byron Donalds..............R.. ........................ ...........$10,600
20. Ben McAdams..............D.. ..............House..... ......$10,025TOP 20 RECIPIENTS OF FOR PROFIT PRISONS
(from The Center for Responsive Politics...report released by the Federal Election Comission on October 23rd, 2020)
1. Donald Trump, Republican president..........$124,000
2. Cory Gardner, Republican.....Senate... ........$66,475
3. Mitch McConnell.....R......... ....Senate...........$62, 463
4. David Perdue..........R....... ......Senate...........$52,325
5. Shelley Capito.........R........ .....Senate...........$46,000
6. Henry Cueller...........D..... ........House........... .$42,700
7. John Cornym............R..... ........Senate.......... .$40,650
8. Bill Haggerty.............R.. ........................ .........$35,400
9. Steven Darius...........R...... ........Senate.......... .$27,597
10. Doug Collins.............R... ...........House........ ....$24,000
11. Martha McSally..........R...... ........Senate.......... .$23,475
12. Steve Scalise.............R... ...........House........ ....$17,081
13. Dan Crenshaw............R... ...........House........ ....$15,300
14. Ben Sasse................... R..............Senate... ........$15,000
15. Sanford Bishop............D..... .........House.......... ..$13,500
16. Thom Tillis.................. ..R..............Senate. ..........$13,045
17. Jerry Moran..................R ...............Senate... ........$12,500
18. Kevin McCarthy............R... .............House...... .....$10,778
19. Byron Donalds..............R.. ........................ ...........$10,600
20. Ben McAdams..............D.. ..............House..... ......$10,025
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I agree, life's too short, these politicians could give a shit about average people, that goes for both sides.
Truth.
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Why Democrats are donkeys and Republicans are elephants
Updated 3rd November 2020
Credit: Courtesy Flickr
Why Democrats are donkeys and Republicans are elephants
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Written by
Jackson Arn, Artsy
This article was published in partnership with Artsy, the global platform for discovering and collecting art. The original article can be seen here.
Every election cycle, illustrations of donkeys and elephants show up in political cartoons, campaign buttons, Internet memes, and some truly alarming fashion choices. How could it be otherwise? The two beasts -- the former representing the Democratic Party; the latter, the Republican Party -- are mainstays of America's visual culture, as recognizable as Santa Claus or Uncle Sam.
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Yet most Americans would be surprised to learn that both political symbols (as well as Santa Claus and Uncle Sam) were popularized, and given their modern forms, by the same maverick cartoonist.
His name was Thomas Nast, and over the course of his tenure at Harper's Weekly, from 1862 to 1886, he became America's first great political cartoonist -- and one of its harshest satirists. In the intricately detailed wood engravings for which he's best remembered, he tackled the Civil War, the follies of Reconstruction, immigration, and -- most famously -- the Tammany Hall political machine. Some have suggested that the word "nasty" derives from the artist's surname, and while this is almost certainly not true, one glance at his cartoons might convince you that it is.
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Historians have asserted that Nast, who grew up in New York City in the 1840s and '50s, was ferociously bullied as a child. Indeed, the two themes that run through his career are his sneering disdain for bullies of all shapes and sizes, and his compassion for their victims.
This political cartoon by Thomas Nast, taken from a 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly, was an early use of the elephant and the donkey to sybolize the Republican and Democratic parties.
This political cartoon by Thomas Nast, taken from a 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly, was an early use of the elephant and the donkey to sybolize the Republican and Democratic parties. Credit: Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images
At Harper's, he moved back and forth between these two poles. In one famous cartoon, "Worse Than Slavery" (1874), a defenseless black family cowers before a grinning Klansman; in another -- a blistering parody of the KKK's alliance with New York's political machine, captioned "They Are Swallowing Each Other" -- there are no victims, only two bloated, bug-eyed men depicted as ouroboroi. Nowadays, "editorial cartoons" might bring to mind spare, deliberately simplistic images -- the kind you can process in half a second while reading the news. By contrast, Nast's dense, meticulously labeled cartoons were news: not just images but arguments, meant to be analyzed and discussed point-by-point.
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Take "Third Term Panic," the 1874 cartoon often credited with popularizing the elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party. In the months leading up to the midterms, the New York Herald, at the time backing several Democratic candidates, had spread the rumor that President Ulysses Grant, a Republican, was contemplating running for a third term in 1876 -- not illegal in the days before the 22nd Amendment but definitely frowned upon.
In this politcal cartoon by Thomas Nast, titled "Fine-Ass Committee," a donkey stands in for a Democratic congressmen blowing financial bubbles.
In this politcal cartoon by Thomas Nast, titled "Fine-Ass Committee," a donkey stands in for a Democratic congressmen blowing financial bubbles. Credit: Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Nast, a proud supporter of the Party of Lincoln, drew the Herald as a donkey wrapped in a lion's skin, frightening the other animals with wild stories of a Grant dictatorship. Among these animals are an enormous, oafish elephant labeled "the Republican Vote," which looks as though it's about to tumble off a cliff.
Nast was hardly the first humorist to compare humans to animals -- the story of the donkey in the lion's skin goes back all the way to Aesop. He wasn't even the first artist to compare Republicans to pachyderms: At least a decade earlier, advertisements had promoted the GOP with the slogan "see the elephant," an obscure bit of Civil War slang that roughly translates to "fight bravely."
And while Nast depicted the Democratic Party as a donkey many times (though in "Third Term Panic" it actually takes the shape of a fox), the two had been linked since the days of the Jackson administration half a century ago.
The Republican elephant made its first appearance in this 1874 cartoon by Thomas Nast. A fox in the bottom right corner represents the Democratic party.
The Republican elephant made its first appearance in this 1874 cartoon by Thomas Nast. A fox in the bottom right corner represents the Democratic party. Credit: Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images
But it was Nast's insight to present American politics as one big, messy menagerie -- a circus, much like the one Barnum & Bailey had debuted in New York three years earlier. Like the best satirists, he ridiculed his own side almost as gleefully as he did his opponents' -- and so, he reimagined the GOP as a weak, panicky creature that was constantly lumbering off in the wrong direction, its size more of a liability than an asset.
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Nast's donkeys fare no better; a typical cartoon from 1879 shows the stubborn beast dangling by the tail, about to fall into an abyss of "financial chaos." More often than not, in fact, his cartoons depict elephants and donkeys only a hair's breadth away from chaos -- a pretty fair assessment of Republican and Democratic leadership during the Gilded Age.
In the 1880s, Nast was the most feared artist in the country, the sworn enemy of crooks and swindlers on the right and the left alike. Then, in a Nast-y twist of fate worthy of his cartoons, he lost all his money in a Ponzi scheme, the kind of sleazy operation he'd spent his entire career cautioning against. In 1890, he tried to rebuild his fortune by publishing a book of Christmas illustrations.
In this 1876 Nast cartoon, the Republican vote, represented by Uncle Sam riding an elephant, tramples a tiger representing the Democrats.
In this 1876 Nast cartoon, the Republican vote, represented by Uncle Sam riding an elephant, tramples a tiger representing the Democrats. Credit: Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images
By that point, however, he seems to have lost some of the creative momentum he'd gained at Harper's, and he spent the last decade of his life in poor health, painfully aware that his best work was long behind him.
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But the elephant and the donkey live on in political pageantry, thanks to Nast's ingenuity. To date, the elephant remains the official symbol of the Republican Party, and although the Democrats have yet to declare their own, you wouldn't need to walk more than a couple paces at one of their rallies before spotting a donkey.
It's a little weird that both of the major American political parties have embraced their mascots so enthusiastically, considering how poorly the two animals come across in Nast's original cartoons: how stupid, how pliable, how easily confused. Maybe neither party bothered to check before stocking up on pins and tote bags.
Or maybe they knew about Nast's mockery and decided that the appropriate response was to join in mocking themselves. FYI
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in other news Biden closing the gap in Alaska with 90 percent of the vote in. this is worth a whopping 3 electoral votes. ;D ;D ;D ;D