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SF Agrees, they should be locked up and strict justice served, just like this perp needed - but when a shooting happens in Sacramento that prompts the POTUS (and the rest of the MSM and the other leftist groups out there) to call for stricter gun laws to distract from their glowing flaws where this obvious really bad guy is let out and commits crimes resulting in what happened here, I have a problem with the normality of it every time it happens.

Agreed BR. Let the current POTUS have his choice on this one - she was a "shoe-in" from the start. Mark my words, though (IMHO) I do think she will be a prominent activist SCOTUS Judge. I hope I'm wrong.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article260131840.html Exclusive: Suspect in Sacramento mass shooting was out of prison despite 10-year term Smiley Allen Martin, the second man arrested after Sunday’s mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six, has a criminal record stretching to 2013 and last year was the subject of a plea by Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s office that he not win early release from prison, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault with great bodily injury. Despite a two-page letter to the Board of Parole Hearings urging that Martin remain in custody, he won his release and was in Sacramento on Saturday night recording himself on a Facebook Live video brandishing a handgun hours before the shooting. On Tuesday, Sacramento police arrested Martin, 27, at a hospital after he was injured in the shooting. He faces charges of possession of a machine gun and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. A law enforcement source confirmed the machine gun is a handgun that was found at the scene Sunday that had been converted to be capable of firing as an automatic weapon. His brother, Dandrae Martin, 26, was arrested Monday as the first person taken into custody in connection with the shooting, and is due in court Tuesday afternoon on charges of assault with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Law enforcement officials believe a gunfight broke out as a dispute between multiple shooters near 10th and K streets at 2 a.m. Sunday as downtown bars were closing, and authorities have not disclosed details of either man’s involvement in the events. But documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee show the DA’s office last year vehemently opposed Smiley Martin’s release from the 10-year prison sentence he received in Sacramento Superior Court on Jan. 12, 2018. “Inmate Martin’s criminal conduct is violent and lengthy,” Deputy District Attorney Danielle Abildgaard wrote in a two-page letter to the Board of Parole Hearings on April 29, 2021, opposing his release. The letter, obtained by The Bee through a California Public Records Act request, details offenses including robbery, possession of a firearm and giving false information to police. “In January of 2013, just six months after his eighteenth birthday, Inmate Martin was contacted by law enforcement officers,” the letter states. “Inmate Martin attempted to discard an assault rifle which he had concealed in his waistband under his clothing. “The rifle had a pistol grip and the capacity to accept a detachable magazine in front of the pistol grip. Inmate Martin was also found to be in possession of two fully loaded twenty-five round magazines for the assault weapon. Inmate Martin admitted to transporting the assault weapon and large capacity magazines to potential buyers. Inmate Martin was sentenced to probation and county jail.” Ten months later, Martin and three others walked into a Walmart store and pushed a clerk aside in the electronics department, then fled with several Galaxy Notebooks worth $2,800, the letter states. “Video surveillance captured the incident,” the letter states. “During the investigation, law enforcement discovered additional robberies committed on November 29, 2013, and November 30, 2013, of similar electronics at other Walmart and Target stores. Witnesses positively identified Inmate Martin through surveillance photos at those subsequent robberies. “Inmate Martin pled to the robbery and was sentenced to two years in state prison.” After his release from prison, Martin came to the attention of authorities again in November 2016, when he was stopped in a vehicle with three other passengers and asked for his name and date of birth. Martin gave the officers a phony name and ran when officers told him they were going to detain him, the letter states. “After a foot pursuit Inmate Martin was eventually incapacitated with a Taser and ultimately taken into custody,” the letter says. “Officers were able to identify him and learned he was a parolee at large.” Less than six months later, he was involved in the incident that led to the 10-year prison sentence, the letter says, when he forced his way into his girlfriend’s home. “He located her hiding in her bedroom closet and hit her repeatedly with a closed fist on the face, head, and body, causing visible injuries,” the letter says. “He then dragged her out of the home by her hair to an awaiting car. After he put her in the car, he assaulted her with a belt. “During the investigation, information was gathered that the victim had been working as a prostitute and that Inmate Martin had been assisting and encouraging her to be a prostitute. Text messages and social media conversations revealed that he would tell her what kind of sex buyer she should date, how much money to charge, how to accept payment, and what forms of payment she should accept.” California corrections spokeswoman Dana Simas said Tuesday afternoon that the parole board denied Martin parole in May 2021 but ended up being released less than a year later. “Prior to reaching a CDCR facility, Martin had already received 508 days of pre-sentencing credits, and received a variety of additional post-sentencing credits,” she wrote in an email. “He was released to Sacramento County probation in February 2022.” The letter to the parole board came as Schubert’s office and 44 other DAs were preparing to sue the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation over policies that they say would result in the “early release” of 76,000 inmates statewide. “As shown by Inmate Martin’s pattern of conduct, he is an assaultive and non-compliant individual and has absolutely no regard for his victims who are left in the wake of numerous serious offenses,” Schubert’s office wrote last April. “He has no respect for others, for law enforcement or for the law. “If he is released early, he will continue to break the law.” Prison officials dispute the characterization that its rule changes amount to “early releases,” arguing that changes they made in how good conduct credits are applied do not amount to such a policy. But Schubert, who is now running for state attorney general as an independent, sued over the fact that CDCR implemented the changes as “emergency” regulations without public input, and prison officials subsequently opened a public comment period that ends on April 13. Well - there you have it. Mr. President - What additional gun laws do you think would have prevented this? He was already breaking the law by simply possessing a firearm. Let alone - already illegal (by CA law) converted firearms. ALL WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE STILL BEEN IN JAIL!! But it's "lax gun laws" that allow this to happen.......Yeah right.

Pretty obvious to most (close-minded) people I think. But, welcome to the SCOTUS Judge (open-minded) Brown.....

https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/need-for-special-counsel-in-hunter-biden-case-has-grown-urgent/ David Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware, seems to be leading a genuine investigation of Hunter Biden: Prosecutors taking the case to a grand jury the other day even asked a witness about “the big guy,” for whom Hunter and his partners had reserved a 10% cut of one potential (and lucrative) deal. No one familiar with the case has suggested who the “big guy” might be if not now-President Joe Biden, and at least one of the partners has confirmed it was Joe. Then, too, Weiss is a veteran of the Delaware office, appointed US attorney in early 2018 by President Donald Trump — not a political hack. The only thing at all questionable about his Hunter investigation is why it has taken so long, when the probe actually began long before the last election. Hunter’s bank records on his dealings with the Bank of China, for example, got subpoenaed back in May 2019. For the long wait, you have to assume the blame rests with his superiors in Washington. It would’ve been standard procedure to hold off making headlines in the runup to the 2020 vote, but delays since then likely came at the order of central Justice, namely Attorney General Merrick Garland and his top aides. And that’s where we really start to worry about a finger on the scales of Justice. What if Weiss is ordered to, say, accept a plea bargain that seals all the evidence he’s gathered, no matter where it points? The pro-Biden press will rush to justify such a move, arguing, Hey, Hunter’s already paid the IRS what he owes, so the case would be hard to win anyway. Swept under the rug would be any other crimes, such as lobbying for foreign interests without registering as such — not to mention all the “big guy” questions. Garland himself is usually deemed beyond reproach, but the nation already has clear proof that White House hacks influence his office, and even him. We’re talking primarily of Garland’s outrageous press conference last October siccing the FBI and all US attorneys on parents who dare to cross the establishment at local school board meetings. It eventually came out that the whole thing was ginned up by a cabal of White House and Department of Education staffers, who got outside activists to write and demand such action, with the staff then getting Garland’s staff to bring him on board. Even then, the AG proceeded to dissemble, telling Congress that Justice had never actually used counterterror tools to target parents, when in fact the FBI had asked agents to “apply” a “threat tag” and “track” threats against school officials. It’s easy to imagine White House demands for Garland to leash and muzzle Weiss: Chief of staff Ron Klain, for example, last weekend told the nation, “The president’s confident that his son didn’t break the law,” when it turns out that Klain himself asked Hunter for donations to help out the then-veep back in 2012, which suggests he knows full well that Joe has long relied on Hunter’s dubiously gotten gains. We’ve said before that Garland and his entire office should be cut out of the case, with a special counsel named to oversee it. Now that the investigation is clearly closing in on actual indictments, that need has grown urgent. Agreed!

No place to put this without starting a whole new thread, so here's a thread for just about anything. I'll start!! https://www.studyfinds.org/dogs-best-friends/ Puppy love: 7 in 10 people really do consider their dog their best friend And the other 3 are just idiots.....or communists.....either way, they are wasting our oxygen.....

Of course she did. Kinda.....But she's smart like that. And like this one - (which is just now coming out - but would have been helpful had the Senate had access to this one) Had the Senators been able to peruse deeper into her cases I kinda think even most Democrats would have been appalled at some of the light sentences on baby sex torture cases. But she is an African American Female Federal Judge, so President Biden keeps a campaign promise and practically dared anyone to vote against her. https://nypost.com/2022/04/03/rapist-gets-lax-sentence-from-jackson-then-nabbed-for-sex-assault/ She gives a child rapist (A CHILD RAPIST) who violently raped a 13 year old (A 13 YEAR OLD) a 16 month prison sentence, 4 years probation and ordered to register as a sex offender. He left town and hid until getting caught 4 years later and went before her again after pleading guilty for failing to register. The prosecutor asked for 2 years behind bars (the low end of federal guidelines). Her response: “I do believe that criminal history is having a disproportionate impact on the sentence that the guidelines prescribe in this particular case in light of what you actually did here,” said Jackson before sentencing Weekes to 12 months, with credit for time served, according to the transcript. (She let him go - in other words) Then (when he would have been in jail serving his 2 year sentence) he is arrested again for sexual assault that the victim eventually dropped because he paid her $2,500 bucks to keep quiet. Then in 2017, he shows up AGAIN in front of her (while already in jail) for multiple probation violations...... Redbord, the prosecutor, couldn’t resist reminding Jackson of her earlier sentence. “The Court imposed a 12-month sentence, I think really giving the defendant every benefit of the doubt and every opportunity to complete a period of treatment, supervision, and really kind of have an opportunity to turn his life around,” he said, according to a transcript. ” … And he failed at every turn to take advantage of that opportunity.” Earlier in the hearing, Redbord referred to Weekes as “the worst defendant that I have ever seen on supervision” and asked for two years to be tacked on to the end of his DC sentence. Even then, Jackson did not agree, imposing her 24-month sentence to partially overlap with his punishment in connection with the assault on his sister-in-law.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-city-universal-income-transgender-residents A California city is planning to give universal basic income (UBI) to transgender and nonbinary residents regardless of their earnings level. Transgender residents in Palm Springs, California are eligible to receive a UBI of up to $900 per month solely for identifying as transgender or nonbinary — no strings attached. The new pilot program will have $200,000 set aside for allocation after a unanimous vote by the Palm Springs City Council last week. Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, a Republican who served as the first openly gay member of the city council, called the program "outrageous and discriminatory." "We're completely opposed to guaranteed or universal basic income programs, because they ultimately cause inflation and raise the cost of living on everyone — they don't work," DeMaio said in a statement. "But at least some of them have minimum income requirements to qualify, whereas this one is no-strings-attached 'woke' virtue signaling to the LGBT community in a way that is not only offensive but discriminatory," he continued. Twenty transgender and nonbinary Palm Springs residents will receive the free money funded by the taxpayers for 18 months, with advocacy-based health center DAP Health and LGBT advocacy group Queer Works managing the program. DAP Health CEO David Brinkman claimed to reporters that the transgendered population is "one of the most marginalized populations in our city who face some of the highest levels of housing insecurity, joblessness and discrimination." Queer Works CEO Jacob Rostowsky also claimed in a press release that transgender and nonbinary people "are highly marginalized in our society in general, especially economically," and told the Desert Sun that the city of Palm Springs would have to match any state funds. "Our project's budget is estimated at about $1.8 million," Rostowsky said. "And so when we look at what other [programs] that have been successfully funded have done, their local cities have provided nearly a match to that funding." Palm Springs Mayor Lisa Middleton, who is transgender, pointed to the transcript from the city council's March 24 meeting where she "expressed strong reservations in general to guaranteed income programs." "I specifically stated that I did not believe such programs could scale up to adequately respond to the over 37 million Americans living below the poverty line, the over 6 million Californians or the over 400,000 in the County of Riverside living below the poverty [line]," Middleton said in an email, praising Brinkman for his work and expressing her "concern for the financial vulnerability of the transgender community." "Transgender Americans suffer extremely high rates of under and unemployment. Transgender Americans face enormous challenges living full and authentic lives," the mayor said. "Those challenges have increased substantially in the past few years as transgender children and their families have been targeted by extremist legislators and governors." Middleton added she believes a UBI program is a "county, state and federal responsibility," not a "municipal" one. WTF???? $900 a month no matter the income level just because you are gay or identify as one of the abbreviations. For a free 900 a month, in Palm Springs kinda makes SF want to come out and identify as my true self - A LESBIAN TRAPPED IN A MAN"S BODY. That's a thing right.....

Maxine Waters in L.A. telling the homeless "I want you to go home"......The reply - "We don't got no home, that's why we here". Classic Maxine.....

https://www.route66news.com/2022/04/01/c-w-mccall-the-voice-behind-the-hit-single-convoy-dies-at-93/?fbclid=IwAR0r-8xSAqfwEDD5g8fdaoNsNT2NH5YUDJBjfTmGzC-NKWT94C1Sfe3doEE C.W. McCall, the voice behind the hit single “Convoy,” dies at 93

I don't think BR could be accurately replicated. I think we would be sadly disappointed.....

https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/throwing-hunter-biden-under-the-bus-wont-be-enough-to-clear-joe/ Hunter Biden won’t like the interview his father’s chief of staff Ron Klain did with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. Asked about the Delaware investigation into the president’s son’s business affairs, Klain threw Hunter and his uncle Jim Biden under the bus. “The president is confident that his family did the right thing. But, again, I want to just be really clear, these are actions by Hunter and his brother. They’re private matters. They don’t involve the president. And they certainly are something that no one at the White House is involved in.” This is the party line, parroted by the Washington Post and CNN in their belated coverage of the story last week. Sure, they say, it looks bad for Hunter, but, gosh, Joe Biden had nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, this line of defense does not sustain scrutiny. Judging by morsels trickling out of the ongoing investigation into Hunter, the scope has widened to include questions involving the president. ‘Big Guy’ Witnesses testifying before the Delaware grand jury are believed to have been asked if they know who is the “Big Guy” referred to in coded fashion in emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop and in WhatsApp messages his former business partner Tony Bobulinski handed to the FBI in October 2020. Bobulinski asserts that the “Big Guy” is Joe Biden. The identity of the “Big Guy” is relevant because he was to be allocated 10% equity in a joint venture Hunter and partners were cooking up with Chinese company CEFC, according to an email on the laptop. “Hunter Biden called his dad ‘the Big Guy’ or ‘my Chairman,’ and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing,” Bobulinski wrote in a letter to The Post in October 2020. “I’ve seen VP Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business. I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true, because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line.” There is evidence on the laptop that Joe Biden profited from Hunter’s overseas business dealings, indicating mingled finances, shared bank accounts and household bills Hunter was expected to pay for his father. Hunter complained about having to give “half” his salary to his father and “pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.” But even if Klain and media pals want to dismiss evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence-peddling scheme — including meetings with Hunter’s foreign partners — that doesn’t clear the president. There is no country in the world where millions of dollars paid to a top official’s son for doing nothing would not be regarded as corruption. “Large payments to the children of powerful government officials by those with interests potentially affected by those officials’ actions are universally understood to be corrupt efforts to influence the officials,” Manhattan litigation lawyer Francis Menton writes in the Manhattan Contrarian blog. “In cases involving people other than the Bidens, whether the official/parent ‘personally benefited’ from the payments or ‘knew details’ of the transactions are considered completely irrelevant.” Klain will have to find a better response. The distancing from Hunter has officially started......"Looks bad for Hunter, but gosh, Joe had nothing to do with it".....

FYI - "Goliath" is busy purchasing and developing more robots......Robots don't unionize...... https://nypost.com/2021/06/14/amazon-tests-warehouse-robots-it-claims-will-reduce-worker-injuries/ Amazon, meanwhile, insists that the robots are not aimed at replacing workers. Yeah, right......

SF has as much disdain towards the Oscars as the Grammys or any other awards show where the Hollywooders and Elite heap praise and more praise on themselves and each other so I didn't watch it. After the week of digesting the aftermath, I came to the conclusion that Mr. Smith acted irresponsibly and childish perhaps brought on by the past year of brutal news relative to his and Jada's "open" marriage that could have brought him to this point. Mr. Rock is a comedian - A COMEDIAN and a pretty good one. It has been reported he wasn't even aware that she had a medical condition and the joke was even a sideways comment almost that the Smiths seemed to enjoy (for a second anyway). So while Will Smith is a great actor, has played many insane roles and done an awesome job on just about all of them over the years, he should have been the adult in the room and ignored a comment that maybe he didn't like, instead he acted like a spoiled big kid foul-mouthed bully and I for one lost a great deal of respect for him as a person (not as an actor). Also, it won't make me want to watch next year either, if that was the intention.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article260068725.html the recent legislation pending in California is relatively modest compared to some of the sweeping reforms that gun-control advocates are demanding in other states and on the federal level — simply because most of the toughest curbs are already part of California law. Among other things, nationwide advocates are seeking to have all private-party gun sales subjected to federal background checks, which they call the “gun-show loophole.” They also want to see the nationwide assault-weapons ban, which expired in 2004, revived. Both of those laws are in effect in California. Advocates for gun owners say there isn’t much else California can do, given the protections for gun ownership enshrined in the Bill of Rights. “Here in California, we have done everything we could possibly do to control guns,” said Sam Paredes, who runs the Sacramento-area organization Gun Owners of California. “Everything short of banning (guns), and they know they can’t do that.” Paredes said lawmakers are gliding over the real issues that drive gun violence. “Is it mental? Economic? Medical? What is it? They won’t go there. Their knee-jerk reaction is to go after guns,” Paredes said. California has 107 different gun-control laws on the books, more than any other state, according to a database maintained by the Boston University School of Public Health. Massachusetts is No. 2 at 103. Still, lawmakers say Sunday’s bloodbath near the Capitol shows there’s more work to do in a state where an estimated 7 million people live in a home where guns are present. “What a sickening, senseless loss of life,” said California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon on Twitter. “It’s an epidemic, and we need #GunReform now to stop it.” Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, speaking a block from the scene, said, “Thoughts and prayers are not nearly enough .... This senseless epidemic of gun violence must be addressed.” He called for tougher laws on assault weapons, even though it wasn’t immediately clear what type of gun was used Sunday. Sure - We need more gun laws on "ghost guns" and "assault rifles" (when we really don't even know what guns were used on Sunday yet) in the state with the STRICTEST gun laws in the country right now.....

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/politics/mystery-call-gap-trump-jan-6-white-house-phone-logs/index.html There could be various reasons that explain the gap in the call log itself. One possibility is that Trump was speaking to people from a cell phone. As CNN has previously reported, Trump had a habit of using his and other people's phones to make or receive calls. Another explanation could be that Trump had aides place direct calls from the Oval Office, bypassing the switchboard. A former White House staffer who served in the Obama administration told CNN that if then-President Barrack Obama wanted to make a call to someone from the Oval Office, he would normally ask an aide seated nearby to dial the person. The aide would then call the number and hit transfer to connect the caller to the President. That call would not go through the White House switchboard and therefore would not be recorded on the White House switchboard log, the former staffer said. Another factor seems to be where Trump was when he made certain calls. All the calls noted from the January 6 log indicate they were made from the White House residence, suggesting Trump relied on the switchboard to put those calls through. The missing calls appear to start when the diary notes Trump has moved from the residence to the Oval Office. It's funny that the almost exclusive news this past week from the January 6 committee was the mystery wondering why the guilty party (Former President Trump) wasn't brought up on treason since there was such a gap in the WH phone records on January 6. Afterall, he had to be using "burner" phones since he was such a criminal. (Without questioning why there were similar gaps on a daily basis prior to and after, as well as the fact that the previous President, Barack Hussein Obama, had the same habit). SF wonders if there will be any apologies to DJT over this. Maybe they will go back to bad-mouthing Mrs. Thomas next week......

https://www.c-span.org/video/?465845-1/universal-flu-vaccine Not denying Covid is real, (I and Mrs. SF have already had it) just pointing out that Dr. Fauci and his cronies were tossing around the idea of a "Universal Flu Vaccine" in October of 2019 and lamenting the fact that to test an MRNA vaccine would take a minimum of 10 - 15 years.....While speculating an Asian virus would be enough to start an "Entity of Excitement"......Wondering if 2 + 2 = 4 in this scenario.....Since about 90 days after this conference the very "Entity of Excitement" came to pass worldwide......

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-clinton-campaign-fec-civil-penalties-perkins-coie-fusion-gps DNC, Clinton campaign agree to pay FEC fines over Fusion GPS payments for Trump dossier Yeah - Trump was sure wrong about all that stuff, huh.......

https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/biden-used-cheat-sheet-while-doubling-down-on-message-to-oust-putin/ President Joe Biden once again referred to a printed cheat sheet sheet as he doubled down on his unscripted weekend claim that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” On Monday Biden, 79, told reporters he made “no apologies” for his remarks — made off the cuff and not part of his prepared speech in a nationally televised address from Poland Saturday — and did not view it as a provocation to Russia. “It’s more an aspiration than anything. He shouldn’t be in power. There’s no — I mean, people like this shouldn’t be ruling countries, but they do. The fact is they do, but it doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage about it.” His comments closely aligned with notes printed on a small piece of paper that he was photographed holding in his left hand as he spoke that began as follows: If you weren’t advocating for regime change, what did you mean? Can you clarify? I was expressing the moral outrage I felt towards the actions of this man I was not articulating a change in policy “I was talking to the Russian people. The last part of the speech was talking to the Russian people, telling them what we thought,” Biden told reporters. The president has been photographed several times using a cheat sheet to talk to reporters and voters both in the White House and on the campaign trail. About two weeks before the 2020 election, he pulled notes out of his jacket as he fielded a question about taxes at a Town Hall event. “I carry this card with me,” Biden told the inquiring voter as he repeatedly referenced the notes to recite a litany of dollar amounts and percentages pertaining to his plan to eliminate the tax cuts of former President Donald Trump. Photos showed he used several cheat sheets during his first presidential press conference, including one with the headshots and names of reporters he planned to call on. Biden also utilized notes during a 2021 summit with Putin, while touring the damage of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana and while calling on reporters at the G20 summit in Rome. “I’ll take your questions, and as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I’m going to call on,” Biden told the assembled media at the November forum. Talk about scripted......Look, I'm not coming down on the guy for using notes, I do that as well. But when the questions are coming from "impromptu" reporters "firing off questions" at him IN THE SAME ORDER OF HIS NOTES, I might be a little suspicious it may be staged.......

I get it, there are scientific oddities outside of the norms of male/female BR, I read your "lengthy article" and while paraphrasing, this is the essence of that article. (With a whole lot of scientific mumbo-jumbo) I chose not to be "open minded" I guess. I can define a woman pretty easily and I'm not a biologist. Her answer seemed to emulate a former SOTUS Justice who during his confirmation was asked to define "pornography" “Perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so, But I know it when I see it.” I guess. A better answer from Judge Jackson came later in the hearings when she answered Ted Cruz "I know that I am a woman". Come on, she's a shoe-in, and YES, I get it. I feel like Will Smith wanting to smack Chris Rock for some reason.......AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT BR. 🤣