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'Oncoming Train': Gaetz Alleged Sex Crimes Bombshell Exposed (Original Post) Natal Jan 2022 OP
What's the significance of the word "train" ... the reference is unclear to me. NurseJackie Jan 2022 #1
It's too explicit to explain even for DU. Chipper Chat Jan 2022 #4
I need to broaden my circle of friends. NurseJackie Jan 2022 #9
:rofl: Chipper Chat Jan 2022 #14
I do not think the reference means anything but this puke is in a lot of trouble. The Jungle 1 Jan 2022 #6
Google it with the word sex. usaf-vet Jan 2022 #8
Ugh! Okay... I found this on Urban Dictionary NurseJackie Jan 2022 #10
I don't know what browser you use but it is possible to delete searches from most browsers. :-) usaf-vet Jan 2022 #11
It's Firefox mostly. Google chrome works best for other things. NurseJackie Jan 2022 #16
It doesn't matter what browser you use, your ISP knows every page you have landed on. ShazamIam Jan 2022 #12
Indeed... but a private browser tab would (hopefully) prevent Google from.. NurseJackie Jan 2022 #15
if it is Firefox you are in luck. And It doesn't matter what option regular or private. usaf-vet Jan 2022 #17
No, just a fan of the character in my avatar. NurseJackie Jan 2022 #18
New nickname. "The Mattanooga Choo Choo!" LOL n/t brewens Jan 2022 #2
And he's going around the crossing Gaetz, right into its path... Blue Owl Jan 2022 #3
But But But repukes need to control woman's bodies. The Jungle 1 Jan 2022 #5
The reporter's Sensationalizing this story with lame puns left me msfiddlestix Jan 2022 #7
This is a really small fish, like all the newest Republicans in the House, just disiposable trash. ShazamIam Jan 2022 #13

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
10. Ugh! Okay... I found this on Urban Dictionary
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 10:53 AM
Jan 2022

Honestly, I'd never heard of this expression... thanks for guiding me to the answer.

So I guess the OP is making a prison-rape joke.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sex%20train

EDIT TO ADD: And now that phrase is part of my google search history. I should have been thinking ahead and opened a new "Private Window" in my browser.

usaf-vet

(7,768 posts)
11. I don't know what browser you use but it is possible to delete searches from most browsers. :-)
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 11:13 AM
Jan 2022

Google "how do I edit my browser (name your browser) history."

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
16. It's Firefox mostly. Google chrome works best for other things.
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 12:04 PM
Jan 2022

I'm not paranoid about what my ISP might see. I just want to avoid having Google suggest it to me every time I type a search that begins with the same letters.

Thanks for the advice. I'll see what I can do about clearing previous searches.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
15. Indeed... but a private browser tab would (hopefully) prevent Google from..
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 12:01 PM
Jan 2022

... suggesting that to me every time I or my husband searched for something beginning with the letters "se..."

usaf-vet

(7,768 posts)
17. if it is Firefox you are in luck. And It doesn't matter what option regular or private.
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 12:46 PM
Jan 2022


Are you a nurse?

Former military medic here.

Nurses are on the frontline. Thanks to them all.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
18. No, just a fan of the character in my avatar.
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 02:44 PM
Jan 2022

In spite of her personal issues, she was kick-ass and I enjoyed the show a lot. My son was an EMT volunteer for a brief time... he says he truly enjoyed it and thought it would be an entryway into the fire department. But after a year, the reality hit him and he couldn't see himself hanging of the back of a firetruck when he got older. So he pursued other career opportunities.

Nurses are on the frontline. Thanks to them all.
One of my dearest friends is a nurse, and she's about ready to call it quits. It's just too much to see so much death, day after day, being able to do nothing about it, and treating patients who didn't care enough in the first place (or who deny covid exists while gasping for air).

I don't know how she does it. The other day on FB she posted a photo of a janitor's supply closet and captioned it "This is where I go to cry."

msfiddlestix

(8,169 posts)
7. The reporter's Sensationalizing this story with lame puns left me
Fri Jan 28, 2022, 10:42 AM
Jan 2022

with a sense of reading a headline out of the front pages of the Enquirer.

Not that it's fake news, but that there's far less real meat here than is being suggested in terms of criminal charges Gatez could be facing. It's going to take far more than having sex with a "minor" vis a vis second hand info.

Serious sex trafficking should take it to a different level entirely. And oh by the way, this is in Florida right? Where Epstein's very serious sex trafficking charges were essentially ignored by the highest level of prosecutors in terms of Epstein's serving real time behind bars in Florida.

Bottom line for me, is that as long as this asshole is free and able to walk the halls of Congress, this story will eventually disappear or fade away. It's like tabloid material, meaning may as well be in terms of end result. Gatez will use it as campaign fodder.

I'd be thrilled if we read of his arrests, prosecution/conviction and sentencing behind bars for the appropriate time.

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