OT: Scumbag Favre steals 1.7 million from poor families in Mississippi
So here is more to the story of Brett scumbag Favre and him stealing money from poor families in Mississippi.
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/04/04/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare-scandal-payout/
[Edited in as a clickable alternative to the barstool link. Tip of the hat to MGoUser 'mackbru' for being the first to post this link downthread.
I also edited the OP's title in response to the OP's first reply -rob f]
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3412541/the-brett-favre-welfare-scandal-is-back-this-time-involving-an-ex-governor-of-mississippi
Supposed to be "steals" and I apologize if link is broken or not workable. This is updated and has more information to the original story. Guess I don't understand why two of Green Bays best ON field QBs are just slimy and shady people. They are very self centered and self absorbed and only care about themselves. AR complains about not getting help yet he has to make 50million a year. GTFO and Favre a multi millionaire and then some steals money aimed to help people who are in tough times and don't have it as well as others. What is it with these guys and their fans still support them. I would hate it if my QBs of my sports team were like them. Could also throw in Watson also 20 plus sexual assaults but gets a guaranteed 240 million dollars. Hope his civil suit is about 239.9 million dollars.
I find Rodgers as annoying as the next guy but he doesn’t deserve to be mentioned together with two criminals.
With a man bun like his, I disagree.
As a Bears fan, it's been very satisfying to find out that Brett Farve and Aaron Rodgers are douchebags.
FTP and Bear Down Baby!
Buckeye QBs NFL history + Bears QBs NFL history = enjoy the basement of the division (and I live in Chicago)
I am more than used to living in the basement of the NFC North. And having to root for Ohio State QB's playing for the Bears.
Existence is pain
You do know they claim Burrow right? I’m from Ohio
My friend's grandpa had everything he owned stolen in either MS or AL. They came in the middle of the night and threatened to kill everyone or they could leave everything to them and move. I know this was common practice, but it still threw me when I found out. Hopefully in the future his family can get back what was stolen.
Please share this story in greater detail
Yeah, without more detail and context, that story doesn't sound plausible. I mean, just leave the house and drive directly to a police station, say you were threatened with death and coerced to give up all your possessions, and the police will go and get your house back and imprison the perpetrators. Unless this story happened in 8th century England, of course...
Depending on what part of AL or MS and the year it may have been it's likely it was the police that gave him the option.
they obviously haven't seen shows like dukes of hazzard
I have lived in Mississippi for about 25 years. If this was before 1970 and the victims were black, it is plausible. I have spoken with many people who survived the Jim Crow era or have stories about their family members' experiences. One friend's father told me he was whipped with a bull whip for not getting off the sidewalk quickly enough when a white person approached. The man who integrated Mississippi State University is a personal friend. The local high school celebrated the 50th anniversary of integration last year. This is not ancient history.
Welfare Queen Brett Favre, living off entitlements and tax payer money.
For a long time Favre was the type of person Real America loved. I wonder how Real America is processing this information. Must hurt a little.
Judging from most of "Real America's" recent political heroes, I doubt they ever bother to process any amount of factual information if it goes against what they beleive.
This is a pretty shitty comment. If you can't recognize that politicians from both sides of the aisle -- representing Real Americans or Coastal Elites -- are thieves then you're just blind or are intentionally ignorant.
Agreed
I think one can recognize both sides have issues, but it isn't symmetrical. I am so tired of people who support a party that attempted to overthrow the government telling everyone both parties are equally corrupt.
While not on the same level, if you're looking for symmetry, look no further than Seattle's autonomous zone in 2020.
To say that the entire GOP supports the Jan 6th incident is the same as saying each Democrat supported the CHOP zone. It's a lazy argument.
Is that why the only Republicans on the January 6th committee are being primaried, including one of the higher ranked members? Look at how your party is voting on these issues. The leading GOP candidate for President is currently the guy who attempted the coup. The GOP has told us what they are about. You don't get to hide behind the few outliers who still believe in doing what's right. And the fact you think the situation in Seattle was relatively the same as an attempt to destroy our democracy explains why we are in this mess.
The Jan 6th rioters were stupid, but to call it a coup is also stupid. Those idiots were about as organized as a kindergarten class.
It's one thing to acknowledge a wrongdoing, it's another to buy the opposition's propaganda as if it were real. That's why those guys are getting primaried.
CHOP and the BLM riots get invoked in regards to Jan 6th because most people on the right believe the Jan 6th rioters should be punished, but also want the other rioters punished for their sins too.
So much of what your saying has been debunked, but thats what happens when a segment of the population has embraced a false sense of reality.
I just don't know how we overcome this as a country.
Looting/rioting/destroying private property, while bad and deserving of punishment, isn’t remotely comparable to a concerted (using that word loosely, given the incompetence of the dipshits in charge) effort to interfere with the operation of the federal government and the attempted interference with a peaceful transfer of power. Not particularly surprised, given your posting history, that this distinction is lost on you
Speaking of lazy arguments, how many members of US Congress participated in or abetted that event? How many threats were issued to Republicans in congress if they dared to investigate it? Just asking questions.
Not even digging into the politics at all, your application of logic to this argument is weak, at best.
So much this. Trump is a Russian owned fascist who idolizes Putin and Kim Jong and wishes to be dictator of a US engaged in a race war while destroying the environment for monetary gain. Nothing democrats are doing comes anywhere close to that. The two sides aren't remotely equal. Yeah democrats are still owned by lobbyists and do whats in their own best interest, not the country's. But theyre not actively destroying the environment, schools, the postal service, making racism ok again, cheering on Putin, thinking other politicians are baby eating lizards, etc etc. Anyone who supports current Repugnicans is dumb as dirt or a trash human or both.
If you're going to call half the country human trash, at least take the time to explain or provide evidence. Very ignorant comment.
I mean there is skimming off the top and there is storming the Capital building, gerrymandering, making it harder for people to vote, and banning books.
Everybody does “it”, but one party’s “it” is far, far worse and saying it’s not is excusing that behavior.
There is a danger with wide labels. The real underlying issue is we have a system that is designed for minority rule. Only one republican candidate for president has won the popular vote and that was Bush v. Kerry in 2024 when swiftboats for justice turned Kerry's voluntary Vietnam service against him. In that time frame we have had 3 republican presidents and 3 democrat presidents. Really not feeling like a shinning example of democracy.
Currently one major party has zero platform. It is a party of grievance and obstruction with no plans to govern. However they are able to remain in power by minority rule and division politics on fringe social issues. Banning CRT and transgender participation is sports is nothing more than a rage machine issue with no substance. Banning voting rights and more importantly how votes are counted pushes the minority rule even farther.
Outlaw gerrymandering and Citizens United to get dark money out and you will go a long way toward getting a government that more closely represents the will of the people. We are not as divided as the media makes it out to be. I talk to friends with different views and we have very similar ideas on values and outcomes. The debate is almost always on how to get there. When you look at individual issues and take R's and D's out of the equation the majority of the country is on the same page.
Sorry for the rant this morning. I live in TN where the republican congress just introduced a bill that allows for common law marriage between a man and a woman with no age limit. Essentially a loophole for statutory rape. I have lived here 10 years, I promise you 50% of the people in TN do not believe that adults should be able to marry children. It is being sold by a hard right anti gay marriage bill so it gets the 30% or so bible belt seal of approval. Just embarrassed for the state today and the bad press.
i before e...... i before e....
trying to degrade someone you disagree with by implying 'Real America' is derogatory might possibly be as ignorant as implying that the statement, "I prefer classic rock" is a racist identifier.
be a responsible citizen, do your part to end division not further it.
amazing how a thread, from barstool, about bret favre can be twisted into a political discussion. some people just thrive on this shit
I agree that we should stop seeking to sow discord.
I disagree that this is not a political story. Brett Favre conspired with the then Governor of the State of Mississippi to divert Federal funds from their intended purpose in order to illegally line the pockets of those who are already wealthy. This story is inherently political without any twisting.
What exactly is "Real America"
Barstool links are automatically ban-worthy, and rightly so. Better to give the link to the journalist who broke the story.
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/04/04/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare-scandal-payout/
Thanks for posting this version, by the way.
As only a few people read Seth's introduction in the Mod Sticky, I suppose we have to assume that, for many, posting links from that site is not done out of malice.
That said, I keep telling myself that we should have the occasional pop quiz on the personae non gratae and sites on the "no mention" list, just to see if people are listening. They aren't, but we could see.
Can't a bit of programming be done to automatically block said sites from being posted? It's not a big deal to me, but it seems like it would be a trivial exercise for most programmers.
Evidently, HUEL is not most programmers.
No need to program it, just need to install the module.
https://www.drupal.org/project/elb
If you want to have extra control about which external links should not be allowed in your site, this module helps you. With this module you can create a blocklist of URL's that are forbidden. When a user tries to input an external link to a non allowed URL, an error will be displayed.
I mentioned this in another thread and some guy got VERY upset about it. So I say this with trepidation, but Seth did leave a comment in a thread a few weeks ago about how he's okay with Barstool links that are actual news and the Barstool ban goes back to their early days when it was all "bewbs" (his term).
Now I'll wait for that same commenter to demand evidence and begin another tedious debate defending his righteousness.
I'm not even a Barstool fan but it seems like they do put out some actual news now and have grown into some level of legitimacy and not only frat boy humor. Again, I'm not a fan so please don't jump on here to yell at me about why you don't like them.
And yet someone negs one of the most innocuous posts ever...
Such are the hazards of posting online.
How can we ever earn that OMG shirtless poster of Brian that we get at 100k MGoPoints if we keep negging each other?
We can't. That's the part he never told us.
Much better link because it actually discusses the issues and isn't written by someone who clearly was between snorts of whip-its while publishing the article.
Also listening to Pitbull.
Great point 'mackbru' and good find, too---after taking a quick skim thru your linked article, I've decided to edit your link into the OP as an alternative to the barstool link.
That's a really poorly written story with a throwaway and completely opaque last line that begs the question whether its author has some political agenda of their own. You might do better to link to the original investigative piece that it's obviously drawn from:
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/04/04/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare-scandal-payout/
You're right to seize on the particularly ugly fact that a nice chunk of financing was money earmarked to help struggling poor people. Here's hoping that, if true, this story has legs and other media outlets pursue it.
EDIT: Sorry, I am more or less repeating what Mackbru says above.
Fuck Brett Favre!
Throwing an interception in his last throw as a Packer... and as a Jet... and as a Viking is my favorite part of his career.
Is this true? I did not realize this!
That’s nothing.Tens of billions were stolen in the Covid Relief stimulus.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/criminals-have-stolen-nearly-100-billion-in-covid-relief-funds-secret-service.html