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I think he looks the same as he did during the debate.

posted by geeblock

One of my former students graduated boot camp in the navy yesterday in Chicago and after the ceremony she left to go home for Xmas and they got called back and will be getting deployed because of Russian tanks and ships getting close to NATO positions or something to that effect 

I hope any further conflict can be ended soon and that kid you know can stay safe.

Fuck these manufactured wars!

posted by Laley23

We have a few Coyotes that roam the neighborhood. Usually see them a few times a month -- more in spring. I love them. They eat all the fuckers that eat my garden (rabbits, squirrels, mice, etc). I wish we had more of them. 

I have horses and all my neighbors have some type of livestock, so coyotes are a menace. 

My closest neighbor and I have our horses run together and so we pool hay and such. He bought a donkey to keep with our babes as a security agent. That damn thing, named Buddy, was the best investment ever! Other neighbors have started investing in donkeys, too. None of our animals have been attacked or killed for some time. 

Donkeys are natural born coyote killers lol

So I didn't read all the back and forth. But I will say this:

Being against taxpayers paying for 70yrs without any declarations of war is not a far left monopoly.

Being against hyper overspending to pay for repetitive bureaucracies with extremely little benefit is not a far right monopoly.

Wanting to destroy a huge and systemic government corruption scheme is a common goal.

It is not far right to be against trans women competing in women's sports.

It is not far left to be against anti marijuana laws.

Saying that this site is mostly right or far right is just stupid and not very well thought out lol! It's just a misplaced attempt at being proactive. 

posted by friendfromlowry

1.5 elephants 

👀

I hate everything about coyotes. I only hate spiders more. 

posted by sportchampps

The problem is how obvious they are. They clearly get talking points from the left and then repeat it all day across multiple shows and networks. Like the JD Vance is weird thing. It’s funny that of all people Mark Cuban the other day said the Kamala team would give him talking points for his interviews but he wouldn’t say what they wanted. 

Well this is a case of Democrats not being able to read a room. The populist left haven't been in the mood to listen to sermons from billionaires, professors or celebrities for a decade. 

If they keep their tone deafness, they are inviting a Vance presidency.

posted by ptown_trojans_1

I mean the CR bill did have reforms on pharmacy benefits managers and additional funding for childhood cancer research....but, Musk and Trump didn't like it, so that's out now. 

Also, was not a 40% pay raise too, only $6k total, but that's out now too.

Those items you have listed all could have been a single item bill for each and had all year to do it.

Neither side gets a break over this. There shall be no sympathy or sorrow from me. 

Besides that, the damn Republicans/Johnson had the time and opportunity to call in Congress for the hurricane victims funding, but they didn't. They have NO room to call foul on anything. And the same goes for Biden/Harris, since the president has the authority to call Congress for emergency funding also. 

No sob stories allowed!

posted by sportchampps

They our voting to give themselves better healthcare until they fix regulars people’s healthcare they can live just like we do. 

YES!!!

I’m tired of bills filled with junk. It may be the ways things get done but it needs to change. I don’t care a or a raise but 40% is stupid. They our voting to give themselves better healthcare until they fix regulars people’s healthcare they can live just like we do. I also don’t want to fund a stadium that 99.99% of people will get zero value from. The excuse that this is how things get done doesn’t make it right.

How about Pelosi blocking AOC from a leadership position in favor of a 74 yr old guy, who also has cancer.

Strategy or fuckery? 🤣

The reason I started this thread in the first place. The Republicans lick balls. 

The Republicans and MAGA need to do the same things that the Dems need to do, which is to erase the chalkboard, get rid of their current framework of thinking and start get new glasses so they can see from a more simple perspective. 

But that's definitely not going to happen with Johnson.

posted by Heretic

Looks like he's more focused on what's more important to him (wounded pride) than anything that matters to anyone who isn't a pure jock-rider dumb enough to think that if Trump wins, they win.

This is what I don't get. If were me and I proved a pollster wrong, by 17pts as was the case, I would be thrilled about it. What part of that can possibly hurt Trump's pride?! I just can't.

posted by majorspark

In the whole scheme of things Congress does not get paid that much.  If you are there and not independently wealthy you are open to corruption.  If you are there and independently wealthy likely not there to serve the common man.

I'd triple congress's salary if they agreed to term limits.

While I agree to terms limits/age caps, I am against them getting a pay raise of any sort. As long as taxpayers have to keep funding wars without any declaration of war, DC shouldn't get even a penny raise. As long as these politicians put themselves before their constituents, I will always be against it. They don't deserve it. 

posted by ptown_trojans_1

Well, Trump and Musk came out against it and now it is dead. Johnson had a deal to increase farm aid for R states as well as more natural disaster aid. Because of that, Democrats added items to help their folks and to help clear the D Senate.

That was too much for them apparently..so shutdown is possible in 2 days...

Trump also wants a debt ceiling increase now, instead of March when it is due, because he wants it under Biden not him. 

It's funny, it's like they don't acknowledge for this they need Democrats from the Senate and the Democrats are not going to agree to just a straight Republican bill from the House.

Next year is going to be so much fun in Congress! What a shitshow

Dems are also defending the pay raise. I should have mentioned that in my prior post, but I was walking into work and forgot. Was just in a rush. 

The whole bill is goofy and people from both sides of the aisle are tired of it. 

Massie predicted 3 months ago that this was going to happen. Almost line by line. 

Congress, led by a Republican Speaker, wants to increase their pay in this 1500 page CR bill.

They need to go find themselves.

1.) I agree with Trump's defamation lawsuit against ABC. It was the correct thing to do, and the settlement was just.

2.) I wholeheartedly disagree with his lawsuit against a publication that posted a poll that turned out to be wrong. People can't go around suing poll publications. More often than not they are wrong - so what? It might be disappointing for those who believed them and they are wrong and the nominee lost. BooHoo, life goes on. But what is happening here is that Trump is being a sore winner. I mean, it's beyond stupid. Time and again this retard just goes around fucking his own self in the ass. Classic!

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

Conservative (right) / progressive (left) are philosophies or world views that remain static.  Political parties don’t necessarily overlap with these as parties are platforms that are ever morphing and don’t necessarily adhere to a philosophy.

I agree with this. 

Because the actions of Dems in the past 10 years does not match the definition of what it means to be a Democrat.

I'm curious now as to what people think constitutes as right/left, conservative/liberal, Republican/Democrat. 

The way I see it is that it's all such a jumbled mess.  I honestly don't know how anyone can live in the current reality of things, not their ideals, and call themselves one of the other. Not anymore.

I also think that most people on this site couldn't distinguish a party that delivers on a claim or holds to its traditional values. We Americans are in a fix lol!

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

It’s just the way it is - not good or bad.

No,.I think it's just the way YOU are.