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  • Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...

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  • Media Thoughts

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @taiwan_girl said in Media Thoughts: Those type of people forget that the power and prestige is from the position, not the person. IOW, they actually believe their own bullshit.
  • 1930s Germany - in Germany

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    Doctor PhibesD
    German jokes are no laughing matter
  • Mad skillz

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    taiwan_girlT
    Tough crowd! 555
  • Interesting, if true...

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    taiwan_girlT
    They will definitely be bullet stoppers for the Russian. Engineers and construction crews, hmmm probably not. LOL In somewhat related news, the South Korean government said that President Putin gave Premier Kim a locally produced and made Russian Aurus limousine. The interesting thing is that the car most likely contains a certain % of parts from South Korean parts manufacturers. LOL (Of course supplied prior to the war sanctions)
  • SCOTUS: Next to leave?

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    LuFins DadL
    Yeah, Senate makeup will be key. It looks like Montana or Michigan are the R’s best shot at picking up a seat.
  • 💸💸Goodbye Money?💸💸

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  • BLAG?

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    jon-nycJ
    I don’t know I’ve never dropped the soap in prison but it sounds far less pleasant to me than a sports celebration.
  • Nungaray

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    JollyJ
    @taiwan_girl said in Nungaray: It amazes me that people think that President Trump did a great job in reducing the number of illegal immigrants coming to the US, when if you look at the numbers, on average, President Obama did as good, if not better job than president Trump. (and yes, it has gotten much worse under President Biden but that still does not change teh fact that the numbers under President Trump were not any better than under President Obama (who in better than under President Bush)) https://www.statista.com/statistics/329256/alien-apprehensions-registered-by-the-us-border-patrol/ https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/migrant-encounters-at-the-us-mexico-border-hit-a-record-high-at-the-end-of-2023/ I lost 38% in the stock market during the Obama presidency. At the very last of Obama's presidency and through Trump's presidency until COVID, our economy was doing quite well. Yet, still less illegals were coming in under Trump, even though people in power were trying to keep the border more open. So answer me this...Why are people illegally crashing out border in a down economy and high inflation?
  • Retirement gratitude

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    HoraceH
    I remember when a particularly useless low-level co-worker retired, and a certain vice president wrote a long, glowing goodbye, reminiscing about all the stuff they'd gone through together. I was taken aback at choosing that person get so nostalgic over. Then a few months later that VP retired, and she wrote a farewell email to everybody that included a brag about all the money she made in her career there. This was a person who, when addressing the company before, had a very carefully tended air of humility. I'd had quite a lot of respect for this VP, before she shattered the mystique by being herself a couple times.
  • Terrorists among us.

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    JollyJ
    @taiwan_girl said in Terrorists among us.: Afghanistan withdrawal - President Trump Nobody is going to buy that one. Not after watching people die from falling off the landing gear of departing aircraft.
  • Who handles Biden?

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    JollyJ
    @LuFins-Dad said in Who handles Biden?: I don’t really think Obama. Frankly, I don’t think the two of them like each other very much. I think Schumer, if you’re looking for a big name, but I think it’s really somebody that is behind the scenes entirely. Michelle hates Biden. Hates him. So she definitely ain't in the inner circle. Barry uses him, only as far as he can get what he wants. I figured Jill is the gatekeeper and checks off on any proposed agenda proposed by Zients.
  • "Can I play guitar with you?"

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    @89th .. the secret is out .. I google my bands late at night .. I’m so in love with Keith Urban : Link to video
  • There goes the Chevron precedent (SCOTUS 2024)

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    HoraceH
    And.... you don't even read this forum. Good stuff, ol' Ax.
  • The word on AI

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    89th8
    I have a smart fridge. I determines when the fridge is less likely to be used to do its defrost cycle or something. I'm really glad because otherwise I'd hate to take 12 seconds to tell it to defrost IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREAKIN' NIGHT.
  • A MRI could have cured this guy

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    @Friday As I remember, the child went to the OR. I assume endoscopically. I just remember the X-ray up on the board and all of us, saying “Yup, it’s Christmas. That’s it!”
  • Meanwhile, in that other election....

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    Doctor PhibesD
    I'm genuinely disappointed in what Nigel Farage has done. Obviously, I've always disliked the guy, but he really seems to have gone off the edge of late, in what really appears to be a pathetic attempt to stay in the limelight. There have been numerous examples of this, and he actually said that Rishi Sunak "doesn't understand British culture" after he left the D-day commemoration early, which is clearly a racist dog-whistle, despite his protestations to the contrary. Hopefully he'll lose this bid to become an MP, as he did in his previous 7 attempts.
  • The Alabama State Honey Beez

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    MikM
    I was more surprised they could get back up.
  • FCC: Set them free!

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  • Uvalde cops lied again

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    Uvalde police indicted over role in slow response The former Uvalde schools police chief and another former officer have been indicted over their role in the slow police response to the 2022 massacre at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to multiple reports on Thursday. The Uvalde Leader-News and the San Antonio Express-News reported that Pete Arredondo, the former schools police chief, and Adrian Gonzales, a former officer, were indicted by a grand jury on multiple counts of felony child endangerment and abandonment. The Leader-News reported that Christina Mitchell, the local district attorney, confirmed the indictment. The Austin American-Statesman also reported that two former officers had been indicted but did not identify them. Mitchell did not immediately return messages from the Associated Press seeking comment. Several family members of victims of the shooting did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. The indictments would make Arredondo, who was the on-site commander during the attack, and Gonzales the first officers to face criminal charges in one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. A scathing report by Texas lawmakers that examined the police response described Gonzales as one of the first officers to enter the building after the shooting began.