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I'm guessing Trump will claim the voting was rigged.

Sorry Mik. No more kiddos for you.

It's really bizarre they don't realize how abnormal that is to do. It's not something to be proud of.

@jon-nyc said in Want sweaty palms?:

I wonder how many of the stages of grief a guy like that goes through in the seconds he has left.

I had the same macabre thought. You can see he intuitively tried to grab for the rope the bag was on, but after that I'm not sure how long he fell (all the way or did he hit his head on the side on the way down). Aside from initial panic, I wonder if climbers almost have a peace overwhelm them when such a fate has unfolded with a few seconds to comprehend.

Africa is getting peacefully quiet now that about a million folks have died due to the abrupt US AID withdrawal. Plus there is peaceful DC thanks to the machine guns and mine resistant vehicles.

You wonder if folks remember this is about promoting fraternity between nations and reduction of armies... The Sudanese ERR is really a remarkable story and model for the world, although I'd argue they are a bit more on the humanitarian side than the "promotion of peace" side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Response_Rooms

All of that being said, I could see it being Trump. Indeed the US has brokered a number of initial agreements between conflicting nations. While one could argue that the agreements were coerced from a heavy, threatening, tariff-loving, orange hand, it nonetheless has occurred and is a good argument for Trump being awarded the prize for peace, his "I'll end the Ukraine war in one day" epic failure and his "shoot priests with rubber bullets from the roof in Portland" notwithstanding, of course.

I literally did that with a large box today (power wheels car for my almost 5-year old) to get it into the garage and covered with a blanket.

Skinny, but really long. The lake that is.

It doesn’t help his name is Chuck and the h is silent

Here is an analysis of the fall from a rappelling expert who “literally wrote the book” on rappelling where Balin Miller fell.

https://andykirkpatrick.substack.com/p/the-kill-pause

This is not the video guy from above, but someone else who recently fell at Yosemite.

I can’t guarantee this is real, but I’m pretty sure it is, it looks like this is where he repels off of the end of his rope. I believe it’s from a zoomed in spotter cam.

***=video of fall***

When they go low, we go shorter.

I saw odds were surging for Trump. Oh how the whole world would groan in such a placation of his ego. I think it'll go to Sudan's emergency response.

I'm clearly no legal expert, but is the President allowed to tell the DOJ what to do and who to prosecute. Isn't that yet another impeachable offense? Such as this.

What kind of wimpy pickleball style are you playing?

A few moments of terror before death. Reminds me of the other recent story where the rock climber near the top of El Capitain in Yosemite was rappelling down to grab a bag that was stuck and rappelled right off the end of the rope because he forgot to tie a knot.

@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

Was the economy in the pool?

IF a democrat wins in 2028, man DC will be in for a massive shockwave as the gaggle of Trump's employed sycophants go scrambling to find work somewhere.

Sign checks out

That was fun to watch, @LuFins-Dad and yes the airhead hosts at the end wanted to add their 2 cents. Thanks for sharing, cool to see you on national TV!

Well one character didn’t starve to death and the other characters didn’t technically die from starvation directly, if that makes sense.

Basically the twist is Tom Hanks ate his family. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.