is not your daddy's uncle no matter what your sister says
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LOL, I remember being a young buck with a little chip on my shoulder and starting to spread my wings. We chose Florida for all the reasons that it was advertised for back in the 90's. Orlando seemed like a good place because it was centrally located and what kid growing up didn't want to see Disney when trips like that were completely out of the cards for my family?
It took a couple trips for me to get over the Mickey vibe and that's when I would go back to the condo and start thumbing through all the local news while getting to know the locals. To my surprise, their local news was not unike ours. Lots of crime, shootings and drug busts all happening within miles from the Magic Kingdom every day. Back then I just thought it was comical that everything they would fear us for was happening on a regular basis there too.
Don't even get me started on politics. As I grew older and started trying to bud out with a little Florida arm to my real estate hobby, it was brutal. The double dealing and the kickbacks involved while even trying to get your foot in the door was sickening. They made our old "machine" politicians look like choirboys by comparison. There was no wheel in that "good ol' boy" network that didn't demand a little grease. It was more on par with Giancana's crew than Daley's lol and I worked for both in my day. I aborted my dreams of contracting in Florida real quick and made sure to mind my own business after that.
It's even worse down there today and I've been from end to end of that state while they still have the gall to bring up this magnificent city like it's some sort of poster child for crime and corruption. The shiny object they point to when trying to deflect the light off themselves.
I could go on but I've done work in a lot of other places that give the same attitude. We all have the same issues but somehow I'm vilified because of where I live and work.
It's the same rule everywhere. If you don't want to experience violence, do not go looking for it. Don't try to buy or sell heroin, crack or meth on a dark street corner in a neighborhood you know nothing about and you should be just fine. There's over 5 million people in Cook County and on peak days can attract up to 2 million more visitors so there's going to be some shitheads out there, it's just a law of averages.
Funny part is per-capita we rank better than the places that use us as a poster child.
I'm not ashamed to admit where I live. Our little town of 20k people do just fine a few miles from the city limits. 😎
Our lack of white supremacists might be a bug to some but I consider it a glowing feature.
poster also turned it into a game of hide and seek, refusing to drop the subject when it was initially resolved, then continuing to dangle clues that nobody asked for.
poster should realize that nobody cares and they could have stopped the game in the beginning but has a need to feel that, "I know something that you don't", superiority. It makes them feel clever.
“Hank in Jackson County” appears to be Hank Choate, a farmer but also one of the 16 Michigan Republicans who signed a certificate falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the 2020 election: https://t.co/2Lp7CrKH6c
— Craig Mauger (@CraigDMauger) September 21, 2024
I dearly hope you've been following along with our good friend Marcy Wheeler, like I suggested awhile ago. It's so convoluted these days that I can't even keep up with it all but she's always on the spot. The comeuppance is in DC... Georgia is a political mess of a case.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/09/22/trump-will-stage-an-emergency-to-ban-jack-smiths-book-report/
check out the timeline subjects if you need to keep up like me.. Unbiased journalism where the only thing that matters are facts.
https://www.emptywheel.net/about/timeline-collection/
do you have twitter access, big bothsides guy? Read this thread, again if you don't or can't , I will provide all the pertinent information from early 2023 to present by request. It appears getting all your information from Russian sources isn't really the best of ideas.
Aaron simply making shit up again. pic.twitter.com/QO77mxrPAb
— Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) September 22, 2024
👇️👇️Eats guinea pigs and may or may not had sex in a Barnes and Noble bathroom wants you to know that he is much much smarter and better looking than you are. His opinion is the only one that matters.👇️👇️
That's not what she said at all. Your boy took her completely out of context. Get back to me when you get the full interview or at least that excerpt. Show us the question that was asked and what her full answer was and quit living in a fantasy land.
P.S. tell all your friends that Hillary isn't running for president anymore either. Explain to them that it's 2024 now.
If you'd like to learn more about the Trump connections to Russia that you call phony, there is a documentary airing tonight on msnbc at 9:00 ET that explains a lot of it. It's called "From Russia With Lev".
If you miss it, once the network puts on youtube after tonight, I will repost all two hours of it here so you can't say you never saw it.. I hope all you "botthsiders" that have either watched or will watch it will come back here and say with a straight face that "they are all the same".
we took in around 20 Million people
Who is "we" and where are these 20 million people you speak of?
Is this what you lose sleep at night over? How many more times are you going to continue to beat this dead horse? Do you have to unplug and plug yourself back in once a week to be able to keep regurgitating the same bullshit over and over and over again?
I see we are back to the George Floyd protests again now too. You claim to live somewhere in Minnesota so now you're the foremost authority on everything Twin Cities even though you don't provide an ounce of proof to back your assertions? After last week's session with fuagf, he probably now knows more about Minneapolis than you do.
We understand you are a fan of the former guy and there's no shame in that except you need to bring factual information to everyone here to prove your point. The redundancy in your arguments even after you are debunked only show me and all the others here that you have no idea what is going on. You're just here to annoy people. Your content is borderline spam which shows that you have the mental capacity of an 8 year old that just learned how to tie his shoes and wants to keep showing everyone that already learned when they were 4.
Get some new material.. That shit didn't work in 2020 and it sure as hell isn't going to work now.
12 days ago.....
Oh definitely, just like this corned beef. I mean, I could probably slow cook it on the grill but I like it better when everything gets to swim around together and soak up all the flavor..
Sous vide is extremely easy and makes perfectly cooked meat. He would make lamb and beef roasts that seemed like they were melting in your mouth. I'm just set in my ways, I need my fire whenever possible.. 🔥
Oh no, always prepackaged brisket. LOL it's bad enough that I have to chop the potatoes, cabbage and onion. I buy baby carrots so no peeling and slicing there and little red potatoes don't need to be skinned.
My chef buddy made all his meat in the sous vide and it was delicious. LOL always looked a little gray and funky when it came out of the cooker but that was nothing a blowtorch couldn't solve. He never made a corned beef though. He always tried to talk me into getting one but I'm still hopelessly addicted to my grill. I thought about it after he passed but kind of forgot about it.
LOL I wish.. It's been pushing 90 for the last week and I can't remember the last time it rained significantly.. Supposed to rain Sunday and start to cool back into the 70's next week but I'll believe it when I see it.
Last time I went shopping there was a sale on corned beef and I always have a taste for it so I grabbed one. It was called "the half way to St. Pats day" sale so they had all the good stuff for cheap. Usually it's impossible to find one between June and November without paying through the nose for it so it worked out good.
It turned out good too. I slow cooked it this time to see how it would turn out and I might stick with this method going forward.
It doesn't work that way anymore. The only time he's on the air now is a Fox or newsmax gig and even then they start to cut him off when he goes into derangement mode, which is becoming an everyday occurrence. I'm not sure what networks you are watching. His campaign has devolved into a pity party tour full of the same misinformation and fear mongering he's been repeating for 9 years now and his stories are better suited for a dark corner in the basement of a retirement home.
But you go on and keep telling yourself that we're all the ones who are certifiable, if it makes you feel better.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-fictional-stories/index.html
LOL I'm making corned beef and cabbage today. I'm going to put it through a rigorous taste test before I make a plate and go drop it off for my girl at work.. If I mess up my fine lass's Irish dinner it could be a deal breaker.
LOL either that or one of her new recipes finally took its toll.
gonna have to take a hard pass on the lil' smokie concoction. Marty and me are in the den stuffing our face with some convenient store nachos instead.
that looks good and I agree, apricots are underrated. My mom still makes the the family kolaczki recipe for me and sis when we're together. The fresh made apricot filling is a must but the sweet poppyseed is a close second.
I wonder if Cheryl Hines is going to stick up for her beau again this time?
What a convoluted mess that is.
Yeah, could be...
I think the alpaca would scare him just as much. LOL I was waiting for him to whip out a note like the doggos that go shopping for their hoomans.
Yeah sure, LOL the guy she was engaged to (Ryan Lizza) was fired from the new yorker for the same kind of funny business so I don't think they would have called it off if her tryst with Bobby Jr. was platonic.
She needs to take this time off for some serious self reflection.
I sometimes try to stop myself from thinking that way, fearing that I'm getting a little too conspiratorial for my own good but every outlet I look at to try to disprove my own theory doesn't give me much satisfaction.
Electing Harris would only be a start, albeit a big one but some laws need to be changed, even if it takes pushing for some new amendments to the constitution.
LOLOLOL. We are never alone.
Yes, there have been a lot of mistakes made by the Democratic leadership in the recent years and they all stemmed from adhering to tradition and norms that were always taken for granted. You're even doing it now by assuming that just because nobody likes JD it will make a difference. That's not the point because government as we know it will cease to exist and they will turn our constitution into campfire kindling. What part about suggesting that we will not have another election is not registering?
The SCOTUS has already got the ball rolling with their latest rulings. They aren't interpreting the constitution anymore, they are writing their own laws and this presidential immunity nonsense has unlocked Pandora's Box. It's given them the ultimate power to determine what is right or wrong regardless of standing precedent.
I try to talk myself down all the time too but watching the way things are unfolding it's hard for me to admit that there's tens of millions of people who would support all this but there are.
It's a whole new set of unwritten rules now and "we're not going back" has become more than just a campaign slogan. It's our only way to keep this great experiment in progress..
I might sound a little too alarmist and that's okay, I will accept that but there wouldn't be a bunch of old guard republicans ringing the same bell I am if I was that far off base.
How many people in their respective nations do you think really like Putin, Xi, Kim or our new recruits Orban and Maduro? The middle east leaders are too long to list.
I'm probably out on a limb and I'm not saying that it will happen, but it can. There was a contingency that the Heritage folks did not see coming and it's why they are getting so desperate now. I have a recent post about this, so instead of repeating myself.....
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175074372
It doesn't mattter what the base thinks once they are in office. If they pull all the crap that project 2025 wants to do, there wouldn't be another election.
The leigslatve branch will be neutered by the judicial as well, so they wouldn't even have a say in the matter.
Yes, Vance is really dumb and that's why he is so easy to manipulate. Who wouldn't want to be named "king" when there's nobody to stop them?
I've said all along that this was the goal of Thiel and the Heritage foundation. He doesn't even have to wait for his demise. The VP can invoke the 25th amendment at any time and with as much backstabbing that goes on within that crowd, I think that was the plan all along. It's not like anyone can disagree that the cheese has slipped off trumpty's cracker and JD is the perfect patsy.
Way easier to manipulate than the old man.
This Is What a Losing Campaign Looks Like
How does Donald Trump’s running mate have so much time on his hands?
By David Frum
Alex Wroblewski / AFP / Getty
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024, 12:37 PM ET
Updated at 1:05 p.m. ET on September 18, 2024
A first draft of this story opened: “It’s not every day that a candidate for vice president of the United States rage-tweets at you.”
Backspace, backspace, backspace. Although it’s not every day that a candidate for vice president of the United States rage-tweets at me personally, it is almost every day that Senator J. D. Vance rage-tweets at somebody. (I had tweeted, in part, this: “The difference: The upsetting things said by Trump and Vance are not true. The upsetting things said about Trump and Vance are true.” Vance responded: “I’d say the most important difference is that people on your team tried to kill Donald Trump twice.”)
But then here he was yesterday, for example, quote-tweeting one of the English-speaking world’s premier apologists for the Assad dictatorship in Syria, in order to assail Hillary Clinton. On September 14, he was mixing it up in the X comments with a reporter for The Intercept and the host of an online talk show.
In other words, to have J. D. Vance as your own personal reply guy is not such an accomplishment.
But it raises the question of how a nominee for vice president has so much time on his hands. Can you imagine, say, Dick Cheney, scrolling through his mentions, getting irritated, and firing off a retort? Neither can I.
So here’s my second draft: What we’ve been seeing from Trump-Vance is not the behavior of a winning campaign.
The day before Vance tweeted at me, former President Donald Trump was livestreaming to promote a dubious new cryptocurrency venture. That same day, he gave an interview to the conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root in which Trump reverted to old form to denounce mail-in voting because the U.S. Postal Service could not be trusted to deliver pro-Trump votes fairly.
The day before that, the Secret Service had fired upon a man with a rifle near Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course. The apparent assassination attempt drove the headlines, but beneath the story was the reality that a candidate for president took a day off to golf only 50 days before Election Day.
Trump golfs a lot, and campaigns surprisingly infrequently. When he does campaign events, he makes odd choices of venue: Today, he will appear in New York’s Nassau County. New York State has not voted Republican for president since 1984. In 2020, Trump won 38 percent of the New York vote. Yet Trump has convinced himself, or somebody has convinced him, that this year he might be competitive in New York.
Yesterday, Trump posted a pledge on his Truth Social platform to restore the deductibility of state and local taxes. That’s an important issue for upper-income taxpayers in tax-heavy New York. Trump did not mention that he himself, as president, signed the legislation that capped state and local deductibility at the first $10,000, to help fund the Republican tax cut of 2017.
Vice President Kamala Harris has been driving a message of abortion rights and middle-income-oriented economic policy in must-win states. She sat for back-to-back solo interviews, both in Pennsylvania, the first with a local ABC affiliate, the second with the National Association of Black Journalists on the Philadelphia public station WHYY.
Trump’s main message of the week, meanwhile, has been that he was not wrong to accuse Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of stealing and eating pets—a message that has put him at odds with the state’s Republican governor and local mayors and police chiefs. The only thing Trump said that made more impact were the four words he posted Sunday morning: I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!
Adam Serwer: The real reason Trump and Vance are spreading lies about Haitians https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/trumps-campaign-immigrants-springfield-ohio-haiti/679913/
Adding to the self-harm, Vance indicated that the Trump health-care plan would allow insurers to resume denying coverage for preexisting conditions. Trump himself proclaimed that he would address high food prices by barring food imports—a policy guaranteed to raise costs instead. All but two Senate Republicans got baited into voting yesterday against a law to protect in vitro fertilization from state-level abortion restrictions. Meanwhile, Republicans in the House seem to be stumbling toward forcing a government shutdown because Trump vetoed their own plan to fund government operations through the November election. That’s all just in a single week.
Trump campaigns have always been festivals of grievances, eruptions of impulse. They also had, however, a kind of logic to them, whether intended by Trump or not. He voiced the resentments of a certain section of America that happened to be the section favored by the Electoral College. That alignment converted his 46 percent of the popular vote in 2016 into a 304–227 Electoral College win.
The question—in 2020 and, again, this year—has always been: Can the trick be repeated?
In the days following Trump’s Taylor Swift post, new polls for the first time showed Harris clearly pulling ahead of Trump—not only in the national popular vote, but also in individual swing states. Harris’s personal approval rating turned net favorable for the first time since the early months of the Biden presidency. Yesterday, a poll in Iowa showed Trump with just a four-point lead over Harris in that conservative-leaning state, down from an 18-point lead over Biden in a June poll.
Suddenly, it looks as if the Harris-Trump margin may not even be all that close—and that the Republican majority in the House may be at risk too.
Trump personally may not understand that he’s losing. His more cerebral running mate, Vance, does seem to have noticed, and that may account for the bitterness of his tone. Republicans don’t tend to offer second chances to unsuccessful vice-presidential candidates. After 2008, Sarah Palin had no future in politics. Dan Quayle’s bid for the presidency in 2000 fizzled before it started. If Trump loses in 2024—and especially if his defeat also costs the Republicans their House majority—Vance will get a lot of the blame.
His admission to Dana Bash on CNN on September 15—“if I have to create stories” to get media attention, he’d said, defending his racist rumormongering about Haitian immigrants in Ohio—rates among the worst-ever gaffes in national politics. Rankling self-reproach for his blunder may explain Vance’s keypad-pounding on X this week. The anger has to go somewhere, and it’s probably too painful to direct it where it belongs: inward.
Every losing campaign has a different shape. Sometimes, campaigns lose because of insurmountable difficulties. John McCain had no chance of winning a third Republican presidential term against the backdrop of economic crisis in 2008; Bob Dole could not argue that it was “time for a change” amid the strong economy of 1996. At other times, the candidate simply does not fit the moment, as Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton found in 2012 and 2016.
Helen Lewis: The women killed by the Dobbs decision https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/women-killed-dobbs-decision-abortion/679921/
Rarely, if ever, has a presidential campaign collapsed from seeming assurance into utter chaos as Trump-Vance has. The campaign seems to have stumbled into a strange unintended message: “Let’s go to war with Taylor Swift to stop Haitians from eating dogs.” The VP candidate wants to raise tariffs on toasters and worries that with Roe v. Wade overturned, George Soros may every day fill a 747 airliner with abortion-seeking pregnant Black women.
The stink of impending defeat fills the air—and so much of the defeat would be self-inflicted.
I hope this observation doesn’t upset Vance again. But he’s got 10 fingers, a smartphone, and the time, so he may want to express himself.
Go ahead. @ me.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/trump-vance-x-campaign-losing/679924/
did you even read the article you posted?
👍️👍️ If we win NC, Georgia won't even matter.
🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Judge REJECTS Republican Party motion to block students and faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill from using their digital university IDs to vote.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 19, 2024
Proud of the work my team did in representing our client in this important case. https://t.co/0HI9DsIWED
Any of you other political junkies out there, go to twittter and if it's not already trending, search for Mark Robinson..
I gotta run back out but I'm LMAO at the GOP and what's transpired in the last 24 hours out in NC.... and we're only halfway home. I'll comment later.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html
Yes, that's going to be a trend. I've been reading about it in a few different places but I'm sure there will be a good piece of reporting that will surface in the next day or so. The polls that the Teamsters based their decision on sampled 21 K members out of the 1.3 million total and apparently excluded some regions altogether in their phone/online survey.
Word is that O'Brien is still a bit butthurt because they didn't beg him to speak at the DNC. Seems a bit petty since VP Harris was the one who cast the deciding vote in the 50/50 congress to save their pensions and she and Biden went to bat for them in the dispute with UPS. Then O'Brien went and spoke at the RNC
They should have never published the results of the poll of 1.6% of their total membership. Lots of people are pissed off. O'Brien might have sealed his own fate at the next Teamsters election. The people who support the felon are mad because he wouldn't endorse him and the Harris supporters are mad at the way he ran this poll without the knowledge of the entire membership.
dup...
It has also seemed to have rubbed off on his running mate and their overly intelligent supporters.
Reporter: The FED cut the interest rates by a half percentage point today— going to alleviate inflation for a lot of people.
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 18, 2024
Crowd: Boo!!! pic.twitter.com/CODM14qjeS
the Wharton economic schooling must be kicking back into overdrive for our stable genius again...
Q: How would you lower the cost of groceries?
— James Singer (@Jemsinger) September 18, 2024
Trump: Raise prices on imported food
pic.twitter.com/3Wauwd0ijJ
The talking heads were saying this was going to happen. Since the national council refused to endorse a candidate because their membership leans towards the anarchist, all the regional councils would split up and endorse their separate candidates. The largest councils will likely endorse Harris, even South Florida so it's not really a non-endorsement as much as it is a "you're on your own" type of thing that the national council can stay out of without making the natives restless.
They had endorsed Biden before he dropped out and must have gotten a little blowback then so this was their way out of it.
I'm not sure if appearing in soft porn magazines is essentially considered artwork but if it can earn you an Einstein visa to the US it must be every young Slovenian girl's dream. 🤩
Since I can't, could someone please ask olives what the hell this asinine post is supposed to mean?
Sorry to inform here...but modern day fascism exists in both main political US parties. They are the same thing. Refer to the origin of modern day fascism circa 1900. By the way....all fascists are faggots. Simply by original definition. Crazy true fact:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175099692
He then goes on to explain that a bundle of sticks is called a fagot. What on earth does that have to do with both parties being fascists?
Tell him I took him up on the offer to search "modern day fascism" and a crap ton of articles appeared which explained his premise a bit better than more of his dictionary searches could.
Here's just a small example of what I found, or one could search for themselves if they like.
https://education.cfr.org/learn/learning-journey/what-does-fascism-really-mean/laws-norms-and-democratic-backsliding
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/fascism-comes-to-america-bruce-kuklick/
I'd really appreciate for him to justify the comment that I bolded in his above quote or at least how he came to that conclusion from that generic search term he offered. Id love to discuss it with him but he doesn't like people who don't embrace his opinions and puts them on ignore rather than debate on, what I would call, a losing position.
It's no sweat if nobody wants to get involved, I understand but it wouldn't be a stretch to just c&p this reply and send it to him. I read about fifteen different articles on the subject and none of them suggest what he has suggested.