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it's basically what the conservative movement has always been about. Those at the bottom can screw off and fend for themselves. Let's not help people who require it. Have a disability? **** you. Have autism? **** you. Have an injury or other issue that prevents you from working? **** you. Deaf or blind? **** you. Born to parents who maybe can't read very well or are not tech savy? **** you. Life and society should be tailored to everybody who is at 100% function and **** everybody else, that's too expensive, we can't afford it, i mean we can, but we gotta make sure people get a 18.6% return on their investment instead of 17% and we gotta build all that military equipment.

How to lie with large numbers 101. The ratio of 100 to 1 million is ten thousand. If you hire a 'few hundred' people to help tens of millions of people complete a task, you are working pretty efficiently.

I’d rather have my kids be in a bathroom with a trans person than a youth pastor.

I don't agree with notions that Kamala Harris was a bad candidate. I thought she was great and wish she was president elect.

Amen! Priests, pastors, and members of clergy have raped and molested far more children then transgendered persons. Not to mention, the trans community hasn't spent billions of dollars, as the Catholic Church has, covering up child abuse, fighting to pay restitution to victims, and paying out settlements. I'd be far more worried if a priest walked into a men's bathroom than a transman.

Fauci has done more for humanity in his career than all the Congresspeople put together.

Generalizations for me, not for thee.... it's the postmodern conservative way.

She is no longer a man. She is transitioning to be a woman. So yes she can use the woman's bathroom. There have always been and there will always be transgender people whether you like it or not. If you want to defend women, stand up against sexual predators like Donald Trump for example.

And then people wonder why others think they're heartless. Go figure.

This is all of us;

I would argue that being very much against public funding being used in an unaccountable fashion to go to private institutions is actually the conservative position.

the states can't provide wha the federal guarantees ... and that's the federal right to a Free Appropriate Public Eductation. That's handled under the dept. of ed and the office of civil rights. I don't thnk you have a clue what the Dept. of Education does. You base your opinions on boilerplate bullet points that sound good on bumper stickers attached to a jacked up F 350 with 3 dozen Trump flags on it... but in the real word....

I don't think she was the ideal candidate and she did run a legitimately bad campaign in 2020. But the dye was more or less cast when Biden picked her to be his running mate in 2020. Where I differ with Tigeraholic is that I think she legitimately ran a better campaign this time than in 2020 and, in the process, her elevation likely made a difference in downballot races.... does anybody think, knowing what we know today, that Tammy Baldwin and Elissa Slotkin win their Senate races if they were sharing a ballot with Joe Biden, for instance? Does the Democratic Party gain a seat or two in the House if Biden is on the ballot? Doesn't mean she wasn't a flawed candidate or that she was the most platonic ideal, I just think a lot of the grousing about how terrible she and leaning it on her bad 2020 performance misses the forest through the trees... Trump winning sucks, but given where we all sat in Early July 2024, this thing could have been so so so much worse for the D Party. Even though some can't seem to acknowledge it.

It’s the fragmented media environment that leads a hundred million-plus people to be Trump fans and supporters and voters, because they never hear a thing about his bankruptcies, business failures, or any of the rest of it. All they hear about is how the price of gas and eggs were a lot lower when he was president, and how he did a great job with the border and no wars and keeping scary transsexuals out of girls’ bathrooms. Everything else reported everywhere else is fake news, and these failures never happened. What’s killing me is how he gets credit for things he is actually trying to destroy, such as overtime pay and other protections for the very working people in thrall to him. He’s like evangelical God in that very basic way: credit for all the good things, no blame for any of the bad things. Which totally tracks.

yet I bet when you try to get help with something you bitch about nobody being around to help and just blame it all in 'incompetence'. But it's different when it's something YOU need. When it's others, they're being lazy because you, Karen, are the epitome of self reliance. Just typical libertarian pie in the sky bull****. Everyone can be one until they need something. This is the kind of thing government should be doing. Providing services.

I read an interesting book, one of the premises of which is that we too often make the incorrect assumption that if you put a lot of information out there, the good stuff (as in that which aligns with objective reality) will 'win out'. The author does of nice job of proving his case that historically it doesn't and technology doesn't help. It's usually the garbage which wins the day, which often leads to a lot of avoidable catastrophe and, leaves those trying to stay aligned with the objective world in the dust. He also wanders off into a lot of apocalyptic doomsaying about what happens when you add AI to that mix. I can take or leave the prognostications but his exposition about how information flows in a society food for thought. 'Nexus' - author is Harari.

Snow games are fun to watch. Getting one in November is a bonus.

I can't believe all the pixels being spilled over the phantom threat of trans people here. What a ****ty non-issue.

Do men not realize they have been around gay and trans people their whole lives. I went to a small school and found out for years I was changing and showering among two guys who were gay. I don’t know what you do in bathrooms but I am not looking at other people. Twice within the lady year I have been to concerts where women ended up in the men’s room. I survived and they survived.

Absolutely. Which makes her attacks horrifying and hateful.

The Larry Ellison angle was odd to me.

Just a thought but I wonder with it being a contract year if he was pressing to put up more counting stats? Also the Astros as a whole were worse on offense than in years past with their walk rate being down .70 walks per 9 so maybe something changed in the team's approach?

You need to troll better. Very weak responses. Come on man step it up, be creative. You write like a White Sox fan

it still is, the left have the softest hands in the country. Not a calloused hand in the bunch.

My kids school partners with ABC CONSTRUCTION PREP ACADEMY They are all over the country and growing. you go to the school for half a day jr/sr year. They teach you all sorts of trades your Jr year then you intern with a company after a interview process that summer. Sr. year you pick a direction and begin specializing in that direction. . After you graduate you have a full-time job offer and a sigining day like a sports player with your new company and parents. By the time you 22 you can obtain your journeyman license and can work anywhere in the country and it will be accepted. Indiana has a scholarship program so it is no cost to parents This is funded by the trade unions who need young talent to replace the boomers who are retiring. Imagine being 22 debt free and making 50K+ a year.

Where I live we have a few custom shoe stores. My wife being a nurse goes to one that helps source shoes to help with he Planter Fasciitis. Anyways they have a number of different resources to find comapanies that specialize in different fits. The last time they order her three different shoes to try, no upfront money either.

This is a google trend chart. Any idea what it is. Hint: if you are on baseball bluesky you may have seen something related to this lately.

Yes, even in the high performance Fairfax Public Schools the shop, automotive and other voc-ed programs are a thing.

This is where I come from concerning school funding and guidelines I believe we're about the same age and have been there. Leaving the decisions to the states and localities would deepen the divide in education quality between urban and rural areas. The rich communities and counties would get richer, while the inner cities and rural districts would end up fighting for scraps. Finding less funding fewer resources, less support for teachers, administrators and students. I'm very much against any public funding (state, federal or local) going to private institutions. Let's go back to the days that if a church or educational corporation wants to fund a school so be it. But don't take away my taxpayer money to fund your private school.

I'm about to drop my YouTube video breaking down why this is betrayers fault for not cheering hard enough

Found the narc on the grid. Checo said something all the drivers are talking about is the constant smell of marijuana around the track. He said it was constant.

Going for Pam Bondi after Gaetz withdrawing does make it seem like there isn't much a strategy behind these picks and that he's just picking cronies.

Yeah, so, so many missed opportunities to ask my parents about an era I’m semi-obsessed with now.

True, I used to shake my head at family members who used to talk about "the old says". Now I wish I had some wisdom to ask questions about "family secrets" and such.

You and I are old enough to refer to the late 1970s in terms of “as recent as”, while most people alive today refer to it as literally ancient history. I occasionally have to remind myself how long ago the 1970s that I lived through and totally remember is by remembering that when I was in my 20s, the 1930s was a long ago as the 1970s is today, and in no way would I have thought of anything that happened during the 1930s as being any flavor of “recent”.

Two questions, given the timing of Biden's meltdown, who would you have picked to be the alternate nominee. And please show your work. By the way, your side allegedly won the election. I'll bet you won't see Harris spending the next four years pretending it was rigged like our sore loser President Elect and his disciples

Soon they will be adding hundreds of staff to introduce the teaching of the Cyrillic alphabet in all American schools.

Please dismantle this albatross known as The Department of Education! 11/22/2024 The Education Department has added hundreds of support staff to help people having trouble filling out the college aid form. WSJ Students and parents completing the revamped college financial aid application are finding the process is better than it was after its troubled rollout—but still glitchy. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the next academic year is now open to all students. It is the second attempt at a new Fafsa meant to make aid applications easier, but after the first try left the college admissions season in disarray. The form sent out erroneous aid estimates to schools. Delays and confusion were common. Students gave up or got discouraged, potentially costing them aid money.

It’s nothing like science. Richest man in the world buys a platform and the first thing he does is fire people trained to keep posts from spreading lies. Sure, they may not have done that anywhere near perfectly. The new setup made spreading disinformation a promoted goal and a chance to throw huge piles of money at influencing an election. Musk has zero interest in a open exchange. Truth not valued at all.

There are 330 million people in this country who can't even come close to agreeing on what's true and what isn't. I even hear a lot of people saying that the truth doesn't matter to them. I can't listen to 330 million people and a lot of them are not worth listening to. I weed them out. I like to hear views different from my own, but I don't need to hear lies and bull****. So, I weed those people out.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/11/21/tigers-pitcher-tyler-holton-places-in-15th-place-tie-in-al-mvp-race/76489142007/#:~:text=Detroit Tigers left-handed reliever,15th in the MVP race. Tyler Holton picked up an MVP vote! I wonder if he has a bonus clause in his contract. Holton received a 10th place vote from Toronto Star columnist Mike Wilner. It was the only MVP vote for Holton, giving him a total of one point — just like four other players. The one point put Holton in a five-way tie for 15th with Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, Kansas City Royals right-hander Seth Lugo, Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager and Houston Astros left-hander Framber Valdez. Holton, 28, posted a 2.19 ERA with 17 walks (4.8% walk rate) and 77 strikeouts (21.8% strikeout rate) across 94⅓ innings in 66 games in the 2024 season. He started nine games as an opener and picked up eight saves as a closer, all while averaging 1.4 innings per appearance. His ERA ranked first among 71 AL pitchers with at least 90 innings.

You son of a bitch, you did it. Check must have cleared. I guess one down year after a natty ain’t bad.

Excellent job, Eddie

Automated ball/strike zones to get a look in spring training at some parks. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5938669/2024/11/21/mlb-robot-umpires-testing-spring-training/

A post after yours got moved to a different thread, i was not addressing you

I dropped a little bit of stuff I've learned about split contracts and non-tenders on the bsky: Long story short, I suspect Eddys Leonard has a minor league contract in place and he will get a raise out of it. https://bsky.app/profile/ebajek85.bsky.social/post/3lbidk3v2zk2l

And yet, had Kamla been nominated through convention, the bottom line is she’d still be a woman (and I’ll be sad until the day I die), but that simple fact is obviously a showstopper for nearly everybody in this country. i’ve actually been hoping that I hadn’t gone through my adult life being so obviously blinded by bull**** being dealt to me & other women by the powers that be. So, perhaps you all want to be honest with your daughters and granddaughters now and let them know that they are not equal partners in this country. Might save them a lot of heartache later on.

It probably pertains to you too.