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Biden needs to bully Trump.

this one...

This Oakland County jury is interesting https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2024/02/05/final-jury-jennifer-crumbley-trial-oxford-high-schooting/72479043007/ Lots of law enforcement and lots of gun ownership.

That right there is the correct response. That range should not be letting people who are impaired shoot.

Frankly, when I encounter people whose politics do not marry up to their obvious exterior appearance, I am usually willing to give that person a second look. I still cannot abide any Trump voter at this point but a Conservative who happens to be a jazz bassist? That person might be interesting to talk to. They are probably crazy but still.

also, so goeth MAGA

Tuck is leavin

Every wonder if the reason for the growth in the US economy might be tied to low wage people flocking to our shores?

I like that. Except, "[sneer] Chamber of cuckmerce is more like it" is coming from some MAGA channel somewhere probably.

Granted, concur.

He is involved because he wants to run on the issue.

Things are always worse when Trump is involved.

Yeah, it really gives one pause. You have to reevaluate the level of violence that person is prone to given how they reacted last time he lost. Probably you should keep the special deep state 911 number on speed dial.

Someone is defiantly not on team trump anymore

This is a good thread

And that one guy Bill Ackman funded Dean Philips strictly because he was offended that Biden was offended by some crass comment about Biden being silent after talking about his son. According to this well-funded article which seeks to explain that Ackman wasn't at fault, it still appears that they had a misunderstanding. Also, Ackman's only real campaign platform for his guy Phillips is DEI being bad. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/01/what-really-happened-between-joe-biden-and-bill-ackman.html

I recall when I was despairing of Romney losing to Obama that i was willfully ignorant of things I thought helped the opposition. That is terrible as a path to decision-making but not uncommon. Mitt Romney... imagine thinking that a guy from the private capital world would somehow be good for Michigan just because he went to Cranbrook and his dad was governor? He's still a decent person but he's been trained in the wrong schools to understand Michigan.

It would be an odd white supremacist -- to say the least -- who sported French World War II regalia.

My former boss and I drove from Baumholder army post in Germany to Sembach Air Base at 120miles per hour listening to La Villa Strangiato air guitaring and air drumming the entire time. Heck of a memory.

well, the math checks out. The fact that he used the thing that was bouncing around in the zeitgeist was not unusual.

I was looking at the Four Freedoms speech. I gather that was the theme of the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City.

I've hit a limit on my storage for firearms. i can't add more without subtracting something. I think the second British rifle I bought thinking it would be useful for parts for the one I like to shoot more is the one that will go when I get around to buying this newer bolt action rifle. I'm in a really weird place with the community surrounding shooting. I'm basically the guy who drives a sedan to the range and not a truck. Trucks are fine but I prefer to drive a car. Every truck in the parking lot has a don't tread on me license plate, a "thin blue line" sticker, and stickers for the make firearms that the driver shoots. My car has a Detroit Tigers plate bracket and a Michigan alumn license plate. Besides that i don't want folks knowing my affiliations. I am routinely engaged in conversation by people who think i'm "like minded" with them that invariably leads to racist dialogue. White guy in his 50s who shoots? Yeah, but what they don't know is how much I despise their guy and their party these days. I'm still true to my core beliefs. Collective security is my religion (Slava Ukraine). The 4 freedoms. Free trade is good. Most people are bent and you can't stop them from wanting to do graft but you have to keep it under control or we would tear each other apart. I do not hold with bullies. I loath oligarchs.

This is pretty close to where I am. The Nazi memorabilia isn't there just because of historical interest or there would be French Army and British Army memorabilia given that they also fought in the Second World War. The fetishism of Trump by this community is just so weird. I do not get how they don't see through his act. But discernment is not a given. Gun shows were not exactly bargain basement prices last time I went (during the early Trump years) although they sorta were in the 2012/2013 time frame when I would go more frequently.

So, I've been mulling a firearms purchase. It would be a fancy new bolt action rifle. I'm a fan of bolt-action because shooting one allows you to work on breathing and patience. I'm a shooter who never uses a human silhouette target. I'm not there to cosplay. Anyway... the idea of this purchase had me contemplating going to the next gun show here in my area because it would allow me to try out the actions on all the bolt-guns. The wife went to pickup Mcdonalds and took pictures of this vehicle outside the local Dulles Expo center. I think I'll give this a pass.

Way too much focus on club sports.