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Not in corporate or government offices much?

Concur

sorry man..that was my lame attempt at comedy. I'd already forgotten because I had a short memory...

Sorry, what were we talking about?

This ad got a fist pump from me

It was interesting.

Loyalty to the man...was more important than the policy choices. The policy choices were all just red meat.

At one time, GOP had a sober grown up faction. W Bush and Mitt Romney were part of that. You might have had policy arguments against that and I could respect that. 9/11 and the GWOT became a patriotism hammer for lazy pols. Fox and other Conservative media used that hammer against all dems Citizens United gave the plutocrats way too much power The digital economy gave plutocrats way too much money Putin got himself a bunch of influence agents by giving the NRA, etc. a lot of money The NRA pushed an extreme agenda and had to keep pushing that to avoid being called squishes by more extreme elements. The confluence of all the above put Trump, a super clown who appealed to the wrestling and meat head PED snakeoil crowd as the head of the GOP when many decent alternates existed (although not/not Ted MF Cruz). Trump was dangerously inept. Could not identify the nuclear triad. Maybe it was best he could not Trump followed the torch-lit mob and would not correct the mob's excesses. He was way too into the TV spectacle. I still think Hillary Clinton was and is a terrible candidate and I bet Obama didn't trust her as far as he could toss her. I won't vote for ANY GOP candidate who fails to repudiate Trump. That goes all the way down to dog catcher. I am reevaluating a lot of my previous world views. I still believe in collective security, free trade and the rule of law. I can see clearly how the post-2015 GOP doesn't. They only believe in power for themselves and their plutocrat friends like Putin and the Shaykhs.

If they can mercilessly cut such a key contributor, what hell awaits Matt Shepherd?

There need to be more purple districts. That should be how all districts are.

True. The entire work serves people who want to control information

And Sullivan is the "squish" in the US National Security apparatus.

Plus Mark Kelly was actually in combat. His weapon of choice was his A6 Intruder. Meanwhile, Blake Masters is a creature of sicko Peter Thiel

The latter would be what I'd hope occurs. The CEO should have known that eliminating the checks and balances against fraud wholesale on a public facing system would result in these shenanigans and he is therefore responsible for the damages to any corporation or person that resulted.

You would hope that these are actionable in court.

The Nevada Test Site is one of the most fascinating places I've been. I've had a grilled ham and cheese sandwich at the DOE cafeteria while i was inspecting a deeply underground target for one of our weapons tests. The aliens who operate at this site are tame.

I was reminded on this pod of the Gretchen Whitmer "Its Shark Week, mother fu$#er" which of course because Trump is terrified of Sharks was a power move.

Tim Miller on The Bulwark podcast today...calls out our great state.

Lets not congratulate Michigan too much. Dar Leaf is still a Sheriff in Barry County. Many of the nutters who wanted to kidnap the Governor and the militia movement are all from here. But, yeah man the kids who waited online at Umich and MSU were heroes for sure. Stamp out the stupid.

This is cross-thread for 2022 Elections, Cleanup thread and the Idiocracy of Trump thread.

The problem in Wisconsin is that Barnes was too prog for the center.

Remaining target of cleanup in aisle lunatic still outstanding (from this election anyway) appears to be Kari Lake losing. My delight meter would peg if she lost. I'd still love a recount that got Boebert out.

Kari Lake losing feels like the biggest remaining win out there. That plus meltdown in MAGA world between Desantis and Trump.

I'm gonna say that there is this thing called grass fed beef but this thread just got weird when I wrote that.