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Well said here

Best concert: TV Girl last September. Saw it with my daughter and her friend and captured a lot of her energy in enjoying it. The vibe was great, their songs are clever. Live version of "heaven is a bedroom" was awesome. More mainstream band/artist: Peter Gabriel in the late 80s/Van Halen/ aka Van Hagar during the 5150 tour (saw them three times in one weekend) Worst: His Name is Alive in the early 90s when i wasn't really understanding the indy vibe and made some jackassy "play Freebird" like comments during their slow numbers. So really that was a me thing not a band thing. More mainstream bands/artists: Way too many Rush shows because all my nerdy friends were on must see basis with them. I love them but i was tired of it by the end of their run. "Oh they are playing the Spirit of Radio, yay..."

You work to create the best conditions you can. Create the foundation for lifting as many boats as possible. You can't have bad government in the United States because bad government exists in Afghanistan or Russia.

juxtapose this with this

The Rule of Law is the foundation for a stable and successful country, economy, everything. Without it we are nothing. Strongman rule leads to disaster quickly. I had some riff about it being like love in Corintheans but it was too hard to wedge "rule of law" into that stanza.

I think I concur on the 2012 comparisons.

woof My wife was supposed to work downtown today but was diverted to stay home.

Nice

Not really amazing to be sure.

This is amazing. He's aping the Russian info op.

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which is why SECDEF Lloyd Austin telling Shoigu that he is in command of the greatest force in the history of mankind and that he does not make threats just gives me all the happy feels.

One day Mars will need a governor with absolute powers. It will be a battle between Bezos and Musk to see who gets to establish Mars as the colony of Trump/MAGA

We are always fueled by our resentments of the boomers.

Joe Rogan Reveals Why Kamala Harris Interview Fell Apart (mediaite.com) Some interesting data. Rogan does not want to travel and wants the candidate to come to him for three hours. That is a lot of time in the final week of a campaign.

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Apparently CNN is strongly smacking down the guy from the clip above

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2024/10/29/trump-michigan-gerald-ford-ronald-reagan-or-george-bush/75891532007/ Negative endorsement.

That was not fun tv to watch. Mehdi does a good job of putting that guy on his back foot.

Jack Tuttle is retiring due to 5th concussion. Sad for him.

David Simon really lets Bezos have it.

Balance that with Guam to really freak out the PRC.

Kind of obvious but yeah…