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Well said, I should clarify that when I said it was sad, it wasn’t a complaint on his performance, but just a clear indication that he’s not long for the world and was giving it his all.

I was told the opening bands were fantastic, but watching Ozzy was just sad. Saw some clips on Twitter and it seemed alright. Jason Mamoa stomping around the mosh pit for Pantera was actually pretty cool.

I'm actually all for Elon doing this. Short term, I see it hurting republicans more, but I do think that depending on the issue, you could see both parties seeing and ultimately addressing concerns. Most people write off third parties, but generally the reason why they don't work is before they can get too big, one or both of the current major parties recognize a few good points from them and adopt them into their own fold. I don't have much hope for it, but it's not my money, so take a swing Elon.

Not sure why someone would despise you for trying to help them, but that's what you see with urban communities when republicans (pre-trump) tried to help them, so you could be right. Trump has done everything you'd expect from someone writing them off and actually is getting a bigger portion of votes so you got a point. The above is said kind of in jest. I'm not saying dems didn't try to help rural areas, nor that republicans didn't either, but what I said is both failed. Ultimately both were fine with rural areas subsidizing their brightest students towards urban areas.

How long do you think South Sudan holds them once Trump decides he doesn't want to pay the bill? Galaga doesn't realize due process isn't just about criminal, it's about the victims too. If someone murders or rapes someone close to me, I want my day in court with them, regardless of what country they are from. I want them to pay for their crimes they committed here and I want the punishment in my country where if bail or something like that comes up, I have a voice that matters still. Additionally I'm not 1st amendment auditor type, but I have been interested in some of their videos and they do have a point about needing to protect peoples rights and right now it's clear that there are people that should not be detained, getting detained, sometimes for months at a time before being released. Our government, back when some people would say it was great, was built on principles from William Blackstone, who penned the famous line "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".

Kind of agree, kind of don't. Hate to see someone suffer, even if you can point back to Trump and feel like they caused it. The fact is, political leaders of both parties and all state and all federal levels never found a good solution to help rural America when we switched to a service economy. Trump is their riot. A lot of republicans looked at issues with minorities and saw their riots and were fine saying "Whelp, they did it to themselves." I suspect democrats as a whole will do the same if we do indeed see rural communities suffer more. Would be nice if someone broke the cycle and tried to help instead of ignore.

The tax rate change is the least offensive part of this bill and cutting taxes does not correlate to deficit in a vacuum. Had to look up the numbers to refresh my memory after seeing in your link that the Bush tax cuts increased debt by 5.6 trillion by 2018, but the Bush tax cuts were part of his campaign that he saw through, despite 9/11 which increased our military spending of 5.8 trillion which is what we spent on Iraq/Afghanistan. Granted that didn't end until 2021, but i'm guessing most of that money was spent between 2001-2018, likely making it a wash. Should Bush have moved forward with another tax cut in 2003, probably not, but if not for those wars, sounds like Bush's legacy would have included that he may have had a small deficit or surplus and essentially plateau our debt. GDP expanded under bush by roughly 4 trillion a year, so as a percent of debt Bush would have dropped that from 54.5% to 39.9% if 9/11 never happens. This definitely is going to be cruel, but not just to the poor either. Rural middle class and wealthy, aka Trump voters, will realize that good medical insurance doesn't matter if you don't have a hospital near you. Right now my biggest concern might be related to AI. I do think whoever leads in AI, especially early on, will have better outcome on whatever an AI driven world looks like. We started in the pole position with the largest economy, with the best higher education, and the best minds (from all over the world) that want to learn here. The federal law enforcement money gives a clear indication that even if you want to come here to learn, you're not really welcome. We may still allow student visas, but we're not welcoming. AI is going to require energy. A lot of it. Add in despite what Trump is doing, electric vehicles are the future, it might slow down, but they are the future still. So we really need to increase our energy and this bill does so much to **** on renewables, not just promote them anymore, but to actively discourage them. This is what is going to hurt the next generation, the only question is how much.

As a fiscal conservative, I have never been against a bill that might cause pain, if it could provide a clear path to helping set up the next generation for success. This is the exact opposite of that. I purposefully tried to find conservative media's take on this and for the ones that talked about the nuts and bolts of this bill and not just the republican talking points, none of them liked this. Absolutely horrid.

Took my daughter to see The Stray Kids, a kpop band, in Toronto this past weekend. Certainly not my kind of music, but not horrible. (Maybe the lyrics are, I have no idea). It was her Christmas present and she loved it, so that's all good. It was at Rogers Stadium and this was the first concert there. It's a temporary venue on the grounds of the old airport. I got a hotel right next to Rogers Center (skydome).....oops. Still worked out though.

Oh man, this brings back quite a memory I had dealing with a federal agency as they were blaming us (AT&T competitor - always blame the network first!) for their video conferencing woes. Finally they added us to an all hands a few weeks later so we can experience it and check in real time. Around the 300 user mark a pop up came on stating 'you are about to reach the maximum number of participants for a standard team meeting, please utilize a view only conference if you expect to pass 300 people. They eventually got to about 1200 users before buffering started, network was running smooth. We spent the rest of the day getting chewed out and turned over all of our data. Late that evening the following troubleshooting call scheduled to start bright and early was cancelled, we never heard about issues related to large web conferences again. I can guarantee, AT&T's problem or not, about 15 people at AT&T had horrible days yesterday.

Looking through the tentative list and while there are some significant sites on there, Ellis Island should be next.

Thinking about this a bit on a much nicer dog walk this evening after we got some rain today and regime change is a must, am I wrong? If our intel, not Israel's, but what is being reported about our Intel, that 1) they weren't looking to create nuclear weapons and even if they were, they were years away and 2) that we likely only sent them back 3-6 months, then the best thing for the current power structure in Iran to do is to bow to Trump and let him take his victory lap as he tries to claim he brought world peace. Meanwhile, they have already discussed and determined that now is the time to go full speed ahead on a weapon, right? That gives them 3 years under Trump to get it while he ignores it because ignoring it will make his base feel it's not an issue. And don't get me wrong, I was extremely hesitant of any action in Iran because of Iraq. Yes I used to have grandiose ideas of what great things could come out of Arab Spring, but I've seen the results. This just seems like such a bad spot for the world. Please someone tell me I'm wrong...I want to be wrong.

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To be honest, this was the first time I felt like he was acting 'presidentially'. Maybe I should change that to say this is the first time I felt like he was talking honestly. Don't get me wrong, I will acknowledge every point of what he did wrong that possibly could have been prevented us from getting into this predicament in the first place. But, based on his response, I do think he felt he had an understanding with Israel that if the US helped, they would stop. He's weak though and Netanyahu took advantage of us. Ultimately this all falls on his feet. This is Trump's war.

The similarities are striking. One glaring difference is that while in hindsight we were aware of differing opinions on WMDs with Sadam due to many different variables, our Intel thought he had them. Our Intel now says Iran is not even pursuing WMD's, let alone have them. And honestly the only real pushback i've seen towards Trump are from a few conservatives and the 3 or 4 folks in the house on the Dem side that don't like siding with Israel on anything. As a whole, seems like most are good with the fact that Trump is ignoring his own Intelligence because of Netanyahu's gut feeling.

I worked dial-up Internet for quite awhile and a majority portion of that was well after it's prime years. I did everything I could to automate myself out of that job or train others to take it over. I assumed I was going to get laid off eventually anyway, just like every other person I worked with (400+ folks in Ann Arbor, eventually down to 5 of us in our Southfield location). Because I was able to decrease my workload, I found myself helping other teams with their work but was still needed as there were only two of us that knew how to manage the network all the way through. Both of us are still with the company in different roles. He does a better job of taking time off now. I don't have the concerns anymore in terms of being swamped with work when I come back (team picks up the slack when I'm gone, as I do when a co-worker takes time off). Still ingrained to me that taking time off impacts other people and hate that feeling. My boss regularly yells at me when I say i'm taking a day off but jump on for a meeting that i'd prefer not to miss.

You obviously read the summarized version of the Bible. In the full story, Jesus flipped over the tables of the heretics. He was totally cool with the profiteers if they claimed they aligned with Jesus' teachings or sold prepper style products.

You are 100% spot on with Tucker. For the "why" question, I think Tucker and others similar like Bannon are somewhat principled. I'm not saying that in a good/bad way, but that they have a specific direction they want to see followed. The error in their ways though is that they think they can influence Trump, so they curry favor by supporting him, but then think they are smart enough to get him to do their bidding. Trump props them up when it works for him, and blows them off when it doesn't. Ultimately they have no additional influence on Trump than your MTG and Laura Loomer, which I'm sure behind closed doors both would scoff at being compared to them.

It really doesn't matter what MAGA has claimed, MAGA isn't based on principle, it's based on what dear leader says and does. If he decides to join the fight with Israel, the only people on his side complaining about it will be cast aside until they find a way to reconcile with dear leader by doing something else horrible.

My guess is you were just a little sensitive to anytime anyone (mostly Trump) complained about Biden's age. Prior to the debate, there was no one in the MSM complaining about Biden's age and anytime Trump brought it up, MSM was the one defending Biden. In fact the hypocritical part about Tapper has nothing to do with him not going after Trump's age, but that he, along with the network he represented, went after anyone that called out anyone that complained about Biden's age or indicated something Biden did might be because he was old.

Sounds like even with the largest bunker buster we have, they suspect it might take multiple to penetrate far enough. If Israel is using theirs, not sure if they just keep hitting the same spot over and over again, but I took it as they might send in ground troops. Either way, just another escalation on a country that I was recently told by my own country isn't pursuing a nuclear bomb.

I saw that earlier as well. Part of it makes me think Israel had good intel and others like Germany agree, part of it makes me wonder if our Intel was off that much or if Gabbard was just touting a directive from Trump when she said we had no indication Iran was working towards a nuclear weapon only a few months ago.

I'm certainly no fan of Jake Tapper, but MSM has been very critical of Trump and his health. Once Biden was not in the race, Trump's age became a source of attack by the MSM's too. They knew they couldn't attack that unless it was vaguely pointed out that both Trump and Biden were old. He wrote a book about Biden, he should be allowed to discuss that on the merits without a 'but Trump!' response.

Yup, and if I were a betting man, I'd put my money on them getting it. That said, yesterday Israel made it clear they didn't need our bunker buster, so I almost wonder if they will send in a small ground unit since they have control of the air already.

Quote me in error? I’m in the mountains right now so Internet has been sketchy, not sure if there is something there or if it’s actually blank.