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It is clear what he did here. He didn't want to be the one to rule on this as it would look like government overreach. But it's crystal clear he's calling for anyone that needs a friendly relationship with the FCC, like maybe a couple of large companies that want to merge, to take action, which they have the right to do. It's a shakedown, nothing more, nothing less.

I agree, just wish we could have had a criteria called 3) electability.... definitely feel like that might have been able to keep us from this current debacle.

I'm not trying to both sides this as we both will agree which side is the far bigger threat to our democracy, but please remember you guys ran a guy that couldn't meet with more than 1 person in his administration for his last 2 years and the one time he has to be in front of the cameras, he completely fell apart, leading to the party scrambling for option 2 with very little time to allow that option to define themselves (and definitely no time for the party to agree on who would be a best 2nd option.

All the kids are co-owners still, Martha is chair and Sheila is principal owner. The other three kids are listed as vice chairs. No idea how many the other three are involved now, but I got the same feeling with WCF Jr that he wanted to focus on Ford. I swear I remember hearing that Martha gave the kids the option of deciding who should run the day to day stuff and Sheila was voted by the siblings. That could have simply been the public spin though.

This needs to be shared/seen more. I was always going to vote for Biden, but I was truly concerned that he didn't have the mental ability to do the job anymore. Most people are still dismissing Trumps mental issues with 'well, he always rambled'. That is true, but he's not just rambling anymore. He's always had that ADHD type issue where a topic could derail him, but he'd get out his talking points and eventually round back. He is completely lost now, it is remarkably different IMO.

As someone with teenage kids, it's crazy how much wages raised for fast food employees when the choice to the owner was to pay higher or simply not be able to open the doors. My guess is those owners are still getting by, despite the increase in labor. That said, for some industries, there isn't as much mark up or volume to be able to believe that simply paying more will benefit. My wife did not see big raises in her job over Covid and she's seeing friends of our son picking up unskilled jobs paying not much less then what she is making (granted she still has some decent perks which they don't have). Her boss owns a small business and has done everything he can to keep price increases from being passed to his customers which I'm sure means a lot less money in his pocket. Maybe he is wrong and could easily raise his rates, but I do understand his concern about it.

Need a double like option for this.

There is a valid argument about the executive simply having the power as congress ceded it, and without a congress that will force authority back, it's Trumps best bet to be able to continue this. But, ceding power once, doesn't mean you cede all power. For instance you can give permission to the police to search your car without a warrant, but if you feel they are overstepping the search, you can demand that they stop which would require them to get a search warrant to continue. Smoot Hawley only lasted a couple of years before congress stepped in and make changes which negated it. Ultimately I feel SCOTUS should side with a repeal of these, especially when there was no legitimate emergency which POTUS referenced to start them. Guess we'll see.

Would love to know what Trumps thoughts are for going to bi-annually from quarterly for earnings reports. The cynical side of me says he doesn't want Q3 reports right before the mid-term or the next POTUS election. The other part of me thinks maybe it could incentivize companies to make longer term decisions, which tend to be more prudent, rather than switch course due to 1 bad quarterly result.

Couple of random thoughts 1) A Harris FBI likely makes no difference 'on the ground' in Utah. I very much doubt any stupid posts by the FBI director putting out inaccurate information though. 2) Kirk was a master and arguably the first to be able to consistently do it, at inputting click bait headlines into video media form. I wasn't a regular viewer of his, but I have watched him and he would put out a quote much like a click bait headline in response to some question posed to him. It would often derail the questioners initial thoughts and get them to respond based on emotion. Once he started talking, often you'd see he really didn't agree with his own initial comment and the full context was something that most people, even if they disagree, could at least understand. One of the quotes going around after his death was him talking about not having empathy, I think it might have been over shootings. I mean, right there, a horribly callous take. But then when he explains his position, it's basically a technicality that he believes sympathy is a better word then empathy in some specific context and he says he has sympathy. In short he's saying he has the same feelings we all have (or hopefully nearly all at least). He just takes that opportunity to enrage his opponent in the hopes he makes them mess up and then can explain why he's not really a bad person after. He was not part of the solution like the right wants to say, when they say 'he just wanted to have discussions with people'. He was part of the problem. Currently I think Gavin Newsom is part of the problem as he mocks the president on Twitter, but what he's trying to accomplish also aligns with what I would like to see (derail Trump's presidency and MAGA policies), so right now i'm pro-Gavin. Guess you could say Kirk was like Ciccarelli, one of those guys you paid attention to just how good they really were at their craft if they were on your team, otherwise they are just a hack that doesn't respect the game because they always got under your skin. 3) The amount of Facebook posts about this was crazy and were all the same (TAPAS - thoughts and prayers and ****) with some 'the left better not get away with this' sprinkled in. I did kind of want to point out some kids were shot in a school shooting, but did not, mostly because 1) I didn't want to detract from the awfulness of the Kirk shooting, and 2) the WOKE right might be worse then the WOKE left and I don't want to get fired.

Yeah, I was trying to watch it up north while we were on vacation. The Xfinity stream app (mostly) only works if you're connected to your Xfinity Internet.

I still can't sign into my fanduel app on my phone. I have fanduel through Xfinity and would try to sign in through that but it never prompts for username/password and eventually brings me back to the home page of sign in or join. Eventually I found directions that said I have to create an account first and then I could sign in, but everytime I try that it tries to get me to add my credit card info and select monthly or yearly subscriptions. I'm sure i'm doing something wrong and it's not too often I want to have the game on my phone, but as of right now, the app is dead to me.

They were never clever, Newsom simply mocked the president. It was low hanging fruit. It was funny in that someone was doing it back to Trump and even funnier when the MAGA right tried to make fun of Newsom for not sounding professional. I don't like the idea that our potentially next president mocked anyone like that, but I believe it was Chuck that simply pointed out (paraphrasing and hoping I'm capturing his thoughts correctly) that at least he's willing to get in the mud and fight the same fight with Trump.

https://newrepublic.com/article/200181/ice-raid-hyundai-stupid-cruel I don't disagree with New Republic here, it's stupid and cruel, but I think they are missing the bigger picture. I feel like they are trying to make it an argument between should we go after those working here illegally, or those who hired them to work here illegally. Right now Trump is leveraging his Tariff scare tactic with agreements that if you invest in America, you'll get a pass, or at least you'll be better off than others. These South Koreans weren't permanent workers in Georgia, they were here because of a broken immigration system that can't process these workers in a realistic time frame. They weren't here 'taking our jobs', but helping get a plant online and training locals that would be working here. It's the Trump admin cutting off its nose to spite its face. There is zero chance they get the immigration thing fixed either, they have no interest in doing so. How ironic/crazy would it be if in 50 years kids are reading in textbooks that Trumps tariff plan was actually successful and did spur the activity he wanted, but his own immigration plan suffocated it and never allowed it to come to fruition.

So, I'm at the point that I doubt whatever BLS says. I know they regularly look back at data and revise, but it does kind of feel like Trump feeling that if he can't have the numbers he wants for now, let's find a way to make Biden look weaker. Regardless, the Fed will go based on all the economic indicators and while inflation is still high, fed rates aren't in place just for inflation. These job numbers are horrible and the revised data seems to match up with anecdotal stories I have from friends/family that have been looking for jobs in the last year. I keep on repeating to myself that we are still largely a service economy thus the tariffs aren't as bad as many make them out to be, but we seem to be going in the direction of the doomsday economists that felt the tariffs would destroy the economy. If you don't have a good chunk of savings on hand, probably a great time to try and build that up.

So I'll give some points to GG on this in that I do have trust that folks in the lower/mid levels of the military are just trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they should have control and dictate decisions, but my guess is they did believe their were drugs on board. That said, you better be right and IMO if you take it to this level, there better be a review to confirm you are right. That portion will not get done under Trump, that portion is probably not even allowed to be questioned.

This is what you Trump haters don't get, he gets results. He wants a rate cut, but the fed won't do it because of inflation. Does he stop there? No, he gets what he wants, so he plays the long game of stifling jobs and here we are, in a great position to get that rate cut. More 4D chess from our dear leader.

Worth noting that the current interim will likely be the past interim by next week.

Did a quick check and see that the largest ever was in March of 2022 where we added just over 12 million jobs. As such, I expect the new Commissioner to come out tomorrow with Trump and report 12.5 million jobs added. Trump will add 'Best jobs report evah, that's right, it's the best, just like me. Some people said it couldn't be done, but look at me, I focused on getting the stats corrected last month, and it's the best numbers evah now. So beautiful.'

I'm not a fan of Taylor Lorenz, but wired published it which gives it a little more credence for me. https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

You win!! lol Not sure if the guy at my old school was jailed, but I do know he lost his job. Had to dig this up to remember the details: "The reports state Deputy Adam J. Brown, the school's resource officer, at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, fired a .380-caliber Sig Sauer pistol while in a classroom. He and another teacher had been in the robotics classroom using a force machine to test the trigger pull on a Springfield EMP 9mm handgun. Surveillance camera footage shows Brown and the teacher exit the classroom, with Brown returning alone shortly thereafter. He again used the force machine, this time with the Sig Sauer, apparently causing it to discharge. ... The bullet passed through two pieces of drywall and entered a classroom occupied by about 30 students. It traveled toward the ceiling, scraped a tile, proceeded to hit a cement wall, ricocheted off it, careened across the room, and struck teacher Brenda Amthor in the neck. Amthor was sitting down at her desk when the projectile struck her. She bore a small scratch, but was uninjured, as the bullet had lost its velocity, according to the reports." He then played dumb in the hopes no one would know it was him that shot it. Makes me feel so much better about 'good guys with guns'. </sarcasm>

The only school shooting ever at my high school was accidently done by the resource officer.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C June 28 (Reuters),not authorized to speak publicly. "The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza" Looked up the number on the shipment that was held until Trump allowed it and it was 1800. (Note, they were paused under Biden, not stopped) So Biden gave them 10,000 , Trump only 1800..... yup, these are not the same.

Absolutely not, it's horrible what Trump is saying. My argument is Biden/Harris would not have said that, but I also don't have 100% faith that they would have done much more to stop it. While there are many on the left calling for Israel to stop, the main leadership is not as vocal. And forcing aid, like he did with the floating pier which was a logistical mess and only done because he didn't get what he wanted out of Israel and instead of forcing it, tried a work around which failed. Pretty sure by the summer of 2024 that was done with, what did he do through January 2025? Eventually we, along with others, helped set up Aid which we had Israel manage....hmmm, what a novel idea. So far the only difference with Trump is that he's saying the awful part out loud, where as Biden either agreed with Israel and wanted to have hotels on the shore too or he completely disagreed with a genocide, but did nothing about it. I do think you can make a case one is better than the other, I wouldn't want to try and defend it to St. Peter though.

Yeah, Israel was just doing precision targeting of Hamas, not even one Gazan civilian was killed by Israel until Trump became president. Biden....the other sides dear leader.