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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nra-real-solutions-stop-violence-bipartisan-agreement-gun-framework Reading between the lines, that to me says that the NRA doesn't believe they can bully their way out of this and are sitting back to see if there is a way to attack this. Overall good sign IMO as it looks like the NRA is back on their heels.

Can't remember where I heard it recently, but likely one of a few podcasts where they somewhat debunked the excess guns = more shootings and they pointed out a few countries that actually do have high rates of gun ownership without the high amount of shootings. That said, they did see a correlation between how religious a country was and how many shootings. Things that make you go hmmm....

Hearing Senate deal is expected to be announced today regarding gun laws.

Not a fan of Dixon, but I always love to see when a party is hypocritical in complaining about the opposing party being hypocrites.

I think it's entirely within ones capability to 'back the blue' and hold police accountable as well. Following in some of the comments above, I do get turned off when I see the flag with the blue line (not only desecrating the flag IMO, it makes me think of someone that will blindly back the police.) While there is certainly some issues with the police, I do think in many aspects it's getting better. In my partisan days, i'd get infuriated when cops were accused of racism for 'harassing' young black man. Growing up in an area without diversity, the complaints about getting pulled over for a made up reason, having to be respectful even if the police weren't to us, allowing them to search our cars or at least saying it's ok because saying no made us feel like we'd get written up on the imaginary '10 over' we were pulled over for, etc, to me was the cost of being young and had nothing to do with race. It took too long for me to realize that I should have been on the side of those young black man and instead of disregarding because they claimed race was the issue, look at the underlying aspect that regardless what the reason, it was wrong. I feel like most people have at least a scrutinized eye on the police now and overall that's good for our country.

RINO clowns, GTFO. Both are more conservative than Trump. The scary part is, I don't think you're lying about what you're saying, I think you believe it. As your buddy Alex Jones likes to say "You're in the cult, bro!" I don't necessarily believe Trump calculated and planned out what happened. He's not smart enough to do that. But when his rhetoric stirred up folks to the point where they did do it, he chose not to defend America, but rather sit back and cheer on a bunch of lawless dipshits. Your president that you claim is 'America first' allowed the Capitol building to be attacked and did nothing. He's a seditious POS. Biden does suck. I even voted for him as I wanted an adult in charge and he's been slow to act on just about everything. I still have a country I can be proud of under Biden though, not a failed system which we would have had if Trump got his way. Additionally, you and every GOP member that backed Trump, you are just as liable for the issues going on today. Biden wouldn't have beaten a decent GOP candidate. But the GOP is to weak and chicken shit to check Trump and is happy to walk towards Fascism under him.

It's not that he was unavailable, it was that he was looking at what was happening at the Capital as an opportunity to remain president. He didn't want to stop what he thought would allow him to remain in power. Now let's just hope the 1/6 commission has built a strong enough case that Garland runs with it.

Don't mistake my dislike of Democratic policies and assume i'm a Trump fan. Let's just say the only thing that could change my mind with these hearings would be the sentence he should receive. I am still siding with just letting him die in jail in an attempt to not make it any more political.

Serious question, did you think my statement was sarcastic?

No need for any more of these hearings. Just charge him now.

I'm hoping it was more of an incorrect mgmt decision to buy too much leading to this issue rather than the first indication that everyone in the US has stopped spending on Target type items. I would prefer to roll through this inflationary period without drastic corrections which could just cause different issues. If everyone has stopped spending and Target is just the first to notice it, I fear it's going to be a rough few years. (Also note a rough few economic years means we get President Trump again).

Question for those on this board that have spent the last few years bashing Manchin, if BBB was pushed through, at the numbers Biden wanted, where do you think inflation is at right now? Same, better, worse?

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Oh how I hope so. I hoped the Tigers would compete for a wild-card this year as well for what that's worth.

I don't think he wants out, but I think the recent crash resulted in him having to leveraging more Tesla stock than he's willing to use. That said, I don't think he really trusts the numbers he's getting as well and truly wants to see the real numbers. It's quite possible that the real numbers might allow him to renegotiate a much lower purchase price. The problem is, those numbers are based on algorithms. Determining how that algorithm detects a 'bot' has some subjective aspects to it.

Down the middle reporting gets you labeled 'librul' by the right and rascist masonginists by the left. I remember telling a friend I liked Matt Taibbi years ago and he was surprised. Now he hates him where I really haven't seen any issue with his reporting, just appears to me Taibbi was focused on issues my buddy agreed with him on before, and now that's not the case.

He definitely exposed the swamp, but also proved he was all to willing to be part of it when it suited him. As for the impeachments, I disagree with the first one. They definitely could have gone more in depth and built a better case, but there is a point of diminishing returns. Dragging it out and not focusing on the obvious parts they did include certainly could have led to less public interest and thus the same outcome, regardless of the facts. They put a case in front of the Senate, where just looking at the facts presented, allowed a guilty vote. At the same time, made the facts around the call clear to the public as well. Obviously wasn't enough, but likely nothing would have been enough. As for the second one, that was simply about putting it on record.

Interested in if they have buy-in from the dealerships to go in this direction.

Arming teachers is nothing but a lazy response that admits you have no interest with actually fixing the problem at hand.

Seriously folks, I apologize for mocking him as 'not as good of a crook' as someone else, which obviously means that he's not the anti-christ and therefore he should be our next president.

I'm still not sure what you're saying. Are you not allowed to point out they are crooks because if you do, that means you want slavery back? What the vast majority of protesters wanted them to be, I can get behind that, which is why I don't have a problem with people saying 'black lives matter'. But again, the organization itself was a self proclaimed pro-marxist organization that took the high profile deaths of some black people and used that to line their pockets. Just like Trump, they found a way to pull money from other people's pockets which is all my original post joked about.

Not sure what you're getting at. In short, the founders of it are crooks. Plain and simple. What you want to believe BLM stands for, that's all up to you.

I need to remember that most of you folks don't ever see any news that doesn't fit a certain narrative that most MSM outlets choose to put out. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/black-lives-matter-6-million-dollar-house.html

He just hates BLM because they are better crooks than he is.

I took my daughter to see AJR last night. I know their songs and like them, but couldn't name them for the most part. It's the go-to music in our house when we're all cleaning and the kids are fighting about what to listen to. I walked away quite a fan. Very impressive show.