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From 3 miles away. With headphones it's awesome. You can feel the sound waves approaching and enveloping. Keep in mind this is at 1:30 am local time. I tried to stay up. Been waiting for this.

David Cross is a good example of how subjective and unpredictable comedy can be in terms of what someone thinks is funny. I just don't get him. I've tried. I like to think I have good taste. I'm not criticizing him at all or saying he's not funny because obviously a lot of people think he is and who am I to argue? I don't like to do that. Maybe there's something I'm not getting.

He's flailing. Making it up as he goes along.

like they were trapped in a time share presentation.

Living here and following the discouse at the meetings.... it's the same thing. You'll hear statements like "It's nothing against the gays... we just don't want our kids reading it" There's one guy who is prominent in all the videos. Hass Cash is the name he goes by. His instagram is full of photos of him at strip clubs with the girls. But he's against smut. One actual quote from a meeting "We don't have anything against gay people.... but the kids.... wait until they're 18, then they can be gay". There are a lot of Muslims also against this ban. A lot of it is just piling on and people wanting to join the rallies and be seen. It's a game to them. A few weeks ago before the election I was talking to someone at the gym before our class. He is very involved and was doing work for Slotkin. A lady who covers came over and asked if she was a democrat. He said yes and then she said "Oh, democrats are immoral" I so wanted to say "You know, 5 years ago the republicans wanted to ban you guys from coming in and 21 years ago after 9/11 they wanted to deport you."

This is a good point about the concessions we are seeing. The office of POTUS has a lot of elements to clear to officially win. Votes in 50 states. Certify those by the states. Submission to congress. Congress votes. VP presides. Many chances to disrupt.

nope. Put everything back in the box. Their app tells me connected devices and history. Things look good there. I wish it would tell me usage by device. I guess it could be my older son playing video games.

For fun I would check it at night before Bed and it would say something like 474GB. I wake up and it says 475. Then a few hours later it's 490. I'm the only one here doing anything. I have the TV on Fox 2, so I'm not sure that's eating up internet, its through the cable box. I checked our laptop and tablet, both have no apps open. I'm not downloading anything heavy for work. Just emails and such. I'm sure there's a delay in the numbers. I'm not a conspiracy guy but still..... in the summer of 2021 we went over but I discovered it was due to my special needs son binging on the Muppets on Disney Plus on the ipad. So I downloaded all of it, problem solved. Our usage went down considerably ever since.

yes. And across the street is a person who counter points his signs. From local facebook groups I've learned that this family is a good family but the guy who puts the signs up is way out there, obviously. On my running route that intersection is .3 miles away.

I really think people have moved on from that. Edit: They don't have the mouthpiece of the Presidency. They can whine all they want on Newsmax and OAN and AmericanFreedomBeacondotcom and whatever is left of Twitter these days and even Tucker but that's it. They can file stupid lawsuits but good luck getting good attorneys. These will go nowhere. When it's an incumbent doing the challenging it's different from a challenger.

I went to Petosky for the first time in 2021 for a wedding. What a lovely place. Very nice downtown area that looked very progressive. If not for the winters I would like to live there.

He will sabatoge them. He will never endorse someone else for the GOP nomination. All he needs is to take his 3-5% of hardcare voters with them and it's over for the GOP. IT's never been about policy for him. He'd endorse the democrat before he'd endorse the GOP nominee.

Anyone who's had kids and participated in their school functions like joining the PTA, volunteering, etc. knows precisely who she and MTG are. Every school has moms like them. Always in everyone's business. Trying to get in good with the principal and teachers. Pulls strings so their kids get "the good 4th grade teacher". Sneaks into the sales ahead of time to get the good stuff before the general public does. It's all about them. Not the kids.

Nobody is listening to them anymore.

My internet usage has been about 65% of our allotment all year. I’m working from home. We have 4 people. Never really gave it much thought. Last month we got up to 85% and this month on pace for the same. I smell a rat as xfinity probably wants me to upgrade to unlimited. I’ve tried to see if I can track by device but cannot find anything.

Verlander is going to go where they pay him the most money and the team is contending. The Dodgers always get mentioned. I'd say it's 75% he goes back to Houston. They were willing to risk the cost of him potentially not recovering from TJ. He did, spectacularly. So he's worth far more than the $25M he was due. He's not coming back to Detroit in the forseeable future.

LOL

Liz Cheney for speaker. Then she can form a new Jan 6 committee.

I look at it that congress has a low approval rating no matter who is in charge. We are approaching a potus election that starts now. Let the oppo take the heat. Like Tony letting Uncle Junior be the boss in season 2. A lightning Rod. Things suck and don’t get done? Blame congress. Starts in the house and they are busy with Hunter Biden and Fauci fighting battles from 3-4 years ago.

Stay tuned. Eddie has done some work on this and has some good info.

Without thinking about it too much… does a razor thin majority help or hurt the party in power? I’m not so sure a 220 GOP house is a bad thing for the Dems. If you had to pick a chamber you go with the senate for the judges.

I think Trump brought people into the GOO fold that were not there but also pushed people away. Those he brought in will not support anyone else unless he gives them permission. They are traditionally non voters. I don’t know if I changed before Trump. When the old site was up I tried to look at my old posts to see if I could find a moment but did not. I was never in on Trump. I assumed he would lose the primary. I am pretty sure I would have supported someone like Rubio or Kasich in 2016. Not Cruz.