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@Tigeraholic1 Always Chickens Out

I'm sure we'll read more about his whiplash mental state in Jake Tapper's new book, set to be released in May 2029

To be clear, Chris' daddy took about 10 seasons to see the light himself.... so maybe they have more in common than most Tiger fans would admit.

I'm still speechless from this one.... just an incredibly stupid thing to say. And while it's Iowa, it's a more competitive state when Trump's name ain't on the ballot.

One of your responses to me was that pardons were out of control "on both sides". Which implies an equivalence. So yeah, you're getting a "but Trump" because, by your own admission later on in the thread, there really isn't an equivalence (ie. a "both sides") to discuss here.

I question how much Musk is stepping back, but to the extent that he's being forced out and that he's being pushed in front of the bus in the press, nobody should forget who brought him on to the do the damage that he did. I'm going to go ahead and quote Harry Truman's desk: "The buck stops here!" Which means the ultimate responsibility for allowing an unelected mentally deranged drug addict to run roughshod over government lies with Donald Trump. Musk deserves rage, of course, but let's not lose sight of this fact either.

There were some bad ones... I even said it at the time. Although the moment that Donald Trump pardoned all the J6 rioters pretty much is a conversation ender in terms of "both sides" for me.... the scale and proportion isn't even in the same time zone anymore. Either way, my point is that I'm not going to take lectures from the same people who were all jawboning about "moral relativism" during the Clinton years. All that stuff was clearly bull****.

I argued against it at the time and still am against it, but from watching the first 100+ days of this administration, it's less of a slam dunk for me for the reason given the bolded. I agree completely.

Some family members have hit me with the "both sides" **** about Bill Clinton, and my response has simply that a) I was 9 years old when the impeachment happened and b) you guys were all talking about "moral relativism" and whatnot back then and, lo and behold, you're the moral relativists now! lol I have very little patience for that crap

And my point is that because of his lust towards these types of leaders and inability to discern what their actual motives are, he gives them free license to take advantage of us (and him) over and over again. Hence the comparison to Harry Ellis.... he's a moron, there is no strategy here. He's just an idiot that thinks he can talk a guy out of Putin, who actually has an ethos, out of deeply held convictions.

That's a "defeated Medicare" level ****up. I'm sure Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are on it lol

I think we need to be honest and admit that Trump's worldview, one where everything is transactional and all about personal gain (ie. how he operates), isn't how every other world leader operates. And that Donald Trump isn't nearly self-aware enough to understand that himself. He was never going to end this war on day one because he doesn't understand either side of the conflict. He's Harry Ellis trying to talk Hans Gruber out of the whole Nakatomi Plaza affair. And we're all along for the ride.

Dave Mlicki had a Maddux... Dang

He's known him "a long time", yet he's shocked that Putin's bombing the ever loving **** out of Kyiv. It's farcical

Since we're talking about it, isn't there some irony to the "dO yOuR oWn ReSeArCh" crowd now outsourcing their cerebral cortex to Musk's ****ty AI?

I tend to trust those who do their own research and don't outsource their thinking to "Grok".... But maybe I'm just old fashioned like that.

Do you have any comment on the tornados that just hit Missouri, Southern Illinois and Kentucky??? And the fact that the feds (under Trump) have been apparently MIA there?

Lutnick's pitch is way too personal and defensive for it to be about talking points IMO

It's all good, Howard Lutnick says we gotta trust the greatest deal maker who ever lived, we're in good hands /s

Weird cultish obsequiousness aside, the fact that he's making this pitch on NEWSMAX... that's 👀

It isn't talked about enough how his tariff strategy basically boils down to "American Juche"

Wow

His advantage on the economy is pretty much gone in polling at this point, fwiw. MAGA will do what they are gonna do, but they are still a minority