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As long as we're still saying our goodbyes—good bye, Affordable Care Act. Hello, full-priced insurance (with guaranteed double-digit-percent annual increases) for entrepreneurs and other "unemployed" people. Millions will fall off the rolls. All according to plan, since healthcare is not a right.

They both—they're all—taking orders from the same товарищ, so it hardly matters who sits in what seat, at least as far as moving the same Путин agenda forward.

I'm actually concerned that vaccines will be, if not outlawed outright, then slow-walked via government regulation in a way that make them difficult-to-impossible to get.

You have that luxury. 😁 This happens only on iOS that I have seen, and only when there's a situation involving going to a new page. All anyone has to do when they are on iOS and they submit and nothing appears to happen is just to go on as though it posted, even though it's still showing up like it isn't. It probably posted fine, but worst case, if it didn't, your post should still be in the window when you refresh or go to the next page, and then you can submit again.

How long before the courts strike them down as unconstitutional?

They don't care about the economy. They're coming in to strip America for parts.

Good luck to them when they protest Trump sending troops in to help Netanyahu subdue Gaza.

Not as much as Vladimir Putin, who as of January 20 will become the most powerful man in the world.

Will you forgive them when they beg for your forgiveness?

Oh no, quite the opposite. Red states want all your money now. All of it. That’s what this whole thing is about: taking your money from you.

Welp—Thanksgivings all around the country are gonna be interesting.

As far as this goes, we can only hope the incompetence runs as deep for the new administration as the first one, but if that’s not the case—if they are very competent at achieving their stated goals—then your assurances will fall flat.

Remember, this is the nation that kept it legal at the state level for people to own other people as property long after nearly every other western country had abandoned it. It is also the nation that allowed several of its states to become one-party fascist states with the explicit purpose of maintaining a de facto slavery through the Jim Crow black codes. Embracing fascism runs deep, very deep, in our blood, and we’ve never left it totally behind us.

Because he told his fans so, and that’s good enough for them.

As long as we’re saying our goodbyes: good bye, NATO. Some want to believe none of the things he threatened to make happen will happen, but remember: Trump is not the outlier. He’s the tip of the spear. He’s going to have a whole army of kakistocrats coming into the power structure to implement Project 2025, which is the least of everything that’s going to happen. And when Trump dies in office, J.D. Vance will continue on the job, unless he himself gets assassinated in some palace power struggle, which is a world in which that becomes an actual possibility, because just look at the people at the top around him now.

I think one conclusion we can safely make is that she’s not going to blow the doors off him.

I definitely want to go in the first wave, since the living will envy the dead.

There's the context. Perfect, thanks.

This happened to me twice on our just-completed long driving trip. I'm in the left lane driving something like 14 over the speed limit (i.e., 84 in a 70). Seems to be a decent sweet spot speed at which highway patrol will let you keep going. Typically speaking, I like to be as far right as possible, but if there are several cars in the lane to the right of me that I'm driving faster than, I will stay in the left lane until I pass them all, and then once there's a bunch of daylight ahead of them in their lane, I will move over. On two separate occasions on this trip, a car behind me sped up to tail me closely. Seemed obvious to me that he wanted to pass me. But I was also passing a bunch of cars to the right of me, so not much opportunity to move over unless I squeezed in between two cars in a barely-safe manner. So I'm going to keep driving, while the car is tailing me, until I see the daylight in the other lane. Once I see it, I move over, expecting the car that tailed to to zip past me. And darned if I didn't move over, and the tailing car keeps driving the same speed, instead of zipping past me. And I'm thinking, why the hell did you drive right up to me and tail me if you weren't signaling to me that you wanted to pass me? I think it was G2 who articulated here the idea of the magnet driver, the driver who's most comfortable driving behind a target car and going as fast as the other car is going, whether it's driving 50 mph or 95 mph. I get that it's a thing, but I'll never understand the mindset. A friend of mine does that, I asked him about, and he either couldn't or wouldn't tell me why he does it. He just shrugs and says "i'n'know".

Are you terminally ill? Because that's the only way a Trump win won't matter to you.

Under. Way, way under.

Is that a lot?

I tripled my investment in NVDA in a little more than a year and got out with high four figures in my pocket. Not a bad move. I stand by my sell. I'm doing even better with PLTR, and I'm hanging onto that one for the super long haul.

This reads as though Alberta believes in his heart that Kamala will swamp Trump, but he is hedging his words in the same way the MSM pollsters appear to be hedging their models so he's not left hanging out there if it goes different.

ERA+ is OK, although I do prefer ERA-, which goes in the same direction as ERA, meaning lower is better. It’s also directionally the same as FIP-, and makes comparing the two much easier.