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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 26, 2024 14:35:05 GMT -5
as i have said before, we have three branches of government, and two of them failed under Trump.
if he gets in again, there is a good chance the third will fail.
we need to make sure that never happens. and, while we are at it, we can continue shoring up the other two branches, if we have the strength and intelligence to do it.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 25, 2024 12:57:35 GMT -5
upon mother's death, discovered that she had an out of wedlock child who was adopted out.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 25, 2024 12:52:01 GMT -5
LOL- ok, i was GOING to read that, but not going to now. heading to a company lunch in 25 mins.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 25, 2024 12:43:18 GMT -5
would is past tense.
and we don't care.
we only care if he WILL do it again.
100 years should prevent that.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 18:23:54 GMT -5
weird. nothing in the behavior of potatoes to warrant that move.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 18:19:15 GMT -5
that's just fucking lazy. she is a terrible candidate. she failed to win statewide office last time. she is very likely to fail to do so again.
i would have taken the bribe, honestly. especially if the money were transferred to her in a foreign account PRIOR to her announcing that she was withdrawing. because she is GOING to lose, imo.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 18:16:15 GMT -5
it really depends on if/when Trump is convicted. voters have shown their distaste in polling for voting for a convicted felon.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 15:04:58 GMT -5
Trump is losing his shit. Watch his speech last night when he was threatening Nikki Haley with revealing things she wouldn’t want people to know - then talking about how you can’t let people get away with bullshit. Says the pot to the kettle. Can’t imagine how his supporters are ok with this thug. because his supporters like it when he does that, it's strong and manly. he is the poster child for toxic masculinity.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 15:03:56 GMT -5
NH primary, Trump 54% Haley 43% Should we discuss how this isn't really a stellar showing for Trump, who supposedly has the nomination locked down? i would say that this result is sort of a "straddle". Trump winning by 20% would be about what one would generally expect. Trump winning by less than 10% would have been a victory for Haley. this result is in-between. it is hard for me to decide what it means, although i would also say that his support is not what it needs to be from mainstream Republicans, and it is likely going LOWER.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 15:01:17 GMT -5
The Hill has an article about someone releasing a recording of Jeff DeWit, state GOP chair, offering Lake money/a job in exchange for not running for office for two years. DeWit said powerful GOP donors wanted Lake to stay out of the senate race. I’m cynical. I think Lake released this herself to try to get attention in order to push her chances at being Trumps VP. (In the recording she talks about how this is an attack on Trump.) I believe they offered her money not to run because she's bat crap crazy. she is likely to win the primary and lose the general. she is adored by the right, and loathed by pretty much everyone else.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 14:59:07 GMT -5
it is interesting that GOP support for immigration reform is about the same as it has ever been.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 14:50:19 GMT -5
immigration has never been especially popular, here. there is a long history of hatred for incoming immigrant groups, starting with the Chinese, right up to today. we never learn. the only countervailing force is from those that recognize that immigration is part of what made America great. those voices are getting drowned out by the OTHER MAGA. DJ-wondering if you were able to view the linked video (if you don't have a NYT subscription). yes. it only asked for my email address. i don't have the bandwidth to run that video. however.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 24, 2024 12:21:38 GMT -5
immigration has never been especially popular, here.
there is a long history of hatred for incoming immigrant groups, starting with the Chinese, right up to today. we never learn. the only countervailing force is from those that recognize that immigration is part of what made America great.
those voices are getting drowned out by the OTHER MAGA.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 23, 2024 16:47:54 GMT -5
I was chatting with a friend yesterday and they think WW3 is likely. Their logic is "I'm just guessing. But Europe is arming itself now for some reason. Yemen is saying it will block to other shipping lanes besides the Red Sea/ suez. China wants Taiwan back. Taiwan makes our computer chips and Chinese can't do that bc they don't have the knowledge even if they have the factories. Israel is committing genocide now and has nukes. China has a demographic nightmare happening no matter what and will decline. Everything is a mess and a weak president or a president that wants war is just a recipe for disaster" What do you think? fervently disagree, for everyone other than Trump. here is why: a president is not unitary in his command or authority. a wise president (and i think Biden is such a president) surrounds himself with people that are capable of assuming command, in accordance with our laws and protocol, at a moment's notice. i think the people have the WRONG impression that a president can act alone or even worse SHOULD do so. those people don't really have any respect for government, particularly ours, and should have no say in government, particularly ours. but i digress: ONLY a president who thinks OTHERWISE should be kept out of office. ergo, Biden is INFINITELY better as a bulwark against this debate than Trump.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 23, 2024 12:32:36 GMT -5
Amid a disjointed rant referencing the scrapped Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative that was popularly known as "Star Wars," Trump began to describe his own supposed plans for a U.S. missile defense system. "I will build an Iron Dome over our country, a state-of-the-art missile defense shield made in the USA," Trump said, appearing to reference Israel's air defense system. "We do it for other countries. We help other countries, we build, we don't do it for ourselves." "You know these are not muscle guys here," the ex-president added, accurately pointing to his arm. "They're muscle guys up here," he said, pointing to his brain, now two-for-two. Then, in his attempt to explain the subtle complexities of his so-called defense plan, Trump declared: "And they calmly walk to us, and ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding… They've only got 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out. Boom. Okay. Missile launch. Woosh. Boom."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-attempts-to-describe-missile-defense-ding-ding-ding-boom-whoosh/ar-BB1h6YbB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=3ff2b7ca996941f9ba1c1b5e444913bc&ei=106Does anyone know what he is talking about? Does he? well, he is right in that he is weak and has muscles in his head. beyond that, i can't gather much from what he said.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 23, 2024 12:29:48 GMT -5
i hope that this gets plenty of press, with the words Trump Crime Family contained within.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 23, 2024 12:27:43 GMT -5
I think the simple answer is they cross at a unmanned place to evade the border patrol and not be checked. If thy were really wanting to enter legally they would present themselves at official crossings. that is because, for whatever reason, you are not able to consider what it is like to be a refugee. it doesn't really take much imagination. perhaps you should spend some time thinking about what it would be like to flee a country and to enlist the services of someone disreputable to bring you across the border into a better place.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 23, 2024 12:24:48 GMT -5
If the closing of any land, park, etc. by abbott along the Texas/Mexico border interferes with the Border Patrol's work it is illegal on Texas's part. The Border Patrol is federal. Abbott's national guard is state. Were immigrants from central America entering the U.S. through your two closed and fenced state parks? I still say the State had the right to. you can say whatever you like. but what you say undermines 200 years of federal law.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 23, 2024 12:23:30 GMT -5
sounds like the kind of person who would have gladly worn jackboots in the late unpleasantness.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 22, 2024 17:52:38 GMT -5
he is a weak man. and a loser.
the more that is reinforced, the better.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 22, 2024 16:12:27 GMT -5
interesting ruling.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 22, 2024 15:39:38 GMT -5
they have been claiming for a while that there was no coordinated effort.
this looks pretty coordinated.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 22, 2024 1:35:43 GMT -5
just keeping it in mind- 1994 was under Clinton. never really cared for Bubba.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 22, 2024 1:29:12 GMT -5
for those of you who think this is a weird turn in the discussion, i would suggest you read THIS piece of fine reporting from the NYT (from a FOIA request): www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.htmlWASHINGTON — In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet “assets,” declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis’ intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called “moral lapses” in their service to the Third Reich. The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.” And in 1994, a lawyer with the C.I.A. pressured prosecutors to drop an investigation into an ex-spy outside Boston implicated in the Nazis’ massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania, according to a government official. Evidence of the government’s links to Nazi spies began emerging publicly in the 1970s. But thousands of records from declassified files, Freedom of Information Act requests and other sources, together with interviews with scores of current and former government officials, show that the government’s recruitment of Nazis ran far deeper than previously known and that officials sought to conceal those ties for at least a half-century after the war. In 1980, F.B.I. officials refused to tell even the Justice Department’s own Nazi hunters what they knew about 16 suspected Nazis living in the United States. The bureau balked at a request from prosecutors for internal records on the Nazi suspects, memos show, because the 16 men had all worked as F.B.I. informants, providing leads on Communist “sympathizers.” Five of the men were still active informants. Refusing to turn over the records, a bureau official in a memo stressed the need for “protecting the confidentiality of such sources of information to the fullest possible extent.” Some spies for the United States had worked at the highest levels for the Nazis. One SS officer, Otto von Bolschwing, was a mentor and top aide to Adolf Eichmann, architect of the “Final Solution,” and wrote policy papers on how to terrorize Jews. Yet after the war, the C.I.A. not only hired him as a spy in Europe, but relocated him and his family to New York City in 1954, records show. The move was seen as a “a reward for his loyal postwar service and in view of the innocuousness of his [Nazi] party activities,” the agency wrote.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 22, 2024 0:46:47 GMT -5
every single board member should watch that 9 minute excerpt. very educational. especially the crowd sizes. for those that think crowd size is important. one last thing. we won the Civil War. the South Lost. they don't get to pretend like that loss never happened. sorry. they just don't. to the victor goes the spoils. slavery and White Christian Nationalism lost. same with WW2. Nazi's lost. they don't get to just pretend that never happened and run things, now. sit down. accountability and democratic institutions and the countries that believe in them won. same with Trump in 2020. he lost. he needs to get used to that. and so do his supporters. was i happy when the SCOTUS settled the debate in 2000? no, i was not. i hated Bush. i was a McCain supporter. and indeed, he was a terrible president. the worst since Harding. but i accepted the loss. so did Gore. he presided over the Senate for his own loss. it was more statesmanlike than anything we have seen SINCE THAT ELECTION. a good example of what things SHOULD look like in a nation that respects institutions. so, what we have here is a 150 year old insurrection that is still alive. i would evoke the language of Trump and Hitler here, if i felt it served my interests and beliefs, but i won't. nevertheless, the loss must be convincing and at every level of government. our nation is at stake. and when i say OUR NATION, i mean the pluralistic, multicultural, pro- public nation whose arc hit the upper bound in approximately 1973. THAT America. the America of my Childhood. not the fascist crap that has poked it's ugly head up a few times since then, including now. You mean the country that brought Reinhard Gehlen and Otto Skorzeny and other Nazis to our shores? was that before or after we used them in 1952 to engineer a coup in Egypt? all of this chest puffing about how great we are and how we defeated the Nazi's is absolute cal. if it was ever about defeating fascism, we lost.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 22, 2024 0:10:48 GMT -5
not really.
if someone told me that the NTSB was dismantled under Trump, THEN i would be nervous.
was it?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 22, 2024 0:06:20 GMT -5
every single board member should watch that 9 minute excerpt. very educational.
especially the crowd sizes. for those that think crowd size is important.
one last thing. we won the Civil War. the South Lost. they don't get to pretend like that loss never happened. sorry. they just don't. to the victor goes the spoils. slavery and White Christian Nationalism lost.
same with WW2. Nazi's lost. they don't get to just pretend that never happened and run things, now. sit down. accountability and democratic institutions and the countries that believe in them won.
same with Trump in 2020. he lost. he needs to get used to that. and so do his supporters. was i happy when the SCOTUS settled the debate in 2000? no, i was not. i hated Bush. i was a McCain supporter. and indeed, he was a terrible president. the worst since Harding. but i accepted the loss. so did Gore. he presided over the Senate for his own loss. it was more statesmanlike than anything we have seen SINCE THAT ELECTION. a good example of what things SHOULD look like in a nation that respects institutions.
so, what we have here is a 150 year old insurrection that is still alive. i would evoke the language of Trump and Hitler here, if i felt it served my interests and beliefs, but i won't. nevertheless, the loss must be convincing and at every level of government. our nation is at stake. and when i say OUR NATION, i mean the pluralistic, multicultural, pro- public nation whose arc hit the upper bound in approximately 1973. THAT America. the America of my Childhood. not the fascist crap that has poked it's ugly head up a few times since then, including now.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 21, 2024 15:57:09 GMT -5
i was going to say that is helpful to Trump. but i changed my mind. it is probably helpful to Haley.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 21, 2024 14:40:18 GMT -5
the best thing about Trump is that his personality inhibits such a defense.
he is getting hung by his own petard.
not to make everything about Trump. just acknowledging facts about egomaniacs.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 21, 2024 14:35:44 GMT -5
URA hit it's strike price of $32. + 23% Bannerman did indeed have a 10:1 reverse split. so, of those stocks, only MGA and CVV have substantial gains. +22 -17 +27 +23* -75* -40 -22 +74 -8/9 = -0.9% over two years. i am pretty confident it gets better from here, though. add URNJ to the list to replace URA. $27.53 URNJ was not even available in 2022. *SOLD.
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