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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 20, 2024 21:17:25 GMT -5
Tenn- where did the eclipses quote come from? Which reply #, DJ?
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 20, 2024 23:22:43 GMT -5
Tenn- where did the eclipses quote come from? Which reply #, DJ? 1617
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 21, 2024 9:28:18 GMT -5
It's a quote from Bill's linked article in reply #1615.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 21, 2024 10:55:41 GMT -5
i used the search function, and it is not showing up. so i went to Google, and found it in The Hill.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 21, 2024 15:08:10 GMT -5
One of the many "so beautiful in so many different ways" pictures.
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Post by billisonboard on Apr 21, 2024 16:08:34 GMT -5
One of the many "so beautiful in so many different ways" pictures. I am stealing this post and posting it on another thread where it also appropriate.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 21, 2024 17:58:14 GMT -5
yes, because gruesome death is just so beautiful.
what a sick fuck.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Apr 21, 2024 18:04:39 GMT -5
yes, because gruesome death is just so beautiful. what a sick fuck. You are talking about a person to whom his floor was more important than the guest who was bleeding on it and needed medical help.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 21, 2024 18:07:54 GMT -5
yes, because gruesome death is just so beautiful. what a sick fuck. You are talking about a person to whom his floor was more important than the guest who was bleeding on it and needed medical help.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Apr 21, 2024 18:35:40 GMT -5
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 21, 2024 19:01:16 GMT -5
At the end of your linked article is the following headline of the next article: Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76Not sure how many of us remember this guy but I do. Bless the guy's heart. I hope the rest of his life was better than the middle of it.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 21, 2024 19:01:49 GMT -5
Cadet Bonespur. 'Nuff said!
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 21, 2024 19:03:11 GMT -5
trump reaction to this poor man's injuries was as usual, deplorable and heartless.
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 22, 2024 8:28:20 GMT -5
trump reaction to this poor man's injuries was as usual, deplorable and heartless. Let’s not forget how he referred to John McCain as a ‘loser’ for being captured by the enemy. And didn’t he whine about having to visit the French military cemetery to honor the war dead? It was raining and it would mess with his elaborate but delicate hair nest. And he compared trying to avoid STD in New York in the 70’s as ‘his Viet Nam.’ Zero respect for the military and their sacrifices. This reminds me of when Marge Taylor Greene visited the Chickamauga Battlefield south of Chattanooga and praised the Confederate officer who built Wilder Tower there after the war. Wilder was actually a northern officer. The South technically won the battle, but as the Union troops retreated back to Chattanooga, the Southern troops did not purse them and strike a decisive defeat, turning Chickamauga into another one of those Civil War battles where a bunch of men and mules and artillery got destroyed and nothing really came of it. Which makes it all the more idiotic that Marge should stand on the battlefield and praise the Union officer she thought was a Southern officer for participating in a depressing blood bath.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 22, 2024 10:51:26 GMT -5
trump reaction to this poor man's injuries was as usual, deplorable and heartless. Let’s not forget how he referred to John McCain as a ‘loser’ for being captured by the enemy. And didn’t he whine about having to visit the French military cemetery to honor the war dead? It was raining and it would mess with his elaborate but delicate hair nest. And he compared trying to avoid STD in New York in the 70’s as ‘his Viet Nam.’ Zero respect for the military and their sacrifices. This reminds me of when Marge Taylor Greene visited the Chickamauga Battlefield south of Chattanooga and praised the Confederate officer who built Wilder Tower there after the war. Wilder was actually a northern officer. The South technically won the battle, but as the Union troops retreated back to Chattanooga, the Southern troops did not purse them and strike a decisive defeat, turning Chickamauga into another one of those Civil War battles where a bunch of men and mules and artillery got destroyed and nothing really came of it. Which makes it all the more idiotic that Marge should stand on the battlefield and praise the Union officer she thought was a Southern officer for participating in a depressing blood bath. Funny you bring up the French cemetery. This article was posted today. Washington Post article. The murky facts about Trump’s failure to visit American war dead near Paris“I have to say, there are a lot of things that Donald Trump has said and done that I find extremely offensive. But one that offends me the most is when he refused, as president, to visit an American cemetery outside of Paris when he was president. Why? He said that those soldiers who gave their lives were, quote — it was his quote — ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’”— Biden, remarks in Scranton, Penn. April 16 “I was reminded of what my opponent said in Paris not too long ago. They asked him to go visit American gravesites. He said ‘no.’ He wouldn’t do it. Because they were all ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ I’m not making that up.”— President Biden, remarks in Pittsburgh, April 17 “What I was thinking about when I was standing there was when Trump refused to go up to the memorial for veterans in Paris, and he said they were a bunch of ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’”
— Biden, remarks to reporters in Avoca, Penn., April 17 Three times last week, President Biden referenced one of the signature controversies of the Trump presidency — whether he refused to visit a cemetery of war dead outside Paris because he thought soldiers who gave their lives in combat were losers and suckers. The original source for this story was an article in the Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg titled: “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers.’” Goldberg, citing “four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day,” reported that Trump canceled a visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because he did not believe it was important to honor American war dead. “In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, ‘Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,’” Goldberg wrote. “In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood [during World War I] as ‘suckers’ for getting killed.” Trump, on repeated occasions, vehemently denied this account. During the 2020 campaign, he claimed that 25 people had denied the story on the record — though at best the White House could produce 14 names of people traveling with the president, and most of those people were not present for the relevant conversations or issued carefully parsed statements. An exception was John R. Bolton, then Trump’s national security adviser and later a sharp critic, who said the trip was scrubbed because of weather. Rest of article here: The murky facts about Trump’s failure to visit American war dead near Paris
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 22, 2024 11:25:41 GMT -5
i don't wish this on ANYONE, but if he DOES end up disabled, which is quite likely given his health, i hope he feels the pain of all of those LIKE HIM that he wronged.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 22, 2024 15:24:40 GMT -5
i don't wish this on ANYONE, but if he DOES end up disabled, which is quite likely given his health, i hope he feels the pain of all of those LIKE HIM that he wronged. He won’t.
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Post by ripvanwinkle on Apr 24, 2024 0:15:48 GMT -5
Another waste of student loan forgiveness - $250,000 to a music student dissolved -
He says "Beyond financial goals, Lambdin said the relief was also allowing him the freedom to pursue some of his long-term dreams, including taking a sabbatical to study with his meditation teacher in India". This is what I object to.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 24, 2024 0:22:44 GMT -5
Another waste of student loan forgiveness - $250,000 to a music student dissolved -
He says "Beyond financial goals, Lambdin said the relief was also allowing him the freedom to pursue some of his long-term dreams, including taking a sabbatical to study with his meditation teacher in India". This is what I object to.
Keep on objecting all you want, rip.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 24, 2024 9:13:32 GMT -5
Apparently, a strong US.dollar is bad for the country. Trump Blames Biden For Strong Dollar—As US Currency Reaches New High Against Japanese YenFormer President Trump called the U.S. dollar’s new 34-year high against the yen a “disaster” on Tuesday, claiming it would harm U.S. manufacturers and force them to relocate plants overseas—echoing protectionist sentiments after reportedly exploring ideas about devaluing the dollar if he returns to the White House. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, Trump said the dollar’s new peak would be a “disaster for our manufacturers and others,” claiming it would make them “unable to compete and will be forced to either lose lots of business, or build plants, or whatever, in the ‘smart’ Countries.” The dollar hit a 34-year high against the yen on Monday, rising to 154.85 yen versus one dollar—and is at 154.86 on Tuesday. The former president blamed the White House for the strong dollar, claiming President Biden weakened his trade policies against China and Japan—who he said will now “pick apart the U.S.” However, experts believe the dollar’s strength is likely related to the success of the U.S. economy compared to other nations, as well as rising inflation and the Federal Reserve’s call to delay interest rate cuts, Bloomberg reported. Rest of article here: Trump Blames Biden For Strong Dollar—As US Currency Reaches New High Against Japanese Yen
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 24, 2024 14:13:33 GMT -5
Another waste of student loan forgiveness - $250,000 to a music student dissolved -
He says "Beyond financial goals, Lambdin said the relief was also allowing him the freedom to pursue some of his long-term dreams, including taking a sabbatical to study with his meditation teacher in India". This is what I object to.
Well, it's behind a paywall so I can't read it to gain an understanding of what happened, but seriously, where the F#$% do they find stories like this? This is NOT the norm of what student loans are for the vast majority of people out there. But, these totally bizarre off the wall scenarios get thrown out there and people like you start foaming at the mouth. eta: If student loans could just be discharged in bankruptcy everyone could stop complaining about student loan forgiveness. With that much debt he could have just had it wiped out in bankruptcy court...you know like Trump did...ELEVEN TIMES...and for way, way more than 250K! He's had over 900 million wiped out just in the couple years after he left the White House.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 24, 2024 14:31:24 GMT -5
Washington Post article. Trump's next claim will be he's a trillionaire. Trump claims 200 million Americans ‘love’ him. How many actually do?Former president Donald Trump is, if nothing else — and at the risk of the understatement of the 2024 election — a man prone to hyperbole. His tendency to inflate numbers to bolster his image has now cost him dearly both in criminal and civil court. But with a presidential campaign to run and now a Manhattan criminal trial to fend off, it’s full steam ahead on the exaggeration game. The most recent talking point: that hundreds of millions of Americans not only support Trump, but love him. “When I walk into that courtroom, I know I will have the love of 200 million Americans behind me,” Trump said April 13 during a rally in Pennsylvania, “and I will be fighting for the freedom of 325 million Americans.” He repeated the comment two days later on social media. He also offered a version of the 200 million claim last year. By Monday night, his son Eric Trump added on Fox News, “They’re going after the former president of the United States — a person beloved by hundreds of millions of people in this country — over $130,000 [in hush money] from eight years ago.” This is, to put it mildly, ridiculous. But unlike most of Trump’s ridiculous claims, it’s something worth delving into. We’re at a tenuous time, after all, and the number of Americans who might be incensed by the criminal justice system prosecuting and convicting a man they “love” is relevant. Devotion is a commodity for Trump in the 2024 election, given his personal problems. The first thing to note is that, if 200 million Americans love Trump, they have a funny way of showing it. Just over 74 million people voted for him in the 2020 election. That was both 7 million fewer than President Biden and just 37 percent of the number Trump claims love him. If 200 million Americans loved Trump, he would never lose an election, because that’s roughly 60 percent of the population. The second is that even voting for Trump doesn’t translate to loving him. An increasing number of Americans vote for candidates they don’t love or even particularly like. Indeed, voters who disliked Trump are why he became president in the first place; he won a decisive number of votes from those who viewed both him and Hillary Clinton unfavorably in 2016. Rest of article here: Trump claims 200 million Americans ‘love’ him. How many actually do?
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 24, 2024 14:56:22 GMT -5
If 200 million Americans loved Trump, he would never lose an election, because that’s roughly 60 percent of the population. His 200 million that love him must consist of mostly minors and felons that can't vote.
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Post by busymom on Apr 24, 2024 15:14:10 GMT -5
I'm still VERY concerned about the election this Fall. A local television station just interviewed a bunch of people in our county yesterday, and it's just unbelievable to me how many folks are blaming the price increases on Biden, and are going to vote for Trump. Then, throw in the local business owners, and they think their businesses will be more profitable with him in office. Some people never learn.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 24, 2024 17:19:08 GMT -5
I'm still VERY concerned about the election this Fall. A local television station just interviewed a bunch of people in our county yesterday, and it's just unbelievable to me how many folks are blaming the price increases on Biden, and are going to vote for Trump. Then, throw in the local business owners, and they think their businesses will be more profitable with him in office. Some people never learn. All I know is we aren’t making enough Grover Cleveland jokes.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 19:13:58 GMT -5
Washington Post article. Trump's next claim will be he's a trillionaire. Trump claims 200 million Americans ‘love’ him. How many actually do? One! Since the word "love" is used I posit there is exactly ONE person in this world who loves him. Others may have some feelings for him based on their expectations of reciprocity or usefulness but the orange paint addict is the only one who loves him and whom he loves.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:30:16 GMT -5
Another waste of student loan forgiveness - $250,000 to a music student dissolved -
He says "Beyond financial goals, Lambdin said the relief was also allowing him the freedom to pursue some of his long-term dreams, including taking a sabbatical to study with his meditation teacher in India". This is what I object to.
really? what i object to is that musicians spend 10000 hours learning their craft and then get paid $100/night. to each our own, i suppose.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:38:28 GMT -5
Apparently, a strong US.dollar is bad for the country. Trump Blames Biden For Strong Dollar—As US Currency Reaches New High Against Japanese YenFormer President Trump called the U.S. dollar’s new 34-year high against the yen a “disaster” on Tuesday, claiming it would harm U.S. manufacturers and force them to relocate plants overseas—echoing protectionist sentiments after reportedly exploring ideas about devaluing the dollar if he returns to the White House. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, Trump said the dollar’s new peak would be a “disaster for our manufacturers and others,” claiming it would make them “unable to compete and will be forced to either lose lots of business, or build plants, or whatever, in the ‘smart’ Countries.” The dollar hit a 34-year high against the yen on Monday, rising to 154.85 yen versus one dollar—and is at 154.86 on Tuesday. The former president blamed the White House for the strong dollar, claiming President Biden weakened his trade policies against China and Japan—who he said will now “pick apart the U.S.” However, experts believe the dollar’s strength is likely related to the success of the U.S. economy compared to other nations, as well as rising inflation and the Federal Reserve’s call to delay interest rate cuts, Bloomberg reported. Rest of article here: Trump Blames Biden For Strong Dollar—As US Currency Reaches New High Against Japanese Yenif this country had economic literacy, Biden could run on this. a good measure of how a country is doing is its currency. the USD is currently the 10th strongest currency in the world. this is exactly the same as 2020, by the way, so there is no particular change there. the Euro has fallen from 7th to 9th, however. a weak currency is TERRIBLE for a country and it's people. it is typically associated with high unemployment, high inflation, and negative real economic growth. the US has none of these things.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:43:04 GMT -5
here is a graph of US dollar versus the world:
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:44:46 GMT -5
you will note that the dollar did quite well under Trump, as well (+10%). so, if Biden is a disaster because of a strong dollar, so was Trump.
this is what i mean. he doesn't understand shit about economics, but everyone things he is some kind of business shaman. he is a business sham man.
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