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  1. Well, that would explain your aggressive rhetoric, or so I've heard.
  2. 27-25

    Tax reform

    You can debate how much the SALT changes will affect which slices of the population for an eternity and probably never come to a consensus. But the claim that the middle of the country is subsidizing the "elite" coasts is complete horse shit. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/
  3. User name checks out.
  4. "It was all me, but I guess Brian is a good person too... But not as much as me."
  5. DOTUS dodged the military. He won't notice the difference.
  6. FIFY
  7. Yeah. Any setback in Trump's agenda will now be countered and investigated by purged federal agencies. Oh, and another example of projection. Shit's gonna get real, real fast.
  8. Hopefully all of the important Presidential papers will be securely filed away in evidence boxes.
  9. More like fewer tools and more "tools", so par for the course with this administration.
  10. You mean a government agency like the EPA? Then, no. We should not expect them to keep the water safe, in this current environment. The current environment nurtures chaos and for some chaos produces opportunities.
  11. though I'm happy about the change in this case.
  12. Fuck Jim Jordan with a red hot poker. The last year and a half has felt like a decade and just when I thought we'd hit rock bottom we keep discovering another cliff we're tumbling over. I hope this is all a dream from which I will wake up with a plot for a book that will be soundly rejected by all publishers due to its preposterous machinations. "No one will believe this tripe!"
  13. Trump should be serving up the Bald Eagle. Only one man wears the pants in the Putin-Trump relationship and it ain't the Cheeto.
  14. I was wondering what that whooshing sound was when I read it. Now I can see it when I look up.
  15. Is Beto Hispanic? I know he's fluent in Spanish, but was not aware he was Hispanic. I'm in CA, so not seeing as much about that race out here obviously.
  16. An example of the technique of packing. The other is cracking. Lots of good examples out there how gerrymandering can extremely skew representation. Wikipedia has a few examples as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering Are there good cases to be made for gerrymandering? The voting rights act has been cited in the past in trying to craft districts where minorities are more likely to get a seat at the table, so to speak. But the current state of affairs has made it clear that attempting to allow a technique for "good" reasons opens up Pandora's box to a whole lot of shit. Political districts should never be drawn up by the politicians.
  17. We're headed for a recession no matter who does what. It will happen. No one knows the exact details. What we all know is that when it happens Trump will blame Obama and the Democrats. That is certain.
  18. Perhaps the most significant question is, did it work? Sadly, I think the answer is no. I was not actually watching the game at that point and my wife pointed out that some people had run onto the field stopping play. She indicated that the cameras eventually were turned away from the folks on the field so as not to encourage such antics in the future. Thus, chances of getting a message out were neutralized. Neither she nor I had any idea there was a political message behind the ploy until I read this article.
  19. Using email to appear to be someone else, in a nutshell. https://www.knowbe4.com/spear-phishing/
  20. Pillow talk? Is that like locker room talk? That's only allowed for one side apparently.
  21. I have not seen it, but will look. I have read an article or two about the area and it consistently ranks as the most miserable part of Europe.
  22. I forgot to mention Transnistria (Moldova) as well. But Putin's fine, we're told.
  23. So, if Russia follows the same playbook in Estonia they've utilized in Crimea, Ukraine and Georgia then Trump turns a blind eye. Great. And Estonia is one of the NATO allies that actually does spend more than 2% of GDP on defense. Right now.
  24. Excellent. If FoxNews had more stuff like this on the air I'd have to change my opinion of it. Too bad it's more the exception that proves the rule.
  25. It concerns me that people have this notion that one has to pick a side, left or right. Believing that to choose a moderate stance in the middle is a dereliction of duty on the part of the citizen is killing this country. Fewer people in the sane center these days I fear.
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