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Mdhorn

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  1. Dems should ask how 8.4 trillion of debt Trump added affected inflation and the cost of groceries?
  2. Went to a place a few times that I counted over 20 turkeys, multiple harriers, a horned owl nest with owlets, 4 or 5 short eared owls, fox and coyote dens, a red tailed hawks nest, several eagles, multitude of different ducks, deer, snipe and woodcock and now there's a bulldozer where they're about to begin developing. What I love about development is all the empty buildings of prior developments already leading up to it. This land has been dormant for 30 years so kudos I guess, for allowing nature for little while and us on a few birding tours, but in the end, somebody wanted to get paid while they were still alive. The place should be a nature preserve. Progress.
  3. If they're pressing teachers, and pressed mgmt to ferret out insubordinate government employees previously under Trump, they def will demand from the mail carrier that he swear fealty. It was the regular employees that helped uncover DeJoy dismantling postal machines during the last election. And why is he still Postmaster General?
  4. Good opinion piece: https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-supreme-court-just-showed-184314188.html. Excerpts below: I have badly underestimated Donald Trump. Thursday was the day that his justices — it turns out that they are indeed his justices on the Supreme Court, just as he claimed — got it through my thick head: Trump is not just competent but masterful. He is not just capable, he is supreme. Crime is a largely private endeavor. Corruption is public. It seeps into the muscle and sinew of democratic society and institutions; it devours from within. The Supreme Court, drunk on arrogated power, cut loose from rudimentary ethics, has been eaten alive by it. But the court is just one plot of a vast terrain that Trump has conquered — not with crime, but corruption. Crime is when you launch a violent attempt to overthrow the republic. Corruption is when you convince an entire political party to pretend they didn’t watch it live on television, or cower from it inside the Capitol while dozens of police officers were being bludgeoned by the mob. Crime is when you make off with top-secret documents. Corruption is when a MAGA judge can’t find time to schedule your trial, or process the mountainous evidence of your guilt. Crime is when your lawyers tell the Senate not to convict you in an impeachment trial because you can be charged in court. Corruption is when your lawyers inform the Supreme Court that you are immune from criminal courts and only the Senate can judge you — but, alas, the senators have missed their window. But it was the Republican Supreme Court — mostly men again — that put the shiv a little deeper in democracy’s back this week. Originalists or textualists, all sounded more or less Trumpist as they seriously entertained Trump’s argument that his assaults on the constitutional order are protected by the Constitution itself. There is no way to make honest sense of such a liar’s mash. But Larry, Moe and Curly aren’t just chairing committees in Congress. They wear robes and furrowed brows now, too. And they seem eager to pretend that crimes are just constitutional exercises of power, and that one ex-president is a king.
  5. Gonna need a bigger catapult.
  6. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    Nah, KC has to protect Mahomes.
  7. Biden should perp walk several SCOTUS members to some very public gallows set up on the National Mall, and on the way, repeatedly loudly ask the justices at what point do they understand why a president shouldn't have absolute immunity. It's like they rely on Democrats being decent, whereas they and who they represent are not. If you're taking a billionaire's money, you're not representing the average citizen.
  8. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    And the Ravens get their man in Wiggins.
  9. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    Next best thing--sling.
  10. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    I can't think of a better match, as long as Mahomes has pass protection.
  11. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    The rich get richer. Go KC!
  12. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    WTF is the Pack doing?
  13. What about a corrupt SCOTUS member and his wife, especially if they could be determined a threat to the US? Or something similar to the open window policy granted to Putin.
  14. I was going to go with bone saw in memory of Khashoggi.
  15. Back to dumb punk and the Clean.
  16. This band is blowing up. I'm sad that I waited too long to buy tickets and now they're sold out up and down the East Coast. Waited because I would be the oldest person there, and expect a lot of teens and/or college kids. I coulda worn a mask and just silently enjoyed their jangly pop sounds. And they're trying to sound a little Cureish.
  17. Just saw Robyn Hitchcock. Fantastic show, just him playing acoustic and a few songs on piano--sounded superb. Makes me sad he's 71, because he's not likely doing many more trips my way.
  18. Seeing them at the Atlantis in DC in May. Looking forward to a blast from the past.
  19. Biden's going to make several public gaffs. Meanwhile, Trump is going to try and overthrow the law, say more racist stuff along the way, disavow more of his lawyers and insiders, threaten more judges and jurists, all the while hemorrhaging damaging personal secrets in multiple courtrooms. So far, we've learned that Trump had the aid of a faux news channel (Fox lost a billion recently in court) and press (National Enquirer) interfering and disparaging opposition. Biden still overcame it. All eyes are going to be on Trump going forward, and the courtroom appearances aren't going to allow him as much time to work on interfering with future elections. More and bigger stuff is going to be released and Trump is going to lose a lot more money. He may not be getting jail, but he's losing everything he values via death by a thousand cuts. I don't know how or when, but I almost expect the Supreme Court will intervene on his behalf to halt the information being released through courts on Trump because it's a brutal look publicly to any sane, rational human being. While there are several better Democrat candidates I'd consider over Biden--if Biden is the Dem nominee, it's literally ride or die. And a super bonus if he has people like Buttigieg working in his cabinet, because that's one of my candidates that I'd consider as better. But here's the thing, it's not about who's smarter or up and coming, it's about who has experience, knows the players, and can broker deals. And Biden shows that he can absolutely still get stuff done. That's difficult to beat.
  20. Yes. Trump wouldn't ask for Biden to be drug tested before future debates if he felt secure in his own mental advantage. I don't think Trump debates this go around.
  21. He just needs to appoint the right people to the right jobs, and bingo-bango, he's head and shoulders above Trump. If he commits no crimes and can keep his hands off prostitutes, he's head and shoulders above Trump. If he doesn't plead for presidential immunity for life, he's head and shoulders above Trump. If he doesn't use the words covfefe, hamburders, and person-woman-man-camera-tv as president, he's head and shoulders above Trump. If he doesn't aspire to hang out with dictators and fascists, he's head and shoulders above Trump. Damn, this list gets tiring, so I'll just end it here--besides, Trump's got a lot of courtroom napping to do from now until the election, which makes Biden head and shoulders above Trump.
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