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Mdhorn

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  1. It is whatever Trump says it is. It's not that the system doesn't work for them, it does, but it also works for minorities and they're not white. That's all it is. Fox exists for them. Their gripe is what? Trump added 8.3 trillion in debt in one term. Did it cut inflation? Make the price of goods and perishables decrease? Cut home prices? The petroleum industry has been booming under Biden. Has the cost of oil and gas gone down? How about billionaires--are they getting pinched? Are illegals tanking the economy? Are any of their gripes based on reality or Trump? If we said Trump, then that's their reality. He appeals to the sense of white nationalism for the poor and middle class, and deregulated industries for the upper. What's strange are minorities supporting white nationalism, and the middle class actively clamoring for unfettered billionaire gains, when there's no trickledown.
  2. Through the years, I got to see a lot of bands play in rooms that could only fit one deep. Future Islands and The War on Drugs are two that immediately spring to mind. So many others were super, crazy talented but just never made it. But those rooms were rocking and they gotta start somewhere.
  3. Had a friend that booked bands at a gallery warehouse in DC they rented and he'd pay the band with a recording of their set. Later, when they got bigger groups, they'd give them a percentage of the door. All they did was just try to make rent which worked for the 10 years they were open. Never turned a profit, however, but lots of great memories. Did it again later on the border of West Virginia and Maryland with mostly Americana/Bluegrass musicians. He converted an old barn into a recording studio and bands would play at the restaurant/venue and/or he'd record them at the barn. He just retired this last year. When asked why, he said he could no longer take all the recording retakes. Good stuff. Awesome that you made it happen.
  4. Think the other play was Cohen did this on his own to get ahead of it all, unbeknownst by Trump. Trump is always the innocent, dumb ass that is unaware of all the nefarious activities committed by his personnel and rogue people he's given his private banking info to. But sure, elect the guy surrounded by idiots and bad actors, to be leader of the free world.
  5. Stormy gave back. So much so, it's not even in question whether they had sex. All she really needs to reiterate is I was paid to keep the sex part quiet. We can disagree about whether both of us held up our ends of the bargain, but the sex part isn't in question. As far as being rehearsed by the prosecution, she could ask why do you refer to your client as President Trump? She very well could've said they had sex twice if she were making things up. What was a pornstar doing at his place at all? I mean, porn would make someone better at sex and the man was calling her all the time afterwards. Maybe woulda helped if he had been a pornstar, too, at some point so that he would've been better. Use that shit. The defense should want her off the stage.
  6. Herman Cain says remember me? I was a billionaire Trump supporter and died from Covid after attending an indoor Trump rally in Tulsa. Although forgotten, even less people care about Tim Scott, and Trump has already been publicly disparaging of him. Sad.
  7. Dems should ask how 8.4 trillion of debt Trump added affected inflation and the cost of groceries?
  8. 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.
  9. 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?
  10. 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.
  11. Gonna need a bigger catapult.
  12. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    Nah, KC has to protect Mahomes.
  13. 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.
  14. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

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

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    Next best thing--sling.
  16. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

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

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    The rich get richer. Go KC!
  18. Mdhorn

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    WTF is the Pack doing?
  19. 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.
  20. I was going to go with bone saw in memory of Khashoggi.
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