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Vance has to get that answer right because Daddy Trump probably doesn’t like being reminded of his comments about Trump.

Now look, Tim is going to tell you a lot of things about Trump.

Vance got rattled, lol. Tim dropping Bible references.

Walz has settled down, so this is going to be boring,

Dodge the question Vance

A friend has MAGA parents, so he had a sign made that looks like other Trump signs, but it has Vance's name in a large font, and Trump's in a smaller font, and he put it in their yard. He said it confused them, LOL. I would love for that to take off, and for Trump to get wind of something like that.

I don't know if I trust any of these people simply because everybody is grifting, and a lot of these folks have an audience of one or two people in mind. Pretty easy to pump up the numbers, and when Trump loses, they know he'll claim it was rigged, and Leon will believe that.

If Trump was responsible, he fucked up. That idiot union leader was publicly bragging about being able to cripple the US, and that's not going to play well - people won't have sympathy for him, or Trump when more people realize how close the two of them are. I'm sure the Harris campaign will circulate those photos of him and Trump together, as well as the video of him threatening to cripple the country.

As a Gen Xer, I know that a shitload of us hate the Baby Boomers, and Trump manages to not only embody the worst traits of the Baby Boomers, but caters to a lot of the Boomer types that we hate. But a lot of us grew up in suburban settings, and worshipped Reagan, so...

Or sliding into her DMs. Are we sure she's even human? These AI videos are getting pretty realistic looking, but she does look like she had the Mar-a-Lago facelift.

If he somehow lost, is he going to blame his daughters? And how soon will his wife divorce him?

I wonder how much of these problems we've seen are due to parents checking out on extracurricular activities during/after COVID? We had problems just as COVID was hitting, with the leadership turning over, and that group of 5th graders not continuing with Scouting - which would be the 14-15 year-olds. In our instance, with the Pack and some of the others I've seen, I think the current 5th graders were hit hard because that was the group that would have just been getting into Scouting as little kids before other activities could take root (baseball, soccer, etc.). We tried to navigate COVID as best we could, and rebuilt our groups successfully afterward (bigger and better than pre-COVID) and both our Pack and the Troop we feed into are doing fine, but we also have some solid leadership. I find it interesting that all of the sudden, the national council is pushing everybody to crossover their AOL Scouts to the Troops in December (or earlier if we can), and to start having our AOL Scouts camping with the Troops starting last month. I know they were testing stuff last year, and I know they started putting out the information earlier this year about crossing over early, but it seems like things accelerated recently. My guess is they are trying to get the incoming middle-schoolers fully into their Troops before middle-school activities take over. And I don't have a problem with that at all - I felt like Webelos II was just us spinning our wheels and shadowing the Troop anyways, since Boy Scouts were having to run most of the requirements for them.

I've had to tell a lot of people that the National Guard is not something where you can just give your two weeks notice and collect your stuff in a box and leave at the end of two weeks, and that in his position, there were a lot of people above him that had to sign off on it. He also had to meet the requirements to retire. If he put his paperwork in just a few weeks before it was known his unit was shipping out, he's going with them (it happened to several friends of mine), but in his case, he put in his paperwork well in advance (and back when he got out, it wasn't like the system now where dates are pinned down better).

If that's what they are telling their people, they maybe a bit scared of their people.

Vance is going to be asked about the Haitian stuff and he's going to double down on the racism, I have no doubt about it, because he doesn't see it as racism. There's nothing in his various speeches/appearances that Vance will parrot tonight that will make Harris-supporters undecided people tonight go "oh, I really like him".

I should feel awful for posting that.

Don't overthink it. Those groups cause unrest that ties down Israeli's military (and the Houthis help fuck around with Saudi Arabia), and it extends Iran's footprint all the way to the Mediterranean and is a buffer between Israel and Syria. Even if those groups that Iran helps support are Sunni, they are still keeping the Shiites in the conversation of which Muslim sect works against the Jews more, but a lot of this is also about protecting Syria, because if something happened in Syria, Iran starts to get really isolated. How about hitting some drone and missile factories that happen to help supply Russia?

The fact that it appears the missiles did no significant damage makes me wonder just how telegraphed of a response it was. I'm not saying the Iranians told Israel "here's what we are firing and when", but yeah, that was half-hearted. Iran has some pretty serious shit (as evidenced in Ukraine). Iran kind of has to insert itself into that conflict though - if Hezbollah ceases to exist as a functional organization, then Iran has lost its proxy in Lebanon/Syria, and it leaves its forces in Syria to be pushed out of Syria/destroyed in some manner, and sees its footprint in the Middle East shrink drastically. Iran had to respond somehow. They certainly can't project many boots on the ground into Lebanon.

John Stamos better watch his ass.