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SmokeyTheBear

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    Two White House officials familiar with the dynamic said Harris and her aides have emphasized internally that they want to focus on conditions in Central America that push migrants to the US southern border, as President Joe Biden tasked her to do. A record number of unaccompanied children crossed into the US this spring, and the throngs of desperate minors present a heart-rending problem as well as a political one.  

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    After the announcement, Harris' aides appeared to "panic," according to one of the officials, out of concern that her assignment was being mischaracterized and could be politically damaging if she were linked to the border, which at the time was facing a growing number of arrivals. But another White House official pushed back on the sentiment, saying the vice president's team wasn't panicked.

    The border issue has been a thing, for like, forever. They want to focus on the root cause which is what they should do. A wall doesn't fix the border issue. 

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  2. 10 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    I don't think that they would be talking about a coup like this of they didn't think that they have a faction in the military willing to A) neutralize a reaction from the rest of the military, and B) assault the White House and Capitol to arrest or, more likely, kill their opposition.  I hope that I'm wrong, and that they are just squawking out of their asses for the grift.

    I think they will have all these states that they are recertifying the election in, come out and say it was a landslide victory for Trump. I cannot fathom that anything substantive will actually happen but it will be a disrupting force moving forward as 30% of the population who believes anything Trump says now has the "evidence" to prove the election was stolen. That is when the fun begins. 

  3. 2 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
    4 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:
    I am. We got in on the 12th and leave at the end of the month. Just saw our first bear by the house. Tons of Moose this year (cause the fires?). Had a pine marten literally peak his head into the back patio yesterday. I love this shit. 

    Nice. We are probably a mile from you. Trails in the Experimental Forest are amazing.

    They legit are. I'm liking them more and more and especially because some of our favorite hikes in RMNP got burned out. We did Backscratch last weekend and the loop the other day. Had a crazy experience in there last year when a wicked wind storm blew in and started dropping trees all around us. Several cars had to get out and help remove trees from the road to get out of the park. 

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    You're staying in Moose Run, right?

    I am. We got in on the 12th and leave at the end of the month. Just saw our first bear by the house. Tons of Moose this year (cause the fires?). Had a pine marten literally peak his head into the back patio yesterday. I love this shit. 

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  5. 8 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Jesus man, don't give those stupid fuckers any ideas.  They're gonna have a degree program before long called, "Gameclock Auditing Sciences."  They'll go back and review clock starts/stoppages for every big game they've ever lost. 

    Their justification will be, "Despite there being no factual evidence to suggest we won the game in the allotted period of time, how can be so sure there was no massive clock fraud?  We must "independently" audit to make sure every second was accounted for, every second was counted, and the chain of custody of the game clocks and whistles and instant replay devices were not manipulated in any way.  

    What's more plausible you sore-losing Aggie morons...that there was a massive, yet completely unproven, conspiracy between the Big XII office, the referees, the stadium clock official, the ABC camera crews, and other sideline crew members to make you lose your last game with Texas?  Or was it simply the guy you worshipped, Coach Sherman, just said and did a bunch of stupid shit towards the end and JustinTucker simply made that field goal? 

    Which seems more likely?  The greatest football conspiracy ever in American history that apparently 'everybody knows about', yet has zero evidence of having taken place, with hundreds involved who've all managed to keep their roles in it quiet for all this time?  Or your rival just scored more points than you in the time allotted?  

    Yeah, but have you heard of the Burnt Orange Media Conspiracy?! Aggies have been mistreated and misunderstood all because Texas owns the media.

     

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    Fox News is one channel.  Twitter and Facebook actively censor conservatives.  The dominant form of media pushed some horse shit lie about Russian collusion for the majority of Trump’s term.  But, it’s Fox News that fucked over the Georgia elections.  Got it.  Think for yourself before you insult me, buddy...

    One channel that at one point had almost as much viewers as MSNBC and CNN combined. It's since dropped post Trump. Regarding Russia, again educate yourself. Russia has and is involved in messing with our government and elections. An investigation ensued because someone benefited from it. I'm sure you had the same criticism about all the Benghazi investigations. Poor Hillary, right? 

    But need to think for myself. Go felate yourself in a corner to feel better about your ignorance, snowflake. 

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  7. 16 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    “Socially liberal but fiscally conservative” was NEVER a Republican thing.

    That’s bullshittery marketing to make decent people buy GQP garbage.

    The Republicans spend and waste WAY more money and wreck shit to leave for a Democratic President to fix.

    See - Clinton, Bill and Obama, Barack and Biden, Joe.

    You want “Socially liberal but fiscally conservative”?

    Then you vote for a Democrat.

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  8. 2 hours ago, GRHorn said:

    They’re slightly different. Russia tried to influence what was on the platforms. Tech employees loyal to the Democratic Party actively suppressed stories before the election. And iirc retrospective looks at Russian influence found minimal impact in the first place. 

    You mean they worked to actively limit the fake news that Russia and our enemies (including Trump) propagated on their private platforms? The horror. You should direct your rage at the sources of the misinformation, not the platforms trying to limit it. It just so happens that your "team" lives and dies (literally) on that misinformation. 

    *bolded: where are you getting that info other than from your ass? 

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  9. 37 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    what is a Christian Diet Guru?  

    Someone who allows you to eat all the body and drink all the blood of Christ you can handle. Here's her advertising the new diet blood of Christ with Sprite. The 7 and 7 of Trumpers. 

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  10. 18 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    You’re wasting your time. He’s a troll. Put him on ignore. Stop rewarding him for saying stupid shit. You’re giving him the validation he craves and keeps him coming back for more.

    You have your way of dealing with them, I have mine. Feel free to put me on ignore as well if it is such a problem for you. 

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  11. Just now, WhatTheBuck said:

    Or do you just like to hear yourself talk? Because whatever else you think you’re accomplishing by incessantly feeding a troll, you’re not.

    The proper way to treat a troll is to just ignore them. I learned that in the 90’s. There’s a reason we have a separate table for the kids during meals on holidays. 

    I just don't view everyone with an opposing view as a troll. I see these people in my family and out in the wild regularly and they just live in a different world. Do you leave them be or engage? I tend to want to engage. You may not. Good for you. But here we are on a message board, a place to engage, so I will. 

    I don't think GR is a troll in the context of what message he is trying to sell, but maybe in the way he is trying to sell it. 

  12. 1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    What’s the difference if they’re really stupid or just playing stupid? The two states are logically equivalent so you can and should treat them the same.

    Shaggy/Surly is an has been an all-you-can-eat buffet for trolls and I’ve seen many of them feasting for years. And people keep feeding them while accomplishing nothing other than amplifying their idiocy.

    ’Oh, but we can’t let the stupid things they say go unchecked!’ Yes you can. 

    Fair, at a level. I'm not looking to reach those, I'm looking to challenge them for those that are lurking and trying to understand issues. There are those who would buy into the troll narrative if the troll narative goes unchecked. 

  13. Just now, GRHorn said:

    Win more elections and you can pass whatever you want (Like Obamacare). If you’re having trouble winning enough elections then some reflection is warranted. That’s an objective truth. 

    The objective truth is that one party has been working to suppress the vote for decades because they know their base is too small to win elections. Also, stacking the courts by breaking precedent they themselves set. All things to control the government outside of winning elections. 

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