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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Wheels of justice really move slow.
  2. Dems are afraid of churches and tax exempt status. Dems also have an unrealistic hope to unite the country. Hence why Obama decided to forgive the Bush Admin for all crimes under their watch especially related to the war on terror.
  3. I agree there is a Greater Fool Theory in play with Bitcoin until it becomes a self realized prophecy as more people and wealth buys into it. What is the value of fiat currency other than you have faith that the country behind it. You hold onto whatever currency based on the hope that the country and its citizens agree that it has value. If Americans agreed today that the $2 bill was actually phony money, it would not be exchangeable for two $1 bills. Personally I don't even consider bitcoin to be a currency. It's called that because of the incorrectly applied term, cryptocurrency. Value is defined by what people want it to be defined. You or I can't tell others how to define it.
  4. History's greatest genocidists. Perhaps break it down to a European, Asian and New World edition.
  5. The ship has sailed in that more institutions and govts are looking into bitcoin and perhaps other crypto. When funds (pension, ETFs, state/national sovereign) decide to buy bitcoin, the price almost has nowhere to go but skyrocket since there is an extremely limited supply. There are uninformed critics that point to the question that how do you know there isn't more bitcoin or that more can't be created by hackers. That's out of ignorance in that the code regulates the growth and the blockchain can be read by anyone to see the exact amounts today. There are some nerdy finance and math types who debated and mitigated every concern years ago. There are more controls in the bitcoin blockchain than other financial systems.
  6. The low Texas enthusiasm always tells me how ripe Texas is for a Democrat wave to take the state. However there is a problem that loud Dem enthusiasm always encourage GOP get out the vote. Beto scared many casual GOP voters to show up to vote for Cruz in 2018. Allred is probably running into that as well.
  7. Why does anything think that he voted for Harris? Someone from an authoritarian country would more naturally vote for an authoritarian not Harris. EDIT: This is also why we should have an identifying data on a vote that indicates exactly who an individual votes so that we can remove a vote when it's determined to be wrong. Personally I don't care if the govt, via a regulated process, can figure out who I voted for. If the Trump browns shorts want to arrest me, I'm not afraid of them. Take me off to you MAGA concentration camp.
  8. https://radiologybusiness.com/topics/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-urges-users-submit-x-ray-pet-and-mr-images-xai-chatbot-grok Why in the world should healthcare orgs freely give millions of radiology images to Elon so he can build a for-profit AI tool? Sure his AI tool might point out something today that was missed but today the imaging tech/doctor already have access to tools to assist them. It's not like their holding up xrays to the ceiling light to read them. And I'm not even touching on the idea that no one should trust Elon with data that would identify a patient. Overall I see huge promise with AI assisting providers and patients but how could someone not give pause to giving Elon data for free. It wouldn't surprise me that if you gave him a MRI record, he would find legal methods to claim the MRI is now his and not yours.
  9. are you still talking about voting or is it general commentary about those cities?
  10. What everyone says especially especially the growing online communities. Bury yourself in videos, podcasts, or message board (e.g., TexAgs politics) and you think anyone even considering a lib idea, is a soft beta.
  11. Hence why the Trump won't stop running for President until he's dead. The quiet part is that many in the GOP think that either Tues or 2028 will be the end of Trump. He's going nowhere with his army of supporters. The MFer practically embalmed now with McDonalds grease. He can fight off any disease with that.
  12. Little shit went from screwing around (before the crime) with his friends yesterday afternoon to a court appearance this morning where his bond was set at 55K. FAFO
  13. He was one of eight teenagers who were confronting voters. He was the one that took to brandishing a weapon. EDIT: I'm sure we will hear from the parents that he's actually a good kid that took a prank too far. when I was that age, I did some dumb things but protesting a voting location and voters was definitely no where on the agenda.
  14. Haley has played this well politically. She’s endorsed Trump and has recently said publicly that she’s willing to go anywhere the Trump campaign needs her. They haven’t called her and she last personally spoke to Trump in June. Any criticism that she’s has about the campaign deliberately looks to avoid criticizing Trump directly. It’s more at the campaign leaders who will take the brunt of Trump hatred when he loses.
  15. Perhaps Harris can put together some commercials and go on podcasts saying that Biden mumbled and stuttered, and that it was a misquote.
  16. Fair game to call Biden’s comments stupid because they were. Especially given the history of the Hillary and “basket of deplorables” fired up maga last time. Harris’ campaign has been relatively flawless at least in terms of unforced errors, and she doesn’t need Biden jumping in the last week to make mistakes. i assume Biden is tired of holding his tongue and went undisciplined yesterday. Dude you can say whatever you want in 7 days.
  17. Biden is President and obviously can make comments to the press like calling some voters garbage. However he and his team know that you shouldn’t interfere in a race that you weren’t asked to comment. As an aside I can’t imagine where we would be right now if Biden was still running. Besides preparing for a red wave.
  18. Has Trump reserved the Four Seasons Landscaping parking lot for a Wednesday press conference? I’m not worried about his legal challenges until he makes that power move.
  19. On a slow news day it was probably easy for an editor to tell a reporter to write obits for famous people. Especially in the days when you didn’t have Wikipedia, IMDb, or even AI today.
  20. I had an acquaintance mention that he was for Trump because Trump will blow up the federal govt and then it can be built back. I didn’t care enough to ask him to expand on the details.
  21. Before Laura walks out, all of the RNC paperwork gets burned and the email/data gets deleted. And those left behind will be reminded of the NDAs to the Trump family and the penalties for violating them.
  22. Even though the Idaho dairy association lead says that a crackdown on illegal workers will end dairy production in Idaho, I bet he still votes Trump. He will tell himself that Trump isn’t talking about their production workers or that it’s just hyperbole. Then when Stephen Miller’s brown shirts come for the workers, the Idaho dairy farmers will ask and receive a handout from Trump for being a loyal state.
  23. I don’t care if the arsonist is a crazy MAGAt or the DNC chair. If you’re destroying ballots, I see that as an attempted coup. A very poor attempt at a coup but a coup nonetheless. The penalty should take intent into account.
  24. I bet Bannon has all of these ideas for Trumps campaign. I can’t imagine any of trumps handlers want them interacting at this point.
  25. In a hypothetical scenario the govt could attempt to make it illegal to hold crypto outside an approved custodian. It would be impossible to fully enforce but they could make it difficult to get new dollars into crypto. Like the following for US citizens. Deposit USD into coinbase buy crypto coinbase is only allowed to transfer crypto to 1 of 10 custodians. Or whatever number. coinbase rejects random crypto deposits. I’m not advocating this but this is a potential path that a govt could use to control crypto. Unfortunately it would only control it for more law abiding citizens. International options would still be possible.
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