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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Listening to the FSU press conference where the officials are praising the response by the university and local law enforcement. I can't help but recall Gov. Abbott heaping the exact same praise on Uvalde ISD and local police as well as the DPS troops immediately following that tragedy. Then of course we later learn that they actually did worse than nothing. Another victim of Greg Abbott's reign will be even less trust in public officials' statements.
  2. Many think that Powell (& others) has performed a masterful job in dealing with the post-COVID economy. Not perfect and after-the-fact analysis can point out issues. But how if Powell supposed to deal with a trade strategy that varies by the day. And the variance is something never before seen. No CR but nothing worse than someone who continually threatens to fire someone, terminate a deal or sue. If you want to take an action, then do so but stop with the threats.
  3. I believe children are under zero obligation to help their parents. You would hope they would do so, but it’s their call. I shake my head whenever someone says that one benefit of having kids is that they will care for you later on. No, the child never agreed to that deal, or asked to be born. The care obligation only exists in one direction. not talking about your situation but there are always plenty of horrible parents that are ignored later in their life by their adult children. Think about neglectful or even abusive parents who unfortunately continually exist. Their adult children may be indifferent at best.
  4. Really fixated on me. Cool.
  5. Grow up child. I'm telling you how the real world works today. If you can't handle it, that's your problem. I never said I agreed with Trump.
  6. No, from Trump's standpoint bringing him back is a sign of weakness. And fully admitting a mistake which is not allowed under Trump. The guy is not coming back. Anyone thinking that John Roberts can or could force it, is mistaken.
  7. Trump would never bring back an illegal immigrant into the country. This was never going to happen. Since this is a political board, its bad politics for Dems to make this an issue. Arguing for an illegal/undocumented immigrant to be forced back is a loser issue. Dems need winning issues. Even calling it a constitution crisis is a losing issue based on this case itself. Now for the poor guy himself. I don't think any of us know whether or not he is associated with MS-13. His problem now is that he's in his home country where they don't care. If he's innocent of these accusations, he's screwed. El Salvador has decided that they would rather lock up innocent people rather than letting one MS-13 member free. He could literally spend the rest of his life there.
  8. Recently I've caught a few clips WW on Tiktok. I had to shake my head in relation to today's world and WW's naivete of politics. There was one when Bartlett was on the fence about federal death penalty and he didn't want his decision to cause issues for the next President. My reaction.
  9. Ugh. Sorry for him and you. Sounds like he's in for a bad time dealing with all of this. I've promised myself that I will be a hypochondriac when I get old. Live at the doctor's office when anything doesn't feel right. Of course I realize that this will require funds, transportation, etc. And not everyone is lucky to have all of that.
  10. Folsom Field should be renamed Sanders Field. Because why not.
  11. Important to remember that this isn't about Trump bringing one person back to the US. This is him telling SCOTUS to f-off. Hell, the Admin has even admitted there was a "clerical" error. It would be nothing to just bring that guy. Other than of course, every news agency interviewing him about his experience. I hope the El Salvador President eventually learns about the US penal system from the inside.
  12. America was always looked upon as the highest rule of law country there was. Not perfect but the law would normally win out because our govt & businesses followed the rulings from the judicial branch. If the President ignores the Supreme Court, whats to stop Trump from telling China that America will not honor any financial liabilities that are not held from Americans or friends of Trump? And I guarantee that TexAgs would celebrate if we "outsmarted" China by defaulting 100% on the US debt they own. If I were other countries, I would be dumping US debt as much as I could as quietly as I could. hahaha. next President. lol.
  13. Blue origin flights are just a fancy IG flex that you overpay, or get to ride because of being famous or who you know. Your celebrity is the cost of your ticket. Odds are that eventually there will be an accident and possible fatalities. Then everyone will start talking how they knew there was a problem. Think of the recent Titanic sub disaster even though I don't have any reason to believe Blue Origin is as reckless as that sub company.
  14. GenX here. I don’t agree that many in the 80s or 90s really thought Trump was much more than a self aggrandizing fool. I knew a few conservative types (think someone who looked up to Alex P Keaton) who referred to him as The Donald. trump was never someone that deserved any respect. I would have effectively said the same in 1990.
  15. When I see 1776 or We The People on a flag, shirt or tattoo, I’ve seen everything that I need to see about that person. Stereotypes exist for a reason. the basic idea being that it’s 2 types: one who has never or will never sacrifice anything. Or someone that has sacrificed (military service) and that’s their entire personality. I respect the latter, to a point, but everything out of their mouth is about their service.
  16. Not excusing him but I have to wonder if Ced wanted nothing to do with straining his forearms in the challenge, being a surgeon. I’ve meet a couple of surgeons, not saying all, that offer weak handshakes.
  17. Is Fertitta taking loans from the Teamsters' pension fund? Or borrowing off of the Rockets' value?
  18. Some CEOs are quick to publicly complain about previous administrations when it allowed them to blame bad results on the policies implemented by the WH or Congress. "It's not our fault that sales dropped 20%, it's the fault of Biden and inflation." Now they know that if they complain about Trump and it attracts his attention, he will at least tweet about that CEO's incompetence and irrelevance, or at worst punish that company if they have federal contracts. This is what happens when you have a President who has his thumb on the scales and does not believe in the rule of law. This is structurally worse to the US business environment than tariffs but it doesn't attract attention.
  19. Laughable that Trump's team is advocating that it's now Main Street's time to grow after Wall Street has grown over the last 4 decades. The GOP and MAGA have fought every measure to help blue collar and low wage worker. Any measure to protect (safety, security or compensation) them has always been shot down as unfair govt intervention with the invisible hand of capitalism. Hell, Johnny Sack argued here for de facto slavery as long as someone is dumb enough to work for low wages.
  20. The Game of Thrones has a lot in common with England and Scotland. Redheads in Scotland kept out of England via Hadrian's Wall. Before it was Scotland and England. Hadrian's wall just might have 10 ft not 500 ft tall.
  21. There’s also been noise from the Trump camp that those who negotiate first will get the best deals, and those who wait, won’t. Classic used car sales tactic to create fomo. It’s easy to see how Russia and China run circles around the Trump WH with “deals.”
  22. If I were the rest of the world, save tariff free Russia, I would work to convince my corporations to continue to manufacture goods for the US and keep paying employees. Sell what you can to America and warehouse the rest. Perhaps their govt could offer short term loans or punish those who don’t. who will blink first, countries like China who have previously starved their citizens or Americans who reject self sacrifice. Many maga voters would revolt if the Masked Singer is delayed 5 minutes due to an emergency weather broadcast, much less if store shelves are empty/double the normal price.
  23. Is it accurate that Tesla won’t accept a cybertruck as a trade-in due to their existing sky high inventory of them? im unsure if Elon allows a PR dept for a reporter to call, but this could be relatively easy to confirm by sending a cybertruck owner into a dealer to test out the rumor. then again Elon might have someone work overtime to punish a tesla owner who helped the media.
  24. Is there much (any?) proof that countries are actually calling Trump to negotiate? I know he and his staff are saying so, but I’ve noticed that they don’t mention country names which is what you would expect of Trump. Of course if he says Australia is calling me, they would be an immediate denial from Australia if it’s not true. I think I’ve heard Vietnam and Israel as the only countries as being mentioned in proactively agreeing to lower their tariffs on the US. Does Vietnam really buy much from us?
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