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Yeah, I hope she ends up going on Rogan. Sooner the better.

Yeah. I understand that sometimes you go bankrupt. Sudden economic disaster happened. You took a business risk that went south. Sometimes best laid plans go astray and you don't want to saddle people with debt slavery their whole lives when that happens. But if you are just going bankrupt over and over again, at some point it looks like you are just gaming the system and what you are doing is basically stealing. Not to name any names or anything.

If that is really you I am glad. But man I used to do this all the time and back in the past I could have discussions with conservatives that kind of went somewhere, we could come to some kind of agreement on things. That is not to say I never got screamed at and called names and shit, back in the 1990s I used to regularly have people lose their shit on me not because I liked Bill Clinton, I didn't and never voted for him, but because I was insufficiently opposed to him. Crazy. Then eventually it reached a point where I could almost reach a point where me and some conservative could admit we agreed basically on some idea but then at the last second they would pull back and inform me that we could never agree and fuck me and blah blah. And now, shit, somebody will say something about a topic and I might come in with "actually I have a different viewpoint on that topic, I think that..." and then the very next thing they do is insist I am a liar or evil or whatever. So it breaks down almost immediately. I don't know man. I don't really want to do it anymore. I am tired after decades of discussions that often had productive starts that ultimately went nowhere and I am tired of being respectful and trying to come up with decent points only for it to break down into personal attacks. Just tired of it. But you are out there having productive discussions with us lefties and calmly sharing ideas, that's great. More power to you.

It's true. No team has ever lost game 1 of the World Series and managed to win. Might as well give up now.

What an amazing game 1

Bring him in Mookie

Would like to see Ohtani finally win it. Too bad he couldn't bring Mike Trout with him.

Weird. I don't recall that election ever really being in doubt.

Extending registration and the ability to vote absentee is out, but just not voting at all and declaring the election for Trump "makes a lot of sense"? Yeah, ok dude.

If so, I sure hope she takes the opportunity. But my impression is she has tried to go on the show and he has said no. But what do I know? I haven't listened to his show or followed Rogan news since 2021 or so.

Like the Vanderbilt and Rockefeller clans before them you just have to wait until their fortunes get split into smaller and smaller portions as the generations roll by. Granted in the case of Musk that shouldn't take so long since he seems to have a ton of kids.

It is obvious why Trump is here: to do the Rogan show. The guy who said he would never have Trump on, but I have given up on Joe awhile ago. It does make me wonder if Allred actually has a chance against Cruz for Harris to actually swing by. But I dare not get my hopes up.

I had answers for this in 2016. Now? It is best just not to think about it.

Obviously Houston turnout is great. But what we need is Dallas turnout to be high. Not to mention El Paso and San Antonio. All the major cities need to come out strong every election and we have just not been able to make that happen. It seems like we have come tantalizingly close in the recent decade but still...

One of the problems with just looking at total votes for the US House is that there are so many unopposed seats. Like in my district John Carter ran unopposed in 2022 after having over 45% of the votes going to Democratic challengers in 2018 and 2020. So I guess if you just look at overall votes in my district one might think there was a massive shift rightwards, with everybody excitedly jumping on the MAGA bandwagon, but in fact there was simply no Democratic candidate. But maybe you are accounting for this and only looking at races without unopposed candidates. Or those districts in California where you can have Democrats running against Democrats and Republicans running against Republicans in the general.

Oklahoma is Texas without the major urban areas. Not disrespect to the cosmopolitan centers of OKC and Tulsa.

Can you imagine? Early voting would be insane if turning in your vote insulated you from all campaign ads.

2014 with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson I think? Or maybe it was Trayvon Martin in 2012? I don't know. All these incidents and the responses to them kind of meld together as time goes on.

I am sorry for your loss and your sister's. I guess if Trump loses a state by one vote we will know where God stands.

Damn that is a long time. Are they doing an entire Beyonce concert during the rally?

As they are probably running unopposed, they probably can win it without you.

Fair. I hate the whole idea of going to a political rally even if I love the candidate. But it would still be cool to hear what one of you thought about it if one of you go.

Well that's different. ICE vehicles are familiar and old. It is less scary to die in one of those.

Yeah it could be that to. Buy Tesla! But if all MAGA nation goes out and buys electric cars I guess that would be a win. Anybody going to this rally?

Being afraid and grumpy of new technology is one of Trump's deals. He went on this bizarre rant encouraging people to buy incandescent light bulbs while President. It was weird.