CameronBornAndBred
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My wife LOVES that guy! She's always saying she's gonna record our cats and send them to him.Here is the winner of the internet today…
My wife LOVES that guy! She's always saying she's gonna record our cats and send them to him.Here is the winner of the internet today…
Dead cat bounce. After all, they are eating the cats!Can someone who understands the stock market explain to me why DJT stock went up over 25% in 20 minutes today? It then fell pretty quickly but not to where it was.
The threats in Springfield worry me (even further) about what happens post-election. They show that when Trump points, violence or threats of violence still follow. This article from the Atlantic says Jan. 6 was not a one-off, just a prelude. The events in Springfield seem to prove the point.Springfield schools were closed again today due to bomb threats arising from Trump's baseless claims that Haitian immigrants are eating people's pets.
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Bomb threats force second consecutive day of school closures in Springfield, Ohio
Several local leaders have also been targeted in the wake of baseless claims aimed at Haitian immigrants that have been repeated by former President Donald Trump.www.nbcnews.com
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Springfield Schools Closed After Bomb Threats Linked to MAGA’s Anti-Immigrant Conspiracy Theory
Two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school shut down in Springfield, Ohio, Friday following a series of bomb threats.www.mediaite.com
If this doesn't fit within the "horse race" window, sue me. But just how far over the wall do Trump and his MAGA minions need to go before the sensible, rational majority rises up and repudiates these tactics -- disseminating ever-more-dangerous conspiracy theories for political propaganda purposes, without regard to the threat of violence they pose to children, public officials, and innocent immigrants? What has happened to our nation's collective sense of common decency?
This perhaps props up the stock price a while longer while other insiders, including family members, come out of the lockup next week.Not if he doesn’t sell anytime soon. If he does sell, look for quick SEC action.
Any dreams of it falling under $12 were hampered by it climbing back almost 2 bucks today. (No consolation to folks that bought it when it was $20 higher)This perhaps props up the stock price a while longer while other insiders, including family members, come out of the lockup next week.
Thank you for the response.
I can't read The Intercept piece (not signing up) but the headline and subheadline told me all I needed to know. The source is described as "left-wing" in wikipedia, so I guess any compromise is bad. I'm a liberal leaning moderate, and I support strong borders. So we'll agree to disagree.
And I apologize that I don't have time to listen to a 32-minute podcast so I can't evaluate its claims.
I just don't think that the Ds and Rs can be equated on border issues. Again, agree to disagree.
I know a good bit about this issue from a prior work life.Thank you for the response.
I can't read The Intercept piece (not signing up) but the headline and subheadline told me all I needed to know. The source is described as "left-wing" in wikipedia, so I guess any compromise is bad. I'm a liberal leaning moderate, and I support strong borders. So we'll agree to disagree.
And I apologize that I don't have time to listen to a 32-minute podcast so I can't evaluate its claims.
I just don't think that the Ds and Rs can be equated on border issues. Again, agree to disagree.
Can someone who understands the stock market explain to me why DJT stock went up over 25% in 20 minutes today? It then fell pretty quickly but not to where it was.
I don't know SEC law, but couldn't this be considered market manipulation?
Trump has no intention of selling
There have been a lot of these. I agree it's the BEST.My wife LOVES that guy! She's always saying she's gonna record our cats and send them to him.![]()
Trump said if he were elected, he would stop sending California federal firefighting aid unless Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he referred to repeatedly as "Newscum," enacted his policy priorities on issues such as taxes.
"If he doesn’t sign those papers, we won’t give him money to put out all his fires. And if we don’t give him all the money to put out the fires, he’s got problems," Trump said. "He's a lousy governor.”
A number of people have posted on this thread something similar over the past days (weeks, months, probably years). SG and others have, imo, highlighted a set of deeply unsettling issues about democracy, fealty to the Constitution and the rule of law, and the the character of candidates. More than just a few posters have noted, pointedly if cautiously, that the fundamental problem isn’t Trump, but the voters.If this doesn't fit within the "horse race" window, sue me. But just how far over the wall do Trump and his MAGA minions need to go before the sensible, rational majority rises up and repudiates these tactics -- disseminating ever-more-dangerous conspiracy theories for political propaganda purposes, without regard to the threat of violence they pose to children, public officials, and innocent immigrants? What has happened to our nation's collective sense of common decency?
Sounds like my favorite coastal red states shouldn’t count on FEMA after Hurricanes anymore, at least when a democrat is in office. Sorry Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and the Carolinas. Californians pays a lot more federal taxes than the federal government spends there. California is supporting those red states.Here's what the future President of the United States would do if one of them was burning. Bold highlight is mine.
In some reality out there, this is not a winning campaign strategy.
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Trump says he would withhold California fire aid unless Newsom 'signs those papers'
Former President Trump presented a dystopian image of California as a warning about what would happen to the nation if Kamala Harris is elected president.www.yahoo.com
Are you actually suggesting that those are not the same thing?I mean maybe if all you care about is electing Harris. If you care about the future of our country
I don't think MAGA is going away with Trump. A DeSantis or Cotton or Hawley or Tucker Carlson will take up the mantle of fear mongering and lib-hating.A number of people have posted on this thread something similar over the past days (weeks, months, probably years). SG and others have, imo, highlighted a set of deeply unsettling issues about democracy, fealty to the Constitution and the rule of law, and the the character of candidates. More than just a few posters have noted, pointedly if cautiously, that the fundamental problem isn’t Trump, but the voters.
Do those who will vote for Trump despite the countless — countless, day after day, month after month — examples of his ugliness lack common decency? Some substantial percentage of MAGA-identifiers certainly don’t exude decency. An astounding proportion of evangelicals enthusiastically support an indecent vulgarian. Other Trump voters refuse to be grouped with MAGA, and tend to avoid thinking about Trump’s excesses, explaining that their daily lives (inflation, standard of living) were better under Trump. They are presumably uncomfortable with Trump’s ugliness, but cannot emotionally afford to judge — by their own normal standards of decency — Trump’s character as of primary importance. They appear to set aside — they hope and intend temporarily — concerns about obvious character flaws, in favor of a near-desperate hope for personal/family financial stability.
There are millions of Trump-tending voters who are not MAGA-deranged, not evangelical hypocrites. The Cheneys, Kinzinger, the reluctant generals, the Defense experts, Never Trumpers, and still actual conservatives hope to persuade these not-conspiratorial, not-deranged, not-indecent, absolutely patriotic independent and Trump-leaning voters to reject Trump’s vicious project.
We can surely say we have, yes, lost “our nation’s collective sense of common decency.” So we are left, agonizingly, with the hope that we can recover in the short term that sense among an electoral majority; in the hopes that we can then in the intermediate term recreate a respectful, functioning democratic polity.
Significant overlap but Republicans are a cautionary tale. More than you think may care only about their team winning.Are you actually suggesting that those are not the same thing?
Same here, he is very funny. I look forward to it every week, don’t need to agree with him on everything.I like Maher. I don’t always agree with him but very few people can always be right like me.