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The Royal We

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  1. Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere already, but what are your thoughts on Tony Podesta getting immunity from very similar charges as Manafort's for his testimony?  I've been arguing with a buddy who is a "deep stater" and agreed with him that it smelled bad that Tony would face no consequences for something similar.  I do know that this supposedly relates to the DC trial and not to the current trial in Virginia, so maybe it's still hearsay at this point.

  2. 2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

     Americans pay more in health insurance premiums than we would in taxes to provide the same levels of health care

    I agree with your post and would really like for this to be true, but I don't see how it's possible.  Where did you get this from?

  3. Let's cut out all sex education classes unless they teach abstinence only, refuse to give away birth control/rubbers for free, cut welfare spending and make abortions illegal.  All at the same time.  Sounds like a great plan!

    I think we should try to minimize the number of abortions without making them illegal (sex ed, more adoptions, free birth control, etc).  Having 3 young kids myself and remembering how incredible the new sonograms are, I'm not sure how you could argue that it's not a living being pretty early on.  At the same time, refusing to help address the root cause of unwanted pregnancies is as ignorant as "pray away the gay."

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  4. Of all of Trump's BS, this self inflicted nonsense is the hardest policy decision for me to understand.  I don't see how Trumpkins square this one in their heads.  Especially the lower income folks who are going to get mangled by the increasing costs of so many products and low skilled jobs lost.  Does Trump even know what the ideal outcome is here?  What is the absolute best thing that can result from all of the pain?

  5. Exactly.  EVERY other "MSM" source of information is in alignment to torpedo MAGA and cannot be trusted.  Hannity and his ilk, on the other hand, walk on water and would never dream of trying to influence them with inaccuracies (f'n lies).

  6. I've got some of the same thing going on in my family Bolverk.  I used to think it was really lazy to chalk it all up to Fox News, but I'm not sure there is really any other valid explanation.  I really think it is rotting brains and suppressing any critical thinking abilities.  I tried confronting it through calm conversation initially, but it's gotten to the point where they just don't want to talk to me about it any longer.  At one point a calm conversation with some extended family devolved into shouting when I lost my composure after being shouted down repeatedly by a MAGA uncle who has gone off the deep end.  It's heart breaking indeed.

    I haven't talked to them about it, but I'm sure most of my family supported this most recent policy (or were convinced the policy didn't exist) at the border.  It's hard for me to understand other than they all get the vast majority of their news from Fox.

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Equinox said:

    People charged the same hill when it was Obama, or Bush, implementing the Zero Tolerance policy. 

    Uh oh.

    Wat? Try to keep up here meat, there was no such policy under any previous administration.

    You don't seem like someone who reads very much, but just in case you would like to actually get your facts straight before playing yourself again:

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-law-separate-families-passed-1997/

    tldr:

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    A cluster of rumors about the controversial separation of families at the border held that the policy came before the Trump administration, either stemming from a 1997 “law” or purported policies of previous administrations. Those claims were false. No federal law required or suggested the family separation policy announced by Attorney General Sessions in several sets of remarks during April and May 2018.

     

  8. If equinox wants some FACTS he'll go get them from Fox News, not those pinko commie bastards at the AP.  PFFT

    Jesus, I can't believe there are still people out there wanting to charge THIS particular hill for the cheeto bandito.  It's okay to support most of the man's policies and still have the balls to speak out when he's dead wrong.  That's not my particular stance, but you spineless fucks do realize that's a possibility here right?

     

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  9. I've voted Republican or Libertarian my whole life, but Beto will probably be the first time I'll vote differently.  He seems to be one of the few voices of sanity out there at the moment and also seems to be a very decent human being at the same time.  Sounds like someone I can and should support as much as possible.

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  10. One side of this argument sure seems to be getting twisted up in knots trying to rationalize it.  Both at the official govt level and at the sycophant level.

    Which is it -a new zero tolerance policy that is justifiable according to scripture?  The same policy that Obama had?  The Dems fault?  Not apologizing for something that we aren't doing? 

    I can't f'n keep up.

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  11. T-shirt - I've eye balled that spot when floating down a number of times, but it doesn't look there are any flat spots to pitch a tent - not true?  I've camped there 3 times now but have never made it all the way to the end of the trail.  4x4 is handy down on that huge beach as well.  My buddy had a 2x4 F150 and got hung up trying to get out of the beach and onto the road, it was a breeze in my Yukon though. 

    The white bass were going bonkers and blowing up the top all day and night when we were there but we couldn't catch anything.  Tried all different kinds of flies/soft plastics, but I think you had to have some live bait.

  12. I took my boys to Colorado Bend last month for some car/tent camping, but we stayed at the Sulfur Springs camp that is just up the road from the park.  We took a canoe and planned on floating down from Sulfur Springs camp past Gorman Falls and pulling out at the park, but there wasn't enough water to get all the way down there.  We paddled down to a nice shallow ledge before the falls and had a picnic lunch on the rocks before paddling back upstream to our camp.

    The Sulfur Springs camp is a little on the seedy side and has an eclectic group of people camping out there, but they have a huge slice of land along the river and there is a good beachy spot where we pitched our tent so the kids could play around in the water and fish the whole time.  We had a blast.

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