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wood

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  1. So, speaking as a fairly financially-illiterate person, I'm sure there are downsides to having to report that account. What are they?
  2. Dude. You really can't be this stupid. This has to be an act.
  3. 100% this. Throughout all of this I keep thinking back to some of the real shitty assholes we've had in various high positions of power who would never, at least not so openly, flaunt basically every law or structure we have in place to limit their powers. For sure, some have tried to 'paint outside the lines', to much lesser degrees than what we're seeing now, but even then, they attempted to hide it and still weren't trying to, effectively, fundamentally destroy the Union. Much or all of what this crew openly says they'll do is stuff that none of those assholes would have even tried in secret.
  4. 100%. I remember back in the day in the fire department when the Chief of the department appointed a Lieutenant to Assistant Chief of the Fire Department, skipping 4 or 5 ranks. Everyone's immediate reaction was the same. Sure would be a helluva fall from Asst. Chief pay back to Lt. pay, right? Better do what the man says, or else.
  5. These appointments are nuts, even for Trump. Utter freakshow. I'm not saying this is what's happening here, but if the Russians had run a 50 year sleeper program to take over the White House and the cabinet, it seems like it would look a lot like we're seeing here, except it probably wouldn't be so obvious and ham-fisted. This is weird, wild stuff ... and just like his campaign, you couldn't make this shit up. If you were writing a political thriller, even if you did imagine this stuff, you'd never write it, because you'd think "I can't write that, because it's so stupid that people would just stop reading".
  6. Good. There will still be some true Republicans in both the House and the Senate who won't sell out to the more extreme MAGAts. Hopefully they can hold the line and be Trump's guardrails for this term. The MAGAts will deride them and call them RINOs, but anyone who's been paying attention knows who the real RINOs are.
  7. I'm sure this isn't news to many of you, but re: the deportations ... in Trump's first term, his own policy actually increased the number of undocumented criminals staying in the U.S. by de-prioritizing their removal. Not only was 'Deporter in Chief' Obama deporting a lot more aliens than Trump was, a larger proportion of those deportees were criminals. So really, the 'undocumented criminal' problem was exacerbated by Trump's own policies. He created his own grievance, then got the Bipartisan Border Bill killed, and ran against Biden and Harris using as ammo a problem he exacerbated before Biden ever took office. And the rubes fell for it 100%. Why deportations actually dropped in Trump’s first term https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/politics/deportations-trump-presidency-what-matters/index.html
  8. In order to properly rep this, we need a "crying" or "sad" emoji that we can use simultaneously with the laugh emoji.
  9. He says he was 'joking', referring to people worrying about germs obsessively. Sure, Pete. Your potential future SecDef in action ...
  10. So DeSantis gets to appoint Rubio's replacement in the Senate? Ah, ok. Now it's pretty clear why that little fucker Rubio got an appointment.
  11. Dang, man. I was in Navy ROTC at UT. I probably shoulda thrown my hat in the ring for SecDef, too.
  12. No idea what he pays, but he certainly could pay that and not sweat it at all.
  13. I'm guessing they like the smell of Slim's money. It would actually make sense, at least for next year, if Slim is paying them the same or more than the amount they're losing by not winning the WCC.
  14. Welp, that's it. I thought my VPN was disconnected, but I checked again, and it wasn't. Turned it off. Now the videos play fine. Gracias, amigo!
  15. Oh yeah ... Fallows stepping down from TD role at Aston Martin.
  16. LOL. Tickets? Fuck that shit. Monetize, monetize, monetize ...
  17. This thread moves so damn fast, so nsiap ...
  18. Yeah this is what Popok was talking about in the video I posted earlier.
  19. nsiap ... Former DHS secretary Jeh Johnson worked a lot with Tom Homan and says that he doesn't recognize the Tom Homan he sees speaking publicly now. He says he would never ask an agent to seperate a U.S. citizen child and from their parents, calling that an inhumane policy. He stressed that criminals & national security threats should be the top priority, and that there are more than enough of them in our jails right now "to keep ICE very, very busy. Trump's new border czar to Democratic governors: Get the hell out of the way Video: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/politics/video/tom-homan-trump-mass-deportations-jeh-johnson-digvid
  20. Yeah this makes sense with what I've been seeing with the poor passing. I just didn't know how much of the setting inaccuracy to attribute to the poor passes, and I haven't seen enough action and stats with each setter to know how much better or worse the offense was running with either of them. I do see Avery making her fair share of poorly located sets, often too tight with hitters really reaching or just having to tip, but that's been happening with both setters. She also seems to struggle with consistency setting the middle. Yeah it's hard for me to get my head around winning a NC with a freshman setter who's playing hurt, and then demoting her for a smaller setter who puts you in a bind on the block half the time. If the offense worked well enough to win it all with an injured Ella setting from the ground, then let her set from the ground all the time. Hell, Avery's jumpsets probably aren't coming from a much higher point than Ella's flatfooted sets anyway. If we lose Ella and Devin over this shit, that will not be cool.
  21. Awesome. Just started it on MAX.
  22. How do we know who wrote it? Not doubting you. I wanna use this on another board.
  23. Says it's disabled here. Is he in the UK, or where? Asking for my vpn ...
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