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Gatorubet

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  1. Venture X is a fantastic travel card for less money than the platinum AE. you can get 10 times points when you book nice lodging through their service. I would go to Vegas with my crew and they would happily let me put all the rooms on my credit card. I would get 150,000 points to use towards hotels and travel whenever I paid 15 K in hotel bills as a work expense. It is not as good, but for a $395 a year it’s fantastic
  2. Coal baby! None of that woke solar shit that kills all the birds. Wait! That’s the windmills. Still, God’s anthracite over woke bird killers.
  3. Dammit! I should’ve invested in essential oils, horse paste and prayer beads.
  4. I hear you man. Hell, I’m 70 and don’t want Social Security and Medicare busted. I have kids that I want to have a happy life. I just don’t want a Trump dictator run America - with our huge military and nuclear arsenal that we have to become the country that North Korea hopes it could. To that end I would suffer absolutely anything to prevent that. The thing is, I don’t think that any of us have any control or what’s going to happen. I’m just saying I hope it is terrible, and that this results in a national mental reset. My wanting it or you NOT wanting it is really not in play. I have zero idea how to accomplish this reset without a tremendous amount of pain to the country. I have a naïve fantasy that we will vote the GOP out in the next congressional election and things swing back toward outrage at the things Trump does, but if Trump and the GOP haven’t turned off people by now, I’m not sure how much it will take to turn them off. I fear they never will - absent great harm to the country
  5. I am in the minority, but I think a terrible recession or depression is the only thing that will make many people realize that we are all in this together. You have a huge part of the country thinking that the only reason you are poor and down and out is because you are lazy and stupid. Our bubble of domestic prosperity supports this lie in many peoples minds. When they lose their job and their homeless and hungry and their family breaks up, those idiots then realize that bad things can happen that have nothing to do with your work ethic or education or devotion to God. I don’t think you can reach these people unless things go really really south. When people are standing in the same bread line and hoping to get a new deal type job so they can feed their family -we may get a reset to a time when most of America realized we needed a living wage, healthcare, unions, and to unite against the monied class and the politicians supporting them who make it difficult for us to have a decent life.
  6. if I had not spent an entire career with clients sometimes telling me things that I told them that never happened, I would be more open minded. The reality is that whether people have lives ruined because of a serious injury or their loved one is a victim of a crime, the people receiving the communication are always in a very enhanced emotional state. They are dealing with lots of problems while trying to deal with a system that is not easy to understand. And people generally want black-and-white answers to questions. The justice system is the last place to find a black-and-white answer. So if you give them a long nuanced, how this is going to go, what generally happens is they focus on/only hear a couple key points - which usually involves them hearing that you agree with the points that they like. It is human nature. But I can tell you that when you get a result that is not exactly what the client wants, the knee-jerk reaction is often to blame the lawyers for not telling them this would happen, or for allowing this to happen because….. I have had clients tell me that I never told them about things I told them about. I often recorded initial interviews (with their permission), and several times I later played back the recording which totally refuted their claim. I seldom got an apology, just a less angry client. And sometimes the lawyers do a shitty job of communication, and sometimes lawyers forget things, and sometimes lawyers lie and break a promise. Far more often it is a breakdown of communication caused by the clients not being lawyers and having to understand complex things while they are vulnerable and emotional. Add to that the fact that an appellate decision or new legislation can make everything you had told the client earlier totally or partially incorrect. TL;DR While, you might be entirely correct, that is not the assumption that my decades of experience tells me is the most likely reality here. And yeah, it can also be a mix of bad communicating lawyer and poorly comprehending client or victim family.
  7. “ going to fight for the death penalty” is what the family hears. “ we will be charging him with the death penalty, and the jury will decide that issue at a separate hearing”, and “We promise you we will be fighting as hard as we can for justice” was what was likely said by the prosecutors. You have absolutely zero evidence for your statement. It is most likely the interpretation of some family members of a discussion about what charges were being brought, and how the trial would work. For you to turn a discussion with the family about the charges being brought by the prosecutor into a promise that there is no way they will ever accept a guilty plea that does not include him agreeing to die is is just a ridiculous take. Or you can provide the source of your belief.
  8. it’s sad that he died without apparently knowing the full joy of eating dehydrated potato soup
  9. Provoking an army of neck bearded mouth-breathing MAGA folks who aren’t in the joke is such a giggle. How does Elon benefit from the ruse?
  10. That wasn’t the menstruation tent - it was the STD tent.
  11. Nonsense. I’m sure he has cameras in their rooms.
  12. Nah man. I get your wanting the family to approve what is happening. But you are operating under a terribly mistaken belief that the family somehow has a right to control what was happening. They don’t. They never do. It would be fucked up if they did. They are angry family members with a legitimate reason to be angry, but with zero reason to run the show. The goal is to convict an accused murderer, not to let family members spend the county’s money for three months so they can stare angrily at the accused in trial, no matter how much they want that.
  13. Run Rusky, run Rusky, run…run…run….
  14. it’s not like the DA has an unlimited amount of money to spend. They have a budget, and spending it all on one case can wind up negatively affecting a larger number of cases that require expensive experts and testing. The last people who should be driving the bus are the relatives of the murdered victims. It is understandable that all they want is vengeance, but we did away with an eye for an eye a long time ago. this is only my personal perspective, but I think society benefits more from psychiatrists being able to interview those type of people and find out what makes their broken brains tick then the temporary satisfaction of killing the monster who killed some innocent people. Ted Bundy was finally starting to talk about “ the entity” that made him do the killings when he was executed. The more you know about those people the better chance you have to catch them before they kill again.
  15. The Democrats should tell Elmo that they will preserve all carbon credit EV credit type stuff if he agrees to let X be the propaganda arm of the Democrats the same way Elmo made it the propaganda arm of MAGA. Straight business, Homie.
  16. Elmo is taking on the orange shit-gibbon again.
  17. And are generally the nicest people on earth. Their religion is laughably whack, but their focus on family and relationships It’s a pretty damn good idea that more people should follow.
  18. Are the Teslas driven by Elmo fans? This could change my answer.
  19. Well, compared to the rest of the world we are a heavily armed nuclear power, bully with tremendous economic influence, and political influence. If our country was a person, a person with that capacity to do damage (who is not currently on their meds) could lead you to fake that you agree with that person until 1) they start taking their meds again or 2) until you can conspire with some of your pals to take the bully out.
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