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  1. 5 minutes ago, GopherRock said:

    Abortion abortion abortion. This is a big reason why Arizona is going to stay blue, and is one of the two big question marks for the presidential.

    1. The Republican nominee for governor in NC makes Roger Taney look like an abolitionist. If the Democrat wins governor by daylight, does he drag Biden across the wire there? 

    2. Abortion on the ballot in Florida is unlikely to get the 60% needed for passage. However, does this ballot measure crank up blue turnout enough to spoil the party for Rick Scott and/or Trump? Florida is also the only spot on the board for the blue team to try playing offense in the Senate (sorry Texas, but if Beto couldn't get rid of Cruz in 2018, it's not happening now), so resources will not be a problem.

    My pick: same as 2020 except Biden wins North Carolina.

    This is my gut as well, chalk save North Carolina being in play and I think a Democratic upset.  

    Biden 319

    Trump 219

    Dems very narrowly retain the Senate, take back the house.  

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  2. 1 hour ago, C-Man said:

    It this pustule back in court today? Not seeing any reports.

    No the court had other business today, it resumes Tuesday, then is off again Wednesday for other business (I've read that this is customary in that court), then resumes Thursday and Friday.  

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    I was under the impression Trump used mob controlled unions for labor back in the day. Or does my brain no worky?

    In fairness, when the building was built, 1983, in New York if you wanted concrete, you essentially wound up paying Paul Costellano head of the Gambino crime family at the time.  Funny true story, Costellano got a dick implant and bragged about prior to getting plugged at a Steakhouse by likely Sammy the Bull.  You can't make this shit up.  

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  4. 28 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    I’ve never had any desire to visit Trump Tower. (But I’ve been to the top of the World Trade Center. Glad I got to do that.)

    My introduction to Trump was after he built TT and he was getting all this attention on TV, like it was huge news that this young real estate developer built a skyscraper in NYC and named it after himself. Big fucking deal, I thought, there are lots of skyscrapers in NYC. The people who built those don’t go around trumpeting their greatness. This guy seems like a douchebag. Then I used to see him on the cover of the National Enquirer a lot and that only made him seem more cheap and tacky. It wasn’t until later that I learned it was all part of a penchant more for promoting himself to the rubes rather than actually producing things and doing good work.

    The funny thing is, people that are good at development don't stop at 1 building.  If you do well at it, there is no shortage of people wanting to work with you to then do 2 new ones after the fact, and so on and so on.  Yes developers go thru hot streaks and cold streaks, some will even be bankrupted and reconstituted, but nonetheless, they continue to work and bring forth new developments.  Funny how that never happened.  

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  5. 19 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    But not too soon. He deserves to be miserable and humiliated for awhile. 

    I don't think he'll really notice.  He's been doing that on his own for at least a decade.  

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

    I could be wrong, but isn’t Ossoff’s seat up in 2026 and isn’t that when Kemp is term limited?   Ossoff is probably easier for republicans to beat in Georgia than Warnock would be.  Although, I doubt republicans ever make the mistake of debating Ossoff again.

    Kemp is term limited, and you are correct on Ossoff (just looked it up).  Ossoff is young but quite experienced at campaigning, he ran twice before for Congress seats (I have a friend that helped him host events a couple of times).  He's also not hugely unpopular, whereas Warnock is among Republicans, but his term is up during the Presidential.  

     

  7. 5 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    Worth noting: there is no sex in the world worth $130,000. But I guess fatass morons have no choice. 

    Not so sure about that, how many guys have paid more in a standard divorce to have sex with another woman and be done with their wife?  

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  8. 6 hours ago, Voldemort86 said:

    are you from Georgia or just really tuned into Georgia politics?
     

    I have a question for you,  does Kemp plan on running for senate?  I hope not.

    I'm from Alabama, but have lived in Georgia much of my life.  Long story short, born in Birmingham, but spent almost all my youth in Atlanta.  I was a legacy at Alabama and went for school, then immediately back to Atlanta.  Basically, of my 44 years, about 7 were in Alabama, the rest here.  

    I do not know Kemp's mind, and I have not ever met him.  I do however, know several people in his orbit in the real estate world (including one that is a good friend of his and was a fraternity brother at UGA).  Like many Republicans, this guy just assumes that everyone around him is also a Republican and he is a braggart so he boasts of his conversations because A.  He think's he's cool (he's not) B.  He thinks it makes him sound plugged in (he isn't).  To answer your question, I know him and several people around him were pushing for him to swoop in late for POTUS once the early primary clowns were out and it started to appear that Trump was finished.  I did find this plausible, and if there had been intent, I think the court delays stopped that.  

    The timing on the Senate is interesting given Ossoff's term being due next, which coincides with the next Presidential.  He can run for one or the other, what's his ambition level?  He may well be the standard bearer for the anti Trump Republicans and an example of success against their stupidity.  Regrettably, I don't think he'll just fade away.  If I had to put money on it, I'd say Senate, but I wouldn't rule out a POTUS run.  

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  9. 6 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    in my old construction lending days, if some asshole had either on his business card, I looked very hard for a reason to not make the loan.   

    In the construction world, those symbols scream "prepare your anus".

    If you are a subcontractor working with those sorts you can also prepare thy anus.  Long before it was a common joke, I can recall steering clear of a couple of companies who during interviews made it a clear point that they were like a "Christian family".  

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  10. A number of years ago I had to travel out of the country for business.  Prior to leaving, in a meeting I mentioned that I was going to read the State Department's advisory prior.  You'd have thought I was a Martian based on the bewildered looks I got.  Very few people seem to remotely understand that when you go to another country you are a guest and need to act accordingly.  

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  11. Trump is going to spend the next 6 months in criminal trials while at the same time attempting to stave off bankruptcy and hawking trinkets (news flash, he will fail at all of it).  Yet in the midst of all of that, you think he's going to suddenly show up and debate and do well?  Being in a court room is sort of akin to flying coach, or just flying period, its fucking exhausting, and my only experience is a juror in comparatively the prime of my life.  I have to imagine that it's far more so if your freedom is potentially on the line for anyone of any age, let alone a 78 year old.  Mind you, this is a guy who under the best of circumstances couldn't string together 4 sentences about policy before all this.  Yet in the midst of all of these factors, suddenly he's just gonna have it?  Quite frankly, there is a far better chance of him stroking out given all the stress in the midst of a debate than him suddenly turning into James Carvile.  

    He won't debate, but if for some reason he agrees to one, bring it on.  I'm all for him continuing to humiliate himself.  

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  12. 14 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    He’s barely getting over 50% in the suburban PA counties 

    Neither MSNBC, nor CNN is even reporting about this on their websites.  

    Oh well, must just be run of the mill bad news for Biden.  

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  13. 4 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    Thousands? Wow! There must be plenty of videos of such a big gathering. 

    I think there was a 4 alarm fire on the lower east side, maybe that was them.  

  14. Didn't vote because none of the options are what I think will happen.  My guess is he is convicted in the hush money, convicted in the insurrection case, convicted in the documents case, and the Rico case is just underway prior to the election.  Despite being convicted, and either sentenced or sentenced pending appeal, he still has the nomination and will be the nominee at the convention.  Republicans will secretly want to drop him but won't have a choice and will see the matter thru.  He loses the election in rather spectacular fashion.  Between now and middle 2025 he will have exhausted appeals on at least one case with prison time and will be given a report date.  The Bureau of prisons will arrange this and he will ultimately wind up at an Air Force Base prison (assuming he doesn't die between now and then, which I'd put at 50/50.  He is going to prison, might not be a normal one, but its happening.  

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  15. 2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

     

     

    What a fucking chode.  

    Good news, yesterday was the worst day of Trumps life.  Today will be worse for him (what a pity).  He's pretty much to the point where every day of his remaining pitiful life is going to be the worst day of it; with things getting subsequently worse as it goes.  Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.  

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  16. 1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    What are the odds that Trump interrupts this?

     

     

    I'd say zero because when it comes right down to it he's a giant pussy.  However, given his advancing dementia, I'd give it 10% before the trial is over he has some sort of outburst.  

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