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Moiraine

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  1. 1 hour ago, Danny Bateman said:

    Not really a cartoon but thought I'd throw this in here as I know we've mentioned it a couple times.

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    I've posted about it before but just looked it up again. My farming cousins complain about welfare and freeloaders on FB sometimes. The data on subsidies is available online. One of them has received $360K since 1995 and $60K since 2019. The other has received $270K and $25K.

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  2. 2 hours ago, knapplc said:

     



    Was the ship too tall or did it hit a pylon?

    Edit: just watched the video. Edit2: Ok I decided to Google instead of ask Huskerboard.

     

    Officials have confirmed that the ship lost power right before the collision. Moore said that the crew notified authorities of a "power issue." Two U.S. officials told CBS News that multiple alarms rang out on the ship, alerting pilots and crew to an issue on board.

  3. 21 hours ago, funhusker said:

    I think Dec/Jan is going to be ugly no matter who wins…

     

    There are going to be sizable groups of people on either side that will take the results as an attack on the fabric of the United States.

     

    Im not worried of Trump taking over.  But it disgusts me to even consider the country I love electing such a trash human to such a distinguished position.  It grossed me out in 2016, and even more so now!



    I don't think it will be ugly. People like to talk big. But the only reason J6 got as big as it was is because their leader organized it and it was a single location for people to come to.

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  4. 18 minutes ago, commando said:

    i believe he doesn't want to be part of what the MAGA/Republicans have planned if trump loses the election.   i don't think they care if trump wins or loses the election...they have plans to overthrow a biden win and any republican that doesn't go with it will be labeled a traitor by MAGA and made a target.   .   



    I think this is a fantasy. Trump trying to stay in power in 2029 after getting elected in 2024 is something I see as feasible, and even accomplishing it is feasible. I think it's extremely unlikely anything happens (in the next 5 years) if Biden wins, and it's also unlikely that anything is attempted by more than a handful of the House and a ragtag bunch of people on the streets, smaller than the J6 crowd.

    I think it's far more likely, if he's leaving due to his conscience, that he doesn't want to be a part of any of it because he doesn't like Trump, and he's too much of a coward to say anything against him for fear of reprisal if Trump wins in 2024.

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  5. On 3/17/2024 at 9:02 PM, DevoHusker said:

    Surprised at a couple. Some others, not so much lol.

     

     

     

     

    I would guess the biggest problem of doing this accurately (and obviously the are a lot of problems), is the words documented from the earliest presidents would almost all be prepared speeches, and sound smarter than off the cuff remarks we have from modern presidents. But maybe they base part of it off decisions too. Who knows.

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  6. 3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

    The future is here.  :laughpound

     

     




    I honestly don't understand what the Republicans who didn't put a stop to this when they could were thinking. I mean, maybe fear of revenge was in mind, but there were multiple times they could have easily banded together and prevented that possibility, including by impeaching him in 2021. Let's just say Trump becomes president and then we're a dictatorship by 2028... who in the GOP since 2016 will be better off with that than they would have otherwise been? Maybe like 2-3 people in his inner circle. No one else. So even if Trump wins, the other leaders in the GOP will not win. They had the power to stop this but f#&%ed up at every single turn.

    Now let's say he doesn't win. They are going to have s#!t for money for their campaigns because of Trump owning the RNC, from presidential elections all the way downstream. There is no way he is going to do anything that doesn't help him personally, and he's not smart enough to realize some of these lesser elections could help him personally.

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  7. 2 hours ago, ZRod said:

    That's a lot of hyperbole. He was actually provoked and chased, so some form of self defense was justified. Now, he was also a minor in possession of a fire arm across state lines, and the response was disproportionate to the actual threat but the law doesn't really care about that.



    In the scenario I shared, the gun wielder is provoked by someone trying to tackle them before they've fired a shot.

    My problem is a combination of several factors, one of the main ones being that it's a big Republican thing that gun violence should be solved by random heroes. This is a problem when someone runs around the streets carrying a big gun he should have never brought/should not be showing, and then is treated as a hero after killing people. If the Republicans think heroes should stop mass shootings, they should be against open carry. Someone just carrying around a gun for everyone to see increases the chance of someone trying to be a hero and stopping them before they do any harm.

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  8. 8 hours ago, Scarlet said:

     

    So choked up over killing two people he decided to grift off it.  

     

     

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    The whole story and the GOP reaction to it is just dumbfounding. What if someone walks into a crowded area acting crazy toting guns and yelling, someone tackles him and gets shot by the person, and they prevented 30 people from dying. Based on what happened with Rittenhouse, the crazy guy would go free and be able to try again later. He basically gave all would-be mass murderers a playbook on how to get as far as you can before crossing that line so you can do the most damage. Just wave your gun around while running around but don't start shooting yet.

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  9. 3 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

    Thanks for letting us know that you know about the Babylon Bee. 

    I understand that D*ck said that quote. To get the satire, one has to consider the absolute comedy of D*ck saying that about anyone...even Trump.

     

    Well, it was weird having 2 people assume my reply meant I didn’t know what BB was. Nothing about my reply should lead someone to think that. It is funny having Cheney say it. There is nothing complicated to “get” about it. But my reply still stands. It’s telling that even an a$$h@!e like him knows Trump is a threat to the U.S.  

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  10. 6 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

    It's called satire.

    And a case could be made for that guy doing way worse.

     

    5 hours ago, Crusader Husker said:

    I forgot people don't know that Babylon Bee is satire.

     

     

    Um. I know it’s satire. But this is an actual quote of D.ick Cheney, and satire can be done poorly, and often is by Babylon Bee. 

     

    Also, nothing about the Tweet is satirical. I glanced at the link and the article is. The tweet is using an (almost) actual quote and stating a fact about Cheney (which is funny on its own, so maybe this is just lazy, easy satire. But either way, if this a$$h@!e thinks Trump is bad, that should tell you something).

     

    Here is the actual one:

    There has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,”

     

    On Cheney doing worse, so far, probably. Way worse, I don’t think so. It’s hard to tell how much damage Trump has done at this point, and he can still do a lot more, and wants to. One thing he’s done that’s difficult to measure the consequences of this early is drastically changed the GOP. I already disagreed with most of their policy but now they are much worse than proponents of bad policy. 

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  11. 7 hours ago, Scarlet said:

    More from the paradigm of democratic principles. 

     

    Casting doubt on the validity of our elections with zero proof, threatening to jail political opponents, lobbying the Supreme Court for complete and total immunity so that any action even those that "go over the line" can't be prosecuted, commiting to pardon those who violently interfered with the peaceful transfer of power, and saluting an alternative national anthem sung by the same insurrectionists while they were in prison. 

     

    But he doesn't really mean his continual assault on democracy. It's all about the context. 

     

     

     



    Why doesn't Trump treat the J6 hostages the same as he treats POWs? I.e. with disdain, because they sucked enough to get caught.

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  12. 22 hours ago, teachercd said:

    Large fry and cheeseburger t McD’s

     

    7.54!!!!

     

    Good lord



    We went to Subway a couple days ago because we had a gift card. $39 for a foot long and 2 6".

     

    24 minutes ago, ZRod said:

    Who tips at 5 Guys??? It's always been expensive, but it's also better food than McDonald's. We've got one right next to our place, but we only eat there every 2 years :lol:

     

    Last time it was over $30 for 2 burgers and a fry. You bet your sweet a$$ we took peanuts home with us!



    Ya that's weird. Tipping is for waiters who make less than minimum wage. And sushi chefs.

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  13. 38 minutes ago, teachercd said:

    If I had any friends I would be asking for a friend...BUT

     

    Can you be Pro-Ukraine and Pro-Pally?  

     

    Hmmmm....

     

     

    I think you can be pro-innocent civilians. Unfortunately some of those civilians have leadership who are literal terrorists. 

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  14. 1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

    I don’t think anyone was advocating for lowering their rates further.  
     

    People keep forgetting what prompted my entire reason for taking about any of this.  One poster said the entire spending/revenue gap was because we weren’t collecting enough in taxes and the rich needed to pay more, not the US spend less.  
     

    On you last paragraph, I’ve asked this to someone else before and really got no answer.  Considering the wealth gap increase has been a function of stock market equity increase, how would you propose closing the wealth gap?  You could certainly tax 100% of income after a certain point ($100 million for example) and all you would do to close that gap is being one side down, not the other side up.   I wouldn’t think that is what people are looking for when talking about closing the wealth gap.   



    I should have said income gap. Both are bigger. I haven't thought a whole lot about it. A wealth gap is okay if there are good regulations and safety nets in place to help people, but that's a big part of the spending.

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