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This is what I am saying. He needs to figure out what he needs to beat the best. He is not there yet, but could be with the right coaching and work. mspart

Yes, I remember that. All of the sudden, it was billionaire with Gates et al mspart

They are only here to protect the public. mspart

My granddaughter is in a class called human geography. One of the terms they use is possibleism. Who knew that a possible could be an ism? mspart

I am not always successful, but I try to have policy discussion and not ad hominem attacks. I try not to attack others for their opinion, I try to argue with facts and data. I am not always successful with this and I apologize for this. I am trying not to be that aggressive guy attacking people rather than content. When I do attack Kamala or some other candidate, it is not them I am arguing about, it is their policies that make us less safe or less secure ( nationally, financially, and related to crime). I hope that I do not do this with posters on this forum. I try to be respectful and if I cross that line, I apologize. I value this forum and the ability we have to discuss different topics. mspart

Definitely squirrel!!! mspart

I agree with this. He has not been able to make that jump though. If he is to continue, I would think he needs to figure out how to make that jump and be the guy to beat. I think he shuts down when he hits real competition and doesn't wrestle like Daton Fix. Hence he loses the big matches. I agree that he is one of the best wrestlers of recent memory. The problem is that in today's world, that is not enough. He has not figured out how to make that jump. Perhaps with DT at OSU now, he might have mentorship that will allow that to happen. But, he should continue as long as he finds fulfillment in wrestling. He is fun to watch. mspart

The OP seems to think SALT is a problem. I don't understand why it would be a problem. Looking for some education. mspart

This is how any financial institution should be run. Since the Fed doesn't make money, it has a different metric. Will this expenditure realize the gain wanted? If not, the money should not be spent. If so, is the gain worth the money spent? There are countless government programs that do not meet the first test and certainly don't meet the second. mspart

Regarding the thread title: Let's see. Who has been involved in the last 3 assassination attempts? Left leaning whack jobs. This does not include the broken up conspiracy of an agent of Iran recruiting a hit squad just before Trump received a damaged ear. Who were the targets of said attempts: Steve Scalise, Trump, Trump. Republicans all. I think this lends credence to the thread title. mspart

So this lowers prices incurred due to the inflation we have experienced? The Fed raised the rate by 4.1% from Jan 2020 to just a few minutes ago. It was 1.60 percent in Jan. It was 5.5% yesterday. Today it is 5%. So how is that fixing anything? Noting Trump is circling the bowl does not answer the question. mspart

So this lowers prices incurred due to the inflation we have experienced? The Fed raised the rate by 4.1% from Jan 2020 to just a few minutes ago. It was 1.60 percent in Jan. It was 5.5% yesterday. Today it is 5%. So how is that fixing anything? mspart

Well put. mspart

Even Snopes called it false. Not sure what he has to acknowledge. mspart

You notice that the deficit skyrocketed in 2020 but is still at record highs except for 2009. I'm guessing that was a result of the banking crisis where a lot of spending happened. So Biden has done nothing to get the deficit back to where it was before he was president or VP even. mspart

I don't know he knew. But waiting for 12 hours is quite suspicious on that count. Seems like a reasonable line of questioning he should be subjected to. mspart

I agree, the SS agents on the ground did exactly what we all expect them to do and we should all be grateful to them. I don't think anyone is saying different. But that still does not answer the question about how why this guy waited there for 12 hours to get a shot off at Trump? How did he know Trump would be there Monday Morning? And how did he know this 12 hours (at the very least) ahead of time? mspart

Interesting concept, a budget surplus. How do we get there? Spend less than you bring in. Current formula is to spend way more than they bring in. mspart

Further, I understand the golf outing was not on his itinerary for the day. And Trump is in campaign mode and all over the country. He golfs all over the place. You could say he obviously would golf at his place in FL. But that is not necessarily true. How did this guy know? He was in place for 12 hours waiting for this. How did he know? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/us/politics/secret-service-scrutiny-trump.html Secret Service Admits Not Searching Golf Course Perimeter Why would this be the case? Why would the SS not surveil the complete area? Did they really not know? There are more questions that need to be answered here that have not been addressed. mspart

I just love Venn diagrams ha ha ha. You know, how the three circles interconnect, ooooh, that's a big word didja notice, and you can see something in there that maybe you couldn't before. Yes, I just love Venn Diagrams. ha ha ha ha . mspart

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/09/16/with-fact-checks-like-these-how-does-truth-stand-a-chance/#more-223489 “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” That famous line from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) remains a virtual mantra for politicians and pundits. Yet, judging from the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, we have officially entered the post-truth political era. ABC News has been widely criticized for the bias of the two moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir. Even liberal outlets acknowledged that the two journalists seemed inclined to “fact check” only Trump. In the meantime, they allowed clearly false statements from Harris to go unchallenged. Three of the unchecked claims are being widely disseminated by supporters, including some in the media. Here are three legal “facts” that are being repeated despite being clearly untrue. “Crime is down under the Biden-Harris administration.“ One of the most notable slap downs by ABC followed Trump commenting that crime rates have drastically risen during the Biden-Harris administration. Muir immediately balked and declared: “As you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.” Harris and her allies have been repeating the claim by ABC. But the actual statistics show that Trump was right. The Justice Department’s released survey found that, under the Biden administration, there has been a significant increase in crime. Violent crime was up 37 percent from 2020 to 2023, rape is up 42 percent, robbery is up 63 percent and stranger violence is up 61 percent. Other reports had shown startling increases such as a doubling of carjackings in D.C. in 2023. “Harris has not supported transgender operations for undocumented migrants.” Some of the greatest mocking in the media concerned Trump’s statement that Harris has supported transgender conversion treatment for undocumented persons. New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser immediately wrote “What the hell was he talking about? No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’s point.” On CNN, Wolf Blitzer declared how “outlandish” it was for Trump to make such a claim. But it’s true. In 2019, Harris told the ACLU that she not only supported such operations but actively worked for at least one such procedure to take place. When it was reported by Andrew Kaczynski on CNN, host Erin Burnett was gobsmacked by the notion of taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants. “She actually supported that?” Burnett exclaimed. Even the New York Times later admitted that the “wildest sounding attack line” from Trump was “basically true.” Harris does not support the right to abortion in the final three months of a pregnancy. Trump also hit Harris on her no-limits position on abortion rights, allowing women the right to abort a baby up to the moment of birth. Trump said Harris supports laws allowing abortions in “the seventh month, the eighth month, [and] the ninth month,” to which Harris retorted: “C’mon,” “no,” and “that’s not true.” The hosts again said that Trump was making up his criticism of late-term abortions, including the risk of babies being born but allowed to die. But in fact, many states, including Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz (D), protect the right of a woman to abort a baby into the ninth month. While it is often said that this is left to the mother and her doctor, the law gives the decision to the mother. Late-term abortions are relatively rare, but they do occur. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report estimated in 2019 that about 4,882 abortions were performed that year at least 21 weeks or later into pregnancy. More than a dozen states, in fact, allow on-demand abortions after a baby is viable and can even survive outside of the womb. Nine of those states permit abortions throughout the entirety of pregnancy. Harris has supported these state laws and certainly did not answer the question on what limits she would support, other than saying that she supports Roe v. Wade. Clearly, many late-term abortions occur to protect the life of the mother. However, you can have (as both Trump and Harris support) exceptions to protect the life of the mother without allowing abortions up to the moment of birth. To be sure, Trump did not help himself with his wilder claims. These included debunked accounts of Haitian migrants eating people’s pets in Ohio, which Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike Dewine, has denied. The issue is not fact-checking, but the failure to do so equally and accurately. ABC actually disseminated false information under the mantle of fact-checking, and that’s a real problem. Moderator Linsey Davis admitted later that ABC did not want a repeat of what had happened in the last debate, wherein Trump was given free rein and the moderators limited themselves to asking questions and enforcing time limits. CNN was praised in that debate across the political spectrum for being even-handed. What is most striking about this election is that none of this seems to matter. Indeed, even the debate did not matter. While Trump can legitimately object to a three-against-one debate format, Harris’s victory was clearly not dependent on bad calls by the refs. However, there has been little overall movement in the polls, even though 67 million people were watching. The era of post-truth politics is evident in Harris repeating false claims about Trump’s support for “Project 2025” and debunked claims regarding his comments about an extreme-right Charlottesville rally in 2017. Leading Democrats continue to make these false claims, in some cases despite knowing that they are false. On the other side, Trump is making promises he has to know can never be fulfilled. For example, he has pledged to make flag-burning a federal crime with a penalty of two years’ incarceration. The Supreme Court, including conservatives like the late Justice Antonin Scalia, has ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the First Amendment. Neither a president nor Congress can change the meaning of the Constitution without amending it. With the help of the media, we have reduced our election to a political Slurpee. It’s all sugar rush and no nutritional value. We now have pundits supporting the idea of no further debates and even arguing that Harris shouldn’t give any interviews because it’s too risky. Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) explained that Harris should avoid one-on-one media interviews because “sometimes, you drill down into a question until there’s a word that’s uttered that can be used in a negative way.” I suppose, as president, she will need to insist on meeting foreign leaders only in CNN town hall events. If you do not say anything, there are no facts to check. The election then becomes a vote over whether you are for or against “joy.” What is clear from the ABC debate is that citizens are on their own in the election to find actual facts and substance in the super-sized Slurpee of the 2024 election. Pretty much right on. Even some Ds can see the incongruity of this whole thing. mspart

Hence crime is down. mspart

Perhaps. But it should be pretty easy to say why that roof was left untended other than to say it had a pitch and we don't want to endanger anyone. mspart

Interesting that we still don't know much about the first assassination attempt from FBI or Secret Service. Perhaps DeSantis can get them to provide info by shedding light on the obstructiveness. mspart

Someone else got more votes than Macciavello, Aiello, or Hidlay. Who is this person? mspart