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He got it exactly right. It is you, again, that is off on your own personal tangent.

When did his electricity come back on?

How do you get a concussion playing crickets?

Looking for a suckers bet? The military needs purged. There are as many General officers now as at the end of WWII when the military was more than four times as large. You said US civilians - not US citizens - there is no doubt the National Guard, Armed Forces, and Reserves are likely to be involved in deportations. Some may be housed on military installations. Get over it.

The ex spurts aren’t liberal, they’re Marxian.

There’s a new sheriff.

Requesting asylum isn’t illegal, in itself; making false statements is.

This is a slightly different take from The Federalist: https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/27/trump-transition-team-is-rightly-wary-of-sleazy-general-services-administration/ ‘Stealing records and sharing the victim’s private information isn’t any way to build up trust,’ said Sen. Chuck Grassley.

TDS 2.025?

“A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like "arraigned," "curried" and "exculpate" meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.” Thomas Sowell This is evidence that the department of education is a complete failure.

I don’t think it takes an Ivy League degree to understand that.

I read German auto mfgs. are looking to move to other countries due to energy prices at home.

I’m thankful my Injun ancestors didn’t kill my European ancestors but instead went forth and multiplied.

The nomenclature for leftist is slippery. They claim ‘liberal’ until it becomes toxic, and then they switch to ‘progressive’ like when Hiliary claimed to be a Wilsonian progressive and Margaret Sanger progressive. Both were deeply flawed, intensely racist individuals. The basis for this liberal progressivism is Marxian, and Orwellian, in that it is not progressive at all, but is in fact regressive to individual liberty. While classic liberalism is based on individual liberty, the Marxian model is based on conformity in order to support the collective. Individualism is seen as non-conformity and subject to discipline. As far as unions go, they have their ups and downs. They were important in establishing fair labor standards but they went overboard. A union welder told me he got in trouble for turning his machine on to start work one morning. He was told that they had a machine operator who would do that and he was taking another man’s job away by turning it on himself. Another union man said that it was his goal to see to it that the company didn’t make any profit. Some union apprenticeship programs are excellent. Apprentices come out, money ahead, highly skilled, capable of doing excellent work. When locals have the right attitude and can send these tradesmen out, they are the preferred competitors, as the quality of their work proves to be economical over time. With labor laws as they are, there’s no place, or need, for public sector unions. Teacher, police and fire, air traffic control, etc. Civil service jobs included.

Yes.. I read his site frequently, but he has said that he tends to vote dimocrat. Classic liberal? Yes. That would include you and me, I guess.

You do know Turley is a lib? But he’s honest, and I quote him occasionally myself.

You’re exactly right. Government data is adjusted and manipulated to reflect any information they desire. If calculated the same as it was in the ‘70s, it would match Carter. Panic is when you adjust your grocery selections to be more affordable and you still can’t pay the credit card off at the end of the month. Check the stats on credit card debt. Panic is enough to cause every category of the electorate to vote for a different plan.

That may be another result of those Ivy League educations.

Unlikely to change until you get rid of the mail-in vote. At least you can arrange to stay warm and cook.

I think there’ll still be economic tariffs on China, but you are correct, I believe, to say that cooperation would be beneficial.

How did your vote on natural gas go?

I’m calling this delusion. Can you give one example of a Reagan proposal that 1. You agree with. 2. The Republican Party has moved right on. (At least fiscally, that is.)

An excellent nomination, I believe. As an author of the Great Barrington Declaration he had a better understanding of the pathology than any of the people who were in authority. Rather than listen to him, they censored him and tried to criminalize him. Will he take Fauci’s place as the highest paid government employee?

Elon has indicated that ending the credits would probably be beneficial to Tesla.