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Hungary just took a hard turn to avoid jumping off the cliff into illiberalism. The left played a huge part by endorsing a conservative, a conservative that they don't agree with much on, except that illiberalism was not the direction they should be going. The left in Hungary in no way endorsed hard right policies, they simply didn't want Orban who was a much bigger threat. They know can regroup and focus on improving Hungary now that it was saved.

One you missed was Rogan. And not the decision not to go on, but whoever thought it would be good to lie about the reasons. The campaign could have simply stated that scheduling didn't work. Texas wasn't a swing state hence Kamala didn't need to spend money visiting it. Instead they wanted it entirely on their terms and when they couldn't get that, they blamed Rogan. So they not only didn't court the base that Rogan's show has, they alienated it. Kind of related, Arsenio Hall was just on Rogan and I listened to them talk about Clinton being on and how they offered an interview with Bush as well, but Bush declined as it was 'unbecoming of the presidency'. You could argue Clinton won in large part to what his appearance on that show meant to his campaign. In seeing Hillary in interviews now, I think she could have came across very well on Howard Stern, who knows what that could have done. Just not sure if Kamala has the charisma to make it happen, but wish she would have tried.

Chuck, why are you so hung up on Kamala? None of those reasons are enough to justify a vote for Trump! Trump is the real issue and you keep on blaming Kamala for everything! Just joking, I agree with everything you posted. Just thought it was funny that i'm in this thread praising Whitmer and you're criticizing Harris.

Her campaign, that was definitely a flub.

I live in a community that easily could have lost Selfridge Air Base if it weren't for goodwill capital that Whitmer got for being the better person and agreeing to try and work with Trump. Michigan and the rest of the great lakes states got the added benefit of additional funds to help keep invasive carp out of Lake Michigan too. In Whitmer's case I don't think she capitulated to Trump either in order to get some benefit for this state. Additionally you can make the argument that if Trump didn't get to pick the cabinet he wanted, that cabinet may have shielded him from being the trainwreck he is, arguably like they did his first term. Allowing Trump to pick his own cabinet, which an elected president should be able to do unless he's putting outrageously unqualified folks up for nomination is arguably one of the biggest reasons we're starting to see cracks in MAGA and unprecedented likability numbers in a time of war like we're seeing now.

If he keeps this up, does he go into the HOF with a Dodger, Yankee, or Mets hat?

Ahh, I took it as the guy mocking religion and laughing at the fact that MAGA didn't get pissed until Trump mocked Jesus with a picture, but mocking jesus with his actions over the years was fine. To me, I saw enough prior to 2016, but I'm still completely lost on how he maintained support after 1/6/21. But at this point, if it leaked he demanded his TP to be under vs over and that lost him more votes, I'm all for it.

I might be annoyed at where they put their 'red' line, but happy when folks realize it's been crossed.

This is also why I want a silent platform policy for the dems to be, if they secure Congress, investigations will be the biggest priority. If they say it now, I feel like that could turn off some independent voters, but unless people are held accountable for their actions when they have a government position, others will abuse it as well. Put people in jail and then we still have a chance to continue with this democracy thing.

I think i'm leaning towards this as well. Not too often this White House actually thinks strategically, but that tweet by Massie informing the new acting AG that he was on a 30 day time limit, combined with Bondi ignoring her subpoena, I feel like the WH knew Epstein was not going to fade away. So they picked one aspect from the Epstein saga, put that center stage, then after they get their hearing and can speak, the WH can claim they gave them a chance to speak and then attack everything else Epstein as people wanting to live in the past. That said, Trump tends to tell the truth in candid situations. He told a reporter that he had no idea that Melania was going to do that. Of course if it was planned out, that tends to be when he would then just lie to the reporter, so who knows.

When does the chart get updated to reflect the price in Chinese Yuan?

Doesn't matter, cool as hell regardless. Planned/Surprised, either are great stories. I want to know eventually, but i'm good regardless of how the world sees it. Amazing stuff regardless.

I had no idea about his wife and was working with it on in the background. I assumed it was Wiseman that was saying it based on the emotion that bled through from the request. If true that Wiseman and his family didn't know, that's incredible. Right before that they announced it they brought Wiseman's family into command central so they got to hear the request as well.

Farthest ever now and if you were listening to the naming request from the crew, i'm not crying, you're crying.

I used to argue with folks that you had to work to maintain it, don't just let the algorithm dictate who you follow, follow specific folks you trust, block crackpots, etc. It's a flood of crackpots now though spewing clickbait. It's all consuming.