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Oh, than let me fix your previous statement now that I have clarification.

Hopefully his followers realize he was always full of crap and that podcast money dries up too.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/30/kamala-harris-has-more-billionaires-prominently-backing-her-than-trump-bezos-and-griffin-weigh-in-updated/ Billionaires never **** a brick, they know everyone works for them, regardless of the letter next to their name. Arthur Blank (Atlanta Falcons) Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg, former New York mayor) Neil Bluhm (Real estate) John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) Amy Goldman Fowler (New York real estate) Avram Glazer (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) Robert Hale, Jr. (Granite Telecommunications) Amos Hostetter, Jr. (Cable) Bruce Karsh (Oaktree Capital Management) Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) Seth Klarman (Baupost) Henry Laufer (Renaissance Technologies) Stephen Mandel, Jr. (Lone Pine Capital) George Marcus (Marcus & Millichap) Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital) Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook) John Pritzker (Hyatt hotels) Haim Saban (Fox Family Channel) Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) Eric Schmidt (Google) Lynn Schusterman (Samson Resources) David Shaw (D.E. Shaw) The late Jim Simons (Renaissance Technologies) Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer (Cargill) Steven Spielberg (Hollywood director) Thomas Steyer (Farallon Capital) Pat Stryker (Stryker Corp.) David Blitzer (Blackstone) David Bonderman (TPG) Edythe Broad (Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation) Tory Burch (Tory Burch) Rick Caruso (Los Angeles real estate) James Chambers (Cox Enterprises) Robert Clark (Clayco) Barry Diller (IAC) Dagmar Dolby (Dolby Laboratories) Charles Ergen (DISH) John Fish (Suffolk Construction) Gordon Getty (Getty Oil) James Goodnight (SAS) Jonathan Gray (Blackstone) Thomas Hagen (Erie Indemnity) Reed Hastings (Netflix) Elizabeth Johnson (Fidelity Investments) Michael Krasny (Computer Discount Warehouse) Chris Larsen (Ripple) Marc Lasry (Avenue Capital Group) Theodore Leonsis (Washington Capitals, Mystics and Wizards) Daniel Och (Och-Ziff Capital Management) Mark Pincus (Zynga) Laurene Powell Jobs (Apple, gave about $900,000 to Harris Victory Fund last quarter) Katharine Rayner (Cox Enterprises) Stewart Resnick and Lynda Resnick (Wonderful Company) John Sall (SAS) Paul Sciarra (Pinterest) George Soros (Soros Fund Management) Jonathan Tisch and Laurie Tisch (Loews Corporation) Todd Wagner (Broadcast.com) Christy Walton (Walmart) Elaine Wynn (Wynn Resorts) Dirk Ziff (Ziff Davis). Melinda French Gates (Microsoft, gave about $900,000 to Harris Victory Fund last quarter) Joe Gebbia (Airbnb) Hamilton James (Blackstone) Margot Perot (Ross Perot widow). Mark Cuban (“Shark Tank” investor) José E. Feliciano (Clearlake Capital) Magic Johnson (NBA star and investor) Sean Parker (Facebook) Penny Pritzker (Hyatt hotels) Hamdi Ulukaya (Chobani). Tim Draper (Bitcoin) J.B. Pritzker (Illinois governor) Tyler Perry (Filmmaker).

That's exactly what Democrats want their ardent supporters to think.

So I never believed the grand conspiracies regarding Epstein that he had a list or that there was this large group of pedo's and Epstein was going to be used to bring them all down. The fact that the Prince Andrew stuff got out to me signifies that Epstein and Andrew liked young girls and that was probably it. They used their fame and money to 'hide in plain sight' around other rich and famous people. All that said, the plea deal in Florida was shady. Was it just because he had high powered friends? Possibly. But as noted by others here, who is going to stand up and defend a guy that was caught with this type of behavior? There was a single reporter that said Acosta claimed Epstein 'belonged to the CIA', and as far as I know he's never denied that either, just responded with a cheeky 'I've heard that reported, but that doesn't mean it's a fact'. Again, it's not beyond the scope that a state AG dropped the ball and let him get a sweetheart plea deal. We've seen Nessell screw up plenty of times and at least in this forum she's probably considered one of the best. The logical next step though, at least to me, would be to publish a list of actual facts and an overview of the investigation and why ultimately they didn't believe any names they had belonged on a 'list'. Maybe Trump knew his followers wouldn't react well with that and just told Bondi/Patel to just state it and hope it breezes over. Maybe Bondi/Patel realized how bad a report would be if they dispelled everything they used to help Trump get elected in the first place. But the little bit of conspiracy theory I have for this, it had names of people in both parties and other high level people that they have no proof even knew about Epstein's proclivity towards kids that were in the files simply because Epstein, just like those people on 'the list', love the spotlight and love being around other rich and famous people, but the association with Epstein will hurt them.

Just finished Ice Road - Vengeance. This is a part II actually. A co-worker dared me to watch the first one and we've thrown conspiracy theory ideas to each other since about if it's just a bad movie OR an absolutely brilliant movie in that they went out of their way to make it such a horrible movie. My buddy felt Vengeance didn't live up to the first one, but I disagree, it was absolutely horrible. Still not sold that the movie is brilliant though. Regardless, 9/10, will probably watch as soon as I con my son into watching a movie with me.

Well said, I should clarify that when I said it was sad, it wasn’t a complaint on his performance, but just a clear indication that he’s not long for the world and was giving it his all.

I was told the opening bands were fantastic, but watching Ozzy was just sad. Saw some clips on Twitter and it seemed alright. Jason Mamoa stomping around the mosh pit for Pantera was actually pretty cool.

I'm actually all for Elon doing this. Short term, I see it hurting republicans more, but I do think that depending on the issue, you could see both parties seeing and ultimately addressing concerns. Most people write off third parties, but generally the reason why they don't work is before they can get too big, one or both of the current major parties recognize a few good points from them and adopt them into their own fold. I don't have much hope for it, but it's not my money, so take a swing Elon.

Not sure why someone would despise you for trying to help them, but that's what you see with urban communities when republicans (pre-trump) tried to help them, so you could be right. Trump has done everything you'd expect from someone writing them off and actually is getting a bigger portion of votes so you got a point. The above is said kind of in jest. I'm not saying dems didn't try to help rural areas, nor that republicans didn't either, but what I said is both failed. Ultimately both were fine with rural areas subsidizing their brightest students towards urban areas.

How long do you think South Sudan holds them once Trump decides he doesn't want to pay the bill? Galaga doesn't realize due process isn't just about criminal, it's about the victims too. If someone murders or rapes someone close to me, I want my day in court with them, regardless of what country they are from. I want them to pay for their crimes they committed here and I want the punishment in my country where if bail or something like that comes up, I have a voice that matters still. Additionally I'm not 1st amendment auditor type, but I have been interested in some of their videos and they do have a point about needing to protect peoples rights and right now it's clear that there are people that should not be detained, getting detained, sometimes for months at a time before being released. Our government, back when some people would say it was great, was built on principles from William Blackstone, who penned the famous line "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".

Kind of agree, kind of don't. Hate to see someone suffer, even if you can point back to Trump and feel like they caused it. The fact is, political leaders of both parties and all state and all federal levels never found a good solution to help rural America when we switched to a service economy. Trump is their riot. A lot of republicans looked at issues with minorities and saw their riots and were fine saying "Whelp, they did it to themselves." I suspect democrats as a whole will do the same if we do indeed see rural communities suffer more. Would be nice if someone broke the cycle and tried to help instead of ignore.

The tax rate change is the least offensive part of this bill and cutting taxes does not correlate to deficit in a vacuum. Had to look up the numbers to refresh my memory after seeing in your link that the Bush tax cuts increased debt by 5.6 trillion by 2018, but the Bush tax cuts were part of his campaign that he saw through, despite 9/11 which increased our military spending of 5.8 trillion which is what we spent on Iraq/Afghanistan. Granted that didn't end until 2021, but i'm guessing most of that money was spent between 2001-2018, likely making it a wash. Should Bush have moved forward with another tax cut in 2003, probably not, but if not for those wars, sounds like Bush's legacy would have included that he may have had a small deficit or surplus and essentially plateau our debt. GDP expanded under bush by roughly 4 trillion a year, so as a percent of debt Bush would have dropped that from 54.5% to 39.9% if 9/11 never happens. This definitely is going to be cruel, but not just to the poor either. Rural middle class and wealthy, aka Trump voters, will realize that good medical insurance doesn't matter if you don't have a hospital near you. Right now my biggest concern might be related to AI. I do think whoever leads in AI, especially early on, will have better outcome on whatever an AI driven world looks like. We started in the pole position with the largest economy, with the best higher education, and the best minds (from all over the world) that want to learn here. The federal law enforcement money gives a clear indication that even if you want to come here to learn, you're not really welcome. We may still allow student visas, but we're not welcoming. AI is going to require energy. A lot of it. Add in despite what Trump is doing, electric vehicles are the future, it might slow down, but they are the future still. So we really need to increase our energy and this bill does so much to **** on renewables, not just promote them anymore, but to actively discourage them. This is what is going to hurt the next generation, the only question is how much.

As a fiscal conservative, I have never been against a bill that might cause pain, if it could provide a clear path to helping set up the next generation for success. This is the exact opposite of that. I purposefully tried to find conservative media's take on this and for the ones that talked about the nuts and bolts of this bill and not just the republican talking points, none of them liked this. Absolutely horrid.

Took my daughter to see The Stray Kids, a kpop band, in Toronto this past weekend. Certainly not my kind of music, but not horrible. (Maybe the lyrics are, I have no idea). It was her Christmas present and she loved it, so that's all good. It was at Rogers Stadium and this was the first concert there. It's a temporary venue on the grounds of the old airport. I got a hotel right next to Rogers Center (skydome).....oops. Still worked out though.