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McClain? She's my rep, not that I voted for her though. She tried to claim she was heading to congress to deal with economic issues, since she has gotten in she does nothing but tote how much she supports Trump, if I remember correctly she brought Jim Jordan in for a visit....it's been a **** show.

Interesting. I was never in the military, but one thing that I suspect is overblown in this article though is the centralized vs decentralized context. It's not like the old days where it might take a day to get a message back to the general about changes at the front line, it's real time. My uncle has mentioned to me that they would get real time feedback from morning raids in Iraq that resulted in changes in how they did afternoon raids. Low level leaders were still able to make changes, even if the overall directive didn't change right away.

I mean, good governance would help, but i'm trying to point out things that legitimately could happen.

So first let me add that cutting spending alone is not the solution, but it seems most people believe that cutting spending and raising revenue are two things that need to happen if we want to get our budget under control. While one side might complain about defense spending, neither side will do anything about it. With Entitlements locked in, social spending is pretty much all that is left.

I didn't know complaining about reservations was a partisan issue. In terms of self service, it's my liberal friends that have told me I shouldn't use it as it's giving the corporations more money and allowing them to hire less workers.

I'm pointing out that the party as a whole has basically downplayed the issue. When forced to pay attention to it, Biden put Harris on it, which pretty much confirms he didn't care dealing with it. Fast forward a few years and the stress of so many immigrants in a short time has many of these big city mayors recognizing there may be an issue. My comment about 'wondering why they hate them now' was sarcastic. If a republican even mentioned changing laws to make it tougher on immigrants they would be raked over the coals and proof on how horrible the GOP is. What I truly do wonder about this issue and how the Biden administration is handling it is if they have the same view as you, essentially a 'who cares how much is sucks for folks, we love immigrants. As such, it's better to have folks deal with the pain of uncontrolled immigration rather than try and control it but possibly prevent some folks that want to come from coming'.

Very true, which is why I wonder why all these Democrats are hating them now. And note, you can love immigrants, agree that immigration is good and needed, and still believe we have a problem with immigration.

https://abc7ny.com/nyc-migrants-asylum-seekers-new-york-city/13829853/ "Adams moves to exclude migrants from city's 'right to shelter' law" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/adams-migrants-destroy-nyc.html "Migrant crisis will 'destroy' New York City." DC and Chicago both have reshipped migrants out of their town. Seems like it's not a problem, when it's not their problem.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/long-covid-symptoms-risk-research-data-b2418408.html?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral Long Covid diagnosis appear to have been overstated.

Why does your party hate them when they move to cities?

I feel like one of the biggest Achilles heel Biden has is the immigration/border issue and it's been a rough few weeks with even Adams out of NYC publicly complaining about the Feds. What has he done? He just gave roughly 500k Venezuelians permits to work, which relieves local and state governments as they can support themselves, but that could signal a green light to folks still in Venezuela or Venezualian folks that have already migrated to other countries to come here. Adams, while complaining publicly about the Fed, did still play the democratic narrative that we only have an issue because of people like Abbott bussing folks up to him. This week it finally hits MSM that we have a program allowing folks to fly directly to their city of choice. Considering Adams is complaining about 110+ migrants in his city and Abbott has only sent 8k, i'm guessing Adams might want to turn his attention to Biden on that as well. Even though it's something I think Biden can be attacked on, I guess i'm not sure if this would affect votes....

This Menendez crap is BS. This keeps up and before you know it no congressperson will be able to sell their power/votes to the highest bidder. Isn't this America? I thought this was America.

I suspect Rupert truly is out. Lachlin is believed to be one of the earliest non-supporters of Trump on the channel, but he's also considered to be more conservative than Rupert, so it feels like a crapshoot in determining how this will play out.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/europe/poland-ukraine-weapons-grain-explainer-intl/index.html I suspect Poland/Ukraine solve this rather quickly, but if you push Poland to the point they don't want to assist, you've done messed up A-Aron.

Re: Obamacare - Bob Odenkirk spoke on a podcast recently about how his long time Doc told him to start taking Statins and he was so pissed about learning about the Doc not wanting Obamacare that he didn't trust him and refused to take them.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/africa/ukraine-military-sudan-wagner-cmd-intl/index.html While it's utterly absurd that the GOP is talking about bombing Mexico, I'm fairly confident most everyone here would have no problem if Ukraine did. Why hit in Sudan? Try to force more troops there instead of the Ukrainian front?

Absolutely agree that you have to curate it. Last week someone sent me a link of the hit and run that killed the retired police chief in Nevada. I didn't it send it to anyone else, I didn't like the tweet. Soon if felt like every tweet was black on white crime though. Once I hit 'not interested in this post' it cleared up. I don't like that my app seems to default to 'for you' versus 'following' now as well. I likely would have never noticed this if it just stayed on 'following'.

Would that be Thomas C Theiner? I initially didn't find him, but I realized I entered Thomas Rheiner..... Once I entered it correctly, Twitter tried to confuse me on if I wanted Thomas C or Thomas D.... I just hit enter, first post was about Ukraine with an option to follow him below it.

Twitter has acknowledged that some pro-Ukraine posters may have been downgraded as they may have been lumped in with fake Ukraine pro-Russia bots that Twitter has tried to handle. In fact i'm pretty confident that started before Musk owned the company. Even under Musk they said they welcomed information to help them correct that. I just did a quick search and the latest article I found mentioning this was a Gizmodo article from April in which UkraineCrisisTopic was in it's Do Not Amplify list for Twitter Spaces specifically. Additionally, we don't know what that accounts for as it could be for the pro-Russian bots. The article even acknowledges that Musk released the source code just prior to this article but before they could review and I don't show one article since that which one would think would have a lot more proof if Musk was doing this. I know you folks think i'm a Musk fanboy, but there is a lot of accusations all because he isn't a fan of war. He holds way to much power for just one person, so he deserves the scrutiny, but for a bunch of folks that demand we follow the facts when it comes to Covid, you're big on following the narrative with Musk.

Reddit can be a cesspool too. You can avoid some by staying in specific subreddits, but that also limits a diversity of views.

To be fair, how many politicians can you find that regularly tell the truth? Can Biden say a personal story without at least 1 lie in it?

I think with the UAW specifically, you have to remember that they have new leadership. Old leadership was more apt to work with the big three and was part of the regime that allowed two tiered pay, etc. You can argue their core wanted it at the time. We're roughly 15 years later and a larger contingent are working on that lower tier level. The older ones already got 'theirs' and seem to recognize what they gave up and how it affected their younger 'brothers and sisters'. As such, I think you have a much more vocal union leadership that is much more steadfast in showing support to Democrats, they are seeing democrats showing up to walk the line with them, and they are seeing Biden repeat their demands, record contracts to go with record profits. Trump absolutely needs to peel off voters in this group to win and he is smart for recognizing that, but I think he's going to be much harder pressed as you see the Dems fight for it as well.

Let's wait to see how he executes it. Trick plays are only good if they work. If he gives an answer like he did to Walker this past weekend, a union crowd on strike is going to turn quickly.

Only on the supercharged models.

Magnets too!