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I'm not sure exactly how the process goes, but you can request a disqualification of a judge on an issue in front of their court. The process would need to play out with an overturn of the original order to force Graham to testify I'd assume which would be done at the SCOTUS level and as Thomas is on the Supreme Court, I think he could still refuse to recuse himself for that vote, but then if a disqualification request passed on the Supreme Court, does that mean Georgia could push for another vote on pushing Graham to testify? IDK, sounds like a legal loop. Wonder if there are backroom talks with Thomas regarding this as well. Roberts knows this is making a mockery of the Supreme Court if Thomas is voting on anything election related.

Actually I feel like I'm looking forward, not backward. In a nuanced world, I think it's possible to see good and bad in all people. Additionally, I think it's possible to criticize someone in one party as well as criticize someone in another even if as a whole, I completely support one over another. Additionally punishment should fit the crime. I am a conservative. I, for the most part, voted only GOP for the first 20 years of my voting. I had lots of issues with them, but as a whole, preferred them over the alternative. At the same time, if there were crooks within the party, I wanted them called out under the hope that a better GOP candidate would emerge. I'm going to vote for Biden if the alternate is Trump. At this time, we need to go to Bizarro world where somehow Kinzinger, Romney, or McMullen some how won the primary for the GOP before I could even entertain the thought of not voting for Biden (heck, even Harris). That said, I really would love a better candidate than Biden. I'm going to vote for Whitmer, despite the fact I don't think she was a good Governor. Despite the fact her Lt Governor is a crook, whom I'm also going to vote for. I'm going to vote for Nessel, despite the fact that she has been a horrible Attorney General. Honestly, was she in on the Flint fiasco or the cover up at least? I think I could make a better criminal case against her than Snyder. Benson's husband is part of the McNamara machine and broke the law. Nessel ignored it, I'm sure it helped him he's married to Benson. Yup, i'm voting for her too. So yes, Gilchrest should be in jail. Benson's husband should be in jail, as should Duggan. And there definitely should be an investigation into Nessel/Benson regarding her husband. People in power should be held accountable. Trump, well, i'd settle for jail until he dies. He deserves worse though. Hunter peddled his father's influence for money and I'm confident that at the least, Joe knowingly helped feed that appearance to support his son. Borderline crooked. I'm also confident that Joe took it further, but that's just my gut based on the some of the emails/texts Hunter in all likelihood wrote.

Oh good lord, I apologize for the semi-defend of her in regards to foreign policy.

There was no international alliance assisting in Afghanistan? Additionally, there were no Afghani's fighting against the Taliban right up until our departure? Plus we weren't intervening.....we were already there. You're absolutely right about the "value" in defending Afghanistan, it doesn't make as much sense. But that argument doesn't seem to be allowed if you advocate anything but a Ukraine complete win resulting in Putin losing power. As of today, if the war ends with Russia keeping some Ukrainian land which is more pro-Russian already, but humiliates Russia on the world stage, results in his power being questioned at home, the Russian economy destroyed, a lesson learned that Russia better stay the F out of any country west of Ukraine (and including Ukraine) otherwise you'll encounter NATO again, combined with requirements to bring so many of the kids/people kidnapped by Russia back to Ukraine, you'd be labeled a Putin sympathizer.

I think his point is that we should be mindful and maybe instead of just writing off anyone that says we should look for peace as an obvious Russian asset, maybe keep some eyes out there to see if there is a possibility to bring peace. Dan Carlin had a podcast I still remember from years ago that basically pointed to the belief that most people essentially believed nuclear war could not happen any longer as there was no way either side was that stupid to pull the trigger. He outlined a series of escalations that on their face, were all logical, eventually you got to the point where it made sense that one side or the other flipped the nuclear switch. From a foreign policy standpoint, this has been like the US winning the lottery. Prolonging this, assuming it doesn't change, is just icing on the cake. But death and destruction continues, the global economy is sliding down and will impact the poor harder than most. Even if the foreign policy benefit continues, there will be drawbacks. Those should be pointed out. I'm pro Ukraine and at this point I'm pretty much on board with what Biden has done. In fact at this point, I'm more hawkish on air defense than the US is. But I am shocked at how if you have any caution in regards to war this is and could become, you're labeled a Putin sympathizer. If we're the policeman of the world again, why stop at Putin? Shouldn't we go after Saudi Arabia? MBS killed an American citizen in a NATO country and just turned his back on us in support of Russia after decades of support from us. Pretty sure Yemen would like help defending itself against SA. Women are dying in Iran because they want to show their hair in public. Why are we not sending them Javelin's? Do you hate women or do you like them... when they are in the kitchen and barefoot? There were many in Afghanistan that wanted us to stay and fight the Taliban, but because Trump wanted us out, Biden apparently had no ability to change that.

What an idiot. In this state everyone knows the winning formula is to ignore anything north of Saginaw and all those large pockets of land between the real voters around Detroit, Lansing, Flint, and GR. Insinuate they are stupid as well, that'll help bring out the base.

Apparently one of the victims is a brother to the shooter. I listened to the 911 calls and one in particular angered me a bit. This is probably going to sound bad, but you hear the caller say that an officer was shot. The 911 operator catches that someone is shot and says they will be sending cops, but the guy keeps on pointing out it's a cop, then misses some questions from the operator and starts answering questions about the shooter, but eventually the operator realizes he's being told that an officer is down. All of a sudden it's like the operator feels the situation is urgent. Sad that if people are getting shot, it's just a normal (obviously still priority) call, but an officer shot, whoa... this is serious.

In regards to 4, he threw his opinion on Twitter. Obviously because of who he is, it got some extra attention, but the biggest issue I believe we see with Twitter is that all to often, it gives a voice to a lot of people that really shouldn't have one, or at least one big enough to report about. In regards to 5, he claims he did not speak to Putin recently and only once in his life. The person that did say he spoke to Putin has lied before. Honestly it should have never been reported, at least without an additional source or at least reaching out to Musk for his comment. If he did speak with Putin, our intelligence knows about it and I'm confident there will be a leak confirming it soon.

I can understand that.

Are you saying he's right about Twitter?

There are others, but from everything I've read, they simply are not comparable in terms of speed and latency. Musk pushed this out ahead of schedule and many of the reports we've seen in the last few weeks about some issues are related to efforts from keeping the Russians from utilizing this service. Musk doesn't need to act like a baby and take his ball home, but he's been unfairly crapped on by the same folks he's helped quite a bit as well.

James needs to really beat out Marlinga in Shelby though.

I haven't followed polls/news related to the election as much as I usually do, but no scientific data, just my eyes in what I see when I drive around and there are very few political signs up in front of people's houses up here in Northern Macomb county. I want to believe that it's a sign that republican voters are just not motivated to vote. Of course it could just be that Trump is getting the donations instead of the state/local GOP parties and they can't afford them.

She has stated his invasion was reprehensible.

But everything is perfectly ok with letting a country bomb the crap out of another sovereign country, give them military aid, allow them to kill an American journalist in a NATO country with little retribution and still bend the knee just because you don't want high oil prices? Tulsi and Paul, IMO, have always been of the mindset that while some things may seem like the right thing to do, just try and stay out of it altogether. Again, i'm not advocating that stance, but it doesn't mean that they don't have some legitimate points at times which is all I'm saying.

And while I liked McCain, there wasn't a war he didn't like. If you believe that the US must be proactive militarily because you're constantly in a cold war mindset, then anyone that doesn't want war can only be a hippy or an asset for the enemy.

Guessing it's this video and I'm guessing he didn't watch it but saw 'Rumble' in her tweet. I don't necessarily get the Putin asset talk with her. She's like Rand Paul and doesn't want to be the World's cop and believes the US should stay out of everything unless it directly effects us. I'm not saying that's the best route, but I do think we need voices like this which point out many of the failures we have had which should at least heed caution on our foreign policy. That said... just what we need, another podcast.

Didn't grab them but I saw reports that Belarus is bringing tanks out of storage and getting them on rail. Another, unconfirmed report, was of tons Russian soldiers being railed into Belarus "like cattle". I know there have been reports of some of the hardliners in the Kremlin wanting to be more aggressive, but if they are planning another attack from the north, as we're headed into Winter.... it just seems way to stupid.

I think he visited Puerto Rico, but your point stands. So often when we look at historical figures, we no longer look at them with rose colored glasses, but grade them based on how they would be viewed today. With Columbus, even in his own time his brutality was such an issue that he found himself in trouble.

I have a Hertel sign up after a canvasser came through. I honestly don't know a bunch about him, nor his opponent, but when in doubt I'll be voting democrat for now. I did like that his campaign flyer/website talks about bi-partisanship and in just doing a quick read of it, you wouldn't know if he's a democrat or republican. I appreciate running on a platform of wanting to do the job, rather than a platform of the other side is evil. Only one other house with signs in the neighborhood which includes one for a school board candidate that on his sign promises to 'teach the atrocities of socialism'.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2022/10/04/flint-water-crisis-charges-dismissed-lyon-peeler-baird/69508869007/ End of the road for Flint? Nessel will complain and insist it's not over, but once she wins, I have a feeling you won't hear about Flint again. Almost criminal how horribly she has handled this.

He just posted it, didn't even comment let alone gloat. It needs to be pointed out that getting the vaccine is beneficial, especially if you're older and therefore at a greater risk of this virus. Note, this is coming from the husband of a women that is still dealing with hypersensitivity to getting the Covid booster and flu shot at the same time last year. She just got done with another round of testing and she is officially #X (can't remember the exact number and if it was specific to Moderna or Covid booster as a whole, but it was something around number 20) that is dealing with long term issues related to this vaccine. The odds you or anyone you know would deal with her issue are closer to the odds of winning the lotto, but if you have anyone with any auto-immune issues already, I would suggest spacing out boosters and the flu vaccines.

Fair point, but outside of accusations, I’m also not aware of any official accusations that he did so either. The CIA director that presided over this timeframe does not believe he did either (but does consider him a traitor and was worried he was to haphazard in his actions which could have resulted in the Russians getting information) Note, I acknowledge what he did was against the law. He lessons his position by not arguing his defense in a court of law here as well. But, If the argument is that we should accept the intelligence community at face value over Snowden, they are the only ones that have been proven to act illegally by the judicial branch regarding this issue.

Apparently so. He claims he destroyed all the information he had and took nothing with him and that he refused to give any information to Russia in exchange for asylum. Is the US refuting that, formally? I just pulled up a few old articles and again it seems like the espionage charge is in relation to the surveillance program. Is it tied together or a separate issue in regards to Russia?

I'm a little lost on Snowden's role in your statement here. Are you claiming that by Snowden leaking classified information about the US illegally monitoring it's own citizens, he helped Russia?