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This is the part that most conspiracy theorist are so easy to get past when they claim secret cabal's control everything. Too many people would need to be involved in order to erase it. Of those involved, every one would not only need to be MAGA, they would need to be willing to do break the law for MAGA. It took Trump 10 years to cultivate an admin of 20-30 people that are willing to lie on his behalf and get ~270 that talk behind his back but for his sake at least don't have a backbone to push back on him. How many previous Trumpers now talk crap about him once they stop working for him too? Yet somehow, everyone right down to a random records mgmt employee giving someone access to a room is going to not only be willing to break rules to help Trump, he's not going to tell a single person about it.

Absolutely, but instead of trying to confirm, Dems chose to ignore legitimate signs of trouble, like no cabinet meetings, and rallied around him instead and accepting the excuses Jill and Hunter were providing to the rest of the admin staff. Another example how Hunter helped screw the democrat party.

50 intelligence officers say this is Russian disinformation along with the coordinated response by the left was a joke. I don't think we really disagree much on what that laptop really showed. It was mostly just an embarrassment for Joe. But, the DNC and Biden knew and they chose to lie. Simple fact. I know you're fine getting lied to by someone with a D next to their name because you're fine listening to their excuse, but a lot of people, especially those that don't tend to lean left or right per se don't like it. Again, I'm not saying he was the main reason, but he was part of the problem and certainly a much bigger problem then Clooney, Carville, and Axelrod combined were.

Weird how a guy that has no interest in governing and would rather just golf is one of the worst presidents ever. It's about who is around them. Biden had credible people around him that governed at minimum, alright. I'm not ready to say he's the most successful since Johnson, still need some time to see how his policies shake out, but there was a reason I was willing to vote for a guy that I wouldn't have been surprised if he spent all day eating pudding, watching the game show network, and telling his family how Beau came to visit him today. Back to Hunter, seriously f that guy. His actions, and how Biden/DNC lied to defend him definitely caused voter suppression once people started to learn the full truth about the type of person he is and how the left was willing to try and pull the wool over everyone's eyes about it. Was he the whole reason, not even close, but he's part of the problem and I'd prefer he stay out of the cameras as all that will do it further stain his fathers legacy.

From a guy that thinks it is insane and crazy that Biden was allowed to hide from the American people so his decline wasn't seen even though I would have still preferred him over Trump....**** you Hunter. He needs to shut the hell up, he's a major reason Biden didn't win too and ultimately that was his own fault. Clooney simply pointed out what was becoming evident to some and the Biden family wanted to keep that hidden from the electorate.

Trump will say he got him fired, but Trump always takes credit for stuff he has nothing to do with. Maybe this is over the merger, but Trump already got his pound of flesh with 60 minutes. Even if Kamala would have won, the networks would have had to make a tough decision on how they handle late night TV between the salaries they are paying and the fact that ratings have consistently dropped over the hey day of late night TV many years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if Kimmel is next and that simply has to do with the fact that his contract is up. His only saving grace may be that Colbert is gone.

It's the timing, I don't think it had anything to do with Trump. All three networks made a play at late night after the Leno/Letterman era and yes Colbert arguably is the best rated now, but shares continue to slip due to the greater competition, plus now you compete with cable news who puts more effort into their late night shows, and cutting the cord. Plus Fallon is signed for multiple years still. I probably would have guess Kimmel would be the one left out and he still may be as well.

Imo, he's trying to hide the fact he didn't know crap, but talked authoritatively that there was "big stuff" in the files. They are the dog that caught the car and now has no idea what to do.

Sounds like you're one of those crazy 4th amendment advocates.

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.

Oh man, this brings back quite a memory I had dealing with a federal agency as they were blaming us (AT&T competitor - always blame the network first!) for their video conferencing woes. Finally they added us to an all hands a few weeks later so we can experience it and check in real time. Around the 300 user mark a pop up came on stating 'you are about to reach the maximum number of participants for a standard team meeting, please utilize a view only conference if you expect to pass 300 people. They eventually got to about 1200 users before buffering started, network was running smooth. We spent the rest of the day getting chewed out and turned over all of our data. Late that evening the following troubleshooting call scheduled to start bright and early was cancelled, we never heard about issues related to large web conferences again. I can guarantee, AT&T's problem or not, about 15 people at AT&T had horrible days yesterday.