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I have a lot of friends, close friends, who are into that. It is what it is. I think there’s a difference too in liking something on twitter vs blasting it.

I voted all D but not on purpose. Just ended up that way. Wasn’t planning on voting for Rashida but did it anyway. Her opponent was all over Dearborn because of the school book thing trying to convince Muslims to vote for him. I try telling them that 5 years ago the republicans wanted to ban them.

Let’s just say he’s a fan of someone who, hat tip to @Edman85looks like Lee Corso.

Scott won in 2018 by 10K votes. Desantis won by 33K. i expect margins 10 times that tonight.

My comment was directed towards the national elections not MIchigan. I think all 3 proposals pass and our 3 gals win easily.

I think that too. Some are going to need to be talked down from the ledge. I don’t see any positive with a house with 220 R’svs a 250 R’s.

Yes I agree that term limits in MI hasn’t been good. It takes good people out of jobs under the guise of the preventing the generational incumbent. But those those people know the system. Right now there’s no accountability because even if they do a fine job they are done. It’s about lining up their next gig. By opening it up you invite more kooks to sneak in. we have the mechanism to vote people out and of voters won’t do that then they deserve what they get. But don’t prevent quality people that people want from serving because of populism.

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I would put gehringer over Greenberg. And Miggy.

I have not. Can you use the Roku channel if you do not have a Roku? He produced it so I would expect it to be pretty accurate.

Dusty Baker smoked a joint with Jimi Hendrix on a street in San Fran and was on deck when Henry Aaron hit 715. Now he’s a world champ.

That’s how I see it. The polls aren’t telling me anything other than probably a red house and very close senate. I think PA flips and the others stand Pat. Is there a current D other than GA and AZ that’s in the conversation of flipping? I just don’t see any punditry value in adding disclaimers to everything. Elections are held once. It’s not like baseball where we use data to show how a person will likely perform over a period of time. That’s useful. But in the context of a single at bat it isn’t. That’s what election night is. Someone just give me an opinion on what they think will happen.

So is it the consensus here that it’s not going to be red? I am assuming a red house for sure.

He wants to turn it into what truth social and Parler wanted to be. Drive out all the normal people and the nuts can talk among themselves. The house is already built.

I was wondering if that was a culprit. I bet there could be some merit.

Whatever Beaumont is called now reinstated visitor restrictions for children due to RSV.

The first time I got it I didn’t know what it was. Because of my job I can tell my salesman to just shoot me a vin and I can do all the work myself in regards to features and such. I’m driving it home and I thought the car died on me after 7 miles on the odometer.

It’s not really stopped. The severity is degraded to the point that people are not being hospitalized to the levels they were before. So people have accepted the risk of being sick for a few days to resume a normal life. But reported case numbers in MI are still in the ~1500 a day range and have been for a long time. And we still have people dying from it. But for the most part we have reached the “it’s like the flu” that people were trying to say in March 2020.

I just don’t see that a pollster gains by putting out a poll that they manipulated. They make their living by being accurate. Doesn’t mean they will be but the point is they won’t make an effort to be inaccurate just to frame a narrative. I think the “flooding” angle is just grasping at a positive that’s not there.

Scorsese’s disdain for marvel movies is well known.

Maybe. But then your time as an owner is constantly spent finding and training people and then worrying if they will show up. Have a stable staff then maybe you can focus on expansion.

Whose speech is being denied? It’s a business transaction

My old company was owned by several founders and it was a family type business with some big long term goals. Those long term goals meant we would often do things for our major customer on the cheap. Our goal wasn't to treat everything as it's own profit center but instead strategic. It worked out. The founders cashed out then the company became a slave to private equity. I later got a job with that major customer and am much better off myself. But the old company got swallowed up by someone else again and it's so much different now beyond being on the other side of the table.

If I ran a business that's how I would do it, if I could afford to at least. There's value in less stress. Isn't the first thing you need for success employees? Keep them happy and you remove a barrier. Have quality people and take care of them and you can focus on other things instead of who's going to show up today or next week or month.