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How's your 401k doing lately??
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To answer the OP's question? Remarkably well. Just as others have noted I keep very detailed records spanning the last 25 years for comparison of then versus now and a view into tomorrow. I expand my financial view to more than just my 401…
The Epstein Files
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MCC ---- Well, I'm interested in the person's story. So, based on the information available, we are looking for a mid 50's year old woman, probably living in the NY area, that is probably suffering from numerous mental health issues caused…
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Quote from tbrmskss: I had to block my son yesterday. My initial reaction was WTF! Upon further reflection it actually doesn't surprise me. When you elevate the matters of the state above the blood line then it just becomes a day ending in…
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[quote=Forfunin205][quote=slowandpassionate][quote=windowShopping7][quote=tbrmskss]"small boats, extremely low profile, multiple high HP engines, no fishing gear, tarps covering most of the space in the boat, no flag and running at high sp…
Political Quote of the Day
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[quote=Forfunin205][quote=windowShopping7]“My friends will get hurt.” -Donald After the hearing, Greene held a news conference and threatened to identify some of the men who had abused the women — names she says she didn’t know but could h…
Burn it all down
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VAB---- What do we tell these "burn it all down" folks, who are mostly frustrated young men? Seems to me we can ignore them, let them figure it out, attempt to reason with them, marginalize them, or even just listen to them? Apart from bei…
The Truth About Gun Violence
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All the discussions of reloading take me back to my much younger years. My father was on the Air Force pistol team for more years than I can remember. FWIW he came within 4 spots of making the Olympic Pistol team one year. No matter where…
Trump Quote of the Day
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MAYHEM---- I do not interact with many non-whites, but EVERY TIME this topic has come up in actual conversation with them, these people expressed concerns to me about ICE and the way the US was going in general in this area. Living in Phoe…
Trump Quote of the Day
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ONHELL---- I never implied that the brown people are completely gone. But to say there has been little to no noticeable impact? AI disagrees with you. LMAO, I don't remember seeing AI out and about in the Valley of the Sun like I am. When…
Trump Quote of the Day
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MAYHEM---- People need to live. Just like my coworkers, they are out and about doing what they need to do, but just because you can see them out and about doesn't mean there isn't concern. Now I could theoretically buy the FUD argument on…
Trump Quote of the Day
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MAYHEM---- I can't say with certaintly, but if I had to put money on it, I'd say a larger number of people in the very area you mention would answer Yes to the question, "Are you at all concerned about ICE?" Like you, I can't say with any…
Trump Quote of the Day
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@ ONE - Non AI sourced as I live here. I see brown people freely involved in commerce. I see brown people freely associating at bars, night clubs and restaurants. Rough guestimate there were 3 brown people at the gas station yesterday wher…
Trump Quote of the Day
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MAYHEM---- ALL people with brown skin are concerned with ICE because they are racially profiling EVERYWHERE based on the color of your skin. I live in a city where the Hispanic (brown) population is ~42%. Hate to burst your bubble but othe…
The Truth About Gun Violence
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FORFUNIN--- ...and today @4in has finally blocked me. On one hand you could expect a shock face :-o On the other hand, 4in blocking someone is a common as a day ending in Y. I can't imagine one person who has invested that much time in fin…
Common Ground - Holidays
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Now I'm just spit-balling. However, when a Block list exceeds a Read list it's probably detrimental to any meaningful common ground discussions.
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2MUCHFUN---- That sounds like a mutually beneficial relationship. 2MUCHFUN---- Mickey craves attention. Scamp provides it. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner x2
Trump Quote of the Day
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LOL, I think you are OK FLIP. The chances of a Hellfire missile intentionally raining down on your back yard is about as close to zero as you can get.
The Bet
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I think you (the collective you) need a bigger spoon to continue stirring the pot. It is however, amusing to watch the repetitive nature of the stirring. New day? Same stir. Like Jane Goodall or Marlin Perkins, it's interesting to observe…
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So much for the fable of White Privilege huh? LMAO.... Now tell the truth, how often do you guys check for the monster under your beds? SMH
Political Quote of the Day
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"I guess it’s possible you don’t have one?" Or that yours is situational
Political Quote of the Day
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I occasionally wonder how big of an eye roll Wayne gets when he receives an email with a complaint from within the Political Forum? LMAO, it's a free for all UNTIL another poster triggers someone's sensitive side. :-)
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As one with ZERO individuals on my block list I always find it highly amusing and somewhat adolescent when the blocker wants to know what the blockee might be saying about them. It's like an instant trip back to the 5th grade.
The Epstein Files
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Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds? Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Renault: Oh, thank you very much.
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See, there is a version of the “truth” regardless of subject :-)
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GOOD---- I'm not convinced that the strike against Iran's nuclear facility at Fordo completely obliterated the intended target as claimed by Trump shortly after the attack. Yeah agree, it was too early and too dark to back up a statement b…
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Shocked that it actually came to this. I was certain that after ~36 years in power the Supreme Leader (Death to America) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would have eventually listened to all the strongly worked letters from George Bush, Bill Clinto…
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There are distinct similarities
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Must be one of those ebb and flow concepts
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It was an interesting Juxtaposition indeed. Little support for something that does exist, The Army. Large support for a concept that doesn't exist, A King. LOL never doubt that people can be easily swayed and manipulated by a sophisticated…
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Assume a relatively stable population I'm able to see ~97% of poster comments. And I remain at 100% of never hitting the block button on any poster, the swipe and scroll wheel are sufficient tools to breeze past the attention whores ;-(
How's your 401k doing lately??
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SCAMP—— No, the past three months were when your dear leader was in office. You know, that's when the market started to tank so it's not a moving target, it is a line of demarcation. Maybe. When did the market know, date wise, that Trump w…
How's your 401k doing lately??
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SCAMP—— You never answered my question. What was your percentage drop in the past three months? Respectively it was a silly question. We could just adopt a moving metric of the worst hour, day, week, month as the standard. The general adop…
How's your 401k doing lately??
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SCAMP—— But for you to accomplish what you claim, that's exactly what you did. Unless all of your retirement funds have always been in cash or money markets (or buried in your backyard), which would be idiotic. Other than a quarterly alloc…
How's your 401k doing lately??
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SCAMP---- Knowing your choice for POTUS was going to crash the market and destroy other people's retirement funds isn't the flex you think it is. Flex? Just a simple reporting of my YTD performance. Other people's retirement funds? Like ev…
How's your 401k doing lately??
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A Sunday morning coffee routine is a pulse check of where the retirement funds stand. As of Friday, April 25, 2025 at the market close? Down YTD 0.03%. Whew....after listening to the pundits on TV (and a few in here), I was worried we'd ne…
The Ukrainian Invasion
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VAB---- I remember years ago a poll that showed a sizable (majority?) proportion of people were good with economic damage, so long as richer people were damaged more than they were. Generally, along the same lines as the quote from George…
The Ukrainian Invasion
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I think you must live through a proxy war at least once in your lifetime to truly understand the dynamics (profit) of it. I was a bit too young to truly understand the proxy war in Vietnam. If I had time, I imagine I could go back and find…
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SCAMP---- Is there anyone here who would be opposed to lifting the cap on the wage base, the maximum amount of earnings subject to Social Security taxes, which is currently $176,100? (That means that if you earn $176,100 or $1,761,000 per…
The day's news. Anything worth conversing about?
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SCAMP---- Will you be ok with cutting SS, Medicare and Medicaid benefits to meet this goal? I ask because according to several studies, including one I quoted recently from Princeton conclude that those three programs would have to suffer…
Political Quote of the Day
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SCAMP---- Yep, tariffs destroyed the average persons retirement accounts while insiders were tipped off to time the manipulations. Impacted in the short term? Yes. Destroyed? Not quite sure about that one. Let's use you as our litmus test.…
Tracking Tariffs and other Economic Policies
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LOL so much pearl clutching and hand wringing about the last few days of a market downturn. And no, I'm not discounting the market downturn, it really happened. Some of it self-inflicted and some of it (GASP) change in the process. Any los…
Tracking Tariffs and other Economic Policies
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The Status Quo is putting up one hell of a fight.
Political Quote of the Day
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Kyrsten Sinema commenting on Senator Cory Bookers marathon use of the Filibuster....."Maybe it isn’t an old Jim Crow relic, after all."
The Leopards Ate My Face
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It was, it is and will continue to be an entire thread of wishcasting.
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Interesting concept. Anonymous YET Reliable.
The day's news. Anything worth conversing about?
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SCAMP---- The Dow closed lower by 890 points, or 2.08%, pulling back from a loss of more than 1,100 points at one point. The broader S&P 500 also plunged, dropping by 2.7%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plummeted 4%. The Dow and S&…
Tracking Tariffs and other Economic Policies
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They’ve already spent their money. Canadian snowbirds start heading North from Phoenix when the temperatures hit 80.
Tracking Tariffs and other Economic Policies
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2MUCH---- On a positive note for Flip and me... the golf courses here won't be packed with Canadian snowbirds this year. Not the case on the Phoenix golf courses or bars or restaurants. Off the golf course the dialect is easy to pick up, s…
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Those are news articles, opinion pieces not the bill itself, if there is such a bill. I read all three articles, and nowhere did it state that Medicaid for 44 million American children would be eliminated. Did I just miss the date certain…
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WINDOW---- I’ll get it for you. “Republicans” voted to proceed with the vote for those cuts already. For the elimination of Medicaid for 44 million American children? I'd like to read the bill but could not find it. Source other than a sen…
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WINDOW---- There are 44 million American children whose welfare is dependent on Medicaid. What is the date certain when these 44 million children will not have access to Medicaid? Perhaps I've missed the introduction of the Bill eliminatin…
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WINDOW---- Cliches are not an answer. Planning and careful money management is not a cliche. It's a task. It's an event. It's a lifestyle. It's an everyday activity.
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WINDOW---- Go ahead and plan for that. Planning for every contingency imaginable is an impossible task. However, having sufficient emergency funds tucked away is an important tool in the wealth planning toolbox. Do you have contingency fun…
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By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.
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SCAMP---- Quick poll, how many of you who voted for this were planning on having SS benefits when you retire? Are you going to be ok if you don’t? We have always done Wealth Planning without SS included in projections. Will we be OK if SS…
Only the best people
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Not a distraction, it's reality. I didn't have the opportunity to vote for Charles Littlejohn any more than you had the opportunity to vote for Elon Musk. Correct?
Only the best people
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Or facts
Only the best people
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sn1987---- BTW, this is really dangerous. The federal government is the number 1 target for our enemies... Apparently, our enemies AND independent contractors.... On April 12, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service began notifying thousands of…
How worried are you about Project 2025?
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RO_RI54---- Well, it's finally happened. I believed it would, though not quite this soon. I and my family have been ordered to report for incarceration in a political reeducation camp in the Nevada desert. We are allowed to bring with us t…
Political Quote of the Day
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It's a good thing imports from Mexico were spared. Chuck Schumer and about 90% of the (still) free press were VERY worried about Beer and Avocado's. Saw a woman wearing a faded "I'm with her" shirt accosting an old man in Safeway because h…
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LMAO, Mickey is a valuable component to many responders in the Political Forum. Mickey serves as your soap box to go on multiple and in-depth monologues about anyone and anything that falls outside the responder's political paradigm. If Mi…
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WINDOW---- BTW it’s our homeland not a corporation. Let's pull that thread a little, shall we? What is the difference between a person working in OPM and say a person working ABC corporation? Aren't they both employees? Don't they both col…
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So you thought the outburst from the OPM employee was helpful? Was a net add to OPM wide morale? Helped all the OPM employees adapt to change?
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Anonymous OPM employee---- Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty gr…
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ONEHELL---- Who is bragging. I was answering your question. The debate was not about the net numbers of immigrants. It was about who would fill jobs. Not you necessarily but someone was bragging about the high numbers of deportations under…
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ONEHELL---- I will do you the solid back. I answered your question. The boarder still had immigrants crossing it. So the immigrants that were deported were replaced by new immigrants. LMAO So it was a zero-sum game? I guess that's one way…
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ONEHELL---- I thought you had critical thinking skills? Or are you saying there will still be migrants crossing the boarder to fill those jobs? Someone is not keeping a promise that was made And I thought you could read and comprehend a pr…
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SN1987---- Can anyone explain why Obama had many more deportations than Trump? Or more importantly when Obama was deporting people who picked our crops and cleaned our toilets?
Only the best people
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I have no doubt the Biden Administration has multiple civilian advisors and advisory groups. Does he not? I did a quick scan of the major news outlets, I’ve yet to find where Elon has received an official government designation as an overs…
Only the best people
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WINDOW—— Who will be overseeing the “department” of DOGE? So is that a no on an official Overseer Designation? DOGE is an advisory role. Even Joe Biden has multiple advisory roles providing him information/data/reccomendations. All Preside…
Only the best people
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WINDOW—— Did he follow through on his word to his supporters? Or did he agree with his overseer Elon Perhaps we are operating under a different calendar. I saw a news flash today that Joe Biden is the current President and the only one who…
Only the best people
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WINDOW—— I see you don’t keep up with the news dear. Which news is that?
Only the best people
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WINDOW---- Sorry, i guess donald didn’t side with President Elon over immigration. Other than having an opinion, as we all do, what does the CFO (President using your term) of SpaceX and Tesla have to do with immigration?
Only the best people
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WINDOW---- Are you referring to the same Donald Trump that had an interview with President Elon, and suggested that the 2 of them should escape to Venezuela? Interesting choice of location. President Elon? You mean like for SpaceX or Tesla…
Only the best people
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LMAO, just proving there is comedy in politics. I saw a news article about supposed Trump slayer Michael Cohen on MSNBC (of course) stating that he put in the application for a Biden Presidential pardon. He goes further stating he should g…
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I’m just spit balling of course but I doubt Alvin Bragg remains on the Harris family Christmas card list. Probably would sting a little bit licking that stamp every year reminding her she was soundly beaten by a felon.
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MARION—— But..... Harris isn't black, is she? I thought she was Indian? Not Elizabeth Warren fake Indian, but like AT&T customer support Indian. Hell these days, we can’t even be sure she is a woman. Maybe Ketanji Brown Jackson could weigh…
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And if you don’t, watch this space….one of the forum resident clinicians will be along for a Canada style (free) diagnosis.
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How does one know if they are having imaginary conversations with themselves? That would be a classic head fake would it not? :-)
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No need to drag Biden into this
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No doubt this moment will go down in the Harris family history. Whenever someone new is introduced to the family I'm sure there will be a caution: "When you meet her, please don't mention anything about her run for the Presidency" "Why not…
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ONEHELL—— Than you really shouldn’t complain about public schools. You did not use them. You made that decision. The decision was not made for you. I’m not, public schools are a know commodity, all you have to do is a little research. All…
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ONEHELL—— Again if the schools are not good move. Your sacrifice will be higher property taxes. One way or another having children will sometimes put you in a position you may have to make sacrifices. Good grief. At the risk of repeating m…
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MARION—— That just ended the lefts discussion on this forum for taxes, crime, poverty, healthcare, gun control, reproductive "rights" and homelessness. LOL, it does add a new dynamic to the easy peasy solution of just moving doesn’t it.
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ONEHELL—— No it’s an appropriate comment for you also. You are made a conscious decision to live where you were. If you cannot use the public schools and choose to bitch (for the lack of a better word) about not being g able to use them an…
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ONEHELL—— Move to an area that has significantly above average public education. That would be an appropriate comment for parents suffering under below par public education systems. Our children are done with public education and professio…
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WINDOW—— As am i. That doesn’t mean i think children deserve a sub- par education. And that was the exact reason we sacrificed to send our children to a place where they received an above par (significantly above) education.
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WINDOW---- It’s on everyone. There’s a reason why the country has to outsource everything. Well, everyone paying the state and local taxes that fund local education that is. Me? I'm paying the city and state taxes that fund local education…
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WINDOW---- So the education of all other children doesn’t matter? Not really with a slight caveat. While none of my children had to endure the public education system for 12-years, I did however, meet my full and complete tax obligation to…
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Over the years it took a lot of professional (in person, in kind contributions) and financial (writing the checks) impact, yet we've never regretted keeping our children out of public schools. Given the education levels they enjoyed, I dou…
Should President Biden Pardon Trump
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"I guess when Trump finally kicks the bucket we'll see if MAGA is really a cult or a political movement". That prediction is too easy. It will be a tale of two distinct camps both with a compelling story to tell.....and both sides pointing…
Should President Biden Pardon Trump
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You have to wonder if the people in Jonestown Guyana would self-identify as being part of a cult? Like with most things, self-identification and introspection is often much more difficult than pointing fingers.
The Leopards Ate My Face
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2OUTDOOR---- I don't like the price of canned tomatoes now Less we all forget what is/was driving the cost of high food. Remember those words echoing from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, PRICE GOUGING! The Harris campaign said it plans to ban…
The Leopards Ate My Face
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GOOD---- I hope this doesn't come off as patronizing but... Did you intend it to be patronizing? If no, then I can't think of a single reason why I would either.
The Leopards Ate My Face
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OP---- This thread is dedicated to those regretful voters who vote for cruel and unjust policies (and politicians) and are then surprised when their own lives become worse as a result. LMAO, what's the expectation? Is this like a true conf…
Will Trump ever have a good week?
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Chris Cillizza---- "How the hell did Donald Trump figure out that the mainstream media is the fringe, and the fringe is now the mainstream? The 78 year old guy who doesn't even have a computer and still, like, write handwritten notes? How…
Will Trump ever have a good week?
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From the walls are closing in, meme's in orange jump suits to being elected President AND Time's Person of the year. Without thread dumpster diving I can recollect a few weeks when the popular running narrative was that he would not even b…
2024 Election
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Blocking and complaining to the Moderator. Good grief, how do you drama queens make it through a day mixing with the general population? And in the basement of a sex site no less! Where is the face palm emoji when you need it.
Political Quote of the Day
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“I just don’t understand the White House visit. Now granted, you know, I’m glad it’s a peaceful transition of power, but what happened to the threat of democracy talk? What happened to the fascist talk?” “By the way, I know I’ve said those…