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They did it for Prince for years. I think it is funny too. mspart

Even ChatGPT is Woke!! mspart

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/hillary-clinton-calls-for-formal-deprogramming-of-trump-cult-members-republican-gop-maga-democrat-presidential-election WASHINGTON (TND) — Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for the “formal deprogramming” of “MAGA extremists.” ... “Sadly, so many of those MAGA extremists take their marching orders from Donald Trump who has no credibility left by any measure,” she said. “He’s only in it for himself. He’s now defending himself against civil actions and criminal actions. When do they break with him?”. So she wants to do communist concentration camps for deprogramming and reprogramming of people. That is essentially what she is saying. So the question is, what is a MAGA extremist? Remember, MAGA means Make America Great Again. Is there anyone that wants America not to be great? Is that a thing? Are there really people out there that want America not to be great? 1. What is a MAGA extremist? 2. Is this different from supporting Trump? 3. Is what she saying really deprogramming people from supporting Trump? 4. Is the 1st Amendment to the Constitution alive or not? My thoughts are she cannot be serious in wanting to go down this road. A formal deprogramming of thought? This is as anti American as it gets. If other Ds jump on this band wagon, these are the people you know you should not support. They are the extremists. They are the people to fear. They are the people that should not be trusted to run the government. This has to be the most ludicrous suggestion ever made by a supposedly serious politician. That's my 2 cents and I guess I will have to go get deprogrammed for thinking this way. mspart

So I'm confused about how the person will be chosen to represent the US at 57 and 65 at Pan Ams and at the last chance? Does anyone know how that works? mspart

By then most people may be fed up with the Olympics and what they have done to themselves and it might not be too controversial if wrestling is kicked out and replaced by whatever new and up and coming hacky sack type thing comes along. BTW - I was at a wrestling camp as a kid. Guest was Fred Fozzard. The guy was an absolute specimen of natural athletic ability. He had this new game that the makers shared with him before going into production. He called it hacky sack and taught a few of the guys how to play. He was pretty good at it and it just wasn't around but he pretty much mastered it. I will never forget that guy, he was a machine. mspart

Bemidji PD gets them all and crushes them I hope. mspart

BBWWTAM - Biden's Border wall with Trump's appropriated money. Ha ha!! mspart

Yes, this probably won't change. Everyone can enter as an asylum seeker without cause and they'll work that out when the courts can get around to it. mspart

It is a nice city, just huge. Now I was there for 3 days only so I'm not a great resource. I generally just don't like big cities and the thought of living in them gives me hives. I live near Seattle, but not in Seattle. I lived near Minneapolis but not in Minneapolis. I lived near Honolulu but not in Honolulu. I have visited big cities all over, Singapore being one of them. The heat and humidity didn't kill me there and there is plenty of that. It was a nice place and I know expats that are very happy there. It's just not my cup of herbal tea. mspart

I've been there. It is a big city, clean too. But it is a big city. It was nice to visit but I wouldn't want to live there unless I could live outside the city, and there is not much land there to do that. mspart

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-says-poor-kids-are-just-bright-just-talented-white-n1040686 Former Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd in Iowa on Thursday that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids," Biden said it so he must be racist. To be clear he said this as Candidate Joe, not President Joe. mspart

Well, it is a moot point now. Biden is building the wall now, all of the sudden, and ignoring all those necessary environmental laws. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4239648-biden-administration-waiving-federal-laws-border-wall-construction/ Truly a stunning reversal of policy. Obviously the border is not secure like they have been saying since 2021. mspart

Biden said there would not be one inch of wall ever built during his administration. Now it is a good thing. He campaigned on how horrible Trump was for building a wall. Now he is using Trump's money to build that wall, appropriated in 2019. But with Illinois and NY governor's complaining earlier this week, the WH is now listening. Their policies have been a demonstrable disaster. That is now being recognized and it is an emergency so Biden is going to build a wall in Star county TX and will waive all environmental laws that would stop this. Biden is now a hater, hating migrants. There is no other explanation. He said those against illegal immigration that they were haters and now he is the hater. But it is the right thing to do. Unfortunately for him, it is the R's idea and R's policy that he is now implementing. Apparently the R's were correct all along. TX and FL governor's tactics are now showing fruit. The D government is now doing a 180 on this. The border has been secure all this time remember. Just earlier this week that was the trope. But now it isn't secure and a wall needs to be built. Biden's approval ratings are now 36%. That's essentially only the D's in the country. That doesn't and won't win elections. So now they need to do something, and they have decided a wall is that thing. This is hilarious, except that it is so sad that it has come to the point that even Ds are complaining about this compassionate policy that they have promoted for years and years. Oh, we were wrong. The R's were correct. Devastating admission and too late to repair any damage done. mspart

This is important!! I mean it. I can barely handle the jalapeno. Ghost would kill me. mspart

Term limiting Congress folks has been tried and found unconstitutional. The Constitution does not specify how many terms a person in Congress can serve. It does however specify only 2 terms for a President and this by amendment. That is the only way to get this done. https://www.termlimits.com/term-limits-amendment/ The year was 1995, and the case was U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton. With assistance from USTL, the citizens of 23 states had just passed laws putting term limits on their members of Congress. That meant just under half of all congressmen were term-limited, and Congress would soon be forced to propose a term limits amendment applying to everyone. But it was not to be. A self-interested politician in Arkansas and his donors made a court challenge to void that state’s law. Others followed. After the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled against us, we took it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS). SCOTUS opined that since the Constitution sets forth the criteria that determines the requirements for Senators and Congressional Representatives, only the Constitution can limit the terms of Congress members. The Court decided, in a 5-4 split decision, that citizens are not allowed to term limit their own members of Congress using state laws. They threw out 23 states’ term limits laws in one day. So you have to do this by amendment or the court could vacate the state laws again like in 1995. Now with the current court it might not happen, but it will be an expensive experiment. But future courts might look like the one in 1995 and call something similar unconstitutional. mspart

If you are not defending cashless bail, but think the system is not fair currently, what do you propose? mspart

Which means that there is zero consensus that the US debt is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with. Which means they are all idiots or we are for voting them in. I think it is both. mspart

Thank you for the information. I'd say the pressure is on whoever shows up. mspart

Plasi, By not prosecuting crime, as you acknowledge, crime has soared. It is a known fact that the majority of crime is committed by a few actors. If they are incarcerated, their ability to commit more crime is diminished. And thus for that time crime will go down due to their exploits. I don't disagree with your last statement I quote above, but if they do another crime after they get out, back they go to the pokey. Incarceration doesn't deter crime? I disagree. It will as long as the bad actor is incarcerated. He won't be committing crime which deters his/her ability to commit crime. And no one wants to be incarcerated. Horrible situation to be in. So like we had in earlier decades, crime is low when the criminal element knows they will go to the pokey if they are caught. Right now, that is not the case. They can get caught and not get prosecuted so there is no deterrent to crime by doing that. It's like the 16 year old I noted earlier or in another thread that was amazed by the judge holding him for armed robbery of Asians in their homes in Seattle. He figured he'd get home detention. Nope, staying in jail. He was dumbfounded at this new (relatively new as in the last couple of years) situation of hard time for hard crime. mspart

In general I agree with Bob's message. But Paul158 has a very good point. You need to play the hand you are dealt. And right now, the House is almost even split R and D, and the Rs are not voting together so some D's must be brought on board to pass anything just in the House. But nothing of substance will get through the Senate or the WH. And there is no, "well we passed legislation to reduce the debt, but it went nowhere because the Senate is D" excuses that are palatable to anyone. Votes like that are just for show and do nothing but waste time. But Bob has some good points that do need to be worked on and are not. But note, everytime the Rs have the House, Senate, and WH, this kind of good work does not get done. Do they really want to or is it just for show? I think the latter. mspart

So this is what I have for weights that are qualified: 74 Dake 86 Taylor 97 Snyder 125 Parris What are the qualifiers for 57 and 65 that we need to win? Pan Am? Is there some other tourney? mspart

Ha ha, me too!! mspart

It will be a surprise I'm sure. mspart

This is true, but are any council members R? Is the Mayor R? Those are the people that will be funding the justice system for city criminal activity. The Feds oversee some of activities true but not that. That is a city function and the council and mayor run that, like any other city. Out of 13 on the council 11 are D and 2 are I. Look to them for leadership or lack thereof on the infrastructure to deal with criminality. So far, not doing so well. mspart

Wouldn't that be something!! I would laugh hard if that happened. I think he generally did a good job but doesn't have enough of a cohesive group to work with. The D's are all 100% together and the R's are demonstrably not. mspart