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Fair questions Mup. I'll answer and then ask a few of my own. I'm not fixated on 1/6 and Trump's involvement in it like some. I was disgusted by the actions of citizens that breached the Capital, that assaulted officers and that trashed the building. I've said that since 1/6. I thought Trump's decision to hold a rally was a mistake for a lot of reasons, none of which had anything to do with worry about a riot. If you told me a group of nutcases in bear suits and Genny Cream Ale shirts could overrun the Capital in 20 minutes, I'd have said you were nuts. I do not believe Trump was involved in the riots, am convinced there is no evidence of conspiracy in coordinating with rioters, and think if the 1/6 committee or DOJ had evidence of that, it would long since have been revealed. I think that the 1/6 committee engages in innuendo, selective leaking, coordination with media outlets, and in general, propaganda. So, yes, I believe Trump will tell the truth about 1/6 under oath, and do not have one iota of faith in the committee or its members. There are precious few rules governing what they say and requiring that they speak honestly to the American people. That is by design. On the issue of Trump questioning the election, I was 100% certain Biden would be president after it was called. There was insufficient time to launch any meaningful investigation into election tampering, and to be honest, the assumption that people responsible for overseeing elections in any given locale would be willing to state there were issues with security is too heavy a lift for anyone. I believe that if Trump won, Biden and the dems would have followed the same course and declared the election illegitimate. They already did it once, and lots of people bought that snake oil. As for legal issues over reaching out to people to intercede in the election, well, that gets murky and I don't know what's a crime, or more accurately, what might be a crime when viewed through a partisan lens. Now, my questions for you. I've asked others here, I don't get answers. When concerns were raised about Russian actors influencing our elections, and Donald Trump co-ordinating with Putin to ultimately win the election, and he is referred to as an "Illegitimate" president, that he won as a result of a coup, and that he was guilty of treason, does that strike you as language that implies we had a clean and fair election in 2015? When Mueller spent 4 years investigating the guy--unlimited budget/virtually unlimited power, etc etc, came up with nothing...why weren't more people outraged? Finally, the issue with lying that you raise is fair, but that can't be the benchmark if you voted for Joe Biden (or most politicians) in my opinion. It's a matter of public record he was lying and telling stories 50 years ago. I think some people just like his lies better than Trumps, but that's different than having any sort of moral standard. For example, the American people were allowed to believe the Russian tape was a thing even though it's pretty clear Obama and Biden knew the Clinton's were selling that story before Obama left office. Since that issue was so incredibly divisive and driving the country apart, why was it allowed to be debated for years afterwards? It seems to me that the dems in this case were perfectly comfortable with their version of stolen elections, and by extension, their supporters were as well.

I'm all for pushing forward. DJT has seen the inner workings of the government, including access to files where maybe the country or an administration doesn't look so good. Not that long ago, Joe Biden acknowledged strong-arming the Ukrainians to achieve a stated goal of removing a political appointee for reasons that likely were incredibly personal to him. Personally, I don't think that's all that uncommon, and I'm sure there are some things that we would all agree are not all that pleasant. So, a political investigation is completed, outside the rules associated with criminal wrongdoing and it would seem, on subjective issues like obstruction and the like. We know with certainty if they uncovered evidence of Trump coordinating with individuals to overthrow the Capital, we would know about it by now. If criminality is uncovered by Trump, by all means, charge him. Let's see what we find out once he starts talking. Let's see if we can get to a place where there is more transparency, more light on how things are handled on an international scale, and maybe we're all better off in the future. In the meantime, when the House changes over, it's time to start swinging at some democrats. It's the way the game is played.

I slipped, but I was majorly liquored up. I also probably stumbled but that was a long time ago in Beer/Shot Years.

One thing perhaps lost in the dialogue is if Singletary scores, the kick is still necessary one way or the other. Any way you sliced it, Bass is on the field and the result matters. Assuming the Fins get a TD after Singletary scores, it happens in some rather spectacular fashion. Blown coverage. Defender falls down. Gadget play. The Bills are rocked, chaos ensues, and the snow continues to fall and the field is a bit more slippery as the defense lines up for the final play of regulation. A two point conversion on the road, against a team you’ve moved the ball against, with speed on your offense, under those circumstances makes a ton of sense. A sucker punch to the nads, as they say, to end the game and go back to South Beach. It’s amazing the Bills ate up nearly 6 minutes of clock, moved 90+ yards and ended it in spectacular fashion with no time left. It was a dream drive.

B, I’d be much more comfortable if the FBI involvement in guiding social media platforms was widely reported upon prior to all this hand-wringing on journos earning suspensions. It seems at least as big a story, if not more, that would be a matter of public interest.

I just went through the purchase of insurance in Florida a few months back— my understanding was that you get paid a depreciated amount up front, with mortgage company on if applicable. If you build back or replace you get the balance. If not you walk with check in hand. That’s why I asked Frankish. I did a little research on this and think I’m correct, but I was just looking for feedback. Hopefully I never find out and have a call to make on Monday. As for living in Cali-I admit to thinking “What’s the big deal?” before going there (Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego at various times), and when I got there, I got it. Cool place. Nice people. I drove down the the Ventura Highway, in the sunshine, and I felt I could touch the clouds. I get all that and loved the short time I was there. One thing I try to do is avoid transferring my thoughts and feelings on others. I love my children and like being around them, so far they feel the same. I love my family and my in-laws, I’m very lucky and know that. In my case, what you outlined that makes it cool for you doesn’t move the needle for me, but I understand it does for you. I was just answering the question “Why would people move from Cali/Fla back to Buffalo”. Those were the reasons that came to mind.

Again, struggling to keep up here. I assume you’re suggesting something specific to Florida, and that’s not my understanding. On a partial loss, the estimate would be for damage to the home. On a total loss, your suggesting implies that if the home was not rebuilt (or replaced with the one in WNY in Frank’s situation), $0 is paid for the structure? As for why someone would want to move back, I’d suggest several reasons. They prefer WNY over Cali/Fla. Attitudes. People. Tax. 4 seasons. Family. While our plan is to try and spend 6 mos+ in Fla and out of NY (tax and weather related), proximity of family (children, parents and siblings) is the most important thing for us. If faced with a choice, less warmth, more tax, and more NYS would carry the day. If on the other hand, we can get our children to make a break…

I’ve read this a couple times and still don’t understand what you’re saying. Your house is destroyed in S Florida, the damage is $300k and you get paid $120k…how? The other $180k goes where? Why wouldn’t the client take the $300k and just move back to Buffalo?

What color is associated with both China and Russia? Not including chartreuse, obviously. Read red. Read red. Btw the brother’s comments may have been a bit over the top.

With the increased transparency, it’s better already.

Worst case scenario the script flipped, and Twitter is now what it was before. The world continued to spin, there were winners and losers, and it will be more of the same. I don’t believe that, I believe de-libbing the platform will take some time, but again, no big deal.

No sir--the fact that the discussion is ongoing, in the public square, is a major step in the right direction. Let's work together to figure this all out. In the past, the response from people who claim to be in the know, with secret and anonymous sources at the highest levels of government sorta gave the impression every non-believer or skeptic was crazy. As so often happens, twenty minutes after the truth begins to see the light, nobody knew nothing about nothing.

I won’t link to all the airport shootings, assaults or robberies that popped up when I ran a search, but there was that issue recently where one of the most admired men in the world (emeritus) had an incident with a stalker and his child. To be fair, all I see is a bunch of journalists whining about having rules to follow. Musk interacted with them, explained the perspective and moved on when they didn’t like it. In the meantime, we know with certainty that these same journalists failed to uncover/report or flat out incorrectly reported stories about Hunter Biden, botched many stories about Trump, Russia or Mueller, and apparently were unaware of connections between old Twitter (and other social media entities) and the US Govt. It is sort of fun to watch though. Huh. Imagine that.

The reason for the suspension is irrelevant, even if it’s relevant to the suspension.

My God BillSy, you’re completely oblivious to the role you’ve assumed here. It almost seems your lobbying for people to hide in a closet, or to maybe keep their mouth shuts, sort of a “don’t ask, don’t tell” thing. Now where has that happened before? The good news is that people of faith and courage understand the toxic nature of what your ideology and reject it more often than not. Anyway, if Joe can change, you can. Think about it.

He claims not to know what he tweeted that got him suspended? Others claim not to know what they tweeted that got them suspended? That’s weird. It’s completely plausible and highly likely they tweeted something that directly and egregiously violated TOS, did so knowingly with intent, the ultimate goal being to get suspended to complain about being suspended to destroy a free speech platform they do not support. Think Jussie Smollette. Or maybe they are victims of a Twitter Coup, which I shall now call a Twoup!

You know what he posted that resulted in this ban? What was it?

The cult talk makes you sound nutty, but the point remains—the bill anticipated problems not yet a reality. Desantis is talking about the same thing. These are two sides of the same coin. Right, but you should care. Instead, you only care about what’s important to you, missing the larger point that the bill attempts to address—“respect”. You might feel that you’re a better type of bigot than some other bigot, but at the heart of the matter, a bigot be as a bigot do. I have many issues with President Biden, but let’s assume for a moment he’s the non-cult hero of marginalized people. Just a short time ago, he was a close friend to misogynists and white supremacists. He had his issues keeping his hands off women before he championed women’s causes. He spoke of our cities as jungles and wrote laws that tore up communities in crisis. He was part of the orginal political cabal of marriage = 🚹+🚺, a notion Barrack Obama supported as well. If an 80 year old Joe Biden can change and extend some measure of respect to those who don’t agree with this bill, if in fact and appeal for reason, rational thought, respect for differing opinions and such are literally written into the Bill, don’t you think maybe you should take your foot off the gas, ratchet down the negativity and try to convince those you can? Hate and bigotry are not the answer, BillSy. To the contrary, they are the problem. That makes you part of the problem. Consider.

The bill itself suggests respect for all opinions here, BillSy. Why are you going off script? Also, he’s right—assuming this clipped tape wasn’t altered to any great degree—it’s been reported that here wasn’t any real need for the bill to be signed now as the matter was addressed in 2015. It was preemptive. HIf there are concerns by religious folks that this bill is a precursor to intolerance and overreach, at most they are just getting out ahead of things. I don’t have any issue with the bill, it was a political move by politicians. Love all, respect all. At the same time—the bill suggests we all should be tolerant of different views, you may be missing the point?

After midnight We're gonna let it all hang out After midnight We're gonna chug-a-lug and shout We're gonna 'cause talk and suspicion Give an exhibition Find out what it is all about

When you ask “Hey …how ya doin?”, sometimes people answer honestly.

Agreed, but until then….

Right, or as Anonymous likes to say, “Daily each day”.

We can put it on the list of all the “Things we wish weren’t so but sadly are” from Twitter today and Twitter Past.

“Self-owning….himself”? 🤔