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Fascinating. The current VP spoke quite directly about her belief that JB assaulted several women, during a time when she was championing victim's rights. Now she's partnering with Bill Clinton, and we know his story. What a fascinating place, the American media.

These things take time, Frank. We should know more by mid-November.

What’s your plan for increasing wages to teachers? What does that look like? A federal standard? Minimum starting salary of $125k? $150k? In NYS, for example, would you advocate for eliminating pensions/retirement benefits in exchange for higher starting/ongoing salary?

Oh boy, you were drunk posting again.

You're problem seems to be you're small-minded. Kamala Harris career accomplishments don't simply boil down to her imaginary time spent cooking pretend McNuggets for fictional children. That was just one non-existent step along her journey. Let's not forget she also a very successful almost author, sharing words of wisdom shared previously by people apparently smarter than she only in the sense they wrote the words first. The hard, dirty work came when she decided to lift the words and not change a damn thing. Joe Rogan's Fear Factor days were 20 years ago, and he's been incredibly successful since then. Besides, what issues do you have with a person--any person, asking questions of a presidential candidate? Are we really pretending that some recorded/copied/cut/pasted interview with a dinosaur like Leslie Stahl offers some sort of insider view? Or that what passes for 'reporting' isn't just someone else's narrative based on a soundbite or two, often taken out of context? You pointed out something you didn't like--'so so many things'. That alone provides value for you, though it might not necessarily be of importance for someone else. Let's all just be grateful that we live in a land where we can debate, agree, disagree and vote without fear of being eaten by cannibals, the fate that befell JB's late uncle, Stu Biden.

@Tiberius

This is a good summary imo. In life off the board, I routinely interact and engage with people. Liberals, democrats, republicans, conservatives, a healthy variety of immigrants, citizens, people who fly the Pride flag, people who don’t, and with a wide variety of religious beliefs and those who choose no religion at all. The glue that binds reasonable people together is respect of the opinions of others. That doesn't play really well here, of course, but face to face we seem to get along pretty well. The media/pundits/politicians aren’t in place to preach harmony and understanding, there’s no real money/power in that. As I walk through my neighborhood of a few dozen houses, we’ve got a couple Harris signs, a couple Trump signs, and most with none. Beyond that…not much drama. The world continues to spin, and will after November, and beyond. I think for most people, this is reality. Where the crazies gather, well, that’s a different story but hardly the norm. I also agree the next few years are going to be rocky. Not the first or last time that will happen.

Joe Biden confused on the facts of the death of his son in 2015….Presidential. DT referencing Lincoln’s son 160 years ago… 🤫

Oh gosh, no. I believe quite a bit of what we discuss here is fabricated and/or people/organizations leading us astray. I believe absolutely in the need for whistleblowers, anonymous sources deep within, and that a fair amount of pundits/media organizations use the veil of secrecy to mislead the public. I also think the FBI/DOJ/AG/court system is used at times to pursue political agendas, choose winners and losers, and that the law while often beautiful and pure can be quite ugly and cold. I’d think the odds of Harris getting questions in advance were 50/50. Maybe, maybe not. Don’t make this weird, I agree with you and just cut out the yip yap.

Of course. That's all that needs to be said.

Yes, we disagree, though we don't have to be disagreeable. Thanks for acknowledging the stupidity of your comment.

Ah jeesh now you're looking before you leap again--didn't you learn your lesson with your early hot take on the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania? On the bright side, I guess it's good you've moved off of Arnold Palmer's donger for a bit. The people that broke the law on 1/6 should be punished commensurate with their criminal acts. I felt that on 1/6, shared that on 1/6, and haven't changed my opinion since. In fact, I feel that generally, pretty much consistently, and tend to think if the collective leadership huddled in chambers on 1/6 gave as much of a **** about the average American as they extended to themselves, the country would be better for it. Now that that's out of the way, 4th, on 1/6, where do you and I disagree?

Yeah, that was an odd take by Starr.

You brought up Brownstones, built up through the 1940s, and implied I felt they were somehow...scary. If you're talking about developers throwing up a couple 2-3 story brownstone-type apartments with a Starbucks nearby, that's great for some people. I assumed you were speaking on a larger scale, as in, reimagined city planning for the masses. My bad. Jeesh, I had to admit I was trolling Andy1 and now I find you don't want stacked living for the masses, and probably don't even like asbestos. Worst. Day. Ever.

I am well, thanks, and yes, I was trolling. Thank you for being a good sport about it. Have a good day, Andy! First, of course.

@Andy1 says when a guy is shot at during a rally, gets tackled by the Secret Service, struggles with them to continue, stands up with blood running down his face and tells the crowd to keep fighting and he’ll keep fighting for them, well, that’s indicative of cowardice. Instead, true courage is a female candidate espousing support for all women all except maybe those knocked around a bit by her millionaire hubby.

What year though?

I’m not saying this is true, either, but If you rearrange the letters in Elon Musk, drop some and replace them with others, you can probably spell Lev Bronstein. It all depends on the letters.

Brownstones are very cool, though expensive to maintain, energy inefficient and the average life expectancy in the 1940s was about 62. I think they’re pretty pricey, too, in the $2m range for not much space. That said, the average size of a typical Brownstone is 19x40, and the average sf occupied by a resident in NYC is around 500. http://urbancalc.com/post/NYC-Residential-Density/#:~:text=New York City has about,the city as a whole. Let’s cut that in half and say the in the Roundy’s On Broadway Lego Huts, you market hard on the notion that a family of 4 is living in paradise on 250sf. Current population of NYC is 8.2m, +|- and of course people already live somewhere. Obviously, those places are likely energy inefficient too, not up to current building codes, and there has to be a plan to address. Then, of course to make this all work you’ll want to increase population exponentially. Are you imaging a row of Roundy Brownstones 1,789 stories high? Or maybe two stories spread out over several square miles? No doubt you’ll want to expand e/w/n/s and take some private property via eminent domain, but eventually you hit NJ and Ct. Oh—are you bringing asbestos back?

Wow!! Sorry for to hear that but welcome back!

I understood the first time.

Is that what you mean???? Yowza. That explains a lot.

I think Roundy has them filed under “Legal: Entertainment”. Though, that’s another reason to avoid communal jenga housing—all that singing and dancing at night has gotta be very disruptive to the sleep schedule.

The ideal from dem leadership is a compliant base that follows the directive, ignores the obvious flaws in policies and real world examples of failure. In practice, they know their audience very, very well.

I think everyone agrees the only illegal gangs are The Warriors, The Baseball Furies, and The Dementors. All else are mainstream social clubs for the most part. Reason #127 why believing in government stacked storage living units may not be in your best interest.