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BillSy, it’s completely relevant to thinking folk. We know this for a few reasons: a. They chose to intervene in issues surrounding the elections, when they could have exercised restraint; b. The guidance provided was extremely favorable for one candidate and came at the expense of the other candidate; c. Ultimately, it was determined that the information and guidance shared, by supposed experts in their field, was false; The IC interference was a major issue during the election, and precisely what Schumer was alluding to when suggesting the IC had six ways to Sunday to get someone. In fact, the interference was much, much more significant than what the Russians ran with. In addition, by tamping down the controversy after tying Trump to Russia, it solved a problem for Joe Biden. He was struggling to make sense on the teleprompter, but speaking without a script he was a disaster. He also has a penchant for aggressively confronting people who ask questions he doesn’t like, and struggled to keep track of the comings and goings of his family. It was highly likely he would confuse Beau and Hunter, or worse. If it wasn’t relevant or necessary, they keep their collective mouth shut.

Correctomundo. And let’s pretend the 51 intelligence experts ran interference for Biden as well. The phony handwringing about Russia was nonsense, and relevant only to the easily manipulated dem base. Russia became our mortal enemy roughly about the time Hillary was imploding.

We’re going to have to disagree here. The makeup free shots don’t change much for me, these are real people and the unmadeup look can be awesome imo. Still, as a 3.25-3.45 myself, a 7/8 is pretty good!

I don’t care one way or the other, if she nipped/tucked or didn’t. Between make up, filters, and other Hollywood magic who really know what she looks like. It’s big business. She talked about men aging v women aging, agism in Hollywood. It just makes me chuckle when people who are successful in large part because of their looks suddenly get all turned around when things change as they are sure to do. There are precious few Charlize Theron’s built like Lizzo—just as there are precious few leading men who look like your old pal Lenny. Get in line, Charlize, and suck it up.

Of course, that's the sorta sad part about where she's at emotionally. She's an 11 physically, but emotionally she seems to be in the 6-7 range, worrying about things beyond her control. To the extent she may be correct, she obviously benefited from her looks to a great degree and seemed unconflicted at that time.

In this case, Biden’s problem is he comes off as disingenuous, has repeatedly lied and misrepresented the circumstances of the tragedies in his life, and has been criticized by other individuals who have suffered tragedies for making their pain about his loss. It’s interesting, too, that he compared the devastation in Maui, the loss of virtually everything individuals and families had with the almost pain of the almost loss of a beloved American classic car that never actually happened. Yet—not a word about the near loss of the top secret documents in the old U-haul box right next to it!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/21/charlize-theron-hollywood-beauty-standard-ageing-plastic-surgery?ref=upstract.com Charlize upset, too.

Actual photo from 2016 Election

"cbs/yougov" tells you what you should think about what they think you should think about what other people think, based on August 16-18 data, +/- 72 pts...and it alters your perspective...and they're in the cult? Huh.

Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure how old you were! BTW-Woody G was a national treasure, warts and all. Maybe Ollie is on to something.

This might be the time and place for a quick reminder of the irony--Harv Weinstein partnered with studios, major actors and actresses in pursuit of getting starlets to take their shirts (and more) off.

You knew Woody Guthrie?

I don’t think Tuberville is an agent of Russia, that’s your game. How that factors into your obsession with Putin’s nads is beyond me. But…be productive. Take your allegations of treason directly to the Senator and the White House. Email. Drive by looking for Vlad. Go through his garbage. You’re wasting time here, Patriot.

Power and money appeal to these types of people, and illegal immigration is a godsend to them.

Seems reasonably argued, but then again the author might be “a Russian agent!”.🪆🪆🪆

“A Russian agent”…my goodness. 🤣

No, I’m quite certain l am me.

I think you’re a reasonable poster in most cases, a little less so in others, and the Jamesish Caan in a few others. That said, I didn’t second guess law enforcement here, I asked John a question given his position on the Utah shooting. I provided the facts well-established from the Babbitt case, the issue of use of deadly force against a person who was unarmed, and asked what he thought. He’s opted not to answer, which is fine. Cle, I am neutral on whether or not you’re a reasonable poster, I haven’t read enough one way or the other. I will say, however, that ignoring orders to stop, climbing through a busted window, and uncertainty as to whether an individual is armed or not is not justification to shoot to kill. We know the officer did not see a gun, a knife or anything else because she was unarmed. My question for John was based on his parameters. BillSy, I think you’re an unreasonable poster generally, but the few times we’ve communicated openly and honestly are times I cherish. I asked John a specific question because I was interested in his thoughts, but I will tell you that a law enforcement officer typically does not shoot to kill when an unarmed person is in a group greater than one.

But John, you said a couple pages back that the police are shooting unarmed men on the street every day. What’s more believable, roving assassination squads gunning down innocent civilians or the fact that each situation should be judged on facts of the case? Again, I asked about Ashli Babbit being unarmed and shot by a Capitol Police officer. Does that fall into the category of justified shooting, though she was unarmed and extremely unlikely to pose any threat to a well-trained male police officer more than a few feet away? This situation can be addressed calmly and rationally by those in control of the decision-making, a full accounting of their actions and video that is surely available. A neighbor has suggested they witnessed the FBI breaching the door with a battering ram, and pierced the front window of the home with a tactical vehicle. If that’s true, it’s much more complicated than they engaged in a nice peaceful conversation and the guy drew his weapon. The lack of transparency at this point is a bit concerning, the lack of questions for seekers of truth in the media even more so. This comes from the perspective of someone who aligns more with @The Frankish Reich than anything else.

I really don’t think he is. I think his intentions are good, but we seem to have this weird emotional bottleneck on this immigration issue. By “we”, I mean the populace, not Washington. I think our political leaders know exactly what they are doing, and benefit tremendously from the chaos. I think it’s likely that if a group of 12-15 people showed up at John’s door tomorrow, on a regular night with no catastrophic event ongoing, and asked/told him they were moving in for a while, he would politely decline. He’d say he couldn’t help, close the door and get back to bingeing on Gilmore Girls or get back to reading the latest issue of Rolling Stone. If someone in a position of authority was with the group, told him they understood his desire for alone time, but told him he had plenty of room and directed him to let the group in, he would be concerned and decline. When finally, his options for the night exhausted, sharing his home with a dozen people, he would rightly be concerned with who they were, what the night might look like, and how the heck he was going to get ready for his 5:30am Spin class with everyone needing to use the bathroom. Again, there’s nothing wrong with feeling that way. We know, too, that all other things being equal, the local mayor is not being visited in a similar fashion, asked to house guests for an extended stay any more than the wealthy folks on the Vineyard are inconvenienced for any length of time. It’s long past time to solve the problem, and as John said, it won’t be perfect. How many people have to be victimized before good intentions and enablement are replaced with sensible solutions we can all agree on?

John, it’s not that it’s “not perfect”, it’s the perpetual victimization of an incalculable number of people on both sides of the border. The trafficking on one side of the equation, with people/groups/governments making extraordinary amounts of money moving people, not to mention assault, sexual assault, murder to children, women and men. It’s a predator’s playground. On this side of the border, it gets better for some. However, all the elements remain in place for most. This has been a political talking point for decades (including our current President) and yet here we are, chaos at the border and multiple generations of victims to show for it. Then, of course, we have the imported crime and the victims that follow. It’s a problem, John, and one only look at the numbers from the govt to understand that. We hardly need to import crime, and a sensible immigration policy would go a long way toward knocking that back.

Yikes, what a horrible thing to say.

You think…or you know!! I think you are The Jamesish Caan!

A guy I know reasonably well was in for about 10 years. I believe it was Dannemora, upstate NY, for drug conspiracy. Interesting guy—-told me he was guilty of many things, but in that case was set up by the local PD (also known for corruption, historically). Told me he hung out with Gotti Jr while there, and said it was all about survival and hanging together with like/kind people. He said it was mostly boring. The closest I came to going to the big house was sneaking some contraband candy into Money Heist with Ben Stiller. I never felt so alive.

You too?