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They're both narcissists.

That's nice. An elitist yankee is someone who looks down his nose at farmers. The shoe fits.

Thanks elitist yankee.

Not sure "dreading" is the right word. I agree it will be an embarrassment. Its already an embarrassment for a country with 350,000,000, these are best 2 people to lead us. I really don't like either one of these guys. However I suspect you and I watch politics differently. I like to take the Molly Ivins approach. Molly was an author who wrote about Texas politics 1987-2007. She was also a columnist for the Dallas Morning News. She was a lefty. You'd like her. Anyways, I saw her speak on the campus of my alma mater, North Texas State University or so it was called when I went there. That night she said on the subject of congress/governors/etc, "you're paying for it so you might as well watch it and enjoy it.". So taking that approach it should be entertaining to watch the 2 old fools gaffe and BS for 90 minutes.

Rob Reiner LOL. I think he got his funny/creative genes from his mother.

That may be true for now. I would think some of Hunter's stuff may be puffing. Not sure all of it is. Are you? But if some Trump state DA gets a burr in his/her bonnet and gets help from the White House and maybe a high level Justice Department lawyer, who knows what they can cook up now that President Biden has opened the Pandora's box. Throw in too that the Hunter laptop is now verified to be real and is fair game. I think maybe there's something there. Not sure. If Trump wins I'm sure we'll find out. Of course there's also the sharing of classified documents with his ghost writer. Maybe the current special prosecutor didn't bring charges but who's to say the next one won't?

10% for the "big guy".

I agree with this 100%. If it's really true we are about to the point of no return, we need to start lowering carbon as opposed to just slowly slowing down. CO2 takes hundreds of years to process out on it's own. In the meantime tons and tons of it is still being put out there. China pollutes the most by far but has no desire to do anything. once we figure how to make it work start building a site in every city. Even if it was the size of a football field. We'd then have cleaner air here. trying to get the whole world to agree and work together on a solution is dreaming.

I love the shutting off the mic thing. I've been calling for that for decades. Will be interesting to see if they really enforce it.

This is what I don't like about these "debates". They're not debates. In a debate you pick a topic and both sides have a couple of rounds to give their side of the story and rebut. I'd like to see them give both sides the questions. But not as questions but more as topics. Things like America's role in the war in Ukraine, health care, Medicare/Medicaid, poverty, student loans, tax policy, climate change, etc. Pick 4 or 5 for the first debate and 4or 5 more for the second. Flip a coin or draw straws to see who goes first (would be nice if there were more than 2). Then they each get 4 minutes to state their case. Then after each speaks, each candidate would get a 2 minute rebuttal. Then on to the next topic with the other candidate starting first. This way we would get a LOT more info about them and what they think they can do if elected. Maybe we wouldn't get the funny zingers like Senator Benson teling VP Quayle he was no FDR or allow time for VP Harris to call President Biden a racist on national TV, but I could live with that. Wouldn't matter who the moderator is cuz essentially they would be time keepers and announce the next topic.

How was Viet Nam "worth it"? You're comparing the Ukraine War to the Marshall Plan? How so? Putin has ZERO chance of being like Stalin. It's taken him 3 years of stalemate WWI style trench warfare and he still hasn't taken over 1 small country. And he's gonna conquer all of Europe?. He attacks a NATO country and he's dead and he knows it. I really don't think your comparison is accurate.

I will give President Biden this. He is a snazzy dresser. And Justice Brown gave one of my favorite Supreme Court Justice confirmation answers. Q: What is a woman? Justice Brown's Answer: I can't say because I'm not a biologist. LOL 😀 Why isn't picking VP Harris on the list? Is an inflation reduction act that pumps more billions into the economy some kind of a joke? We're closing in on 3 years of the Ukraine war. Sure he got us in it. Will he ever get us out? Doubtful.

Rangers also don't have a dumb home run celebration like a lot of the teams. They also don't do a happy dance when winning. It's expected. Rangers are just about baseball and winning.

You hitting the road for Portugal? Anyhow, I'm going with this version.

And now for something completely different. I just discovered Grace a couple weeks ago.

Today is Jeff Beck's birthday. In his honor with Vinnie on drums and Tal on bass and some rhythm guitar player:

Are you sure? Canada has a restrictive immigration system. You can check here if they'll take you. https://www.canadavisa.com/express-entry.html Maybe try Portugal?

Be careful what you ask for.

Thanks for saving the planet Just Stop Oil.

BS. I was born in Texas and lived there 40+ years. I never once heard anyone that lives there say slavery or the civil war is their "regional identity". Sure, horrible history happened there and the people I knew certainly aren't proud of it. I always viewed the south's identity to be music. Rock, blues, Jazz, and c&w all started there and is the birthplace of many great musicians. Like the Charlie Daniels song lyrics.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the marketing person that came up with "cheap fakes" is the same one that came up with "Putin's price hike."

They're playing hard ball.

I watched your video. In no way does it support a deep fake as you assert. They are zoomed out when the hand grab occurs. You gotta watch for it but at :35 I could see it. With goggles on your vision may vary. Not sure where that photograph came from. Who's to say that not a deep fake put out to accuse someone else of a deep fake? Nothing in politics surprises me. I think Barack knew what he was doing. Look how he winks at somebody right before he makes the grab. Never underestimate Joe's ability to ***** things up someone once said.

The one with 4 Viet Nam deferments.