JoeWeber
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In the meantime conservatives could help by not eating cantaloupes or getting their homes re-roofed to help ease the pressure for more migrant labor.
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How about not living the one life you can be certain you have in gleeful anticipation of an apocalypse or reasonable facsimile thereof? You or Ron, in fact no one, has any track record or factual standard to believe what you apparently believe. No matter, waste your one life if it pleases you so much. While you are assembling your network of cave habitats in fear of unfounded concerns, I'll be traveling the world, seeing new things, meeting new people and just trying to enjoy my life. You're still alive, man, it's not too late to shake off what limits you.
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The Roe decision was leaked two months ago. A weak kneed executive order after the decision is published isn't leadership. A hell of a lot more screaming and hollering could happen after any of the near daily gun massacres. He could with a command be on TV decrying oil company price gouging, food producer price gouging, health care price gouging, you name your flavor du jour it doesn't matter the idea is to get out there displaying leadership. He isn't doing it. Yes he's doing a lot of good elsewhere and yes he saved us from Trump 2.0. But he's not measuring up now and now it's time to look ahead to who we want to run in 2024.
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That's the key point: who get's to be the leader? Will Ron get to be the leader of his faction on his plot way up in the woods? Will there be a vote? Will the vote be by ballot or bullet? So little time, so many fantasies.
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Indeed, I am all a giggle and agog just waiting for fetal personhood laws to start gumming up the works. Will any refund based on the extra deduction need to be returned, and with interest, in the sad event of a miscarriage? Surely society can afford pregnancy tests to confirm the HOV lanes aren't being crowded by scofflaws. Will everyone qualify for Social Security a year earlier? With no more birthdates will we now all have a legal date of conception? As long as the world has gone insane we might as well all join in lest we miss out on the fun, I'm thinking.
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It was a simple statement of belief. I invest in Arkk funds, one of which invests in crypto exchanges, so I follow Wood's thinking a bit. It occurred to me, a bit too late apparently, that her thinking on crypto was her belief that others would buy in out of necessity, that is to say out of belief, not as a value proposition. That's not to say crypto isn't tradable, it is, it simply lacks any inherent value and seems very open to disruption.
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On reflection, and after additional consideration, I remain convinced it's an investment vehicle tailor made for believers in alternate realities. Some will win but most will lose, I believe. Cathie Woods, of the Arkk family of funds, opined that Bitcoin would go to half a million per if managers decided they needed exposure. So far, not so good.
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Well it won't be to assist in his own prosecution, that's certain. All that's left is mischief.
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I think his latest update was 2050.
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Great information. So, whilst we're whiling away SHTF here, in what used to be America, what ever do you suppose will going on elsewhere in the world outside of North Georgia? Are you thinking that our Chinese and Russian friends will simply be sitting back and cheering on our latest attempt at self determination?
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I'm curious, are you pointing out that it's not quite universal yet or are you amongst the appalled?
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Come on, Bill, that's not the place to look; that's a misdirection foisted on you by the conservatives who want a national ban and national laws that criminalize, not just humiliate, women who need abortions and cross state lines. Do you honestly believe a Trump or DeSantis or any other base pandering Republican President would use executive powers to help pregnant women and girls? The Supreme Court is far from done. Do you think the idea just popped into their minds without their conviction it came by way of divine inspiration? Do you think that they don't each believe the decision is in full conformance with their own interpretations of their holy books? There is no rationality here; this is not borne of political partisanship: we are being ruled now by the parties of god.
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Tell him do as I say not as I do?
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Close. The number is six, I'd say.
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If she did knowingly bring it in, or even if she didn't scour her kit to make certain she wasn't carrying into an authoritarian country where it's illegal, tough shit. I remember back to World Team Russia when someone who had never traveled internationally asked if he could travel with me to learn the ropes. I knew he tooted and extracted a no confusion promise not to carry on the trip because I knew the penalties. We went through Prague for a few days and then on to Moscow. It was there I learned he carried the whole way. That was it for me with him forever. If you travel internationally with dope that is illegal where you are going you put yourself and others at risk. Don't do it and don't whine when you get caught.
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Bollocks. My 'ol man took the belt to me 2 or 3 times a month and I turned out perfect.
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I just hope the subject gets enough attention that we can start talking reparations.
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I knew it. I'll bet the little bastard was woke, too. You should have cuffed him.
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It depends. Was he a liberal or conservative kid?
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Cheer up, cousins, you still have the Windsors.
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That's the thing in a nutshell. I honestly believe that garden variety conservative minds are willfully oblivious to what is happening and what is certainly going to happen.
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The solution isn't simple but it is obvious. As a society, we need to ban all assault style weapons and make possession subject to very serious penalties because we need to stop fabulizing their ownership. We need to stop local school control, because the boards are too often foolish and misdirected, and create a national standards system paid for with national tax dollars. We need to provide lunches, basic medical care and psychological care at every school. Teachers need to be paid more and held to high standards and accountability. That means the unions need to give something. Summers off for 3 months must end and school uniforms should be on the table. Child care needs to be a national priority. But mostly we need to quit believing we are teaching parents and go full focus on taking care of kids. Not just by educating them but by helping them to be well adjusted and ready to enter adulthood and society. Until we do that we should expect nothing less than we now expect every day.
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You should join Cirque du Soleil, your side step is exceptional.
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Thanks. I am reconsidering my view. Certainly, my real understanding is lacking.
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You brought what actually to the conversation other than vague references to "some (people) are saying"? That's bringing nothing. And "it would have been nice if the SC had left it alone" is contextually a vacant statement. Jeez, Bill, the avoidance of upending, criminalizing, diminishing and destroying peoples futures while at the same time accepting that the decision will kill mothers isn't just nice. The decision is a horror show. And yes, it does make me angry.
