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I am not predicting that she would. I was only speculating that hearing from her would be the only way to get some information on how she feels about him. I wrote that in response to the speculation that she may harbor a powerful dislike for the man. The initial speculation was not mine.

Given the age disparity between the President and his current wife (#3 is it) she will have plenty of time to write a tell all memior after he passes. Guaranteed she will have many lucrative offers. Whether she accepts one given the passions of some Trump supporters who can say? I believe she would have to put her profits into security if she wrote anything negative. If she wrote only superlatives it would not be a best seller nor would I, personally, believe her. If she dished scandal and disdain it would be a best seller, but oh the consequences.

Literally!

A pound of coke.

I do agree that the haphazard, ill-thought out, and eradic manner in which this tariff rollout has been conducted is damaging to our world standing. As is always the case with Trump even when I agree with his goals I disagree with his methods and I do not always agree with his goals, which is why some right leaning posters here consider me a leftist worthy of criticism while several left leaning posters consider me far right. The nice thing is few consider me an ideologue.

Few statement amuse me more than when you challenge my logic. Inciudentally, I did not address you in my post, though it is fine with me if you took it as though I was, I love the intensive modifier of "existential" Progressive use it the same way young girls do on tic tok when they say :"literally". They have no idea waht it means, but they believe it imparts gravitas to their statements.

The term Existential Threat is interesting, especially when applied to Trump given there is an opposing party only narrowly out of power (just a handful of congress and senate seats away) and Courts which are constently checking his actions. How he is a very threat to the contibnuance of democracy eludes me. He was freely elected in the face of the opposing party attempting to jail him when he was out of power and to keep him off of the ballot. His administration is in Court everyday where his powers, policies, and authority are called into evaluation by our system of checks and balances. Democracy strikes me as remaining more or less robust. If one truly believes him to be an existential threat to that which we hold dear ought one not take drastic action to prevent our demise? Note- drastic action would amount to more than being a keyboard blowhard on a message board?

Would not be a bad retirement gig. With two weeks off that is $25,000 per year, presumably tax free. How can I get signed up? I am presuming this is mostly a weekend job, only.

Or just manually cycle the slide. Without the round being fired the cartridge only contains the extractor tool mark, not any comprerssion markings or firing pin irregularity markings. While extractor markings can be somewaht uniquepart of the force of that marking comes from the recoil ernergy of the gun being fired.

I have sort of forgiven the Saints for stealing away Jimmy Taylor and Paul Hornung from the Packers. They were basically cooked by then anyhow, and Taylor was just going home, but it cheesed me off at the time.

I would rather neither. My resolution was to read to my own children and grandchildren, including Dr. Suess who has come into some recent disfavor. So too my wife and my progenies' Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles. My children also read to each other and took joy in reading to us parents. We had no need for charlatan preachers or drag queens. An aside- Nature loves wide variety, wide diversity, but according to some fundamentalist preachers, God, the creator of nature, does not. Strange. If one can conclude anything about the nature of God from the study of nature it is that God has an inordinat fondness for beetles. -J.B.S. Haldane

I've seen that movie. It doesn't end well for society but Charelston Heston does get Linda Harrison, so he did all right.

Firing the vice president, a constitutionally recognized office, a person elected by the electoral college?

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I appreciate you don't accept that a massive trade disparity is a net loss for our country. You seem to believe that wealth flowing out of our country is a good thing. I maintain that funding the rise of our biggest global competitor, a self-avowed enemy, one many are predicting a proxy war with, and one who has stated their goal is to replace us as the world's economic superpower is a bad thing for our country. We have literally built up and funded our competitor/enemy. The hope back in Nixon's time was that by engaging China we would open up massive markets for our goods and we would bring them into the world economic fold creating interdependence and enhancing peace. For a brief time it seemed to be working, China, however, retrenched in its own unique system. It has rejected mutual benefit seeking instead world domination. Our trade practices, our endless desire for cheap goods we throw away with a country which steals our tech, our intellectual property, a country which uses slave and child labor to produce those goods, a country which ignores all environmental concerns and which props up regimes antagonistic to us while engaging in an arms race with us is funding our own demise. It might be one thing to have a trade deficit, but one of this scale, based on unfair practices under international law and norms is not a positive. I suggest that instead of looking for articles which echo your preconcieved opinion that you consider the matter afresh, but you do you.

Math belies your feelings on the matter. None of what i have written is an endorsement of Trump's methods in this matter which I find provocative, even dangerous.

I believe they went further than that. I believe the argument was taht he was guilty of inciting a dqangerous environment for Jewish U.S. citizens. As to whether his comments and actions arouse to some sort of actionable incitement under the criminal law i would probacbly argue otherrwise, but that was the argument. Whether one on a student Visa gets the protections of criminal due process, or whether this should be a civil standard, or an administyrative determination is interesting. I note that even administrtive determinations are subject to appeal and revfiew. Me, I go pretty far on free speech. I find him objectionable but not actionable. i think my thoughts on this are outside what the Courts have ruled and will continue to rule given the current social and plitical environment.

Maybe it flouride in the water. RFK Jr. is on the case.

When you give me $5 and i give you $2 back you have not profitted $2, you have lost three, that's math. Same thing here. the U.S. has not profitted. The U.S. has lost. Some segments of the U.S. have profitted, but our country as a whole has not. Now, add in the interest payments on our debt, much of which China holds and see if you can now draw the correct inference.

If you had devoted years of your earning life to creating and patenting a product or a process and China stole it and was now manufacturing it with Uigher labor and undercutting you, putting you out of business, you would think otherwise.

A respected mentor, of sorts, once told me that Government is so inept it cannot conspire to do lunch. I have found that to be true.

Whether pissed off or simply following a one hundred year plan China has looked to fock us at every opportunity. They pirate tech and intellectual property, they incessantly spy on us and infiltrate our infrastucture computer systems. They flood markets and dump products made with slave and child labor as they manipulate currency. When nixon went to China we envisioned a market opening to our goods. Waht we got is our market open to their goods and their investigation of our markets so they could rip them off. Do i want trump trying to get into a measuring contest with Xi? I do not. Stormy Daniels has alreaady told us the result of that contest. I do not want us to aggrevate the world's new superpower. I would prefer we engatgge in dialog. Sadly, China always engages in dialog, but then they do whatever they damn well please following their hundred year plan. They apprecaite that the winds of change are always blowing in america. they simply weather any storms.

I was not put in power. Wait.... nevermind. I never wrote that.

Men have been playng with bqalls all their lives.