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  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gaetz will be the next AG, if there was a shred of truth to the much repeated allegations, Biden's DOJ would have him wrapped up.

    A little dirt never hurt
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think he withdrew today.

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,389 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dirtdude said:
    Gaetz will be the next AG, if there was a shred of truth to the much repeated allegations, Biden's DOJ would have him wrapped up.

    My disagree. Every prosecutor in history makes prosecution decisions based on what they can prove, not based on what is true. Since he paid them hush money, they were never going to convict.

    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,396 ✭✭✭✭✭

    FYI….

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    I think he withdrew today.

    Ha, my wife told me that this morning but even CNN didn't have the news yet. Don't even want to hear I should listen to my wife.

    A little dirt never hurt
  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Next man up...Jeff Clark

    A little dirt never hurt
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2024

    Oh, meant to post this paper in the what are you reading thread although it is also useful when looking at politics, manipulation styles, and bias.

    Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics
    by Daniel Kahneman

    https://kahneman.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3831/files/kahneman/files/maps_bounded_rationality_dk_2003.pdf

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  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't think Kash Patel can turn the J. Edgar Hoover building into a museum. From what I've read the building is "crumbling", that's why we have budgeted over a trillion dollars for a new office.

    A little dirt never hurt
  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Knew that was gonna happen eventually. Almost as soon as he became a lame duck.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dirtdude said:
    I don't think Kash Patel can turn the J. Edgar Hoover building into a museum. From what I've read the building is "crumbling", that's why we have budgeted over a trillion dollars for a new office.

    They can move into the Dept. Of Education's buildings, reduce the debt by a trillion, as the money is already allocated I think.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks like things are going to get messy in the next couple of years:

    German Government Collapses at a Perilous Time for Europe
    Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote, deepening the political turbulence in one of the continent’s most powerful economies.

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I generally enjoy this fella's take on things - he's fairly balanced. This recent video delves into and explains a few of Germany's biggest challenges.
    https://youtu.be/mrFBvqRiKms?si=GAfeRZ3M2xwPnZ36

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,396 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    I generally enjoy this fella's take on things - he's fairly balanced. This recent video delves into and explains a few of Germany's biggest challenges.
    https://youtu.be/mrFBvqRiKms?si=GAfeRZ3M2xwPnZ36

    Love this guy with the same name.

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Problem now is an anti-immigrant faction ascending while available labor is shrinking. People aren't too bright, even Germans.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Have you seen the immigration crisis going on in Europe? Muslims are flooding in and demanding sharia law, committing lots of crimes, from what I've seen. Makes Haitians eating cats look good.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 9,970 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Have you seen the immigration crisis going on in Europe? Muslims are flooding in and demanding sharia law, committing lots of crimes, from what I've seen. Makes Haitians eating cats look good.

    One is true, the other is not.

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 9,970 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2024

    Bro. That might be the most right leaning X account next to The Republican Party. Also, I don't want facts to get in the way of a good bedtime story...

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy890gpqw1po.amp

    3 December 2024
    An American woman whose case was one of the sparks behind a baseless claims about Haitian immigrants has been sentenced to a year in prison for animal cruelty.
    Authorities said that Allexis Ferrell, 27, attacked a cat in Canton, Ohio.
    Ferrell is a US citizen and the incident happened about 170 miles (270km) away from a large Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio.
    Her case was one of several incidents cited online, which fed into rumours about immigrant eating pets. The stories were eventually repeated by President-elect Donald Trump and his vice-presidential running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.

    https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/10/canton-woman-accused-of-eating-cat-not-haitian-from-springfield-ohio/75157976007/

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/haitian-immigrant-pet-eating-row-ohio-woman-accused-of-eating-cat-is-us-citizen-video-is-from-canton-not-springfield/amp_articleshow/113320756.cms

    https://fullfact.org/us/haitian-immigrant-springfield-ohio-cat-claim-false/

  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 8,969 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wouldn't know. I just searched for Haitians eating animals and the one I was looking for popped up. You're welcome.

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 9,970 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CharlieHeis said:
    I wouldn't know. I just searched for Haitians eating animals and the one I was looking for popped up. You're welcome.

    I found a couple sites listed above that might be relevant.

  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 8,969 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ah so it was a US citizen from Ohio killing and eating a cat.
    OH...

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,389 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CharlieHeis said:
    Ah so it was a US citizen from Ohio killing and eating a cat.
    OH...

    I-O!

    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hakeem Jeffries elucidates the Democratic plan to thwart the Trump agenda. It includes flatulence.

    https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1875273293814755391

    (how to embed a video??)

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was watching his speech when he let this one out, and was wondering if anybody caught it.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "The Democrats are all 'giddy' about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at 'half mast' during my Inauguration," Trump said, employing a term frequently used for the lowered position when the flag is on a ship.
    "They think it’s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our Country, they only think about themselves," Trump said.