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Here is my take. I'm middle/upper, closer to middle class even though I have never felt like it. Within reason, I buy what I want, when I want, and manage to contribute to 401K and still have money to put in accessible savings. FYI, I bring my lunch to work daily and do not eat out often. I think we are spoiled as a country. I grew up never wanting for nothing. We did not eat out every night, my Mom cooked every day, We also didn't eat steak, it was mostly rice and gravy (round steak-cheap), chicken and pork chops....all cheap. I was blessed that my father shrimped on the weekends, so after he paid for his fuel selling shrimp, we got the extra. I actually got tired of shrimp and crabs.....which I would of thought was impossible. While prices are higher, Pork chops and chicken are still cheap enough, along with beans and rice, you can feed a family very reasonably. The problem is, we have been brain washed that everyone is equal and that is simply not true. A perfect example is years ago when I was single, I hung out with a Doctor and attorney who were also single.....After a couple months of living their lifestyle, looking at my bank account, we were NOT equal.....I could not afford to do what they did. A very expensive lesson in economics...not everyone us equal. As far as the Epstein files, only a very small percent of people care anymore, and majority are Trump haters hoping there is something that will make him look bad. I am 100% convinced that Biden admin would of added that to all the other tings they accused him of during the Biden term. The victims have stated they never seen Trump do anything inappropriate and he never went to Island. So, we can keep talking about it, but it will not change anything - Trump is still a powerhouse politically....

This one is indefensible, which is why nobody is commenting in here. It's highly unlikely he watched the whole video before reposting it, but that's irrelevant. If you're the president of the United States you better check what you post before you hit send. If I'd posted the same video last night I would've been fired before I made it into work this morning.

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Any black person who voted for Obama practiced racism. They voted for him because he looked like them. They thought he understood their needs better than someone who didn’t look like them. They were wrong. He actually had very little in common as a shared life experience with any of them. They thought he had the same characteristics as them because he looked like them. They assigned him traits because of the color of his skin that he didn’t possess. This is the very definition of racism. Period.

So did the trade deficit, the national debt, layoffs, and the price of groceries. You’re not seeing a growth in value of the stocks, what you’re seeing is a devaluation of the dollar. The t-bones I bought for 3.99 a pound four years ago are on sale for 9.99 per pound this weekend at Brookshire brothers. It won’t matter if you got a million dollars in your retirement account if one day a new pickup truck costs a hundred thousand dollars thanks to tariffs. Oh, wait….

After this year, we don’t care who wins.

I just want to see wealthy and unwealthy pedo’s go to prison.

North Shore picked up Lancaster for Week 1

Hypothetically, what 30 people said Trump had sex with underage women? The actual Epstein victims that have a list they won't release (but could and it would NOT violate their NDA) have said they never seen or heard of Trump acting inappropriate. I think I know 2 of the 30, and it would be Cardinalbacker and TheMissingBand.....actually, I could add a few more from here that claim it to be true without any proof what so ever......

Same. Except I use the Capital One (1.5% back) strictly for all regular recurring bills like utilities, insurance, prescriptions, etc. I use the one from the Credit Union for incidentals. I write one check a month still because I just can’t get myself to trust the City for the water bill, and they want direct bank access. Everything is paid off every month.

I agree. Really haven't been challenged since December. But there is another thing that concerns me with this Orangefield team and what could derail them. It's some of the players attitudes and behaviors on the court (and in some cases off the court). A few of the players have had to miss games or half games due to discipline being it on or off the court incidents. That has to get better. In the playoffs, that can be a deciding factor if a player or two is ejected or has to miss a game or half a game. That cannot happen. I will say it's better than the season before when OF led the area in technical fouls (that info came from the local officiating chapter). This team has the talent and ability to make it to SA as long as they don't get in their own way.

Some things have leveled off or in a few cases the price has come down (gas) but for the most part, it still sucks. My wife reminds me of the fact every time we go grocery shopping. She grabs a product and states "you know what this used to cost 3 years ago?". I always reply with "I have no idea, never looked at the prices, just grab what I needed or wanted". Makes her even more mad. lol Needless to say, my wife buys off brand products now days. That used to not be the case.

I read an article about a year ago but can’t remember where from but it said $100,000 of goods and services in 2020 would cost you $125,000 in 2024 for the same goods and services. I don’t know about you but if I took a $25,000 hit a year to buy the same goods and services and you didn’t get much of a raise over that period of time most people are going to feel smothered. Just saying.

Let me rephrase that “hurt the party” Of course I am not a party person. Both political parties take turn robbing the taxpayer. Then sometimes they do it together. One party is trying to drive us over the cliff in a Bugatti and the other in a Yugo. 40 trillion in debt is a National Security issue and none of them care it seems like. I think he’s done some good things but I am disappointed that a replacement plan for Obamacare was not already to go when he took office and voter integrity/voter id plan. The cost of Health Insurance and Food is smothering the middle class. Trump likes to think the Epstein Files are all about him and that can’t be further from the truth. Child trafficking is a huge problem in this country. Like I said the whole situation has been handled horribly.

In the realignment, districts draw their schedules out. It's not done individually between each school but by district committee. Sometimes schools can negotiate the home and home after the order is set.

The man wearing the MAGA hat should have stayed in his truck. But, that’s another issue. He had as much right to his free speech as the kids. The 10 or 15 kids that jumped him while it looked like he was trying to retrieve his hat were assaulting—not protecting—as some of the parents were saying as a means to justify their actions. Great parenting. Teaching your kid it’s okay to resort to violence when someone questions your actions, and then congratulate them for it when they were supposed to be in school anyway. I did get a kick out of the video from Minnesota. Walz welcomed students to the Capital to protest, and they wound up fighting and destroying property while they were there. Imagine that. I think it beat out the drunk teen in Kyle, TX protesting and arrested, and the Atlanta kids destroying laptops and such by a nose.

It has me listed as a "stressed sideliner". Along with yourself, I'd be a libertarian if there was any traction with that movement, but I do more than just lean right when voting. 15 years ago I'd vote either party depending on the candidate, but these days I don't ever vote left in state or national elections.

The 14 States that don't require voter ID: California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon In addition, Washington, D.C. doesn't require voter ID. I see a pattern...

My question was pretty simple. They have the victim list…..it would be pretty easy 🤷🏻‍♂️

Here you go, since you’re apparently too lazy to verify. Couldn’t find it on CNN or MSNBC so that’s probably why you weren’t aware. [Hidden Content]

Still don’t hear nothing but crickets on the challenge. Show me documented evidence that illegals voting has impacted any race anywhere any time. You can’t. Because it doesn’t exist. One of the great red herrings of all time.

We'll never know because they came up 3 points short. Based on how they blew out Lone Star, I'd say yes in possibility a shootout

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The white people who hate blacks and browns aren’t voting Democrat anymore. That’s a fact. Just like the black people who blame white privilege, systemic racism, and demand reparations aren’t voting Republican, either. Does anybody dispute those two assertions? Everybody has their own reasons for voting for whoever they want to. That doesn’t make them a racist. When they vote for racist reasons (the race of the candidate, etc…) that’s a racist act. Which leads me to the Republican Party today. They need the racists. They court the racists. I was at a local town hall this week for Republican candidates. The candidates honed in on attacking illegal immigrants and Muslims to the cheers of the older, exclusively white crowd. They still bring up Barack HUSSEIN Obama as if he’s relevant anymore. Those are facts. Not everybody who voted for Trump is a racist. That’s a fact. But all of the white racists voted for Trump… that’s a fact, also, in my opinion. And when Trump does racist things to please the racist segments of his coalition (like posting the Obamas as apes, then refusing to apologize) people who consider themselves to be non-racist are notably silent, or even defensive of the overly racist actions of the President. Instead of complaining “he called me racist,” you should be asking yourself “why do I condone racism, and does that make me a racist, too?”

I gave it 2 days in the news cycle. Generous.

Actually has them currently 4th by themselves at 5-6. Warren is at 4-7 and Anahuac and Kirbyville are 3-8. Kountze still has to play East Chambers, Warren and Orangefield. Warren has Buna, Kountze and Hardin. Kirbyville has Hardin, Anahuac and Buna. Anahuac has Orangefield, Kirbyville and East Chambers. Needless to say, that Warren at Kountze game next Friday will be BIG!!

Nope. The people who promised to repeal and replace it, then didn’t are the new owners. [Hidden Content]

It’s so funny… it was intentional. Trump did it because he sees the polls and knows he needs to somehow motivate the racists in his MAGA base. Maybe they’re a little bummed because they haven’t seen the relief from high prices that Trump promised. Maybe they’re a little disillusioned by sissy-fied stream of lawsuits Trump keeps filing. Maybe there’s a small part of their pig-brains that thinks “maybe we shouldn’t be tearing down Washington, D.C. and rebuilding it with gold-leaf covered Trump branding when we’re kinda sorta struggling to make ends meet.” There’s no better way to get those people back on the bandwagon than lobbing a racist attack on the person that they hate the most, Obama. And here’s why I say so… The very least Trump should do is apologize and terminate the “staffer” who posted the meme. But he won’t, because he can’t…. that would infuriate his base- the racists.

Yeah congratulations on the district win this year. I'm just saying if he knows Silsbee than he should know whats coming this was the year to beat Silsbee.

Shovel ready jobs and you can keep your doctor. Promises kept, smh.

Big Time - Obama will always own healthcare and the huge screw up

So when inflation was 9% you were good, but now you need Dollar Tree? you just started....lol

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They’re not Trump. They’re not Trump. They’re not Trump. They’re not Trump. Ad nauseum… Thought I’d save her the time. 😁

I did the math and I am choosing to draw at 62. If I waited till I am 67 to draw full benefits, it would take me to I am 82 to make up that difference. I am probably dead before then.

Huntington canceled week 5 vs Hardin. Crockett has been picked up in their place

That’s exactly what we do, all gas and groceries on the card for rewards. Works now that we’re older and more disciplined, when I was younger, not so much, lol.

You seem to be a perfect candidate for a rewards card. My brother travels a lot with his 3/4 ton truck and travel trailer. He uses a rewards CC to get 4% cash back on diesel purchases. He pays it off every month. The 4% is good for up to $8000 per year in purchases. So in diesel alone, if he spends 8K a year, he gets $320 credit to his card per year. It has lower percent's for other categories. That sounded like an advertisement but it's not....lol When my Father started forgetting to pay bills, I stepped in and had all of his bills auto-charged to his Discover credit card. I then set up his Discover to be auto-deducted from his checking account. The only thing I had to do was review the CC statement to make sure all was correct. I believe he received about $500 back a year in credit card rewards.... If you do it that way, the credit card pays you to use it. The only down fall is it is VERY easy to spend more than you make.

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We are similar. But, my identity was stolen from a DoD breach. Since I don't take out loans, and I only keep 2 cards (I use them for autopayment of bills where I can dispute & get cash back) it took me until I received collection notices to know I'd been had. I checked my credit reports yearly, and receive immediate notices for every charge on my cards via Capital One & my Credit Union. It didn't matter. The DoD breach affected millions of veterans, and included all the identifiers--and more--than even in this misuse of data. I should have titled the thread differently I guess, because this is a much bigger disclosure than just your SSN. If you don't use credit regularly--or at all--so you think yourself safe, I'd actually say you're probably the most at risk because you wouldn't normally think it's a big deal and shouldn't involve you. I thought the same. A freeze can be lifted in a matter of hours. Not days. I actually tested it when I first set ours up. It was unfrozen in less than an hour online. It's one of the few proactive things you can do to help protect yourself, and it's free. Anyway, each to their own. I posted for information purposes only. The article is from Dow Jones, Inc. and Morningstar. Can't impeach the sources.

I will not do a freeze as well. As for loans, I haven't needed one in 18 years. I buy my vehicles outright. Haven't had a car note in 15 years. Only note I have is my beach cabin which we purchased 25 years ago. Got two years left before it's paid off. Own my home in Silsbee, two vehicles, golf cart and trailer. I am very blessed. My apologies to you @thetragichippy and other bankers for not bringing you any business. lol

Grew up poor as the dirt on the farm I grew up on. My folks' most used answer was, "We'll see." Obviously, I grew up to learn that was a nice way of saying NO. I've shopped at Aldi for years, and use every coupon--digital or otherwise--I can find anywhere else. On the rare occasions we eat out, it's at a place where they've emailed us a deal, or they have some type discount advertised. I guess it's ingrained in me. Not a bad lesson to have been taught. Used to joke I was Dave Ramsey before he became famous. lol

I consider myself very upper middle class (wife and I are retired) and we feel the strain of grocery and health insurance. Anyone calling themselves middle class and stating the economy doesn't effect them is not being realistic.

I agree. What I find odd is Trump will meet with some of the worse evil leaders in the world Putin, Xi, Kim Jung Un, etc but he want meet with the Epstein survivors slash victims. Usually Trump will meet with anyone and take on the hard problem that pertains to the situation but not in the Epstein situation. He could shut all the talk down by meeting with the survivors and telling them his DOJ will go after the perpetrators that committed crimes against them as it pertains to the Epstein Saga. I am a Trump policy supporter but he has handled this situation horribly and it doesn’t look good on him in my opinion. I am not saying he’s guilty of anything but if he is he’s got to answer for it. This was not a hoax. There were lots of victims. This clip is an example. I don’t care for Kaitlyn Collins of NBC but she’s asking a legitimate question about justice for the survivors. I don’t think he embarrassed her, I think he made himself look like a callous fool. I don’t think it’s cool to be smiling when you’re asking about sexual survivors of Epstein’s Ring he was running.

This is you, right?? You can't have it both ways....

Looks like BC is picking cupcakes for non-district again

Crossing the U.S. border without authorization has been a federal crime for over 97 years, since the passage of the Immigration Act of March 4, 1929. There has been 17 Presidents since 1929 that could have changed the law but they have not. Comparing Trump and Republicans to Nazi's is disgusting and a completely false narrative.....all it does is promote violence.

It goes way further back than that. When you go back to the Nixon years, you had Rs who told Nixon “we’re going to vote to convict… you need to resign.” Somewhere in the 90s is when things really started to get more adversarial, and we no longer hold “our” guys accountable. From the Whitewater investigation that turned into Clinton being impeached for lying about honking his intern… it’s just been getting worse. The “Lil Bushie” cartoon when we were in the gulf war. The racist attacks on Obama, combined with his opinions/views/policies on race that only widened racial gaps. I can remember being astounded in ‘15 when Trump came out in the first debate hammering everybody on stage-it was comedy gold and we’d never seen anything like it on the presidential stage before. But now that angry, attack, lie, defame strategy is found at every level of government. Is he to blame? Nah, he was just the first to one to do it… we’re to blame for accepting it. And here’s the thing… I correct my own kids, not anybody else’s. I’m a conservative, Christian, Texan, American. I used to say Republican, but when I see what republicans support today, I can’t claim to be one of them. And MAGA is a horrible political movement that has hijacked, then destroyed the Republican/conservative movement for decades to come, I’m afraid. Ted Cruz used to be considered the most raging conservative prick. Even Republicans had a hard time dealing with him because he was too rigidly right wing. Today he’s “Lyin’ Ted,” a no-good RINO who needs to be taken out by “We The People.” And it’s not because his views have changed, he just wasn’t MAGA enough for MAGA. Same with John Cornyn. At once thought to be the third most conservative member of the US Senate, he’s now facing a defeat by “Our General” Ken Paxton, the corrupt Texas Attorney General who is loved for being one of Trump’s biggest attack dogs, in spite of everything he’s done. Greg Abbott? MAGA hates him now. With MAGA, it doesn’t matter what crimes you commit, as long as you’re loyal to Trump, you’ll have the support of the voters. But you’re right… I’m definitely more vocal when I see “my” side screwing up-because I expect my side to do right, regardless of what the other side is doing. Weak men, when faced with their own shortcomings, will say “yeah, but look what everybody else was doing, too.”