TheMissingBand

We spent way more than that already today.

In the early 1990s, the world stood with us when we liberated Kuwait from Iraq’s aggression. Should we have finished the job and toppled Saddam Hussein at the same time? It’s a good question, and we ended up back over there ten years later to wrap it up. This time, there’s no Kuwait to liberate, it’s just us and Israel hopping on Iran, and the president can’t even get the support of the US Congress, much less the rest of the world. Considering what Trump just did in Venezuela (kidnapping their leader and pillaging their resources), it begs the question…. Who is Trump going to attack next?

If you forget the facts before gushing your love for anything Trump related, that’s okay. Those are simple questions. For which the answers are uncomfortable for you. It’s okay.

Are you talking about the kickbacks that Trump sent Rudy to collect? if the war wouldn’t have started under Trump, why is he impotent when in comes to stopping it?

Somebody help me understand my we sit back and watch Ukraine get destroyed by Trump’s buddy Putin, but preemptively attack Iran so they can’t hurt anybody in the future. I like the way that Rs are cool with a President having unilateral authority to topple regimes anywhere he wants without even consulting Congress. Anybody want to guess how many billions of dollars worth of munitions were spent today? How many trillions of dollars this war in Iran is going to cost? And the sad part is what will happen next. We just removed a bad guy so that the next bad guys can swoop in and take over. If we don’t have another “caliphate” in Iran in two years, I’ll be shocked.

Does this mean that he’s only ended seven wars now?

Just riding in the truck this morning listening to the Drive-By Truckers cover of “Mama Bake a Pie” and waiting for the photos of flag draped coffins to start trickling in.

Well, according to you he’s a sorry lawyer that doesn’t even know about attorney/client privilege. Which makes you wonder why in the world someone dumb enough to hire him is now advising Trump.

I’m going say for the record that I suspect the attorney is going to be like “she wasn’t my client” and there will be no evidence provided by Wiles to substantiate their attorney/client relationship… just the fact that he’s an attorney. He wouldn’t put his license in jeopardy over something so obviously wrong, I strongly suspect.

Same, brother…. 16 years and nary a warning.

Do you have a source? This looks like a cut/paste from a blogger or something. The news reports that I’ve found don’t have nearly the detail that your blogger gives. The one linked on drudge just say that Patel claims the FBI subpoenaed his records “using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight.” But there’s nothing illegal about subpoenaing someone’s phone records if that person is a subject in the investigation. Both he and Wiles were private citizens at the time of the alleged crime, not in their current roles as Trump’s SS troopers.

You have to admit that it’s a little bit comical that you guys are on one thread crying that Boykin wasn’t investigated “because he’s part of the good ol’ boys club,” while starting a different thread that talks about how FBI agents should lose their jobs for daring to investigate someone who is a member of the good ol’ boys club.

You guys don’t understand how the legal system is supposed to work. When someone claims that an illegal act has occurred, it’s the job of law enforcement to investigate that accusation. I don’t remember anybody going on trial for their dealing with Russia… as in, the investigation yielded no conclusive evidence. The system worked. The argument now is that investigating the claim is a fireable offense. A LEO should not examine the evidence or look into the clues. He/she should instead look into the political background of the accused and use their political leanings to determine guilt or innocence. Attorney General gets accused of impropriety? Even allowing the investigation to move forward is the act of a traitor, in Texas anyways. Not every allegation is true, but neither is every allegation false. They should be looked into, and prosecuted when the evidence warrants a prosecution. Should we imprison police officers for investigating a crime because the trial didn’t result in a conviction? Or just fire them? What if the investigation didn’t lead to a single arrest? The cops should be disciplined? That what the right believes.

It’s a sad day for America when doing your job gets you fired once a new leader takes office. Their job is to investigate crimes… they shouldn’t be punished for doing so. Maybe that’s y’all’s opinion. Trump should fire everyone who investigated reports of wrongdoing, even though refusing to investigate would have lead their firing. This is another reason why partisan hacks shouldn’t be in the ranks, much less leading, these types of organizations. Instead we reward partisan hacks with leadership positions in these very organizations. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised when the next admin fires everybody who looked into Biden and hires Antifa/blm members as FBI special agents. Instead of having young men/women who typically served in the military, then developed skills that lead to a success career as an experienced agent, we can just fire everybody and hire a bunch of new zealots every 4 years. That’s dumber than DEI.

It doesn’t matter… if he’d been born a Trump instead of a Boykin, everybody would be busy blaming the victims, like they always do. My suspicion is that this young man has good counsel, and the first thing that they do is stall. It’s going to be interesting to see if a jury will eventually do anything or if he takes a plea deal. My understanding is that the DA and Judge that handles criminal cases in Hardin County are both set to retire at the end of ‘28… if that’s true, I doubt that there will be a big rush from the state or the bench to push this one to trial on their way out. edit… I just checked the inmate roster in Jeffco and he’s no longer a guest in their jail-I thought he was being held without bond down there, but I guess not.

Yeah… wild exaggeration and whole lies. I’ve lost track of how many people have been disruptive. I can remember a few years ago when the Republican rep yelled “you lie” at Obama. Since then it’s just been one escalation after another. MTG wearing her MAGA hat during the 24 presidential race, Justice Alito disagreeing with Obama, Pelosi ripping up Trump’s speech and democrats protesting during trumps speech last year and again this year. I just don’t see how we avoid violence.

I think my biggest problem is with him, but a close second is with people who still support him in spite of everything. It’s EXACTLY like those people that were saying “Barack Obama is the best President we’ve ever had!” No, sir… you just like him the most. The Trump effect on local politics has been disastrous. The Republican Party of Orange County now loudly endorses the Republican candidates that they support, to the detriment of the other candidates who are seeking to be Republican candidate in November. It’s just wrong, and it comes back to Trump weighing in on Republican races across the country. Trump should not be selecting our local representation based on who can provide the largest donation to Trump’s own campaign. The price for a Trump endorsement in the local race for state rep in 2024 was $400k, according to someone I know personally whose donors couldn’t afford it. They lost, btw. Paxton is angry right now that Trump won’t endorse him over Cornyn. He says it’s because Cornyn is squandering R resources in the primary, when in fact he’s just mad that he’s already made his contribution, but Trump is trying to get donations from everybody before he anoints the guy who will face off against the Dem senate candidate in November. But mostly I hate what it’s done to the way that campaigns react to one another, and the way that the supporters of candidates act towards other candidates. The name-calling, insults, hateful rhetoric, and outright lies are just on a completely different level in the last ten years. It’s not all on Trump, but he certainly started it. Every county around ours has at least one race that’s a complete disaster of horrible behavior, mud-slinging, name-calling, etc. Every political post made by a candidate is immediately besieged by his opponent’s supporters. Charges of corruption, etc, fly around with no regard for the truth, only in being hateful to their “enemy.” And the nutty thing is that this is in the primary, when we’re all supposed to be on the same team, just trying out for the same position… but people today see it as a blood sport. It’s always been unpleasant under the surface, but now it’s pure hatred on public display. The DOJ hung a giant banner on their building last week that featured Trump with an angry scowl. In the past, Presidents and the DOJ at least tried to to pretend that there wasn’t any interference between the White House and the DOJ. They were supposed to be independent… not anymore. A CNN correspondent complained that the act of hanging a trump banner from the DOJ headquarters strongly indicates that the DOJ serves Trump, not justice. Trump didn’t deny it, he retweeted the CNN story as if to say “yeah, I did it … and there’s nothing you can do about it.” What the right forgets is that things WILL go back the other way. It always does. And when it does, everything that is being done now will be turned around on the Rs and done even harder. And with trumps approval ratings hovering in the mid thirties, it’s going to be a nasty. I’m afraid that a lot of people are going to find out that the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze.

There’s never been a less dignified president. There’s never been a president that displayed the boorish behaviors that Trump does. There’s never been a more divisive president. It’s not a surprise that people keep trying to kill him… he exhibits and invites hatred at every opportunity. There’s never been an outgoing president that tried to stop the transfer of power like he did with fake electors and baseless claims of election fraud. He’s no longer even trying to hide his racism. Does anybody expect tonight’s state of the Union to be anything less than a banquet of wild exaggeration, outright lies, and hateful speech? Plus I don’t like him.

Well, I saw Trump appear in a commercial for this on Fox News, so… I guess he’s got nothing better to do [Hidden Content] I’m trying to be objective, even though I can’t stand the guy. I think I’d give him a solid “D,” mostly because we haven’t had any of our boys coming home in boxes, yet. Also glad that he stopped the flood of “asylum seekers” that the Dems were letting flood through the Southern border. The stock market is performing very bubblicious, too. Otherwise, I think it’s been a disaster. Coverups, masked agents killing US Citizens, a disastrous tariff policy, ballooning debt, hostile actions towards other countries sovereignty (Venezuela), promising to take Greenland, filing lawsuit after lawsuit against his “enemies,” political prosecutions, pending invasion of Iran, but more importantly he’s being more mean, ugly, childish, petty, etc, etc…. He’s a rotten person and good people shouldn’t continue to overlook his flaws because “he’s on our side.” I’m firmly convinced that the corruption uncovered after he leaves office will be unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

IEEPA tariffs were found to be illegal, not the others. But the others weren’t the basis of the suit that was before the court. I’m curious if subsequent suits will prove that the others weren’t legal either? The best part of all is watching people like Reagan celebrate how tough and cool Trump is when he’s just raising the cost of so many things that you need or want. “Higher prices!!! Yeah!!!”

The sad thing is that the best Dem candidate (Talarico) won’t face the best Rep candidate (Cornyn) in November because the parties are both being ran by the extremists on either side of the aisle. There’s nothing more ironic (and moronic) than watching so called evangelicals line up to support candidates like “Our General” Ken Paxton who have a complete lack of morals and decency. Intelligent people realize that figures like Paxton and Trump are simply saying what the morons want to hear in return for their votes. My left boot is more ethical than Paxton.

That’s an overreach… but i do like having a health department around to make sure that things are sanitary around those restaurants… food temps, extermination schedules , etc. But I doubt the guy who’s forced to buy a permit, then gets fined/shut down by the health department feels the same way.

Are construction costs different in Port Neches than they are in Port Arthur?

That was exactly my scenario. Same exact house. Greatly differing values, same tax bill.