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One of those semantics sort of situations where the republican party doesn't endorse it, but only republicans fly it.

It's well documented all over the internet by every major news outlet out there, as well as news outlets in the Minneapolis area. There are a lot of fake news stories on this site from a lot of dubious sources, but sadly this story is really happening. It's mind-blowing.

You keep going back to the same thing. If I went back to everything you've posted on here that I disagreed with or thought was wrong, I'd have to start a new forum. It's always pretty obvious when you have no rebuttal once you start going back to a completely unrelated issue I haven't even mentioned in over a year and a half as the reason that I'm wrong. That being said, you're being intentionally dense if you can't understand the clearly stated, and completely inarguable point that I'm making in this thread. There's nothing to debate on that point. And talk about me spinning things: Joe Biden would've been a democrat in the 1860's? That's hilarious. You ARE an 1860's democrat. All of your political beliefs line up with theirs. It's inarguable. Like I said in another response, for the most part, so am I. We can look back a century and a half later and say that, yes, slavery was a terrible thing. But that doesn't change the fact that the people with the same conservative beliefs and policies that Republicans have today were the ones who benefitted from slavery and fought to keep it from being abolished.

As I've now stated three times, the republicans of the north that you're celebrating believed in all things that democrats do today. the "racist democrats of the south" had beliefs that all aligned with what are now conservative republicans. If you took the parties of today and went back 150 years, you would be one of the "racist democrats of the south". Heck, I would be, too, for that matter, based on most of my political leanings. This is not an indication that I, or you, believe that slavery was a good thing. I don't believe that, and I don't think you do either. But that said, you do not belong to the group of people that abolished slavery. While in name only Republicans abolished slavery, it was the party and platform of the liberals that accomplished it. Conservatives had nothing to do with it, and in fact fought tooth and nail to keep it. To tout the abolishment of slavery as a major party victory to be thrown in the face of democrats is as delusional as those posters you mentioned earlier. Lauren Boebert 150 years ago would've been outraged that slavery was abolished, without a doubt.

Nonsense. No, it doesn't. There were no undertones to my post, only facts. You're missing the point, as clear as it was. Between the late 1800s and early 1930s the democrats and republicans swapped platforms on every major issue. When the Republican party abolished slavery in the 1860s (as today's conservatives are so fond of pointing out), they were extremely liberal, and stood for literally everything that the democratic party stands for today. Our republican party today stands for everything the democrats (who were pro-slavery) stood for when slavery was abolished. Whether or not every present-day conservative would have been pro-slavery or not is irrelevant, but the overwhelming majority of conservatives in the 1860s sure were. taking slavery completely out of the equation, the democrats of 1865 agreed with present-day conservatives on essentially everything. All that having been said, yes, most conservatives today would've been pro-slavery. We've had 160 years to dwell on how it was wrong, but back them it was just a means to a successful business, and the racism of the conservative south wasn't even considered a bad thing by most folks, just a part of life. I doubt many of today's conservatives would've been any better than the conservatives of 150 years ago, if raised in that situation with those view points, regardless of how well we think of ourselves today. If there were some way to teleport today's conservatives to the 1800s with today's understanding and world view, then sure, most of them would be anti-slavery. The whole point of my post was to illustrate how ironic it is that present-day conservatives go out of their way to claim credit for what the liberals of the 1860s did, who's beliefs, platform, and politics in no way aligned with the conservative's politics of today.

Looking at the records, none of them were really any good for about the last 20 years before they merged. TJ had one Co-district championship in its' last 19 years of existence. Lincoln won two district champions in it's last 28 years of existence. SFA may have "never been good", but won 4 outright championships and another co-championship in their last 20 years as a school, by far the most successful PA school during that time. All that having been said, the three schools combined for 0 state football championships from 1945-2001 when the schools merged. In it's 20 years of existence, PAM has won 5 co-championships and one outright district championship. That's slightly better than what any of the original three schools were doing, but not anything special. All in all, I'd argue that the merger didn't really slide the scale much one way or the other.

Always funny when I see conservatives talking about Republicans freeing slaves. the republicans of the 1800s and early 1900s were the liberal, big government party, and the democrats were ultra-conservative, Bible-driven, big-business and small government party. Make no mistake about it: every single one of you in here that voted for Trump would've been a democrat at the time that the Republicans ended slavery. I'm not saying that as an accusation that a single one of you are racist, but simply basing it on all other political views.

To be fair, with Cheney's recent political actions I think Biden could've endorsed Hageman, but Cheney's denunciation of Trump was a big part of it for sure.

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Sorry, came in late because I knew what a dumpster fire this thread would be, butTrump has virtually no shot without florida.

Honestly couldn’t care less about this. Beto’s a clown, and the thought of him winning terrifies me, but the trump diehards on here trying to make an issue out of this is laughable. The hypocrisy of both sides knows no bounds. The same dems complaining about Trump’s lack of class cheered for this from Beto, and the same republicans who excused and even rallied behind Trump’s foul mouth and lack of filter are now feigning righteous indignation because Beto said a bad word. If it’s an issue for one, it’s an issue for another.

Bingo. With stricter chargers than the guy who accidentally started a fire.

Mom Sues Walmart After 6-Year-Old Died in The Parking Lot (msn.com) Somehow the guy who accidentally started the fire got prison time, but the mom who left her kids alone in the parking lot is trying to become a millionaire.

Yup, definitely cost prohibitive. That’s what’s cool about the YouTube channel I mentioned, because they’re funded by donations and the money they make from views. That said, they are also working on tips, not just randomly searching.

I think it’s great. I do think the immigration system and path to citizenship need to be revamped, but the fact that the government has refused to help Texas and expects us to handle it on our own is ridiculous, as is their response when Abbott passes on the problem, so to speak. How anyone can accuse Texas of being inhumane for trying to keep illegal immigrants from overwhelming our system, but then turn around and cry when a tiny fraction of those immigrants are sent to suck off their system is mind blowing to me.

BCP had a lot of black students, but I don’t know if I’d call it a black high school. They did have a very diverse student body. My (white) mother graduated from there in ‘79. I’ve seen her yearbooks and I bet the student body was around 50/50. edit: I commented before I read through the thread and saw that others already made this point.

Pretty crazy stuff. They were diving the canal looking for a man who went missing about ten days ago and found him, but also found a car with remains in it that matches the description of a car driven by a port neches man who went missing 14 years ago. It kind of makes you wonder how many missing persons cases would be solved if police stations could devote a dive team to just search all of their water ways for some set amount of time until all likely places had been searched, although I’m sure it would be pretty expensive and time consuming. There’s a YouTube channel called Adventures With Purpose that has a couple of divers who’ve solved 23 cold cases since 2019 by searching likely waterways in areas where people went missing, and a couple of those cases were solved coincidentally while looking for other people.

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I’ve heard lots of stories where people are trying to buy hydrocodone on the streets and end up getting fentanyl from their street pharmacist. You expect one thing and get something significantly more powerful, but use it like you would your regular drug. If you’ve developed a tolerance to Vicodin and it takes 3 to get you high, you’re in big trouble if you think that’s what you’re taking but instead something that can be 50x stronger than heroin. Or even if you realize it’s fentanyl but don’t understand how much more powerful it is.

Saw this and it had me cracking up. I’m not a big Abbott fan, but this is one of his best moves.

Would seem more valid than the one taken at his keynote event.

He got 20 years. The plea deal he backed out of limited the sentence to 30, but there’s no guarantee he would’ve gotten it.

For what it’s worth, this poll was taken at an event for student activists where trump was the keynote speaker. Just for what it’s worth.

I believe I read in the testimony that neither officer was wearing a seatbelt. I wonder if things would’ve turned out differently if they had. What an incredible tragedy, and this kid deserves to be put away for a long time.

Lost my appetite yesterday. Came back a little today, but some toast and soup was all I could handle. The ribeye is gonna have to wait a couple days 😉