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Harris has gone more central on a lot of policy recently. I'm hoping she learns from the success it brings her and sticks with it if/when she becomes president. I don't want a dem in office, but I'd sure rather have one pushing moderate policy than one pushing woke insanity. Kinda funny to see all of the criticism over it from the right... politicians altering their stances to appease their constituents and saying and doing what they need to do to get elected has how it's always worked until Trump came along. Trump had every opportunity to exactly this and win this election.

UAW files federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk after threatening workers on X interview | CNN Business

During a Monday X (formerly Twitter) conversation with Elon Musk, the former president praised Musk for his anti-union stances and for firing people who go on strike. The comment came weeks after Sean O'Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, spoke at the Republican National Convention. In response to the interview, O'Brien told Politico that firing workers for organizing or striking is "economic terrorism." This is coming from a dude that just spoke at the republican convention, not some liberal goofball who was never voting for Trump anyway. Alienating 10% of the voting pool months before the election... savvy move.

using fuzzy trump math to make these claims... not you, but Trump and Musk. from an article on Fox "The message followed a previous post outlining that, "Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump's Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump's conversation on 𝕏, generating a total of 998 million views." Like they're legitimately counting views of other people talking about their talk in their tally.

Kamala Harris Now Leads Donald Trump in Six Different Polling Averages - Newsweek We can all take great solace in knowing that the swing voters are stupid, at least.

The incoming junior QB for state ranked Melissa started the last two seasons at Hoover.

HF has: LCM Hitchcock Vidor Almeta Crawford Stafford i expect them to be 5-0 or 4-1. Hitchcock should be a pretty good test, even though they’re down a division. LCM and Vidor should be good indicators of whether the experts have it right with their predictions that HF will win district this year. If HF is truly good enough to run the table with against Silsbee, Jasper, and WOS, I’d expect them to win these two fairly comfortably. If they end up being tight games, the horns may not be as far ahead of the rest of their district as some folks think.

The PA one is interesting. Road rage, female shooter killed a male from another car, who also reportedly fired shots. She turned herself in afterward. Would love to hear the details on that one

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It'll never happen. For a significant section of the right that goes against their, I don't know what to call it to be honest. I've made this point many times on multiple forums, as I know you have as well, and it always comes down to this rebuttal: the blame lies with those who refuse to vote for Trump rather than those who refused to nominate an electable candidate. We'll see what happens in this election, but if Trump loses we can look forward to 4 more years of hearing how stupid the swing voters are, and how righteous the Trump supporters are.

Yeah, I’m in fannett. Insurance is bad. Flood insurance is stupid, even though we stayed dry through two “500-year floods”

My issue with affordable starter houses is that in order to find one that’s affordable at this point it’s either completely trashed or it’s in an area where nobody would feel safe living. Out of college (2007) we bought a 1100 sq ft townhouse in the west end of Beaumont for $60k. Sold it a few years later for $68k. Zillow now has it at $120k, and the neighborhood is a lot rougher than it was then, and the house is 15 years older. For an actual house the price goes up significantly. Prices definitely have outpaced wage increases.

We built a really nice house ten years ago on 13 acres. Good interest rate, took out a 15 year note. We’ve been paying extra when we can, and are ramping that up. We’re supposed to have 60 payments left, but we’ve already knocked off 14, and just threw $2500 at the principle last week. We have a pool, shop, outdoor kitchen, etc. did a lot of the work ourselves and saved $150k probably. Now we could sell it for 3x what we have in it. I’ve thought about doing it, but it would cost so much to build the same thing somewhere else now that it’s probably not worth the effort. Gonna just stay put and get out from under the note in 3 years or so. It’s mind boggling to me what houses go for these days

That’ll do it. If it’s true

Awful. Not a targeted attack, just a random stray bullet.

Only if he wants to win the election. Guys on here have been blaming them for 3.5 years for the last election. Forgive me for suggesting that maybe he try a different route this go round to swing them back. Night!

Name calling, lying, being a jerk, insults, etc. so much of it is theatre, and it’s embarrassing. It certainly doesn’t reflect well on the Republican Party. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t a good president, or had bad policy, and it doesn’t mean I’m saying that being a good person is more important than being a good president. But I am saying that I hope the next guy who comes along can manage to be a good presidential candidate without me having to feel a little dirty for voting for him.

I’ll address this before I go. I agree with you, but Trump is a terrible example of values and truth. But not a bad president, for whatever that’s worth. A lot in my estimation, but not in everyone’s

Anywho, I’ve filled my participation allotment in the political forum for the next month or so. I’ll maybe come back if something else interesting happens.

Nah, I don’t like any of it from either side.

On that we can agree. It’s my sincere hope that whoever comes after Trump will get away from it and bring the Republican Party back to the party of values and truth. It’s unfortunate that the success he’s had with his antics has led to a few others in the party replicating his behavior.

We’ll have to disagree on that. I said it was wrong. I didn’t say he deserved it. It’s not a lie that had he not done it in the first place they wouldn’t have been able to bring charges, politically motivated or not.

I think the difference is you agreed with a lot of what Trump said so maybe it didn’t seem as bad

How is my position disheartening? I said I don’t condone it. That doesn’t change the fact that he shouldn’t have been stupid enough to do it in the first place.

If he does he’s winning. And it wouldn’t be the end of the world. He could at least get something done with a divided Congress maybe.