CardinalBacker

I hate to hear that...

It's the lead on Drudge.... Your last post was from the Gateway Pundit, soooooo.......

At long last the auditing is complete... [Hidden Content] Biden won even bigger, LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Despite repeated claims to "not raise taxes on American families earning less than $600/year," They're trying to find unreported income from people who make ANY amount of money. Everybody's gonna have have to pony up their "fair share" in our new Socialist Utopia.

I'm pretty sure that God hates Newton County as a whole. Floods, Hurricanes, wildfires, more floods.... even their only Mexican Food Restaurant burned down. On a plus note, they did get the burned-down courthouse rebuilt. I actually had a place on Toledo Bend and Allstate was like "pass" when I tried to insure the place. They said that it was because there were no fire departments out there. I was like, "no way! I'm literally like a mile from the fire station at Indian Creek" and they just laughed and hung up.

My understanding is that the vent is a treatment of last resort... they put the patient on a vent when they will literally die in minutes because of lost lung function. I mean, they could forgo the vent and just let them croak and that would help your 75% stat, but I doubt that the families of the 25% who do survive would appreciate that. That's a remarkable change from earlier in the pandemic when they thought vents were the answer. We're in much better shape now than we were in the summer of 2020 in regards to treatment. If we were still doing things the "old way" this summer the Delta variant would have many more victims.

Social security is a pyramid scheme. Everybody just clenches their teeth and hopes that they make it to retirement age so that they can yell "it's my money!" when, in fact, there's nowhere near enough put back. If you hoped to retire, you'd need to put 10%+ into a retirement account that compounded with interest/growth to have any hopes of retiring. Instead, you're putting up 12.4 of your income (up to $142,800- you have social security withholdings above that number the wage cap used to be lower). When you go through the math, 12.4% of what you earned back in 1972 isn't going to make a dent in your cost of living in 2021 since that money wasn't invested.... there's been no compounding. Factor in all of the sick, lame, and lazy who never contributed much but started getting crazy checks in their 20s and it's easy to see why the SS Fund is unsustainable. It's going to crush under its own weight, but all that matters is getting to retirement age and yelling "it's my money, and I deserve more of it" which is a complete lie.

That stuff is DANGEROUS. Somebody gave me a chunk of a Nerds Rope/edible and I woke up with some strange woman's tongue in my mouth.

Same.... like how does a 71 year old retired Pentecostal Lady end up feeling that Trump was sent here by God to save us from the Left? He's one of the most immoral presidents that we've ever had. So much love for Melania by the ultraconservatives.... you know, the ones who say Michelle Obama is really a man. Did you think we'd ever have a First Lady whose nudes are readily available on the internet? I sure didn't.... and I NEVER would have believed that her and her husband would be the darlings of the ultraconservatives! WTH? Bizarro World, I tell you.

Don’t take it from me. Trump himself boasted that he could shoot somebody in broad daylight on 5th avenue and not lose any voters. My guess is that he (like you) believes that envy is the only reason somebody would vote against Trump. [Hidden Content]

I guess that's the question... if the Feds gave 2m of the 1 bn dollars of texas' money for Beaumont's public transportation, then where did it go? [Hidden Content] Sorry... it was 6.26 million for public transportation improvements in Beaumont. PAT got 6.22 million as well. I'm just saying.. if you're still driving the same ol' raggedy buses and the drivers/contractors didn't get a bump, then where did the money go?

Honestly? No.... to most people he's a cartoon character come to life, but somehow idolized by people who you'd expect to despise him. I know a handful of Pentecostal people who whole-heartedly support Trump. Despite the 8 abortions he paid for, confessed sexual assaults, foul language, infidelities, "Corinthians Two," etc..... I used to wonder how Hitler rose to power. Blind loyalty.... that's the answer, and there are a lot of people walking around with undying loyalty to Trump. Heck, a few thousand of them ransacked the Capitol back in January.

In 2016, Hillary’s democratic voters didnt turn out and Trump’s supporters did. Trump’s supporters (and more) turned out in 2020, too, but he mobilized millions of other people to go vote for Biden. Die hard trump supporters overlook his buffoonery…. Moderates, undecideds, and lefties all went out and voted to get rid of Trump. And he only has himself to blame.

The last number that I read claimed that almost 60% of Americans paid no income tax in 2020, partly because of gifts from the Treasury because of Covid. It's hard to exist when the people who don't pay taxes actually set the spending/taxes. It's like loading the family up to go out and eat, and the kids picking what we're gonna eat because there are three kids in the back seat and they keep out-voting mom and dad up front.

Higher education has become a bad joke.... It's too expensive, and the value of a degree has diminished as more people get them. I can't imagine trying to start out with $100k in student loan debt. When I was going to college in the early 90s, a kid could scrape up $1500 to pay for a semester of school during the summer if he was willing to work a little. There's no way that a kid can scratch up $5k over the course of a summer to pay for that same semester of school.

The only problem is that instead of welcoming immigrants like the hard-working, God-loving, family people that they are, we line up behind a president that accuses them of all being rapists and criminals and chant "built the wall!! Send them back!!!" But then we wonder why they want to vote liberal.

I think a lot of people like Trump because they believe that he's the man that they secretly wish they could be. They wish that they had the backbone to just say whatever they wanted to anybody. They wish they could tell their boss where to to go. They look at their wife and wish that they, too, could bag a beautiful broad that sounds like Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle. They wish that they, too, had the money to install gold plated faucets in their trailer house, but they don't. But their God does. Trump 2024.

Not exactly... Trump actually has some devout (and deluded) followers. Biden doesn't.

No, the fact that Trump did such a good job of alienating people that he lost the House, Senate, eventually the presidency to the worst presidential ticket, ever... Biden/Harris. As a politician you have two jobs... to make it easy to vote for you and hard to vote for the other guy. Trump failed miserably at this. You're right.. Joe Biden could never get 83 million people to vote for him... but Trump actually DID get 83 million people to vote for Biden. And that's beyond most Trump Supporters' ability to comprehend. Even though you get wet when Trump says dumb stuff, most decent people aren't willing to let his buffoonery slide.

OF has a chance. Silsbee by a couple.

If Trump runs, the Democratic nominee will win. He's too good at making people vote against him. The other thing is that if Trump goes down in the primaries, the Trumpers will stay home guaranteeing a Democrat win in the General Election. Quote me if you want. When Trump announces he's running, you can go ahead and call the race for the Democrats.

I saw yesterday where they believe that over 99% of the Covid cases in the US today are the Delta Variant. It makes me wonder if that means that we've turned the corner on the original virus (it's run its course) and something similar will happen with the Delta Variant as well. I also saw this morning on the local news that there has been a drastic drop in the number of people receiving the infusion... so much of a drop that the clinic is in danger of closing. A good sign, in my opinion.

I hate to go against the lynch mob, but you kinda have to admit that the most recent interaction with the law that these two had, SHE was the aggressor. You can blame mental illness, homesickness, astrology, or whatever you want... but if you kick a dog enough times, he's going to bite you. I just think that it's comical how everybody is carrying on and comparing this situation to their own past dealing with an abusive boyfriend, especially since the only evidence we've seen so far indicates that SHE was the violent one. How do we know that this isn't the Burning Bad in reverse? All signs point to it.

The problem is that the city got a few million for public transit in the CARES Act, but the money hasn't actually gone towards public transit...or at least that's the belief of the drivers. Two million or so was what I'd heard.

Nice.