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It would take a helluva lot to dethrone the USD as the world’s most accepted currency, but one potential way to get there is incessantly shitting on any world leaders who aren’t ready to kiss the brass ring…which, in praise of Harris, is something she’s too smart to do.

Almost anyone would be preferable to a crooked lying rapist self-aggrandizing narcissistic felon.

Out of curiosity, what do you expect to happen should Harris win? Please give some specifics - I'd like to come back in 4 years and see how accurate you were.

as requested. She has a degree in law and much experience as a prosecutor. She also has political experience now, years of it. She has no criminal investigations following her around and she is for liberty, women's rights and the rule of law. She has never tried to overthrow a government nor is she a communist nor a Marxist, as if anyone here knows anything about what those accusations actually mean

Althogether too sensible. Will never make it past the imbecile fraction of the voting population.

Trump told over 30,000 well documented lies from Jan 2017 to Jan 2021, and has continued to do so. His true believers simply don't care. Just like they don't care that he's a rapist, a fraud and a thief.

People who say we cannot move on from petroleum should stand out of the way from those that are already doing it.

Hi folks, Missourians will vote this November on whether to legalize abortion. Missouri Supreme Court puts abortion amendment back on ballot | STLPR So far, every state that has had an abortion choice on the ballot, it has been a win for abortion rights. Yet, the GOP continues to tell us that the American people are opposed to abortion rights. Somebody is full of it, Jerry Baumchen

And personally I’d vote for Kamala over Skippy the Wonder Dog, but the dog wins over Trump every time Wendy P.

TK and Mark, please try to stay on topic by saying something nice about the lovely Kamala in each of your posts on this thread. I understand the need to trash the dotard and his friends sometimes, but if you could add a little praise for the current best choice at the end it would be so wonderfully wonderful.

Good: Trump being beaten. Better: Trump being beaten by a woman. Best: Trump being beaten by a woman of color.

Makes sense, I suppose, if your goal is more Trump voters.

Trump will be releasing it with his tax returns, and his new health care plan...in two weeks.

On the other hand, if he is not elected again we will have all those court cases to look forward to and discuss...

I miss the good old days when the neo-cons were the worst the GOP had to offer. :-(

I guess he'll have it hanging over him until after the election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/06/trump-sentencing-date-new-york-hush-money-case Sentencing date November 26. I sure hope he gets to see the inside of a jail cell.

it is almost like most organizations are really a wheel with multiple spokes. Now removing one spoke, any spoke, doesn't collapse the wheel, but it does weaken it.

Brent may be at a loss for words. The Russian troll sites have been taken down so the usual sources of knowledge and facts is gone.

I was surprised how quickly the GA prosecutors acted. But then I learned: 1. May 2023: FBI investigated kid over threats to shoot up school. 2. Dec 2023: Father gives kid an AR-15 for Christmas. [Shaking head]. Some people are just too stupid to own guns or have kids.

Of course it is. It's intended to anger, not inform. 48GW total generation by now, which means 60 TWhr a year as of now. That represents 30% of our total power generation. And much of that solar funding actually goes to storage, so that we don't have blackouts when it gets hot. Currently we are in a heatwave, and nary a blackout in sight. And this was during a summer that had the hottest June and July on record - and August looks like it will be another hottest on record. We used to import about 20% of our power; we are now down to 10%. This year we had over 100 days where, for several hours, 100% of California's energy needs come from non-fossil-fuel sources - and that time is constantly growing. As of today, more than half our electrical energy comes from non-fossil-fuel sources. In other words - the subsidies worked.

I get damned tired of Trump's bullshit about who pays the tariff on imported goods. Either he is too stupid to understand consumers pay it, or he is counting on the public to be that stupid. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say it is the former. Also, he trotted out that tired old claim that NATO members paid us. No one in NATO pays anyone else. I'll just again assume he is too stupid to understand it.

"Polls give you an accurate measure of that portion of the demographic who still picks up the phone for unknown callers." -- Justin "Beau" King

Harris may well be the first Presidential candidate I actually voted FOR since my first Presidential election, Reagan's second term in 84 (I was young, idealistic and not terribly experienced). There are aspects I don't agree with, but overall, she's smart, experienced and seems to actually be a mostly decent person. As I've said before, I'd vote for Howdy Doody, with Clarabelle the Clown as VP over Donnie von Schitzenpants.

You can’t reason and use logic against emotion and gut feel/intuition. Believing without evidence that Harris’s policies will lead to economic collapse and a failed state - an emotional argument straight out of Trumps playbook. Again like Trump any attempt at a logical argument is based on exaggerated worst case scenarios. One of the reasons Trump is so successful is that he tapes into and exploits fear. He connects emotionally and validates people’s fears. I think Harris is doing a better job than Biden at appealing to people’s emotions and acknowledging them. The emphasis on joy has been good as an antidote to fear.

Well then, that's fairly off topic right there. In praise of Kamala I would like to state that she has never advocated for Marxism. And in no way did you answer the question posed and quoted which is what do you predict will happen during her term as POTUS that frightens you so?

yeah well here is what we do know, Police will not stop the shootings, Uvalde and Parkland and others - they failed completely 'Law-abiding responsible gun owners' will not stop it (this shooting, Sandy Hook and others where parents and others were directly negligent) Your average gun toting citizen who is carrying 'to protect me and others from carnage' will not stop them (El Paso Walmart shooting in Texas.... there is NO WAY that no one in that store was not carrying, it is Texas after-all) More guns is NOT making us any safer - that is demonstratively false. Open and concealed carry is not stopping the problem. Basically the gun lobby is one giant propaganda-spouting lie, but no one seems to care, because after-all, it is America and even the liberals like their guns and will not offer up anything in the way of effective legislation. Pro-life my ass. The biggest farce of all.

I have collected a big pile of old USPA Parachutist mags back into the 60s, with the help of Beatnik who has a much more complete collection (but isn't on this site much these days I think). But I'm not actively collecting; too much to skim through already and using up basement space! The thing is, some organizations finally got their archives all digitized. Which is amazing; a huge job. To refresh my own memory too: The US "Skydiving" recently went online, back to their start in 1979. (https://skydivingmagazine.org/browse-issues/ ) The Brits have had their issues online for some time, right back to 1964 ("Sport Parachutist", "Skydive the Mag") (https://britishskydiving.org/magazine-archive/ ) Lesser collections: In Canada ("Canpara") we only have the newly created digital issues, so from 2015+. (https://www.cspa.ca/en/digital-issues ) For the USPA "Parachutist" I only know of an unofficial archive of covers. (and occasionally indexes and some other lesser known old skydive mag covers) (http://manifestmaster.com/skydiver/index.html ) A very few old time "Parachutist" magazines have been uploaded in the Facebook Oldschool Skydiving forum, along with some other interesting odds & ends documents from the old days. For those who have joined that private group: (https://www.facebook.com/groups/28649069239/files/ ) Anything I'm missing?

A man and his trainer are preparing for a Championship Wrestling Match. The trainer tells the man, "You're lean, you're strong, and you're skilled. If you give him all you've got, you can win this. But beware; whatever you do, don't let him get you in the twisted pretzel hold. No one has ever gotten out of the twisted pretzel hold." The competition begins, and wouldn't you know it: just ten seconds into the match and the man is locked up in a twisted pretzel hold. The trainer, livid, turns and slowly heads for the locker room. When the bell rings about 10 seconds later, the trainer glances over his shoulder, and to his surprise, the referee is holding his fighter's hand in the air. Shocked, the trainer runs back into the ring and says, " What happened? He had you in the twisted pretzel hold, no one has ever gotten out of the twisted pretzel hold." The man replies, "Well, he had me all twisted up in that hold. I thought I was done for. I couldn't move my legs, I couldn't move my arms. I couldn't move my body at all. But just as I was about to give up all hope, I looked up and saw a big pair of balls in my face. I opened my mouth and bit as hard as I could. Two seconds later I had him pinned. And let me tell you, you cannot not believe how much strength you have within you until you bite yourself in the nuts."

In a win for the estate of the late Isaac Hayes, a judge has ordered Trump to stop playing “Hold On, I’m Coming” at his rallies. Trump has protested that is the only way he ever gets to hears those words. I got this from one of the late-night talk show hosts. ;-)

I believe there is a D-license requirement for Gold Wings (and also for other 'accomplishment' awards) I'm not trying to debate if that is a good thing or not, just that it's part of the requirements. If Kim is doing these jumps as tandems because she doesn't feel safe at her age, yet still holds a D, I don't have an issue with it. I can see some folks 'splitting hairs' and saying that since she hasn't made a solo jump in a while, she doesn't have a current D, but I would argue that with her history and her place in the sport, she should get a pass on it.

Facts: Trump/Pence increased debt by $7.8 trillion Biden/Harris increased debt by $6.2 trillion (so far) - extrapolating that through the final four months of his presidency gets us to $6.8 trillion Trump would be a disaster for the debt; Harris would be a bit better. As always, sorry about the facts.

More baseless assertions, the sky is falling, the sky is falling..... yet I will bet that your days today are much like your days were 3, 5, 8, 15 years ago.....

I doubt any Harris supporters here will argue that we lucked out and got the best possible choice; it was simply Biden or Harris. I fear her less than I fear our system of choosing leaders which is clearly hopeless and becoming more so.

I'm not particularly keen on Harris, but she is by far the lesser of two evils. Your repeated equivalencing of Harris with Trump is like equivalencing G.W. Bush with Saddam Hussein.

Out of the darkness and into the light.

Ummm... We already knew that Darth Cheney is Liz's father.

[Gasp!] That's socialism!

That’s kind of like Luke Skywalker learning Darth Vader is his father… Wendy P.

That makes her a valuable adviser; not the primary, but definitely an opposing opinion. Because the President should be paying attention to people representing a variety of viewpoints. The country is too big and diverse simply to impose a particular political viewpoint on it (that's what Project 2025 is all about, and we don't want to go down that path either). Wendy P.

I'd agree to the point that bean counters shouldn't be in charge; but neither should engineers when costs have to be considered. The bean counters have to bound the technical solution (which may not exist within the bounds), while the engineers have to understand the reasons for those boundaries. Otherwise you end up with runaway changes and costs (been there, seen it, been part of it -- and not on the bean side...) Wendy P.

Personally, I'm in favor of buying the mods a drink Wendy P.

Hi Bill, Just another example of Trump being his own worst enemy. If he had said, 'Yeh, we messed up,' a lot of people would let it go, eventually. But, no; he has to say it never happened. Total idiocy. Jerry Baumchen

It is worth remembering that, aside from having a functioning sense of honor and duty to the country and Constitution, Liz Cheney's political views are anathema to any vaguely leftist or centrist government. She's significantly more hardline than Attila the Hun. She makes Margaret Thatcher look like that hippy chick you hooked up with at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally in the '70s. The fact that she's not willing to help overthrow a duly elected government in order to impose her policies on a nation that didn't vote for them really should be more of a 'bare minimum expectation' thing.

Like the VP candidate says, just a fact of life, deal with it. /s

In the MAGA world. I mean, in the MAGA world, the kids in that school are all safe from drag queens, rainbow flags and woke. Isn't that what is _really_ important here?

Putin arrives in Mongolia and goes through customs Customs: Name? Putin: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Customs: Occupation? Putin: Not right now, maybe later.

Revenue is irrelevant for this stock. It has zero value if he doesn't get elected. It is the ultimate pay for play scheme if he does get elected. It is the only reason this company exists.

...and yet you fail to give a single reason why she's a "moron"...

Followed shortly by his infrastructure plan

D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Fred Barnowski suspect eliminated ....