JoeWeber

The last thing I want to do is start any rumors or cause any problems, of course. So no comment from me.

The Supreme Court just let him off the hook for his egregious emoluments violations. I did not read the decision but I think the idea was now that he's no longer president it's all moot. What a gong show. If Trump get's away with both theft and fomenting insurrection in a coup attempt nothing will stop a smarter person from actually pulling it off next time around. Make no mistake about it: there is someone far cleverer than Trump eyeing his chances.

Knowing the Ogalla Aquifer and the Platte River won't suffer from a spill has some offsetting value. Also, importantly, someone needs to get control of those crazy Canadians who want to pump their very dirty oil across America to be burned into CO2 thereby compounding the other problem of their nonstop cutting down their CO2 absorbing forests to build more houses in America thereby attracting immigrant roofers and framers from Central America thereby further warming the atmosphere and melting their permafrost putting even more heat trapping CO2 and Methane into the atmosphere. Some environmentalists they are!

In all fairness, until you've stood in line at a Seattle Starbucks at 6am waiting to order a triple Americano while some purple haired asshole at the front struggles with whether or not he wants a maraschino cherry on top of his double decaf, nonfat mocha with extra foam and a lemon spritzer you'll never see the comparison.

Yep. And I'll kick in for the next flight. I'm a DZO, I love pissing away money.

Well, lest anyone anywhere at anytime be so foolish as to believe that you judge a person on the merits let this post be their reminder.

Just a little hello while the ex-president is golfing again.

If I don't make it a clicky, that's OK. If you don't it's a problem.

That's valuable information for all those looking to pick at Biden for underperforming on his 4th day as President. Surely you have historical data on Presidential 4th day performance we can use to skewer the bastard, right? And why doesn't he cover up his bald spot with a ball cap like a real US President? What a turkey.

That wasn't the hope or the expectation. We're simply guaranteed that things will be better now that everything is not going to be Trump. So, before you move the expectation goal posts and commence with 4 years of 'told you so's please get it straight that no one on the left who posts here claimed Biden was ideal and the promised land was soon to follow. Pretty much, he was who could get Job 1 done which was beating Trump and I, for one, am willing take a lot of what I don't like for that outcome.

Yes. Would you be as bothered if the sport was co-ed nude mud wrestling?

He's got his mix all talked up again. He just wants what is happening to happen faster and the results beforehand to show it worked.

Thank you. Now I know, the fracking revolution happened after we left the Paris accords. Whereas I'm not a big fan of using two years as a time frame for example, I am all for natural gas replacing coal fired plants. That said, I'm not sure we should all be doing the cabbage patch because the gas came from fracking. You want everyone here to believe that todays CO2 emissions will be harmless after we're dead. You needn't waste anymore time on me, I agree.

That is a fun fact. As Science Officer on the Starship Speakers Corner to what would you attribute such a beneficial change? More Tesla's? Increased numbers of Cetaceans slapping their tails? Bummed out Parisians staying home and sulking? Inquiring minds, you know.

So now you're a sociologist, too? Has your fascination as a quantum theorist caused you to wonder why the truth always seems to happen somewhere else whenever you're there?

Yes, the free media coverage was probably decisive. However, the media probably couldn't have done it using you or me. Trump was already Trump and came stage ready with a media presence. We could have a chicken or egg disagreement on this for a long time, I reckon.

And that is why the hope of instant bipartisanship in the year 2021 is doomed to fail.

Ron, there was no Republican cave on the election. Trump lost big and not a scintilla of evidence to the contrary has yet been presented. In court case after court case Republican judges tossed out Trumps unsupported cases, the majority of which did not claim fraud. You were not robbed. You lost. Show the evidence or accept defeat.

I'm not quite to the position where I see fixing the current political and societal divide as analogous to a corporate team building exercise. The republicans are past masters at fleecing well meaning democrats. On day one they were already proposing the D's relinquish certain powers and put unity before their policies. And all of the deluded conspiracy theorists, by and large, are still deluded conspiracy theorists. I, for one, have no intention of wearing a tin foil hat to demonstrate my happy go lucky desire to get along. I say screw them all as they did us and accept the reality that in 2 years we may not hold the senate or house and Kamala Harris may be president. We need to get while the getting is good. No quarter and no pretense of quarter, either.

Honestly, I feel like feeling for groups that we feel feel marginalized like the Q group is way over done. It's just as easy, or easier, to see the selfish agenda behind their actions than it is to believe they're just poor souls lost in a sea of societal changes. I'll spend my soft spot moments feeling for the groups they've been hammering like the LBGTQ and hard working immigrant communities.

I sincerely doubt that. Q believers are a product of marketing, no more. A percentage of humans are wired to believe. Just like fat people grabbing an Almond Joy because they get two healthy nuts that make it possible to ignore all of the rest of the crap they are swallowing, so goes the lives of the credulous. They believe because they need to believe. It only takes a thin reason and the planted belief that they are in on the secret to bend them to the will of their manipulators.

Bingo. They know how to play the game.

That's your definition of truth? At the end of the day your bitch is that the election was stolen from Trump. Why not take some time off from patting your back over food bank work and give us the proof? If it's true, Ron, there is proof. It's not something you just know is true that feels oh, so good, it's something with evidence you can show. But you can't, can you? Truly there is nothing there but what you need to believe. The thing is that it isn't benign. It's a very bad thing that people believe things without proof.

That would be United States Senator Rafael Edward Cruz who was born in Canada and, I'm guessing here, chose Ted as a nickname so as to not sound too Canadian? He's also a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School and is obviously well within his rights, based on the evidence, to demand a full tuition refund.

You are right and you put it well. Just don't believe for a single second that airdvr is open to an alternative world view. He was just saying, "see, I told you so" to himself and his like believers. He must, otherwise he'd need to admit his positions were both extreme and extremely wrong. That's just the way it is.