@#26 ... According to some, it's to protect Bill Clinton. ...

Yeah, maybe.

But if just the aspect of making that assertion is damaging to fmr Pres Clinton.

That leads me, once again, to ask ...

What is the Trump admin trying to hide.

My view is that, if those in the Trump orbit have nothing to worry about regarding the Epstein Files, why not just release them?

@#359 ... This shouldn't be news to anyone paying attention, but, Trump had Epstein killed ...

Could that be another reason for the banal obsequious conversation that Ms Maxwell had with Dep AG Blanche (Pres Trump's fmr lawyer who has been reported to be a friend of Ms Maxwell's lawyer)?

She might have been afraid of being offed, so she gave the ~testimony~ she did, and has since been supremely rewarded?

I agree, the Dems have an uphill battle ahead of them.

The Dems may be all strutting around and such after the 2025 elections landslide.

But, now the GOP has months to proffer their message to win back the voters, and the Dems have a task ahead of them.

Do the Dems have a plan, something beside their usual lame messaging attempts to communicate with the voters?

So far, I've not seen it, outside of a few candidates.

One thing I'll mention ...

You can say what you want about Mayor-elect Mamdani's political views. But from what I saw, he had a significant accomplishment in his campaigning.

He went out, and he talked with, and he faced the voters, including those who opposed him.

He spent a lot of time talking face-to-face with the people of NYC. Not shaking hands, but talking.

Mayor-elect Mamdani did not just cater to adulating crowds, he also sought and talked with those who opposed him. I saw him talking with Wall-Street leaders.

@#4

OK, back in the day, over a half-century ago, that song was a rallying song for the crowd I was in.

But I did not really realize the significance of the song in view of the light of the current time until I went to genius.com and posted the lyrics.

There's this ...

...
[Verse 4]
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life, it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away
...

That's where the Country is now.

@#2 ... We're well on our way to creating the civil unrest necessary to declare martial law.

MAGA! ...

@#356 ... Funny how you hold internet commentators to a higher standard than you hold the president.

Unless he actually gave you proof that the 2020 election was stolen that he didn't share with the rest of us? ...

The MAGA cult seems only to questions things they are not told to believe.

Such seems to be the norm for living in a cult.

@#2 ... Tells you how poorly written the DoW code base is. ...

That depends.

Was a requirement of that code base's design the accommodation of a name change?

If that was not specified as a requirement, then why should it be in the code? And if it was not specified as a requirement, then perhaps that the current code base cannot easily accommodate it may be more of a feature.

Based upon your comment, I'd proffer that your current trolling alias seems to favor a bloated code base, one that accommodates things not in the requirements spec.

@#1 ... The report highlights what economists call a "K-shaped economy," in which affluent Americans are faring far better than those at the bottom. ...

Yeah, I have heard reports about the K-shpaed economy.

It makes sense to me as an allegory.

More from the the article ...

... Researchers analyzed internal data from millions of consumers and found about a quarter of households spend more than 95% of their income on necessities such as groceries, housing, gas, child care and utilities.

The percentage of Americans who are spending over 95% of their income on necessities has increased the last two years.

Living paycheck to paycheck was more likely to impact low-income households.

Nearly 30% of low-income households were living paycheck to paycheck, while less than 20% of higher income households spent over 95% of their incomes on necessities.

The report highlights what economists call a "K-shaped economy," in which affluent Americans are faring far better than those at the bottom.

Another sign of this trend is the Federal Reserve has reported that credit card debt and delinquencies have increased in the last year. ...