More every day, I beginning to think we are becoming the Taliban, as far as where the right wishes to take us. It's like a little thing each day/week, that over time adds up to major suppression. This is crazy.

MSNBC, CNN and many others dont have a comments section or allow you to make comments on their stupid articles.

#8 | Posted by boaz
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Actually no, that's not the reason they no longer carry comments. The main reason they no longer carry comments is because those that support Turnip and those in favor of the GOP won't do civil comments. Instead they want to threaten, badger those they don't agree with, and basically be arsehats. Then they get upset over being held responsible for those comments.

After a while it's easier on the modding and being held liable for some of the comments to just stop having them rather than having a free-for-all with little restraint, that could lead to lawsuits over them.

If they will lie to the migrants, what would ever give you the idea they'd be more truthful with the voters?

It takes the voters to keep them in office. Without enough votes to keep them there, the problem tends to solve itself. That is if you can get rid of the Trumpers, which hearing lies is a way of life apparently.

Who knew this would come up about denying loosing an election after Turnip paved the way?

Trump wants someone to pull his butt out of the responsibility of facing the law for the crimes he's committed. Anyone will do.

If he can stir up troubles like he did for 1/6, he'd be happy.

I'm hoping there aren't enough idiots out there to make a new terror army. Mostly those that helped him the first time in the inner circle are now facing issues of their own for being involved. Those who would take their places should take a good look at whats happened to the previous batch of suckers he enticed in.

This fool needs put in jail and his microphone to stir up trouble taken away. I am really, really, tired of hearing Trump all the time.

If the government doesn't want to honor it's commitment to those that served, there's an easy solution.

Don't make so many of the vets.

But the answer appears to be right before our eyes in the forms of eager immigrants begging for work to support themselves and their families.

#4 | Posted by tonyroma
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There's several problems with this solution.

One is that predominately the largest majority aren't english speakers. So even training becomes a problem when you can't speak the language.

Another issue is that most don't have a good education and aren't qualified to work many of the jobs that need done.

Add to this that during that time, short of being a cook, dishwasher, or maybe a yard maintenance guy, what work can they do? As you know, making minimum wage isn't going to buy both rent and groceries. So either the crime rate goes up to make the money needed or the government somehow has to pay them in some way for years until they can support themselves. Likely it would be the next generation, both educated as well as being an english speaker, that would qualify for the good paying jobs it takes to live in today's world.

Could you make it today on minimum wage? That's assuming you can get a job that won't be part time.

Nothing here about a labor shortage is new news. It's been known for 20 years or longer that when the boomers retired or left the work force there wouldn't be enough labor to cover the demand.

What's happened has been that these companies and corporations all wanted to save on labor and pay as little as possible to their workers who actually produced the goods and services they were selling. For a couple of decades all the money that could have went to workers as pay raises, instead went to the board members, the stock holders, and to stock buy backs. This raised the board members pay but near none went to the workers. Instead the workers were fired to reduce labor costs and those remaining on the job had their work doubled and tripled until there was no way to actually do all that was demanded.

Now they are paying the price of that wage theft. I have no sympathy for them. It is now time to lay in the bed they made.

If stupid subsidies on destructive and unsustainable practices were stopped no building on dangerous ground would happen in the first place.

#12 | Posted by Effeteposer
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New Orleans was settled long before wet lands were a thing to beware of residing on. It was settled long before they could predict a hurricane coming. Subsidies weren't a part of it.

It was settled by the French in 1718.

Not the first time for insurance companies in Louisiana to go jacking rates.

When hurricane Katrina came through, lots of independent insurance companies went bankrupt. Larger ones would only pay pennies on the dollar, if they paid at all.

Until the state government gets serious about insurance requirements it takes to be an insurance company in the state, it will continue to be a problem.

I don't know how many are coming into Florida, since it's an peninsula. There can't be that many boats coming in.

Texas is a different animal when it comes to the illegals. I don't live all that far from the border. In the last week alone, in the small town I live in, there have been two high speed chases through the town. One crashed in the middle of down town, the other outside of town. They were chased 60 miles by the highway patrol. We've had them drop off the semi trailer full at a gas station and had them crash into homes and trees. It's an every week affair.

Our problem down here (besides the idiot governor) is that we are seeing 2 million a year come over the border. There aren't enough facilities to handle them. No where near enough. The major city, built a brand new processing facility. They opened and within two days had to tell border patrol not to send anymore for a while so they could clear the ones just brought in. There's not enough processing places, not enough housing, not enough food, not enough of anything to handle that volume of people. The federal government isn't sending near enough help to handle this mass of people.

Closer to the border, the ranchers there can't keep fences up. One guy hired a hand solely to fix fences. That's his job, 24/7. The rancher says he doesn't lock the outbuildings because he can't keep glass in the windows when he does. He has a gun in every room because he's scared to death that he'll be invaded in the night. He's sent his family away, so that they will be safe. This is just one ranch out of thousands along the border dealing with this invasion. He also estimated he needs to spend about $800,000 just to repair the damage done as they come through night after night.

High speed chases are a regular thing here. On the interstate or on back roads. You can get killed going to work by being hit in the rear end.

It's not a problem to you, unless it's on your doorstep.

Likely those living on the border had about as much choice as the Ukraine in having a say about the invasion. I do doubt the Ukrainians would be as barbaric as the Russian troops were though.

Being in the middle of a war as a civilian isn't much fun at all.

There is one other reason Trump is fighting this to delay the investigation. The DOJ normally does not pursue court against political nominees for 60 days prior to the election so they can't be blamed as being political. This is a normal standard and not something that just came up. Trump is right on the verge of hitting that 60 days if he can delay the DOJ.

Why does fmr Pres Trump, by his words and actions, seem to want to slow down, or even stop, the progress in assessing the damage the Unites States has incurred from this disaster?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter
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That's an easy question to partially answer. Trump has his sights set on running again. He want's to be president again. If he's president, all these things go away. He uses the office as a legal shield. He hires and fires till he gets people in that will stop all these investigations. He gets access to more secrets he can later sell. He gets to use the office as an income generator for his private use and the use of his companies.

If he's convicted of violating these government secrets, he's no longer eligible to be president.

If he is president, most of the charges now up, he'll run the clock out on by the time he's back out of office again. Plus being president means he can milk his cult for yet more of that endless stream of money he likes so well.

Wasn't someone who watched Fox News while they were busy preaching to the Trump cult. Haven't been a fan of CNN for a long time, seeing this means I won't be.

While a search needs be done just to satisfy it's not there any more, only a fool would think he'd have left them there after the Mar-a-largo search. There's no telling where those documents are now but to me it would seem unlikely they remained there.

It is the Trump team that demanded a special master. So the bill to pay for this rests with Trump, not the taxpayer.

Sorry can't agree with this statement. It's not a good day when you lose your mother.

I also wonder, whether King Charles will match the high bar his mother set when it comes to being the titular head of royalty.

Pull out Putin.
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Putin isn't going to pull out, it's not his butt on the line. Instead he'll send in prisoners, the aged, and the poor, as cannon fodder.

He'll have to hope the Ukraine runs out of bullets and beans before his troops do.

She's not missing anymore. Sadly she's turned up dead.

So odd there have been a rash of Russians falling from high places over the years.

Yup just co-incidence, could happen to anyone.

...said materials are marked as declassified...

#6 | Posted by tonyroma

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Of which none of the documents shown in the photos had. It appears to me that Trump just took the easy route, saying 'I said so' without actually doing the work required to declassify them. If this is the case, it will hang his butt.

He's also stated he had a standing order about declassifying and documents he took with him. Only no such document showing this has surfaced. Nor are any aware of such a standing order within the security branches. Again, it looks like another 'I said so', without actually following through the process to make it happen.

If such a declassification order existed you can be sure that the security branches would have been very careful about what they allowed him to see.

It ain't over till the fat lady sings. There's plenty of time before he is in campaign to start a court case. The RNC has already said they won't cover his legal expenses involving classified documents. He's on his own on that. So he'll try to drum up his base to send him money.

When he announces his candidacy, the RNC at that time stops funding his legal fees. So he'll have to come up with money elsewhere. Likely he'll try some shady method to move campaign funds into his legal defense, opening up another court case in the use of his campaign funds.

It's interesting that No Truth Antisocial is even up and running considering how much money they owe their provider.

#2 | Posted by Corky
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I agree. None of us would be allowed to run up such a bill without the services already being cut off. At $1.6 million owed the hosting provider, that's a fair bit of change.

Devin is likely still chasing that cow.