Now the next round of negotiating will start, to determine what the actual sentence will be. And he doesn't have Trump around to pardon him so he may be motivated to 'make a deal'. This could be bad news for Giuliani, if not Trump himself.

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And if she had been a White women, do you think that it would have even gotten to court?

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We may be getting to experience a bit of this as we're driving up to Salinas (near the Southern end of Monterey Bay) on Sunday to visit our oldest granddaughter and her family, including our new GREAT-grandson Noah, who was born a few weeks ago. We'll also have an early birthday party for our GREAT-granddaughter Marina, who'll be two in November. We'll be driving back on Wednesday, the 27th.

Note that they're also predicting rain for SoCal on Monday, perhaps a residual from this same weather event.

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Perhaps, but it does tell us that NOT a single incident of a Democrat illegally voting for Biden was submitted to Patrick or THAT would have been the one he would have paid off with all the trumpets blaring.

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At least we have to give Dan Patrick credit for putting his money where his mouth is, literally, even if it didn't get the results that he was hoping for.

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Prager reported that he's finally been diagnosed with the COVID, but he says that there's absolutely no chance that he'll be hospitalized since he's had the monoclonal antibody treatment (another guy who somehow thinks that while vaccines are making pharmaceutical companies rich, that this drug isn't). He also said that he's been taking hydroxychloroquine for over a year and had just started using invermectin (I thought he was TRYING to catch the virus in order to acquire 'natural immunity').

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Yes, he'll blame it on the fact that he was distracted trying to overcome the stolen election, failing to realize that the incident took place in 2015, prior to Trump having ever run for any public office.

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Me neither. Mac user since 1985...

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I think this excerpt from the original article is the most telling:

Because consumers were so used to a "frictionless economy" before the pandemic, there was no tolerance for a slowdown in services as businesses opened back up, says Melissa Swift, U.S. Transformation Leader at Mercer, a consulting firm.

Class, she says, also comes into play.

"Technology has insulated the upper classes from the physical labor that enables their lifestyle," she said.

If you notice, most of the "Karen's" out there appear to be from America's upper-class.

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I beat this post by 31 minutes:

While technically, Ron DeSantis could run as Trump's VP in 2024, it's likely that he won't. There's a little known clause in the 12th Amendment which requires that the electors have to actually vote for BOTH the President and the VP, but this clause says that a state's electors can only vote for a single individual from their particular state. So if DeSantis was to run as the VP and the ticket won by a small margin, Florida's electoral votes would only go to Trump and if the margin of victory was less than the number of Florida's electoral votes, the person getting the next highest number would be the VP. In other words, Trump could have a Democrat as his VP.

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I hope no one was surprised.

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SENTINEL, that was 'Adam West' ;-)

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West claims that he didn't get the vaccine because he didn't want to put money in the pockets of 'Big Pharma'. But then he brags about the monoclonal antibody treatment was like a miracle. So it's OK to put $1,200 in the pocket of 'Big Pharma' for the antibody treatment, but it's not OK if Pfizer gets $40 for a couple of doses of their vaccine, eh? And if the monoclonal antibodies was such a big miracle, why did his condition worsen afterwards, to the point where they had to admit him?

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#8 | Posted by saginawmi

Hey Saginaw, are you from Saginaw or just live there?

I worked and lived in Saginaw back in the 70's, before moving to the Left-Coast and settling here in SoCal. BTW, I'm originally from a little town about 2 hours north of Saginaw.

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Perhaps, but the 'Seawolf' class is being superseded by the 'Virginia' class, of which 19 are currently in service, with at least another 19 under construction or on order. While the 'Virginia' class is of newer technology, it was never intended to actually replace the 'Seawolf' class, rather it was designed to replace the 'Los Angeles' class subs of which 28 are still in service with 2 in reserve, but which 31 have already been retired. Currently, there are no plans to retire any of 'Seawolf' class subs as they are a bit unique. They are faster than any other US sub class and they can dive much deeper than other subs as well, nearly twice as deep as either the 'Los Angeles' or 'Virginia' classes.

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'60 Minutes' runs an expose on Facebook and Instagram and the very next day, both of those platforms goes down for several hours. Strange coincidence...

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So military personnel who are stationed overseas during an election year should be disenfranchised, eh?

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Several states have been using ONLY vote-by-mail for years (and a couple of them are DEEP RED states) and there was very little concern expressed up until 2020, and certainly NOT from the effected states. It seemed that some states were objecting to stuff that happened (or was alleged to have happened) in OTHER states, like Texas suing states like Wisconsin and Nevada and Michigan for election practices that Texas was doing themselves. Texas' argument was basically that it was different in Texas. I mean Trump won Texas, but he lost in those other states so the problem must be with them. Oh yea, that's a good argument and yet you wonder why the Supreme Court refused to hear their case.

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It would actually be better if Trump had to defend himself in civil court because you don't need a unanimous jury verdict, the rules of evidence are less rigid and the usual punishment is having to pay a judgement and legal fees. Having to pay money will hurt Trump more than the threat of jail time, both figuratively and literally. Whatever type of court he finds himself, Trump's ego will not allow him to be branded a LOSER.

And with that in mind, material uncovered in criminal trials can be used in civil lawsuits, so any prosecution of Trump underlings could be a gold mine for those who would prefer to use the civil courts to impose their revenge on Trump and the Trump Organization.

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You know, they better be careful. Every time they run one of these 'audits', the margin between Biden and Trump widens. You'd think that they'd get the message by now that this strategy is simply NOT working.

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And now there's a rumor that Weisselberg may have been keeping TWO sets of books. That's not going to go down well:

Legal Expert: Detail In Weisselberg Indictment Could Be Bad News For Trump

According to the New Yorker, the alleged existence of a separate ledger for Trump has caught the eye of legal insiders.

Actually California currently has the LOWEST, of the 50 states, 7-day average of COVID cases and deaths per 100K in population, 42.2 and 0.2 respectively. The national average is 200.8 and 2.8 respectively.

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I wonder if they'll do away with car seat requirements next. And then there's those pesky seat belt laws. Why stop there, lets do away with speed limits and the minimum drinking age. After all, each one of these laws are an infringement of an individual's freedom to do what they damn well please.

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These are the parents of our next generation of Americans...

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