In his eyes, in order not to look weak, he scowled most of the time. So he didn't smile either.

So his whining about no smiles in return only means they gave him what he gave them. There were no idol worshipers with in the jury.

His peers are all New York citizens. They've had years to hear of his antics he's done in public in New York.

Walmart and Target have the profit margin where they can afford to drop prices. What does that tell you? It tells you we've been being over charged for years at higher prices than it should have been, all in the name of profit.

It was always a given that Trump would not testify. The media pumped it up as an idea to sell papers. Trump can't tell the truth. He'd lie and be caught in it. One question that would certainly be asked him under oath would have been did he do the payoff.

anyone get past the paywall?

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Those debates aren't really worth watching. Trump will do his usual, which is talk over someone else's time, continually playing wounded duck, ignoring questions to state his own talking points. Even though they will supposedly have mic shutoffs for when it's the other's turn, that won't shut Trump up. Biden will also ignore the questions to state his own talking points. This isn't a debate, it's two people there to push their own brands and the questions are the excuse to have their own time to do so.

His mental state is deteriorating and extended sleep times are supposed to be one of the symptoms of the advanced state. Both candidates are too dang old for POTUS.

The lower grade ranks need a pay raise. Inflation has eaten their earnings and those with families are having a tough time making it. Renting on base, while a choice for the enlisted, always has a long waiting line, leaving then to have to pay the higher rents out on the economy. That leaves not much left to pay utilities and food. Many here are having to depend on the food banks just to make ends meet and they are not doing that well at it, even with the food banks.

What all the media, trying to favor this or that candidate with favorable news can't hide, is that customers in the grocery store are seeing just how expensive things are to buy. Say what you will, but when looking at what you bought for $100 and remembering back what that same $100 bought a few years ago, isn't about what's coming according to news outlets; it's about the today, here and now.

What has happened is there is much less trust in the government offices over the continual stretching of data to announce good tidings. Simply, they don't match what is being seen on main street by average Joe and family.

Trump needs money in the worst way so he doesn't have to spend his own. He's gonna have to spend chunks of it anyway to meet his fines and lawyer fees or face no representation in court. His only way to milk more money is to hold fundraisers. He's already using PAC funds as well as the Republican National piggy bank and has little in comparison to actually campaign with. His one free way of getting his messages out has been trimmed by the courts under gag orders. Given that, he can't point the finger at the witnesses for the prosecution nor the jury to claim how wrong he's been done as the continual victim.

His other problem is he is limited in how far out he can go campaigning, by physically being there, while the judge demands his presence in court over criminal proceedings. As usual, Trump did his daily or more often lies to get some time, anytime, away from the court room to try and drum up money and support.

Projection at it's finest... Dotard claims everyone else is doing what he plans to do should he regain the seat of power.

Greene is finding the Freedom Caucus doesn't have the pull and power it used to have. Congress is about fed up with the antics preventing them from doing their work while the sideshow takes center stage and everything gets put on hold while the latest antics work themselves out. Guess they gonna have to make free bread, the circus has about run it's course.

The Freedom Caucus has achieved one thing, dropping the power of the party as congress critters decide to leave politics, near eliminating the once advantage they had in having the majority.

We've been through homelessness before. It was called Hoovervilles, where folks made shanties out of any material they could scrounge to protect themselves from the weather when the economy got so bad no one could find a job or afford a place to stay. It seems we are once again on the doorstep of such with people living in their vehicles before those vehicles crater, giving them no place to go but the streets. Often those with vehicles also hold jobs, they just don't pay enough to make the cost of living.

The cost of living is too dang high. People are making choices between paying the rent, buying food, paying for the utilities, or paying for the high cost of medicines, to keep them alive. Homelessness is a sign our society is crumbling as we watch and many are just one emergency away from being homeless themselves. When people worry about having a mere $400 set aside for that emergency you know they are on the edge of being homeless themselves.

Renewable resources aren't much of a problem, you can grow/make new more of it. However non-renewable is a different matter, once gone, they don't come back. We face a problem among the many. Those non-renewables are among our most valuable and often irreplaceable elements and materials. They are also highly valued for the use in space. We have sort of deadlines, one for climate change and another for actually making it out of LEO. Some of those non-renewables are in the asteroids. The question is, can we get to them to mine them before we run out of those non-renewables, forever locking us on to this planet, waiting for the inevitable killer asteroid?

Putting up barriers to that effort isn't helping. Musk's trashing LEO should be cause to call him to remove his orbital trash before one of the sinks his attempt to send people to Mars. Already the ISS has to often change to get out of the way of traveling debris, left behind by various countries such as Russia testing the destroying of satellites or China, who seems not to care at all. I guess it will take one of these launches going off course and impacting a major city to get the attention of the world to it's hazards, beyond those actually interested in it today. It's a sad comment on money being more important than survival.

Don't most of them have it anyway? Been a long time since I saw a vehicle with no radio.

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Automakers were removing the AM radio from electric vehicles because electric engines interfere with AM reception. This article is from last year.

Make home loans like school loans? We already see how well that is doing for the students. When they should be nearing a time to buy a home they are still paying for their education loan and have little or nothing saved for a down payment for a house. Going by that, you'll never pay off your mortgage loan as it will be a near endless payment. Thanks but no thanks.

Airlines have long considered once they have your money it's a free loan if they don't provide the service, the refund which they will collect interest on as long as they keep it. You get dropped off at the wrong airport due to weather or other considerations, tough luck for you. Your luggage doesn't show up with you, hey sorry about that, we'll look around for it for a few months before considering paying you. Travel by flight is more a PNA than it's worth unless you just can't get out of it. Our forefathers got their destinations with slower planes faster than we can today with commercial flights with far less hassles.