What I want to know is what’s up with two-name first names like Mary Jo or Betty Lou. Did that happen before or after the invention of middle names?

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He was found guilty of 37 felonies. Pretty hard to keep the “it’s a conspiracy they’ll never find him guilty” point when “they” (the justice system) already did.

Gotta say, I don’t think we need Chappell Roan to weigh in. It’s one thing for like Taylor Swift who is a major cultural figure. We don’t need every person with a hit song to weigh in.

If it puts NC in play at a presidential level, that’s where it gets interesting. Only 3 fewer electoral votes than Pennsylvania, same number as Georgia. Could be a big swing.

Truly the avatar of free speech right there.

Wow I had no idea the subscription was that much. He mentioned it in a video without saying the price and I still wouldn’t do it.

This post doesn’t have a date on it because it’s from like 2010. They’ve moved on to saying the same things about trans people.

If he chickens out, or succeeds and gets away, he can come back for the letter and no one will know. If he is apprehended, the appropriate letter will be found. Only situation he doesn’t seem to have planned for is succeeding but getting apprehended anyway.

In closing, Carthage must be destroyed.

-Trump the Elder

DeSantis was trying to win the 2024 Republican nomination with Covid response as his centerpiece. So he appointed a nutjob to the role.

Nut job is just proceeding to nutjob.

It really doesn’t look like him. The hair can only do so much, it looks more like JFK than Trump.

Why is Tim Ryan our go-to for an opinion on this? What a pull.

I don’t know if it was ever confirmed that he shot the gun.

He was already polling poorly and while it’s basically tied in the polling, it’s 47-47 and Trump won the state by a point in 2020 so the undecideds probably lean his way.

I tend to think a scandal of some other person can’t hurt a presidential campaign that much, mostly just enthusiasm. So no, I don’t think it will tank the Trump Campaign.

Gut says it moves from toss-up leaning Trump to true 50/50 toss-up.

Is this like the one public domain picture of Musk or does he just always wear that coat? That’s the real question.

The sticky part is that the key difference between cheating and an open relationship is consent, so the app/site itself doesn’t change anything, his partner’s knowledge and acceptance of his use of the app/site does.

Speaks to character, if you run as a “family values” candidate while cheating on your spouse. It’s not inherently disqualifying, especially compared to self identifying as a Nazi, but it’s not something that the press or the people should ignore.

“What people do in the sheets” rhetoric is for stuff like kinky sex or being gay…nobody should care if he likes getting pegged. Nobody should care if he has an open relationship. Nobody should care that he likes trans porn, which he said he does. The problem with cheating is the character concern of caring about your wants no matter who it hurts. That is a bad characteristic for a political leader.

There should really be a redistribution gas tax, another dollar per gallon on gas which then goes back split evenly to every American. Incentivizes less gas usage while avoiding the regressive nature of a sales tax. Canada has something like this.

Ruinous politically so it would never happen but it would be a good plan.

Pagers were precursors to cell phones, there’s a little screen and it buzzes but the primary purpose is just to tell you to call someone.

Hezbollah is a political party / paramilitary group in Lebanon, aligned with Iran against Israel. And Lebanon shares a border with Israel so a famously fraught relationship there and it has only gotten worse since October. They use pagers because the Israeli intelligence agency is notoriously good and they would likely hack any cell phone.

Speaking of which, Israeli intelligence planted bombs in pagers sold to Hezbollah by a 3rd party over the last 2 years, and recently detonated the bombs, killing or wounding many members of Hezbollah. Also an Iranian ambassador.