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Spin Zone / Re: Charlie Kirk Shot
« on: September 10, 2025, 02:27:04 PM »
This feels like what our parents must have felt when JFK was shot.
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Spin Zone / Re: Where’s Becky?
« on: November 16, 2024, 08:49:56 PM »
I’m so sorry about this, Becky. You have our prayers. I understand worry. (Having had the big C 13 years ago, every little ailment in my mind is cancer until proven otherwise. It’s irrational but it’s also debilitating.).
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 14, 2024, 04:39:30 PM »Could be the way house districts are defined. The overall population of the state went for Trump, but the urbans kept their democrats and the rurals kept their republicans. Not enough urbans moved to republican to change the color of the seat. However, given that I would have expected more senate seats to change.Apparently the state legislatures aren’t allowed to pick legislative districts if democrats can scream “gerrymander!”
In Wisconsin, the now lib state Supreme Court basically gave the governor free rein to redraw the district maps. In 2024 - 4 years past the fucking census.
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Spin Zone / Re: 11 Nov - thank you for your service
« on: November 14, 2024, 09:34:21 AM »Just imagine what that $150billion plus we wasted on Ukraine would have done to help our veterans.Pete Hegseth said that we’ve been funding nothing better than a draw in Ukraine, so we need to end that war ASAP. Ukraine will not to win, despite the MIC’s wishes for another perpetual war.
Or the billions we waste on the illegals.
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 13, 2024, 08:26:54 PM »Whoa!!! Matt Gaetz as AG.Lot of traffic on X. This is a summation of what I’m reading. Gaetz resigned from Congress today. Why today? On Friday the House ethics committee is meeting on Friday into allegations of child sex trafficking. This ends with his resignation.
Then I saw a listing of Republicans explicitly NO, Likely NO, and leaning NO on Gaetz’ nomination. So far there are 12 - Collins, Murkowski, Cornyn, McConnell, Tillis, Young, Cassidy, Curtis, Graham, Britt, Ernst, and Grassley.
Can this be a move to get him out of Trump’s sphere altogether?
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 13, 2024, 05:25:23 PM »But I thought Trump was supposed to be a misogynist and afraid to be around strong women.Unlike Kameltoe, NONE of these women are DEI hires. They are hired based on merit.
I wonder if that means that Kristi, Tulsi, Elise and Susie (as Chief of Staff).
I don't think any of those are considered weak and submissive. But that's what the MSM claims, so it must be true.
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 13, 2024, 03:00:36 PM »Whoa!!! Matt Gaetz as AG.Yea, I don’t know about this one. Seems like an unserious pick, unless it’s to send a message that he is going to go scorched earth with Justice.
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 13, 2024, 02:59:12 PM »Tulsi for Director of National Intelligence. Good choice. Cabinet-level position. The CIA statutorily reports to her, and all other intelligence agencies report to the DNI, though DNI doesn’t have budgetary authority over them. It’s a little confusing.From X:
Great choice though.
TG: I’m on a government watch list.
DJT: Wanna be their boss?
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 13, 2024, 01:46:29 PM »
Tulsi for Director of National Intelligence. Good choice. Cabinet-level position. The CIA statutorily reports to her, and all other intelligence agencies report to the DNI, though DNI doesn’t have budgetary authority over them. It’s a little confusing.
Great choice though.
Great choice though.
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Spin Zone / Re: 2024 Election Night Live Thread
« on: November 13, 2024, 12:43:09 PM »Then why did Trump get an increased number of votes in every one of those minority categories if the MAGA side hates them so much?
These people are so deluded. They just keep lapping up the MSM lies about MAGA being bigots.
Exactly.
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 13, 2024, 09:00:23 AM »Perhaps this explains that:Interesting. That avoids having Congress approving of a new department, and the delays of confirmation. I wonder how Trump negotiates the Constitutional question of a department outside of the Executive branch.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-will-lead-department-government-efficiency-2024-11-13/
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 13, 2024, 08:58:09 AM »DeSantis is a solid choice, too. But if the trend is to put up the current VP up on the next election, I don't see DeSantis running as VP for Vance.I was as big of a DeSantis supporter as anyone, but I do think JD Vance brings an element of realness that DeSantis may lack. I was against JD as his pick early on, but I was wrong. He is brilliant.
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 13, 2024, 08:55:23 AM »From my perspective as a current resident of SD and former resident of OR, CA, and MN I can compare first hand how she fared compared to other governors. She has done quite well and IMVHO she is up to the job. More so than, say, Janet Napolitano was.My perception is that she is a climber, and tried to embellish her record to impress Trump. For example, embellishing meeting with Kim Jong Un. I also saw a fairly disastrous interview with Stuart Varney. There’s also her alleged affair with Corey Lewandowski. I thought she was climbing for VP and was damaging Trump’s brand in the process. Why would he want to deal with that potential controversy?
Anyway, what specific actions or statements of hers can you cite that trash her entire career being buffoonery?
I appreciated that she didn't impose mask mandates nor state-wide lockdowns when nearly every other governor did and made a simple but elegant libertarian explanation for why she chose not to exercise such powers.
Obviously Trump didn’t ask her to be Veep, but also apparently isn’t concerned about such things as I was at that time, given her nomination to DHS.
She also has no military or law enforcement experience, which I would think is necessary for DHS.
Perhaps Trump put her in there to dismantle the agency, which I would totally support. In that case it was a good move.
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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump Cabinet
« on: November 12, 2024, 04:05:55 PM »Kristi Noem - Homeland SecurityI hope that’s just a trial balloon. She’s not up to that job, and is kind of a conservative buffoon. Plus, she was pretty and destroyed her face with plastic surgery.
Rumor has Vivek replacing Vance in the Senate
