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So you have to make somebody else the enemy? Weird. It's funny that opioid deaths peaked under Trump in 2018 and dropped under Biden in 2023. I guess your plan only works when there is a Democrat in the Whitehouse? :confused: And most people understand that the people who do the mass shootings at the places their care about (where their kids go to school) are different than the people who do the mass shootings at the places where they do not care about. But you can't understand that for some odd reason. Edit: But the real truth is that mass shootings at schools are actually rare events that get far more coverage than they deserve based on their frequency. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2023/01

:rolleyes: So? White people make up 68.8% of the Portland according to your link and 61.4% nationally according to the 2020 census. Blacks make up 12.4 percent of the U.S. population and 5.6 percent of the Portland population. Blacks are under-represented in Portland and super underrepresented in Oregon and whites are over-represented both places. So why the high white misery index there?

All action, no bullshit. He's the man. Glad you and WP are hanging in there.

While I hold no bile for Israel, I think we Americans as better served disengaging from them. Those people chose to establish a state in that place, let them defend it. I wish them all best luck, but I'm not interested in paying for any of it. And Ukraine can just go fuck off. Much as I despise the Russians, I can see things from Putin's point of view and why he may have thought it necessary to put the kybosh to Ukraine's designs on becoming a NATO member. As screw NATO as well, the rotten pricks.

See how much more adult and civil that is than, unhappy lad, get that twist out of your knickers?

A civil and adult conversation tends to avoid a paternalistic tone. Try to tell me that you've never once in your life bridled at such an elementary suggestion and I'll happily call you a liar. The funny thing is, you've participated in the thread. You've critiqued my own answers to that question you think I haven't asked. You know I've asked myself that question. Have for months. As we age and our memories get weaker, it's wise of us to pause and consider that we can no longer be certain people haven't already tried our suggestions -- and we already know they have (at least on a good day). They call things like that aging gracefully. And such habits make all conversation more civil. Some consider it the very difference between conversing with and preaching at.

Hell yes! Happy to know I helped in a very small way. You, too, can enjoy that feeling by PMing AF and getting the Venmo! Rather than donating to the United Way or Red Cross, or some other agency that will use it to send their CEO on lavish trips with 5 course luxury meals, you can help real people help real people!! I URGE YOU ALL TO PITCH IN! We may have an election to look forward to, but we can still do moneybombs to bring relief to our type of people!

Wow you really are an unhappy lad, so to help you we will say that you're smarter than I, and a better person. I sincerely hope this makes you feel better, because attempting to have a civil and adult conversation with you apparently does not.

Hmmm... Panel saw is indeed a good thing to have, but I'm not at all convinced that dumping the table saw is a good idea. But what do I know? :)

The advantages: limited liability and the protection of a corporate veil. Disadvantages: You become visible to Sauron and subject to his whim.

Definitely a good market. Shit place to live, but if you're OK with it... :) So far, so good. That's not necessarily true, but his point is taken well in any event. Since I got old and nobody will talk to me about me as engineer, I have gone from $300+/hr to 20 working on a construction crew with my friend Roger. We are drowning in work. We do NO advertising. Our reputation is sterling. We do top flight work and we don't exercise the customer's sphincter. Word of mouth can be very effective advertising.

A handy object lesson for those who refuse to believe Israel and its stooges can really be so hypocritical as to blithely say the opposite of what their bosses really want. https://x.com/AmazingZoltan/status/1842335994353537460 1842335994353537460 It's called a psyop, kids.

There's no mousetrap like a hunter/seeker mousetrap with non-artificial intelligence and a highly sensitive sensory array. They're decorative, too. And affectionate.

I'd rather ask what makes you presume I haven't. Especially when I have a multiple page thread full of my speculation on that very subject on this very site. What's more, I think mine makes more sense. It's based on historical precedent -- a number of them, but particularly the Biennio Rosso, which brought Mussolini to power.

Mice? HA! We hve Dot the Destroyer. She was a minuscule kitten and we thought she might not live. We loved her healthy and she is the scariest hunter on the planet. She's an assassin. Shen she was maybe three months old and less than two pounds, she'd come home with barn rats nearly as large as she. She brings home mice and rats every single day and dumps them either in the kitchen or the master.

We're over a year. The birds provide eggs. We are LOUSY with deer, so I could fill the freezer with venison if I were so inclined, which I am not. I will wait for doomsday for that. We have about 150 square feet of pantry and it is full, if a mite chaotic in terms of actually finding what you seek. But if you have to go a year, you know things are way bad and all our lives will then have become very different.

I can still go all night until she begs... Oh wait, wrong thread. Sorry.

Reminds me. I have several rifles I need to sight in - an AR10, a .338 bolt gun, a pair of 17 HMRs, my 338 Spectre (AR), and I need to reconfirm the zero on my M1A match rifle. So much to do, so little time. And I need to build the fookin' greenhouse.

And now ask yourself why. Consider that as stupid as lefties tend to be, functionally speaking, they are nonetheless very clever and crafty. I had a neighbor whose daughter had been poisoned with chlordane dust - long story. Lisa was functionally retarded, but boy oh God was she ever slick. She was unable to tell time, but she could machinate and manipulate and get what she wanted. Thus we find it with lefties in general, Democrats in specific to this discussion. They are functional retards who are adept and scheming and fucking around. My suspicion is that the Democrats know they are in a corner in a very broad sense. Everything they have worked toward has failed wildly. Whether they believe in their own bullshit remains a matter of speculation. But either they do, or everything we see is a put on for the sake of peddling a deeper evil. The results remain the same. In their case, the results have been and stand to become further disastrous. They see this. They see that we the great majority are becoming significantly perturbed by it all and that if thing come to a head with Democrats at the helm, we may not be particularly kind to them. Being the filthy cowards that they are, not to mention pragmatists who are hell bent to have their vision realized, they understand that when this thing flies apart as it eventually must, they do not want to be in the position for blame to reach them. And so they put the most absurd stooge imaginable up for candidacy, along with another nitwit as her running mate. In the meanwhile, the current administration goes pedal to the metal to sow as much wild insanity as is possible just in time for Trump to inherit an utter disasterland. I'd suspect the thinking is that the Democrats see themselves as standing at the corner of "You're Fucked" and "We're Gonna Have Our Pound of Flesh". They are now strategically retreating to avoid plausible culpability. But that's not all. Buy in the next five minutes and receive a double whammy! The whammy here, to the considered benefit of the left will be that Democrats, having lost, will be able to wail, moan, and gnash their teeth most noisily over Trump. They can assume the role of victim, something at which they hold some non-trivial experience and expertise. They will almost certainly claim election interference and fraud, and will say Trump stole the election, wholly ignoring their previous howlings of "conspiracy theories" and "election interference" when Trump made the same assertions in 2020. And ANYTHING that goes wrong, regardless of how inconsequential and irrelevant can be blown out of proportion (sky's falling) and pinned on Trump. Now get this twist. Imagine that rather than flipping votes for Harris, they actually do so for Trump, guaranteeing his win. Not only do the Democrats dodge the bullet, they then have the opportunity to go on the offensive by suddenly getting all religious and shit over "election integrity". "We've conducted an exhaustive forensic investigation of the election results and have found at least twenty five million falsified ballots, every last one in favor of Donald Trump. This could be used as impeachment material. It could be used to gin up anger, rage, and ultimately violence on several fronts. It would certainly be used to put a spotlight on Trump, call is integrity into question, and perhaps see him off to Gitmo for a tribunal and the rope. I put NOTHING past Themme, Democrat OR Republican, the latter of whom have plenty to fear from a second Trump administration if the Donald is to be taken at his word regarding draining the swamp. Thousands, perhaps far more, stand to go to prison and I daresay that a great raft stand to face the gallows, as they ought.

Oh, on his "...if you suspend the Constitution and appoint Me Dictator For Life" agenda. Forty More Years! Remember, before he does anything else he's got to build the FBI a yuge, beeautyful new palace before they try to shoot him again! That'll probably eat up the entirety of his first Next Four Years all by itself. I mean, we already know he will screw us all to save his own hide. SS already told us about several instances where he already did. We're going to be hearing a lot more, "The Prime Alpha Male had to do that because he was afeared of Hitlery's Suicide Squad!!" out of the Trumpscuse Brigade before we're through.

Here's my counter point. You spend a hell of a lot more time trying to paint as negative of a picture about black people than you do actually advocating for white people in need. Look in the damn mirror. You want something done for the homeless white people in Oregan? Start advocating for the homeless white people in Oregon. Usually what you trying to pass off as "advocating for white people" is not advocating for white people but instead attacking people of other races. That's your problem. If Larry Bird said "There are a lot of white people caught up in the opioid crisis, just like there were black people strung out on crack before, therefore we need to do something about drug treatment and not act like it's just a black problem" nobody at all would have a problem with that. Even if he left out any mention of black people and just talked about all of the white people on drugs who need help, nobody would have a problem with that. But you want to pretend your shyt don't stink, act like your problem is black people, and then complain that it's not "respectable" to talk about the problems of white people. Why was it left up to me to point out that white homeless people are the ones living like they are in the third world and not the hard working, not on drugs, saving their money and fixing up dilapidated homes in Springfield Ohio Haitians? And guess what? Joe BIden deported more Haitians than Trump! https://quixote.org/biden-has-deported-nearly-as-many-haitians-in-his-first-year-as-the-last-three-presidents-combined Biden has expelled nearly as many Haitians in 12 months (20,200+) as were deported during the previous 20 years (22,000-23,000)*** under three different presidents. Indeed, Biden’s administration has likely expelled far more: In addition to these official removal numbers, another estimated 8,000 Haitians were expelled back into Mexico in September of 2021, voluntarily according to DHS Secretary Mayorkas, but in circumstances that make that characterization suspect. And no, they didn't get let back in. Compare the treatment for the Haitians with the treatment for the Ukrainians with Biden's "United For Ukraine" program. https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine

Why, yes, the Democrats really are purposely trying to lose this election.

Don't see why not. Like seniors and Medicare, they charge us so much in taxes we can't afford to also buy something that works right. But be advised...

As I understand it ending the fed is on his agenda, immediately following eliminating world hunger, ending poverty and curing cancer. Give the guy a break! He can’t do EVERYTHING all at once you know.

Forever is a long time to expect the guy to refrain from running his mouth. After all...

According to Trump, the very purpose of his tariffs is to prop up the petrodollar. Doesn't sound like he has the slightest intention of ending the Fed, does it?