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No I did not.

Working Poor Try this - https://www.wgbh.org/search?q=jazz+decades&s=0 The Classical station I mentioned earlier had a four hour Saturday night classic jazz program that was outstanding, I have failed to find any of it online. But WGBH's Jazz Decades was almost as good.

A beautiful story to accompany a beautiful piece. The proper work at the proper time can pierce the soul and, to quote F. Murray Abraham: "these were compositions from a trained monkey. This was God, speaking directly to me, through those measured half notes." Do you know the story being told in this opera?

People are starting to get off their asses, and the clown show is the reason why. Reinstalling Trump is more likely to cause them to sit their lazy asses down again. That's why Trump is being set up to pull down an honest, undeniable landslide, so we will sit down and do nothing while they build FEMA camps. If not, I do think that the swamp will drain him. Regardless of whether he goes in intending to drain it, he will have to. Deciding not to could be the last thing he ever does.

Yes you did.

FTFY. I'll give you through 2019, but 2020 was an unmitigated disaster. Race riots, lockdowns, spending fiascos, suspension of civil liberties, election rigging, censorship... On all his watch. If we can't expect better than that, it's time for the bunker.

I do not expect to get better results or different results than 2016-2020. Right now I'll settle for no wars, some regulation relief, and transqueeers not running around naked on the White House lawn, and just another day to try and get my fellows citizens off their collective asses and do something. At this rate, if nothing changes, we'll all be silenced or in prison in another four years.

That's what I have been saying all along is the fallacy of MAGA. Politicians did not make America great in the first place, and as it has cycled up and down, they were never the ones who made it great again. You think Trump sucks at picking only the best people. I think he picked the team that would do what he wanted to do. Either way, it doesn't matter much. Government needs purged. Trump is not the hand grenade so many people thought he was in 2016. He didn't even rise to the level of a monkey wrench in the Deep State works. Reinstalling him and expecting a different result looks to me like collectively living the definition of insanity. Will RFKJr. do better? That's something we don't already know. But we do know that he, very much unlike Trump, Must Not Be Named. And I came away from 2008 and 2016 considering that a very good sign. Another pair of signs I see also gives me food for thought. Trump has not only demonstrated a willingness (maybe even a desire) to resort to draconian measures, and his base loves him for it. They accept the necessity of draconian actions when he does them without question and treat anyone who does ask questions the way liberals treat dissenters.

In 2012 there were 1.14 people killed per 100 million VMT. The estimated fatality rate for 2023 is 1.26. 1.14 is more than 1.26. Yes, it has fallen from 2022 rate, and I already noted that. Come back and call me an asshole in five years, if those trends continue.

There's no disputing that Kennedy is correct here. Trump did all those things and more, furthermore, for supposedly being this ace business man who knows how to build winning teams and appoint quality subordinates, he is one of the worst I have ever seen. That said, even though he may be attacking "from the right", Kennedy is no conservative, populist, or an "American Firster". I do not need a "leader", what I need is a representative, a mouthpiece. I know what needs to be done in my life and the life of my country.

Sounds good.

And even if there are more drivers, that doesn't mean there is more driving. As OPEC taught us in 1974.

The great thing about having my first principles straightened out is it's easy to make absolutely correct snap judgments. This is all I need to know, straight from his pen: There are only two majority opinions on this. The first position is you never defund a government program, at all. Maybe there's a need sometimes for an external entity like an uber-powerful superpower to invade and topple your government and put in all new programs that will never be defunded, but the idea of removing funding from a program is otherwise anathema. The second position is you call for defunding a program you really don't like, and score some political points off of calling for defunding, but never actually tie it off. So it's the same as the first position but with some lie theater to advance some parasite's personal lot in life. Both positions are abhorrent and we've seen both expressed in articles in this thread. I didn't read the whole article and I don't need to - he's clearly in the first category, and that's all I need to know.

Obviously he can tell baldfaced lies in order to combat what he considers misinformation. Remind you of anyone in the news?

The DC area NPR affiliate does pretty well with their playlists, but there's still the Saturday afternoon opera. I love classical music, even going into some of the modernist stuff, but opera, in general, may as well be Noh theater to me. As my dad used to say: hours of caterwauling with a nice aria in between. Then one beautiful spring Saturday morning last year, I was inexpertly making up some way-too-strong CBD oil from a not-low THC strain and accidentally licked my fingers before going to Hobby Lobby. And while I was sitting in the parking lot too scared to go inside, I heard this: I had one of those moments of profound beauty that was carved into my entire soul for life, and NPR's crappy programming was responsible. I can't hate on it entirely.

That is where your error is. Just because there are more people, does not mean there are more drivers. In fact, licensed drivers have decreased at times, even as the population grows. There were a total of 228,195,802 licensed drivers in the US in 2020, a decrease of 0.21% or 483,917 licensed drivers from 2019. By 2023 estimated growth grew again, but only by 2 percent.

Using per capita is an inaccurate way of measuring fatalities or accidents. We have more people in the country, but more and more do not drive, especially young people. You measure them the same way you measure air traffic or rail fatalities, by miles traveled. But my source, wiki collecting NTSB data, directly contradicts yours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

One thing's certain. There's a whole lot of room to the right of Trump from which to attack him.

Combatting misinformation is important, but the truth isn't. Neat.

And neither side will ever mention that Trump assassinated a general of a country we're not at war with, while the general was officially visiting another country we're not at war with. It doesn't really matter who he was or what he was doing - if those were facts on the ground, that's the sort of thing that not very long ago in history would have invited reprisals like collecting all the hands and feet of everyone in an entire city and throwing them in a pile and watching them all bleed out. If there's one thing Trump did during his presidency, it was to show that Iran is absolutely not the boogeyman everyone thinks they are. If they were, they had every casus belli they needed to be the worst boogeyman they could be on that occasion.

First off, Ron doesn't want tariffs. He'll accept low, uniform tariffs as a less obtrusive alternative to other forms of taxation. To state that he wants them is wholly disingenuous. Secondly, the purpose of low, uniform tariffs is NOT to give an advantage to domestic producers. That's what protectionist tariffs desire. And they attempt to accomplish that at the expense of the American consumer. The purpose of low, uniform tariffs on all imports, regardless of product or nation of origin, is to provide the federal government with some minimal operating revenue so they don't have to resort to other forms of wealth extraction from the American public (income taxes, debt, currency devaluation). You can't just say all tariffs are the same and Ron wants them. That's a demonstrable lie.

They are the best vaccines ever, huge success, fastest vaccines of all time, truly outstanding vaccine, ask anyone

CaptUSA has been there, done that, and it went in one of your ears and whooshed right back out the other at the speed sound travels in air. You don't even seem to have noticed. You repeat yourself like a spammer. I don't.

Well, boys, we've reduced him to spamming like a cracked vinyl record again. Suppose he really thinks spamming us will cause us to unsee the difference between uniform tariffs and protectionist tariffs? Suppose he really thinks spamming us will cause us to unsee the fact that tariffs couldn't possibly raise the amount of money Trump gave Big Pharma to poison us?

You sound just like the girls who search for sale coupons and spend $79 for something they don’t need just to save $2 with money they don’t have :tears:

It's what people who don't have a leg to stand on always do. The Swordsmyth Two Minute Hate Hour is always amusing, in a sad, ironic sort of way.

I always think "Sword Swallower", but SS is both apropos and easier to type.

And how do you propose to make that happen? Ron Paul is weaker than you because he has been in Congress and tried to really do real things, while you are almighty like every armchair quarterback. Only thing is, he lives in the real world. You just go around accusing others of having unrealistic theories, while shoveling your own. Did the word "uniform" go in one of your eyes and out the other? Wasn't there anything in between to slow it down?