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Me too. But that's all a lot of people can afford. It's still probably safer on a per km basis than riding a scooter. When I was a kid, we rode in the back of pickups all the time. No room for 5 or 6 of us in the cab. But that was before seat belt laws, and 4 door pickups.

Here's another crazy MAGA conspiracy theory that came true. And another MSM fact check that was wrong, during the debate, no less. Violent crime IS up under Harris/Biden. The FBI was lying.

The timing isn't suspicious at all, is it?

I hope her staff members who organized that "opportunity" have their CV's polished up on LinkedIn. If she doesn't fire them after that disaster, the voters will.

You just have to be able to hit the guy on the next barstool...

I'm not sure if Kamala has made the fallacious claim that violent crime is down, but her minions in the MSM sure have. Turns out, the FBI just quietly revised violent crime stats for 2022 and it's actually up. But they didn't mention the revision... Just a few weeks before election day, and after early voting has already started. When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime. But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html

The right is natural born. It's the gub'ment that's limiting the right.

While I agree that there are some good ones coming out, the percentage of stinkers seems to be skyrocketing. Especially the "blockbuster" stinkers, where it's all stuff exploding and people flying and dodging bullets from 14 guys all spraying them with machine gun fire. That's either some mad skill, or hokum. It's bad when I can watch them for free, and I still can't sit all the way through most of them. We used to go to 50+ movies a year when I was a kid, every Friday night. I only walked out on one Disney turd (back in the '70s). Today, I don't make it through over half the new movies.

Let he who has never fallen for the power of the poon, cast the first stone. I've done stoopider, for uglier.

I think they looked at that juicy Biden/Harris war chest and put Harris forward knowing that's the only choice they had to keep that money in play. Little did they know they'd be raising about a $billion, no matter who they put up against The Donald. Had they known, they'd have chosen wiser.

The revision comes after the release of the 2023 UCR data in September, which showed a 3% decrease in national violent crime, according to an FBI press release. The FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) initially showed a slight 2.1% decrease in violent crime from 2021 to 2022, however the revision, which was only briefly mentioned on its website, shows an increase in violent crime of 4.5%, according to RCI.

Speaking of misinformation: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) quietly revised its national crime data for 2022, showing that violent crime actually increased instead of the decrease initially reported, according to RealClearInvestigations (RCI). “I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” Carl Moody, professor at the College of William & Mary who specializes in crime, told RCI. “There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.” The change is only discoverable when downloading the new set of data now and comparing it to the old, with the FBI issuing no statement reflecting the change, RCI reported. The post-release change is similar to the revisions the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does for its jobs numbers, which overestimated the amount of jobs in America in 2023 by an average of 105,000 a month. https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/16/fbi-quietly-revised-violent-crime-data-surge-decrease/

If you feel that way, look on YouTube for a channel called "The Critical Drinker". You'll enjoy it. At least, I do. He has a bunch of videos explaining several causes and aspects of the exact phenomena. Plus, reviews (both good and bad) of most movies coming out, and some reviews of good oldies worth downloading and watching. Be warned. The guy is brutal, and not politically correct.

So how'za bout they lock up all the Dems who fueled 2-1/2 assassination attempts against a candidate with their vitriolic rhetoric? Or the Dems that incited a whole season of mostly peaceful town burnings with their anti-cop rhetoric? Or do you just want to lock up the ones you don't like?

If you put together a few zillionaires that believe the same, it's not hard to imagine they'd get together to come up with a plan to help Mother Nature along.

Here's a sentence that 'splains so much of AN discourse: Age gaps also made a difference in the ratings, with 74% of Democrats aged 65 and older having a fair or great amount of confidence in the media compared to just 31% of Democrats aged 18 to 29. https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/15/trust-media-historic-low/ Doesn't bode well for the MSM's future, nor for the Dems.

And it's showing in the historically low media confidence. Americans’ trust in the mass media has fallen to a record low leading up to the November election, according to a new survey released by Gallup Monday. Around 36% of those surveyed said that they have “no trust at all” in the mass media, while only 31% expressed a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence and 33% expressed “not very much” confidence, according to the Gallup survey. There's good news for old fart Dems: Democrats expressed the highest amount of confidence in the mass media being able to report news “fully, accurately and fairly,” with 54% saying they trust it, according to the survey. Age gaps also made a difference in the ratings, with 74% of Democrats aged 65 and older having a fair or great amount of confidence in the media compared to just 31% of Democrats aged 18 to 29. Not so good news for Dems (or the MSM) when the old farts die out... https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/15/trust-media-historic-low/ (Don't forget to click on the Gallup link in the article) God, it must be great living in that elder Dem echo chamber where 10x as many journalists report the news you like than report the news you don't like. It must be so much easier than living in the real world where we're confronted with news that may not conform to our wishes.

Dollars to donuts, it'll eventually come out that some of this happened in a pizza joint. And another conspiracy theory will become a spoiler alert.

If you have health or girth issues, sure. If you have F..U.. money, fine. When the company was paying, I rode in the front. (Though I'd have gladly taken the difference in cash and rode in cattle class) Most of my bad financial decisions in life started with a few drinks and the internal words "you can't take it with you", or my former favorite "you're only young once". At 67 year of age, I can't recall many decisions I regret to not spend that extra money. I have a lot of regrets over the times I splurged, for that fleeting feeling that lasted an instant in the scheme of things. Oh, the things I could do with that money (plus the years of interest) today.

Kinda confirms that the mRNA's aren't a vaccine in the traditional sense, and historical vaccine platitudes of warm and fuzzy with 30 years of history don't apply. They're an experimental genetic therapy. It remains to be seen how much longer that reality gets squelched.

One of the presidential candidates is promising to look into that epidemic. And it ain't Harris.

If I got busted for $7 of gambling, I'd be putting my mugshot on my Christmas cards to send to friends and relatives. What a hoot. We'd be laughing about it for years.

As much as I enjoy a good nap, the idea of paying $100-$200 an hour extra for a more comfortable seat and a marginally nicer meal just isn't on my list o' stuff I'm willing to spend my money on. I still recall shoveling dog poop for under $1 an hour back in the day. To pay 100x that for a nap? No thanks.

Seems like she don't care much about the lives of illegals, either. Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago as smuggling gangs steer them — exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished — mostly into the hot desert, canyons or mountains west of El Paso, Texas. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-deaths-new-mexico-677a6b57e729ca076a0d12dba31c3b70 But that's a price she's willing to pay if they can swing some states purple or even blue...

https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-protest-new-york-stock-exchange-6be77c4e273165f5b5eb98127a7bc836 https://www.rt.com/news/605732-pro-palestine-jewish-protest-israel-us-weapons/ I'll give you a hint. One of the sources names the organizers. Jewish Voices for Peace. The other one? Nope. I wonder if it's still anti-Semitism?