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I'm pleased to see that she was confirmed. Of Trump's candidates, she and RFK, Jr looked like the highest risk of not having the votes.

With a lot of overtime, yes. It's been awhile, so I don't know what the base pay is. But roughnecks don't work 40 hours a week on drilling or workover crews (actually on the rigs). They work long hours, when there's work. The crew that his son was hurt on were roustabouts, who do day to day maintenance. Those hours range all over the map. The show conflated the 2, where the roustabouts were also doing roughneck work. That wasn't common when I was there in the '80s, '90s and very early 2000's. May be now, and maybe someone with more recent experience can chime in and correct me.

Just finished watching Season 1 of Landman, with Billy Bob Thornton. Having lived and worked in the oilfields of Midland, Texas, they got a lot of things right, even if it was way overblown. But nobody'd watch it if it was 100% realistic. Worth a watch, 10 episodes. BBT is always great. Looks like they're shooting for a 2nd season with the cliffhanger. (Or maybe you had to be there to enjoy the show)

How quickly things change. A year or 2 ago, supporting Trump in any form, on any venue and even in real life would have gotten you canceled, censored, ostracized and even arrested. I remember a couple of guys coming off a fishing charter walking into our beach neighborhood's barbeque with MAGA hats on, and the lefties complained about feeling threatened, and some even left the picnic. Kudos to the guys who took their hats off just to keep the peace. No yelling, no threats, no theatrics. They just wanted to get along... Unity and all. That's the difference. To the MAGAs, we're all Americans, neighbors, and fellow human beings.

I get a big kick out of those interweb videos where they film judges who publicly claim that women should stay in the home and other ridiculous beliefs. Some of them have been disbarred, some not... Those are the kind the Dems are finding with their venue shopping. Some low level hack of a district judge in Fish Shack Arkansas, dictating what the elected President can and can't do. It's going to be fun watching liberals cry when these get to the Supreme Court.

Maybe if he didn't have to fight the Dems at every turn in kangaroo district courts...

Not all socialists are lazy. A lot of them did (and are still doing) all kinds of mental gymnastics to push ridiculous narratives, when an ounce of common sense would have saved them a ton of effort. Like those who are claiming that finding corruption is so much worse than committing corruption. But I get your point...

They actually do have some great potential candidates. The Dem Elite won't run them. Because they won't kiss Pelosi's ring or Obama's butt.

Next, they're going to blame Trump for the surge in Google searches in Washington DC for "criminal defense lawyers". Oh wait. That may be his fault. True or not, that one's making the rounds in the wingnut conspiracy spoiler alert websites. What a hoot.

The MSM would like you to forget how wrong they were, and why. So I agree. It's not a nothing burger. It's a reminder to use your noggin when you're being fed information, especially from people being paid (by USAID as it turns out) to feed it to you. Whatever side you're on.

The Harris Biden administration was the perfect example of that.

I'm just suggesting that maybe the right thing to do here is to answer the guy's question. Or just say you don't know the answer. Which most of us do by simply not posting anything snide or demeaning.

Now watch. Dollars to donut holes, the true numbers will come out and they'll blame it on the Bad Orange Man and Musk.

I'd guess he's in a hotel and doesn't have a printer and it's not always easy to find a print shop in a foreign country with signs in, for example, Korean. That would be my reason to ask if I needed to make that extra effort.

Next will be the consenting adults suing OnlyFans for luring them into exposing themselves on the interwebs for money and ruining their lives.

It was written in Feb, 2025, discussing the upcoming 2024 election? That's AI gone berserk. Or is it a time warp?

And they call us the "low information" voters.

I've been having good luck with HOCO brand products recently (Post-Covid). That may be dumb luck and I may have just jinxed it. I've been buying their earbuds, chargers, power banks and USB cables and have been very satisfied. So far. A few years back, I was wandering around some back alleys in Bangkok and stumbled across a group in a doorway with a crate full of bulk USB cables and a big pile of the small boxes they come in. The small packaging had all kinds of different well known brands and logos. The workers were taking the same USB cables and packaging them into whatever boxes they had orders for. So I'm afraid there's some luck of the draw in there. At least there was a few years back. I can't imagine it's magically different today. I suspect HOCO has been working out okay because nobody's bothering to pirate them, yet. But that's a guess. They advertise being out of Hong Kong, but who really knows? Fingers crossed, they've been good for me. On a related topic, I recommend buying a couple of USB cable testers to see if your cables are charging at full amperage and your chargers are putting out the right voltage. I identified quite a few component problems with them. I like the Uni-T brand, but there are many others, some dirt cheap. I can't seem to post a clickable link but you can search Lazada for UNI-T UT658A or something similar. Get the USB cable testers, not the network cable testers that come up when searching for USB Cable Testers on Lazada. I'd buy 2 so you can always test them against each other to see if they're still working right.

As I understand it, if you pick up the call at all, your number goes into a database of live numbers that they can sell on.

I kinda like the pigeon laws. 20,000 baht fine if you're caught feeding them. (At least that's what the sign said). And I've never been attacked by a pigeon like I have by feral dogs, on several occasions. Maybe double that 20K fine to account for the danger. Donate the fine money to the local temples so the feeders can really make merit.

I don't know that one. I'll look into that. Thanks.

Nobody deserves that. She deserved to be dumped. Not beaten.

Is too. But thanks for your insightful contribution.

Harris was just a symptom.

We were paying attention. Come back when you can explain the legal issues behind the judge's instructions to the jury related to the charges underlying the felonies. You don't have to agree with the issues. Just prove to us that you understand what they are. Otherwise, you're just parroting the lefty MSM. Edit: And if you want bonus points, explain to us why the judge was right...