Its your pattern dude, you lie all the time................and yes, he was a registered republican, another lie you want to perpetuate. You're on maga brand my dude........lies on top of lies And as I said I don't give a rat's ass if he is an r or a d, dude had mental issues to do that but just like your maga base, you want to blame it on everyone else, but you just cant have a normal conversation without the lies
Haha. Let's have a normal conversation. How do you think the convention is going so far? I hope you are having a good day.
Do you really, really hope in your heart of hearts that @ROCKSS is having a good day? I think you might be telling a little white lie.
Agree with calm down. But from a distance, it's been really weird to see people argue about this kid's "politics" at age 20. It's pretty weird to paint him as a "liberal" from what we know (even though most people are more liberal than conservative at that age), but it's even stranger to think a Republican Trump fan (the family had yard signs, you see!) would, um, try to kill the guy. In terms of unity, I agree with you again. There is strong Republican unity for those still calling themselves Republican. But the person they're uniting behind is truly a unsavory dude. Just ask tons of his former colleagues or look honestly at his history. I mean, I say that without as much judgment as you might think. Just an odd time. Trump is a genius at getting attention and has worked the attention media economy better than anyone ever has. It's incredible (and terrifying) to watch, b/c I think he's a totally selfish creep show. But here we go, heading for round two, unless grandpa Joe puts his addled ego aside.
I'll be glad when the shitshow stops airing during my morning pre-work routine. It just pisses me off to see such a vast majority of people manipulated by a conman, you being one of them.
RNC raffle offers same type of gun that shot Trump as prize A Daniel Defense assault rifle is available at an outdoor space designated as “ConventionFest," the news outlet reported. A convention vendor called the U.S. Concealed Carry Association is sponsoring the giveaway. The brand of AR-15 used at Trump's rally wasn't immediately known. Daniel Defense rifles were used in the Uvalde school shooting, and several were discovered in an arsenal belonging to the Las Vegas shooter, the news outlet noted.
Raffling off a weapon designed to shoot multiple quickly is so disgusting. No telling what kind of nutcase gets the gun.
I understand. Sometimes I just take a break from the political talking heads and watch sportscenter or listen to the local sports guys. I hope your week gets better. Like Nikki said, you don't have to agree with everything the guy does to support him. I still wish she would have garnered more support.
These are the same weirdos who whip up angry mobs to kill some random person with pink hair: @tinman @AroundTheWorld @Os Trigonum
What the actual **** is the Teamsters president doing at the RNC? It's like a black dude at a Klan rally.
The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In the United States, as in most other countries, weather forecasts are a freely accessible government amenity. The National Weather Service issues alerts and predictions, warning of hurricanes and excessive heat and rainfall, all at the total cost to American taxpayers of roughly $4 per person per year. Anyone with a TV, smartphone, radio, or newspaper can know what tomorrow’s weather will look like, whether a hurricane is heading toward their town, or if a drought has been forecast for the next season. Even if they get that news from a privately owned app or TV station, much of the underlying weather data are courtesy of meteorologists working for the federal government. Charging for popular services that were previously free isn’t generally a winning political strategy. But hard-right policy makers appear poised to try to do just that should Republicans gain power in the next term. Project 2025—a nearly 900-page book of policy proposals published by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation—states that an incoming administration should all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under which the National Weather Service operates. Donald Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, but given that it was largely written by veterans of his first administration, the document is widely seen as a blueprint for a second Trump term. NOAA “should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories,” Project 2025 reads. The proposals roughly amount to two main avenues of attack. First, it suggests that the NWS should eliminate its public-facing forecasts, focus on data gathering, and otherwise “fully commercialize its forecasting operations,” which the authors of the plan imply will improve, not limit, forecasts for all Americans. Then, NOAA’s scientific-research arm, which studies things such as Arctic-ice dynamics and how greenhouse gases behave (and which the document calls “the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism”), should be aggressively shrunk. “The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded,” the document says. It further notes that scientific agencies such as NOAA are “vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims,” so appointees should be screened to ensure that their views are “wholly in sync” with the president’s. The U.S. is, without question, experiencing a summer of brutal weather. In just the past week, a record-breaking hurricane brought major flooding and power outages to Texas amid an extreme-heat advisory. More than a dozen tornadoes ripped through multiple states. Catastrophic flash flooding barreled through wildfire burn scars in New Mexico. Large parts of the West roasted in life-threatening temperatures. Facing any of this without the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would be mayhem. And future years are likely to be worse. Read: Hurricane Beryl is a terrifying omen The NWS serves as a crucial point of contact in a weather crisis, alerting the public when forecasts turn dangerous and advising emergency managers on the best plan of action. So far in 2024, the NWS has issued some 13,000 severe-thunderstorm warnings, 2,000 tornado warnings, and 1,800 flash-flood warnings, plus almost 3,000 river-flood warnings, according to JoAnn Becker, a meteorologist and the president of the union that represents NWS employees. NOAA is also home to the National Hurricane Center, which tracks storms, and the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, whose pilots fly “hurricane hunter” planes directly into cyclones to measure their wind speed and hone the agency’s predictions. NOAA even predicts space weather. Just this past May, it forecast a severe geomagnetic storm with the potential to threaten power grids and satellites. (The most consequential outages never came to pass, but the solar storm did throw off farmers’ GPS-guided tractors for a while.) Privatizing the weather is not a new conservative aim. Nearly two decades ago, when the National Weather Service updated its website to be more user-friendly, Barry Myers, then executive vice president of AccuWeather, complained to the press that “we work very hard every day competing with other companies, and we also have to compete with the government.” In 2005, after meeting with a representative from AccuWeather, then-Senator Rick Santorum introduced a bill calling for the NWS to cease competition with the private sector, and reserve its forecasts for commercial providers. The bill never made it out of committee. But in 2017, Trump picked Myers to lead NOAA. (Myers withdrew his nomination after waiting two years for Senate confirmation.) Funding for many of NOAA’s programs could plummet in 2025, and the agency already suffers from occasional telecommunications breakdowns, including a recent alert-system outage amid flooding in the Midwest. It is also subject to political pressures: In 2019, the agency backed then-President Trump’s false claim (accompanied by a seemingly Sharpie-altered map) that Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama. Private companies might be better funded and, theoretically, less subject to political whims. They can also use supercomputing power to hone NOAA’s data into hyperlocal predictions, perhaps for an area as small as a football stadium. Some, including AccuWeather, use their own proprietary algorithms to interpret NWS data and produce forecasts that they claim have superior accuracy. (Remember, though: Without NWS data, none of this would happen.) Read: NOAA politicized the weather report But this is not the vision that Project 2025 lays out. It proposes a dramatically defunded NOAA whose husk is nonetheless hyper-responsive to the administration’s politics. And commercializing the agency’s underlying data risks creating a system of tiered services. One could imagine a future where private outfits charge subscriptions for their weather reports, and only some municipalities are able to pay for the best forecasts. Private companies are also subject to commercial conflicts of interest; do we want flood-risk predictions sponsored by a flood-insurance company, or heat advisories from an air-conditioning conglomerate? The NWS also has perks that a private system would be hard-pressed to replicate, including a partnership with the World Meteorological Organization, which allows the U.S. access to a suite of other countries’ weather models. International collaboration proved crucial in 2012, when Hurricane Sandy was still churning in the Atlantic Ocean. Initially, the American model predicted, incorrectly, that the storm would turn away from the East Coast. But the European model accurately forecast a collision course, which bought emergency managers in the U.S. crucial time to prepare before Sandy made ferocious landfall in New Jersey. Rest: https://www.theatlantic.com/science...t=ADN5ex8W_PaQmR-s5dSx2Do21FXUbb4d2XVoxOY40Vw
NOAA costs $6.72 billion dollars per year. Last year I paid $143 for NOAA. I would be fine not only eliminating their weather reporting, but just eliminating the entire agency. I would rather have my $143.
Ironically as a moderate leaning Dem I'll probably head to the range this weekend to blow off some steam and put my AR-15 through a workout, it's been a while.
The GOP which struggles with female voters, decided to select speakers, Hulk Hogan and Dana White who is on tape physically assaulting his wife. The surviving Republican VPs don't support Trump. Quayle, Cheney, Pence, all oppose Trump. Past candidates and other GOP candidates Mitt Romney, Bush Jr. also oppose Trump. Past GOP speakers of the house, Paul Ryan, and John Boehner also oppose Trump. This is the state of Republican party. But hey, they did have Kid Rock perform. So there's that.
