Maybe just a couple more lanes would fix everything?
Former political moderate. When the GOP abandoned moderates, I stuck with the Dems. š“ Overland Park, KS
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Maybe just a couple more lanes would fix everything?
Wind and solar outperformed the ERCOT modeling for an event of that scale, while coal, natural gas, and nuclear underperformed. That said, Texas really needs to take some lessons from Iowa and winterize their wind turbines. They could have contributed a lot more to the grid if they had.
Luckily god gave us an inexhaustible supply of fossil fuels, because you never know when the sun may peter out.
Trump is the national emergency.
Iāve ridden a ton of road miles in my lifetime, and I believe that the only reason Iām still alive is that most of those miles were before cell phones, and when the speed limit was 55. These days I mostly ride the multi-use trails.
RFK Jr and Hunter Biden are basically the same guy. Years of heavy drugs, womanizing, charisma, grifting off family name. Dems want nothing to do with either one. Republicans made one of them the head of HHS.
RFK Jr claims* that the Biden admin FDA dietary guidelines listed Fruit Loops at the top of the food pyramid, which is a lie. *NPR Up First, Aug 31, 2025 @12:30 What isnāt a lie is that the Trump admin has placed a Fruit Loops as the head of HHS.
After decades of "never give an inch" on gun control, surely this is where the MAGA will draw the line. Right? Of course not, but it will be interesting to see how they manage to contort themselves into making this ok.
So Trump is saying that lying on a loan application is sufficient reason to remove a person from office. Interesting.
Could you get by with something like this, a bifocal? The wrap around helps with the sides, but probably not as much as side shields would. They also have prescription compatible versions, but I'm unsure how that works. tifosioptics.com/products/vel...
Florida would likely lose a seat as well. They are well above the national average in non-citizen population.
Florida would probably lose a seat if Trump got his way and did a census that only counted US citizens. Florida is well above the national average for both documented and undocumented immigrants.
The guy is truly a business genius. /s "Trump Admin is pressing ahead with the new duties despite U.S. authorities lacking a system to collect them"
I would discreetly cross my fingers, and probably puke afterwards anyway.
I love it when a plan comes together.... "Trump Admin is pressing ahead with the new duties despite U.S. authorities lacking a system to collect them" "Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden + Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the U.S. effective immediately"
Yes, yes, I got the invite to the Signal Chat "Ukrainian Long Range Strikes - Large Group"
They have done it twice this year. Apparently it's not a very effective statement when you don't have the votes to move it forward. āRep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.): One of the things we learned is that articles of impeachment are also articles of recruitment for Trump.ā
Didn't Maxwell also testify that Jeffrey Epstein never did anything concerning or inappropriate around her? And isn't that how she caught two perjury charges?
If I remember correctly, Maxwell also testified that Jeffrey Epstein never did anything concerning around her. And that is how she caught two perjury charges.
Sir, How many times did Epstein call, begging you to come to his island?
Just brilliant.... "After pushing 26,000 employees out, the tax agency is scrambling to find enough personnel to carry out its duties." www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Come back and talk to us when agents start providing badge numbers + are required to wear body cams. It's utterly ridiculous that these guys are not required to meet the standards of a professional police force. Currently I'm feeling safer around the undocumented immigrants than I would around ICE.
They closed all of the Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in my red state in 2023. In fact, they closed all of their stores in 2023. But it's good that the CEO is letting us know that we should avoid the mail order remnant of this company.
MAGA says that God is American. Maybe you could strike them down?
Does that 35% include what Gavin Newsom did to Trump on social media in the last 9 days?
Trump should lead by example then. I hereby call on him to resign. apnews.com/article/trum...
Ironic that Trump will try to ban "certain voting equipment" on the same day that Newsmax agreed to pay $67 million to settle the case that Dominion Voting Systems brought against them.
So Putin was tough, Trump backed down, and now you have his back as he tries to recover by attacking Ukraine? This is some weak ass shit. We may have to wait until 2028 to get rid of Trump, but Roger Marshall is up for reelection next year.
If Trump gets his way (he won't) and they have an early census that counts citizens only, the Texas population will shrink compared to the 2020 count.
Maybe we should have a new senate election in Kansas. Lot's of things have happened since Marshall was elected in 2020. With all of these changes, why should we have to wait until 2026 to vote him out?
Because Trump has done so much to instill faith around the world that we will honor our treaties and trade agreementsā¦
Every accusation is a confession. Reminder that this is the same Johnson County GOP that lined up to beat an effigy of our president, then blamed their own actions on the poor judgement of a vendor. And they wonder why the county has turned Blue? kansasreflector.com/2024/03/24/b...
I wouldnāt even give him a participation award for this one.
Putin, a highly trained KGB operative, vs Trump, champion of his own golf club tournament for 30 years running? Iām here for it.
"I can't talk about politics because I don't have a clue about his policies, so ask me about my passion for Trump instead"
MAGA Alaskan: "He has never visited our country before"
Two weeks, sixty days. Rinse and repeat. Taco Tuesday comes every week. We will be lucky if Putin doesnāt walk away with both Ukraine AND Alaska in his pocket.
Were gonna lose Ukraine AND Alaska.
People around here might as well be driving their car for exercise, because that is the closest thing to exercise that a lot of them do.
He writes as though he took unhinge lessons from Trump University.
Not that I should be the arbiter of how anyone looks, but I find the MaraLago women as a whole to be about as attractive as those gaudy gold rooms.
This is basically them saying āwe will pay our corporate earnings tax, just like we did before. This is simply a change in presentation, in order to curry favor with the tyrant in chargeā
Keep riding it, and maybe it will turn green or blue. Or maybe not. Only one way to find out..... Disclaimer: Do not take tire advice from me. š
Dear Donald Pedophile Trump, President Obamas name does NOT make him a secret Muslim and if he is, who gives AF? Factually, he is a Christian so you can stop using his entire name thinking itās going to make us forget that you are in the #EpsteinFiles. Thank you for your attn to this matter!
I knew of someone who almost died on a desert backpacking trip due to taking ibuprofen at the dosage suggested on the label. As his kidneys shut down, he had no clue what was happening or that the ibuprofen he continued to take was causing it. weather.com/health/news/...
Dang, I thought Billy Long was the bottom of the barrel. Could it be possible that they found someone worse?
Every time I see a child on a milk carton I think of Trump and Epstein
Every time I see a kid on a milk carton I think of Trump and Epstein
The Onion: Letās ban unicorns. MAGA: Oh hell yes!
As a male people myself, I take offense while also acknowledging that you are correct about this.
He got the full experience package.
"Only Perez and Corova were found to have been wearing a seatbelt at the time" Four people in the truck, only 2 wearing seatbelts. I don't get it. I have a friend who still won't wear a seatbelt after being in a couple of injury crashes where a seatbelt would likely have made a difference.
Agree, habeas corpus is the biggie. But Section 8, Clause 18, covers congressional oversight, investigations, and immigration. Just trying to call attention to other important things that were removed.
Section 9 and 10, also, Section 8, everything after clause 12 is removed.
I heard that itās water cooled, so they want to put it near the Sea of Tranquilityā¦.
Ah, for the simpler days, when the stupid still overshadowed the evil.
44% of Missourians voted against the Republican candidate for US Senate, and 41% voted against the Republican candidates for President and for Governor in the 2024 statewide races. They want to claim 89% of our US Representatives via extreme gerrymandering. How can that be justified?
I mean, they should probably start off with some easy ones and see how it goes first. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
These are recordings of Wolff's interviews with Epstein. There won't be anything like that in them.
So where did the radioactive wasps go? "Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone." abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
"DRIVER TRAINING SUCKS IN THIS COUNTRY" I don't disagree, better driver training would certainly improve safety for all road users. But a lot of this driver aggression / compulsion to hurry comes from a darker place, it's a close cousin to road rage. I'm not sure that that can be trained away.
This is the guy who ate the Gaza food aid, all by himself.
I mean, that term is generally in reference to somebody violating a law they weren't aware of, and that is not what they are saying here. This is an issue of allegedly ineffective counsel.
We used to get it here in Kansas all the time. Whales won't even come here anymore.
Happy Wednesday back to you. š Snark aside, I do appreciate the sentiment!
Reporter: Pardon for Maxwell? MJ: Presidents decision Reporter: Hunter Biden? MJ: Absolutely not Reporter: Jan 6 people? MJ: Presidents decision Reporter: Jan 6 Committee? MJ: Absolutely not I think a pattern is emerging here.
I remember back around 1990 a small mainframe computer maker sued its user group for using its trademarked name. āXYZ Computers User Groupā was apparently a bridge too far for XYZ Computers Companyā, even though the user group was a big advocate for the brand.
Current Forecast: Death by heat, but only if you don't drown first.
New York Times headline "Tariffs: Japan and the U.S. reached a trade deal. Japan promised to import more American goods and will pay a tariff on exports of 15 percent" No, US importers and consumers will together pay a new tax of 15% on goods imported from Japan.
I'm glad that she acknowledges the Brownback "Kansas Experiment" as a mistake, and admits some responsibility for it. But I fear the only lesson she learned was that it wasn't politically expedient in the long term.
āChemtrailsā has long been a marker for me, anyone using that term in a serious way is highly suspect. Recently I have had to add āweather modificationā to that marker list.
āI just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anythingā
True. But think about all of the Trump / shark memes that it will eventually produce.
You can restrict chat requests to just people you follow, it cuts down tremendously on things like this.
āStop talking about Epsteinā Then fires Epstein prosecutor.. That should do it.
No, no. Not those. He wants to use the one from Facebook that takes about 5 minutes and declares everyone a genius at the end.
Our backup was the store at 97th and Quivira by Academy Sports, but my understanding is that that Sonic location closed as of a couple of months ago.
My wife has terminated her relationship with the Sonic near Sante Fe / Antioch due to an incident with an online order, and she spent over 30 minutes there, failing to get resolution. Only 2-3 working, and they were swamped. I still sneak up there from time to time because I like their burgers...
Iāve received better written scam letters from a Nigerian prince.
Clearly his face assaulted the officerās fist.
I receive better written scam letters from Nigerian princes.
There really is, and unfortunately "ingrained" is right. That piece of the authoritarian rise has been building for decades. Sentence someone to 6 months for a relatively minor crime, and you see a chorus of "it should have been 6 years". Meanwhile, home, job, family, and employability are all lost.
New scale: 1st degree: Accidental overdose of white person 2nd degree: Intentionally shooting someone, because gun=good Manslaughter: Driving up the sidewalk to run over protestors. Diversion available in most cases upon completion of 6 hours of driving school.
MAGA: 2+2=5 Me: 4ā¦ MAGA: Prove it Me: Shows proof MAGA: Commie! 2 hours later MAGA: 2+2=5
Thank you! It worked for me.
I live in the wealthiest and most populous county in Kansas. Our US Rep, KS Rep, and KS Senator are all Dems, as are most city and county officials. We are a blue county that is subsidizing the rural counties that break 80-90% MAGA. We should secede from the state.
Unfortunately this incident is just the beginning. Up next, hurricane season: www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
From a technology standpoint the phone alert side of this worked just fine, but those camps were already flooded before the warnings that would trigger the alerts were issued at 4:03am. It seems like Noem could seek to gain some understanding of this before she starts running her mouth?
More power to him. The Tea Party MAGAās should love it, splitting the GOP base. If he is successful we could end up with Dem supermajorities in the House and the Senate.
Alligator Auschwitz.
Then there is the whole direct health issue. We know that occupational exposure to 1k ppm starts to cause headaches and fatigue. At what level does 24/7 exposure start to create real health consequences? Are we already there? We donāt know, yet we continue to charge toward the āfind outā side.
āTrumpās Muskā?
Oddly it looked to be doing pretty good for the first 20 days or so of January. I wonder what could have changed? "On his first day in office, Trump also said that he expects to put 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting on Feb. 1"
Iām not sure where you are going there, but on the math side of things, that would be 3,850,000,000.
My MAGA "friend" will post unironically, on the same day: "The Left protests because they hates their country" and "Trump voters aren't a cult, we are a revolution" They love their country so much that they want to transform it into something different.
One of these people is not like the others.
I was in a hurry before, and didnāt catch your drift. Yes, we could just have him tested, no need to subject the victim to possibly unnecessary treatment. āThe brain tissue, specifically the cerebellum, hippocampus, and brainstem, is used for the rabies testā
People who are bit by wild animals often get rabies shots when the animal isn't available for testing.
I recommend rabies shots, just in case.