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Weekend Open Comments

The guy has a point.  Farmers in multiple countries have risen up against policies that make it hard for them to do what they do.  And truckers.  And entrepreneurs.  Stoopid governments.

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77 responses to “Weekend Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I often watch the farm Report early on Sunday Mornings and lately they’ve had the farmers in Europe protesting every week, first the Netherlands, then France, then Belgium.They’re mostly complaining about the Green agenda, high taxes on diesel fuel, (no farm exemption anymore) and onerous regulations. Oh and I love their tractors, not one less than a 100 HP and that is a lot for a farm tractor.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Yesterday I posted a picture of a blonde with a Black Label beer and Texpat linked the Dewey Mears Archive Collection of photos so I looked through some of them and found a neat picture of the then new, Mercury 1000, 6 cylinder 100 HP outboard. It was the most powerful outboard of it’s day and debuted in 63, I think. Tower of Power. As an interesting Side-Bar, Mercury’s first 6 cylinder outboard came out in 1957 and was rated at 75 HP. The engineers weren’t sure the dog clutch in the lower unit could handle that much power so they made the lower unit direct drive and added a second distributor so you could crank the engine in reverse to back up! Insane and I’m sure that made for some interesting shenanigans around the dock. 😉

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In the Netherlands, the government isn’t only cooking up stupid rules to damage farmers, they are trying to take their land away. Prohibit any use on farmers’ land and they can’t afford to keep it. They are forced to sell to the government.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Phil Holloway from Townhall has a copy of the 23 page powerful grievance filed against Fani Willis yesterday at the Georgia State Bar. He can’t release it until the author gives him permission. He say it’s a doozy.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    About Chinese TikTok:

    Many 20-somethings are now trying to break the all-consuming TikTok habit they started during the pandemic.

    The young adults I spoke to have been on social media for a decade or more and didn’t question the impact it was having on them until recently. They started noticing that TikTok, in particular, got in the way of sleep, work, household chores and relationships. Some even say it has kept them from chasing their own creative dreams. They are now deleting the app in pursuit of more in-person experiences and tidier homes.

    and,

    Keilah Bruce, a 27-year-old accountant in New York, stopped using the app last year, after TikTok’s algorithm began showing her things that matched her private thoughts. “It’s one thing to know about you and another to know you,” she says.

    When TikTok is recording every search and keystroke on your phone and computer, they’re going to know you better than your mother ever did. Also this…

    TikTok’s U.S. average monthly users between the ages of 18 and 24 declined by nearly 9% from 2022 to 2023, according to mobile analytics firm Data.ai.

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It is, indeed, marvelous.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Yeah and Anthony Bourdain committed suicide.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The findings are food for thought, especially as the same visual memory and learning test is used to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

    The double-blinded trial involved two cheap plant fiber prebiotics that are available over the counter in numerous nations around the world. Prebiotics are non-digestible consumables that help stimulate our gut microbes.

    One is called inulin, and it is a dietary fiber in the class fructan. Another is called fructooligosaccharides (FOS), and it is a plant carbohydrate often used as a natural low calorie sweetener.

    To test the effect of these supplements on the aging brain, researchers at King’s College London enrolled 36 twin pairs over the age of 60. Each duo was randomly split so that one twin was assigned a daily prebiotic in a protein powder and the other was assigned a daily placebo in a protein powder.

    I’m going to buy these and try them out.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It is really appalling Kamala Harris visited an abortion clinic and then convenes a legalize weed meeting at the White House with Fat Joe.

    I know Fat Joe. He’s a nice guy actually, but it’s disgusting he’s being used to pimp for votes from potheads. Kamala pimping votes from 21 year old single girls terrified they can’t end a pregnancy by killing their child at a moment’s notice.

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Texpat @ 8:41

    That’s great news! It’s an option but I was taking pre-biotics for my UC but quit as I wasn’t really seeing any help. I’m going to try Inulin as well.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I would try the combination of both FOS and inulin. That’s what I’m going to do. Even though these are classified as carbohydrates they don’t break down and digest in your system. What they do is encourage the cultivation of the good bacteria in the stomach and intestines.

      This whole gut bacteria thing is a relatively new area of research. They believe it affects all kinds of different functions in the body. The latest subject is the brain. It seems counterintuitive, but there is plenty of new evidence.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There was no excuse for the corrupt behavior of the federal bureaucracy and public health officials. It was disgusting and should never be forgotten.

    I had no inclination to back down. Together with Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya at Stanford, I wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for age-based focused protection instead of universal lockdowns, with specific suggestions for how better to protect the elderly, while letting children and young adults live close to normal lives.

    With the Great Barrington Declaration, the silencing was broken. While it is easy to dismiss individual scientists, it was impossible to ignore three senior infectious-disease epidemiologists from three leading universities.

    The declaration made clear that no scientific consensus existed for school closures and many other lockdown measures. In response, though, the attacks intensified—and even grew slanderous. Collins, a lab scientist with limited public-health experience who controls most of the nation’s medical research budget, called us “fringe epidemiologists” and asked his colleagues to orchestrate a “devastating published takedown.” Some at Harvard obliged.

    plus this,

    Though powerful scientists, politicians, and the media vigorously denounced it, the Great Barrington Declaration gathered almost a million signatures, including tens of thousands from scientists and health-care professionals. We were less alone than we had thought.

    I signed it early on and am proud I did.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Let me piggyback on your story with an excellent PJ Media discussion about the horrific lies about the covid vaccine. Follow the science?? I know we are all pretty informed on this, but it is well worth the read.

      Fisman’s Fraud

      In her 2023 blockbuster “Fisman’s Fraud: The Rise of Canadian Hate Science,” Dr. R.N. Watteel outed the medical, media, academic, and political proponents of a prodigiously fraudulent Canadian study using the “follow-the-science” meme to justify discrimination and hate against the unvaccinated. 

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        The term “Hate Science” is perfect.

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Regarding prebiotics and gut health, I’ve finally been approved for a biologic, Entyvio for my UC. It is given to you via IV in the doctor’s office, first two or three rounds every four weeks, then to eight weeks, depending on how it performs.

    Last September I had a major Ulcerative Colitis flare requiring a hospital stay. At that time it was determined my autoimmune problems causing joint pain was not Rheumatoid Arthritis at all, but an effect from UC and biologics have helped many people. GI doctor’s office, and me, have been horrible at following up and I’ve been living on a pretty strong dose of Prednisone everyday since. I’m a bit afraid of this medication but I have to get off the steroids somehow.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Oh man, that’s a long, long time to be steadily on steroids. You really need to get with your doctor and figure how to get off of it.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Last night, CFP posted a link to a report from Haiti saying the Biden/Blinken State Dept was forbidding the independent rescuers of Americans still in Haiti from using the heliport areas around the abandoned US embassy.

    The vile, sorry bastards.

  13. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Here Shannon….. I saw yours sooooo

    AND the few times I was bodily thrown into Waffle House by my so called friends I heard all this. I HATE WAFFLE HOUSE

  14. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Looks like this product is both Inulin and FOS.

    https://www.amazon.com/Jarrow-Formulas-Enhances-Calcium-Absorption/dp/B001BAA15C/ref=asc_df_B001BAA15C/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=652501736837&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14447194046711972743&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027697&hvtargid=pla-423769151002&psc=1&mcid=cd7dc9395b8a34a7b90539b53fa2e968

  15. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hey Shannon

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Our internet has been out for most of the morning. Weirdly, I couldn’t even connect via my phone. I spent the morning pushing the vacuum cleaner and setting up a rosary for my cousin, with whom I had a very pleasant phone visit last night. He found my grandma’s broken rosary and her missals, and he hopes to be able to drop them off her at my house today. In our conversation, he said he’d like to have a rosary done in Mardi Gras colors. I was fortunate to find some recently arrived beads that I can use.

    In a few hours I will be heading to Mt. Carmel for visitation and rosary for my latest loss in our little Carmel Lights group.

    I’m listening to my “Return to Tradition” podcast. This story is about the (Bergoglian) bishop of the San Antonio Diocese, who is suppressing a priest who was passing on some allegedly divine revelations. Whether they are real or not is always up to scrutiny, but they certainly didn’t appear to oppose traditionally taught Church teachings. But since they weren’t favorable to pachapapa, the priest must be suppressed.

    Basically, the message was “Obey God”. I can see where this Pope would find that to be threatening.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang!

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby was able to get out this morning and meet with the concrete guys at our rental property. We’ve been gutting the latest vacancy and Hubby’s wanted to change out the raised floor with a concrete floor, to help eliminate critter problems. It’s right next to a large drainage ditch, so this’ll be a very good step in preventing future critter issues. We’re also adding some square footage, since it’s a very small unit. This will provide more room for a washer and dryer, which will help rent the unit. We’re also moving the water heater outside to its own pad. It was in the attic area before, and y’all know how much I despise water heaters in attics.

    So, with the concrete poured, including a handicapped ramp, we are getting ready to finish the complete reno.

    I’m sure Hubby’s gonna come home and crash in his chair. This may have been pushing the back and knee a bit.

  19. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    yo uncklus

    hunker up out there if another round comes through.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Man, it must be really bad.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Wow. Just wow.

      I really want to know about this and I hope I’m still around when it leaks out.

  21. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    @4:39pm unck

    and just imagine how much the deep swamp has hidden about everything else since forever.

    hard to survive as a country and peoples when we’re ruled by legions of nihilistic psychopaths and totalitarian grifting Vampyres.

  22. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Long live Daniel James

    Randy Weaver was right

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Houston Cougar’s b-ball team is stinking up the place.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh man the Zamboni all over the court.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Man, I am really tired.

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    WaffleHouse is no where to be found.
    The 75+ Best Fast Food Restaurants, Ranked

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      That’s because Waffle House isn’t a Fast Food restaurant.
      It’s fine dining.

      Your list has Chik-fil-a rated #1. Which is ridiculous, per my recent review.
      And Taco Bell 4th best??????? That’s just frikkin embarrassing.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Rocha affair, just one in a string of cases in which Americans accused of spying for Havana have penetrated virtually every segment of the U.S. national security structure, points to a larger problem, former U.S. and Cuban intelligence officers say. Cuba and its intelligence service, the Dirección de Inteligencia, are in the world’s top ranks when it comes to recruiting spies, while the American teams responsible for stopping them are understaffed and outmatched, according to former U.S. counterintelligence officials.

    Cuba has “the best damn intelligence service in the world” for cultivating agents, said Brian Latell, a former CIA analyst who led the agency’s Latin America division.

    And the implications of that espionage extend beyond Cuba. Former U.S. officials say Washington has repeatedly underestimated the danger from Havana, which often distributes the fruits of its spying to more potent adversaries such as Russia and China.

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    THIS may not be the total reason Boeing is in trouble but it is a major part of the problem.

    Oh and Mornin’ Gang

  29. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Yesterday my boy was swapping his tools over into his new big Craftsman Tool Box and came across a wrench with strange letters etched on it. Guess whose initials those are? I wonder if there’s any 10 MM’s in there? 😉

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Lol SD, they probly came rolling out of there like marbles.
      My son ends up with all my Ryobi batteries.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is interesting. Any criticism of JSX from United about safety would be totally laughable.

    An airline company is offering the private jet experience at business-class prices — and it’s earning them plenty of industry enemies.

    JSX, a Dallas-based carrier, is exploiting a loophole in US Federal Aviation Administration regulations that would allow the company to sell single-seat tickets for scheduled charter planes for affordable prices and much quicker security checks.

    “I spent months without sleep, just looking at all the rules, looking for ways why it couldn’t be done,” co-founder Alex Wilcox told Bloomberg.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It took all day, but some time during the night we finally got Internet service. We couldn’t even get out TV to read the antenna signal. I thought it might be the TV, but it’s working fine now.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Leftist Adventures in Destruction Part I

    The Real Minimum Wage Is Zero

    Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour.

    Lyft called the ordinance “deeply flawed,” saying in a statement that it supports a minimum earning standard for drivers but not the one passed by the council.

    “It should be done in an honest way that keeps the service affordable for riders,” Lyft said. “This ordinance makes our operations unsustainable, and as a result, we are shutting down operations in Minneapolis when the law takes effect on May 1.”

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Leftist Adventures In Destruction Part II

    The Real Minimum Wage Is Zero

    In 2022, Seattle’s City Council passed an ordinance mandating a minimum earnings floor for app-based food delivery drivers in the city. The law finally went into effect in January 2024, but so far the main result has been customers deleting their delivery apps en masse, food orders plummeting, and driver pay cratering.

    and,

    Heralded as a “first-of-its-kind” legislative breakthrough when it passed, the first two months of the ordinance’s operation have provided a grim real-world Economics 101 lesson. First, the delivery companies were forced to add a $5 fee onto delivery orders in the city to cover the sudden labor cost increase. On cue, news stories started popping up of $26 coffees, $32 sandwiches, and $35 Wingstop orders in which taxes and the new fee comprised nearly 30 percent of the total.

    Local news station King 5 reported that Seattle residents started deleting their delivery apps from their phones in response to the spiking exorbitant delivery prices. Uber Eats experienced a 30-percent decline in order volume in the city, while DoorDash reported 30,000 fewer orders within just the first two weeks of the ordinance taking effect.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Leftist Adventures in Destruction Part III

    ESG & BDS Last Gasp Attack Against Jews and Israel

    Charlie Gasparino:

    The remaining adherents of ESG, or Environmental Social Governance investing, now appear to be joining the anti-Israeli lobby in a last-ditch attempt to remain relevant, according to veteran economist Jerry Bowyer, author of books on finance and a decided non-woke shareholder advocate. 

    and here is the perfect analogy,

    But it’s not dead yet; far from it in fact. Bowyer’s research shows that the ESG of today is kind of like the German Army at the end of World War II when it was making its last-ditch attempt at survival by crossing the Ardennes Forest with a sneak attack the Nazis hoped would lead to a stalemate.

     

    He found a bunch of what can be described as anti-Israel shareholder voting proposals filed in recent weeks as major companies like Amazon, Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin gear up for proxy season.

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Glenn Reynolds on Substack:

    Sorting for Stupidity in DC

    The reason why it’s so lucrative to influence the federal bureaucracy now is that the federal bureaucracy is sweeping and powerful. You would be a fool – as Microsoft learned in the 1980s and 1990s when it bragged about not having a DC office – not to try to influence it, if only out of self-protection. Back when the federal government was much smaller, say in the 1940s, 1950s, and even the 1960s, there was less call to influence it, and so the opportunities for people to earn big salaries by moving from administrating to lobbying were much less. But that changed.

    and,

    As Jonathan Rauch notes in his classic book, Demosclerosis, in 1929 the federal government made up about three percent of the U.S. economy. Now it’s closer to twenty-five percent. Also according to Rauch, interest-group domination started to take off about the time of World War II. Whereas the number of lobby groups was about 400 in the late 1920s, by 1950 that number was over 2,000, and the mid-1990s the number approached 25,000. It has only expanded since then. A government that. can regulate wages attracts the attention of lobbyists for trade unions and manufacturers; a government that can pass “crime” bills attracts the attention of police unions, local governments, gun-control activists and opponents, and so on. This should come as no surprise.

    plus,

    Thus, my hypothesis is that these factors produced a new kind of sorting among the bureaucrats, in which the brighter ones were more likely to leave meaning that, over time, the people staffing the agencies would become, on average, dumber. And note the double whammy – the agencies are becoming dumber because they were more powerful, since that produced the lobbying dynamic that made the smarter people more likely to leave.

    The upshot, then, is that as the federal government got bigger and more powerful, it also became more stupid. All because of the sorting I describe above.

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    You’re ruining everything Dave,…… 😀

  37. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    WIP

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    If I had a dollar for every gender, I’d have two dollars and a bunch of counterfeits..

    Hamous

  39. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Attention; Mike Pence is a lying weasel! But you already know that.

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Only in Texas.

    Cowboy gallops past traffic on I-610 to make it to semifinals at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tedtam
    I had internet problems off and on yesterday, too. It finally because stable sometime after midnight.
    The strange thing was that it was happening with or without using WiFi on my phone.

  42. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang! Weather looks yucky for today, I think I’ll just emulate the cats and go back to bed.

    Later, chickadees!

  43. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Nap time’s over hosers.

    or is this place becoming a synonym for the old couple skit?

  44. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    yo

    uncklo

    be careful

    when you

    schtem-lo

  45. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Kemp signs a bill to make it easier to go after DAs who refuse to prosecute or otherwise abuse their office.

    Way back in antiquity there was the story about a judge who decided that the circumstances in the particular case before him did not merit the punishment as laid down by Hammurabi. His superiors thought otherwise. He was skinned alive and his hide tanned; to upholster the bench of the judge who replaced him as a warning.
    Those in antiquity realized the power and responsibility that goes with exercising state power against the citizenry. How many wars, government overthrows, and unnecessary poverty thrust on the citizens are due to individual and agency corruption in government.

  46. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    At this point you really have to be a mental case psycho to keep believing anything the propagandist mr potato head media puts out.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leftist-corporate-media-unleash-bloodbath-hoax-after-trumps-speech

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Dr Phil Good

    I don’t know what’s wrong with all these people around here. I leave for a few hours and everybody has to take a long nap. It’s totally obvious they have…

    IRON POOR BLOOD !!!

  48. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    In a March 5 Fox interview, Trump said Hamas’s October 7 “attack on Israel, and likewise, Israel’s counterattack… would never have happened if I was president.”

    I know at this moment the choice to vote for Trump is a must. Mark my words he is not to be trusted. Like gramma used to say, be careful what you ask for you might get it. Read the story…… Trump thinks the world has not changed since his residency and that he will be able to wield and deal and bully like he did before. He has got another thing coming.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I would recommend anyone who believes as you do not vote for Donald Trump. Leave that line for President blank or write in somebody else. If a person believes Donald Trump is the worst possible likely contender for President at this moment in history, then by God, they should not let fear and good judgement prevent them from participating in a political disaster of apocalyptic proportions.

      I unapologetically hate Joe Biden with a passion and wish him an urgent Judgement Day.

      Personally, I trust no politician. I have never assumed the perfect one would appear nor I do have to like, trust or admire my political choices. I earnestly believe the lesser of two evils has alway been the case for any democratic election since the Founding of America because I believe in the essential Fall and Natural Evil of Man.

      Any office holder I vote for only has to do the things I want them to do, no matter how much they bluster, lie or exaggerate and don’t steal enough for me to notice.

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hey Brother Phil
    I hid a Judas Priest love song in my last post. I was just thinking that Judas Priests lead singer sure looked like grenade boy.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Man. I wonder how grenade boy is doing.

    Hey, Shakey. Here’s wishing you the best.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Squawkie thinks that no one should vote.

    Hey Squawkie!!

    Bite me.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Damn.
    Judas Priest was such a buncha weak sisters.

  53. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hey Shannon

    Squawkie thinks that no one should vote.

    I have never said that or suggested it.
    BITE ME

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Hee hee

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sending this one out to an old friend.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This one, too.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Free Wheelin’ Bob Dylan

      It was the first Dylan album I bought at the little record store on Memorial Drive in the old Lantern Lane shopping center. I used to ride there on my bicycle on Saturday mornings.

      45 RPM discs were 50 cents a piece or 3 for $1.00.

      I loved Girl From the North Country.

  56. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    @6:45pm

    Probably their best song squawka Bruddah.

    had a friend in school that looked a lot like the singer.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Brother Phil
      That is prolly the only song of theirs I like.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Giant Container ship crashes into dock and wipes out four cranes in Turkey.

  58. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Sorry I’ve been so delinquent in commenting. My back was such a problem last night that I couldn’t sleep, and some time during the night I finally gave in and took a muscle relaxant. I finally got some sleep, but boy have I had the groggies today. Mass took me to almost 1:00 by the time I finished hugging little girls and visiting with a friend. I stopped at the grocery store then came home and my 20 minute power nap turned into an hour visit with the sand man. Then I started dinner and Handsome Son joined us for a pork roast dinner. I sent him home with some home cooking, since he’s still doing the bachelor thing, which should end in August.

    I told the girls I’d share some of my asparagus bean seeds with them. Like I told Mom, the beans grow pretty fast and what kid doesn’t want to brag about a green bean over a foot long? The littlest one gave me such a long, sweet hug I almost broke out into tears. She is so sweet.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hmm.
    I haven’t met anyone who thinks Donald Trump is some kind of American savior.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Shannon
      Okay here is one. Just for you.

      LOCAL NEWS
      Despite frigid temperatures, thousands lined up for Trump rally in Waterford Township

      detroit
      By Luke Laster
      February 19, 2024 / 7:34 AM EST / CBS Detroit

      WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – “We need Donald Trump to save our country,” said Waterford resident Andrew Ross, who was one of the thousands in attendance for the “Get Out the Vote” rally at the Oakland County Airport in Waterford Township Saturday night.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        This guy in Michigan may be one of many tens of thousands of United Auto Workers whose very jobs and livelihoods are at stake with this election.

        Somehow, I don’t think this makes him a false Messiah worshiper. I think he is a man desperate to save his source of living and way of life. It may not be the greatest choice or perhaps even wrong in the long run, but from his perspective, it is the only choice he has.

        You have any better alternatives ?

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So, I guess since he is no American savior there’s no point in fighting, much less voting.
    is that right?

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Back in my programming days, there was a guy in my field who was a jackass. A compliment never passed his lips until it got the “backhand” treatment; e.g., “you look better than the last time I saw you”. He was arrogant and someone I avoided when possible. But when I needed to recommend someone to do some training because I was too busy working another project, his was the name I presented to my partners in charge.

    Did I like him? No. Did I respect his abilities and knowledge? Yep. Would I hang out with him? No. Would I ask for his help with a coding issue? Absolutely.

    I had to separate my personal feelings about Joe from the professional needs. I’m not a big Trump fan, and I know he can’t do everything by himself. But he’s certainly the type of guy who can take the brutal beating that the left is giving him. Not many others could take them on and keep going. Given our choices, he’s the best one that I can see right now.

    I do remember who the real enemy is. That’s why I pray every day.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If others find that giving up is their best strategy, fine.
    But leave me the hell alone for choosing otherwise.

  63. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Wow I just received this in the mail. Dunno where it came from I figure Shannon sent it to me.

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