He thinks the recent leanings of a number of Silicon Valley billionaires towards Trump is to gain the ultimate power of having control and run the country. They'll be the board of directors and Trump is their CEO.

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Good first half in the Florida State/Georgia Tech game.

Kid hitting that 59 yard field go to tie it was pretty impressive.

Trump: medal of Freedom is Better than Medal of Honor because the soldiers are in bad shape or dead.
Goes along with his comment (quoted by Jeffery Goldberg, The Atlantic): Americans who died in War are “losers” and “suckers”

Our lack of education and our hand-held propaganda machines have produced mindless political polarization - and now violence around and in political meetings.

Street battles are next.

Then a generalized European conflict to which we can't respond because our computer grid is locked up by cyber criminals and because our enemies realize we are inert.

Those who sleep through high school history are doomed to repeat it and make it much worse in each successive round.

Here's an anecdote:

Look at r/Bloomington and reddit. Some idiotii claimed to find a social security card. Had to ask the e-world what to do with it. Deeeeep thinker. Probably has a life goal of being a unionized barista driving an electric Yugo.

The Democrat Convention might make Richard Daley jump out of his grave!

my wife actually likes it, I don't care for it, has become her go to quick meal when she perceives herself as being busy.

It doesn't seem likely that "ORDniah" is the only electronic garble generated by signal deficiencies or interruptions. Does it have some other significance?

I was at Lawrence North v. Lawrence Central on Friday and Davion Chandler really shined. Hoosiers got a keeper!

Time to give some pub to the lesser known candidates, the ones who might shock the world by staging an incredible upset.

First up, Chase Oliver, Libertarian:


Pluses? Minuses? DBMhoosier, perhaps you could start posting his daily polling data to give us a sense of where he ranks?

Hoosiers opener just 7 days away and I have to be in Alaska. Hope the game isn't close. Where are all the posts with the season starting? Game week in practice. Bet the new coach will handle the week differently than Allen. Here's to a successful season.

think I would drown at about the 3-minute mark

Looks like it’s heavily based on last year’s tourney. Regardless, here it is.

Link to Preseason Poll

Looking forward to another high potential year.

Bureau of Labor Statistics has revised DOWNWARD by 818,000 jobs 'created' March23 -March24.

Lying bastards.

Any educated guess as to when kickoff will be or when it will be released? Trying to coordinate with a group trip, and I was not sure if anyone knew more than I did on the matter.

It's Friday. Humor me for second. Also, assume the Presidential nominees are not Trump and Harris. They're a more moderate Republican & Democrat.

What I miss?

BTW, Alabama is a complete an utter shit hole. But I hate driving through Atlanta. Next time, I'll just go through Mississippi. Anyways---great times. Great baseball.

Pics are starting to show up on social media. Definitely more red.

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Some interesting story lines as IU opens the season at an SLU team with 3 former Hoosiers on the roster:

This is something we can all be happy about.

I'm not sure this required a new post. But it is interesting enough, to me, that I thought I'd get a discussion going on it.

For many years, politics in my household has been very, very much a back burner topic. My wife and I are both independent voters, and we rarely ever talk politics in any sort of depth. Trump has been a little bit of a lightning rod, at times. My wife has a pretty open dislike for him, which dated back well before he ran for President in 16. But even at that, I wouldn't say she has ever been someone that actively thinks about, studies, politics or candidates in general. She'll ask me..."Is there anyone I need to vote for tomorrow"...the day before an election. That sort of thing. Which I think is probably VERY normal.

Biden's Presidency, and his own decline, in our household, and especially with my wife, has acted like a "Political sedative". Basically, we just didn't really care any more. These are our two choices? Really? If that's where we're at...I've got a lot more important things going on to worry about...wake me when its over...that was the mood in our house.

Then Biden dropped out. My wife sent me a text with a link to the news (that's actually how I first heard about it). That's literally the first political related link shes ever sent me. Since then, links and little convos have been happening between dozens of people in our little "village". And I've never seen my wife so excited, and engaged in politics. To the point where she was asking me who I thought would be Harris' best choice to win in the swing midwest states?!?! When I said she needs to get the nomination first...my wife was pretty indignant at the thought of her not being the nominee...and she's now fairly well versed in the process through the convention. I know my wife well enough to know that Harris lure is mainly a couple things 1)she's not Trump 2)how she looks and sounds when she talks. Like Trump for many MAGA voters, the specific words and content can be secondary. Its how she feels when she sees and hears Harris. 3)she's a vibrant, younger woman (relative to Trump/Biden). When I pushed her about some of the things that she has done in her past, some of the policy issues...and reminded her that her favorite POTUS was GWBush...because of "how good a man he is." She gave me "the look", and just said, she's running against Trump. And then went on to say..."I can't imagine all the crap she faced trying to do the things she's done."

So, my wife is currently all in on a Harris campaign. Me? I'm not nearly as sold. Some of her policy history, I don't jive with. I really don't jive with the current far left decisions, rhetoric, direction, etc... And Harris, as much as any other viable option right now for the Dems, seems to be more aligned with further left policies, words, and actions than most others.

But man...Its hard to downplay the impact my wifes energy is having on me. And though I'm not really "on board" with Harris, I am about as engaged or excited to see how the nomination process unfolds as I have for any political process in my lifetime. For me, that's how bad the choice of Trump or Biden was going to be. And I'm wondering if this 24' election might have some similarities to 16', but in reverse. Meaning, I could see polling data showing Trump with a comfortable lead over Harris the next few months. But election night...a tidal wave of women voters, minority voters, etc... in all the key swing areas, and Harris dramatically outperforming polling data.

Notice the team missing?

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