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re: El-Sayed Warns Mike Rogers He Has 'No Safe Quarter in Michigan'

Posted by donut on 8/5/26 at 1:06 pm to KCT

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Thanks a lot, Sarai

:lol:

re: Abolishing the Senate

Posted by donut on 8/4/26 at 11:14 am to deuceiswild

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And how do they plan to do this? Some magical decree? What senator will vote himself out of a job? If we could clone KBJ eight times and put all 9 of them on the SCOTUS, how does even THAT type of court determine that this is constitutional?

It would be very difficult to pull this off. it would require passing a constitutional amendment under Article V, which requires a two-thirds vote in both congressional chambers and ratification by three-fourths of the states.

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What is the basis for this?

To make low IQ voters think this is some great idea that will bring about change. The politicians pushing this are either stupid and don't know how difficult it would be or are doing it on purpose just to try and show they have "bold" ideas.

re: Jasmine Crockett: "Black women, the most educated demographic in this country”

Posted by donut on 7/30/26 at 3:15 pm to udtiger

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I think I read that over 70% of black females with college degrees end up working for state or federal government

Talking to a waitress one night who was going back to school to get her MBA. I asked her what she was going to do after graduating. She was excited to tell me she had a government job lined up :rolleyes:

re: In case I get a time machine, What was the biggest thing that allowed American cities to

Posted by donut on 7/28/26 at 1:33 pm to VOR

Dearborn Michigan maybe.

re: A/C broke. Landlord said you want A/C you pay for it!

Posted by donut on 7/28/26 at 9:49 am to NatalbanyTigerFan

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It's a friend of the family kind of deal.

Is he a "friend of ours" or a "friend of mine"?

re: Filming underway on Severance S3

Posted by donut on 7/27/26 at 3:13 pm to JW

Come on JW, I'm disappointed that you haven't seen Severance.

For the most part the sets for season 1 and 2 were the same regarding the workplace and homes. They had some episodes that were in nature for season 2.

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I stand humbly corrected

As you should.

re: Cool A\C story (no pun intended)

Posted by donut on 7/27/26 at 3:02 pm to Enadious

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$191

Wow, that's high, the capacitor was probably only $20.

I just had this same thing happen with an AC unit. Thought it was the capacitor, but ended up being a bad contactor.

Home & Garden

re: Instead of Socialism, how about a well funded Democracy?

Posted by donut on 7/23/26 at 2:15 pm to Geekboy

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Instead of Socialism, how about a well funded Democracy?

So you want to change our government structure as well?

re: Is it okay to complain about gas prices here?

Posted by donut on 7/23/26 at 8:05 am to Roll Tide Ravens

I don't believe a spike in gas prices is the boogey man it used to be. Think about all the things people spend money on like the latest iphone, uber, door dash etc... that are really perks. in the 1970's the high gas prices really had an impact on the household budget. Are you not buying something because the cost of gas went up or are you upset because we've been conditioned to look at the price of gas as a metric of how well things are going?

I commute 40 miles to work and 40 miles back home everyday and I'm not having to cut back on things because gas prices are higher than they were last year. I also don't waste money on things like door dash etc...

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re: When do we, and the West in general, start to accept the fact that Democracy failed?

Posted by donut on 7/6/26 at 2:49 pm to Tom288

As pointed out by many in this thread, the U.S. is a Republic and not a Democracy.

What is interesting is to follow the evolution of pushing the line that the U.S. is a Democracy. If you say it enough people will believe it.

re: Esquire: The 25 Most American Movies of All Time

Posted by donut on 6/22/26 at 9:31 am to RLDSC FAN

Could add:
The Godfather II
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Legends of the Fall
Dir. Edward Zwick

The Patriot
Dir. Ronald Emmerich

The Sandlot
Dir. David Mickey Evans

Stand By Me
Dir. Rob Reiner

Boyz n the Hood
Dir. John Singleton

re: Widow’s Bay (AppleTV) Discussion Renewed for S2, all S1 episodes now streaming

Posted by donut on 6/17/26 at 1:06 pm to CocomoLSU

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Every single thing that happened in Ruth’s house was awesome. From her on the treadmill (I did two miles! ). To the full calendar. To the car picture on the wall (I got it at a garage sale…boys love their cars ). To the tea conversation. To her helping other old people bc shes in such good shape. Him thinking she was dead. Etc.

With all that I started to wonder if she was going to have some sort of immortality (may still) since she was so active.

re: The goal post has shifted. No longer a jury of your peers. Now it's a jury of your race

Posted by donut on 6/13/26 at 4:15 pm to stout

The US Constitution does not actually say you are entitled to a jury of your peers, it says you’re entitled to an impartial jury

re: What was your 1st meal after 1st colonoscopy?

Posted by donut on 6/9/26 at 9:44 pm to Crescent Connection

AM Mart in BR

re: Restaurants of a middle class family

Posted by donut on 6/9/26 at 8:10 am to junkfunky

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Calendar's

The Sandwedge was awesome!

re: The Civil War, How Might It Have Been Avoided?

Posted by donut on 6/3/26 at 9:02 am to Auburn1968

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However, the damage was done. The brotherhood and trust forged in the Revolutionary War was gone.

Well said.

re: The Civil War, How Might It Have Been Avoided?

Posted by donut on 6/3/26 at 8:20 am to Auburn1968

If you study early American history the real question was how was it avoided so long.

The fight over how much power the federal government had vs. how much power the state's had was going on since the founding.

Take a look at the Nullification Crisis of 1832. This could have led to a civil war, but no one really had the heart to do it. Andrew Jackson even sent federal ships to Charleston, S.C. threatening to use force if needed to make S.C. follow federal law.