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That would take a ton of amendments to the Constitution to achieve.

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Job creation and a great economy. Focusing on small businesses.

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Also focus on the family and find non-inflationary ways to promote the nuclear family.

Instead of $9000 a year in what amounts to welfare benefits to a family with a stay at home parent, that comes with an income level phase out and cap, increase the child tax credit and remove the cap. That way people are keeping more of the money they earn.

Change the married filing jointly tax brackets so families keep more of the money they earn.

We already allow the Salt deduction. Let parents deduct the school tax portion of their property taxes or deduct the tuition costs for sending a child to private school.

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What are you retards going to do if he is the nominee?

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I honestly think the chances of Vance being the nominee now are low, probably less than 25%.

The moderates aren't going to vote for him because he's too tainted from being a part of the administration.

If Trump really believes that Iran is the only cause of the results Tuesday (it isn't, but if he thinks so) he will distance himself because it was Vance's team that created that horrible MOU that basically read as if the US had lost.

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The only things that Trump can do in the immediate future, are end the War in Iran and veto all legislation passed by the Democrat Majority.

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He can also end most of the tariffs.

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I bet they were pissed

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I've always said it's much better to be pissed off than pissed on.

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Sister Mary

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I've heard/read about her before. Can't remember if you've posted your story before this or if I saw it somewhere else.

My family has a similar story. My grandfather was diagnosed with liver cancer in the mid 60s. He was in his final days and was bedridden, sleeping most of the time. My parents lived next door to my grandparents, and there was a driveway that came off the street to our house and then there was a little walkway over to my grandparents place.

My mom is walking through our house and happens to glance out one of the front windows and saw a man in a black suit walk across the top of the driveway to the walkway to the house next door. She didn't think too much about it, assumed it was their preacher or a friend coming to say goodbye to my grandfather. She goes next door about an hour later and asked who came to visit, and no one had been there.

While all of this was happening, my aunt had been sleeping in one of the bedrooms down the hall from my grandfather. When she woke up, she said she had had the strangest dream. She dreamed that "Death came to see daddy," and described seeing a man in a black suit walk down the hallway and into my grandfather's room. Her description from her dream matched exactly the man that my mom saw. My grandfather died later that day.

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I also think everyone seriously underestimates what losing Charlie Kirk did to the Republican Party.

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Agree 100%. TPUSA seems rudderless since Charlie's murder. The loudest voices from the organization seem to have coalesced behind some of the most racist, antisemitic, say anything for clicks social media personalities. If Charlie were still alive I think you would see the organization distancing itself, if not outright disassociating from Tucker and others like him as opposed to trotting those voices out on college campuses.

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Trump thought that the things he was doing would benefit the country in the long run

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He severely overestimated the cost/benefit of tariffs. He was convinced that it would bring large amounts of manufacturing back to the US immediately, and it hasn't. Maybe if they were in place for 20 years or more it might, but you don't build new factories in two years.

The economy is too global, and companies know that they can still make higher profits by keeping manufacturing offshore and either eating the cost of the tariffs or passing some percentage on to the consumer.

The fact that the tariffs were so schizophrenicly added and removed and paused shows that there wasn't a real plan in place and it was all reactionary. The tariffs that were impacting Maine suddenly disappeared a few weeks ago to try to boost Collins. Look at Trump's favorabilty rating. It crossed into the negative right at the time the "Liberation Day" tariffs took effect.

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Would starlink allow aircraft to get better ground radar data to make better more informed decisons on routing or is the on/aircraft radar system superior to that?

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I think that there are 2 issues with Internet based radar for planes.

1) As far as I know there are no real time web-based radars. even for National Weather Service and local TV stations that have their own radar, the image has to bee has to refresh digitized, uploaded to the web server, and then the user's device has to refresh its connection to the web server and download the new image. In my experience with NWS they are typically about 5 minutes behind with the most recent radar image.

2) Ground based weather radar systems sweep large areas, both by a 360 degree rotation and a vertical wedge of the sky by tilting the unit. It can take multiple sweeps to scan the entire height of a storm system. You can narrow that wedge down manually by limiting the tilt of the radar, but that's rare it happens. The radar on a plane scans just in front of it so it has a faster refresh rate, and, I believe, the pilots can dial in the vertical sweep of the unit so they see just what is in their immediate altitude if that's what they need to focus on, or their altitude and above, or their altitude and below.

State GOP said they needed to see 1.3 to 1.4 million election day voters to have a realistic chance of overcoming the early vote lead projected for Democrats.

As of 10am the projection was for roughly 1.2 million. Midday the projection had gone up to 1.4 million.

At 5:00 the actual number was right at a million so the total projection has dropped back to 1.1 to 1.2 million.

By law all early votes have to be tabulated and reported by 8:00 eastern. The difference in raw vote totals between Collins (Senate) and Jackson (Governor) in those early returns should be a good forecast for the outcome. Do enough people split their ticket away from Bottoms and other state level Democrats to give Jackson and the other Republicans a fighting chance?

Isn't the majority of Nevada a mail in vote?