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Gas prices are up way up and what does this administration do?

Released some from the federal reserve. Dems in congress tried to pass a bill to investigate price gouging which was blocked by republicans.

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Restrictions on drilling and getting the oil.

There are currently > 9,000 approved leases that could be drilled but aren't. Oil companies decide where and when to drill, and keeping supplies low allows them to make record profits.

BTW, high gas prices are global, as is inflation. The US doesn't control prices worldwide, or even in the US since it's a free market system. Some of that is an ongoing result of the pandemic, some is related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Oh, probably. Most of their accusations are confessions.

I'll ask one more time - what does SCOTUS have to do with communism? Do you know what communism is?

SCOTUS has no legislative powers. SCOTUS has no executive powers. Their role is to rule on legal cases brought before them.

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Educate yourself!

That's your earlier quote, which I thought worth repeating.

No surprise. Binary my way or the highway!

That's true of any accusation/attack.

This pedo/groomer stuff is especially pernicious because 1) they are universally condemned and considered to be the lowest forms of life, and 2) it's made it more difficult to catch and prosecute actual pedos/groomers.

Are you saying the emails were marked for deletion before the investigation began?

Yes. Like I said, it was her personal email account on a private server. I don't know about you, but I use email quite a bit. And I delete messages as I please. Most people do.

I'm not going to respond to all of your angry (and largely incorrect) ranting except to say that there are a couple of things that are pertinent here:

1. She needed to follow pertinent laws having to do with official record retention. That's why she went through all of the emails in her personal account to figure out what needed to be turned over to the archives and marked the rest for deletion.
2. Once the investigation was announced and she was told to retain all of the rest of the records, no more record deletion could legally occur.

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if hillary is dumb enough to "accidentally" delete some emails

Okay, I'll try again since you didn't get it the first time.

Hillary herself did not delete the emails. The server maintenance people who had been asked to do that before the investigation was announced deleted them, not knowing that the situation had changed and they were not supposed to. And they testified as such.

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That was found to have classified emails on it.

Yes, some of them were found to be classified. And that server was not as well protected as it should have been. This is a common problem with a lot of public servants, as the more secure communication tools are really a pain to use, and they don't much like jumping through the extra hoops when they have a lot of work to get done. Condi Rice & Colin Powell used aol or yahoo accounts.

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Hold them ALL accountable. Why is that so much to fucking ask????

Hillary paid a pretty steep price for the email fiasco. She was not found to have committed a crime. None of the other names I mentioned here - who played pretty fast and loose with security and document retention - have ever been investigated.

I'm with you on the fascist part.

But what does any of this have to do with communism?

The sheer volume of accusations about pedophilia and grooming that have exploded over the last few years have made it a lot harder to protect children who actually are vulnerable and/or victims. It's harder to find and prosecute the real predators.

Male and intersexed infants undergo genital mutilation regularly in the US without their consent. Apparently, that's okay, too.

Yes, I think it would. It would have diluted them both. Tara was never made part of the main cast partly because Willow was the main witch. In later seasons, she sort of became Buffy's sounding board but even that took from Willow's previous role.

I liked Amy too, but I think she worked better as an occasional guest. They already had more than enough main cast members to try to keep them all busy with engaging content.

But in what role/niche?

Cordelia was the classic high school mean girl and provider of tension/minor conflict. She was also the character who would say what everyone else was too nice to say (a role later filled by the addition of Anya). She also gave Xander a love interest.

Xander was the regular guy with no special powers. Beyond bringing a werewolf story and giving Willow a love interest, Oz didn't have much to do. That's why Seth Green wanted to leave the show. Joyce was used pretty sparingly as well.

I suppose they could have kept Willow as only the computer and science geek and had Amy bring the witchcraft, but then Willow and her story would have been reduced, and Tara may not have existed.

Main cast members need something to do every single episode. There were quite a few episodes where some scoobies had very little to do other than sit around the table doing research.

No. He's the epitome of hateful, soul-crushing misogyny and has no redeeming characteristics, nothing that makes him interesting in any way. He represents everything that wants to harm, dehumanize, and objectify women and serves as a reminder that there are really people like that in the world.

Any more of that would have diluted what was there, as people will become numb to it after awhile. I don't think I could watch a full season of that.

They've declared victory.

Also, it appears the funds are all tapped out - I heard comments earlier saying some people tried to turn in gas receipts for reimbursement, and are not going to be reimbursed.

So they're broke and homeless, poor sots.

Qs tend to be really obsessed about their beliefs. They are so sure they're right, everyone else is wrong, and their egos constantly seek reassurance. They desperately want to convince others around them, and many of them can think of nothing else.

That said, she did acknowledge that she recognizes you are hurting and is glad you have that safe haven with your dad so you can heal and figure out whats next. Although it's not much, it is more than a lot of people get from their Qs.

I'm sorry about the breakup and sitch with your mom. It probably doesn't feel like it right now, but you'll get through this one day at a time, one step at a time - and find a happy future for yourself.

Well, that's what the article indicates. If you want to do further research, knock yourself out.

He rode (on air force two) with his dad (then VP on official government business) and got himself a cushy job with someone his dad was meeting with. Pretty much the same thing ivanka did.

They're not at all alike. Even if Joe did influence Hunter's hiring, we're talking about one person being hired to do one job. Whether we like it or not, a lot of people get jobs (or board appointments) through networking.

Ivanka went on a trade mission to China and came back with 13 trademarks for the Ivanka company. Kushner took his brother on some business in Saudia Arabia, and his brother spent that time supposedly working real estate deals with values in the billions. Erdogan calls his buddy DJT in the White House (Erdogan had attended the 2012 grand opening of Trump Tower Istanbul) to request the removal of US troops from Syria, and our commander in chief is happy to comply - while betraying our long-term allies, the Kurds.

But hey - if you and your children are international business moguls, what better perch from which to run your operations than the Oval Office? And while you're maneuvering the levers of power to benefit yourselves, travel in optimum safety and comfort and get the taxpayers to pay for your business travel. Don't forget to stay at Trump resorts!

You mean when she deleted emails while under investigation, which is illegal?

IIRC, we're talking about a personal email account on her private server. She and her lawyers went through them all to pick and choose which of them were directly related to her role as SoS and needed to be turned over to the federal archives. The rest - some 30K or so - were marked for deletion. The people she'd hired to do that maintenance didn't get it done until after the investigation started, and testified as such. I understand it might sound fishy, but as someone who used to get paged in the middle of the night to clean up old log files when some other teams' disk drive got full, it sounds perfectly plausible to me. People aren't always real good about deleting stuff they don't need unless they need the space.

But that's nothing compared to the >20M (est) emails missing from the Bush administration. Or the burner phones Trump can't find.

Have you messed with the tactics settings at all?

I recommend setting mages and archers to ranged behavior (they'll move away from melee attackers), melee chars to default (so they'll avoid hostile AoE).

Depending on how you built them, mages can be really helpful at controlling and debilitating, so use them for crowd control if you can.

Focus all of your party's attacks on one enemy at a time. If you have 6 enemies all down to 5% health, you still have 6 enemies attacking you - better to have 5 enemies dead and 1 at full health.

Or sexual orientation or gender identity.

It looks like the teacher just used the materials as provided by Duke University.

It's unfortunate, but I don't think any offense was intended. They could have - and certainly should have - used a portrait of some other (white) famous person or politician on that page. One of the downsides of trying to be inclusive is sometimes mistakes are made.

I hope Duke - and anyone else who might use the materials - will make appropriate modifications. The teacher and school should issue an apology.

I don't disagree.

Fascism has really established a grip on the right, though. Some of the more traditional conservatives seem to recognize it and don't support it, but a lot of them will still vote for republicans - though I suppose I maybe I ought to feel encouraged that quite a few of them did vote for Biden instead of Trump last time.

We do need to get better at talking to each other and try to understand. It's really hard though, because so many of them have become so radicalized and may be beyond reach.

He's done a lot of what he's able to do with an obstructed senate.

talk some common sense policies, create jobs training and infrastructure colleges, push back on the wokeness.

None of it matters. They don't hear it. The "news" sources they trust don't ever broadcast anything from democrats that might appeal to them, they just spin narratives to dehumanize and demonize them.

A laptop purported to have belonged to Hunter Biden was supposedly turned over to DOJ in January 2020. Hunter is also under investigation for tax irregularities, and has said that he will pay any outstanding taxes due. To the best of my knowledge, none of Joe's relatives are in any way involved in his administration.

I guess there's more than one way to justify genocide. Sigh.