Mtn Man

Now wait just a minute, Stucki; you are (in fact) the actual mountain man.

Don't characterize Trump as "my guy". In spite of being a philosophical/political libertarian, I never voted for Trump and never would in the future.

It seems like yesterday you claimed to have voted for the "Democrat candidate" for the first time in your life. I wonder if you remember getting a little ass for (allegedly) doing that?

https://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/10/15/are-republicans-getting-worried/#comment-170272

I voted for that fabulous Ulster, NY sticker and wrote about it here. You posted the actual image for me here.

I remembered that like it was yesterday. Time flies. Spiders eat flies. :)

Don't characterize Trump as "my guy". In spite of being a philosophical/political libertarian, I never voted for Trump and never would in the future.

CRS, I think you’re not giving Biden credit for doing way more good things often in a bipartisan manner (you know, like in the good old days of the founding of our republic) than your guy Trump.
Trump was objectively an incompetent President — “ball don’t lie” as we say in basketball — but President Biden’s long list of accomplishments also often against GOP opposition should count for something, no?

BTW Trump “lost” 3m jobs and Biden “created” 15m and counting, but I hate how these words are misused. Trump was warned but downplayed Covid and a million Americans croaked and it trashed our economy. So Trump indirectly “lost” 3m jobs. Both Trump and Biden pumped some modest relief into the system and once Covid related supply chain issues finish working out we’ll be back at good old boring 2% and we may even set some economic records!

Wait a minute. We ARE setting economic records right now. My bad.

Have you forgotten who did the lions share of mismanagement? His initials are DJT.

It's pretty easy to create 15 million "new jobs" if you first destroy 15 million existing jobs by means of mis-managing the health crisis referred to as the 'pandemic', by means of turning it into what really amounted to a 'Dempanic'.

One can't help but wonder, how the hell did we get from people on the level of Geo. Washington and Ben Franklin guiding us to people on the level of Joe Biden and Donald Trump?????

That awesome spider is the Ulster County, New York sticker winner circa 2022.

New Hampshire stickers are okay... not nearly as cool:
https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-i-voted-sticker-design-winners-2023/45632415#

Why would a judge allow a man who continues to claim he's done nothing wrong to continue operations in New York as per usual? He isn't bloody likely to start following the rules now, is he? *laughs* Judge Engoron asked the prosecutors how this fraud compared to that of Bernie Madoff. Besides Trump having an obvious smaller operation, Madoff actually confessed his fraud, and his sons turned him. The Trumps have zero regret and claim to be blameless while obviously having committed massive fraud as shown in literally hundreds of exhibits.

So we've all got that to look forward to, although there is no deadline or anything (the judge could rule at any time).

Engoron said he hoped to rule by the end of January. Poor Donald. :)

Spoiler Alert: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Well, it's a pretty safe bet that Trump isn't going to self-destruct.

And, if Nikki Haley is the kind of person she keeps saying she is, then it's not really a tough choice that she has to make. She should stay in as long as she can, knowing that she won't be the last one standing in this race but, also knowing that by doing so she can both do a great service to the country and live to fight another day.

In the back of my head, I'm hearing Boris Karloff singing "You're a LOSER, Mr Trump."

What would Democratic mayors of Democratic cities who are trying to deal with the influx of illegal immigrants have to say about Biden's half-hearted support of an immigration deal just because he's getting the military aid package he wants.

What I'd like to know is whatever happened to Biden's favourite phrase he used to love to tout at every opportunity. You know, the one about America leading best when it leads not just by the example of its power but by the power of its, ah, example. You want to talk about hypocrisy!? That one takes the cake ... er, pie.

The US continues its involvement in the Ukraine and Gaza wars seemingly indefinitely with no end of any kind in sight.

In the case of Ukraine, the Ukrainians won the war early on when they successfully repelled the Russians and prevented them from taking the entire country. Continued military resistance against Russia to win back parts of the country still under Russian control is a losing battle, anyway you slice it. That much should be obvious by now. Time for negotiations and a political settlement. Not that whatever settlement arises while Putin is on the scene has to last for eternity or can never be improved upon to the satisfaction of Ukraine.

As for Gaza, what we are witnessing is almost unimaginable, let alone what blowback may be in store for Israel and the US, both now fairly isolated from most of the world.

The Biden administration keeps talking about how the killing of civilians must stop and how humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow but has done little to force Israel to bring about either outcome. And, US military aid continues to flow, no strings attached and seemingly without any semblance of a political solution that gets at the root causes of all of the endlessly horrific violence that perennially envelopes Israel and Palestine.

Where is Captain America when you need him?