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I think last year's defense will be a more dominant unit than this year's defense. You cannot lose the best defensive player in the game and not take a step back. What would have last year's defense looked like if the offense held the ball longer and reduced their time on the field? If the offense would have scored more points and put the defense in better more predictable situations? If the special teams would not have been so terrible and pinned teams back more often? I think last year's defense would have easily been a top 2 to 3 defenses overall in the NFL anchored by the best defensive player in the game.

I think this year's defense will still be decent with young core talent to build around. Graham, Verse, Schwesinger, Mcneil Warran with some vets like Ward, Delpit, Williams, Davis, and Collins. There is still a lot to like about the Browns defense. If the offense and special teams can make a jump the defense being in better game situations and reduced time on the field could still be elite. If the offense struggles and looks like last year without Garrett, the defense will not be as dominant as last year. The attention he got from the offenses even when the defense was tired and in bad situations really helped the unit make plays. The only real disappointing thing with the defense lasts few years in general was lack of generating turnovers. If this unit can somehow improve that stat, then the loss of a great player like Garrett might not be felt as much.

Tate brothers' lawyer calls for Trump to block UK extradition request amid new charges

I believe that eventually you are correct. After all that is the goal and I don't look for them to stop until they achieve that goal. The "some are further out" part is the most likely scenario. That's most likely the best one can do at this point.

Millions upon millions of legal votes are cast in each presidential election through either mail in voting or early voting by registered, legal U.S. voters. Both are legal methods of voting. With early voting you go to a standard voting poll location and the exact same steps are taken as on election day. It seems you fail to grasp what the word fraud even means. It doesn't mean something you just made up in your brain. Maybe in your own little world but not to normal people.

Let me ask you something. The claim is there was cheating in the 2020 election and that's how Biden won. Trump was president in 2020 during that election. Trump was elected in both 2016 and 2024 when democrats were president. If democrats are that good at cheating why did they let trump win both times? And if there was cheating in 2020 to help Biden win was there no cheating in 2016 and 2024 to help trump win?

For God's sake think for a change man.

So tired of winning. . . .

LeBron coming back would absolutely be can't miss TV.

The whole vibe would change. It would make fantasy sports real.

I agree 100%. Teams generally refer to it as potential. That's the top upside they can see in a player if everything goes perfect. And as we've seen, the players with the best odds of reaching that potential are generally chosen earlier in the draft. Of course teams do find diamonds in the rough later in the draft but statistics show the later in the draft a player is selected, the less odds of success they have.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-hormuz-strait-war-july-18-2026-5adfef67554652580963684d9a663af2



US military says 2 troops are dead and 1 is missing after Iran attacks a base in Jordan



By JON GAMBRELL, TOQA EZZIDIN and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Updated 2:06 PM EDT, July 18, 2026
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military on Saturday announced its first troop deaths due to direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war, saying two were killed and another was missing in an attack on a base in Jordan.

They were killed Friday as the U.S. and partner forces defended against ballistic missile and drone attacks, a statement said. Four other service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and later discharged. The dead were not identified.

Since the war began, 16 U.S. service members have been killed and over 430 wounded.

Minutes earlier, Iran’s supreme leader warned of “unforgettable lessons” if the U.S. keeps attacking the Islamic Republic. The remarks read out on state TV and attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei, still unseen since the war began, also called President Donald Trump’s signature “worthless and invalid.”

The comments came hours after a negotiator said Tehran was suspending its commitments to the interim deal signed about a month ago and aimed at permanently ending the fighting.


Tehran’s declarations snapped another fragile thread as the war shows no end in sight. Now Khamenei warns of “lessons” not only from Iran but its armed proxies in the region, calling them the “Axis of Resistance.”

The battle over the Strait of Hormuz has intensified in a conflict increasingly focused on control of the essential waterway that previously carried a fifth of the world’s crude oil. The strikes threaten civilians and infrastructure, including desalination plants for drinking water, while the global economy again is on alert.


The U.S. has violated its commitments under the deal that was signed about a month ago and now Iran is “no longer implementing them,” Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, told state TV.

There was no new word on mediation efforts.

Kuwait sees the most striking damage
The most significant damage from Iranian strikes on Saturday occurred in Kuwait, where a water desalination plant and an oil facility were hit, according to the Kuwait authorities and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. Both declined to provide locations.

The strikes injured several people at the oil facility and caused a fire at the desalination plant, forcing several power generation units offline. It was the second attack against a desalination plant in two days in the tiny desert nation that depends on desalination for 90% of its drinking water.


Several firefighters and a worker were injured while battling two other blazes sparked by Iranian strikes, according to the Kuwait Fire Force. Kuwait briefly closed its airspace due to missile threats, and Kuwait Airways said it was rescheduling most flights to and from the capital.

Meanwhile, Iraq said it shot down attack drones over the city of Irbil. Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency said the kingdom’s air defense systems had downed Iranian missiles, while air sirens sounded multiple times in Bahrain throughout the day and in Saudi Arabia in the morning, according to their governments.

The secretary general of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, Jasem Mohamed al-Budaiwi, accused Iran of war crimes for strikes on infrastructure and civilian facilities.



US strikes hit infrastructure in Iran
The U.S. Central Command said early Saturday that its seventh straight night of strikes hit “surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities.”

U.S. airstrikes hit an electricity and desalination plant in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, Iranian state TV reported. IRNA said the Bonji desalination plant was destroyed, cutting off water supplies to about 10,000 people, and that a desalination plant on strategic Qeshm Island inside the strait was damaged.

Overnight strikes damaged two tunnels and a bridge, disrupting one of the main highways toward Bandar Abbas, Iran’s main port that sits near the narrowest part of the strait, according to Iran’s state-run news agency. IRNA said three bridges were hit Saturday, including one on a route to Bandar Abbas.


Iran acknowledged “attacks on power infrastructure” during the U.S. airstrikes for the first time Friday when its Energy Ministry issued a call for people to use less power in southern provinces “experiencing extreme heat.” It did not specify what was hit.

Iranian authorities said at least 50 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded in U.S. strikes in the past three weeks, including eight killed in a strike on a bridge Friday.



Iran effectively closed the strait to shipping traffic after the war started with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28. That sent the price of oil soaring and has given Tehran significant leverage in negotiations.

Iran has said the strait must be under its sole control and that vessels should pay fees to Tehran, even though the world for decades has considered it an international waterway. It fired on ships on recent days. Crossings through the strait fell to a three-week low, according to an international shipping tracker.

Trump has resumed threats to target power stations and bridges to try to compel Iran to loosen its hold. The U.S. in the past week reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports to halt its shipments of crude oil.


A growing amount of the region’s energy is being shipped through pipelines, but not nearly enough to offset the decline in shipping.

Before the war began, the U.S. had been in talks with Iran over its nuclear program. Trump now faces political pressure to end the war and avoid the kind of prolonged Middle East conflict he had campaigned against.

If only you had any idea what that meant Joe McCarthy.

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Trump endorses MyPillow's Mike Lindell in race for Minnesota governor

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/trump-endorses-mypillow-mike-lindell-for-minnesota-governor/

This sounds more like something that belongs in the joke thread but it's actually true.

Cabinet member works solely at the pleasure of the President. Each department has staff and a chain of command. If a cabinet member is not there that department continues to function regardless.

If an elected official is not there, they can not vote on bills or carry out their direct job to "represent the voters who elected them".

Cabinet members answer to the president. Elected officials answer to the voters.

Speaking of brain dead, anyone who can't see the difference and makes up excuses to the contrary fits that description.

Then there's the fact I posted that neither one is right. But you do you.

The Baker draft I studied for months.

I watched more tape than I ever have. I remember writing a long breakdown of each guy Darnold, Baker, Allen, Rosen, and Lamar.

I liked the first three. I did not like Rosen or Lamar. Lamar jumped off the tape as an escape artist but I felt he had a long way to go to be a passer in the NFL. Rosen had great throwing mechanics but I felt something was missing with him. I didn't detect a leader.

I remember thinking Allen was a monster who had the best upside. However, I had concerns with him playing hero ball and decision making.

Baker, I liked him. I could see he could spin it and he had pure leadership. His teammates loved him. My concern was his lack of mobility.

Darnold was the guy I wanted to draft. He was excellent throwing on the move. He had a good arm. He was raw and I felt he would need time.

Looking back I wonder where we would be now if we had drafted Allen.

The 27 draft has a bunch of guys. Right now I am going to let the season play out. See who sticks out.

New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say

Experts said the lack of such capabilities poses a potential risk when the president travels overseas. The White House defended the aircraft’s safety.

The new Air Force One, which President Trump flew on earlier this week to Turkey, lacks the same defensive countermeasures that were security features of the old model, including its advanced antimissile capabilities, according to multiple officials who have been briefed on how the jet was retrofitted.

Experts say the absence of those capabilities on the Boeing 747-8 aircraft, which was donated by Qatar, creates potential risk in using the jet abroad, a dynamic underscored by the abrupt decision on Wednesday for Mr. Trump to leave Turkey on the old Air Force One at the urging of the Secret Service.

The episode is intensifying the focus on Mr. Trump’s demands to rapidly retrofit the donated 747 to replace an aging fleet that had served as the official presidential planes.

Lawmakers have called on the administration to disclose whether the overhaul of the Qatari plane, which the Air Force oversaw in the course of the last year, provided sufficient security upgrades. The safety of the aircraft is critical not only for the president, but also for the large entourage of White House staff, Secret Service officials, journalists and guests who fly aboard.

Mr. Trump pushed for the new plane to be put into use as quickly as possible and frequently complained that the old presidential aircraft was not impressive enough to take on international trips.

On Thursday, the White House did not address specific questions about the new plane’s capabilities, but defended its safety.

“The new Air Force One is a state-of-the-art aircraft that has been fitted with high-level security protocols that ensure the safety of the president and his staff,” Steven Cheung, the communications director, said in a statement. “As the president has said recently, there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal to address those threats.”

The Air Force has declined to discuss specifics around security systems on the retrofitted Qatari plane, which is being used as a “bridge” aircraft while two Boeing jets that will be part of the permanent presidential fleet are being finished.

But in a statement it made when it announced that the donated jet was ready to transport the president, it acknowledged that the temporary plane did not have all the equipment usually found on an Air Force One.

“No risk was taken in security, safety or mission communications,” the Air Force said in a statement on June 19. “But the collective team made trades on some of the less commonly used mission sets that Boeing must deliver to support the next 40 years.”

The Air Force would not say what it meant by “less commonly used mission sets.”

However, officials who have been briefed on the retrofitting of the Qatari jet, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe its security features, said it did not have the same counter-defensive capabilities of the previous model.

Two former Air Force officials, who had both been involved in the effort to replace the older Air Force One planes, said they were surprised to see Mr. Trump fly on the new jet overseas, where there are greater security risks. Turkey, where Mr. Trump attended a NATO summit, borders Iran, which the United States pummeled with renewed strikes this week.

The former officials were not involved with the retrofitting of the Qatari jet, but said the speed of the project meant there would not have been enough time to make all of the security modifications that are traditionally associated with a fully equipped presidential aircraft.

“Time didn’t permit all the normal Air Force One modifications, so some mix of security, communications and support is missing,” said Frank Kendall, the former Air Force secretary who was in charge of the department as it tried to push Boeing to accelerate its long-delayed contract to deliver two new Air Force One planes.

“With the Iran situation, this could be of concern,” Mr. Kendall said. “Frankly, I’m surprised to see this plane used outside the U.S.”

Andrew P. Hunter, the former Air Force assistant secretary who was in charge of the Air Force One program during the Biden administration, also said that a true retrofit of a 747 jet to prepare it to become Air Force One would require more than a year of work.

The day before Mr. Trump left for Turkey, Senate Democrats wrote to the Air Force asking questions about the modifications to the Qatari plane and questioning whether it had all the necessary security upgrades.

“Trump’s own statements — including his celebration of ‘a level of luxury that nobody’s ever seen before’ — make it clear that these decisions prioritized Trump’s personal comfort and tastes over U.S. national security,” they wrote in the letter sent by Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, and 12 other senators.

The older planes that served as Air Force One included a defensive system designed to defeat heat-seeking missiles. That capacity is also planned to be included in the new Boeing planes, according to three former Pentagon officials.

Different parts of the defensive systems are visible on the old Air Force One, under the wing of the plane and on its tail. They are not observable in photographs of the new Qatari plane, according to a third former Air Force official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the security protocols.

Missile defense systems on Air Force One have seen little use in the history of the aircraft, but have nevertheless been considered critical aspects of the plane’s security features.

The Pentagon published specifications for the Boeing aircraft now under construction that indicate the new jets will include a “self-defense system” and “mission communication system,” as these and other upgrades are needed “to enable the president to execute the duties of head of state, chief executive, and commander in chief.”

U.S. officials have said that Iran has been targeting Mr. Trump since he ordered the drone strike that killed Qassim Suleimani, in January 2020. During the 2024 campaign, the Secret Service increased protection for Mr. Trump, even before the attempt on his life in Butler, Pa., because of intelligence about Iran’s plotting against him.

Despite the resumption of intense U.S. strikes on Iran, American policymakers briefed on the current intelligence do not believe that Iran has a current plan to kill Mr. Trump during this period. A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe intelligence assessments, said that Iran had a clear understanding of what kind of deep provocation any attempt on Mr. Trump’s life would be and the intensity of an American response.

Nevertheless, the Secret Service was concerned enough about Mr. Trump’s proximity to the country while in Ankara to force the president to swap planes on the way out of the country, as The New York Times first reported Wednesday.

In announcing the change, Mr. Trump offered a different story: He claimed that he was flying out on the old plane so the new jet could leave early and make stops at U.S. military bases to show it off to the troops because the aircraft is “magnificent.”

One former senior White House official involved in discussions about military aircraft used for presidential travel said that there were frequently points of tension between White House staff and the military advisers and Secret Service over travel plans when security questions emerged.

But when the military experts demanded changes, White House officials generally let them prevail, with “course of action” plans that mitigated potential threats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/us/politics/new-air-force-one-defensive-countermeasures.html

And in response to the NYT exposing their incompetence.........................

DOJ subpoenas NYT journalists over Air Force One report

The Trump administration hit four New York Times journalists with subpoenas on Friday, after the outlet published a story outlining risks involving President Trump’s Qatar-gifted Air Force One plane that recently entered into service.

The Times reported that the refurbished jet lacked some of the advanced security measures of the older aircraft used to transport the president.

The reporters include Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt. They also wrote earlier this week that a security precaution forced Trump to depart to the NATO summit in Turkey on the old Air Force One, were called to testify next week before a federal grand jury in Manhattan “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law.” The switch-up also raised red flags around potential threats against the president from Iran after the U.S. launched fresh strikes on the Islamic Republic earlier this week.

The outlet noted that before publication, a senior FBI official contacted it requesting to halt the article for national security reasons but declined to provide details. The subpoenas were reportedly delivered to the journalists at their homes by federal agents.

The Times condemned the move, calling it an act of intimidation and an attack on press freedom.

“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” Times attorney David McCraw said in a statement.

“Our journalists report the facts and advance the American public’s right to know how their government is operating and their taxpayer dollars are being used,” he continued. “This brazen act should be seen as nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs.”

Press advocates also denounced the Justice Department’s (DOJ) actions, saying the move threatens constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment.

“The Justice Department’s decision to subpoena journalists at The New York Times should alarm every American because it threatens the public’s constitutional right to an independent press,” the National Press Club said in a statement, requesting that DOJ withdraw the subpoenas.

The nonprofit organization Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) called the controversy around the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 an “embarrassment” for the Trump administration.

“We’ve long said that when the government claims it needs to investigate journalists to protect national security, it really means its own reputational security,” FPF advocacy chief Seth Stern said in a statement.

“The administration’s embarrassment that it reportedly charged taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit a flying bribe that still isn’t secure enough for hostile times does not supersede the need for a free and independent press,” Stern added.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/polit...-times-journalists-air-force-one-report/

At least they didn't try to claim the problem was created by accusing someone of cutting the wiring of the plane with a knife.

Seahawks to be sold for NFL-record $9.6 billion: Who bought the team, and why billions will go to charity

The historic price tag smashes the previous NFL record set just three years ago

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-sold-9-6-billion-nfl-record-buyer-owners/

From staunch critic to fierce ally: Graham’s long, strange and consequential friendship with Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Sen. Lindsey Graham said he had finally had enough of the man who was championed by the mob that stormed the pillar of American democracy: President Donald Trump.

“Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view, he’s been a consequential president,” an emotional Graham said once authorities cleared the rioters and allowed senators to reclaim their chamber. “All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.”

It wasn’t, of course.

Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died unexpectedly on Saturday night at age 71, realized that his party’s future was inextricably tied to Trump and quickly reverted back to being a staunch defender. The shift made what had once seemed like a final rupture into just another twist in the topsy-turvy relationship between the powerful senator and the president who came to dominate their party.

“Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no,” Graham said in May 2021, just four months after the Jan. 6 attack. “I’ve determined we can’t grow without him.”

Trump, who called Graham a “true American Patriot” in a social media post Sunday, appeared shocked by the lawmaker’s sudden passing.

“I just can’t believe it,” the president told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He was like a member of the family.”

Graham often advised Trump on foreign affairs, particularly on matters pertaining to Israel, Ukraine and Iran. He was a frequent visitor at the White House.

“I said, ‘We’ll see you soon, come over anytime you want,’” Trump said about his last conversation with the senator.
Graham once said Trump’s candidacy was like ‘being shot in the head’

The senator and Trump first clashed while competing for the 2016 presidential nomination.

Graham described Trump as “unfit for office,” and was angered when Trump denigrated the military service of Graham’s close friend, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Trump suggested, “I like people that weren’t captured” when talking about McCain’s years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Trump got mad enough at Graham to release the senator’s personal cellphone number. That prompted a viral video in which the senator dramatically destroyed a series of flip phones. He smashed one with a meat cleaver and another with a golf club, then used lighter fluid, a blender and toaster oven to pulverize others before tossing one off the roof.

Graham eventually likened Trump’s winning the nomination to “being shot in the head” and said he refused to vote for Trump that November. But the pair later bonded over golf and what Graham described as a mutual and irreverent sense of humor.

Trump and Graham began so frequently hitting the links together that the senator started seeing it as something of a career builder, leaning heavily into the kind of over-the-top flattery Trump relishes. In 2017, Graham joked that Trump had beaten him “like a drum” on the course — even worse than in the presidential primary.

“Their true friendship could only be seen behind the curtain,” Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., told ABC’s “This Week.” Scott said that relationship was forged as political adversaries but also strengthened by spending 100-plus hours golfing together.

During Trump’s first term, Graham helped advance Trump’s nominees to the Supreme Court, lent credibility to the White House’s legislative agenda and even at times became part of the president’s inner circle. He frequently said Trump was maturing in politics and growing on the job.

Graham’s political divergence with McCain, who died in 2018, was never more clear than in 2017, when McCain voted against a Trump-backed plan to overturn Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. The effort had been co-sponsored by Graham.

A split that was short-lived, an alliance reignited

In his floor speech after the Capitol attack, Graham said “he’d never been so humiliated and embarrassed for the country.” But the break with Trump ended quickly.

Weeks later, Trump invited Graham for golf and dinner at the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, reigniting their alliance. During Trump’s 2024 campaign, Graham was a frequent Trump surrogate on television, promoting U.S. military strength that he said would advance “America First” policies.

Graham never shed his more traditional Republican foreign policy views, including outspoken support for Ukraine during the Russian invasion. He was also a leading voice pushing the White House to more fully embrace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and take a harder line against Iran.

After the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February, Graham remained hawkish, staunchly defending the action and working to counter many in Trump’s “Make America Great Again” base who thought “America First” meant avoiding such military conflicts.

“To those who say Iran is stronger now than before, that is an insult to the American military and it is delusional thinking because the Iranian economy is in shambles,” Graham posted on social media June 19.

But Graham’s admiration for Trump went far beyond Iran. When Graham clinched the South Carolina Republican primary last month, he suggested the president was just short of a deity.

“I want to start with a bunch of thank yous. I want to thank the big guy, God. Trump comes later,” Graham laughed. “Mr. President, you’re not far behind God, but we’re gonna start with him.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-gr...y-iran-abce65fdea00e13e34b8cb6380b4f8c9?

I wouldn't call 75 very young.

The final 4 are set:

France vs Spain.

France have looked the best team of the competition. They are stacked with talent and play attractive football.
Spain have tons of talent and are highly organized but play a possession based (boring) style of football. It will be an interesting match up - I think both teams have about an equal amount of talent. France are more explosive but Spain may foil them and frustrate them ... an early goal for France would probably help make it a more exciting game.

England vs Argentina.

England played their best game vs Mexico then looked a little flat vs Norway and could be considered fortunate to have won. Argentina have played well and they have Messi - they have also been outrageously fortunate with the officiating and in all honesty deserved to lose to Egypt without the officiating benefitting them significantly. Expect a close game with momentum swinging one way then the other.

See - this to me needs to be put into context.

These are elected officials - in power and pushing an agenda that proposes and wants to rip up something fundamentally American, part of the constitution and in place for 114 years.

There's much noise about the Democratic Socialist Party on this board - it appears like it might be a rebranding of a non-influential group formerly calling themselves the Socialist Party. I see online something about the DSA having just surpasses 100,000 members ... whoop da freaking loop.

This is essentially a microcosm of so much of the politics today ... something big like Project 2025 is being enacted. We're in war with Iran that is killing the economy, has essentially made Iran more influential because they know how much they can hurt the USA/Trump/the world by closing the straits of Hurmuz. We have the DOJ being used to go openly after political opponents with evidence being manipulated to Grand Juries while 10,000 lawyers depart the DoJ (presumably/possibly/probably in part because of what they see). We have an administration trying to upend Birth Right Citizenship, another part of the constitution. We have a PoTUS shilling and making Billions because of his position while simultaneous actively undermining the principal of the separation of powers and checks and balances withing the 3 branches of Govt .......... And in response the narrative from the likes of Bannon, Trump and the very influential right wing media is deflection and distraction about a "movement" with about 100,000 members. We get a focus on Trans individuals that represent a tiny % of the population overall, and then if you look at the number of Trans "issues" where contentious event has happened - the numbers are absolutely minute. We get "condoms for Hamas" and Russian lies that get spammed and spread through fake SM accounts and picked up and embraced by MAGA.

And I don't see it changing any time soon.

Kinda funny, and not in the same league, but the Guardians just drafted a 17 year old pitcher who is 6'4" and IIRC, 220#. At 17.

LeBron James Realizes He Left Brand-New Stick Of Deodorant In Lakers Locker

https://theonion.com/lebron-james-realizes-he-left-brand-new-stick-of-deodorant-in-lakers-locker/

One side already has already taken over the stats quo with Project 2025. What we're beginning to see now is the backlash.

I would love to see moderates take over control of both parties so some sense of compromise could be reached to move the nation forward. The question now is what does the word moderate even mean in politics anymore? Sadly as of now I think it will be a long time to come before that happens. I see every American having healthcare as a moderate position but many say it's not.

I know everyone doesn't share my opinion but it seems any time there is legislation proposed that would help every day Americans a negative stereotype gets attached to it.

Meanwhile The White House endorses a privately owned chain of gas station that nobody seems to know who owns them and nothing is said...........

“The FIRST Freedom Fuel Network gas station has LANDED in Philadelphia, lowering the price at the pump to $3.47 for our 47th President,” the White House wrote on the social platform X on Tuesday.

As you have shown trump buys stocks and then endorses products to boost their stock value to enrich himself. He buys stocks right before he rolls back sanctions on them to increase his wealth and those same people never say a word about it and even try to defend it.

And one of them is back posting in this forum again.