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The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
61 responses to “Question – If you could pick any year in history to start the rest of your life, what year would you choose?”
I would choose 2024. I will be 56 in 2 weeks. I would likely already be dead in many past eras. Going back to 1776 or 1861 would be interesting but if we are honest, life sucked for most people then.
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I hope we avoid the “I would go back in time and become rich betting on sports when I already know the outcome” answer.
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If you prefer to expand the question to picking a year to be born, go ahead. Of course, Jan and Tina will likely die in childbirth if they go too far back. The rest of us may not have the right to vote unless we own significant property. Also, small pox and yellow fever were not fun.
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Wake up!
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I personally think the owning of property as a requirement to vote, as well as, US Senators being elected by individual State Houses were brilliant ideas. Our country would be far better off if we would have kept it that way. The men who wrote the Constitution had very good reasons for both.
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Interesting. I disagree. Pick a year, Jeff.
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I would argue both have weakened the US being a pure Constitutional Republic into drifting toward a straight democracy where 51% rule the 49%. I believe the huge division we are experiencing now are symptomatic of this. But it’s a straw man argument now. Sure would be nice if all the millions of people who pay rent actually owned their apartments.
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I was born in 1960. Wouldn’t change a thing. One possibility that would have been interesting would have been mid 1776 because that is my favorite time period of history. I definitely would have to be ten times tougher.
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This is a tough one for Walt. He is partial to both the Jurassic and the Cretaceous.
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“Presidential candidate Nikki Haley falsely denied cheating on her husband when she was accused of engaging in two extramarital affairs during her gubernatorial campaign, multiple sources who worked with her claim.
New witnesses have come forward telling DailyMail.com that Haley’s denials of two alleged 2008 affairs are false, and that the supposed trysts were brazen and widely known among South Carolina politicos.
Will Folks, 49, and Larry Marchant, 61, both signed affidavits in 2010 alleging they had a sexual relationship with the then-South Carolina lawmaker, before she went on to become governor.
While the contents of the affidavits were described by major news outlets at the time, this is the first time they have been published outside of Folks’ own document which he published on his blog.
Haley, 51, denied both at the time, saying she was ‘100% faithful’ to the father of her two children and husband of 28 years, Michael Haley – who was deployed in Afghanistan with the National Guard in 2012.
Haley now frequently cites him as a reason for her presidential candidacy.”
Is Bitter going to start calling her a “scumbag” now? After all, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Stay tuned.
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I think the plan is to have the superdelegates replace Biden after he has won the nomination but has to withdraw bc of “health reasons.” That way they can just pick whoever they want.
This would be at the convention though. I actually expect this to happen unless Biden’s poll numbers miraculously improve by then.
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As I said several days ago when this story appeared, Affidavits are generally useless without testimony. If she cheated on her husband, she is is a scumbag. Is Jason finally admitting Trump is a scumbag?
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Is Jason’s I
Internet really that slow?
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Suffolk NH
Trump 53 (new high)
La Dem Nikita 17
Rds 7
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She is a real Republican and a conservative. Trump is neither one. Both can be true.
Tina has not produced any evidence that Haley is a Dem or not conservative. Typical.
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Cash Cow here.
I pose the question to Walt and he sai he would like to have been born in 1947.
Hey, wait,,(checking birth certificate)… that IS when he was born (the last time).
Walt said he cannot remember what sports team won what in what year, but he can remember which political candidates won key races. So he said he would make a million on betting on outcome of election races.
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Done
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He can finally recover his losses from betting on Carthage to beat Rome.
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If she cheated on her husband, she is is a scumbag. Is Jason finally admitting Trump is a scumbag?”
Her affairs are not relevant to her qualification for office. What is relevant is her pandering to BLM.
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If she cheated on her husband, she is is a scumbag”
Zzzzzz……..
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She did not pander to BLM. I will refute it every time you post it.
Does your wife know you are so indifferent to marital infidelity? Does Lupita?
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”Her affairs are not relevant to her qualification for office. What is relevant is her pandering to BLM.”
I agree with the first part of that statement. As for “pandering to BLM,” such as Mitt Romney and others did, it just shows a superficiality and weakness in their independent-thinking leadership skills.
Last night any question about Haley being a potential VP pick was laid to rest. Trump publicly said she was not in the running. Haley also came out saying she was not interested in a VP position – possibly a face-saving statement for her make.
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When did Trump reject the recent support of BLM members? Oh, wait. He accepted it.
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/20/democrats-nikki-haley-primary-votes-00136418
There has been an ongoing campaign to switch NH dem’s affiliation to independent so they can obstruct,Trump from winning the primary there. I am not a fan of such vote manipulation, no matter which side does it, simply because it taints the real voting aspirations of the electorate to chose the nominee they want to represent them in the GE.
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Accepting the endorsement of a black member of BLM is not the same as endorsing the BLM movement itself, suggesting an endorsement of their acts and actions as well.
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You don’t even try to make sense anymore when you give free passes to Trump.
She condemned BLM’s. You and Jason can pretend she did not but she did.
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Relax, Jan. You will get your wish. Trump is going to win the nomination.
Of course, he will lose to Biden or Biden’s replacement and take House and Senate down with him (and not because of fraud) but that won’t matter to you. You and Tina will just start the Trump 2028 campaign.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-you-are-problem-conservative-speaker-slams-davos-globalists-their-faces
”During a discussion titled “What to Expect from a Possible Republican Administration,” Roberts let rip on the elitists.
“I will be candid,” Roberts began, adding “the agenda that every single person member of the [future Republican] administration needs to have, is to compile a list of everything that’s ever been proposed at the [WEF], and object all of them wholesale.”
He further urged that “anyone not prepared to do that, and take away this power of the unelected bureaucrats and give it back to the American people, is unprepared to be a part of the next conservative administration.”
BRAVO!
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My son in law was chosen as lead counsel for the 26 states in the SCOTUS for the 14th amendment Trump case February 8th.
“…. 26 other attorneys general in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) arguing against a legally unfounded decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to remove presidential candidate Donald Trump from the ballot in the upcoming presidential primary election in that state. Following the brief’s submission to the court, SCOTUS agreed to review the case.
The amicus outlines how the Colorado Supreme Court erred in a ruling that Colorado citizens may not cast their votes for President Trump. Relying on an unduly broad interpretation of a post-Civil War constitutional amendment, Colorado’s supreme court justices undermined the democratic process by speciously declaring President Trump an “insurrectionist.” Further, by ignoring the clear limitations on governmental entities’ enforcement powers of the 14th Amendment, the Colorado court sought to usurp responsibility and authority that the Constitution assigns to Congress. SCOTUS has previously warned judges away from intervening in “the most intensely partisan aspects of American political life.”
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Kind of ironic for a family that is all in on RDS.
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Trump would have a conservative Administration? I guess there is a first time for everything.
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Still contemplating what year to be born
The many advantages to being born today, including a possible lifespan of 150 years are dampened by the fact that the microscope is so strong nowadays that every single word, action, deed, and worse, accusation, stays with you forever. Unless you’re from the misfits thst elected Obama, there is no escape, you’re guilty even if proven innocent and no s chance for redemption. Oh, and the upcoming split of the country…
So then, when to choose?? I often wonder about being born at the turn of the century 1900. Sooooo much change to be a part of…hmmmmp
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Bitter – are you saying Trump didn’t surprise you during his term (before COVID) with the overall conservative nature of his presidency. There were some things that were not (trade policy), but overall his tenure was as conservative or more than other republicans
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Rds dropping out? Cancels meet the depressed and Cn and n interviews.
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Nikita has collected a lot of $$$, while holding different gubmental positions.
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Vic – Other than judges, I would not say Trump advanced conservatism. Which I would not expect since he is a Democrat who needed the GOP nomination because Hilary was going to get the Dem nod. Being more conservative than the radical Leftists he donated to for decades does not make him conservative.
I don’t consider isolationism conservative.
He was a good President. I hope he gets another term. I think the cases against him are politically driven BS. Win or lose, I look forward to never hearing his name after 2028. He is an amoral scumbag and I despise him. Anybody who feels he is fighting for them is a sad, deluded soul. He fights for himself. Only.
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Can’t argue with the last paragraph
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Bitter, I agree about those who think Trump is fighting for them. But it goes back to my worldview post from earlier this week. I will repost it below. See #4:
What drives all this division and differences of opinion within the GOP all comes back to world-view issues. Everyone sees the world through a particular lens, and with given presuppositions that sometimes need to be re-evaluated and corrected, if one is willing to learn and grow. Here are several presuppositional/world-view positions among Republicans that result in the behavior and opinions posted here.
1) The person is completely indifferent about issues of morality. Right and wrong are completely relative and defined by each person. But the economy and growth of personal wealth are governed by obvious laws of economics, which Democrats eagerly violate, stripping everyone of their wealth. This person sees politics through the lens of getting policies in place that will improve personal wealth and savings. Part of what concerns this voter is national security, because if we are overrun by foreign enemies, then there goes the personal wealth.
The chief weakness of this worldview is the fact that morality and prosperity are not so easily severed, as though wealth can prosper in a culture of lies, theft, crime and corruption.
2) The person is strong on morality, and all political policy issues are seen through this lens. There is little room in this worldview for compromise or pragmatism. If right and wrong are strictly followed and enforced, then all the other things will work themselves out for good. This is the voter who typically looks for a president in the primaries who would make a good pastor of his or her church. If none is found, then the voter stays home, and allows others to pick between two immoral candidates–completely blind to the fact that one of the two who will win might be more beneficial than the other.
The chief weakness of this worldview is the fact that our founders gave us the right to vote, and voting is simply picking the best you can get in any election. It is counter-intuitive to yield your right to vote to other voters–people who fail spectacularly at morality, and then expect to get moral results.
3) Another world-view sees deconstruction as the way forward. Everything is so corrupt, and so hopelessly defective that no progress can be made in our country until everything is wiped clean and we start with a clean slate. This world-view does not concern itself directly with moral issues, because these blights on society serve to illustrate the need to start over. This world-view sees economic collapse as inevitable, and so buying up gold is one of the answers. Both major political parties are viewed as essentially the same in what matters, because both try to work with what we have instead of starting over.
The chief weakness of this worldview, is that we are never going to start over, and so its a fantasy. If somehow everything could be destroyed, if we could throw the baby out with the bathwater, there is no reason to expect that something better would replace it.
4) The fourth world-view is the dreamer. This view longs for a savior-like figure to come along and fix all the country’s problems with the wave of his or her hand. And so when someone comes along who starts to look like this ideal, the voter pushes the candidate firmly into that mold, ignoring the problems and warts, and affirming everything about the candidate as good. Once the dreamer has anointed a candidate as their Messiah, it is solid and can never be revoked no matter what that candidate says or does. That candidate IS the answer!
The weakness of this worldview is that no candidate is ideal and no candidate can alone fix all the problems with this sort of ease.
5) The worldview I would espouse sees our nation as broken morally, and the crime, corruption, lies, lawfare, destruction of the traditional family, abuse of society’s most vulnerable members–all of these things will continue to bring about economic harm, foreign instability and vulnerability, and increased centralization of power at the federal level. And so when I vote, I pick the candidate who will support the traditional values that made our country great–an honest legal system, prosecution of crime, supporting families, protection of the vulnerable, and de-centralizing power as much as possible. I will vote every time the polls are open, and vote to try and get all that I can in this direction, knowing that often I have to pick the best out of two very defective candidates.
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DW – I made decisions and worked hard for decades so I don’t have to look to a Democrat billionaire to fight for me. Trump is a charlatan who uses people like Jan to advance his interests. He wanted to be President because it is the biggest prize on the planet. He donated to Leftists for decades because that is who he is. He said Bill Clinton was the best President of his lifetime. In 2008 he said Hillary would be a great President. She blocked his way in 2016 so he switched sides.
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Bitter, you don’t have to speak, on my behalf, who I support or may vote for. If you see someone as a charlatan own that opinion as your own, not mine. Like DW’s reasons, I pick someone for having policies that match best what I would like enacted. So far I have never met anyone meeting 100% of my standards. My choices then are made based on the one I believe is the most optimal candidate for the job. Unlike you I don’t make such an important decision based only on one issue, but who seems lacking in other critical areas, such as our own border safety, invasive surveillance tactics, supporting China and corporate hierarchies. Just stick with defending your own judgement calls……
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You are a joke, Jan. You have not evaluated a single position or statement of any candidate other than Trump objectively. You look to discredit everybody but Trump, rely on unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and admitted you can be gullible. How many yachts does Zelensky own?
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49ers lead Packers 7-6 at halftime. Interesting. Is Tina drinking limoncellos to get through the game?
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Limoncellos while throwing back tequilla…I do hope the 49ers get through this game. This is the one I am worried about, not the Lions (sorry Jeff) or Bucs (again, sorry Jeff).
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You must be having another hard day, Bitter. Good night.
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I. Wv, the fili.g period closes next week. So more Ds COILD file. So far, Dem. candidates filed to run in 4 of the 17 State senate districts and 17 of the 100 House districts.
If ALL these win in the GE in Nov. (HIGLY UMLIKELY) the Dems will GREATLY INCREASE their numbers in both houses
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Bl, Diet Coke. Actually Coke Zero. Injuries to their best wr.
Green Bay did a number in the cowboys.
Not good.
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(One of their best wr.). We have seen this during the 3 game losing streak .
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Diet Coke? MD gave up Grey Goose. You giving up limoncellos. When did HHR become AA?
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Maga confronts Nikita.
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Zzzzzzzzzz
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Green Bay lost more than 49ers won. Can we just go to the Ravens-49ers Super Bowl?
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We escaped. That Green Bay team is impressive. Really young.
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And remember according to Bittereagle, I am classless for passing the ravens and the packers in the threads.
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Praising*
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(Still classless).
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MVP of the 49ers was the GB kicker.
I hope the Lions win tomorrow but it won’t matter. 49ers win next week.
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No. You are classless for trashing the Eagles when the 49ers were not playing them. I did not say anything when the Eagles embarrassed them in last years NFC Championship, when the 49ers lost 3 in a row this year or when the Ravens crushed them and made Purdy throw 4 interceptions.
I expect a 49ers-Ravens SB. Maybe Purdy can throw 5 interceptions.
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I never hated the 49ers. Now, their whining fans have put them on my hate list just below the Cowboys and Giants.
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RDS just endorsed Trump and apologized for running against him.
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And still bitter, you are.
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