But there is always Homer Hedgehog:
- Wednesday without polls
- No surprise in MA Senate race
- Klobuchar in command of MN Governor race
- Collins closing fast in Maine
- Finally Friday
New Book:
 | GOP | DEM |
| Republican +3 | 219 | 216 |
Wednesday without polls
41 responses to “Wednesday without polls”
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For the soccer fans:
Greatest player – Pele or Messi?”
Subjective.
Pele scored over 1200 goals in his career, a record that even Messi hasn’t come close with about 910 goals. Pele won 3 WC’s, Messi might win 2 if Argentina wins this one.
Messi has played in 6 WCs, Pele in 4.
Messi has more career trophies in major tournaments(44 to 37). He also has more goals in WCs and possibly will be the highest WC scorer of all times.
In my view, goals scored should count more, especially since Pele only played 812 games while Messi already played in 1008.
I still give the crown to Pele, narrowly.
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Number of general election house race polls released so far in the month of June:
Zero.
I guess nobody is curious to sample any of these close contested house seats.
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It’s all due to muh inflation and tariffs
-Freepasser
Despite Slumping Sentiment, US Retail Sales See Strongest Annual Rise Since Jan 2023
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The conservative New York Post is not impressed with the deal.
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I’m not impressed either. For a word “promise of not to acquire nuclear weapons” we give up all our leverage. A “promise to give up pursuit of a nuclear weapon” Woo Hoo. In return, they get lifting of our blockade, relief from sanctions, lifting of military pressure. All the economic and military pressure on the regime goes away. They open the strait, which was open before the war anyway, so they don’t lose anything on that one. Exactly what incentive is left for them to live up to a “promise”.
We had them by the balls and let them off the hook for practically nothing. A promise? Insane. The mullahs have to be thrilled. Once the money starts flowing in from sanction relief and oil money they can go on their merry way propping up Hezbollah and Hamas and rebuilding their own military stockpiles. They can’t believe their luck.
Great deal, Mr. President! Bloviating squish of a leader.
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I don’t disagree with you Phil, but the problem is we have an election year going on, with a very fickle electorate. And with gas prices dropping, we have a real chance at holding both the senate and house. If Dems get the house, then its nothing but impeachment after impeachment for the next two years and the two years will be completely wasted. So maybe the plan is get through the election in one piece, then when Iran violates the terms of the ceasefire, then hammer them again.
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I somewhat agree with DW’s rationale in his last post.
Most analysts have said the Iranians hold on the Strait of Homutz was leading to world-wide oil and negative economic repercussions in the not too distant future. Although this deal looks like a surrender in the short term, the US still retains oversight on the moves and behavior of Iran, with the ability to the-engage kinetically should it become necessary. In the meantime, more attention can be focused on our own domestic issues, boosting our economy before the vital midterm elections. It’s kind of a give and take, push/pull, threading the needle type of decision-making going on in making a deal that will at least temporally lower the heat in the ME.
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There are a lot of pluses here. The Iranian navy is gone. A lot of their arms production infrastructure is gone. A whole level of leadership is gone. The economic impact of the destruction and lack of revenue will probably last years, and the Iranian ability to continue funding Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas is greatly diminished.
And even if there is only a “promise”, this is the first time the iranians have committed to that and the West is now free to demand compliance.
This was all accomplished with almost no US casualties.
Are we better off with Iran now than before it all started?
I would argue that we are MUCH better off.
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Congo has the bluest uniforms I have ever seen.
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Portugal 1 Congo 0 five minutes in.
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There are mixed reviews coming out regarding the deal being made with Iran. One of the more leveled- headed ones posited the following:
”Trump’s moves — destroying Iran’s military, putting its foreign enablers on notice, decimating Iran’s leadership ranks, and not allowing Iran to build or buy a nuclear weapon — are big steps forward. Trump would have liked to dislodge the mullahs from power, but at what cost? Critics hate to answer such questions.
All in all, it’s less than we wanted, but more than we hoped for, given 47 years of U.S.-Iran stalemate punctuated by repeated acts of Iranian terrorism, proxy attacks against Western targets including the U.S., and ongoing threats to our main Mideast ally, Israel. Iran is now a pariah state on parole, without nuclear weapons and with a severely damaged military.
All in all, a pretty good outcome for three and a half months’ work.”
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Nobody knows what’s in the deal. There is an mou but no actual deal yet, I know the fat slob from ga aka formerly of pink state is “concerned”. I will wait and see.
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The same fat slob assured us we will be “just fine” with Demented.
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And if the deal gives us irans nukes/destroys them- it’s a win. Contrary to thr frre passers claims, Iran was trounced. Could we have done even more, yes but thst is not what trump said.
The dead Enders wanted troops on the ground and blood spilled- aka Iraq 2.0. Thrynheart endless wars
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“Congressional Generic Ballot Among Ages 18-29”
2018: 🔵 D+35
2020: 🔵 D+26
2022: 🔵 D+28
2024: 🔵 D+14
2026: 🔵 D+11”
“*YouGov poll (6/13-6/15)” https://x.com/OpenSourceZone/status/2066954206829752429
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The same fat slob assured us we will be “just fine” with Demented.
I forget who “demented” is?
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Bidemented.
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“New – Generic Ballot – men voters” “
🔴 Republicans 39%
🔵 Democrats 34%”
“Last poll – Democrats +2” “YouGov #A – A – 6/15”
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CNN yesterday said there was a huge movement of Rs to Independent since 2024, while Dems remained static, especially 25-44.
Hope that is wrong.
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Tina, does your shrink ever address the imaginary “free passers”?
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Tina, does your shrink ever address the imaginary “free passers”?
Tina never loses an argument with the voices in her head.
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WVU down 12 to 3.
End of 7.
Looks like the road has ended at final 4 in college world series.LikeLike
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PROS of the MOU • Iran pinky promises not to develop a nuclear weapon. • The Strait of Hormuz reopens, with commercial shipping passing toll free for 60 days.
CONS of the MOU • Broad sanctions relief for Iran. • Frozen Iranian assets are unfrozen. • Hezbollah appears to be protected from continued Israeli military pressure. • Enriched uranium remains inside Iran. • No provisions addressing Iran’s support for terror proxies. • No provisions addressing Iran’s ballistic missile program. • No provisions addressing Iran’s systematic human rights abuses. • No requirement for Iran to dismantle or disarm the Axis of Resistance. • No commitment from Iran to end support for Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, or other proxy groups.
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U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.
Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal. Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.
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Cassidy is a RINO that is blind to the exceptionally superiorness of our Lord and Savior Trump’s foreign policy skills.
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Regardless what you think of the deal, and I am not sure we have all the info yet, but Cassidy makes a stupid argument appealing to Reagan.
We had all those killed in the 1983 Beirut bombing occurred on October 23, 1983, when a massive truck bomb driven by a suicide attacker destroyed the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The blast killed 241 U.S. service personnel and injured 60 others. Reagan just withdrew remaining troops and did nothing.
But Cassidy complains about the 13 we lost in the Iran conflict that severely crippled their military machine and offed their leader.
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Reporter: You said you don’t mind Iran having ballistic missiles?
Trump: I’m saying if other countries have them, it’s a little bit unfair for them to not have some.LikeLike
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I have no problem with the deal with Iran. Except it is not a deal in an accurate sense. It is a ‘conditional agreement’.
This ‘agreement’ is nothing more than an ‘award and punishment’ or ‘incentative and penalty’ approach.
Except this ‘trust but verify’ has the US military might in the area to ‘verify’ ready to act unlike the Obama administration that failed mightly to follow up through with the JCPOA.
And this ‘finish the job’ coming from some….what the hell does that mean?….US boots on the ground?, more US deaths?, more regime deaths, more Iranian deaths than the 3,500 deaths already accurred, more destroyed Iranian sites?
All Trump has to do is look what George W. Bush got the US into with the Iraq War with no WMD’s.
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I told Cash Cow that this was not a good first chapter to put into her new novel…
“I took a trip recently. I boarded a small boat and and went past Whatza Point–just past Fur Cape. Sailed on into Dockadee Bay and past the Ungodly Sound.
From there we went up Joan River, Then took a canoe up Schitts Creek and then paddled up Trial Run.
At a bridge, we boarded a bus that took us to a town where we traveled on mant roads including Know Way and Della Street, and past the pickleball courts on Tennis Court whick was just past High Way that leads up to Mole Mountain.
We passed many establishments in town including Nuttz and Boltz Hardware store, Harde Drug Store, Legal Grounds Coffee Shop, and the Dewey/Cheatem&Howe Law firm building.”
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if my parents had given me a middle name of McGary ( family name) i would have been Walter McGary Duke. Same name as my grandfather who taught at Shepherd College and died in the flu epidemic of 1919 when my dad was just 3 years old.
And my initials would then be WMD.
Glad my middle name is Edwin.
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Was there any dancing in the street anywhere in the U.S. when President Abe Lincoln died?
Same for FDR?
Same for ANY U.S. president?
Do you all think that there will be dancing in the street when DJT sometime in the future does pass away?
I think there will be. In some places in the U.S…..the hate is too deep.
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OIL PRICES AND NEWSOil falls as International Energy Agency forecasts supply glut next year after U.S.-Iran deal
PUBLISHED WED, JUN 17 20269:49 PM EDT
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Maybe they should try as soon as September – re the supply glut
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“Was there any dancing in the street anywhere in the U.S. when President Abe Lincoln died?”
The entire Confederacy. You of all people should remember
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the person posting as HHR is the same as above posting as ”’
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I can’t worry about Iran when Uzbekistan and Colombia are playing.
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Senator Roger Marshall says Iran should be allowed to have missiles to defend itself against Israel.
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