I have not read on any of this, but maybe they are just paying out her contract?
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I do wonder about that. Maria could most certainly retire or maybe she still wants to be in the action.
Trump appears to have an affinity with her. She should milk that while he is in power.
Progressive judges have been letting violent criminals off due to mental capacity regularly in recent years. We let violent criminals back out on the streets on a daily basis. Scary trend, and we will see cases like this all the time moving forward.
Keep worrying about the poles. Hilarious that people care about the areas that no one lives.
Went to the CSU/Wyoming game today, also played in the 90s.
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"We" meaning leftwing judges and DAs?
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From AI:
Nationally, U.S. home sale prices are not down. Repeat-sales indexes that track the same properties over time still show modest year-over-year gains as of mid-2026:
- S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index: +1.5% YoY in June 2026.
- Case-Shiller 20-City Composite: +2.1% YoY in June.
- FHFA House Price Index: +2.1% YoY in Q2 2026.
- Zillow Home Value Index: roughly +0.8% to +1.1% YoY in recent months.
- After inflation (~3.5% in June), real (inflation-adjusted) home values have been falling for over a year.
- The national average hides large local differences. Some Midwest/Northeast metros (Chicago +6.9%, New York +4.8%) are still rising solidly; several Sun Belt and Western markets (Seattle –2.0%, parts of Florida and Texas) are down several percent.
- Full-year 2026 forecasts from Zillow and others cluster around roughly flat national home values (+0.1% or so).
Seems like a nonevent to me on the real estate front as related to actual "voting issues". I will say our youngest just rented his first apartment and I was pleasantly surprised at how cheap it was with a free month of incentives.
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We = the USA. This stuff happens all the time now.
Imagine how much the ACTUAL crime rates will drop, when these three things occur: 1. incarcerate egregious criminal illegals or deport more illegals, 2. incarcerate criminals that are citizens of US. 3. Cash bail.
It's a good thing to have posters try to expand your knowledge despite your TDS handicap.
I played on the fields with temps in the 90"s ! Plastic was even HOTTER.
60 years ago, with NO refreshments but one bucket of water.
Wear a hat or head covering and drink a proper drink, not pounding alcoholic drinks.
Even the new fabrics used for shirts and pants are great to wear.
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"Affordability" returning to SFH in areas of USA ! ANOTHER TRUMPISM !
My Nephew's home on your favorite golf course is UP over 10 % in resale value, in less than a year. (That's over $ 150,000 !)
Buying a home "right price" is STILL an art !
First, I can't say this enough, money doesn't win elections (though not having it can lose them). Second, Talarico has more funding because he actually raises it. Third, for a Texas Senate seat, checking all boxes probably takes $125M ish. I doubt Paxton ends up with that spend.
Trump is gonna spend just enough to keep people off his *** but not enough to fully fund this or any other race. I should have made that clear. You probably thought I was suggesting he wouldn't spend at all (I just don't think he will spend enough). Btw, the thought process in DC is that Paxton needs $75-100M from Trump. If he gets that, Trump is fully committed to Paxton's campaign. If he gets $40-50M, it's at least a legit effort. If he gets $25M ish, that's the kind of "I tried" effort that those with knowledge roll their eyes about as obviously insufficient.
Again, none of this means Paxton is a sure loser, he's just not doing the things he needs to do to put away a race in a likely Republican state.
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Yeah, I know, my brain is impervious to illogic and unreason. It is therefore difficult to understand your thought process.
Btw, I need to address these two things.
1. Social Security benefits from illegals, lots of them pay into the program, none of them take out (illegal immigrants aren't eligible for benefits and actually aren't eligible to be in the workforce, tho some of bogus documentation to be able to work for employers who are operating legally within our employer verification laws). The disability portion of SS has issues with fraud, but that's not in any way related to illegals. The old age benefits are not a place where there's much fraud.
That said, illegal immigrant contributions to SS aren't so huge that they are some massive boon to the program. Basically, they offer a small financial upside.
2. Discussions of waste, fraud, abuse are for people who don't know where the government's fiscal obligations lie. I'm all for attacking them where applicable, but even 0% fraud ever won't meaningfully impact the debt problem. The issues are (1) entitlement obligations and (2) too much spending on the other stuff (tho this is far more defensible than the entitlement issues).
In fairness, even really smart people don't realize. Elon Musk thought DOGE would save the nation's fiscal health. That was, welp it was completely insane.
Here's the deficit by year. Basically 2023-25 have been flat at a shocking $1.8T yearly deficit.
National Deficit | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data
1. Social Security benefits from illegals, lots of them pay into the program, none of them take out (illegal immigrants aren't eligible for benefits and actually aren't eligible to be in the workforce, tho some of bogus documentation to be able to work for employers who are operating legally within our employer verification laws). The disability portion of SS has issues with fraud, but that's not in any way related to illegals. The old age benefits are not a place where there's much fraud.
That said, illegal immigrant contributions to SS aren't so huge that they are some massive boon to the program. Basically, they offer a small financial upside.
2. Discussions of waste, fraud, abuse are for people who don't know where the government's fiscal obligations lie. I'm all for attacking them where applicable, but even 0% fraud ever won't meaningfully impact the debt problem. The issues are (1) entitlement obligations and (2) too much spending on the other stuff (tho this is far more defensible than the entitlement issues).
In fairness, even really smart people don't realize. Elon Musk thought DOGE would save the nation's fiscal health. That was, welp it was completely insane.
Here's the deficit by year. Basically 2023-25 have been flat at a shocking $1.8T yearly deficit.
National Deficit | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data
Btw, when were we actually doing a good job of controlling the deficit in recent history???
Just like I told TJ, it was the GOP Congress opposite Obame, who shrunk it from about 1.3T to probably a bit over $400B from 2010-15!!! The same weaklings who didn't have the heart that Trump did, per the complete idiots in the GOP.
And then Trump got in ... and yearly deficits exploded. Like the heads of the Trump posters who claim he's anything but terrible on debts/deficits.
Just like I told TJ, it was the GOP Congress opposite Obame, who shrunk it from about 1.3T to probably a bit over $400B from 2010-15!!! The same weaklings who didn't have the heart that Trump did, per the complete idiots in the GOP.
And then Trump got in ... and yearly deficits exploded. Like the heads of the Trump posters who claim he's anything but terrible on debts/deficits.
I would push back on 1 a little bit. But I agree with you that it’s a small (but growing) drop in the bucket. Plenty of cases like the ones below.
Justice Department Charges 11 Illegal Aliens Among 15 in $1.4M Benefit Fraud Crackdown in Massachusetts
The Justice Department announced today fifteen individuals, 11 illegal aliens and four U.S. citizens, have been charged and arrested for benefit fraud in Massachusetts. The defendants are charged with more than $1.4 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit fraud...
You’re an incredibly small thinker. You’ve never bothered to understand how the earth’s axis, sunspots, etc. relate to weather. BTW, we had HS football games held back by hours this weekend due to real feel. You caught the liberal fearmongering bug. It’s Labor Day Weekend. It’s still Summer and last time I checked, Summer is when it can get really hot. Let’s not forget the “Indian Summer” that happens in October when we get a brief heatwave in the Midwest almost annually.
I know about all of those things, including how we have shifted earth’s axis by draining groundwater.
You’re posting about the arctic, where no one lives. I tend to care more about places people live.
I would push back on 1 a little bit. But I agree with you that it’s a small (but growing) drop in the bucket. Plenty of cases like the ones below.
Justice Department Charges 11 Illegal Aliens Among 15 in $1.4M Benefit Fraud Crackdown in Massachusetts
The Justice Department announced today fifteen individuals, 11 illegal aliens and four U.S. citizens, have been charged and arrested for benefit fraud in Massachusetts. The defendants are charged with more than $1.4 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit fraud...www.justice.gov
This is a SNAP fraud case. Much easier program to defraud.
Is there Social Security fraud? Sure. But I'm pretty sure there's a number of things you have to do in order to begin collecting SS checks. The good fraud causes are the ones where someone dies and the government keeps sending checks to the person who doesn't notify them of a death.
I have no idea how you'd let Dumbcoach call you a "small thinker" without lighting him up. Lol.
You did a fantastic job ignoring my post. Truly, you are climastrologist. If the temp didn’t get above freezing this Summer in the North Pole, that indicates something much greater than your population ********. It indicates a potential global cooling period, of which we know is coming, because a fair amount of the disingenuous climate change scientists have come out and essentially said the earth is in fact entering a cooling period and thankfully what we advocated (read as bull hockey doo doo) staved off a disaster.
Because he’s apparently smarter than you despite being a small thinker, debrained79.
I’m a little nicer these days. I think he does a great job of exposing himself, don’t need to pile on.
You’re the only person on this board listening to “climate change scientists”. I couldn’t care less about the global climate, I care about things that impact Americans.
It’s hilarious that you think climate scientists are disingenuous, yet you listen to them when they talk about cooling. Make up your mind.
Oop. He’s taking another shot at a nickname. Swing and a miss.
LOL. I do a great job of pointing out actual earth things of which man has no control. Your bitches ignore ocean temps which impact weather greatly, including hurricanes, El Nino, La Nino, etc. Volcanic activity impacts the atmosphere. Undersea volcanic activity impacts ocean temps. You guzzle the GW nonsense and these heat islands are very scary. Exposed. Indeed. You couldn’t vote for the guy who cleared TdA from the next town over from you.
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