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For accuracy's sake, he was armed with a 9mm with hollow-point bullets and an extra mag. He also was wearing metal-plated body armor, and he had a gas mask. *FWIW, I have an extra mag for my S & W 40. The primary mag has 165-grain rounds for target shooting. The extra one has hollow points. I tell you that so that you don't try to falsely accuse me of being an anti-gun crusader because I simply reported the truth about the Capitol stormer.

Sometimes a little logic goes a long way. If Bugattis, McLarens, and Ford economy shitboxes all cost the same, do you think Ford would still sell way more? Cats, Doos, and Pols all cost about the same across the various engine classes. The fact is, people who are spending $15,000 - $20,000 have a choice among the three brands, and they are picking Ski-Doos by a WIDE margin. If Cats cost $300,000, and Doos and Pols cost $15,000 - $20,000, then your example would make sense. Since the three brands cost about the same, you can't use the Ford-Bugatti-McLaren example as an excuse. It doesn't work.

New story from a military whistleblower: https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/military-whistleblowe-us-ufo-retrieval-program/ https://www.foxnews.com/politics/military-whistleblower-public-claims-us-secret-ufo-retrieval-program-terrestrial-arms-race It's the same story, but I've provided two different links in order to avoid any appearance of political bias.

Various news sources are releasing photos of the Texas shooter. He has two giant Nazi tattoos on his body -- one on his arm and one on his chest. Some of the stuff he posted on neo-Nazi websites is being released as well. He hated women and minorities, he worshipped Hitler, and he proudly wore a "Right Wing Death Squad" patch. A couple of you can continue to deny reality by clinging to the "fake news" excuse you always mention when you don't like the truth, or you could venture away from your single news source and look at a few others. As for me, if a Dem does something evil, I don't cry "fake news!" By the same token, if a Republican does something evil, I don't cry "fake news" either. I value the truth over political affiliation.

Weird. The only difference I see is you trying desperately to spin your original comment because you cannot admit that Trump is planning to do the same thing that you claim Biden is going to do. Own it. Man up. Admit you are wrong instead of being a flaming hypocrite. I suspect you will resort to calling me a liberal in your reply, but you will be wrong if you do. Have at it, though.

Based on some current discoveries, it's time to update this thread. Surgeon General Joseph Lapado doctored the results of the infamous Covid-19 study to match DeSantis' agenda, not the actual findings of the study. https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-surgeon-general-cut-data-covid-19-vaccine-safety-study-2023-4 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/22/florida-joe-ladapo-investigated-covid-report-00084075 Flame away.

The new issue of SnowTech is out. Those of you who keep claiming the Catalyst 600 will be the king of the class and that it will keep up with other brands' 800s should probably skip the next part of my post. After a SnowTech reviewer mentions putting tons of miles on the Doo 600R and the Pol 650, he says: "The Catalyst is a 600. It does not feel like a 650 or 700. It is fast . . . but it is just a 600." (In the same issue, the long-term testing crew said, "Calling the Polaris 650 a '650' does not seem fair as it truly delivers performance more like what we would expect from a 700-class engine.") Before you attack SnowTech, just remember all the praise you were heaping on it earlier in this thread.

I've seen the new video, but prior to yesterday, I saw a bunch of videos that feature Capitol police getting pummeled by rioters. Many of the videos were filmed by the rioters themselves. Am I supposed to ignore the violent videos because Carlson and company handpicked a few short clips from over 40,000 hours of tape? FWIW, I'm not trying to start a debate. I am genuinely interested in finding out why some of you want me to ignore what I actually saw in previous videos.

Maybe the shift in population will mean that red states finally stop depending on blue states' economic contributions to function. https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-on-the-federal-government-2022

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I'm not defending Hilary Clinton, but your quote is fake. https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-hillary-democrat/fact-check-hillary-clinton-quote-about-average-democrat-voter-being-stupid-is-fabricated-idUSL1N2UI2BB

I know that Hobbs has won the election, but I still have a question. How many of Lake's 406,000 Twitter followers are actually from Arizona? How many are followers from other states who latched onto her because Trump promoted her? I don't have Twitter. Is there a way to see the breakdown?

Just out of curiosity, what party do the "remote people" you talk with belong to? I find that we tend to hang around people with similar views, and that frequently makes us think everyone else agrees with us.

I find it strange that some people will deny facts and logic in their unending quest to defend Trump at all costs, even when the evidence is clear. Why do some of you invariably take his word over the words of respected military personnel who worked for him, and over the words of his former cabinet members? Dozens of lifelong die-hard Republicans have revealed damning information about Trump, yet the same few guys on here always say, "No. They are all lying. Trump is telling the truth. You just have TDS." Did dozens and dozens of high-ranking Republican officials get together and make up lies? When Trump says stuff like, "I know more than my generals do," his followers actually believe him and defend him. When construction workers said, "He never paid us," Trump's defenders said, "They are all lying." There are countless stories like that, but the defenders' responses never change. It's ironic they call others "sheep." I don't get it. I have never been afraid to admit the officials I voted for and respect have made mistakes. Reagan is considered to be one of the great politicians of the modern era. I was impressed by much of what he accomplished -- especially during his first term -- but I never was gullible enough to think everything he did was perfect. I also never took offense and felt the need to protect him when someone said something unflattering (but true) about him. Just once, I'd like to hear someone say, "Yes, Trump did do that . . . but I'm still glad I voted for him," instead of "Even though the whole country heard him say it, he didn't really say it."

Here you go:

No. Ana Navarro and Scott Jennings have been longtime participants.

Did Trump ever show his income? I know he promised he would release his tax returns on the first day he was elected, but as far as I know, he never released his income numbers during the four years he was in office. Maybe you know something the rest of us don't?

I'm not a fan of Hilary in the least, but Shilling's love affair with collecting Nazi memorabilia makes him a piece of shit, in my opinion. Normal people would want to collect memorabilia from the United States heroes of World War II, not the Nazis. American soldiers lost their lives, but Shilling is infatuated with the gear and uniforms of the Nazis who killed them. I have zero respect for him.

As an Independent, I'm curious about where you get your news, and whether or not your sources are biased, too. The website you listed presents the biases for all the popular media outlets, not just the left-leaning ones. It'd be helpful to followers of this thread if you listed your news sources. Thanks.

Have you seen the updated correction on that false claim about the pallets? The pallets have NIDO on them, not baby formula. NIDO is powdered milk made by the Nestle Corp. It's not for babies.

^^^^^^^^^^^ This is the part that interests me the most. Here is my attempt at an "adult conversation," as requested by Badger. Hilary, a candidate that many people hated, still got 66,000,000 votes, even after Comey revealed the "Hilary's email" letter to Congress a week or two before the election. Did fifteen million additional people vote for Biden four years later? It's possible, especially since votes for Trump jumped by eleven million over that same span. Based on my own circle of friends, relatives, and coworkers, I suspect lots of people who did not vote in 2016 decided to vote in 2020. (Yes, I know I can't speak for the nation.) My family and my wife's family are good examples of what might have happened when Biden ran against Trump. In 2016, most of the fourteen people in our combined families voted for Trump. Five of those people who voted for him in '16 are military personnel (one retired; four active). Only two of the military family members voted for Trump again in 2020. Of the other nine relatives, quite a few changed their minds and voted for Biden, too. (Weird, huh?) Based on our family discussions since then, I've determined the change was not so much a pro-Biden one as it was an anti-Trump one. While he was in office, Trump's approval ratings averaged about 40%, even in Fox and Rasmussen polls. That makes me wonder how he could have received a majority of votes if the clear majority of voters did not approve of his job performance. Based on that, I am looking forward to your explanation as to why Biden could not have received more votes. . Please note that in my response, I never said I was a Biden fan. Now I'll watch the movie . . .

From my own experience, the '17 Assault 800 and the '20 Assault 850 have more motor than the 2019 and 2020 Doo 850s. Did Doo up its game with the '21 and '22 models? <edit> The '19 Doo 850 was a belt blower, but the motor had over 10,000 trouble-free miles when the owner traded it toward a '22 850.

Whether he was claiming Cat was second in sales or that only a handful of 2012 Cats that his dealership sold had belt issues, krom was far from a trustworthy source on HCS. I used to have fun using actual evidence to bust all his lies, but then I received a private message from someone who knows him, telling me to go easy on him for certain reasons. I stopped replying to his posts after that because it was the right thing to do. Part of me is impressed that he's now slinging BS here and probably expecting people to believe his every word. Part of me is also impressed that he STILL spends 98% of his time bashing Pol (and sometimes Doo) and 2% of his time trying to build up Cat's image. Polaris continues to dominate his every thought. By the way, I know three Cat guys who wanted to buy Cat 800s but had to buy 600s instead. They each paid . . . umm . . . $30,000. One of the guys fouled twenty sets of spark plugs in five miles and then ended up getting stranded because of a brake cylinder leak. Another one had his engine pop with .2 miles on it. The third guy's sled fell apart after it was taken out of the crate. Every single component fell off. (Hey, this is the Internet. It's easy to make up stories.)

Wrong as always. Wes Selby and Micah Huss, a Cat team, could not finish the race in 2019 because their engines failed. And before that -- back when more than just a few people chose to race Cats in the Iron Dog -- a bunch of Cat's new crossover sleds suffered engine failure and other component failures during the race. (I'm not sure what Cat's crossover model was called then, but it's the one that Cat created by copying Polaris's Switchback.) Cat defenders said bad fuel was to blame, but oddly enough, Poos didn't have any issues. It really comes down to engine quality, doesn't it? "Only the racer himself" = a laughable, easily disproved claim.

Let's see. Do I believe a BUNCH of people who provided actual evidence that Cat's 2023 models are not sold out, or do I believe the only person who says they are? Decisions, decisions . . .