When the two parties are so closely split it causes every v**e to count, meaning the ones that break ranks from party lines are all lambasted for being t*****rs. They can't face breaking party lines.

Make it a simple majority that one party can make happen on their own or with just a few v**es from the opposing party, and every other member that has people at home that support a bill because it's popular will add their v**e because it doesn't matter in terms of opposing a bill.

Breaking filibuster rules entirely would have the effect of generating much easier bipartisan agendas...it's just the way it is.

There’s only a small interest in having
ex military in civil offices. Most people have no concept of the break between military and civilian lives.
Authoritarians would of course love it, because they are unable to do their own thinking , so somebody to do it for them would be just the thing.
And the midterms may look bad today ,
But trumps box of one million lies starts traveling around there may be a change of attitudes.
And it may be another 40 years before snaky republicans or teabaggers, or skunks, it wh**ever they’ll be calling themselves later on ever get elected for anything.
Who will v**e for a party with no goals.
No insights , no leadership, nothing .
A party of nothing run by ex military hacks selling their un hirable ideas.

Man Charged by Mountain Lion while Hiking Scares Off Big Cat by Roaring

By Amanda Thomason
January 17, 2022 at 2:49pm

Avid hikers in certain areas of California know that you have to keep your wits about you to avoid dehydration, rattlesnakes and mountain lions.

The stealth of the big cats is what makes them so uniquely dangerous. Oftentimes, if you’ve spotted one, it’s too late.

There are various recommendations as to how you should comport yourself if you find yourself face-to-face with a puma, including making yourself look as big as possible, waving your arms, throwing things and slowly backing away — never turning away and running.

Or you can roar at them, apparently.

That is what 21-year-old Dutch Faro did when he found himself being charged by a young mountain lion earlier this month in Los Angeles County.

On Jan. 8, the musician and private chef was traveling to Bakersfield but decided to stop and check out Pyramid Lake, which a friend had recommended to him.

Faro was hiking along a trail around 2:30 p.m. when he ran into trouble.

“I was really just enjoying my hike, making a funny video and documenting it,” he told McClatchy News, according to The Sacramento Bee.

Since Faro already had his phone out, recording his hike, he was able to catch the whole encounter.

When he first spotted movement, Faro assumed it was an off-leash dog. However, when he got a good look at it, he started running before stopping and turning to face the cat.

“I saw it in my peripheral vision,” he told KTLA-TV. “And then I tried to yell at it, noth — nothing happened. And it was just about to jump and pounce on me and … I had primal instinct and roared at it.

“That was my last hope … It was coming at me, what, was I going to keep on running? I stood my ground and just roared at it.”

In the video, you can see Faro lunge toward the cat at the same time he roared. The cat, which was getting ready to pounce, quickly changed direction and then slinked under the cover of nearby brush.

The cat was clearly a young mountain lion, but despite the cat’s smaller size, it was still a formidable creature to face.

“I thought I was going to have to fight this thing,” Faro said.

More than that, though, he was concerned that the cat’s mother might be nearby.

Planning to jump into the lake if necessary, Faro quickly found a path back toward his car and walked in the middle of the road, brandishing a stick.

“People are asking me, ‘Did your life flash before your eyes?'” Faro said. “I didn’t have time for my life to flash before my eyes — I had to think on my feet.”

While encounters between humans and mountain lions are rare, they are certainly a real enough danger that many adventurers in cougar territory hope they never run into one.

One fisherman from the area has a theory as to why the young lion was there.

“[A] couple weeks ago a very large Mountain Lion washed up dead on the shoreline of Pyramid lake,” Jonathan Nguyen posted in the Facebook group “The Salty Angler.”

“The cat was estimated to be 150lbs generally an Alpha Cat will run about 100sq miles of territory and these cats are solo animals they only mingle with other cats during mating season. Now with the alpha gone the smaller Lions are trying to stake their territory. Also there’s a large deer population at the lake and the area near the Vista Del Lago Visitor center is one of the roads that leads to their watering holes.

“Be careful out there I used to fish that side of the lake by myself all of the time and fortunately I have never had a run in.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/man-charged-mountain-lion-hiking-scares-off-big-cat-roaring/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriottribune&utm_campaign=weeklyam&utm_content=libertyalliance&ats_es=8fb799e06563a601f50b5fdaf395b859

I also believe that flashing a photo of Stacy Abrams and Maxine Watas' would scare the hell out of the lion.

Odd, it seems -

HERE IS AN INTERESTING THOUGHT THAT had not crossed my mind, until I read
this --but now that it's mentioned in this message, I guess my curiosity
has been peaked.

has anyone ever seen any of the 6,000-7,000 Americans who were rescued
or any of them reuniting with family or being interviewed?

just a short note of something rather insignificant in the grand scheme of
things.

we are told by the powers that be - that approximately 6,000 to 7,000
American citizens were rescued by daring efforts of the u.s. state
department and u.s. military in evacuations from Kabul airport.

okay, fair enough that's a good outcome.

however, it seems a little odd now that there are no videos of the
survivors of the afghan crisis arriving at airports.

no crowds or families greeting the extracted American residents.

no human interest stories,

no white house invites for a survivor's tv broadcast with survivors
thanking Biden.

no hometown interviews of people thanking Biden and local broadcast news
coverage of relieved Americans, husbands, wives, daughters, or sons
arriving back in their hometown. nothing.

six to seven thousand Americans were saved from the clutches of the Taliban,
and not a single story of those Americans arriving home to the waiting arms of
their loving family ??????

you can't put a gag order on 7,000 people to not tell how bad it was and
you know the democrats would never let a photo opportunity be wasted......so?

why would they let an opportunity like this go by?

what could possibly be the reason? they weren't Americans?

Does any of this sound strange to you?
I wager our people are still there or dead and they are hiding it!

The House Select Committee established to probe the Capitol r**t is not interested in probing the Capitol r**t.

The House Select Committee established to probe the Capitol r**t is not interested in probing the Capitol r**t.

According to a Federalist analysis of the 84 subpoenas publicly issued by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Committee on J*** 6, only 8 have targeted individuals or groups with any connection to the Capitol r**t. The rest have taken aim at former government officials and private citizens in a smear campaign for exercising their constitutional right to protest.

The 84 subpoenas do not include the more than 100 seeking the telephone records of individuals whose identities remain under seal, both from the public and from those whose privacy the committee seeks to violate.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/20/only-10-percent-of-j6-committee-subpoenas-relate-to-the-capitol-r**t/

I think that you must agree it is very curious. Why? screams to be answered by any thinking person. Not only that question but how can that be remedied. I went back a decade and those same states are on those same lists, so it is not a fluke but a fixed pattern. I believe if I went back 10 decades there would be little change in the rankings. As a country we need a serious and deep probing investigation for root causes and ways to resolve this sad situation. Which, unfortunately, will probably not happen with the fierce divisions we are now experiencing. But if nobody points out this tragic state of affairs, nothing will ever be done. Write your representative and raise the rooftops in your place of worship, spread the word. The South needs rescue.

Voltaire said that, that when people believe absurdities they can or will commit atrocities...

So look at the pure absurdities the hard right seems to believe, Q and the p*******e democrats eating imprisoned children or wh**ever the dozens of atrocious stories are...how about the e******n was s****n without a shred of proof, the evidence being anecdotal "could have happened"...

The atrocities would be believing democrat or "liberals" are the enemy, the atrocity is that they need to be k**led, the country taken back from the majority that is the enemy.

I rest my case on people that believe absurdities are capable of atrocities, this ignorant minority in this country are talking about those who disagree with them need to die, and that is not rhetoric.