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If Trump is turning off key parts of his coalition from 2024, including independents, they might not show up, giving room for motivated and organized dems to steal a handful of seats they wouldn’t otherwise get. When races are contested and margins are slim, the people in the middle (who don’t vote in closed republican primaries) decide who wins.

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It's alarming that many on this board can't or won't see this.

Flexing on Massie for losing a congressional primary is stupid and irrelevant. There are still millions of 2024 Trump voters across this country who support Massie's brand of politics without ever living in Kentucky.

That segment could be disillusioned to the point where they just don't show up to the polls now. And who could blame them? Charlie Kirk helped sell Trump's Republican party to young people as a big-tent America First party, yet those with the most conservative voting records are being bullied out. It's basically ringing the dinner bell for Dems to eat up seats they shouldn't.

WHITE SOX WINNER!!!!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA CUBS

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Two fun teams in Chicago gotta feel great to be a Sox fan now

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I went to a cookout last night at my buddy's house, and probably 80% of the people there were wearing Sox gear. We joked that it's nice to not be ashamed anymore.:lol:

Dominguez is such a fricking bum.

MURAKAMI'S 2ND "DONG" OF THE NIGHT!

7-0 Good Guys

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Say what you want about the French, but they know how to riot and not just stand around waving signs with their big fat asses.

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True, the French aren't generally as passive as we or the British are. I've said before that if a Civil War does actually pop off somewhere in the West, it'll be in France before the US or UK.

They're approaching an economic crisis, Macron's approval ratings have been down in the teens for a while, and over half the country believes he should resign. Incidentally, they've also had record numbers of young adults converting to Catholicism in the last year. The breaking point is much closer IMO.

Making the Reflecting Pool look nice for a fraction of the cost = bad.

Destroying a public park on the National Register of Historic Places to build the Obama Presidential Center for a billion dollars and give it an Eastern Bloc aesthetic = good.

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i don't love or hate Rubin, but like Tucker and Kelly, I've soured on Israel and people like Rubin, Levin, and Shapiro are why (combined with Israel's actions)

Dave seems like a nice guy... but he's really dumb.

I didn't get it at first, but the more I heard him talk, the more I realized he's not an intellectual or quick on his feet. People just liked him because he was a gay who left the plantation.

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I used to really enjoy Rubin's more moderated approach. He didn't act like the smartest guy in the room, didn't talk a million miles a minute, and injected some humor.

He has really turned into a nasty, bloodthirsty neo-con the last couple of years though. I don't know if some old tendencies from his TYT days have bubbled to the surface, but he has become difficult to listen to.

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* Huey was only shot one time
* There was a clear entry and exit wound, and no bullet was recovered from Huey

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Dr Vidrine, the surgeon of record, stated that two bullets were recovered from Long, one being a .38. The observed wound was reportedly caused by a .22, .32, .38, .45, or a combination of two.

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Also, as stated in your link to the 1992 report, the fired .32 caliber projectile recovered with Weiss' gun was determined not to have been fired by that gun.

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* Long lived for 30 more hours, and continually stated that Weiss had shot him

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Do you have another source for these statements? Because the 1992 report you linked simply states that Long and the witnesses didn't identify anyone other than Weiss "to [his] knowledge."

We do know that a letter from Dr Ochsner and an affidavit from Long's nurse stated that Long had a cut/bruised lip, where Long claimed Weiss "hit" him. However, this incident isn't acknowledged in the 1935 or 1992 file.

I'm just skeptical of a heavy reliance on matching evidence to the witness statements from 1935 because a cover-up at that time is definitely plausible to me. The 1992 report even admits a "distressing" absence of a chain of custody for the physical evidence tested.

Why did Weiss schedule surgery for the following morning if he was going to kill the most powerful man in the state? How come nobody confirmed he punched Long when Long said he did? Why was Weiss' car moved? How did his keys and the alleged murder weapon vanish? Why was there no ballistics investigation in 1935? Why were there no autopsies performed on Long or Weiss in 1935? Why did the investigator for Long's life insurance policy determine the death was accidental?

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On the other hand, why did he bring a pistol if he didn't intend to use it? Maybe he was trying to work up his nerve with the multiple approaches. Or maybe the brushoffs angered him and he did it on the spur of the moment.

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While we know Weiss owned a gun and kept it in the glove compartment of his car, we don't 100% know if he even had it with him in the Capitol. At some point, his car was mysteriously moved from where it was reportedly parked, the glove compartment appeared as if it was broken open, and the keys weren't found.

The gun also went missing for decades until it was found in the lockbox of the daughter of one of the investigators, and it didn't match the caliber of bullet extracted from Long.

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Or maybe it was the bodyguards, but without Weiss the fracas never would have started.

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Probably not. There are written statements that Long was treated for a busted lip, and that Long himself claimed that's where Weiss hit him. So yeah, I think there's a good possibility that Weiss got agitated and punched him. However, if that's true, I think it's even more unlikely Weiss THEN pulled out his gun and got a shot off before Long's bodyguards reacted.

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Wasn't his supposed motive that Huey Long had somehow gotten his father-in-law replaced from a government position?

Doesn't sound like much of a motive to me. I can see not being happy about it. However, assassinating Huey Long and either getting killed or ruining your entire fricking life because of it?

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Long was trying to gerrymander the father-in-law's judicial seat away with a bill that very night.

To your point about it being a weak motive, there are a couple of things that make it hard for me to believe Weiss intended to kill Long over that.

1. Weiss made a home visit to a patient after Sunday dinner, and reportedly called an anesthesiologist to schedule surgery for the next morning. Why would he bother if he didn't intend to be there?

2. Multiple witnesses identified Weiss at the Capitol waiting to talk to Long. I think it was an historian on Unsolved Mysteries who said Weiss tried to approach Long twice before the actual shooting, but was brushed aside. If Weiss intended to kill Long, why didn't he just shoot him the first time he saw him?

What a shitshow for some cars on pit road. Logano is out from his collision with Custer.