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Its funny you mention that but thats exactly what some of the MAGA SM outrage is suggesting But what is more hilarious is how the last 4 months we have seen the MAGA SM activists support and justify everything Musk has said and done and they now turning on everything he said Now suddenly " Musk did make a Nazi solute and DOGE is his failure " DOGE was absolutely supported and endorsed by Trump on every level and you cant separate the shortfalls and failures of the commitments of DOGE from either person Trump and Musk are very similar, there egos and general sentiments are why they got on so well But thats also why the Bromance has ended so badly Musk is one of the worlds most successful and brilliant visionaries around business but he should have stayed out of politics He is not a good politician

Interesting to see the outcomes around the issues they raise like India banning the video Good to see they doing well and going strong and how satire and parody still has a place and relevancy in political critique And Juice Media has grown from early days of the 2 girls being main actors, they getting the sponsorship and funding they need

I didnt expect the relationship to collapse and become so personal Normally when people have a fallout from Trump they walk away but Musk has decided to respond and predictably SM is his tool The bromance is definitely over https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-disappointed-elon-musk-musk-strikes-back-real/story?id=122543215 " As the exchanges grew progressively personal, Musk posted, without providing evidence, about Trump and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, "Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!"

Sounds like NZ is descending into a Nazi state, only one thing can save you now ....a Russian invasion

Im really happy with how the new Ciri model looks, she is attractive and looks more like Ciri in the previous Witcher games CDPR claims they didnt change the model but that type of denialism is understandable considering how they want to avoid the woke backlash

Im about 80 hours into WoRT and Im still having lots of fun I am really enjoying the whole Crusader management, I am comfortable with the army combat mechanics and how you train and buy army units and then engage in combat with various demon armies And its great making all the Commander decisions, I should have done this P:K and not let AI manage my kingdom because it provides a nice break from the standard RPG progression And then Romance, I have some very interesting companion choices and Im not sure how things will progress, firstly Arueshalae has joined my party and its a fascinating take around an ascended Succubus. If you find fallen Angels then why not the opposite? I really want to Romance her but Im not sure how without dying because of the Succubus life drain. But she is an excellent ranged combat addition And then the truth about Camellia has just been revealed to me and thats become a greater conundrum, I have taken an entire stance in this game that my decisions will always be about the main objective which is stopping the Demons and closing the Worldwound. And that means certain grey choices and even some evil choices with the view "the end justifies the means " So Im keeping Camellia in my party, Im Romancing her but I told her to stop killing people ...maybe her insane spirit can help with the main objective but I have to some standards and blood sacrifices is not ideal

That looks excellent, " Day 1 watch " for sure

Yes any candidate in any Democracy needs to align with what there voters think but in the US you need more than that as a serious presidential candidate You must be able to influence the important undecided voters, 14-18% of registered voters, or you need to run in a political era where is there is problem that most voters feel strongly about Look at Obamas success in 2008 and how war fatigued most Americans were AOC is considered one of the progressive Dems and a member of the "squad " and this is seen as "socialist " which many Americans will immediately reject outside of the expected Democrat base There is lots of legitimate and exaggerated criticism towards her and things she has said or done During the DNC when the Dems elect there candidate this will become very apparent and Conservative media will have a field day with her And this will only become worse if she is the presidential candidate. Harris was and is more likely to win than AOC It will be almost impossible to believe or take seriously that AOC will ever win the DNC or the US election? @rjshae Yes, Shapiro is a good choice. I have listened to him before and he makes sense on issues But he does fail several Dem checkboxes but thats one of the things the Dem strategists need to update if they want to change there political misfortunes and voting losses They need to accept thats it okay to be a white male as the candidate. Biden won in 2020 so its not like it should be that difficult to accept? Thats why we have the DNC, let the supporters decide on the right candidate

I dont see this being accepted by Russia The 2 main sticking points that Ukraine should agree to is not to join NATO, but it can join the EU, and the Donbas will stay Russian. Im not sure it means international recognition but you freeze the war on current gains. Its not ideal and Ukraine loses 20% of its country but at least the war ends, thats what compromise is about and its always hard

Again its disappointing how out of touch the Dem strategists are, its almost like they want to hand another presidential victory to the GOP They need a candidate who is not so associated with Biden, Harris is seen as Biden v2 Surly there must be someone new who doesn't have previous baggage that the Dems can get behind? Newsome is the type of candidate Im talking about And I see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the second most popular candidate in this poll, you got to be joking

Yes, of course there is an appeal process and they often end up in the SC but the SC outcomes are not guaranteed because of the ideological views of judges Trump loses more cases in courts than he wins and he has lost on appeal https://democracyforward.org/updates/trump-loses-93-percent-of-cases-we-know-because-we-win/ But thats not really the point Im making, the main point is the US has an independent judiciary and that's why any US president cant do anything they want or pass any law\EO\bill they want because they can and do get challenged. We cant predict the outcome of any case but thats the same as any Democracy with an independent judiciary. It wouldnt be called independent if we could guarantee court outcomes Elerond try not to believe that the US is about to become a dictatorship or an autocracy. The Constitution still matters and so do court rulings

Great news, I am definitely going be playing Starfield but once more mods are released and established as providing the best ways improve the vanilla game , maybe 8-12 months from now? What are you enjoying about, its always good to hear positive feedback I can probably guess, you using LoversLab adult alien mods ...Im right hey

The reality of the independence of the judiciary in any Constitutional Democracy is the main reason why Im not concerned that Trumps presidency could or would lead to the collapse of Democracy in the US Its often overlooked because we tend to focus on what politicians say and then its assumed " this is what is going to happen " but the judiciary and courts provides an important bulwark around the actions of any government to destroy what Democracy represents and the interpretation will be based on the Constitution which is equally important Thats also one of the most significant differences between any established autocracy and any Constitutional Democracy, there is no judicial independence or challenge of new laws in a country like Russia. Putin can decide on any kind of legislation and the courts will rubberstamp it the next day South Africa thankfully also has an independent judiciary and even though I complain about certain rulings they make I would never want to see the independence of our judiciary undermined or controlled by the state Its easy to forget how important an independent judiciary is until you have a presidency like Trumps around some of his decisions and then the difference between a real autocracy and Democracy becomes real The judiciary really becomes the last line of defence

Thanks, this is good feedback but just to add some more context The intended maximum design is 6 official characters, so think of other similar games like BG In Pathfinder: Kingmaker it was also 6 official characters but then you could another permanent companion which was a wolf pet. So I ended up with 7 companions And Im concerned exactly for the reasons you mentioned which is about encounters and how the developers designed the game for intended challenge. I dont want to play any game where combat becomes too easy because that defeats the fun around achievement But since I made this post I have been busy with a part of the game called Drezen and Im getting hammered in several difficult battles despite having 7 companions So this confirms 7 companions is not a serious "cheat "

Sure but the contract could easily have been extended if he wanted to stay and Trump wanted that I dont blame him for leaving, its perfectly understandable considering how he conflated and underestimated the difference between the Federal governments and private sector restructuring that he did at several of his companies like Tesla and X Restructuring in the private sector has less dependencies and is just about the company being sustainable and being able to be functional afterwards Public sector is much more complex and restructuring can literally impact millions of citizens and there lives

True but what I mean by "cheating " is using a hack or mod that unbalances combat so you cant lose or it becomes very easy For example unlimited health And it undermines the core design of the developers because there are limitations for a reason But Kanie do you agree that 7 characters isnt " cheating " because I had 7 characters in P:K Its important that people agree with me because this is a personal principle for me?

With mods like Bag of Tricks or Toy Box you can increase default party size but I never did that yet I can have up to 8 party members But you make a good point, I dont have an animal companion like I did in P:K with Ekun and Okbo so I did have 7 party members because Okbo was basically a tank Thanks, you have made me feel better about having 7 party members because I did have that in P:K I am not "cheating " because 7 is not unreasonable

I think he is leaving because the reality of DOGE and what it can achieve is different to his rhetoric and grandstanding and its hurting his private sector businesses " Musk, who had clashed in private with some Trump cabinet-level officials, initially pledged to cut "at least $2 trillion" from the federal government budget, before halving this target, then reducing it to $150bn." But it was never a good idea to have the worlds richest man so close and influential to the WH Serious risk and perceptions of conflict of interest and Musk has also become the scapegoat for the failures and criticisms of DOGE because Trump can "separate " himself from its objectives despite the fact Trump supported what Musk claimed he could achieve

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9y4exj822o Its official, Musk is leaving DOGE " Elon Musk has said he is leaving the Trump administration after helping lead a tumultuous drive to shrink the size of US government that saw thousands of federal jobs axed. In a post on his social media platform X, the world's richest man thanked Trump for the opportunity to help run the Department of Government Efficiency, known as Doge. " Long over due, he should never have been involved in the first place

Im making good progress in WoRT after about 45 hours and Im busy with the siege of Drezen, its intense and I made a huge mistake last night I decided on the Regill suggestion and targeting the giants but somehow I overlooked the part where you can select your party so I started the quest with only me and Regill in my party and I assumed other party members would join me like the Lost Chapel quest Imagine trying to complete Drezen with 2 party members And I did well considering my serious combat disadvantage, I barely got to the 3rd gate and then I realized " this cant be right " So I restarted the quest and I have added my full party, at least I have knowledge of certain enemies Im really enjoying WoRT, it has some deep and thought-provoking narrative choices like the initial Worldwound choice and what to do around repairing it And the crusade battles are fun, they like mini-RTS features in the broader game I do have one conundrum, for some reason I can have more than 6 people in my party. And I have decided to have 7 because I like all the party interaction and combat contributions Does anyone think its a form of "cheating" because it can unbalance combat in my favour or is it fine because its only 7 people?

Im not " goalpost shifting " He cant Constitutionally run for a 3rd term and the GOP cant change the Constitution because they dont have the numbers This is the legal reason he wont run for a 3rd term even if you believe he intends to

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20lwedn23o Here is better link that summarizes this debate, Trump would have to change the US Constitution and the GOP dont have the numbers in Congress or support in the state legislatures even with there current majority. Then there is a " loophole" way to do it but that doesnt seem realistic or likely and the link discuses that as well "On the face of it, the US Constitution seems to rule out anyone having a third term. The 22nd Amendment states: "No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or acted as president, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of the president more than once." Changing the constitution would require a two-thirds approval from both the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as approval from three-quarters of the country's state-level governments. Trump's Republican Party controls both chambers of Congress but does not have the majorities needed. Additionally, the Democratic Party controls 18 of the 50 state legislatures. "

Yes but if you planning on running for a third term in 2028 you wouldnt be responding to questions about a successor because you wouldnt need a successor If Trump was serious about a 3rd term he would have said something like " why do I need a successor, I want to run again " The entire point of the questions was who comes after you and its specific to 2028 which is why he mentions Vance

Imagine Trump being a leader for life But on a serious note, Trump wont be a contender in 2028 and he has discussed his successor several times and those are honest interviews where he isnt trying to troll the media https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshapiro/videos/trump-puts-an-end-to-the-third-term-joke/1956953135112089/

He is both, he says weird and inaccurate things but he also cracks jokes and often its done to provoke the media and create drama for liberals. So when he talks about staying on for another term, he is doing that exactly because he knows the reaction he will get But there are lots examples of him just joking, like the baby clip I posted