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Where is the statistical evidence that whites are moving to Harris? Are all union members black and Hispanic in PA and MI?

As unsubstantiated comments go, that is a doozy.

Your guess is probably wrong. In 2016, Trump's candidacy blew up the paradigm that 10% of voters are either independent or undecided. Some pollsters still assume this, skewing their polls to the Socialist RAT party. The number of undecided LIKELY voters is probably around 5%. Some pundits felt it was only around 2% before the RAT Convention.

People either hate Trump or love him. Some GOP voters may not like TRUMP but will vote for him as the GOP candidate. He has done well in bringing new people into MAGA during this election. Will it help? Who knows? Remember, when you talk about registered voters, the size of undecided REGISTERED voters includes tens of millions of people of voting age who will not vote. They probably never have voted. Likely voters have voted before, but not all vote in every election. Realistically, in this polarized atmosphere, since Trump was elected in 2016, you would be lucky to find 5% undecided.

Rise in stock market does not help your average shopper going to buy food and gas. It makes it possible for a home buyer to get lower interest rates on that home worth 200,000 that they are buying at 350,000. What do lower interest rates mean? More debt but lower payments.

The stock market is not a good indicator of economic stability. They went big to mask the issues with debt. At this point do you really believe a Trump Voter will jump to Harris?

GOP was hammered in the mid-terms over abortion. Trump has been mildly successful at mitigating that issue. Pro-life people who feel betrayed by Trump are foolish. He will never allow a Nationwide abortion ban because it is a State issue now. He will never sign a law or Executive order creating a Federal right to abortion. He is effectively splitting the baby. Pro-life groups need to change course and fight this battle state-by-state.

In the end, even pro-abortion advocates vote their pocketbooks like everyone else.

I used to read the Daily Mail every morning, but it has become total garbage. I follow English Soccer, but every time I went to the sports page, banner headlines were always about the Kansas City Swifties. I had to filter their sports page, then their news page because it has started to read like the Enquirer.

Their news reporting has become garbage as well. Even their local UK News is junk. Finally, just deleted their app and got sports news from sports sites. Just not ESPN.

I am not a Trump acolyte, but I am voting for him as the best candidate. So, I am curious to know what drugs you are on or if you are a troll. Trump's appearance on Gutfeld was great, and his speech in NY last night was one of his best. He has toned down the rhetoric and the name calling because candidates are fishing for the 2% undecided voter. The heavy rhetoric plays to the base, not the uninformed, politically uneducated, undecided voters.

He did not lose the debate according to polling, so that is just your opinion. Even the liberal socialist media call it a tie since it did not move Harris's numbers. None of that means Trump will win, but your analysis is dead wrong.

Polling of registered voters is junk at this point. National polling of likely voters is junk as well. Only battleground polls and internal polls are worth noting at this time. At this stage, the 2020 election polls said Biden beat Trump by 8%. Biden won/cheated; the final lead was 1.2% nationally, not the 8% MSM polls claimed. You are pushing lame stream media's junk polls, especially those referencing the popular vote.

I just wanted to give you a heads up that the prayers are working. We went to an Emergency Pet Hospital in a nearby city. We are happy and angry and still worried, but less so.

Happy, there is no mass. The mass they saw may have been a pocket of gas, which we thoroughly enjoyed on the 1.5-hour drive to the hospital. It is also possible the vet clinic's x-ray equipment is subpar. I am happy that his spleen and pancreas are fine. His tummy was no longer distended after he expelled the gas. However, it was still sagging, common in older female Dobermans but not as much in males. I started to suggest that he identified as a female Doberman, and Mrs. Goat cut me off before I could get that out.

Still worried. There was no explanation for the sagging abdomen except to say there were no tumors or fluid build-up in the stomach area. Probably weakening abdominal muscles due to age. The liver was slightly large but not so much as to be an issue. My wife, the nurse, suggested it may be from the steroid shot the other day. (?) They will not say 100% for sure there are no liver issues unless we do a CAT Scan. They found fluid around the lungs, which is why he has been breathing funny since April. They removed the fluid and sent some out for testing. They X-rayed the lungs after the fluid was removed. There were no tumors, and the lungs were clear. The heart was good, and the lymph nodes were normal. The fluid was sent out to test for microcancer cells. They cannot explain the fluid, so we are not out of the woods yet.

I'm angry because of our vet clinic. They claimed the lungs, surrounded by fluid, were fine. The vet clinic told us there was a mass that did not exist and ignored my complaints that his breathing was odd. I am angry at myself for not saying the heck with it and demanding an ultrasound back in June. It was not an issue of money; I trusted the vet. Angry at what I paid out to the vet clinic for three visits that were damn near useless.

All your prayers helped, but please add one that the fluid test comes back nonspecific for cancer. Realistically, our boy has a year, give or take, a few months, before he reaches the average age of a Doberman. I do not want to put him through radiation to kill the microcells at his age. Thank you so much for all the prayers!

The vet's conclusion was that the mass might be pressing against his stomach or the stomach on the mass when he lay on his side, making breathing uncomfortable. He breathes fine, standing up and on walks.

I pray for better, but we are at a stage where he may head downhill. If it is in the spleen, as I suspect, I will have the spleen removed. It could buy him some time. If it is as the vet suspects a tumor between the spleen and pancreas, we will go from there. I can help slow the progression with his diet, exercise, and medication, but we are just buying time. I will have the spleen removed if there are no signs of any other large tumors. It will buy him a month, maybe two. At his age, in dog years, that is a lot more time than it is to us.

Email me and I will let you know.

Lost his sister to that nearly two years ago. Unfortunately the only way to know for sure is to remove it. Genetics are against him. Removing will by him anywhere from one to three months. I already started a carb free diet with I M Yunity the turkey tail mushroom powder. Medium rare meat mixed with beef liver, turkey tail a Vitamin B12. If it is the spleen and it is hemangiosarcoma I will continue that diet and only go with Predisone to slow the spread. I should not have listen to the vet in April and June. Both said we can do x-rays and ultrasound but we were looking at nearly a $1k in tests. Probably would not have appeared on x-Ray in April. Had we caught it in June not sure much would change as the cancer always spreads as micro tumors. To a puppy his age a month or two is a longer time than to a small dog or cat. Despite the Vet thinking this is a tumor outside the spleen, I have my doubts about him and his knowledge. My prayer is that he is correct and it is a more treatable mass cell tumor or it is benign. But as I said genetics are against him.

We have one of the best a couple hours away. If I get no help from my clinic, I will go there Wednesday.

Thank you need the prayers.

Need some advice on my dog. Went to our animal clinic in April told the vet my dog did not seem to be breathing properly. Vet ran some test did some blood work said he seems okay. He is a large bred dog and 9 years old. Vet said he is just getting old. In June he need a test and vaccine, again told the vet my dog seems healthy but I am still concerned he does not seem to breath right. More test (different vet). Same comment we can do some tests but you are looking at $600. He seems fine.

Today, I was really worried, something with him was off. This pup has been my constant buddy for nearly 9.5 years. He appears to be gaining weight, but I am very careful about his diet as his bred is known for heart issues. He only gained 1/2 pound since June. But he has a belly. I asked the vet (again a different vet) why. He looks at me as said “I have no idea.” He massages his abdomen and says he feels fine. No blood in stool, again good blood work, gums a healthy pink. This time I insisted on imaging. There is a round maybe fist size mass between the spleen and pancreas, pushing on his stomach. He then said it is most certainly a tumor. He said he could get me in for an Ultrasound in 2-3 weeks. What the hell? I am no vet, but I have raised and lost a lot of dogs. That mass could very easily be inside the spleen. It could burst in 2-3 weeks. I need a referral to a local emergency hospital, I asked for it and he said he would call them before HE left for the day.. Why not call them now? It’s an “emergency”pet hospital. They have an ultrasound. This is the third time I have told them there is a problem, if it is the spleen it needs to be removed ASAP. I left my vet of many years because his office was swamped and I could not get appointments.

This last vet graduated from one of the best vet schools in the country. I don’t get it. I trusted them. I understand the odds are stacked against my boy. To be safe I put him on a cancer diet, no carbs no sugars. Meat and veggies. I will not do radiation treatments. Did that to one dog, will never do that again. Any ongology vets out there, what are my options. I have read that if the spleen is removed and it is cancer, 6 weeks max with no treatment. Best case five months with treatment. But what treatment besides chemo? Today was not a good day.

In an interview with Erik Prince (of Blackwater fame) by Shawn Ryan, Prince seemed to imply that people from Trump's team spoke to him about the possibility of hiring his security company after the first attempt. Prince's new company is an elite security company that protects high-profile people.

I think Trump needs to do this to add a layer of perimeter security he is not getting now. The SS did better in this situation, but there needed to be perimeter security. As one former agent said last night, had Biden been at the course, they would have basically surrounded the perimeter of the course. Trump needs his own private security team. The SS knows how to work with them just like they work with local PD. If elected, I would still keep some private security around. To keep tabs on the FBI, CIA, and SS, if nothing else.

The author has some valid points. Roy Cooper, NC, would have been perfect. He is term-limited, but he is popular enough to carry NC for the ticket, maybe. He would have appeared sane next to Harris. Newsome has too much baggage right now. He must fade away and move to the center before 2028. Newsome cannot wait until he is nominated to go to the center. The country knows how badly he screwed up California. Josh Shapiro is a wild card; he is articulate and clever in an evil sort of way, and he would also appear sane compared to Harris. But he is a Jew. A liberal Jew in the same vein as Rahm Emmanuel and his brother, both of whom would have been at home in the Judenrate and Sonndercommandos of WWII. If we have learned anything since 7 Oct 2023, sadly, anti-semitism runs deep in this country. Although he would have possibly brought PA, he would have lost MI. That leaves Whitmer in Michigan. She also has a lot of COVID baggage and needs to let it fade from public memory. Against Trump, it is not sure she could have carried Michigan.

Therein lies the real problem. All of the top RATs want to avoid losing to Trump, especially in their own States. That would hurt them politically. If Trump wins, he has one term. Two years into another Trump Presidency, he would be a lame duck. They would prefer to run against a JD Vance in 2028. By then, a Newsome & Cooper or Newsome & Whitmer would be a strong ticket. Josh Shapiro will never be on a Presidential ticket.

They had to find someone who would not overshadow Harris and who, if he loses, is no harm, no foul. This is the pinnacle of Waltz's career; I am not sure he could win as Governor again in MN. I wonder if the RAT shadow government under Obama wants Harris to win. The stronger RAT candidates would be sidelined until 2036 or later. Obama may prefer people he can manipulate. But Obama and the RAT Oligarchy control the money and votes so any RAT candidate would follow Obama's orders.

I'm not sure if it's accurate, but I just heard the ABC whistle blower died in a car accident yesterday. It could be BS.

If they do this the war may escalate fast because Putin does not have the troops to fight in Poland or the Baltic States. That means cruise missiles, fuel air bombs and EMP attacks. If that does not stop the insanity then direct nuclear strikes will be an option. Will the USA and NATO consider a nuclear burst to create an EMP a nuclear attack? I honestly do not know.

In my humble opinion Zelensky is trying to pad his bank account before he makes a treaty. Freezes all of Zelenskyy and his cronies funds deposited internationally. Start an audit of how funds were used. He will rush to a treaty table. Putin has means other than warfare to hurt the USA. Between Russia and China their spies have infiltrated at a high level. This is just opinion, but I suspect what Moscow and China know about our leaders would make Epsteins black book child's play.

Because of the layout of my house, shotgun spread is not an issue. An intruder must go down a narrow hallway to reach any family member. Point and shoot, and you will hit something. There is a better chance of missing with a pistol. I use .00 buck shot because it will never penetrate through to a neighbor's house.

My daughter lives in an apartment complex; anything that fires ball ammo is a no-go. So is buckshot. The walls are so thin you not only hear your neighbor fart, you can smell it.

It comes down to the ammo and the choke. Only high-end shotguns with 18.5-inch barrels have screw in choke options. Most home defense shotguns have fixed chokes, so it comes down to ammo.

https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=472680 https://www.usacarry.com/are-chokes-useful-home-defense-shotguns/

That is the nice thing about shotguns. The military has used them since World War I. One reason is how fast they can be deployed, and shooting from the hip still gives you great odds of hitting your target.

My daughter is very good at shooting skeet. But I told her if she has to use her home defense shotgun in her apartment, her anxiety and adrenaline will be off the charts. Point at the balls. If the shot is true, his day is ruined. If the adrenaline makes you jerk, it's likely a gut shot. If the intruder has accomplices, they will run as soon as they hear him screaming.

You miss with any ball ammo, and you will be patching walls, replacing siding, and possibly your neighbor's siding.

I gave my daughter a short-barrel 12 gauge shotgun for home defense. The short barrel allows maneuvering in tight places. You can pick them up fairly cheaply because they are strictly designed for home defense. Savage has a nice one for $229.00. I bought the earlier version at a pawn shop for $90.00. My daughter knows shotguns; she asked if it was not cheaply made. I told her it only has to work once.

It is loaded with Turkey load. It has a tighter pattern, especially at close ranges, but more pellets than bird shot. Birdshot has a broader spread; even at close range, you will be fixing drywall. Turkey loads will mess up flesh but not pass through your walls.