A day-brightener.

“England captain Harry Kane has confirmed that he played golf with United States President Donald Trump, describing the experience as 'pretty surreal'.

Trump revealed earlier in the week that the pair had previously played a round together, telling reporters: 'I think Kane is a great player. I played golf with him and I like him a lot. He's a good golfer too. He's really great.'

England's star player, who revealed that the round happened 18 months ago in Florida, admitted he is envious of Trump's impressive golf game at the age of 80.

'I played alright to be honest, but 18 months ago he invited me to play when I was down in Palm Beach,' Kane, 32, said ahead of England's huge World Cup quarter-final with Norway on Saturday.

'So when the President invites you somewhere, it was a pretty surreal experience just to meet him and obviously play golf with him.

'His golf is pretty good, to be honest with you. I hope I can play golf as good as him when I'm his age, that's for sure. A unique experience, but I was just grateful that he invited me to play.' …”

https://mol.im/a/15970023

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Originally posted by downtownv:
They were never the best. It was a matter of it's my turn,” and that, my friends, is why the Republicans are so bad. I see it in my own state elections here year after year: when you have the urban leeches outnumbering people with common sense, there is no chance to overcome the numbers.

Man, that’s called “nailing it”. If you’re not in their club, you got no chance, unless you have massive resources and the intestinal fortitude to go toe to toe against them. The only one that was able to succeed thus far is Trump.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
They were never the best. It was a matter of it's my turn,” and that, my friends, is why the Republicans are so bad.

No argument there.
In the primaries I have the choices of voting for commie liberal fuckwit D’s or R’s whose highlights are
“Well, I’m not a commie liberal so vote for me, I’m the best.”

These are the best choices we can come up with?
How about building campaigns on, “WE NEED TO CUT THE FUCKING SPENDING WE HAVE BEEN ADDICTED TO FOR DECADES!!”

WE are the the sow; they are the little sucklings.
Every one of them should be on trial, D' and R's.
They are not representing the people, they are only in it for themselves.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
They were never the best. It was a matter of it's my turn,” and that, my friends, is why the Republicans are so bad. I see it in my own state elections here year after year: when you have the urban leeches outnumbering people with common sense, there is no chance to overcome the numbers.

Think it's still that way with committee appointments, heads of said committees, leaders of the party, and if you want in that level of the party you better know the game and play it. D seem to be quite organized at that level, you don't see many dissenters within the ranks although the super socialist sect seems to be a break away in the party that is trying to grow and get a power position taking it over.

It's a concern once Trump leaves office, who's going to fund the campaigns of Rubio, DeSantis, Vance, they don't have Trump Money. Would love to see Eric Trump create a bunch of large PAC's that would fund one of them eliminating the outside influencer funding that causes candidates to make decisions on who's paying the bills vs the people...

^^^ Yeah, I don't think the Trump family will leave them high and dry.

Thursdays a comin, and hell's a comin with him....

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2076776226325414370

^^^^Trump may say that, but per the Constitution Article 1, Section 5, Paragraph 1: “Each House shall be the Judge of Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own Members …”

We’ll see.

I'm looking forward to his address, and also, to the rage which is sure to erupt from leftist politicians and pundits and their news media co-conspirators. The angrier they are, the better.

absolutely - I hope he manages to spin them up enough that a few pop off some strokes to thin the herd

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I'm looking forward to his address, and also, to the rage which is sure to erupt from leftist politicians and pundits and their news media co-conspirators. The angrier they are, the better.

Me too, and one of the Usual Suspects is already attempting to create a “mid-term election interference” narrative.

“President Trump Announces 9:00pm Thursday National Address – Senator Mark Warner Immediately Triggered”

https://theconservativetreehou...mediately-triggered/

Warner is a POS.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
^^^^Trump may say that, but per the Constitution Article 1, Section 5, Paragraph 1: “Each House shall be the Judge of Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own Members …”

We’ll see.

Perhaps he'll expose it, Fox News will properly report it, CNN will poopoo it, and the DOJ refer it to the house committee on Elections or whatever it's called...

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...monuments-90-percent

More winning. I was living in Utah when Clinton stole essentially a whole state of land from the people of Utah.
This is a win for Utah and for the whole nation. There is no doubt he is changing this country for the better.

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Originally posted by ibexsig:
https://www.foxnews.com/politi...monuments-90-percent

More winning. I was living in Utah when Clinton stole essentially a whole state of land from the people of Utah.
This is a win for Utah and for the whole nation. There is no doubt he is changing this country for the better.

I recall that when Clinton established the Grand Staircase-Escalante NM that the move was so well received in Utah that the dedication ceremony was held in Grand Canyon NP—in Arizona.

Good Memory TMats. That is exactly what happened...he did not have even the common decency to do it in the place most affected. It was essentially a big F you to the conservative citizens of Utah.

I also remember Robert Redford (Who lives at Sundance) scolding the state for putting up a stink about it. Yet, he seemed fine with cutting apart a whole frikkin mountain to put up his damn overpriced ski resort.

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Originally posted by ibexsig:
https://www.foxnews.com/politi...monuments-90-percent

More winning. I was living in Utah when Clinton stole essentially a whole state of land from the people of Utah.
This is a win for Utah and for the whole nation. There is no doubt he is changing this country for the better.

From the article:

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order drastically shrinking the size of two national monument areas in Utah on Monday.

EO's last about as long as the President that issues them holds office. Trump rescinded hundreds of Biden's EO's in the first month I believe.

You don't have to squint too hard to see where face and hair would be placed on Mt. Rushmore next to Abe!

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...pTm8rPZMlYytoGWBw%3D

Leavitt Says Trump Election Speech on Thursday ‘Will Shock You’

Earlier this week, Trump said that the address will concern voter integrity and related matters.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said that President Donald Trump’s speech tonight on the integrity of U.S. elections “will shock you.”

Leavitt said she believes media outlets have “refused to acknowledge that tens of millions of Americans across the country share the concerns of this president about the sanctity of our elections.”

The findings that Trump is “going to reveal in this speech … will shock you if you have an honest eye,” the press secretary said, without going further into details about what the speech might entail.

“Everything he is saying will be backed up by facts and by evidence,” Leavitt added.

The United States “should have the safest and most secure elections in the history of the world,” Leavitt also remarked. “And what the president will be speaking about tonight will show you that perhaps that is not the case, and we need to make some adjustments moving forward,” including passing the SAVE America Act.

Leavitt also was critical of news outlets “reporting and misreporting about what the president will say” in the address and cautioned people to not “jump ahead to conclusions.”

Leavitt did not comment on the specific nature of his speech, which will be at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday. Earlier this week, Trump said that the address will concern voter integrity and related matters, but did not delve deeper than that.
“Our country has to shape up,” the president said in the Oval Office on Tuesday as he met with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi. “Without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country.”

Also Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters he didn’t know what Trump was going to speak about and that Republicans “are focused on the 2026 election.”

The SAVE America Act, or Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, is an election security measure backed by Trump that would mandate that individuals provide proof of U.S. citizenship, including a passport, birth certificate, or REAL ID.

It would also mandate strict photo ID requirements at polls, include more rules around absentee voting, require states to actively verify the citizenship of voters, and other changes. The GOP-backed measure was passed in the House earlier this week s part of a funding package, although it has stalled in the Senate despite Republicans having a majority.

For months, Trump has pushed for the bill to be passed, but Thune on several occasions has publicly said he doesn’t have the votes to pass the measure or remove the Senate’s legislative filibuster rule.

Aside from the SAVE America Act push, Trump has signed multiple executive orders on election-related matters that have met with resistance in the courts. In June, a federal judge ruled that Trump cannot enforce part of an order that requires proof of citizenship to vote in elections.
Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in part, wrote that the Constitution does not grant the president “any specific powers over elections.”

For years, Trump has said that the 2020 presidential election was rigged in favor of his opponent, Democrat Joe Biden. In the immediate aftermath of that contest, his legal team filed multiple lawsuits against states where his campaign said election fraud occurred.

ABC and NBC announced they will not broadcast tonight's address.