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Here’s the thing. Whenever a judge doesn’t do what you want, you accuse them of being partisan. You refuse to accept that most of these cases are politically motivated and have no precedent and are highly suspect. You accuse people of being anti-Democratic but refuse to acknowledge the anti- Democratic bs your side comes up with. You still insist on Russia collusion. You insisted the lap top was a Russian plant. You refuse to acknowledge the role of the Clinton campaign. You refuse to acknowledge Jack Smith was a hack and had no case.  You refuse to even acknowledge that Biden and his family were engaged in financially motivated influence pending despite knowing Joe himself is on the record bragging about it. So this is nothing more than you being a leftist lapdog that probably still believes Portland didnt burn and that there id no chance that virus came from s lab mistake 

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22 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

Here’s the thing. Whenever a judge doesn’t do what you want, you accuse them of being partisan.
 

 

Certainly that’s what you’re doing. I’m just holding them to long held judicial norms.

 

 

22 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

You refuse to accept that most of these cases are politically motivated and have no precedent and are highly suspect. You accuse people of being anti-Democratic but refuse to acknowledge the anti- Democratic bs your side comes up with. You still insist on Russia collusion. You insisted the lap top was a Russian plant. You refuse to acknowledge the role of the Clinton campaign. You refuse to acknowledge Jack Smith was a hack and had no case.  You refuse to even acknowledge that Biden and his family were engaged in financially motivated influence pending despite knowing Joe himself is on the record bragging about it. So this is nothing more than you being a leftist lapdog that probably still believes Portland didnt burn and that there id no chance that virus came from s lab mistake 

If it was not clear to rational people you’re all in on the crazy right wing propaganda before then it should be obvious now…

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Good answer. No discussion. No question. You’re right and everyone else is wrong.

 

Thank God most of the country realized your side was dangerous and pushing for a country that the majority rejected even if they were hicks, dummies, and certainly not the evolved enlightened ones that supported your view

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16 minutes ago, No1TitansFan said:

Jack Smith has a pretty stellar reputation and has prosecuted Democrats in the past as well. Endless negative attacks by Trump doesn't change that.

What did you expect from El Trumpo???

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https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
 

One of the reasons that the recent Los Angeles wildfires were so hard to contain, according to Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Chief Kristin Crowley, is that more than half of the LAFD’s fire trucks have been out of service. It’s become a bit of a scandal; while fires burned through Palisades and Eaton neighborhoods, more than 100 of the LAFD’s 183 fire trucks were apparently sidelined.

 

Why couldn’t the LAFD keep its equipment in working order? A lot of people blame budget cuts, but there’s another root issue - increasing prices and metastasizing production delays for these vehicles. The cost of fire trucks has skyrocketed in recent years––going from around $300 -500,000 for a pumper truck and $750-900,000 for a ladder truck in the mid-2010s, to around $1 million for a pumper truck and $2 million for a ladder truck in the last couple years. Meanwhile, the time it takes to get a fire truck delivered has grown dramatically, from less than a year before the pandemic to anywhere between 2 and 4.5 years today. (It’s not just trucks, all fire equipment is increasing quickly in price, from air supply packs to maintenance contracts.)

 

What I’ll show you in this piece is that the increasing price is a result of a private equity firm, American Industrial Partners, consolidating the fire truck industry and forcing up prices across the board. For decades before the 2010s, the fire apparatus industry was characterized by relatively stable (inflation-adjusted) prices and ample production capacity.

 

Then, however, AIP bought multiple fire-truck manufacturers and rolled them up into conglomerate called the REV Group.

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1 minute ago, Starkiller said:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
 

One of the reasons that the recent Los Angeles wildfires were so hard to contain, according to Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Chief Kristin Crowley, is that more than half of the LAFD’s fire trucks have been out of service. It’s become a bit of a scandal; while fires burned through Palisades and Eaton neighborhoods, more than 100 of the LAFD’s 183 fire trucks were apparently sidelined.

 

Why couldn’t the LAFD keep its equipment in working order? A lot of people blame budget cuts, but there’s another root issue - increasing prices and metastasizing production delays for these vehicles. The cost of fire trucks has skyrocketed in recent years––going from around $300 -500,000 for a pumper truck and $750-900,000 for a ladder truck in the mid-2010s, to around $1 million for a pumper truck and $2 million for a ladder truck in the last couple years. Meanwhile, the time it takes to get a fire truck delivered has grown dramatically, from less than a year before the pandemic to anywhere between 2 and 4.5 years today. (It’s not just trucks, all fire equipment is increasing quickly in price, from air supply packs to maintenance contracts.)

 

What I’ll show you in this piece is that the increasing price is a result of a private equity firm, American Industrial Partners, consolidating the fire truck industry and forcing up prices across the board. For decades before the 2010s, the fire apparatus industry was characterized by relatively stable (inflation-adjusted) prices and ample production capacity.

 

Then, however, AIP bought multiple fire-truck manufacturers and rolled them up into conglomerate called the REV Group.

California being California 

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