You fail to acknowledge that both Biden and Pence fully cooperated and VOLUNTARILY returned the documents once they were discovered, as well as allowing the DOJ / FBI to conduct a search for any additional documents.

Whereas trump fought tooth and nail to keep the documents which he stole from the White House when his term in office was over.

It finally took a Search Warrant to get back the documents they were able to find at Mar-A-Lago, but there's been Grand Jury testimony that boxes were moved to Bedminster at one point, so we don't know if there are other documents with classified markings which are still sqirreled away in places beyond Mar-A-Lago and the storage unit nearby which was searched by a trump lawyer.

There's a huge difference between National Security and being a National Security risk!

The risk trump poses is because of his affinity with Autocrats and Dictators around the world, and his desire to emulate them.

By the way, it's illegal for a former president to retain classified documents once they're no longer in office!

The fact remains that trump couldn't pass a security clearance background check if his life depended upon it.

The usual courtesy of former presidents being "read in" on matters of National Security wasn't extended to trump because of his actions while in office, and after leaving office.

trump was a high risk to the National Security of United States because of his loose lips with our adversaries.

Russians in the Oval Office

Putin in Helsinki

Orban of Hungary at CPAC

Are you really saying that you're putting your support behind someone who worships the actions of Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini?

Did I hit a nerve when I told the truth about trump?

Are you having a problem learning the truth about trump and his uneducated cultists?

In case you missed the facts about trump, he's an adjudicated sexual asaulter, a known adulter, a FAKE, a fraud, and a traitor! Let's not forget con artist while we're at it!

WHY the evangelicals still stand behind trump is a real head scratcher.

After rhe Stormy Daniels testimony earlier this week, the evangelicals may have to finally reexamine their core values and their questionable continued support of trump or forever be labeled as FAKES just like trump.

It's no longer fake news, the facts have been exposed for the entire world to see.

The United States should never put such a compromised person back into the White House where he'll be an even bigger National Security risk than he was the last time!

Remember that trump STOLE documents with classified markings on them when he left the White House in 2021. There are documents which trump has already shared the content of with multiple people who didn't have the clearance to see, and at least one foreign national. This was after trump shared National Security secrets with the Russians soon after he took the oath of office.

You can't defend the defenseless trump!

Yes it is rather sad that the trump cultists have been so gullible as to believe all of the lies which trump has uttered, knowing full well that the cultists would easily fall for those lies.

Lies which include falsifying business records!

Remember that trump uttered these words: "I love the poorly educated"

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-630186051563

https://youtu.be/O9F6EAMPky4?si=_TmeWDwMYK6lHW1U

As soon as I was old enough to get the Senior National Park Pass I did, but I missed the window for the original low rate by just a few months. I've enjoyed the perks of that pass numerous times for getting in free to go shoot pictures of shore birds. Unfortunately since I moved about 17 months ago, I haven't been able to get to any NP's or wildlife reserves due to the driving distances. It's about a 3 hour drive down to Parker River WR from up here. Acadia NP is just over an hour from home, but it's not a big draw for me. I visited there around 40 years ago with my mother, brother, and niece. It's OK if you're into hiking, rock climbing, or want to watch the sun rise in one on top of a mountain, but the crowds flocking there now require time specific reservations. We missed the Stella's Sea Eagle this past winter, it stayed up in Novs Scotia.

My plans for my NP trip were to use campgrounds in or near the NP's to take advantage of the facilities they offer. I know about the ability to park overnight at places like you described. A friend and former neighbor converted a smaller corporate bus to use as his home on wheels while he was going through marital problems. Finding a place to live which he could afford was next to impossible.

Seeing as my NP trip is at least 2 years in the future, I'll have time to do some more research and planning for reservations. I just hate to be locked into a specific timeline for the trip, especially if I hit bad weather and I might want to extend my stay if the weather was going to clear up in a day or two.

Traveling was so much easier back in the early to mid 60's. You just packed up your vehicle with your gear and the kids, then hit the road armed with a AAA trip kit of maps and guide books, and drove until you found a motel with a vacancy sign at the end of the day. Of course the rooms were going for about a 20th of what they're charging today.

I just booked a hotel room for a work trip. In a matter of just a 10 minute delay the room rate jumped from $349 to $649 because it's college graduation time. I had to wait to see if they were going to approve 2 or 3 nights for the trip before booking the room. The cost of driving or flying are nearly the same, but the added ground transportation to the flight makes it just a little less expensive to drive. It's about a 3 hour drive in each direction. I don't mind driving at this time of year, but I might opt to fly if I had to do it in the winter.

It's a half hour drive to the closest airport, which is a smaller regional one, with smaller aircraft servicing it. We actually stopped at a restaurant there a few months ago and watched a snow squall roll in over the area while we ate. The last time that I flew on a smaller plane was around 1972, which was a 7 seater converted mail plane.

I have one more renovation project to do on my condo before I'll be ready to fully retire, which a complete kitchen remodel. I just had to put it off for at least 6-12 months to have additional time to save up more money for the project. The first quote was higher than I had anticipated, and it was just for the flat pack cabinets, countertops, and installation. I still had to find and schedule a plumber, electrician, flooring and flooring installer, as well as arranging for debris removal. I don't have the time or local contacts to be a GC while still working full-time from home. I need a GC who has skilled, qualified, and reliable subcontractors they've worked with before to run the project.

I hear you on the not wearing a watch.

I stopped wearing a watch when I started working 100% remotely in 2020.

But nowadays, I'm finding it inconvenient not to have a watch on when traveling outside my home away from a computer screen where the clock is conveniently located in the lower right corner of the monitor.

Things like getting somewhere before closing time often end up changing plans on the fly.

The 4.5 day power failure this past December pointed out the value of having a watch handy when recharging electronic devices became a challenge. Also having a printed book was an advantage over an e-reader that week. I was all set for flashlights and batteries, but I had no way to heat up anything to eat or drink. I've just bought a single burner butane camp stove.

In my case, I'm likely about 2 years away from full retirement, and hoping to take a leisurely, extended National Parks tour through the Northern Parks over several months once I'm free of the 9-5 daily grind.

What stinks is that many if not most NP's are now requiring reservations to get in, which is going to put a crimp on spur of the moment detours on the trip. My thought had been to pitch a tent or sleep in my vehicle most of the time instead of paying for hotels to save money. But time will tell if that plan is logistically viable once I finalize my trip plans.

Who knows, I might be driving a different vehicle by then which could be better suited to living in it while on the road. Not a traditional RV, but some kind of a conversion. Possibly a Ford E-Transit.

I almost went that route for my current vehicle, but at the time I was still commuting to work. The higher cost, lower mpg, and parking restrictions, as well as the really short turnaround time needed to replace my previous vehicle which ended with major electrical problems, put me into a more traditional vehicle back then. My previous vehicle was about 15 years old, with over 250K miles on the odometer. If it wasn't for that electrical problem, I wouldn't have given it up quite that soon, although the plan had been to replace it within about 6-7 months, by years end. The challenge became finding a vehicle with lower mileage, within a reasonable driving distance, in a tight time frame, and during the height of the chip shortage.

It became really dangerous to drive around with clear plastic taped over all four side windows because they were stuck halfway down. Maneuvering through intersections with stop signs was an interesting challenge when I didn't have clear visibility out of the side windows.

The 2016 Election was stolen because of trump's cover-up of the catch and kill articles!

Michael Cohen‘s testimony was devastating for trump, as Cohen tied together the evidence and the testimony presented in the case.

Please note that the alleged GOP supporters who originally showed up to support trump in court, skinked out after the break and didn't return to sit through more testimony which was a nail in trump's coffin with this case.

It turns out that trump spent a good amount of time reading feel good articles to keep trump calm in court on Monday.

"New York Supreme Criminal" is the notation below the screen shot of trump sitting at the defense table on the monitors which show the 4 split screen shots of the court room; the Judge, the witness stand, the prosecutor's table, and the wide shot of the defense team.

You mean the rally where spectators WALKED OUT while trump was still "talking?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-new-jersey-rally-crowd-walks-out-speech-video-1899832

The trump cultists will clutch their pearls again, trying to claim voter fraud in 2024, all the while refusing to admit that the majority of the 2020 voter fraud was committed by trump cultists!

I crammed classes into my Freshman through Junior years, and had very few classes I had to take in my Senior year. English and Phys Ed were the few required classes my Senior year. That meant that I left early each day as a Senior. There were only a few kids I hung out with in High School.

One I was close to as a result of showing horses together my last couple of years, and the first few years after I graduated, as that kid was a year behind me. Then our lives went in different directions and we lost touch with each other. There was one other kid who I reconnected with a few years ago, and have gotten together occasionally since reconnecting, but the physical distance between us has made meeting up more often a bit of a challenge.

I attended only one class reunion, and I didn't enjoy it at all. It was either the 5th or the 10th. My class just celebrated its 50th last September, but the logistics, time involved, and with the cost of getting there and the cost of the room for 2 nights, I decided that I could put that money to a better use for a future hoped for National Parks photography tour instead.

This study done in August of 2020 says that the "racial justice protests" were not a major cause of Covid-19 infection surges.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/08/11/racial-justice-protests-were-not-a-major-cause-of-covid-19-infection-surges-new-national-study-finds/

Although my tally of deaths was off, there are direct links to more than 700 deaths due to attendance at trump rallies during the Pandemic! The infections caused by attendance at trump rallies were over 30,000.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/31/trump-study-coronavirus-rallies-433760

https://myfox8.com/news/trump-rallies-act-as-super-spreader-events-lead-to-more-than-700-covid-19-deaths-study-says/

https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/trump-rallies-responsible-for-30000-covid-cases-700-deaths-study-finds

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/523789-18-trump-rallies-have-led-to-30k-cases-700-deaths-stanford-university/

Yet Joe Biden didn't hold Super-Spreader events which resulted in exponentially thousands of people dying during the height of the Pandemic, and he WON the 2020 Election!

You mean the 2016 Election interference by trump?

They already admitted the checks signed by trump used to reimburse Michael Cohen for his payment of the catch and kill.

Right out of the gate, the first person to testify was David Pecker who testified about the two stories which the National Enquirer did the catch and kill on, but trump never reimbursed for.

There are 34 charges in this case against trump, the Prossecutor is building the case for those 34 charges with each witness who testifies, and each piece of evidence presented in court.

You really do need to pay closer attention to the court transcripts if you're not watching any network news coverage.