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    <title>Politicants</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Political Forum - Open Thread</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/political-forum-open-thread.18258/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (emainvol)</author>
      <dc:creator>emainvol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Call it part 2, or whatever you want.  Check to see if there is a thread regarding your topic already open, and if not either post here or start a new thread.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>17187</slash:comments>
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      <title>US vs Iran</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/us-vs-iran.18170/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (CardinalVol)</author>
      <dc:creator>CardinalVol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This appears to be headed to a boiling point, regardless of what either side says, especially with today&#039;s retaliation against the Iran-backed groups. And we may be looking at a group in Iraq.<br />
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I don&#039;t see how this doesn&#039;t end up with us sending a few bombers and missiles into Iran itself if they don&#039;t tell their surrogates to calm down.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>1327</slash:comments>
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      <title>Tennessee politics</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/tennessee-politics.18303/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (SetVol13)</author>
      <dc:creator>SetVol13</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Thought a thread focusing on state politics might be useful. Feel free to delete if you feel it is unnecessary. <br />
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Marsha Blackburn officially announced her run for governor this morning.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>292</slash:comments>
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      <title>Inflation /General Finance Insanity</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/inflation-general-finance-insanity.17998/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (HCKevinSteele)</author>
      <dc:creator>HCKevinSteele</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Figured I’d start this thread to discuss all things inflation and current insane macroeconomic trends in general. <br />
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First topic is grocery bills. I’m 29, not yet married and no kids. While I’m probably not a smart shopper per se, I’d imagine I spend less than the average person in my shoes. I’d love to know what you guys with 2+ growing kids are spending on groceries these days. Was at a friends house the other day who has 3 and I opened the fridge and it just hit me how much he’s probably...<br />
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<a href="http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/inflation-general-finance-insanity.17998/" class="internalLink">Inflation /General Finance Insanity</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>If We Segregated the US…</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/if-we-segregated-the-us%E2%80%A6.18381/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (kptvol)</author>
      <dc:creator>kptvol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[…based on attached or unattached earlobes, which half would be more prosperous?  Who would win if civil war broke out?]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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      <title>Artificial Intelligence (AI)</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/artificial-intelligence-ai.18294/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (NashVol11)</author>
      <dc:creator>NashVol11</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Insane article at the below link. Please be careful with this stuff.<br />
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      <slash:comments>283</slash:comments>
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      <title>Jeffrey Epstein Case</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/jeffrey-epstein-case.17131/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (RockyHill)</author>
      <dc:creator>RockyHill</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This case is going to be fascinating. Obviously the crimes he’s committed are horrific, but it may be incredible the level of shit this stirs up and at the highest levels of US politics and business. I’d love to hear <a href="https://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?members/14/" class="username" data-user="14, @droski">@droski</a> thoughts on his business. It is pretty clearly some combination of completely made up/ fraudulent/ criminal. He supposedly only manages money for billionaires and has only ever had one known client, and the investment personnel of his firm consists of him...<br />
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<a href="http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/jeffrey-epstein-case.17131/" class="internalLink">Jeffrey Epstein Case</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>710</slash:comments>
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      <title>Immigration</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (emainvol)</author>
      <dc:creator>emainvol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[In the spirit of having new threads for individual topics.  Here’s a catch all for immigration discussion.  If there is something within the realm of immigration that you feel deserves its own thread, go for it.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>761</slash:comments>
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      <title>RFK</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (kptvol)</author>
      <dc:creator>kptvol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[On the positive side, looks like he’s working to make soft drinks ineligible for federal food assistance. <br />
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A step in the right direction in spirit, at least. But ultimately I think people will find a way to buy their obesity fuel.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>My Facebook Feed</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/my-facebook-feed.16852/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (TennTradition)</author>
      <dc:creator>TennTradition</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I posted some of the posts : comments in my Facebook feed in the Trump thread, but thought I’d start a thread. I have to say - a lot of the off the wall stuff is from the Republicans in my feed (also stuff I find off the wal you might not) but there will be some liberal gems I’m sure. <br />
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Feel free to join in if you find it amusing / interesting / scary / whatever.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>2789</slash:comments>
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      <title>Yet another mass shooting</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/yet-another-mass-shooting.16758/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (NorrisAlan)</author>
      <dc:creator>NorrisAlan</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This troubles me deeply. At least 12 people, including a police officer, were killed in a bar in California. <br />
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What can we do?  I am at a loss for this.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>2090</slash:comments>
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      <title>Maybe everyone can agree on this</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/maybe-everyone-can-agree-on-this.18361/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (justingroves)</author>
      <dc:creator>justingroves</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[“I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it,” Trump said in a lengthy Truth Social post on Wednesday. “People live in homes, not corporations.”<br />
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<a href="https://www.notus.org/housing/trump-institutional-investors-buy-single-family-homes-blackrock-blackstone-apollo" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">https://www.notus.org/housing/trump...ngle-family-homes-blackrock-blackstone-apollo</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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      <title>John Kennedy</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/john-kennedy.18362/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (justingroves)</author>
      <dc:creator>justingroves</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[He listens to his constituents<br />
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So, &quot;short stopping&quot; ducks may not seem like a big deal, but it&#039;s horrible for ducks, duck hunters and the hunting industry. <br />
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Louisiana is a huge duck hunting destination spot<br />
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<a href="https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/press-releases?ID=7ACE786F-AC54-42C5-970E-29D6EA345FF8" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/press-releases?ID=7ACE786F-AC54-42C5-970E-29D6EA345FF8</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Ukraine</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/ukraine.17858/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (CardinalVol)</author>
      <dc:creator>CardinalVol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This seems like a big &quot;what are you going to do about it? move by Putin, and can also see it being a way for China to gauge our reactions regarding Taiwan.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>2941</slash:comments>
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      <title>Gaza</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/gaza.18307/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (emainvol)</author>
      <dc:creator>emainvol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I am starting this thread because I saw today that Americans oppose sending weapons to Israel 60-32 now. <br />
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That was, quite recently, considered a pretty radical stance.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>193</slash:comments>
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      <title>Political Violence</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/political-violence.18315/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (emainvol)</author>
      <dc:creator>emainvol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley University.  <br />
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Looks pretty bad from what people are saying]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>1091</slash:comments>
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      <title>The Thread of Shame</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-thread-of-shame.18259/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (faildozer)</author>
      <dc:creator>faildozer</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This is where your low-effort, off-topic, and trolling posts have been moved. You can feel free to continue to argue, complain, and generally act like children here. We will all point and laugh accordingly.<br />
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Beep Beep]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>162</slash:comments>
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      <title>Discussion Around Slurs</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/discussion-around-slurs.18289/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (gcbvol)</author>
      <dc:creator>gcbvol</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[There have been a couple of instances the past few days involving the use of gay slurs. This topic, however, is about the use of slurs in general. I am curious to get the board&#039;s thoughts on their use. And please do not tiptoe around to protect my feelings. I want an honest, civil discourse.<br />
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To begin, I was struck when I went on Twitter (I know, but sports is typically safer) to figure out what the deal was with the WF coach. Of course the first thing in my feed was a post from good ole...<br />
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<a href="http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/discussion-around-slurs.18289/" class="internalLink">Discussion Around Slurs</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>140</slash:comments>
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      <title>Chemtrails</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/chemtrails.18301/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (fl0at_)</author>
      <dc:creator>fl0at_</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[(Which aren&#039;t real)<br />
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Are starting to be banned by Republican state governments.<br />
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I&#039;m open to rational and logical arguments from our residents to convince me why chemtrails are real.   The floor is open to everyone that isn&#039;t IP or emain.]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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      <title>The America Party</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-america-party.18298/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Volgrad98)</author>
      <dc:creator>Volgrad98</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pipe dream if you ask me. Discuss]]></content:encoded>
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