Biden brings Thanksgiving pies to Nantucket first responders
Source: AP
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE 55 minutes ago
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered at least half a dozen pumpkin pies to Massachusetts firefighters during a Thanksgiving Day show of appreciation and his toddler grandson walked away with a red fire hat topping his blond curls.
“Oh wow,” Biden was heard to say upon seeing Beau Biden, who is nearly 3, emerge from the headquarters building wearing the hat. The president was with the firefighters who had lined up outside the building to welcome him.
Biden had expressed appreciation for firefighters and other emergency personnel earlier in the day when he and his wife, Jill, spoke by telephone to the hosts of NBC’s broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
“I want to say thanks to the firefighters and police officers, first responders. They never take a break,” he said during the call. The Bidens spoke later Thursday with units from each of the six branches of the U.S. military, stationed in Europe, at sea, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, the White House said.
President Joe Biden, center, standing next to Nantucket Fire Department Chief Michael Cranson, left, talks during a visit with firefighters on Thanksgiving Day at the Nantucket Fire Department in Nantucket, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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below the post to "show post" or something like that. Anyway very "out there". There were also jury alerts and how the jury voted and comments by jurors if the juror left a comment, that one could see by just clicking another link.
That all went away after a particularly bitter primary (mid 2016) because this spawned long long subthreads and even complete new threads commenting on jury decisions and the background of the person with the hidden post and what they posted on Facebook or Daily Kos that was racist or anti-semitic or whatever and contradicted something they were saying here and so on, which generated discussions on other thread participants' hypocrisy and whatever else (jurors and alerters remained anonymous, so their ancestry etc. was fortunately not part of the discussions). Some people got tired of this, in particular the people whose opinions defacto and dejure matter the most 
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Edit: from above "and how the jury voted and comments by jurors if the juror left a comment, that one could see by just clicking another link."
For the sake of accuracy, now that I think about it, only jurors and the alerter could see that one (it was DU-mailed to the jurors and alerter), there was no link to that, but sometimes a juror or alerter would post that to the thread.
By the way juries were and are 7 people. (Several years ago, it was 6 people and a 3-3 tie resulted in acquittal)
They are camping out at a sprawling waterfront compound along Nantucket Harbor owned by David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm. Biden celebrated Thanksgiving at the home in 2021.
The Bidens have a more than 40-year tradition of spending Thanksgiving on the Massachusetts island.
I don't see a connection anywhere except using the compound and being on the island.
(Before anybody gets pissed...it's :sarcasm
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! Joe Biden, 
He's such a good man. I don't know if we deserve him.
