Miguel 'Mike' Denyer

Road to 100K Starts Now. 1,259 here. Rookie numbers. Not for ego. For leverage. Photography. Discipline. Standards. If you’re here early, you’re part of the foundation. Let’s build this properly.

I keep hearing people saying the same thing over and over again. "Members of Congress aren't elected through the Electoral College, so why should we use it to elect the President? Why not just get rid of it and let the national popular vote decide?" Now, on the surface that sounds like a reasonable argument... until you stop and think about what those jobs actually are. Michigan chooses who represents Michigan in Congress. Texas chooses who represents Texas. North Dakota chooses who represents North Dakota. Why should the people of California get a say in who represents Wyoming? They don't live there. They aren't represented by that person. It simply isn't their decision to make. The same applies in reverse. Michigan has no business deciding who should represent Florida. Each state decides who represents that state. The rest of the country quite rightly stays out of it. The President is a completely different kettle of fish. The President isn't just Michigan's President, or Texas's President, or California's President. He is the President of all fifty states. The only elected office in the country that exercises executive authority over the entire nation. That means every state has a stake in choosing who occupies that office. And here's the part people seem to overlook. If you scrap the Electoral College and make it nothing more than a nationwide head count, where do you think every presidential candidate is going to spend their time? They're not going to be wandering around Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Vermont, or any of the smaller states shaking hands with farmers, ranchers and small business owners. They're going to spend almost all of their time in the biggest population centres because that's where the votes are. If you can stand in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Houston or Phoenix and reach millions of potential voters in a single day, why would you spend that same day campaigning somewhere with a fraction of the population? That's just human nature. The Electoral College doesn't stop people from voting. It forces presidential candidates to remember that the United States is made up of fifty states, not just a handful of enormous cities. You can absolutely make the argument that the Electoral College should be abolished. That's a perfectly legitimate debate to have. What you can't honestly argue is that Congressional elections and Presidential elections should work the same way simply because they're both elections. One is about deciding who represents your own state or district. The other is about deciding who will lead the entire Union. They're different offices, with different responsibilities, serving different constituencies. The Founding Fathers understood that. Perhaps we should too.

@AntiLeftMemes They don't pay taxes because you need a social security number for that... so they don't contribute to society... so yeah, they should be deported.

Your thoughts ??

@ZenfinityDesign Maaan... I wish I had the funding available... that is a thing of beauty!!

Work. 75% done. Will be last piece made for a while. Should be done Tuesday, DM for Details!

@AntiWokeMemes Nope... if you're a whore that plays around then you get what you deserve... no self respecting man ever puts up with that bullshit

Asking real men, is this true?

Since I'm not your employer, it's not my job to pay your wages either. Keeping pissing us off with your demands for higher tips instead of demanding better wages from your employer, and a whole bunch of us will stop patronizing the establishment that you work at... when that happens, guess what happens next...

You walk into a restaurant and see this. What’s your first thought?

Most people think this photograph was taken because I own an expensive camera. It wasn't. In fact, if I handed the exact same camera and lens to a hundred people and stood them in exactly the same place, ninety-nine of them would go home without this photograph. That's not arrogance. It's experience. The biggest mistake new wildlife photographers make isn't buying the wrong camera. It isn't using the wrong lens. It isn't even getting the camera settings wrong. The biggest mistake is believing that wildlife photography is about photography. It isn't. It's about wildlife. This Red-tailed Hawk didn't suddenly appear out of thin air because I happened to be standing there with a camera. I already knew roughly where it hunted, the direction it was likely to approach from, what the light was doing, how close I could get without changing its behaviour, and—most importantly—I knew when to leave it alone. The camera came out right at the very end of that process. People spend thousands of dollars chasing sharper lenses, bigger sensors and more megapixels, when they would be far better off spending an afternoon learning how a hawk thinks. Once you understand the animal, the photograph becomes the easy part. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it... Nature doesn't owe you a photograph. She rewards patience, observation and respect. The camera is just the tool that records the moment when you've finally earned it.

@NoDMsPerfavore Rosy O'Donnell

It’s said that you can identify a celebrity from a facial expression. Who is this then? 🤣

@Eman5695 Dead

@AntiLeftMemes See son... that's what happens when you break the law... so be a good lad and don't break the law ... Ok?

Liberal Woman has a question for MAGA and Trump supporters! What is your response ?

@EmilySm43 Trust me... anyone breaking into my house and seeing me naked is going to need years of counseling ...assuming they survive the encounter.

What's the plan if someone breaks into your house?

@gman5180 If have then come inside for nice cup of tea ... then call ICE.

What would you do/say if ICE was in the neighborhood and your neighbor said "please hide me!"?😕

@AntiWokeMemes A real man, no... but you're not a woman either.

@WorkElizab Walter, Walker, Warren... need I go on?

@_josephine0_ Politician

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Will any of these work??... Operating on factory default settings. Possessing all the intellectual horsepower of a decorative potato. A tactical liability to common sense. Chronically underfunded in the cognition department. Running on dial-up in a fiber-optic world. Living proof that breathing is an autonomous function. A passionate opponent of critical thinking. A biological argument against warning labels. An enthusiastic amateur in the field of thinking. The reason shampoo comes with instructions. Sharp as a bowling ball. Bright as a black hole. About as useful as a chocolate teapot. Has the situational awareness of a houseplant. A few bytes short of a firmware update. The human equivalent of a software bug.

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@BhattiLaib9960 Life

@Jassmini2 روح نيك نفسك

and you say?

@WHLeavitt Technical Ability: 4.5 Artistic Impression: 4.5 Invoking the Power of Christ: 6.0 Overall Score: 5.0

@FloraLuzz_ Better question: "Is it OK for Muslim Jihadis to blow up schools when non-Muslims are present?"

WHAT’S YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS?

@WorkElizab Illegal Immigrants... every last one of them.