U.S. And International Politics

[John Corbett]

  Trump just says what most people are afraid to say. That's why he consistently defies the polling and has been elected POTUS 3 times. Boys in girls locker rooms, Boys competing against girls, wide open borders, these are issues that Trump bluntly spells out. The vast majority of the voting public agrees with him. The Dem's want to shut him up any way they can, even though he is a Lame Duck. Trump's "straight talking" brings out into the open the absurdity of the Dem Party Policies. 
  And Trump is not afraid to continue pointing out the 2020 Election was rigged. People KNOW that election was crooked, just as the recent Calif Primary was. Same M.O. employed for both elections. Count alleged ballots endlessly until the Dem Candidate stuffs the box enough to turn the election around.

The term "lame duck" gets tossed around loosely these days. Initially, it referred to an outgoing Congress the new Congress was voted into office and when it was sworn in. It was also applied to the outgoing POTUS. Originally, both the new Congress and the new POTUS were sworn in on March 4. During that time the current Congress and POTUS have full powers. Usually the sessions just clean up loose ends with spending bills and the Senate can act on confirmations of presidential appointees. The 20th Amendment moved the inauguration of the POTUS to January 20 and the new Congress taking power on January 3. It also shifted the task of confirming the Electoral College vote to the new Congress.

Trump is not a lame duck and will not be one until after the 2028 presidential election. If he loses either the House, Senate, or both, he will have reduced power but he will not be a lame duck. We will simply have divided power which has happened many times in the past> When that happens, the POTUS and Congress have to negotiate with one another to pass legistlation rather than having one party be able ramrod spending bills into law.

[John Corbett]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/skydivers-plane-crashed-didnt-time-170100089.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

Who knew the most dangerous part of skydiving isn't jumping out of the plane. It's going up in the plane.

I wouldn't jump out of a perfectly good airplane for all of Elon Musk's money.

It would have to be going down in flames and even then I'd probably need a push.

The fall isn't what kills you. It's that sudden stop.

[John Corbett]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/dj-peter-rosenberg-catches-heat-for-claiming-karmelo-anthony-should-have-gotten-lighter-sentence-in-austin-metcalf-s-murder/ar-AA25I7ti?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6a3058279ef7494598cf2056ef19d852&ei=13&cvpid=10613c10591a4bfbdd59fc2243b90e1d

I think they should give Karemelo Anthony his knife back so he can slit his on throat.

[Royell Storing]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/dj-peter-rosenberg-catches-heat-for-claiming-karmelo-anthony-should-have-gotten-lighter-sentence-in-austin-metcalf-s-murder/ar-AA25I7ti?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6a3058279ef7494598cf2056ef19d852&ei=13&cvpid=10613c10591a4bfbdd59fc2243b90e1d

I think they should give Karemelo Anthony his knife back so he can slit his on throat.

   The main players involved are extremely young. YOU need to keep this in mind before piling on like you are doing above. And, you need to consider both families. You're fanning the flames which only prolongs the agony both families are enduring.

[Richard Smith]

The Dems are desperately deflecting to the Reflecting pool and UFC match as though a single person cares about that.  Deflecting from the end of the Iran conflict, gas price reductions, and an end to the conflict.  Nothing to see there.  There is algae in the reflecting pool!  Gasp.  CNN dropped the gas price ticker faster than they dropped the COVID death ticker about Biden become president.

[Richard Smith]

I don't think most people appreciate what Donald Trump has done. Leaders don't get credit for the disasters they divert. People don't appreciate what a danger Iran posed. If they had developed a nuclear weapon, they already had the missile technology to reach ever capital in Europe. It would have only been a matter of time before they could reach the east coast and beyond. That would have been an extremely dangerous situation. It wouldn't have been like the Cold War when mutual assured destruction acted as a deterrent to both sides. The Iranians are religious zealots to whom martyrdom is the highest calling. It's the same mindset that caused 19 hijackers to fly airliners into our buildings knowing they would die in the process. I have no doubt Iran would have embraced mutual assured destruction.

I don't understand people who say their development of a nuclear weapon wasn't imminent. I don't know if that is true or not but why the hell would we want to wait until it was imminent before taking drastic action. Had we known the Japanese were planning to strike us at Pearl Harbor, I don't think we would have waiedt until December 6 to take action.

So many people only care that the price of gas has spiked the last several months. If that's the price we had to pay to keep the Iranians from becoming a threat to our homeland, it's money well spent.
If this deal holds, and it's still an if, and the Strait of Hormuz is opened again bringing down prices, I hope the voters will be able to look at the situation objectively.

Yes, Donald Trump is prone to hyperbole but the things he says are usually directionally correct. He can talk like a crazy man because he knows that fires up the base, but he governs with a cool head as he has shown the past few months. A lot of people, including me, were wondering why we didn't just bomb Iran back to the Stone Age He used just enough firepower to get them to bargain in good faith if hey have actually done that. I liked Hegseth's expression, negotiate with bombs. Once Trump started to talk about taking over Kharg Island the Iranians realized he wasn't pussyfooting around.

Yes, I think that is right.  If Bill Clinton had taken out Bin Laden when he had a chance, there would have been no 9/11 but no one would ever have known because it didn't happen.  Trump has neutralized an Iran whose avowed purpose was to develop a nuclear weapon and use it on Israel.   The frightening thing here is that I think some people want Trump to fail regardless of the consequences.  They have no concern for the implications.  If that means Israel is nuked, they don't care if Trump is politically damaged.  The ends justify any means for the radicalized loons who think Trump is worse than Hitler.

[Benjamin Cole]

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Trump has more personality flaws than any other dozen men put together, but you may be right that he has defused the ticking nuke-time-bomb that was Iran.

The devil is in the details, as terms come out.

Trump may actually be saving Iranians: Imagine Israel, upon learning that Iran is putting nukes on missiles, while Western liberal democracies, and Gulf states, do nothing. 

A preventative first strike? Or wait to get obliterated?

Israel cannot wait until it is too late.