So, it turns out that President Biden's record job creation is better than we thought, but it does come at a price. The BLS has severely undercounted Biden's job numbers which totals 626,000 jobs. That's almost 1 million jobs that were left off the books in June, July, August, and September. That led to negative news cycles against the President for no reason at all. The right wing media hammered away at Biden and accused him of being incompetent and trashed him all over social media. The main stream media also took part in continuous negative news cycles attacking the President for a lack of job creation. Even though the job numbers in those 4 months were significantly lower than expected, it was still more jobs created than Trump who was losing 1 million jobs per month. But as it turns out, the job numbers were not significantly lower at all as the BLS had to readjust the job numbers for June-September. The job numbers were actually higher than expected with an additional 626,000 jobs created for those 3 months. But people wouldn't know it, as the President was trashed by the media and these re-adjustment totals barely has received any press at all. So much for a "liberal media bias" that right wingers want to claim.
As a result, President Biden was unfairly attacked in the media for a lack of job creation which is clearly not the case. People listened to this negative press and it could have caused voters to form a negative opinion of the President when this never should have happened in the first place. One has to wonder if someone is purposely trying to sabotage President Biden, perhaps a Trump holdover because never in our history of the BLS reporting job numbers have they ever missed close to 1 million jobs off 4 job reports for 4 consecutive months. Something has to give and it smells rotten in Denmark.
President Biden is moving the country forward and is cleaning up the Trump economic disaster that devastated America.
ADP: Employers Added 571,000 Jobs in October, Beating Expectations:
Large companies in the services sector powered the strong monthly performance.
November 3, 2021
Employers added 571,000 jobs in October, above expectations, according to a monthly survey released Wednesday by private payroll firm ADP.
Gains were strongest among large companies, with increases of 342,000, and heavily concentrated in the services sector of the economy, with 458,000 new hires. The leisure and hospitality industry added 185,000 jobs.
Economists had been looking for 400,000 jobs to be created following September's increase of 568,000.
"The labor market showed renewed momentum last month, with a jump from the third quarter average of 385,000 monthly jobs added, marking nearly 5 million job gains this year," said Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP. "Service sector providers led the increase and the goods sector gains were broad based, reporting the strongest reading of the year. Large companies fueled the stronger recovery in October, marking the second straight month of impressive growth."
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, which helps ADP prepare the report, said, "The job market is revving back up as the Delta-wave of the pandemic winds down. Job gains are accelerating across all industries, and especially among large companies. As long as the pandemic remains contained, more big job gains are likely in coming months.
The report comes two days before the Labor Department issues the monthly jobs numbers for October, with economists expecting close to 400,000 new jobs added in the month following September's disappointing 194,000 reading.
The labor market has been recovering, albeit unevenly, from the effects of the coronavirus which saw 22 million Americans lose their jobs in April of last year. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, has fallen to 4.8%.
But companies say they find it difficult to find workers and are having to pay higher wages and offer flexible schedules to attract jobseekers. Nonetheless, companies continue to post jobs and say they expect robust hiring ahead.
Data from HireVue, a firm that provides businesses with virtual interviewing technology, says interviews picked up in October, with tech companies seeing the biggest increase, completing 66.3% more interviews than in September, with retailers completing 64.7% more interviews.
A separate report from ADP found that wage growth, which picked up sharply following the pandemic, is now returning to more normal levels. Wages grew 3.3% during the third quarter overall, but for job switchers the pace was double at 6.6%.
The health of the job market is one of two factors the Federal Reserve Board is considering as it decides when to begin "tapering" its $120-billion-per-month purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. The central bank is widely expected to announce later Wednesday that it will cut that amount by $15 billion a month with a goal of ending the pandemic-era program by the middle of next year.
The other factor is inflation and there the news is not as sanguine. Consumer prices have been running about 5% higher year over year in 2021 and there are indications an inflation mindset has begun to set in that could make the Fed's job more difficult going forward.
It also complicates the political situation in Washington as President Joe Biden seeks to pass twin infrastructure bills with a razor-thin margin in Congress, which now seems even more in peril following Tuesday's election results which saw a Republican take the Virginia governor's race and a closer-than-expected contest for governor in the reliably Democrat state of New Jersey.
"An unmorring of inflation expectations can be self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating," economists Joseph LaVorgna and Troy Ludtka of Natixis CIB wrote Tuesday. "University of Michigan 5-year ahead inflation expectations have risen to a 10-year high but are still within their long-term range."
"However, the New York Fed's consumer price series has bounded higher," they added. "Is the U of M series headed for an upside breakout? We think so."
https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2021-11-03/adp-employers-added-571-000-jobs-in-october-beating-expectations
Companies add 571,000 jobs in October thanks to a big boost in hospitality hires, ADP says
Companies added 571,000 jobs for the month, beating the 395,000 Dow Jones estimate.
Leisure and hospitality led the way with 185,000 new positions.
Large businesses were by far the biggest creators, adding 458,000
Private sector job creation popped higher in October thanks to a burst in hiring in the hospitality sector, payroll processing firm ADP reported Wednesday.
Companies added 571,000 for the month, beating the 395,000 Dow Jones estimate and just ahead of September’s downwardly revised 523,000. It was the best month for jobs since June.
Leisure and hospitality, a category that includes bars, restaurants, hotels and the like, saw a gain of 185,000 for a sector that remains well below its pre-pandemic employment level. The sector is seen as a proxy for an economic recovery that stalled over the summer due to a rise in the Covid delta variant and a massive clog in supply lines.
“The job market is revving back up as the delta wave of the pandemic winds down,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, which aids ADP in compiling the report. “Job gains are accelerating across all industries, and especially among large companies. As long as the pandemic remains contained, more big job gains are likely in coming months.”
Growth in the sector helped fuel an overall 458,000 gain in services jobs.
Professional and business services also contributed 88,000 hires, trade transportation and utilities added 78,000, and education and health services jobs were up 56,000.
On the goods-producing side, which added 113,000 positions, construction was up 54,000 and manufacturing contributed 53,000.
From a size standpoint, businesses with more than 500 employees by far led the way with 342,000 new hires. Businesses with fewer than 50 workers added 115,000 and medium-sized firms increased by 114,000.
The ADP report comes two days before the Labor Department’s more closely watched nonfarm payrolls count, which is projected to show an increase of 450,000, according to Dow Jones.
While ADP can serve as a precursor to the government’s count, the two can differ widely.
In September, ADP’s tally of private payroll creation – initially at 568,000 before being revised lower by 45,000 – was well above the Labor Department’s 317,000. The total nonfarm payrolls count for September was just 194,000, well below estimates and held back by a loss of 123,000 government jobs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/03/private-payrolls-up-571000-in-october-on-jump-in-hospitality-hires-topping-395000-estimate-.html
All of which is all well and good. But the one reason I intend to vote for Biden in 2024, or whoever the Democratic nominee is, is because I am confidence that the Democratic nominee does not intend to become President for Life. Anything else that President Biden can give us, more jobs, a better economy, save the Ukraine, is gravy. But maintaining America as a democracy, a land where the will of the people means something, and can not be overturned by false claims of stolen elections, is President’s Biden most important job. I wish him every success.
Thanks President Biden!
The US economy grew 5.7% throughout last year, the fastest expansion since 1984
It's "Morning in America" all over again.
US gross domestic product grew 5.7% through 2021, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced Thursday morning.
That marks the strongest annual economic growth since 1984, when President Ronald Reagan was hoping for his second term in the White House. The 40th president ran with the now famous "Morning in America" message as he looked to pull the US out of its inflation nightmare and into a new era of economic prosperity.
Similarities abound with the country's present situation. Thursday's GDP print caps a standout year for the US economy. Job growth was the strongest in the country's history, with the US adding 6.4 million jobs. Consumer spending fully recovered and then some. The economy isn't just booming; it's recovering at a pace much faster than in the wake of previous recessions.
Biden isn't seeking reelection for another couple years, but the latest GDP data gives the president another metric to tout as he hits the campaign trail ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
It also places his first-year economic scorecard far above what most economists anticipated. GDP growth through 2021 exceeded forecasts from the Federal Open Market Committee, Congressional Budget Office, and the country's top business economists, according to Jason Furman and Wilson Powell, researchers at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-gdp-growth-best-since-reagan-inflation-economic-recovery-1984-2022-1
This propaganda reminds me of Bagdad Bob and his proclamations of victory during the Iraq war. Biden's polls numbers have cratered to Watergate-like numbers. Even the leftist media has conceded that he is a disaster. The Dems closed the country down in 2020 bringing it to ruin. When it is reopened (ironically with even more virus cases than when this started - thanks Joe!) and the people go back to work, they proclaim economic success. HA HA HA. It's a miracle! You can't make that up. Imagine the economy improving after being closed down for a pandemic? Amazing Joe! Another record to add to inflation, crime, illegal immigration, and possibly WWIII due to his blundering. As Cool Hand Luke said, "Wish you'd stop being so good to me Captain."
The top anti-Trump propagandist Jeff Zucker has resigned in disgrace at CNN. Joining Chris Cuomo and his disgraced brother Andrew Cuomo in the halls of shame. The chickens are really coming home to roost for all their fake stories.
Glad to see Jeff Zucker gone from CNN. The dishonest attacks against President Biden for ratings has gone on for too long.
Whew. You can't be for real. That is far out stuff. CNN runs almost continuous anti-Trump stories even over a year after he has left office. It should be called the Jan. 6 Network.
Biden urges city leaders to take advantage of billions in federal relief funds
Biden touts one-year anniversary of American Rescue Plan in Philadelphia
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These right wingers sure aren't shy about their racism anymore. The GOP wants to take us back to the 1950's and some want to go even further back to the 1700's.
Republican Senator Mike Braun Says Supreme Court Should Have Never Legalized Interracial Marriage
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-braun-says-interracial-marriage-should-be-illegal-1325336/
Maybe check the history books and learn which party promoted racism in the US. Here's a hint. Lincoln was a republican.
Perhaps you should check your calendar. It's March 2022 not March 1862.
People don't care about the Republicans of 1862, they care about Republicans in 2022 promoting racism.
Abe Lincoln wouldn't be welcome in today's Republican Party. Trump would call him a RINO trying to kick him out.
Republicans are promoting racism today and this is a horrible racist statement by Mike Braun. And he isn't the only Republican who feels this way. Racism like this should not be tolerated. It's disgusting.
Republican Senator Mike Braun Says Supreme Court Should Have Never Legalized Interracial Marriage
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-braun-says-interracial-marriage-should-be-illegal-1325336/
This is a landmark proposal from President Biden, a minimum tax that also applies to unrealized gains—as a prepayment against future capital gains. This should get serious consideration as a fair and efficient way to raise significant revenue.
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President Biden to unveil new minimum tax on billionaires in budget
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/03/26/billionaire-tax-budget-biden/
Biden budget seeks minimum tax on households worth $100m
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden intends to propose a minimum tax of 20% on households worth more than $100 million and cut projected budget deficits by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, according to a fact sheets released Saturday by the White House budget office.
The introduction of the minimum tax on the wealthiest Americans would represent a significant reorienting of the tax code. It would apply to the top 0.01% of households with half of the expected revenue coming from households worth $1 billion or more. The minimum tax would effectively prevent the wealthiest sliver of America from paying lower rates than families who think of themselves as middle class, while helping to generate revenues to fuel Biden’s domestic ambitions and keep the deficit in check relative to the U.S. economy.
In his proposal expected Monday, the lower deficits also reflect the economy’s resurgence as the United States emerges from the pandemic. It’s a sign that the government’s balance sheet will improve after a historic burst of spending to combat the coronavirus.
The fading of the pandemic and the growth has enabled the deficit to fall from $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020 to $2.8 trillion last year and a projected $1.4 trillion this year. That deficit spending paid off in the form of the economy expanding at a 5.7% pace last year, the strongest growth since 1984.
For the Biden administration, the proposal for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 shows that the burst of spending helped to fuel growth and put government finances in a more stable place for years to come as a result. One White House official, insisting on anonymity because the budget has yet to be released, said the proposal shows that Democrats can deliver on what Republicans have promised before without much success: faster growth and falling deficits.
Yet the Biden budget would pledge to do so through a kind of wealth tax that many Republicans say would hurt the economy by diminishing private investment in companies that create jobs and cause the wealthy to put their fortunes to work abroad.
Biden inherited from the Trump administration a budget deficit that was equal in size to 14.9% of the entire U.S. economy. But the deficit starting in the upcoming budget year will be below 5% of the economy, putting the country on a more sustainable path, according to people familiar with the budget proposal who insisted on anonymity to discuss forthcoming details.
The lower deficit totals will also be easier to manage even if interest rates rise.
The expected deficit decrease for fiscal 2022 reflects the solid recovery in hiring that occurred in large part because of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The added jobs mean additional tax revenue, with the government likely collecting $300 billion more in revenues compared to fiscal 2021, a 10% increase.
Still, the country will face several uncertainties that could reshape Biden’s proposed budget, which will have figures that don’t include the spending omnibus recently signed into law. Biden and U.S. allies are also providing aid to Ukrainians who are fighting against Russian forces, a war that could possibly reshape spending priorities and the broader economic outlook.
Inflation, crime, open borders, record gas prices, and world war are not enough? Biden has to add more taxes to the misery that he has unleashed on the American public. That sounds like a winning agenda for the Dems. Keep up the good work bungling Joe! The mid-term elections are just around the corner. And when the republicans control the House and Senate, Joe can blame his failures from that point onward on the republicans. His only hope to now avoid going down as the worst President in history.
More BS:
Criminal Donald handed a total disaster off to President Biden including an economic crisis and COVID disaster. President Biden has created the best economy on record and the most jobs of any President in history with 7.4 million. And now the pandemic is under control for a second time. Crime, inflation, and gas prices all started under Criminal Donald. Those are the facts. And once again, you have zero sources for your propaganda.
We had record crime and homicide under Criminal Donald.
Provisional data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, released early Wednesday, suggest the homicide rate for the United States rose 30% between 2019 and 2020. It is the highest increase recorded in modern history.
Researchers noted that provisional data on gun-related deaths also increased last year, climbing from a rate of 11.9 firearm deaths per 100,000 in 2019 to 13.6 per 100,000 in 2020 -- a 14% increase.
The FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Report for 2020, showing that the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since it began tracking these crimes in the 1960s.
Inflation started in 2020 under Criminal Donald.
More Groceries, Less Gas: The Pandemic Is Shaking Up The Cost Of Living
September 11, 2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/11/911880715/more-groceries-less-gas-the-pandemic-is-shaking-up-the-cost-of-living
Oil companies are setting gas prices high for profit.
Excluaive: oil companies’ profits soared to $174bn this year as US gas prices rose
Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP among group of 24 who resisted calls to increase production but doled out shareholder dividends[/i]
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/06/oil-companies-profits-exxon-chevron-shell-exclusive
Biden is doing what Americans demand by taxing billionaires. The overwhelming majority of Americans support taxing billionaires and corporations who pay nothing while Rick Scott's tax America plan will soak working Americans and seniors while ending social security and Medicare. The GOP will get wiped out in November.
Poll: Two-thirds of voters say billionaires should pay a wealth tax
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/484771-poll-67-of-voters-believe-billionaires-should-pay-wealth-tax
GOP's new plan: Raise taxes on working people, end Social Security and Medicare
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/14/gops-new-plan-raise-on-working-people-end-social-security-and-medicare_partner/
Criminal Donald is already the worst "President" ever.
Trump Ranks Among The Worst Presidents In History, According To Survey
That is music to republican ears! A sure strategy to lose by an historic margin in the midterms. Blaming all the ongoing disasters of Biden's administration on Trump. Two years into his term Biden is going to say he failed and it was all somehow Trump's fault? And then raise their taxes. What an inspirational message to voters! The red tsunami has formed and will coming crashing down on the Dems in November. That's the best thing that can happen to Old Joe as he can then use the Obama excuse to blame everything on the republicans. This is the same guy who promised during the campaign that his experience in Congress would allow him to work across the aisle. But when he gets into office he suddenly can't to do it. That's the classic political bait and switch that led to Trump's election in 2016. The American public is fed up with the political establishment lying to them and failing to deliver. If you were truly interested in defeating Trump in 2024, it would not be through phony conspiracy theories and politically driven investigations to "lock him up" but through actual results that benefit Americans. Unfortunately, that is not something Biden can deliver. He is prototype swamp creature. Promise the moon, fail to deliver, then blame someone else. Stay in power so that your family acquires incredible wealth.
This is a landmark proposal from President Biden, a minimum tax that also applies to unrealized gains—as a prepayment against future capital gains. This should get serious consideration as a fair and efficient way to raise significant revenue.
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President Biden to unveil new minimum tax on billionaires in budget
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/03/26/billionaire-tax-budget-biden/
Biden budget seeks minimum tax on households worth $100m
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden intends to propose a minimum tax of 20% on households worth more than $100 million and cut projected budget deficits by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, according to a fact sheets released Saturday by the White House budget office.
The introduction of the minimum tax on the wealthiest Americans would represent a significant reorienting of the tax code. It would apply to the top 0.01% of households with half of the expected revenue coming from households worth $1 billion or more. The minimum tax would effectively prevent the wealthiest sliver of America from paying lower rates than families who think of themselves as middle class, while helping to generate revenues to fuel Biden’s domestic ambitions and keep the deficit in check relative to the U.S. economy.
In his proposal expected Monday, the lower deficits also reflect the economy’s resurgence as the United States emerges from the pandemic. It’s a sign that the government’s balance sheet will improve after a historic burst of spending to combat the coronavirus.
The fading of the pandemic and the growth has enabled the deficit to fall from $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020 to $2.8 trillion last year and a projected $1.4 trillion this year. That deficit spending paid off in the form of the economy expanding at a 5.7% pace last year, the strongest growth since 1984.
For the Biden administration, the proposal for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 shows that the burst of spending helped to fuel growth and put government finances in a more stable place for years to come as a result. One White House official, insisting on anonymity because the budget has yet to be released, said the proposal shows that Democrats can deliver on what Republicans have promised before without much success: faster growth and falling deficits.
Yet the Biden budget would pledge to do so through a kind of wealth tax that many Republicans say would hurt the economy by diminishing private investment in companies that create jobs and cause the wealthy to put their fortunes to work abroad.
Biden inherited from the Trump administration a budget deficit that was equal in size to 14.9% of the entire U.S. economy. But the deficit starting in the upcoming budget year will be below 5% of the economy, putting the country on a more sustainable path, according to people familiar with the budget proposal who insisted on anonymity to discuss forthcoming details.
The lower deficit totals will also be easier to manage even if interest rates rise.
The expected deficit decrease for fiscal 2022 reflects the solid recovery in hiring that occurred in large part because of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The added jobs mean additional tax revenue, with the government likely collecting $300 billion more in revenues compared to fiscal 2021, a 10% increase.
Still, the country will face several uncertainties that could reshape Biden’s proposed budget, which will have figures that don’t include the spending omnibus recently signed into law. Biden and U.S. allies are also providing aid to Ukrainians who are fighting against Russian forces, a war that could possibly reshape spending priorities and the broader economic outlook.
The rats are jumping ship before the mid term disaster and indictments begin. The cratering poll numbers will soon lead to more resignations. And more confirmation of media bias. MSNBC - LOL?
White House press secretary Jen Psaki will leave for an on-air role at MSNBC
More nonsense.
The only indictments that will be coming is from the previous criminal regime.
Jen made perfectly clear when she took the job as Press Secretary that she would only stay on until the end of December 2021 because she has 2 small children. She stayed on 4 months longer. Criminal Donald went through 4-5 press secretaries in 4 years. And CBS and CNN hired right wing Trump hacks.
With record job creation and a booming economy, nobody will be voting for a Republican especially when they voted against their own diabetic voters to cap insulin prices at $35. Republicans do not care.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says she'll resign next year when it's 'time for somebody else to have this job'
Psaki says she accepted the job after agreeing with the transition team to serve for about a year.
May 7, 2021
https://www.businessinsider.com/jen-psaki-step-down-as-biden-press-secretary-next-year-2021-5
92% of House Republicans voted AGAINST lowering the cost of insulin.
193 House Republicans vote to keep insulin prices high
Only 12 Republicans in the House of Representatives joined all Democrats to vote for the Affordable Insulin Now Act.
Nearly all House Republicans on Thursday night voted against a bill that would dramatically lower the cost of insulin, the life-saving diabetes drug that has skyrocketed in price in recent years.
The House passed the Affordable Insulin Now Act by a vote of 232-193, with every Democrat and just 12 Republicans voting for the bill. If enacted, the bill would cap the price for a month supply of the drug at $35, or 25% of the negotiated insurance price.
According to the website GoodRx Health, the average price for insulin spiked by 54% between 2014 and 2019, an increase that's led to insulin rationing, a dangerous and sometimes deadly tactic in which diabetics use less insulin than needed in order to avoid depleting their supply of the expensive drug.
"Insulin prices are outrageous! Diabetics, like me, pay almost $100 for a unit that costs $12 in Canada. It causes some to ration or skip days to survive," Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) tweeted. "Today, I voted for a bill to cap insulin prices at $35 per month. No one should have to choose between food or medicine!"
Republicans condemned the bill as government interference in health care.
"Today it's the government fixing the price of insulin. What's next?" Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said during debate on the bill. "Gas? Food? History tells us that price-fixing doesn't work."
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), while calling the legislation "another big government bill that claims to serve the American people by subverting basic economic theory with the proposed codification of government price controls," blamed the rising cost of insulin on increased demand due to Americans getting fatter.
"The number of diabetes cases in the U.S. has nearly doubled. The demand for insulin has increased and the requisite price increase has followed suit. In other words, the price of insulin increases as waistlines increase," Gaetz tweeted.
However, polling finds that voters support capping the cost of the drug.
A Data for Progress survey in November 2021 found that 87% support capping the cost of insulin at $35 per month.
Provisions that would have lowered prescription drug prices were included in President Joe Biden's Build Back Better framework, which stalled in the Senate.
It's unclear whether the standalone insulin bill can pass in the Senate.
Democrats would need to convince 10 Republicans to allow the bill to come up for a vote to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to stop a filibuster of it.
https://americanindependent.com/affordable-insulin-now-act-build-back-better-republicans-democrats-house-representatives-prices/
Great news. Biden is finally implementing Trump's initiative after delaying it for years.
"The Trump administration finalized a rule in 2020 requiring federally qualified health centers to provide insulin at discounted prices, but the Biden administration has not implemented the rule. Former President Donald Trump also worked with drug manufacturers and insurance companies to allow Medicare enrollees to sign up for prescription plans offering insulin at $35 a month."
The taxpayers will be saved a bundle when Hunter goes to the slammer:
"Secret Service is renting $30,000-a-month Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden, ABC News reports"
Criminal Donald wasted 1.7 million on his criminal kids and staff affer he lost the election.
Post-White House Secret Service for Trump's Adult Children and Staff Cost $1.7M
Spending records reviewed by The Washington Post show U.S. taxpayers spent more than $52,000 to guard Steven Mnuchin, a multimillionaire and former investment banker, during a June trip to the Middle East
The six months of extra Secret Service protection approved by outgoing President Donald Trump for his four adult children and other staffers before leaving office cost taxpayers $1.7 million, according to spending documents analyzed by The Washington Post.
PEOPLE confirmed in January that Trump had extended the protection for his kids for six months when he left Washington, D.C., with a Secret Service source saying that the former president, 74, issued the last-minute extension as a "transition period" for Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump (and her husband, Jared Kushner), Eric Trump (and his wife Lara Trump) and Tiffany Trump.
The source added that some other non-Trump family members were also given an extended period of security but could not provide names.
The Post reported that former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien were among those granted extended protection.
On Friday, the Post reported the high cost of that extra protection, including that that the U.S. government paid up to $3,000 each for plane tickets and $11,000 for rooms at the St. Regis Doha during a trip Mnuchin took to the Middle East in June.
"In all, the records show U.S. taxpayers spent more than $52,000 to guard a multimillionaire on a business trip," the paper reported.
Mnuchin, 58, was previously an investment banker and film producer prior to joining the Trump cabinet as secretary of the Treasury.
A spokesperson for Mnuchin told the paper that he did not ask Trump to provide the extra Secret Service protection but also did not turn it down on the advice of "government officials." The spokesperson added that Mnuchin intends to reimburse some of the costs but did not elaborate further.
As the Post notes, the Secret Service's $2.4 billion budget is more than enough to cover the unusual request for extra coverage. The protection is still notable, however, as it extends to adults (like Trump's elder sons) who had no official role in government and seemingly have enough wealth to pay for their own security as private citizens.
https://people.com/politics/post-presidency-secret-service-for-trump-children-and-staff-cost-more-than-1-million/
The noose continues to tighten on Biden, Inc. CBS News (a bastion of leftist ideology) is reporting that there were a shocking 150 suspect transactions to the accounts of Hunter and James Biden. Including millions from Commie China! Wow. Hunter might actually get a lengthy prison sentence. I thought the corrupt DOJ would cut a deal in which Hunter pleads to a few crimes and does no jail time. But he is going to the slammer. James Biden as well. And it is hard to understand how Old Joe avoids impeachment since he is in this up to his neck. I would expect the impeachment to begin after the mid-term elections. This makes Watergate look like child's play.
"Biden, a veteran of a more bipartisan Senate, said from the beginning that he wanted support from both parties for his history-making nominee, and he invited Republicans to the White House as he made his decision."
'He kept a promise’: How Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation boosts Biden’s legacy
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WASHINGTON - White House allies say they’re confident Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court will shape President Joe Biden’s legacy long after he leaves office — even if the appointment does not offer Democrats a political boost in time for November’s midterm elections. For a president besieged by surprise crises from new coronavirus variants to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the unexpected opening on the Supreme Court allowed Biden to reassert control over his own presidency and fulfill a promise of special importance to his most loyal base of supporters. Prominent Biden allies say that putting the first Black woman on the Supreme Court will play a consequential role in how future generations of Americans view his tenure, particularly if Jackson continues to serve on the high court for decades after he exits politics.
“I hope it is viewed as a positive turning point,” said Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat and close ally of Biden’s. “I hope that the public now appreciates the significance of the confirmation of Justice Jackson. But I am confident that the public in the future will realize the significance of this moment.” Jackson’s confirmation comes at a critical moment in Biden’s presidency, with his presidential approval rating near a personal all-time low and federal elections just months away. Since the fall of last year, Biden has struggled to control surging inflation, a persistent pandemic and members of his own political party, who have stalled part of his legislative agenda. Those setbacks have prevented the president from restoring the sense of normalcy he promised the country during his campaign and enacting the sweeping societal changes he envisioned.
But Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement this winter presented a constructive opportunity, allies say, one in which the president had considerably more influence than other issues plaguing the White House. That Jackson’s nomination was never in serious doubt and eventually won the support of three Republican senators reinforced the perception that the former Judiciary Committee chairman handled the process capably. “Unfortunately he cannot, by himself, control the coronavirus,” said former Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, who served with Biden in the Senate for a dozen years. “Or dictate all the details of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.” “A human being can be only held accountable for what they have the ability to control,” she continued. “And he himself, one man, he himself can personally determine who his nominee is going to be. He made a promise, and he kept a promise.”
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said that he expects Biden, who pledged publicly to appoint a Black woman at a South Carolina presidential primary debate, to build upon the success of Jackson’s confirmation. “I think he’s going to keep plugging along, keep doing the things he promised to, keep doing the things that need to get done. And I think that at some point in the not too distant future people will see what that’s all about, and I think he’ll be rewarded successfully,” Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, said in an interview.
HISTORIC SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Supreme Court appointments have always been among the most meaningful areas of a president’s legacy. Dwight Eisenhower’s selection, for instance, of former Chief Justice Earl Warren left an enduring mark on the country’s legal system, expanding civil rights and ending school segregation. Jackson’s nomination in particular could influence views of Biden’s legacy, presidential historians say, because of the historic nature of the pick.
“Anytime racial, gender or ethnic barriers are broken on the court, it’s a milestone in history,” said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian from Princeton University. “And that’s part of what the president has done.” Zelizer cautioned that Biden wasn’t able to change the court’s ideological makeup in the way former President Donald Trump did with his appointment of three Supreme Court justices, potentially tempering the appointment’s impact. Jackson will replace Breyer, who regularly sided with liberals during his tenure, maintaining conservatives’ 6-3 edge on the court. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that in spite of the international turmoil and domestic challenges the president is facing, his administration intends to celebrate Jackson’s confirmation and it expects many Americans to do the same. “I can’t make a prediction on what that will mean for polls, and it’s really not about that for us,” she added.
BIDEN’S LEGISLATIVE HEADWINDS
Biden had some help this week from Barack Obama, who he had lunch with Tuesday at the White House prior to an East Room event celebrating the former president’s signature legislative achievement.
Obama reflected on his dedication to getting the Affordable Care Act passed into law, despite worries it might cost him reelection. He told assembled Democratic lawmakers and Biden administration officials that sometimes “progress feels way too slow” and “victories are often incomplete,” but the episode is evidence of what is possible for elected officials who follow their convictions in the face of obstacles and criticism.
“President Joe Biden understands that. He has dedicated his life to the proposition that there’s something worthy about public service and that the reason to run for office is for days like today,” Obama said.
Psaki insisted that Obama’s message was not about the midterms but acknowledged it “sounds pretty similar to what we’re working on today” as she noted that the former president also talked about overcoming skepticism, Republican dissenters and division within his own political party.
In an interview, Clyburn, who attended the Obama event, compared Biden to former President Harry Truman during his first term, pointing out that Truman’s presidential approval rating plummeted after he integrated the armed services.
“Now people look back and talk about him being in the top 10,” Clyburn said of Truman, who won election to a second term. “So, Joe Biden is doing what he needs to do for the country. And let the polling and the headline seekers do what they want to do.”
Coons said that when the chapter is written about this period in Biden’s presidency, it would reflect that the “president managed to nominate the right person, we got through the hearings, and we got her confirmed in the middle of war breaking out in Europe.”
Jackson was, according to polls, one of the most popular Supreme Court nominees in recent times. A Gallup survey released in March found that 58% of Americans supported her confirmation, higher than all but one former nominee (current Chief Justice John Roberts) in the last 30 years. Just 30% of adults opposed her confirmation.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article260205140.html
A "noose" is depicting a violent act, especially when insurrectionists installed on on Jan 6th. Reported for forum violation.
So desperate to push phony right wing conspiracies. Whenever damaging news comes out against Donald Trump, the right pushes Hunter Biden conspiracies as deflection and projection. The fact is Donald Trump is on his way to prison.
Manhattan DA says Trump criminal investigation continues
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/07/manhattan-da-says-trump-criminal-investigation-continues-.html
Biden has held events this week that have infected the speaker of the house, Attorney General, and Commerce Secretary with the virus. He was hugging Nancy Pelosi who has tested positive this week. And now he's working on the Supreme Court for a photo op? Imagine the media outcry if half the leadership of the Trump administration had the virus and they were still meeting and hugging each other without any masks? Unreal.
LOL. A noose is not depicting a violent act. It is a metaphor for legal authorities closing in on Hunter. Get a grip. This is particularly rich coming from the same person who celebrated the virus-related deaths of unvaccinated people and called them "morons." Sick.
Says the anti mask and vaxx guy. You sure are desperate to post b.s. as Biden continues winning.
More propaganda here. Trump was a Superspreader and killed his own supporters.
Trump's White House event in focus over Covid spread
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54401186
Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/31/coronavirus-trump-campaign-rallies-led-to-30000-cases-stanford-researchers-say.html
No, you depicted violence and you've been reported and the authorities might be interested in your violent post against Biden.
From the Merriman-Webster dictionary:
tighten the noose
: to make a situation more difficult for someone
Now retract your threats and slander or be sued.
The noose is getting tighter and tighter around Hunter's neck. The media is trying to sacrifice him to save Old Joe. Old Joe is up to his neck in Biden, Inc. along with his brother and Hunter. DOJ will want to bring the hammer down well before the mid-term elections to avoid any implication that they are influencing the republican landslide in November.
Republicans are on a roll voting against Americans.
On Wednesday, Republicans in the House voted not to fund money to supply baby formula to babies that need it. House Republicans also voted against fighting domestic terrorism.
On Thursday the Republicans in the Senate killed the Restaurant Revitalization Fund which helps small businesses all across America that were affected by the pandemic.
And for good measure, also on Thursday, House Republicans voted against the gas price-gouging bill which would prevent oil companies from gouging consumers at the pump. 4 disgraceful Democrats voted against this bill too. President Biden has been asking Congress to pass this bill so we can have affordable gas prices again.
So, for two weeks we saw Republicans feigning outrage over the baby formula shortage trying to attack President Biden which he had no control over. Then when the bill was brought to the House floor to fund baby formula, Republicans voted against it.
Then we see these same right wing Republicans on Twitter and tv screaming about high gas prices as they falsley blame President Biden for it. And once again, when the bill comes to the House floor to stop these big oil companies from gouging consumers at the pump, the Republicans all vote against it.
Do you see a pattern here? Republicans couldn't care less about high gas prices or that there was a baby formula shortage. They just want to grandstand infront of the cameras and go on Twitter to attack President Biden hoping to lower his popularity. It's all GOP political theatre. They scream and yell for show, and when it comes time to vote, they all vote against what they were screaming for.
The simple fact is, Republicans want gas prices to remain high so they can keep attacking President Biden for it. That's their main talking point. If this bill passes the Senate, then gas prices would quickly fall because oil companies won't be able to artificially keep gas prices high. And when that happens, the GOP will lose their talking point. Also, corrupt Republicans and a few corrupt Democrats take money from Big Oil Companies so there is no way they would vote against their cash cow because they would lose their campaign money Big Oil gives them. So, Republicans voted no to keep gas prices high and Senate Republicans will do the same because they don't care about you.
Once again, it's the Democrats working hard for Americans voting to lower gas prices and to make people's lives more affordable.
House Dems pass gas price-gouging bill
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The House's Democratic majority overcame some internal opposition to pass legislation on Thursday addressing high gas prices by cracking down on high price gouging from oil companies.
The bill was approved along party lines in a vote of 217-207. Four Democrats -- Texas' Lizzie Fletcher, Jared Golden of Maine, Stephanie Murphy of Florida and Kathleen Rice of New York -- joined all Republicans in the chamber in voting against the legislation.
The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, introduced by Reps. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., and Katie Porter, D-Calif., would give the president the authority to issue an energy emergency proclamation that would make it unlawful for companies to increase fuel prices to "unconscionably excessive" levels.
It would also expand the powers of the Federal Trade Commission to investigate alleged price gouging in the industry and would direct any penalties toward funding weatherization and low-income energy assistance.
"The problem is Big Oil is keeping supply artificially low so prices and profits stay high. Now I think that when the market is broken, that's when Congress has to step in to protect American consumers," Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a hearing on Monday. "And that's what this bill does: It empowers the FTC to go after the gougers and empowers the agency to effectively monitor and report on market manipulation."
Oil executives previously testified before Congress to address concerns about their prices but insisted it was the result of larger forces, including supply and demand.
"If you don't support legislation to stop price gouging, you are for price gouging," Speaker Nancy Pelosi told members during a whip meeting on Wednesday.
Though the legislation passed in the House, it faces a tough climb in the Senate. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., promised to bring the bill to the floor -- though it has no pathway to passage without GOP support.
Lawmakers had discussed introducing other legislation to lower gas prices such as measures codifying a federal gas tax holiday. That proposal didn't gain traction among Democratic leaders, like Pelosi, who argued consumers wouldn't benefit.
"I think we need to start with something like this bill and see what we can do," Rep. Porter told ABC News. "I think it is better to invest in those [gas tax holidays] through something like the infrastructure bill, which I supported."
AFP
Do you see a pattern here? Republicans couldn't care less about high gas prices or that there was a baby formula shortage. They just want to grandstand in front of the cameras and go on Twitter to attack President Biden hoping to lower his popularity. It's all GOP political theatre.
Great news from Georgia last month. The Trump endorsed candidates for Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General, all lost in the Republican primary. Georgia, at least, will not, in 2022, automatically select Trump as the winner of the 2024 Presidential election. Still, the fight continues in other states. But the results in Georgia are a big relief. If Trump can’t ‘fix’ the election in Georgia, to automatically give him a good result in 2024, where can he succeed?
The Roe backlash is real. And, as they say, it is spectacular
People are enraged about the Supreme Court unceremoniously overturning Roe. Now we’re seeing just how angry they are.
Organizers behind Michigan’s Reproductive Freedom for All proposal report that they’ve already collected over 800,000 signatures, nearly double the 425,059 needed by July 15 to get the measure on the ballot – a Michigan record for a ballot initiative.
If approved, this proposal would amend that state’s Constitution to sup1931 law that banned abortion until Roe came along.
And more importantly, it would send a message to the enemies of reproductive rights everywhere – be afraid. Right now, you’re looking upon your works. You should despair.
A ten-year-old rape victim forced to flee her home. Doctors fearing prison if they decide to save a patient from an ectopic pregnancy. Red state politicians salivating at being able to hunt anyone seeking an abortion by preventing them from crossing state lines.
For now, you’re getting exactly what you wanted.
But voters won’t rest until the rights Roe guaranteed are restored.
The popularity of this measure also confirms something that should be obvious to anyone who pays attention to politics – Michigan is the model for resisting autocracy.
You may say that I’m a little too proud of my adopted home state. You might also say I’m overcompensating for the shame of my state of having helped elect Donald Trump in 2016.
You would be right. But so am I.
Like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Michigan responded to the realization that they’d put a Putinist in the White House by electing Democrats to key statewide offices, including governor, in 2018.
But the Mitten took the extra step of passing two ballot measures that helped undo some of the damage done to voting rights.
Proposal 2 gave the state one of the best approaches to ending gerrymandering in the nation. Proposal 3 expanded ballot access dramatically by, among many other things, giving every Michigander the option to vote by mail.
Both proposals passed with more than 61 percent support. Both were more popular than the measure legalizing weed, which also passed.
Making it easier to vote helped Michigan reject Trump in 2020 by 146,000 votes, more than 10-times his margin of victory in 2016.
Thanks to our new fair maps, Democrats have a chance to win back the state Senate for the first time since 1984 along with the state House, which has been in GOP hands most of the last decade.
This would not only give Governor Gretchen Whitmer a chance to actually govern in 2023, it would prevent what is shaping up as the GOP’s plan to steal key swing states in 2024 by using gerrymandered legislatures to overrule voters.
Increased voting rights and fair maps are the simplest way to fight back at the attrition of democracy that made Trump possible. And to be fair, I have to note that Michigan has a huge advantage in achieving these goals over many states, including our fellow bricks in the Blue Wall – Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Pennsylvanians need the state legislature to approve a measure before it can go on their ballot. And the GOP-controlled, gerrymandered-for-their-pleasure state House in the Keystone State will never do anything like that to risk their power or ability to help elect Trump or a Trump impersonator.
In Wisconsin, you need the measure to pass two consecutive legislatures to pass a ballot measure that would modify the state Constitution. Something that will never happen because the state is, at this point, barely a democracy.
But Michigan’s unique ability to fight for democracy makes it more important to the rest of the nation, not less.
If Michigan’s Reproductive Freedom for All passes in the nation’s third most important swing state with nearly two-thirds of voters supporting it, as I imagine it will, this will send a message to the rest of the nation.
That message will be loud and it will resonate much in the same way that Mallory McMorrow’s righteous speech calling out Republican BS did. And hopefully it will embolden weak-kneed Democrats to stand up on an issue where voters overwhelmingly and clearly oppose Republican BS.
It will say, we’re sick of your garbage and we’re not going to take it anymore. Yes, this isn’t enough, given the depths and depravity of the threats to our rights and democracy we face.
But it’s definitely a start.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/roe-backlash-real-and-spectacular/
Each of these Republicans gave tax cuts to the ultra wealthy resulting in record deficits. The GOP tax scams exploded the debt and put us into an economic crisis in 2008 under Bush and 2020 with Trump. Now, the GOP wants to get back into power to give more tax cuts to the ultra wealthy as they are talking about eliminating Social Security and Medicare.
Each Democrat decreased Republican deficit and fixed Republican economic disasters.
The Bush Tax Cuts Are the Disaster that Keeps on Giving
6/7/11
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-bush-tax-cuts-are-the-disaster-that-keeps-on-giving/
How Trump’s tax cuts and tariffs will make coronavirus recession worse
5/19/20
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-05-19/trumps-tax-cuts-trade-wars-economy-coronavirus-recession
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A lengthy report written by well-known conservatives debunks Trump's false election claims.
Former federal judge Michael Luttig, a Jan. 6 hearing witness, contributes to the report.
Trump's claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent are "wrong and bad for our country," the report says.
A 72-page report released on Thursday by a group of eight prominent conservatives challenged a slew of election fraud claims former President Donald Trump has made about the 2020 election results.
"Donald Trump and his supporters have failed to present evidence of fraud or inaccurate results significant enough to invalidate the results of the 2020 Presidential Election," the report says. "We do not claim that election administration is perfect. Election fraud is a real thing; there are prosecutions in almost every election year, and no doubt some election fraud goes undetected."
The report continues, "But there is absolutely no evidence of fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election on the magnitude necessary to shift the result in any state, let alone the nation as a whole. In fact, there was no fraud that changed the outcome in even a single precinct."
The report, titled "LOST, NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Election," includes the voices of lawyers, retired federal judges, and former senators who analyze the over 60 court cases Trump and his allies filed in the six battleground states he lost, costing him the election. The report was first reported on by CNN.
"It is wrong, and bad for our country, for people to propagate baseless claims that President Biden's election was not legitimate," the report says.
Among the conservatives who contributed to the report is Michael Luttig, a retired federal judge who testified before the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack on January 6 during its third public hearing. Luttig, along with several of the other authors of the report, expressed criticism of the former president on many occasions.
Other well-known contributors include former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri, lawyer Benjamin Ginsburg, Thomas Griffith, former federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, David Hoppe, chief of staff for former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Michael W. McConnell, former judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, former US solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, and former Sen. Gordon H. Smith of Oregon.
The report is broken down by state and analyzes cases in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Each case analysis includes an addendum showing the case filed, the claim that was made, and the ending result. Many of the cases listed in the report were dismissed on merit or dropped voluntarily by plaintiffs, Trump and his supporters, or by state judges. The writers of the report also looked at how missing mail-in ballot situations were handled by each county election office.
"Fraud, irregularities, and procedural deficiencies formed the basis for challenging the results in five of the six highly contested Electoral College battleground states," the report says. "Trump verbally attacked the elections as fraudulent, but his lawyers never filed such charges in court … We conclude that Donald Trump and his supporters had their day in court and failed to produce substantive evidence to make their case."
The report included a plea to other conservative Republicans to reconsider their priorities and change their tune on the election.
"We urge our fellow conservatives to cease obsessing over the results of the 2020 election, and to focus instead on presenting candidates and ideas that offer a positive vision for overcoming our current difficulties and bringing greater peace, prosperity, and liberty to our nation," the report says.
Read the original article on Insider
This is a great graph.
Donald Trump turned to social media to plead for donations to his political campaign as parts of Florida began rescue and recovery efforts following Hurricane Ian.
Speaking in a video on Wednesday from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, southern Florida, the former president pleaded for donations to his Save America PAC ahead of a fundraising deadline.
“We have a major fundraising deadline coming up and there’s never been a time like this,” said Mr Trump, who claimed America had “never been so disrespected” by the world.
“We have to change it, we have to bring our country back, we made America great and now never gonna have to make America great again so I say whatever you can do to help out, we have to meet the dealine”.
While he was speaking, residents of southern Florida were encountering unbelievable damage and unconfirmed death tolls after Ian came ashore on Wednesday as a near-Category 5 hurricane, with wind speeds of 155mph.
Mr Trump was widely condemned on social media for the appeal from Mar-a-Lago, which did not reportedly sustain any damage from Hurricane Ian.
“Hello. There’s a hurricane destroying your state. Perhaps, you could not beg for donations right now. What a classless, clueless, distasteful, self centered, tone deaf, absolute jerk!,” tweeted one Twitter user.
“The folks on my livestream yesterday raised more money for hurricane victims than this guy ever has.
Half his state is under water and he’s begging for you to cover his legal fees,” another added.
A third person wrote: “Right across the state, people are losing their homes, businesses, and possibly their lives — and this pathetic con man is out here panhandling.”
Cities including Fort Myers, about 112 miles west of Palm Beach, remain inundated in several feet of floodwater following a storm surge and a curfew is currently place to help emergency responders with the rescue effort.
Lee County’s sheriff meanwhile told new outlets that “thousands” of people were possibly missing and while unconfirmed, “hundreds” could be dead, with the recovery operation ongoing across southwest Florida.
Reports of flash flooding in Orlando on Thursday came as Ian headed towards the Atlantic and South Carolina, while the National Hurricane Center has warned of a 6ft high storm surge from Daytona Beach, Florida, to north of Charleston, South Carolina, the Associated Press reported.
US President Joe Biden has announced a major disaster declaration for the affected areas and Florida governor Ron DeSantis has warned of further damage from the “500 year flood event” as Ian passed through central and eastern Florida on Thursday with warnings of life threatening flooding and strong winds.
Facing multiple criminal investigations and lawsuits, Mr Trump was found to have raised as little as $40 in August while his personal wealth was last week estimated at $3.2bn – placing him once more on the Forbes top 400 rich list.
He said earlier this month that he was “financially” supporting some of those accused of rioting on the Capitol 6 January.
The Independent has approached his office for comment.
Ukraine Joe has hit historic lows in the polls not experienced even by Nixon during the height of Watergate or Carter during the Iran hostage crisis. Dems are in an absolute panic at the prospect of and elderly, unpopular individual with advanced dementia running again in 2024. With Kamala waiting in the wings to replace him. At least Fetterman has been released from the mental institution. He has spent two thirds of his tenure in the Senate under care for physical and mental issues. This is the same guy who lied about his condition to get elected. His family should be ashamed to have put him in that position. The Biden family should show some mercy for Old Joe and let him receive the care he needs.
So much propaganda. In reality, Ukraine Joe is hitting record low numbers:
"Biden's approval rating sunk from 45% to 38%, according to a March 23 Associated Press/NORC Center survey of more than 1,000 adults."
Even leftist publications see the writing on the wall:
Politico (April 15) headline:
Biden’s poll numbers look grim as he preps for reelection bid
Even leftist publications see the writing on the wall:
Politico (April 15) headline:
Biden’s poll numbers look grim as he preps for reelection bid
There are an amazing number of people whose sole political objective is to keep Trump from being elected. They have been programmed by the media and state sponsored propaganda to believe that the most important issue in the entire world is keeping Trump out of office at all costs. Why he is such a danger is left ambiguous. Keeping Trump from being elected is more important than world war, the economy, or any issue. It is the sole objective of these radicalized individuals. Their obsession and hatred of Trump runs so deep that it overrides even their own personal interests. It overrides the law. It overrides the Constitution. The ends justify any means. What is driving this obsessive hate fueled rage? After the election of Obama, many leftists felt that America had turned some type of socialist corner and the future would entail a litany of woke leaders. It would begin with Hillary - the first woman etc.
Trump sunk this utopian dream. Never in the wildest imagination of the elitist establishment could they imagine that someone outside their sphere of influence could ever be elected to the presidency. In their arrogance, they never considered the possibility that the American public could decide via a truly democratic process who would be elected. These experts were marginalized and exposed as frauds under Trump. He demanded results. He didn't buy that they were "experts" merely because they had managed to gain positions of influence to enrich themselves through corruption. These people, however, control important levers of power. They make the laws, decide who they enforce them against, they influence the mass media and social media, and set the narrative. These forces were deployed without limitation with the sole objective to vilify Trump. They have been relentless over the last six years. CNN and MSNBC run nothing but anti-Trump propaganda. Turn those networks on at any random point of the day and they will be running a Trump-related story or there will be a Trump-related story on within minutes. It goes on and on. Day after day. An asteroid could be heading to destroy Earth and CNN would be running a story about Trump. They have been successful in convincing anyone with an open mind that electing Trump would be the worst possible thing in history. Better to be penniless and die in WWIII than allow Trump to send out insensitive Tweets. He is not nice. Boo-hoo. That is the New America.
Facts:
The last 3 GOP Presidents saw recessions and higher deficits
The last 3 Dem Presidents saw growth and lower deficits
The deficit went up every year under Trump and down every year under Biden
Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump
March 2023 Jobs Report showed 236,000 net new jobs created. That brings us to:
33.8 million jobs = 16 years of Clinton, Obama
12.6 million jobs = 26 months of Biden
1.9 million jobs = 16 years of Bush, Bush, Trump
So, in 16 years 3 Republicans could not even create 2 million jobs. President Biden created the same number of Republican jobs in just a few months.
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Job creation per month under Biden running at 50 times the rate of the last 3 GOP Presidents.
Look at that R number - 10,000 jobs a month over 16 years. It's a stunning indictment of the modern GOP.
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Since 1989, and a new global economic age began, 48 million net new jobs have been created in America.
46 million - 96% - have been created under Democratic Presidents. Basically all of them.
So no, Republicans are not better at creating jobs or running the economy.
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One party - the Democrats - has reduced the annual deficit while in the White House. While the other - the Republicans - have not since the debt repeatedly goes up on their watch.
Clinton got us to surplus. Trump had one of the worst fiscal track records of any President in our history.
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The unemployment rate continues to hover at its lowest level in a peacetime American economy since WWII. It's really incredible what President Biden has done for our country.
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Our recovery from COVID has been the best of any advanced economy.
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During the Biden Presidency America has seen:
- the lowest poverty rate ever recorded
- the lowest uninsured rate ever recorded
- the lowest peacetime unemployment rate since WWII
No other President has had this success!
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The American economy has added 12.6 million jobs since President Biden took office. The unemployment rate has dropped to 3.5% a near a 50-year low.
THE STRONGEST JOBS COMEBACK IN HISTORY
Here is another look at failed Republican job creation as Donald Trump was credited as the WORST jobs "president" in the modern era with negative job creation and the worst besides Herbert Hoover. Massive job loss under Trump.
Both Bushes were terrible at job creation as well.
As you can see, the Democrats are the only party that creates jobs and has to fix the Republican economic disasters they inherit.
There is no comparison here folks, Democrats are better at running the economy and job creation.
President Biden continues to have historic job creation with nearly 13 million jobs.
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The bottom has completely dropped out on Ukraine Joe. An all-time low polll number this week following his announcement to run in 2024. He trails Trump. The majority of those polled don't believe he has the mentally competency to be president. Absolutely brutal. And just wait until Hunter is indicted this week.
"President Joe Biden’s approval slid to a career low in the latest opinion poll for ABC News and the Washington Post that also showed the US leader lagging predecessor Donald Trump in early voter preferences for the 2024 election.
The percentage of those approving of Biden’s performance fell to 36%, six points lower than in February and a point off his previous low in early 2022, according to the survey conducted for the news organizations by Langer Research Associates. Some 56% disapproved of his performance, while 68% regarded Biden, at 80, as too old for another term.
When asked who they’d support in 2024, 44% said they would “definitely” or “probably” vote for Trump, more than the 38% who said they’d do the same for Biden.
The Republican party favorite pollster Rasmussen poll has President Biden at 48% approval rating. While Criminal Donald is on his way to prison for multiple felonies. And it doesn't matter what Biden's poll numbers are. When Biden is up against a right wing extremist he will easily win as all polls indicate.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/prez_track_may05
Since President Biden took office, small businesses have created 3.1 million jobs – a near record level.
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FACT SHEET: The Small Business Boom Under the Biden-Harris Administration
Through the American Rescue Plan and the equitable implementation of emergency relief programs, President Biden and Vice President Harris fostered the strongest recovery for Main Street on record. In 2021, Americans applied to start 5.4 million new businesses—more than 20 percent higher than any previous year on record.
The boom in new business creation has been particularly strong for entrepreneurs of color. In 2021, Hispanic Americans started new businesses at the fastest rate in more than a decade and 23 percent faster than pre-pandemic levels.
And, in the three-quarters of 2021, small businesses with fewer than 50 employees created 1.9 million jobs, the fastest start to small business job growth in any year on record.
This new White House report details the historic recovery for America’s small businesses and demonstrates how the Biden-Harris agenda laid the foundation for this small business boom. By focusing on combatting the pandemic, providing Americans with greater financial security, and delivering more than $450 billion in emergency relief to small businesses, the Biden-Harris Administration has helped create the conditions for unprecedented business and job creation.
The Biden-Harris strategy to rescue and revitalize Main Street contrasts sharply with the latest tax plan from Republicans in Congress. The Congressional Republican proposal put forward by Senator Rick Scott to impose a minimum tax on middle-class families would increase taxes on small businesses across the country. In addition to detailing the historic economic progress the Biden-Harris Administration has made to date, the Appendix includes a new state-by-state analysis of the Congressional Republican tax plan. The analysis finds that this tax plan would raise taxes on nearly half of small business owners (6.1 million people), including 82 percent of small business owners making less than $50,000 per year. Under the Congressional Republicans’ plan, the typical small business owner would see their taxes increased by almost $1,200.
President Biden rejects Congressional Republicans’ plan to increase taxes on half of small business owners. His four-pillar economic strategy for small businesses will lower costs and level the playing field for families and small businesses. The plan is focused on:
1. Expanding access to capital,
2. Making historic investments in helping small businesses navigate available resources,
3. Leveraging federal spending to support small businesses, and
4. Leveling the playing field for small business owners by reforming the tax code.
Read the full report here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/President-Biden-Small-Biz-Boom-full-report-2022.04.28.pdf
More outrageous falsehoods. The leftists shut the country down. They destroyed the economy. Allowing people to return to work is not "creating jobs". That is Alice-in-Wonderland nonsense. It is just lifting the police state lockdown. Ukraine Joe has created not a single job. In fact, he has destroyed the US energy sector. They only industry that has prospered are the military contractors who make bombs and ammo for Ukraine. Hundreds of billions have been spent already with no end in sight. And no plan for ending it.
Millions of illegal aliens have already crossed the open border under Ukraine Joe's clown show. Bringing a flood of drugs that has resulted in more deaths in one year than toatl American deaths in the entire Vietnam war. Imagine that. There were years of protests about Vietnam that split the country, but only a fraction died there in comparison to what is happening EACH year now with the border. And untold thousands are posed to cross the border this week when Title 42 expires. A mass migration not seen in human history. And what is the Biden plan? Nothing. They sent a few soldiers down to act as tour guides to house, feed, and transport the untold thousands expected to cross the border. Where is the border Czar Kamala? No one knows.
Tens of thousands are posed to start crossing the open border today. A situation that Old Joe described as "chaos." What is his plan? There is none. Where is the border Czar Kamala? No one has a clue. She is MIA.
The leftists are howling for censorship after Trump's magnificent performance on CNN. They realize that Trump is a force of nature. The only way to stop his campaign is to engage in Russian-like state control of the media. They are panicking with fear after the recent poll numbers. Complete shock that the deep state has had no impact on him. He is surging. Old Joe has gone into hiding. His only strategy for winning an election. Hide to avoid questions. Allow the media and deep state to make his case. Hope the new voting laws allow ballot harvesting to overcome the most popular president in US history.
The situation at the border is now completely out of control. What is the plan of the border Czar Kamala? Her only comment is that it is up to Congress to solve! HA HA HA. What a plan. I guess she can call it good and go to lunch or whatever she does each day waiting for the call that she has become President. The human tragedy under Old Joe is unreal. The US government under his administration has become the greatest trafficker of drugs and people in human history. And 100K American deaths in just one year from the drugs crossing the border. Roughly twice the number of American deaths from the ENTIRE Vietnam war. And, unlike COVID, most of these deaths are among young people. Nothing to see there though. Old Joe is taking a nap.
The flood of illegal immigrants has increased with the surge today. As with Ukraine, there is no plan from the Biden clown show. It will just go on and on causing endless harm for generations to come. Human trafficking, drugs, unknown individuals including many violent criminals are crossing without any measures being taken.
The situation at the border is now completely out of control. What is the plan of the border Czar Kamala? Her only comment is that it is up to Congress to solve! HA HA HA. What a plan. I guess she can call it good and go to lunch or whatever she does each day waiting for the call that she has become President. The human tragedy under Old Joe is unreal. The US government under his administration has become the greatest trafficker of drugs and people in human history. And 100K American deaths in just one year from the drugs crossing the border. Roughly twice the number of American deaths from the ENTIRE Vietnam war. And, unlike COVID, most of these deaths are among young people. Nothing to see there though. Old Joe is taking a nap.
RFK visited the border to expose one of the many disasters unfolding under Ukraine Joe. If RFK plans to make a personal appearance in every location that Old Joe and his clown show have brought to ruin in the US, he will wrack up a lot of frequent flyer miles. The country is in complete ruin. Nothing like it since the Great Depression. And it is all self-inflicted by incompetence and lunacy.
RICO, Foreign agent registration act violations, corruption, bribery and treason were all just confirmed by the IRS whistleblower evidence.
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Hunter Biden wrote Zhao, the director of Harvest Fund Management, according to Shapley.
“Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” the now-53-year-old went on. “And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”
This reads exactly like a mafia-type shakedown from the Godfather. Dirty Hunter is making China an offer they can't refuse backed by his Dad's political influence in return for money. This alone violates several federal laws. It's incredible that the IRS and FBI have had such evidence for years and nothing has been done. Imagine if this were Trump and his family?
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Hunter Biden wrote Zhao, the director of Harvest Fund Management, according to Shapley.
“Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” the now-53-year-old went on. “And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”
Every day brings fantastic new polling numbers for Trump and disastrous numbers for Ukraine Joe. The latest numbers have Trump 30 point or more ahead of a strong GOP field. Meanwhile two-thirds of the country including most Dems believe the country is on the wrong path under Old Joe. Worse numbers than Nixon during Watergate or Jimmy Carter at the height of his incompetent presidency. This is the same guy who received the MOST votes in the history of US elections under the new rigged system. But now it is impossible to find a single person who actually supports Ukraine Joe. There are only people who hate Trump and believe Shuffling Joe is only person who can win an election with their clown show candidates.
disastrous numbers for Ukraine Joe.
But now it is impossible to find a single person who actually supports Ukraine Joe.
disastrous numbers for Ukraine Joe.
But now it is impossible to find a single person who actually supports Ukraine Joe.
There is evidence that over $200 billion in COVID money was wasted on fraud. That's billion with a "b." The clown show poured money into the economy using the pretext of COVID which allowed consumers to spend but deprived the workforce of anyone to make or ship the goods. That resulted in hyperinflation which the US has been experiencing under the Biden administration. This was effectively a bribe for votes in the same way that the bogus student loan forgiveness program was a bribe for younger votes. The Dems can't pay folks to vote for them, but they can conjure up a fake cause and use that as a pretext to pay for their votes. The results speak for themselves. Biden's clown show has effectively brought the US to ruin in just over two years.
What a week for Biden, Inc. and the clown show. Smoke shrouding US cities, Old Joe stumbling and bumbling around, the Supreme Court striking down his unconstitutional acts, Hunter in court more often than Clarence Darrow, Trump and DeSantis surging in the polls against him, US airports in chaos. Wow.
What a week for Biden, Inc. and the clown show. Smoke shrouding US cities, Old Joe stumbling and bumbling around, the Supreme Court striking down his unconstitutional acts, Hunter in court more often than Clarence Darrow, Trump and DeSantis surging in the polls against him, US airports in chaos. Wow.
As I have said before, if they want to make this campaign about fitness: game on.
What an amazing difference!
The former guy tried to destroy NATO so he could strengthen Putin.
President Biden strengthened NATO and weakened Putin.
That's another historic Biden win and a win for foreign policy!
President Biden just smoked Donald Trump in campaign fundraising. This historic Biden fundraising debunks the right wing lie that "Biden isn't popular" or "Democrats don't want Biden to run". People are giving their hard earned money to Biden because they like him and want him to run.
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BREAKING: President Joe Biden just blew the 2024 field away, announcing he raised $72 million in the 2nd Quarter, more than doubling the amount Trump raised in the same time period. 💵
➡️ Nearly 400,000 individual donors
➡️ 97% of donations under $200
➡️ Average grassroots contribution: $39
Slow start? I don't think so. 4 More Years!
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Donald Trump's and the right wing media's favorite pollster Rasmussen has President Biden with a 45% approval rating which is not "record lows".
Meanwhile, a new NEW AP-NORC POLL:
Only 35% of Americans have a favorable view of Donald Trump and 62% have an unfavorable view of the corrupt former president.
The poll also found that 64% of Americans say they definitely or probably would not vote for Trump in the 2024 general election.
That's what you call record lows.
Biden's mental and physical situation has deteriorated to the extent that he can't apparently attend any 9/11 event. It's sad to see his decline. His family should intervene to spare him of any further humiliation.
I'm actually more concerned about your mental situation.
Be concerned when I start pretending to be from "Europe" or post for one time only under a new alias.
And this is exactly the kind of idiotic nonsense which makes me concerned about your mental health.
When it comes to Trump, you see conspiracies everywhere and you believe in the so-called "Deep state", which in Kennedy's days was known as the industrial-military complex. Yet, on the other hand you refuse to even consider the possibility that Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. But even worse, you seem to be obsessed with foolish things like where somebody lives and people using an alias, while at the same time you have been using an alias from day one on this forum.
You constantly make false claims and insinuations and when given the opportunity to actually find out that all the crap you are coming up with is false, you run.
None of this is indicative of a stable mind.
Btw, the idiotic rants in this thread don't help either.... :D
LOL. The king of the claiming the FBI, DPD, and many others lied or fabricated evidence is complaining about "conspiracy theories." HA HA HA. The funniest thing I've ever read on this forum. I guess I don't just accept the "official story" as you do. Particularly when there are actually facts and evidence to support a contrary conclusion. Keep the comedy coming, though. How is your buddy Dirty Hunter doing? Remember when it was just my "opinion" that he committed gun crimes? Now he is headed to the big house. And it's not the one the "big guy" lives in or the one that is paid for by some unknown person in Malibu. Here's another "opinion." More indictments are on the way for him.
Such a delusional mind....
Oh well, just another idiotic rant.... Doesn't bode well for your mental health :D
The leftist media and politicians continue to make the false claim that there is no evidence linking Old Joe to any of the bribery money that Dirty Hunter received. Here is an email from Dirty Hunter to his daughter:
"I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family Fro (sic) 30 years. It's really hard. But don't worry unlike Pop I won't make you give me half your salary,"
Who is his "Pop" again? The Big Guy! Hunter confirms in his own words that he has been supporting his "entire" family for 30 years including giving "half" to Old Joe. A straightforward confirmaiton that Old Joe has been getting his kickback for influencing peddling.
What email would that be? Where can I see the original?
You don't have access to a computer? Try Google. If that is too complicated, look at item 22 in the long list of evidence:
https://oversight.house.gov/blog/evidence-of-joe-bidens-involvement-in-his-familys-influence-peddling-schemes/
So, there was no email. Got it....
As far as everything else goes.... we already know from the Kennedy case what non conclusive stuff you consider to be evidence, so we shouldn't be surprised that you remain consistently superficial in this matter as well. There isn't a shred of conclusive evidence there that Joe Biden did anything wrong.
Hunter had his father on speaker phone to say hi to some people 20 times..... over a time span of 10 years. Wow, that's an average of 2 times per year..... That's some kind of involvement :D :D :D :D :D
Are you quibbling about it being a text message instead of an "email"? Wow. How is it nonconclusive when Dirty Hunter sends a text message to his own daughter indicating that "I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family Fro (sic) 30 years. It's really hard. But don't worry unlike Pop I won't make you give me half your salary," You don't believe that is evidence that Dirty Hunter was paying his father? What you do you think it means? And you think that Joe Biden as VP of the United States would have access to conference call information 20 times? You don't just dial your son's telephone number and jump on a conference call bridge. There are different access codes for each such call. Those have to be sent to the indvidual parties. You also don't think there might be a security risk for the VP to talk to his son while unknown other parties were on the call? It's laugahble.
Are you quibbling about it being a text message instead of an "email"? Wow.
Because accuracy matters, even if you clearly believe it doesn't matter at all.
How is it nonconclusive when Dirty Hunter sends a text message to his own daughter indicating that "I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family Fro (sic) 30 years. It's really hard. But don't worry unlike Pop I won't make you give me half your salary,"
Because it is inconclusive. You don't know the context and you (as well as that idiot Comer) are jumping to conclusions.
You don't believe that is evidence that Dirty Hunter was paying his father?
No, it's not evidence of anything. You just want it to be... Again, you don't know the context and/or what precisely Hunter was talking about.
What you do you think it means?
I have no idea what it means and neither do you. You are just making up your own reality, as per usual.
And you think that Joe Biden as VP of the United States would have access to conference call information 20 times? You don't just dial your son's telephone number and jump on a conference call bridge. There are different access codes for each such call. Those have to be sent to the indvidual parties. You also don't think there might be a security risk for the VP to talk to his son while unknown other parties were on the call?
BS... Hunter's business partner confirmed that Hunter talked to his dad just about every single day. Joe Biden wasn't calling in to a conference call. Hunter just put his mobile phone on speaker to have him say hello to the people he was with at the time. You have no way of knowing if any of the calls were actually made during the time Biden was VP, so again, you are jumping to all sorts of conclusions without knowing the actual facts...
But here's the bottom line; no matter how often Comer repeats the same old BS on TV or on his committee's website, when he was asked if he had any actual evidence against Joe Biden he said "I hope so"... Now that's pathetic!
Bring me actual conclusive evidence against Joe Biden and I'll be the first one to support an impeachment procedure, but what Comer is doing is a fishing expedition, just like the false Benghazi claims against Hillary Clinton and the Hunter Biden laptop charade. It is, and has been for years if not decades, the standard Republican strategy. Make as many claims as you can, no matter if they are true or not, to influence an upcoming election.
Some more:
"In May 2017, Hunter Biden and other associates to formalize how they would divide the profit from their deal with CEFC, a Chinese Communist Party linked energy company. Gilliar indicated Joe Biden would receive 10 percent, which has been confirmed by former Biden family associate, Tony Bobulinski."
"On May 20, 2017, James Gilliar told Tony Bobulinksi, another business associate, “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face[.] I know u know that but they are paranoid[.]”
"In a September 21, 2017, email, Hunter Biden wrote that Joe Biden is his business partner and provided Joe Biden’s personal cell phone if the recipient seeks confirmation. Emails also show that Hunter Biden, CEFC officials, and Joe Biden would share offices under the Hudson West/CEFC/Biden Foundation name."
"The FBI’s June 30, 2020 FD-1023 form contains allegations that then-Vice President Joe Biden allegedly engaged in an extortion scheme where he was paid $5 million in exchange for certain actions."
More inconclusive BS
James Gilliar, a Biden family associate, emailed ......
James Gilliar told Tony Bobulinksi.....
Hunter Biden wrote
When are we going to see something that Joe Biden actually emailed, told or wrote himself?
People can write and say anything they like, but that doesn't make it true nor is it evidence of anything.
"The FBI’s June 30, 2020 FD-1023 form contains allegations that then-Vice President Joe Biden allegedly engaged in an extortion scheme where he was paid $5 million in exchange for certain actions."
And internal FBI report contains an allegation that somebody made against VP Biden without providing a shred of evidence. The FBI did not consider the information credible.
Comer has no case against Joe Biden and he knows it. But he doesn't care, as long as the delusional Trump cult members believe it and the GOP can use the false allegation in the election.
These are the people in a position to know the truth. How else could it be proven? And if there were any doubt, Dirty Hunter's message to his daughter confirms that he was giving his "pop" half of the bribery money that he was receiving for influence peddling. It's stone cold. Now you are relying on the honesty of the FBI? LOL. I'm waiting for the lightning to strike. You have made an industry of casting doubt on the FBI's handling of evidence in the JFK assassination implying that they fabricated evidence.
These are the people in a position to know the truth. How else could it be proven?
Hilarious. You can't be this naive, can you?
How else it could be proven? Well, let's try bank dpcuments showing money flowing into Joe Biden's account.
And if there were any doubt, Dirty Hunter's message to his daughter confirms that he was giving his "pop" half of the bribery money that he was receiving for influence peddling. It's stone cold.
That's just another one of your lies. Hunter's message doesn't mention "the bribery money that he was receiving for influence peddling"
Imagine the relief to the mafia! All they have to do to avoid prosecution is avoid depositing their criminal payments into their own accounts and launder it through various shell companies to through relatives including grandchildren. LOL. Hunter's source of income was from these influence peddling schemes. Thus, if his half is salary is going to "pop" that means it is bribery money that Old Joe is receiving. He is toast. The deep state will not allow him to go to prison, though. He will be pressured to not run again. He will pardon Dirty Hunter for his many crimes on his way out the door and then disappear into a nursing facility with Robert Mueller.
Record of Biden, Inc. shell companies (check): https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bank-Memorandum-5.10.23.pdf
Record of payments for over $20 million from foreign sources (check): https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/
Verdict = GUILTY
Hunter's source of income was from these influence peddling schemes.
Says who? .... Before you make such a pathetic claim, you'll first need to prove it.... and you can't, Comer can't and nobody in the GOP can't.
Thus, if his half is salary is going to "pop" that means it is bribery money that Old Joe is receiving.
And that's the second pathetic claim that first needs to be proven, but there is not a shred of evidence for it.
Record of Biden, Inc. shell companies (check):
There is no such thing as Biden Inc. It doesn't exist.
Record of payments for over $20 million from foreign sources (check):
To what? Shell companies that can not be tied to Joe Biden? Who cares?
Prove the companies are tied to Joe Biden, show that the money those companies received was intended for him and that he provided some illegal service in return and then get back to me.....
Btw, how are those five companies doing in name of your family members. Did they really do something for it or are you just money laundering?
You think Dirty Hunter has been working down at McDonald's to pay for his Malibu home etc? LOL. His source of income is these influence peddling schemes. He made millions from shaking down foreign businesses. His "pop" received "half" that money according to Dirty Hunter. Why would they need to create numerous shell companies if they thought this was a legitimate business? Instead, like the mafia or drug traffickers they set a series of shell companies that paid out to various Biden family members. The money was then kicked back to Old Joe (aka "Big Guy"). The financial records confirm this is exactly what happened. Of course they made efforts to hide Old Joe's role. That's because they knew it was unethical and illegal. A simple scheme to have the money paid through Dirty Hunter's shell companies to him and other family members.
The Biden Express heading to the US across the open border. Maybe as many as 2-5 million have crossed under the open border policy. Even radical leftist mayors are pleading for it to stop.
Ba bla ba bla
Fantastic contribution to the discussion.
what discussion would that be?
Whenever you get stuck in an ongoing discussion you ignore it and change the subject with more BS
What has "The Biden Express heading to the US across the open border." to do with your idiotic allegation that Joe Biden took bribes and used shell companies to launder money?
There can be more than one news story relating to US politics. A flood of illegal aliens crossing a wide-open border in historic numbers with the complicity of the Biden clown show is just one such example. The Biden express is coming to a town near everyone! But if you want to deflect from that disaster to Biden, Inc., do you think it is not suspicious for a family to receive millions from various foreign sources including Romania, Ukraine, China and Russia and then launder that money through numerous shell companies? You believe setting up shell companies to funnel money from corrupt foreign source to various members of the VP's family is something that would happen if the participants believed that their conduct was legal? LOL. And that the son of the VP would be paid in diamonds by the Chinese to avoid tracing the cash. Or that he would be given a $140K Porsche from a Kazakh businessman right after arranging for him to dine with his father. Nothing to see there! HA HA HA. I know you want to play the endless contrarian but even you must know this is corruption. The kind of thing that goes in corrupt third-world countries.
do you think it is not suspicious for a family to receive millions from various foreign sources including Romania, Ukraine, China and Russia
You mean like; isn't it suspicious that several companies linked to Donald Trump and his daughter Ilana received a large number of trademarks from China, when both of them were in the White House, or how a Saudi Investment Company gave $2 billion dollar to Jared Kushner.... that kind of "suspicious"?
I don't do suspicious. If you want to make an allegation, you'd better provide conclusive evidence or just shut up!
and then launder that money through numerous shell companies?
Do you have evidence for money laundering? If so, take it to the IRS. Comer doesn't do it, because he hasn't got it.
You believe setting up shell companies to funnel money from corrupt foreign source to various members of the VP's family is something that would happen if the participants believed that their conduct was legal? LOL
Do you have any idea just how many shell companies are being set up for legit purposes every day? Shell companies are frequently used by all sorts of companies. Their use doesn't make illegal what they do.
And that the son of the VP would be paid in diamonds by the Chinese to avoid tracing the cash. Or that he would be given a $140K Porsche from a Kazakh businessman right after arranging for him to dine with his father. Nothing to see there! HA HA HA.
Indeed, there's nothing to see unless, of course, you can produce evidence for both claims, but I seriously doubt you can't even proof that either thing ever happened, never mind for what purpose.
I know you want to play the endless contrarian but even you must know this is corruption.
If Joe Biden is corrupt then so is Donald Trump, or do the same rules not apply to Trump?
The comparison to Trump is laughable. Of course, Trump and his family have been in business their entire lives. He has actual businesses around the world long before entering politics. That is how he made billions during his lifetime. It is not a crime to have a legitimate business that provides goods and services and to make money. In contrast, Old Joe is a lifelong politician. He has no business or service to provide except his influence as a high ranking member of the government. His son also had no business except selling access to his "pop." And even if your false premise were true that Trump engaged in some unlawful conduct, that would in no way exonerate Old Joe and Dirty Hunter from breaking the law. Moral equivalency is not a defense. In terms of evidence of shell companies, the House report includes a detailed account of the millions sent to Dirty Hunter and the shell companies he used to funnel that money to himself and his family including the "big guy." Do you think that is a lawful way to conduct business? Do you think receiving diamonds from China is a normal form of payment fpr legal services? How many people do you know are gifted a $140K Porsche from a foreign businessman after meeting with his dad? Nothing to see there!
The comparison to Trump is laughable. Of course, Trump and his family have been in business their entire lives. He has actual businesses around the world long before entering politics.
True, but he continued with those businesses after entering the White House and that's the problem. He used his position to make deals he never disclosed.
It is not a crime to have a legitimate business that provides goods and services and to make money.
What goods and services did Ilana Trump deliver for those trademarks and what did service did Jared Kushner provide for the $2 billion dollars he received from Saudi Arabia?
In contrast, Old Joe is a lifelong politician. He has no business.........
Indeed.... and you can't prove that he ever had any kind of business.
His son also had no business except selling access to his "pop."
What Hunter had or not had is of no consequence for his father.
And even if your false premise were true that Trump engaged in some unlawful conduct, that would in no way exonerate Old Joe and Dirty Hunter from breaking the law. Moral equivalency is not a defense.
True. But your problem is that you can't prove that Joe Biden engaged in any unlawful conduct. You can argue he did, but you are doing so without a shred of conclusive evidence.
In terms of evidence of shell companies, the House report includes a detailed account of the millions sent to Dirty Hunter and the shell companies he used to funnel that money to himself and his family including the "big guy."
Let's say, for argument's sake, that Hunter Biden did use shell companies and received millions. And let's even say that he did pay out some of that money members of the family. In this scenario it would be Hunter Biden who may be doing something illegal by using shell companies to receive millions. But there is no way that any sane person can argue that if Hunter gives money to his family members that those family members are somehow must involved in what ever Hunter was doing.
All your arguments and claims are allegations without solid evidence. It's the kind of stuff a drunk in a bar would say.
There is no law against someone who is elected president to continue to make money from his legitimate business. Trump placed such businesses in a trust. He also took no salary as president. Again, though, Trump's situation has nothing to do with the crimes committed by Old Joe. Your problem here is that you don't understand the law or accept the facts. Dirty Hunter confirmed that the money was going to his "pop" but even if you refuse to believe the evidence, it is still a crime to use his influence to benefit his family members. Imagine if government officials could avoid bribery charges simply by directing the money to their children or spouse and then having those family members send it to them. LOL.
There is no law against someone who is elected president to continue to make money from his legitimate business. Trump placed such businesses in a trust.
Correction; he said he placed them in a trust and then continued running them anyway. You don't think there could be even the slightest conflict of interest for a sitting President to continue running his businesses?
This is simply a lie. Trump did put his business interests in a blind trust. He complied with the applicable laws and there was governmental oversight of that process. Apply your standard, though. Was he charged with a crime for this? No. In addition, he took no salary. If you want to be pedantic, he was required to take one dollar. Contrast Trump's full compliance with the law and donation of his salary with Biden Inc.'s influence peddling scheme.
Apply your standard, though. Was he charged with a crime for this? No.
No, he wasn't charged yet, but who knows what will happen in the future. Not every crime is prosecuted, but you must be a complete blind man not to see what is right in front of you.
The irony given that your defense of Old Joe was that he hadn't been charged. And again, how many families received millions from foreign sources including payment in diamonds and cars while having no legitimate business or service to offer? How many families funnel such money through a series of shell companies? Nothing to see there - right? But "who knows what will happen in the future"?
Again, how many fools make questional allegations based on conjecture and innuendo?
LOL. There is at least one. And I don't mean Roger Collins. Or maybe I do.
The leftist media built up the government shutdown like it was the end of times. CNN even had a breathless special planned last night hoping to blame the repubs. Like the fearmongering before a snowstorm. They were so disappointed when it didn't happen.
Corrupt politicians and dishonest leftists just kicked the can down the road. The leftists were desperately hoping to spin this for political purposes. Like they did with COVID. The shutdown of the government is not the end of times. All the critical functions remain open. Many government agencies even continue to operate as usual because they have funds to remain open. The net impact is almost zero in the short term. The problem here is a persistent failure to address out of control spending. The Dems just kick the can down the road every time this issue comes around and then blame the Republicans for saying enough is enough. The Republicans don't have enough votes to implement the cuts that are necessary.
The stock market is crashing, gas prices are surging, crime is rampant, millions have flooded across the open border, there is a shortage of COVID boosters as cases surge, Hunter is in court on felony gun charges, and the war in Ukraine goes on and on in stalemate with the US funding it. What a week for Old Joe.
Time to move to North Korea, right?
The leftist media spin on the House Speaker story is hilarious. There is "chaos" in the government, the radical republicans are to blame etc. Politics is supposed to be messy. It is not just theater in which there are preordained results at the whim of a ruling cadre of corrupt establishment politicians. And it was the 100% vote by Dems to oust McCarthy that enabled his removal as speaker. Only a handful of republicans voted to do so but it is all their fault. No mention of the underlying problem which is Congress' inability to pass a budget and out of control spending by both parties. Every year they just kick the can down the road.
And it was the 100% vote by Dems to oust McCarthy that enabled his removal as speaker.
Hilarious. Should they have saved him? Why? He was the most incompetent speaker the country has ever had.
Only a handful of republicans voted to do so but it is all their fault.
It was a simple majority vote. There was only a difference of 6 votes. Had those republicans not voted or stood with McCarthy, he would still be speaker. Matt Gaetz and his bunch of morons ensured that the vote went against McCarthy.
Why? Let's see he just capitulated to them to keep the entire US government open when they were claiming it would have been the end of the world to shut it down. And they empowered Gaetz and company to control the entire process. The Dems constantly place politics ahead of the good of the country. This was a good political move but awful for the country. If there is "chaos" (the word apparently distributed on their talking points memo to be repeated over and over) and enhanced influence by the "MAGA" group it is primarily the fault of the Dems who voted unanimously to oust McCarthy just after he kept the government open. And, of course, none of this addresses much less solves the underlying issue of out of control spending and inability to approve a budget. The most fundamental role of these folks. Wonder why Trump is doing so well in the polls? Because of the complete failure of the political establishment. Trump is a product of the lies, corruption, and incompetence of the establishment. If they could do their jobs, he wouldn't have a chance.
Let's see he just capitulated to them to keep the entire US government open
MacCarthy capitulated to the Dems out of pure necessity, because he couldn't bring his own party in line. It was a demonstration of utter weakness. Why in the world would any Democrat wish to save such a weak speaker?
The Dems constantly place politics ahead of the good of the country.
That's rich. The Republicans wanted a shut down for their own political purposes. It had nothing to with the good of the country.
When are you going to start to blame the Democrats for the sun going down in the evening?
It wasn't republicans pulling fire alarms to keep the government closed. The Dems desperately wanted the government shutdown to take attention away from the endless disasters unfolding under Ukraine Joe and his clown show. McCarthy completely capitulated to them and they had no other choice except to vote as they did. Then they turned around and stabbed him in the back knowing that by keeping the government open there would be a vote to oust him as Speaker. Instead of showing any decency they voted 100% to remove him. The same guy who tried to be bipartisan in reaching a deal with them to keep the government open. They also emboldened the very folks that they claim are evil. They did that purely for politics. They want "chaos" to deflect from their own disasters. Now they can blame the republicans again when no deal is reached even though it was the vote of the Dems that ousted McCarthy. If even a few Dem moderates voted to keep him, then they could have transitioned to addressing the budget crisis.
The Dems desperately wanted the government shutdown to take attention away from the endless disasters unfolding under Ukraine Joe and his clown show.
Sure... and that's why they joined McCarthy to avoid the shutdown! Do you ever think before you write something this stupid?
McCarthy completely capitulated to them and they had no other choice except to vote as they did.
Utter BS... Why would they vote out a speaker of the other party that had capitulated to them. Doesn't make sense... at least not to sane people.
Then they turned around and stabbed him in the back knowing that by keeping the government open there would be a vote to oust him as Speaker.
The actual backstabbing came from 8 Republicans. By themselves the Dems wouldn't have been able to remove McCarthy.
Instead of showing any decency they voted 100% to remove him.
A Republican talking about decency? Hilarious.....
The same guy who tried to be bipartisan in reaching a deal with them to keep the government open.
He didn't try to be bipartisan. He needed to be, because he had no control over his own party's members. It was pure weakness. McCarthy understood that Gaetz and his ilk had placed him between a rock and a hard place. Giving on to Gaetz would only have made his even weaker than he already was, so he went the other way and desperately asked the Dems for help. I don't think he ever really believed that Gaetz would get a majority to vote him out. His plan was to defeat Geatz and it backfired... it is as simple as that.
They want "chaos" to deflect from their own disasters.
You mean the "disasters" that only exist in your delusional mind?
Now they can blame the Republicans again when no deal is reached even though it was the vote of the Dems that ousted McCarthy.
Hey, that's politics..... Something the Republicans suck at...
I've explained this to you as to a small child. McCarthy had the option to allow the government to shutdown. If he had done so, he would still be speaker. Instead he capitulated to the Dems. They had to vote to keep the government open at that point or they would be blamed for the shutdown. If keeping the government open was a vital objective (as the Dems and their media mouthpieces claimed for weeks hoping they could blame the Republicans) then they should have rewarded the person who did that. Instead they played politics to oust him. Despicable politics at its worst. It takes a majority vote to oust the Speaker. The facts are that the Dems voted 208-0 in favor of ousting him. Only 8 Republicans voted to do so. That means that over 96% of the votes to oust McCarthy came from Dems. Less than 4% came from Republicans.
Imagine if Trump had waived numerous environmental laws to try to build his wall. The Dems would have rushed to the courts and proclaimed him a murderer. Old Biden is doing it without a peep from the leftist media. His clown show sold off the material for building the wall that had already been paid for vowing that not a foot of wall would be built during his administration. Now they are having to buy it back at double the cost. What a humiliation even for him. How bad are his polling numbers that Ukraine Joe has to flip flop on the border wall which he campaigned against as being racist? Things must be hitting rock bottom. His COVID booster roll out is also a complete fiasco. That would be 24/7 coverage if Trump was president. But hardly a word.
Old Biden is doing it without a peep from the leftist media.
So he is doing what you've always wanted. What are you complaining about? There's just no pleasing you.....
I'm complaining about his endless hypocrisy and incompetence. He campaigned on a vow not to build one foot of wall. He claimed Trump was racist for trying to do so. He is in deep political trouble and magically it's time to build a wall. HA HA HA. After it's too late to do any good. At least five million have crossed the open border. Ukraine Joe won't even be president by the time any wall is constructed. I don't even believe he will do it. The money will be stolen or diverted to some woke cause like the COVID money and "infrastructure" money that went to things other than COVID and infrastructure. Why aren't liberals outraged, though, if Old Joe was right about Trump and the wall? This is just a ruse. Old Joe has to cut a deal with establishment Repubs. He vows to build the wall and they fund his endless war in Ukraine. The wall never gets done but billions are allocted to Ukraine.
Why aren't liberals outraged, though, if Old Joe was right about Trump and the wall? This is just a ruse. Old Joe has to cut a deal with establishment Repubs. He vows to build the wall and they fund his endless war in Ukraine. The wall never gets done but billions are allocted to Ukraine.
Sounds like politics to me... Expect Biden is far better at it than any Republican.
It's politics to campaign on a promise not to build a foot of the wall, then build the wall. It is also politics to say that you are going to "shutdown" COVID and then do nothing including botching the roll out of the booster after 3/4 of US deaths occurred during his administration? Maybe check the recent polls to see how that is working out for him. And RFK, Jr is announcing a third party run next week! Old Joe is finished.
It's politics to campaign on a promise that Mexico would pay for the building of the wall.....
Maybe check the recent polls to see how that is working out for him.
Only desperate people place value on "recent polls".
And RFK, Jr is announcing a third party run next week!
Aha.. the ever succesful third party challenge in a two party system.... :D
Old Joe is finished.
Wishful thinking.....You said something similar about "sleepy" Joe during the previous election. How did that work out for you?
The wall was paid for by Mexico. They didn't write a check for it but Trump's trade deal provided more funds than necessary to pay for the wall. No one is suggesting that RFK, Jr's third-party run will result in him winning the election. What he and West may do is siphon off votes from Old Joe (even assuming Ukraine Joe actually runs which seems unlikely). The margin between winning and losing in the last election was about 40K votes in three states. It's a razor thin margin. A third-party candidate has enormous potential to change the outcome. Old Joe won the 2020 election solely as a result of nearly every state changing their voting laws in the months leading up to the election by falsely using COVID as an excuse to do so. Old Joe received 80% or more of the votes cast by these alternative methods. That altered the outcome. The upcoming election has rolled back many of these voting methods. It will be a fairer election this time with less opportunity for ballet harvesting.
The wall was paid for by Mexico. They didn't write a check for it but Trump's trade deal provided more funds than necessary to pay for the wall.
And you really believe that BS?
No one is suggesting that RFK, Jr's third-party run will result in him winning the election. What he and West may do is siphon off votes from Old Joe (even assuming Ukraine Joe actually runs which seems unlikely). The margin between winning and losing in the last election was about 40K votes in three states. It's a razor thin margin. A third-party candidate has enormous potential to change the outcome.
So you believe that Trump needs Kennedy to run interference for him because otherwise he can't win? Interesting...
Old Joe received 80% or more of the votes cast by these alternative methods. That altered the outcome. The upcoming election has rolled back many of these voting methods. It will be a fairer election this time with less opportunity for ballet harvesting.
Let's not forget all the gerrymandering by the Republicans
Let me make a prediction; Trump will never be re-elected because of Trump. There simply aren't enough insane people in the country who are willing to ignore his lies, fraude and other criminal behavior that they are willing to destroy democracy itself.
I would be more worried about the intelligence failure that allowed Israel to be invaded today without the US or anyone noticing a massive buildup of weapons. Old Joe's clown show has brought not only the US to ruin but the world to the brink of WWIII. The billions he recently sent to Iran who backed these terrorists didn't help. Now the Middle East will be in turmoil and war for years due to Ukraine Joe's weakness and incompetence.
Is there anything you don't blame Joe Biden for?
Yes, JFK contrarians. Even Old Joe can't be held responsible for that level of idiocy.
Everyone in America should be frightened at the unprecedented security failure of the US intelligence community in Israel. Imagine that an invasion by an army of terrorists could go undetected by the intelligence community that can monitor every phone call, email and watch every movement via spy satellites. Billions are spent by the US taxpayer to ensure that this doesn't happen. They were too busy spending their time on "domestic terrorists" like parents and Donald Trump to do their jobs. If they had spent a fraction of the resources expended on investigating Trump, then maybe the world would not have another endless war on its hands that could spiral to WWIII. The six billion dollars sent to Iran, a sponsor of terrorism, as ransom to release the American prisoners that they had illegally detained didn't help. Incompetence and weakness under Ukraine Joe's clown show is bringing things to a head. A new disaster almost every day. Who are these five million people who have crossed the border? They have no idea. Think maybe some of these same terrorists have used that as an opportunity to get into the US? Old Joe doesn't know or care. He only wants an open border.
Everyone in America should be frightened at the unprecedented security failure of the US intelligence community in Israel.
According to every paranoid Republican, everyone in America should be frightened of just about everything. It's been like that for decades....
They were too busy spending their time on "domestic terrorists" like parents and Donald Trump to do their jobs.
Or the domestic terroristes are posing such a threat to democracy that the security services had to give them priority.
The results speak for themselves. When Reagan ran against Carter, he asked whether people were better off than they were four years ago. When Trump or whomever runs against Old Joe, they don't even have to ask that question. They just need to ask if ANYTHING is better than four years ago. The US is in ruins. The world is in chaos. While the US president does not control every event, the disasters that are unfolding under Ukraine Joe are largely self-inflicted due to his policies. The open border - check. Inflation - check. Crime - check. High gas prices - check. Endless war - check. Old Joe's clown show has created or contributed to the harms caused by each of these disasters with their incompetence and weakness. And it gets worse every day. China invading Taiwan is next.
When Trump or whomever runs against Old Joe, they don't even have to ask that question. They just need to ask if ANYTHING is better than four years ago. The US is in ruins.
Only in your delusional mind. In the real world, we just had another employment report that was better than expected. Over the past year, the country has seen the biggest jobs increase in history.
The world is in chaos.
The world has always been in chaos.
A jobs report was "better than expected." HA HA HA HA. That is comedy gold. The world is literally burning and spiraling toward WWIII but there are plenty of jobs at McDonald's because the Dems shutdown the country and paid folks not to work. The jobs "increase" is solely a function of folks being allowed to return to their former jobs. It is a complete fraud.
Old Joe put a "lid" on his workday around noon yesterday. Nothing going on for him to do. War in the Middle East? It can wait for nappy time. Americans being held hostage and threatened with death? Yawn. Ukraine Joe is nowhere to be found. His administration is still defending Iran and claiming there is "no evidence" that they were behind the attack in Israel even though they have admitted that they were behind the attack and supported it. There is just "no evidence" like there is "no evidence" of Old Joe's connection to Dirty Hunter's corruption. The six billion dollars just given to Iran? It couldn't be used for the attack because someone is supposedly monitoring the money. LOL. Imagine that. Iran asks for the money and they are to be trusted for how they use it. Money is also fungible meaning that even if they use it for X that frees up money to use for Z. The stupidity and incompetence of the Biden clown show has not been surpassed in modern history (with the possible exception of Trudeau)
Another example of the incompetents in charge of Biden's clown show. Frightening. This would be humorous except for the consequences. Where is the media clamoring for his resignation and accountability? If this had happened under Trump, they would be raging for him to be fired.
The Atlantic:
"Just eight days ago, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, speaking at The Atlantic Festival, rattled off a long list of positive developments in the Middle East, developments that were allowing the Biden administration to focus on other regions and other problems. A truce was holding in Yemen. Iranian attacks against U.S. forces had stopped. America’s presence in Iraq was “stable.” The good news crescendoed with this statement: “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”
Please, try to get a life
Another valuable contribution. And from the same guy who is here night and day and has nearly twice as many posts. LOL.
Another valuable contribution.
Far more valuable than your constant whining and complaining about things which for the most part aren't even true.
And from the same guy who is here night and day and has nearly twice as many posts.
How would you know who is here "night and day", unless you were here "night and day" too?
It has been explained to you that I simply never log out. It doesn't mean that I am actually there.
And I only have a posting average of 3 per day. You have an average of 2. Wow, those are really massive numbers...
It does not take Sherlock Holmes. You are here every time that I post. You have almost twice as many total posts as me over the same timeframe. One more per day is thousands of more posts over the course of several years. Don't they provide math classes in "Europe'? I don't care if you spend your every waking moment here or how many times you post. I was just noting the irony of someone who posts much more often than myself telling me to "get a life." The irony abounds. Comedy gold. Of course, you also deflected from the point under discussion. Just days before a massive terrorist attack on Israel, the Biden administration clown in charge of National Security was boasting how "quiet" things were in the Middle East. He should be immediately fired for incompetence. But if they started doing that, no one would be left in this clown show administration.
You are here every time that I post.
HAHAHAHAHA... Actually, no, I am not. I responded more than two hours after your post.
You have almost twice as many total posts as me over the same timeframe. One more per day is thousands of more posts over the course of several years.
Hilarious.... now the fool is talking timeframes. He actually talks about, on average, one post more every day in.... wait for it..... more than 6 years!
I don't care if you spend your every waking moment here or how many times you post.
Oh yes you do, because if you didn't you wouldn't have brought it up in the first place.
I was just noting the irony of someone who posts much more often than myself telling me to "get a life."
Much more often as in, on average 1 post more per day during a period of more than 6 years.......HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Try to understand this; sometimes interesting discussions happen on this forum which result in a back and forth of credible and/or plausible arguments, which increases the number of posts rapidly.
You are never ever part of such an interesting discussion, simply because there is nothing of any value or significance you can add to it, which means your number of posts doesn't increase as fast. Get it now?
Of course, you also deflected from the point under discussion.
What discussion? Your idiotic rants do not warrant any kind of discussion. They are a complete waste of time, but it seems that's all you have to do in a day.... hence the friendly advice to try and get a life....
Just days before a massive terrorist attack on Israel, the Biden administration clown in charge of National Security was boasting how "quiet" things were in the Middle East. He should be immediately fired for incompetence. But if they started doing that, no one would be left in this clown show administration.
A senile guy went on television yesterday and said that "Hummus" has attacked Israel.... Who could have predicted that a dish could ever attack a country? Now, what was the name of that senile fool again..... let me think..... Oh yes, I remember, it was the same guy who asked for "oranges" when he wanted to know how something had started. I think his name was Trumph or something like that :D
You are more concerned with the way in which Trump pronounces the word "Hamas" than the National Security Advisor for the Biden administration congratulating himself on how quiet things were in the Middle East while terrorists were on the verge of a massive attack. And you still don't understand math. The average is over the entirety of your posting history. You and I have been posting for many years. The fact that you post one time more PER DAY on average over that lengthy period of years means that you have posted THOUSANDS of more times than myself. Again, putting aside your limited math comprehension, I have merely responded to your suggestion that I "get a life" when you post more frequently than myself. The irony is hilarious compounded by your lack of understanding.
BTW: Hamas is pronounced as huh-maas. Which sounds very like ______ (here you have an opportunity to fill in the blank to see if you can figure why you should be embarrassed to post so many times).
The fact that you post one time more PER DAY on average over that lengthy period of years means that you have posted THOUSANDS of more times than myself.
2241 more posts actually over more than six years.... the bulk of those were spend having interesting conversations with people who, unlike you, actually had something to say and some of those were nothing more than a Thumb1: to confirm I agreed with another poster. But I have to say, for someone who claims he couldn't care less how often I post, you are sure spending a lot of time on the subject.... Kinda weird, don't you think.
BTW: Hamas is pronounced as huh-maas.
Hilarious.... so, your argument now is that Trump got the pronounciation right? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... So much desperation.
Where are these "interesting conversations" that you are having? I see the same pattern on this forum in every single thread. You insult people and take the thread down some ridiculous rabbit hole. Like you have done here. Every single thread. There is not a single "interesting" conversation that you have ever had here. The pattern is identical. Open any random thread and read it. I didn't hear Trump speak the word. I merely pointed out how Hamas is pronounced. Something you apparently did not know. It sounds very much like how you characterize what Trump said. And, of course, how he said it is just your own "opinion" or "assumption." There are no facts in your contrarian world. What amazes me is that you are more obsessed with how Trump said a word than the fantastic security failure that resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Jews.
Old Joe is going to propose tomorrow to give Israel and Ukraine 100 BILLION dollars. That's billion with "b". On top of the billions that have already been sent to Ukraine. I'm all for supporting these countries but where is that kind of money coming from? How many other countries are going to contribute an equivalent amount? That's a rhetorical question because the answer is none. Why does the US rush into these conflicts time and again? Israel is perfectly capable of doing what needs to be done. They have already been sold or given the military equipment to wage this war. How much would it cost to just buy Gaza and pay Egypt or someone to take the residents? It couldn't be anything near $100 billion and the problem solved instead of waging war for years and nothing being any different at the end than the beginning.
Of all the slimy things Old Joe and the Dems have pulled, tying funding for Israel to Ukraine ranks near the top. Old Joe knows that support for the endless and pointless war in Ukraine is flagging. So he is taking advantage of the recent tragedy in Israel to fund it. And when the Republicans reject that request, he will say they hate Israel when almost every single one of them would have supported a standalone bill to fund Israel. Slimy politics. But after politicizing the pandemic to win an election anything goes for Ukraine Joe. He is also looking worse and worse. Staring blankly at the camera and mumbling nonsense. Unreal that he is the person in charge as the world comes apart.
Old Joe is now asking for $105 billion with the vast majority going to Ukraine. Using Israel as a proxy to get money for his endless war. Shameless. There is still no plan or clear objective for the war in Ukraine. It just goes on and on with the US sending more billions while "Europe" spends its money on their own citizens. Meanwhile in America the cities are in ruin. Crime is rampant. The schools are a disaster. Homeless are overrunning the cities. Bet we are sending tens of billions to Ukraine for some unspecified purpose.
$105 billion for more war. Imagine how many homeless could be housed in the US. But it is all going for nothing. Wasted and stolen as with the COVID "relief" money that fueled hyperinflation. Approximately $200 billion of the COVID funds are the subject of fraud investigations. It will take generations to undo the harm of what was effectively a bribe for votes. And Putin is going to roll over other countries when he can't even take over a few regions of Ukraine? LOL. Fearmongering. Time to duck and cover like it is 1954.
Imagine how many more people would choose to go homeless for a bit if they could get free housing from the government?
Give Russia a taste os success and you might be surprised what they could accomplish.
How can Hitler be a threat to Europe when he couldn't even hold Munich in 1923? How could Russia be a threat to Germany when it couldn't even take Finland in 1939?
America has been spending billions over the years since the 1940's to keep Europe free of Russia. If we want continue that, we either need to continue to spend money on our military, or helping Ukraine. I say a billion dollars spent on Ukraine gives a lot more 'Bank for the Buck' than spending on our military. Three times as much? Five times as much? I don't know, but clearly a more efficient way of dealing with Russia.
Need to cut down on spending? Fine. Cut out some spending on our military. Reduce the number of army divisions we maintain by one. But don't cut aid to Ukraine. That money is not wasted. It saves a great deal of money we would need to hold the Baltic states if Russia takes over Ukraine and is now looking for more glory.
In 2021, the U. S. Defense budget was 700 billion dollars. In the last 18 months we have spent about 75 billion helping Ukraine. So about 50 billion per year. Or 7 per cent of our defense budget. What threat are we mostly spending money on? China and Russia. With just an increase of 7 per cent, we are dealing with one of our two great threats. It's a bargain by any measure. If we could do the same with China, pin down China in a forever war with Taiwan, we could greatly reduce the spending on our military. We wouldn't need nearly 700 billion a year for our military if both China and Russia ceased to be such a continuous threat.
This might get us involved in a 'Forever war'? I see no problem with that. We can easily exceed Russian production indefinitely. The amount of money we save by not doing that for a year or two would be small compared to the money needed to hold the Baltic States from an encouraged Russia.
Some amazing mislogic being used by Old Joe and the Dems. Old Joe is claiming today that Trump is using "Nazi rhetoric" for referring to his political foes as "vermin" and that he is a threat to democracy. Trump who has a Jewish daughter and grandchildren is the Nazi according to Old Joe. Trump who was the biggest supporter of Israel of any president in history is the anti-Semite while Old Joe and the Dems are trying to inhibit Israel from defending itself from terrorists. Calling a political opponent and his supporters "Nazis" and using the legal system to indict your political opponent for nearly 100 phony felonies to damage him politically like something out of Stalinist Russia is apparently fine, though. No threat to democracy there. Also bringing lawsuits to keep Trump off the ballot in several states is apparently not a concern for "democracy." Just don't call anyone a bad name.
Old Joe is claiming today that Trump is using "Nazi rhetoric"
And he is right. We all know it, except of course for the die-hard Maga creeps for whom Trump can't do anything wrong.
Trump who has a Jewish daughter and grandchildren is the Nazi according to Old Joe.
"I have family members who are Jewish or black, so I can't be a Nazi/anti Semite or racist" is a pathetic defense.
Judge the man and not his family ties....
Some of Hitler's family members were also Jewish or part Jewish.
Old Joe is claiming today that Trump is using "Nazi rhetoric"
Some of Hitler's family members were also Jewish or part Jewish.
You forgot the part where Trump, as President, was the most pro-Israel president in history and has given his total support to Israel's right to defend itself. Meanwhile Old Joe is trying to inhibit Israel from protecting itself from violent terrorists. In addition, radical leftists staged violent attacks on Capitol Hill police officers yesterday injuring several of them. Sounds like an insurrection to me under the Dems definition. Will there be years of investigations and hearings? Will hundreds be arrested and held without due process? Will dozens be sent to prison for decades. Let me guess - no. The Dem party has been taken over by violent anti-Semites but Trump is the problem.
No wonder you are confused about historical accuracy. Not true or relevant.
Really?...What is it? Not true or not relevant? It can't be both.
LOL. Let me dumb this down so that even perhaps you can understand (being wildly optimistic). Hitler did not have family members who were Jewish as you falsely stated. But (pay attention here) even if he had, that would have no relevance to Trump. Trump has proven by his words and actions that he is pro-Israel. It is offensive to compare him to Hitler or the Nazis. You should be ashamed to diminish the Holocaust, but I'm not surprised. How about instead of condemning Trump as a Nazi and comparing him to Hitler that you criticize the violent anti-Semites staging violent attacks on the Capitol Hill police officers and advocating the destruction of Israel with the support of many Dems?
Hitler did not have family members who were Jewish as you falsely stated.
He didn't? Really? Or are you simply displaying your ignorance again
But (pay attention here) even if he had, that would have no relevance to Trump.
Of course it would relevant as Trump also has Jewish family members.
Trump has proven by his words and actions that he is pro-Israel.
Oh please....
It is offensive to compare him to Hitler or the Nazis.
Offensive to whom? To Hitler perhaps?
You should be ashamed to diminish the Holocaust, but I'm not surprised.
My family lost a lot of people in the Holocaust, so perhaps you should shut the f**k up.
How about instead of condemning Trump as a Nazi and comparing him to Hitler that you criticize the violent anti-Semites staging violent attacks on the Capitol Hill police officers
I have already criticezed any violent attack on a police officer. It has nothing to do with comparing Trump to Hitler.
and advocating the destruction of Israel with the support of many Dems?
Utter BS... Nobody, except perhaps Hamas et al, advocate the destruction of Isreal. You just - once again - want to blame everything you can on Dems. It's a pathetic rant that has nothing to do with reality.
You are really suggesting Hitler should be offended to be compared to Trump? That's an offensive anti-Semitic remark as it denigrates the millions of Jewish deaths at the hands of Hitler. Even you should be ashamed. In addition, many of the violent radical protestors who attacked the Capitol Hill cops and tried to assault members of Congress last night do support the destruction of Israel. Or as they chant "from the river to the sea." Shameful to deflect away from such actual hatred and anti-Semitic violence to Trump for political purposes. Trump is not a Nazi or anti-Semite. To the contrary, he is a strong supporter of Israel and has immediate family members who are Jewish including his own daughter and grandchildren. Now tell us which family member of Hitler was Jewish since you have interjected that claim more than once now. Name them.
You are really suggesting Hitler should be offended to be compared to Trump? That's an offensive anti-Semitic remark as it denigrates the millions of Jewish deaths at the hands of Hitler. Even you should be ashamed.
LOL, spare me the fake outrage
In addition, many of the violent radical protestors who attacked the Capitol Hill cops and tried to assault members of Congress last night do support the destruction of Israel.
Bold statements which, as per usual, you won't able to back up with actual evidence. All that happened was that some people protested in front of the DNC building when they were confronted by Capitol Hill police. That's all that actually happened. Nobody stormed any building, yet you call this "insurrection" and at the same time deny that the storming of the Capitol wasn't an insurrection..... What a pathetic hypocrite you are
Shameful to deflect away from such actual hatred and anti-Semitic violence to Trump for political purposes.
What "anti-Semitic violence to Trump" are you talking about?
Trump is not a Nazi or anti-Semite.
In Hitler's early days there were also people who praised him.... Those who survived WWII now know different.
Trump is not a Nazi or anti-Semite. To the contrary, he is a strong supporter of Israel and has immediate family members who are Jewish including his own daughter and grandchildren.
Let's get the facts straight. Ivanka converted to Judaism before she married Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, in 2009.
You believe it is "fake outrage" to take issue with your sickening comment that Hitler should be offended by the comparison to Trump? Meaning Hitler is a better person than Trump. That's vile and sickening anti-Semitic hate speech. You should be ashamed. And still no name of Hitler's family member who was Jewish. Another false claim. Now you are implying Ivanka is not Jewish because she converted to Judaism? Unreal. More hate speech.
You believe it is "fake outrage" to take issue with your sickening comment that Hitler should be offended by the comparison to Trump? Meaning Hitler is a better person than Trump. That's vile and sickening anti-Semitic hate speech.
Hilarious. You clearly don't understand the meaning of "anti-semitism", which actually is hostility and prejudice towards Jews. As Donald Trump is not Jewish, speech against him can not be "anti-semitic".
Now you are implying Ivanka is not Jewish because she converted to Judaism? Unreal. More hate speech.
The implication is all yours. I merely stated the fact that Ivanka converted to Judaism before she married Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, in 2009. How a statement of fact can be "hate speech" is beyond me.
Why note at all that Ivanka converted to Judaism in this context? What point where you trying to make about that? That she is not really Jewish? Therefore Trump doesn't really have a Jewish daughter? Do tell. And again, no name of Hitler's family member who was Jewish. You made that claim a couple of times but refuse to answer.
Why note at all that Ivanka converted to Judaism in this context?
Because you used her being a Jew as a reason why Donald Trump couldn't be anti-Semitic, which is utter DS
What point where you trying to make about that? That she is not really Jewish?
In some Jewish circles that's exactly how they look at people who have converted to Judaism.
Therefore Trump doesn't really have a Jewish daughter?
No he doesn't. At least not by blood. He has a daughter who converted to Judaism.
Trump himself claims to be a Catholic. A catholic can not have a daughter that's born Jewish.
And again, no name of Hitler's family member who was Jewish. You made that claim a couple of times but refuse to answer.
It isn't revelant and I won't give you a reason to divert the conversation away from your pathetic claim about Trump. Do your own research if you really want to find out.
Stunning. You share Hitler's views that the Jews are distinguished by "blood" and not religion. If Hitler's family is "not relevant", why did YOU raise that? You claimed twice that Hitler had family members that were Jewish. Are you now willing to admit that was false or not?
You share Hitler's views that the Jews are distinguished by "blood" and not religion.
Was that Hitler's view and where did I say that?
If Hitler's family is "not relevant", why did YOU raise that?
Because you falsely claimed Trump couldn't be anti-Semitic because he had Jewish family members, which, again, is utter BS
The Nazis developed "race" laws to determine who was Jewish. Just like you have suggested in the case of Ivanka. I never claimed that Trump couldn't be anti-Semitic like yourself JUST because he had family members who were Jewish. I noted that his daughter and grandchildren are Jewish. That is one factor in making an assessment. Another factor was his strong support of Israel during his presidency including recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Something no other president would do. His actions are conclusive of the issue. No anti-Semite would have been a strong supporter of Israel. Rather, they would have joined the Dem party and staged violent insurrections to pressure the US government to avoid supporting Israel.
You have rebutted this argument by claiming that Ivanka is not really a Jew because she converted to Judaism. A Hitler-like racial assessment. You have also attempted to bolster this racist argument by claiming that Hitler had family members who were Jewish. But you refuse to name who these people were or admit that you are wrong. Suddenly, your own claim is not relevant. LOL.
The Nazis developed "race" laws to determine who was Jewish. Just like you have suggested in the case of Ivanka.
I have not suggested anything of the kind.
I never claimed that Trump couldn't be anti-Semitic like yourself JUST because he had family members who were Jewish.
Oh, yes, you did exactly that. As for myself being anti-semitic, you really should have a good look at my family name before you spew such nonsense.
I noted that his daughter and grandchildren are Jewish.
And you did that for what other purpose but to support your claim that Trump couldn't be anti-semitic?
That is one factor in making an assessment. Another factor was his strong support of Israel during his presidency including recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Something no other president would do. His actions are conclusive of the issue. No anti-Semite would have been a strong supporter of Israel.
Thanks for proving my point.
Rather, they would have joined the Dem party and staged violent insurrections to pressure the US government to avoid supporting Israel.
Violent inssurrections? Do tell..... :D
You have rebutted this argument by claiming that Ivanka is not really a Jew because she converted to Judaism. A Hitler-like racial assessment.
Hilarious (and untrue, of course).... I never made that claim and have merely stated that in some parts of the Jewish community they feel that a conversion to Judaism does not make you a full Jew, just like a child born with only one parent being Jewish isn't a full Jew either......
I can't wait to see what your next argument will be. Perhaps comparing part of the Jewish community to Hitler?
So many words again but still no name of Hitler's family member who was Jewish. Again, do you stand by that statement and will provide the name of this family member, or do you now admit that you are wrong? You also interjected the fact that Ivanka had converted to Judaism as a means to suggest that she wasn't actually Jewish. A Hitler-like racial purity argument. Shameful.
More twisting and turning from a guy who gets his "arguments" destroyed every single time.
You also interjected the fact that Ivanka had converted to Judaism as a means to suggest that she wasn't actually Jewish.
It doesn't really matter if Ivanka is "actually Jewish" or not. The main point is that your claim that Donald Trump can't be anti-semitic because he has family members who are Jewish is simply false.
And no answer again regarding Hitler's family. You are suggesting that there is doubt about whether Ivanka is Jewish. What standard of Hitler's race laws did you apply to reach this conclusion? How about Trump's grandchildren? Are they Jewish enough to satisfy you?
The main point is that your claim that Donald Trump can't be anti-semitic because he has family members who are Jewish is simply false.
You will not divert attention away from that by trying to discuss Hitler's family or Ivanka and her children.
Again;, I didn't make that claim. I noted that Trump had a Jewish daughter and grandchildren as one factor that lends itself toward him not being anti-Semitic. Having immediate family members who are Jewish is relevant to the discussion. There are also others that I noted including Trump's strong support of Israel as president. And his ongoing support for them in contrast to the radical Dems. You interjected the claims about Hitler's family (which were false) and Ivanka (which are racist). If they are not relevant, then blame yourself.
I noted that Trump had a Jewish daughter and grandchildren as one factor that lends itself toward him not being anti-Semitic.
Semantics.
The only reason for bringing up his Jewish daughter and grandchildren in the first place was to support your opinion that Trump isn't anti-Semitic.
That's correct! You might be learning something. This does "support" the fact in question. Having an immediate Jewish family member such as a daughter and grandchildren who are Jewish obviously lends itself to that individual not being anti-Semitic. Or do you think Trump hates his own daughter and grandchildren? That fact alone may not be definitive or universal in every instance but lends itself to the conclusion that Trump is not anti-Semitic. And, more importantly, it is not the ONLY reason for reaching that conclusion in Trump's case. His record of support for Israel is definitive of the fact. This logic appears to evade you. There is zero as in no evidence that he is anti-Semitic. In contrast, you interjected the false claim that Hitler had a Jewish family member and then refused to name this person or correct this falsehood. You also implied that Ivanka was not really Jewish because she had converted to Judaism. A racist argument. Who are the anti-Semites? The violent, radical protestors who are advocated "from the river to sea." These people are violent leftist Dems.
This does "support" the fact in question. Having an immediate Jewish family member such as a daughter and grandchildren who are Jewish obviously lends itself to that individual not being anti-Semitic.
Absolute BS.
This logic appears to evade you.
It isn't logic at all. If anything it's a demonstration of a complete lack of realism. An anti-Semitic person doesn't become a non anti-Semitic person just because his daughter converts to the faith and marries a Jew.
There is zero as in no evidence that he is anti-Semitic.
This coming from the same person who claims Trump was the best President the country has ever had, is yet only one more clear demonstration of just how brainwashed you are.
So no evidence that Trump is anti-Semitic. You disregard the fact that his own daughter and grandchildren are Jewish (interjecting the racist reference again that Ivanka "converted" and is not actually a real Jew). You disregard his strong support of Israel while President. You made a false claim that Hitler had family members who were Jewish but fail to acknowledge that falsehood. Meanwhile, you ignore the mobs of anti-Semitic leftists who are chanting "from the river to the sea" advocating the destruction of Israel. Nothing to see there. They are apparently not anti-Semitic despite advocating the destruction of Israel. But Trump is the bad guy. Laughable.
So no evidence that Trump is anti-Semitic.
Your ignorance is on full display.
You've clearly not understood when I told you to consider my last name, so let me help you. My family is Jewish, I'm only 50% Jewish because only one of my parents is Jewish.
So, I don't need a die-hard cult member to tell me that Trump isn't anti-semitic when he clearly is.
But again, no evidence.
The evidence is everywhere. All you need to do to see it is open your eyes
Should be easy to name a couple things then since this is your claim.
For now I will just say that the best evidence for Trump being anti-semitic is that he is anti-semitic
It's laughable but amusing to watch you make claim after claim but then refuse to provide even a single example to support it. The best evidence "[f]or now" is that Trump is anti-Semitic because he is anti-Semitic. HA HA HA HA HA HA. That is comedy gold. You said that the evidence is "everywhere." Why hold out on us? Everywhere apparently doesn't include this forum since you have refused to cite a single example. Not one. I've provided several reasons to conclude that Trump is not anti-Semitic includig the fact that his own daughter and grandchildren are Jewish and his record as President of strongly supporting Israel. How about you condemn the actual anti-Semites for once. The violent leftist radicals who are rioting with the support of many Dems and advocating the destruction of Israel? Nothing to see there? You interjected that Hitler had a family member who was Jewish but now refuse to name this person and dismiss the claim as not relevant as though you were not the person who raised it. Admit that is false or name someone.
It's laughable but amusing to watch you make claim after claim but then refuse to provide even a single example to support it.
Looking in the mirror when you wrote that, were you?
The best evidence "[f]or now" is that Trump is anti-Semitic because he is anti-Semitic. HA HA HA HA HA HA. That is comedy gold.
"The best evidence that Oswald came down the stairs, without being seen by anyone, within 75 seconds after the last shot, is that he did" - Richard Smith HA HA HA HA HA That is comedy gold.
How about you condemn the actual anti-Semites for once.
I already have
The violent leftist radicals who are rioting with the support of many Dems and advocating the destruction of Israel?
I'm not concerned with a few radical and/or misguided protesters, either left or right, who, in the bigger scheme of things won't make much difference. The real enemies of Isreal, the ones with power, don't demonstrate on the streets.
I don't know any Democrats who advocate the destruction of Isreal, but I do know some extreme right fanatics who will try to use anything they can to discredit Democrats while at the same time ignoring the cancer within their own ranks.
So again no evidence that Trump is anti-Semitic and no name of Hitler's family member who was Jewish. A "few radical and misguided persons"? HA HA HA HA HA HA. Is that how you characterized Jan. 6 protestors? Of course not. There are tens of thousands of violent Dems rioting and attacking police officers around the US in an effort to end support of Israel. In fact, they want to destroy Israel and erase it from the map. But Trump is the anti-Semite for some unspecified reason despite his 100% support of Israel. Unreal.
So again no evidence that Trump is anti-Semitic and no name of Hitler's family member who was Jewish.
I just read the last pages re this issue and it's sad to see Weidmann is up to his old tricks, the way he argues is so juvenile. I would like to know his facts but instead as usual, the clearly clueless Weidmann just wants the attention, very bizarre.
I also like how he justifies his Trump accusation because he's only half Jewish because one of his parents is Jewish but his family is Jewish?, Okay? And besides yet another convenient self serving anecdote, what does Weidmann's heritage have to do with the price of fish?
JohnM
I just read the last pages re this issue and it's sad to see Weidmann is up to his old tricks, the way he argues is so juvenile. I would like to know his facts but instead as usual, the clearly clueless Weidmann just wants the attention, very bizarre.
I also like how he justifies his Trump accusation because he's only half Jewish because one of his parents is Jewish but his family is Jewish?, Okay? And besides yet another convenient self serving anecdote, what does Weidmann's heritage have to do with the price of fish?
JohnM
Yes, it is bizarre. He has claimed that Hitler had family members who were Jewish to rebut the argument that one reason to conclude that Trump is not an anti-Semite is because he has immediate family members who are Jewish. But then he refuses to name the member of Hitler's family who was Jewish by suggesting that his own claim is not relevant. LOL. He claims that the evidence of Trump being an anti-Semite is "everywhere" but won't cite a single example. Instead he makes the inane circular argument that Trump is an ant-Semite because he is an anti-Semite. He suggests that Trump is worse than Hitler by stating that Hitler would be the one insulted by the comparison. He implies that someone who converts to Judaism is not really a Jew. A litany of false, idiotic, and racist claims.
Shall I get Mytton and you some coffee (or something stronger) to go along with your "conversation"?
I gave you many chances to engage in a "conversation," but you are just deflecting down the rabbit hole once again with bizarre nonsense like the post above. It is really weird that you interject yourself into this discussion, make several false and racist claims, and then refuse to support any of them.
I gave you many chances to engage in a "conversation,"
You don't even know what the word "conversation" means...
It is really weird that you interject yourself into this discussion,
What discussion would that be? Since august, when Rick Plant gave up talking to you, this entire thread is nothing more than you spewing propaganda and utter nonsense. If I didn't post once in a while you'd be talking to yourself all the time.
How long can you extend this without making a single substantive point that is relevant to the topic? Here are the relevant topics in response to your racist and anti-Semitic claims:
Martin claim: Hitler had family members who were Jewish.
Proof: None.
Martin claim: Ivanka is not Jewish enough to count as a Jewish daughter since she converted.
Proof: None.
Martin claim: Trump is an anti-Semite despite having a daughter and grandchildren who are Jewish and being a strong supporter of Israel during his presidency.
Proof: None. Bizarre statement that Trump is anti-Semitic because he is anti-Semitic and the proof is "everywhere" while refusing to provide a single example.
Martin claim: That Hitler should be the person offended in a comparison to Trump implying that Hitler was not as bad as Trump.
Proof: None. Hitler killed millions of Jews in the Holocaust. No evidence at all was provided that Trump was anti-Semitic. Your statement is despicable and shameful.
How long can you extend this without making a single substantive point that is relevant to the topic?
What topic?
Here are the relevant topics in response to your racist and anti-Semitic claims:
So, now you decide what is relevant?
And where did you get the false notion that I am racist (when race hasn't been discussed at all) and anti-Semitic, when I am part-Jewish by blood (and not the non-Jewish father of a daughter who converted)? You clearly do not know what you are talking about.
In a conversation it is custom that you listen and try to understand what the other person is saying. You never do and/or can't and constantly misrepresent what has been said.
I have already told you that I have no intention to enter into a discussion with you about Hitler, so you can divert attention away from Trump.
Trump praised the terrorists of Hezbollah, who only have one purpose; the elimination of Isreal and the Jews.... Very odd behavior for somebody who is supposed to be not anti-Semitic.
Having been given numerous opportunities to have a rational discussion and declining to respond to the points that he raised including Hitler, Martin goes on the ignore list with his contrarian brethren. Adios.
Of all the insane, baseless conspiracy theories espoused about Trump including the "Russian collusion" lie, perhaps none is as laughable as the current talking point that the leftist media has conjured up. Trump will be a "dictator" if elected in 2024. Cue spooky music. Repeat endlessly. Of course, Trump has already been president and did not declare himself a dictator. He is also in his late 70s. How long could this dictatorship last? What does it even mean in this context? Does it mean to use the legal system to indict your political opponents? Suppress speech on social media? Conspire with the media to promote desirable narratives? Take bribe money from foreign government and use your political influence to avoid jail? Open the border to flood the country with millions of unknown illegal aliens in violation of the law hoping that they are future voters for your party? Change the election laws in almost every state in the weeks leading up to the election in a way that is most favorable, and win based on the margins of those changes? Those all sound like things dictators might do if in power. And it does sound familiar, but Trump did none of those things.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1734608836378480883
McGovern: "We are here because the insurrection did not succeed on January 6, and this is about finishing the job. So let's not kid ourselves that Donald Trump doesn't play a role here."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGovern_(American_politician)
A Trump hating Dem is spreading the conspiracy narrative? Shocking. Who is using the legal system to lock up political opponents? Who censored speech on social media and fed false narratives to the mass media outlets? Who changed the laws in almost state just before the election in a way that decided the outcome? Trump? No. Old Joe did that. All while his family was enriching itself to the tune of tens of millions in foreign influence peddling schemes. And paying no taxes.
A Trump hating Dem is spreading the conspiracy narrative? Shocking. Who is using the legal system to lock up political opponents? Who censored speech on social media and fed false narratives to the mass media outlets? Who changed the laws in almost state just before the election in a way that decided the outcome? Trump? No. Old Joe did that. All while his family was enriching itself to the tune of tens of millions in foreign influence peddling schemes. And paying no taxes.
In the last 20 min.... (BTW Richard, at this late date, your post is full of Trump's claims. Aren't 92 felony counts enough to give you pause?)
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1734971981491995093
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Amazing. Chuck Grassley admits "I have no evidence ... the fact haven't taken me to that point where I can say the president is guilty of anything."
Following up from my post yesterday, closing remarks of "Trump hating," Rep. McGovern. Watch the brief video,
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1734681409996878116
McGovern's closing remarks: "When it comes right down to it, this absurd impeachment process inquiry has nothing to do with the integrity of President Biden, and it has everything to do with the lack of integrity in the Republican Party."
Can't decipher that but the use of the legal system to prosecute your political opponents is exactly the sort of thing that a dictator would do. Putin and Biden do that. Doesn't that give you pause as to who is the dictator? Trump was already president. He did not prosecute anyone. He did not change the election laws in the weeks leading up to the election to win in such a way as to ensure his election. He did not censor speech. Any of that sound familar?All of the damage Trump has already done, continues to do, threatens to do in the future, and what instead triggers you, is it 92 felony counts in four indictments and in a superseding indictment? Of course not! Your outrage is directed at Hunter Biden, who has never served in government and who Trump attempted to "shake down" President Zelenskyy into publicly and internationally discredit, in exchange for funds congress had appropriated as non-lethal assistance in Zelenskyy's government's armed resistance to Putin's invsion and occupation of eastern Ukraine the size of Texas, resulting in Trump's first impeachment.
The parties and Probation have agreed to revisions to the diversion agreement to more closely match the conditions of pretrial release that Probation recommended in the pretrial services report issued yesterday.
The information sought by the Committee concerns an open matter about which the Department is not at liberty to respond. As then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote in 2018 in response to a request for information from the Honorable Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary:
Congressional inquiries during the pendency of a matter pose an inherent threat to the integrity of the Department’s law enforcement and litigation functions. Such inquiries inescapably create the risk that the public and the courts will perceive undue political and Congressional influence over law enforcement and litigation decision.
I believe she did. As I said, she served the Department for more than 16 years, and I believe her to be a prosecutor with integrity.
If the Court believes that parol evidence should be considered, Mr. Biden requests an evidentiary hearing in which all participants in the negotiation of the Diversion Agreement, including Mr. Weiss and the responsible members of his prosecution team, can be called as witnesses to address the extensive recapitulation provided in Mr. Clark’s Declaration.
Talk about a lack of confidence in Old Joe. This means that Congress - both Dems and Repubs = think Trump is winning in 2024. LOL.The difference is Trump withdrew U.S. commitment to defend NATO allies in event of attack whether they spent more on their own defense or not.
"Congress this week approved a measure aimed at preventing any U.S. president from unilaterally withdrawing the United States from NATO without congressional approval."
Imagine if NATO countries were actually required to pay their fair and agreed upon share instead of the US bearing the entire burden of defending them. What a dictator Trump must be to suggest that "Europe" pay at least a very small amount for their own defense.
https://twitter.com/johneverettcook/status/1504322888215584774
John E. Cook 💙🇺🇸🧢
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Contrary to Trump's assertions, European members of NATO & Canada *increased* their defense spending in 2015 and 2016, *before* Trump took office!
Also, NATO countries don't "pay up." They pledge some % of GDP on their *own* military + a small stipend for NATO headquarters.
The difference is Trump withdrew U.S. commitment to defend NATO allies in event of attack whether they spent more on their own defense or not.
Trump can always be counted on to please Putin by stoking uncertainty and division instead of unity and resolve!
Trump pushes NATO allies to spend more, but so did Obama and Bush
CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/obama-and-bush-also-pressed-nato-allies-to-spend-more-on-defense.html
Jul 11, 2018 — Bush and Barack Obama regularly expressed frustration with NATO member governments for not spending more of their domestic budgets on defense.```````````````````````
https://twitter.com/PFr1end/status/1459228775724507141
Paul Friend🌹Pray God saves us from liberals
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President Obama also urged European NATO members to contribute their full share to the alliance, saying that "Europe has sometimes been complacent about its own defense." (April 25th 2016)
Obama urges NATO members to pull their weight 15th (November 2016) https://t.co/U9QtinTMT5
Destabilizing on Putin's behalf!
Fears of a NATO Withdrawal Rise as Trump Seeks ...
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › U.S. › Politics
Dec 9, 2023 — Mr. Trump likes to brag that he privately told leaders of NATO countries that if Russia attacked them and they had not paid the money they owed ...
Magnificent speech by Trump highlighting the disastrous Biden open border policy that has resulted in potentially 5 million or more unknown aliens being set loose in the US. No one has a clue who these people are. Many are from China, the Middle East and Africa. Undoubtedly many terrorists among them. Old Joe's own FBI director just confirmed that this is the highest risk level of any recent time. At the same time, they are opening the border to anyone who wants to cross. Think about the logical inconsistencies in those policies. High terrorist risk and open border. Can people get off of an international flight and run through customs and out of the airport? Of course not. They would be arrested and deported. But five million or more people can do exactly that at the border with no end in sight.
It just gets worse and worse every day for Old Joe. His disastrous open border immigration and economic policies are the primary reasons. The Dems must be in a panic as Trump surges. When does Ukraine Joe pull the LBJ act and announce that he is dropping out?
"Only one-third of Americans gave President Biden a thumbs up on the job he is doing in the White House, according to a new national public opinion survey.
The president stands at 34% approval in a Monmouth University poll released on Monday, with 61% giving Biden a thumbs down on his job performance.
The president's approval is at an all-time low in Monmouth polling since Biden took over the White House nearly three years ago."
Trump is now saying out loud that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country". Exactly the same rhetoric Hitler used who wanted to keep the Aryan blood pure.
He then goes on and praises Putin, Orbán and Kim Jong Un....
And Richard wants us to believe that Trump isn't a fascist..... Go figure!
Talk about a dictatorship and threat to democracy. They are actually keeping Trump off the ballot in Colorado unless the US Supreme Court reverses the decision. Wow. Imagine that is what has become of America.
Things that a dictator actually does:
1) Change the election laws in a way that is most advantageous to them just before an election
2) Lock up political opponents
3) Keep political opponents off the ballot
4) Suppress free speech
5) Enrich themselves and their families with corruption and bribes.
All actions that have been taken by Old Joe and his radical followers. The Colorado ruling is the single most egregious example of voter suppression and election interference in American history. It would not only keep Trump off the ballot but would preclude American citizens from even writing in his name as their candidate of choice. Thus, depriving them of their Constitutional right to vote for a presidential candidate. Imagine if an all-Republican appointed group of judges decided that Old Joe could not appear on the ballot. The leftist media and radical mobs would go insane and burn the cities to the ground. Absent a reversal by the Supreme Court, the precedent has been set that politically appointed judges in every individual state have the ability to preclude American citizens from voting for their candidate of choice. The chaos and damage to democracy would be mind bending. But the ends always justify any means for the radical Trump haters. If it means destroying democracy to keep him from being elected, then they are willing to cross that Rubicon. Ukraine Joe's fall in the polls while Trump surges has caused absolute panic. They are running out of options.
The US Supreme Court is likely to unanimously reverse the Colorado decision. Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the president. Even if it did, Trump has not been charged with "insurrection" must less convicted. In fact, he was acquitted as part of the impeachment of any such act. Imagine the chaos if the Dem precedent was established that every individual court from the various 50 states has the power to make a determination that a political candidate for President cannot be on the ballot based upon their own subjective interpretation of what constitutes an "insurrection." And this decision is made in a state with judges appointed only by the political party running against this candidate. Even the most radical, unhinged lunatic, Trump hating fringe must acknowledge that disenfranchising millions of American citizens from voting is not the way to win elections. That kind of Jim Crow policy for political power is a relic of the past. It does highlight, however, the extent to which these radicals are willing to go and their lack of confidence that Old Joe can win the 2024 election.
Here is a prediction. When the Supreme Court overturns this radical decision, the leftist loons will attempt to discredit the ruling on the basis of politics. The irony.
Biden has been briefly released by his handlers to "campaign." He looks increasingly deranged as he stammers about democracy and Jan. 6 before he is carted offstage. It is frightening to contemplate that he is the most powerful person in the world. He doesn't even know where he is from moment to moment. There is fear and confusion in his eyes. If his family had any decency, they would usher him out of the public view to a facility that could care for him. It is sad to watch.
When did you first notice how radicalized you had become? Do you even notice yet that there is a cult of personality swallowing reason in America and that Biden is in office resulting from a coalition, 42 percent white, the most highly educated white voters, and 58 percent other than white producing 80 million votes against the cult of personality bleater, three years ago? Of the 20 states with voting majorities earning greatest per capita batchelor's degrees or higher, Trump won only the 19th highest educated, Montana. Of the least 20 best educated state voting majorities, Trump won 17 !
The war against public education, signaled by the Trump appointment of Betsy Devos and confirmed by the DeSantis-Rufo-Fox News vandalism of K-16 public education is supported by the 2020 presidential election results in which no state voting majority earning 35 percent batchelor's degrees or higher voted for Trump.
The Trump party response to the third anniversary of January 6 clearly indicates it is irredeemable.
https://twitter.com/marshalgrouchy/status/1744032099898712475
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@espinsegall
#Jonathan_Turley_on_the_Ashli_Babbitt_Horst_Wesslel_non_controversy
Turley having captured an audience of right wing lunatics is now their prisoner.
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The long-awaited tort action from the family of Ashli Babbitt has now been filed in Southern California. The complaint adds some troubling facts to prior concerns over the government's investigation and findings on the only shooting in the Jan. 6th riot. https://jonathanturley.org/2024/01/07/family-of-ashli-babbitt-files-30-million-wrongful-death-action/
11:23 AM · Jan 7, 2024
Expressing concern that the president appears to be suffering from cognitive issues relating to dementia is being radicalized? The man is clearly confused and disoriented. Even the most radical Trump hater must recognize that Old Joe is having trouble finding his way off the stage. He often blanks out or utters gibberish that is indecipherable to humans. It is sad to see any person in that state. What is radicalized from a political perspective, however, are things like changing election laws in the weeks leading up to an election in a way that is most favorable to a candidate, censoring speech, controlling the media, and using the justice system to imprison political opponents or keep them off the ballot. Those are chilling tactics of totalatariian states. There was a time that liberals were champions of free speech and fair elections. Those days are long gone. Now the ends justify any means to stop Trump.
How can I be so certain you are hyper radicalized and trapped in a cult of personality, quite content about your predicament because you view the three years older competition as senile and incompetent?
...because you can't answer the question. "what kind of a country do I want the people I care about to have to live in?"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-could-order-seal-team-6-to-kill-rivals-and-avoid-prosecution-if-not-impeached-lawyer-says/ar-AA1mGf36
Trump could order SEAL Team 6 to kill rivals and avoid prosecution if not impeached, lawyer says
USA TODAY on MSN.com|3 hours ago
The case marks the first chance for federal courts to gauge a former president's criminal immunity because Trump is the first to be charged. Each side claims the Constitution and historical precedent are on their side....
....A prosecutor, assistant special counsel James Pearce, voiced concern for the country’s future if presidents could kill rivals or sell national secrets and suffer no consequences without an impeachment and conviction.
“I think that is an extraordinarily frightening future,” Pearce said. “I think if we are talking about balancing interests that should weigh extraordinarily heavily in the court’s consideration.”
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1744742606062624964
emptywheel
@emptywheel
Pearce: What kind of world are we living in where, as I take my friend to suggest, if a President orders Seal Team Six to assassinate his opponent, resigns, immune. sells pardon, resigns, immune.
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Pan now saying that if Sauer's impeachment first argument is wrong, he loses.
Pearce "That is wrong for textual, historical, and a host of practical reasons."
If a President assassinates and sells pardons and isn't impeached, there is no accountability.
emptywheel
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Pearce seems like he feel he has the win and is bulldozing for a bigger win.
emptywheel
@emptywheel
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Again, I can't WAIT for the reports of how Trump is taking this -- his attorney arguing that Biden can assassinate him.
emptywheel
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Pearce DOES NOT end with a request for anything re stay.
emptywheel
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LOLOLOLOL.
Now Sauer, having argued that Nixon's were private acts, says that the fact that Trump was not charged for anything after he left office that they were official acts.
emptywheel
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Pan: So I just want to confirm. If President Trump HAD BEEN convicted, then this prosecution would be entirely proper.
Sauer: For the same or similar conduct. There would be many other issues with this prosecution.
Pan has so little patience for men who filibuster her.
emptywheel
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Sauer is trying REALLY hard not to concede Pan's point--again, I wonder how Trump is responding to this.
emptywheel
@emptywheel
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Now Pan has gotten him to concede that under Sauer's theory, POTUS can be prosecuted for official acts.
emptywheel
@emptywheel
The OTHER brilliant thing about Sauer's argument that Biden can assassinate his client is that BY NOT DOING SO, Biden is disproving all Sauer's bullspombleprofglidnoctobuns claims about politicization.
GAWD that was fun.
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1744770427518337024
emptywheel
@emptywheel
This is true.
But then, Trump not only already promised that, but he spent much of his Administration doing that.
Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
So far, Trump's lawyer's argument comes down to: If you prosecute Trump, we'll come after you, whether what you've done is crimes or not, and we'll do it in Texas with a Texas jury.
I can't grasp any coherent point from all this. Let's simplify. Is Biden exhibiting signs of advanced dementia or not? What kind of shape will he be in a year from now or longer at his current rate of decline? Who is the person ordering tactical assault teams to raid the home of his political opponent? Was that Trump or the current administration? Who is trying to keep political opponents off the ballot? Is that Trump or the current administration? Who is using the legal system to prosecute his political opponent? Trump or the current administration? Silly hypotheticals are laughable in the face of reality. Do you want to live in a country in which EVERY outgoing president is charged for crimes by the political party that assumes power? Should republicans in the next administration prosecute Biden for conspiracy to aid and abet human trafficking, drug smuggling, and overdose deaths due to his unwillingness to uphold the Constitution and various federal immigration laws? Is that the precedent that will make for the kind of country that you want?
Richard, your POV is almost completely inaccurate because you limit your information intake.
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1265978867870810113
@emptywheel
"Reminder: The really problematic Carter Page applications--the only ones withdrawn by Trump's DOJ--were approved on April 7 and June 29, 2017.
Getting the Trump DOJ to approve problematic FISAs months into the Trump Admin seems like a bad way to "prevent the election" of Trump."
Gif: Trump assisted by general in walking down "steep ramp" @ West Point in June, 2020, after observed difficulty in drinking water with one hand,
https://twitter.com/i/status/1306768427797958659
https://edition.cnn.com › 2020 › 06 › 19 › politics › trump-ramp-west-point-commencement-speech › index.html
Donald Trump can't stop talking about that West Point ramp
Jun 19, 2020 "Trump's claim that the ramp had been 'very slippery' was inconsistent with the weather, which on Saturday in West Point, N.Y., was sunny and clear-skied. The grass plain on which the ..."
Eleven minutes during June, 2020 Tulsa Rally (fatal to Herman Cain) of Trump's "Don't believe what you've seen with your own eyes...."
WATCH: Trump explains VIRAL ramp descent, water sipping moments during Tulsa rally
The Hill
109,931 views Jun 20, 2020
During a rally in Tulsa, OK, President Trump explained his viral moments during his speech at West Point involving descending a ramp and sipping water from a glass.
If the arguments by Trump's lawyers to a three judge DC appeals court panel on Tuesday were successful and subsequently confirmed by a SCOTUS majority, explain what prudent options President Biden would have, other than to order the assasssination of his political rival, and resign the presidency under a pardon protection by his successor, Kamala Harris, as Nixon did?
Would it not then be incumbent on Harris to devote her presidency, using the new found Trump Court immunity decision to taking steps necessary in preventing anyone other than a Democrat from succeeding her as POTUS?
What is with the endless random links? Try to have a discussion. This is simple. Is Biden exhibiting signs of dementia or not? Has the Biden administration attempted to imprison political opponents, raid their homes, and made efforts to keep them off the ballot? Are those actions consistent with democracy or a totalitarian state?
Richard, your POV is almost completely inaccurate because you limit your information intake.
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1265978867870810113
@emptywheel
"Reminder: The really problematic Carter Page applications--the only ones withdrawn by Trump's DOJ--were approved on April 7 and June 29, 2017.
Getting the Trump DOJ to approve problematic FISAs months into the Trump Admin seems like a bad way to "prevent the election" of Trump."
Gif: Trump assisted by general in walking down "steep ramp" @ West Point in June, 2020, after observed difficulty in drinking water with one hand,
https://twitter.com/i/status/1306768427797958659
https://edition.cnn.com › 2020 › 06 › 19 › politics › trump-ramp-west-point-commencement-speech › index.html
Donald Trump can't stop talking about that West Point ramp
Jun 19, 2020 "Trump's claim that the ramp had been 'very slippery' was inconsistent with the weather, which on Saturday in West Point, N.Y., was sunny and clear-skied. The grass plain on which the ..."
Eleven minutes during June, 2020 Tulsa Rally (fatal to Herman Cain) of Trump's "Don't believe what you've seen with your own eyes...."
WATCH: Trump explains VIRAL ramp descent, water sipping moments during Tulsa rally
The Hill
109,931 views Jun 20, 2020
During a rally in Tulsa, OK, President Trump explained his viral moments during his speech at West Point involving descending a ramp and sipping water from a glass.
If the arguments by Trump's lawyers to a three judge DC appeals court panel on Tuesday were successful and subsequently confirmed by a SCOTUS majority, explain what prudent options President Biden would have, other than to order the assasssination of his political rival, and resign the presidency under a pardon protection by his successor, Kamala Harris, as Nixon did?
Would it not then be incumbent on Harris to devote her presidency, using the new found Trump Court immunity decision to taking steps necessary in preventing anyone other than a Democrat from succeeding her as POTUS?
Can't you have a conversation without linking a thousand random webpages? Do you think Biden is exhibiting symptoms of dementia? Do you think it sets a good precedent for the incoming party to charge the outgoing president for poltiical crimes? Did Trump prosecute any of his political opponents, raid their homes in predawn raids. and censor speech? All common acts of dictators.
Please translate your post.I don't speak cult.
https://twitter.com/AnnevanLeur/status/1745162001020547268
Annie van Leur
@AnnevanLeur
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Jan 10
A testy exchange between Trump's attorney and the civil court judge overseeing his fraud trial began with Chris Kise using the former president's late mother-in-law as an excuse and ended with Engoron declaring
"I WILL NOT GRANT ANY FURTHER EXTENSIONS."
rawstory.com
Trump judge snaps as lawyer cites Melania's mother's death as reason for delay
A testy exchange between Donald Trump's attorney and the civil court judge overseeing his fraud trial
https://twitter.com/opiedog8/status/1745538486709653602
▪️RICH BOONE▪️
@opiedog8
“I don’t even know who the woman is”.
Trump and Ivana with E. Jean Carroll.
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https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1746332921957363812
The Daily Beast
@thedailybeast
He called the judge a “bad person” for refusing his request to attend the funeral of his “beloved” mother-in-law, even as his campaign continues to promote an event that day.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1745965745060667506
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Trump Monday: I need closing arguments postponed 3 weeks so I can stay home & comfort grieving Melania.
Trump Today to Iowans: “I’ll get to see you Sunday & Monday & maybe Sat night late. We wouldn’t miss it for anything!”
The Clear Cider 🦋
@TheClearCider
Trump, Wednesday evening, being dropped off for the FoxNews Town Hall, less than 24 hours after his announcement that Melania’s mother was now floating in the blue sky above.
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My post was in simple English and does not contain a rambling pasting of website links to make some indecipherable point. What is with posting endless links instead of having a normal conversation? It's like conversing with an AI machine that is glitching. Among these ramblings, you have posted a link about Trump having a town hall after Melania's mother died. What point are you making? That Trump is heartless. LOL. How do you or anyone know what Trump is doing in his private family affairs? Trump is running for president. Trump has his own plane. He can be at a town hall and a couple of hours later be anywhere in the world. Maybe do some more research:
"Mr Trump proposes to spend January 17 and 18 traveling to and attending the funeral, which the family has scheduled for January 18, 2024 in Florida."
If you are concerned with politicians being heartless, how about Old Joe denying the existence of his own granddaughter? Putting up Christmas stocking for all his grandkids and even the dog but not one for her. Why? Because she is a political liability to him as Dirty Hunter's love child. So she doesn't matter. That is cold blooded. Of course, in his state of advanced dementia, he probably doesn't remember he has any grandchildren.
I'll try to simplify. Biden - does he have dementia or not? Trump - did he have his justice department prosecute political opponents and make efforts to keep them off the ballot like Putin or some third world dictator? Or was that Old Joe? No links are necessary.
A magnificent and historic landslide victory last night for Trump. The first of fifty. Meanwhile Old Joe hit even new lows for him in the recent polls. State sponsored MSNBC refused to even carry all of Trump's magnificent victory speech. They are running scared. Nothing can stop him. They have tried intimidation, misuse of the legal process, censorship, and control of the media. And his poll numbers go further up with each passing day.
A magnificent and historic landslide victory last night for Trump. The first of fifty. Meanwhile Old Joe hit even new lows for him in the recent polls. State sponsored MSNBC refused to even carry all of Trump's magnificent victory speech. They are running scared. Nothing can stop him. They have tried intimidation, misuse of the legal process, censorship, and control of the media. And his poll numbers go further up with each passing day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll#Sexual_assault_allegations
...In June 2023, Trump counter-sued Carroll for defamation after she told CNN "yes he did" rape her in response to a question about the jury not finding him liable for that offense. Federal judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed the lawsuit in August, ruling that Carroll's rape claim against Trump was substantially true.[75]
Trump wins again! He can't help himself. The party is over for the corrupt establishment. Haley will drop out tonight or tomorrow. Old Joe even bungled the primary. Got himself kept off the ballot in NH. Hard to believe that even he is that incompetent, but he doesn't even know he is running.
Last fall, Trump, on the Urkaine war, regressed eight decades to his father's time as KKK member: "We would be in World War II very quickly." Few days ago, Trump called Argentina a “great guy” and “a big Trump guy” who “loves Trump.” Then this ...
'Donald Trump's Mental Decline Is No Joke':
Ex-Prez Suffers Bizarre Brain Freeze, Slurs
Through Speech — Watch the Video
Link (https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-mental-decline-no-joke-suffers-bizarre-brain-freeze-slurs-speech/)
"Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole —
that’s gonna be the least of it,” he added. “It’s going to be a bloodbath
for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell
those cars."
When Trump said "that going to be the least of it," he extended the "bloodbath" beyond the auto industry. What else was going to follow "bloodbath for the whole" if not country? SUV sector? In fact, he immediately goes there with "It going to a bloodbath for the country." Trump can't contain himself; he's transparent to normal people.
You're relying on typical spin from places like Fox News and alt-right/facsist hate sites and blogs.
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When Trump said "that going to be the least of it," he extended the "bloodbath" beyond the auto industry. What else was going to follow "bloodbath for the whole" if not country? SUV sector? In fact, he immediately goes there with "It going to a bloodbath for the country." Trump can't contain himself; he's transparent to normal people.
You're relying on typical spin from places like Fox News and alt-right/facsist hate sites and blogs.
Trump didn't end up saying "It’s going to be a bloodbath for the economy." He said "It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country."
BTW, Trump and his henchmen think competition in the auto industry means 100% tariffs and huge handouts to domestic auto companies. Why not compete fairly and do what Japan, China and Mexico does, meaning build fair-priced, reliable cars that are safe and have good resale value? Overseas, people think of American cars like Americans think of the Yugo.
Still not willing to indicate your state of origin and in which state you currently reside? Must be something about the policies in those states that you support and don't want known. We're not serfs to Britain. What medieval thinking. And when are you going to finally separate from the British? Your flag has thirteen stripes on it, each one representing a British colony. We don't have colonial symbols on our flag. Why are you speaking English and using the English system of courts, town halls, property rights, schools, system of weights and measures and on and on? The American Bill of Rights (based, naturally, on England's) was opposed by the Federalists.
The U.K. and Jordan participated in the shootdown. Not that Fix News/fascist alt-right blogs would ever bring themselves to acknowledge that. Canada has a presence in the China Sea, helping the US to provoke a war with China, so the US can write off all its debt owed China (debt that makes possible the US playing racist Global Cop).
The US "capitalist utopia" built on loans from China. Most of the quality home appliances that enhance the American lifestyle built in China.
On April 3rd, Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., hosted a $1000-plate-per-elite-racist fundraiser for Arizona's Kari Lake. One of Trump celebrity-intellectual pals, Rose Barr, spoke:
"Hey, Old Row, how are you doing? I'm here at Mar-a-Lago supporting Kari Lake,
and it was a fantastic evening. And our Trump is here being the DJ, and I've just
danced and everyone's amazed. So I'm just going to say to you, please drop out
of college, because it's going to ruin your lives. Do me a favor, drop out, they
don't teach you nothing good. Email me or Twitter me or whatever you [want],
call me and I'll help you with your life but you gotta get out of college 'cause it
isn't nothing but devil-worshiping, baby-blood-drinking Democrat donors. Love ya."
Roseanne stopped doing standup 30 years ago and stopped being funny 20 years ago. Unless you find jokes about blacks being "apes" funny. Barr wasn't joking when she made her comments. Kari Lake said of the event: "This is a place where MAGA comes to get excited get united".
If you're referring to claims like Kari Lake being the first Native American woman to run for Arizona governor, then be aware she is not recognized by any tribe. There's a buried claim on a web off-ramp that her great-grandmother was a member of the Ojibwe tribe, which, if true, translates into about one-percent Native American, the rest being white-entitled MEGA WASP. To show the left have a sense of humor, here's some comments ...
"We true Natives call them pretendians."
"She is a native of the Karen tribe."
"What have the Native Americans done to her to deserve to be insulted like this?"
"Her Native American name should be runs with many lies"
"Try it this way: K. Lake IS the bright spot in the REP party. That shows us how dim the rest are."
"She looks spray painted, not Native American."
"22 Federally Tribes in Arizona. I don’t recall her visiting one during the election."
"I am Native American and white supremacist" - sounds legit."
"Next step is for her to claim she is a black trans man."
"A mixture of every race : Keri Fake is 50% melting pot and 100 % crackpot"
"Well, Santos said he's Jewish. This shouldn't be a surprise. They'll claim anything if they think it'll be to their advantage.
"Just because you were conceived in a Jeep Cherokee doesn't make you Native American."
Now that would have been some great material at the Trump racist fundraiser (BTW, the $1000. merely got you on the lawn; there was a $100,000 yacht ride with Kari).
They're running on that, are they? Should be in Biden's ads any day now. When it comes to politics, you're as self-deluded as the JFK Conspiracy Loons.
In the elections since Roe v Wade was overturned in the summer of 2020, the polls keep saying that the Republicans will do well. But in the real elections, the November 2022 elections and the other special elections, the Republicans do much worse than the polls said they would.
The polls keep saying that Trump is even or even a little ahead of Biden. But I expect the same pattern to continue. Trump will do significantly worse than the polls indicate.
Trump's best chance of victory is not to win the popular vote. Nor is it to lose the popular vote but win in the Electoral College. Trump's best chance of victory is to overturn the election after November 5, 2024. Through getting local officials to throw out votes wholesale, maybe all votes from certain counties, getting state legislatures to overturn the vote or getting congress to overturn the vote. I think this time there will be less emphasis of using the courts, which got them nowhere last time despite a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court. And no massive assault on Congress on January 6 since they need surprise.
Also, voter suppression and intimidation will be used.
In the meantime, the MAGA motto should be: In Land-Line-Phone-Polls we trust.
It's true that republicans have underperformed. The leftist media has spun the abortion issue as the cause of recent disappointments for the republicans but that is largely a false narrative. The underlying media narrative that Republicans have "banned" abortion is demonstrably false misinformation. Not unlike "banning books" while merely making common sense efforts to ensure that age-appropriate books are in schools. Overturning Roe was simply a long overdue and straightforward legal issue. There is no right to an abortion in the Constitution. Therefore, it is up to the states to make those laws. A more important factor is "early" voting which has allowed Dems to harvest ballots from millions of students and minorities. Many of whom don't support Biden and wouldn't otherwise vote for him. As a result, Republicans have to win elections by about a 60-40 margin.
So, now your "hero", Donald Trump is saying that the CIA is "probably" behind killing Kennedy....
Oh boy, how do you reconcile this with your pathetic opinion that there was no conspiracy because LHO did it alone....
Hilarious!!
"probably"
Wow Martin, that sure is some conclusive evidence?? LOL!
JohnM
"Martin" from "Europe" even hates Trump when he allegedly shares his skepticism of the WC's conclusion. An interesting psychological insight into self-loathing. The radical leftists even in socialist "Europe" are in full panic this week. Their failed policies are finally coming home to roost. Macron, Trudeau, and Old Joe are on the way out. A clean sweep is coming.
I'm not as obsessed with Trump as much as Martin is, but besides the Cruz allegation from a few years back, I couldn't find any specific information where Trump links the CIA with the assassination of Kennedy?
All I can find is that supposedly the CIA or someone/something stopped anymore files being released because of National security, which could be as simple as the CIA didn't want to disclose internal procedures or perhaps the identity of people they vowed to keep silent?
But at the end of the day I honestly don't care what Trump "probably" believes, because if Trump the former President of the United States had any definitive proof then his beliefs wouldn't be associated with "probably", he would either know for sure or wouldn't know for sure.
There is no Try, only Do or Do Not!
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Btw Joe Biden is definitely is making a Fool of America and IMO will definitely be gone in a few weeks. Because if Biden's still there at the next election, the Democrat's will be have the BIGGEST Loss in the History of American Politics.
JohnM
Wow Martin, that sure is some conclusive evidence?? LOL!
JohnM
"Martin" from "Europe" even hates Trump when he allegedly shares his skepticism of the WC's conclusion. An interesting psychological insight into self-loathing. The radical leftists even in socialist "Europe" are in full panic this week. Their failed policies are finally coming home to roost. Macron, Trudeau, and Old Joe are on the way out. A clean sweep is coming.
I'm not as obsessed with Trump as much as Martin is, but besides the Cruz allegation from a few years back, I couldn't find any specific information where Trump links the CIA with the assassination of Kennedy?
All I can find is that supposedly the CIA or someone/something stopped anymore files being released because of National security, which could be as simple as the CIA didn't want to disclose internal procedures or perhaps the identity of people they vowed to keep silent?
But at the end of the day I honestly don't care what Trump "probably" believes, because if Trump the former President of the United States had any definitive proof then his beliefs wouldn't be associated with "probably", he would either know for sure or wouldn't know for sure.
There is no Try, only Do or Do Not!
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Btw Joe Biden is definitely is making a Fool of America and IMO will definitely be gone in a few weeks. Because if Biden's still there at the next election, the Democrat's will be have the BIGGEST Loss in the History of American Politics.
JohnM
"Martin" from "Europe" even hates Trump when he allegedly shares his skepticism of the WC's conclusion. An interesting psychological insight into self-loathing. The radical leftists even in socialist "Europe" are in full panic this week. Their failed policies are finally coming home to roost. Macron, Trudeau, and Old Joe are on the way out. A clean sweep is coming.
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The media bias is how the clip was cropped, leaving out Kamala speaking to reporters and the (vetted from official sources) graphic above. The segment on CNN is 10:27 min; the clip posted by Matt Batzel was 2:45. Doug Julin is the only one I've seen claim his unit was given some form of advance notice in 2004 and a "Warning Order" in February 2005. The verified March 2005 Advance Notice was not even specific to Walz's unit. Julin talks about a meeting in March, then says it was April. Ol' Yeller is still fully behind his Willie Brown helicopter forced landing tale, and this fellow (probably a MAGA supporter) is likewise "conflating" dates and details.
"I was an E9, Master Chief and retired at 30 years. There is absolutely no
requirement for a solder or Sailor to request permissionto retire from his
or her Enlisted supervisor. That is just a courtesy notification. This guy is
just trying to discredit Waltz service. Waltz didn't need permission from this
guy and there are men and women who make choices about when to
retire everyday and the considerations are about what is best for them and
their family. Waltz was completely within his rights to retire when he did."
"This CSM is simply upset that Walz didn't give him the courtesy of informing
him of his retirement. There is no "protocol" of this CSM being involved in
the retirement. That protocol is between the soldier (Walz) and the Adjutant
General of the Minnesota National Guard. I'm sorry CNN, but you just
wasted people's time with this interview. And yes, I am a retired regular
Army soldier."
"This man does not understand it is not his authority to go to him if you
are retiring."
"If he fell under the stop loss, they could have stopped it? They did not.
They approved and processed his retirement."
"The fact that he’s referring to Walz’s retirement as he “quit” tells me this
is personal and he’s got a bone to pick. Absolutely nobody in the military
refers to retirement as quitting."
"Trump has bone spurs, Vance wrote press releases. Describe how that gives
the right of this campaign to put down anyone's military service."
"She gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal."
-- Trump said of billionaire megadonor's medal.
"These asinine comments not only diminish the significance of our
nation’s highest award for valor, but also crassly characterized the
sacrifices of those who have risked their lives above and beyond
the call of duty.
When a candidate to serve as commander-in-chief so brazenly
dismisses the valor and reverence symbolized by the Medal of Honor,
I question whether they would discharge their responsibilities with the
seriousness and discernment necessary"
-- Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
"It isn’t a one-off insult of our Troops and our Veterans. It started when
he got out of Vietnam by lying about bone spurs, continued on when
he tried to kick Veteran vendors off of 5th Avenue, insulted John McCain,
insulted Gold Star Families, called our fallen suckers and losers, refused
to go to a military cemetery, told the military to stop having wounded
warriors perform at ceremonies because 'nobody wants to see that.'"
--VoteVets (endorsed Harris)
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"There was nobody at the plane, and she 'A.I.'d' it, and showed a
massive 'crowd' of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST!"
DonOLD's latest "Fake News". ::)
21 Worthless Knick-Knacks Donald Trump Will Give You for Your Cash ( Link (https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-fundraising/) )
If people are willing to try and assassinate Trump, it makes sense that people would also be willing to Rig an election that had Trump on the ballot.
The guy had a Biden/Harris bumper sticker on the truck sitting in his driveway in Hawaii. He encouraged Iran to take out Trump too. They claim Trump's rhetoric is causing this, yet nobody is physically attacking liberal politicians. We currently have: (2) assassination attempts on Trump, (1) assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, and (1) assassination attempt on Rep Steve Scalise. Trump and these other 2 people ALL proffer a general conservative philosophy. It's the Liberal's and their Consistently Hateful Speech that is setting their supporters off. Yet, they refuse to back off.
The biggest difference is that Trump's rhetoric is focused on policy failures. The radical leftist rhetoric is focused on Trump himself. He is Hitler according to them. A potential dictator who will "destroy democracy." It's a very visceral personal hatred directed toward him. He is an evil person according to these folks. This is having consequences due to the endless media propaganda which has repeated this narrative for almost a decade. Every minute of the day, CNN and MSNBC are running some type of negative Trump story. That has radicalized many people. If Trump is effectively Hitler, then any means justifies the end for them. In fact, the brainwashed types like the most recent assassin was going to document his crime by filming it. He only does that if he believes it would reflect well on him. He thought he was going to be a hero because everyone told him that Trump is evil.
With his having been there for close to 12 hours, I believe the assassin was either drowsy or flat-out asleep. The SS Agent spotted the rifle and immediately opened fire. The 4 shots suddenly awakened the assassin and he immediately ran away. This is why he never fired a shot and left the rifle and everything else behind.
Yeah, I have heard that he had the rifle in his hands pointing it through the fence. I do Not believe that. He did Not fire a shot. Yet, the SS Agent fired off 4 rds at the barrel of the assassin's rifle and did Not hit the guy? These SS Agents are supposed to be crack shots. I believe they are. I also believe the photo showing the rifle leaning against the fence, the 2 back packs hanging from the fence within feet of the rifle, and the GoPro Camera also attached to the same fence was all staged by the SS. They pulled these same shenanigans when they raided Mar-a-Largo and then snapped "staged" pics for public consumption. They've been doing this "staging" dating back to the 6th Floor Sniper's Nest.
The electoral college decides the presidential race. Trump currently wins that and is pulling away. In baseball, you judge a pitcher based on the reaction of the hitter. The Dem's ever growing hysteria tells the tale.
Disaster after disaster is unfolding under Old Joe and Kacklin' Kamala with their own incompetence and loony policies acting as a force multiplier to increase the harm.
"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas set off outrage Wednesday when he told reporters that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “does not have the funds” to see Americans through the rest of this Atlantic hurricane season — after the agency spent more than $1.4 billion since the fall of 2022 to address the migrant crisis."
So, how can Kamala say out of one side of her mouth that the “border is secure.” Then turn around and apparently classify the migrant crisis as a federal emergency?
cant think of anyone MORE incompetent than the Trumpster!
Kacklin' Kamala and "Tommy Boy" Walz are starting to come unglued. You can fool some of the people some of the time as they say but you can't hide a couple of incompetents for an entire campaign. They may still win due to the relentless efforts of the media, justice system, and political establishment that would have overwhelmed anyone other than Trump but it's going to be close. And big mo is on Trump's side coming down the stretch. The polls are improving.
I'm not a big "polling" guy, but the "polls" do consistently corroborate 1 thing. Bogus Ballots having been previously counted. Biden's consistently horrible poll numbers over his close to 4yr term are due to his Never having received 81+ Mill Legit 2020 votes. Same goes for Sen Tester/State Of Montana 2018, and Sen Sinema/Arizona 2018. Both Tester and Sinema have polled under 50% for their 6yr terms. Sinema's polling numbers were so consistently horrible that she is Not even running for re-election. Tester is running for re-election, but he too has horrible poll numbers. He will lose on Nov 5. Trump gets ragged All the time for failing to generate 50+% in any poll, but Trump NEVER received over 50% of the popular vote in 2016 or 2020. Trump was in the upper 40's in both of those elections. Trump's 2016/2020 Trump vote count numbers/%'s do match his polling numbers. This corroborates the Trump vote count in both of his elections as being Legit. The Trump vote count totals are attached to real people. Real People that can/do get "polled". The Biden, Tester, Sinema vote counts are artificially inflated. They have votes that are Not attached to real people. Therefore, these "Ghost Votes" can Not be polled. This is why Biden, Tester, and Sinema have consistently been and continue to be crashing with their polling numbers.
Watched that FOX News interview of Harris. She is the perfect example of a political machine/Willie Brown having pushed a low IQ individual to the Top. Harris turns 60 in a few days and has been in the political arena her entire adult life. Yet, she still gets tied into knots by wimps like Brett Baier. She's a glaring example as to the TV Series "Suits" Not being pure fiction. There obviously are individuals out there that will take the bar exam in your name for a fee/$$.
Who cares what CNN's "take" is? CNN avg's Under 500,000 viewers across their Prime Time Lineup. It's a Ghost Town over there.
I secured my vote yesterday in early voting available here. Thankfully a proper identification card is required along with a signature on a touch screen that apparently confirms one’s identity. I hope these protocols become universal throughout our nation. It certainly gives me more confidence in the process. Thumb1:
That sounds like voter suppression. LOL. You are probably under Russian mind control. Stacey Abrams was on TV last night touting the record turnout in GA. This is just a couple years after she and Old Joe claimed Georgia had reverted to "Jim Crow" laws to suppress voting. The irony and hypocrisy was apparently lost on her. Meanwhile the Biden DOJ is suing several states who are trying to remove non-citizens from the voting rolls. The same administration who tells us there is no evidence of voter fraud and that our elections are secure. It is just a conspiracy theory to suggest otherwise.
Proper IDs are required for most everything these days. Doctor visits, flying commercial airlines, getting a tag for an automobile, etc, etc, etc. I cannot imagine anyone functioning normally in the USA these days without a proper ID card. If we want to have more confidence in our elections, proper ID cards should be required, period.
2 Week Early In-Person Voting is OK by me. What I would add is a Daily Running Vote Total being made public. When anyone votes In-Person, their vote would immediately be counted/tabulated and then added to the Publicly Posted Running Vote Totals for every candidate or proposition on that person's ballot. We are voting Then and There. We are Not making a contribution to a blood bank.
They savaged Sarah Palin for being dumb. But, Harris issa Dem so the Fake News'ers do their best to gloss over her being a complete Dummy. The only way they can win is to rig it again. No other way. None.
I hope you are right. The polls are mystifying, though. They have it basically a tie, but when you dig down into the underlying data and compare it to 2020, Trump should be up ten points. Kamala is down in every single category except abortion. Early voting that saved Old Joe is down significantly overall from 2020. Among those who have voted early, the number of registered Republicans is up significantly. Everything points to a Trump landslide, but he could still lose according to the polls. Are the polls intentionally rigged to give hope to the Dems? Otherwise it makes little sense. Kamala is a terrible candidate. With all the forces propping her up and the money rolling in from woke celebrities, she should have won easily. Not picking Shapiro and going with "Tommy Boy" Walz might be the margin of difference if she loses PA and the election.
The DEMS want control... that is why they don't like Trump or Musk or B. Kennedy... they can't control them... IMO
Trump has several paths to winning the electoral college on Nov 5. He definitely has to win N. Carolina. That's his, "Jack's to open". After that it's, (1) Georgia + Penn + Nevada, or (2) Georgia + Mich + Arizona, Or (3) Georgia + Wisc + Arizona + Nevada. If New Hampshire should come into play, Trump has even more paths to 270. He's currently in a very good position. I believe that Georgia is safe due to Gov Kemp and Raffy being on board this time around. They got that state sewed up tight.
It's only gonna get worse. You know you are ahead when they get hysterical. Their internal polling tells them they are soon going to be unemployed.
If the polls prove to be wildly inaccurate like they were in 2016, it will be clear that this intentional to influence the election. On the eve of election day, the Des Moines paper poll indicates Harris is up several points in that state. In Iowa. Can they really believe that? It is the poll flawed or is Iowa the only state in the nation that suddenly made a 10+ point shift in one direction?
2020 "early votes"? More like ballot boxes being pulled out from under the table in Georgia. And then there's the truck pulling up at 3AM to that vote counting center in Philly and unloading pallets of vote boxes. All of this clearly recorded on video surveillance and nobody does squat. Plus, the video surveillance footage had to be fought for. And then there was the truck driver claiming that his truck full of uncounted ballots was stolen. He was immediately tarred a liar and a nut job with a drug record. His story was VERIFIED 2 yrs later by the Fed Govt. They said he got his truck number wrong which threw off their checking out his story. The DOJ is as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
Dating back to every primary election across the country, the Top 2 Issues were: (1) Economy and (2) The Border. Yet, the Dem's endlessly go on-and-on with their abortion harangue, even though the abortion issue is Now a state-by-state voter decision. And of course, they also ran Musk, Rogan, and RFK Jr. outta their party and right into the arms of Trump. And now, the Biden DOJ/Gestapo has pushed NY Mayor Eric Adams toward POTUS Trump. This is all the result of their ongoing Trump Derangement Syndrome.
How can you be so right (pardon the pun) about the JFK assassination, but so wrong about contemporary American politics?
Are you a supporter of Vladimir Putin's favorite "useful idiot" (or worse), the traitorous orange turd known as Donald J. Trump?
How can you be so right (pardon the pun) about the JFK assassination, but so wrong about contemporary American politics?
An "orange turd"? Yawn. And Russia again? What's next? COVID, Jan. 6., dictatorship, end of democracy. None of that propaganda worked. Relax. Trump is coming to save you from yourself. Just a couple more days before the national nightmare is over. Maybe find a safe space until then.
In my humble opinion you're full of high-fructose beans and KGB* disinformation whether you realize it or not.
*Today's SVR and FSB
KGB? LOL. Wake me up when it's Jan. 20.
Don't you realize that the disinformation you and all of the other MAGA-types have been suffering from since 1991 or so has come largely from the renamed two main constituents (i.e., parts) of the old KGB -- the SVR (which used to be the First Chief Directorate) and the FSB (which used to be the Second Chief Directorate)?
The Russians are not coming for us.
Old Joe, who spent his entire life as a politician enriching himself and his family in corruption, finally leaves office in disgrace. Fittingly, his final act was to pardon his entire crime family. The country is left in ruins but at least that nightmare is over.
Old Joe leaves [office] handing out more pardons to the likes of Fauci, Cheney, and Milley who are implicitly admitting guilt.
1) You do remember The Traitorous Orange Turd's pardoning of Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Mike "QAnon" Flynn, don't you?
2) What crimes did Fauci, Cheney, and Milley commit, in your humble opinion?
This corruption that you're accusing Joe Biden of committing -- whom, exactly, has that been proved by?
James Comer?
Jim Jordan?
Alex Jones?
It's proven by the facts. Every member of the Biden family has become a multimillionaire despite having no business or skill. They enriched themselves on corruption and influence peddling. Hunter was convicted of dozens of felonies. He lives in a home in Malibu being paid for by some unknown person. He was given diamonds from China and a Porsche. If these folks have nothing to hide, why do they need pardons? Why not trust to the justice system that Biden touted?
Fauci - Mass murder
Cheney - destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice
Milley - Treason
Prove it.
Done but you ignored it. Hunter was convicted of multiple felonies. Other members of the Biden crime family had no business or skill but received millions from foreign governments. GUILTY. They needed pardons to avoid prison.
Done but you ignored it. Hunter was convicted of multiple felonies. Other members of the Biden crime family had no business or skill but received millions from foreign governments. GUILTY. They needed pardons to avoid prison.
Done but you ignored it. Trumputin was convicted of multiple felonies. Other members of the Trumputin crime family had no business or skill but received billions from foreign governments. GUILTY. They needed pardons to avoid prison.
Do you think the Italian-mafia-and-Russian-mafia mobbed-up Traitorous Orange Turd, his two-or-three sons, and his son-in-law and HIS dad!, et al., are paragons of virtue compared to the "evil and corrupt Biden family"?
"10% for The Big Guy" explains everything Joe Biden does. It's his kickbacks this guy filters through The Biden Crime Family. The only difference between Joe and Al Capone is Capone was not smart enough to put his name on the ballot and then Rig a POTUS Election. JFK won a rigged election in 1960 and Joe did likewise in 2020. Trump is gonna clean out the filthy DOJ. He's a lame duck and has absolutely nothing to fear. This is why The Swamp will try for a 3rd time to put this modern day Elliott Ness down. Any means possible to end The Orange Man. They know Trump has nothing to fear.
That's right. The only fault of Trump's first administration is that he trusted the advice of corrupt establishment politicians believing that they knew what they were doing. He filled positions with people who they recommended who actively worked to undermine him. Trump learned a lesson. The people he is dealing with are ruthless and corrupt. That means a top to bottom house cleaning in the DOJ, FBI, and military. He has already taken away the security clearances of those who signed the Hunter laptop letter. An act of intentional election interference in 2020.
That's right. The only fault of Trump's first administration is that he trusted the advice of corrupt establishment politicians believing that they knew what they were doing.I agree. He acted on his own advice believing he knew what he was doing. Being a corrupt establishment politician, he thought he was smarter than the non-politicians in his cabinet, like Gen. Mattis, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly whose advice he consistently rejected. No wonder they thought he was an ignorant buffoon.
I agree. He acted on his own advice believing he knew what he was doing. Being a corrupt establishment politician, he thought he was smarter than the non-politicians in his cabinet, like Gen. Mattis, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly whose advice he consistently rejected. No wonder they thought he was an ignorant buffoon.
Trump did not learn any lessons. He wants a top to bottom house cleaning in the DOJ, FBI, and military because he thinks he is smarter than they are (even though he never reads anything) and they will simply try to stop him from getting what he seeks.
Fixed it.
BTW, what skill did Jared Kushner have to get 2 billion from the Saudis? A record 1500+ pardons for all his retarded minions on his 1st day puts Biden to shame! Wasn't Jeffrey Epstein his best bud for decades? No wonder you deplorables worship an orange Nazi pedo, he's clearly the Anti-Christ, comrade. Thumb1:
ps. Hope you didn't lose your shirt with his sh*t-coin scam, comrade. HA!
TDS is a terrible thing to behold. The fact remains that the Biden crime family benefitted for decades from influence peddling. Hunter was convicted of numerous felonies. He has been living in a Malibu home paid for by some unknown person. He was paid in diamonds from China. He was given a Porsche. He was paid millions by various foreign governments in return for no apparent service. The Biden family, unlike the Trump family, has no actual business to market. They are lifelong grifters. They received millions in bribes and corruption which was laundered to pay Old Joe's bills. The "Big Guy" was the beneficiary of this corruption. The last-minute pardons as he fled office say it all.
Sure hope there will not be any new requirements by the Trump Administration for proving citizenship identification involving having smart phone face recognition and or an “X” chip in my hand because that’s not my idea of “America First.
Sure hope I will not see cargo trains filled with people going to deportation camps along the southern border of Texas , and drones flying around my neighborhood with loud speakers demanding exiting my house to present my face looking upwards so the drone can ID me via an AI created by Elon Musk.
For the time being, I can only hope that the near miss of Trump by the assassins bullet was an intervention by God and that Trump was meant to do good for our America, and that I’m just paranoid due to life experiences observing actions by the previous US Presidents dating back to LBJ.
I doubt that Joe Biden is a "life-long grifter," but lots of politicians, both Democrat and Republican, are.
Even if he is a "grifter," however, it wouldn't compare to Donald J. Trump's being a probably witting KGB* agent.
Do you deny that the KGB* spotted and started cultivating The Traitorous Orange Turd in 1980 at a Manhattan electronics store owned by KGB agent Semyon Kislin, that he started laundering money for the Russian mafia (in the person of David Bogatin) in 1984, that he "melted" in March 1986 when he was flattered effusively by Yuri Dubinin, the recently appointed permanent USSR representative to the U.N. (and soon to become ambassador to the U.S.) who dropped in unannounced on him one day at Trump Tower, and that six months later The Traitorous Orange Turd found himself sitting next to Dubinin and Vitaly Churkin, both of whom were promoting Trump Tower Moscow, at a luncheon given by cosmetics czar Leonard Lauder?
I could go on and on, but that's enough for now.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Like we didn't see an outbreak of TDS coming on 1/20/25? And then there's the pure hatred. Ugly! Calling Biden a "grifter" is severely down sizing what he and his Crime Family were doing during his VP & POTUS tenure. They had this going on a Global scale. That is far larger than grifter territory.
That's far out tin foil hat stuff. We had four years of that Russian collusion hoax. Give it a rest. The obsession with the KGB is bizarre. Playing the Kevin Bacon game to link Trump to the Russians is comedy gold, though. Do you have a diagram with lines between all the parties? LOL. The KGB was even more inept than our own government. The Russian boogeyman is a product of US cold war propaganda to promote military spending. Russia has barely been able to overrun even small regions of the Ukraine but they are using Trump as an agent? Whew.
Even if there was no "collusion" (e.g., between some combination of Roger Stone, Harley Schlanger (of the LaRouche organization), Paul Manafort, GRU officer Konstantin Kilimnik, Julian Assange and Vladimir Putin) -- which there probably was; Robert Muller failed to "follow the money" -- why did Putin's GRU, FSB, and professional Saint Petersburg trolls help The Traitorous Orange Turd win, and why did Russian oligarchs and mafia boys celebrate his Electoral College "victory" over Hillary Clinton?
False premise. I don't know that the Russians helped Trump win (whatever that means). Many people celebrated Hillary's defeat for obvious reasons. Nothing nefarious in that. More importantly, there is no evidence that any of Trump's policy decisions were influenced by the Russians. He certainly tried to appeal to Putin's ego with good result. No invasion of Ukraine.
The Bidens were so arrogant and corrupt that they made little effort to conceal their crimes. Hunter was high most of the time. He even wrote a book confessing to numerous felonies including sex trafficking. It was only due to the influence of his father that he wasn't convicted years ago. I do agree that the scope of their corruption was enormous and global in scale. No one is suggesting that making money from legitimate business ventures, such as the Trump family has done for decades before Trump entered politics, is somehow a crime. That is the American way. In contrast, the Bidens had no business. They simply shook down foreign governments and laundered the money. And they got away with no consequences other than some minor embarrassment at the last-minute pardons. They are a minor footnote of history now. No one will ever give a second thought to Joe Biden or his corrupt family going forward. If they are remembered at all, it will be for the enormous harm done in the US and around the world.
And that stuff about Hunter having a warehouse full of Million Dollar paintings torched in the So Cal fires is probably an Insurance Scam. This is Tony Soprano stuff.
Probably, huh?
Can you prove it, Storing, or do you just have a criminal mind and that's what you would have done?
I'm a 2nd floor man. Strictly diamonds. Easy to fence.
You sound unhinged with TDS, but here goes. Kushner is from a family that has an actual multi-billion-dollar business. They made their money long before Trump ever came to power. Can you see any difference from the Bidens who had no business or skill to market other than influence peddling? Old Joe was a lifelong politician on a government salary, but he somehow retires a multimillionaire. Not only that but his brothers, sister, and son are also multimillionaires despite having no business. Nothing to see there.
And you claim Trump is a Nazi in the same post where you acknowledge his son-in-law who is Jewish. Trump's own daughter and grandchildren are Jewish. Kushner's grandparents died in the Holocaust. Trump had the families of the Jewish hostages stand behind him yesterday as he signed Executive Orders. Can you see any contradiction in your claim that Trump is a Nazi when he is a proponent of Jews and Israel? In contrast to Kacklin' Kamala and Old Joe, who stood silent while radical anti-Semite leftists overran college campuses and threatened Jewish students like something from 1930s Nazi Germany.
There is no evidence that links Jeffrey Epstein to Trump in nefarious way. Epstein was just some rich guy who Trump ordered banned from his properties because he was a creep. Epstein's "best buds" were leftists like Bill Clinton and Bill Gates who had more frequent flyer miles to his island than just about anyone.
False premise. I don't know that the Russians helped Trump win (whatever that means). Many people celebrated Hillary's defeat for obvious reasons. Nothing nefarious in that. More importantly, there is no evidence that any of Trump's policy decisions were influenced by the Russians. He certainly tried to appeal to Putin's ego with good result. No invasion of Ukraine.
Wow. That's a lot of splainin' why Heir Drumpf isn't a Nazi. Because Jared is Jewish? :D Nazis love money way more than they hate Jews. Especially, Jew money acquired from dirty deals with Arabs. You do realize Heir Drumpf's share was included in Jared's deal, right?
Radical anti-semite leftists? HAHAHA!!! And I suppose Musk's Nazi salute was just his autistic social awkwardness. You deplorables slay me. Sieg heil comrade!
The reason you "don't know" that the Russians tried to help Trump win is because, for screwed-up Far-Right political reasons, you don't trust the reports by Robert Mueller (a moderate Republican) and by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee.
That's how far "gone" you are, dude.
It's great to see the arrogant, establishment warmongers like Bolton and Brennan butt smarting from having their national security clearances revoked for election interference. Long overdue. Why do these people even have a clearance? They don't work for the government and were dismissed in disgrace. All they do is espouse conspiracy theories on CNN and MSNBC.
You are really going to double down on the debunked Russian collusion hoax? Even the most deranged Trump-hating leftist like "Shifty" Schiff gave up on that one. Mueller - who had dementia and was a puppet of the left - issued a report that found no credible evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia. None. You appear to be obsessed with Russia, the KGB, and Putin. If you are concerned with state propaganda, maybe be more concerned with US propaganda which appears to have brainwashed you into believing the Russians are behind everything. That's laughable. Maybe the Russians wanted Trump to win because they realized Hillary was a dangerous buffoon who might start a war. Her "reset" button might have been the button to start WWIII since she mistranslated even that gimmick.
Regarding whether or not Putin tried to help The Traitorous Orange Turd win, why don't you trust the report by Robert Mueller (a Republican) and the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee?
Regarding whether or not Putin tried to help The Traitorous Orange Turd win, why don't you trust the report by Robert Mueller (a Republican) and the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee?
What does Mueller being a Repub have to do with incompetence? Both parties have plenty of that. And don't forget, Trump for decades was a Dem. Party affiliation has nothing to do with the competency of an individual. That linear mind set died a long time ago. Well other than at CNN, MSNBC, and Calif. All of which are dying a slow death.
Yes, same deal with "republicans" like Liz Cheney. There are many establishment republicans who hate Trump as much or more than any democrat. He exposed their lies and incompetence and folks like Cheney, Bolton, and McConnell are Trump haters. Interestingly, many of Trump's economic policies align more closely with pre-Clinton era democrats who were big on tariffs and protecting American jobs. Obama ushered in an age of internationalism in which Dems wanted to the US to become a globalist European socialist run economy. That has been disastrous. In fairness to Mueller, he was losing his marbles and had no clue what was happening. Even so the "Mueller" report never concluded that Trump colluded with the Russians. It's a false premise to begin with.
What does Mueller being a Repub have to do with incompetence? Both parties have plenty of that. And don't forget, Trump for decades was a Dem. Party affiliation has nothing to do with the competency of an individual. That linear mind set died a long time ago. Well other than at CNN, MSNBC, and Calif. All of which are dying a slow death.
The only "incompetence" of Robert Mueller, a Conservative (by 2001 standards) Republican former Director of the FBI -- which Bureau was duped (under other Directors) by Kremlin-loyal "informant" Aleksei Kulak (FEDORA) for 15 years and by Kremlin-loyal Special Agent Robert Hanssen for 22 years -- was in failing to "follow the money" in the Trump - Russia "collusion" case and in failing to ignore the DOJ's guidelines and go ahead and indict The Traitorous Orange Turd S.O.B. known as Donald J. Trump.
Your entire claim is based on the false premise that the Mueller report found anything of consequence linking Trump to Russia or Russia influencing the 2016 election. It didn't.That was a giant hoax.
Although, given the number of factors involved, it's impossible to prove whether or not "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin's SVR (e.g., advanced persistent threat "Cozy Bear"), GRU (e.g., advanced persistent threat "Fancy Bear" and GRU officer Konstantin Kilimnik), and his professional trolls at the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency, et al., were instrumental in putting The Russian Mafia Mobbed-Up Traitorous Orange Turd into the Office of the Presidency on 20 January 2017 (hint: they probably were), you seem to be perfectly fine with their trying to do so (which the Mueller Report and the Senate Intelligence Report did prove) and with their celebrating his great Electoral College "victory" afterwards.
Question: Have you always been a supporter of the mafia known as the KGB*, or only since The Traitorous Orange Turd started kissing Putin's you-know-what??
*Today's SVR and FSB
Do you really think Trump is an agent of Putin?
Don't you realize the "KGB" hasn't existed in decades?
The Republican party favorite pollster Rasmussen poll has President Biden at 48% approval rating. While Criminal Donald is on his way to prison for multiple felonies. And it doesn't matter what Biden's poll numbers are. When Biden is up against a right wing extremist he will easily win as all polls indicate.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/prez_track_may05
With the passage of time these old posts are all the sweeter. What happened to "Propaganda" Rick who flooded this thread with thousands of rambling posts praising Biden and spreading misinformation? All which has now been debunked.
Debunked only in your fervid brain.
Question: How do you know that the emails found on Hunter's hard drive weren't forged or altered by your beloved KGB*?
And there's this, of course:
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002858655/how-russia-used-an-overt-agent-to-attack-joe-biden-in-the-2020-election
*Today's SVR and FSB
The KGB gets around in your fantasy world. They are behind everything. The FBI investigated this for years. Not once did anyone at the FBI - which was working on Biden's behalf - suggest that there was a scintilla of evidence that any of the information on Hunter's laptop was forged or altered by anyone much less Russia. That would have been a high priority crime. If they had found anything that would have lent itself to that conclusion, they would have shouted it from the rooftops. Instead, crickets. There was nothing to support that conclusion. Subsequent independent analysis has confirmed this. So sad for those hoping for proof of Russian election interference. Cue sinister music.
1) When you say "KGB," you're of course referring to today's world-class humanitarian organizations "SVR" and "FSB," aren't you? You've heard of the FSB, right, that part of the KGB that was called the Second Chief Directorate (SCD) before 1991, and which sent KGB* Major Aleksei Kulak to the FBI's NYC field office to "volunteer" to spy for it at the U.N. for fifteen years, which sent putative KGB* Major I mean Lt. Col. I mean Captain Yuri Nosenko to the CIA in Geneva in June 1962 to discredit what true defector KGB* Major Anatoliy Golitsyn was telling James Angleton about KGB* penetrations of the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies, and which "former" KGB* officer Vladimir Putin used to kill 307 of his own citizens to "justify" invading Chechnya (again) and to propel himself into the Russian presidency, etc, etc?
2) Did the emails prove that Joe Biden was corrupt?
3) Are you a KGB* troll? You sound like a KGB* troll.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Now I'm working for the KGB?
Debunked only in your fervid brain.
Question: How do you know that the emails found on Hunter's hard drive weren't forged or altered by your beloved KGB*?
And there's this, of course:
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002858655/how-russia-used-an-overt-agent-to-attack-joe-biden-in-the-2020-election
*Today's SVR and FSB
Are you one of those people that signed the discredited petition claiming Hunter's Lap Top was Russian Disinformation? If not, maybe you can still add your name?
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JohnM
You are?
I actually like the Cheka better. A cooler name and I could still wear the hat and stay at the Metropol while plotting against America. They have a great fountain there in the dining area. How Felix Dzerzhinsky and I must have laughed as we planned the Trump collusion hoax and JFK conspiracy back in 1917 trusting to Elon Musk to invent his time machine.
Don't flatter yourself, Comrade.
Even back then you would have a bit player, as you are today when you unwittingly(?) spread KGB* disinformation about the anomaly-replete JFK assassination and the Putin-friendly Traitorous Orange Turd known as Donald J. Trump.
*Today's SVR and FSB
The KGB is still around and having agents promote the conclusion that LHO assassinated JFK? It's all becoming clear just as Iron Felix explained in 1917 before Elon transported us to the future.
What a first week for Trump. Shock and awe. He is bringing down the hammer on the forces of incompetence and lunacy. Hopefully we keeps up the frantic pace to restore American to greatness.
"Former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin agrees!
If Putin is in favor of a strong and prosperous America, then good for him. That would put him ahead of most of our "allies" who have stolen the US blind under Biden's weak leadership.
If you believe that, then you're even more deluded than I thought you were.
Here's a little historical background for you.
Putin was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the counterintelligence division of the KGB's First Chief Directorate (today's SVR) in Dresden, East Germany, during the so-called Cold War.
The Kremlin declared us "The Main Enemy" at the Extraordinary (i.e., mid-term) 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in January - February 1959 when it decided, given that the USSR and the Warsaw Pact couldn't defeat the U.S. and NATO militarily, that it would try to defeat us by waging Sun Tzu-like disinformation, "active measures," and strategic deception counterintelligence operations against us and our NATO allies. To accomplish this, a top secret "KGB Within the KGB" (Department D) was set up in the First Chief Directorate. Not to be outdone, General Oleg Gribanov of the Second Chief Directorate (today's FSB) set up an analog department (Department 14) and, as soon as recent traitor GRU Colonel Oleg Penkovsky had been "trapped in his den like a bear" in Moscow in such a way that wouldn't reveal who had betrayed him (probably George Kisevalter or Leonard V. McCoy in the CIA or Roger Hollis in MI-5), dispatched KGB Major Aleksei Kulak and GRU Colonel Dmitry Polyakov to the FBI's NYC field office and "volunteer" to spy for it at the U.N. (Kulak duped the FBI for fifteen years, and Polyakov duped it for one year (1962) before he was reposted to Moscow, Rangoon, and New Delhi and "flipped" to the CIA. (In the 1980s he was recalled to Moscow, arrested, tried, and executed.) A few months later Gribanov sent putative KGB officer Yuri Nosenko to the CIA in Geneva to discredit what recent true defector, KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, was telling James Angleton about possible KGB penetrations of the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies. When asked if he wanted to physically defect to the U.S., he declined, saying that he didn't want to leave his beloved wife and two daughters behind in Moscow to fend for themselves, and he told his CIA interviewers not to try to contact him in the USSR. Eighteen months later he reappeared to the CIA and Geneva and said he had been Lee Harvey Oswald's case officer in Moscow and that since he was afraid that the KGB was onto his 1962 "treason," that he now wanted to physically defect to the U.S. and leave his formerly beloved wife and daughters behind in Moscow to defend for themselves.
"Fast forward" a bit and in 1968, a probable KGB "mole" in the CIA by the name of Bruce Leonard Solie (look him up) "cleared " Yuri "The KGB Had Absolutely Nothing to Do With Oswald in the USSR" Nosenko with a bogus polygraph exam and a specious report, and a couple of years later he was hired by the CIA to teach counterintelligence to its and the FBI new recruits.
A former CIA officer by the name of W. Allen Messer wrote an article in 2013 titled "In pursuit of the Squared Circle: The Nosenko Theories Revisited" in which he agrees with Nosenko's former CIA case officer, Tennent H. Bagley, that Nosenko was a false defector in Geneva in June 1962. But Messer carries Bagley's analysis of the Nosenko case a bit farther by hypothesizing that he was a rogue defector in Geneva in February 1964, and that the KGB had no choice but to support his "bona fides" (through aforementioned Aleksei Kulak -- J. Edgar Hoover's shielded-from-CIA FEDORA -- and others like Igor Kochnov who without CIA's knowledge, "walked in" to the FBI in 1965 to secretly gain J. Edgar Hoover's support, and then the next year phoned Richard Helms to offer to "work with" the CIA) in the U.S. because he was telling the CIA and the FBI what it desperately wanted them to hear -- that the KGB had absolutely nothing to do with Oswald in the USSR!
LOL!
Question:
If your boy Putin wants to help America so much, why did he help install The Traitorous Orange Xxxx known as Donald J. Trump as our president in 2017 and 2025?
It was satire based on your comment. With that said, Russia has done us less harm than our allies who have taken trillions from us since WWII and provided nothing in return. There is zero, as in not an iota of evidence, that Putin or Russia influenced the 2016 or 2024 elections. Talk about election denial. That is the biggest fake conspiracy theory in history.
Mock the Holocaust?
No, I was just speculating that you, given your support for the man whose ex-wife said keeps a book of Hitler's speeches in his bedroom, might like to participate in one.
Disgusting. You are speculating that someone wants to participate in the Holocaust because Trump allegedly has a book on Hiter? Do you realize how radicalized and vile and disgusting it is to compare modern politics to the Nazis and Holocaust in such a casual way? Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Have some common decency. You should be deeply ashamed. Take a single moment and reflect on calling Trump with a Jewish daughter, grandchildren, and who is a strong supporter of Israel a Nazi while supporting a political party that promotes anti-Semitism. Think about how offensive it is to suggest that because someone has a different political opinion than yours, that they want to participate in the Holocaust. Even the radical Trump hating Dems who advocated for the end of Israel should not be lumped with the Nazis. The Nazis are a class of criminals who stand alone. You are stupidly making light of their crimes to compare them to others.
You, Richard Smith, should be deeply ashamed of being: 1) a tinfoil-hat JFKA CT, and 2) a supporter of The Traitorous Orange Xxxx (rhymes with "bird").
They're connected, you know.
The KGB*-encouraged conspiracy theories that have arisen out of the anomaly-replete JFK assassination over the past 61 years were instrumental in enabling "former" KGB* officer Vladimir Putin to install his favorite "useful idiot" (or worse) as our "President" in 2017 and 2025.
*Today's SVR and FSB
If only Roger Collins and Martin from "Europe" could be here with us to share this moment.
Wouldn't you want Vladimir Putin here, too, to support your side of the discussion?
Who's to say that Martin from "Europe" is not Putin? Or even Roger Collins. Maybe they work for the KGB.
What a first week for Trump. Shock and awe. He is bringing down the hammer on the forces of incompetence and lunacy. Hopefully he keeps up the frantic pace to restore American to greatness.
Maybe YOU are a paranoid numbskull. Suggesting that Putin, who is a Russian, conspired to put Trump, who you stupidly contend is a Nazi, into power speaks for itself. I'm not a history major but the last time that I checked it was the Russians who fought the Nazis. It's interesting that you are not curious about Roger Collins or Martin from "Europe." Already familiar with those loons?
In the tradition of the Jan-Feb 1959 21st Extraordinary (as in mid-term) Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, it's been the goal of Your Boy -- "former" KGB* officer Vladimir Putin -- to get us to tear ourselves apart.
That's why he's been trying so hard since 2015 via his SVR, FSB, GRU, and Internet Research Agency, etc., to install The Traitorous Orange Xxxx (rhymes with bird) as our President.
D'oh!
*Today's SVR and FSB
Are there KGB agents who can translate this into a coherent point? A Russian leader is promoting a Nazi to become president. That makes complete sense. It's all becoming clear. No need to consult mental health professionals. They are probably under Elon Musk's mind control.
Read it again.
Maybe (but I rather doubt it) it will eventually start making sense to you.
It wasn't Russia but Ukraine that supported the Nazis.
During WW II, Ukraine supported the Nazis when it was in its own best interest, and it supported the Communists when it was in its own best interest.
BFD.
Pardon my German.
Were Roger Collins and Martin from "Europe" KGB agents? So many questions. Between the KGB agents and Nazis there can't be many other people left in the world. If only someone could provide the answers.
Lots of people are unwitting KGB* agents.
The KGB* calls them "useful idiots."
Take you, for example.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Maybe "lots of people" are paranoid numbskulls who espouse conspiracy theories so absurd and contrary to reality that rational people are left aghast. Useful numbskulls. Such imbeciles even suggest the Russians put a Nazi in the White House. Russia who lost millions in WWII and defeated Nazi Germany. It's Orwellian in the scope of stupidity.
Speaking of "numbskulls who espouse conspiracy theories so absurd and contrary to reality that rational people are left aghast," how long have you been a tinfoil-hat JFK assassination conspiracy theorist?
During WW II, Ukraine supported the Nazis when it was in its own best interest, and it supported the Communists when it was in its own best interest.
BFD.
Pardon my German.
I'm a JFK conspiracy theorist? I've been on this forum for many years as a proponent of the conclusion that LHO alone committed the crime. The conspiracy theorist is yourself with your bizarre fixation on the KGB and Putin.
You're like one of those Japanese soldiers that was still holed up on a Pacific Island 20 yrs after WW2 ended. You're living in the past. Come out of your cave. We even have sliced bread these days.
In the spirit of fairness, I'll say that the pause on funding federal programs was sloppy. If they were going to do that, they should have made explicit exactly which programs were affected and which were not. This gave Trump's critics a chance to roll out the "chaos" talking point. No harm was actually done but it was sloppy and lazy overreach by whoever put that together. It would have been a simple matter to put out a list of the impacted programs.
Some missteps in the last few days from the Trump administration. The federal program freeze that was sloppy, blaming the airline crash on DEI when it was clearly the fault of the military to fly helicopters into the landing path of a major airport, and the false story about saving $50 million in condemns to Gaza. I support most of Trump's agenda but overreaching and sloppiness can undermine good policies.
What good policies?
Some missteps in the last few days from the Trump administration. The federal program freeze that was sloppy, blaming the airline crash on DEI when it was clearly the fault of the military to fly helicopters into the landing path of a major airport, and the false story about saving $50 million in condoms to Gaza. I support most of Trump's agenda but overreaching and sloppiness can undermine good policies.
If you have seen the program shown on Smithsonian Channel “Air Disasters” you will probably have noticed that most accidents are due to multiple items happening at the same time. I think there will be plenty of blame to go around when the investigation is complete. I have read that the helicopter pilot was wearing a night vision device. I would guess that device might limit his peripheral vision and could have possibly temporarily blinded him if he did happen to turn his head at the last moment to look towards the plane’s landing lights. Plus there are collision avoidance devices incorporated into the aircraft and the air traffic controller’s radar system. What happened to those devices? Why didn’t they help avoid the collision as they were designed to do.
Yes, there are probably several factors involved but there should never be military helicopters flying at night (or anytime) directly across the flight path of a major airport where planes are taking off and landing every minute. There apparently had been near misses in the recent weeks involving helicopters. I find it hard to believe they allowed this to happen. The risk should have been apparent to a small child. This accident wasn't a matter of if but when under those circumstances. The military commanders that authorized these training flights should be held accountable.
Most of the "issues" trace back to the Army Black Hawk Copter: (1) Only 3 people were manning the copter. (Minimum 4 people mandated to fly the copter. (2 Piloting + 2 Viewing the (R) & (L) sides of the copter), (2) Copter was flying at roughly 400 ft, (Max permissible = 200 ft), (3) Copter deviated from flight path.
Regarding the Control Tower, it was: (1) Undermanned by roughly 30%. and, (2) Air Traffic Controller communicative skills were abysmal. Roughly 30 seconds prior to the midair collision, the Black Hawk Copter was instructed by the Air Traffic Controller to, "pass behind the plane". How if the copter is headed in a Southerly direction does it "pass behind" a plane headed in a Northerly direction?
All valid concerns but the most important problem is why these helicopters were allowed to cross the approach into a major airport. That is simply gross negligence on behalf of the military. It's all gross negligence on behalf of the FAA for allowing this and not taking action EVEN after there had been recent incidents when incoming planes had to abort landings to avoid these helicopters. It's inexplicable. Like the secret service not safeguarding that building in Butler and allowing a shooter to have a line of sight to Trump. That level of incompetence is astounding.
All valid concerns but the most important problem is why these helicopters were allowed to cross the approach into a major airport. That is simply gross negligence on behalf of the military. It's all gross negligence on behalf of the FAA for allowing this and not taking action EVEN after there had been recent incidents when incoming planes had to abort landings to avoid these helicopters. It's inexplicable. Like the secret service not safeguarding that building in Butler and allowing a shooter to have a line of sight to Trump. That level of incompetence is astounding.
Speaking of "numbskulls who espouse conspiracy theories so absurd and contrary to reality that rational people are left aghast," how long have you been a tinfoil-hat JFK assassination conspiracy theorist?
"Richard" espouses lone-nut theories so absurd and contrary to reality that rational people are left aghast.
I have read that under normal circumstances two different controllers (and two different radio frequencies) were used. One to control helicopters and another to control airplanes. This seems to me to make things even more dangerous because the helicopters would not be able to hear what is happening with the plane traffic and vice versa. Therefore I think the resulting ignorance should be considered a prime factor in this accident.
Well Richard agrees with me ( maybe?)that there was conspiracy of the media and the DOJ against Trump. So there’s still some hope of convincing him ( maybe) that there are valid some reasons to suspect conspiracy against JFK too.
After all there is similarity with JFK and Trump
Advocating for country 1st and both not so keen to get the country in a war so having similar enemy of the deep state and the MIC, and FBI and CIA too.
Most of the establishment was working with JFK not against him. He was a liberal icon. I'm not sure there was necessarily any organized "conspiracy" against Trump. There didn't have to be. The media and DOJ were out to get him but that was mostly their radicalized ideology playing out. They knowingly perpetuated hoaxes and lies. The ends justifying any means in their opinion. They often took their cues from one another as you would see the same buzz word of the day used in every media story, but they all had TDS and were voluntarily doing everything possible to stop him. I'm not sure anyone was necessarily orchestrating this so much as they shared a common radicalized goal - to stay in power and stop Trump at all costs. That has been the driving force. It did have something similar to the effect of a psych-op operation on those most deranged with Trump hatred. No other way to explain their level of anger and hatred toward him. Those people are often unhinged. You can see many examples of that on this thread dating back to Rick Plant who posted tens of thousands of long anti-Trump rants.
Most of the establishment was working with JFK not against him. He was a liberal icon. I'm not sure there was necessarily any organized "conspiracy" against Trump. There didn't have to be. The media and DOJ were out to get him but that was mostly their radicalized ideology playing out. They knowingly perpetuated hoaxes and lies. The ends justifying any means in their opinion. They often took their cues from one another as you would see the same buzz word of the day used in every media story, but they all had TDS and were voluntarily doing everything possible to stop him. I'm not sure anyone was necessarily orchestrating this so much as they shared a common radicalized goal - to stay in power and stop Trump at all costs. That has been the driving force. It did have something similar to the effect of a psych-op operation on those most deranged with Trump hatred. No other way to explain their level of anger and hatred toward him. Those people are often unhinged. You can see many examples of that on this thread dating back to Rick Plant who posted tens of thousands of long anti-Trump rants.They - a small group - used lawfare against Trump; abused/misused their power. That's not a "deep state". It's a part of the national security/administrative state. They didn't get together to assassinate him and then frame another person and then have future generations cover it all up. Which is a preposterous argument. Any comparison between how they tried to get Trump (they did try but they also thought he was guility) and what is alleged to have happened to JFK falls apart on the slightest examination.
They - a small group - used lawfare against Trump; abused/misused their power. That's not a "deep state". It's a part of the national security/administrative state. They didn't get together to assassinate him and then frame another person and then have future generations cover it all up. Which is a preposterous argument. Any comparison between how they tried to get Trump (they did try but they also thought he was guility) and what is alleged to have happened to JFK falls apart on the slightest examination.
I've often asked the conspiracists why they didn't use "lawfare" against JFK? That is leak damaging information about him. Supposedly the CIA controlled the media through Operation Mockingbird. So why not leak impeachable information? Instead of doing that they decided to murder him and then hope future generations would cover for them? Were they idiots?
They - a small group - used lawfare against Trump; abused/misused their power. That's not a "deep state". It's a part of the national security/administrative state. They didn't get together to assassinate him and then frame another person and then have future generations cover it all up. Which is a preposterous argument. Any comparison between how they tried to get Trump (they did try but they also thought he was guility) and what is alleged to have happened to JFK falls apart on the slightest examination.
I've often asked the conspiracists why they didn't use "lawfare" against JFK? That is leak damaging information about him. Supposedly the CIA controlled the media through Operation Mockingbird. So why not leak impeachable information? Instead of doing that they decided to murder him and then hope future generations would cover for them? Were they idiots?
Yes, I agree entirely. An assassination conspiracy against JFK would have been an extreme measure when much simpler remedies were available to force him to step down. And in that time, J. Edgar Hoover had the means and power to facilitate something along those lines. The Trump situation involves establishment figures trying to protect power at all costs from outsiders. They did not sit down together in a room to conspire. Their hatred and fanatical desire to retain power had them all working for a common goal - stop Trump at any cost. I don't necessarily consider that to be a conspiracy. Just a group of influential people who are radicalized by their own common self-interest and endless propaganda. Some of these people are dangerously unhinged.
"That's Not a Deep State"?? They continuously went into a Top Secret FISA Court, (which does Not have transcripts recording what goes on in there), and were repeatedly granted wiretaps on the Trump People/Campaign, and this is Not DEEP STATE? Really?
In general, anything/anybody that has a connection to the Fed Govt is acting in concert with other Govt connected people. These people do Not strike out on their own. They work in concert, otherwise they might step on each other's toes.
I guess it comes down to what is considered a conspiracy. If a lot of people are acting in common cause based on their own ideology, I don't necessarily consider that to be a conspiracy. There were undoubtedly many people and even groups working against Trump. Not sure, however, that anyone was organizing this in some conspiratorial way. That wasn't necessary because they all hated Trump to such extreme levels that they were largely acting on their own initiative. The media hated Trump. So they perpetuated hoaxes and lies on their own initiative. No one had to force them or include them in some type of coordinated conspiracy effort. They were more than willing and able to perform that function on their own. I do think there was an intentional effort to politicize COVID and use that to influence the 2020 by using it as a pretext to change the election laws in almost every state in a way that was favorable to Biden and decided the outcome. That had elements of a coordinated effort.
Hadn't Page already been under investigation in 2014 for being in contact with KGB*-types in Europe and Russia?
Wasn't the information on Page in the Mueller Report given to Christopher Steele by probable KGB* agent Igor Danchenko?
*Today's SVR and FSB
You need to be specific and use full names when referring to people. Page is Not an uncommon last name. And what the heck is a "PROBABLE" KGB* agent? Your posts/work are indicative of someone that is Not thorough.
These problems are easily solved. Don't allow a helicopter to fly across the flight path of a major airport! There are so many planes taking off and landing at that airport that it is easy to become confused. If you watch the video of the collision, there is another plane ascending just above the one that was hit. Flying a helicopter there is like trying to run across the racetrack during the Daytona 500. And doing that at night with night vision goggles on! Good grief. Eventually something bad is going to happen.
Well, perhaps they are listening to you Richard. I just read that the FAA has (at least temporarily) suspended the two helicopter routes in the area that had them flying underneath the plane traffic. That seems appropriate to me at this point in time. And it should help to restore some of the public’s confidence in the system. Hopefully this will lead to the right permanent solution(s)…
It's probably my influence as a high-ranking KGB officer. There were some Russians on board the plane. I bet someone here could play the Kevin Bacon game and link this disaster back to Russia. Cue sinister music. LOL.
You missed Jimmy PAGE of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. But this is what you consistently proffer. A Half-Arsed work product.
It's probably my influence as a high-ranking KGB officer. There were some Russians on board the plane. I bet someone here could play the Kevin Bacon game and link this disaster back to Russia. Cue sinister music. LOL.
It’s truly sad that some people actually do believe that this was an intentional suicidal act by the helicopter pilot. When we really start thinking about it, the helicopter was in a blind spot of the plane turning left. And the plane was probably in a blind spot of the helicopter pilot if he was sitting on the right side of the cockpit like most helicopter pilots do. I was wondering if ATC specified (to the helicopter) which runway that the plane was landing on. It seems that they did. So it does look like the helicopter pilot is going to be at fault. But I think that there will be some changes to ATC procedures etc as well.
You need to be specific and use full names when referring to people. Page is Not an uncommon last name. And what the heck is a "PROBABLE" KGB* agent? Your posts/work are indicative of someone that is Not thorough.
It’s truly sad that some people actually do believe that this was an intentional suicidal act by the helicopter pilot. When we really start thinking about it, the helicopter was in a blind spot of the plane turning left. And the plane was probably in a blind spot of the helicopter pilot if he was sitting on the right side of the cockpit like most helicopter pilots do. I was wondering if ATC specified (to the helicopter) which runway that the plane was landing on. It seems that they did. So it does look like the helicopter pilot is going to be at fault. But I think that there will be some changes to ATC procedures etc as well.
I haven't heard that one but nothing surprises me. I was reading that there were those on social media blaming a transgender Blackhawk pilot for the crash. It turns out the transgender person that they were referencing wasn't even on the helicopter and is very much still alive, but some on social media can't be deterred. A great example of adopting a narrative and then not allowing any facts to change it.
I heard 1 of those Press Briefings where that Fat Guy in between his sobbing about having to deal with the relatives of the dead, quickly referenced a roughly "3-4 second refresh rate" there inside the Control Tower. It wouldn't surprise me if they were using old technology inside that control tower. Maybe, whatever the Air Traffic Controller is eyeballing on his screen is actually a few seconds Behind the current position of the plane(s)/copter(s) in the sky? I am still trying to figure out how as commanded, the copter could fly" behind" the jet airplane. The copter was heading roughly S and the Jet Airplane was heading roughly N. How does one get Behind the other when they are moving almost directly toward each other? As yet, I have Not heard a name attached to that Air Traffic Controller, yrs of experience, Nothing. And, they have also dropped mention of why they were understaffed inside the control tower by 30%, or why someone left "early". Once again, the Fake Newser's have danced over to other "stuff" like battering Trump for Tariffs that were Never imposed.
It seems to me that the controller was probably anticipating the left turn of the airliner to line up with the runway. And the controller probably thought that all the helicopter would have had to do was slow down enough to let the plane turn left in front of him. Then the helicopter could have passed behind the plane. (Much the same as you should do if, upon approaching an intersection of two roads in an automobile, someone turns left in front of you and you need to slow down a little in order to give the other automobile a little time to get out of your way.)
It appears to me that the controller was told by the helicopter pilot that the he had the plane in sight (although, sadly, it appears he was looking at the wrong plane approaching another runway). Therefore most people, who are knowledgeable about these things, believe the controller did all that was required. Otherwise, if the helicopter pilot had not indicated he had the plane in sight, I think the controller should have (and would have) given the helicopter pilot explicit instructions to help him avoid a collision.
It appears to me that the helicopter was climbing at the time of the collision. It appears to me that it had been at the 200-feet altitude and inexplicably began to climb shortly before the collision. If that’s the case, and the pilot was in the right-hand seat, the plane would have been approaching the helicopter’s position from high and to the left of the helicopter (especially after the helicopter began it’s apparent right-hand turn). That might have been a blind spot for the helicopter pilot. Otherwise, it seems to me that the helicopter pilot should have seen the plane and avoided the collision.
The investigation should shed some light on all the aspects. Hopefully a preliminary finding will be forthcoming before long.
The "pass behind" command is confusing and not specific. With respect to your left hand turn reference, to me, my permitting someone to turn in front of me is, "Yielding the right of way". I have Not heard what experience that Air Traffic Controller had, but their communicative skills are very poor. Someone in that position has to be short on words and long on specificity.
All that just further highlights exactly why it is so dangerous to allow these helicopters to cross the flight path of a major airport. It's asking for trouble. I wonder if any other airport in the US allowed this same situation? I still can't believe it. It's as mystifying as the secret service not securing that most prominent building at the Butler rally and allowing someone to access the roof. Some levels of incompetence are mind blowing. Any child could have predicted this disaster if you explained it to them. The fact that the FAA and military continued to allow this even after near misses is criminal.
The copters have a "corridor" they are mandated follow as they travel over the Potomac River. Copter pilots know when they approach the Reagan Airport/Runways, their copter corridor will intersect/cross incoming and outgoing Reagan Airport air flight paths. This intersection of the copter corridor and the planes as they approach and depart from the airport runways is Not Unexpected. That copter pilot should have been aware of this intersection area and proceeded with due caution. The copter flying well over the max 200 ft high limitation shows something was wrong regarding the piloting of that copter. The control tower likewise should have known the copter pilot was clueless for whatever reason. The tower should have been all over that Black Hawk Copter pilot.
The margins are too small to make that safe. The initial reports indicate that the air traffic controller was seeing the helicopter at 200 ft. If there are no fly zones over DC that force the helicopters into the airports air space, they should be routed a safe distance around the airport on the VA side. It might add a few minutes to their destination, but that is peanuts in comparison to a major plane crash.
Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize if he manages to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. Too many dead and maimed under Biden's endless war policy. Hundreds of billions spent by the US. Even "Europe" sent a small amount of money. Biden made an all-out effort to broker a cease fire in Gaza. He made zero effort to do so in Ukraine. Thankfully his days of corruption and weakness are forever over. They will curse his name in Ukraine for centuries.
Zelenski is looking for a way out of that war. Trump is chiding him by mentioning Zelenski needing to get re-elected. Zelenski does Not have a seat at the adult table. This is strictly between Trump and Putin.
Correct. Again, I think the Russians are the aggressors, but the question remains what is to be done. Fight another endless war funded indefinitely by the US taxpayers (who already have sent hundreds of billions in equipment and supplies) (i.e. the Biden approach) or find some way to negotiate an end to the killing that may not right every wrong but provides a path for peace (i.e. Trump)? The idea that an agreement will embolden Russia to invade other countries is laughable. By some accounts Russia has sustained a million casualties just to overrun some minor regions of Ukraine. They are a paper tiger. Only the US military contractors who benefit from endless war are spreading that nonsense.
Putin, Trump, or Zelensky. Which one suspended elections in his country and effectively made himself a dictator? The gravy train of endless US taxpayer money is coming to an end. Time for a deal to end the mass killing and destruction of Ukraine.
Which one invaded Chechnya and became president of his country by murdering 307 of his own citizens in the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings?
Nobody is defending Putin here. Remember, during WW2 the U.S partnered up with Stalin.
Yeah, and Stalin infiltrated our government with his spies and Kremlin-loyal agents before, during, and after said war.
For once we agree. At the Potsdam conference each delegation had it's own entrance and rooms and Stalin had them all bugged.
So much for partnering up!
FDR knew what Stalin was when he threw in with him. No secret there.
Which one invaded Chechnya and became president of his country by murdering 307 of his own citizens in the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings?
Putin is an amateur in comparison to the number of people the US has killed in countless endless conflicts and proxy wars. Tens of millions in places like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine etc. All of that for absolutely nothing. In addition, we have paid for the privilege to defend "Europe" and much of the rest of the world since the end of WWII. Those places can afford great schools, health care, and infrastructure because the US picks up the defense tab. In contrast, the US is in ruins. Thankfully that is changing with Trump.
Yet another Trump lie that his brainwashed acolytes swallowed.
Are you basing your statement of fact (that Trump is a liar) on direct evidence, or circumstantial evidence?
Good one! And imagine criticizing Trump for not ending a war funded by Biden to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars even before he became president. LOL. Trump will have Biden's endless war ended within a few months. Then a Nobel Peace Prize. Under Old Joe, that war would have gone on and on for years. The people of Ukraine will curse his name for showing weakness that allowed Russia to invade their country.
I've edited my OP:
Are you basing your (correct) statement of fact, i.e., that Trump is a liar, on direct evidence, or circumstantial evidence?
PS Did Ukraine invade Russia in 2014 and 2022, or was it the other way around? If the latter, did the U.S. / NATO force it to do so?
PPS How much have your grocery bills gone down so far?
Good one! And imagine criticizing Trump for not ending a war funded by Biden to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars even before he became president.
LOL. Trump will have Biden's endless war ended within a few months. Then a Nobel Peace Prize. Under Old Joe, that war would have gone on and on for years. The people of Ukraine will curse his name for showing weakness that allowed Russia to invade their country.
I don't think my grocery bill has gone at all, but Trump has been president for less than a month.
Old Joe was president for four years and they went UP by about 40%. Along with everything else. Record inflation, crime, drug deaths, illegal aliens etc.
I don't think my grocery bill has gone at all, but Trump has been president for less than a month. Old Joe was president for four years and they went UP by about 40%. Along with everything else. Record inflation, crime, drug deaths, illegal aliens etc. His presidency was a catastrophe for the US and world. It will take decades to undo all the harm done with his lies, corruption, weakness, and incompetence. The US is $38 trillion in debt and counting. That money was blown on endless wars, COVID lies, and other waste. There are some hard times coming even with Trump doing everything possible to salvage the situation. The corrupt establishment politicians spent all the wealth in the US to stay in power. Those chickens are beginning to come home to roost.
You have a typo of omission in your first sentence.
I thought violent crime went down during the Biden Administration?
Do you think the Covid-19 epidemic was Obama or Biden's fault?
Do you think Trump's giving a massive 2017 tax break which mostly benefited large corporations and wealthy people and substantially increased the national debt was Obama's or Biden's idea?
What "Covid lies," xxxx xxxx?
The second word rhymes with muck.
Factcheck.org
Biden's Numbers, 2024 Pre-Election Update, October 17, 2024
Summary
Here’s how the U.S. has fared since President Joe Biden took office:
* The economy has added more than 15 million jobs. The number is now about 6 million higher than before the pandemic. Unemployment is 4.1%
* The unemployment rate dropped back and has stayed lower, longer than at any time during the previous administration.
* Inflation spiked, hitting its highest level in over 40 years, then easing greatly. Overall, consumer prices are up nearly 20%. Gasoline is up 33%.
* Average weekly earnings haven’t kept pace with prices. After adjusting for inflation, “real” weekly earnings dropped 1.8%.
* After increasing the year before Biden took office, murders and violent crime have declined. The murder rate dropped 0.9 points, and the number dropped 14.5% from 2020 to 2023.
*All three major U.S. stock indexes have made significant gains this year. The S&P 500, which set a new high this week, is up nearly 54% under Biden.
* The percentage of Americans lacking health insurance declined. The drop was 0.6 percentage points, when measuring those who were uninsured for an entire year.
* The economy has been growing at a faster rate in recent years than initially thought and continues to show unexpected resilience this year.
* Apprehensions at the southern border are up 201% for the 12 months ending in August, though they have dropped significantly since Biden implemented new border policies in June.
* More than 100,000 refugees resettled in the U.S. in fiscal year 2024 — the largest number in three decades.
* After-tax corporate profits continue to set records.
* The U.S. trade deficit during the most recent 12 months ending in August is about 27% higher than in 2020.
* The number of people receiving federal food assistance has declined only slightly.
* Federal debt has increased by 31%, and annual federal deficits rose in fiscal year 2024 for the second consecutive year.
* Even though inflation is easing and the economy is growing, consumer confidence remains stubbornly low.
* The U.S. is currently headed for a second consecutive year of record crude oil production.
* The U.S. is on pace for a fourth straight year in which estimated gun purchases declined.
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Shall I post the numbers for The Traitorous Orange [rhymes with "Bird's"] 2017-2021 "Administration"?
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Regarding the immigration problem, here's a pertinent excerpt from Wikipedia:
2024 Bipartisan Border Bill
Following months of negotiations, on February 4, 2024, a bipartisan group of senators released a 370-page bill intended to sharply reduce incentives for migrants to attempt border crossings. The bill included a "border emergency" provision that would automatically require the border to be closed if border encounters reached an average of 5,000 per day over several days. Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans falsely claimed the bill allowed 5,000 illegal border crossings per day.[89] In reality, the bill would end the practice of "catch and release" that allows migrants entry into the country while they await immigration hearings; instead, migrants would be detained pending hearings.[89] The plan included a tighter asylum application and approval process with speedy removal of migrants who do not qualify, the hiring of thousands more border patrol and asylum officers and an increase in detention capacity. The bill also provided for thousands of work visas for migrant spouses of U.S. citizens awaiting immigrant visas, and 250,000 new visas over five years for people seeking to work in the U.S. or join family members. It aimed to provide a pathway to citizenship for "Documented Dreamers," children who accompanied their parents on a work visa and who could lose their place in line for a green card at age 21.[90]
President Biden supported the bill, while Speaker Johnson said days before its release that it would be "dead on arrival" in the Republican-controlled House. Shortly after the proposal was announced, House majority leader Steve Scalise declared it would not be brought before the House for a vote. One negotiator, independent Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, asserted the border would have been closed every day so far in 2024 if the bill had been law; Biden promised in January that he would immediately close the border if the bill was enacted. Lead Republican negotiator James Lankford of Oklahoma, among the most conservative Republican Senators, attempted to defend the bill throughout the weeks leading to the vote. Trump, the leading Republican candidate for president in 2024, publicly and privately pressured Republicans during the Senate negotiations to oppose the proposal. The National Border Patrol Council, a labor union representing some 18,000 border patrol officers, quickly endorsed the Senate bill. The union had endorsed Trump in 2020 and had been critical of Biden's policies.[91][92][93][94][95]
Senate Republicans swiftly turned against the bill upon its release, after Trump openly said he did not want Joe Biden to score a political win with the legislation.[96] On February 7, Senate Republicans blocked the proposal in a floor vote. Lankford said on the floor before the vote that a "popular commentator" had told him a month earlier, "'If you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you, because I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election.'" Two days before the vote, Trump told a radio host, "This is a very bad bill for his career."[97] Trump said at a rally days later, "We crushed crooked Joe Biden's disastrous open borders bill," while Biden said, "Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends."[98]
What part of "I will get it settled before I even become president" are you struggling with? What part of "When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One" are you struggling with? He is a pathological liar and his fan club just doesn't care. Just like they don't care that he is a criminal.
Now you're just lying like your orange hero. Inflation down, crime down, fentanyl down, border crossings down. Trump duped you into believing things were horrible and only he could fix it. He completely mismanged the Covid epidemic and nearly destroyed the economy. And he will do it again with tariffs and tax cuts for his billionaire buddies.
Imagine Trump making a bunch of empty promises that he doesn't intend to ever keep, and his fan club just lapping up whatever he says.
Who do you think you're kidding? Trump will "end the war" by letting Putin have what he wants. Until we end up with another USSR.
Geez can’t the Democrats at least give Trump some credit for letting Musk investigate the DOD waste and fraud which is what Democrats were calling for( but never able to accomplish ) for the last 4 decades?
Vance and Musk have spanked the "European" socialist governments who have suppressed free speech and political opposition for decades to stay in power while ripping off the US for trillions. That game is over. Even if the leftist media still insists on referring to any "European" conservative movement as "Far Right Extremists" as though they are all Nazis that is weak sauce in the face of the political disasters wrought by their socialist policies. Open borders have led to "Europe" being overrun with migrants. Reaching a crisis tipping point with the US cutting off the handouts. The entire economy of many such nations is dependent on US aid. The Trump-effect is spreading to the entire world.
Dear Mr. Right-of-Attila-the-Hun,
The genocidal actions of your buddy(?) Putin (and of his buddy, Assad) caused those intentional mass migrations into Western Europe.
D'oh
Your JFKA-Colleague-and-Politics Bugbear,
-- Tom
Your obsession with the KGB and Putin is downright weird. If the war in Ukraine has proven anything, it is that Russia is a powerless boogeyman. The only conspiracy involving Russia is the one perpetuated by the US military contractors to keep the Cold War money flowing. Years into the war with Ukraine and the Russians have barely gained any territory while losing over a million casualties with their WWII-era equipment. I'm not exactly sure how Putin caused the mass migration dating back now for decades from places like Africa and the Middle East. That was allowed by the socialist governments of "Europe" who opened their borders like Biden despite their citizens opposing these policies. Now they are reaping the consequences.
Russia is Not "powerless" as long as they have 1 Missile that can reach the continental U.S. After that mid-air collision of the Black Hawk with the Airliner, I would not be downgrading Russia with, "WWII-era equipment". The USA is Not very far ahead of that level either. I believe that all countries lie about their weapons and their defensive capabilities. How could flight MH370 be headed for China and end up flying clear across Malaysia without that flight path being on any country's radar?
Trump knows the greatest power the USA has is economic/$$. If any of these Fake News'ers had a brain, they would ask Trump about the "Dome" he frequently pushed on the campaign trail. Is it unfolding or a bluff like Reagan pulled? Trump pushing the USA Economy in other countries faces via tariffs, and then granting incentives to these same countries that build their products inside the USA is the stance of an Isolationist. USA needs to once again becomes energy dominant and put a defensive dome over it. All of this = Trump being an Isolationist.
U.S. refuses to further "carry" Ukraine, and what's left of it falls within a month. Everybody knows this. Trump is now standing there gripping the $$/equipment plug and negotiating a U.S. refund/$$.
There is an easy deal. Russia keeps the territory they have occupied, Ukraine is given guarantees to safeguard it from future Russian aggression including the presence of non-US peacekeeping troops, the US confirms that Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO, Ukraine reimburses the US in some manner for the billions spent, and the fighting ends so that no more Ukrainians or Russians die. Making the best of a terrible situation.
Trump is a "builder". He will reconstruct both Ukraine and Gaza and the U.S. will make $$ outta that and further establish a "presence" in these areas. Same goes for a "presence" in Greenland and Panama. Trump "builds" in more than 1 way.
I wouldn't want any part of Gaza or Ukraine. I've seen those movies too many times including the Beirut terrorist attack on Americans in the 80s. Americans would be sitting ducks in Gaza. Best evacuated and bulldozed to make for a nature refuge and buffer between Israel and barbaric terrorists. Ukraine is "Europe's" responsibility to rebuild. The US has done its part and any American presence there is an ongoing threat to Russia. Greenland is another story. There is no reason for Denmark to control a large landmass in America's sphere of influence. It has strategic value to the US and is not a morass of terrorism.
U.S. needs "eyes" all around the world. Rebuilding these areas makes $$ + establishes "eyes" even if covert. You think the U.S blew up and then rebuilt Japan outta the goodness of their heart? Rebuilding the infrastructure has you "in like Flynn" with respect to monitoring everything going on for an extended time period.
Somewhere "Rick Plant" is smiling down on you with this pro-establishment propaganda and misinformation. Don't take my word for it, though. 80 million Americans rendered their verdict on Old Joe and Kacklin Kamala in the last election. Let's revisit some lowlights:
Illegal immigration broke all previous records:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December since monthly numbers have been released, authorities said Friday, exposing a growing vulnerability for President Joe Biden in his campaign for a second term.
Inflation hit a 40-year high:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation jumped at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years last month, a 7% spike from a year earlier that is increasing household expenses, eating into wage gains and heaping pressure on President Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve to address what has become the biggest threat to the U.S. economy.
Record violent crime that the FBI tried to suppress:
FBI quietly updates crime data to show big jump in violence under Biden-Harris admin: 'Shocking'
A 2.1% drop in violent crimes in 2022 has now been revised to show a 4.5% increase, crime and data expert John Lott found.
All of the events that I cited occurred during the Biden administration. I've added dates for anyone who does not have access to Google and didn't live through that disastrous period.
Did Biden cause the Covid-19 epidemic?
Have your grocery prices started coming down yet?
Did Biden cause Covid? No. He was too dumb to do that. Fauci likely had a role, though. Did Biden politicize it and change the voting laws in every state to alter the outcome of the 2020 election? Yes. Trump has been president for less than a month. It will take decades to undo the harm caused by Old Joe assuming that it is not already too late. $38 trillion and counting in debt. The prices will go down under Trump. When they do, you will be here telling that inflation has nothing to do with the president. And on and on down the circle of leftist lunacy.
How much did The Traitorous Orange Xxxx (rhymes with "bird") add to the national debt with his tax breaks to large corporations and wealthy donors, Smith?
Wasn't the high inflation caused by the Covid-19 epidemic that your boy so grossly mishandled, and which not only killed about a million Americans but caused the economy to lose 23 million jobs and fall into a recession in early 2020 -- necessitating high fiscal spending and low interest rates to pull us out of it?
Didn't the rate of inflation come back down to 3% or so near the end of "Sleepy Joe's" administration?
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2023/beyond-bls/what-caused-the-high-inflation-during-the-covid-19-period.htm#:~:text=The%20shocks%20to%20food%20and,to%20the%20middle%20of%202022.
What election law did "Sleepy Joe" change that hurt The Traitorous Orange Xxxx so grievously in the 2020 election?
Not requiring that a person be white and xxxxxxxxx like you in order to vote?
Were any of those laws successfully challenged in the sixty-or-so lawsuits you MAGATs brought after the election?
How many of the judges in those cases were Republicans?
How long have you been a "useful idiot," Smith?
(It's an old KGB expression)
PS You're missing an object pronoun in your next-to-last sentence.
Even your pal Putin couldn't have improved on the Biden fix.
You're confused, Smith.
It was your mobbed-up fascistic buddy, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin, who, with help from Paul Manafort, GRU officer Konstantin Kilimnik, Roger Stone, Harley Schlanger (look him up), the Internet Research Agency, and Cambridge Analytica, et al. ad nauseum, who got The Traitorous Orange Xxxx "elected" in the first place in November of 2016, 57 years after the Kremlin, realizing that the USSR and the Warsaw Pact couldn't defeat the U.S. and NATO militarily, decided to get us to tear ourselves apart by waging Sun Tzu-like disinformation, "active measures," and strategic deception counterintelligence operations against us.
With the re-installation of the Putin-loving Traitorous Orange Xxxx as our "president," it has finally succeeded BIGLY, da?
Regardless, do you think it's a good idea to make people stand in long lines and congregate inside voting polls during an epidemic?
Why do you think that Musk was brought aboard? He and that brainy bunch of Computer Nerds at Space X tied a knot in the tail of the Biden Election Fixing. That was their mission. Stop the Computer ballot box stuffing. If you can have an entire army of people well over 100 yrs old on the SS List, you can easily do likewise with registered voters. This is exactly why the DOJ/Garland killed the door-to-door Canvassing in Arizona following the 2020 Election. They knew trying to physically tie real people to registered voters was impossible. This would expose the Dem. registered voters sham. Just like the 1960 JFK Election is now regarded as stolen, likewise 2020 will soon be added to those ranks.
I've not been impressed with Musk. He has been lazy, sloppy, and chaotic in his DOGE efforts. I'm beginning to think he is one of these guys who made a ton of money and simply then hired smart people to do things while he takes the credit. The idea of refunding 20% of money "saved" by the DOGE efforts is idiotic. They are not actually saving any money. They are keeping some money from being spent and going further into debt. These are entirely different things. To not spend money for one purpose but then turn around and give the money away is lunacy.
Nobody has received a dime of DOGE found/saved $$ that I know of. The Fake News'ers have you knee jerking. Slow your roll, consider the source, think it through.
Musk has proposed and Trump is supporting sending 20% of the money "saved" by DOGE to the public.
Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration is considering returning 20% of savings identified by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative to Americans, echoing a proposal made on social media site X.
Whew. That Russia stuff is tin foil hat material. And imagine people having to "stand in line" to vote in an election? Such a burden. People stand in line at McDonalds. They can do it to vote. Trump is drinking your milkshake.
You sound as though you're a spreader -- not only pro-Trump BS but of deadly viruses,j as well.
We just had an election in which many people stood in line to vote. Not aware of anyone getting COVID as a result. Are people not allowed to stand in line at the airport, in fast food restaurants due to a similar risk or is the risk of COVID only at the polls? There has never been a great (sic) example of election interference than the politicization of COVID in 2020. Your hero Putin is an amateur compared to the folks who pulled that one off.
The politicalization of Covid?
You know that it's airborne and highly contagious, don't you?
Did you catch it?
Regardless, do you think the reports of the number of people who were dying from it were exaggerated?
Why do you say Putin is my hero, xxxx xxxx?
Rhymes with thumb suck.
It's your boy, The Traitorous Orange Xxxx, who secretly calls him for instructions about once a week.
Rhymes with bird.
The entire country was shutdown and the voting laws were changed in almost every state to blame Trump for COVID. Those changes in the voting laws made the difference between winning and losing the 2020 election.
There is an easy deal. Russia keeps the territory they have occupied, Ukraine is given guarantees to safeguard it from future Russian aggression including the presence of non-US peacekeeping troops, the US confirms that Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO, Ukraine reimburses the US in some manner for the billions spent, and the fighting ends so that no more Ukrainians or Russians die. Making the best of a terrible situation.
The entire country was shutdown and the voting laws were changed in almost every state to blame Trump for COVID. Those changes in the voting laws made the difference between winning and losing the 2020 election. After the election, more people died of COVID under Biden than Trump, but the masks, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates all went away. The Dems waived a magic wand, and the media stopped reporting about it. It had served its purpose. Putin could only admire that effort at fixing an election. There is hardly a mention of vaccine boosters under the Biden administration. Almost no one is getting it and no Dem is even mentioning it. The risk was apparently only under Trump and at the polls.
The New sheriff has officially been badge'd. Kash "Eliot Ness" Patel is gonna Clean-The-Crud out of The FBI. The Dem's are screaming like babies. Schiff almost wet himself.
Given that there was negligible evidence of voter fraud, your beef seems to be that Republicans can only win when they put up as many possible barriers as possible to prevent people from voting.
Requiring a picture ID to vote is a "barrier"? You needed ID to just get into the Dem Convention. Just admit it. The Dem POTUS Candidate was without a doubt a Dummy. A San Fran Willie Brown Certified Dummy.
Didn't The Traitorous Orange Xxxx catch it, himself, and wasn't he saved only by receiving special medical treatment and medicines?
Rhymes with bird.
As in Bird Flu. But you've got some bleach and horse de-wormer saved up in case you catch that, right?
I can't decipher your nonsense. Biden had COVID about six times. Wasn't he following the leftist protocols? Many more Americans died of COVID under Biden than Trump. Your idol Putin was falling on the ground laughing at how leftists blamed Trump for COVID. Putin is an amateur at fixing elections compared to that. Zelensky went one better. He doesn't have elections.
She's a lot smarter than you are, Comrade Storing.
Yeah, maybe you're right about her being smart. She did work at McDonald's. Not!
You're so full of xxxx.
You really do sound like a Russian troll (or worse).
Are you a Russian troll, Smith?
Come on, admit it.
By the way, you're confused, again.
Neo-fascist "strong man" Putin is your and The Traitorous Orange Xxxx's xxxxbuddy, remember?
Truth be told, you want to smother him with kisses, right? Because he, with help from your buddies Paul Manafort, Konstantin Kilimnik, Roger Stone, Harley Schlanger (look him up), the Internet Research Agency, Cambridge Analytica, et al. ad nauseam, and 60-plus years of KGB* disinformation (can you say, for example, JFKA conspiracy theories?), "active measures," and strategic deception counterintelligence operations (look it up) waged against us and our NATO allies put The Traitorous Orange Xxxx in the White House in 2017 and 2025.
Rhymes with bird.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Biden had COVID several times.
Thank you for proving my point -- that Covid-19 was very contagious, persistent, and dangerous. As you may recall, it almost killed The Traitorous Orange Xxxx (rhymes with bird), but miracle drugs and the best doctors in the country pulled him through, and, thank God, and even though he was barely able to breathe he was able to tap into his natural Superman strength and will power to salute a helicopter for five minutes in front of the cameras.
More American died of COVID under Biden than Trump.
When the first case of Covid-19 was reported in the U.S. in January of 2020, The Traitorous Orange Xxxx only had a year left as "President."
When Joe Biden became President on 20 January 2021, he inherited the Covid-19 catastrophe The Traitorous Orange Xxxx had created for him, so of course more Americans died under Biden's thirty-nine months of pandemic presidency (the pandemic was declared over in May of 2023) than The Traitorous Orange Xxxx's twelve months.
D'oh!
The voting laws in almost every state were changed in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election in a way that demonstrably altered the outcome.
Bummer, dude. The laws were changed to make it easier for everyone to cast a vote during the ongoing, highly contagious and debilitating pandemic.
Leftists dropped the mask and vaccine mandates after the election. They didn't even promote the vaccine booster and less than half of Americans received the booster.
Prove it.
Trump is getting ready to open a can of whoop arse on Hamas and/or Iran after the recent atrocity involving the return of the dead infant and family. Hopefully involving the destruction of the Iranian nuclear facilities. Imagine Iran with a nuclear weapon.
No, Orange Hitler is too busy with his can of "whoop arse" against the Constitution..
Agreed.
It is ironic, however, that the plethora of JFKA conspiracy theories you wittingly or unwittingly encourage helped to put The Traitorous Orange Xxxx in the White House in the first place.
How do you not believe the Russians were involved in the JFK assassination . . .
Given that a probable KGB mole in the CIA by the name of Bruce Leonard Solie (look him up) probably sent (or duped Angleton into sending) already-recruited-by-KGB-in-Japan Oswald to Moscow in 1959, the fact that self-described Marxist Oswald lived two blocks from a KGB school in Minsk for two-and-one-half years, the fact that in the early 1970s CIA Counterintelligence analyst Clare Edward Petty determined from some WW II VENONA decrypts that George DeMohrenschildt was very probably a long-term KGB "illegal," and the fact that KGB true defector Pyotr Deriabin said Marina had to be at least a low-level KGB informant to be allowed to marry her Handsome Prince Charming and leave The Worker's Paradise with him, what makes you think I do not believe the Russians were involved in the JFK assassination?
. . . when you claim they are behind almost every other event in history?
Only the bad ones, and only since 1917.
It is unintentionally humorous since Oswald actually was Marxist who defected to - wait for it - Russia.
Did Oswald successfully renounce his American citizenship and stay in The Worker's Paradise for the rest of his life?
There might at least be some basis to suggest a link in that context unlike all your other looney Russia claims.
What "loony Russia claims"?
That in January-February of 1959 at the Extraordinary 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin decided to bring us down not by waging war against us but by waging Sun Tzu-like disinformation, "active measures," and strategic deception counterintelligence operations against us and our NATO allies?
That, in accordance with the above, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin used KGB-promulgated conspiracy theories (e.g. those surrounding the JFKA) to help him install The Traitorous Orange Xxxx (rhymes with bird) as our "president" in 2017 and 2025 so they (Putin and Trump) could tear our country apart?
Those, Smith, are facts, not "loony Russia claims."
Now go back to watching Fox News, OANN and NewsMax, eating your bortsch, and drinking your cheap vodka.
Magnificent surge by the German conservative parties today. Overcoming decades of censorship and oppression by radical socialists. And it has nothing to do with Putin or the KGB. The wide-open border practice has been disastrous for "Europe" and the US. Those chickens are coming home to roost at the polls.
Hey, this is 2025, not 1975. It’s the Russian Federation. Not the USSR.
Maybe that’s the problem with the Left Democrat Party. They must still think it is the 1960s and white people are racist.
Maybe they should heed the words of MLK and Malcolm X. Both were skeptical of the Democrat party. We know now just how disingenuous LBJ was with that recording of him saying “we will have the (n-word) voting for us for the next 200 years”.
Bernie Sanders loved the USSR when they hated capitalism and Christianity was forbidden.
Now that Putin is pro capitalism, allows open Christianity worship, Bernie and other Marxist Socialist Dems hate the Russian Federation.
Your buddy, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin, does have a lot to do with the recent political success of Germany's de facto Nazi Party because his support of Assad's poison-gassing and bombing of his own Syrian citizens forced them to emigrate en masse to Western European countries, including Germany.
D'oh
You talkin' to me?
Nazi party? LOL. The AfD is headed by a lesbian who is married to a woman from Sri Lanka. I don't know too many Nazis who fit that description.
Agreed.
It is ironic, however, that the plethora of JFKA conspiracy theories you wittingly or unwittingly encourage helped to put The Traitorous Orange Xxxx in the White House in the first place.
That's a bold claim!
Yep, and your boy, Afro-Cuban Enrique Tarrio, used to be the leader of the not-racist racist Proud Boys.
You make a racist comment about someone who[m] you claim is racist.
He's probably working for the KGB anyway. Right?
Why don't you look into it (but not by watching Fox News, RT, OANN or NewsMax)?
Um, how many is "the plethora of JFKA conspiracy theories"?
Pointing out that your buddy, Enrique Tarrio, is Afro-Cuban is a racist statement?
Seeing as how "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin is a mobbed-up Fascist, I wouldn't be surprised.
Regardless, you sure sound as though YOU are, Smith.
Pointing out that your buddy, Enrique Tarrio, is Afro-Cuban is a racist statement?
Seeing as how "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin is a mobbed-up Fascist, I wouldn't be surprised.
Regardless, you sure sound as though YOU are, Smith.
You referred to him as a "boy." Highly racist.
OMG.
I am also known to say to MAGATs and Pinkos alike, "Your boy, Vladimir Putin."
LOL!
Take it up with your leftist DEI masters. I'm pretty sure that they frown on referring to African American men as "boy."
You really need to get your paranoid fantasies about Russia and Putin straight. Russia fought and defeated fascism in WWII, but now they are the fascists. LOL. Such profound ignorance of history combined with paranoia is not a great look. You want to know who actually collaborated with the Fascists? Ukraine.
That's rich coming from a MAGAT like you.
BTW, how's your boy The Traitorous Orange Xxxx (rhymes with bird), today?
Has he lowered the price of groceries yet?
Run away all you want. Even beyond the kooky leftist fringe, I think most reasonable people would acknowledge that referring to an African American man as a "boy" is not appropriate. Why even note his race at all?
Um, too many to count, Comrade, but the vast majority, following KGB* guidelines, blame the evil, evil, evil "Military Industrial Intelligence-Community Complex" / "Deep State" -- specifically the evil, evil, evil CIA!
Da?
*Today's SVR and FSB
When you said the allegation that your beloved AfD is a Nazi party is contradicted by the fact that "it is headed by a lesbian who is married to a woman from Shri Lanka," I pointed out that your beloved Proud Boys is a racist organization even though it used to be headed by a guy who is Afro-Cuban.
Do you deny that the Proud Boys is a racist organization?
Again, you didn't say "guy" you said "boy" and referenced his race. I have no idea who the Proud Boys are or what they do having never seen them referenced by anyone other than the leftist media. Some type of small fringe group? Regardless, not sure what relevance that has to excuse your offensive racial comments. Are you saying that because others are racist that excuses your racism?
Would you mind naming one that John Iacoletti endorsed?
The contrarian that you reference is too intellectually dishonest to take any position. That's part of the game. This allows the contrarian to set an impossible standard of proof as to Oswald's guilt but never have to apply that same standard to test any alternative theory to Oswald's guilt. That's known as having your cake and eating it too. Applying the highest, impossible standard of proof to something that you do not want to accept as a fact no matter how strong the evidence while applying the lowest or even no standard of proof to alternative outcomes no matter the lack of evidence. This always leaves open the possibility of doubt. This destination is commonly known as the rabbit hole.
Your boy Vladimir Putin would be proud of the pro-Russia-and-Traitorous-Orange-Xxxx trolling that you do, Smith.
"I have no idea who the Proud Boys are."
LOL!
Rhymes with bird.
Even Yahoo Search found them within a split second:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys
Obviously, you would need to know that things like search engines exist.
Why do leftists want Trump supporters to be racists? There were around 80 million Americans who voted for Trump. I doubt even a fraction of one percent of those voters has any idea who the Proud Boys are outside of references in leftist media. To the extent anyone has ever heard of them, it is because of the leftist echo chamber. The vast majority of Trump supporters are working class folks from all walks of life including a record number of women and minorities who voted for a Republican candidate. You realize that the Soviet Union and KGB that Putin worked for was an anti-right Communist system. They were the antithesis of fascism who actually lost tens of millions defeating fascism. That is an historically flawed comparison to keep making. It highlights, however, the desire to twist facts to suit a desired narrative. Putin is not a fascist even if that suits your political narrative. He is the product of the most extreme leftist system in history. Historically, it was Ukraine who collaborated with the Nazis but that doesn't advance your narrative.
You found something on the Internet! Congrats. No one suggested that information about them couldn't be found by those interested. My point is that I don't know anything about them. And don't care. My only awareness that they even exist are from references by leftists implying that all Trump supporters are racist. The irony abounds when they play the racist card while referring to African Americans as "boy."
The problem is, Smith, you're so xxxxxxx (rhymes with mucking) far-right that as far as you're concerned, anyone to the left of Adolf Hitler is a Communist.
The vast majority of Traitorous Orange Xxxx (rhymes with bird) supporters are well-intentioned people who have, unfortunately, been zombified by 60-plus years of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," and "Inside Man" / "Outside Man" strategic deception counterintelligence operations waged against us and our NATO allies.
Do some research and learn how the Kremlin in 1959, having realized that the USSR and the Warsaw Pact couldn't defeat the U.S. and NATO militarily, decided to try to get us to tear ourselves apart. That's when it had the KGB set up a top-secret, deception-based, KGB-within-the-KGB "Department D" in the First Chief Directorate (today's SVR) to wage the aforementioned ops against us, and General Oleg Gribanov, not to be outdone, set up his own deception-based Department 14 in his Second Chief Directorate (today's FSB).
That should be enough to get you started.
*Today's SVR and FSB
You claimed not knowing about them. Given your other insane claims over the years, not likely to be true. Remember the autonomous, replicating death squads?
If you have any family or friends, explain to them your paranoid and historically inaccurate theories and obsession with Russia. Seek their guidance in obtaining mental health assistance.
"Claims over the years" when you are allegedly new to the forum? I think you just blew your cover. The death squads are not my theory. If hundreds of people were killed by the conspirators in the aftermath of the assassination, then hundreds of homicide investigations would have taken place. A team of assassins would be at large hired by the conspirators. The conspirators would have to ensure their silence by hiring assassins to kill them. This would grow exponentially until no one would be safe. At the very least, no one who believed this was happening would dare post on a public Internet forum for fear of being targeted by the fantasy death squad.
You've never heard of Department D of the First Chief Directorate (today's SVR), much less Department 14 of the Second Chief Directorate (today's FSB), have you?
Don't feel too bad -- very few Americans have.
It's a pity, though, because both of them were formed in 1959 with the express purpose of creating a top-secret "KGB within the KGB" -- with members of the old, "outer" KGB suddenly becoming unwittingly expendable in the Sun Tzu-based deception ops the new, "inner" KGB started waging against the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies. Needless to say, this Sun Tzu-based KGB system won the Cold War on 5 November 2024 when "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin installed his "useful idiot" (or worse) Donald Trump as our "president," doing so with the help of 60-plus years of cumulative KGB-promulgated conspiracy theories (like those surrounding the anomaly-replete JFKA, for example).
Read Edward Jay Epstein's 1989 book, "Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA," Tennent H. Bagley's 2007 Yale University Press book, "Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games," and Mark Riebling's 1994 book, "Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA"" for details.
They can be read for free by googling "epstein" & "deception" & "archive" simultaneously, "spy wars" & "archive" simultaneously, and "riebling" & wedge" & "archive" simultaneously.
Enjoy!
That is tin foil hat stuff. The KGB Kevin Bacon game.
You're either a Russian troll or ignorant as all xxxx, Smith.
Are you a Russian troll? You sound like a Russian troll.
(You're just ignorant, right? Please say that you're just ignorant.)
Rhymes with muck.
What is a "Russian troll" in your paranoid mind?
For example, the professional ones at Putin's Internet Research Agency in Saint Petersburg who helped put The Traitorous Orange Xxxx in the White House on 20 January 2017.
Rhymes with bird.
I thought claims that elections were rigged was verboten among leftists. There is zero evidence - as in none - that a single vote was changed due to any Russian effort in 2017. That's a conspiracy hoax that makes the JFK conspiracy theories seem trivial. Did these same Russian trolls rig the 2024 landslide victory? The reverse was actually true. Trump overcame the combined efforts of the US media bias, political establishment including both republicans and dems, and wealthy white people to win these elections. An absolute miracle. No other person in US could have done so.
I thought claims that elections were rigged was verboten among leftists. There is zero evidence - as in none - that a single vote was changed due to any Russian effort in 2017. That's a conspiracy hoax that makes the JFK conspiracy theories seem trivial. Did these same Russian trolls rig the 2024 landslide victory? The reverse was actually true. Trump overcame the combined efforts of the US media bias, political establishment including both republicans and dems, and wealthy white people to win these elections. An absolute miracle. No other person in US could have done so.
Like I told you before, the election rigging is why Trump brought Musk and his SpaceX computer nerds on board for the 2024 Election. Their current DOGE work has them hunting down the Deep Stater's that orchestrated that 2020 Heist.
Did Putin's professional trolls at the IRA try to hurt Hillary / help Trump during the 2016 campaign?
What makes you think they were unsuccessful?
"Claims over the years" when you are allegedly new to the forum? I think you just blew your cover. The death squads are not my theory. If hundreds of people were killed by the conspirators in the aftermath of the assassination, then hundreds of homicide investigations would have taken place. A team of assassins would be at large hired by the conspirators. The conspirators would have to ensure their silence by hiring assassins to kill them. This would grow exponentially until no one would be safe. At the very least, no one who believed this was happening would dare post on a public Internet forum for fear of being targeted by the fantasy death squad.
Oh dear, who alleged I am new to the forum? It wasn't voices in your head, was it? Or you figured it out yourself?
Or it could be your forum designation as a "Newbie." LOL. Comedy gold. It just seems strange to me that a "Newbie" to the forum with a handful of posts is referencing things posted "over the years."
Bravo, so why "allegedly" and where exactly is the problem with a "Newbie" knowing your past posting history?
You're so full of beans, I can smell you from here, Storing.
IIRC, you MAGATs brought 60-plus suits and lost all but one of them. Even some Republican judges determined that there was no significant fraud in the 2020 election.
Did they "try"? Maybe. I have no idea, but there is zero evidence that a single vote was influenced by anything Russia did. Most of the Russia hoax nonsense was actually manufactured by Hillary and those supporting her to damage Trump.
I'm not exactly sure why you are fixating and having hysterics over this. It simply strikes me as odd that a "newbie" would be familiar with my posts "over the years." That doesn't seem so difficult to understand.
Tsk-tsk, could it be the forum software that's in error? Don't be shy; share your thought process with us about why you consider it odd and what's that about my cover? No need to deflect; let's have the details, OK?
Hillary "manufactured" the Russia hoax? She PAID/$$ for it.
The contrarian that you reference is too intellectually dishonest to take any position. That's part of the game. This allows the contrarian to set an impossible standard of proof as to Oswald's guilt but never have to apply that same standard to test any alternative theory to Oswald's guilt.
Or it could be your forum designation as a "Newbie." LOL. Comedy gold. It just seems strange to me that a "Newbie" to the forum with a handful of posts is referencing things posted "over the years."
What Judge permitted "Discovery"? Answer - NONE
Details of what? I have no idea what you are babbling on and on about. Are you saying that you have been here for years? And your "newbie" status is a product of a software error? If so, why not just say that instead of playing a thousand bizarre questions? Your profile indicates that you are a "newbie," but you made reference to comments made "over the years." That's inconsistent. No more, no less than that absent some explanation that only you would have.
Details of what? I have no idea what you are babbling on and on about. Are you saying that you have been here for years? And your "newbie" status is a product of a software error? If so, why not just say that instead of playing a thousand bizarre questions? Your profile indicates that you are a "newbie," but you made reference to comments made "over the years." That's inconsistent. No more, no less than that absent some explanation that only you would have.
Richard, calm down, I understand your frustration. Have you considered that the attribute Newbie seems to be tied to the number of posts, not how long one has been a member? But apparently there's another problem. You seem to be OK with having posted a decade ago, but posts on this forum only goes back to early 2018. What could that mean?
Edit: sorry, I did say "over the years", not decade, although that is true also. Your ramblings go back to at least 2013 when I joined an early incarnation of the forum. Regardless, there's no reason your posts shouldn't be known to anyone who bothered reading them.
Smith, don't you know that even a "newbie" can access the posts of a grizzled old member like you by simply visiting his or her profile page?
D'oh!
Russia should withdraw all troupes.
The Ukraine borders should go back to before the invasion.
The complaint that Russia should not have to border against NATO is conflated Bullsh!t.
NATO is not an aggressor.
If Russian lays down arms EU is at peace.
If Ukraine lays down arms = Putin marches on......
Russia should withdraw all troupes.
The Ukraine borders should go back to before the invasion.
The complaint that Russia should not have to border against NATO is conflated Bullsh!t.
NATO is not an aggressor.
If Russian lays down arms EU is at peace.
If Ukraine lays down arms = Putin marches on......
These are the situations resulting from a Stolen 2020 POTUS Election. "10% for the Big Guy". Biden kickbacks from Ukraine, Military Industrial Complex, etc. Graft at the expense of lives. He don't care as long as he gets his 10%. Cardboard Cutout Figure Head. Front Man.
What SHOULD happen and what is possible are not the same thing. Putin would fight this war indefinitely. Perhaps for decades. That means thousands more dead, billions more spent, cities destroyed, and eventually a similar deal would end it. Not every wrong can be righted. The best deal for everyone is that the war and killing end now, the US gets some of the billions spent back in terms of the deal, Ukraine has increased security via the deal, and non-US peacekeepers and everyone moves on. If this war has proven anything, it is that Russia is largely a paper tiger. The cold war propaganda that they are a threat was overblown. They are not invading any NATO country if they could barely overrun a few small regions of Ukraine over a three year war that may have cost them a million casualties.
He had better not be rewarded for his aggression. I don't think the American people would stand for it.
This is the result of a stolen election. "10% for the big guy" sat on his hands while Putin took a month to completely encircle Ukraine, and then he invaded. You just saw a Real Leader in action. He threw that Tin Pot Dictator right outta the White House.
Zelensky has a lot of valid grievances. His problem is that he is not in a position to solve them. He either has to cut a deal that doesn't right every wrong or he has to fight on without the US bankrolling the war. He made a mistake coming to sign a deal and then complaining about it in front of the press. Reject the deal if you don't like it and stay home. If you are in the Oval Office to sign the deal, then play nice and do it. He lost his cool and the whole thing blew up. My guess is that he still signs before leaving but the consequences are his own.
What SHOULD happen and what is possible are not the same thing. Putin would fight this war indefinitely. Perhaps for decades. That means thousands more dead, billions more spent, cities destroyed, and eventually a similar deal would end it. Not every wrong can be righted. The best deal for everyone is that the war and killing end now, the US gets some of the billions spent back in terms of the deal, Ukraine has increased security via the deal, and non-US peacekeepers and everyone moves on. If this war has proven anything, it is that Russia is largely a paper tiger. The cold war propaganda that they are a threat was overblown. They are not invading any NATO country if they could barely overrun a few small regions of Ukraine over a three year war that may have cost them a million casualties.
How would Ukraine have increased security?
A massive US economic interest in the mineral rights and non-US peace keeping force.
This is the result of a stolen election. "10% for the big guy" sat on his hands while Putin took a month to completely encircle Ukraine, and then he invaded. You just saw a Real Leader in action. He threw that Tin Pot Dictator right outta the White House.I wasn't watching - but Trump got thrown out of the White House?
I wasn't watching - but Trump got thrown out of the White House?
"Lump it or like it." 4 lame duck years is torture for you guys. Trump can do what he wants and not be concerned about re-election. There's a reason he dodged 2 assassination attempts. Trump is where he is, at this point in time, for a reason. Buckle up.
Right now, Putin has total advantage.
Nothing but time. Just wait it out.
I hope that doesn't make you happy as it evidently does Storing, R. Smith, and [fill in the blank].
You just LOST an election. You are in the Minority. And now you howl at the moon. "Lump it or like it".
Right now, Putin has total advantage.
Nothing but time. Just wait it out.
How is that any different today than over the last three years? Trump has to deal in reality. The reality is that the Russians have a larger military and resources than Ukraine. There is no military solution to this conflict for Ukraine. Unless the US bankrolls another endless war for years or decades it will go on and on for no purpose. Better to cut a deal, give Russia a few meaningless places on the map, and end the killing and spending. Putin won't be in power forever. When he is gone, there will be an opportunity for Ukraine and Russia to revisit this situation.
How is that any different today than over the last three years?
Trump sucked up to Putin in front of the world press.
Who cares if, "Russians are jumping for joy". Who cares if, "Trump sucked up to Putin in front of the world Press". (1) Broker a Peace Deal, (2) End the deaths, and (3) Stop pouring American $$ down a bottomless drain. This is why you guys are Now in the Minority. You Fail to understand what is truly Important.
This is why you guys are Now in the Minority.
I suspect that all you're concerned about is preventing your precious tax dollars going towards Ukraine's defense.
If Zelensky had signed the deal yesterday, what would prevent Putin from continuing the war or re-invading Ukraine on some trumped-up (pardon the pun) pretext six months from now?
The Not trusting Putin line of thought is never gonna change. So what is Zelenskyy gonna do? Not try and negotiate a cease fire/peace? If this is true, why was Zelenskyy in DC yesterday to begin with? Zelenskyy has no choice. He's running outta bodies to fight the war for him. He's now down to demanding that 60+ yr old men fight his war at this point. It's like the last days of Japan during WW2. Old Men, Women, and Children were front line defense fighters of the Homeland. Same with Ukraine. Zelenskyy can drag it out and just stack up the bodies, but the outcome has been decided. The only question is when.
I don't know what this means. what minority? - Look at what the rest of the world is saying.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: “Dear Zelensky, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.”
- President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausea: “Ukraine, you’ll never walk alone.”
- Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: “Dear Zelensky, Denmark proudly stands with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”
- French President Emmanual Macron: “There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a people being aggressed: Ukraine. We were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago and to continue doing so. We, that’s the Americans, the Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, and many others... Because they are fighting for their dignity, their independence, for their children, and for the security of Europe.”
- President of Moldova Maia Sandu: “The truth is simple. Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor. Ukraine defends its freedom—and ours. We stand with Ukraine.”
- Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson: “Sweden stands with Ukraine. You are not only fighting for your freedom but also for all of Europe’s. Slava Ukraini!”
- Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Mer: “Dear Zelenskyy, we stand with Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war.
- Crotia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenković: “Croatia knows from its own experience that only a just peace can last. The Croatian Government stands firm in its belief that Ukraine needs such a peace - a peace that means sovereignty, territorial integrity, and a secure Europe.”
- Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo: “Finland and the Finnish people stand firmly with Ukraine. We will continue our unwavering support and work towards a just and lasting peace.”
- Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal: “We stand united with Zelenskyy and Ukraine in our fight for freedom. Always. Because it is right, not easy.”
- Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris: “Ukraine is not to blame for this war brought about by Russia’s illegal invasion. We stand with Ukraine.“
- Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkevics: “Ukraine is a victim of the Russian aggression. It fights the war with the help from many friends and partners. We need to spare no effort for just and lasting peace. Latvia stands with Ukraine”
- Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dick Schoof: ”The Netherlands supports Ukraine as firmly as ever. Now more than ever. We want a lasting peace and an end to the war of aggression started by Russia. For Ukraine and its people, and for Europe.”
- Prime Minister of Luxembourg Luc Friedsen: “Luxembourg stands with Ukraine. You are fighting for your freedom and a rules based international order.
Russia is close to collapse, and Putin knows it.
He and The Traitorous Orange Dude need each other in order to stay in power.
That's because they want the US to continue to fund their national defense and that of Ukraine as we have stupidly done for the last 70 years. They are shocked that an American politician is putting the interest of America before their own interest. "Europe" is free to continue funding the war for as long as they wish.
I'm completely perplexed as to what point you are trying to make or why you are belaboring this. Again, if you want to explain how a "newbie" who your profile indicates registered on this forum just a few days ago (Date Registered :February 22, 2025, 09:10:54 AM) is familiar with posts made "over the years" knock yourself out. ONLY YOU would know the answer. Why play a thousand questions with me about that? I just pointed out the oddity of being a "new" member as your forum profile suggest but referencing posts made years ago. Something even more odd now that you are referencing posts that apparently date back years beyond the existing forum. You seem very confused about your own status here. I can't help you with that.
I suspect that all you're concerned about is preventing your precious tax dollars going towards Ukraine's defense.
If Zelensky had signed the deal yesterday, what would prevent Putin from continuing the war or re-invading Ukraine on some trumped-up (pardon the pun) pretext six months from now?
The Not trusting Putin line of thought is never gonna change. So what is Zelenskyy gonna do? Not try and negotiate a cease fire/peace? If this is true, why was Zelenskyy in DC yesterday to begin with?
He wanted an assurance that if he gave up mineral rights, he would get security guarantees. Because Putin cannot be trusted to abide by any agreement. But Trump is in Putin's pocket.
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Come on. Zelenskyy had to come to DC to get these alleged "security guarantees"? Don't be silly. All he "got" was thrown outta the White House on his ear.
I don't know what this means. what minority? - Look at what the rest of the world is saying.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: “Dear Zelensky, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.”
- President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausea: “Ukraine, you’ll never walk alone.”
- Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: “Dear Zelensky, Denmark proudly stands with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”
- French President Emmanual Macron: “There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a people being aggressed: Ukraine. We were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago and to continue doing so. We, that’s the Americans, the Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, and many others... Because they are fighting for their dignity, their independence, for their children, and for the security of Europe.”
- President of Moldova Maia Sandu: “The truth is simple. Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor. Ukraine defends its freedom—and ours. We stand with Ukraine.”
- Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson: “Sweden stands with Ukraine. You are not only fighting for your freedom but also for all of Europe’s. Slava Ukraini!”
- Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Mer: “Dear Zelenskyy, we stand with Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war.
- Crotia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenković: “Croatia knows from its own experience that only a just peace can last. The Croatian Government stands firm in its belief that Ukraine needs such a peace - a peace that means sovereignty, territorial integrity, and a secure Europe.”
- Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo: “Finland and the Finnish people stand firmly with Ukraine. We will continue our unwavering support and work towards a just and lasting peace.”
- Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal: “We stand united with Zelenskyy and Ukraine in our fight for freedom. Always. Because it is right, not easy.”
- Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris: “Ukraine is not to blame for this war brought about by Russia’s illegal invasion. We stand with Ukraine.“
- Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkevics: “Ukraine is a victim of the Russian aggression. It fights the war with the help from many friends and partners. We need to spare no effort for just and lasting peace. Latvia stands with Ukraine”
- Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dick Schoof: ”The Netherlands supports Ukraine as firmly as ever. Now more than ever. We want a lasting peace and an end to the war of aggression started by Russia. For Ukraine and its people, and for Europe.”
- Prime Minister of Luxembourg Luc Friedsen: “Luxembourg stands with Ukraine. You are fighting for your freedom and a rules based international order.
Why would the USA care what any of the above people think? What do they do for the USA? Putin and/or China even looks at any of them sideways and they will come crying to the USA to bail their arse out. Entirely one way street. And when it comes to history and Hitler, FDR did everything he could for as long as he could to keep the U.S. out of that European mess. Just like Trump is now doing with respect to Ukraine.
Why would the USA care what any of the above people think? What do they do for the USA?
(Paraphrased) The Democratic Party is the warmonger party on steroids. These are the people advocating for Zelensky, so that fact alone is enough for me to oppose any idea of wasting any more money to support Ukraine war.
Nobody wants funding of any war. How do you flip this AGAINST a battle for democracy?
Read a history book. You are truly ignorant.
Would it effect the U.S. negatively if mobbed-up fascist Putin or his successor were to invade Western Europe?
I'm confused.
You were just saying Russia is close to "collapse." But they are somehow a threat to "Europe." Get your warmongering narrative straight. You can't have it both ways.
If Russia is a threat to "Europe," they and Ukraine are free to fight on if that's what they want.
The US is finally putting its own interest ahead of those of others.
So profoundly stupid to suggest that we double down on the type of hopeless, endless conflicts of which the "history books" are full. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and so forth. All for nothing. The history books also give us a lesson on how the first world war started. A regional conflict that drew in the major powers through a series of alliances until the entire world was at war over places they had never heard of. Sound familiar? Trump is trying to stop that. It amazes me that anyone wants the US to continue to fund an endless war with no plan or way for ending it. Just on and on and on.
Would it effect the U.S. negatively if mobbed-up fascist Putin or his successor were to invade Western Europe?
Depends what you mean by "effect". There's emotional/morally, and then there is the material. USA carries Europe and has dating back to WW1. Trump has always been an Isolationist. Energy Independent, greatest military in the world, Space Force, and now a Dome Defense. USA can stand alone if need be. Zelenskyy issa con man pocketing Billions/$$. Trump DOGE'd him for an accounting of the $350 Billion the USA has GIVEN him and he could NOT provide an account for it. Trump is a "bottom line" guy. If You can Not provide "receipts for expenditures" = "You're FIRED". This is the current status of Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy is a con man pocketing Billions/$$.
What else is new?
If given a respite, it can regroup. Da?
Isolationist that you are, it wouldn't have bothered you in 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland and shortly thereafter invaded Western Europe, right?
How about when you heard about the concentration camps?
Or do you think those were just another Snowflake Libtard Hoax?
PS Why did you put the word Europe in scare quotes . . . twice?
How is it in our interest to appease Vladimir Putin?
The vast majority of Americans never wanted to be involved in any of these foreign conflicts including even WWII. If Trump had a magic wand, he could wave it and right all the world's wrongs. Unfortunately, he has to deal in reality. That reality includes the fact that Ukraine cannot win a war with Russia. At best, they can maintain a stalemate for years and hope for divine intervention. That means thousands more dead and billions more sunk into a morass. They are free to join with "Europe" and fight on forever, but the US is not going to bankroll it. We have done more than our fair share.
Why should we reward a fascistic dictator who has invaded a West-aspiring sovereign democratic country?
Or do you agree with The Traitorous Orange Dude that Ukraine and NATO forced Russia to invade?
Bottom line. There was an election. Trump won. He is making the decision to stop the funding. I agree with that decision. The US has done more than its fair share. Again, if Ukraine wishes to continue the war and "Europe" wishes to pay for it, they are free to do so. Trump is not telling them to surrender. There is no doubt that the presence of NATO nations on Russia's borders was one motivation for the invasion. That doesn't make it right but the US would have done exactly same thing if Russia and China began to have a military presence in Mexico or Canada on our borders.
Depends what you mean by "effect". There's emotional/morally, and then there is the material. USA carries Europe and has dating back to WW1. Trump has always been an Isolationist. Energy Independent, greatest military in the world, Space Force, and now a Dome Defense. USA can stand alone if need be. Zelenskyy issa con man pocketing Billions/$$. Trump DOGE'd him for an accounting of the $350 Billion the USA has GIVEN him and he could NOT provide an account for it. Trump is a "bottom line" guy. If You can Not provide "receipts for expenditures" = "You're FIRED". This is the current status of Zelenskyy.You Russian trolls are so full of sh*t it's sickening. Blaming Zelenskyy for squandering the $183 billion (not $350 comrade) that the US gave him to keep a murderous dictator from wiping his country off the map is reprehensible. You do realize that most of that money was for weaponry that was stockpiled and about to be decommissioned anyway. Small price to pay to wage a war by proxy against a scumbag commie dictator without losing a single troop or firing a single shot. That's a fricken bargain you fool!
The only one that chooses to be at war is Russia.
You Russian trolls are so full of sh*t it's sickening. Blaming Zelenskyy for squandering the $183 billion (not $350 comrade) that the US gave him to keep a murderous dictator from wiping his country off the map is reprehensible. You do realize that most of that money was for weaponry that was stockpiled and about to be decommissioned anyway. Small price to pay to wage a war by proxy against a scumbag commie dictator without losing a single troop or firing a single shot. That's a fricken bargain you fool!
Only a Russian troll would defend an orange retarded Nazi pedophile, clearly hellbent on selling out the US to the 4th Reich oligarch dictators of the world to help them carve up the planet for the new world order. Sound familiar? Making excuses for everything Mien Fuhrer Trumputin does tells me everything I need to know about you and your ilk. Otherwise, have a nice day, comrade.
And? Unless you have a magic wand to make that otherwise, Trump has to play with the cards that have been dealt. Endless war is futile. Cut a deal, end the war, and wait for Putin to move out of power in a few years.
You are making up leftist disinformation to promote warmongering.
A "former" KGB* officer and admirer of Joseph Stalin by the name of Vladimir Putin is the warmonger here, Smith, and he cherishes you for what you do.
Afterall, sixty-plus years (it began in 1959) of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," as strategic deception counterintelligence operations have been invested in you and your ilk!
*Today's SVR and FSB
That's partially right. You are learning something. No one thought that possible. Putin is a warmonger. He would continue this war forever regardless of the deaths and destruction. The question remains. What is to be done under the circumstances that exist? Biden wanted to fund an endless war. Trump wants to find a way that ends it. There is no perfect solution.
Despite what you say, with adequate support given to Ukraine Putin, can't continue his war "forever."
The Russian economy has begun to tank, Ukraine has destroyed a large part of its navy and oil production facilities, Russia has to import crummy soldiers from North Korea, and Russian mothers and fathers are wondering why they haven't heard from their sons for such a long time.
LOL. Who told you all this? That is complete propaganda but if you want to believe it, knock yourself out. Let Ukraine and "Europe" finish Russia off. The US is checking out.
What are your main sources of "information," Smith?
Fox, OANN, NewsMax, ZeroHedge, Alex Jones, RT, Truth Social?
Sure sounds like it.
LOL.
CNN
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Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s economy has surpassed expectations. Its figures are, if not rosy, not ruinous either. Last year, the war economy likely grew faster than the United States and all major European economies.
"The annual inflation rate in Russia rose to 9.9% in January of 2025 from 9.5% in the previous month, the highest since base effects from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine kicked in in February 2023."
-- Trading Economics
I found this on fb - more confirmation of Trump being used as a Russian asset
Volodymyr Vlad Kunko
I’m calling it as it is. I dont care whether you agree with me or not, just check your response with your gut. My gut never lies to me.
I’ve had my suspicions all along about this stooge. He’s not intelligent enough to pull this off by himself. We better hope that all the social security numbers and tax info that Muskrat just uploaded from SSA and IRS from every single American citizens account, doesn’t end up in Putin’s files. Whoever has that info can potentially wipe out every dime we have and can potentially fund a world takeover:
There is something rancid in America, a slow, creeping rot that smells like cold McDonald’s fries, aerosol hairspray, and the unmistakable musk of a country too sedated to recognize its own hostage situation. For years, the idea that Donald Trump was compromised by Russia was dismissed as paranoid fantasy—just another wild-eyed conspiracy theory, another overblown headline in the endless saga of American political dysfunction.
But now, two former Soviet intelligence officers—Alnur Mussayev and Yuri Shvets—are saying it outright: Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, groomed as an asset, and remains under Russian control to this day. And the worst part? He’s already back in the White House.
That’s right, America. You did it. You walked face-first into the banana peel of history, slipped, and fell straight into the arms of Vladimir Putin. Trump was kicked out in 2020, spent four years plotting his comeback, and now he’s returned, like a bloated, orange cockroach that just won’t die. The Kremlin’s favorite stooge is running the country again, and this time, he knows exactly how to stay in power. If you think this is just another round of the Trump Show, you’re not paying attention. This isn’t politics anymore. This is treason. This is foreign subversion. This is a goddamn coup in slow motion.
Let’s break it down, nice and simple.
Alnur Mussayev isn’t some Twitter conspiracy theorist with a tinfoil hat and a podcast. He’s the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, which means he knows exactly how Russian intelligence works—because he was part of the system. And what he’s saying should make every American’s blood run cold.
According to Mussayev, Trump was identified, recruited, and compromised by the KGB in 1987 during his first trip to Moscow. They saw him for what he was: a narcissistic, greedy, attention-starved buffoon who could be easily manipulated. The KGB flattered him, promised him business deals, and planted the seeds of political ambition in his empty little head. And from that moment on, he was their man.
But Mussayev isn’t alone. Former KGB major Yuri Shvets said the exact same thing in 2021: Trump was cultivated by Soviet intelligence because he was an easy mark—too stupid to realize he was being played, too egotistical to care. They saw him as a useful idiot—a man who could one day be nudged into power, a walking, talking Trojan Horse for Russian interests.
And now? The plan has worked. Trump spent four years in office weakening America from within, got booted out, and now he’s back for round two.
If you had told the American public in 1962 that a Soviet-backed asset would one day sit in the White House, they would have burned Washington to the ground before letting it happen. But today? Nobody seems to care.
The media treats this like just another wacky subplot in the never-ending Trump reality show. Congress is too busy fighting over meaningless culture war nonsense to do anything about it. And the American public? Exhausted. Numb. Checked out. Years of scandals—Russia collusion, Ukraine blackmail, classified documents, tax fraud, sexual assault, an attempted coup—have fried the country’s brain like an overcooked steak at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump has done the impossible. He has committed so many crimes, so openly, so brazenly, that none of them matter anymore.
And now, with Mussayev’s revelation that Trump is an active foreign asset, we have finally reached the point where the biggest political scandal in American history is met with a collective shrug. This is how democracy dies—not with a bang, but with a goddamn eye-roll.
This is the part where the skeptics start clutching their pearls. “Oh, come on,” they say. “If Trump were really a Russian asset, wouldn’t there be more proof?”
To which I say: Are you blind, or just willfully stupid?
Let’s go through the evidence, shall we?
Trump spent his entire first term doing exactly what Russia wanted. He attacked NATO, calling it “obsolete” and threatening to pull the U.S. out. He tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt on Joe Biden, because weakening Ukraine helps one man and one man only: Vladimir Putin. He pulled U.S. troops out of Syria, handing power over to Russian forces. He picked fights with Canada and Europe while cozying up to dictators.
Even now, in his second term, he is more openly pro-Putin than ever. He has made it clear that he will not protect NATO allies from Russian aggression. He is actively dismantling America’s alliances, just as Russia planned. And while Americans scream at each other over whether Target should sell rainbow t-shirts, Trump is quietly selling the country to the Kremlin.
At some point, you have to stop calling it a coincidence and start calling it what it is: treason.
The United States is running out of time. If Trump serves out this term without being removed, America as a functioning democracy is finished.
The media needs to wake up. Enough with the “Trump fatigue” excuse. This is not just another scandal—this is the single greatest infiltration of American power in history. Journalists need to dig into Mussayev’s claims, demand declassification of intelligence files, and treat this like the national emergency that it is.
Congress needs to subpoena Mussayev immediately. His testimony must be public, and every document he has should be reviewed. If there is proof that Trump has been compromised since the 1980s, the American people need to know. The Justice Department needs to stop pretending that Trump is just another politician. If there is evidence that the sitting president of the United States is working in Russia’s interests, he must be removed from office and prosecuted for espionage.
And the American public? You have one last chance. This is not about Republican vs. Democrat. This is not about taxes, gas prices, or whatever nonsense outrage is dominating the news today. This is about whether the United States remains a sovereign nation, or if we spend the rest of the century as a Russian client state with a golf course.
The sheer volume of Trump's corruption, the blatant nature of his crimes, the mountain of evidence that should have ended his political career a hundred times over—none of it mattered. He survived it all, not because he was innocent, but because he drowned the country in so much scandal that nothing stuck.
But this time, it’s different. If Mussayev and Shvets are right, this isn’t just another chapter in the endless Trump circus. This is the culmination of a decades-long Russian intelligence operation to install an asset in the White House.
There is no coming back from this. If America lets Trump serve out this term without removing him, then the United States as a democratic republic is finished. The country won’t collapse overnight. There won’t be tanks in the streets. Instead, the destruction of democracy will happen in slow motion—buried under lawsuits, propaganda, and corruption so blatant that people stop caring.
If America lets this happen—if Trump is allowed to complete his mission—then Putin wins. The West crumbles. And the people who could have stopped it will look back, years from now, and wonder how they let it happen.
Good night, and good luck. Because if people don’t wake up, America is going to sleepwalk straight into its own funeral.
You lose any credibility when you start repeating the hoax that Trump is working for Russia. There are warmongers in the establishment with agendas who don't like the fact that Trump doesn't listen to their advice and makes decisions on behalf of the US instead of the rest of the world. John Bolton is the classic example. He is a warmonger who wants to bomb every adversary. Trump quickly learned that he was a fraud and incompetent and fired him. These people are seeing their influence wane and are doing everything possible to take down Trump.
poor baby, trump ! the whole wide world is against him !
Nonsense ! - Russian collusion has been piling up on him since 2016.
...and credibility from you, doesn't mean that much to me. Thumb1:
The Russia Reprise is exactly why the Dems continue going the way of the dinosaur. They have no New Ideas to offer the electorate. On top of that, they publicly shun assets like Musk, RFK Jr, and Rogan, and instead run fossils out there like Carville. The Hate they hold for Trump is resulting in endless self inflicted wounds.
The Russian collusion hoax was one of the biggest debunked conspiracy theories in history. Entirely baseless. It's incredible that anyone is still shopping that long debased nonsense around. TDS. Trump is doing what is best for the US. I know that is shocking given the long track record of US political establishment foreign policy designed to enrich themselves and stay in power, but those days are finally over.
You seem to have fallen in love with the phrase "Russian collusion hoax" even though you know that some of the Traitorous Orange Dude's campaign associates and political appointees either refused to testify on the subject or were caught perjuring themselves when they did.
Regardless, do you deny that "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin's professional trolls at the IRA tried to hurt Hillary's election chances and help The Traitorous Orange Dude's ones?
Now, why would fascistic "former" KGB officer Putin do that?
Did you really think Guccifer 2.0 was a Romanian hacker?
Why do you think it was that Russian hackers made their first attempt to break into the servers used by Hillary Clinton's private office within hours of the Traitorous Orange Dude's saying at a 7/29/16 televised news conference, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing, I think you'll be mightily rewarded by our press"?
I could go on and on, but you know something?
You sound like a Russian troll to me.
Are you a Russian troll?
(Even if you aren't, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin cherishes you.)
Not sure who you are talking to here.
Stand by for what RFK Jr does about measles in TX.
This is what you get with Biden's 15+ Million Illegal Aliens crossing the border. It's the counting of these illegal aliens that pile into Calif and NY that keep those states crashing population totals Up. Remember, the number of Congressmen that a state gets is based on their population. That Calif Delegation is a massive force that votes Fed $$ being funneled into Calif. Totally funneled into sham stuff like that worthless Bulletin Train. Calif cleaned up Big Time during the Corona Virus. Even the LA Times got Corona $$. This is why the Dem's did Not want a box on the Census asking, "are you a U.S. Citizen?". Calif is a rapidly declining boondoggle state bulging with illegal aliens resulting in Billions/$$ in debt.
This is what you get with Biden's 15+ Million Illegal Aliens crossing the border. It's the counting of these illegal aliens that pile into Calif and NY that keep those states crashing population totals Up. Remember, the number of Congressmen that a state gets is based on their population. That Calif Delegation is a massive force that votes Fed $$ being funneled into Calif. Totally funneled into sham stuff like that worthless Bulletin Train. Calif cleaned up Big Time during the Corona Virus. Even the LA Times got Corona $$. This is why the Dem's did Not want a box on the Census asking, "are you a U.S. Citizen?". Calif is a rapidly declining boondoggle state bulging with illegal aliens resulting in Billions/$$ in debt.
what does this have to do with the current (and unnecessary) outbreak of measles in TX?
and a man in charge of our health services that is anti-vaccine.
If Russia is paper tiger as "Richard Smith" claims, Putin will stop at Ukraine and would never attack a NATO country.
All the more reason, Ukraine needs to be in NATO in order to survive. Otherwise, Putin cannot be trusted.
That's got to happen with or without the US being involved.
I'm more concerned about what has happened within the United States over the past 6 weeks.
It would seem dismantlement has only just begun. It is terrifying.
Hello? McFly? Do you think the 15+ Million people that have illegally entered the U.S. from countries all over the world are vaccinated?
"Dismantlement" of the Deep State is a very good thing. This is why there has been 2 attempts to assassinate Trump. "Promises made, promises kept"!
Not sure who you are talking to here.
Stand by for what RFK Jr does about measles in TX.
Dude, turn off Fox News,
Immigration fears 'masking' issue behind West Texas measles outbreak
https://www.yahoo.com/news/immigration-fears-masking-issue-behind-120347857.html
"....public health directors across the border what their experience was with immigrants and their vaccinations.
They replied their biggest challenge was immigrants lining up at their offices for shots they didn’t always need.
Like Dr. Griffin, they told her immigrant parents vaccinate their kids because many of them have seen these diseases."
Illegals sure like to take FREE US shots ! - better stop that too huh?
There is zero doubt that the measles outbreak in TX originated from those crossing the border into Texas......BLAH BLAH BLAH......
GARBAGE !!! - what I posted....from a week ago
Marsha Griffin, M.D., a retired Professor of Pediatrics from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, and a founding member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health, is the President of Community for Children, Inc. a non-profit created to benefit immigrant children and families.
- what do you have?
LOL. You believe Trump colluded with Russia (the most baseless conspiracy theory in history) but not that the measles outbreak has anything to do with millions of illegal aliens crossing the border? And your "proof" of this is a single retired MD who is probably a radicalized liberal who wouldn't admit that any illegal alien had ever done anything wrong in all of history. Well, I guess that resolves it. Of course, an epidemic has to come from somewhere. It is suddenly in the border states of Texas and New Mexico. Just another coincidence for Dr. Fauci and company? If only there were a clue about where it came from. Thankfully, RFK has made it a top priority.
LOL. You believe Trump colluded with Russia (the most baseless conspiracy theory in history) but not that the measles outbreak has anything to do with millions of illegal aliens crossing the border? And your "proof" of this is a single retired MD who is probably a radicalized liberal who wouldn't admit that any illegal alien had ever done anything wrong in all of history. Well, I guess that resolves it. Of course, an epidemic has to come from somewhere. It is suddenly in the border states of Texas and New Mexico. Just another coincidence for Dr. Fauci and company? If only there were a clue about where it came from. Thankfully, RFK has made it a top priority.
(the most baseless conspiracy theory in history) - all coming together right before our eyes !
Of course, an epidemic has to come from somewhere. - rich, white, "privileged" americans fallen for the anti-VAX rhetoric.
You have really gone off the rails. I'm not an anti-vaxxer. Neither is RFK. I just posted his most recent quote touting the benefits of vaccines. Do anti-vaxxers promote vaccines? This is a classic case of someone making up false claims to comport to their desired narrative. Where do you think the measles came from along the border states where there is an outbreak? Did it spontaneously occur? If it rains for an entire week, and your basement floods, where would you think the water came from? If there is a COVID outbreak in the same city from all the cities of the world where they have a lab experimenting with COVID, where you do think the outbreak originated from? If you have a measles outbreak along the border where tens of millions have been allowed to cross illegally, where do you think it most likely originated?
You have really gone off the rails. I'm not an anti-vaxxer. Neither is RFK. I just posted his most recent quote touting the benefits of vaccines. Do anti-vaxxers promote vaccines? This is a classic case of someone making up false claims to comport to their desired narrative. Where do you think the measles came from along the border states where there is an outbreak? Did it spontaneously occur? If it rains for an entire week, and your basement floods, where would you think the water came from? If there is a COVID outbreak in the same city from all the cities of the world where they have a lab experimenting with COVID, where you do think the outbreak originated from? If you have a measles outbreak along the border where tens of millions have been allowed to cross illegally, where do you think it most likely originated?Not to get in between this food fight but I do find it odd that the same JFK conspiracy believers who say democracy was stolen in a fascist coup 60+ years ago in Dallas, a coup that's been covered up by major elements of the government including six administrations, are now deeply worried that Trump will steal democracy from us.
Not to get in between this food fight but I do find it odd that the same JFK conspiracy believers who say democracy was stolen in a fascist coup 60+ years ago in Dallas, a coup that's been covered up by major elements of the government including six administrations, are now deeply worried that Trump will steal democracy from us.
If I have their complaints right, Trump would be stealing it from the fascists who stole it from JFK? I know, it's JFK conspiracy world: it doesn't have to make sense.
Not to get in between this food fight but I do find it odd that the same JFK conspiracy believers who say democracy was stolen in a fascist coup 60+ years ago in Dallas, a coup that's been covered up by major elements of the government including six administrations, are now deeply worried that Trump will steal democracy from us.
If I have their complaints right, Trump would be stealing it from the fascists who stole it from JFK and have been holding it all of these years? Wouldn't they be *for* Trump doing this? I know, it's JFK conspiracy world: it doesn't have to make sense.
Not to get in between this food fight but I do find it odd that the same JFK conspiracy believers who say democracy was stolen in a fascist coup 60+ years ago in Dallas, a coup that's been covered up by major elements of the government including six administrations, are now deeply worried that Trump will steal democracy from us.
If I have their complaints right, Trump would be stealing it from the fascists who stole it from JFK and have been holding it all of these years? Wouldn't they be *for* Trump doing this? I know, it's JFK conspiracy world: it doesn't have to make sense.
I do find it odd that the same JFK conspiracy believers who say democracy was stolen in a fascist coup.....
Not to get in between this food fight but I do find it odd that the same JFK conspiracy believers who say democracy was stolen in a fascist coup 60+ years ago in Dallas, a coup that's been covered up by major elements of the government including six administrations, are now deeply worried that Trump will steal democracy from us.
If I have their complaints right, Trump would be stealing it from the fascists who stole it from JFK and have been holding it all of these years? Wouldn't they be *for* Trump doing this? I know, it's JFK conspiracy world: it doesn't have to make sense.
So far I think Elon Musk has the right idea to streamline the government and to eliminate the waste and fraud, and that includes the Pentagon, and DOD which has been bloated for decades.
I do not quite understand the Putin bad Zalinsky good argument because this war got started (from I’ve read) by the hypocrisy of the Ukrainian government in denying Crimea and other 70% majority Russian states referendums requesting to return to the Russian Federation as far back as 2014.
The other part , which provoked Putin , was Ukraine demanding to become a NATO member which is totally unwarranted and is not sustainable logistically.
So let’s just wait and see if Trump can negotiate a peaceful end to this war before going into psychotic paranoid mode predicting Putin is going to invade all of Europe.
What rails? - He has a history of anti-vax rhetoric and actions.
Let us see. Thumb1:
Zelensky is in no position to be demanding anything because the American people are fed up with foreign countries dragging us into war.
Wrong. He has a "history" of being accused of being an anti-vaxxer. You are projecting a desired narrative onto him just as you did on me. I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I've never made a single post here suggesting that I was. I get the flu vaccine, COVID vaccine and most others. Yet you claimed I was an anti-vaxxer because I support Trump. Here are RFK's own words today. Read this and then ask yourself if this sounds like someone who opposes vaccines rather supports every individual making their own decision after getting all the relevant information.
"Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons."
You are projecting a desired narrative onto him just as you did on me. I'm not an anti-vaxxer.
WTF exactly is the "Deep State"? - where does that end when you take to jobs with a sledge hammer?
Just 86'd that Joker running the SNY FBI Field Office. Epstein Files now flowing like water. Declassification process underway. Follow orders or hit the bricks.
Just 86'd that Joker running the SNY FBI Field Office. Epstein Files now flowing like water. Declassification process underway. Follow orders or hit the bricks.
What does this even mean?
This is what happens when your news sources are all from inside the "echo chamber". That well is poisoned and drying up. Viewership hitting rock bottom.
I did no such thing. Cite the post.
I don't care what you are on vaccines.
I said "Of course, an epidemic has to come from somewhere" and after directly quoting me you posted (#2412) this:
"rich, white, "privileged" americans fallen for the anti-VAX rhetoric." If you are quoting me, and claim my words are anti-vax rhetoric then how else could it be interpreted other than to suggest that I am an anti-vaxer?
:D
:D Dude, that has absolutely NOTHING to do with calling YOU anti-vax.
Is JD Vance in the room? And no, I don't wear a suit.
LOL. You believe Trump colluded with Russia (the most baseless conspiracy theory in history) but not that the measles outbreak has anything to do with millions of illegal aliens crossing the border? And your "proof" of this is a single retired MD who is probably a radicalized liberal who wouldn't admit that any illegal alien had ever done anything wrong in all of history. Well, I guess that resolves it. Of course, an epidemic has to come from somewhere. It is suddenly in the border states of Texas and New Mexico. Just another coincidence for Dr. Fauci and company? If only there were a clue about where it came from. Thankfully, RFK has made it a top priority.
(the most baseless conspiracy theory in history) - all coming together right before our eyes !
Of course, an epidemic has to come from somewhere. - rich, white, "privileged" Americans fallen for the anti-VAX rhetoric.
Here is the full post:
My Response:
We were talking about the cause of measles in South TX. You insisted without any written proof that is was migrants.
I showed you at least 5 written articles - debunking that it was not - and has not - been linked to immigration.
The sources I posted show, the cause being (my words): rich, white, "privileged" Americans fallen for the anti-VAX rhetoric. Not taking their vaccine.
Now, why would I think that's you?
It's no wonder you get your news all mixed up.
I'll give serious consideration to anything connected to "White Privilege", when a white person inna position of prominence steps down. This includes MSNBC Maddow who accuses her own network of being "racist", and then continues drawing her hefty paycheck from these same "racists". Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, they all rail about White Privilege but cling to the positions they garnered due to this alleged White Privilege. These people are Hypocrites and the electorate has now caught onto them. Trump winning POTUS + the rock bottom Dem approval ratings = Proof In The Pudding.
So you did think I was an anti-vaxer even though I said absolutely nothing about opposing vaccines. My entire point. You have a desired narrative that all Trump supporters are anti-vaxers. RFK is an anti-vaxer in your world even though he made clear that he does not oppose vaccines. He just wants everyone to have the information they need to decide whether to get vaccinated as opposed to forcing them do so. That's not a narrative that you like, however.
It's all the more humorous because the Republican party is now the home of the working class and it's the Dems who have wide support among the rich, white, elitists. Look at Newsom out in California. Talk about an example of "white privilege."
Anyone who doubts that TDS is real and serious condition should have watched last night as the Dems sat stone faced and scorned a young boy who had survived brain cancer. Unreal and tone deaf. It was a great moment in the life of a kid who had not had many in his entire life. How about giving the Trump hate a few seconds pause and clap for the kid?
Why should they stand for and applaud a virtual (if not actual) traitor?
Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul:
“I want to remind everybody, Trump and Vance have done absolutely nothing for President Zelenskyy…
They told him he has to give up his territory. They told him he can't join NATO… They have not given new assistance…
So why in God’s name should they be seeking a thank you? Thumb1:
There about $350 billion reasons. Trump gave them weapons during his first administration after Obama refused. Zelensky would be in exile but for Trump. However, the important thing now is bringing the war to an end. Stop the killing. It's difficult to believe that anyone can hate Trump so much that they want his efforts to end a brutal war to fail. If you find yourself hating someone so much that you refuse to applaud for a kid with cancer and advocate for endless war, you have been radicalized by propaganda.
I wasn't in the chamber.
Difficult to belive anyone can hate that much?
Ask your orange master why he cancelled cancer research for children.
Or how he calls for the death penalty of cop killers then pardons J6 murderers.
Hypocrite.
There were no J6 murderers among the protestors. The only person killed that day was an unarmed protestor randomly shot by the police. And you believe Trump has "cancelled" cancer research for children? LOL. Talk about radicalized. You realize neither of these claims is true?
There were no J6 murderers among the protestors. The only person killed that day was an unarmed protestor randomly shot by the police
Trump Team Dismantles Efforts to Find a Cure for Cancer and Other Deadly Disorders and Disease
https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/trump-team-dismantles-efforts-find-cure-cancer-and-other-deadly-disorders-and
Five officers who died after defending the Capitol on January 6th:
Here are their names Officers Brian Sicknick, Jeffrey Smith, Howie Liebengood, Gunther Hashida, and Kyle DeFreytag.
Family of Capitol police officer who died after Jan. 6 insurrection speak out after pardons
https://6abc.com/post/brian-sicknick-family-capitol-police-officer-died-january-6th-insurrection-speak-pardons/15823602/
You are FoS.
Again, no officers were murdered on Jan. 6. NONE. None even died that day. Only one person was killed that day. An unarmed protestor. It's very bizarre that you can't accept an undisputed fact.
Brian Sicknick - died of natural causes on Jan. 7.
Jeffrey Smith - committed suicide.
Howie Liebengood - committed suicide.
Gunther Hashida - committed suicide.
Kyle DeFreytag - committed suicide.
Sickleck was pepper sprayed by Trump followers and died the next day of a stroke. How is that natural?
Suicide was from the horrible scene those brave men endured while under the deadly attack of a Trump insurrection.
All the while the POTUS watched the events unfold like a sporting event, as his cabinet and family begged him to do something.
He told Kevin McCarthy, "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,"
There are about $350 billion reasons.
Again, no officers were murdered on Jan. 6. NONE. None even died that day. Only one person was killed that day. An unarmed protestor. It's very bizarre that you can't accept an undisputed fact.
Brian Sicknick - died of natural causes on Jan. 7.
Jeffrey Smith - committed suicide.
Howie Liebengood - committed suicide.
Gunther Hashida - committed suicide.
Kyle DeFreytag - committed suicide.
What's the matter with you, Smith?
Do you approve of the breaking and entering of the Capitol Building on 1/6 and the physical attacks on the Capitol Police?
Do you think the election was stolen from The Traitorous Orange Dude?
What's the matter with you, Smith?
Are you a Russian troll?
You sure as hell sound like a Russian troll, Smith.
You sound completely unhinged. At least try to pay attention to understand what is being discussed before going on another paranoia-fueled Russia rant. The claim was made that Trump had pardoned J6 cop murderers. That is a demonstrably false claim. Why? Because not a single police officer was killed. The ONLY person killed that day was an unarmed women who was randomly shot by the police. Those are demonstrable facts that anyone can verify. I know those with TDS don't like those facts because they do not suit the desired narrative but simply repeating factually incorrect nonsense is - wait for it - disinformation.
In other words, you condone the 1/6 violence.
Or do you think it was staged by the FBI?
No one can soften it. It certainly was not a "day of love" as Trump tries to modify it.
DOJ finds police officer’s suicide after Jan. 6 attack was a death in the line of duty
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-finds-officers-suicide-jan-6-was-death-line-duty-rcna100648
Donald Trump calls Jan. 6 a "day of love." | Here are the facts.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5159868/2024-election-trump-harris-capitol-riot
It was an insurrection.
Trump watched his followers (animals really) attack police officers with disregard for life.
And then he pardoned them, because they did it for him.
Try to keep your story straight. You were falsely claiming that Trump pardoned J6 cop murderers. That was a demonstrably lie because no cops were murdered that day. Now you are moving the goal posts to something else. If you want to go back over the same song and dance about Jan. 6, knock yourself out. That's over and done with. The voters rendered a verdict during the 2024 election. Trump won.
Trump won.
I'm not falsely claiming anything. Trump pardoned individuals involved in the death of police officers on Jan 6th.
I'm not backing off that. If J6 didn't happen they'd be alive. Rioters viciously attacked police with no regard for life.
I'm sorry you don't like that fact. Or NBC or ABC or CBS or NPR.
US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/us-stops-sharing-intelligence-on-russia-with-ukraine
Trump won alright :D
Whew. Do you have a head injury? I said that no police officer was murdered on that day. No idea how you go from there to condoning violence. Anyone who committed a crime that day should have been charged. The FBI devoted more resources to investigating this event than all crimes ever committed. In fact, many people were overcharged for minor crimes. It's unfortunate that the FBI and DOJ never applied that same effort to many other crimes such as an invasion of illegal alien criminals.
In fact, many people were overcharged for minor crimes.
You guys just can Not let it go. J6 has never been a winning issue, and it was paraded around on National TV which only multiplied the Joe 6 Pack eyeballs seeing the Joe Biden weaponized DOJ. Even Newsom is now running away from the remnants of the Dem Party. And did you get a load of Pelosi? She's toast. Hate destroys from the inside out.
You guys just can Not let it go. J6 has never been a winning issue, and it was paraded around on National TV which only multiplied the Joe 6 Pack eyeballs seeing the Joe Biden weaponized DOJ. Even Newsom is now running away from the remnants of the Dem Party. And did you get a load of Pelosi? She's toast. Hate destroys from the inside out.
I'm not falsely claiming anything. Trump pardoned individuals involved in the death of police officers on Jan 6th.
I'm not backing off that. If J6 didn't happen they'd be alive. Rioters viciously attacked police with no regard for life.
I'm sorry you don't like that fact. Or NBC or ABC or CBS or NPR.
US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/us-stops-sharing-intelligence-on-russia-with-ukraine
Trump won alright :D
What minor crimes, Smith?
Btw, was that you who took a you-know-what on the Rotunda floor?
Why don't you write an unhinged twenty-page post on how the Russians were behind Jan. 6?
None died as a result of any injuries sustained that day or at anytime thereafter. NONE. What you are claiming is an intentional lie to suit your desired political narrative. Can you tell us which police officer died on Jan. 6? Can you name any police officer that died from any injuries sustained on Jan. 6? Your prior list contained several names of police officers who died from suicide and one who died from a stroke that the medical examiner confirmed had nothing to do with the events on Jan. 6.
BS:
The officers subsequently (that means later) died by suicide caused by the event of Jan 6th.
DOJ finds police officer’s suicide after Jan. 6 attack was a death in the line of duty
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-finds-officers-suicide-jan-6-was-death-line-duty-rcna100648
Did you use a Ouija board to contact these folks? There is no evidence whatsoever that Jan. 6 even influenced these people to commit suicide. Even if it had, that doesn't mean anyone on Jan. 6 had "murdered" them. You are once again grafting a desired narrative onto an event. Much like claiming myself and RFK are anti-vaxxers. But as an unhinged conspiracy theorist, you certainly could conjure up a better story than the police officers couldn't handle a protest and decided to kill themselves. That is stupid and insulting to the officers involved.
A President that calls our Veterans - "Suckers & Losers"
"BREAKING: Iraq war veteran Eric Rodriguez slams Donald Trump for stabbing our service men and women in the back to pave the way for billionaire tax cuts: "Veterans don't trust him. He’s not one of us."
If this doesn't break your heart, you don't have one...
"Veterans, we are under attack. Last week 1,400 workers get fired illegally. Twenty-two of them were my colleagues at Hines VA Hospital," a visibly emotional Rodriguez said at a press conference.
"Some of them didn't even get a real notice. All they got was this," he said holding up a document. "An email with Xs where the date should be and no name. That's how little they think of people and of veterans in this country and that serve this country."
"They're slashing staff, crushing unions, and selling out the VA for what? So billionaires can make more money while veterans sit on waitlists or worse they'll get no treatment," he continued.
"Our president was asleep while Moscow’s at the wheel. Do you know what happens to a service member when they're on duty?" he went on. "Veterans don't trust him. He’s not one of us."
"We're not about to sit back and take the SEIU. We're fighting back. We're organizing and we're taking action. We're not going to back down," Rodriguez said defiantly.
Donald Trump's ruthless betrayal of our veteran community is one of his greatest sins to date. These people sacrificed their minds and bodies to keep us safe, and now Trump is gutting their access to healthcare so that men like Elon Musk can receive bigger tax breaks.
Horrifyingly, a Trump administration memo just revealed that DOGE is planning to "aggressively" cut a staggering 70,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The result will be a crippled VA incapable of tending to our veterans. It's part of the Republican plan to ultimately privatize the entire department, lining the pockets of the rich while offering inferior services at inflated rates.
This is absolutely vile and settles one matter for good: Republicans are not pro-military. The only thing they are is pro-greed."
Another debunked leftist lie. Trump never said it. The "losers and suckers hoax derives from a sole disgruntled individual who Trump had fired. Many other individuals who with the President indicated that it never happened. The military overwhelmingly supports Trump over the leftists.
"Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, who said he was on the trip, also issued a denial to Fox News days after the article came out, saying it was "simply false."
Then-U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denied the claims in an interview with Fox News in September 2020. He said: "I was with him for a good part of that trip, if I'm thinking about this visit and the timing right, and I never heard him use the words that are described in that article. Just, I never saw it."
Referring to Gen. John Kelly, who was with Trump during the trip as his chief of staff Zach Fuentes, he said: "I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather. Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?"
Tells us more about how the Biden Justice Dept. staged an insurrection because they hate Trump.
I would deny it too. It just means the names you quoted were not there to hear it.
We all heard what he said about John McCain:
"...He's not a war hero....He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you"
According to a September 2020 article in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg, following McCain's death in August 2018, Trump, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the event, allegedly told his senior staff:
"We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral."
The article also goes on to suggest that Trump became furious when he saw flags lowered to half-staff in honor of McCain, telling his aides:
"What the f--- are we doing that for? Guy was a f--ing loser."
Where did the "suckers and losers" comment originate?
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/fact-check-biden-trump-suckers-losers-quote
The US Supreme Court blocked prosecutors from charging over 350 individuals with "obstruction of Congress" which carried a 20-year prison sentence. Many people were placed indefinitely in solitary confinement without trial. Such treatment was deemed so inappropriate that even leftists like Sens. Warren and Dubin complained about it.
"The Massachusetts Democrat, a member of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s leadership team, said that while some limited uses of solitary confinement are justified, she’s worried that law enforcement officials are deploying it to “punish” the Jan. 6 defendants or to “break them so that they will cooperate.”
BS:
None of that is relevant to your false claim that Trump used the phrase "losers and suckers" in the specific context cited. The fact that at some point in his life that he called McCain a "loser" is laughable to support your lie. Everyone cited was present on the relevant trip. None of them heard it. It comes to light years later from a sole disgruntled person who had been fired in a hit piece from a Trump-hating rag.
What are u talking about? I seriously have no idea what the point of this post is.
Are u saying the Biden Justice Dept was responsible for the violence that day?
Steve Bannon (J5): "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow"
The fact You do Not understand my post is proof positive you guys are Lost. Whatever you do Not agree with, you simply dismiss and continue spouting the same BS: This is why the Dem's are a Dead Party. They operate on BLIND Hate. And it's proffering J6 as a Top Campaign Issue that killed the Dem's/Harris. Same goes for MSNBC. They continued claiming J6 was a Top Campaign Issue though every exit poll during the Primaries proved this was Not the case. Again, they don't agree with what they are repeatedly seeing and they then simply dismiss it and wash, rinse, repeat. Stupid, but I enjoy it as it's nails in the coffin. MSNBC, CNN, The View, Colbert, Kimmel, ALL Gone! These stations/people are like the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer was doing his own nightly interview show from the basement of his apartment. Nobody Watching!
"... The fact You do Not understand my post is proof positive you guys are Lost....
You guys just can Not let it go. J6 has never been a winning issue, and it was paraded around on National TV which only multiplied the Joe 6 Pack eyeballs seeing the Joe Biden weaponized DOJ. Even Newsom is now running away from the remnants of the Dem Party. And did you get a load of Pelosi? She's toast. Hate destroys from the inside out.
Everything you post is denial in the face of what is blatantly obvious. Illegal Aliens, Men in women's sports, Govt waste and corruption, Consistently substandard kid's test scores/Dept of Ed = Top Issues. J6? Nope. Abortion? Nope. but you guys Wash, Rinse, Repeat these issues. Trump carried 31 states. Probably up to 35 today. It just keeps getting better.
Who said anything about crime? "Illegal Aliens" are in the country illegally. There's a process in place for being legally admitted into the USA.
Who said anything about crime? "Illegal Aliens" are in the country illegally. There's a process in place for being legally admitted into the USA.
And farmers and construction companies and restaurants, etc, need them.
D'oh!
Bottom line. There was an election. Trump won. He is making the decision to stop the funding. I agree with that decision.
"Dismantlement" of the Deep State is a very good thing. This is why there has been 2 attempts to assassinate Trump. "Promises made, promises kept"!
There is zero doubt that the measles outbreak in TX originated from those crossing the border into Texas.
Anyone who doubts that TDS is real and serious condition should have watched last night as the Dems sat stone faced and scorned a young boy who had survived brain cancer. Unreal and tone deaf. It was a great moment in the life of a kid who had not had many in his entire life. How about giving the Trump hate a few seconds pause and clap for the kid?
You lose any credibility when you start repeating the hoax that Trump is working for Russia.
Who said anything about crime? "Illegal Aliens" are in the country illegally. There's a process in place for being legally admitted into the USA.
I'm afraid you've been brainwashed by [fill in the blank] into believing "illegal aliens" commit more crimes per capital than White-xxx American citizens.
"Govt waste and corruption"?
Do you think that's strictly a phenomenon of "Libtard-Snowflake-Socialistic-Communistic" DEMOCRAT administrations?
Abortion?
You don't think a woman should have the right to choose?
J6?
That was a peaceful love-in, wasn't it?
LOL!
The whole world is against Donald J Trump huh?- He just has the worst luck. Poor guy.
I wonder why.
The whole world? Nope. He just WON the election. Americans are on his side. The Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives.
They have rejected crazy leftist ideology.
Why does it feels like a train at full speed, the bridge is out, and the brake handle is broken.
Not sure how long you're going to see Americans support this reckless disregard for the truth.
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/factchecking-trumps-address-to-congress-2/
Watch out for those transgender mice, "Richard'. that's some crazy stuff right there. huh? :D
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/fact-checking-trumps-anti-transgender-comments-address-congress-rcna194969
Bottom line. Trump is much more popular than the loons in the Democrat party. Their approval rating is down around 20%. And that 20% is made up mostly of radicalized Trump hating loons with no agenda other than to oppose Trump.
The only reason he's more popular with them is because they, like you, Smith, have been zombified by 60-plus years (it started in 1959) of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," and strategic deception counterintelligence operations waged against us and our NATO allies.
*Today's SVR and SVR
Bottom line. Trump is much more popular than the loons in the Democrat party. Their approval rating is down around 20%. And that 20% is made up mostly of radicalized Trump hating loons with no agenda other than to oppose Trump.
Trumps approval rating is less than 50% right now. He barely has the majority in House and Senate.
First test will be if he can pass a budget. He needs all the Republicans and cannot fake it otherwise.
Next will be all these Federal job cuts - 800,000 from VA will be disastrous - most of them are Vets.
Inflation remains high with real concerns of further damage the tariffs will cause.
Canada - our biggest trade partner is all pissed off at us. They can shut off electricity to about 1.5m Americans in 3 states.
Trump is favoring Russia in the Ukraine war "Donald Trump has said he is finding it "more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine" than Russia "
I guess the Ukrainians just wont die fast enough.
How is the federal response to Measles going?
Amid a growing measles outbreak, doctors worry RFK Jr. is sending the wrong message
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5320352/measles-rfk-west-texas-outbreak
You really must think the Russians are supermen. Keep up the paranoid fueled nonsense and ignore the actual facts. That will ensure Republicans retain control for years. The Democrats turned their backs on hard working people. They adopted fringe lunatic ideologies. Now they are in a downward spiral despite every advantage including the media and justice system. Americans rejected that nonsense in the last election. Trump has stomped the Democrats like Godzilla stomped Tokyo.
LOL. Trump's approval rating is currently twice that of the Dems who are down in the 20s and floundering.
When you say that Trump "barely" has the majority in House and Senate (that's not even accurate in the case of the Senate) that means he still has the majority.
LOL. Trump's approval rating is currently twice that of the Dems who are down in the 20s and floundering. When you say that Trump "barely" has the majority in House and Senate (that's not even accurate in the case of the Senate) that means he still has the majority. The election was a clean sweep for the Republicans and rejection of failed leftist ideology. The fact that this occurred despite the leftist media and use of the justice system and political establishment is a political miracle. No politician other than Trump could ever have overcome all the establishment forces against him. It has never been done in American politics and likely never will be repeated.
If the post I just read on FB is true, it looks like we are going to have an “Autopen-Gate”? ;)
I can't wait for the books to be written on Old Joe's cognitive decline. The biggest cover up in American politics. He had no idea what was going on for at least the last two years. Who was in charge? It wasn't Kamala.
Biggest "cover up" will be the 2020 Stolen Election. That is what led to Puppet Joe being installed as POTUS. He was nuts when Kamala was calling him a "racist" during the Dem Primary leading up to the 2020 POTUS Theft. And then Nutso Joe names her his running mate? That running mate choice was made by the powers behind the throne too. As I said several months ago, this is why Trump brought in Musk and his SpaceX computer nerds. They stymied the election fraud. Even Crazy Maxine Waters knows all about it. This ain't no secret over on Capital Hill.
Now he's deporting Green Card holders !!!
Trump’s arrest of Columbia student marks new turn in immigration crackdown debate
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/trump-undocumented-immigrants-crackdown-columbia-00222245
"Trump on Monday called Khalil a “Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student” and said his arrest was the “first arrest of many to come” and that “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.” He added, without evidence, that “Many are not students, they are paid agitators” — a longstanding, but inaccurate, talking point among critics.Trump on Monday called Khalil a “Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student” and said his arrest was the “first arrest of many to come” and that “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.” He added, without evidence, that “Many are not students, they are paid agitators” — a longstanding, but inaccurate, talking point among critics."
Fantastic news! Ending the insanity of granting the privilege to come to our country and abusing that privilege by engaging in radical, hate fueled actions. Time to clean house on anti-American and anti-Israel radicals who hate the very country that offers them opportunties. They have no right to be here. The US is granting them an opportunity which they have spit on.
He has a green card.
His conduct got him kicked out. Better late than never.
1st Amendment - Free Speech - who needs it?
1st Amendment - Free Speech - who needs it?
He exercised his right to speak. The US government is exercising its right to revoke his green card and send him back. They have the authority to do that. He is not a citizen. He is here on a conditional basis. He was granted the privilege to come here. If someone is invited into your house and becomes offensive, you can kick them out. They have no right to be offensive in your home. They become a trespasser once the permission to be there has been revoked.
You think it is fine for someone to come to the US on a green card and then advocate for a group that the US has designated a terrorist organization?
When you say "offensive," do you mean like Zelensky was when he wore wartime clothes to his meeting with The Traitorous Orange Dude and J. V. Trance?
Speaking out against Israel bombing hospitals - schools -and killing women and children is
not advocate for a group that the US has designated a terrorist organization?
I would speak out against that too. Do I support terrorists in your new Amerika "Richard"?
Or do you support Trumps vision of a New Gaza? and the most disgusting statement any POTUS has ever made.
When you say "offensive," do you mean like Zelensky was when he wore wartime clothes to his meeting with The Traitorous Orange Dude and J. V. Trance?
I have NEVER seen anyone, on any battlefield, wearing what Zelenski wears. What he wears is Not "wartime clothes". You see attire like his at a Miniature Golf.
It's what he almost always wears in his country that's been invaded by your and The Traitorous Orange Dude's buddy, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin.
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist group by the US. That is simply a fact. They kill, torture, and rape women and children including American citizens. If a foreign citizen hates the US and its policy toward Hamas, maybe they should stay home and not come to such an evil country. At the very least don't terrorize Jewish students with threats of genocide while praising a terrorist state.
Like the Germans who were relentlessly bombed during WWII, if the citizens of a country support barbarians to govern them, then they risk having to pay a price. Until they learn to govern themselves as a civilized people, they will be subject to the consequences. It is no one's fault but their own.
I have NEVER seen anyone, on any battlefield, wearing what Zelenski wears. What he wears is Not "wartime clothes". You see attire like his at a Miniature Golf.
He is going to war in a Prada jumpsuit. LOL. Paid for by the US taxpayers. At least he wasn't wearing a dress like one of our recent "admirals."
Smith,
You're a Russian troll, right?
Inflation is down, egg prices are significantly down, a ceasefire is on the table to end Old Joe's endless war, the border has been secured. On the flip side, the Dems are trying to shut down the government. Their 20% approval rating might drop into single digits if they do that.
Inflation is down, egg prices are significantly down, a ceasefire is on the table to end Old Joe's endless war, the border has been secured. On the flip side, the Dems are trying to shut down the government. Their 20% approval rating might drop into single digits if they do that.
a ceasefire is on the table to end Old Joe's endless war, the border has been secured.
On the flip side, the Dems are trying to shut down the government.
"When you say that Trump "barely" has the majority in House and Senate (that's not even accurate in the case of the Senate) that means he still has the majority"
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Cease fire has never up to anyone but Putin. I am not aware of Russia accepting a deal.
Dems are not trying to shut down anything. Republicans are trying to destroy Medicaid and other life saving programs.
what happened to your:
Have you heard, RFK JR has sent Vitamin A and Cod Liver oil to Texas for the Measles pandemic.
But nothing about an already proven vaccine program or roll out.
Vitamin A? Cod liver oil? Experts say there’s no replacement for measles vaccination
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2025/03/06/vitamin-a-cod-liver-oil-experts-say-theres-no-replacement-for-measles-vaccination/
There has never been a ceasefire plan until this week for Putin to even consider.
No Republican is trying to destroy Medicare. LOL.
It's unfortunate that millions of illegal aliens were allowed to bring measles into the border states.
RFK isn't stopping anyone from getting it.
Why would there be? - Putin is the aggressor.
Who said Medicare?
Although, that and Social Security are probably next.
Gaines County is not on the border. Once again, you are FoS.
Who said he was stopping anyone?
"Why would there be" a plan for ending the war?" LOL. No wonder radical leftists are down in the and sinking faster than the Titanic in the polls. They snub kids with cancer, want to wage endless war, blame RFK for a measles outbreak when anyone in the US who wants the measles vaccine merely has to go to the doctor to get it, ignores the fact that the measles outbreak that they are so concerned about originated in the border states where millions of unknown people from all over the world were allowed to cross. It is just a coincidence. Like COVID originating in the same city that has a lab experimenting with COVID. LOL. Nothing to see there. Lord Fauci says so. Put those masks on and social distance. If you don't like it, go straight to the woke Gulag.
I enjoy seeing these people still throwing hissy fits long after Losing the POTUS election. It makes obvious they are Not moving forward. Standing pat with a losing hand. Bring on the midterms.
These are the very same politicians who spent the money that was contributed to social security, Medicaid, and other programs on illegal aliens and endless wars.
Really? "Social security, Medicaid, and other programs"..?
Who, and how did they do that?
Don't bother. I don't even read it anymore.
Really? "Social security, Medicaid, and other programs"..?
Who, and how did they do that?
It goes like this. People have social security and taxes deducted from their pay checks. The corrupt politicians like Old Joe use it as a slush fund to pay for wars and other pork that enables them to retain power by having control over the money. The obligations to pay out social security remains but the money is spent. So it becomes a Ponzi scheme to extend. Eventually it will go bust absent drastic changes such as those being imposed by Trump.
Well Capasse, that thinly veiled threat lasted far less than half a day. Hahahaha!
JohnM
Twice the 20's is still not very good.
He will need 60 votes (including 7 Dems) to end debate and put it to a vote and then pass the Senate by simple majority.
So SS was sidetracked into a slush fund then stolen by Joe Biden to pay for wars?
:D
Where do you think all the social security money went? It was used as a slush fund by both Republicans and Democrats to pay for wars and pork spending.
"The Government Has Borrowed $1.7 Trillion From The Social Security Trust Fund. The government has borrowed the total value of the Trust Fund to pay for other government spending."
Musk said it was about paying dead people.
Or maybe it was funding "transgender mice"
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5cweW_sZfhYeCBglQoFnljXEXhJ2HAogPpw&s)
:D
There's plenty of $$ being spent on Illegal Aliens = $$ is there. Stop with the blame game and fix the SS and FEMA issues.
That would be W Bush - he took money primarily for tax cuts - Much like your Orange Buffoon is doing now
“Next time a Republican tells you that ‘Social Security is broke,’ remind them that Pres. Bush ‘borrowed’ $1.37 trillion of Social Security
surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in Iraq and never paid it back”.
All other funds from SS were invested
https://meetbeagle.com/resources/post/which-presidents-borrowed-from-the-social-security-fund
There's plenty of $$ being spent on Illegal Aliens = $$ is there. Stop with the blame game and fix the SS and FEMA issues.
So you agree with me that the Social Security money was spent by the establishment politicians to pay for endless wars!
A policy that Old Joe followed with reckless abandonment in Ukraine.
The Trump policy is to cut back and try to save the system.
There is plenty of money being spent but that is not sustainable. It's like maxing out all your credit cards. Eventually the party comes to an end. Leftists complain that Trump/Musk are cutting social programs, but they are doing out of necessity. The money is gone. $38 trillion in debt with no end in sight. The politicians that they supported over the last 50 years have spent all the wealth.
No I don't.
W Bush took money and never gave it back.
Prove it. Where did Joe take any money from a "SS Slush Fund" and spend it on Ukraine?
:D Check back May 1st - Market are down AGAIN today.
Trump refused to veto any congressional spending and added $7.8 trillion to the nation debt. ("The King of Debt")
"The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war."
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20250205/117856/HHRG-119-GO00-20250205-SD008.pdf
Of course Bush and every other president over the last 50 years except Trump spent billions on wars and proxy wars. That was my entire point. Biden spent billions on Ukraine. He wasted trillions on COVID.
Where do you think all that money came from? Do you think that if the US government wastes trillions on fraud, waste, and war that has nothing to do with the inability to fund social security? LOL. If I buy a Ferrari, but then don't have money for groceries, would you say that the money spent on the Ferrari had nothing to do with my inability to buy food?
SS money is invested in Trust Funds for other uses. There is "NO SLUSH FUND diversion"
You're delusional.
LOL. You don't have a clue about how this works.
There is "NO SLUSH FUND diversion"
You just made that up
Again, revenue comes into the government from various sources and then is spent in various ways. It is very simple. There is no lockbox where they keep the social security money. It is just one more spending obligation. The government either has the money to cover those obligations or it does not. The US government is $38 trillion in debt and counting. That is not sustainable which means that social security and every other health and social program will go under if the government goes bust. You appear to be living in some magical world where money fairies will sprinkle future funds from the heavens to support social security when the money runs out.
Tell it to the Orange Buffoon he is all there is now.
And things are being done Legally now.
SS money is invested in Trust Funds for other uses. There is "NO SLUSH FUND diversion"
You're delusional.
"No Slush Fund"? What do you call that Covert Fund that was used to pay off Women/NDA's that were accusing Reps and Senators of Sexual Harassment? DC has Slush Funds up the ying-yang.
I had previously read that LBJ was the first president to raid the SS funds. But this article at least tries to refute that idea.
https://tucson.com/business/national-and-international/article_95acb962-0386-5fd5-a1e6-642ed9bb3567.html (https://tucson.com/business/national-and-international/article_95acb962-0386-5fd5-a1e6-642ed9bb3567.html)
Maybe we need to start indicating which set of the government’s books we are discussing before we decide who is doing what with which funds? Or is that article just another BS spin on things?
"So what about the so-called trust fund? It’s often misunderstood. Think of it as an IOU or a promise to pay. When Social Security collected more money than it needed to provide benefits, as it did before 2010, the surplus wasn’t saved in a vault or invested. Instead, the government spent it on other expenses, and the Department of the Treasury wrote an IOU note to the Social Security Administration. Now that Social Security is cashing in those IOUs to cover the shortfall between income and expenses, it’s like borrowing money to pay off credit cards—the trust fund adds to the government’s overall debt.
Part of the confusion comes from thinking of Social Security and the Treasury as separate entities, with Social Security having assets on its balance sheet that the Treasury is on the hook for. However, taxpayers are on the hook for the government’s spending and borrowing. Since Social Security and the Treasury are both part of the government, we should think of them as one entity to fully understand Social Security’s financial impact on the American people."
Like I said, if $$/Billions can be spent on Illegal Aliens across the USA, the $$ is there. FIX IT !!
That's a problem that could be fixed real fast with mass deportations. Unfortunately, that process has been a great disappointment. Homan talks the talk, but he isn't walking the walk. Fewer deportations so far than even under Old Joe.
Great news that Trump is pounding the Houthis who have fired on US warships and acted as pirates under Biden's weak administration with impunity.
Did he promise this too?
it is Disgusting.
Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o
LOL. What is disgusting is trying to divide Americans into groups and then pit them against one another. That's the how the Democrats try to win elections. By convincing groups that they are victims of oppression by other groups and need their help. The results speak for themselves. All veterans are Americans. They should all be celebrated for that reason. Their race and gender are not important.
What are you talking about? This is Trump's doing.
"Arlington National Cemetery has purged its website of pages about notable Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as information about the Civil War and Black history, as the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to remove references to “diversity and inclusion” on government webpages."
Nope. Trump is not erasing minorities and women. He is simply erasing the distinctions between veterans being made by woke groups designed to perpetuate a false narrative by dividing Americans into separate groups. They are all veterans regardless of race or gender. There are no white, black, male or female veterans. They should be celebrated due to their service. Not their race or gender. This is mostly a nothing burger except for those who constantly want to play the race and gender card for political reasons. If you really cared about women, you would be concerned with those women who were assaulted and murdered by the illegal aliens who Old Joe allowed to flood into the country. But you support that policy. Instead you want to nitpick something ridiculous like this nonstory.
"Arlington National Cemetery has purged its website of pages about notable Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as information about the Civil War and Black history, as the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to remove references to “diversity and inclusion” on government webpages."
Wow. Just Wow. You are gone.
Removing references to "diversity" and "inclusion" have nothing to do with nor does that conflict with honoring veterans regardless of race or gender. You are grafting your own brainwashed woke agenda onto the story. The woke agenda requires that all Americans be subdivided into groups. That is only necessary if you are trying to divide Americans for your own political purposes.
These same people then say absolutely Nothing about Men competing in Women's Sports. Talk about removing people from the "record"? This is why they LOST THE ELECTION. Completely oblivious to the Fact their Opinions are in the Minority. Delusional.
These same people then say absolutely Nothing about Men competing in Women's Sports. Talk about removing people from the "record"? This is why they LOST THE ELECTION. Completely oblivious to the Fact their Opinions are in the Minority. Delusional.
And here we have the "suckers" stuff. I'm not gonna get into the debunking. This is right in line with the "fine people" junk too. THIS is why you LOST THE ELECTION. Please keep it up. Please. Midterms will be more of the same.
You guys have a lot of BS: to say for a group that LOST. And now you're even turning on each other. You're DONE and don't know it. Perfect!
Another single Judge trying to play Genghis Khan and get killers, rapists, and drug lords to remain inside the USA. Even orders planes in flight with this vermin onboard to be turned around. Trump plows straight ahead and gets rid of these low-lifes. Trump is getting this scum outta the USA. Judges like this had No Problem with, "10% for the Big Guy" covertly flying these scum bags into this country.
It's hilarious that Old Joe was apparently so cognitively impaired that he couldn't sign documents including pardons but instead used an autopen. That raises questions as to whether these are even valid pardons. Leftist judges will not likely allow the pardons to be voided but it is just another indication of the level of incompetence and cover up going on with Sleepy Joe's condition.
The pen was too heavy for Old Joe to lift. He was too weak and feeble to even sign his own name to official documents. This has nothing to do with presidents who have used autopens to sign pictures and letters for the public. But official governmental documents. To compare those situations is laughable. If only Roger Collins was here to give us legal advice on the implications of not signing such official documents. If they are not required to be signed by the president, then why do they bother to sign them at all? How will anyone know which are in effect and which are not if the president doesn't even have to sign them. Could be jail time for Dirty Hunter and other members of the Biden Crime Family, Inc.
Imagine a situation where some unknown government official can use an autopen to sign official government documents as though they were the president. Frightening. Imagine an intern with access to the presidential autopen authorizing the bombing of some foreign country like Russia to begin WWIII. We have no idea who was running the Biden administration. It certainly wasn't Old Joe. It wasn't Kamala. Who was it?
The president has the authority to order the military to bomb some foreign country. Imagine if an intern or some unknown bureaucrat who controlled Biden's autopen signed the authorization to order the military to bomb some foreign country:
"President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he ordered the United States military to launch "decisive and powerful military action" against the Houthis in Yemen."
The president has the authority to order the military to bomb some foreign country. Imagine if an intern or some unknown bureaucrat who controlled Biden's autopen signed the authorization to order the military to bomb some foreign country:
"President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he ordered the United States military to launch "decisive and powerful military action" against the Houthis in Yemen."
:D Is there an Inbox for that?
Yes, at the end of a cruise missile. Ask the Houthis. Who exactly do you think orders these strikes? You don't see any risk in some unknown WH bureaucrat having the ability to place the president's signature on official government documents? What is the military supposed to do if they get a directive from the WH apparently signed by the president ordering them to launch an immediate attack on some country?
The Houthis are being used as a recent example of the President's ability to authorize a military strike in response to a very stupid comment that suggested that president didn't have such authority. This authority extends to a strike on any country such as Russia that could precipitate WWIII.
"Follow procedure and double check"? Who are you kidding? That Benedict Arnold aka Mark Millie went ahead on his own and told China he would give them a "heads up" if Trump launched anything in their direction. That's FACT! Procedure? Double Check? Get Real! This is why Trump is weeding these traitors out man by man. Millie should face a full blown Public Court-Martial.
"Follow procedure and double check"? Who are you kidding? That Benedict Arnold aka Mark Millie went ahead on his own and told China he would give them a "heads up" if Trump launched anything in their direction. That's FACT! Procedure? Double Check? Get Real! This is why Trump is weeding these traitors out man by man. Millie should face a full blown Public Court-Martial.
Imagine the same CTer/contrarians who believe that high ranking US officials assassinated JFK and framed Oswald trusting that system to allow some unknown bureaucrat to sign official government documents and orders in the name of the president. That's breathtaking stupidity. Biden couldn't find his way to the front door if the WH was on fire. Anyone could have been printing these pardons out and signing them. We don't have a clue if he authorized all the pardons and orders issued in his name. There is a very legitimate question as to whether they are valid if he did not sign them.
It is incredible stupidity. Imagine some officers on a submarine or carrier at sea who gets a direct order from the WH with the president's apparent authorization to launch an immediate attack delaying to "double check." HA HA HA. Amazing. The military would be paralyzed if they had to double check every order received. What does that even mean? They would pick up the bat phone for a direct line to the president. Comedy gold.
Imagine the same CTer/contrarians who believe that high ranking US officials assassinated JFK and framed Oswald trusting that system to allow some unknown bureaucrat to sign official government documents and orders in the name of the president. That's breathtaking stupidity. Biden couldn't find his way to the front door if the WH was on fire. Anyone could have been printing these pardons out and signing them. We don't have a clue if he authorized all the pardons and orders issued in his name. There is a very legitimate question as to whether they are valid if he did not sign them.
It is incredible stupidity. Imagine some officers on a submarine or carrier at sea who gets a direct order from the WH with the president's apparent authorization to launch an immediate attack delaying to "double check." HA HA HA. Amazing. The military would be paralyzed if they had to double check every order received. What does that even mean? They would pick up the bat phone for a direct line to the president. Comedy gold.
Your believing that the J6 Committee pardon recipients pardoned themselves by forging Biden's signature is as wild as JFKA tinfoil-hat CT's believing the evil, evil, evil CIA killed JFK and that oodles and gobs of bad guys and bad gals were involved in the planning, the "patsy-ing," the shooting, and the all-important cover up.
Why would the J6 Committee need to pardon themselves? They went Hillary Clinton and ran everything through the shredder and then Bleach Bit the remains.
These clowns have Never seen the flick, "Dr Strangelove", with Peter Sellers. Slim Pickens would be their role model.
Good one. Or Gen. Jack Ripper and his "precious bodily fluids." They believe there are "launch codes" for strikes on Yeman. HA HA HA. There must be a full moon. Imagine the commander of a nuclear submarine who gets a directive from the WH ordering him to launch a strike on Russia. He says to himself like Gomer Pyle "shazam, I better use the bat phone to talk with the president to double check this order." Wow. That level of stupidity is astounding. Particularly when they are otherwise claiming that the same deep state organized the assassination of JFK.
Why would the J6 Committee need to pardon themselves? They went Hillary Clinton and ran everything through the shredder and then Bleach Bit the remains.
Why did your boy, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin, want Hillary to lose and The Traitorous Orange Dude to win?
Why would the J6 Committee need to pardon themselves?
They didn't ask for it and in a normal world they wouldn't need it, but Biden understood that there would be a crazy vindictive egomaniac in the White House that would try to go after them.
We now know that Biden got it right!
You have NO IDEA what the J6 Committee did or did not "ask for". Stop the BS:
Whether they asked for it or not, doesn't alter the fact that Biden understood that the fanatical idiot now in the White House would come after them if he could.
Biden made sure he can't, no matter how much Trump huffs and puffs.
Yesterday, I talked to a dear friend of mine who is German. He told me that he never understood how Hitler was able to gain power, because he considered the German people to be intelligent.
Now, after watching what is going on with Trump in America, he understands!
Biden "Understood" this and that according to You? Biden was a literally and figuratively a "PLANT". The DOJ deemed him "unfit" to stand trial with respect to the Classified Documents Investigation. The guy was even "out to lunch" back in 2019 when during the Dem Primary Debate Harris called him a racist and his upper plate came halfway outta his mouth. He was already a total Space Cadet when sworn in as POTUS.
Mynah Birding "talking points" does Not make them true. "Create massive number of jobs"? You have no idea as to the makeup of these so called "jobs". Over half of them are Part-Time and over half of them are Govt Jobs. This is why we Now frequently hear the term "year around" jobs. The majority of these jobs are Not "Full Time"/40 hrs per week X 52 weeks yearly. What the majority of these so called "jobs" are is Tony Soprano "No Show Work". Musk is taking a meat cleaver to the Biden Govt,"No Show Work" positions. Well over 50% of these "Probationary" employees that are currently drawing a Govt Check and now being pink slipped, currently have other job(s) due to having the dead time to do so.
NONE of what you posted refutes what I have pointed out. It's obvious that responding to The Truth is Not included in your, "Talking Points". Polly wantta cracker?
It's frightening to see the level of hatred and violence on display on the left. Now they are burning car dealerships with Molotov cocktails because they don't like the politics of the guy who owns the company. Much more violent than J6.
What a winning hand for violent Trump haters. They snubbed a kid with cancer, promote an endless war costing taxpayers hundreds of billions, oppose sending violent illegal aliens out of the country, and now are engaging in widespread political violence. No wonder their approval rating has hit an all-time low.
What a winning hand for violent Trump haters. They snubbed a kid with cancer, promote an endless war costing taxpayers hundreds of billions, oppose sending violent illegal aliens out of the country, and now are engaging in widespread political violence. No wonder their approval rating has hit an all-time low.
You LOST the election. And now you're gonna lose the midterms. Keep up your good works. Please!
64 Times Mentioned In Epstein Report.
97 Times Pleaded The Fifth.
34 Felony Convictions.
91 Criminal Charges.
26 Sexual Assault Allegations.
6 Bankruptcies.
5 Draft Deferments.
4 Indictments.
2 Impeachments.
2 Convicted Companies.
1 Fake University Shut Down.
1 Fake Charity Shut Down.
$25 Million Fraud Settlement.
$5 Million Sexual Abuse Verdict.
$2 Million Fake Charity Abuse Judgment.
$93 Million Sexual Abuse Judgements.
$400+ Million Fraud Judgment.
First President in history to serve a full term increase the deficit every year he was in office.
First President in history to maintain a debt to GDP ratio over 100% for his entire term.
Highest annual budget deficit.
Most added to the national debt in a single term.
Most new unemployment claims.
Largest single day point drop in the history of the Dow.
First major party candidate in half a century to lose the popular vote twice.
Longest government shutdown in history (and he did that while his own party controlled both chambers of Congress).
First President in the history of approval ratings to maintain a net negative approval rating for his entire term.
First President to be impeached twice.
First President to have bipartisan support for his conviction after impeachment (which happened both times).
Most indictments, guilty pleas, and criminal convictions of members of an administration.
First president to have a mug shot
Are we winning yet? Cause I just feel embarrassed.
How can you be so wise about the anomaly-replete JFKA (which the KGB* has been making nation-rending CT hay out of since Day One), Smith, and so utterly ignorant about what's going on in America as a result of those, and other, CTs?
Are you a Russian troll?
You sound like a Russian troll.
*Today's SVR and FSB
I haven't lost anything and once again have no idea what you are talking about.
You continue to make some argument that doesn't even exist.
Of course you do Not know what I'm talking about. You knock around inside an Echo Chamber. Your mind is severely constricted.
And I thought Trump just won the most recent election. And that he won the popular vote. And that he is now the President. And that the Republicans won the House and Senate. And that conservatives outnumbered the liberals on the Supreme Court. And that Dems were at their lowest approval rating in history and were throwing Molotov cocktails at electric cars. LOL. So much winning. Almost unparalleled in American politics. A clean sweep of the insane, woke ideology.
Whatever.
As he dismantles our democracy right before our eyes. It is disgusting.
Leftist generalization based on propaganda. Were you concerned with censorship, misuse of the justice system to imprison political opponents, widespread corruption among the Biden crime family including millions received from foreign sources for no apparent service, cover up of dementia rendering the president incapable of governing under the Biden administration? Let me guess. No.
Lets impeach a few judges that don't agree with President Cheetos.
Oh yea, Biden doesn't work here anymore.
Radicalized leftists marched on the homes of Supreme Court justices and one such loon was trying to assassinate them when the abortion decision was illegally leaked to the press. That was actually a direct violation of federal law and the Biden administration did nothing. No judge is going to be impeached. Trump and others are understandably unhappy with an unelected judge trying to establish US government immigration policy. They are venting various legal options. Not illegal violent options. Undoubtedly, this judge's unconstitutional obstruction of justice will go to the Supreme Court.
Of course, it would never be allowed but that is not what the WH said:
White House says Trump is right to call for impeachment of ‘partisan judges’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/white-house-impeachment-judge-james-boasberg
WH owes the judge some answers. Let's see if they continue to defy him.
Oh yea, Biden doesn't work here anymore.
I am curious how this DC Judge even got involved in these Criminal Illegal Aliens being deported. I have Not heard a name being connected to a case before him that Might touch on this. And how did he find out about deport planes being already in the air onna Sat evening? What Judge is sitting on-the-bench late on a Sat afternoon/early evening?
Leftists illegally leaked the Supreme Court's abortion decision (something no one was ever held accountable for). This resulted in radicalized leftists marching on the homes of the justices in an effort to intimidate them into changing their decision. A clear and direct violation of Federal law. The Biden administration not only did not prosecute anyone for doing so, but they also never made any effort to keep the protestors from congregating outside their homes. Trump and a handful of Republicans have referenced a legal, and nonviolent option in frustration at the desire of judges to establish immigration policy. One that will never be implemented. It's a stark contrast to how leftists handle adverse rulings. How many times did they call for that judge in Florida to be impeached for giving Trump some favorable rulings? A complete double standard.
You guys got blown out in the election.
Biden doesn't work here anymore. Get over it.
He never "worked here" because he had no idea where here was. Old Joe's dementia was the greatest cover up in American politics. He apparently couldn't even sign his own name. Some unknown patsy printed out pardons and signed them with an autopen.
Biden may not be there any more (or ever was really there altogether in his mind) but it’s going to take about half year at least before we can switch over to blaming everything on Trump.
And you never know what might happen with the human lookalike robot tech they have now and the voice mimicking and AI imaging which somebody could replace the human Trump with a robot lookalike turned into a Democrat again who wants to open the borders and wants to arrest American citizens and return criminal gangs back to help the domestic terrorists continue destroying Tesla cars because they hate Elon Musk for becoming patriotic.
Storing,
You call a 1.5% margin after all the help in the world from "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin a "blow out"?
LOL!
Maybe you haven't heard that the POTUS election is ALL about the Electoral College? Trump won 31 States = Blowout. And when it comes to "all the help", Harris outspent Trump 3-1. You guys got blown out due to hand picking a candidate that is plain dumb. Everyone saw it and heard it.
How many of those 31 states are sparsely populated, podunk redneck states?
Did The Traitorous Orange Bird even get 50% of the popular vote?
Your verbiage reveals you to be prejudiced. It explains why You are in the minority with a 29% approval rating. You've earned it.
Maybe you haven't heard that the POTUS election is ALL about the Electoral College? Trump won 31 States = Blowout. And when it comes to "all the help", Harris outspent Trump 3-1. You guys got blown out due to hand picking a candidate that is plain dumb. Everyone saw it and heard it.
In the US, there are larger of number of states that a Republican is sure to win and a large number of states that a Democrat is sure to win. That only leaves about 8-10 states that are in play. Trump won all those swing states. He won historic margins for Republican among young people, women, and minorities. He did this despite all the powerful forces of the establishment working night and day against him. The media, justice system, corrupt establishment politicians who were both Republican and Democrat pulled every trick to defeat him. He was even shot. His election was the greatest political victory in history to have overcome all those forces and won that election. No one else in political history could have done that.
"Trump’s 1.5 percent popular vote victory is one of the smallest ever."
No one in else in history could have won that election with all the establishment forces used against him. No one. To overcome those forces and win means a complete rejection of the Democrats and their insane woke ideology. A crushing defeat. They are in complete disarray. Trump won every single competitive state. He improved margins in almost every demographic.
Don't say it "Richard", please don't say it
Is he chosen by GOD?
Dear Tom:
Sorry that you are having difficulty understanding my style of English grammar. It’s the way podunk red state sparse rural populists send coded messages that only ordinary people with common sense can decipher. :)
Trump is a deeply flawed person in some respects. He is a creation of the failed establishment and woke liberals, however. The country had enough of corruption, broken promises, and insanity. They rejected that ideology. Trump was the alternative. If you want to assess who is responsible for Trump being president, it's not God, it's the failed political establishment that brought the country to ruin. Politicians like Biden, Bush, Cheney, Obama, and Hillary Clinton did more to promote Trump than anyone else ever could have.
I never watched "The Apprentice" when it originally ran in Prime Time. Amazon is now showing the reruns so I have given it a look-see. Trump is no different today than he was back then, 20 yrs ago. Same guy. That's why he is referred to as a, "Blue Collar Billionaire". He likes being surrounded by extravagance, but he talks with and treats Joe 6 Packs on an equal footing. This is why the Common Man votes for him. The Unions being front-and-center. Harris and that Jackass outta Minn come off as putting on airs. Complete Phonies. Same goes for Bernie Sanders, AOC, & Gavin Newsom. Phony Balonies. The Dem party is absolutely loaded with these charlatans.
I never watched "The Apprentice" when it originally ran in Prime Time. Amazon is now showing the reruns so I have given it a look-see. Trump is no different today than he was back then, 20 yrs ago. Same guy. That's why he is referred to as a, "Blue Collar Billionaire". He likes being surrounded by extravagance, but he talks with and treats Joe 6 Packs on an equal footing. This is why the Common Man votes for him. The Unions being front-and-center. Harris and that Jackass outta Minn come off as putting on airs. Complete Phonies. Same goes for Bernie Sanders, AOC, & Gavin Newsom. Phony Balonies. The Dem party is absolutely loaded with these charlatans.
I never watched "The Apprentice" when it originally ran in Prime Time. Amazon is now showing the reruns so I have given it a look-see. Trump is no different today than he was back then, 20 yrs ago. Same guy. That's why he is referred to as a, "Blue Collar Billionaire". He likes being surrounded by extravagance, but he talks with and treats Joe 6 Packs on an equal footing. This is why the Common Man votes for him. The Unions being front-and-center. Harris and that Jackass outta Minn come off as putting on airs. Complete Phonies. Same goes for Bernie Sanders, AOC, & Gavin Newsom. Phony Balonies. The Dem party is absolutely loaded with these charlatans.
A billionaire identifying as "Blue Collar" doesn't make him blue-collar; that's straight-up woke!
You actually listen to Trump and you'll find that he knows construction from the foundation on up. He frequently rattled of what it took to construct the Trump Wall. He sometimes talks of how his dad would take put him to work on construction sites back in the day. Collecting rents too. His dad grounded him well, which fair minded people see and appreciate. You're another that has been subjected to that, "Jedi Mind Trick". That's unfortunate. Know that, "You coulda been a contenda. You coulda been somebody".
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A billionaire identifying as "Blue Collar" doesn't make him blue-collar; that's straight-up woke!
You actually listen to Trump and you'll find that he knows construction from the foundation on up. He frequently rattled of what it took to construct the Trump Wall. He sometimes talks of how his dad would take put him to work on construction sites back in the day. Collecting rents too. His dad grounded him well, which fair minded people see and appreciate. You're another that has been subjected to that, "Jedi Mind Trick". That's unfortunate. Know that, "You coulda been a contenda. You coulda been somebody".
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Trump WON, You LOST. You guys are in the Minority. Yet you call Trump supporters a "Cult"? That's right in line with Joy Reid telling Don Lemon the other day that the Canadians torched the White House in 1814. Yeah, she really said that.
Once again, I have NO clue what you are talking about.
There is no better example of mismanagement and head in the sand mentality in American politics than social security. That program will go bust in the next decade absent cuts or reforms. Liberals refuse to accept the facts. Instead they claim anyone who wants to fix it is a heartless monster taking money from seniors. What is their solution? They have none. The bitter truth is that someone is going to have to fix it. And soon or there will be no more such program for anyone. That means increasing the eligibility age, raising incoming revenue, and/or reducing some benefits. The sooner that is done the less pain down the road. That's an unpopular message for voters but the blame is on the establishment for mismanaging the budget for decades.
By an overwhelming margin, American CITIZENS do Not want ILLEGAL Immigrants inside the USA.
There is a Legal Process in place for gaining and maintaining admission to this country.
Be specific. This issue is about ILLEGAL Immigrants. Like the POTUS Election, you're again in the minority. By an overwhelming margin, American CITIZENS do Not want ILLEGAL Immigrants inside the USA. There is a Legal Process in place for gaining and maintaining admission to this country.
Question:
Does it seem to you that Trump is going deport the majority of illegal immigrants?
Or does it seem to you that Trump is deporting just enough to satisfy his MAGA base while leaving the majority here to continue working and making profits for the billionaires?
To me it seems like the later since he is deporting fewer immigrants per week than Biden was doing.
Question:
Does it seem to you that Trump is going deport the majority of illegal immigrants?
Or does it seem to you that Trump is deporting just enough to satisfy his MAGA base while leaving the majority here to continue working and making profits for the billionaires?
To me it seems like the later since he is deporting fewer immigrants per week than Biden was doing.
Trump is doing Exactly as he promised throughout the POTUS Election. What is currently underway has Nothing to do with the "Maga base". It's, "Promises Made, Promises Kept".
Would you prefer that he deport all immigrants?
Trump is doing Exactly as he promised throughout the POTUS Election. What is currently underway has Nothing to do with the "Maga base". It's, "Promises Made, Promises Kept".
You guys are merely yammering to each other. This is what being inside the Echo Chamber renders. Nothing! All you are doing is repeating the same exact Pablum back and forth. STOP using the generic term "immigrant" and be specific. Use of the term ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT is specific and will result in meaningful discourse. Put down that Blanky you clutch and take a seat at the adult table.
You guys are merely yammering to each other. This is what being inside the Echo Chamber renders. Nothing! All you are doing is repeating the same exact Pablum back and forth. STOP using the generic term "immigrant" and be specific. Use of the term ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT is specific and will result in meaningful discourse. Put down that Blanky you clutch and take a seat at the adult table.
Would you prefer that he deport all immigrants?
I should clarify my comments. I believe Democrats make arguments that are designed to influence people who think like they do. I believe that we should make arguments that may influence some MAGA people. By pointing out the obvious.
So, even if we ignore excellent arguments:
* Many immigrants are legal and should be allowed to stay.
* They greatly help the economy, not just increase the wealth of billionaires but ordinary Americans as will
* MAGA is influenced by racism, they just want as many non whites deported as possible
So let's pretend, for a moment, that mass deportations are good. Even with this assumption, it should be pointed out to MAGA people that Trump is highly unlikely to end up deporting the bulk of the immigrants, legal or illegal. Because their presence and labor helps the billionaires make more money. And they control Trump.
I think your typical MAGA person can see this, but hope against hope, against the all the evidence, notably the leisurely, at best deportation of immigrants, that Trump will do what he promised and what they hope for. The deportation of the bulk of the immigrants. This is a naive hope.
There are: (1) LEGAL Immigrants, and (2) ILLEGAL Immigrants. Trump promised to deport ILLEGAL Immigrants. This is Not difficult to comprehend.
It's amazing to me after the political disaster of the 2024 election that Dems have learned no lesson. Americans overwhelmingly oppose illegal immigration, men in women's sports, and funding endless wars. Dems can't evolve, however. They double down on failed policies.
There are: (1) LEGAL Immigrants, and (2) ILLEGAL Immigrants. Trump promised to deport ILLEGAL Immigrants. This is Not difficult to ceyomprehend.
What's left of the Dem Party? Mean Girls and Wimps like that Minnesota Gov. Even the Fake News'ers are disappearing. Viewership at CNN now under 500,000. Ratings lower than the Food Channel. And Congress will soon cut the Funding of PBS and NPR. The Gravy Train has been derailed.
It is difficult to comprehend. Because Trump says contradictory things. Like people born in the U. S. can be deport, despite the 14th Amendment. So it is not just illegal immigrants that need to be deported but some American citizens as well, so long as they are members of an undesirable race.
Wimps like Governor Tim Walz? Wimps do not rise to rank of command sergeant major and become the senior enlisted soldier of his battalion.
Want a real example of a wimp? How about someone who used "bone spurs" as an excuse to dodge military duty.
Hey MAGA people. Looking forward to next Tuesday's election in Florida's 6th district? Even a narrow Republican win in a heavily Republican district will tell Republican Congressman and Senators that it is time to jump ship.
LOL. Grasping at straws? The Republicans control the WH, House, Senate, and Supreme Court. Dems are at historic low approval ratings and sinking like the Titanic with no end in sight and no plan.
LOL. Grasping at straws? The Republicans control the WH, House, Senate, and Supreme Court. Dems are at historic low approval ratings and sinking like the Titanic with no end in sight and no plan.
In which we learn that New Mexico and Texas where the measles outbreak occurred is "nowhere near the border"
and that acknowledging a kid struggling with cancer for a couple of moments is objectionable.
If an illegal alien commits even a single crime, that is one too many. And a crime that is preventable. They should not be allowed to come here illegally. Trump has proven that common sense measures can ensure that thousands don't get across the border every. How about you make this argument to the parents of women and children who have been murdered by illegal aliens. Explain how your leftist ideology trumps the lives of their children. If you were concerned about the rights of women, you might have a bit more compassion for the women that have been assaulted and killed by illegal aliens.
"Richard" apparently prefers to be victimized by criminals who are citizens.
Like his president.
The important point is that more money is going out than coming in. A lot more. And that has been the case for a long time. The US is $38 trillion and counting in debt. All the money coming in goes into a big pot from which all the outgoing spending is funded (social security, wars etc). Currently, more social security money is being spent than coming in. The differnce has to be made up from other sources. So if you are spending billions on a war, that money is not available to pay for social security. That is not sustainable.
There is:
Option A (the Biden plan aka do nothing) - keep spending, ignore the problem, and leave it to future generations to suffer after the system collapses. This means establishment politicians don't have to be bearers of bad news and can stay in office.
Option B (Trump/Musk plan) - acknowledge the problem and try to address it before it becomes a catastrophe. This means making cuts and some pain for society which translate in taking a popularity hit. Even that is unlikely to save the situation.
Like I said, if $$/Billions can be spent on Illegal Aliens across the USA, the $$ is there. FIX IT !!
That's a problem that could be fixed real fast with mass deportations. Unfortunately, that process has been a great disappointment. Homan talks the talk, but he isn't walking the walk. Fewer deportations so far than even under Old Joe.
How can you be so right about our current political situation but so wrong about the JFK assassination, Iacoletti?
Texas and New Mexico are big states. The measles outbreaks are in the northern part of the state far from the border. You ain't from around here, are you boy?
It is when you're just exploiting him for a photo-op right before you cut funding for cancer research.
I could ask you the same question.
Really? Exactly what is the mileage limitation on Measles?
There must a full moon. Think about the American public's reaction when they are told that Texas and New Mexico are not border states because they are "big." HA HA HA. That's the lengths the woke loons are willing to lie to protect illegals. That's the reason that Dems are sitting on a 20% approval rating and sinking fast while Trump is in the WH and the Republicans control the House and Senate. It's music to my ears that Dems learned nothing from their disastrous defeat in 2024. Woke types are doubling down on those failed polices. Open the borders, turn a blind eye to tens of thousands of deaths from drugs coming from across the border, turn a blind eye to the criminal gangs, murders, rapes, turn a blind eye to the measles outbreak that originated in border states, continue to promote men participating in women's sports, snub kids with cancer as "pawns" (someone better tell St. Jude's to cut that out), and promote billions for endless wars. That's a real winning agenda!
Texas reaches 400 measles cases as US deals with outbreaks in 5 states
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/texas-reaches-400-measles-cases-as-us-deals-with-outbreaks-in-5-states/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJWOftleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHTFetXTJPuMy7ArZbnaCkgt8RxlqBi70so_w6ZttfRusLt98-PY4IIH4Yw_aem_1N2WZJEi6DXQx0keOFEwBA
Kids Are Getting Sick From RFK Jr.’s False Measles Remedy, Doctors Say
https://truthout.org/articles/kids-are-getting-sick-from-rfk-jr-s-false-measles-remedy-doctors-say/
Some of us have been around long enough to have HAD the measles. Back then you didn't want young infants or the extremely elderly to become infected, but generally, if you lived in a family and went to public school, people, (predominately kids), coming down with measles and/or chicken pox was very common. Anybody over 50 has lived through this/knows this. I'm not sure if the media attention measles is currently getting is due to people refusing to follow orders regarding vaccinations and/or a covert slap at home schooling and religious sects. Another public "shunning" in order to gain compliance.
If the Oligarchs get firm control of the government, the great bulk of the illegal immigrants will be allowed to stay in the country. This will be done because they benefits from the immigrant labor helps their profits.
There will be show deportations. Flying a mere 300 immigrants in chains to El Salvador. Not flying 300 per day. Just a one time flight to El Salvador.
And in the interest of being honest, I should state that I am not in favor of mass deportations of the immigrant because that would really hurt our economy. I am just pointing out that IF mass deportations would be a positive good, you will never get that from the billionaire controlled Trump administration. You need to go with someone who is not controlled by the billionaires, who is not a billionaire, who has NEVER received money from billionaires and who will not give in by accepting a million dollars a day bribe as Trump does now.
Whether you know it or not, you have been completely swallowed up whole by Fake News. How about defining the terms you are throwing around? Specifically, what is "mass deportation"? WHO does this apply to? How many people does it take to reach this "mass" level? 2? 22? 200? more? You are speaking in a gobbledygook manner. This is what we get 24/7 from Fake News and You are now parroting it. Is this what YOU want? And your Trump stuff makes absolutely no sense. The only thing slowing Trump down from getting ILLEGALS ALIENS out of this country are judges' injunctions. A Fed District Court Judge does Not have the authority to ORDER DOJ Planes that are already in flight to turn around. There are roughly 650 judges at this level. So at any point in time ANY/ALL of these 650 judges could Order the turning around of DOJ airplanes already in flight?
Specifically, what is "mass deportation"? WHO does this apply to? How many people does it take to reach this "mass" level?
So, let's see if I got this straight.
In 2016, Trump ran on keeping out the immigrants. In the first administration, Trump built a wall to keep out the illegal immigrants. But it only covers two per cent of the border with Mexico. At that rate, it would take 200 years to wall off Mexico.
Question: Are all the MAGA people are fine with this?
Trump deporting 5,000 illegal immigrants per week. A slower rate than what was happening under the Biden administration. And this rate it would take 44 years to deport all 11,000,000 illegal immigrants.
Question: Are all the MAGA people are fine with this as well?
When is Trump going to address these issues?
Is it possible that Trump is just focused on what billionaires want and do not really care about what MAGA wants, once he has their votes? And the billionaires don't want to see much of their important labor force in America go away?
I'm talking to Richard Smith and Royall Storing here, as well as others who are MAGA. How happy are you with Trump so far?
Guess you missed the CBS Poll this morning.
(1) Trump Approval - 50% (2) IMMIGRATION - 53% (Approval) (3) Deporting Illegal Migrants - 58% (Approval) - 2,600 polled March 27 & 28
Read it and Weep Pilgrim
Texas reaches 400 measles cases as US deals with outbreaks in 5 states
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/texas-reaches-400-measles-cases-as-us-deals-with-outbreaks-in-5-states/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJWOftleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHTFetXTJPuMy7ArZbnaCkgt8RxlqBi70so_w6ZttfRusLt98-PY4IIH4Yw_aem_1N2WZJEi6DXQx0keOFEwBA
Kids Are Getting Sick From RFK Jr.’s False Measles Remedy, Doctors Say
https://truthout.org/articles/kids-are-getting-sick-from-rfk-jr-s-false-measles-remedy-doctors-say/
By "mass deportations" I mean enough deportations to deport at least 90 % the illegal immigrants in 4 years.
There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U. S. right now.
If Trump was to deport 10,000 illegal immigrants per week, after 200 weeks, by the end of his administration, he would have deported 2,000,000.
If Trump was to deport 50,000 illegal immigrants per week, in 4 years he would have deported 10,000,000
And this all assumes that zero illegal immigrants are entering the country per week right now.
How many is Trump deporting? 5,000 per week. Not as many as Joe Biden was.
At this rate, all the illegal immigrants will be out of the county in 44 years.
So what is the problem?
Why isn't Trump explaining what is going wrong and what he intends to do about this?
Is it possible the Oligarchs do not want to lose their profits and have instructed Trump to just do show deportations, like flying 300 to El Salvador in chains? In order to make good on all the contributions they have made to him? To make up for the 1,000,000 dollars a day the billionaires are giving him by "investing" in Trump's bitcoin? And that, in any case, Trump is too busy:
* taking apart Medicaid
* taking apart Medicare
* taking apart Social Security
* gearing up for big tax cuts for the billionaires
* gearing up for big deficit spending because even the big cuts government services won't cover the big tax cuts for the billionaires that they want
From what I see, the promised mass deportations are never going to happen under Trump. When is MAGA going to start complaining about his?
The libs including their judges have thwarted the enforcement of the immigration laws under Trump. They fought him tooth and nail during his first administration. It was apparently fine for Obama to deport three million people but not Trump. If there is a single issue that the vast majority of Americans can agree upon, it is to close the border and deport those that came here illegally.
Guess you missed the CBS Poll this morning.
(1) Trump Approval - 50% (2) IMMIGRATION - 53% (Approval) (3) Deporting Illegal Migrants - 58% (Approval) - 2,600 polled March 27 & 28
Read it and Weep Pilgrim
Trump ignores judges decisions when he wants to. But where he does not want to, like deporting enough illegal immigrants to effect the profits of billionaires, he does nothing.
The idiots cut the federal funding being used for the measles outbreak in TX
you're on your own, with liver damage from too much RFK JR recommended Vitamin A
Health officials say federal cuts will hurt Texas’ measles response.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/26/texas-measles-public-health-funding-cut/
Trump administration cuts health services funding in Texas amid measles outbreak
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-measles-outbreak-health-funding-cuts-trump/
Trump has not ignored any judge. Again, though, it is music to my ears that Dems want to double down on open borders. That will ensure decades of landslide defeats. I agree that more could and should be done to enforce the immigration laws. Hopefully Trump gets that process rolling. So much to fix in the aftermath of the worst president in US history. Inflation, crime, immigration, multiple wars, $38 trillion in debt. It's a full plate. Might take another term!
More BS:
Has noting to do with the border/immigrants.
RFK JR is anti-Vaccine
Oh yea, Biden doesn't work here anymore.
This is not going to end well.
Biden "doesn't work here anymore" because he had dementia and screwed up the entire country with the cover of the media and establishment. He and his woke crowd were all sent packing by the voters. The harm remains, however. You are going to peddle the nonsense that the measles outbreak has nothing to do with millions of illegal aliens from all over the world crossing the border in places like Texas. That is just another coincidence like COVID breaking out in the one city in China that had a research lab conducting experiments with COVID? Whew. You really want to peddle that disinformation again instead of addressing the problems associated with open borders? That's a recipe for decades of defeat at the polls.
Turn off FOX News
It is a religious sect in TX that won't take the vaccine. It has now spread to five states.
HHS has done nothing to get out the necessary vaccine. They cut off research and are promoting a dangerous cure of Vitamin A which does nothing for prevention. More importantly, your "Orange Master" has cut off Fed funding allocated for this pandemic.
Thumb1: ..and you're hung up on Joe Biden !
You are suggesting that the measles descended from the heavens onto this "religious" community?....
After seeing this - there is no need to even read whatever garbage he has posted.
You have measles on the rise in 5 states and an Administration that not only refuses to act in the appropriate manner,
but has cut funding & research to do so.
RFK is not an anti-vaxxer.
Turn off FOX News
It is a religious sect in TX that won't take the vaccine. It has now spread to five states.
HHS has done nothing to get out the necessary vaccine. They cut off research and are promoting a dangerous cure of Vitamin A which does nothing for prevention. More importantly, your "Orange Master" has cut off Fed funding allocated for this pandemic.
Thumb1: ..and you're hung up on Joe Biden !
(1) YOU lost the POTUS Election. (2) YOU are in the Minority. (3) YOU are the one in a "Sect". With respect to FOX NEWS, FOX NEWS Now has more viewers than the Prime Time News broadcasts of NBC, ABC, and CBS. And remember that the viewer has to PAY/$$ to receive FOX NEWS/INFORMATION vs NBC, ABC, CBS being FREE. I strongly recommend you get out of the Echo Chamber. YOU do Not know what's what in the Real World.
He ABSOLUTELY is and has demonstrated that in the 60+ days.
and said what he had to say to get his confirmation.
RFK Jr. Denied He Is Anti-Vaccine During His Confirmation Hearing. Here’s His Record
https://time.com/7210943/rfk-confirmation-hearing-vaccines/
Try to think for yourself for once and break out of the propaganda. Here is exactly what RFK recently said: "Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons."
...just to get confirmed.
The propaganda has rendered you incapable of independent thought.
He said that after being confirmed. Not sure why you want to insist on something that isn't true to meet your own personal narrative. It is very amusing. The propaganda has rendered you incapable of independent thought.
He said that after being confirmed. Not sure why you want to insist on something that isn't true to meet your own personal narrative. It is very amusing. The propaganda has rendered you incapable of independent thought.
They Fact Check Repub's to no end, and then just turn into Parrots with the Dem Propaganda. Chuckle Heads around here should be on the MSNBC Payroll.
🔥 Trump’s Record: The Cold Hard Facts 🔥
⚖️ Criminal & Legal Issues
• 64 Mentions in Epstein Report
• 97 Times Pleaded the Fifth
• 34 Felony Convictions
• 91 Criminal Charges
• 26 Sexual Assault Allegations
• 6 Bankruptcies
• 5 Draft Deferments
• 4 Indictments
• 2 Impeachments
• 2 Convicted Companies
• 1 Fake University Shut Down
• 1 Fake Charity Shut Down
💰 Fraud & Financial Crimes
• $25M Fraud Settlement (Trump University)
• $5M Sexual Abuse Verdict
• $2M Fake Charity Abuse Judgment
• $93M Sexual Abuse Judgments
• $400M+ Fraud Judgment
📉 Economic Failures
• First President in history to serve a full term while increasing the deficit every year
• First President to maintain a debt-to-GDP ratio over 100% for his entire term
• Highest annual budget deficit
• Most added to the national debt in a single term
• Most new unemployment claims
• Largest single-day point drop in the history of the Dow Jones
🗳️ Election & Government Failures
• First major party candidate in half a century to lose the popular vote twice
• Longest government shutdown in history—while his own party controlled Congress
• First President in history to maintain a net negative approval rating for his entire term
• First President to be impeached twice
• First President to have bipartisan support for his conviction after impeachment (both times)
• Most indictments, guilty pleas, and criminal convictions of members of an administration
🚔 Historic Firsts (Not the Good Kind)
• First President to have a mugshot
Of course, in the following post, I do not want to see massive deportations of the immigrants. But let's pretend, for a moment, that massive deportations would be good.
I wonder, that if by January 2029, if no mass deportations have yet taken place, it may mean that this is a fantasy that can never happen. You have a Republican president, house and senate and it still doesn't happen. Not even in a Republican state like Texas.
It may be that there are too many vested interests in allowing this to happen. Billionaires and others who head companies will not allow a critical work force to disappear in the area. They control Trump, but even if you had a MAGA president not controlled by the billionaires, he may be still lose against all the powerful billionaires who will strive to foil him.
So, if in 2028, the Republicans run on the platform, that if you elect them, they will deport the immigrants, will the MAGA base fall for this fake promise again?
And before anyone starts talking about Democratic governors or liberal courts:
What about Texas?
What court decision, specifically prevents the immigrants from being deported from Texas?
Big loser in today's elections. Elon Musk. Used his wealth to try to control the Wisconsin Supreme Court race and lost big. Republicans do not need to fear him. Any candidate backed by big Elon Musk money, and the public is aware of where the money came from, is likely to lose unless they are in a very red district or state.
Expect to start seeing Republicans in congress to start going against Trump, in order to have a good chance of winning in November 2026.
Way to go Wisconsin ! You guys are the toast of loyal Americans from all the other 49 states. And of the region that will never become the 51st state.
Big loser in today's elections. Elon Musk. Used his wealth to try to control the Wisconsin Supreme Court race and lost big. Republicans do not need to fear him. Any candidate backed by big Elon Musk money, and the public is aware of where the money came from, is likely to lose unless they are in a very red district or state.
Expect to start seeing Republicans in congress to start going against Trump, in order to have a good chance of winning in November 2026.
Way to go Wisconsin ! You guys are the toast of loyal Americans from all the other 49 states. And of the region that will never become the 51st state.
Musk used to be you guys' "Boy". Now You trash the guy. What happened there?
🔥 Trump’s Record: The Cold Hard Facts 🔥
⚖️ Criminal & Legal Issues
• 64 Mentions in Epstein Report
• 97 Times Pleaded the Fifth
• 34 Felony Convictions
• 91 Criminal Charges
• 26 Sexual Assault Allegations
• 6 Bankruptcies
• 5 Draft Deferments
• 4 Indictments
• 2 Impeachments
• 2 Convicted Companies
• 1 Fake University Shut Down
• 1 Fake Charity Shut Down
💰 Fraud & Financial Crimes
• $25M Fraud Settlement (Trump University)
• $5M Sexual Abuse Verdict
• $2M Fake Charity Abuse Judgment
• $93M Sexual Abuse Judgments
• $400M+ Fraud Judgment
📉 Economic Failures
• First President in history to serve a full term while increasing the deficit every year
• First President to maintain a debt-to-GDP ratio over 100% for his entire term
• Highest annual budget deficit
• Most added to the national debt in a single term
• Most new unemployment claims
• Largest single-day point drop in the history of the Dow Jones
🗳️ Election & Government Failures
• First major party candidate in half a century to lose the popular vote twice
• Longest government shutdown in history—while his own party controlled Congress
• First President in history to maintain a net negative approval rating for his entire term
• First President to be impeached twice
• First President to have bipartisan support for his conviction after impeachment (both times)
• Most indictments, guilty pleas, and criminal convictions of members of an administration
🚔 Historic Firsts (Not the Good Kind)
• First President to have a mugshot
Yeah, but what about Hunter Biden's laptop?
Never heard Hunter EVER claim anything on HIS LAPTOP was fabricated. Never!
Musk used to be you guys' "Boy". Now You trash the guy. What happened there?
Yeah, but what about Hunter Biden's laptop? ;D
You seem to be obsessed with illegal immigrants and deportations.
Why is that?
Because I believe that MAGA is obsessed with immigrants, legal or not, and want them deported, to make the country more white. So I think it is important to point out to them that these mass deportations are nothing more than a dark dream. They will never happen. The billionaires backing Trump don't want this. And even if they had a president who really was determined to deport the immigrants, and not just pretending by deporting a few, the billionaires and head of corporations would use their considerable influence to prevent this. They don't want to ruin their corporations in the agriculture, construction and other industries where immigrant labor is critical.
So if MAGA would wake and and realize that they are pursuing a pipe dream, they would stop supporting anti democratic, anti American candidates. if they knew what Trump was really up to, they would not support him.
The next three and half years will show if I am right or not. Perhaps I will be disappointed, the mass of the immigrants will have been deported, causing our economy to take a major hit, if the tariffs don't cause this first. But, instead, what I am expected are excuses about why the mass deportations have not taken place, not even in Texas, and run on the promise, in 2028, that if they are elected, they will deport the immigrants.
Time will show if I am right or not.
There must a full moon. Think about the American public's reaction when they are told that Texas and New Mexico are not border states because they are "big." HA HA HA.
Some of us have been around long enough to have HAD the measles. Back then you didn't want young infants or the extremely elderly to become infected, but generally, if you lived in a family and went to public school, people, (predominately kids), coming down with measles and/or chicken pox was very common. Anybody over 50 has lived through this/knows this. I'm not sure if the media attention measles is currently getting is due to people refusing to follow orders regarding vaccinations and/or a covert slap at home schooling and religious sects. Another public "shunning" in order to gain compliance.
Not a single kid has gotten sick from anything RFK Jr has done. He was just recently appointed. The measles outbreak is originating in the border states. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce its origins.
The measles outbreak is a byproduct of the open border policy. Every US citizen has for decades had access to the measles vaccine.
You are suggesting that the measles descended from the heavens onto this "religious" community? It didn't come from anywhere else but spontaneously occurred in their midst? They could not have come into contact with the millions of illegals who overran their state?
Yes, and a lot of children ended up dead as a result. Ah, the good ol' days.
No kid I ever knew died of measles. No kid in my elementary school ever died of measles. Like I said, this used to be common. Right there with chicken pox and mumps. Maybe your, "ended up dead as a result", was in other countries?
If by "obsessed with immigrants" you mean that they oppose opening the borders to millions of unknown people from all over the world and instead want the federal immigration laws enforced, then you are right. There is nothing racist about that, however. That is just the tired leftist trope to explain any policy that they oppose. It is common sense supported by the overwhelming number of Americans including most Democrats. That is one of the main reasons that Old Joe and Kamala were rolled out of office. I do agree that the deportation efforts have been weak so far. Hopefully that changes.
False generalization.
There were 400-500 measles deaths in the US per year between 1953-1963. Between 1912 and 1922, it was 6000 per year.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html (https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html)
False generalization.
There were 400-500 measles deaths in the US per year between 1953-1963. Between 1912 and 1922, it was 6000 per year.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html (https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html)
Thanks for proving my point. You're talking on average 10 per state once Hawaii and Alaska were added. That's jack diddly.
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Fair enough. If the bulk immigrants do get deported I won't be happy but you will be happy because you think it is a good thing. And the arguments I have been making honestly proved false because I misestimated Trump's and the billionaires intentions.
My question is, what if three years from now, in the spring of 2028, the bulk of the immigrants are still here, still working, still helping the American economy, still helping the profits of the wealthy? But the Republicans, with Trump or some other candidate are running on the promise that if they are elected, they will deport the immigrants.
Will you be supporting that candidate? Or will you conclude that they are just promising things that will get them elected and likely have no intention of deporting the bulk of the immigrants.
Say what you will about Trump, I for one am sick of going year after year of allowing penguins to exploit Americans and it's about time someone did something about this. Let's make them squawk !
Another fake leftist story. They don't understand that this closes a potential loophole in the tariffs.
It is hilarious that leftists bought a story without understanding it. The tariffs were extended to a couple of islands without human inhabitants to ensure that countries could not use them as a workaround to avoid the tariffs by claiming the exports came from there. A smart move by the Trump administration. U-S-A, U-S-A.
Exposing the USA hating among the leftists is enlightening. The US liberated "Europe" from the Nazis. The US has paid for the national defense of "Europe" for 70 years and counting. In return, "Europe" has imposed tariffs on the US and charged the US for the privilege of defending them. Now they are crying a river about tariffs. LOL. It's butt hurting time for the socialists who have stolen America blind. They have built their entire fake economies around the US paying for their socialist utopia. That is now ending.
You are completely delusional.
Such a stinging rebuttal as it is so full of specifics. What are you taking issue with? That the US played a significant role in liberating "Europe" during WWII? That the US has paid for the defense of "Europe" since the end of WWII? That "Europe" imposes tariffs on US imports while charging us for the privilege of having bases to defend them"? That many such countries are dependent on US money? Do tell.
Exposing the USA hating among the leftists is enlightening. The US liberated "Europe" from the Nazis. The US has paid for the national defense of "Europe" for 70 years and counting. In return, "Europe" has imposed tariffs on the US and charged the US for the privilege of defending them. Now they are crying a river about tariffs. LOL. It's butt hurting time for the socialists who have stolen America blind. They have built their entire fake economies around the US paying for their socialist utopia. That is now ending.
Such a stinging rebuttal as it is so full of specifics. What are you taking issue with? That the US played a significant role in liberating "Europe" during WWII? That the US has paid for the defense of "Europe" since the end of WWII? That "Europe" imposes tariffs on US imports while charging us for the privilege of having bases to defend them"? That many such countries are dependent on US money? Do tell.
In which we learn that the Cold War was the fault of the US and that "Europe" had no interest in it. Just innocent bystanders. LOL. It was the US putting "Europe" in harm's way by having bases there to protect it from Russia. The same Russia that leftists now go on and on about threatening "Europe" when trying to justify the expenditure of billions by US taxpayers to fund the war in Ukraine. Wow.
I don't debate fake arguments. There is absolutely nothing good about what he is doing or has done in the last 60+ days.
It is a train wreck on the way, that is not going to end well for anybody.
Thumb1: ...and you are in a F-n' cult.
Another fake leftist story. They don't understand that this closes a potential loophole in the tariffs.
How are things going to end if nothing is done and things are simply allowed to continue as they have been for decades? The US is $38 trillion and counting in debt. It cannot afford to fund its obligations including Social Security for much longer. The money has been blown by establishment politicians like Old Joe on waste, corruption, and endless wars. What should be done under those circumstances? Stick our heads in the sand and let it all go down or maybe try to reform the system before it implodes? Hating Trump and opposing anything he does because it is Trump isn't going to do it.
Exposing the USA hating among the leftists is enlightening. The US liberated "Europe" from the Nazis.
How are things going to end if nothing is done and things are simply allowed to continue as they have been for decades? The US is $38 trillion and counting in debt. It cannot afford to fund its obligations including Social Security for much longer. The money has been blown by establishment politicians like Old Joe on waste, corruption, and endless wars. What should be done under those circumstances? Stick our heads in the sand and let it all go down or maybe try to reform the system before it implodes? Hating Trump and opposing anything he does because it is Trump isn't going to do it.
"The new (U.S.) administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations," Peskov said in an interview aired
Sunday on Russian state media. "This largely coincides with our vision."
It's refreshing to see honesty about how much the leftists hate the US. Imagine equating the US efforts in "Europe" during the Cold War with those of the USSR as though they were the same. The US was occupying "Europe" in the same way as the USSR in the leftist mind to promote its self-interest. HA HA HA. That level of hatred for the US is unreal. Americans paid to rebuild "Europe" after WWII. Americans paid to defend "Europe" from an evil totalitarian system of government that oppressed eastern "European" countries for decades. Ask those who lived in places like East Germany, Hungary, and Romania how life was like under the Russians in comparison to France and West Germany. The US has paid to defend "Europe" from Russia for the last 70 years. You don't have Russia invading those countries that the US pays to defend under NATO. For all of this, "Europe" imposes tariffs and unfair trading practices to keep the US from selling goods there. Their economies are largely depending on the US.
Nobody pays a "tax" on anything until they Buy an imported "taxed" item. Whenever possible, do Not buy Imported Products. Very Simple. I continue to say Trump is an "Isolationist". He wants EVERYTHING made inside the USA. If other countries want access to the Huge USA Market, they need to make their product Inside The USA.
I'm happy now. The flow of millions of unknown people from all over the world has stopped. Efforts are being made to deport dangerous criminals. Efforts are being made to stop the flow of drugs that have been killing more Americans every year than died in the entire Vietnam war. I realize that the establishment Republicans are as big a problem as the Dems in this regard. Trump is at least trying to do the right things even if opposed by the establishment and judges.
Those damn penguins are always exploiting loopholes.
And now we're being run by them.
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JohnM
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JohnM
Why are you showing photos instead of videos? Easier to misrepresent what's really happening, perhaps?
Show the videos and then we'll make a comparison.
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JohnM
Mytton,
Look at how he taps his chest like Hitler, how violently he salutes, and how angry he looks.
Are you a supporter of The Traitorous Orange Bird known as Donald Trump?
Look at how he taps his chest like Hitler, how violently he salutes, and how angry he looks.
Are you a supporter of The Traitorous Orange Bird known as Donald Trump?
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JohnM
Mytton,
Look at how he taps his chest like Hitler, how violently he salutes, and how angry he looks.
Are you a supporter of The Traitorous Orange Bird known as Donald Trump?
What point are you trying to make, Mytton?
That Elon Musk is normal?
Look at how he taps his chest like Hitler, how violently he salutes
Anybody can hold up an arm to waive at somebody. That by itself isn't a Nazi salute.
It's the movement of the arm and they way the salute is made.
That's why dishonest Mytton will not show the videos I asked for, as that would expose his misrepresentation.
"Musk says "my heart goes out to you""
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JohnM
If Musk is such a stand up guy, then why is he associating himself with extreme right wing fascists?
A Nazi salute goes hand in hand with extreme right wing fascism!
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JohnM
If Musk is such a stand up guy, then why is he associating himself with extreme right wing fascists?
A Nazi salute goes hand in hand with extreme right wing fascism!
Besides a hand gesture which you clearly are misinterpreting, please present where Musk shows his "extreme right wing fascism"?
Because I don't see Musk displaying any form of fascism and in fact Musk has done a lot of good for our planet! Like electric cars are a huge step away from Global climate change, exploring space and surrounding planets, satellite internet is now accessible for almost the entire World, Neuralink giving the disabled a chance of living a better life.
Martin, besides a lot of complaining, what have you done for our planet and the human race?
Elon Musk is known for his involvement with companies like Tesla (electric cars), SpaceX (space exploration), and Neuralink (brain-computer interfaces), and has also co-founded PayPal and X (formerly Twitter).
Here's a more detailed look at Musk's ventures and inventions:
Companies and Projects:
Tesla: Musk is a co-founder, CEO, and product architect at Tesla, a company focused on electric vehicles, battery technology, and solar energy.
SpaceX: Musk founded SpaceX, a company that designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft, aiming to reduce space travel costs and enable human colonization of Mars.
Neuralink: Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company developing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to connect the human brain to computers.
X (formerly Twitter): Musk acquired and renamed Twitter as X, a social media platform.
The Boring Company: Musk founded The Boring Company, a tunneling company focused on creating transportation systems.
xAI: Musk founded xAI, an artificial intelligence company.
OpenAI: Musk co-founded OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company.
Zip2: Musk founded Zip2, a company that provided maps and business directories to newspapers, which was later sold to Compaq.
X.com (later PayPal): Musk co-founded X.com, an online payment company, which later merged with Confinity to form PayPal.
Hyperloop: Musk conceptualized Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation system using a vacuum tube, although the technology is not currently in widespread use.
Starlink: Musk's SpaceX is developing a satellite constellation called Starlink to provide global internet access.
PowerWall: Musk brought the idea of a home battery system to the forefront with the PowerWall, a large battery designed to store solar energy.
JohnM
Civil Rights Groups Horrified at Elon Musk's Racist Outburst Against Black People
https://futurism.com/civil-rights-groups-horrified-elon-musk-racist
Elon Musk Cosigns Racist Claim That Black Students Have Low IQs
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-black-students-low-iqs
Did you read the article? "Musk appeared to imply... blah blah blah"
Musk was commenting on DEI policies and I agree that I want the BEST person for the job, not some arbitrary person employed to fill a quota of a certain gender or colour. Musk like myself doesn't care if a person is female, male, black, yellow or white or whatever, we want our doctor, pilot, air traffic controller, fireman, ETC., to be the BEST and most suitable person for their job, how can this reasonable and logical thinking be in the slightest way controversial?
JohnM
Your blind admiration for Musk is duly noted.
Because I don't see Musk displaying any form of fascism
Except closely associating himself with extreme right wing fascists, you mean?
Musk is a business man and the main purpose of all his activities is to make a profit. If he was doing stuff for the good of mankind he wouldn't have become the richest man on the planet and he most certainly wouldn't have had the hunderds of millions to buy the Presidency for Trump.
Your blind admiration for Musk is duly noted.
Musk is a business man and the main purpose of all his activities is to make a profit.
If he was doing stuff for the good of mankind he wouldn't have become the richest man on the planet...
Did you read the article? "Musk appeared to imply... blah blah blah"
Musk was commenting on DEI policies and I agree that I want the BEST person for the job, not some arbitrary person employed to fill a quota of a certain gender or colour. Musk like myself doesn't care if a person is female, male, black, yellow or white or whatever, we want our doctor, pilot, air traffic controller, fireman, ETC., to be the BEST and most suitable person for their job, how can this reasonable and logical thinking be in the slightest way controversial?
JohnM
By stripping of honors and awards of minority veterans that served.
Suckers & losers, huh? It is disgusting !!
NCAI Statement on the Removal of Navajo Code Talkers Content from Military Websites
https://www.ncai.org/news/national-congress-of-american-indians-statement-on-the-removal-of-navajo-code-talkers-content-from-military-websites
Black veterans sound the alarm over military DEI purge
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5233381-black-veterans-pentagon-dei-purge/
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge
https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074
The Medal of Honor Recipient Erased in the Pentagon's DEI Purge
https://www.military.com/history/medal-of-honor-recipient-erased-pentagons-dei-purge.html
I outlined all the good that Musk has done for society and the Earth's long time preservation and this is your opener?
Sure, there is a lot of ways to make money but investing in risky business that ensures the future of our planet takes a special type of person.
That doesn't even follow logically, so let me rephrase it for you, "Musk became the richest man on the planet because he did stuff for the good of mankind"! For instance electric cars which are essential for reducing global climate change were not very popular, then Musk came along and took a huge financial risk and spent billions developing and manufacturing Tesla's which became the most important new car technology in history and all because Musk wants mankind to survive and be more than we can be!
JohnM
Musk was commenting on DEI policies and I agree that I want the BEST person for the job
You agree that you want... Who cares that you agree with yourself.
the BEST person for the job, not some arbitrary person employed to fill a quota of a certain gender or colour.
That's not the purpose of DEI. That's how it is being presented by Trump and Musk.
In the real world DEI policy is ensure, that when you have two persons who are equally qualified for a particular job, and one of them is a minority, the minority applicant gets a fair treatment!
DEI is not to hire a less qualified minority instead of a qualified white person.
I'm amazed that this needs to be explained to you.
Again, did you read this article?
Though the military later restored the pages and said the removals were a mistake,...
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5233381-black-veterans-pentagon-dei-purge/
BTW you previously used another "The Hill" article which was deliberately misleading!
JohnM
“As Secretary Hegseth has said, DEI is dead at the Defense Department,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot said in a statement. ““Discriminatory Equity Ideology is a form of Woke cultural Marxism that has no place in our military. It Divides the force, Erodes unit cohesion and Interferes with the services’ core warfighting mission. We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms.”
JohnM
In the real world DEI policy is ensure, that when you have two persons who are equally qualified for a particular job, and one of them is a minority, the minority applicant gets a fair treatment!
And your point is?
Who cares about the opinions of Joe Rogan and some firefighter. There will always be individual cases where something is wrong.
Nepotism is all around us, but that does not negate the fact that the true purpose of DEI is to give minorities who are in fact qualified for a particular job a fair chance.
Who cares about the opinions of Joe Rogan and some firefighter.
There will always be individual cases where something is wrong.
Geez, you have fallen hook line and sinker for this leftist BS! How often in the real World are two applicants "equally qualified", that is completely stupid and you fell for it, explains a lot actually!
But let's just say that in magic fairyland that two applicants are "equally qualified" then according to DEI principles, the minority applicant automatically wins, how is that fair?
JohnM
Don't shoot the messenger, listen to what she says, it's sick!
It's more than isolated individual cases, you clearly don't understand.
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JohnM
Nepotism is all around us, but that does not negate the fact that the true purpose of DEI is to give minorities who are in fact qualified for a particular job a fair chance.
Geez, you have fallen hook line and sinker for this leftist BS! How often in the real World are two applicants "equally qualified", that is completely stupid and you fell for it, explains a lot actually!
But let's just say that in magic fairyland that two applicants are "equally qualified" then according to DEI principles, the minority applicant automatically wins, how is that fair?
JohnM
How often in the real World are two applicants "equally qualified", that is completely stupid
You clearly have not a shred of knowledge about hiring people.
But let's just say that in magic fairyland that two applicants are "equally qualified" then according to DEI principles, the minority applicant automatically wins, how is that fair?
"automatically wins"? Who said that?
DEI is about preventing nepotism, racism and discrimination based on ethnic backgrounds.
But perhaps that's exactly the reason why you are against DEI....
How often in the real World are two applicants "equally qualified", that is completely stupid
You clearly have not a shred of knowledge about hiring people.
But let's just say that in magic fairyland that two applicants are "equally qualified" then according to DEI principles, the minority applicant automatically wins, how is that fair?
"automatically wins"? Who said that?
DEI is about preventing nepotism, racism and discrimination based on ethnic backgrounds.
But perhaps that's exactly the reason why you are against DEI....
These people have been radicalized by a decade of endless leftist propaganda. It boils down to this. Anything that Trump does is evil. Anyone who does not condemn him is a Nazi. Logic, common sense, or facts cannot dissuade them of this fantasy. Many - like Martin from "Europe" - appear to hate America and prefer to put the interests of illegal immigrants and foreign countries over those of America because Trump does the opposite. The level of hatred and violence by the left is frightening. Many are completely obsessed with Trump and Musk. They are assaulting people for having contrary views, vandalizing cars, and throwing Molotov cocktails. College professors are attacking their own students for exercising free speech in support of Republicans. These radicalized leftists support violent anti-American and anti-Semite terrorist organizations like Hamas whose operatives threaten Jewish students on American campuses. Domestic terrorism. It's sick.
The fact that I was experienced enough to make that statement clearly went over your head.
Seriously?
Thanks for the copy and paste that reinforces my point, the "minority applicant" automatically wins.
Huh? Like I said in my first post, I want the best applicant regardless of colour, ethnicity or gender!
JohnM
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(https://i.postimg.cc/KYzpKrL4/democrats-nazi-salute.jpg)
JohnM
"Musk says "my heart goes out to you""
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JohnM
I don't like the idea of appropriation, it's like the American Black women/men getting angry with white people who wear Dutch braids but they're called "Dutch" braids for a reason! The Nazi's didn't invent that type of salute, it's been part of human culture for centuries, it's unfortunate that it has been associated with Nazi's but how long will it be before we can't make any hand gesture because of some evil connotation? Elon Musk has done a lot of good for humanity, like his internet satellite system, his rockets saving those stranded astronauts, saving the planet with Electric cars, that brain link which helps the handicapped and a lot of other stuff.
JohnM
Even after a decade of radicalization by leftist media propaganda, I still find it hard to believe that even the most deranged Trump hater thinks that Elon Musk gave the Hitler salute in front of a live audience. He was apparently like Dr. Strangelove and could not control himself in their minds. That level of hatred and disassociation from reality is frightening. Musk is not a Nazi. Trump is not a Nazi. The real Nazis of "Europe" would have thrown Trump in a concentration camp along with his Jewish daughter and grandchildren. Do you know who is acting like the Nazis? The leftists who promote anti-Semitism by supporting Hamas including threatening Jewish students on American campuses. That is exactly the type of thing the Nazis did.
Mytton,
I've always disliked your meathead Rodney Dangerfield visage and your JFKA-correct but long-winded / graphics-heavy / heavily bolded posts, and now I don't particularly care for you very much.
Just curious: Did you support Putin-approved BREXIT by any chance?
Thanks Tom, next time don't hold back and tell me how you really feel. :D
As I told you before when you complained about my posts, no one is forcing you to read them. For instance when I see for the bazillionth time, KGB this or is Putin paying you that, my eyes gently glaze over, I stifle a yawn then I move on. See how easy that is.
BTW Rodney Dangerfield was a comedic genius, years ahead of his time and with all the hate on this Forum, it's nice to see a smiling face!
JohnM
Geez, you have fallen hook line and sinker for this leftist BS! How often in the real World are two applicants "equally qualified", that is completely stupid and you fell for it, explains a lot actually!
But let's just say that in magic fairyland that two applicants are "equally qualified" then according to DEI principles, the minority applicant automatically wins, how is that fair?
JohnM
You guys in the ever diminishing DEI Camp need to be reminded that YOU are in the Minority. Just like the POTUS Election. You cavalierly label the Majority as being inna "cult", but in reality YOU are the member of a Cult that continues getting smaller and smaller. This is what happens when you confine yourself inside the Echo Chamber. Even Bill Maher has exited that Echo Chamber. And he's gone so far as to have a "sit-down" with Trump. Your "cult" shrinks daily. And the juvenile profane tantrums only accelerate this mass migration.
This is why the Dem approval numbers continue falling even deeper into the toilet. FAILURE to accept that you got the pants beat off of you, (31 states to 19), even though you outspent your opponent 3-1. And then you finished the campaign DEEPLY IN DEPT. Please keep it up.
This is why the Dem approval numbers continue falling even deeper into the toilet. FAILURE to accept that you got the pants beat off of you, (31 states to 19), even though you outspent your opponent 3-1. And then you finished the campaign DEEPLY IN DEPT. Please keep it up.
The Democrats win the 2020 Presidential Election by 7.0 million. But that makes no real difference. But when Trump wins in 2024 by 2.3 million, one third the 2020 Biden margin "The DEI Camp is in the minority" or "We have the mandate to do anything".
The Democrats are no longer in the minority, not even by a slim margin. Don't take my word for it. Trump withdrew a nomination so a Republican candidate does not have to try to win a district Trump won by 21 per cent in November. The Texas governor is not going to allow a congressional election to replace a diseased congressman until forced to in November 2026. Clearly, the Republican leadership no longer consider Democrats to be in the minority. While they can try to hold off the inevitable, a recogning is coming in November 2026 and the Republicans do not know what to do about it.
The 2020 election was a statistical outlier in American politics reflecting the changes in the voting laws in almost every state in the weeks leading up to the election. Those changes were advantageous to Biden. Absent those changes, he loses by the same margin or more than Kamala in 2024. Was it stolen? Not exactly. The changes were made legally under a false pretext that it was too dangerous to vote in person. The country is divided 50-50 with the media working nonstop for the leftists. In addition, the rich, white woke crowd is donating billions to the Dems. Kamala had a lot more money than Trump to spend. With all those disadvantages, Trump still won in 2024. No other person in American political history could have overcome the money, media bias, assassination attempts, and misuse of the justice system to still win an election. It's a downright miracle and shows just how disgusted Americans are with the crazy leftist policies including open borders that have brought the country to near ruin.
The market is rebounding and Trump is winning cases in court exposing radical judges. U-S-A, U-S-A. "Europe" is begging for a trade deal but Trump hasn't had time for them since they are far down his priority list. Canada had sided with China even though we pay for their national defense. A terrible decision that will ruin their economy.You're getting a little illogical here, more than a little, with your defense of Trump and the purpose of these tariffs. He says the purpose is to re-build American industries, to bring jobs back home and *not* as negotiating chits with others. Then his advisers come out and talk about how our competitors are willing to negotiate deals. Deals that Trump says he won't make.
The market is rebounding and Trump is winning cases in court exposing radical judges. U-S-A, U-S-A. "Europe" is begging for a trade deal but Trump hasn't had time for them since they are far down his priority list. Canada had sided with China even though we pay for their national defense. A terrible decision that will ruin their economy.
The market is rebounding and Trump is winning cases in court exposing radical judges. U-S-A, U-S-A. "Europe" is begging for a trade deal but Trump hasn't had time for them since they are far down his priority list. Canada has sided with China even though we pay for their national defense. A terrible decision that will ruin their economy.
Martin must be living on some island that has only MSNBC ,CNN and the BBC :)
I switched to watching Fox News and Alex Jones since about 2012 when Obama showed his true intentions by signing that 2012 NDAA expanding the Patriot Act. And that harassment of Cliven Bundy was what convinced me the Democrat Party was no longer the part for me.
I would like to think I’m still an objective critical thinker, and judging from Martins criticisms of the WC report, I think he is capable of critical thinking too.
At some point in time, before Obama, I would bet that Martin and I were on the same page watching MSNBC challenging the GW Bush admin and that whole “weapons of Mass destruction” BS, as well as the 911 narrative, and noting the Fox News bias continually defending that ridiculous narrative.
I’m sorry that Martin has such a complete opposite observation about Trump than I do at this point in time. Maybe I’m being fooled by Alex Jones and Fox News, or Martin is being misled by BBC, CNN, and MSNBC. I guess time will tell which of these various news sources were closer to the truth.
The Putin/Trump stuff is right in line with Greer shooting JFK. Just to let you guys know the crowd you're hangin' with.
Martin must be living on some island that has only MSNBC ,CNN and the BBC :)
I switched to watching Fox News and Alex Jones since about 2012 when Obama showed his true intentions by signing that 2012 NDAA expanding the Patriot Act. And that harassment of Cliven Bundy was what convinced me the Democrat Party was no longer the part for me.
I would like to think I’m still an objective critical thinker, and judging from Martins criticisms of the WC report, I think he is capable of critical thinking too.
At some point in time, before Obama, I would bet that Martin and I were on the same page watching MSNBC challenging the GW Bush admin and that whole “weapons of Mass destruction” BS, as well as the 911 narrative, and noting the Fox News bias continually defending that ridiculous narrative.
I’m sorry that Martin has such a complete opposite observation about Trump than I do at this point in time. Maybe I’m being fooled by Alex Jones and Fox News, or Martin is being misled by BBC, CNN, and MSNBC. I guess time will tell which of these various news sources were closer to the truth.
Joe 6 Pack does NOT Pay a "tariff" until such time as he/she actually PURCHASES/$$ a Foreign product. You do NOT want to pay a "tariff"? Do NOT buy a foreign made product. Very simple. So exactly what Products are we looking at that are subject to Trump "Tariffs"? Maple Syrup from Canada? We have Maple Syrup made right here inside the USA. Lumber? Plenty of trees = lumber inside the USA. Shoes? Notably from China courtesy of their slave labor work force. Can Joe 6 Pack go without another pair of "Air Jordans", even if this puts a dent in the China propaganda arm = NBA? Can do!
"Certain goods"? Even You are unsure of what Specific Products would be subject to a "tariff". The USA is the Largest Consumer Nation in the World. All the other countries in the World have to have access to the Purchasing Power of the USA. It's that simple and Trump is using this Massive Leverage. Trump at heart is an Isolationist. Military Dominance + Energy Independence + The Dome Defense. Bottom Line, the other countries need the USA far more than the USA needs them. Indisputable, and as the other nations begin taking a knee, it will soon become obvious to everyone. The Tree Huggers too, (lumber).
The Trump cycle:
1. Announce big tariffs.
2. Belatedly realize this won't work.
3. Calls off the tariffs.
4. Announce they will go back to tariffs in 30 or 90 days.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
"Certain goods"? Even You are unsure of what Specific Products would be subject to a "tariff". The USA is the Largest Consumer Nation in the World. All the other countries in the World have to have access to the Purchasing Power of the USA. It's that simple and Trump is using this Massive Leverage. Trump at heart is an Isolationist. Military Dominance + Energy Independence + The Dome Defense. Bottom Line, the other countries need the USA far more than the USA needs them. Indisputable, and as the other nations begin taking a knee, it will soon become obvious to everyone. The Tree Huggers too, (lumber).
You forgot the part where most countries came begging for a deal. Except for our enemies like China and Canada. Even "Europe" wants a deal. That will even the playing field in most instances and undo some of the disaster unleashed by Bill Clinton that wiped manufacturing jobs off the map. U-S-A, U-S-A.
You guys LOST! Trump WON! Live with it.
You forgot the part where most countries came begging for a deal. Except for our enemies like China and Canada. Even "Europe" wants a deal. That will even the playing field in most instances and undo some of the disaster unleashed by Bill Clinton that wiped manufacturing jobs off the map. U-S-A, U-S-A.
The "begging for deals is a made up lie by Donald Trump. They aren't going to Trump begging for deals. They are going to other countries to make deals, including China.
Why make a deal with Trump who routinely changes his mind and breaks the deal?
Question: Name the countries that came begging for deals?
Name your sources.
And quoting Ron Vara is not a valid source.
Peter Navarro came up with his imaginary friend "Ron Vara" (rearrange the letters to "Navarro" to make "Ron Vara". And "Ron Vara" first appeared in Peter Navarro's book in 2001 so I assume the inspiration for this is "Harry Potter and the Chambers of Secret." But what comes to mind is debates between Peter and Ron, like those between Gollum Smeagol where Peter urges to be nice to Americans while Ron insists that they must be made to suffer.
All that happened is that none of the other countries caved and said "We won't put any tariff on the U. S. but could you please remove or at least reduce the tariff you charge." Instead they said, no deal, we are coming with counter tariffs if you dont tback off, and Trump, as is his nature, backed off. End of story.
I can understand now why you have a Ukrainian flag instead of a US flag. The America last days are over. Trump has put the US first. That's some tough medicine for the America haters who want failure and endless handouts to fund endless wars, illegal immigrants, and support the economies of other countries around the world while the US falls further into debt. The US is in ruins because we pay for the national defense of much of the world. Canada, "Europe", Japan etc don't have to pay anything for their own national defense because they rely on the US. That is not sustainable. Sticking your head in the sand because you hate Trump and ignoring the national debt is just accepting the coming economic catastrophe.
I can understand now why you have a Ukrainian flag instead of a US flag. The America last days are over. Trump has put the US first. That's some tough medicine for the America haters who want failure and endless handouts to fund endless wars, illegal immigrants, and support the economies of other countries around the world while the US falls further into debt. The US is in ruins because we pay for the national defense of much of the world. Canada, "Europe", Japan etc don't have to pay anything for their own national defense because they rely on the US. That is not sustainable. Sticking your head in the sand because you hate Trump and ignoring the national debt is just accepting the coming economic catastrophe.
The US spends approximately $1 trillion dollars or 3.5% of its GDP on national defense. Canada spends approximately $27 billion or 1.3 of GDP. Germany 1.5%, England 2.3%. Japan 1.2%, France 2.1%., Italy 1.6% and so on. These countries are effectively defended by the US and therefore spend almost nothing on defense. These are many of the same countries leftists tell us are under an imminent threat of invasion from Russia. And yet they still choose to have the US pay to protect them. What do we get in return? They place tariffs and unfair trade practices that make it difficult to impossible to sell US made goods in their countries. They run into the arms of China when the US suggests that we have a fair playing field. Those days are done. Not a sustainable situation with a $38 trillion and counting debt. Something has to give. Either take the medicine now are suffer a disaster in the coming years.
Agree. Time to bite the bullet and get the debt way down and eventually eliminated. Gotta start NOW! Canada is a joke. The best thing Canada ever did for the USA is providing a haven for draft age males fleeing the USA during the Vietnam War. The only worse "friend" the USA has is France. Anytime France starts blowing off about how valuable France is to the USA, they need to be reminded of those photos of Hitler standing in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Ever wondered why there is a city in Louisiana called Lafayette and where New Orleans gets it's name from?
Is that the guy known as "The Barefoot Pirate" we see on Cap'n Crunch commercials?
The one thing that Republicans all agree on is at billionaires need a big tax cut. The three riches Americans have as much wealth as the bottom 50 % of the American population but the billionaires need even more money at the expense of the rest of us.
Medicaid has to go. Medicare and Social Security has to be cut way back, and no doubt go away soon. And deporting the bulks to be of the immigrants (a 'policy' I disagree with) has to be put on the back burner, if not put aside indefinitely. After all, you can't do anything that hurts the profits of billionaires.
The tax rate for the very wealthy has been steadily been decreasing since 1953, for 72 years, but it is still not enough. We had wealthy people back then. The Kennedy family still managed to get very wealthy despite the 'high' tax rate for the rich. What was wrong with the 1953 tax rate?
Question: Is there anyone here who agrees that the billionaires should get a big tax cut?
Question: Is there anyone here who will ever vote for a Republican again if they give the billionaires a big tax cut?
You guys LOST. Get over it.
The one thing that Republicans all agree on is at billionaires need a big tax cut. The three riches Americans have as much wealth as the bottom 50 % of the American population but the billionaires need even more money at the expense of the rest of us.
Medicaid has to go. Medicare and Social Security has to be cut way back, and no doubt go away soon. And deporting the bulks to be of the immigrants (a 'policy' I disagree with) has to be put on the back burner, if not put aside indefinitely. After all, you can't do anything that hurts the profits of billionaires.
The tax rate for the very wealthy has been steadily been decreasing since 1953, for 72 years, but it is still not enough. We had wealthy people back then. The Kennedy family still managed to get very wealthy despite the 'high' tax rate for the rich. What was wrong with the 1953 tax rate?
Question: Is there anyone here who agrees that the billionaires should get a big tax cut?
Question: Is there anyone here who will ever vote for a Republican again if they give the billionaires a big tax cut?
Any time either side is talking about "knocking on doors", they gotta problem. This "ground game" stuff is Not the way to turn out voters any more. And knocking onna door does Not mean anybody actually answered the door. Pure BS:
Imagine the reaction of some working class person who has lost their job because it was sent overseas when they get a knock on their door and the message is that they must pay for an endless war in someplace that they have never heard of, they must pay for the housing, health care, and education of millions of illegal aliens, and when some of these illegal aliens commit crimes they need to shut up or they are racists, and their daughters have to compete against men at school sports. And even after they get rolled in the election, they double down on this nonsense. Trump is not the creation of the "KGB" or "Russians" or whatever is the hoax of the day, he is creation of the failed policies of the establishment. They created Trump. He would never have become president except for the lunacy of the left.
Are the "billionaires" fine with the tariffs bringing down the stock market and costing them billions to return the manufacturing jobs to the working class that the Dems sent outside the country? The endless pitting of groups by Dems is not working. Rich vs poor, white vs black, men vs women, gay vs straight. The strategy to put one group of Americans in fear of others to get them to vote for Dems. It's tiresome and no longer working. Americans have gotten past that. Trump had record high number of minorities and working class voters supporting him in the last election. How did all that "knocking on doors" work out for you? The truth is that the rich, white woke types were about the only group to support the Dems in the last election. Kamala raised more money from the billionaire class than Trump. And she still got rolled.
Agree. Time to bite the bullet and get the debt way down and eventually eliminated. Gotta start NOW! Canada is a joke. The best thing Canada ever did for the USA is providing a haven for draft age males fleeing the USA during the Vietnam War. The only worse "friend" the USA has is France. Anytime France starts blowing off about how valuable France is to the USA, they need to be reminded of those photos of Hitler standing in front of the Eiffel Tower.
" [...] pay for an endless war in someplace that they have never heard of [...]."
I thought you were Neville Chamberlain, back in London after Munich, for a second there, Smith.
Btw, you never did say -- Does Vladimir Putin pay you, or do you do it for free?
Hey comrade, do you mean the market manipulation and insider trading scam that Heir Drumpf bragged about that made his billionaire buds over $300 billion richer when he tipped them off to "BUY NOW!" 4 hours before he paused the tariffs? Only American oligarchs and Russian Nazi trolls would think this was a good thing.
You and comrade Royell Merkwurkdigliebe need to get a room. Watch out for underage Russian hookers specializing in water sports unless you are into that kind of thing. Don't forget to say cheese!
Trump is not going to get the debt down. If he succeeds the debt will increase greatly. Trump wants big tax cuts for the rich. So he will cut out as much Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security as possible. But all that will not be enough to cover the tax break for billionaires. s
So the U. S. debt will have to be increased as well.
Positive side:
Cuts to Medicaid
Cuts to Medicare
Cuts to Social Security
Greatly increase the National Debt
In order to cover the Negative side:
Tax Cuts for the billionaires
None of the money saved for cutting social services will go into paying off the debt. It will all go to tax cuts for billionaires. And even then, the U. S. deficit will have to be increased a lot to cover all of the tax cuts.
What is the MAGA master plan?
Plan 1: Fully support Trump, let him strip away government services, give billionaires their big tax cuts, allow the U. S. deficient to balloon before you start complaining that not too many immigrants are being deported, after all leverage you have to force Trump to do what you want is squandered.
or:
Plan 2: Start insisting that Trump starts deporting 50,000 per week which, assuming ZERO illegal immigrant are h now, will allow most immigrants to be gone by 2028. And until Trump starts giving you what you want, you won't give him what he wants.
Because I can tell you, that if you go with Plan 1, you will never get the bulk of the immigrants in the country out. You better start using your leverage while you still have it. The clock is ticking.
Of all the tone deaf positions the Dems have taken to doom their party (endless war, open borders, soft on crime), this most recent idolization of a "Maryland man" who is an illegal alien with ties to a terrorist gang and beat his wife has to rank right up there. It's almost like they are intentionally trying to ensure that they lose every election. No matter how much Trump screws up, the Dems are there to make sure that voters hate them more than the Republicans. Uncanny.
Smith,
By the DOJ's attorneys' own admission on 3/31/25, due to an "administrative error," Garcia, who has never been convicted or charged with a crime, was deported to El Salvador on 3/15/25 even though ICE was aware that it would be illegal to deport him.
Question: Why did your beloved conservative Supreme Court rule 9 - 0 that Trump must facilitate Garcia's return to the U.S.?
Can you prove that Garcia "has ties to a terrorist gang"?
Even if he does, wouldn't you agree that Constitutionally mandated Due Process for everyone in the U.S. (American citizen or not) protects the best of us (like you, obviously) only because it protects "the worst" of us?
Maybe you Now want delete (sic) the above? Facts are Facts.
Maybe you Now want delete the above? Facts are Facts.
Smith,
By the DOJ's attorneys' own admission on 3/31/25, due to an "administrative error," Garcia, who has never been convicted or charged with a crime, was deported to El Salvador on 3/15/25 even though ICE was aware that it would be illegal to deport him.
Question: Why did your beloved conservative Supreme Court rule 9 - 0 that Trump must facilitate Garcia's return to the U.S.?
Can you prove that Garcia "has ties to a terrorist gang"?
Even if he does, wouldn't you agree that Constitutionally mandated Due Process for everyone in the U.S. (American citizen or not) protects the best of us (like you, obviously) only because it protects "the worst" of us?
The facts are that he is an illegal alien who beat his wife/girlfriend. That alone is grounds to send him packing. The gang ties are just a cherry on top. It's amazing to me that a criminal like this gets so much attention and sympathy from leftists while the American citizens who were beaten, raped, and killed are never mentioned. No wonder Trump and the Republicans are winning all the elections. This dirt bag is a citizen of El Salvador. He is in El Salvador. He is not our problem. Why don't you fly down there and console him.
Smith,
Why don't you stop shilling for "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin?
Warning to MAGA. Congress is within days of passing a big tax cuts for the billionaires. Once this happens, your last chance to hold the administrations feet to fire is gone. Better call you congressmen and tell them you do not want the big tax cuts for billionaires until the Trump administration shows it is serious about deporting the bulk of the immigrants, or at least starts to match the rate the Biden administration was able to deport immigrants. If I were you, I would not settle for less than 50,000 per week, the rate needed to deport 10,000,000 in four years.
What are you going to do once the big tax cuts passes Congress and is signed by Trump. How are you going to compel Trump to start the large deportations that you guys want so badly?
Of course the tax cuts are for everyone with an income. I realize that excludes many leftists but get it right. Billionaires have lost more money in the market in the last two weeks than anyone. Why? So the manufacturing jobs that Clinton sent overseas can return to the working class. Again, did I miss the leftist plan to pay off the $38 trillion and counting debt that will bankrupt Social Security in the next few years? WHAT IS THE PLAN? To "knock on doors"?
Who has been hurt more, practically speaking, "in the market" over the past two weeks -- millionaires and billionaires, or 401K-holding middle-class people who are nearing retirement age?
D'oh
You guys continually talk like the working population ALL have 401K's. That's BS: It's roughly 1/2 the working public in the USA. This is Fake News/Echo Chamber material. Like that "family man" turning out to be an MS-13 Gang Banger.
That’s an interesting conspiracy theory by Tom.
Who has been hurt more, practically speaking, "in the market" over the past two weeks -- millionaires and billionaires, or 401K-holding middle-class people who are nearing retirement age?
D'oh
Billionaires. LOL. By a lot. Here is a sample.
Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO
Lost in 2025: $132 billion
Larry Ellison, co-founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle
Lost in 2025: $23.2 billion
Jeff Bezos, founder and chairman of Amazon
Lost in 2025: $22.5 billion
Jensen Huang, co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia
Lost in 2025: $20.3 billion
Michael Dell, founder, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
Lost in 2025: $20.1 billion
Larry Page, co-founder of Google
Lost in 2025: $17.8 billion
Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of Binance
Lost in 2025: $17.7 billion
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Lost in 2025: $16.6 billion
Mike Sabel, co-founder, co-chairman and CEO of Venture Global LNG
Lost in 2025: $15.8 billion
Bob Pender, co-founder and co-chairman of Venture Global LNG
Lost in 2025: $15.8 billion
I'm sobbing uncontrollably.
Will they have to sell their yachts?
Move the goal posts much?
Shill much for The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx) and Vladimir Putin, Smith?
Of all the tone deaf positions the Dems have taken to doom their party (endless war, open borders, soft on crime), this most recent idolization of a "Maryland man" who is an illegal alien with ties to a terrorist gang and beat his wife has to rank right up there.
What is the leftist alternative plan to address the $38 trillion and growing debt,
unfair trade practices,
and tens of millions of illegal aliens who were allowed to enter the country on their watch as part of their agenda.
Why don't you take the illegal alien wife beater into your home and give him sanctuary like Quasimodo? You can both take turns ringing the bell.
Billionaire don't lose a thing in the big picture. The market always comes back.
These tycoons have the resources to buy more stock at fire sale prices.
How is it shilling for Trump to point how much money that billionaires have lost this year?
Billionaire don't lose a thing in the big picture. The market always comes back.
These tycoons have the resources to buy more stock at fire sale prices.
Meanwhile, "average Joe" has no additional resources and is probably in a corporate controlled 401K that cannot be touched without penalty.
The billionaires suck up the money of any little investor that could never get back in.
Have they lost their yachts?
Billionaires have lost tens of billions in the stock market in the last three months. If that means they "don't lose a thing" then when Trump cuts taxes for everyone, you should say that billionaires "don't gain a thing." Applying a desired narrative to any outcome to cast Trump in the worst possible light even when the narratives are inconsistent doesn't make any sense. It simply means that you hate Trump to such an extent that you can no longer apply logic and common sense to any issue. You have become radicalized by leftist propaganda.
The Dem's defending this Dirt Bag Gang Banger is exactly why they just got blown out in the POTUS Election This guy ain't nothing like Jason Statham "The Transporter" (2002) with his transporting of Illegal Aliens from Tenn to Maryland. TDS has the Dem's doing stupid stuff that continues eroding support that they could always count on dating back to FDR. Men In Women's Sports is another Losing Issue that they continue heralding as their Party circles the drain.
- you make up your own BS: - Who said anything about the last 3 months alone?
- I said BIG Picture - they have the resources to BUY more- the market comes back.
"BE COOL!" because "Everything is going to work out well," "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! - DJT"
Thumb1: You're in a f-n cult.
Who said anything about the last three months? LOL. Are you serious? That's the timeframe that Trump has been president. We are talking about Trump? Right? During that timeframe billionaires have lost big time in an effort to restore manufacturing jobs to the working class. Jobs sent overseas by Democrats like Clinton and Obama. All this is ignored because it does not fit the false narrative that Trump's policies only benefit billionaires. What is the Dem plan to restore jobs and reduce the $38 trillion in debt run up with endless wars, corruption and waste. Lay it out for us instead of obsessing on Trump.
Who said anything about the last three months? LOL. Are you serious? That's the timeframe that Trump has been president. We are talking about Trump? Right? During that timeframe billionaires have lost big time in an effort to restore manufacturing jobs to the working class. Jobs sent overseas by Democrats like Clinton and Obama. All this is ignored because it does not fit the false narrative that Trump's policies only benefit billionaires. What is the Dem plan to restore jobs and reduce the $38 trillion in debt run up with endless wars, corruption and waste. Lay it out for us instead of obsessing on Trump.
:D You make stuff up and then argue it.
Run from the narrative when confronted with facts that you don't like.
what narrative? what facts?
This illegal alien did not beat his wife/girlfriend? The level of radicalization is frightening when they begin to deny uncontested facts to preserve a narrative.
A great example of TDS.
what narrative? what facts?
Millionaires make money in a down market. Little guy loses.
Orange Jesus in 2007:
“People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I’m excited if it is,”
“I’ve always made more money in bad markets than in good markets.”
The U.S Senate is a Millionaire's Club. This includes Bernie and his 3 Mansions. That guy talking about Oligarch's insults the intelligence of the audience.
The Biden administration simply ignored the immigration laws and opened the border to anyone who wanted to enter.
Is it even in dispute that Slow Joe opened the USA Border? I mean, the guy was even flying them in on the taxpayer's dime.
Where from, Storing?
Stop trying to pull my chain. If you are unaware of this program, you've DQ'd yourself from further discussion of this subject.
We 1st heard about the program AFTER 35,000 had already flown into the USA. The number is currently estimated at somewhere around 50K. Define GROK. EXACTLY What is this alleged vetting process? Lotta BS: in there. Like, "program reducing border crisis"? How about just shutting down the illegal border crossings like Trump did within his 1st 30 days? So they pay for their flights? Even if they did pay it would only be 1 way. These flights are reminiscent of the Obama Midnight Flights of plastic wrapped pallets of cash of assorted currencies.
I thought leftists told us to "believe the woman." Now it is "ignore the wife." LOL. And when she files a request for a protection order indicating that she was beaten until she bled, that is for some reason ignored because she had been in another abusive relationship. Way to protect the rights of women! And suddenly leftists are strict adherents to the immigration laws. Every one of the 10-15 million illegal aliens that Old Joe let into the country must be given their day in court. That would only take a thousand years. And what "due process" was followed to allow them to enter the country in violation of federal immigration laws? None. The Biden administration simply ignored the immigration laws and opened the border to anyone who wanted to enter.
Are you a human trafficker?
The USA is the Largest Consumer Nation in the World. China has to have access to the USA Market. Very simple and Trump knows it/uses it.
Sorry you are not a big a fan of the Constitution. Everyone in the country, immigrant or otherwise, must have due process. Otherwise, ICE could seize me, declare that I am an illegal immigrant and fly me out of the country, just because I am taking part in Tesla Takedown Protests. Even though I am white and I, my parents, all four of my grandparents and five out of eight great grandparents were born in America.
I want due process for myself. I don't want ICE to determine if I am an American or not. I want a judge to decide that. If immigrants are not given due process, due process can be taken away from all of us the government does not like.
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And if all MAGA men who have had the police called on them because of domestic violence are flown to El Salvador then I will drop my protest about Garcia. Why should this standard only be allied to Garcia? And if this Garcia can be used against Garcia then it can be used to deport anyone, with or without a domestic violence record, with or without native birth in America status, at the whim of ICE. If Garcia should be deported, let it be determined by a judge.
Question for Richard Smith and Royell Storing
I am a 70 year old male with white hair and green eyes. In my youth I had dark blonde hair. I was born in the U. S. and both parents, four of four grandparents and five of eight great grandparents were born in the U. S. And back about eight (?) generations ago lived a Joseph Elliott in Western Massachusetts in 1775 who I am descended from.
Question:
Can ICE seize me, determine that I am an illegal immigrant and fly me off to a prison in El Salvador?
Or do I have to be given due process, appear in court, have a chance to present my birth certificate and passport, and have a judge determine if I am an illegal immigrant or not?
If your answer is, an illegal immigrant or a legal immigrant (like Garcia) can be seized but a true American citizen can not, what is to prevent ICE from seizing me at a Tesla Takedown Protest rally, dishonestly declare that they believe that I am an illegal immigrant, and fly me to an El Salvador prison, beyond the reach of any American court?
Question:
If I don't stand up for Abrego Garcia, who will stand up for me?
Not Richard Smith or Royell Storing, I suspect.
Democracy is still alive in America. The government is still, to a certain extent, beholden to the people. China, in contrast, is not. China can chose a hard course for its people and make it stick.
So, what if the U.S. decided to drop its high tariff against China but China does not decide to drop its high tariff against the U. S. After all, China can still sell to the rest of the world with no tariffs and if hardships befall the Chinese people, it doesn't matter. Then China says it will get rid of the tariffs, when China invades Taiwan and the U. S. Navy steps aside. If that were to happen, Taiwan would have no chance.
Question: What will Trump do if this happens and the only way to have any kind of control over Congress after January 2027 is if he gives in the China's demands? And that he might get impeached in the Democrats win huge in November 2026 and the remaining Republicans are done with him. What would Trump do?
Such a stupid but predictable response. The individual sent to El Salvador was not a US citizen. He was an illegal alien who beat his wife. He had ties to violent, terrorist gangs with a deportation order. You think a law-abiding US citizen is at similar risk of deportation? LOL. That just shows a lack of seriousness and profound brainwashing. No American wants violent illegal criminals to be in this country. If that is your message to voters, be prepared for decades of election landslides. How about displaying the American flag instead of that of a foreign country?
President Donald Trump said on Monday he wants to deport some violent criminals who are U.S. citizens to Salvadoran prisons, a move that experts said would violate U.S. law.
Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-wants-deport-some-us-citizens-el-salvador-2025-04-14/
Trump said he would deport American citizens to El Salvador. Clearly intended to cower us. But I am still showing up at protests.
So Trump can have me seized by the police and declare me to be a violent criminal and fly me to El Salvador. Or if they wouldn't do that, ICE could seize me, declare that I am clearly an illegal alien and fly me to EL Salvador. But I and others will continue to protest.
I will display the American flag when we have a proper President again.
Yeah, these guys are inside the Echo Chamber so much, they start thinking what they hear in there 24/7 is being said by Trump. Brainwashed = TDS
How ironic, coming from a brainwashed by sixty-six years of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," and "mole"-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations MAGAT.
*Today's SVR and FSB
With the godlike powers that you seem to attribute to the KGB, enquiring minds wonder why the USSR fell apart and Russia has been pretty much of a clown show ever since? My wife lived in the USSR from 1954 until it's collapse and then in the Soviet-style Republic of Belarus until 2008, so she does know whereof she speaks. She joined me just as Obama was elected. Especially under Joe and Kamala, her most frequent refrain was "My God, this is just like the Soviet Union! This is exactly what they did!" She was an almost embarrassingly enthusiastic Trump supporter and remains enthusiastic except for his abandonment of Ukraine. All of these meta-narratives that attempt to explain 60+ years of U.S. history in terms of some simplistic cause like KGB manipulation strike me as unrealistic and, to borrow your characterization of me, as "naive."
This just showed up on my Facebook feed:
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There is a lot of stuff on Facebook that I don’t believe is true. But this one just might be. If so, then just wow!
The Drug Cartels backed by China have very long tentacles stretching far outside of Mexico. This is No different than Capone having Judges right on down to mere Flat Foots on his payroll. Just on a far larger scale. "10% for THE BIG GUY" continues being proven to be much truer than some of you thought. This is No Joke and Trump needs to Triple his Security.
It's hard to believe that in the US that leftist judges are not only undermining democracy in their rulings but actively engaging in criminal conduct to assist illegal alien criminals in evading a lawful arrest order. Hopefully this judge is subject to the full force of the law. A disgrace.
This kind of conduct by judges is right in line with, "10% for the Big Guy". They do Not put themselves at risk for nothing.
Well, another week has gone by and another week without 50,000 immigrants being deported. Each week, fewer immigrants are being deported as they were under Biden.
When do people think this administration bought by the billionaires is going to start doing this? Will they allow hurting certain industries to be hurt?
In the meantime, I notice many of the items I buy are not on the shelf. It will get worse in the coming weeks.
Let me get this one straight. Old Joe and the Dems let in 20 million unknown people including many criminals in violation of the immigration laws. Trump is attempting to deport them but the Dems are fighting him in the courts and press. Tying everything up. And this mess is Trump's fault? LOL. There no items not on shelves. That is propaganda. The tariffs have hardly even taken effect.
To date, the shelves at the stores I buy from have been fully stocked. I wouldn't know about there being a shortage of Benz's, caviar, $300 Air Jordan's, etc. Places that stock that stuff has never been my bailiwick dating back to my very 1st paycheck. I did get a good buy on a dozen Rawlings Baseballs down at Jimmy John's the other day. My Little League Team will put those baby's to the test at practice tomorrow. The "real" stuff we all need is in abundance. This, despite whatever you might hear from the Fake Newser's. (Those same people that covered up Biden being, "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs"). Just try to remember that the USA is the Largest Consumer Market in the World. They need access to the USA market far more than we need access to theirs. It's simple "math" that there is a serious shortage of here inside the USA.
I don't get the "Get Trump" stuff at this point. He's a lame duck. All they are doing is energizing Trump. He feeds off of their BS: And if the Dem's somehow impeach Trump, they get JD Vance. Which would jump start his POTUS Campaign. They are totally screwed for a full 4yrs. And horror of horrors, suppose Trump gets to appoint another US Supreme Court Justice or 2 within these next 4 yrs? He needs to triple his Private Security. The SS can Not be counted on.
TDS is a very real thing. It is a product of a decade establishment state and media propaganda. The establishment has tried every trick in the book to stop Trump. Many people have been mentally affected by this brainwashing campaign. They have become completely unhinged about Trump. Their sole objective in life appears to be to criticize Trump. An obsession.
Smith,
You and Storing are so full of high-fructose beans, I can smell you from here.
What a fantastic rebuttal. Putin must be proud.He's particularly proud of you, Royell "Pain" Storing, Jimmy "I Never Met a Communist I Didn't Adore / Tulsi and Trump Are Gonna Release the Files!!!" DiEugenio, Oliver "Comrade" Stone, Roger "Der [fill in der blank]" Stone, Harley "Never Did Ride One" Schlanger, Sean "For the Life Of Me I Can't Tell The Truth!!!" Hannity, Michael "QANON" Flynn, Jefferson "I Hate The CIA" Morley, Tucker "The You-Know-What" Carlson, and [fill in the blank], et al. ad nauseam, Smith.
Where were you cry babies when Crazy Joe had the Supply Chain tied inna knot? And inflation was through the roof? Oh yeah, You were claiming it was "transitory". BS: Thus far, all shelves are extremely well stocked. And the stock market is recovering very nicely, day after day. As it always does. Get over it. YOU Lost!
Empty shelves are coming. The ships that should be entering our ports have not arrived and are not even at sea. And some items that I buy have disappeared. Maybe unrelated to the tariffs. But the shortages are coming.
Republicans in Congress dare not take action. They are waiting for the full effects of the tariffs to hit him, causing the e American people to turn against Trump. When this happens, Congress will take tariff power away from Trump and exercise it themselves. And the Republican voters will not punish them for it in 2026.
There is a great joke circulating through Germany now.
Question: What borders on stupidity?
Answer: Canada and Mexico.
Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humor.
Living in Northern Washington state, I am one of the few Americans who can honestly say that I still border on sanity.
In the spirit of compromise, why can't we call the 'Gulf of Mexico' the 'Gulf of Stupidity'.
So much hate for America. You think Americans are "stupid"? Why don't you move to Canada? What a great political agenda for the upcoming elections. Telling Americans they are stupid. You can add that to open borders, allowing men to play in women's sports, reading hardcore gay themed books to elementary school kids. A real winning agenda. I bet if you "knock on some doors" you will only lose in a minor landslide.
Such a stupid but predictable response. The individual sent to El Salvador was not a US citizen. He was an illegal alien who beat his wife. He had ties to violent, terrorist gangs with a deportation order.
With the godlike powers that you seem to attribute to the KGB, enquiring minds wonder why the USSR fell apart and Russia has been pretty much of a clown show ever since? My wife lived in the USSR from 1954 until it's collapse and then in the Soviet-style Republic of Belarus until 2008, so she does know whereof she speaks. She joined me just as Obama was elected. Especially under Joe and Kamala, her most frequent refrain was "My God, this is just like the Soviet Union! This is exactly what they did!" She was an almost embarrassingly enthusiastic Trump supporter and remains enthusiastic except for his abandonment of Ukraine. All of these meta-narratives that attempt to explain 60+ years of U.S. history in terms of some simplistic cause like KGB manipulation strike me as unrealistic and, to borrow your characterization of me, as "naive."
Is the coming cratering of the American economy being caused by the stupidity of one man? No. It is being caused by the stupidity of 77,000,000 million, who did not listen to the 75,000,000. So it is not an absolute certainty that we will start turning the corner in 2029.
So what's the problem with "reciprocal trade"? The opposition to it is once again a symptom of TDS. Another TDS symptom would be supporting a gang banging, human trafficking, wife beating, illegal alien.
Many Trump haters want the US to fail because they have been brainwashed by propaganda. They hate Trump more than China. More than anything. Their sole objective in life is to hate Trump and hope for his failure even if they stand to be harmed by that failure. It's hard to believe that US citizens are pulling against their own self-interest. The level of radicalization is scary.
He was in the country legally. The orange idiot thought that he has "MS13" tattooed on his knuckles because somebody showed him a photoshopped picture. You believe it because you're a cult member of the orange idiot.
Besides, a restraining order is not grounds for deportation or imprisonment. But since when have you ever cared about due process?
The "MS13" on the knuckles issue could have easily been cleared up if that Dem. Senator that went over there had just asked this "Maryland Dad" about it. That Senator's silence on this MS13 Knuckle Issue speaks volumes.
The "MS13" on the knuckles issue could have easily been cleared up if that Dem. Senator that went over there had just asked this "Maryland Dad" about it. That Senator's silence on this MS13 Knuckle Issue speaks volumes.
The audio of his wife's description of the many beatings and assaults this animal put on her is brutal. Imagine the political strategy of all hands on deck for a vicious, wife-beating, illegal human trafficker.
Smith,
Did "The Deep State" force her to cancel the restraining order?
Many victims of domestic abuse refuse to cooperate with the authorities. Often because they are in fear. It does amuse me, though, how leftists pivot when the narrative doesn't suit them. I thought we were "supposed to believe" the woman no matter the circumstances? The Dems repeat that mantra whenever they don't like the person involved. When it comes to an illegal alien, they suddenly are going all out to defend him. Music to my ears. Keep that up and the leftists will never win another election in my lifetime. Doubling down on the agenda that doomed them in 2024.
Whether she canceled the restraining order is immaterial. It's the audio recording of her detailing everything this guy did to her that sinks the Dems. Plus, this woman has a daughter. And then that cop cam of his trafficking those illegal aliens further sinks the Dems.
I don't like our Not knowing anything about HER. Where and How did she get together with this gang banging, human trafficking, "wife?" beater. Is she a citizen, are they technically married, is the daughter his, (if not where is her Dad), etc? Everything we still do Not know about her makes me believe there is a Huge piece to this puzzle that would blow it wide open and make the Dem's look even far worse. Something is there off in the distance.
She is playing the leftist mob for all she is worth. TDS is her golden ticket. If she wants to rejoin her loving husband, all she has to do is fly to El Salvador where he is a citizen and petition the courts there for his release as an innocent victim.
I have never heard it mentioned that the alleged "Wife" is an American Citizen. That's why I wonder about the father of the girl. There's probably a lot more to this that reflects even more poorly on the immigration policies of the U.S. The Fact we hear extremely little definitively about the Wife says much. Especially with the Brother/Sister farce ongoing.
The stock market is coming back. As the trade deals are cut in the coming weeks, it's going to sky rocket. Fair trade deals, bringing jobs back to the US, investment in American factories. So much disappointment from socialists that China isn't going to win the trade war. Fentanyl reduction is also likely to be on the table. Saving countless lives that would have been lost from Biden's open borders. Magnificent. No end to the winning.
Many victims of domestic abuse refuse to cooperate with the authorities. Often because they are in fear. It does amuse me, though, how leftists pivot when the narrative doesn't suit them. I thought we were "supposed to believe" the woman no matter the circumstances? The Dems repeat that mantra whenever they don't like the person involved. When it comes to an illegal alien, they suddenly are going all out to defend him. Music to my ears. Keep that up and the leftists will never win another election in my lifetime. Doubling down on the agenda that doomed them in 2024.
If Trump pulls off this trade deal with China, it will be fantastic. The leftists and Trump haters will cry a river of salty tears that instead of empty shelves there will be untold prosperity. They so desperately wanted Trump to fail even if it meant suffering for their fellow American. All they care about is some wife beating illegal alien and men playing in women's sports. Good luck that. Meanwhile, "Happy day are here again"! U-S-A, U-S-A.
I was born and raised in So Cal, and what they have done to Calif. over the last 20 yrs is an absolute disgrace. They don't even make movies there anymore. The only thing Growing in that state is Mary Jane and the Homeless Population.
I'm not extremely political, but as someone who has at least observed the country for 75 years I firmly believe the country, for far longer than any Biden-Trump controversy, has been steered toward oblivion via the proverbial "long march through the institutions" of Marxist ideology. Trump inherited a country that was literally on the brink of nonexistence, at least as those of us who lived from 1950 (or earlier) to 1990 knew it. I believe he sincerely thinks, and rightly, that he has a very limited amount of time to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg. Hence, decisions with potentially vast consequences are being made far more quickly than they would have been in 1950, 1960 or 1970. It can indeed be disorienting. I don't believe for one minute there is any agenda other than to "Make America Great Again" in the sense of what the term "America" meant to me and people like me from 1950 to 1990. Is that a whiter, more conservative, more Judeo-Christian nation than many today would prefer? Well, yes, it is - but that doesn't mean an inevitably racist, intolerant, bigoted nation either. In the view of Trump and his supporters, the term "America" at least has some meaning; if the Marxist long march through the institutions were to prevail, the term "America" would eventually mean nothing at all. I do see it as a civil war that someone has to win and someone has to lose; the Pelosis, Kamalas, Shumers, AOCs, et al., are simply attempting to eradicate all that has made America what it has always been, and I frankly don't care what measures Trump has to take to bring their efforts to a screeching halt.
Wow, that was pretty good! One more Guinness Stout and I'll start preaching!
I wholeheartedly agree except perhaps replacing "Marxist ideology" with "Establishment ideology". American politicians just pick one of two establishment ideologies and ride it to the bank. Spending money to stay in power and enriching themselves. Repeat endlessly.
I'm not extremely political, but as someone who has at least observed the country for 75 years I firmly believe the country, for far longer than any Biden-Trump controversy, has been steered toward oblivion via the proverbial "long march through the institutions" of Marxist ideology. Trump inherited a country that was literally on the brink of nonexistence, at least as those of us who lived from 1950 (or earlier) to 1990 knew it. I believe he sincerely thinks, and rightly, that he has a very limited amount of time to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg. Hence, decisions with potentially vast consequences are being made far more quickly than they would have been in 1950, 1960 or 1970. It can indeed be disorienting. I don't believe for one minute there is any agenda other than to "Make America Great Again" in the sense of what the term "America" meant to me and people like me from 1950 to 1990. Is that a whiter, more conservative, more Judeo-Christian nation than many today would prefer? Well, yes, it is - but that doesn't mean an inevitably racist, intolerant, bigoted nation either. In the view of Trump and his supporters, the term "America" at least has some meaning; if the Marxist long march through the institutions were to prevail, the term "America" would eventually mean nothing at all. I do see it as a civil war that someone has to win and someone has to lose; the Pelosis, Kamalas, Shumers, AOCs, et al., are simply attempting to eradicate all that has made America what it has always been, and I frankly don't care what measures Trump has to take to bring their efforts to a screeching halt.
Wow, that was pretty good! One more Guinness Stout and I'll start preaching!
Dear Lance,
I'm guessing that one of your favorite authors is Ayn Rand.
Am I right?
Regardless, here's a news flash for you:
Your apparent savior-on-earth, Russian Mafia-mobbed-up-and-compromised Donald Trump, the most corrupt president we've ever had (read Craig Unger's books on him), wouldn't have become our "President" in 2017 and 2025 without the machinations of people like Roger Stone, Harley Schlanger, Julian Assange, Steve "I'm a Leninist" Bannon, Paul Manafort, Konstantin Kilimnik, Oleg Deripaska, and Bill Barr, and the sixty-six years of Sun Tzu-like disinformation, "active measures," and (until at least 2001) mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations that the KGB has been waging against us and our NATO allies since 1959. This concerted attack on us by the USSR / Russia (and China!!!) has weakened our own intelligence services and made our body politic cynical, apathetic, and therefore super-vulnerable to the pro-Russia / anti-Ukraine disinfo that's being communicated to us via the likes of Fox News, OANN, and NewsMax.
Gag me with a SVR / FBI spoon, Mr. Payette.
-- Tom
What I don't understand is this McCarthy-esque "Russkie mania" of those like Tom.
Geez, if the KGB (sorry *SVR and FSB) has all the superpowers that Tom attributes to them, I almost hope he's right - Trump and the KGB (sorry *SVR and FSB) together should clean up this mess we call a country even quicker than I had anticipated! I already speak about 900 words of Russian, so me and missus will be OK. Does Putin play golf, I wonder?
Oh, The Donald's golf nonsense is legendary. I just read an article where he won his club's championship for the umpteenth time, and none of the other players recalled him even being there. Another time, the tournament was on a weekend, and he simply posted a score he'd shot on Thursday and demanded it be used. Another time, he claimed a 67; 144 professionals played the course in a tournament the same week, and there were only five 67s.
On the other hand, he can clearly hit a golf ball, damn well for someone his age. Here he is with Bryson DeChambeau:
Dear Lance,
Some people say you can judge a man's character (or lack thereof) by how honorably they play a game (or whether or not they pay the people who work for them the amount they owe them, etc), you know, playing by the rules, that sort of thing.
Evidently, you don't.
Which, if true, ironically reflects poorly on your self-professed "real-deal Christianity."
Makes you sound like a charlatan, actually.
Hmm. Nothing worse than a naive, incredibly ignorant charlatan, IMHO.
Three strikes against you, if you know what I mean.
But wait . . . maybe you just don't believe in "judging" other people!!!
"Drop THE BIG ONE, and let God sort it out"?
-- Tom
Oh, poor humorless Tom.
Golf is known as "the only sport where, if you actually play by the rules, you will get a reputation for being a bad sport and no one will want to play with you." Virtually everyone, including me and my golf buddies, play by "the rules as we think they should be" as opposed to the Draconian nightmares they actually are. Did you know that it's far better to WHIFF THE BALL COMPLETELY than to hit it 347 yards but 2" out of bounds? Draconian, I tell you. Like much else about The Donald, I find his over-the-top cheating at golf really kind of endearing.
"Naive, incredibly ignorant charlatan"? Golly, Tom is getting kind of nasty, even by the standards of internet forums. However, I like it! I'm going to have some letterhead and calling cards printed up: Brother Lance, Real-Deal Christian but Naive and Incredibly Ignorant Charlatan.
A magnificent week for Trump. The stock market is roaring, inflation is dropping, job numbers are good, progress on the wars and with Iran. He was treated with the full respect deserving the President of the United States on his trip to the Middle East where he cut deal after deal. What a contrast with how they treated Old Joe. Things are coming together. Once the China deal is signed, the sky is the limit.
A magnificent week for Trump. The stock market is roaring, inflation is dropping, job numbers are good, progress on the wars and with Iran. He was treated with the full respect deserving the President of the United States on his trip to the Middle East where he cut deal after deal. What a contrast with how they treated Old Joe. Things are coming together. Once the China deal is signed, the sky is the limit.
I'm Not a stock market guy, but it has been UP 3 weeks running. Somehow the Fake News has missed this.
I'm Not a stock market guy, but it has been UP 3 weeks running. Somehow the Fake News has missed this. And that audio recording of Biden being interviewed by the Feds concerning the Documents he had laying around his garage is HORRIFIC. That guy was running this country? Elmer Fudd comes off as Einstein compared to Biden.
The cover up of Old Joe's physical and mental decline during his presidency is looking worse and worse. In all likelihood, they have known that he had cancer for a long while. The leftists don't want to talk about it. They suggested it was a conspiracy theory to claim Biden was not fit to be president. Now crickets.
The unraveling of all the lies and coverups during COVID and the Biden administration is unreal. The hypocrisy of the media like CNN now criticizing the cover up of Biden's mental decline when they routinely shutdown any discussion of it and even claimed it was the product of deepfakes is astounding. The untold harm done during that four years may take decades to undo. We don't even know who was making the decisions and using the autopen.
Another magnificent day for Trump and America with the passage of the "big, beautiful bill" in the House. Peace and prosperity is in the works after the disastrous Biden administration left the country and much of the world in ruin. It will take years to fix all the harm, but things are moving in the right direction.
The unraveling of all the lies and coverups during COVID and the Biden administration is unreal. The hypocrisy of the media like CNN now criticizing the cover up of Biden's mental decline when they routinely shutdown any discussion of it and even claimed it was the product of deepfakes is astounding. The untold harm done during that four years may take decades to undo. We don't even know who was making the decisions and using the autopen.
Obviously, China Joe was nothing more than a, "Weekend At Bernie's " Prop, with a "shadow govt" actually running the USA. Those that would do this, would also Fix an Election in order to put them in place to do such. This is connected.
I don't think they were smart enough to "fix an election" if by that you mean somehow manipulating the vote totals with fake votes. These are not particularly bright people who were known for getting things done. I do think they used COVID as a pretext to change the election laws in a way that changed the outcome. Imagine if Trump and the Republicans had changed the elections is the weeks just before the election in such a way that statistical changed the outcome. There would have been justified outcries that the election was unfair. Trump would have won the 2020 election by the same margin that he won in 2024.
Disagree. You're underestimating an opponent. This is why Trump embraced Musk. Musk's SpaceX computer nerds prevented this same chicanery in 2024. You mention "fake" votes. SWITCHING votes from 1 candidate to the other are Not "Fake" votes. And a SWITCHED Vote is actually a 2 vote switch in the vote count.
I don't buy that the Biden crowd was that smart and there is no evidence of such. The difference in the 2020 election was a statistical outlier in total votes. Both candidates received more votes than any other candidate in American history. A situation that was not repeated in 2024 when it returned to more normal numbers absent the COVID laws. More total votes can't be explained as a product of votes being switched. It is explained by vote harvesting which means that someone registered and basically voted on behalf of groups that usually do not turn out in large numbers like students and minorities. That increased the total vote and made the difference.
Like I said, Musk was brought on board to prevent a repeat of the 2020 Election BS: Hence, Trump gets 3 MILLION MORE VOTES in the 2024 election even though the turnout was Down vs the 2020 voter turnout. Trump's 3 Million Vote increase was Not New Votes. He always had the overwhelming majority of those 3 million votes/voters. Trump actually won the 2020 election in a Landslide. Don't be naive. Never forget how Trump's overwhelming vote lead in ALL the swing states switched in the early morning hours the following day. You label this as merely being an "outlier"? That's the same kind of nebulous verbiage that would make Tammany Hall proud. "Outlier" is right up there with "Human Error". Any "group" that would hide the fact that the sitting POTUS was an Egg Plant, would also "FIX" an election. This is consistent conduct in order to maintain power.
Illegal border crossings are down 90% from last year. So much for another leftist hoax that there was nothing they could do to stop the crossings without new legislation.
Trump just told the West Point graduates to avoid marrying trophy wives. Just the sort of advice new young officers need to hear when joining the military. But, it was his only statement where he spoke from the heart, based on personal experience.
Trump just told the West Point graduates to avoid marrying trophy wives. Just the sort of advice new young officers need to hear when joining the military. But, it was his only statement where he spoke from the heart, based on personal experience.
What is more important? Something sarcastic like that or sending them off to fight and die in endless foreign wars like Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq? Trump is the only modern president to keep us out of these foreign conflicts.Smith,
What do you think FDR was before Pearl Harbor? He did ALL he could to keep the USA GI Joe's from actively fighting the Nazi's.
What do you think FDR was before Pearl Harbor? He did ALL he could to keep the USA GI Joe's from actively fighting the Nazi's.
You and your political lovebird, Smith, would have been "America First" isolationists even after Pearl Harbor, right?
The Ukraine war can be argued and debated from almost every angle.
I was surprised today to see that in the comments section on FOX News the sentiment has shifted from "Walk away, [Putin's invading and committing genocide in Ukraine] is not our problem" to "Nuke Russia now!" I feel sure [the nuke Russia now sentiment being expressed on my favorite MAGAT "news" channel] has something to do with Tennent H. Bagley, Bruce Leonard Solie and that KGB mole thing.
Appreciate your acknowledging your history pothole. Pearl Harbor does destroy your pointless point. Bone up or bow out.
Yes, I was surprised in some recent reading at the extent to which the US entry into both WW1 and WW2 was highly unpopular with large numbers of Americans. There was widespread speculation that Pearl Harbor was known about with enough advance warning to stop it but that it was allowed to occur to jolt the public out of its isolationist apathy.
There is some happy medium between the isolationist fantasy and the fantasy that the US can be the entire free world's military, policeman and peacekeeper. The Ukraine war can be argued and debated from almost every angle.
I was surprised today to see that in the comments section on FOX News the sentiment has shifted from "Walk away, it's not our problem" to "Nuke Russia now!" It was really quite dramatic. I'm having a difficult time understanding what Putin gains by forcing Trump's hand as he seems to be doing.
I feel sure it has something to do with Tennent Bagley, Bruce Solie and that KGB mole thing ... ::) ::)
Zelenskyy has the cards.
And Putin has the military. My primary objection with the Biden administration was the complete lack of ANY effort to find a settlement but instead mire the US down in another endless regional conflict. Trump has mad efforts to the end the war. Arguably, he has put a good deal on the table for Russia. And they still refuse to deescalate. Under those circumstances, I have no objection to the US providing Ukraine with weapons.
"10% for the Big Guy" with respect to weapon sales and the needed replenishment. And 10% coming from the Mexican Cartels/China. The Biden Crime Family is no stranger to drug transactions.
Storing,
Why wasn't Joe Biden indicted, tried, and convicted?
Regardless, what do you think of the Trump family?
Pure as the driven snow?
Did you somehow miss the DOJ Investigation regarding the Top Secret Documents inside Joe Biden's garage? The audio tapes of his "interview"? The DOJ conclusion?
Storing,
Why wasn't Joe Biden indicted, tried, and convicted?
Regardless, what do you think of the Trump family?
Pure as the driven snow?
We were told that he was too senile to indict by the DOJ. They concluded that his mental state had declined to such a low point that no one would hold him accountable for his actions.
Is that what your buddy Vladimir Putin told you, Smith?
No, it is exactly what the DOJ attorney who interviewed him said.
"President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen," including "marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Mr. Biden's handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy" which the government "recovered ... from the garage, offices, and basement den in ... Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home."
"At trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," the prosecutors wrote.
You have no idea what Slow Joe did or didn't do. He probably doesn't either now.
Smith,
Question: Did Joe Biden voluntarily return all of the documents he had taken?
Answer: Yes, he did.
What about The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx)? Did he voluntarily return all of the classified documents he had taken?
Answer: No, he didn't.
In fact, Special Counsel Robert Hur (a Republican!!!), whom you quoted above, said in so many words that Trump had not only refused to return the documents he had taken, but had "obstructed justice" in his attempt to keep them.
LOL!
By "voluntarily" return them, do you mean that Old Joe handed them over after he was caught red handed instead of going to jail? If you rob a bank, and the police knock on your door, does returning the money mean there wasn't a crime? Trump was set up. Someone packed up his papers knowing that they included classified documents. Months later they mordaciously claim that they have knowledge of them and alert the authorities. LOL. So the same deep staters who packed up the classified documents, then later are the ones who bring it to light. If they knew they were classified when Trump left the WH, why didn't they retrieve them at that time? The case against Trump was thrown out of court. It was a fraud like all the others to damage him politically.
Smith,
Did The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx) voluntarily give back all of the classified documents he'd stolen?
False premise. The documents were not packed by Trump. The court case against him was thrown out. Riddle me this comrade, how did the NARA later conclude that classified documents were in his possession if they were packed in boxes at his home? Did they not know that when they packed the papers but suddenly had ESP months later?
Smith,
Are you saying NARA was to blame for The Traitorous Orange Bird's (rhymes with Xxxx's) absconding with oodles and gobs of classified documents?
Absolutely. This one is very simple. NARA packed the documents. They had no access to them until they claimed much later that they contained classified documents. That means they knew all along that they were putting classified documents into Trump's possession. Why didn't they pull them at the start? Because the plan all along was to put them in the boxes, transport them to Trump's home, and if there was any risk that he would run for president, they would suddenly "discover" them in his possession and charge him with a crime. A classic frame up. There is no other way to explain what happened. Trump, on the other hand, had no apparent need or desire to possess these documents. Had no clue they were in the boxes. When it first came to his attention, he fully cooperated. Then they raided his home with tactical assault teams and made a scene because the plan was to ruin him politically. After that he refused to cooperate, and the court case was dropped.
Slow Joe was VP when he came into possession of those Classified Documents that were spread all over the floor of his garage.
Storing,
I think you're confusing the floor of Biden's garage with the floor of Trump's bathroom.
You're confusing a VP with a POTUS. That's the difference.
How about getting up to speed with respect to Slow Joe and those documents? They are on the floor close to his cherished Vette.
The Trump photos were staged.
When do we get to the panties?
Smith,
You're so good at this, you really should be working as one of Putin's professional trolls.
Wait . . . . . . are you already???
Ask a question. Get a response. Run away. The endless Russia stuff was amusing at first when I thought it was a goof. Repeating it over and over makes you sound like a mental case.
Smith,
Don't you realize that The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx) started laundering money for the Russian Mafia in 1984, that four years before that he was "spotted" for compromise / recruitment by a KGB agent by the name of Kislin in Manhattan, and that three years before that the Czech StB started monitoring him while he was in Zlin to meet his new wife's KGB-connected family?
A question for Comrade Smith:
Why did the far-right, Russia-loving Lyndon Larouche organization's Harley Schlanger, shortly after returning from the December 2015 RT Dinner in Moscow, ask Douglas Caddy in early 2016 to put him in touch with Roger Stone, and why did Stone send Caddy an email later thanking him for hooking him up with Schlange and saying "We're fighting the Globalists together" and "I have a backchannel to Trump"?
This is psycho babble. You sound completely unhinged. If you think any of this nonsense is true, you need to seek mental health intervention.
Spoken like a true Russian troll or zombitized maggot I mean Trump supporter.
Are you capable of ever responding without making reference to Russia or Putin? Find a sane person whose opinion you respect. Inform them of your obsession with Russia. Ask for their assessment of your mental health.
Said film contributed to the making cynical, paranoiac, and apathetic our body politic to such an extent that "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin was able to install The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx) as our "president" in 2017 and 2025.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Hello Tom
I have been against JFK conspiracy theories because I think they are false. But there are a lot of other false theories. I argued against this theory because it does hurt Americans faith in democracy so it is a particularly dangerous conspiracy theory.
But I disagree with you on one point. I think it was the racist MAGA base that installed Trump as president in 2017 and 2025. Putin is of secondary importance. But some of MAGA like to talk about Putin's influence in order to make us think it is hopeless. It is not. But on the whole I think the same way you do.
Putin's professional St. Petersburg trolls (You've heard of the IRA, right?) whipped the Magats up, and the leaking of the DNC's and Podesta's emails by the GRU and FSB to Julian Assange (whom I believe was in cahoots with Roger Stone and Lyndon LaRouche-follower Harley Schlanger -- google stone schlanger caddy) helped Trump overcome his Access Hollywood gaffe. That's just the tip of the iceberg. I could go on and on. Would you like for me to go on and on?
No. I know Putin has done a lot to help Trump. But the primary problem is still the MAGA base which wants the immigrants all deported for racist reasons.
You seem to be hung up on the immigrant issue.
What about many MAGATs' distrusting Government in General, and the CIA and the FBI in particular?
I am hung up on the immigration issue because it is clear to me that MAGA is hung up on the immigration issue and is willing to have a fascist government that will kick out the immigrants and, being a fascist government will permanently keep them out. A democracy might change it's mind but a fascist government will not.
I never gave immigrants much though until a few years ago when MAGA became determined to get them out of the country.
Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. Immigrants. . . . . . .
I think you should start diversifying a bit.
Why don't you try "Godless Violence-Prone Drug-Dealing Socialistic Child-Sex-Trafficking Dark-Skinned Homosexual-or-Bisexual IMMIGRANTS with Abortions Who Are Causing High Inflation and High Unemployment and Covid Among Other Things"?
What do you think about Trump's now saying that we cannot deport immigrant farm workers and people who work in hotels because they are too important?
Question: Are you ok with this?
No. I know Putin has done a lot to help Trump. But the primary problem is still the MAGA base which wants the immigrants all deported for racist reasons.
I am hung up on the immigration issue because it is clear to me that MAGA is hung up on the immigration issue and is willing to have a fascist government that will kick out the immigrants and, being a fascist government will permanently keep them out. A democracy might change it's mind but a fascist government will not.
I never gave immigrants much though until a few years ago when MAGA became determined to get them out of the country.
Trump gave Iran that 60 day Tick-Tock. Once that ran out he released his pit bull on 'em. Israel!
Personally, I think that Trump knows the bunker buster bomb is not what they claim it is. Using it will expose this has been all talk with respect to this weapon. Right in line with Reagan and the "Stars Wars" back in the day. I believe that all countries exaggerate their military technology and troop numbers too. This is why Russia struggles on with Ukraine. This is also why Malaysia MH370 was not detected by any countries radar even though it was way, way off course. The big countries have the ability to destroy a good portion of the world, but the specialized stuff they claim to have is all bluff. This is why Trump is trying to get an "unconditional surrender".
Personally, I think that Trump knows the bunker buster bomb is not what they claim it is. Using it will expose this has been all talk with respect to this weapon. Right in line with Reagan and the "Stars Wars" BS: back in the day. I believe that all countries exaggerate their military technology and troop numbers too. This is why Russia struggles on with Ukraine. This is also why Malaysia MH370 was not detected by any countries radar even though it was way, way off course. The big countries have the ability to destroy a good portion of the world, but the specialized stuff they claim to have is all bluff. This is why Trump is trying to get an "unconditional surrender".
I don't know how many of those Bunker Buster Bombs they have on hand. They only had 2 A Bombs back in "45".
I’m not convinced it’s a good idea.
it seems to risk uncontrolled radioactive contamination.
Bombs are crude weapons.
Israel seems to think it’s reasonable to kill one human target by dropping a bomb that also kills lots of innocent people.
Copying that technique by blasting a nuclear facility isn’t necessarily the best way.
I think Trump is getting cold feet. Many Republicans learned the wrong lesson from George W. and his weapons of mass destruction lie that got us involved in a decades long pointless war. Now they are complete isolationists no matter the circumstances. There is merit to not getting the US involved in every foreign conflict but there are also occasions where our national interest is at stake. We don't have to invade Iran and have a decades long war. This should take a week or so. And once again, you don't see "Europe" or anyone else outside of Israel stepping up to address this threat. They are afraid and waiting for the US to deal with it.
So we should let Iran develop a nuclear weapon after they have said that their objective is to destroy the US and Israel?
This waffling by Trump is not going to impress the Iranian nutjob radical Ayatollah spombleprofglidnoctobuns ites. It’s time for Trump to put up or shut up. There are enough bunker buster bombs to do the job.
Standing by watching Israel doing all the heavy lifting and getting pummeled with Iranian missiles that could have been preemptively destroyed had the US Air Force aided the Israeli first strike, is tantamount to Jimmy Carters ineptitude in 78.
Advice to Trump from a Christian MAGA supporter: Stop listening to Alex Jones and Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson and Owen the bearded mouth, because they have revealed themselves to be extremely anti Israel hence, prove they do not heed the Biblical God warning that those who curse Israel shall themselves be cursed.
When I see that Mark Levin is getting attacked when I see Alex Jones literally becoming a propaganda mouth for the Iranian Ayatollah, suggesting the USA cannot get involved because the Mullah regime might get mad and do this and that and this might happen ..blah blah, and that Alex Jones is so much smarter than all of us dumb MAGA Christians and how DARE we criticize the great Alex Jones, Oracle of Truth…
Then I know the tree that once I thought produced good fruit has now become a rotten tree producing poisonous fruit.
This waffling by Trump is not going to impress the Iranian nutjob radical Ayatollah spombleprofglidnoctobuns ites. It’s time for Trump to put up or shut up. There are enough bunker buster bombs to do the job.
Standing by watching Israel doing all the heavy lifting and getting pummeled with Iranian missiles that could have been preemptively destroyed had the US Air Force aided the Israeli first strike, is tantamount to Jimmy Carters ineptitude in 78.
Advice to Trump from a Christian MAGA supporter: Stop listening to Alex Jones and Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson and Owen the bearded mouth, because they have revealed themselves to be extremely anti Israel hence, prove they do not heed the Biblical God warning that those who curse Israel shall themselves be cursed.
When I see that Mark Levin is getting attacked when I see Alex Jones literally becoming a propaganda mouth for the Iranian Ayatollah, suggesting the USA cannot get involved because the Mullah regime might get mad and do this and that and this might happen ..blah blah, and that Alex Jones is so much smarter than all of us dumb MAGA Christians and how DARE we criticize the great Alex Jones, Oracle of Truth…
Then I know the tree that once I thought produced good fruit has now become a rotten tree producing poisonous fruit.
Great to finally see the US settling old scores with Iran. Iran has sponsored terrorism for decades resulting in thousands of US deaths and casualties. They can never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. The people of Iran have a chance to rid themselves of these fanatics and join civilization. Thankfully the US and Israel have the backbone to carry out these missions while "Europe" once again does nothing.
Europe doesn’t have the technology, nor quite the same appetite for military action.
The Iraq war (and Afghanistan) has changed the attitudes.
Similarly Israel has lost a lot of sympathy due to the extreme action in Gaza.
I think we are more focussed on Putin.
Also we can’t quite follow Trumps logic.
He seemed quite pally with the dictator in North Korea, and what’s the plan with Greenland?
He seems too unpredictable to get too close to.
Europe was worthless in WW2. Hitler rolled across Europe and then stopped by for that photo of him in front of the Eiffel Tower. Nazi's also bombed the heck outta England. Europe has always been close to worthless when it comes to war. Truman had to drop a 2nd A Bomb to get Japan to surrender and Trump is going to have to do likewise with Iran. Terrorists are fanatics. They have to be absolutely decimated.
Europe was worthless in WW2. Hitler rolled across Europe and then stopped by for that photo of him in front of the Eiffel Tower. Nazi's also bombed the heck outta England. Europe has always been close to worthless when it comes to war. Truman had to drop a 2nd A Bomb to get Japan to surrender and Trump is going to have to do likewise with Iran. Terrorists are fanatics. They have to be absolutely decimated.
According to my Facebook feed, ABC news is reporting a ceasefire between Iran and Israel. I am hoping and praying that this is true and leads to a lasting peace in that part of the world.
They need to arrange a regime change. That guy currently running the show put out a "contract" on Trump. No way Trump should let him get away with that. Even if Trump doesn't care, future U.S. President's need to be protected. Both while in office and afterward. That guy has got to go.
You have to give them some credit for being smarter than us. After WWII we paid to rebuild their cities. For the last 70 years and counting, we have paid to defend them. They charge us for military bases that are used to defend them. Meanwhile they pay almost nothing for national defense and rely on the US to address any security issue. Meanwhile our cities are in ruin. We are overrun with homeless people. The education and health care systems are disasters but "Europe" has a utopia in that respect.
According to my Facebook feed, ABC news is reporting a ceasefire between Iran and Israel. I am hoping and praying that this is true and leads to a lasting peace in that part of the world.
The classified bipartisan briefing with Congress was cancelled because it was going to show that the attack failed because someone spilled the beans on True Social ahead of time that Iran was going to be attacked, allowing enriched Uranium and critical equipment to be removed ahead of time.
How to launch a surprise attack.
If Trump's airstrike was successful, it would own more to the stupidity of Iran that to Trump's brilliance. I think it failed due to Trump's stupidity. Giving Iran several days to move the enriched Uranium and critical equipment sets you up for failure regardless how brilliant the aircrews may be.
How could this attack fail? It was perfect. Well, accept for Trump's posts on Truth Social that the U. S. could attack, maybe should attack Iran, Their nuclear capabilities should be taken out. The people of Tehran should flee. And somehow the Iranians figured out they should move their critical enriched Uranium and equipment out before the bombers came.
The Trump administration should stop using Truth Social to communicate and go back to using Signal Chat.
Trump should get a Nobel Peace Prize for this effort.
I’m not sure they give out Peace prizes for dropping $420 million worth of bombs. :)
Where is there any EVIDENCE of, "...enriched uranium and equipment", being moved out of those bunkers that are 30+ stories under the ground? We frequently have people Demanding evidence of even 1 Grassy Knoll Shooter. The same standard should be applied here with respect to the alleged Poste-Haste Moving of "...enriched uranium and equipment" that is 30+ Stories UNDER THE GROUND.
These "journalists" need to look for other employment. I turn on CNN and that place looks like a makeshift studio at a Junior/Community College. Totally Bush League. And the "panelists" are people nobody knows who the heck they are. Wantabes looking for the exposure without any chops what-so-ever. Last I checked, their prime time viewership was just over/under 400k. And better than 1/2 of that is these airports that have them on TV's in the waiting areas. A "captive audience". CNN viewership is now Lower than the Food Network. And "The View" is now losing their morning time slot to Harris Faulkner/"The Faulkner Focus" over on Fox News Channel. And you gotta pay for Fox News vs "The View" being on ABC Network TV/FREE.
These "journalists" need to look for other employment. I turn on CNN and that place looks like a makeshift studio at a Junior/Community College. Totally Bush League. And the "panelists" are people nobody knows who the heck they are. Wantabes looking for the exposure without any chops what-so-ever. Last I checked, their prime time viewership was just over/under 400k. And better than 1/2 of that is these airports that have them on TV's in the waiting areas. A "captive audience". CNN viewership is now Lower than the Food Network. And "The View" is now losing their morning time slot to Harris Faulkner/"The Faulkner Focus" over on Fox News Channel. And you gotta pay for Fox News vs "The View" being on ABC Network TV/FREE.
They are never held accountable for their lies and conspiracy theories. They just move on to the next one after the current hoax is debunked. The Russian collusion hoax went on for three years. And there was nothing. They lied about Hunter's laptop and covered that up. They lied about the origins of COVID. They lied about COVID and forced school kids who were at no risk to suffer for years. Mask wearing was a hoax. Social distancing was nonsense. None of that made one iota of difference with COVID. The Dems and leftist media politicized COVID solely to make Trump look bad. The guy who facilitated the development of the vaccine in record time. The WWIII hoax about bombing Iran. And now this nonsense about the attack failing.
2 weeks ago, CNN Poll had Cuomo winning inna walk. CNN is pure propaganda. Everybody NOW knows it. Trump exposed that "operation". Took a while, but that place is now a Ghost Town.
What are your favorite "news" sources, Storing?
OANN?
Newsmax?
RT?
Pravda?
Alex Jones?
Fox News?
TRUTH SOCIAL?
My primary news source is Twitter(X). I don't have Fox News or OANN, or any TV news channel. I have access to Newsmax on YouTube, which I rarely make use of. I also have access to RT, which I use not much more than Newsmax.
Don't you watch, read, or listen to anything from the "woke socialist communist snowflake libtard" perspective?
I do on occasion. It's usually on Twitter(X).
Fascinating stuff, but my question was really for Royell Storing, our resident MAGAT JFKA CT.
Are you a MAGAT, too???
Your question was directed at me.Quote from: Royell Storing on Today at 12:55:31 PM
So much hatred for the US. Imagine hoping the attack failed because you hate Trump more than Iran. This was a masterpiece compared to the Carter, Obama, and Biden appeasement policy. Finally peace through strength instead of failure through weakness. Obama even sent a plane full of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash to Iran. The world's leading sponsor of terrorism. I wonder what they did with that money? LOL. Trump should get a Nobel Peace Prize for this effort. NATO is fawning over him and finally contributing some money to their own defense. Trump has shown the way through leadership and strength. The "Supreme Leader" of Iran is hiding in a cave and begging for a ceasefire. Democrats that spread fear and misinformation over this attack are crying a river because it worked.
Is this the sort of thing we can continue to expect from Trump? Warning enemies about a surprise attack?
How does Trump making posts on Truth Social about attacks on Iran improve the odds of the U. S. successfully taking out Iran's Nuclear Bomb project?
Is this the sort of thing we can continue to expect from Trump? Warning enemies about a surprise attack?
It's bizarre that you are desperately trying to turn a success into a defeat because you hate Trump.
I have yet to hear anyone in the media spell out how they can know with certainty that the Uranium can still be used or even gotten to. What device would tell anyone if the Uranium is still there, 30-35 stories under the ground? CNN doesn't know jack, and their ever declining ratings reflect that.
Without getting into what it takes to transport Uranium, where is the Proof of Uranium being transported out of there? There is NONE. I wish you would think this through instead of simply being a Mynah https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,2006.0.html
I asked for PROOF. Not somebody saying something. You ever watch "See No Evil". If you have a conga line of vehicles on video, you can visually track where they ultimately end up.
Thought you said there was a caravan transporting the Uranium out of that 30-35 story Hole?
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"The jury is still out" as to whether or not the facility was "completely obliterated" as The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx) proclaimed almost immediately, and since twelve trucks were spotted at the facility for two days, there's a lot of concern that the Iranians were able to relocate their supply of enriched uranium before the bombs started falling.
Regardless, why in the world wouldn't all informed and patriotic Americans despise the fascistic and autocrat-loving Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx)?
Reuters, June 26, 20253:05 PM PDT:
"Several experts have cautioned that Iran likely moved a stockpile of near weapons-grade highly enriched uranium out of the deeply buried Fordow site before the strikes and could be hiding it in unknown locations. They noted satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies showing "unusual activity" at Fordow on Thursday and Friday, with a long line of vehicles waiting outside an entrance to the facility. A senior Iranian source told Reuters on Sunday most of the 60% highly enriched uranium had been moved to an undisclosed location before the attack. The Financial Times, citing European intelligence assessments, reported that Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile remains largely intact since it was not concentrated at Fordow."
. . . . . . .
The New York Times:
Fate of Iran’s Enriched Uranium Is a Mystery
U.S. intelligence agencies had long assessed that, faced with the possibility of an attack on its nuclear facilities, Iran would try to move its stockpile.
Photo caption: Some of the uranium was believed to be held at the Natanz enrichment facility, seen here in 2007.
After days of debate over how severely U.S. strikes had damaged three nuclear facilities in Iran, the fate of the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium remains a bigger mystery.
Over the years, as Iran built up its underground nuclear facilities and centrifuges, it amassed a large, 880-pound stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 percent, near bomb grade.
While U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that Iran had not decided whether to make a bomb, they noted that Iran was only a few steps away from being able to turn its uranium into a weapon given the size of that stockpile.
There is little doubt that Iran’s entire nuclear program was substantially diminished by U.S. and Israeli strikes, and that it would struggle to quickly produce additional nuclear fuel.
But U.S. intelligence agencies had long assessed that, faced with the possibility of an attack on its nuclear facilities, Iran would try to move its stockpile of enriched uranium, either to keep as leverage in diplomatic negotiations or to use in a race to build a bomb.
In an interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance said U.S. officials wanted to talk to Iran about the stockpile. But on Thursday, the Trump administration pushed back on the idea that Iran had been able to move its enriched uranium before the U.S. strike.
President Trump suggested that the stockpile was destroyed or buried by the bombing of the site at Fordo. “Nothing was taken out of facility,” Mr. Trump posted on his social media site. “Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!”
And Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said that American intelligence agencies were watching the Iranian nuclear sites closely, “and there was no indication to the United States that any of that enriched uranium was moved prior to the strike.”
American officials say the intelligence collected so far on the stockpile is contradictory.
U.S. intelligence collected on Iranian officials shows they have different understandings of the stockpile’s fate, American officials said.
And parts of the nuclear facility at Natanz where some of the uranium was believed to be held were damaged, but not destroyed, by either the U.S. or Israeli attacks, officials said.
As a result, the intelligence community has not yet made a firm conclusion on how much the Iranians have retained, according to people briefed on the findings.
After a classified Senate briefing on Thursday, Republican lawmakers emphasized that destroying or seizing the stockpile was not part of the U.S. military mission. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said the sites were severely damaged but that he “didn’t want people to think the problem is over, because it’s not.”
“I don’t know where the 900 pounds of enriched uranium exists, but it wasn't part of the target set for several years,” Mr. Graham told reporters. “They are obliterated today but they can reconstitute.”
There is confusion also about where the stockpile was originally. Mr. Trump has suggested it was at Fordo. Others have said some was at Natanz. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said the majority of the stockpile was at Isfahan, where Iran had reactors and other nuclear facilities that used the uranium. And some experts have suggested Iran has dispersed the stockpile.
The director general of the I.A.E.A said the Iranians told his inspectors that they planned to move the material if they thought it was under threat. It was stored in containers small enough, he said, to fit into “the trunk of an ordinary car.”
And in the days before the U.S. cruise missile attack on Isfahan, there was evidence of vehicles moving something into or out of those labs. I.A.E.A. officials say that since that stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium was Iran’s most prized national possession, it would have been a breach of common sense to leave it all in one place.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the I.A.E.A. director general, has held fast to his view that a good deal of that near-bomb-grade fuel remains in Iranian control. “I don’t know if they moved all of it,” he said this week. “But the evidence points to their moving out a lot of it.”
European officials said on Thursday that their preliminary assessments were also that Iran had moved the stockpile, though officials cautioned that those were early conclusions and that the exact location of the uranium was uncertain.
Other Western officials confirmed the assessment of top American intelligence officials on Wednesday that it could be years before those facilities are fully usable again. Crucially, the centrifuges at Fordo are unlikely to be operable, making it more difficult to purify its stockpile further, according to current and former officials.
In addition to damage to the centrifuges, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking at the NATO summit in The Hague on Wednesday, said the destruction of the “conversion facility” in Isfahan had damaged Iran’s ability to move to a weapon. The facility converts enriched uranium gas into solid materials, and ultimately a metal that can be used to fabricate a nuclear bomb or a warhead.
But while Iran’s overall nuclear program, and ability to produce new fuel, has probably been set back significantly, how quickly the country could produce a bomb is another question.
In nearly two weeks of fighting, Israel killed a number of Iranian nuclear scientists. But if enough have survived, Iran could use a hidden stockpile to race toward a weapon. That would mean Iran’s ability to make a crude bomb was set back only months, even if its larger program suffered graver damage.
Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the question of the stockpile was critical.
“Obliterating the sites means nothing if the Iranians moved enough 60% uranium, centrifuges and other weaponization tools to build a bomb at some possibly unknown location,” he wrote on social media. “The regime may be vile, but they are not stupid, and this stuff can be relatively easily relocated.
LOL. Are these the same Trump hating "experts" who told us that COVID originated from a bat, that Hunter's laptop was the product of Russian election inference, that small kids had to stay at home from school for years and then wear masks to attend school, that Trump had colluded with Putin to win the 2016 election. All baseless hoaxes designed to damage Trump. Getting hung up on "obliterated" is laughable. It's clear that Iran sustained a massive attack and set back. They brought this on themselves and it was long overdue.
"...zombified people like You and Storing...." and the US Supreme Court!
Smith,
You need to realize that it's natural for well-informed, patriotic Americans to despise The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx).
It's for zombified people like you and Storing that we feel sorry.
You mean the court packed by Far-Right Catholic and probable Opus Dei member Leonard Leo?
"Court packing" is what the Dems were suggesting. That means increasing the number of justices and then appointing them. The current court is the product of democracy in which the American people elected a president who then appoints someone to an existing vacancy. The court packing concept is just another way for Dems to undermine the will of the American people.
The will of zombified-by-KGB-disinformation and hornswoggled-by-fascistic-Trump one-half of the American people.
I rest my case. No wonder the Republicans won the WH, Senate, House, and control the Supreme Court with lunatic ravings like this one. Imagine believing the KGB commies are working with fascists to control America. No reason to let logic or historical accuracy or facts get in the way of a paranoid delusion.
What a fantastic couple of weeks for Trump and America. The Bill is done. The borders are closed. Inflation is down. Gas prices are down. Jobs are up. CBS is paying Trump millions for their election interference. Ceasefire in Iran. Pending ceasefire in Gaza. It is a stark contrast to the unmitigated disasters under Biden. Leadership matters.
I am a bit confused regarding the Social Security aspect of the bill. I read a news article that indicated they passed a $6,000.00 boost to the standard deduction for seniors (in lieu of eliminating taxes on SS). Then I got an email from Social Security indicating that taxes on SS have been eliminated. Which one is right (if either are)?
Edit: I read an article from AARP this morning which said the $6,000.00 boost to the standard deduction is correct. However, it is only temporary (3-years). And it phases out for people with higher incomes. So, whatever happened to the “No taxes on Social Security promise??? :(
My understanding is that while they did not technically eliminate the taxes on SS the $6k deduction effectively does the same thing for most seniors because it is estimated that the deduction covers the SS taxes for 90% of seniors.
I understand that. However, it is only for three years. I am thankful for what is being done. But it isn’t what was promised.
I'm not exactly sure what you want them to "apologize" for? It sounds like a pretty good deal for seniors. Certainly better than anything the Dems ever did. The semantics are less important than the results but even so what you posted is still technically correct. If you pay $100 in taxes but get $100 in a deduction meaning that it zeros out the taxes, it is the same result as paying no tax. I doubt anyone wants to undo this in three years given the hue and cry of Dems to protect social security.
"I doubt anyone wants to undo this in three years....". Well, every single Dem in Congress just tried to "Undo" the Trump Tax Cuts. TDS knows no limits.
I'm not exactly sure what you want them to "apologize" for? It sounds like a pretty good deal for seniors. Certainly better than anything the Dems ever did. The semantics are less important than the results but even so what you posted is still technically correct. If you pay $100 in taxes but get $100 in a deduction meaning that it zeros out the taxes, it is the same result as paying no tax. I doubt anyone wants to undo this in three years given the hue and cry of Dems to protect social security.
Thumb1: Hooray ! for the Billionaires !
I like now that Bernie Sanders has been revealed to be a "Millionaire" several times over, that bogus narrative has been forced to shift to "Billionaire".
Trump is pretty savvy. He probably does Not want to see anything connected to this Epstein mess. Trump wants to be able to go Sgt Schultz and if someone needs to fall on their sword so-be-it. Trump has much bigger fish to fry. And you know Bill Clinton is tied into this. The Dem's are fine with maintaining this status quo.
YOU have no idea what I "bought into". This is why you guys lost the election. YOU brand people. YOU label people. YOU also assumed you had their vote. And now you're going to lose those govt funded/$$ Propaganda Arms. PBS/NPR. It's all cascading down around YOU, and YOU just can Not stop doing what you consistently do. LOSING!
How about the 1,000 LB Elephant in the room? (E) Bill Clinton
Storing,
Isn't it likely that the reason the perverted Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx) refuses to release the files is because he and / or some of his big donors are on tape raping some really young girls?
You bought into PizzaGate, Michael Flynn's allegations that John Podesta drank the blood of sacrificial victims in Satanic rituals, and QAnon, didn't you?
The "non-existent, but created-by-Clinton/Obama/Biden" Epstein files are right down your alley, dude!
RELEASE THE FILES! RELEASE THE FILES! RELEASE THE FILES!
On Epstein, there are multiple layers of scandals/crimes at play. It's really not clear where the focus should be:
A - Trump's relationship with Epstein and the question of whether Trump is implicated in any of Epstein's crimes.
B - Epstein's alleged sex trafficking operation which involved Ghislaine Maxwell. It had to involve more than just those two people. Will others who helped them be held accountable?
C - Did Epstein really kill himself? If he was murdered, who had him killed? And who is to blame for the coverup?
D - Was Epstein working as a spy other sort of asset for one or more intelligence services?
My guess is that Trump is most concerned about "A" and that explains why he's behaving like someone who has something to hide.
Do you really think the Dems were in power for four long years under Old Joe and they wouldn't have leaked anything about Trump being involved? HA HA HA. No one bought into PizzaGate except a handful of nuts that were amplified by the leftist media who wanted to make it seem as though the 70 plus million Americans who voted for Trump were all nuts. The vast majority of MAGA person is for releasing the files that the Dems hide for four years.
Do you really think the Dems were in power for four long years under Old Joe and they wouldn't have leaked anything about Trump being involved? HA HA HA. No one bought into PizzaGate except a handful of nuts that were amplified by the leftist media who wanted to make it seem as though the 70 plus million Americans who voted for Trump were all nuts. The vast majority of MAGA person is for releasing the files that the Dems hide for four years.
If there was even a hint that Trump was involved in Epstein's crimes, the Dems would have run to the media.
They illegally leaked his taxes and indicted him for ridiculous crimes.
Yeah, and the 1st National Bank gave Willie Sutton access to their vault.
The Epstein problem is bipartisan. It's not as if there aren't a bunch of pictures of Bill and Hillary with Epstein and Maxwell. Other Dems, wealthy Liberals, and foreign heads of state from allied countries like Israel and the UK are mixed up with this stuff too.
So it's possible that Dem elites want to sweep the Epstein stuff under the rug as much as Trump. Nevermind the fact that the DOJ and FBI don't typically just leak classified and court documents and videos to the Press.
That wasn't a "leak". Someone who had access to Trump's tax returns gave them to the Press. Maybe a disgruntled Trump accountant for all we know.
I don't doubt that the Dems did not release any information because prominent libs like Bill Clinton and donors like Bill Gates are implicated. They would certainly, however, have leaked any information that would have incriminated Trump to stay in power. They pulled every other dirty trick to do so.
On Trump's taxes, they were lllegally leaked. The person responsible was convicted.
"On September 29, 2023, federal prosecutors announced they were charging someone with leaking the data from Trump's tax returns while he was a contractor for the IRS from 2018 to 2020. In October Charles E. Littlejohn pleaded guilty to unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information."
from: Donald Trump on July 20, 2025 @ 8:07 AM ET
"My Poll Numbers within the Republican Party, and MAGA, have gone up, significantly, since the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax was exposed by the Radical Left Democrats and, just plain “troublemakers.” They have hit 90%, 92%, 93%, and 95%, in various polls, and are all Republican Party records. The General Election numbers are my highest, EVER! People like Strong Borders, and all of the many other things I have done. GOD BLESS AMERICA. MAGA! "
:D
Not sure what your point is since Trump's numbers have gone up among Republicans according to CNN. They didn't like his handling of the Epstein matter but zero percent of respondents indicated that is a major issue. That is an important issue only among a small circle of conspiracy theorists and media Trump haters. Trump's numbers have gone up because of his stunning success with the border, gas prices, jobs, and inflation. Those are the most important issues to most Americans according to the results of the last election. Trump has worked a miracle to undo the disasters created by Old Joe and Kacklin' Kamala. What a mess this country would be in if Kacklin' were running the show.
Not sure what your point is since Trump's numbers have gone up among Republicans according to CNN. They didn't like his handling of the Epstein matter but zero percent of respondents indicated that is a major issue. That is an important issue only among a small circle of conspiracy theorists and media Trump haters. Trump's numbers have gone up because of his stunning success with the border, gas prices, jobs, and inflation. Those are the most important issues to most Americans according to the results of the last election. Trump has worked a miracle to undo the disasters created by Old Joe and Kacklin' Kamala. What a mess this country would be in if Kacklin' were running the show.
MAGA voters are effectively a cult. Trump was right. He could shoot a guy on 5th avenue and you still would support him.
On the otherhand, the Independent and Swing voters who backed Trump in 2024 are becoming more vocally angry about his policies. Polls show steep declines in support for Trump among Independents.
"They have hit 90%, 92%, 93%, and 95%, in various polls...."
:D Blind, but loyal MAGit disciples suck right up to it. Too funny.
Oh yea, Biden left with strong growth in real GDP, wages, employment, stock market returns, and household net worth.
Unfortunately, he doesn't work here anymore. Meanwhile, tRump tariffs are expected to dive us into recession. 8/1 Deadline looming - Go TACO !!
The establishment can't handle it because they make promises, then never act on them.
Biden left us 20 million or more illegal aliens. Some of whom are hardened criminals or gang members. The others of whom we will pay for housing, education and health care for decades.
He left us unresolved wars that have cost the American taxpayer hundreds of billions.
He left record inflation and gas prices.
His family enriched themselves with corruption and bribery for decades.
He may be the single worst president in history.
Other countries have had tariffs on American goods for decades. These are many of the same countries for whom we have effectively paid for their national defense. Like Canada and Japan. The tariffs have worked out well for them.
This number isn't supported by verified data. The Department of Homeland Security and Pew Research Center estimate about 10–11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., a figure that’s remained relatively steady since the mid-2000s. They don't belong to Biden.
How many innocent brown people has Trump locked up or even just detained?
How many children got lost in the first Trump term? Remember that?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64959802
Trump said he'd end The Russia-Ukraine on Day one - how is that going?
Add Israel's genocide in Gaza and under Trump - 2 new conflicts on the brink of war in Syria and Iran.
The orange one said there would have been no Russia war if he were POTUS. BS:
It was a global issue — not unique to the U.S. It stemmed from pandemic-related supply issues, stimulus spending, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
POTUS does not set gas prices.
There is no direct evidence that has implicated Joe Biden in any criminal wrongdoing.
On the other hand, why was the Trump Foundation not allowed to operate charities in NY ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50338231
That actually belongs to Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/presidents-ranking-trump-biden-list
The tariff debate isn't about whether tariffs exist elsewhere — it's about whether U.S. tariffs help or hurt U.S. consumers and industries.
PAY ATTENTION: CONSUMERS PAY TARIFFS ! Have you been to the grocery store lately?
You actually think Canada and Japan are happy with their tariff deals? :D
Trump is "the establishment" now. Effectively, he is no different from Lindsey Graham.
Hence why we see Trump boosting Graham while attacking anti-establishment figures like Thomas Massie.
There's no "direct" evidence that Biden committed a crime? LOL.
Trump is just trying to even the playing field.
Stop asking "How Many" of this and that. If you do Not Know, either find out or pipe it down. Do you think even 10 Million Illegal Aliens being inside this country courtesy of "10% for the Big Guy" is A-OK? The Fentanyl connected deaths alone make the numbers haggling absolute BS: There is no justifying China Joe and Comp claiming there was "No Crisis" at the border. And then admitting to at least 10 Million flooding into this country. Calif is in serious trouble with the illegal aliens now self deporting and being booted out of the country. The freeways there now being far less crowded are the earliest barometer.
All we ever heard was that China Joe could do nothing with the border. It had to be done via congress. Trump gets elected again and the border is under control in less than 1 month. Joe letting in more than 10 Million Illegal Aliens is right in line with, "10% for the Big Guy". Slow Joe was the Mexican Drug Cartels best friend.
...and it was ALL Joe Biden's fault !!! - what a cop-out :D
Meanwhile, this president is a pedophile and you're in a cult.
40,643 out of 56,816—or 71.5% held in ICE detention have no criminal conviction according to data current as of July 13, 2025.
Many of those convicted committed only minor offenses, including traffic violations.
https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/#detention_nocrim
You have any evidence? - post it
40,643 out of 56,816—or 71.5% held in ICE detention have no criminal conviction according to data current as of July 13, 2025.
Many of those convicted committed only minor offenses, including traffic violations.
https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/#detention_nocrim
Specifically Define "MINOR Offenses". Anybody that is in this country ILLEGALLY, has committed a crime. This includes overstaying a visa or green card. STOP trying to fool people with the multi definition word selection.-
Are you unable to provide specifics with respect to what qualifies as, "minor offenses"? This frequently happens when Echo Chamber Rhetoric is challenged outside of the Bubble.
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:D Black hoods/masks Hidden faces - NO ID - NO warrants - NO due process - look at the stories
- pulled out of work - pulled off the streets !!
Father of three serving marines - been here most of his life - beaten on film - Minor offenses? :D
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/16/father-of-3-marines-who-was-beaten-ice-agents-released-leaving-family-process-his-detention.html
Sadly, ICE agents have to wear masks to protect themselves from violent leftist terrorists who would target them for enforcing the immigration laws. None of this would have been necessary if Old Joe had not violated federal law and the Constitution by opening the border to millions of unknown people. All of whom are here illegally.
Was he sent by GOD? Was he saved at Butler to save America?
He has saved America regardless of who sent him. This country was in ruins under Old Joe. It could not have sustained another four years under Kacklin' Kamala. Thankfully the American public exercised some common sense and brought that circus to an end. Democracy does sometimes work.
So you're looking at economic growth numbers AFTER THE PANDEMIC? Echo Chamber BS: Nice try.
Biden Economy: Real GDP growth averaged a robust 3.4% during the first three years of the Biden presidency. The labor market was strong in 2023. The unemployment rate averaged a very low 3.6% in 2023, as it had in 2022; the last year with an average 3.5% unemployment rate was 1969.
Amazing. I bet he won in a landslide in 2024 with all that good news. Right? LOL. Dream on. Old Joe was the single worst president in modern history. Maybe all history. He let in tens of millions of unknown people from all around the world costing the US taxpayers billions. He botched the Afghanistan withdrawal resulting in deaths and disgrace. Inflation was at record highs. Gas prices at record highs. Crime at record highs. More people died from COVID under Biden EVEN after he was gifted the Trump vaccine than under Trump. His administration covered up his physical and mental impairments. Unknown people were making decisions on his behalf. Countless billions were wasted or stolen in fake COVID relief and green energy which resulted in no tangible results but plenty of pork for the big money donors who received all this money. Endless war was funding in Ukraine with no plan or effort to end it. Biden's corrupt justice department was politicized to destroy his political opponents. And on and on. Good riddance to him.
How does anyone believe any Biden Economy numbers when they consistently LIED about the Millions of "Jobs Created". They are proven liars.
How does anyone believe any Biden Economy numbers when they consistently LIED about the Millions of "Jobs Created". They are proven liars.
They are proven liars.
You know these are official reported agency numbers. Not from Biden or his people? right?
:D MAGAts calling out proven liars. Too funny
https://www.factcheck.org/person/donald-trump/
Right. And there were 51 of these "officials" signing off on the Hunter Lap Top being Russian Disinformation too. This is why Trump has shirtcanned a lot of these same "official agency" employees. You are seeing the Deep State being de-fanged. "Promises Made, Promises Kept"!
As usual, you Miss the obvious. Where was all this "Get Trump" Documentation buried? Same goes for JFK Assassination documents/evidence. They always hang onto any damming evidence.
"Get Trump" Documentation
Storing,
The Hunter Laptop Incident DID have the hallmarks of a KGB* or GRU "active measures" op.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Regardless,
"A joint investigation by two Republican Senate committees released in September 2020 and a Republican House Oversight committee investigation released in April 2024 did not find wrongdoing by Joe Biden with regard to Ukraine and his son's business dealings there.[25] PolitiFact wrote in June 2021 that the laptop did belong to Hunter Biden but did not demonstrate wrongdoing by Joe Biden.[26]"
-- Wikipedia (emphasis added)
You obviously just swallowed what they told you inside The Bubble regarding the Hunter Lap Top.
The Dems proclaiming that the Trump Tariffs would create a U.S. economic armageddon continues to crash and burn. Hoax after Hoax. When was the last time either House voted on a Dem Bill/Resolution? They stand for absolutely nothing.
Just like Russian collusion and the other leftist hoaxes.
Oh, I get it. It's now OK to claim the 2016 Election was rigged for Trump, but if you claim the 2020 POTUS Election was rigged, you're labeled a "Nut Job" and/or "Election Denier". Goose Meet Gander.
Smith,
Whether or not people like Roger Stone* and Harley Schlanger colluded with the Russians to get The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") "elected," don't you agree that "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin, in addition to stirring up discord in our country, originally just wanted Hillary to lose, but when he realized that TTOB had a "shot," had his professional St. Petersburg trolls and his GRU/KGB hackers, et al., work overtime to ensure that it happened?
*Google "Stone" "Schlanger" and "Caddy" simultaneously.
There is not a shred of evidence that a single US vote was influenced by Russia or Putin in 2016. None. Did Russia make some clumsy attempts to meddle? Perhaps. The Dems tried to extrapolate from that to create a knowingly false narrative that Trump "colluded" with Putin. Something for which there was no evidence. It was a complete sleight of hand and dishonest. Designed to harm Trump politically just as the current fixation with Epstein. Deflecting from the numerous successes including closed border, lower gas prices, lower inflation, trade deals, and falling crime rates.
Smith,
You have the same problem as Comrade Gabbard -- you intentionally conflate "colluding" (which Obama and the experts said didn't happen) with running a large-scale, Internet-based "influence operation" (which the experts said occurred).
By the way, you never did answer my question:
Does Vladimir Putin pay you, or do you do it for free?
It was and continues to be the Dems who suggested that Trump was colluding with Putin. That was a complete hoax. They knew it was a hoax all along but perpetuated a three year's long investigation to harm Trump during his first term knowing that it was false.
You guys Lost. You're in the minority now. Live with it.
Storing,
Well, it is true that we're surrounded by zombified-by-KGB-disinformation "useful idiots" like you.
By the way, it wasn't just us "Snowflake Libtards" who lost -- all Americans lost, even "useful idiots" like you and Smith.
You just don't realize it yet.
I agree with everything Trump has done or tried to do since taking office with a couple of exceptions. Those are the Musk fiasco and not releasing the Epstein files or whatever they have. Those are minor blips compared to the many successes. Record stock market, lower taxes, closed borders, trade deals, making efforts to end the war in Ukraine, making "Europe" pay its fair share and on and on. It's been an amazing record of success.
Smith,
Lower taxes for whom, for how long, and to what degree for each tax bracket?
Doesn't it irk you that The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") praised QAnon and lied to you about releasing the Epstein files?
How soon will The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") start saying "Joe Rogan is a Communist"?
How did The Traitorous Orange Bird's (rhymes with "Xxxx's") "efforts to end the war in Ukraine work out?
Do you also agree with nearly everything Hitler did in Germany before he invaded Poland in 1939?
Do the actions of ICE turn you on in that regard?
Everyone who pays taxes will have lower taxes. The leftists falsely spun this as a tax cut just for billionaires and those with TDS just parrot it. Granted many leftists don't pay any taxes because they don't have jobs or otherwise are on the receiving end of some entitlement program. The Epstein thing is a big nothing burger. Why didn't Old Joe release the information if it is so important? He (or someone unknown person) was in charge for four years. Trump is at least making efforts to end the war in Ukraine. He can't force Putin to end the war. Old Joe's plan was endless war bankrolled by the US for years or decades. Costing the US tax payers trillions. Afghanistan 2.0. Trump is making "Europe" reimburse the US for all the weapons being sent. A completely different approach.
A "nothing burger" would be gone by now. Meanwhile, it all belongs to your "Orange Predator of the United States".
:D "The list is on my desk >> There is no list >> It was a Democratic hoax >> Trump's name is on the list >> His name must have been planted."
I'm all for full disclosure. Wasn't Old Joe president for four long years? Why didn't he release the files if they contain something harmful to Trump? Can you explain that to us? Do you think the files contain something that "belongs" to Biden based on your logic? This is Russia collusion all over again.
Epstein files were sealed for 4 years.
Trump was the only one that campaigned on it. The only one that kept talking about it. The only one that promised its release.
No, Capt. Cheeto is the only one that owns this mess.
Why would Trump "campaign" on releasing the files if he knew that they contained something harmful to him?
Comrade Smith,
If "Dems" like Bill Clinton and British aristocracy like Prince Andrew were mentioned in the files (along, of course, with oodles and gobs of "Republican" perverts), he probably thought they would never be released (and still haven't), especially after U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta (a Republican) effectively shut down the FBI investigation of other perps by doing the sweetheart plea-deal with Epstein and sealing the files down in South Florida in exchange for a future gig in the Trump Administration.
Keep up the good work, Comrade Smith. "Former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin and that ugly guy in China really appreciate what you and the other brainwashed-by-KGB-disinformation MAGATs are doing to tear our country apart.
Good to hear that Kacklin' Kamala is not running for CA governor. California has enough problems without her. She also likely was told that she would lose that election. Good riddance. Imagine that she almost became president. The US really dodged a major disaster.
Why would Trump "campaign" on releasing the files if he knew that they contained something harmful to him? LOL. The Biden administration was corrupt to the core. If there was a whiff of anything detrimental to Trump in those files, they would have leaked it years ago. They illegally leaked his taxes even though they showed that Trump was in full compliance with the tax laws. But dream on. Maybe one day a hoax will pan out. The only objective is to destroy Trump by any means. Even if that means making up lies and conspiracies.
The most revealing thing about the Dem's wanting to make an issue out of the Epstein Files is that it reveals that the Clintons no longer hold any sway in that Party. The Dem's are throwing Bill Clinton to the wolves. And with the males deserting the Dem's even after Obama made his barber shop runs, Obama is quickly going the same route. His opinion holds no value with the rank-n-file.
Storing,
I'm a Democrat and I personally would like to know the names of all of the perps in the Epstein Files.
Wouldn't you, even if your boy, The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx"), is one of them?
Yes I would. ALL of this is validation of the Deep State. Including the FBI Trump/Russia role now being revealed.
Comrade Storing,
"The FBI's 'Deep State' role in the Trump/Russia Investigation"?
LOL!
The only thing the Traitorous Orange Bird's (rhymes with "Xxxx's") lackeys have "revealed" recently in regard to Russia is the lameness of Comrade Gabbard's attempts to fool Americans into believing that there was no massive Internet-based influence operation by your boy, Vladimir Putin, to put The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") in office.
Check back with me whenever you get up-to-speed. You're way behind the curve.
If the supposed "Deep State" wanted to get JFK in 1963, remove him from power, they didn't need to shoot him in broad daylight in the middle of the street with hundreds of people watching. And then have to cover it up for decades (which is impossible to do anyway). That is sheer idiocy and only the most close minded conspiracists think otherwise.
How to get JFK? They could have used "lawfare", the same type of things some used to try and get Trump. Leak damaging information, falsify evidence, use the security powers to undermine him. This absurd conspiracy that people believe in is ridiculous. It can't be done.
Question: So why didn't these supposed all powerful people in the Deep State try that first? Wouldn't that be what you would do before shooting him in this ridiculous plan you think happened?
The idea that one group of people in the Deep State would kill JFK and then the next group of people - and the next, and the next - would coverup for them is...how can anyone believe this? We have Republicans in power exposing the abuses that were done to get Trump. Which is exactly what would have happened with JFK.
The so-called Deep State is the bureaucracy, the administrative state. It's filled with all sorts of people with different views and interests. The idea that it's a monolithic, single "blob" of people is simply false.
But the conspiracy Left and MAGA conspiracy Right foolishly think they do. Which is why we have the Morleys and the Becks and Stones and the Lunas and the DiEugenios and the Bannons in agreement. Two sets of people who otherwise loathe one another.
Dear Steve M.,
Are you pro-Trump?
If so, how did you get so messed up?
What "abuses" against Trump were committed by the other side to "get" him, politically speaking?
Retaining Christopher Steele to create an 80%-correct raw-intel "Dossier" on him that was, unfortunately, marred by disinfo from his primary source, probable KGB agent Igor Danchenko?
-- Tom
This thread is for discussion on United States politics: which includes local, state, and federal elections, important political issues, political news, and the Biden Administration.
"What abuses.....?". How about the Colorado State Supreme Court? They OK'd taking Trump off the POTUS Ballot, and Trump had been convicted of Nothing.
Comrade Storing,
The Colorado Supreme Court correctly determined that The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") was disqualified from being placed on the Colorado ballot due to the fact that he had incited the 1/6 insurrection. The fact that its decision was overturned by the Leonard Leo-packed U.S. Superior Court doesn't change that fact.
Were you at or inside the Capitol on 1/6, Storing?
The above is what You consider "Due Process"? Now I understand why you address me as "Comrade".
Comrade Storing,
Concerns about "Due Process" are triggered by three things as they relate to an individual: Life, Liberty, and Property
How would Trump's name's not appearing on the Colorado ballot deprive him of any of those things?
I call you "Comrade" because you, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin, and The Traitorous Orange Bird ("rhymes with "Xxxx") seem to have the same vision for America.
"Fair treatment through the judicial system..." is due process. The Colorado State Supreme Court arbitrarily removed Trump's name from the Colorado POTUS Ballot. What they did is Politburo worthy. This is what you are defending.
Comrade Storing,
Does The Constitution guarantee the same degree of protection to an individual's life, liberty, and property in a civil case as it does in a criminal case?
Do you think an insurrectionist's "pursuit of happiness" should be protected by The Constitution, too?
If the supposed "Deep State" wanted to get JFK in 1963, remove him from power, they didn't need to shoot him in broad daylight in the middle of the street with hundreds of people watching. And then have to cover it up for decades (which is impossible to do anyway). That is sheer idiocy and only the most close minded conspiracists think otherwise.
How to get JFK? They could have used "lawfare", the same type of things some used to try and get Trump. Leak damaging information, falsify evidence, use the security powers to undermine him. This absurd conspiracy that people believe in is ridiculous. It can't be done.
Question: So why didn't these supposed all powerful people in the Deep State try that first? Wouldn't that be what you would do before shooting him in this ridiculous plan you think happened?
The idea that one group of people in the Deep State would kill JFK and then the next group of people - and the next, and the next - would coverup for them is...how can anyone believe this? We have Republicans in power exposing the abuses that were done to get Trump. Which is exactly what would have happened with JFK.
The so-called Deep State is the bureaucracy, the administrative state. It's filled with all sorts of people with different views and interests. The idea that it's a monolithic, single "blob" of people is simply false.
But the conspiracy Left and MAGA conspiracy Right foolishly think they do. Which is why we have the Morleys and the Becks and Stones and the Lunas and the DiEugenios and the Bannons in agreement. Two sets of people who otherwise loathe one another.
"Fair treatment through the judicial system". Trump received Zero Due Process from the Colorado Supreme Court. Cut and Dried.
Much like the media, there is a very strong leftist or at least establishment anti-Trump bias among the bureaucrats.
July 20, 2025 @ 10:17 AM ET
The Washington “Whatever’s” should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!
Why not go "full tilt" - how about? - The Washington Redface or Cleveland Injuns?
It is not in their heritage. Dope.
Are you ever not a complete clown.
The family of the Blackfoot Chief whose likeness was used for the logo on the side of the Washinton Redskins helmet would be proud if they adopted the logo again. They are actively pursuing the return of the name and the logo.
(NewsNation) — Relatives of the man John Two Guns White Calf, whose profile served as the face of the Washington, D.C., professional football team for 48 years, wants his likeness returned to the franchise.
Thomas White Calf, a great nephew of the late Blackfeet Nation chief, told Fox News, “The fans want him back and we want him back.”
The team changed its name in 2020 following complaints over the term “Redskins,” which has historically held a negative connotation for indigenous peoples in North America.
“Our ancestor was the most famous and most photographed native in history,” Thomas said in the interview. “Two Guns was also the face on the Indian head nickel. I’m proud of him. The Blackfeet are proud of him.”
NewsNation lol.
Why don’t you go to Browning and talk to them. I am sure they would love to talk to you about why you think their relative was your personal joke.
He is talking about the likeness in profile. - fine - then call it "The Washington Warriors"
Do you understand propaganda or just use it conflate some other argument?
Oh, now you are having a change of perspective. So, you are not going to go to Browning and explain your joke? Just sit on this website and pretend you have some odd point to make about things you know nothing about.
What does that mean? - what change of perspective?
the name is a racial slur.
It means we have come full circle. We are back to --- are you ever not a complete clown?
Take all your proposed names, all your theories on names, and all your jokes go to Browning and talk to them about it. You did not even believe the story initially and made fun of it. Now you are an authority on all of it.
Good luck with it.
Native Americans Protest Ahead Of Cleveland Indians Home Opener
https://www.ideastream.org/sports/2020-07-25/native-americans-protest-ahead-of-cleveland-indians-home-opener
Cleveland Indians: Native Americans rally against logo
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2016/10/26/cleveland-indians-native-americans-rally-against-logo
Cleveland’s Indigenous community celebrates Guardians name change and hopes schools with Native mascots follow suit
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2021/07/clevelands-indigenous-community-celebrates-guardians-name-change-and-hopes-schools-with-native-mascots-follow-suit.html
Thanks for proving my point. The 1st and 3rd links are the Same Guy. All 3 links represent the opinions of 2 people. Maybe 3 if you stretch it and include Lizzie Warren. And look at that man/woman holding the sign. If he/she is legit Native American, I am Mongolian.
So WHO SPECIFICALLY complained about the Cleveland "Indians" and/or Washington "Redskins". Who? Not Native Americans. Just look at MLB and the egg on their face when they pulled the All-Star game outta Georgia due to alleged "voter suppression" legislation and then witnessed a record voter turnout in that state. This is people creating "issues" where in reality there is none.
White, elitist liberals make up these fake causes. They have some type of complex about leading cushy lives and think they justify that by supporting fake causes before returning to their cocktail parties. There are real problems for Native Americans that these same libs completely ignore like poverty, addiction, and crime.
August 1, 2025 @ 2:09 PM ET
I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!
August 1, 2025 @ 3:44 PM ET
In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!
I would advise when looking at the current "Jobs Created" numbers, to remember that a big chunk of the "Jobs Created" during the Biden yrs were GOVT JOBS. GOVT Funded "jobs". Many of these jobs were Tony Soprano type No Show Jobs. These Biden "jobs created" evaporated when Musk mandated that these GOVT Employees physically Report For Work. I have yet to hear specifically what sector(s) of the economy these newly & revised "jobs created" numbers fall into. With respect to the unemployment figures remaining consistently steady in the face of Illegal Aliens self deporting and being evicted from the USA, maybe just maybe contrary to Hunter Biden's fears, people are actually washing their own sheets, mowing their own lawns, and wiping their own arses.
"10% for the Big Guy" as found on the Hunter Biden Lap Top and corroborated by Tony Bobulinski, (Hunter's business partner), Prove otherwise.
Among the bank’s major shareholder oligarchs is at least one with both deep ties to the Kremlin and a connection to Trump. In addition to doing time in jail on murder-related charges, Dimitry Rybolovlev, famously bought a Palm Beach, Florida house from Trump for $95 million in 2008—a $53 million markup over what Trump bought it for in 2005—and when other Palm Beach County real estate fell by an annual rate of 19.2 percent.
https://www.justsecurity.org/39409/money-russia-cyprus-trump-teams-odd-business-dealings/
The entire Epstein affair appears to partner money wires and money laundering to both Trump & Epstein
...The Bank of Cyprus and Russia.
and now this....
BREAKING: Journalist Michael Wolff exposes the shocking full story behind what ended Donald Trump's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein — and it involves alleged Russian money laundering, a $40 million house, and allegations that Trump "was fully acquainted" with Epstein's sex crimes.
Wolff also revealed what Epstein believed about Trump "to his dying day..."
"Now, Epstein’s explanation for why this friendship ended is as follows. In 2004, Epstein believed himself to be the high bidder on a piece of real estate in Palm Beach. A house. $36 million was his bid," Wolff said to MeidasTouch in a new interview. "He took his friend Trump around to see the house, to advise him on how to move the swimming pool," Wolff continued. "Trump thereupon went around Epstein’s back and bid $40 million for the house and got the property.
"Epstein, who was well acquainted, in fact deeply involved with Trump’s scattered finances, understood that he didn’t have $40 million to pay for this house," said Wolff. "Now, if that was the case, it was someone else’s $40 million. At the time, Epstein believed this to be the $40 million of a Russian oligarch by the name of Rybolovlev.
"Less than two years later, this same house that Trump had bought for $40 million was sold for $95 million and it was in fact sold to Mr. Rybolovlev," he went on. "This is all a red flag of money laundering. And what Epstein did, and he was furious about losing this house... I mean, there’s something about these guys, these men, that nothing rouses them so much as a real estate betrayal." "Epstein, after the sale of this house, after Trump went around his back, got this house, Epstein began to threaten him," explained Wolff. "He began to threaten him with lawsuits. He began to threaten him with going to the press and saying that Trump was a frontman for a money laundering deal."
"Trump panics at this point and Epstein believed, and he believed to his dying day, that it was Trump who went to the police — Trump who was fully acquainted with what was going on Epstein's house, fully acquainted for many years — Trump went to the police and, as Epstein said, dropped the dime on him," said Wolff. "That is to say, informed the police of what was going on and an investigation began and all of Epstein’s legal problems for the next 15 years began to unfold."
"This story about this piece of real estate and their falling out was first published in June 2019," said Wolff. "It’s published actually in my book Siege, the second book I had written about the Trump White House. Epstein had recounted this story to me. I put it in this book. Epstein at that moment was in Paris. He read the book. He called me with some alarm, and he said he was afraid that he might have said too much."
"Three weeks later, he returned to the United States from Paris and was promptly arrested on the tarmac of Teterboro Airport in New Jersey when his plane landed," concluded Wolff.
For his part, Trump claimed this week that he ended his relationship with Epstein because the billionaire pedophile "stole" employees from him including a young girl named Virginia Giuffre. It's beyond clear at this point that we are not getting the full story. The Epstein files must be released immediately.
— Occupy Democrats.
I really don't have a dog in the fight and had never heard of Michael Wolff (yes, I live under a rock), but the "Criticism and Controversies" section of the Wikipedia entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wolff_(journalist), would certainly make me think twice about buying a used car from him.
He's not nearly as upstanding as The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx"), his "pal," Jeffrey Epstein, and the female rapist of young girls, Ghislaine Maxwell (daughter of fraudster and KGB/Mossad agent, Robert Maxwell) who supplied him with young girls and even removed their panties for him.
Ghislaine was simply ferreting out moles.
You really need some new material.
Thankfully, Trump is playing hardball with these types.
Yes, so the American upper class will benefit disproportionally from the tax cuts and the lower and middle class will be burdened disproportionally by the increased prices on imported goods!!!
Yes, so the American upper class will benefit disproportionally from the tax cuts and the lower and middle class will be burdened disproportionally by the increased prices on imported goods!!!
Trump ended taxes on tips and almost all social security. How many "upper class" types rely on tips and social security? Vladimir will be very disappointed in these weak disinformation attempts. Do better or it will be the Gulag.
Who are you trying to fool, Smith?
The reality:
Between 2026 and 2034, there will be $535 billion in cuts to Medicare.
Only cash tips are tax-exempt.
The extra deduction for seniors on SS benefits is set to expire after 2028.
And oh yeah, and the so-called Big Beautiful Bill adds at least $3.4 trillion to The National Debt.
Comrade Putin will be pleased with your constant attacks on the US. Do you think anyone is going to restore the taxes on social security in 2028 after seniors get used to them? Who is going to do that? The Dems? That would be election suicide. And imagine complaining that the social security tax cuts might expire one day? HA HA HA. Any tax law can be changed by Congress. How many billionaires rely on "cash tips"? LOL. That limitation is to avoid abuse by creating a loophole for gratuities among more affluent types. Imagine trying to spin tax breaks for tips and social security as a tax break only for billionaires. Everyone else who pays taxes will get a break. Just because many leftists have no jobs and pay no taxes and therefore are only are on the government dole doesn't mean only billionaires are benefitting. Putin needs to supply you with new material.
Do you think anyone is going to restore the taxes on social security in 2028 after seniors get used to them? Who is going to do that? The Dems? That would be election suicide. And imagine complaining that the social security tax cuts might expire one day? HA HA HA.
Richard, as I understand it, the expiration of the temporary “enhanced” standard deduction for seniors is most definitely already set to expire in three more years. There is no “might expire one day” to it. It will automatically expire unless it is specifically extended by the powers who be at that point in time. Who knows what might happen in three more years? The political climate could easily be quite different. I think it is a legitimate fear for seniors. But most do not seem to have recognized the temporary nature of this act.
All income groups received tax benefits, although the highest earners captured disproportionately more of the total dollar value—and saw the largest percentage increases relative to their income. “...tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.”
Thumb1: Hooray for the billionaires !!!
The people who pay the most taxes receive the greatest benefit from tax cuts, but everyone who pays taxes will benefit.
People that consistently complain about somebody getting a bigger handout than they are, are one thing. Show Boats! Cory "Spartacus" Booker is the Poster Boy for these spot light seeking people that throw hissy fits 24/7. These Drama Queens make a spectacle of themselves and whatever "message" they might have gets lost in the hoopla they manufacture.
Who pays a higher percentage of their income to taxes: the lower class, the middle class, the upper class, or the super-upper class?
:D Have you seen the price of coffee?
:D Have you seen the price of coffee?
They all benefit from the magnificent Trump tax cuts. Imagine the platform that Dems are trying to run on in opposing all things Trump. They want higher taxes, open borders, crime, endless wars, US tax payers to fund the national defense of much of the world, men in women's sports, sex change operations for minors. You can't make that stuff up. And they still wonder why they lost in a landslide. Trump has simply applied basic common sense to these problems. He is not afraid of vocal mob of lunatics who hijacked the Dem party and turned it into a circus farce.
Smith,
You didn't answer my question.
With statements like "Dems want higher taxes on the lower and middle classes, open borders, more crime, endless wars, the U.S. to subsidize the national defenses of much of the world, and sex-change operations and abortions on demand," you really should go to work at RT for your buddy, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin.
Just think -- If you do, you and Comrade Tucker can go shopping together at that nice Potemkin Village Supermarket in Moscow!!!
What exactly are you taking issue with? You oppose the tax cuts. Therefore, you must support higher taxes. Ironically, it's the socialist Dems who want the government to operate supermarkets and impose old Soviet style price controls. Maybe you are under Russian mind control comrade.
Why do your beloved tax cuts benefit the upper classes more than the middle and lower classes, Smith?
Are you upper-class?
If not, do you actually believe in "trickle-down economics"?
You cannot makeup labor statistics to please the "boy king"
BLS number are a scam too? Is that the point at which you step out of the Kool-aid line?
"The super-rich should get the biggest tax breaks because they pay the most taxes." (paraphrased)
The woman in charge - much like the chairman of the Federal Reserve - is a hardcore Trump hater and lib. Her sole objective is to undermine Trump. Even if that means Americans suffer. The job numbers have apparently been incorrect for years. Your options are that they are playing fast and loose for political purposes, or they are completely incompetent. Either way it is grounds for being fired.
The woman in charge - much like the chairman of the Federal Reserve - is a hardcore Trump hater and lib. Her sole objective is to undermine Trump. Even if that means Americans suffer. The job numbers have apparently been incorrect for years. Your options are that they are playing fast and loose for political purposes, or they are completely incompetent. Either way it is grounds for being fired.
Strong GDP growth: The U.S. economy experienced 5.7% real growth in 2021, the strongest in 40 years. Real GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.0% in the second quarter of 2025..
Stronger productivity growth: Productivity growth has returned, despite a global slowdown, averaging 2.3% from September 2022 to September 2024
Record job creation: The economy has seen significant job growth under the Biden administration, with a record 16.6 million jobs created and 21 million new business applications since he took office. This translates to the largest increase in the first three years of any administration.
Low unemployment rates: The unemployment rate reached a nearly 54-year low of 3.4% in January 2023 and averaged 4.1% during his term (February 2021 through May 2024), according to Econofact. This included record-low unemployment rates for Black Americans, Latino Americans, women, veterans, workers without a high school diploma, and workers with disabilities
The job numbers have apparently been incorrect for years.
Don't forget about the Biden Administration lying about the Crime Stats too. Trump should clean out ALL of these Deep Stater's ASAP. Before they succeed in taking him out. I doubt that VP Vance has the required Bravado to Face Down the Deep State.
:D I guess Trump is just unlucky huh?
You do understand, one person does not generate these numbers right?
Biden Economy:.
BS: - provide one stitch of evidence.
Storing,
I hate to break the bad news to you, but the only "Deep State" is the one that's comprised of Vladimir Putin, the KGB*, the Russia Mafia, Russian oligarchs, and "useful idiot" enablers like The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx"), Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislane Maxwell, Peter Theil, Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, Oliver Stone, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Tucker Carlson, et al. ad nauseam.
*Today's SVR and FSB
You may be under Russian mind control spreading disinformation since the Russians are apparently behind everything.
One stich of evidence? HA HA HA HA. They are constantly being revised after the fact. Which is just what happened. The leftist in charge got fired either due to her bias or incompetence. You can pick.
Smith,
I could go on and on.
It's a Fact the Biden Administration lied by roughly 1 million their claimed "New Jobs" created BS: And the Biden Justice Dept lied about the declining crime numbers in the US. These are facts. And now that the Dem's are in the minority and Trump has the Repub's voting as a united block, the Dem's are refusing to report for duty and represent their districts. Basically taking their ball and going home. Profanity riddled Little Kid Conduct while collecting a taxpayer funded paycheck.
...and every day takes us farther and farther away from Sleepy Joe Biden.
The winning continues.
:D
Inflation is down from record highs under Old Joe. Gas prices are down from record highs. The border is closed. Crime is down. The stock market is at near record highs. "Europe" is paying its fair share for national defense and Ukraine instead of putting that on backs of US taxpayers. It's hard to understand how there could be a much better record than that in just a few months. At the very least, it is a major improvement from the situation that Biden and his crime family left behind. Dems are just repeating Epstein and the same discredited policies that got them swept out of office.
In July 2025, the U.S. economy added 73,000 jobs, falling short of economists' expectations
. The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2% from 4.1% in June. This marks a continuation of slower job growth observed since May. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also revised job numbers for May and June sharply downwards, by a combined 258,000 positions
Strong GDP growth: The U.S. economy experienced 5.7% real growth in 2021, the strongest in 40 years. Real GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.0% in the second quarter of 2025.
Stronger productivity growth: Productivity growth has returned, despite a global slowdown, averaging 2.3% from September 2022 to September 2024
Record job creation: The economy has seen significant job growth under the Biden administration, with a record 16.6 million jobs created and 21 million new business applications since he took office. This translates to the largest increase in the first three years of any administration.
Low unemployment rates: The unemployment rate reached a nearly 54-year low of 3.4% in January 2023 and averaged 4.1% during his term (February 2021 through May 2024), according to Econofact. This included record-low unemployment rates for Black Americans, Latino Americans, women, veterans, workers without a high school diploma, and workers with disabilities
Trump Economy:
:P Biden Economy:
Job creation? The Dems used COVID to shut down the entire country for political purposes. Almost everyone lost their job. When they achieved their objective and allowed Americans to return to work, they claimed that created jobs. HA HA HA. There were almost zero new jobs created. The establishment did more harm with COVID for political purposes than can be undone in a hundred years to defeat Trump. Trillions were spent or stolen in waste and corruption under the COVID pretext. The mental health and education scores of children were set back in ways that are still being discovered. All done to blame Trump.
The numbers speak for themselves. On both sides.
When Trump sits down with Putin, those infected with TDS will be going out of their minds. These very sick people only continue getting sicker. Trump and his immediate family are at serious risk.
Yes, they do. If the "numbers" were so great under Biden/Kacklin' Kamala, why did they get swept out of office in a landslide losing every competitive state? Who to believe? The fake numbers or the voters.
Strong GDP growth: The U.S. economy experienced 5.7% real growth in 2021, the strongest in 40 years. Real GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.0% in the second quarter of 2025.
Stronger productivity growth: Productivity growth has returned, despite a global slowdown, averaging 2.3% from September 2022 to September 2024
Record job creation: The economy has seen significant job growth under the Biden administration, with a record 16.6 million jobs created and 21 million new business applications since he took office. This translates to the largest increase in the first three years of any administration.
Low unemployment rates: The unemployment rate reached a nearly 54-year low of 3.4% in January 2023 and averaged 4.1% during his term (February 2021 through May 2024), according to Econofact. This included record-low unemployment rates for Black Americans, Latino Americans, women, veterans, workers without a high school diploma, and workers with disabilities
Stern, Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, etc are ALL money losers for their networks/platforms. They serve the sole purpose of being Propaganda Arms for the Deep State. I watch Johnny Carson and Dean Martin Roasts often on You Tube. Carson and Martin were legitimate "talents". These guys today are "No Talents". Their ever declining audiences prove this.
Stern was once an anti-hero fighting the establishment. He completely capitulated. I don't think that he did that solely for the money. He seems to be a true TDS sufferer. He may even have had some type of mental collapse in response to the COVID hysteria. Going Howard Hughes is not normal.
I could see this Friday pow-wow with Putin stretching into Saturday. Trump well knows when to take a 2nd bow.
Getting guys outta there like Mark Milley was Step 1. That guy shoulda been tried for Treason for his Top Secret calls to China. Trump not having to concern himself with being re-elected is leading to things being done in hyper speed. The Dem's are absolutely Dumb Struck. Their shocked "response" is to drop F-Bombs and Sing Songs. SNL worthy.
The only position or policy taken by Dems on Ukraine is to oppose anything Trump suggests. If he wants to end the war in Ukraine, he must be working in collusion with Putin or has some selfish motivation like trying to win the Nobel Prize. What is there [sic] suggestion? Nothing. Maybe selling more weapons and lining the pockets of the military contractors who fund their campaigns with the profits. A vicious circle of war, profit, and political power. Trump kicked sand in their faces. No more Vietnams or Afghanistan wars. The never-ending war policy is over.
As someone who is scarcely left-wing and would love to see The Donald actually Make America Great Again, I must say that Mr. Art of the Deal is looking like Mr. Clueless Buffoon when it comes to Ukraine.
Say what you will, Biden kept Putin’s invasion from being the three-day cakewalk Putin had imagined.
Team Trump has made every mistake a clueless negotiator could make – announcing the concessions you will make before negotiations have even begun; failing to follow through on any of your threats and deadlines; sending uninformed dummies to the table; and trumpeting (pun intended) “progress” and “successes” when there obviously have been none.
The Alaska “summit” was the last embarrassing straw for me. It sent every possible wrong message. Putin and his cronies had to be drunk on champagne and euphoria by the time their flight landed back in Moscow. The must think Trump is the all-time useful idiot.
I think Trump projects himself onto Putin. He sees Putin as a “winner” like himself, a pragmatist who thinks only in terms of deals and dollars. He has no clue as to the depth of evil and ideological commitment with which he is dealing. Zelensky, on the other hand, is a peon, the sort of loser to whom TV Trump would've said "You're fired!"
I think Trump actually agrees with Putin that Ukraine is not a real country, that it rightfully belongs to Russia, and that the war is just a nuisance that should go away so the big boys, the winners, can just get on with their deals. He has no clue as to depth of hatred that Ukrainians (and all former Soviet republics) have for Russia.
The only way to end the Ukraine war is to bring Russia to its knees economically, which is easily enough done. Despite all the posturing, Trump will never do anything that actually gives Russia an incentive to end the war. He is the best thing that ever happened for Putin and the worst imaginable thing for Europe and Ukraine. I say this while agreeing that the European countries do need to take more responsibility for their own security and defense, but caving to Putin the way Trump is doing is not the way to accomplish this.
I have lost at least 50% of whatever respect and hope I had for The Donald. The way that Mr. “I Can End It in 24 Hours” has flipped and flopped and threatened and caved and stumbled and fumbled is a national embarrassment. I can’t imagine what the sophisticated European leaders say about Trump behind closed doors – or, alas, maybe I can – but I feel sure they wish there was some plug they could pull to shut him up and make him go away. Frankly, so do I.
Making an effort to end the war - even if you believe it is clumsy - makes you lose respect for Trump? Wow. I would think making no effort like Biden would be a cause of concern. Trump is not a traditional politician. Such a politician would string this war along to line the pockets of the military contractors who kick back a portion to him. Trump is cutting through all the bull to the heart of the matter. Maybe that will fail but his policy is the right one. The traditional path certainly wasn't leading to any results except another endless war.
Well said, Neville!
What is your solution comrade? I bet the KGB is behind everything. Right?
From 1959 on?
You'd be surprised.
Those Ruskies are really in your head.
Russians unable to defeat Ukraine in 3+ years? Plus, it took them 1+ month to organize their troops to invade Ukraine right there on their doorstep. They are now having serious manpower issues, and the Russian economy is circling the drain. They got the nukes, but overall they mirror N. Korea.
"Biden showed courage........." ? Really? Biden sat on his hands and permitted Russia to invade Ukraine to begin with. "10% for the Big Guy" being the reason. Arms sales kickbacks.
"Biden showed courage........." ? Really? Biden sat on his hands and permitted Russia to invade Ukraine to begin with. "10% for the Big Guy" being the reason. Arms sales kickbacks.
Maxwell confirmed that Trump had nothing to do with Epstein's crimes.
That's a lie, Smith, and you know it.
All the adjudicated liar said, in effect, was that she didn't know.
Which in and of itself was very probably just another lie.
I don't see Trump as making a sincere effort to end the war EXCEPT on Putin's terms. I believe he would sincerely like to end the killing and get this nuisance of a war off his plate so he can claim another success, but he is clearly negotiating on behalf of Putin. I don't think this is because he is a Putin/Russia sympathizer but because (1) he believes a Putin victory is inevitably how the war is going to end and (2) he values the business and political opportunities afforded by a closer relationship with Russia far, far more than he does the freedom of Ukraine. The fact is, Biden showed far more courage in this situation than Trump has shown. The first point - the inevitably of a Putin victory - is not true, but it would take real courage on the part of Trump to impose the kind of sanctions on Russia and provide the level of assistance to Ukraine that would bring peace. I don't believe Ukraine or Europe sees Trump as a friend in this mess for one moment. So, yes, I have indeed lost a great of respect for Trump and any illusion that he is actually a man of principle or courage.
Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for facilitating these crimes.
Smith,
She denied committing the crimes.
You believe her, right?
LOL. That has nothing to do with Trump comrade. Why would she lie about Trump? The corrupt Biden DOJ was out to get Trump at all costs. If she had anything on Trump, she would have disclosed it to them and been released. This is another baseless Trump hoax. Like Russia collusion.
We do not need another endless war that rages on for years or decades. We have been there and done that. The results are always disastrous. The best option under the circumstances is a compromise that ends the war. Putin will not live forever. He is the last of the Cold War leaders. Once he is gone, there will be a new generation of Russian leaders who can revisit this.
Joe Biden sat on his hands and permitted Russia to invade Ukraine to begin with. "10% for the Big Guy" being the reason. Arms sales kickbacks.
"10% for the Big Guy" is on Hunter's Laptop. It's part of the "payout structure" of Hunter's Company.
Herr Schicklgruber I mean Herr Smith,
Ghislaine Maxwell told Todd Blanche she didn't commit the crimes for which she is incarcerated.
Do you believe her?
If not, why, then, would you believe what she says about anything?
"If she had anything on Italian Mafia-connected and Russian Mafia-connected Trump, she would have snitched on him during the Biden Administration."
Really?
Regarding "Russia Collusion," google the names "stone" "schlanger" and "caddy" simultaneously.
But here's the thing:
Whether or not The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") colluded with your boy, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin, to get "elected," the fact remains that your boy, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin, waged a widespread hacking and influence campaign to ensure that Clinton would lose and that The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") would "win."
Republican Robert Mueller and the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committe both arrived at that conclusion.
Perhaps you missed their reports because you were too busy reading Ayn Rand, "The Daily Stormer," and the latest "Q drops," or some-such thing.
Neville Chamberlain couldn't have said it any better.
You might check your history books comrade. Chamberlain made a deal in an attempt to AVOID a war. The war in Ukraine has been going on for years. Ukraine does not have the capability, as the Allies did during WWII, to defeat the enemy. At best, they can create a stalemate that goes on year after year (as it already has) killing thousands and costing billions. There is no end game, however. It is endless war of the type waged in places like Vietnam and Afghanistan. The sunk costs pile up making it more and more difficult for the politicians to admit a mistake. Eventually the will to wage the war ends with the same settlement that could have been achieved years beforehand.
Hillary lost because she was a horribly flawed candidate. Collapsing into the gutter, calling 1/2 the electorate "deplorable", along with basically being a Shrew. She financed the Trump/Russia Conspiracy, and I'm not even gonna get into her Vince Foster stuff. Horrible person.
Hillary lost because she was a horribly flawed candidate. Collapsing into the gutter, calling 1/2 the electorate "deplorable", along with basically being a Shrew. She financed the Trump/Russia Conspiracy, and I'm not even gonna get into her Vince Foster stuff. Horrible person.
The investigation of John Bolton is long overdue. He clearly violated national security laws relating to the release and handling of classified information by not abiding by the review process before releasing his book back in 2020. Why was he in such a rush to publish the book without obtaining the proper review and approvals? He wanted it released during the 2020 campaign cycle to damage Trump and increase sales. Why did the Biden administration drop the DOJ investigation into his conduct? For the same reasons. They wanted to turn loose a Trump hater on the media for political reasons and didn't care about his unwillingness to abide by national security laws designed to protect classified information. But that didn't stop them from prosecuting Trump under a similar pretext.
The Classified Documents recovered inside Pres. Joe Biden's Garage were originally attained when Biden was VP. VP Joe Biden had no business having these Classified Documents in his personal possession. The same goes for Bolton. This is what routinely goes on within the Deep State. They believe they are above The Law.
Herr Schicklgruber I mean Herr Smith,
Every true American should be trying to politically damage The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx").
It is not "thinking", it's pure Hate. TDS knows no bounds.
Herr Storing,
Did you get a "kick" out of his making fun of that physically handicapped journalist during the 2016 campaign?
Does that kind of behavior turn you on?
Do you prefer a politically correct person or a president who gets the important things done like closing the border, reducing murders and assaults, ending wars, and lowering inflation etc. Which is more important as president? To the TDS sufferer like Comrade Tomsky, if Trump cured cancer, he would suggest that Trump was only trying to profit or win a Nobel Peace Prize and is contributing to overpopulation. The results would never be acknowledged under some pretext that involves Trump being a terrible person.
Herr Schicklgruber I mean Herr Smith,
The national murder and aggravated assault rates were already falling when the Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") took office in January 2025.
In June of this year, overall consumer prices were up about 2.7% from where they were a year earlier.
A rhetorical question for Herr Schicklgruber I mean Herr Smith:
Did The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") withhold $391 million in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in 2019 because he thought it would lead to peace and stability, or because he was trying to extort Zelenskyy into conjuring up some "dirt" on Joe Biden?
(BTW, I do confess to be suffering from TDDS -- Trump's Delusional Disinformation You-Know-What.)
What exactly did Obama do when Russia invaded Crimea?
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Dear Comrade Storing,
Perhaps you missed it:
Journalist in Helsinki:
"President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?"
President Putin:
"Yes, I did. Yes, I did."
-- Tom
Over 70 million Americans also wanted Trump to win.
You're in the minority. Live with it!
Boy how I enjoy hearing people talking about 2016. "Memories" is ALL they got.
Who won the popular vote in 2016?
Dear Herr Schicklgruber I mean Herr Smith,
Over 70 million "useful idiots" wanted Trump to win, thanks largely to fifty-seven years of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations waged against us and our NATO allies.
Didn't you know that your boy Trump started laundering money for the Russian Mafia in 1984, and right after he returned from Moscow in September of 1987, he placed full-paged pro-Kremlin "ads" in major newspapers?
*Today's SVR and FSB
-- Tom
What a great campaign strategy for 2028 suggesting that the vast majority of voters are idiots. LOL. Keep it up. That's music to my ears. Vance/Rubio 2028!
Smith,
Others might think of you as an idiot, but I just think of you as a "useful idiot."
Look it up.
Nothing about Russia? Maybe that is progress.
Trump says they are definitely going into Chicago. The only question is when. After the Chicago Labor Day Numbers of dead and injured/shot, it's hard to understand the Chicago Dem's rejecting the help. But, this is exactly what got Trump elected POTUS in 2024. The Dem's in positions of power have TDS and continue damaging their own voting base.
Trump is cleaning up these Blue States that are being run by gang bangers. Now he's gonna also eliminate the drug lords running the cartels. Those drones are all over the sky.
The leftist courts are doing their best to undermine him. I find it very difficult to believe that the President of the United States does not have discretion to mobilize the National Guard in the US when there is a crisis like out of control crime. According to the leftist judges, the endless murders and assaults don't rise to a national emergency. I'm fairly sure that if terrorists were shooting nearly 60 people every weekend in Chicago that would be an emergency. And what happened to "Black Lives Matter"? Aren't almost all the victims of these crimes black? That no longer seems to matter to Dems when the desired political narrative does not support it. The only objective is to oppose Trump. There is no alternative solution being pitched. The status quo, keeping many urban minorities trapped in poverty for generations and dependent on government support, means that Dems get 80-90% of their vote. That is essential to keep Dems competitive in national elections. No other demographic is skewed to such an extent. LBJ was a genius.
1st they claimed Trump was physically involved with the Epstein stuff, and once the secretary cleared Trump, they moved onto the victims routine. They have nothing else. They are a One Trick Pony. "Get Trump"/TDS.
Trump is not helping himself. He should just release the materials. I think he is concerned that there may be some information that links him to Epstein in various social contexts and the media will use that to insinuate that he was involved in Epstein's crimes. Not an invalid concern but it is better to take your medicine than to feed into the conspiracy. One of the women yesterday mentioned that she went with Bill Clinton to Africa. Not a single follow up question about that.
There are only so many hours inna day. Trump has far bigger fish to fry than this Epstein stuff. Especially with Epstein dead. Trump can Not permit the Fake News'ers to dictate what he devotes his time to. He's got Putin on the front burner and then comes Israel, Chicago, and the Drug Cartels.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
LOL!
Good to have you aboard the Trump Train.
That would be now that you're aboard?
Either that, or, more likely, he knows there's oodles and gobs of footage showing him banging the heck out of 14-year-olds.
Just my morning musing, but I am struck by how cult-like this has all become. Discussions of actual issues ("Is this a good or bad idea?") seem almost nonexistent. It's all either "Messiah Trump wants it, and therefore we love it" or "Antichrist Trump wants it, and therefore we hate it." It's quite bizarre, isn't it? As my Trump-loathing best friend said long ago, the GOP could have elected someone with essentially identical ideas and policies who would not have instantly divided the country into two warring cults. (One reason many Democrats are part of a Trump-loathing cult, of course, is that this is the best they can do at the moment; they have no Trump-alternative Messiah of their own.)
Just my morning musing, but I am struck by how cult-like this has all become. Discussions of actual issues ("Is this a good or bad idea?") seem almost nonexistent. It's all either "Messiah Trump wants it, and therefore we love it" or "Antichrist Trump wants it, and therefore we hate it." It's quite bizarre, isn't it? As my Trump-loathing best friend said long ago, the GOP could have elected someone with essentially identical ideas and policies who would not have instantly divided the country into two warring cults. (One reason many Democrats are part of a Trump-loathing cult, of course, is that this is the best they can do at the moment; they have no Trump-alternative Messiah of their own.)
I'm not sure why there is a need to characterize Trump supporters as a cult.I am, in general, a Trump supporter in the sense of supporting many of his policies and objectives - certainly in comparison to those of Kamala and her supporters. I am far from a Trump cultist. He is more than "flawed" - I am concerned that his megalomania borders on (or crosses into) insanity, that he is erratic past the point that should be acceptable in any leader, and that he is one step from becoming genuinely frightening. The checks and balances that should exist within our system of government seem to have vanished under Trump.
I am, in general, a Trump supporter in the sense of supporting many of his policies and objectives - certainly in comparison to those of Kamala and her supporters. I am far from a Trump cultist. He is more than "flawed" - I am concerned that his megalomania borders on (or crosses into) insanity, that he is erratic past the point that should be acceptable in any leader, and that he is one step from becoming genuinely frightening. The checks and balances that should exist within our system of government seem to have vanished under Trump.
Here, from an article in Psychology Today that was written before The Donald ever ran for office, are the warnings signs of a dangerous cult leader. Not all fit Trump because this is talking principally about religious cults, but a lot of them are him to a T:
He has a grandiose idea of who he is and what he can achieve.
Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, or brilliance.
Demands blind, unquestioned obedience.
Requires excessive admiration from followers and outsiders.
Has a sense of entitlement—expecting to be treated as special at all times.
Exploits others by asking for their money or that of relatives, putting others at financial risk.
Is arrogant and haughty in his behavior or attitude.
Has an exaggerated sense of power (entitlement) that allows him to bend rules and break laws.
Takes sexual advantage of members of his sect or cult.
Sex is a requirement with adults and sub-adults as part of a ritual or rite.
Is hypersensitive to how he is seen or perceived by others.
Publicly devalues others as being inferior, incapable, or not worthy.
Makes members confess their sins or faults, publicly subjecting them to ridicule or humiliation while revealing the exploitable weaknesses of the penitent.
Has ignored the needs of others, including biological, physical, emotional, and financial needs.
Is frequently boastful of accomplishments.
Needs to be the center of attention and does things to distract others to ensure that he or she is being noticed, e.g., by arriving late, using exotic clothing, overdramatic speech, or by making theatrical entrances.
Has insisted on always having the best of anything (house, car, jewelry, clothes) even when others are relegated to lesser facilities, amenities, or clothing.
Doesn’t seem to listen well to the needs of others; communication is usually one-way, in the form of dictates.
Haughtiness, grandiosity, and the need to be controlling are part of his personality.
Behaves as though people are objects to be used, manipulated, or exploited for personal gain.
When criticized he tends to lash out not just with anger but with rage.
Anyone who criticizes or questions him is called an “enemy.”
Refers to non-members or non-believers as “the enemy.”
Acts imperious at times, not wishing to know what others think or desire.
Believes himself to be omnipotent.
Has “magical” answers or solutions to problems.
Is superficially charming.
Habitually puts down others as inferior; only he is superior.
Has a certain coldness or aloofness about him that makes others worry about who this person is and or whether they know him.
Is deeply offended when there are perceived signs of boredom, being ignored or slighted.
Treats others with contempt and arrogance.
Is constantly assessing people to determine those who are a threat or those who revere him.
The word “I” dominates his conversations. He is oblivious to how often he references himself.
Hates to be embarrassed or fail publicly; when he does he acts out with rage.
Doesn’t seem to feel guilty for anything he has done wrong nor does he apologize for his actions.
Believes he possesses the answers and solutions to world problems.
Believes himself to be a deity or a chosen representative of a deity.
"Rigid," "unbending," or "insensitive" describes how this person thinks.
Tries to control others in what they do, read, view, or think.
Has isolated members of his sect from contact with family or the outside world.
Monitors and/or restricts contact with family or outsiders.
Works the least but demands the most.
Has stated that he is “destined for greatness” or that he will be “martyred.”
Seems to be highly dependent on tribute and adoration and will often fish for compliments.
Uses enforcers or sycophants to ensure compliance from members or believers.
Sees themself as “unstoppable” and perhaps has even said so.
Conceals background or family, which would disclose how plain or ordinary he is.
Doesn’t think there is anything wrong with himself and sees himself as perfect or “blessed.”
Has taken away followers' freedom to leave, to travel, to pursue life and liberty.
Has isolated the group physically (moved to a remote area) to not be observed.
Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/201208/dangerous-cult-leaders
I am, in general, a Trump supporter in the sense of supporting many of his policies and objectives - certainly in comparison to those of Kamala and her supporters. I am far from a Trump cultist. He is more than "flawed" - I am concerned that his megalomania borders on (or crosses into) insanity, that he is erratic past the point that should be acceptable in any leader, and that he is one step from becoming genuinely frightening. The checks and balances that should exist within our system of government seem to have vanished under Trump.
Here, from an article in Psychology Today that was written before The Donald ever ran for office, are the warnings signs of a dangerous cult leader. Not all fit Trump because this is talking principally about religious cults, but a lot of them are him to a T:
He has a grandiose idea of who he is and what he can achieve.
Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, or brilliance.
Demands blind, unquestioned obedience.
Requires excessive admiration from followers and outsiders.
Has a sense of entitlement—expecting to be treated as special at all times.
Exploits others by asking for their money or that of relatives, putting others at financial risk.
Is arrogant and haughty in his behavior or attitude.
Has an exaggerated sense of power (entitlement) that allows him to bend rules and break laws.
Takes sexual advantage of members of his sect or cult.
Sex is a requirement with adults and sub-adults as part of a ritual or rite.
Is hypersensitive to how he is seen or perceived by others.
Publicly devalues others as being inferior, incapable, or not worthy.
Makes members confess their sins or faults, publicly subjecting them to ridicule or humiliation while revealing the exploitable weaknesses of the penitent.
Has ignored the needs of others, including biological, physical, emotional, and financial needs.
Is frequently boastful of accomplishments.
Needs to be the center of attention and does things to distract others to ensure that he or she is being noticed, e.g., by arriving late, using exotic clothing, overdramatic speech, or by making theatrical entrances.
Has insisted on always having the best of anything (house, car, jewelry, clothes) even when others are relegated to lesser facilities, amenities, or clothing.
Doesn’t seem to listen well to the needs of others; communication is usually one-way, in the form of dictates.
Haughtiness, grandiosity, and the need to be controlling are part of his personality.
Behaves as though people are objects to be used, manipulated, or exploited for personal gain.
When criticized he tends to lash out not just with anger but with rage.
Anyone who criticizes or questions him is called an “enemy.”
Refers to non-members or non-believers as “the enemy.”
Acts imperious at times, not wishing to know what others think or desire.
Believes himself to be omnipotent.
Has “magical” answers or solutions to problems.
Is superficially charming.
Habitually puts down others as inferior; only he is superior.
Has a certain coldness or aloofness about him that makes others worry about who this person is and or whether they know him.
Is deeply offended when there are perceived signs of boredom, being ignored or slighted.
Treats others with contempt and arrogance.
Is constantly assessing people to determine those who are a threat or those who revere him.
The word “I” dominates his conversations. He is oblivious to how often he references himself.
Hates to be embarrassed or fail publicly; when he does he acts out with rage.
Doesn’t seem to feel guilty for anything he has done wrong nor does he apologize for his actions.
Believes he possesses the answers and solutions to world problems.
Believes himself to be a deity or a chosen representative of a deity.
"Rigid," "unbending," or "insensitive" describes how this person thinks.
Tries to control others in what they do, read, view, or think.
Has isolated members of his sect from contact with family or the outside world.
Monitors and/or restricts contact with family or outsiders.
Works the least but demands the most.
Has stated that he is “destined for greatness” or that he will be “martyred.”
Seems to be highly dependent on tribute and adoration and will often fish for compliments.
Uses enforcers or sycophants to ensure compliance from members or believers.
Sees themself as “unstoppable” and perhaps has even said so.
Conceals background or family, which would disclose how plain or ordinary he is.
Doesn’t think there is anything wrong with himself and sees himself as perfect or “blessed.”
Has taken away followers' freedom to leave, to travel, to pursue life and liberty.
Has isolated the group physically (moved to a remote area) to not be observed.
Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/201208/dangerous-cult-leaders
Some loony left-wing woman claimed Trump followed her into a department store and assaulted her decades ago. She didn't file a report, no one saw the assault, she never mentioned it to anyone even in her diary and couldn't remember when it happened. Decades later, NY suddenly changes its laws to allow the victims of sexual assault a window of opportunity to file civil claims. And who comes forward? This women who is backed by leftist attorneys for the sole purpose of filing a claim against Trump. Trump denies the charge and they sue him for defamation. She is awarded $83 million despite suffering no apparent damages. You can't make that up. Proclaiming your innocence is apparently defamation.
Dear Comrade Smith,
In addition to trusting "former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin more than our own intelligence agencies, do you, like The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx"), sexually assault women in department store changing rooms?
-- Tom
Comrade Tomsky. No assault ever occurred. Do you think Donald Trump randomly followed women into department stores to assault them? And that no one noticed. And the "victim" never reported the assault to store security or the police. And that she could not remember the day, month or even year of the assault. And that she never mentioned the assault to a single person for decades. And that NY suddenly decided decades later to suspend the statute of limitations to allow her to file a civil claim with the support of attorneys funded by leftist organizations. And that it was defamation for Trump to claim he was innocent resulting in over $80 million in damages to her? None of that concerns you as a defender of "democracy"? Like all good Commies, it is not the persecution of the guilty but the innocent that makes an impression.
Regardless of one's partisan and ideological sentiments, the department-store case against Donald Trump is a travesty.
Witch-hunts can go in any direction. And they do.
The very existence of the traitorous orange bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") known as Donald J. Trump is The Greatest of all Travesties, the conviction of the aforementioned Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") for sexual assault in a department store changing room is a step in the right direction.
This demonstrates a great insight into the mind of a TDS sufferer. Trump is deemed to be such a terrible person that the facts no longer matter. It's about him and not the facts. He must have done all sorts of terrible things despite the lack of evidence and logic. Here Comrade Tomsky also demonstrates a profound lack of understanding of the US legal system. Trump was not "convicted" of sexual assault. LOL. This was a civil - not criminal trial - conducted solely for political purposes in the presence of a Trump hating judge. Imagine if they had sued Biden for rape in some all-red county in the rural South based on the testimony of Tara Reade who claimed he raped her many years ago. The verdict would have been the same but there is no credible evidence to support these claims.
Dear Herr Schicklgruber, I mean Herr Smith,
I didn't realize that The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") was such a horrible person until he made fun of the physically handicapped "Libtard" journalist during the 2016 campaign.
Which you thought was hilarious, right?
And when I read the 13 July 2017 article by Craig Unger, "Trump's Russian Laundromat," that really sealed the deal (pardon the pun) for me.
Have you read it, yet?
Warning: It's paywalled.
https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate
-- Tom
I guess that is it then. Trump made fun of someone almost a decade ago. He must be Hitler. He must be guilty of all manner of crimes. Who cares about the evidence or facts or logic? He bad. The Ruskies are behind it all. Repeat endlessly.
The world has just lost a true, courageous, brilliant, caring, good man.
Charlie Kirk, RIP.
What was his stand on gun control?
He believed in the Second Amendment. Why do you ask that question?
Just curious:
Do you think so-called "sporting rifles" should be legal to own?
Do you think background checks for gun purchases is a good idea?
Did Charlie Kirk?
What does that have to do with the assassination of Charlie Kirk?
What does that have to do with the assassination of Charlie Kirk?
Of course, Tom is suggesting that Kirk is responsible for his own murder. It is the natural progression of the unhinged hate fueled rage against Trump. When you start claiming someone is Hitler or a Nazi, then anything is fair game to them. The ends justify any means. Kirk was a young father who was peacefully exercising his First Amendment rights. That can no longer be tolerated by some on the left. They have been radicalized by propaganda to a frightening extent. Kirk was the enemy to them. A threat to democracy because he had opinions contrary to their own. Fortunately, the nuts who espouse this kind of reckless rhetoric are few in number even if they remain vocal.
This is what you get when people like Mika accuse ICE of "disappearing" people. Like a lawyer attempting to influence the decision of a jury, these "hosts" specialize in rhetoric. They know exactly what they are saying and the reaction that they are attempting to trigger.
I don’t see how the Kirk assassin shooter escaped carrying this long “Mauser” 30.06 bolt action rifle with large scope on it, from where they think he may been located on the roof, to trek across the roof, jump off to the ground and go on a long trek to where this “Mauser” rifle was found in some woods, and nobody saw him carrying the rifle and no surveillance cameras caught him carrying the rifle either.
There’s one phone video person seems to have located somebody on the roof moving similar to how Crooks was seen going across roof, and once again, no security and the person recording seems not to think to inform a police officer or security.
Then there is some weird hand signaling going on by 2 guys standing to the side of Kirk which coincidentally stop just seconds before Kirk gets hit.
Then there are a lot of social media posts on Sept 9 , predicting or suggesting Kirk would be shot dead on the 10th.
The media guy who is obviously an opposition guy asking Kirk the ? About how many trans shooters there were and then the follow up ? and Kirk responded about “gangs” just before he is shot is suspiciously coincidental as well.
Was this a pre planned professional assassination or was it just one lone nut who read the social media posts on the 9th and deciding his own to act?
Not yet Tom. I’m leaning towards the shooter being another lefty trans lone nut inspired by social media.
There is not yet any camera showing the latest suspect carrying a rifle either on his way to the roof or when he left the roof.
It’s probably NOT one of your KGB friends though Tom, because what would be the motive?
Not yet Tom. I’m leaning towards the shooter being another lefty trans lone nut inspired by social media.
There is not yet any camera showing the latest suspect carrying a rifle either on his way to the roof or when he left the roof.
It’s probably NOT one of your KGB friends though Tom, because what would be the motive?
A liberal loon motivated by social media TDS hate and conspiracy theories for sure.
He appears to have carried a disassembled rifle in a backpack and his pants. Walking toward the event he had pronounced limp like a section of the rifle was hidden down his pants leg. He puts the rifle together in the building. Afterward he is running like Jessie Owens and jumping off the building with no limp. He is someone from the local area who was familiar with the campus. Likely will be found a short distance away. A liberal loon motivated by social media TDS hate and conspiracy theories for sure.
Still early, but we are now hearing this guy had a car parked there at the college. Yet, he chose to run into the woods, ditch the rifle there, and then have to return to the college and drive the car out of there? I am also hearing about the rifle being wrapped in a towel when it was found. Who takes the time to wrap a rifle inna towel only to discard it in the woods? And law enforcement now says he was wearing 2 different sets of clothing while inside the college that day. Lotta different questions need to be answered.
Dear Herr Schicklgruber, I mean Herr Smith,
What's wrong with despising someone who makes fun of handicapped people, started laundering money for the Russian Mafia in 1984, and sexually assaults women in department store changing rooms?
-- Tom
I will confess, I had never even heard of Charlie Kirk.
I live in a fairly small, exceedingly liberal college town. I said to my wife long ago that if I were the most enthusiastic Trump supporter on the planet, there would be no Trump signs in my yard or Trump bumper stickers on my car. It simply wouldn't be safe. I don't suppose I'd be shot, but I guarantee you my car wouldn't be safe.
Now that I've read some of Kirk's views - many of which I might agree with in a less incendiary way - if I were him I don't think I would have appeared at open-air events even with an (ineffective) bulletproof vest. Did he "deserve what he got"? No, of course not. Was he taking an extreme risk in today's political climate? Absolutely.
I happen to listen to a lot of Christian talk radio (much of which I can't stand!). Good Lord, on these shows Kirk is a saint, a Christian martyr, the voice of sanity and reason who would surely have been President some day. Some of the hosts literally can't get through their shows without sobbing. Sorry, but much of what I have read places Kirk as the rightwing counterpart to some of the most incendiary Lefties. If you're going to say those sorts of things in that sort of language in today's world, you are taking an extreme risk.
Crazily, my best friend is an absolutely foaming-at-the-mouth Trump hater. I sent him an email this morning, asking if he'd ever heard of Kirk. What he sent back managed to turn the entire incident into Trump's fault, as though the leftwing wacko with a rifle wasn't even part of the equation. His logic must be that young Tyler was just acting out what most sane people are thinking anyway.
It really seems quite hopeless to me. Kirk's death isn't going to "bring us together," make anyone think things have finally gone too far. As long as these extremists on both sides think their extreme views and incendiary rhetoric is "normal" and "reasonable," nothing will change and things will only get worse. You are only "normal" and "reasonable" if you capitulate to their views; there is no in-between. Trump is a lightning rod, of course, but the issues are far deeper than him.
It's a genuine war. I have a number of friends in the same age range who have the same perspective that I have: Thank God I'm 75 and don't have to worry about what the country or the world will look like 25 or 50 years from now. Just let me lay low and get through the remainder of life before the sh*t really hits the fan. The way things are going, I fear the sh*t may hit the fan well within my lifetime. It's becoming almost ... biblical.
I will confess, I had never even heard of Charlie Kirk.
I live in a fairly small, exceedingly liberal college town. I said to my wife long ago that if I were the most enthusiastic Trump supporter on the planet, there would be no Trump signs in my yard or Trump bumper stickers on my car. It simply wouldn't be safe. I don't suppose I'd be shot, but I guarantee you my car wouldn't be safe.
Now that I've read some of Kirk's views - many of which I might agree with in a less incendiary way - if I were him I don't think I would have appeared at open-air events even with an (ineffective) bulletproof vest. Did he "deserve what he got"? No, of course not. Was he taking an extreme risk in today's political climate? Absolutely.
I happen to listen to a lot of Christian talk radio (much of which I can't stand!). Good Lord, on these shows Kirk is a saint, a Christian martyr, the voice of sanity and reason who would surely have been President some day. Some of the hosts literally can't get through their shows without sobbing. Sorry, but much of what I have read places Kirk as the rightwing counterpart to some of the most incendiary Lefties. If you're going to say those sorts of things in that sort of language in today's world, you are taking an extreme risk.
Crazily, my best friend is an absolutely foaming-at-the-mouth Trump hater. I sent him an email this morning, asking if he'd ever heard of Kirk. What he sent back managed to turn the entire incident into Trump's fault, as though the leftwing wacko with a rifle wasn't even part of the equation. His logic must be that young Tyler was just acting out what most sane people are thinking anyway.
It really seems quite hopeless to me. Kirk's death isn't going to "bring us together," make anyone think things have finally gone too far. As long as these extremists on both sides think their extreme views and incendiary rhetoric is "normal" and "reasonable," nothing will change and things will only get worse. You are only "normal" and "reasonable" if you capitulate to their views; there is no in-between. Trump is a lightning rod, of course, but the issues are far deeper than him.
It's a genuine war. I have a number of friends in the same age range who have the same perspective that I have: Thank God I'm 75 and don't have to worry about what the country or the world will look like 25 or 50 years from now. Just let me lay low and get through the remainder of life before the sh*t really hits the fan. The way things are going, I fear the sh*t may hit the fan well within my lifetime. It's becoming almost ... biblical.
My best friend is an absolutely foaming-at-the-mouth Trump hater.
Why do you have to "despise" Trump? Why can't you just say that you disagree with his conduct?
Most of what you have posted even here is misinformation.
Those under 30 in this country have lived lives online and in social media. They are isolated and exposed to all manner of disinformation and hate speech. The loon who assassinated Kirk is a product of that environment. He was likely convinced that Kirk was a Nazi and he would be a hero for his act. Instead he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Maybe face the death penalty. The propaganda or whatever is going on with the social media algorithms are having an impact on the younger crowd. They are certainly not getting any smarter as standardized test score are hitting rock bottom but they are also experiencing higher levels of mental health issues and anger. Not a good combination.This is a truth that I have been preaching for at least two decades. With all of the benefits that the internet and cellphones have brought to life, I believe the net effect has been FANTASTICALLY negative. If I may name drop, I remember Dick Kleindienst shaking his head way back in 1995 and saying, "People have no idea what they are unleashing." Brains are physically being altered, patterns of thinking are being altered, opportunities for those with mental illnesses and sociopathic tendencies to bond and vent are everywhere. I am not someone who typically thinks in terms of "demons," but it almost seems supernatural.
Dear Lance,If I were in the grip of the sort of mania that possesses you, I could probably find reasons to despise every President in my lifetime. Because I'm not, I don't despise any of them. Tom's problem is Tom, not Donald Trump. Your KGB Bogeyman mania seems to have reached a near-pathological level, to the extent that you are compelled to drag Trump into the web even though it's patently absurd. Would I be shocked if The Donald had dealings with Russian "businessmen" 41 years ago? Hell, no, nor would I care. Do I think he was knowingly "laundering money for the Russian Mafia" 41 years ago or is doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin today because the tentacles of the KGB are everywhere? Uh, no. These are the sorts of things people who need help go around saying.
Aren't all Trump "haters" foaming-at-the-mouth in your humble opinion?
Regardless, how can you not despise a man who makes fun of handicapped people, started laundering money for the Russian Mafia in 1984, and sexually assaults women in department store changing rooms?
-- Tom
This is a truth that I have been preaching for at least two decades. With all of the benefits that the internet and cellphones have brought to life, I believe the net effect has been FANTASTICALLY negative. If I may name drop, I remember Dick Kleindienst shaking his head way back in 1995 and saying, "People have no idea what they are unleashing." Brains are physically being altered, patterns of thinking are being altered, opportunities for those with mental illnesses and sociopathic tendencies to bond and vent are everywhere. I am not someone who typically thinks in terms of "demons," but it almost seems supernatural.
I was in high school and college throughout the turbulent sixties. Yes, there was anger and violence, but NOTHING like we see today. I didn't spend one minute in fear for my safety or wondering if someone around me was dangerous. I had plinking guns in my dorm room and no one gave it a second thought. There has literally been an explosion that I can only attribute to the internet and the rise of social media. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Anything Else account, but I have seen those things destroy relationships in my own family as members become obsessed with their like-thinking social media "friends" at the expense of real relationships.
Take the transgender phenomenon. I spent at least the first 60 years of my life without ever encountering someone confused about his or her gender. I lived in dorms, worked in journalism, practiced law. I had a couple of very good gay friends. But I never heard ONE WORD about gender confusion. I believe the entire "transgender" phenomenon is an artificial construct, almost entirely a product of the internet and social media (and, of course, an educational system that bears no relationship to the one in which I was educated for 19 years). And that's just one example.
This is a truth that I have been preaching for at least two decades. With all of the benefits that the internet and cellphones have brought to life, I believe the net effect has been FANTASTICALLY negative. If I may name drop, I remember Dick Kleindienst shaking his head way back in 1995 and saying, "People have no idea what they are unleashing." Brains are physically being altered, patterns of thinking are being altered, opportunities for those with mental illnesses and sociopathic tendencies to bond and vent are everywhere. I am not someone who typically thinks in terms of "demons," but it almost seems supernatural.These are self-radicalized/social media influenced lone nuts (to borrow a phrase). They're not members of any group, they're loners, mostly young white men. It's brain rot not ideology (although the latter fills in for the rot) that's the problem. Lee Harvey Oswald anyone? (although his ideology was more fixed and authentic).
I was in high school and college throughout the turbulent sixties. Yes, there was anger and violence, but NOTHING like we see today. I didn't spend one minute in fear for my safety or wondering if someone around me was dangerous. I had plinking guns in my dorm room and no one gave it a second thought. There has literally been an explosion that I can only attribute to the internet and the rise of social media. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Anything Else account, but I have seen those things destroy relationships in my own family as members become obsessed with their like-thinking social media "friends" at the expense of real relationships.
Take the transgender phenomenon. I spent at least the first 60 years of my life without ever encountering someone confused about his or her gender. I lived in dorms, worked in journalism, practiced law. I had a couple of very good gay friends. But I never heard ONE WORD about gender confusion. I believe the entire "transgender" phenomenon is an artificial construct, almost entirely a product of the internet and social media (and, of course, an educational system that bears no relationship to the one in which I was educated for 19 years). And that's just one example.
This is a truth that I have been preaching for at least two decades. With all of the benefits that the internet and cellphones have brought to life, I believe the net effect has been FANTASTICALLY negative. If I may name drop, I remember Dick Kleindienst shaking his head way back in 1995 and saying, "People have no idea what they are unleashing." Brains are physically being altered, patterns of thinking are being altered, opportunities for those with mental illnesses and sociopathic tendencies to bond and vent are everywhere. I am not someone who typically thinks in terms of "demons," but it almost seems supernatural.
I was in high school and college throughout the turbulent sixties. Yes, there was anger and violence, but NOTHING like we see today. I didn't spend one minute in fear for my safety or wondering if someone around me was dangerous. I had plinking guns in my dorm room and no one gave it a second thought. There has literally been an explosion that I can only attribute to the internet and the rise of social media. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Anything Else account, but I have seen those things destroy relationships in my own family as members become obsessed with their like-thinking social media "friends" at the expense of real relationships.
Take the transgender phenomenon. I spent at least the first 60 years of my life without ever encountering someone confused about his or her gender. I lived in dorms, worked in journalism, practiced law. I had a couple of very good gay friends. But I never heard ONE WORD about gender confusion. I believe the entire "transgender" phenomenon is an artificial construct, almost entirely a product of the internet and social media (and, of course, an educational system that bears no relationship to the one in which I was educated for 19 years). And that's just one example.
Dear Schicklgruber, I mean Smith,
What's wrong with despising someone?
It's better than hating them, right?
Haven't you ever despised anyone -- or have you just "disagreed with his (or her) conduct"?
It would take me a long time to tell you all the reasons I despise The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx").
Let this suffice for starters.
(Sorry it's from a news source you hate, I mean despise.)
What "misinformation" have I posted here, Schicklgruber, I mean Smith?
-- Tom
If I were in the grip of the sort of mania that possesses you, I could probably find reasons to despise every President in my lifetime. Because I'm not, I don't despise any of them. Tom's problem is Tom, not Donald Trump. Your KGB Bogeyman mania seems to have reached a near-pathological level, to the extent that you are compelled to drag Trump into the web even though it's patently absurd. Would I be shocked if The Donald had dealings with Russian "businessmen" 41 years ago? Hell, no, nor would I care. Do I think he was knowingly "laundering money for the Russian Mafia" 41 years ago or is doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin today because the tentacles of the KGB are everywhere? Uh, no. These are the sorts of things people who need help go around saying.
This is a truth that I have been preaching for at least two decades. With all of the benefits that the internet and cellphones have brought to life, I believe the net effect has been FANTASTICALLY negative. If I may name drop, I remember Dick Kleindienst shaking his head way back in 1995 and saying, "People have no idea what they are unleashing." Brains are physically being altered, patterns of thinking are being altered, opportunities for those with mental illnesses and sociopathic tendencies to bond and vent are everywhere. I am not someone who typically thinks in terms of "demons," but it almost seems supernatural.
I was in high school and college throughout the turbulent sixties. Yes, there was anger and violence, but NOTHING like we see today. I didn't spend one minute in fear for my safety or wondering if someone around me was dangerous. I had plinking guns in my dorm room and no one gave it a second thought. There has literally been an explosion that I can only attribute to the internet and the rise of social media. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Anything Else account, but I have seen those things destroy relationships in my own family as members become obsessed with their like-thinking social media "friends" at the expense of real relationships.
Take the transgender phenomenon. I spent at least the first 60 years of my life without ever encountering someone confused about his or her gender. I lived in dorms, worked in journalism, practiced law. I had a couple of very good gay friends. But I never heard ONE WORD about gender confusion. I believe the entire "transgender" phenomenon is an artificial construct, almost entirely a product of the internet and social media (and, of course, an educational system that bears no relationship to the one in which I was educated for 19 years). And that's just one example.
The race riots of 1968 following the assassination of Dr. King:I actually do think we're in a situation far, far worse. I lived through the sixties as a high school (1964-1968) and college (1968-72) student, but it was fundamentally different from today IHO. As much as I hate AI, I asked it to distinguish the two eras and it actually did quite a good job:
"Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a leading African-American civil rights activist, on April 4, 1968, Washington, D.C., experienced a four-day period of violent civil unrest and rioting. Part of the broader riots that affected at least 110 U.S. cities, those in Washington, D.C.—along with those in Chicago and in Baltimore—were among those with the greatest numbers of participants. President Lyndon B. Johnson called in the National Guard to the city on April 5, 1968, to assist the police department in quelling the unrest. Ultimately, 13 people were killed, with approximately 1,000 people injured and over 6,100 arrested."
There were violent riots and protests in over 100 US cities. Washington was shutdown for four days. LBJ had to call the National Guard out to restore order.
If you think we're in a situation worse than that then well you need to turn off the computer.
I actually do think we're in a situation far, far worse. I lived through the sixties as a high school (1964-1968) and college (1968-72) student, but it was fundamentally different from today IHO. As much as I hate AI, I asked it to distinguish the two eras and it actually did quite a good job:
Both the 1960s and today have experienced significant violence, but the nature, primary drivers, and public perception differ substantially. While the 1960s saw widespread street violence, assassinations, and organized protests often related to civil rights and the Vietnam War, violence today is characterized by political polarization amplified by social media and an increased prevalence of gun violence.
It produced a lengthy comparison chart that I apparently can't reproduce here, but the emphasis was on the effects of technology, social media and the widespread availability of guns. Here is some of what it said about today:
Increasingly fueled by conspiracy theories, anger, and distrust amplified on social media. Political violence is more decentralized, and while perpetrators may have mental health concerns, they are also shaped by the current polarized climate.
Social media plays a powerful and often negative role, allowing extremist views to spread widely and rapidly. It also provides unfiltered information, which can lead to misinformation and confusion.
The easy availability of guns is now a major factor in political and interpersonal violence, making it easier for individuals to act on hatred. Mass shootings are a significant feature of modern-day violence.
Aggressive and dehumanizing political rhetoric is now used more frequently by mainstream political figures, contributing to a more inflamed and polarized atmosphere.
In the sixties, I don't think anyone thought the very soul of America was at risk. There was certainly a great divide over the Vietnam War, and over racial issues, but I don't think anyone on either side thought the America we had always known was at risk. Now, I believe that fear does exist. Those under 40 have been educated in and indoctrinated by a Marxist/Leftist educational system and simply do not view America the same way the older generations do. It is far more of a genuine cultural war than existed in the sixties. The internet and social media allow people, especially young people, to live in echo chambers and they thus exacerbate the divide and ratchet up the loonies.
I just finished a scholarly book by a Notre Dame professor and sociologist who traces the decline in traditional religion from the Boomers to Gen X to the Millennials to Gen Z and beyond. He argues that, for Gen Z and beyond, traditional religion is simply irrelevant and effectively dead - replaced, if at all, by "spirituality" and "enchantment." I think much of the situation today is likewise generational. Those under 40 predominantly want a more Marxist/Leftist America because that's what they've been indoctrinated to want. I saw the election of Trump as a last-gasp effort to stem the tide. Perhaps that effort will be successful, and I hope it is, but I'm not optimistic because it's like trying to turn around a battleship and those with traditional values aren't getting younger.
All of this is painting with too broad of a brush, of course, but I do think the situation today involves a far deeper divide than was the case in the sixties - basically two entirely different visions of America - and that the potential for something akin to a civil war or collapse is very real.
The race riots of 1968 following the assassination of Dr. King:
"Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a leading African-American civil rights activist, on April 4, 1968, Washington, D.C., experienced a four-day period of violent civil unrest and rioting. Part of the broader riots that affected at least 110 U.S. cities, those in Washington, D.C.—along with those in Chicago and in Baltimore—were among those with the greatest numbers of participants. President Lyndon B. Johnson called in the National Guard to the city on April 5, 1968, to assist the police department in quelling the unrest. Ultimately, 13 people were killed, with approximately 1,000 people injured and over 6,100 arrested."
There were violent riots and protests in over 100 US cities. Washington was shutdown for four days. LBJ had to call the National Guard out to restore order.
If you think we're in a situation worse than that then well you need to turn off the computer.
A few years ago, I was sent a little film clip entitled the “Good Old Days” about the Sixties from a good friend as kind of a joke. They weren’t the good old days. I was surprised how bad they were. A lot of it you tend to forget but they seemed way worse than today. I do think we tend to forget the bad times for no other reason than who wants to remember. Different political problems but just as bad if not worse. The 30's depression for our grandparents had to be far worse, no need to revisit that.We got started down the path with the term "worse" and stayed with that, but I really don't think "worse" is the right term. With all the turmoil of the sixties and seventies, I never felt America itself was at risk. I never felt I was seeing or participating in a war of culture and ideology that had the potential to turn America into something the Founding Fathers never would have recognized and would have abhorred. "Existential threat" is an overused term these days, but it comes closer to capturing what I think the difference is. Nothing in the sixties was an existential threat to the America we had always known, but today (I believe) we are in a genuine war of culture and ideology that is existentially threatening (which some people, of course, think is a good thing). There is a reason Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" resonates with so many people.
There is a reason Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" resonates with so many people.
Dear Lance,I tend to see the existential threat as coming mostly from JFKA conspiracy theorists. :D
Because the "Godless Snowflake Libtard Socialist-Communist Globalist" Dems dragged it down so far?
-- Tom
I don't agree with everything The Donald has done, but by God he is shaking things up - and that needed to be done, IMO.
We got started down the path with the term "worse" and stayed with that, but I really don't think "worse" is the right term. With all the turmoil of the sixties and seventies, I never felt America itself was at risk. I never felt I was seeing or participating in a war of culture and ideology that had the potential to turn America into something the Founding Fathers never would have recognized and would have abhorred. "Existential threat" is an overused term these days, but it comes closer to capturing what I think the difference is. Nothing in the sixties was an existential threat to the America we had always known, but today (I believe) we are in a genuine war of culture and ideology that is existentially threatening (which some people, of course, think is a good thing). There is a reason Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" resonates with so many people.
But evidently you do agree most of the things he's done.
Pity that.
I'm afraid "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin cherishes both of you.
You're in the minority. Put a sock in it or peddle your stuff in NY or Calif. The nut jobs have clustered there and completely ruined those states. You'll fit in nicely.
You are absolutely correct. If it is better or worse is just perspective. Today though we are very fractionated and turning on each other. I thought it all could come apart during the previous election cycle when the two extremist groups fighting in Portland were shooting paintball guns at each other. It would not have taken much to set if off for real. It is definitely closer than we want to believe.
In the 60’s the common belief was it was just the youth wanting a change and there was no need to worry about the unrest until older people were protesting. Today it is not so much the youth but the older people protesting.
I would hope we do not come apart. I have warned my children that they do not ever want that to happen. Sometimes I think we just lack an external villain to keep us focused like after Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
Magnificent to see England treating President Trump with all the dignity and respect that America deserves. A stark contrast with how they were laughing at Biden's weakness.
Bye bye Jimmy Kimmel. Another political propagandist posing as an entertainer gets exposed. The leftists are crying a river on CNN. Another agent of misinformation has been exposed.
Bye bye Jimmy Kimmel. Another political propagandist posing as an entertainer gets exposed. The leftists are crying a river on CNN. Another agent of misinformation has been exposed.
Kimmel has been going down hill ever since Ben Stein stopped carrying him on his show. Is it any wonder that Gutfeld dominates the late night talkers? Everything is relative and Gutfeld's competition is abysmal.
Kimmel has been going down hill ever since Ben Stein stopped carrying him on his show. Is it any wonder that Gutfeld dominates the late night talkers? Everything is relative and Gutfeld's competition is abysmal.
Very amusing to see the leftists crying a river about the First Amendment. Of course, this situation has absolutely nothing to do with that. Kimmel can shout his misinformation from the roof tops all day long. What he can't do as an employee of ABC is spread misinformation that offends his employers. I guess leftists have also forgotten about how they trampled on the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans during COVID. I bet the Family Feud reruns that are airing in his place will have higher ratings. U-S-A, U-S-A!
It is very humorous to hear the leftist talking heads on CNN and other such propaganda networks changing their rhetoric from Trump is Hitler or a Nazi to Trump is just like the leader of Hungary. An effort to maintain the reckless rhetoric that Trump is a dictator but distances themselves from the recent political assassination. A slight of hand that allows the drumbeat to go on and on. Kimmel is also now a "martyr" according to these same types. As though getting canned from his failing show is equivalent to being assassinated.
Who can name the leader of Hungary?
I can. :)
A brownie point is in order here.
I probably wouldn't spell his first name correctly though.
The Dems are crying a river about Comey. Claiming his indictment is "unprecedented." A word they like to throw around. The end of democracy etc. They must have very short memories given the numerous indictments of Trump and his administration. A laundry list of people who were indicted and convicted by leftists DAs, judges, and juries.
Evidently, the Donks want to run on the platform of men have a right to play in women's sports, illegal immigration is a positive, and Hamas are liberators.
The party has lost its grip on the basic issues of wages, working conditions, and housing costs.
The Donks are left-wing party of elites.
It's the tone deaf continued harping on J6 and Rowe vs Wade that cost the Dem's the POTUS Election. The above is proof that they never learn.
Not sure what the current definition of "cultist" is? Trump did win the USA popular vote. Does this mean the majority of the voting public are "cultists" or belong to a "cult"? This new "cult" or "cultist" label was fostered by those viewer challenged graveyards known as MSNBC, CNN, etc. People need to be careful as to the nomenclature they pick up and then cavalierly repeat. Not only can it be incorrect, it also can be extremely revealing.
Not sure what the current definition of "cultist" is? Trump did win the USA popular vote. Does this mean the majority of the voting public are "cultists" or belong to a "cult"? This new "cult" or "cultist" label was fostered by those viewer challenged graveyards known as MSNBC, CNN, etc. People need to be careful as to the nomenclature they pick up and then cavalierly repeat. Not only can it be Incorrect, it also can be extremely revealing.
A "cult" used to be that handful of people dressed in togas and banging on tambourines at the airport, or the Charlie Manson disciples. Now these clowns at MSNBC and CNN want to brand over half the voting public as a "cult"? And then their audience which is smaller than the Cartoon Network repeats this nonsensical crappola.
You and Smith, et al. ad nauseam, are in a cult not unlike that of the Germans who virtually deified another malignant narcissist, Adolf Schicklgruber I mean Adolf Hitler, in the '30s and early '40s.
Now you wanna claim the 3rd Reich was a "cult"? You badly need History 101 and English 101 classes.
I thought that Justine Bateman, of all people, had an insightful analysis. She said that the debate should be framed not in terms of "right" vs. "left" but rather "sane" vs. "insane." Too many people on both the right and left are, alas, insane cultists. Because I saw her statements on FOX, naturally all the comments defined "insane" as anyone who isn't a Trump cultist. My best friend happens to share almost none of my religious or political views but we get along fine because neither one of us is an insane cultist. This Politics section provides some good insights into how rational (or not) some peoples' perspective on the JFKA is as well.
It amazes me how some people get so caught up in politics that they talk and behave ridiculously. There are several friends that I just had to stop following on Facebook because all they did was spout their political views. I just got tired of the nonsense.
If you consider LHO’s behavior, he was an extreme example of someone who ran amuck due to his political ideas.
Patel is now confirming that the FBI had nearly 300 plainclothes agents in the crowd during J6. Imagine how long it would take to assemble and get them to that location. And for what purpose? Allegedly they were involved in "crowd control." How were they doing that if they were in plainclothes?
The story about the Dem running for AG in VA is unreal even in these unhinged times. It does highlight the downside to early voting in which disclosures come to light only after a large number of people have already voted. There should be an election day in the US which is a national holiday. All voting should occur on that day and at the polls unless the voter is deployed oversees in the military or has a valid reason such as a disability which prohibits them from voting in person.
And every so-called "Republican" should be allowed to vote twice, right?
Harris and Hillary can claim POTUS election rigging without anyone saying "boo," but claiming that the 2020 P0TUS election was rigged gets one tarred and feathered by those tar-and-feather "news" sources that no one watches anymore. And "The View" is funded by the ABC NEWS Division.
I could watch Pam Bondi rip those democrats to shreds all the time. She's great.
You, and Vladimir Putin.
Yes, we talk daily about Liberals.
The leftists are down on their knees praying that the Hamas deal collapses so that they don't have to praise Trump or watch him receive the Nobel Peace prize.
A great insight into the leftist mind. They are more concerned about a silly video than actual results. Trump is on the verge of ending this horrible conflict, restoring peace, and getting the remaining hostages released. Leftists are more concerned that they have their feelings hurt by a funny video.
They don't give out the Nobel Prize to convicted felons that make disgusting videos.
As of early October 2025, over 67,000 Palestinians have been killed. Funny video huh?
I bet they give Nobel Peace Prizes to presidents that end wars that are costing thousands of lives and release innocent hostages. No better example of why they have such a prize. And what a contrast to Biden's do-nothing approach that promoted endless war with his weakness and incompetence. They will curse his name in places like Gaza, Israel, and Ukraine for a thousand years. But keep obsessing on those silly videos. A real winning election strategy. Words matter more than results to leftists.
Reliving the history of Germany right before our eyes.
Right now we are at about 1934....the parallels are beyond remarkable
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1918–1933
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-rise-to-power
Per your posted link, Hitler was "appointed". Trump just won the popular "vote". This is what happens when people that do Not know history attempt to use it. Do you run with that Joy Reid crowd? A couple of months ago Reid was claiming that the Canadien's burned down the White House in 1814. This is the company you keep. Sad. Very Sad.
Reliving the history of Germany right before our eyes.
Right now we are at about 1934....the parallels are beyond remarkable
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1918–1933
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-rise-to-power
Bump per posted link you Now run away from.
:D too funny.
It all goes back to "leftists" and Biden
Reliving the history of Germany right before our eyes.
Right now we are at about 1934....the parallels are beyond remarkable
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1918–1933
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-rise-to-power
Godwin's Law! "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
AI Overview
The Comey indictment
Insufficient evidence found by career prosecutors: Following an investigation, federal prosecutors in Virginia concluded they could not establish probable cause to indict Comey for allegedly lying to Congress. A key witness reportedly undermined the case, stating Comey did not authorize him to leak information anonymously.
The James indictment
Insufficient evidence found: Similarly, career prosecutors concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge Letitia James with bank fraud regarding a 2020 mortgage. Sources indicated they found no clear evidence she knowingly committed fraud.
The evidence was presented to a Grand Jury, and they have indicted both criminal defendants. Why are you suddenly skeptical of the same process that the Dems touted to prosecute Trump and many others linked to his administration? We were told by leftists that to even question the legal process was the act of a dictator.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
Neither case will make it to the court room.
And why is that? They have been indicted for serious crimes by a Grand Jury. Unless they going to flee the country,or plead guilty, they are heading to trial.I think there's a good chance the judge will grant a motion to dismiss the Comey charges before any trial. It's just too shaky of a case. As to the James's charges, I have no idea.
And why is that? They have been indicted for serious crimes by a Grand Jury. Unless they going to flee the country,or plead guilty, they are heading to trial.
:D serious crimes? - no.
You don't think lying to Congress and obstruction of justice by the head of the FBi is not a serious crime? LOL.
I think there's a good chance the judge will grant a motion to dismiss the Comey charges before any trial. It's just too shaky of a case. As to the James's charges, I have no idea.
Actually, I have no idea in either case but on the internet you can pretend to be an expert on anything.
This stuff with Comey and James is ALL about Where the charges are brought. Virginia is better than NY, but both are loaded with biased judges and biased prospective jurors. Trump got railroaded in NY, knew it, and took it like a Man. Comey, James, and the Fake Newser's whine like babies when these people are now treated like common folk. Kimmel too. James is flat-out guiltier than sh*t. She lied on her loan application and when called on it whines about being a victim and NEVER DIRECTLY addresses the charges. Comey is just a flat-out dirt bag that cries like a wimp. Which he is. These people demand to be treated like deity. They ain't squat and in the real world at a real job would be ridiculed and laughed at 24-7. What we are seeing from Comey and James is no different than we saw from Fanni Willis when she stormed into that courtroom and waved papers at the sitting judge while she was being questioned. These are Prima Donna Sleaze Balls with literally no skill set to even merit the thought of such treatment.
This stuff with Comey and James is ALL about Where the charges are brought. Virginia is better than NY, but both are loaded with biased judges and biased prospective jurors. Trump got railroaded in NY, knew it, and took it like a Man. Comey, James, and the Fake Newser's whine like babies when these people are now treated like common folk. Kimmel too. James is flat-out guiltier than sh*t. She lied on her loan application and when called on it whines about being a victim and NEVER DIRECTLY addresses the charges. Comey is just a flat-out dirt bag that cries like a wimp. Which he is. These people demand to be treated like deity. They ain't squat and in the real world at a real job would be ridiculed and laughed at 24-7. What we are seeing from Comey and James is no different than we saw from Fanni Willis when she stormed into that courtroom and waved papers at the sitting judge while she was being questioned. These are Prima Donna Sleaze Balls with literally no skill set to even merit the thought of such treatment.
AI Overview
The Comey indictment
Insufficient evidence found by career prosecutors: Following an investigation, federal prosecutors in Virginia concluded they could not establish probable cause to indict Comey for allegedly lying to Congress. A key witness reportedly undermined the case, stating Comey did not authorize him to leak information anonymously.
The James indictment
Insufficient evidence found: Similarly, career prosecutors concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge Letitia James with bank fraud regarding a 2020 mortgage. Sources indicated they found no clear evidence she knowingly committed fraud.
You need to update your cut and paste source. Both have been indicted by a grand jury. They are charged with these crimes. James is stone cold guilty using the same standard that she applied to "get Trump."
There is no "get Trump". He's done it all to himself.
Both cases will be dismissed.
James literally ran on a campaign promise to get Trump. She did not make it a secret. The gamble was that lawfare would end Trump's chances to become president and she would be in the good graces of the Dems. Didn't work. Now the chickens have come to roost.
And again we get Zero Response to the actual charges filed against James. She flat out lied on her loan application. And, this home was for rental purposes. She owns several houses and cries like a baby? People that can Not afford to own 1 home to live in are supposed to feel sorry for her? She's a liar and a fraud that can not take what she tries to dole out.
Comey is one of the conspirators that was discussing wearing a "wire" to entrap Trump.
Wear a wire and use the 25th Amendment on the grounds of "chaos". Do you hear yourself?
So here's the deal. There are so many laws that govern almost every aspect of our lives that if the DOJ or DA wants to find something, they will. Particularly if the person is involved in a lot of complicated business transactions and other matters that are highly regulated. Until they prosecuted Trump for petty nonsense, there was a kind of unwritten rule that they wouldn't go down that road because literally everyone would be subject to prosecution. They had exercised discretion and common sense to decide when to expend the resource to prosecute. When the Dems broke that rule to get Trump, they opened up a can of worms that has come back to bite them. I can understand the downside of this endless cycle of lawfare, but like the use of nuclear weapons, if one side makes the decision to use it, then the opposition has no choice but to do the same. Comey and James are guilty of crimes. In past years, they likely would never have been charged but they are the ones who changed the rules of the system. Now they are on the receiving end of the lawfare that they helped to unleash.
Comey is a total dirt bag.
This stuff with Comey and James is ALL about Where the charges are brought. Virginia is better than NY, but both are loaded with biased judges and biased prospective jurors. Trump got railroaded in NY, knew it, and took it like a Man. Comey, James, and the Fake Newser's whine like babies when these people are now treated like common folk. Kimmel too. James is flat-out guiltier than sh*t. She lied on her loan application and when called on it whines about being a victim and NEVER DIRECTLY addresses the charges. Comey is just a flat-out dirt bag that cries like a wimp. Which he is. These people demand to be treated like deity. They ain't squat and in the real world at a real job would be ridiculed and laughed at 24-7. What we are seeing from Comey and James is no different than we saw from Fanni Willis when she stormed into that courtroom and waved papers at the sitting judge while she was being questioned. These are Prima Donna Sleaze Balls with literally no skill set to even merit the thought of such treatment.
Dear Comrade Storing,
You're wrong, of course.
Regardless, that's what an FBI Director should do when he has reason to believe a "President" is a traitor.
Do stop watching Fox News, OANN and NewsMax, and try to get your facts straight, Comrade Storing.
ME: Did James Comey discuss wearing a "wire" to entrap Trump?
GROK: No, there is no evidence that James Comey discussed or proposed wearing a recording device (commonly referred to as a "wire") to entrap President Trump. The incident often misattributed to Comey actually involved Rod Rosenstein, the then-Deputy Attorney General, who floated the idea in May 2017 amid concerns over Trump's firing of Comey as FBI Director. This was documented in a memo by Andrew McCabe, Comey's successor as Acting FBI Director.
Key Facts from the Incident
What Happened: Rosenstein suggested he could wear a wire during White House meetings with Trump to gather evidence on potential obstruction of justice related to Comey's dismissal and the ongoing Russia investigation. He also raised the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. McCabe's memo (released in 2019) described Rosenstein as serious about the wire idea, noting he believed it was feasible because he "was not searched when he entered the White House."
Comey's Role: Comey was not involved in this discussion—he had already been fired by Trump on May 9, 2017, just days before the conversation. The proposal stemmed from fallout over Comey's ouster, but Comey himself did not participate or advocate for it.
Public Revelation: The story emerged in September 2018 via a New York Times report, sparking backlash from Trump, who called it "treasonous." McCabe confirmed details in a 2019 60 Minutes interview, emphasizing Rosenstein's sincerity.
Legal Outcome: No charges resulted from this. Rosenstein testified in 2018 that he was exploring ways to preserve evidence, not entrap anyone, and described his comments as exploratory.
Context and Misconceptions
The confusion may arise because the episode is tied to the broader Trump-Russia probe, which Comey oversaw until his firing. Trump has repeatedly accused Comey of orchestrating investigations against him, but no records or testimonies link Comey to the wire proposal.
Recent 2025 developments (e.g., Comey's indictment for allegedly lying to Congress) relate to unrelated claims about the Russia probe, not this incident.
This event highlights tensions in the Trump administration's early days but does not involve Comey in any entrapment scheme.
. . . . . . .
The New York Times, 9/21/18
The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit.
Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 when Mr. Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director plunged the White House into turmoil. Over the ensuing days, the president divulged classified intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office, and revelations emerged that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey to pledge loyalty and end an investigation into a senior aide.
Mr. Rosenstein was just two weeks into his job. He had begun overseeing the Russia investigation and played a key role in the president’s dismissal of Mr. Comey by writing a memo critical of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. But Mr. Rosenstein was caught off guard when Mr. Trump cited the memo in the firing, and he began telling people that he feared he had been used.
Mr. Rosenstein made the remarks about secretly recording Mr. Trump and about the 25th Amendment in meetings and conversations with other Justice Department and F.B.I. officials. Several people described the episodes in interviews over the past several months, insisting on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The people were briefed either on the events themselves or on memos written by F.B.I. officials, including Andrew G. McCabe, then the acting bureau director, that documented Mr. Rosenstein’s actions and comments.
None of Mr. Rosenstein’s proposals apparently came to fruition. It is not clear how determined he was about seeing them through, though he did tell Mr. McCabe that he might be able to persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions and John F. Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security and now the White House chief of staff, to mount an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment.
The extreme suggestions show Mr. Rosenstein’s state of mind in the disorienting days that followed Mr. Comey’s dismissal. Sitting in on Mr. Trump’s interviews with prospective F.B.I. directors and facing attacks for his own role in Mr. Comey’s firing, Mr. Rosenstein had an up-close view of the tumult. Mr. Rosenstein appeared conflicted, regretful and emotional, according to people who spoke with him at the time.
Mr. Rosenstein disputed this account.
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” he said in a statement. “I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
A Justice Department spokeswoman also provided a statement from a person who was present when Mr. Rosenstein proposed wearing a wire. The person, who would not be named, acknowledged the remark but said Mr. Rosenstein made it sarcastically.
But according to the others who described his comments, Mr. Rosenstein not only confirmed that he was serious about the idea but also followed up by suggesting that other F.B.I. officials who were interviewing to be the bureau’s director could also secretly record Mr. Trump.
Mr. McCabe, who was later fired from the F.B.I., declined to comment. His memos have been turned over to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, in the investigation into whether Trump associates conspired with Russia’s election interference, according to a lawyer for Mr. McCabe. “A set of those memos remained at the F.B.I. at the time of his departure in late January 2018,” the lawyer, Michael R. Bromwich, said of his client. “He has no knowledge of how any member of the media obtained those memos.”
The revelations about Mr. Rosenstein come as Mr. Trump has unleashed another round of attacks in recent days on federal law enforcement, saying in an interview with the newspaper The Hill that he hopes his assaults on the F.B.I. turn out to be “one of my crowning achievements,” and that he only wished he had terminated Mr. Comey sooner.
“If I did one mistake with Comey, I should have fired him before I got here. I should have fired him the day I won the primaries,” Mr. Trump said. “I should have fired him right after the convention. Say, ‘I don’t want that guy.’ Or at least fired him the first day on the job.”
Days after ascending to the role of the nation’s No. 2 law enforcement officer, Mr. Rosenstein was thrust into a crisis.
On a brisk May day, Mr. Rosenstein and his boss, Mr. Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russia investigation because of his role as a prominent Trump campaign supporter, joined Mr. Trump in the Oval Office. The president informed them of his plan to oust Mr. Comey. To the surprise of White House aides who were trying to talk the president out of it, Mr. Rosenstein embraced the idea, even offering to write the memo about the Clinton email inquiry. He turned it in shortly after.
A day later, Mr. Trump announced the firing, and White House aides released Mr. Rosenstein’s memo, labeling it the basis for Mr. Comey’s dismissal. Democrats sharply criticized Mr. Rosenstein, accusing him of helping to create a cover story for the president to rationalize the termination.
“You wrote a memo you knew would be used to perpetuate a lie,” Senator Christopher Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, wrote on Twitter. "You own this debacle.”
The president’s reliance on his memo caught Mr. Rosenstein by surprise, and he became angry at Mr. Trump, according to people who spoke to Mr. Rosenstein at the time. He grew concerned that his reputation had suffered harm.
A determined Mr. Rosenstein began telling associates that he would ultimately be “vindicated” for his role in the matter. One week after the firing, Mr. Rosenstein met with Mr. McCabe and at least four other senior Justice Department officials, in part to explain his role in the situation.
During their discussion, Mr. Rosenstein expressed frustration at how Mr. Trump had conducted the search for a new F.B.I. director, saying the president was failing to take the candidate interviews seriously. A handful of politicians and law enforcement officials, including Mr. McCabe, were under consideration.
To Mr. Rosenstein, the hiring process was emblematic of broader dysfunction stemming from the White House. He said both the process and the administration itself were in disarray, according to two people familiar with the discussion.
Mr. Rosenstein then raised the idea of wearing a recording device, or “wire,” as he put it, to secretly tape the president when he visited the White House. One participant asked whether Mr. Rosenstein was serious, and he replied animatedly that he was.
If not him, then Mr. McCabe or other F.B.I. officials interviewing with Mr. Trump for the job could perhaps wear a wire or otherwise record the president, Mr. Rosenstein offered. White House officials never checked his phone when he arrived for meetings there, Mr. Rosenstein added, implying it would be easy to secretly record Mr. Trump.
Mr. Rosenstein mentioned the possibility of wearing a wire on at least one other occasion, the people said, though they did not provide details.
The suggestion itself was remarkable. While informants or undercover agents regularly use concealed listening devices to surreptitiously gather evidence for federal investigators, they are typically targeting drug kingpins and Mafia bosses in criminal investigations, not a president viewed as ineffectively conducting his duties.
In the end, the idea went nowhere, the officials said. But they called Mr. Rosenstein’s comments an example of how erratically he was behaving while he was taking part in the interviews for a replacement F.B.I. director, considering the appointment of a special counsel and otherwise running the day-to-day operations of the more than 100,000 people at the Justice Department.
At least two meetings took place on May 16 involving both Mr. McCabe and Mr. Rosenstein, the people familiar with the events of the day said. Mr. Rosenstein brought up the 25th Amendment during the first meeting of Justice Department officials, they said. A memo about the second meeting written by one participant, Lisa Page, a lawyer who worked for Mr. McCabe at the time, did not mention the topic.
Mr. Rosenstein’s suggestion about the 25th Amendment was similarly a sensitive topic. The amendment allows for the vice president and a majority of cabinet officials to declare the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Merely conducting a straw poll, even if Mr. Kelly and Mr. Sessions were on board, would be risky if another administration official were to tell the president, who could fire everyone involved to end the effort.
Mr. McCabe told other F.B.I. officials of his conversation with Mr. Rosenstein. None of the people interviewed said that they knew of him ever consulting Mr. Kelly or Mr. Sessions.
The episode is the first known instance of a named senior administration official weighing the 25th Amendment. Unidentified others have been said to discuss it, including an unnamed senior administration official who wrote an Op-Ed for The New York Times. That person’s identity is unknown to journalists in the Times news department.
Some of the details in Mr. McCabe’s memos suggested that Mr. Rosenstein had regrets about the firing of Mr. Comey. During a May 12 meeting with Mr. McCabe, Mr. Rosenstein was upset and emotional, Mr. McCabe wrote, and said that he wished Mr. Comey were still at the F.B.I. so he could bounce ideas off him.
Mr. Rosenstein also asked F.B.I. officials on May 14, five days after Mr. Comey’s firing, about calling him for advice about a special counsel. The officials responded that such a call was a bad idea because Mr. Comey was no longer in the government. And they were surprised, believing that the idea contradicted Mr. Rosenstein’s stated reason for backing Mr. Comey’s dismissal — that he had shown bad judgment in the Clinton email inquiry.
Mr. Rosenstein, 53, is a lifelong public servant. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School, he clerked for a federal judge before joining the Justice Department in 1990 and was appointed United States attorney for Maryland.
Mr. Rosenstein also considered appointing as special counsel James M. Cole, himself a former deputy attorney general, three of the people said. Mr. Cole would have made an even richer target for Mr. Trump’s ire than has Mr. Mueller, a lifelong Republican: Mr. Cole served four years as the No. 2 in the Justice Department during the Obama administration and worked as a private lawyer representing one of Mrs. Clinton’s longtime confidants, Sidney Blumenthal.
Mr. Cole and Mr. Rosenstein have known each other for years. Mr. Cole, who declined to comment, was Mr. Rosenstein’s supervisor early in his Justice Department career when he was prosecuting public corruption cases.
Mr. Trump and his allies have repeatedly attacked Mr. Rosenstein and have also targeted Mr. McCabe, who was fired in March for failing to be forthcoming when he was interviewed in an inspector general investigation around the time of Mr. Comey’s dismissal. The inspector general later referred the matter to federal prosecutors in Washington.
The president’s allies have seized on Mr. McCabe’s lack of candor to paint a damning picture of the F.B.I. under Mr. Comey and assert that the Russia investigation is tainted.
The Justice Department denied a request in late July from Mr. Trump’s congressional allies to release Mr. McCabe’s memos, citing a continuing investigation that the lawmakers believed to be Mr. Mueller’s. Mr. Rosenstein not only supervises that investigation but is also considered by the president’s lawyers as a witness for their defense because he sought the dismissal of Mr. Comey, which is being investigated as possible obstruction of justice.
What an unhinged rambling.
Comey knew this whole thing was baseless.
It was used to damage and undermine Trump for three years.
Comey is the one who committed treason. He just carried water for the political establishment who gave him power.
I'm sorry if it's too complicated for you.
"Whole thing"? What "whole thing"?
Given the fact that Comey knew that the GRU and the KGB had hacked the DNC's and Podesta's emails and arranged for Julian Assange to dump them on social media (the timing of which Roger Stone knew about in advance, possibly because he and Harley Schlanger had arranged it?), and given the fact that Trump's campaign manager had helped pro-Putin Yanukovich get elected president in Ukraine and was connected to Russian intelligence through his GRU-officer employee, Konstantin Kilimnik, and given the fact that Trump's potentially-blackmailable-by-the-Russians National Security Advisor had been caught (and then caught lying about) assuring the Russian ambassador that U.S. sanctions would be eliminated when Trump took office, etc., etc., Comey would have been guilty of negligence if he hadn't investigated the involvement of The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") and his lackeys with your buddy, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin and his beloved KGB.
Poor widdle traitor.
Hopefully one of these days you'll realize that the only true "Deep State" is your and The Traitorous Orange Bird's beloved KGB*-Mafia and the sixty-six years (it started in 1959) it has waged disinformation, "active measures," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations against us and our NATO allies -- culminating (so far) in its installation of The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") as our "president" on 20 January 2017 and 20 January 2025.
*Today's SVR and FSB
The Russian peddled disinformation to Hillary and her fellow leftists who knowingly used this false information for political purposes.
Comey carried the water of his political masters knowing it was baseless.
In effect, Hillary and Comey acted as agents of a foreign adversary in an attempt to impact the election.
ME: What percentage of the Steele Dossier's allegations have been proved to be true?
GROK:
The Steele Dossier, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele in 2016, consists of 17 memos (totaling about 35 pages) alleging ties between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russian operatives. It was funded indirectly by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the law firm Perkins Coie and opposition research firm Fusion GPS. The dossier was published unredacted by BuzzFeed News on January 10, 2017, with a disclaimer that its claims were "unverified and potentially unverifiable." It served as raw intelligence — essentially unconfirmed reports from Steele's sources — intended to guide further investigation, not as established facts.
The dossier's allegations fall into broad categories:
Russian election interference: Claims that Russia aimed to support Trump's candidacy and harm Hillary Clinton's, including hacking and leaking Democratic emails.
Trump campaign-Russia coordination: Specific meetings, communications, and a "well-developed conspiracy" involving figures like Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Michael Cohen.
Compromising material (kompromat): Allegations of Russian possession of blackmail material on Trump, including the infamous "pee tape" (a claimed video of Trump with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel) and financial leverage.
Over the years, U.S. investigations (e.g., the Mueller Report, Senate Intelligence Committee reports, and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's 2019 review) have scrutinized these claims. No single, definitive "percentage" of verified allegations exists, as the dossier isn't a checklist of discrete facts — many elements are hearsay or analytical judgments from Steele's sub-sources. Steele himself estimated in 2020 that 70–90% of it is accurate, but this is subjective and not independently confirmed. Independent analyses suggest a more nuanced picture: broad themes partially corroborated, specific sensational claims largely unproven or debunked.
Key Verified, Unverified, and Debunked Elements
Verified: "Russia conducted a coordinated effort to interfere in the 2016 election to boost Trump and undermine Clinton, including DNC hacks and leaks via WikiLeaks."
U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment (January 2017) confirmed Putin's endorsement of the effort; Mueller Report (2019) indicted 12 Russian GRU officers for hacking DNC emails and leaking them to WikiLeaks. Senate Intelligence Committee (bipartisan, 2020) affirmed this as a "profound" operation. This aligns with the dossier's core thesis and comprises ~20-30% of its content by volume.
Partially Verified: "Russian intermediaries passed hacked materials to the Trump campaign, which welcomed the assistance."
Mueller Report detailed campaign contacts (e.g., Trump Jr.'s Trump Tower meeting with Russian-linked lawyer offering "dirt" on Clinton) and Manafort sharing internal polling data with Russian intelligence-linked associate Konstantin Kilimnik. No criminal conspiracy found, but "numerous links" existed.
Unverified: "Carter Page Meetings -- Page met senior Russian officials (e.g., Igor Sechin of Rosneft) in Moscow to discuss lifting sanctions in exchange for oil deals."
Mueller Report and Horowitz IG report could not corroborate specific meetings; Page denied them. FBI used dossier info in FISA warrants for Page surveillance but later found errors/omissions in applications. Partial overlap with Page's known 2016 Moscow trip.
Debunked: "Michael Cohen Prague Trip -- Cohen traveled to Prague to meet Russian operatives and coordinate election interference."
Cohen denied it; Mueller Report, phone records, and passports confirmed no travel. Horowitz IG report called this "not true." A key sub-source (Danchenko) later said it was based on speculation.
Partially Verified: "Paul Manafort Role -- Manafort orchestrated back-channel coordination with Russia, including debt relief offers."
Mueller convicted Manafort on unrelated charges; confirmed his ties to pro-Russian Ukrainians and sharing data with Kilimnik (a Russian intelligence officer). No direct proof of dossier's "orchestration" claim.
Unverified: "Kompromat (Pee Tape) -- Russia has video of Trump engaging in sexual acts with prostitutes in Moscow (2013), used for blackmail."
No evidence emerged from Mueller, Senate, or other probes. Steele rated it ~50% likely; sources described it as rumor. FBI investigated but found no corroboration.
Partially Verified: "General Trump-Russia Ties -- Trump and associates vulnerable to Russian influence via finances/kompromat."
Deutsche Bank records (via Senate) showed Trump Organization's Russian-linked loans; Mueller noted potential leverage but insufficient for charges. Broad "influence" theme holds, but specifics unproven.
Overall Verification Rate: Based on analyses from the Mueller Report, Horowitz IG (2019), Senate Intelligence volumes, and fact-checks (e.g., Washington Post, CNN, Lawfare):~20-30%
Fully Verified: Broad interference claims and some peripheral contacts (e.g., Russia's anti-Clinton motive, DNC hack attribution).
~30-40%
Partially Verified: General patterns of outreach (e.g., Manafort/Kilimnik, Trump's public praise of WikiLeaks), but not the dossier's implied conspiracy.
~30-50%
Unverified or Debunked: Sensational specifics (e.g., Cohen in Prague, pee tape, exact Page-Sechin deal).
The IG report noted "limited corroboration" (mostly public info like dates/locations) and "inaccuracies" in several reports; sub-sources [sic; sub-source and probable KGB agent Igor Danchenko] described much as "hearsay" or "word of mouth."
No source provides an exact percentage, but Lawfare's 2023 retrospective concludes: "Not all... has been proven. But none has been disproven" as raw intel.
Why No Precise Percentage?
Nature of the Document: As "raw intelligence," it's not binary (true/false). Much relies on anonymous sub-sources (e.g., Igor Danchenko, acquitted in 2022 of lying to FBI but admitting speculation). Horowitz found Steele's primary sub-source rated corroboration as "zero" for key parts.
Investigative Limits: Although Mueller didn't charge conspiracy (citing insufficient evidence), he didn't exonerate on obstruction. Classified info may exist, but public records show mixed results.
Bias in Sources: Right-leaning outlets (e.g., Hoover Institution) call it "bogus" (~0% reliable); left-leaning (e.g., Slate, 2017) say "a lot... corroborated." Bipartisan probes (Senate Intel) lean toward partial validation of threats.
In summary, while no exact figure like "X%" is universally accepted, the dossier's allegations are roughly 20-30% proved true in their strongest form, with another 30-40% partially supported by evidence of Russian meddling and Trump orbit contacts. The rest remains unproven or refuted, underscoring its role as a flawed but prescient lead on interference.
For deeper dives, see the Mueller Report or Senate Intelligence findings.
LOL
Your beloved KGB* works both sides of the political / economic / cultural spectrum.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Are you being paid by the word? Bizarre.
Dear Comrade/Herr Molotov-Ribbentrop,
I'm sorry it's so difficult for you.
Are you still waiting to hear from your boss, "former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin, about how to respond?
-- Tom
The great irony of your paranoid obsession with Russia and Putin being behind every event is that in this case it is actually true. But it had nothing to do with Trump. Russia concocted an entirely false disinformation campaign that Hillary and Comey perpetuated and that you continue to believe. That is comedy gold. You are working for Putin even if you are smart enough to realize it.
Putin and Russia had nothing to do with Trump's getting elected. [paraphrased]
Russia concocted an entirely false disinformation campaign.
Why is it, then, that the investigations by Republican Robert Mueller and the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committe concluded that Putin's intelligence services and his professional St. Petersburg trolls interfered in our election, and did so in an attempt to not only hurt Clinton's campaign, but to get Trump elected?
Why did Putin, when asked in Helsinki if he had wanted Trump to win, said "Yes, I did"?
You mean the 20-30% of the Steele Dossier allegations that GROK says have been proved are actually false, and that another 30-40% which it says are "partially supported by evidence of Russian meddling and Trump orbit contacts" are false, as well?
I have a good friend who is the grip of near-terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome. I was thinking this morning that it would be an interesting little experiment to see what negative twist he puts on Trump's Middle East triumph, which pretty much the entire world recognizes as a triumph. Just as I was thinking this, a radio pastor named Jeff Schreve was making the exact same point - i.e., those with full-blown TDS cannot acknowledge ANY accomplishment by Trump. What, I wonder, would be the TDS spin on the Middle East peace?
My own claim to rationality is that I can recognize Trump's accomplishments for what they are and many of his policies as being ones I enthusiastically support while differing from him on others and also recognizing that he's just this side of being of completely nuts and potentially dangerous. I lived through Biden while being somewhat aghast but wishing him the best and recognizing his policies had little to do with my life, and I'm sure I would've lived through a Kamala Presidency without suffering from KDS. I just don't understand the depth of emotional involvement many people seem to have that turns them into cultists in both directions.
My very best friend of 52 years was ready to move to Canada when Trump was elected in 2016. I talked him off the ledge by simply asking, "How much difference has it actually made to your life or my life who the hell the President was?"
You are deeply confused.
Even if Russia made attempts to influence the election . . .
There is no evidence that the Russians 1) colluded with Trump, or 2) had any impact on the election. There is no evidence that a single vote in any US election was influenced by any Russian influence.
The most significant impact of Russia was that Hillary and the Dems ran with a Russian disinformation campaign.
Dear Fancy Prancer Rants,
Did you believe Trump when he said during the 2016 campaign that he hadn't made fun of the physically handicapped journalist's disability, just pantomimed the act of "groveling"?
If so, you've got a bad case of Donald J. Trump Flatulence Infatuation.
-- Tom
"10% for the Big Guy" per Hunter Biden's own laptop is no joke. These people make $$ off of conflict/war. Peace is not profitable for them.
Amazing how those brainwashed by leftist propaganda can fixate on nonsense like Trump allegedly being insensitive to someone almost a decade ago. All the more so to do so on the very day when he was instrumental in getting the Israel hostages released and bringing the possibility of peace and stability to the Middle East. An historic achievement. But nothing to see there. Trump is mean! LOL. You have to wonder if these TDS sufferers are for real. Or do they actually suffer from a mental illness. Regardless, Putin must be sweating now that the world is behind Trump and he is coming for Russia next. He tried it the easy way. Now it's time to do it the hard way.
Wake up! You're babbling to yourself.
I am not a Trump fan, but he ended anarchy on the US southern border, and now seems to have brokered a peace deal in the Middle East. Give credit where credit is due.
Trump has (IMHO) been wrong on Ukraine, but may be coming around.
It is saying something that Trump, the banal galoot, the garish boor, was the best choice voters had in the last presidential election.
Dear Herr Schicklgruber I mean Herr Smith,
What's really amazing is how many people were so zombified by fifty-plus years of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations waged against us and our NATO allies that they fell heads over heels in 2016 for a malignant narcissist and bailed-out-by-Russia conman-extraordinaire who was "spotted" by the KGB* in 1980, cultivated by it since 1987, and installed as our "president" by the hackers and professional trolls of "former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin.
The conman extraordinaire who, for the past eight months, has been desperately trying to prevent the release of the file and client list of his buddy, convicted sex-trafficker-of-underage-girls, Jeffrey Epstein.
Gee, I wonder why?
*Today's SVR and FSB
-- Tom
President Trump’s son, Eric, once told a golf writer that funding for Trump golf courses come from Russia, that writer recounted in a new interview.
James Dodson during an interview Friday with Boston’s WBUR described meeting Donald Trump in 2014 and being invited to play golf at the Trump National Golf Club Charlotte.
He said asked Donald Trump how he was paying for his courses, and the now-president “sort of tossed off that he had access to $100 million,” Dodson said in the interview.
Dodson said he then questioned Eric Trump, who was along for the day.
{mosads}”I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks — because of the recession, the Great Recession — have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years,’” the writers told WBUR.
“And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’”
I am not a Trump fan, but he ended anarchy on the US southern border, and now seems to have brokered a peace deal in the Middle East. Give credit where credit is due.
Trump has (IMHO) been wrong on Ukraine, but may be coming around.
It is saying something that Trump, the banal galoot, the garish boor, was the best choice voters had in the last presidential election.
The Americans need better major political parties. Something has gone wrong. Candidate quality is way down from the days of JFK and Eisenhower.
That is some looney nonsense.
Bolton is heading to the big house to keep Comey and James company.
Mamdani the "Communist" comes from a family with a net wealth of $65 million. LOL. It's amazing how the rich, elite portray themselves as radicalized leftists. They can do this only because the policies they espouse have no consequences for their own privileged lives. They are not impacted by the homeless, crime, or illegal aliens behind the walls of their mansions. As a result, they can fool the gullible types who eventually will bear the consequences.
Dear Herr Shicklgruber I mean Herr Smith,
Here's a list of some very wealthy so-called Republican politicians, most of whom are pushing Trump's fascistic agenda:
Rick Scott (FL): Formerly served as governor and co-founded a large for-profit hospital company. His net worth is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions.
Pete Ricketts (NE): Appointed to the Senate in 2023, he previously served as governor. He is the son of the founder of TD Ameritrade and his family owns the Chicago Cubs.
Mitch McConnell (KY): The former Senate Majority Leader's net worth was estimated to be over $50 million as of May 2025. Much of his wealth is connected to his wife, Elaine Chao, whose family founded a shipping company.
Tim Sheehy (MT): Elected in 2024, his net worth is estimated to be at least $100 million. He founded Bridger Aerospace, an aerial firefighting company.
Bernie Moreno (OH): Elected in 2024, his assets were valued at roughly $50 million in 2024 disclosures, with wealth from car dealerships and a blockchain company.
David McCormick (PA): The former CEO of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, his assets in 2022 were valued between $116 million and $290 million.
Darrell Issa (CA): Formerly the CEO of Directed Electronics, he is consistently ranked among the wealthiest members of Congress. As of October 2025, his net worth was estimated to be nearly $285 million.
Michael McCaul (TX): The second-wealthiest person in Congress, much of his fortune comes from his wife, whose father founded media giant iHeartRadio.
Vern Buchanan (FL): He owns several car dealerships and co-founded a printing company. His wealth is estimated to be over $100 million.
Kevin Hern (OK): His wealth comes from his trusts and IRAs, which include stock in Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft. He previously owned McDonald's restaurants.
Jay Obernolte (CA): He founded a video-game company and has millions invested in mutual funds.
Doug Burgum: Before becoming a presidential candidate, the former North Dakota governor sold his software company, Great Plains Software, to Microsoft for more than $1 billion.
Greg Gianforte: The current governor of Montana founded a software company in the 1980s that brought him most of his wealth.
Linda McMahon: The former Small Business Administrator served in the Trump administration. Much of her wealth comes from her time as CEO of the WWE.
-- Tom
LOL. Republicans make no secret that they are free market capitalists. Most on your list work hard to create their wealth. Can you see the contrast with Mamdani? He is an avowed Commie. And yet had had enormous wealth that comes from his family. He has never had a job or created anything. He can play the Commie because none of his policies have any implications for his own privileged status. There are no homeless or crime in his neighborhood. The people who will bear the consequences of his policies are the poor and middlle class who do not live in his protected neighborhood.
:D BS:
AI Overview
The statement "Mamdani is a avowed Commie" is false. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani explicitly identifies as a democratic socialist and has denied being a communist. He has repeatedly pushed back against opponents, most notably Donald Trump, who have falsely labeled him as such. Experts on political theory have also pointed out the differences, noting that Mamdani's proposals are not communist.
Key distinctions and facts about Mamdani's political identity and platform:
Democratic Socialist, Not Communist: A fact-check by Al Jazeera confirmed that Mamdani is not a communist, based on interviews in which he has stated his political affiliation. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), of which he is a member, uses democratic processes to achieve its goals.
Property Ownership: Unlike communism, which involves state control over all means of production, Mamdani does not advocate for the collective ownership of private property.
Limited Government Intervention: Political experts confirm that a communist agenda involves the government owning and controlling all businesses and setting prices, a system Mamdani is not advocating for. His proposals are for targeted government programs, not total control.
Specific Policy Goals: His campaign platform includes specific proposals such as fare-free city buses, universal child care, city-owned grocery stores, a rent freeze on regulated units, and tax increases on high earners to fund these initiatives. Many of these policies, like public transit and subsidized child care, are common in other democratic countries.
The political context of the "Commie" label
The label "communist" is often used by opponents to attack Mamdani, but is widely seen by political analysts as a misleading tactic. It is used to suggest his policies are radical, and is considered a modern version of "red scare" tactics. The debate, however, has not deterred his progressive base, which has helped propel him to victory in the primary.
New York, Illinois, and Calif are lost causes. The worst of the worst are living "free of charge" inside these "sanctuary" states. They have taken them over. This includes the governing bodies therein.
BS: and you're in a cult.
Here is an AI overview disputing the garbage you peddle:
Sanctuary Policies in New York, Illinois, and California
All three states have enacted policies that limit the degree to which local law enforcement agencies can assist with federal immigration enforcement. The core of these policies is typically the restriction of compliance with ICE detainer requests—a non-judicial request from ICE for a local jail to hold an individual for up to 48 hours after their scheduled release so ICE can take custody.
California California Values Act (2017) Prohibits state and local law enforcement from using resources to assist ICE in most cases, including legally prohibiting local agencies from honoring ICE detainers.
Illinois Illinois Trust Act (2017) Prevents local law enforcement from detaining individuals based solely on an ICE request. It allows for holding an individual if there is a valid criminal warrant.
New York City/Local Policies New York City, and other jurisdictions, have long-standing policies, with NYC laws limiting cooperation with ICE unless an individual is convicted of a serious crime or a court-issued judicial warrant is present.
What you have posted above proves my point. These states are doing ALL they can to prevent outside law enforcement from eliminating the criminal element that resides inside their "sanctuary" state(s). People that have the monetary means, are moving out of these states. This is why Florida now has more electoral college votes than New York. This is also why Calif is doing all it can to hang onto every illegal alien possible. These illegal aliens inflate the state population and maintain the total number of Congressional Reps that Calif currently has. These Reps then vote for all kinds of federal boondoggle project $$ for the state. Stuff like that Bullet Train To Nowhere. Pelosi when in power was very good at ramrodding this garbage through Congress. The gross number of Congressmen/women also translates into California's Electoral College Vote Total. These illegals also provide a cheap labor force inside the state. Some people simply do Not have the means/$$ to move out of these states. Know it or not, they have been confined to a Modern Day "Plantation".
More BS:
65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions
https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions
MAWA
So now you are forced to proffer, "non public data......." That merits an immediate "Game Over"!
:D BS:
AI Overview
The statement "Mamdani is a avowed Commie" is false. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani explicitly identifies as a democratic socialist and has denied being a communist. He has repeatedly pushed back against opponents, most notably Donald Trump, who have falsely labeled him as such. Experts on political theory have also pointed out the differences, noting that Mamdani's proposals are not communist.
Key distinctions and facts about Mamdani's political identity and platform:
Democratic Socialist, Not Communist: A fact-check by Al Jazeera confirmed that Mamdani is not a communist, based on interviews in which he has stated his political affiliation. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), of which he is a member, uses democratic processes to achieve its goals.
Property Ownership: Unlike communism, which involves state control over all means of production, Mamdani does not advocate for the collective ownership of private property.
Limited Government Intervention: Political experts confirm that a communist agenda involves the government owning and controlling all businesses and setting prices, a system Mamdani is not advocating for. His proposals are for targeted government programs, not total control.
Specific Policy Goals: His campaign platform includes specific proposals such as fare-free city buses, universal child care, city-owned grocery stores, a rent freeze on regulated units, and tax increases on high earners to fund these initiatives. Many of these policies, like public transit and subsidized child care, are common in other democratic countries.
The political context of the "Commie" label
The label "communist" is often used by opponents to attack Mamdani, but is widely seen by political analysts as a misleading tactic. It is used to suggest his policies are radical, and is considered a modern version of "red scare" tactics. The debate, however, has not deterred his progressive base, which has helped propel him to victory in the primary.
So now you are forced to proffer, "non public data......." That merits an immediate "Game Over"!
Hitler's next move was to destroy all opposing political parties.
Goose-step Richard, stays in time.
Sounds like the repeated attempts to throw Trump in prison and when that failed assassinate him.
The fact that this is lost on them is hilarious. They used the corrupt Biden DOJ to throw numerous political opponents in jail. They concocted made up crimes to indict Trump. They censored social media and the mass media during COVID in shameless ways to spread disinformation. But it's Trump who is the authoritarian. LOL.
AI response to the garbage that you posted:
This is a highly charged political statement that reflects common arguments and criticisms leveled against the previous Democratic administration, particularly regarding the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its actions, and contrasts them with the perception of Donald Trump.
Here is a breakdown of the public record and major allegations concerning each point you raised, drawing on recent reporting:
DOJ Actions and Political Opponents
The claim of using the DOJ to throw numerous political opponents in jail is often raised in the context of:
The Federal Indictments of Donald Trump: President Donald Trump was indicted in federal court by Special Counsel Jack Smith on multiple charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding, related to the 2020 election and the handling of classified materials.
The legal basis for these charges relies on federal criminal statutes (e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 371, 18 U.S.C. § 1512), and the cases proceeded through the grand jury process and the federal court system.
Accusations of "made up crimes" are consistently leveled by Trump and his allies, who argue the charges are politically motivated and part of a "witch hunt." However, the cases were brought by prosecutors who maintain that the evidence meets the legal standard for a crime. Special Counsel Jack Smith has publicly defended the integrity and non-political nature of his investigations.
Investigation of Republican Groups: Senate Judiciary Committee reports and statements from Republican officials alleged that the FBI's investigation into election-related matters (referred to as "Arctic Frost") improperly included dozens of Republican entities, such as Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorneys General Association. These officials describe this as the "weaponization" of federal law enforcement against political adversaries.
Hunter Biden's Case: The investigation and prosecution of Hunter Biden, the sitting president's son, on gun and tax charges was led by David Weiss, a U.S. Attorney appointed during the previous Republican administration.
Allegations of corruption and preferential treatment have been made by IRS whistleblowers involved in the case.
Conversely, Hunter Biden's legal team and his father, President Joe Biden (who later pardoned his son), claimed the charges themselves were "selective" and "political" due to unrelenting public pressure, suggesting the opposite: a lack of justice driven by political opposition. Special Counsel Weiss has denied that the prosecution was vindictive or selective.
Censorship and Disinformation During COVID
Allegations that the Biden White House censored social media to spread "disinformation" (i.e., information that ran contrary to government-approved narratives) are a subject of significant public and legal contention:
Coercion and Pressure: Reports based on internal emails and documents, some released during litigation (like Missouri v. Biden), showed that White House officials, including the Director of Digital Strategy, intensely pressured social media executives (such as at Facebook/Meta) to remove or suppress content related to COVID-19 and vaccines that they considered misinformation.
Targeted Content: The pressure allegedly led companies to change their content policies and use tools like "demotion" to quietly suppress the reach of content that was skeptical of vaccines or mandates, even if the content was not explicitly false.
The White House Defense: The administration argued its actions were necessary to combat health-related misinformation and save lives, not to suppress legitimate political speech, which is an ongoing legal question of whether the administration crossed the line from persuasion to coercion in violation of the First Amendment. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the administration pressured the company to "censor" some content.
The "Authoritarian" Label
The contrast of these actions with the label of "authoritarian" being applied to Donald Trump highlights the deep division in the national political discourse over which side poses the greater threat to democratic norms:
Claim of Authoritarianism: The use of federal law enforcement to investigate political opponents, the alleged weaponization of the DOJ and FBI against conservative groups, and the pressure on private companies to censor speech are tactics consistent with an authoritarian abuse of power.
Trump's rhetoric and actions, such as challenging election results, pressuring officials to overturn elections, and promising to use the federal government to retaliate against political foes upon taking office, are consistent with an authoritarian disregard for democratic institutions and the rule of law.
The DOJ under Trump was improperly influenced, leading to the prosecution of Trump's critics (such as James Comey and John Bolton) and the dismissal of investigations into his allies.
One more thing: TURN OFF FOX NEWS !
So many words. How about asking AI if AI responses are accurate? Let me help you out:
No, AI answers are not always accurate and can be confidently wrong, so they should always be fact-checked with reliable sources. AI models predict answers by finding patterns in their training data, and they can "hallucinate" incorrect information or fabricate sources, especially when asked about unfamiliar or specialized topics.
Confidently incorrect: AI can present false information with a high degree of confidence, and may not express uncertainty or admit when it doesn't know an answer.
Bias: Since AI learns from human-generated data, it can reflect existing biases and produce inaccurate results that reinforce inequities.
The Federal Indictments of Donald Trump: President Donald Trump was indicted in federal court by Special Counsel Jack Smith on multiple charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding, related to the 2020 election and the handling of classified materials.
The legal basis for these charges relies on federal criminal statutes (e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 371, 18 U.S.C. § 1512), and the cases proceeded through the grand jury process and the federal court system.
Trump's rhetoric and actions, such as challenging election results, pressuring officials to overturn elections, and promising to use the federal government to retaliate against political foes upon taking office, are consistent with an authoritarian disregard for democratic institutions and the rule of law.
The DOJ under Trump was improperly influenced, leading to the prosecution of Trump's critics (such as James Comey and John Bolton) and the dismissal of investigations into his allies.
Fact checked -
He taught you well to hate.
This is a "Forum" for discussion and debate among Real People. AI has no place here.
...too bad you have no valid response to it.
Trump is really taking it to the drug cartels that are responsible for more American deaths each year than occurred during the entire Vietnam war. Long overdue. Hopefully the corrupt governments that give them shelter are getting the message.
Alejandro Carranza, never came home after he went fishing on September 14.
Tens of thousands of American citizens don't come home after drug overdoses. You can cry a river for these drug dealers but this is long overdue. And how many people go "fishing" in these types of boats including submersibles? Another leftist hoax. Imagine if leftists had the same empathy for American citizens as they do for illegal aliens and drug dealers.
overdose? - LOL - it was a disabled fishing boat bombed by the US :D
What is the evidence these are drug cartel they are even striking? Name one.
...again, blame the left - U suck on his hate and it serves him well.
These are facts not opinions based on TDS propaganda or brainwashing. Where do you think the drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans over the last several years come from?
American drug overdose deaths from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
2024: 80,400
2023: 105,007
2022: 107,941
2021: 106,699
2020: 91,799
2019: 70,630
Americans killed in the Vietnam War: 58,000.
Drug dealers killed by the US military: Approximately 40.
I don't deny any of that.
Just provide one name of a drug cartel operative killed in these attacks
What is the evidence drugs were on board? - What drug? - it wasn't fentanyl
The first eight strikes were not even on a US drug route
...otherwise, you are simply FoS.
The only reason that you even know this is going on is because the Trump administration is being completely transparent.
You think the US military is randomly targeting and blowing up "fisherman"? They have nothing better to do and don't have the surveillance technology to identify actual drug dealers. LOL. What a TDS fantasy. The only reason that you even know this is going on is because the Trump administration is being completely transparent. Some member of the Colombian government on the drug cartel payroll claims it is fisherman and you accept that conclusion over logic and the confirmation of your own government. Typical brainwashed TDS sufferer.
Trump is sending a message to the drug dealers and corrupt governments of the countries that protect the cartels that murder hundreds of thousands of Americans. Trump is bringing down the hammer on these scum bags. As a US citizen, you should not only approve of this action but question why it took decades and countless American lives before this happened. It is a catastrophe for the millions of American families that have lost children due to the drug overdoses. We fought a two-decade long war after 9/11 because approximately 3,000 Americans were killed. That is a drop in the bucket to the deaths cause by the Mexican and Central American drug terrorists.
I don't deny any of that. Except, there is no proof the 40 are drug cartel.
Just provide one name of a drug cartel operative killed in these attacks
What is the evidence drugs were on board? - What drug?
it wasn't fentanyl - the first eight strikes were not even on a US drug route
...otherwise, you are simply FoS.
Just show me ANY EVIDENCE these boats are not transporting illegal drugs. Thus far, the above is ALL NOISE.
:D
Just provide one piece of evidence.
It should be very easy.
How many "fishermen" are out on the ocean at night in speed boats going 50MPH or in underwater submersibles? LOL. You are taking the word of corrupt Colombian politicians on the payroll of the drug cartels over the US military. You don't have a single piece of evidence that they aren't carrying drugs when all the indications are suspicious. The Trump administration has been completely transparent. More importantly, however, you have never expressed the slightest concern for the 80,000-100,000 Americans that die EACH YEAR from the drugs that we know originate in these countries. Your beloved establishment politicians like Old Joe never did a single thing to stop the tide of drugs. In fact, Sleepy Joe opened the border to the drug dealers making it much easier to transport these drugs into the country. It has been a catastrophe. Your criticism has nothing to do with drug dealers or anything else. It is simply an extension of TDS. If Trump is involved, then it must be criticized. If he invented a cure for cancer, you would claim he only did it to enrich himself and was contributing to overpopultion.
It was a two engine fishing boat - one engine was on deck the other disabled - He was drifting. He was signalling distress.
JD Vance: "... hell, I wouldn’t go fishing right now in that area of the world,’” he went on, laughing.
How about sourcing your alleged evidence? Is this another one of your TikTok sources?
:D Where have I ever used Tick-Tock?
Wow. He taught you to hate and it serves him well.
Just as I thought. No source, an echo chamber created fish story. Yeah, and there was a Mauser up on the 6th Floor too.
There are plenty of sources - I cited 2. Turn off Fox News
:D Mauser? LOL Have you gone full tilt nutter now?
You made a claim. You posted No Source.
Turn off Fox news.
Trump Allegedly Misidentified a Colombian Fisherman as a Venezuelan 'Narcoterrorist'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-allegedly-misidentified-colombian-fisherman-040149139.html
Venezuelan fishermen in fear after US strikes on boats in the Caribbean
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77z48lg2l5o
Parents of fisherman killed in US strike: ‘We need answers from Trump’
https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/alejandro-carranza-fisherman-caribbean-trump-tn07j7l5d
Fact-checking Trump’s claim that each boat strike off Venezuela’s coast saves 25,000 lives
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trumps-claim-that-each-boat-strike-off-venezuelas-coast-saves-25000-lives
Really? "Yahoo NEWS"? That is not a news source. That "news" is just as made up as their Fantasy Sports, which is what they are known for. FANTASY! "PBS"? The now federally de-funded, (Where's my ax to grind?), "PBS"? That PBS? "BBC" ? The home of the oft ridiculed around here, "The Men Who Killed Kennedy"? Relying on "sources" such as this is extremely revealing. Explains mucho/Carranzo?. Sounds like a character that Groucho Marx once played. I believe that Carranzo took direct orders from Captain Spalding. "Hooray"!
:D You're in a cult.
You made a claim. You posted No Source.
He is taking the word of politicians on the payroll of the cartels and "family members." One of the vessels targeted was a submersible. How many "fishermen" are using a submarine? The lengths these leftists will go to exercise their TDS is astounding. Meanwhile they express no concern about the 80,000-100,000 Americans that die each year from the drugs that originate from these countries. That's over 200 American deaths EACH DAY for years and counting. But nothing to see there.
So great to see Trump holding Canada accountable for its anti-American propaganda. Those days of spreading misinformation are over. Of all the enlightening things of the Trump administration, it is that now clear who are our allies and enemies. Canada has decided to side with the likes of China and other belligerents against the US. The level of Canadian resentment of the US has been a real revelation, and they should be treated as such until they get their act together. The US has effectively ensured the national defense of Canada for decades which allowed them to pursue their utopian socialist agenda. Instead of gratitude, there is only resentment. Good luck paying those tariffs.
I believe in the following three statements:
1. Billionaires make billions of dollars from immigrant labor each year. If they get $ 10,000 profit from each of the 10,000,000 immigrants, they make up to one hundred billion dollars each year from immigrant labor.
2. Billionaires will have a large amount of influence in the current Trump administration, and in state and local governments.
3. Billionaires will use this influence to prevent the bulk of the immigrants from being deported.
I wonder, which, if any of my three believes, are false?
If you want the immigrants kicked out, is someone like Trump the best man for the job? Shouldn't you guys look into getting legislatures and governors, etc., into office who are not funded by billionaires?
Just curious what people feel.
Once again, my beliefs are irrelevant but because I keep getting asked on this: I support the immigrants, believe the motive for kicking them out is based on racism and that people who want this done do not support basic American values. But the subject of my post is my three statements. Which of these are false?
That is not to say that I am Trump supporter.
Yet you clearly are.
Just curious:
Did you move to Thailand for financial reasons, "to see the world," for the you-know-what action, for the cuisine, the humidity, the [fill in the blank], or because you were really, really fed up with "open borders" and the "woke"-and-all-too-intrusive federal government?
I believe in the following three statements:
1. Billionaires make billions of dollars from immigrant labor each year. If they get $ 10,000 profit from each of the 10,000,000 immigrants, they make up to one hundred billion dollars each year from immigrant labor.
2. Billionaires will have a large amount of influence in the current Trump administration, and in state and local governments.
3. Billionaires will use this influence to prevent the bulk of the immigrants from being deported.
I wonder, which, if any of my three believes, are false?
If you want the immigrants kicked out, is someone like Trump the best man for the job? Shouldn't you guys look into getting legislatures and governors, etc., into office who are not funded by billionaires?
Just curious what people feel.
Once again, my beliefs are irrelevant but because I keep getting asked on this: I support the immigrants, believe the motive for kicking them out is based on racism and that people who want this done do not support basic American values. But the subject of my post is my three statements. Which of these are false?
Biden is the guy who opened the border in violation of federal law and the Constitution to let tens of millions of unknown people illegally into the country. He created this mess. This has nothing to do with racism or legal immigration. Everyone supports legal immigration. Trump is making every possible effort to correct the catastrophe created by Biden (or whoever was actually in charge). He has effectively shut the border. The leftists are fighting him tooth and nail to keep him from enforcing federal laws to deport illegal aliens. It's very bizarre to spin a narrative in this context which suggests Trump is somehow not really trying to solve the problem.
Breakdown:
BS:
As of late 2025, approximately 71-72% of migrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention have no criminal record.
This means that out of nearly 60,000 detainees, around 42,755 had no criminal convictions as of September 21, 2025.
Among those who have a record, most are for minor offenses, with a smaller percentage having serious criminal convictions.
Overall: About 71-72% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction.
- Approximately 42,755 out of 59,762 detainees had no criminal record as of September 21, 2025.
- A large portion of those with a criminal record have been convicted of minor offenses, such as traffic violations.
- Only a small percentage (around 8%) of current detainees have been convicted of violent crimes.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-immigrant-detention#:~:text=The%20result%20has%20been%20an%20increase%20in,were%20minor%20offenses%20such%20as%20traffic%20violations.
https://tracreports.org/whatsnew/email.250926.html#:~:text=Immigration%20and%20Customs%20Enforcement%20held,as%20of%20September%2021%2C%202025.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/among-trumps-ice-detainees-72-have-no-criminal-convictions-despite-vow-to-focus-on-worst-of-the-worst/#:~:text=Among%20Trump%27s%20ICE%20Detainees%2C%2072%25%20Have%20No,to%20Focus%20on%20%27Worst%20of%20the%20Worst%27.[/list][/list]
That has no relevance to the discussion. And even if there were only one illegal alien with a criminal record who Biden allowed into the country, that would be one too many. Just ask the family of any American citizen who has been murdered or assaulted by such a person. It is absolutely bizarre to put the interests of illegal aliens over those of Americans because you hate Trump. Imagine suggesting that it is somehow a positive thing that only around a third of these tens of millions illegal aliens are criminals. That means we only let in tens of thousands of violent criminals! Nothing to see there. Keep it up, though. A recipe to lose every competitive election.
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He taught you to hate and it serves him well.
Only in the twisted mind of a TDS sufferer does sympathy for the victims of murder and rape is considered hate. Good luck with that.
Only "Richard Smith" would conflate some other argument that has nothing to do with me.
It has "nothing to do with you"? Who was that posted under your name that only tens thousands of illegal aliens had criminal records as though that was good news? LOL. If you supported the open border policy of Biden (or whoever was in charge), and those illegal aliens who entered the country under that policy commit murders and rapes, then it has a lot to do with you. Particularly if you continue to downplay the harm and advocate for more illegal immigration. You can't have it both ways. Claiming to support the Biden policies but then not taking any responsibility for the consequences.
:D Rant on, "Richard Smith", Rant on.
US is on a human rights watch list, specifically the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to a decline in civic freedoms.
It's a "rant" to note that American citizens have been the victim of crimes committed by individuals who were allowed into the country in violation of the law? And that the victims, instead of the criminals, deserve our empathy? A "watchlist"? HA HA HA. Some leftist organization doesn't like the fact that the US is putting its own interest ahead of those of the rest of the world. Someone needs a safe space. The socialist countries such as Canada and those in "Europe" that we have bankrolled for decades while they ripped us off can cry a river. Those days are over.
Dear Herr Schicklgruber I mean Herr Smith,
Was it those "illegal immigrants" who stormed The Capitol on 1/6, injured law enforcement officers, chanted "Hang Mike Pence" and defecated on the floor, or was that you and your zombified-by-66-years-of-active-measures-ops ilk?
-- Tom
Huh? That's a bizarre deflection. What does that have to do with the crimes committed by illegal aliens? Are you claiming that because crimes were committed on Jan. 6 that illegal aliens are justified in committing violent crimes against American citizens?
You know you got 'em by the short and curlies when they revert to their default setting = J6. Never fails.
Yes, and of course everyone who committed even the most minor crime on J6 was charged and given the maximum penalty. The FBI devoted more resources to that investigation than to any crime ever committed. None of which involved any murders. But when it comes to illegally aliens, there is nothing to see. It is somehow racist and cruel to apply the law to them. The empathy is with the criminals.
Hey, how do our MAGA friends here like Tuesdays elections? Pretty good, huh? Get used to it. You are going to be hit by a blizzard in November 2026.
And today, the Subway sandwich guy was acquitted by a jury. In no small part because the ICE officer lied and said the sandwich exploded on his chest while a photograph of the sandwich on the floor showed it still warped up.
I, of course, am no believer in the "Single Sandwich" theory. I think there were multiple sandwich throw, in a cross fire of smelliness and the sandwich which struck his chest was a hollow point sandwich designed to really stink up the victim.
And could Subway make the thrower their new spokesman? He would be a lot better than the previous guy.
Tuesday was too easy. Predictable. It was Hochul pummeling Lee Zeldin all over again. Blue states + No Trump on the ballot. The no Trump on the ballot is exactly how the Dem's won the 2 US Senate seats in Georgia. Anybody that seriously follows politics saw Tues coming a mile away. History repeating itself.
No one predicted this level of Democratic victories. The key is not the victories. The key is the margin of victories.
Let's take Virginia as an example. As a result of the previous election, the Virginia General Assembly held:
51 Democrats
49 Republicans
In last Tuesday election, 13 Republican seats, flipped, while zero Democrat seats flipped, resulting in:
64 Democrats
36 Republicans
the best position the Democrats have been in decade. Almost a super majority, which they do not need.
In addition, Republicans held the governor seat, which would prevent Democratic bills from being signed. Now, Virginia was elected a Democratic Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. So the Republicans have no chance of stopping redistricting to counter the Texas redistricting.
Name a state that where the Republicans have improved their position from last year half as well as Democrats did in Virginia? Name a state where the Republicans improved their position at all?
This was a big drubbing for the Republicans and bodes bad for the Republicans. So bad that it is reported that Trump is pushing Republicans to end the filibuster rule and push through new voting rules like Voter ID (making most married women ineligible to vote), voting in person, no voting by mail or drop box and all early voting, designed to try to hand Republicans an automatic victory. The Senate is not doing this. Also, it is not clear, that if all this was done, the Republicans would be able to win.
Where you been? Virginia has been a DC stronghold for a long time. Lotta people that live in Virginia work in DC. You had a "Black Face" Dem Gov candidate get defeated, but that's what it takes to take down a Dem in Virginia. Trump NEVER carried Virginia.
STOP repeating the BS: regarding, "most married women ineligible to vote", with Voter ID. You completely discredit yourself by repeating that blabber.
The only drubbing last Tues was once again inflicted on the "polling" services. Almost that entire industry has been a sham for a long, long, time.
If Virginia was a Democratic state:
* Why did it, up til January of 2026, have 49 out of 100 Republican members in the legislature? Why does it currently have a Republican governor, and will continue to have a Republican governor, for the next two months?
Clearly it is a "purple" state that just shifted heavily to the blue side, along with New Jersey, New York, Georgia and other states.
If Virginia was a Democratic state:I lived in Northern Virginia - Fairfax area - from my teenage years and only left in 2000. Northern Virginia was pro Republican (lots of military people lived there) for decades, starting in roughly 1980 or so, with most of the rest of the state Democrat (it's a Southern state after all). It's been roughly balanced between the two for decades and only recently - since Trump really - has gone mostly blue.
* Why did it, up til January of 2026, have 49 out of 100 Republican members in the legislature? Why does it currently have a Republican governor, and will continue to have a Republican governor, for the next two months?
Clearly it is a "purple" state that just shifted heavily to the blue side, along with New Jersey, New York, Georgia and other states.
Here's the party control of Virginia since 1992. Governor, Senate and House. It's gone from entirely Blue to mostly Red (look at the House of Delegates) to Purple to back to Blue starting with Trump in 2020. Up and down. Interestingly, the governorship has been mostly 50/50 for decades alternating from D to R to D to R to D to R (not including this latest race).
Since 2000, 22 of the 26 Houses have been controlled by Republicans. A "heavily Democrat state for a long time" wouldn't have those results.
(https://www.drivehq.com/file/DFPublishFile.aspx/FileID12967837342/Keyg5sbtwimjdcv/virginia party control.JPG)
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Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was. Just another Fake politician, no different than Rand Paul Jr. (Thomas Massie), who got caught being a full fledged Republican In Name Only (RINO)! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
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RT @realDonaldTrumpI am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
:D He's so "Presidential"
How about we just bottom line the issue and Stop screwing around with the Crayola Crayon Charts. About 51% of registered voters in Virginia are Democrats. Republican = 30%. So much for Virginia being even close to being "mostly red".Nobody said that Virginia is currently "mostly red." No one. In fact, people said the opposite. That is that it's been a purplish state that only recently turned Democratic/Blue after Trump took over the GOP. No one said "red"; they said "purple."
Virginia a "swing state" for the last 40 yrs? How many Trump presidential election rallies have been held in Virginia? Probably just as many as he has done in Calif. Just follow the candidate/follow the money. The RNC is not wasting funds on Blue States. You're buying into the Fake Newser's attempt to make those with TDS feel better. Virginia continues being a BLUE State.
It's going to stay blue with the influx of rich white liberals in the suburbs.
There's no getting around Bill Clinton being on Epstein Island numerous times. The people now running the Dem Party have thrown Bill Clinton under the bus. He's extremely old news. Same goes for Obama. He has absolutely no pull, no star power, nothing. He's merely "tolerated" by the people running the Dem Party. Obama is like that old Hollywood Star that refuses to exit the stage. Basically, Obama is a political version of George Clooney. "Days gone down", applies to both.
The New Democrats are throwing the dirt on the grave of Bill Clinton with the Epstein files. Hillary too. Out with the old and in with the new. Such is Democratic politics. This is what we are seeing. A very common thing in the Democrat ranks. Eating your own.
Let's be clear. It was a sunk "DRUG" Boat. It was Not an ordinary, "The Old Man and the Sea", "boat" as claimed. STOP misrepresenting the craft that was sunk.
Comrade Storing,
Do you wish you could follow Hegseth's illegal orders and murder shipwrecked people with impunity?
Are you going to sign up to help The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") murder "treasonous" / "undesirable" Americans in the US if-and-when he starts doing that?
-- Tom
This drug boat was not a "shipwreck." The sinking of the Lusitania was also not a "shipwreck". The S.S. Minnow was a "shipwreck".
Comrade Storing,
The "drug boat" was a technically a shipwreck after the first (illegal) strike.
Regardless, are you looking forward to murdering "undesirable" Americans for The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") if-and-when he starts doing that?
-- Tom
The vessels inside Pearl Harbor suffered more than 1 "strike". Are you claiming those Pearl Harbor vessels were "shipwrecked"? Please stop merely repeating what you hear and instead Think about what you are saying.
Comrade Storing,
If the "drug boat" had sunk after the first strike and the two survivors were clinging to flotsam, I've got the feeling you would have loved killing them . . . from a distance, as though you were playing a video game . . . "because they have dark-colored skin and they're still a threat!!!"
-- Tom
Non-Responsive. You claimed a "shipwreck". You need to stop repeating talking points. The people you mimic are Not intelligent.
The vessels inside Pearl Harbor suffered more than one "strike." Are you claiming those Pearl Harbor vessels were "shipwrecked"?
They need to use more explosive next time.
Up your you-know-what.
Take the knee and bow your head. The above signals you have lost.
Comrade Storing,
Are you claiming that America's military should act the same way that the expansionist-and-militaristic Axis-member known as Japan did on December 7-8, 1941, and do so in this case not against capital warships, but against two survivors of a 45-minute-earlier strike who are standing on the top of their capsized 25-foot boat several hundred miles from American territory and waving their arms at our drone or helicopter as though they're surrendering?
Is that what you're claiming?
-- Tom
You're the loser, dude.
You and everyone else who voted for The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx").
The thing is, you're taking the Western World down with you.
We were discussing your using the term "shipwreck." Please focus.
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Who said it was a fishing boat, and regardless, what does it matter?
Murder is murder.
Comrade,
Your liberal friends on MS-LDS say it was a fishing boat, which anyone with half a brain can see it wasn't. Let the pro's handle the situation.
A vessel being destroyed by a bomb is Not a "shipwreck". And that J6 pipe bomber was Not a "White Man". This is why people No Longer watch these alleged "news" stations. They are flat-out propaganda dispensaries. If this were WW 2, Tokyo Rose would hold the Rachel Maddow slot at MSNBC.
Time for Trump to release the Kraken. Time to call in Lindsey Halligan. We cannot lose Democracy to someone this dumb.
Donald Trump
Truth Social • December 15, 2025 @ 9:51 AM ET
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!
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IQ Test for MAGAT dumb f*ckers
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Obviously, those infected with TDS have never had anyone close to them OD on this poison. They also fail to recognize the ring of illegal aliens that can Not Read posted signage, but somehow are handed CDL licenses to play Demolition Derby with their Big Rigs. You notice they Never mention what these "drivers" are hauling or what their intended haul was supposed to be? This illegal alien "CDL Licensed" corridor runs from coast-to-coast.LOL. Even Russian trolls don't believe that horsesh*t, do you? They vomit out that propaganda to justify their heinous war crimes. Heir Drumpf admits all this boat murder is just provocation to seize the oil reserves under Iraq, oops I mean Venezuela. Regime change anyone? TDS (Trumputin is Dickless Sucka!) aside.
JACK- I knew I could entice you to "circle back". Good to have you back. 80% of the oil exported by Venezuela goes to China. There are many ways to wage a "trade war". As to the drugs specifically, Trump made this promise way back in the 2016 campaign. He's a Lame Duck now and will destroy these "Terrorist" drug runners without the fear of needing to be re-elected. Trump's only legit fear at this point is being assassinated. Trump is facing off with the Cartels. We saw how this went with JFK/Bobby.
While our wonderful President Trump is trying to undo the damage of the last administration, liberals are busy with their own agendas. Kids are riding cold electric school buses to prevent dead batteries in New York, and democrats in New Jersey are working on banning plastic utensils and ketchup packets. And finally in Arkansas an Atheist group is upset that the Governor is giving employees the 26th of December off as an extended Christmas vacation. ::)
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This is exactly why the Blue States are loaded with Illegal Aliens. Droves of Real Citizens that can do so are moving out of these states. Thus, the declining population of these states needs to be offset in order to prevent their losing Congressmen and Electoral Votes. This is exactly why NY is NOW 4th in the Electoral Vote count. They were #2 forever. Calif has had so many Illegal Aliens deported or self deport, that they are re-jiggering the state budget. They recently ADMITTED to having an $18 BILLION shortfall. Amidst their consistent bragging about having the 4th Largest Economy in the world. How does that work? Same goes for that joke of a state Minnesota. These Blue States/Sanctuary States are nothing more than slush funds/con jobs.
So you believe that Trump staged that assassination attempt on his own life? Clearly the TDS is doing the talking there.
I was being facetious; however, I wouldn't put it past him, given who he is and that he was trapped like a rat, facing significant jail time. At this point, I am convinced that the liar-in-chief is capable of anything to avoid prison. It will be entertaining to watch him squirm until that time comes—hopefully sooner rather than later. Then what will the deplorables do? Slither back under their rocks, I assume.
"Deplorables"? You are referring to The MAJORITY.Nope, only the MAGATs are deplorable, which represent about 25% of the GOP these days. Some of them are just rubes and cultists who buy into all the horsesh*t he spews. Just wait until the unredacted Epstein files finally come out. Only the shameless predos, Russian trolls, and Fox Fake News will remain. :P
"Deplorables"? You are referring to The MAJORITY.
Nope, only the MAGATs are deplorable, which represent about 25% of the GOP these days. Some of them are just rubes and cultists who buy into all the horsesh*t he spews. Just wait until the unredacted Epstein files finally come out. Only the shameless predos, Russian trolls, and Fox Fake News will remain. :P
Those files are extremely damaging to Bill Clinton. Have you seen the photo of him in the hot tub?
I couldn't care less about Bill Clinton. Did you see the picture of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and her children? They redacted the kids, creating a disturbing implication that their mother was involved in a three-way assault with her own children. That is a deplorable insinuation that only Heir Drumpf could conceive. Additionally, did you notice that Bill Clinton has called his bluff and is demanding that all the files be released unredacted? He is advocating for total transparency, which is the opposite of what Donnie Von Shitsinpants represents. You could cut the irony with a small spoon, the kind you would use to snort Adderall. ???
I couldn't care less about Bill Clinton. Did you see the picture of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and her children? They redacted the kids, creating a disturbing implication that their mother was involved in a three-way assault with her own children. That is a deplorable insinuation that only Heir Drumpf could conceive. Additionally, did you notice that Bill Clinton has called his bluff and is demanding that all the files be released unredacted? He is advocating for total transparency, which is the opposite of what Donnie Von Shitsinpants represents. You could cut the irony with a small spoon, the kind you would use to snort Adderall. ???
" I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky", from Pres Bill Clinton while under oath. And now you are claiming this same man wants, "total transparency" with respect to other sexual issue(s)? Seriously?It's easy to verify if you were genuinely interested. But we both know you're just trying to deflect from the fact that Heir Drumpf is heavily implicated in the Epstein files. By the way, Epstein himself stated in an email that Clinton had never been to the Island. D'oh! :o
I couldn't care less about Bill Clinton. Did you see the picture of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and her children? They redacted the kids, creating a disturbing implication that their mother was involved in a three-way assault with her own children. That is a deplorable insinuation that only Heir Drumpf could conceive. Additionally, did you notice that Bill Clinton has called his bluff and is demanding that all the files be released unredacted? He is advocating for total transparency, which is the opposite of what Donnie Von Shitsinpants represents. You could cut the irony with a small spoon, the kind you would use to snort Adderall. ???
There it is. You patting Bill Clinton on the head for demanding "total transparency". That's rich.
There it is. You patting Bill Clinton on the head for demanding "total transparency". That's rich.
I couldn't care less about Bill Clinton. Did you see the picture of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and her children? They redacted the kids, creating a disturbing implication that their mother was involved in a three-way assault with her own children. That is a deplorable insinuation that only Heir Drumpf could conceive. Additionally, did you notice that Bill Clinton has called his bluff and is demanding that all the files be released unredacted? He is advocating for total transparency, which is the opposite of what Donnie Von Shitsinpants represents. You could cut the irony with a small spoon, the kind you would use to snort Adderall. ???
Did the anomaly-replete JFK assassination by former Marine sharpshooter and self-described Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald -- plus fifty years of KGB disinformation about it -- help pave the way for "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin's installing Donald Trump as our nation-rending "president" in January 2017 and January 2025?
Another "election denier" posting above. TDS rages on.
Enough with the "what aboutism" already. Nobody cares about the Clintons, Biden or Obama except you MAGATs, comrade.
You seem to be obsessed and/or hot for Bill Clinton. In a March 2018 email exchange, was Clinton the person Epstein's brother was referring to when Jeffrey mentioned being with Steve Bannon? Mark asked, "Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba." Do you think Clinton is who Mark meant by "Bubba"? Do you wish it was you?
Do you have any rebuttal to anything else I posted about Donnie Von Shitsinpants? Didn't think so. You must have caught the TDS (Trump Dementia Sickness)
Once again, the Fake News Media gets exposed. Cop camera clearly shows that woman tried to run the ICE Agent over in Minnesota.
Guess you missed the just-released cop cam.
Dear Sonderführer Storing,
I've probably watched it more times than you have, dude.
Question:
Looking at the earlier-released video (the one taken from the left-rear), where was The Idiot when he fired his first shot, and which direction was Ms. Good's vehicle moving when he fired it - to her left, straight ahead, or to her right?
Answer:
He was standing on the side of the vehicle near the driver's side headlight, and her vehicle was turning to her right, away from him.
D'oh!
-- Tom
The recently released Cop Cam shows the officer being directly in front of the oncoming car and then being hit. This is why the Fake News'ers have suddenly gone Silent with their "murder" claim. Joe 6 Pack's know when an officer(s) tells you to, "get out of the car", you GET OUT OF THE CAR. Parents drum this into us when we get a Learner's Permit. The Minn Gov and Mayor are hanging out to dry with their calling this cop a murderer immediately after the shooting. I am not even gonna get into the 2 women being members of a group of "agitators". The Fake News tried to make this another Floyd, but it immediately fell flat as the Truth came out. This is the kinda stuff that helps the GOP in the midterms. The Billion $$ THEFT in Minn and Calif with its' "bullet train to Nowhere" is more of the same. Musk/DOGE had it right from the get-go. And simultaniously there is also the 2 Gang Bangers that got shot up in Portland. This stuff is like gangland Chicago back during the Al Capone days. Joe Biden and his "10% for the Big Guy" has infested the USA with vermin.
Dear Sonderführer Storing,
It sounds to me as though your dream job back in the early 1940s would have been Gas Chamber Operator, and that you'd enjoy it so much, you'd volunteer to work for free.
Am I right?
-- Tom
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/us/ice-shooting-minneapolis-renee-good-cell-phone-invs
They should arrest the kook wife for inciting Ms Good to move the vehicle to block the ICE vehicles. The kook wife was also trying to provoke the ICE agents just moments before she then yelled at Ms Good to drive the car forward when Ms Good was trying to BACK up the car.
Dear Neon,
You, with your tinfoil-hat "Hickey shot JFK" CT, are the true kook around here.
-- Tom
Says the man with horns coming out of his head.
"...frightened citizen"? That characterization is totally inaccurate based on ALL of the audio/video recorded that morning. Both women were taunting law enforcement all morning long. She should have gotten out of the car as instructed.
TG--
Waaay OT, but since you have Mr. Buffalo Horns (Jacob Chansley) up...
What do you make of the video that emerged of Capital Police officers solicitously ushering Mr. Buffalo Horns around the US Capitol, even opening doors for him, and so on, and not taking his flag (which had a dull spearpoint on it, which was later described as a weapon).
Mr. Buffalo Horns then becomes the face of the riot.
I recall Ben and I unpopularly agreeing on the leftist Ed Forum at the time that Jan. 6th was essentially a Monty Python skit gone wrong due to a host of factors not having much of anything to do with your avator or his fellow revelers. That's still my position. I've seen scenes that look more like an insurrection at my local Walmart on a busy Saturday morning.
I recall Ben and I unpopularly agreeing on the leftist Ed Forum at the time that Jan. 6th was essentially a Monty Python skit gone wrong due to a host of factors not having much of anything to do with your avator or his fellow revelers. That's still my position. I've seen scenes that look more like an insurrection at my local Walmart on a busy Saturday morning.
Jack Smith? You didn't really just cite Jack Smith, did you? You need to find a new flavor of Kool Aid. Next you'll be solemnly citing Nancy P.'s opinion of the event.
Dear FPL,
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith said under oath recently that then-President Trump was the person most responsible for the violent and deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol, including the risk to his own Vice President.
-- Tom
Jack Smith? You didn't really just cite Jack Smith, did you? You need to find a new flavor of Kool Aid. Next you'll be solemnly citing Nancy P.'s opinion of the event.
Get out of that bubble and deeply inhale some fresh air. You are discrediting everything you claim by citing Jack Smith.
From all the videos, we now have a pretty solid idea of what happened to Renee Good. I simply ask myself this: If the driver of that car had been the most notorious, dangerous punk in my neighborhood ... and said notorious punk had smilingly said "hey, dude, I'm not mad at you" ten seconds before ... and said punk's spouse were still standing outside the car ... and said punk had obviously turned the steering wheel away from me and were moving forward at 10 mph ... and I were standing where Agent Ross was ... would I IN MY WILDEST DREAMS actually feel threatened with grave injury and feel I had ANY CAUSE AS A FELLOW HUMAN OR ANY LEGAL RIGHT WHATSOEVER to pump bullets into said punk, both through the windshield and the open driver's side window? NOT IN MY WILDEST DREAMS. I would realize immediately had I had made a grave human and legal mistake was in deep, deep doo-doo. The fact that anyone, even the most far-right law-and-order gun-toting enthusiast, is trying to justify this is absolutely astonishing and frightening. The actions and words of the ICE agents, fortunately captured on video, tell you these were stressed-out, angry goons and that Renee Good was the victim of their rage.
Dear Sonderführer Storing,
Shouldn't you be back at your beloved Gas Chamber?
-- Tom
You have "time challenge" issues along with your many other deficiencies. We had "the chair" at Shawshank.
Jack Smith? You didn't really just cite Jack Smith, did you? You need to find a new flavor of Kool Aid. Next you'll be solemnly citing Nancy P.'s opinion of the event.
Jack Smith? You didn't really just cite Jack Smith, did you? You need to find a new flavor of Kool Aid. Next you'll be solemnly citing Nancy P.'s opinion of the event.
The difficulty of being Me in today's America is that I am neither a foaming-at-the-mouth Trump Cultist nor in the grip of near-terminal TDS. Indeed, I would barely qualify as "partisan" at all - nearly left-wing on some issues, nearly right-wing on others, and don't care at all about lots of them. As previously stated, I voted for Obama twice, Trump twice and didn't vote at all last time. I voted for Dubya once and Kerry once. Pretty solid non-fanatic credentials it seems to Me.
I thus retain my ability to think critically and rationally, free of the cultist allegiances that would require me to have a knee-jerk, cult-approved position on every issue. You, of course, are in the grip of near-terminal TDS. What you have to say on every issue is as predictable as the sunrise. I could write your posts for you, just as I could write the posts of your Trump Cult opponents. You folks live in echo chambers where your dubious authority figures tell you what to think and reinforce your own paranoia.
When The Donald first surfaced as a candidate, I was enthusiastic and my wife was a budding Trump Cultist. Because we are rational folks, the scales have gradually fallen from our eyes. We support many of his policies, and I still chalk up some of his shtick to an act, but he clearly has more than one screw loose and is somewhat frightening and potentially dangerous at an Armageddon-threatening level. The country would be far better served by someone with similar policies who didn't have several screws loose.
Events like Jan. 6th can be viewed rationally or from the perspective of TDS or Trump Cultism. Rationally, it was a peaceful gathering that escalated to a Monty Python skit and then to a seriously frightening event for a host of contributing factors. The term "insurrection" simply doesn't fit. Certainly, Trump partisanism was a major factor in the event - but I don't see it as the cause of the escalation. How it could rationally be laid at the feet of Trump in any sense other than "his claims of election fraud were certainly a motivation, and his supporters tend to be fanatics" escapes me.
Jack Smith is a partisan hack, simple as that. I would suppose this was the reason the GOP was disinclined to have him testify publicly - i.e., the not-unreasonable concern that he would use this stage for partisan hackmanship. Probably he should have been allowed to testify publicly, so this was arguably an error in judgment by the partisan hack Representatives, but such is the state of cultism that prevails in the country today.
In my quiet little Arizona town that is mostly still living in 1958, no one even seems to talk about this stuff; it literally never even comes up. If I am surrounded by Trump Cultists and TDS sufferers, they are the quietest, most peaceful bunch you can imagine. When I read the rants of Trump Cultists and TDS sufferers, the phrase "Get a life" always springs to mind. Once someone has revealed himself to be a Trump Cultist or TDS Sufferer, I must say it colors my perspective on their JFKA-related posts.
It's rather humorous, is it not, that TG repeatedly uses the term "rants" in relation to my posts. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. If the phrase "mindless rant" did not exist, we'd have to invent it just for Tom. Always - always, always, always - the posts of Trump Cultists and TDS Sufferers tell you far more about them than anything else. But they never see this ... because they are Trump Cultists and TDS Sufferers!
You have now blessed us with four separate posts in response to my two-liner. I'm flattered, I guess. In the context of his investigation of The Donald, at least, better-informed minds than mine have used the term partisan hack in reference to Jacko. "Highly politically motivated and influenced," to put it in more statesmanlike terms. TDS and Trump Cultism seem to have turned more than one previously rational person into a partisan hack. I will cheerfully apply the same term to any number of Trump Cultists if this will assuage your fury.You are trying to reason with someone who thinks the Soviet Union won the Cold War. The nation built on the Marxist-Leninist idea of a command economy, no private property, one party state and a dictatorship of the proletariat was victorious. And the liberal democratic capitalism - that would be us - lost. Even though the Soviet Union no longer exists. The country that won. Poof, vanished. Apparently they faked their collapse and disappearance.
Alas, when I reappeared here I allotted myself exactly one week, which has expired to the very minute. In that time, I have stirred the pot with 55 posts and reached the coveted 1,000-post milestone. Thank you for your kind attention, you've been a lovely audience. I now return to the Factoid Buster Cave, to emerge at such time, if any, as another factoid like the supposed Gerhart sighting of Oswald captures my attention. I am pleased to have at least dented an LN factoid like the "early missed shot" for a change (and even introduced my favorite conspiracy theory!).
Carry on.
You are trying to reason with someone who thinks the Soviet Union won the Cold War. The nation built on the Marxist-Leninist idea of a command economy, no private property, one party state and a dictatorship of the proletariat was victorious. And the liberal democratic capitalism - that would be us - lost. Even though the Soviet Union no longer exists. The country that won. Poof, vanished. Apparently they faked their collapse and disappearance.
Hell, even Oswald recognized that it was a failure. He told everyone about it. While he was also supposedly a KGB agent or asset. Yes, the same guy who was saying it was a slave state, a failure of true Marxism was also working for them. But he was instructed to say this. His criticism of Marxist-Leninism was really evidence that he supported it. Yes he did.
Here's the reality and then by God I'm done unless an investigation-worthy factoid (CT or LN) captures my attention. For anyone living through the fifties, sixties, seventies and beyond, it is apparent that the proverbial Marxist/socialist "long march through the institutions" has been taking place with increasing momentum. I was so politically naive and apathetic that during my law school years of 1979-82, I didn't even realize that my professors were almost all completely whacked-out left-wing radicals (at Arizona State, for God's sake). I used to listen almost exclusively to NPR, oblivious to the incredible leftist bias. I had never even VOTED until the over-the-top leftist hatred of Ronald Reagan caused me to get off my fanny and vote for him.
Begining with Clinton (for whom I definitely did not vote) and intensifying greatly with Obama (for whom I voted twice under the delusion that this would greatly reduce racial tensions) and then Biden (for whom I did not vote), I think the light bulb finally went on for even someone such as myself: We are losing America as we have always known it. The educational system is lost and has been for a long time. Government at every level is heavily leftist. The leftists actually want illegal immigration and the collapse of the borders. The leftists actually want the demise of the family structure. The leftists actually want the collapse of the stability offered by religion and traditional moral values. The long march through the instiutions is at or near the point of no return.
The only solution for people who value America as they once knew it is precisely what Trump offers: Swift, harsh, heavy-handed, take-no-prisoners measures, the proverbial surgeon's knife to deal with what had become a Stage 4 cancer. Realistically, there is no other way. It we be nice if this could be accomplished without the overlay of Trump's ego, narcissism, vindictiveness and whatnot, but we're stuck with him for now and this is a price most who hope for a return to the America they once knew are willing to pay if he doesn't destroy the entire planet in the process.
I think Trump does have an affinity for Putin because he sees Putin as "a winner," a savvy "businessman" like himself, and he sees the economic and pragmatic advantages of a more stable relationship with Russia. But any idea that Trump - Trump!!! - is the natural consequence of some longstanding KBG plot, or the end result of the long march through the institutions (a strategy that originated in Italy and Germany), is just insane. Trump is the very ANTITHESIS of that.
Here's the reality and then by God I'm done unless an investigation-worthy factoid (CT or LN) captures my attention. For anyone living through the fifties, sixties, seventies and beyond, it is apparent that the proverbial Marxist/socialist "long march through the institutions" has been taking place with increasing momentum. I was so politically naive and apathetic that during my law school years of 1979-82, I didn't even realize that my professors were almost all completely whacked-out left-wing radicals (at Arizona State, for God's sake). I used to listen almost exclusively to NPR, oblivious to the incredible leftist bias. I had never even VOTED until the over-the-top leftist hatred of Ronald Reagan caused me to get off my fanny and vote for him.
Begining with Clinton (for whom I definitely did not vote) and intensifying greatly with Obama (for whom I voted twice under the delusion that this would greatly reduce racial tensions) and then Biden (for whom I did not vote), I think the light bulb finally went on for even someone such as myself: We are losing America as we have always known it. The educational system is lost and has been for a long time. Government at every level is heavily leftist. The leftists actually want illegal immigration and the collapse of the borders. The leftists actually want the demise of the family structure. The leftists actually want the collapse of the stability offered by religion and traditional moral values. The long march through the instiutions is at or near the point of no return.
The only solution for people who value America as they once knew it is precisely what Trump offers: Swift, harsh, heavy-handed, take-no-prisoners measures, the proverbial surgeon's knife to deal with what had become a Stage 4 cancer. Realistically, there is no other way. It we be nice if this could be accomplished without the overlay of Trump's ego, narcissism, vindictiveness and whatnot, but we're stuck with him for now and this is a price most who hope for a return to the America they once knew are willing to pay if he doesn't destroy the entire planet in the process.
I think Trump does have an affinity for Putin because he sees Putin as "a winner," a savvy "businessman" like himself, and he sees the economic and pragmatic advantages of a more stable relationship with Russia. But any idea that Trump - Trump!!! - is the natural consequence of some longstanding KBG plot, or the end result of the long march through the institutions (a strategy that originated in Italy and Germany), is just insane. Trump is the very ANTITHESIS of that.
The above is why the Dem's have impeached Trump two times, and did all they could to get him thrown into prison multiple times. Then comes the repeated assassination attempts. "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope", rings true today. And they know it.
I agree with much you said.
The whole Ku Keffiyeh Klan (KKK) rallies showed the left had become ugly.
And where are the chants now for Iran?
I hope you participate in the forum going forward.
Because I know a bit more about TG's circumstances than he thinks I do, I try to tread lightly and with a bit of humor.
My wife lived in the USSR from her birth in 1954 until it's collapse. She then lived in the Soviet-style republic of Belarus until 2007, when she joined me. During the Obama and Biden years, she must have said at least 25 times, in these very words, "My God, this is just like the Soviet Union! This is just what they were trying to do."
Dear FPR,
You've posted the same heart-warming story two or three times, now.
Every time I read it, I weep profusely and then I start wondering whether or not Maria Butina whispered the same sort of things into the ears of Patrick M. Bryne and Paul Erikson as she nibbled on them.
Their ears, that is.
And it also reminds me, in a roundabout way, of Marina Oswald, whom some people say was a hooker for the KGB* in Leningrad before she married her Handsome Prince Charming within a month of meeting him, even though she later claimed, "everybody hated him."
*Today's SVR and FSB
-- Tom
Sounds like you are beginning to realize that Oswald was not exactly a lone nut like the WC wishes us all to believe.
By the way, you were in error when you confused me with that hooded avatar forum poster when you stated that I was the kook advocating the Hickey accidental firing of his AR 15 scenario.
"...frightened citizen"? That characterization is totally inaccurate based on ALL of the audio/video recorded that morning. Both women were taunting law enforcement all morning long. She should have gotten out of the car as instructed.
Question 1: If a citizen has a permit to carry a firearm and is found by Federal officers to be carrying a firearm, do they have the right to take the gun away and shoot the citizen?
Question 2: If so, is this in line with the Second Amendment?
It should be noted that one is either a strong defender of the Second Amendment, or one is not. One cannot sometimes support the Second Amendment, but at other times not, and be considered a strong defender of the Second Amendment.
Question 1: If a citizen has a permit to carry a firearm and is found by Federal officers to be carrying a firearm, do they have the right to take the gun away and shoot the citizen?
Question 2: If so, is this in line with the Second Amendment?
It should be noted that one is either a strong defender of the Second Amendment, or one is not. One cannot sometimes support the Second Amendment, but at other times not, and be considered a strong defender of the Second Amendment.
As we consistently see with respect to this individual, it is not mentioned/skipped over that he had NO ID on him. An alleged "peaceful protester" carrying a semi-automatic weapon with an additional 2 loaded clips and NO ID on him? How about we get real here? We'll see if they are able to Zoom in on the gun amidst that scrum, but you can hear someone Yelling, "Gun, Gun....".
As we consistently see with respect to this individual, it is not mentioned/skipped over that he had NO ID on him. An alleged "peaceful protester" carrying a semi-automatic weapon with an additional 2 loaded clips and NO ID on him? How about we get real here? We'll see if they are able to Zoom in on the gun amidst that scrum, but you can hear someone Yelling, "Gun, Gun....".
Kristi Noem: I grief for the parents of Alex Pretti. I cannot imagine what it would be like to lose a child like that. Well, that is not totally true. I do know what it is like to lose a dog like that so I guess it would be somewhat similar.
People will continue to believe whatever they want to believe about this tragedy regardless of what the facts from the investigation eventually show (much like the JFKA). What people who legally carry guns should already know is how to react if and when they are approached by law enforcement officer(s). First keep your hands out where they can be seen by the officer(s). Then tell the officer(s) that you have a loaded gun with you. This is to try to avoid any potential chance that the officer(s) might possibly think that you might be trying to reach for a gun to attack them. I think that this tragedy could have easily been avoided. Hopefully, a potentially life-saving lesson can be learned from this.
You see to think it was the victim's fault.
We need to stop trying to blame everyone else and take responsibility for our own actions. I simply think that if he had reacted properly, he would most likely still be alive today.
Does "acting properly" involve not filming what the ICE agents were doing?
I am only posting how to react to LEOs in hopes that someone might learn something that could save their life someday if they found themselves in a similar situation. I am not interested in arguing about other aspects.
Pretti was 37 yrs old. Hunter Biden turns 56 next month. Let's stop talking about these ADULTS like they are babes in the woods. They have well more than enough life experiences to know what actions might put their life at risk. You go out into the public, on foot, carrying a concealed loaded gun, with an additional 2 fully loaded clips, and have NO ID on your person? This guy was seeking trouble. He found it.
You want leaders who have your back.
WATCH: 'You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns,' Trump says of Alex Pretti killing
So this is Trump saying "You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns"
Now, without a doubt, Trump is going to walk back on this. But we know what he really wants. He wants total control. But he is never going to have total control, as long as the people have guns. So no matter what Trump says now, we know, that down the road, private ownership of guns is going away, once Trump gets total control.
If Trump ever gets total control, say "Bye Bye" to your guns. Supporting Trump may be the dumbest thing the NRA ever did. The leadership of the NRA should resign over their endorsement of Trump. If you support the NRA, you need leaders who can sense danger and make sober decisions. You want leaders who have your back.
No surprise that amateur photo analyst Royell Strong is a Donald Trump sycophant...
Comrade James DiEugenio's beloved "Director of National Intelligence," Tulsi Gabbard, appears to be helping The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") perpetuate The Big Lie that the 2020 election was rigged against him so he can cancel -- or rig -- the 2016 midterms elections and the 2028 general election.
"Former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin cherishes Comrades DeEugenio and Gabbard!
Factoid: Gabbard has hidden a whistleblower's complaint of treason against her for eight months, and now he's threatening to go directly to Congress.
Rig the 2016 midterms? "Hello, McFly?"
This is exactly why the Dem's want to shutdown the govt. They want to slow the US economy and also stifle the posting of the economic numbers that will reflect a booming US economy.
Gas prices down. Crime down. Borders closed. Drug overdose deaths down. Stock market at record highs. U-S-A, U-S-A. On the other side, Epstein conspiracy theories and ICE. With that said, the Dems have won the messaging war. I'm sure they will do well in the mid-term elections. Not because they offer any solutions but because they are better at influencing narratives.
What happened to Richard Smith? He was a breath of fresh air around here.
Anyone that knows anything about the grocery industry Knows that the price of food in general does Not go down. (Other than "loss leaders" which are run in store adds for a very short term period). The absolute best outcome is the limiting of inflation/stabilizing food prices, vs wages increasing. This is what Trump accomplished in 2025. Lowering inflation vs increasing the "take home pay" of workers.
Groceries in my neck of the woods have really dropped since Trump took office. Gas, heating fuel, everything lower.
Groceries in my neck of the woods have really dropped since Trump took office. Gas, heating fuel, everything lower.
This is exactly why the Dem's shut the govt down. Slow the economy and the numbers that make that plain. And then there's the Billions In Theft in blue states. too. Minn and Calif are absolute cesspools.
We are seeing what a big part the illegal aliens played in the Calif economy. Trump got them out of there and Calif then circles the drain. At least $18 BILLION shortfall. This is why they will do whatever is needed to get a Dem President elected. They need $$ pumped into these failing Blue States.
Russia Russia Russia Tom must be living in a blue state like California or Virginia where the “affordability” Socialist Dems are taxing the &)@ out of average income American citizens which probably includes not only the eggs but the chickens and house the chickens live in.
Here where I’m at (one of the free states) not only are the eggs cheap, but the grocery store every day has lots of buy one get one free deals.
Sorry to cause Tommy the Commie any grief, but it’s been announced on FOX News (the network that commies hate most) that the Great Towel Head Khomeninsaney has been killed in his bunker. HOORAY for the Iranian people seeking freedom from this 47 year old tyrannical regime.
Trump is the only POTUS with the balls to back Israel to the hilt. And they want us to believe that in 2020 Biden won the Jewish vote? Totally rigged election.
Totally Rigged. Days like today make you proud of our Country and leadership. The Iranian people are celebrating in the streets, and liberals are throwing a hissy fit here.
I'm glad because Putin will have fewer Shaheds to bomb Ukraine with.
Btw, it's your mind that's totally rigged.
I see the commie lover is back to his usual stuff. You love Putin so get your ass over there.
Totally Rigged. Days like today make you proud of our Country and leadership. The Iranian people are celebrating in the streets, and liberals are throwing a hissy fit here.
ZM-
I hope that is all true.
Some are pointing out that the US (and Israel) are "too civilized" to win wars anymore.
You know how the US defeated Japan? We firebombed Tokyo, killing 400k, and then dropped two nukes. Only then, Japan folded. It was brutal, but also shortened and ended the war, and won a durable peace that has lasted since.
Germany was mercilessly bombed for months.
The US and Israel will not wipe out Tehran. That "civility" will allow the demented Ayatollah regime to hunker down...and possibly survive.
I hope not.
RS--
Oh, a lot of people don't know Israel and Iran were friends and allies until 1979---and I think they can be again, if Western liberal democracies see this next act through.
Imagine a Middle East planning peace and prosperity instead of how to contain and appease and fear the nuke-addled Islamo-fascist terror regime in Tehran.
Added plus (for TG!): Russia takes a huge whack when Tehran goes down.
Question: How could the American electorate be so ignorant as to elect Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020?
Answer: It was the result of the cumulative effects of fifty-plus years of KGB disinformation and "active measures" operations aimed at getting Americans to distrust their government.
For example, Oliver Stone's 1991 film, "JFK," the origins of which can be traced back to an anti-Clay Shaw / anti-CIA article published in a Communist-owned Italian newspaper, Paese Sera, three days after overly ambitious, scandal-plagued, and revengeful New Orleans DA Jim Garrison arrested Shaw on suspicion of having masterminded a homosexual thrill-kill assassination of JFK, and which article motivated Garrison to change his theory against Shaw to "He organized it for the evil, evil CIA."
Nixon won in 1960. Trump won in 2020.
It's good seeing that time has opened your eyes. Like Nixon in 1960, Trump did Win in 2020. "Better late than never".
Question: How could the American electorate be so ignorant as to elect Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020?
Answer: It was the result of the cumulative effects of fifty-plus years of KGB disinformation and "active measures" operations aimed at getting Americans to distrust their government.
For example, Oliver Stone's 1991 film, "JFK," the origins of which can be traced back to an anti-Clay Shaw / anti-CIA article published in a Communist-owned Italian newspaper, Paese Sera, three days after overly ambitious, scandal-plagued, and revengeful New Orleans DA Jim Garrison arrested Shaw on suspicion of having masterminded a homosexual thrill-kill assassination of JFK, and which article motivated Garrison to change his theory against Shaw to "He organized it for the evil, evil CIA."
Above, YOU are the one saying that Trump won in 2020. You clearly made a, "Freudian slip".
I am a Trump supporter and I don't believe he won the 2020 election anymore than I believe Nixon won in 1960. There seemed to be some shady things going on but I see no way it could have decided the election. Biden flipped five states that Trump won in 2016 and to reverse the outcome, Trump would have needed to hold three of them. I don't see how that is remotely possible.
Likewise, JFK won the electoral college comfortably. The election came down to the last 3 large states that were still up for grabs, Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. Nixon had to win at least Illinois and Texas to win the electoral college. He lost all three. Had he won Missouri and one of the other two, the election would have been decided by the House of Representatives as Harry Byrd's 15 electoral votes would have prevented either man from getting a majority.
Illinois has always got most of the attention due to the alleged vote manipulation by Dick Daley's Cook County machine, which almost certainly did create votes for JFK. What people ignore is the fact the Republicans were doing the same thing in their stronghold of Lake County in the northern suburbs of Chicago. The Republicans accused the Democrats of cheating better than they did. Even if Nixon had carried Illinois, he still would have lost the election as he failed to carry Texas or Missouri.
Why the muck (rhymes with xxxx) are you a Trump supporter?
For starters, he's not a Democrat
Neither was Adolf Hitler, iirc.
Nor was Abraham Lincoln.
So why has Alex Jones turned into an anti Israel / Mossad conspiracy Nut? The guy must have lost his mind. He claimed the other day that Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro are Mossad agents and that Netanyahu and the Israeli Lobby have taken over the US government.
Probably sometime in the next month, Alex will announce he no longer is a Trump supporter and will begin flipping himself full tilt into the Tucker Carlson /Nick Fuentes /Marjorie /Traitor Greene mode of total Jewish Conspiracy and wind up joining with the Bernie Sanders/AOC Marxist Left to form a really weird 3rd Party.
Alex Jones was born an a-hole and will die an a-hole after never having ever been anything but an a-hole.
You're right about Jones, but I would still like to know -- are you pro-Putin?
Of course not. Why would you ask?
Is Trump going to betray the billionaires, deport most of the immigrants, costing them billions each month, or betray MAGA?
Trump's pro-Putin.
Why aren't you?
Total nonsense.
I am amazed at the level of irrationality displayed by those inflicted with TDS.
How can you be so ignorant, John?
What are your favorite news sources, anyway?
My home page gives me a wide variety of sources across the political spectrum. I don't read any print media on a regular basis because I think print media is obsolete. I'm surprised it has hung on this long.
I do watch Fox more than the other cable news stations but I will check out the others including MSNOW and CNN. MSNOW is bad for my blood pressure because I can rarely watch it for more than a few minutes before I want to reach through my TV screen and choke the life out of whatever talking head is spewing the far left crap. CNN is almost tolerable and I'm hoping with the new ownership they will move a bit more to the center but so far they are clearly still slanted to the left. I don't have much faith in any of the broadcast network news. I have tried to watch the new anchors on CBS and NBC with an open mind but so far I have seen little change in their bias. I'm hoping it is just a matter of time before Bari Weiss shakes things up at CBS and makes them a bit more fair in their reporting, but so far, they still have way too much of the old guard on their staff for there to be any meaningful changes. It didn't take me long to figure out Tom Llamas at NBC is more of the same old crap NBC has been spewing for decades.
Now I've told you about my news consumption habits. How about telling me about yours. I think i could take a pretty good guess, but I'll hold off on that for now.
The only thing worse than Fox News is OANN, Newsmax, and RT.
From the Media Bias Fact Check website:
Overall, we rate Fox News right-biased based on editorial positions that align with the right and Questionable due to the promotion of state propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks. While straight news reporting from beat reporters is generally fact-based and accurate, it is typically overshadowed by propagandistic opinions, which earns them a Low factual rating.
I always get a chuckle from these so called fact checkers because they almost always reveal their own biases.
As the report shows, Fox reporters are "generally fact-based and accurate". Then they go on to say they are "overshadowed by propagandist opinions". As if MSNOW or CNN don't spew their own propagandist opinions 24/7. So do the broadcast networks although just a little less blatantly. I wouldn't even give MSNOW the benefit of any fact-based and accurate reporting. It's all propagandist reporting and it is over the top. CNN makes a token effort at actual reporting but it's largely a left wing echo chamber.
I gave you the opportunity to reveal your sources and you declined so I'll take a stab at it. My guess is you lean heavily on MSNOW and CNN. If you're into print media, I'll bet you think the New York Times and Washington Post are unbiased news organizations. If I am wrong, then tell us who you do trust to keep you informed.
I like to watch MSNBC's "Dateline: Washington," Ari Melber, and "Morning Joe." I also read stories / news items that look interesting to me on the Internet as presented by Microsoft (I think) when I click the weather icon in the lower-left corner of my Windows 11 screen.No. I have a problem with all of them, at least the ones whose names I recognize. Most of them are extreme leftists and the rest are turncoat Never-Trump Republicans. MSNOW wouldn't hire anybody who didn't fit one of those two categories (The haven't been MSNBC for quite a few month). One of the most despicable people you've listed is John Brennan, a total scumbag. He showed his true colors when he cosigned a letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation. They all knew that was a damn lie, yet they signed it anyway because they were so desperate to deny Trump a second term and instead install a demented old geezer who they knew they could manipulate to doing whatever they wanted. It actually worked but the joke was on them. All they did was delay the second Trump term by four years. If not for their deceitful act, the Trump presidency would have ended almost 14 months ago. Instead, they have almost three more years of Trump in the White House to look forward to. The irony is delicious. I feel their pain and I am deriving way too much fiendish pleasure from it.
Questions:
Do you have a problem with any of those people?
Are you a Libertarian? (Libertarians are the worst.)
Do you support The Heritage Foundation and its authoritarian 2025 Project?
No. I have a problem with all of them, at least the ones whose names I recognize. Most of them are extreme leftists and the rest are turncoat Never-Trump Republicans. MSNOW wouldn't hire anybody who didn't fit one of those two categories (The haven't been MSNBC for quite a few month). One of the most despicable people you've listed is John Brennan, a total scumbag. He showed his true colors when he cosigned a letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation. They all knew that was a damn lie, yet they signed it anyway because they were so desperate to deny Trump a second term and instead install a demented old geezer who they knew they could manipulate to doing whatever they wanted. It actually worked but the joke was on them. All they did was delay the second Trump term by four years. If not for their deceitful act, the Trump presidency would have ended almost 14 months ago. Instead, they have almost three more years of Trump in the White House to look forward to. The irony is delicious. I feel their pain and I am deriving way too much fiendish pleasure from it.
Yes, I am. Thank you for asking. But that's not why I support Trump. He is not an idealogue. He is a pragmatist. He doesn't look at problems from a left or right point of view. He decides how best to fix them. He's pretty good at it, too.
I know very little about Project 2025 and what I do know about it, I support some of it and oppose others. I think Trump feels the same way about it.
I didn't ask you if you had problems with all of them.
Hunter's laptop emails did have the earmarks of a Russian disinformation op.
ME: Did John Brennan say Hunter Biden's laptop had the earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation?
GROK: Yes, former CIA Director John Brennan signed a public letter in October 2020 (along with 50 other former intelligence officials) that stated the Hunter Biden laptop emails, as reported by the New York Post, had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
What the Letter Actually Said
The open letter, released on October 19, 2020 (five days after the New York Post story), did not flatly declare the laptop "Russian disinformation" or prove it was fake. Key excerpts:
Trump's pretty good at fixing problems?
Please name five of them if you can.
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As I said, "Libertarians are the worst."
Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.
ME: Is this true?
"Trump's tariffs and threat of tariffs have allowed us to renegotiate more favorable trade terms with a number of our trading partners, including the UK, the EU, and India. In his first term he brought us vigorous economic growth and low inflation. Real wages grew for the first time in decades. The economic boom was brought to a halt by the COVID pandemic which shutdown economies all over the globe and for which there was no effective defense. When the current conflict with Iran ends, which it soon will. Our economy is poised to have a similar period of growth and low inflation."
GROK: The statement is a mix of partially accurate, overstated, and speculative claims. Here's a breakdown based on economic data and historical records from Trump's first term (2017–2021) and related trade developments.
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You work in BS the way other artists work with oil paints.
Are we supposed to wait until the day before Iran has the capable of hitting the US with a nuclear tipped ICBM? That's insanity. You don't wait until a threat is immanent before taking action. You need to nip threats like that in the bud. If theoretically we had the intelligence that told us Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor, I don't think we would have waited until December 6 to take preemptive action.
We did suspect Japan was going to attack us somewhere in the western Pacific but we had no idea they would have the audacity to strike Pearl Harbor. That was our mistake. I'm glad Trump isn't allowing us to make that same mistake with Iran.
Did you, like Trump, trust Russia's intelligence services over our own on 16 July 2018 when he made a fool of himself in Helsinki?
Have you always?
I have no idea what you are talking about but I'm going to bet you got this story from MSNBC/MSNOW which in all likelihood consists of a half truth. If you have a reliable source for the story, please post it.
People in foreign countries would love to have Trump as their leader.
That's why NATO calls him Daddy.
You haven't figured out that Rutte was just playing to his fragile ego? :D
You haven't figured out that Rutte was just playing to his ego? :D
I have no idea what you are talking about but I'm going to bet you got this story from MSNBC/MSNOW which in all likelihood consists of a half truth. If you have a reliable source for the story, please post it.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about (Trump's saying in Helsinki that he trusted Vladimir Putin more than our own intelligence services as to whether or not Russia had interfered in our 2016 election), then you're even more ignorant than I thought.
Apparently your only source for that story is MSNBC which is no source at all.
You've been zombified by KGB-approved Faux News, dude.
Libertarians are the worst.
Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.
Apparently your only source for that story is MSNBC which is no source at all.
Apparently you missed it.
REPORTER, AP: President Trump, you first. Just now, President Putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. Every U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that Russia did. My first question for you sir is, who do you believe? My second question is would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again?
TRUMP: So let me just say that we have two thoughts. You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Why haven't they taken the server? Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the Democratic National Committee?
"Every U.S. intelligence agency"??? There's a reliable source. Agencies headed by Brennan and Crapper. Those a-holes blew their credibility all to hell when they signed the letter questioning the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop story. They were rabid anti-Trumpers who can't be trusted on anything related to Trump.
I ask you again. Do you have any reliable sources.
So you, like Trump, trust Putin more than our own Intelligence agencies regarding whether or not Russia meddled in our 2016 election.
Okay.
What about the Republican-controlled Senate Select Committee on Intelligence?
Do you disagree with it, too?
Libertarians are the worst.
Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.
As for the Senate Intelligence Committee, you were deliberately non-specific on their findings so I cannot comment.
ME: What were the specific conclusions of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding whether or not Russia had interfered in the 2016 election?
GROK: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), in its bipartisan five-volume report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election (released across 2019–2020, with the final Volume 5 on August 18, 2020), reached the following specific conclusions regarding Russian interference:
Russia conducted an aggressive, multifaceted influence operation aimed at the 2016 presidential election. The Committee explicitly found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
The Soviets/Russians have been meddling in our elections for as long as anyone can remember and we have meddled in theirs.
ME: Did the [Republican-controlled] Senate Select Committee on Intelligence find that Russia's interference in the 2016 election was more widespread and intensive than it had been in previous years?
GROK: Yes, the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) explicitly affirmed that Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election represented a significant escalation compared to previous Russian operations.
In Volume 4 of its report ("Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment"), the committee reviewed the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and found it presented a coherent, well-supported case. The SSCI stated that the ICA made a clear argument that the manner and aggressiveness of the Russian interference was historically unprecedented. It specifically endorsed the ICA's judgment that the Russian campaign "demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations."
Key supporting elements from the SSCI's multi-volume report include:
Unprecedented activity against election infrastructure: Volume 1 described "an unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure" by Russian intelligence, which occurred in all 50 states. The committee viewed this as potentially a "trial run" to probe U.S. defenses.
Aggressive, multi-faceted campaign: Across volumes, the report concluded that "the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election." This included hacking-and-leaking (e.g., DNC and Podesta emails), a sophisticated social media/information warfare operation by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) aimed at polarizing Americans and boosting Trump while harming Clinton, and other active measures.
Broader context and scale: The committee noted this went beyond prior Russian efforts (e.g., in 2008 or 2012), with greater directness, cyber elements, and scope. It affirmed the ICA's core findings on Russian leadership intent (ordered by Putin, with a preference for Trump) while critiquing the ICA for limited historical context on earlier interference.
The SSCI's investigation was one of the most exhaustive congressional reviews, involving over 200 interviews and more than a million pages of documents. Its findings were bipartisan (Republican-led at the time, with input from both parties) and aligned with the 2017 ICA and other assessments (e.g., Special Counsel Mueller's report described the interference as "sweeping and systematic"). The committee highlighted ongoing vulnerabilities but did not find evidence of collusion/coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government—though it identified significant counterintelligence risks from contacts.
In short, the SSCI did not merely repeat prior assessments; it independently reviewed the underlying intelligence and explicitly supported the conclusion that 2016 marked a more intensive and widespread Russian effort than in earlier years. The full reports (Volumes 1–5) are available on the Senate Intelligence Committee's website.
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Libertarians are the worst.
Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.
Still no evidence the Russians affected the outcome of the election in either 2016 or 2024.
I thought you said the Russians didn't try harder than usual to interfere in our 2016 election?
Did they want Hillary to win?
Libertarians are the worst.
Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.
I have no idea whether the Russians tried any hard in 2016 and 2024 to meddle in our elections than they had in the past. The growth of social media gave them a tool that they didn't have before, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they tried to exploit that.
It should be pointed out that a congressional committee also found that there was likely a conspiracy to assassinate JFK so findings of such committees should be taken with a grain of salt.
Putin did have reasons for wanting Hillary to lose the 2016 election that had nothing to do with Trump. As Obama's Secretary of State, she was highly critical of the results of the Russian election which Putin had won, and he accused her of fomenting dissent. It's not at all surprising that Putin angered by Hillary's meddling in Russian politics would respond in kind in 2016, and that would have been true no matter who the Republican nominee was.
I find it quite humorous that US officials are feigning outrage at Russia meddling in our elections given our own history of meddling in the elections in other countries, including Russia's.
https://jasondarensburg.com/2025/06/26/the-long-history-of-us-meddling-in-foreign-elections/
Accusing the Russians of meddling in our elections is tantamount to us accusing the Russians of cheating better than us.
Putin "won" that election and Trump "won" the 2016 election only with Putin's help.
It should be pointed out that a congressional committee also found that there was likely a conspiracy to assassinate JFK so findings of such committees should be taken with a grain of salt.
The HSCA was correct in concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK.
The Republican-controlled Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was correct in concluding that the Kremlin strongly interfered in our 2016 election with the goal of harming Clinton and helping Trump.
Libertarians are the worst.
Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.
You claimed that Trump won the 2016 election only with Putin's help.
I said Trump "won" only with Putin's help.
Regardless, why are you avoiding the fact that the HSCA and the Republican-controlled Senate Select Committee on Intelligence were both basically right in their conclusions, i.e., Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, and the Kremlin tried very hard to harm Clinton and help Trump in the 2016 election?
Libertarians are the worst.
Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.
It makes no sense to think that just because a bipartisan committee comes to a conclusion [that the Kremlin went to extraordinary lengths to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump in the 2016 election], that their findings should automatically be accepted.
Why do you think the conclusions of the Republican-controlled Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding Russian interference in our 2016 election should be automatically rejected, especially when the Mueller Investigation (conducted by Republican Robert Mueller) and our Intelligence agencies arrived at the same basic conclusions?
Libertarians are the worst.
Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.
Why do you keep making strawman arguments?
Regardless, here's a friendly reminder for you:
"Libertarians are the worst -- especially pro-Trump Libertarians."
Better a Libertarian than a Libtard.
Liberals who, as have you, been zombified by sixty-plus years (it started in 1959) of KGB disinformation, "active measures," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations waged against us and our NATO allies are almost as bad as pro-Trump Libertarians.
Regardless, what specific problems do you see with the conclusions of Republican Robert Mueller and the Republican-controlled Senate Select Committee regarding the level of Russian interference in our 2016 election, and why do you weigh the evidence differently than they did?
Mueller's report stated his investigators “did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
I don't have a problem with that.
You didn't answer the question I asked you.
I asked you why you disagree with the report by (Republican) Robert Mueller and the report by the (Republican-controlled) Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the level of Russian anti-Clinton / pro-Trump interference in our 2016 election.
Care to give it another shot?
The Mueller Investigation found that the Trump Campaign had an expectation of benefit from the Russian email hack-and-release operation.
Why have neither you nor William Barr made any mention of this?
I don't answer questions based on false premises.
What's the false premise?
Do you think Republican Mueller and/or the Republican-controlled Senate Select Committee on Intelligence made stuff up to "get" Trump?
You keep insisting I disagreed with the Mueller report. I have already stated and didn't disagree with their finding that there was no evidence the Trump campaign conspired with the Russians to influence the 2016 election. If Mueller found no such evidence, why should I believe there is such evidence. I did state that congressional committees are not infallible, and pointed to the HSCA of a probable conspiracy to assassinate JFK as one example of that. I was making a general observation about congressional committees and you read far more into that than you should have.
I have not read the full Mueller report and if I did I might or might not find things I disagree with. I have read the Cliff Notes summary of their findings. They found evidence that the Russians had worked to influence the outcome of our elections. I would be amazed if they hadn't since they had always done that in the past. In 2016 they had more tools in their toolbox due to the prevalence of social media, especially among younger voters. The Mueller report also found no evidence that Trump campaign had conspired with the Russians to influence the outcome. Of course, the Trump campaign was trying to influence the election. That's what campaigns are all about. There is no evidence the Trump campaign was working with the Russians and Mueller's report stated so.
Now tell us where I have said I disagree with the Mueller Report or the Senate investigating committee.
You've read the "Cliff Notes" summary of "their" findings?
Are you referring to William Barr's four-page "summary" or his specious twenty-page memo to Trump?
Wikipedia's article on the Mueller Report?
Have you read it?
Here's an excerpt. I know you agree with the first sentence up to the [4] [5] & [6] footnotes, but what about the rest of the paragraph?
While the report concludes that the investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,"[4][5][6] investigators had an incomplete picture of what happened due in part to some communications that were encrypted, deleted, or not saved, as well as testimony that was false, incomplete, or declined.[7][8][9] The report states that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was illegal and occurred "in sweeping and systematic fashion,"[10][11][12] and was welcomed by the Trump campaign as it expected to benefit from such efforts.[13][14][15] It also identifies multiple links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials,[16] about which several persons connected to the campaign made false statements and obstructed investigations.[4] Mueller later stated that his investigation's findings of Russian interference "deserves the attention of every American."[17]
A lot of mumbo-jumbo to say that while they found no evidence the Trump campaign had conspired with Russians, they wanted to suggest that they had. I'm not interested in what they thought. I care about what they knew and that was that there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians to influence the election.
Let's talk about the Clinton campaign and their funding of the phony Steele Dossier.
No evidence?
ME: Did the Mueller Report say the investigation found no evidence of conspiracy?
GROK: No, the Mueller Report did not say the investigation found "no evidence" of conspiracy (or coordination) between the Trump Campaign and Russia.
Exact Wording from the Report
The key conclusion in Volume I (Executive Summary and main findings) states, "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
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This phrasing—"did not establish"—is the report's consistent legal language. It means the evidence gathered was insufficient to prove a criminal conspiracy (or the narrower definition of "coordination" as an agreement—tacit or express—between the campaign and the Russian government on election interference) beyond a reasonable doubt, to the standard required for criminal charges.
Mueller's team explicitly noted the distinction: "A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts."
What the Report Did Find
Russian interference: Russia interfered "in sweeping and systematic fashion" to help Trump and hurt Clinton, via hacking/DNC emails released through WikiLeaks and a social media disinformation campaign.
Links and contacts: The investigation "established" "numerous links" between the Trump Campaign (or associates) and individuals tied to the Russian government. It documented the campaign's interest in, and expectation of benefit from, information stolen by Russia. Examples include the Trump Tower meeting (offering dirt on Clinton as "part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump"), Paul Manafort sharing polling data, and outreach involving WikiLeaks. The campaign "welcomed" the potential help in multiple instances.
No prosecutable conspiracy: Despite these interactions and "multiple offers" of assistance from Russian-affiliated individuals, the evidence did not meet the threshold to charge any Trump Campaign member with conspiracy under federal law. No such charges were brought against campaign officials for coordinating with the Russian government.
In a public statement after the report's release, Mueller reinforced: the investigation found "insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy."
Why the Distinction Matters
Saying "no evidence" would imply the probe found zero indications of any relevant contacts or interactions—which the report explicitly did not conclude (it detailed many).
"Did not establish" is prosecutorial language: the facts uncovered, even with incomplete evidence in some areas (e.g., deleted messages, false testimony, non-cooperating witnesses), were not enough for criminal charges.
This nuance led to debates over summaries and media framing. Attorney General Barr's initial letter quoted the "did not establish" line but also used broader phrasing like "did not find" conspiracy/coordination. The full report is more precise and avoids claiming total absence of evidence.
In summary: The Mueller Report did not claim "no evidence" of conspiracy. It concluded the investigation did not establish (i.e., prove) a criminal conspiracy or coordination, while documenting Russian efforts to assist Trump and the campaign's receptive stance toward them. The bottom-line outcome—no charges for conspiracy with Russia—has been consistent across the report, Barr's summary, and Mueller's own statements.
The Steele Dossier?
You mean the one whose main source (of unfalsifiable "intel") was a probable KGB agent by the name of Igor Danchenko, whom John Durham rightfully prosecuted, but for the wrong reasons?
Politics is dirty, Corbett.
Especially when one candidate (Trump) has the backing of Putin's professional trolls and the KGB/GRU because the Kremlin knows he'll do a darn good job of destroying America and NATO.
Mueller had no proof of conclusion. To suggest there was collusion in lieu of credible evidence is reprehensible misconduct.
It's disingenuous of you and other Trump supporters to accuse Mueller, et al., of failing to prove collusion when "collusion" isn't a legal concept, crime, or theory of liability in U.S. criminal law.
So you agree that Mueller didn't prove a crime by the Trump campaign. We are making progress.
The fact remains that Vladimir Putin, the "former" KGB counterintelligence officer who murdered 307 of his own citizens in the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings so that he could reinvade Chechnya and become president, began to interfere in our 2016 election in 2014, and went to great lengths during the following two years to do so. The Trump Campaign at the very least welcomed his help, and some of its associates, like Roger Stone and his newfound pro-Russia buddy, Harley Schlanger, evidently conspired with the Russians to get it done.
You mean like Hillary welcoming the help from the Steele Dossier.
If Putin began his meddling in 2014, it could not be to help Trump because he didn't declare his candidacy until 2015 and even then, few people took him seriously. It was only after he began winning primaries that people began to realize he was for real. Putin likely expected Hillary to be the nominee as did most people in the US. All you have shown is that Putin and Trump had a common foe which is not surprising because nobody likes Hillary, not even Bill.
The KGB Background to the 2016 Campaign
Unlike Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton didn't solicit or even welcome help from an enemy country during the 2016 campaign, but the to-be-expected opposition research that she commissioned against Trump ironically worked out that way (ironic, because it accrued to Trump's advantage) when probable KGB agent Igor Danchenko began feeding Christopher Steele dossier-discrediting unfalsifiable "intel."
Of course, by "enemy country" I mean Russia, the leadership of which in 1959, having realized that the USSR and the Warsaw Pact couldn't defeat the U.S. and NATO militarily, decided to get us to defeat ourselves by setting up Department D in the KGB's First Chief Directorate (today's SVR) to wage Sun Tzu-like disinformation, "active measures," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations against us and out NATO allies. Not to be outdone by the FCD, risk-taking General Oleg Gribanov set up an analog unit, Department 14, in this Second Chief Directorate (today's FSB), sent GRU Colonel Dmitry Polyakov and KGB Major Aleksey Kulak to the FBI's NYC field office to "volunteer" to spy for it at the U.N., and six months after true defector KGB Major Anatoly Golitsyn defected to the U.S., sent false-defector-in-place Yuri Nosenko to the CIA in Geneva to discredit what Golitsyn was telling the CIA.
This same Nosenko recontacted the CIA in Geneva in late January 1964 to tell it that he had read Oswald's KGB file four times in Moscow. Possibly without authorization from KGB headquarters, he parlayed this "revelation" to force the CIA to let him physically defect to the U.S. where Kulak (in 1964), Igor Kochnov (in 1966), and Vitaly Yurchenko (in 1985) and others had no choice but to support his bona fides.
In 1968, a probable mole by the name of Bruce Solie "cleared" Nosenko, and a few years later the Agency hired him to teach "counterintelligence" to its and the FBI's new recruits.
JFK assassination lone gunman advocate Gerald Posner befriended Nosenko while writing his 1993 book, Case Closed, because the Russian told him exactly what he wanted to hear -- that the KGB had absolutely nothing to do with former Marine sharpshooter and U-2 radar operator, Lee Harvey Oswald, during the two-and-a-half years he lived half-a-mile from a KGB school in Minsk.
Trump's role model, "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin, was an SVR counterintelligence officer from 1976 to 1991, doing such things as helping the terroristic Baader-Meinhof Gang (aka Red Army Faction) in Dresden, East Germany, and smuggling high-tech military equipment into Russia, etc.).
Putin murdered 307 of his own citizens in a 1999 false flag op so he could become president, sent Anna Chapman and the Ten Dwarfs (or was it Eleven?) to the U.S. to penetrate our institutions and our government around 2000, waged full-on electronic warfare against Estonia in 2007, invaded Georgia in 2008, and in 2014, in addition to invading Ukraine, started meddling in our 2016 election -- at first he was trying to hurt Clinton, but by early 2016 he was actively helping Trump because he knew that the malignant narcissist would have no choice but to support him and would wittingly or unwittingly help the KGB achieve its aforementioned goal of tearing us apart.
What the hell does any of this have to do with Trump?
Have you forgotten asking the lame rhetorical question, "You mean like Hillary welcoming the help from the Steele Dossier?" in response to my saying, "The fact remains that Vladimir Putin, the 'former' KGB counterintelligence officer who murdered 307 of his own citizens in the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings so that he could reinvade Chechnya and become president, began to interfere in our 2016 election in 2014, and went to great lengths during the following two years to do so. The Trump Campaign at the very least welcomed his help, and some of its associates, like Roger Stone and his newfound pro-Russia buddy, Harley Schlanger, evidently conspired with the Russians to get it done"?
Perhaps you should go back and review.
You ignore the fact that the Clinton campaign indirectly paid for the Steele Dosser through intermediaries. For misreporting those payments, her campaign and the DNC were both fined by the FEC.
There is no evidence that the Trump Campaign actively conspired with the Russian effort.
The Clinton Campaign's civilly (not criminally) liable act of paying through its lawyer for the to-be-expected oppo research against Putin-loving Trump is a drop in the bucket compared to what, for example, Paul Manafort, GRU-officer Konstantin Kilimnik, and close-to-Putin oligarch Oleg Deripaska did to get Trump "elected."
It wasn't Clinton's fault that gullible Fiona Hill, the overworked and/or mole-infested FBI, and gullible (or money hungry?) Christopher Steele didn't figure out that the dossier's primary source would be a probable KGB agent and that he would be feeding Steele dossier-discrediting false or unfalsifiable "intel" which would end up actually helping Trump, his KGB-zombified MAGA base, and the KGB, itself, after the election.
Au contraire, there's oodles and gobs of evidence that the Trump Campaign and its associates (e.g., Roger Stone and his new-found pro-Russia buddy, Harley Schlanger) conspired with the Russians to get your boy "elected."
Do you have any idea how hypocritical you sound when you make lame excuses for the transgressions of the Clinton campaign while exaggerating everything Trump's allies might have done. The bottom line is no one who was working directly for the Trump campaign was charged with any crime and the Mueller report acknowledged that they had no evidence that they committed any. The Clinton campaign on the other hand was fined for concealing their involvement in creating the phony Steele Dossier. It is also rather ludicrous to even suggest the Russian meddling amounted to a hill of beans given the magnitude of Trump's electoral college victory. The Soviets/Russians have always tried to influence our elections and there is no evidence they affected the final outcome. The only election that was close enough for there to even be a possibility of the Russians tipping the scale was the 2000 election and there isn't a scrap of evidence the Russians had anything to do with Bush's victory in Florida which is what decided that election.
The Kremlin tried especially hard to affect our 2016 election, and those efforts, in conjunction with fifty-plus years of KGB disinformation*, "active measures*," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations, were very successful, indeed.
*For example, Oliver Stone's 1991 "JFK," which was ultimately based on a KGB article published in a Communist-owned Italian newspaper three days after Jim Garrison had arrested Clay Shaw on suspicion of having masterminded the homosexual "thrill kill" assassination of JFK.
So, the Rooskies have been waging a propaganda effort for 50+ years and now you want to blame it on Trump. Unbelievable.
Now the $64,000 question. Did you VOTE in the 2024 POTUS election? And, why didn't you take Bruce Springsteen with you?
"Trapped people"? Try those people living in So Cal, Chicago, Baltimore, Minneapolis, etc. Big Time Theft/$$ up the ying/yang, with kids getting routinely gunned down in the streets. They are labeled as "cities", but these are modern day "Plantations". People are stuck there in order to draw the Fed $$ into the state(s). Basically creating huge "slush funds". DOGE had it right Day 1.
Looking at Trump in the most charitable light, he's just one of many "useful idiots" who have, since late 1961 (when J. Edgar Hoover accepted Kremlin-loyal triple agent GRU Lt. Col. Dmitry Polyakov as an informant at the Bureau's NYC field office), benefited the mafia formerly known as the KGB*.
It's a pity that you (and so many other Americans) are ignorant about the KGB*, and don't know that in 1959 the Kremlin, having realized that the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact couldn't defeat the U.S. and NATO militarily, developed the "Shelepin Plan," which aimed to get us to defeat ourselves by waging Sun Tzu-like disinformation, "active measures," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations against us and our NATO allies.
It's a pity that you don't know that General Oleg Gribanov, not to be outdone by the FCD, set up an analog unit, Department 14, in his Second Chief Directorate and, after he had trapped Oleg Penkovsky "like a bear in its den" in Moscow in such a way that wouldn't reveal the traitor in the CIA or British Intelligence who had betrayed him in April 1961, sent the aforementioned Polyakov (who later "flipped" to the CIA in Rangoon) to the FBI's field office to "volunteer" to spy for it at the U.N., and two months later sent KGB* Major Aleksei Kulak (Hoover's shielded-from-CIA FEDORA) to do the same thing.
It’s a pity that you don’t know that, six months after KGB* Major Anatoly Golitsyn defected to the U.S. from Helsinki on 15 December 1961, Gribanov sent putative KGB* staff officer Yuri Nosenko to the CIA in Geneva to discredit what Golitsyn was telling James Angleton about KGB* penetrations of the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of NATO countries.
It's a pity that you don't realize that this is just "the tip of the iceberg," that, for example, Oliver Stone's self-described mythological (“to counter the myth of the Warren Report” movie, "JFK," was the result of a 1967 KGB* active measures operation, and that your boy, Trump, is wittingly or unwittingly helping the KGB* bring the goals of the aforementioned Shelepin Plan -- getting us to defeat ourselves -- to fruition.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Now the $64,000 question. Did you VOTE in the 2024 POTUS election? And, why didn't you take Bruce Springsteen with you?
"Trapped people"? Try those people living in So Cal, Chicago, Baltimore, Minneapolis, etc. Big Time Theft/$$ up the ying/yang, with kids getting routinely gunned down in the streets. They are labeled as "cities", but these are modern day "Plantations". People are stuck there in order to draw the Fed $$ into the state(s). Basically creating huge "slush funds". DOGE had it right Day 1.
I know what the KGB was all about and how ruthless they were. What I can't understand is why you want to tie Trump to them.
Exactly the kind of pathetic ignorance I expected and why I left!
Trump Derangement Syndrome
Did you think of that all by your little zombified-by-KGB-disinfo self, Storing?
Storing Derangement Syndrome (SDS) above. Get help.
Not Responsive. I asked a very simple question about voting, and I get the above. You brag about moving and then you still vote? You got TDS bad.
What makes you think I voted?
The only way I actually voted is by leaving, but you are too much of a cult member to understand that.
I didn't brag about leaving. It's not something I ever wanted to do until idiots like you voted that con man into power.
I didn't brag about leaving.
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The only significant recent increase recently in the murder rate was during the Biden years.
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Yeah, but you've probably never heard of the 1920's "New Economic Policy," "Trust," and “Syndikat-2,” the 1950's "WiN," the 1959 "Shelepin Plan," Gribanov's 1961 "Operation Boomerang," Dmitry Polyakov in late 1961, Aleksei Kulak in early 1962, Yuri Nosenko in 1962, Igor Kochnov in 1966, Vitaly Yurchenko in 1985, the 1967 anti-Clay Shaw / anti-CIA article in "Paese Sera," and the 1980's "Operation Infektion," etc, etc., etc., nor, more specifically, Trump's StB-informing first father-in-law, Trump's purchasing 200 TVs from KGB spotter Sam Kislin's "Joy-Lud Electronics" store in Manhattan in 1980, Russian Mafia money launderer David Bogatin's paying $6 mil in cash for five condos in Trump Tower in 1984, Ambassador to the U.N. Dubinin's and his daughter's unannounced flattering visit to Trump in Trump Tower in March of 1986, sittin' next to Dubinin at the Estée Lauder Dinner a few months later, Trump's all-expenses-paid trip to Moscow in July of 1987 arranged by Dubinin and future ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin, the anti-NATO full-page ad he placed in three major newspapers when he came back home, convicted felon Felix Sater and Blackrock, the thirteen Russian mafiosos in Trump Tower, Yanukovich-promoter Paul Manafort / GRU officer Konstantin Kilimnik / close-to-Putin Oleg Deripaska, Roger Stone and the Lyndon LaRouche organization's Harley Schlanger, "Cozy Bear," "Fancy Bear," the Putin's professional trolls at the Internet Research Agency, Cambridge Analytica, Deutsche Bank, et al. ad nauseam.
Regardless, I don't have to "tie" Trump to Russian Intelligence and the Russian Mafia, because he started doing that, himself, in 1977 when he married Ivana Marie Zelníčková from Gottwaldov (present day Zlín), Czechoslovakia, who, a few years earlier, had gotten approval from the StB/KGB to emigrate to the West.
Is that really the best you've got. Trump is tied to the KGB because he married a woman from a Soviet Bloc country. You are really getting desperate. I'm embarrassed for you.
That's when he first came under the influence of the KGB, Mr. Wise Guy. Think of Ivana as an analog of Marina Prusakova, whom true defector KGB Major Pyotr Deriabin said had to be at least a low level KGB informant to be allowed to marry Oswald and leave the Worker's Paradise with him.
What makes you think I voted?
The only way I actually voted is by leaving, but you are too much of a cult member to understand that.
I didn't brag about leaving. It's not something I ever wanted to do until idiots like you voted that con man into power.
You're as nutty as any JFKA conspiracy hobbyist I've ever come across. Did you come up with this on your own or did you read it in some libtard rag like The Atlantic or The Nation.
Maybe I'm going crazy here, but it seems to me that Biden (in 2021) inherited an upward trend from Trump, and Trump (in 2025) inherited a downward trend from Biden.
I'm sorry, but that drop from 4.29 in 2025 to 0.26 in 2026 is ridiculous. Maybe if we only count the first few weeks of 2026 ...
Maybe I'm going crazy here, but it seems to me that Biden (in 2021) inherited an upward trend from Trump, and Trump (in 2025) inherited a downward trend from Biden.
And what's ironic is that you've posted nearly 8000 posts telling us how Kennedy the President of the United States was killed by his own country(you know the country you call home -giggle-) and then you go on to claim with flawed evidence that multiple agencies furthered this cover-up, everyone from the Dallas Police through to the goddam FBI!
Yet you attempt to make out that everything was cream and roses before Trump? LOL!
JohnM
Huh, are you analysing the same statistics as me?
The majority of the time Trump was first in office 2017, 2018, 2019 the rate was steadily falling because Trump spread peace and happiness but when the nasty twisted Democrats were out campaigning and endorsing murderous policies like abortion in the last year the murder rate suddenly jumps. Coincidence? Nope!
Then after years of an extremely high murder rate, Trump comes back on the scene and confirms he's running by late 2022 and the as can be clearly seen the murder rate starts falling rapidly, as the people once again supported Trumps policies like keeping biological boys out of girl sports, were enthralled by his warm embrace!
JohnM
Please tell me this is satire.
What's the line on the orange loon wiping out Iran tonight?
Thumb1: anybody check in with the kids? They'll make millions
A World disaster of epic proportion
Trump owns every bit of it
This is Not about Trump. It is about regular people, scrounging out a living, being hung in the public square. What is going on there is no different than a Nazi Death Camp. Terrorism is a Terrorism. Whatever the decade may be.
:D drop bombs.
Nothing funny about it. What do you think happened in France during WW 2? And the French celebrated their freedom. People such as yourself are bankrupt when it comes to history.
These TERRORISTS have already been given plenty of time. What did they do during this current negotiation time period? They HUNG people in the public square. They should be given absolutely no quarter. Their punishment should be in line with those running the Nazi Death Camps during WW 2.
You're as nutty as any JFKA conspiracy hobbyist I've ever come across. Did you come up with this on your own or did you read it in some libtard rag like The Atlantic or The Nation.
Before the Iran war:
1) Iran didn't control Strait Of Hormuz, now it does.
2) Iran oil was sanctioned, now it's not.
3) Iran was not building a nuke, now they will.
4) US bases in Gulf were assets, are now liabilities
NYT reported many of the 13 US bases are inhabitable.
Reuters is reporting as many as 150 US soldiers wounded.
Spare us your fake outrage. Your madman-in-chief severely miscalculated and now desperately seeks to save face by any means imaginable. If he does follow through on his vile threats against the Iranian people, men, women and children, a war crime tribunal might be too good for him and his henchmen.
"Severely Miscalculated"? What qualifies You to make this declaration?
This is exactly why Trump has always been, "Drill baby drill". The oil/strait has held the world hostage for a long time. That is no longer the case with respect to the USA.
Last I looked, Harry Truman was not tried for war crimes.
You are defending the continued acts of TERRORISTS. Suppose that You were born in Iran? The current situation there is no different than France during WW 2. You make a peep and these TERRORISTS will hang you in the public square.
Dear Royell,
If the Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") follows through on his threat in two-and-a-half hours, the world will end up, ironically, with a lot more Muslim terrorists, and you will probably even find them in your neck of the woods in Arkansas.
-- Tom
Donald Trump has just proven the adage, "You can get more with a kind word and gun, than you can with just a kind word." Reports are that Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as part of a two week cease fire agreement. If Iran fails to allow ships through the Strait, all bets are off. We will soon know if this is a ploy by the Iranian regime but if they fail to live up to the terms of the ceasefire, they can kiss their asses good-bye.
Predictably, the vile lying scum at MS NOW are portraying this as Trump backing down again. There isn't a single person on the despicable network who had an ounce of decency. Being a lying scum is a prerequisite for being employed by MS NOW. Trump has not backed down. If the Iranians honor the ceasefire, his threats will have accomplished its purpose. If they fail to do so, they will see total destruction of their country.
Donald Trump has just proven the adage, "You can get more with a kind word and gun, than you can with just a kind word." Reports are that Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as part of a two week cease fire agreement. If Iran fails to allow ships through the Strait, all bets are off. We will soon know if this is a ploy by the Iranian regime but if they fail to live up to the terms of the ceasefire, they can kiss their asses good-bye.
Predictably, the vile lying scum at MS NOW are portraying this as Trump backing down again. There isn't a single person on the despicable network who had an ounce of decency. Being a lying scum is a prerequisite for being employed by MS NOW. Trump has not backed down. If the Iranians honor the ceasefire, his threats will have accomplished its purpose. If they fail to do so, they will see total destruction of their country.
Donald Trump gave in to all of Iran's demands.
* Ships may use the Strait of Hormuz but must pay Iran two million dollars per ship. No freedom of the seas. And Trump agrees.
* America must withdraw our troops from our military bases in the Middle East. And Trump agrees.
* America must pay reparations for the damage our strikes caused to Iran. And Trump agrees.
We agreed to Iran's demands. Iran did not agree to America's demands.
* Iran has agreed to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. But each ship must pay two million dollars to Iran.
Trump agreed to a temporary cease fire, that’s all…
ME: Is it true that the only thing Trump agreed to was a cease fire?
GROK: No, that's not accurate. President Trump agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran (involving the US and Israel), but it includes additional conditions and is explicitly framed as a step toward broader negotiations.
Key Details of the Agreement
Ceasefire terms: Trump announced the US would suspend bombing and attacks on Iran for two weeks. This is conditional on Iran allowing the complete, immediate, and safe reopening of the Strait of Hormuz (a critical oil shipping route that Iran had blockaded). Iran has indicated it will coordinate safe passage for vessels.
Broader context: Trump stated the US has "already met and exceeded all Military objectives" and is "very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East." Iran proposed a 10-point plan, which Trump described as a "workable basis on which to negotiate." Negotiations are set to continue (e.g., in Islamabad).
Not a standalone ceasefire: Both sides claim elements of victory. The pause buys time to finalize a longer-term deal. Israel supports the US-Iran pause for two weeks but has clarified it does not cover its separate operations (e.g., against Hezbollah in Lebanon).
This is a very recent development (announced April 7-8, 2026), following escalated conflict involving US/Israeli strikes on Iran and Iranian responses. Claims that it was "only a ceasefire" appear to oversimplify or selectively quote Trump's announcement, ignoring the Hormuz condition, the 10-point framework, and explicit references to ongoing peace talks.
The situation is fluid and described as a "fragile truce" by some officials, with potential for the ceasefire to start immediately or soon. For the absolute latest, check reliable news sources as details could evolve quickly.
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I highlighted the only agreement I see.
Donald Trump gave in to all of Iran's demands.
* Ships may use the Strait of Hormuz but must pay Iran two million dollars per ship. No freedom of the seas. And Trump agrees.
* America must withdraw our troops from our military bases in the Middle East. And Trump agrees.
* America must pay reparations for the damage our strikes caused to Iran. And Trump agrees.
We agreed to Iran's demands. Iran did not agree to America's demands.
* Iran has agreed to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. But each ship must pay two million dollars to Iran.
:D TACO Supreme !!
"Joe Iranian" gets to live another day.
Thumb1: thank you Mr. Tangerine Man.
:D TACO Supreme !!
The Iranian leadership is even more cowardly than what could have been imagined. They were willing to sacrifice women and children on the infrastructures to save their pathetic regime.
Obviously, you agree with them. Interesting that you personally would not have had any problem pulling the trigger and bombing the sites with the women and children present.
As the infamous Donald Rumsfeld stated: “We don’t know what we don’t know” Therefore since we don’t know exactly where the 60% refined uranium is and we don’t know if there’s another underground lab, then 2 weeks ceasefire allows a much greater probability that some contingent of the old radical Iranian regime can construct an atomic bomb.
However since this version of Trump ( have they put a chip in his brain?) is contradicting himself by the hour, there is no telling what the end goal is.
2 facts that have me worried this Epic Fury was just another scheme to make a quick profit for insider traders in both the oil market and the Industrial Military market:
A. Just a few months ago oil price was around 65$ /barrel and now it surged up to 115$/ barrel. That’s a HUGE win for the insider oil traders.
B. The 1.7 trillion additional funding now requested by Trump would be a HUGE win for Military Industrial Complex investors.
I hope I’m wrong and it is just some kind of “Art of the Deal” posturing by Trump, but since I am 65 years old I have experienced the corruption of the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden regimes, so IDK if I can believe anything anymore.
Actually, the libtards would have had a problem with anything Trump decided to do. That's how they are wired. If Trump is for it, they are against it. If Trump is against it, they are for it. They never want to stake out their own position on an issue until they see what Trump is going to do. I'll bet they are really disappointed our mission to rescue our downed airmen was so successful. I think they were counting on that turning into a disaster.
The Iranian leadership is even more cowardly than what could have been imagined. They were willing to sacrifice women and children on the infrastructures to save their pathetic regime.
Obviously, you agree with them. Interesting that you personally would not have had any problem pulling the trigger and bombing the sites with the women and children present.
If Trump is going to cave to terrorist Hamas and Iranian regime using civilians as shields then he has capitulated like a wet paper bag.
The 10 points offer by whomever whatever group in Iran concedes NOTHING.
What happened to “Unconditional Surrender”?
What happened to hardcore Trump just yesterday?
2 week ceasefire because somebody in China told VP Vance to accept it or else?
Who the hell is running the USA now?
This "human shields" stuff is pure propaganda. We almost never see footage of what is going on inside Iran, and then all the sudden, we see film footage of alleged "human shields". None of the news services post the source of this film footage, they just run it. It's propaganda and the News Media spreads it across the USA. This includes FOX News. The foreign influence/$$ inside the USA runs extremely deep.
This "human shields" stuff is pure propaganda. We almost never see footage of what is going on inside Iran, and then all the sudden, we see film footage of alleged "human shields". None of the news services post the source of this film footage, they just run it. It's propaganda and the News Media spreads it across the USA. This includes FOX News. The foreign influence/$$ inside the USA runs extremely deep.
Layman's view from me:
The US and Israel should mine the ports and harbors of Kharg Island, and use drones to surveil and protect.
Everyone says oil-tanker captains will never run a mine blockade, or even the mere threat of mines.
90% of Iranian oil leaves through Kharg Island.
Seems like a low-risk, high-leverage op to mine Kharg Island.
Keep up pressure on missile-launchers, drones, and all new production, wipe out any factory even related to missile-drone production.
I sure hope Trump doesn't do a TACO. He let Hamas off the hook. Trump has been better on the IRGC than any previous president, but...he also likes to do a deal.
Layman's view from me:
The US and Israel should mine the ports and harbors of Kharg Island, and use drones to surveil and protect.
Everyone says oil-tanker captains will never run a mine blockade, or even the mere threat of mines.
90% of Iranian oil leaves through Kharg Island.
Seems like a low-risk, high-leverage op to mine Kharg Island.
Keep up pressure on missile-launchers, drones, and all new production, wipe out any factory even related to missile-drone production.
I sure hope Trump doesn't do a TACO. He let Hamas off the hook. Trump has been better on the IRGC than any previous president, but...he also likes to do a deal.
RS--
From your lips to G-d's ears.
Trump is the first President to deal with the IRGC in a language they understand.
But Trump can be mercurial, impetuous, vainglorious.
I wish he had let the hammer drop on Hamas, once and for all.
Now, all the more incumbent upon him to wipe out the IRGC.
There will never be peace in the Middle Eastr as long as the IRGC exists, or they are totally defanged (and even that would require "annual" visits to wipe out new facilities).
Disgusting. Only an abject cretin would think the world is a better place now than it was a couple of months ago. The verdict of history will be harsh.
You guys debating the present vs the future is akin to going with, "Blue Note in the 3rd". You ain't Carnac. Boil it down to necessities. Start with: (1) OWNING shelter, and, (2) OWNING the land it sits on. Enough land to cultivate sustenance if required. Depending on a 401k, 501k, stock market etc, is like looking forward to collecting $200 when "passing Go". Stop playing their game. A game that only helps an elite few become your master now, and your master tomorrow.
Tom Graves wrote: What's ironic is that you, like me, are anti-Trump, but you don't realize that "former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin installed him as our "president" on 20 January 2017
Does Russia meddle in elections in other countries? Sure they do, but so does the USA. Like it or not, that's just the way it is. If you want to be paranoid about it, then be paranoid. At my age, I couldn't care less. As far as I am concerned this world has been on a self destruct course for many years and things will get worse before they get better. In fact, you don't need the Russians to f*ck up the world or even the country. All you need to do is leave it to the corrupt politicians and their special interest groups.
Trump isn't only a complete idiot; he's also the biggest threat for world peace, but no matter who you want to blame at the end of the day millions of American idiots voted him into power, so if you want to blame somebody, blame them.
I am hardly a member of the "elite" whoever that might be. Because I began living frugally and investing a good chunk of my money consistently at an early age allowed me to be able to retire and live comfortably at the age of 49. I had also paid off my mortgage by that age. When I began investing the DOW was around 2000. That was the level it was at when the market crashed and the DOW dropped over 500 points (25 percent) in a single day. It took the DOW about 6 months to recover what had been lost. The people who didn't panic and stayed invested in stocks never lost a dime. The DOW has since crested above 50,000 before the recent pull back. I'm still invested in stocks although not as heavily as when I was younger. That's because I am now periodically tapping into the wealth I had built over decades and I don't want to have to sell stocks at a time the market has taken a significant drop.
Investing in stocks can be a rollercoaster ride. There is a constant cycle of booms and busts but if one is willing to ride out the occasional sell offs, stocks have historically outperformed ever other investment class. Most people who never bought a stock or a mutual fund in their lives is still invested in the stock market through their pension funds, which also invest a good percentage of their assets in stocks. That's because over the long run, stocks provide the greatest return on investment.
"Will The Real Ross Perot, Please Stand Up"!
Now is not what matters. The world will be a much better place in 10 years than it would have been had we allowed Iran to have nuclear weapons and ICBMs. Trump is playing the long game. He's not running for reelection so he doesn't need to be concerned about the polls. He can do what he thinks is right without having to be concerned with whether or not it will cost him politically. That's what you want in a leader. Someone who is willing to do the right thing even when the right thing is unpopular.
The American people can be very short-sighted. They don't bother looking ahead. All they know is it costs them a few bucks to fill up their car than it did before this war started. They see their 401Ks dropping in value without seeing that it doesn't matter because they won't be tapping into that money for many more years. By then the stock market will have gone through many cycles of ups and downs. it will continue to see higher highs and higher lows. The only time the price of an investment matters is the day you buy it and the day you sell it. Everything else is just a rollercoaster ride. I am perfectly willing to go through short term volatility both at the gas pump and my portfolio because I know in the long run, defanging Iran will have a tremendous long term benefit for the US and the rest of the world.
Now is not what matters. The world will be a much better place in 10 years
Can I borrow your cystal ball?
Give me ten years and you will not recognize your cities. Adolph Hitler
Now is not what matters. The world will be a much better place in 10 years
Can I borrow your cystal ball?
It hardly takes a crystal ball to figure out the world would be a much more dangerous place had Iran been allowed to develop nuclear weapons and ICBMs.
They were getting dangerously close to both. They already had missiles capable of striking every capital city in Europe and had enriched their uranium to 60%, far greater than anything needed for peaceful purposes. It was only a matter of time, and probably not very much time, before they had the capability of striking the US with ICBMs with nuclear warheads. The greatest danger the world could ever face is a radical regime who advocates for martyrdom having the capability of striking anyplace in the world with nuclear weapons. Mutual assured destruction would have little effect on such a regime. Their country is being systematically destroyed and still they refuse to capitulate. MAD won't deter madmen.
It hardly takes a crystal ball to figure out the world would be a much more dangerous place had Iran been allowed to develop nuclear weapons and ICBMs.
Actually, yes it would take a crystal ball.
They were getting dangerously close to both.
Says who?
Bush claimed Iraq had nukes and it turns out it didn't. Fear mongering is all the right wing nuts do. There isn't a country in the world that is more paranoid than the U.S.A.
They didn't disappear. The murderers Biden let into our country keep killing our people.
They see enemies everywhere. Sometimes it's caravans full of murderers and rapists making their way to the border and then somehow disappeared in thin air after the election is won.
Nixon was completely paranoid and formed an illegal group called the plumbers to go after political enemies. Reagan sold arms to Iran and gave the profit to the contras in Nicaragua.
It goes on and on and on.... and the reality of it all is none of the bad things they predicted actually happened.
Their country is being systematically destroyed and still they refuse to capitulate. MAD won't deter madmen.
The same goes for the U.S.A.
Well, it took a bit longer but he was right. The cities that once were, were no more!
Nixon was completely paranoid and formed an illegal group called The Plumbers to go after political enemies.
History 101:
The reason Nixon formed The Plumbers was because a Kremlin-loyal KGB officer at the FBI's NYC field office, Major Aleksey Kulak -- J. Edgar Hoover's shielded-from-CIA FEDORA -- told him that the Kremlin had a complete copy of The Pentagon Papers (it didn't).
ME: Did the Kremlin acquire a complete copy of The Pentagon Papers before Nixon formed The Plumbers?
GROK: No, there is no credible evidence that the Kremlin (or Soviet Embassy) acquired a complete copy of the full classified Pentagon Papers before—or even around the time—Nixon formed the White House Plumbers (officially the White House Special Investigations Unit).
Key timelines
Pentagon Papers leak and publication: Daniel Ellsberg provided portions of the ~7,000-page classified study (officially "United States–Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967") to The New York Times, which began publishing excerpts on June 13, 1971. The Washington Post followed on June 18. A temporary restraining order against the Times was issued around June 15.
Plumbers' formation: The unit was created in direct response to the leak, established within a week of the June 13 publication (so by roughly June 20, 1971, per historical accounts). Some sources place related staffing or operations in July (e.g., Egil Krogh’s involvement around July 20), but the unit’s purpose—to plug leaks and investigate the Pentagon Papers disclosure—began immediately after the public revelations.
The Soviet claim
The only reference to a Soviet “complete set” comes from a 1973 Washington Post report (cited in contemporary coverage). It alleged that, in June 1971 (after the Times restraining order), an unidentified man using an alias handed the Soviet Embassy in Washington a full set of the top-secret documents.
The Soviet Embassy immediately and explicitly denied this on June 5, 1973, calling it “a fabrication” unrelated to improving U.S.–Soviet relations.
The story appears to have stemmed from FBI information tied to a supposed source in the KGB. However, the FBI later determined this source [Kulak / FEDORA] was fake or unreliable (detailed in a 1981 Washington Post article).
No declassified U.S., Soviet, or independent archival evidence has ever confirmed that the full classified study reached Moscow via this (or any other) channel in June 1971. The published newspaper excerpts were publicly available worldwide after June 13, but the complete 47-volume classified version is a different matter.
Context and why the claim doesn’t hold
The Nixon administration’s extreme reaction to the leak (including forming the Plumbers, the Ellsberg psychiatrist break in, and eventual Watergate ties) was driven by paranoia about further leaks and domestic political damage—not by any verified foreign acquisition. Nixon and aides viewed the leak as potentially aiding adversaries like the Soviets or Chinese, but their internal discussions and later investigations never treated a pre-Plumbers Soviet copy as a confirmed fact.
In short, the June 1971 Soviet Embassy story was a single, unverified (and denied) press report based on flawed intelligence. It does not establish that the Kremlin obtained the complete papers before the Plumbers existed. The full Pentagon Papers were not officially declassified until 2011.
ME: Did KGB Major Aleksey Kulak at the FBI's NYC field office mislead Hoover and Nixon into believing that it had?
GROK: Yes, according to declassified accounts and the FBI’s own later assessment, KGB officer Aleksey (Aleksei) Isidorovich Kulak—codename “Fedora” (sometimes referred to as a major or colonel)—was the source of the specific claim that a complete set of the classified Pentagon Papers had been delivered to the Soviet Embassy in Washington in June 1971.
Kulak had first volunteered to the FBI’s New York field office in March 1962 while serving under UN diplomatic cover as a KGB scientific/technical officer. The FBI ran him for over a decade (with a second New York tour beginning in 1971) as one of its most valued Bureau sources on Soviet operations. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Nixon White House treated his reporting as highly credible.
The 1971 Pentagon Papers claim
During the height of the public furor over the New York Times and Washington Post publications (mid-June 1971 onward), Kulak/Fedora informed his FBI handlers that an unidentified man had handed the full 47-volume classified study to the Soviet Embassy. The FBI passed this to the White House. Nixon administration officials (including those overseeing the legal effort to block further publication) and the FBI accepted it as factual, heightening official paranoia about foreign exploitation of the leak. This occurred in the same weeks the White House Plumbers unit was being stood up to investigate and plug leaks.
CIA Director Richard Helms, however, privately discounted the report when briefing a Plumbers official. He told David R. Young (one of the unit’s chiefs) that the CIA knew the source and had “doubts about them.”
FBI’s later conclusion: disinformation.
By the mid-1970s the FBI had grown suspicious that Kulak was a KGB-controlled double agent feeding false information. A full re-evaluation after his 1976 return to Moscow (where he declined a CIA exfiltration offer) led the Bureau to conclude by 1981 [sic; in 1976 according to former CIA officer Tennent H. Bagley; this determination was overturned by counterintelligence-hating James Geer in the FBI around 1983 with help from CIA "analysts" provided to him by probable "mole" Leonard V. McCoy, Deputy Chief of CIA Counterintelligence] that Fedora had been “always on the Soviets’ side.” The Pentagon Papers story was cited as a prime example of the disinformation he supplied. No independent U.S., Soviet, or archival evidence has ever corroborated that the Kremlin actually received the full classified set via the Embassy at that time.
In short: Kulak did mislead Hoover’s FBI and the Nixon White House into believing the Kremlin had obtained the complete papers. The information was treated as genuine at the highest levels in mid-1971 precisely because it came from a long-trusted FBI asset—who was later judged to have been a Soviet plant all along. This episode contributed to the atmosphere of suspicion that surrounded the leak response, even though the core claim proved unfounded.
Yep, the KGB*, the same folks who, along with GRU and Putin's professional St. Petersburg trolls, installed Donald Trump as our "president" on 20 January 2017.
*Today's SVR and FSB
It's amazing what TDS can do to a person's mind.
It's a pity that you're so in love with Trump's Diminutive Shank, Corbett.
I guess all of us can just stay home during the 2028 election since Putin is going to pick our next President for us.
I guess all of us can just stay home during the 2028 election since Putin is going to pick our next President for us.
He doesn't need to, Corbett, because since the 1959 Master Plan has worked to perfection, irreparable damage has already been done to our country by The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx"), the PayPal Mafia, Christian Nationalists, The Traitorous Orange Bird's (rhymes with "Xxxx's") own corrupt family, and oodles and gobs of zombified MAGATs like you.
This is as bizarre as any JFKA conspiracy theory I have ever come across.
This is as bizarre as any JFKA conspiracy theory I have ever come across.
"Control The Media"? That's proof of "TDS" right there. Get some help.
"Control The Media"? That's proof of "TDS" right there. Get some help.
How so?
Hitler was basically also elected. So what's the difference?
The fact that TSD sufferers want to compare Trump to a man who was responsible for 6 million Holocaust victims and 39 million other deaths in the European theater of WWII says a lot about their lack of perspective.
When is enough enough for you guys? The orange creep picks a fight with the pope (something even Hitler did not do) and posts a photo of himself as "God".
What does it take for even the most brain dead idiot to understand what is going on?
Yeah that's about the same what they said when Hitler came to power.
You are cheering on a guy who has betrayed you from day one and who will dump you as soon as he has no use for you.
Many people who supported Hitler found out too late what a monster he really was. The same is happening now with Trump.
Yeah that's about the same what they said when Hitler came to power.
You are cheering on a guy who has betrayed you from day one and who will dump you as soon as he has no use for you.
Many people who supported Hitler found out too late what a monster he really was. The same is happening now with Trump.
The fact that TSD sufferers want to compare Trump to a man who was responsible for 6 million Holocaust victims and 39 million other deaths in the European theater of WWII says a lot about their lack of perspective.
Not sure if the “blockade” description is reverse psychology or if it means blockading the coastline of Iran so there’s no chance of the fanatic death cult version Islamic regime ( the false one) being able to mine the waters.
Maybe the new mission should be renamed “SafeGuard” the strait to allow all merchants ships safe passage with aid of US Navy escort ships. This could be a joint venture with Russia, China, France , Britain and the oil from that special island can be distributed by US at bargain prices once the island is occupied and under control of the US Marines.
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on social media: "The President of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false.
The Iranians always say one thing publicly and another thing privately. They know they will keep losing a half a billion dollars a day if they don't agree to Trump's terms. They can only store about 2 weeks worth of oil, after which they would have to shut down production. They have already opened the Strait of Hormuz which was the only leverage they had. If they don't sign the deal, Trump will introduce them to the Stone Age.
The strait is not open and threatening war crimes will not get the us out of this disaster of his own making.The Iranians announced yesterday that the Strait of Hormuz is open. So far there has only been a trickle of ships passing through. If's understandable why the captains of the ships might be reluctant to be among the first to test the waters, but there have been no attacks on the ones that have passed through.
The Iranians announced yesterday that the Strait of Hormuz is open. So far there has only been a trickle of ships passing through. If's understandable why the captains of the ships might be reluctant to be among the first to test the waters, but there have been no attacks on the ones that have passed through.
Meanwhile, the site maps continue to show Iranian ships bottled up around Kharg Island. They won't be allowed to pass until Iran signs the peace deal on Trump's terms.
We produce plenty of our own oil here in the USA. This is due to Trump's "Drill Baby Drill" philosophy. Not Biden's draining of our Strategic Oil Reserve to artificially keep the price of gasoline down during his 4 yr sleep walk. Those Iran clowns are shot full of holes, hiding in spider holes, and the country as a whole is also in shambles. That place is not much better than France was at the end of WW 2. That said, France celebrated the USA liberating them, as will Iran when Trump says, "We're done here". This is a waiting game that Trump knows the USA wins without breaking a sweat. Those butt heads over there can Not even find a downed pilot in the middle of a desert. That said it all right there. What we have witnessed is Cave Men fighting with Buck Rogers.
...then announced this morning it was closed.
Our own producing oil doesn't better the price after cutting off 20% from the world.
So we pay a little more for gas. So what? Some of us remember the 70's when there was literally no gas. Gas stations were closed with literally no gas on hand. People were unable to drive to work, school buses shut down, etc. Paying a little more for gas is worth the short term pain to remove these jerk wads from holding the world hostage via the straits stuff. And then there's the hanging of dissidents in their public square. "Braveheart" stuff. These savages gotta go. And Trump is the only leader with the Balls to make that happen.
I don’t see any reason for China or Russia to be wiling to send aid to a radical Islamic regime that if they ever were in their wildest delusional dream to become the dominant world empire would have no problem at all following their false death cult version of Islam that says KILL ALL THE INFIDELS. Which would include the vast majority of Chinese and Russian people along with USA and European people and most of India too.
If the Iranians refuse to come to terms with Trump, we need to just bomb them back to the Stone Age. We don't want to destroy their oil production because that would have the same effect on oil prices as closing the Strait of Hormuz except it would be a long term effect. 20% of the world's oil passes through the Strait and 3/4 of it, which is 15% of the world's oil supply, is Iranian oil so a longterm destruction of their oil facilities would send prices sky high for many years to come. Blockading their exports will starve them of their revenue while keeping their oil infrastructure in place for the next regime.
It appears likely that hostilities will resume when the ceasefire expires on Wednesday. There might be one more round of negotiations but one would have to be an incurable optimist to think anything will come of it. Friday, the Iranians announced the Strait of Hormuz would reopen only to be rescinded the next day. Whether it was just a ploy to get the US to lift the blockade of Iranian ports or the IRG overruling the deal made by negotiators, it's clear those negotiators do not speak for the regime.
As soon as the ceasefire expires, we should unload on them. Destroy their bridges. Destroy their powerplants. Whatever it takes to bring them to their knees. Best case scenario is we have intelligence that tells us where their military leaders are and decapitate their leadership. Keep killing their military leaders until we get down to a level where we get someone calling the shots who thinks martyrdom is overrated. Let's give the current leaders their 72 virgins ASAP.
One thing that has always puzzled me about the promise of 72 virgins is that they have to last an eternity and they are only going to be virgins once.
Is The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with Xxxx") giving you and Storing tips on when to go short and when to go long?
Neither Trump nor I give a crap about the short-term effects on the stock market of our actions against Iran.
History will judge Trump far more kindly than present day pundits.
So Trump has not finalized a deal within a few weeks that has eluded American presidents for 50 years. Wow. I guess he is a failure. Maybe he should have just let Iran develop a nuclear bomb and use it as they see fit. What would gas prices be when they do that? There will be a deal soon. If it takes another week or two, so be it. The problem here is not Trump or the US but the Iranians. They are fanatic murderers. The real type and not those of the imagination of our leftist loons. Dress up like a giraffe in Iran on "no king's" day and see how that works out.
"Sports Center" and ESPN are nothing more than a Sports Betting "propaganda" hub. I turned it on last night to see how they were going to "spin" the "Boston Massacre" that went down with the mass terminations there. ESPN buried this story 20 minutes into "Sports Center". If you do Not believe this mass "disappearing" was Not connected to the "cheating" scandal that traces back to Mgr Cora's Astro days, I gotta bridge for you to buy. The entire sports world's connection to gambling can not be ignored. And MLB kept Pete Rose out of the Hall Of Fame due to his betting on his OWN TEAM to win? And this in the face of MLB circling the wagons around Ohtani regarding his Million $$ gambling issues? The sports world is now run through Vegas.
Alex Cora got canned because his team which was expected to contend for the AL East championship was in last place with a 10-17 record. Firing the manager when a team is underperforming is the rule, not the exception. It has been that way for as long as I've been around and even before that.
As far as gambling is concerned, all major sports have decided that rather than fight it, they might as well embrace it. However, they still try to keep a wall between the gamblers and the participants. Two Cleveland Guardians players have recently received lifetime bans for violating the rule regarding to gambling. Similar bans have been handed down in other sports. As for Ohtani, he was the victim of that crime, not a participant. Since you are a dedicated conspiracy afficianado, it does not surprise me that you don't believe that.
So the Red Sox canned Cora and his entire Offensive support staff Saturday AFTER they won 17-1? Seriously? If they were going to fire Cora for his teams' dismal record, why not fire him after being swept by the Yankees in Fenway Park last Thur night?You'd have to ask the Red Sox front office. I suspect this move had been under consideration for some time and the decision was made prior to yesterday's game. The outcome of one game isn't going to change people's minds once a decision like that has been made.
You really are missing the boat with sports and the gambling industry. There have even been NBA Ref's caught with their hand in the cookie jar.Quote
I remember one. He was banned for life and served jail time.Quote
I enjoy watching sports at all levels. That said, I know what I enjoy watching vs what is going down behind the scenes. And this includes the NBA basically being owned by Nike/China. You see what happens to any NBA player or front office members that even make an outta step "peep" about China? They get shunned outta the NBA on-the-spot. No ifs, ands, or butts about it.
That's politics. You are overstating the influence of Nike and China. The NBA owners know how much revenue is generated by those entities, but that doesn't mean they are calling the shots. I hardly watch basketball much because I don't like the modern game. Most of the offense has become shooting threes or driving to the hoop and getting fouled. It drives me nuts when I see a player pass up a high percentage shot to kick the ball out to the arc for teammate to shoot a three.QuoteWith respect to Ohtani. Are you familiar with his current 10 yr Dodger contract? Ohtani makes $70 million per year, every year, for 10 yrs. Out of that $70 Mill per year, $68 Mill is DEFERRED. Ohtani is only paid $2 Mill per year in Dodger $$. At the end of his 10 yr contract, the LA Dodgers will owe Ohtani $680 MILLION. Over a 1/2 $BILLION. MLB and the Dodgers will NOT Permit their PR Golden Goose to be tarnished in a gambling scandal that has been HQ'd in So Cal for well over a decade. This is an "open secret" in So Cal.
What is your evidence that Ohtani was the perp and not the victim of this crime.
Deferred compensation is nothing new. I remember as far back as Al Kaline deferring 2/3 of his salary and that was in an era when he was only making $60-70K. He worked for an auto company in his offseason. He knew he couldn't play ball indefinitely and deferred his salary so he would have income long past his playing days.
You'd have to ask the Red Sox front office. I suspect this move had been under consideration for some time and the decision was made prior to yesterday's game. The outcome of one game isn't going to change people's minds once a decision like that has been made.
That's politics. You are overstating the influence of Nike and China. The NBA owners know how much revenue is generated by those entities, but that doesn't mean they are calling the shots. I hardly watch basketball much because I don't like the modern game. Most of the offense has become shooting threes or driving to the hoop and getting fouled. It drives me nuts when I see a player pass up a high percentage shot to kick the ball out to the arc for teammate to shoot a three.
What is your evidence that Ohtani was the perp and not the victim of this crime.
Deferred compensation is nothing new. I remember as far back as Al Kaline deferring 2/3 of his salary and that was in an era when he was only making $60-70K. He worked for an auto company in his offseason. He knew he couldn't play ball indefinitely and deferred his salary so he would have income long past his playing days.
When did Kaline, "defer 2/3 of his salary..."? I follow the older players dating back to "Murderer's Row". Never heard the Kaline, "2/3 deferred" story.
I am a lifelong Tiger fan and I read that about him a long time ago. I'm going to guess it was sometime in the mid 1960s that I read that. It's not surprising that you wouldn't have heard that since it wouldn't have been widely reported.
Lotta the "2/3" type stories float around HOF players. Not saying you didn't read it, but I don't buy it. Kaline was making something like $70,000 in 1968. Deferring 2/3 of something like that way back then? Not likely.
That would mean he was living on $23,000 in 1968 which equates to about $218,000 in today's dollars. On top of that, he worked offseason for one of the automakers so he was living quite well then and until his passing in 2020. He signed with the Detroit Tigers 2 days after he graduated from high school and went straight to the big leagues. He remained employed by the Tigers for the next 67 years in some capacity, as a player, coach, broadcaster, and in the front office.
How damn stupid are legacy media reporters. I'm going to paraphrase this since I can't quote him word-for-word. Wolf Blitzer just said that he was just a short distance away when the "alleged gunman" was taken down by the Secret Service. If he saw him do it, why is he saying it's an alleged gunman. Does Wolf need confirmation to report what he saw with his own damn eyes. What an idiot.
I am very familiar with Kaline's MLB stats, the old stadium with the 2nd deck overhang in the outfield, Reggie nailing the transformer, etc. Favorite Tiger would be Mickey Lolich, Norm Cash coming in 2nd, Freehan 3rd. The 2/3 deferred? Not sold.
I couldn't find a story to confirm Al Kaline's deferred compensation but I did find this one that said he turned down a raise to become Detroit's first $100,000 a year player because he didn't think he had a good enough season to earn it.
https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-collectibles/others/1971-al-kaline-signed-detroit-tigers-player-s-contract-and-copy-of-replacement-contract-requesting-a-lower-salary-from-the-al-ka/a/50049-58297.s
Mickey Lolich will always have a special place in the hearts of longtime Tigers fans for his heroic performance in the 1968 World Series when he stole the thunder from Denny McLain and Bob Gibson. He pitched his third complete game victory in game 7 on just two days rest, outdueling Bog Gibson. Lolich was a workhorse in the early 1970s, pitching over 300 innings in four consecutive seasons topped by an astounding 376 innings in 1971, the most by any pitcher since 1917. Wilbur Wood, a knuckleballer, eclipsed him by 2/3 of an inning the following year. Nobody has come close since. Today they think its a big deal if a pitcher throws 200 innings in a year. They pitch every fifth day and they call it a quality start if they pitch 6 innings and give up 3 runs or less. Lolich took the ball every fourth day and more often than not threw a complete game, 29 of them in 1971. Sadly, Mickey passed away this past February.
If you aren't in advanced stages of TDS, or at least pretending you are, you are not welcome in the Democrat Party.
When did you get so twisted?
Lolich was a lot like Curt Simmons. Simmons never was a 20 game winner, but he was a 1950's workhorse and a big part of the 1950 Phillies "Whiz Kids" team. Simmons was still pitching in 1964 and started 2 World Series games for that championship Cardinal/Gibson team that you guys took down in "68".
I remember Simmons well and without looking it up I believe he ended up with the Cubs at one time.
Lolich did have a 25 win season in 1971 and followed it up with 22 in 1972. He had several more seasons in the high teens even though he served in the National Guard and did two weeks each year away from the team for much of the 1960s. If Lolich posted the numbers today that he did in the 1960s and 1970s, he would be a borderline Hall of Famer but because he pitched in an era when starting pitchers were expected to pitch a lot more than they do now, he doesn't get the credit for it. 217 career wins would certainly get you considered for Cooperstown these days. In 1971 Lolich pitched 29 complete games. By comparison, there were only 28 pitched in the entire American League last year and only three pitchers threw as many as 2.
I just read a book about the 1968 Tigers and learned a story I had never heard before. As his playing days were winding down, Lolich was looking ahead for ways to earn a living. A Tiger fan asked him if he wanted to go partners in a pizza chain he had started. After considering it, Lolich declined and decided to open his own donut shop in the Detroit area. That donut shop did well and was his main source of income for decades to come. The pizza chain did pretty well too. It was started by Mike Ilitch and was the Little Caesars pizza chain. Mr. I as he was called ended up buying the Tigers and the Detroit Red Wings as well. The Red Wings won a Stanley Cup for him but the Tigers lost both World Series they got into under Mr. I.
The Tiger team aside, the flavor of a "Little Caesars" pizza is only superior to the box it comes in. Going way back to when Johnny Carson was the only late night programming on TV, "Little Caesars" was the only large pizza chain in So Cal making/delivering pizzas. And they dominated buying TV add time during the Carson Show. Very business smart, but the product being produced was horrible. These "entrepreneur's" that were pioneers of the "Franchise" concept made out like bandits. The quality of the product they offered really didn't matter.
President Trump has played an estimated 261 rounds of golf while President. About 50 times a year.
Why is it necessary to build a Golden Ballroom, that dwarfs the White House, so he can be safe, what 4 times a year? 8 times a year? While attending a ball.
While Trump continues, 50 times a year, going around a golf course?
Protection at a Washington Hotel is a piece of cake compared to protection at a golf course. At a hotel, metal protectors can be set up. There can be several layers of protections set up. The President is not constantly moving out in the open where protection has to be constantly moving with him.
The only reason a gunman did not get off a rifle shot at Trump in the summer of 2024 was because the gunman left his rifle laying against a fence in full view. Without that, the protection was not several layers of protection, but one Secret Service Agent travelling ahead of the President and alertly spotting the rifle. Minimum precautions would have foiled the efforts of a dozen Secret Service agents.
They are calling Trump a "stochastic terrorist" who incites violence.
Get it? Trump is responsible.
President Trump has played an estimated 261 rounds of golf while President. About 50 times a year.
Why is it necessary to build a Golden Ballroom, that dwarfs the White House, so he can be safe, what 4 times a year? 8 times a year? While attending a ball.
While Trump continues, 50 times a year, going around a golf course?
Protection at a Washington Hotel is a piece of cake compared to protection at a golf course. At a hotel, metal protectors can be set up. There can be several layers of protections set up. The President is not constantly moving out in the open where protection has to be constantly moving with him.
The only reason a gunman did not get off a rifle shot at Trump in the summer of 2024 was because the gunman left his rifle laying against a fence in full view. Without that, the protection was not several layers of protection, but one Secret Service Agent travelling ahead of the President and alertly spotting the rifle. Minimum precautions would have foiled the efforts of a dozen Secret Service agents.
President Trump has played an estimated 261 rounds of golf while President. About 50 times a year.
Why is it necessary to build a Golden Ballroom, that dwarfs the White House, so he can be safe, what 4 times a year? 8 times a year? While attending a ball.
While Trump continues, 50 times a year, going around a golf course?
Protection at a Washington Hotel is a piece of cake compared to protection at a golf course. At a hotel, metal protectors can be set up. There can be several layers of protections set up. The President is not constantly moving out in the open where protection has to be constantly moving with him.
The only reason a gunman did not get off a rifle shot at Trump in the summer of 2024 was because the gunman left his rifle laying against a fence in full view. Without that, the protection was not several layers of protection, but one Secret Service Agent travelling ahead of the President and alertly spotting the rifle. Minimum precautions would have foiled the efforts of a dozen Secret Service agents.
It is NOT Costing the US Taxpayers 1 dime to build the ballroom. The Ballroom reaction we see above and elsewhere is simply TDS. And this includes those Hack Judges that continually display that they also have TDS. There is No rational reason to oppose the construction of this ballroom. None.
While an accidental AR-15 discharge that fired a wild shot with the bullet going in some indeterminate direction is theoretically possible, I find it hard to believe. The shot would have been earsplitting to anyone in the limo as well as any nearby spectators on Elm St. such as the Newmans. Maybe I could believe the other agents would cover for one of their own, but David Powers and Kenny O'Donnell were in the car too. What reason would they have to provide cover. Anyone who has been trained in firearms knows one of the cardinal rules of gun safety is you don't put your finger on the trigger until you have identified a target and are ready to shoot, just to guard against such an accidental discharge.
I do Not know what a single discharge from an AR-15 sounds like. Witt/Umbrella Man testified as to his hearing screeching brakes and squealing tires. An AR-15 discharging 1 shot amidst this cacophony could have been missed.
Regarding the gun safety stuff, I believe you are giving SA Hickey too much credit. He is reported to have carried the AR-15 into Parkland Hospital. Then instructed to get it out of the building. Hickey was a green horn.
Even a greenhorn would be trained in the basic rules of gun safety.
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Obama played over 40 times a year and nobody cared. A symptom of TDS is that a person will find fault with anything and everything Trump says or does.
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Do I find problems with Obama playing golf 41 times a year? I would if he insisted he needed a huge ballroom that would dwarf the White House itself for safety reasons, while still going golfing 41 rounds a year. It is inherently harder to guard a President on a golf course than at the Washington Hilton.
If Trump insists he needs a ballroom, while the Washington Hilton seems adequate, the would-be shooter never got close to him, but insists on going golfing 50 times a year. Golfing is not a security threat but not having the Golden Ballroom is. Makes no sense.
Do I find problems with Obama playing golf 41 times a year? I would if he insisted he needed a huge ballroom that would dwarf the White House itself for safety reasons, while still going golfing 41 rounds a year. It is inherently harder to guard a President on a golf course than at the Washington Hilton.
If Trump insists he needs a ballroom, while the Washington Hilton seems adequate, the would-be shooter never got close to him, but insists on going golfing 50 times a year. Golfing is not a security threat but not having the Golden Ballroom is. Makes no sense.
I don't see what the ballroom has to do with Trump playing golf. They are completely unrelated. The ballroom isn't being built for security reasons. That's just a fringe benefit. The ballroom will be a much more impressive venue for holding state dinners than the East Room which hosted last night's dinner with King Charles. I can't imagine he was too impressed by that.
But let's not bother with going ahead and finishing the ballroom. Let's just leave a pile of rubble there as a memorial to the East Wing.
Most of our recent presidents were avid golfers. Biden probably didn't play much while he was POTUS because of his decline, but he was an avid golfer while Veep. Obama, both Bushes, and Clinton played a lot. Clinton even played a round in the Bob Hope Pro-Am in front of thousands of spectators along with former presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. Reagan played on occasion. Carter didn't play at all. Ford loved the game and was famous for his fiery temper. He played a lot after he was out of office including in Pro-Ams. I got to see him up close when he played in the Memorial Tournament Pro-Am which he did for several years. Nixon and LBJ played rarely. JFK was an avid golfer until his back pain forced him to give the game up shortly before he was assassinated. He was probably the best golfer of the presidents until Trump came along. Ike probably played golf more than any president while in office and became a member of Augusta National before he even became POTUS. There was even a tree named for him in the 17th fairway because he had lobbied to have it removed because he kept hitting it with his tee shots. A few years ago, a windstorm blew it over. I wonder if Ike had a hand in that. The earliest golfing presidents were Taft and Wilson, both of whom loved the game.
I have no problem with any president who wants to play golf.
What I think is one of the biggest problems with politics these days is all the negative advertising that tries to make the other side to be evil. Both sides are guilty of this. Sadly there are way too many people who get way too caught up in this aspect. Some of the most vulnerable people get so caught up in things (LHO, Squeaky, etc) that they even resort to assassination attempts. I hope the candidates will eventually recognize this and try to tame down the negative stuff in their advertisements. I also hope that people who want to discuss these things online will do the same.
That would be nice but it is wishful thinking. Politicians have figured out hyperbole works. It gets their base worked up which increases turnout and campaign contributions.
I forget who it was but someone on TV said a few days ago that the worst thing they ever did was allow cameras in the Senate and the House. Now the committee hearings are all about trying to get a 15 second sound bite rather than trying to get information from the person being questioned. Again, this drives turnout and contributions. As for what is said on the floors of the two houses, that's usually just for the cameras. Most of the time they are talking to an empty chamber. None of them want to sit around and listen to what each other has to say. The same thing used to happen before cameras and the members would make speeches just to get it in the Congressional Record. On big issues, there sometimes is actual floor debates but that's for show too.
They all know how they are going to vote and nobody is changing anybody's mind by what they say.
That would be nice but it is wishful thinking. Politicians have figured out hyperbole works. It gets their base worked up which increases turnout and campaign contributions.
I forget who it was but someone on TV said a few days ago that the worst thing they ever did was allow cameras in the Senate and the House. Now the committee hearings are all about trying to get a 15 second sound bite rather than trying to get information from the person being questioned. Again, this drives turnout and contributions. As for what is said on the floors of the two houses, that's usually just for the cameras. Most of the time they are talking to an empty chamber. None of them want to sit around and listen to what each other has to say. The same thing used to happen before cameras and the members would make speeches just to get it in the Congressional Record. On big issues, there sometimes is actual floor debates but that's for show too.
They all know how they are going to vote and nobody is changing anybody's mind by what they say.
I have a serious problem with Gerry Ford driving a golf ball. Without question you are putting others at risk there. Gerry Ford was a Putz.
The Steele Dossier being repeatedly proffered in a FISC court in order to covertly surveil the Trump campaign was the last straw. The Dem party will go as low as required and is supported by planted Judges and the Fake News Media. No 2 ways about it. Still going on today. The Dem corruption has literally turned Calif. into a debtor nation.
I used to vote for the occasional Democrat but no more. I will not vote for anybody willing to put a D next to their name. I like John Fetterman but as long as he's a Democrat, he won't get my vote. It's unlikely I would ever get a chance anyway since I live in Ohio and there's no way the Dems would put somebody that sensible on their ticket, but if hypothetically they did, I still wouldn't vote for him. I'm not exactly in love with the GOP but I will vote for most of their candidates for one reason. They aren't Democrats.
It was a choice between 2 scary looking candidates both of whom exhibited signs of suffering from delusions of grandeur and one making strange gestures while the other was laughing hysterically for no reason.
So I went with the crazy capitalist that likes gold and puts his name in big letters on everything , because he was the only one who promised to get the border under control and was saying “.America Firsf”
The other crazy female candidate with hysterical laugher was promising to raise the capital gains tax to 40% which would wipe out my retirement income.
It was a choice between 2 scary looking candidates both of whom exhibited signs of suffering from delusions of grandeur and one making strange gestures while the other was laughing hysterically for no reason.
So I went with the crazy capitalist that likes gold and puts his name in big letters on everything , because he was the only one who promised to get the border under control and was saying “America First.”
The other crazy female candidate with hysterical laugher was promising to raise the capital gains tax to 40% which would wipe out my retirement income.
No, you went with the con artist who happens to be Vladimir Putin's favorite "useful idiot" (or worse).
Is your taxable income more than a million dollars per year?
If not, then Kamala's raising the capital gains tax to 28% (not to 40% which you mistakenly believe) wouldn't apply to you.
So, what it boils down to is that Kamala is a woman with a "crazy" laugh and you were misled by [fill in the blank].
ME: Did Kamala Harris promise to raise the capital gains tax to 40%?
No, Kamala Harris did not promise to raise the capital gains tax to 40%. She proposed increasing the top federal long-term capital gains rate to 28% for households with annual income over $1 million (from the current 20%), which is a more modest increase than in President Biden’s earlier budget proposals.
Key Details from Her Proposal
Core proposal: Tax long-term capital gains and qualified dividends at 28% (instead of ordinary income rates) for taxable income above $1 million.
This was announced in September 2024 and represented a softening from Biden’s FY2025 budget, which called for taxing capital gains at ordinary income rates (top rate 39.6%) for high earners.
Combined with the existing or proposed Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) of 3.8%–5%, the effective top federal rate on capital gains for the highest earners would be around 33% (or up to ~38% in analyses including certain interactions). State taxes could push combined rates higher in some places (e.g., over 40% in high-tax states), but the federal component she directly proposed was 28%.
Context and Comparisons
Current top federal long-term capital gains rate: 20% (plus 3.8% NIIT for high earners).
Historical note: Rates were near 40% in the late 1970s (pre-Reagan cuts), but Harris’s plan did not restore that.
Other elements: She also supported a billionaire minimum tax on unrealized gains for those worth $100 million+ (a narrow proposal from the Biden administration) and taxing unrealized gains at death above exemptions, but these are distinct from a broad 40% rate on realized gains.
Claims of a 40% (or higher) promise often stem from conflating her plan with Biden’s original budget, adding NIIT/state taxes, or referencing older Democratic proposals. Reliable analyses from sources like the Tax Foundation, CRFB, CNBC, and ITEP confirm the 28% figure as her stated position.
In short, the claim is not accurate—her public proposal was for a 28% rate on long-term capital gains for top earners.
ME: If the capital gains tax were raised to 28%, would it have had a negative effect on the retirement income of some people?
GROK: Yes, raising the long-term capital gains tax to 28% (as Harris proposed for households with taxable income over $1 million) would have a negative effect on the retirement income of some people.
Who Would Be Affected?
High-income retirees with substantial taxable brokerage accounts (not IRAs or 401(k)s) who realize large gains to fund spending. Example: A $100,000 long-term gain at the current 20% top rate nets $80,000 after tax. At 28%, it nets $72,000 — an 10% reduction in proceeds from the gain itself.
This requires selling more shares to maintain the same spending level, accelerating portfolio depletion over a long retirement.
Retirees near or above the $1 million income threshold in a given year (e.g., from a big stock sale, business exit, or concentrated positions). Combined with the 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax (potentially rising), the effective federal rate could reach ~31.8–33%.
Those in high-tax states, where state capital gains taxes (often ordinary income rates) could push combined burdens noticeably higher.
Ripple Effects
Higher taxable income from gains could make more Social Security benefits taxable, increase Medicare IRMAA surcharges, or trigger other phase-outs.
Reduced incentive for frequent rebalancing or realizations, potentially leading to less optimal portfolios or higher volatility exposure.
Indirect market effects: While modest, higher taxes on high earners could slightly dampen asset prices or returns over time, affecting all investors (including those in tax-advantaged accounts).
Who Would Likely See Little or No Direct Impact?
Most middle-class retirees whose total taxable income stays well below $1 million — they’d remain in the 0% or 15% long-term capital gains brackets.
Those relying primarily on Social Security, pensions, or traditional IRA/401(k) withdrawals (taxed as ordinary income regardless).
Users of Roth accounts (tax-free) or strategies like holding until death for step-up in basis.
Analyses (e.g., Tax Foundation) show the 28% proposal is targeted at high earners and would raise revenue mainly from them, with smaller dynamic economic drags compared to larger hikes.
Bottom line: At 28%, the direct hit is narrower and milder than a 40% rate, mostly affecting wealthier retirees with large taxable portfolios. Many average retirees using taxable accounts for supplemental income would still face modestly lower after-tax proceeds on realizations, making tax-efficient planning (e.g., asset location, Roth conversions, tax-loss harvesting) even more valuable.
ME: What about households with less than one million dollars of yearly taxable income?
For households with less than $1 million in yearly taxable income, the 28% capital gains rate would not apply. They would continue to pay the current long-term capital gains tax rates: 0%, 15%, or 20%, depending on their total taxable income.
Current Long-Term Capital Gains Brackets (2025)
These brackets are based on total taxable income (not just the gain amount):
0% rate: Single: Taxable income ≤ ~$48,350; Married filing jointly: ≤ ~$96,700
15% rate: Single: ~$48,351 to ~$533,400; Married filing jointly: ~$96,701 to ~$600,050
20% rate: Single: Over ~$533,400; Married filing jointly: Over ~$600,050
(The exact thresholds adjust annually for inflation.)
Harris’s proposal specifically targeted the top rate (replacing the 20% bracket) only for income above $1 million. Most households—even upper-middle-class ones with significant investment income—would see no direct change to their capital gains tax rate.
Potential Indirect or Minimal Effects
Very few retirees or households under $1M taxable income would face the higher rate. Even someone realizing a large one-time gain (e.g., selling a business or appreciated stock) would only pay 28% on the portion of income exceeding the $1M threshold. The rest of their gains would still qualify for the regular 15% or 20% rates.
Other tax interactions could still matter for those near the higher brackets:Large gains could push total income high enough to make more Social Security benefits taxable.
They might increase Medicare IRMAA premiums or trigger the 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax (which applies above ~$200K/$250K modified AGI, regardless of the proposal).
No broad impact on typical middle-class or even affluent retirees relying on taxable accounts, as long as their annual taxable income stays below $1 million.
In short: For the vast majority of households (well over 99% based on IRS data), Harris’s 28% proposal would have had zero direct effect on their retirement income from capital gains. The change was narrowly targeted at very high earners. Tax-efficient strategies like asset location, Roth accounts, and tax-loss harvesting would remain just as valuable as they are today.
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Maybe you should put your jammies on, have your cookie and your glass of milk, and go beddy-bye now, Corbett, so you can dream of John Galt, again.
"Who is John Galt?"
I had never heard of him so I googled him. I come to find out he is a character in Atlas Shrugged and the question "Who is John Galt?" was repeated several times during the last part of then novel. That is the extent of my knowledge about John Galt.
How did you become a Libertarian?
Common sense.
Regarding what?
If you had any common sense, you'd realize that "former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win because he knew The Traitorous Orange Turd would get the U.S. out of NATO and would tear our country apart.
TDS..........TDS..........TDS...........TDS
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/seattle-s-socialist-mayor-katie-wilson-slammed-for-cutting-short-interview-over-basic-public-safety-question/ar-AA22fprQ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=69f74bbe7aa140beba35fbd57f1b94a7&ei=13
People who elect socialist mayors like the ones in New York, Chicago, and Seattle deserve anything and everything bad that happens to them. As their livers become shittier and shittier, as they surely will, I'm going to sit back and laugh at their plight. They made their bed, now they can lie in it. Socialism doesn't make anybody's lives better. The goal of socialism is to make everyone's lives equally miserable.
Some of these people that live in these states are trapped. They do Not vote for these clowns and can Not afford to move. They are modern day slaves stuck inside a plantation.
They need to get motivated and turn out in greater numbers and outvote the crazy leftists. The turnout rate in New York when Mamdani got elected was the largest for a mayoral election in 50 years which indicates to me the socialists were far more motivated than the normal people. That said, these people are victims but it is not my responsibility to rescue them from socialism. They will have to figure out how to do that themselves.
What will happen is the millionaires will largely move out of the city into the suburbs or move to low tax red states. That means the middle and lower classes will shoulder an even larger share of the tax burden. The problem with socialism is it soon runs out of other people's money to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Mamdani is already finding out New York can't pay for a fraction of the "free" things he promised and it is only going to get worse as the tax base shrinks.
Seriously? The population of New York has been declining for years. This is why it is Now 4th largest with electoral votes. It was #2 forever. So, the total population declines but the number of people voting increases? That's a Red Flag!
I believe until the 1960 census, it was #1
Thank you for helping me build my case.
This Thread Is For Discussion On United States And International Politics.
"President" Trump is living proof that Russia won the Cold War.
It did so by having the KGB* and the GRU wage disinformation, "active measures," and "inside man / outside man" strategic deception counterintelligence operations against us and our NATO allies since 1959.
*Today's SVR and FSB
Why do you blame the Russians for the Democrat Party nominating losers like Gore, Kerry, Hillary, and Kamala?
Given the fact that the KGB* has been zombifying our body politic for 60-plus years with disinformation and "active measures" operations (including JFKA CT scenarios), even if the Democrats had nominated a young Lou Gherig, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, or [fill in the blank], Vladimir Putin's SVR, FSB, GRU and professional Saint Petersburg trolls (with help from polling data provided by Yanukovych's boy, Manafort, to GRU officer Kilimnik and thence to Deripaska and Putin) would have ensured that The Traitorous Orange Turd "won."
*Today's SVR and FSB
I'll bet Ukraine regrets giving up their nukes when the Soviet Union broke up.
This Thread Is For Discussion On United States And International Politics.
Donald Trump is alleged to have raped young girls provided to him by Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Whether or not that’s true, he’s now figuratively raping American taxpayers by having his DOJ and IRS set up a slush fund of $1.8 billion to be dispersed to his allies, some of whom are the Jan. 6 zombies he encouraged to overthrow our Constitutional Federal Republic and keep him in office after he lost the 2020 election fair-and-square.
Alleged? No indictment. No trial. No conviction. But that won't stop the TDS crowd from swallowing the story hook, line, and sinker.
How did he encourage his followers to overthrow the government? By telling them to go to the Capitol and protest peacefully? I thought that was a constitutionally protected right.
How did he encourage his followers to overthrow the government? By telling them to go to the Capitol and protest peacefully? I thought that was a constitutionlly protected right.
:D called for peaceful protest? once again you're FoS:
“We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
“If the liberal Democrats take the Senate and the White House — and they’re not taking this White House — we’re going to fight like hell, I’ll tell you right now,”
You seem to think that the word "fighting" always means physically. Of course that is ludicrous. You can fight through legal and peaceful means and that is what Trump was advocating for.
But that's not what happened is it? No. How many hours did he sit and watch it and did nothing to stop it?
"Well, Kevin [McCarthy], I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are".
President 'Felon' owns J6 and always will - it was his electorate that attacked police that day and defecated the people's house.
The rioting was done by a small percentage of the protesters and they were acting of their own volition, not on Trump's orders. Trump was not complicit in the rioting no matter how much the TDS crowd insists he was.
:D Except, no one believes that.
I have no problem with paying high prices at the pump for the short term. Since I was a child, I read the stories of how much previous generations had to sacrifice during WWII for almost four years. Staples were rationed including food, fuel, rubber, tires, shoes, sugar, coffee, meats and dairy products just so our fighting men would not have to go without. Now we have people who are getting the shorts in a bunch because gasoline has gotten more expensive. Have we become a nation of whiny bitches? Apparently so. Suck it up, buttercups.
My problem with Trump is that he appears to be waffling. (Even Mark Levin is staring to wonder what’s up.) How many more insulting responses and videos from Iranian regime nuts taunting Trump do we tax paying Veteran citizens of USA have to endure?
It’s pathetic. It’s going to be Jimmy Carter 2.0 soon if Trump doesn’t FINISH THE DAMN JOB.
Trump was bragging it was over in 3 days. Mission Accomplished 2.0 it looks like now if he lets this Iranian Death Cult Islamo-fascist regime survive.
So all the MAGA people complaining about Bidens $3:50 a gallon price and eggs and bacon prices were not whiny bitches?
Now when I was patrolling the West German border in 83 and also driving an M60A3 tank when the whole unit deployed for what appeared to be an imminent threat from Warsaw Pact armor units , in the middle of a 10 below zero winter snow storm , I guess I just wasn’t contributing enough.
My problem with Trump is that he appears to be waffling. ( Even Mark Levin is staring to wonder what’s up ) How many more insulting responses and videos from Iranian regime nuts taunting Trump do we tax paying Veteran citizens of USA have to endure?
It’s pathetic. It’s going to be Jimmy Carter 2.0 soon if Trump doesn’t FINISH THE DAMN JOB.
Trump was bragging it was over in 3 days. Mission Accomplished 2.0 it looks like now if he lets this Iranian Death Cult Islamofascist regime survive.
Gas was a lot higher than $3.50 under Biden and it wasn't due to spending on our troops. It was due to spending one liberal programs like the climate change scam.
More Corbett BS:
Gas prices frequently hovered around or dropped below \(\$3.50\) per gallon during various periods of Joe Biden’s presidency.
- it was as high $5.02 because of Surging Post-Pandemic Demand
Now, if President "Rapist" doesn't do something soon, it will be at or above $5 after Memorial Day with no end in sight.
He is the causin' of it all
Dear Freon,
How do you propose that Putin's "useful idiot" (or worse) buddy, The Traitorous Orange Turd, "finish the job?
-- Tom
He can resign before the dementia gets worse and he starts wandering off like Biden.
He can resign before the dementia gets worse and he starts wandering off like Biden.
Spare me.
Trump does more before 10:00 am then [sic] Biden could do in a whole day. The guy has already engaged more with the media in 14 months that Biden ever did. Biden turned the presidency into a part time job. He was nothing but a figurehead that they would take out of hiding to do photo ops or read from a teleprompter. I don't know who was calling the shots from 2021 to 2025 but it sure as hell wasn't President Autopen.
I used to think Bill Maher and Jon Stewart were genuinely funny even though I disagree with the politics most of the time. That no longer seems to be the case. Bill Maher is still funny. Jon Steward? Not so much.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/jon-stewart-makes-prediction-about-donald-trump-s-future/ar-AA23H20m?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6a0f9ecb99ea4a2db03b174134c15288&cvpid=2aabb13eb9aa4b9885288f07f839894c&ei=41
It seems his TDS has reached the same stage 5 as the rest of the late night non-comedians. I guess stage 5 TDS robs one of their sense of humor. I realize all of them have had their souls crushed by Trump being elected to a second term and I am drawing way too much fiendish pleasure from their pain. The delicious irony of all this is that this is a self inflicted wound for the left. If they hadn't nominated a lukewarm corpse in 2020 and conspired with their allies in the legacy media to get it elected POTUS, Trump would now be out of office and their suffering would now be over. Now they have another 32 months to suffer through the rest of Trump's presidency and he is going to lord that over them ever minute. I am going to sit back and laugh at their misery.
PS. Jimmy Kimmel proposed viewers boycott CBS altogether to protest Colbert's well deserved dismissal. I have a better idea. Let's boycott ABC until they cancel Kimmel.
Herr Corbett,
Do you think concentration camp denizens during WW II suffered from Hitler Derangement Syndrome?
(You do believe in the Holocaust, don't you? Or do you think it was overblown, and maybe even a deception op by the Libtard Dems?)
-- Tom
I'm not anti-Semitic like so many on the political left.
Dear Herr Corbett,
You didn't answer my questions.
-- Tom
I noticed this morning that a fairly respected poll has Kamala Harris (remember her?) leading Vance, Rubio and Desantis (remember him?) by a very significant margin in a hypothetical 2028 race. Yes, it's early, but Putin and the KGB need to get to work on this or the entire Master Plot could be upended. Can Tennent Bagley be contacted by Ouija board in the mole-hunting afterlife and give us some guidance on this?
Apparently Newsom (whoever he is) and AOC (I've heard of her!) did well too, but not as well as Kamala. I tell ya, the Master Plot is hanging on by its fingernails.
I noticed this morning that a fairly respected poll has Kamala Harris (remember her?) leading Vance, Rubio and Desantis (remember him?) by a very significant margin in a hypothetical 2028 race. Yes, it's early, but Putin and the KGB need to get to work on this or the entire Master Plot could be upended. Can Tennent Bagley be contacted by Ouija board in the mole-hunting afterlife and give us some guidance on this?
Apparently Newsom (whoever he is) and AOC (I've heard of her!) did well too, but not as well as Kamala. I tell ya, the Master Plot is hanging on by its fingernails.
Putins ideal outcome would be a USA with open borders, woke ideology and a kooky leftist socialist like Kamala Harris without a clue about economics. She would allow the Iranian regime to resume seeking nuclear enrichment and they would soon have nuclear warheads. . She would seek to cut aid to Israel and weaken the strong Israel / USA alliance, thereby emboldening radical Islamist terrorists. She would implement the socialist redistribution scheme based on DEI.
4 years of a Democrat socialists controlled Congress and a Kamala Harris President would the death of the USA for certain.
Sure, Kamala is a flat-out dingbat. In a country of 330 million people, it's astounding the non-quality of the candidates we keep coming up with for high offices. Kamala? AOC? And the fact that tens of millions of people think these are viable candidates is frightening.
Of course, this is true at all levels. I have served in federal, state, county and municipal government, and the elected officials were consistently "not exactly" the cream of the crop.
It appears the natives are getting restless: Now that Armed Services Committee Chairman Wicker has criticized Trump for waffling around on Iran, the comments on FOX, which are usually nothing short of worshipful toward Trump, are almost entirely in the vein of "I'm sick of this! Finish the damn job!"
Putins ideal outcome would be a USA with open borders, woke ideology and a kooky leftist socialist like Kamala Harris without a clue about economics. She would allow the Iranian regime to resume seeking nuclear enrichment and they would soon have nuclear warheads. . She would seek to cut aid to Israel and weaken the strong Israel / USA alliance, thereby emboldening radical Islamist terrorists. She would implement the socialist redistribution scheme based on DEI.
4 years of a Democrat socialists controlled Congress and a Kamala Harris President would the death of the USA for certain.
Dear Freon,Dear Tombstone: There were 2 idiots to choose from to replace the brain dead Biden. Kamala the useless idiot and Trump the useful idiot. At the least the useful idiot did something about the border and made some money off the oil and military industrial complex so he can leave office with 14 billion instead of 7 billion before the 25th amendment kicks him out.
The KGB* works both sides of the political spectrum.
That's why it (and the GRU, and Putin's professional St. Petersburg trolls, and oodles and gobs of zombified "useful idiots," et al.) installed The Traitorous Orange Turd as our "President" on 20 January 2017.
*Today's SVR and FSB
-- Tom
Dear Tombstone: There were 2 idiots to choose from to replace the brain dead Biden. Kamala the useless idiot and Trump the useful idiot. At the least the useful idiot did something about the border and made some money off the oil and military industrial complex so he can leave office with 14 billion instead of 7 billion before the 25th amendment kicks him out.
So what candidate do you suggest for 2028 to avoid getting another idiot? Grok the AI?
I would be happy with either Vance, Rubio, or DeSantis. When Rubio ran in 2016 he was a Not Ready for Prime Time Player but he has gained in stature since. I think Vance would be the strongest candidate. DeSantis would be a good choice too but he doesn't seem to connect with the voters outside his home state. I can't think of a prominent GOP candidate I wouldn't vote for in 2028.
On the Dem side, I think the GOP would love to see them give Kamala another bite of the apple or go with AOC but I think it's a case of be careful what you wish for. The Dems wanted to go against Trump in 2016 because they thought it would be an easy victory and they continued to believe that right up until they started counting the votes. You can still go on TouTube and find dozens of "Donald Trump will never be President videos. I don't think the Dems want Kamala and now that she seems to have split with Doug Emhoff, she's probably even less attractive. I can see AOC getting the nod if it's a crowded field and the far left coalesces around her and the more moderate Dems spit their votes among Newsom, Buttigieg. Shapiro etc. Trump was only getting about 30% of the early primary vote in 2016 because there were so many establishment Republicans dividing the anti Trump vote. Trump ended up winning the general election because he drew in a lot of moderate Dems and independents. I can't see AOC getting many Republican votes and she won't be appealing to the independents either.
When I need a good laugh, I can still go out on YouTube and watch all the various networks and cable channels coverage of the 2016 election. The talking heads started the night smug and confident of a Hillary victory and then slowly over the next 8 hours melted down into outright despair. I really got a kick out of seeing Martha Radaatz when she realized Trump was going to win. Before Trump had even been declared the winner, NBC's Richard Engel was already talking about impeachment. I'm sure a lot of the Dem leaders were thinking the same thing even if they weren't saying it out loud.
Kamala has no chance. The Dems will never forgive her for losing to Trump. It will be Newsom with a female VP. Maybe AOC but more likely someone like Whitmer. The only I would ever consider are Shapiro and Fetterman but Shapiro has no chance in the anti-Semitic left. The Repubs will be combination of Vance/Rubio. I can't see Vance taking the VP again, so he will likely be at the top of the ticket. The Dems will have been in control of the House for two years at that point and will have to defend their failed policies instead of running solely on anti-Trump hoaxes.
The only way Fetterman even keeps his Senate seat will be if he switches parties. He insists he won't but his tune might change once he realizes he has no chance in the Democrat primary. There is no way he would be on the national ticket would be on the GOP side. In 2008, McCain seriously considered Joe Liebermann after the Democrat Party had dumped him. The GOP nominee might consider the same thing. Fetterman would help with blue collar Dems and independents. I think 2028 is going to be another it's-the-economy-stupid election.
Fetterman should run as an independent. He has shown that common sense trumps party lunacy. Unfortunately, he is all by his lonesome in the Dem party. Fetterman and Shapiro have no chance. They are too normal in the Dem party. It will be Newsom. Rubio might at least escape the TDS associated with Vance. He was a player before Trump. The Dems will find something to vilify him about, however. I'm not hopeful. The Dems are completely invested in TDS. Opposing anything Trump. If Trump said the sky was blue, they would claim he was insensitive to people with color blindness. They have no real policies. The few that they espouse are insane, but they represent the views of 50%. We are in big trouble. Too much debt. Education scores are in steep decline in the age of Idiocracy. AI may be the only hope to save us from ourselves.
There is the possibility that a ground force could be totally robotic. The latest robots can be dropped by Air Force and they could do all the monitoring and patrolling. And we still got lots of small surveillance drones that look like birds, animals and insects.
Robot technology has come a long way but we are still a long way from being able to stage an invasion of robots. So far, we've been able to program them to do very specific tasks. They don't respond well to the unexpected. I am reminded of the recent viral video of a Chinese robot programmed to do a Michael Jackson dance and tripping on the stairs and falling helplessly to the floor.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=video+of+chinese+robot+tripping+doing+a+michael+jackson+dance&mid=D3F45A99CDD075A2E12DD3F45A99CDD075A2E12D&churl=&mmscn=stvo&FORM=VIRE
If we had an army of robots like this, our enemies might die laughing.
Well Commie China was using those 4 legged dog like robots and small flying drones to scare their own citizens to stay off the streets and causing them to go crazy locked up in their tower apartments , committing suicide, so it might be a viable form of psychological warfare.
The reason robots don't scare me is because I can always do what Dorothy did to the Wicked Witch. I can just throw a bucket of water on one and it will be toast. I have yet to see an electronic device that could survive that.
I've been saying that for several years. Last week on Gutfeld, Tyrus used the same line. Great minds tend to think alike.
Tyrus has been using this "water" onna robot line for years. You are a JFK Assassination version of the 1950's Milton Berle. And that's not good.
I rarely miss an episode of Gutfeld. I record it every night in case I fall asleep before it's over so I can watch it the next morning with my coffee.I even attended his show when he came to the small town of Loudonville, OH, about 50 minutes north of where I live. Last week, was the first time I've heard him use that line. I even attended his show when he came to the small town of Loudonville, OH, about 50 minutes north of where I live. Is it possible he has used that line before and I just didn't see it. Of course it is, but I didn't get it from him and I doubt he got it from me.
Uncle Miltie - You would have been better off to try and "getaway" with, "maybe I have forgotten?". Tyrus has used his "water" line COUNTLESS TIMES. Not merely once where a self proclaimed devoted follower such as yourself might have missed it. Your over reaction above tells me you are even closer to Milton Berle than I realized. You currently are overdoing his "slipping on a banana peel" routine.
I rarely miss an episode of Gutfeld. I record it every night in case I fall asleep before it's over so I can watch it the next morning with my coffee. I even attended his show when he came to the small town of Loudonville, OH, about 50 minutes north of where I live. Last week, was the first time I've heard him use that line. I even attended his show when he came to the small town of Loudonville, OH, about 50 minutes north of where I live. Is it possible he has used that line before and I just didn't see it. Of course it is, but I didn't get it from him and I doubt he got it from me.
No wonder you're such a [you-know-what].
No wonder you're such a [you-know-what].
You seem to have one of the more acute cases of TDS that I've seen.
Herr Corbett,
Being accused of suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is a badge of honor; it's like having lived in Germany in 1933 and been against Hitler.
-- Tom
Herr Corbett,
Being accused of suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is a badge of honor; it's like having lived in Germany in 1933 and been against Hitler.
-- Tom
The Hitler comparison mystifies me. Hitler had two primary political objectives. Eliminating the Jews and obtaining land in Eastern Europe for colonization. Hiter murdered millions of Jews. Trump has a Jewish daughter, grandchildren, and is a strong advocate for Israel. So much so that anti-Semite liberals who have much more in common with Hitler than Trump often criticize him for it. Can you imagine Hitler being awarded the Israel Prize? Such a profound ignorance of history under the guise of politics is pathetic and offensive:
"US President Donald Trump was awarded the Israel Prize, the country’s highest honor, at the annual Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
At Wednesday’s ceremony, Kisch said Trump has been a true friend of the Jewish people and Israel for decades, standing uncompromisingly against manifestations of antisemitism.”
Trump was informed in December by Education Minister Yoav Kisch that he would be awarded the prize in the category of “special contribution to the Jewish people.”
Kisch signed an Israel Prize certificate in honor of the US president on Tuesday, declaring in a video sent to the press that he didn’t think there was “any other person who can mark such amazing achievements and a wonderful connection to the Jewish people except for Trump at this time.”
“His name will be remembered in the annals of our people,” he declared."
Dear Herr Smith.
You're right.
Mussolini is more apt.
My bad.
-- Tom
Bad comp, Mussolini was assassinated. The left has failed three times to take out Trump. That doesn't mean they won't keep trying.
Herr Corbett,
Being accused of suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is a badge of honor; it's like having lived in Germany in 1933 and been against Hitler.
-- Tom
Except Hitler was Not Elected. Trump was Elected. You're in the Minority.
Dear Sonderführer Storing,
8 November 2016:
Hillary Clinton: 65,853,514 votes (48.18%)
Donald Trump: 62,984,828 votes (46.09%)
-- Tom
Dear Sonderführer Storing,
8 November 2016:
Hillary Clinton: 65,853,514 votes (48.18%)
Donald Trump: 62,984,828 votes (46.09%)
-- Tom
No president in the history of the country was elected by popular vote. All but two were elected via the electoral college. Two were elected by the House of Representatives. This is what our Constitution specifies. The popular vote does not matter. Never has.. Never will.
The Democrats who think Hillary deserved to be POTUS apparently the Democrats fail to grasp the rules of the game. Football games are won by the team that scores the most points. They are not won by the teem that gains the most yards or the most first downs. Likewise, US presidential elections are won by the candidate tat gets a majority of electoral college votes, not the candidate that gets the most popular votes.
Hillary's campaign strategy made no sense. She wasted time and money trying to win Arizona and Uta. states she didn't need and had little chance of winning. She all but ignored the vital states of Wisconsin and Michigan, states she couldn't afford to lose.
Yes, the electoral college was a stroke of absolute genius. Yet I have highly intelligent friends who have no clue as to the rationale for the electoral college and think it's "unfair" that the election isn't decided by popular vote.
I can think of lots of good reasons for the electoral college.
It requires broad support across the country rather than allowing the most populous areas to dominate the elections. That was true in 1788 and is true today. A lot of people think it was a compromise between the free states and the slave states. This ignores the fact that at the time of ratification, Massachusetts was the only free state. Pennsylvania had banned it but grandfathered it allowing current slaveowners to keep the slaves they had. In the north, they called them indentured servants but it's pretty much the same thing. Ben Franklin owned two. Most northern states did not ban slavery until the 19th century.
The small population states didn't want the large states dictating who the president would be. Adding the two senators to the formula for deciding how many electoral votes each state gets skews the math in favor of the smaller states. It triples the electoral votes of all the states with just one representative in the House but only adds about 4% to California's total. That's a good thing.
It compartmentalizes the voting process which helps in the event of a recount. If we had a direct popular vote and had a national election similarly close to what Florida was in 2000 can you imagine the chaos? If the national popular vote was decided by a few thousands votes, both major parties would be lawyering up to recount every vote from Key West to Point Barrow. It took five weeks to decide the 2000 election which recounted just one state. It could take years if we had to recount the entire nation.
Any institution that kept Al Gore and Hillary Clinton from becoming POTUS should be preserved.
Love it or hate it. The electoral college is hear to stay. There's no way 38 states are going to agree to ratify a constitutional amendment to get rid of it. There was an attempt a few years back to end run the Constitution by states forming a consortium to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The provision would only kick in once enough states joined the consortium to create an electoral college majority. A number of states adopted the resolution but not nearly enough to form a majority.
I wonder if any states have ever tried to adopt anything similar to the electoral college for electing their governors?
I live in a state where 57% to 60% of the population lives in one city’s metropolitan area. It seems to me like an electoral college type of system might help even out things.
Well, Google AI answered my question:
Yes. Both Mississippi and Georgia previously used voting systems that functioned similarly to the U.S. Electoral College to decide their governors.
Mississippi
Until it was repealed by voters in 2020, Mississippi used an electoral-style process established under its 1890 Constitution. To win the governorship, a candidate was required to win both a majority of the popular vote and a majority of the 122 state House of Representatives districts. If no candidate won both, the race was sent to the state House to decide the winner. This system was originally designed to dilute the voting power of African Americans and protect rural interests, and it actually decided the 1999 gubernatorial election. You can read more about its repeal on the Mississippi Free Press.
Georgia
From 1917 to 1962, Georgia used a system for statewide primary elections called the "County Unit System," which explicitly functioned like an Electoral College. All 159 counties were split into three categories (Urban, Town, and Rural) and assigned unit votes on a winner-take-all basis. Because rural counties were vastly overrepresented, candidates could win the popular vote while losing the election if they failed to secure a majority of the 410 unit votes. This system was ultimately struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Learn more about its history through the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
In the 19th century, it was far more common for a state's electoral votes to be proportioned like what Maine and Nebraska do now. States began to realize that system dilutes their electoral votes. For example, Florida delivers all 29 of its electoral votes on a winner take all basis. If the proportioned their votes, it might break 17-12 for example. That means the winner of the state only gets a +5 advantage instead of a +29. It's easy to understand why most states are winner take all.
Here’s Google AI’s response to why Georgia’s county unit voting system was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court:
Georgia's county unit state-wide voting system was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1963 landmark case Gray v. Sanders (stemming from a 1962 federal district court ruling). The Court ruled the system violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, establishing the historic "one person, one vote" constitutional doctrine.The system was ruled unconstitutional for the following reasons:Massive Vote Dilution: Under the county unit system (governing state-wide primary elections), each county was assigned a set number of "unit votes," and the popular vote winner in each county won all of its unit votes. This meant sparsely populated rural counties had vastly disproportionate political power compared to heavily populated urban counties like Fulton.Control by a Minority of the Population: The imbalance was so extreme that rural counties holding only one-third of the state's population controlled a majority of the unit votes.Violation of Political Equality: The Supreme Court concluded that once a geographical unit is established to elect representatives, all participating voters must be granted an equal voice. The Court found that factors like an individual’s geographic location cannot be constitutionally used to diminish the weight of their ballot.Undemocratic Outcomes: The system allowed a candidate to win the majority of the popular vote state-wide but still lose the election if a rival secured more county unit votes.You can read the full Supreme Court decision in Gray v. Sanders (372 U.S. 368) via Justia, or explore the New Georgia Encyclopedia for a comprehensive breakdown of the case and its historical context.
So this makes me wonder why the U.S. electoral college isn’t subject to a similar ruling. Not that I am against the U.S. electoral college, just curious…
It's very simple. The electoral college is mandated by the Constitution. How can something that is dictated by the Constitution be unconstitutional.
PS. I discovered something curious last year. The term "electoral college" is nowhere in the Constitution. The Constitution simply refers to them as "Electors". Apparently, that name was given to the electors after the ratification and it stuck. There seems to be some historical documentation that the term "electoral college" was used during discussions at the Constitutional Convention but it was never codified into the text of the Constitution.
Well, Google AI seems to agree with your answer.
My dream job would have been to be Chief Justice of the United States. It probably would have helped if I had gone to law school first.
Trump - Il Duce = Perfect comparison re: populist rhetoric, anti-democratic tendencies, and personal leadership styles.
Just curious: Do you think Commie Snowflake Woke Libtards were responsible for the latter's demise?
What historical figure would you compare to Biden?
Woodrow Wilson after his stroke. His wife became the de facto POTUS.
Jill was the de facto POTUS for four years.
Woodrow Wilson after his stroke. His wife became the de facto POTUS.
Jill was the de facto POTUS for four years.
Wilson was a genius compared to Biden even as a vegetable. A low bar. It does amaze me how angry the media and Dem establishment are at Jill Biden for finally being honest. They dismissed claims that Joe was in steep cognitive decline as the product of a right-wing conspiracy until they realized he could not win the election due to his disastrous policies. Then they viciously turned on him. Now they are blaming Jill for being honest about Joe. Too little, too late. They all own the Biden fiasco for their dishonest reporting and cover up.
I watched the interview where Jill Biden said she had never seen Joe act the way he did during the debate either before that night or since. My reaction to that was, "MY ASS!!!". She saw him almost every day. How could she have not seen what was so obvious to anybody who looked at Joe with open eyes. I have zero respect for all these people in the Democrat party and the legacy media who have fessed up after Joe left office. I will never forgive the Democrats for the fraud they perpetrated on the American people in 2020 and the legacy media for being complicit with them. Now I'm supposed to buy their books so they can tell me how they did it. Jill Biden is a lying c-word and Jake Tapper can stick his mea culpa where the sun don't shine. I will never again vote for a Democrat or trust the legacy media about anything. Credibility is like virginity. Once you lose it, there's no getting it back.
Everybody seems to have forgotten about Biden's VP. Kamala claimed she had lunch with "Joe" almost everyday at the White House. That the guy was "running rings around everybody". Then she sticks the knife in his back in order to try and take his job. These people routinely eat each other up as they climb the ladder.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/will-lesley-stahl-bill-whitaker-exit-60-minutes-after-scott-pelley/ar-AA24JylD?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6a205115c9f04792a772a746f82858e1&ei=14
Scott Pelley has been canned by CBS News. Not surprising when you basically tell your new boss to go F himself in front of the entire staff. The staff of CBS News and 60 Minutes in particular has been able to act as a liberal propaganda mill for generations without accountability and they resent no longer being able to do that. Pelley seems particularly POed by it. He won't be missed. This move is addition by subtraction.
You would think CBS would move right to gain viewership. Look at Fox News they pummel the competition. The 2024 Election night coverage was downright sickening to watch. Norah O'donnell's voice sounded like fingernails on a chalkboard.
I have correctly picked who would win POTUS elections since Nixon. I predicted Trump would win in 2016. I picked Trump to win in 2020 using the same analysis and I was completely surprised that Biden/Harris won.On one of my long commutes, the best radio reception was NPR. On another, it was conservative right-wing talk radio. It was only in retrospect that I realized how much a steady diet of one perspective had subtly colored my views. I used to religiously watch Chris Matthews on MSNBC followed by Bill O'Reilly on FOX to make sure I was getting balanced lunacy. Now I listen and watch almost nothing and generate my own lunacy, which is much healthier.
I went home to visit my parents after many years and was surprised that both of them whom had always voted conservative, had voted for Biden/Harris.
This was a very improbable change in character that I found alarming. So I started looking around the area of their retirement community and I found that everywhere was leftwing biased controlled . Their cable TV
, newspapers and magazines , were biased left. Their local bookstore was leftwing. There was a rainbow colored flag at the entrance but not an American flag anywhere. I easily found several books by leftwing politicians and leftwing celebrities, displayed in the window. The motif of the bookstore was 60’s revolutionary hippy style.
I sought for a book about Ronald Reagan. There was only one and it was hidden in the back of the store on the last row at the bottom of the shelf.
So before I left the store, I moved the Reagan book up to the front display window and placed in the center of all the other leftwing books. I’ve no doubt that when the book was eventually discovered by the manager, that there probably a TDS moment of rage.
What was most alarming to me was how easily my WW2 generation parents who had always been conservative rational thinking well educated people could be so radically changed that they would abandon their core conservative and Christian principles.
I found to my dismay that my conservative dad who had always been a steadfast Christian and instructed me from early age about right and wrong, now was a confused man who could not answer the question if the LGBTQPs lifestyle was acceptable according to the Holy Bible.
I’ve concluded that the gradual transformation of my once rational Christian conservative parents into confused people who were fearful of being politically incorrect was a result of having decided to live in this retirement home community. They became trapped in a leftwing controlled “village” similar to that portrayed in the original The Prisoner episodes. There was a No.2 running the facility, but no one knew who no.1 was and the residents were advised not to ask questions.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/will-lesley-stahl-bill-whitaker-exit-60-minutes-after-scott-pelley/ar-AA24JylD?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6a205115c9f04792a772a746f82858e1&ei=14
Scott Pelley has been canned by CBS News. Not surprising when you basically tell your new boss to go F himself in front of the entire staff. The staff of CBS News and 60 Minutes in particular has been able to act as a liberal propaganda mill for generations without accountability and they resent no longer being able to do that. Pelley seems particularly POed by it. He won't be missed. This move is addition by subtraction.
It makes me laugh when radicalized leftists who have been using their position in media for decades to promote their own inherent bias cry foul when they are told to knock it off. A neutral position to them on Trump is intolerable. They believe the concept of political neutrality is the result of some nefarious capitulation to Trump while they have no problem shamelessly promoting their own agenda. Good riddance. Maybe AI will bring back Walter Cronkite.
The Iranian strategy is making Trump look weak. WAKE UP TRUMP and stop acting like Biden.
The Iranian strategy is making Trump look weak. WAKE UP TRUMP and stop acting like Biden.
I was completely elated by the outcome of the 2016 election.
Dear John "Zombified" Corbett,
As was your and Trump's beloved KGB (today's SVR and FSB).
-- Tom
You seem to be patient zero for a new strain of TDS, Putin Derangement Syndrome.
California is clearly displaying that it is nothing more than "Cuba West". Fair and Free Elections do Not happen in California or Cuba. How on Earth can Calif post a "Total Votes Counted %", when they admit to Not Knowing how many voted ballots are still in the mail with election day postmarks? This is mathematically Impossible. This is like giving a MLB player a "batting average", without knowing how many Official "AT BATS" the player has accumulated. This is mathematically impossible.
I closely followed the County-by-County Calif tabulations on election night. I did this until 54% of the ballots had been counted. In NOT 1 single County across the entire state did Hilton trail by a 2-1 margin. The same goes for Pratt in the city of LA. And Calif claims that 80% of their TOTAL VOTES cast are cast by mail. This means that 80% of the 54% counted ballots on Election Night were MAILED IN BALLOTS. Yet in Not 1 county, was Hilton being defeated by a 2-1 margin. Now, all of the sudden, they are claiming that Hilton and Pratt are Losing the mail-in-ballots by better than a 2-1 Margin? And this is AFTER 54% of the total votes had already been counted? 80% of these already counted ballots being Mail In Ballots. This is a National Election Rigging Attempt. What we are seeing unfold on a daily basis is Mathematically Impossible. There can Not be a "% Counted" number, without knowing how many voted ballots were/are "in the mail'. Mathematically Impossible.
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California completely going down the tubes. Their current "election" vote counting mirrors Tammany Hall which was founded by the Dem Party. Their vote count "dumps" that are done onna daily basis, do Not specify what area of the city of Los Angeles or what county inside the state, that these vote "dump" ballots are coming from. Yet, somehow the state is guaranteeing a 2nd Place finish for Raman. This guarantee being in the face of her holding ONLY a 3,000 vote lead with an "estimated" 146,000 ballots yet to be counted. Obviously, "The Fix-Is-In".
This is exactly why after 2020 that Trump took Elon Musk aboard. Musk and his army of computer genius's prevented the screwing around with the vote count in the 2024 POTUS vote count. You tell me. How, if 80% of the total votes in Calif come in by mail, can they give us a "% counted" on election night? Any ballot with an election day postmark gets counted. With return ballots still in the mail on election night, how can there be a "% counted" figure? You have to KNOW the total number of ballots cast to know the % of ballots that have been counted. This is Basic Math and a sad commentary on the basic math skills of the general public as well as the Media in general.
My guess is that they know the total registered number of voters and they estimate how many of those will vote based on past experience. That provides a benchmark figure on the estimated total vote count to be used to determine the percentage of total votes counted. I don't think the 54% counted necessarily means that 80% of those were mail in votes. In all likelihood, the votes cast in person at the polls are tabulated much faster meaning they provide a much higher percentage of the initial vote count. The reason the republicans always get off to a great start is because they get higher margins at the polls, then dems make up ground as the mail in votes are s-l-o-w-l-y counted.
It doesn't seem like voters at the polls would be statistically any different than voters who mail in their votes but the latter always goes much more heavily dem. What we need is a national voting holiday that ends early voting and requires everyone to show up at the polls. That is how elections were conducted for centuries with no issues or delays. Even before computers. If they want Americans to have confidence in election results, require people to vote in person and provide ID. The votes can then be counted within hours.
There is NO "ESTIMATE" placed alongside the "% Counted" numbers released by the State Of California. The "% Counted" is a Hard Number just like the running Vote Totals for each candidate. Calif claims that 80% of VOTES are RECEIVED BY MAIL. This means the total votes for PRATT and HILTON on election night were 80% MAIL IN BALLOTS. Hilton was leading and Pratt running 2nd on Election night with 80% of their vote totals that night being RECEIVED BY MAIL. Now, all the sudden the MAIL IN BALLOTS are seeing them losing better than 2-1? This defies the election day math. And there was OVER 50% counted on Election DAY. This is flat out Election Fraud, and the basic math supports that claim.
Dear Royell,
Maybe you're just a fascist and you project your character faults onto people who aren't fascists?
-- Tom
The above is Non-Responsive. (1) Calif claims that 80% of ALL BALLOTS CAST are done by mail. You have to KNOW the TOTAL BALLOTS CAST to arrive at a "% Counted" figure. (2) With 80% of the ballots arriving by mail, means that the ballots counted on Elect Day were 80% mail in ballots. And the votes counted on election day showed Hilton winning and Pratt running #2. In no single district statewide, or county inside the city of LA, were Hilton or Pratt losing by anything close to a 2-1 margin. This includes LA County. After election day, the ballots THEN being counted are consistently showing both Hilton and Pratt losing by better than a 2-1 margin. The Mail In ballots counted on Election Day CLASH with the Mail In ballots being counted after election day. And the "% Counted" on election day was OVER 50% in both the Calif Gov and LA Mayor races. This is a rigged election. The basic math proves it.
Easy there, Mr. Bogus One Glove Imposter Haygood Getaway Car Huge Gates Guy. The California voter materials make clear that the percentage you find so suspicious is simply an estimate based on the number of ballots processed so far vis-a-vis the projected total number of votes cast. When a huge state has 80% mail-in votes and will count ballots that arrive up to a week later, the system is going to appear inefficient and suspicious even when it's not. Chris Cuomo on NewsNation had an excellent segment on this. Despite all the outrcry, the number of mail-in ballots that are actually fraudulent is 0.00006% - roughly 6 in 10,000,000.
They follow Stalins Marxist creed in California: it does not matter how many voters there are or who they are , whether they are legal citizens or illegal aliens, or dead people or dogs and cats. The only important thing is to make sure that the votes are being counted by Marxist Democrats.
In Kalifornia, elections aren't decided by the people who cast the votes. They are decided by the people who count the votes.
In Kalifornia, elections aren't decided by the people who cast the votes. They are decided by the people who count the votes.
You guys see conspiracies everywhere.
Nearly half of democrats believe the assassination attempts on Trump were staged. They just voted for an actual Nazi who assaults women in Maine even after the disclosures of his conduct. He won in a landslide.
In Kalifornia, elections aren't decided by the people who cast the votes. They are decided by the people who count the votes.
:D
Several Republican politicians, party officials, and political figures have been arrested, charged, or sentenced for crimes against children. These instances cross various levels of government and party infrastructure, ranging from state legislators to local party chairs.
:D
Several Republican politicians, party officials, and political figures have been arrested, charged, or sentenced for crimes against children. These instances cross various levels of government and party infrastructure, ranging from state legislators to local party chairs.
There are plenty of perverts across the political spectrum. John Wayne Gacy was active in Illinois Democrat politics and even had his picture taken with Rosalyn Carter.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/John_Wayne_Gacy_Rosalynn_Carter_1978.jpg
For either party to assert this is only a problem with the other side is absurd.
Thumb1: same with voter fraud or any other dopey generalization MAGits make.
There are plenty of perverts across the political spectrum. John Wayne Gacy was active in Illinois Democrat politics and even had his picture taken with Rosalyn Carter.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/John_Wayne_Gacy_Rosalynn_Carter_1978.jpg
For either party to assert this is only a problem with the other side is absurd.
California:
Prior to 2013, a voter had to be ill or disabled for someone else to return their ballot for them. Plus, that person had to be a family member or a member of the same household.
After 2013, the law was changed. Being ill or disabled was no longer required. A family member or a member of one’s household could return ballots.
In 2016, the law changed again thanks to Assembly Bill 1921. Now, anyone could return another person’s ballot and there was no limit on how many ballots a person could return.
so what?
Voter fraud is approximated between 0.0003% and 0.0025% - no where near enough to make any outcome difference.
The worst thing this POTUS ever did was destroy the freedom of the press and undermine the elections in this country.
Foundations of our democracy We never had any question or doubt until he came along.
The only voter fraud that gets counted are the ones that get caught. We really don't know how big the problem is. Dems complain the efforts to make voter fraud more difficult will disenfranchise voters. What about the voter who gets disenfranchised because his vote gets cancelled out by someone voting illegally.
There is no massive dump of fraud ballots Republicans complain about.
What does that mean? "Fraud ballot"? California mails ballots to everyone and allows someone else to return those ballots without limitation on the number. Anyone can go to a college campus or minority community and collect a mass of ballots and then cast them on behalf of the voters. That is ballet harvesting. They don't monitor, enforce, or restrict this practice. They encourage it.
again so what?
at a 0.0003% and 0.0025% fraud rate
They are signed off and processed. - There are no magical ballots appearing
You have read about the homeless "street people" that were PAID/$$ to Vote? Registered at shelters they did Not live in? Those ballots were "signed off and processed".
And then there's the issue of both CNN and MSNOW claiming on election night that 2 Million registered to vote Californians did Not vote. This was why Hilton was running #1 and Pratt #2. The Dem voters were sitting on their hands. And then comes the ballot dumps day-after-day with Hilton and Pratt getting beat BETTER than 2-1. This is when those 2 Million "magical ballots" suddenly came to life. 3rd World Country BS:
show the proof - I'll be glad to look and listen.
The homeless stuff has been front and center. Including those receiving the cash. I get tired of people crying "where's the proof" and then when they lose they claim they got "robbed". Kamala being front and center. A week ago Tues is exactly why I watch CNN and MSNOW on election night. I also trace the returns county by county as they come in. CNN routinely posts a map permitting this LIVE county by county tracing EVERY Major Election. And you know the fix is in when ALL Networks resort to reporting % differences between candidates instead of actual VOTE TOTAL DIFFERENCES. These people are dumbing down the electorate so they will NOT be aware of the radical vote switching that is ongoing in front of their very eyes.
And since when does "AP" get to decide when a candidate is in or out of a runoff? The media running with an "AP" declaration is part of the rigging. "AP" is not different than "NPR". Totally biased and in-the-bag.
Show some real evidence. We know his 2020 rant is garbage.
At this point, Trump is either outright lying or delusional to the fact that he lost.
TDS is just a cheap cop-out. We are all responsible for words and actions. All of us.
I don't blindly hate Trump. I am from the NYC area, so I've known a lot about him for a long time.
I know, I want my country back. I want an EPA. I want a Dept of Education. I want a fair and unbiased FCC. I want "Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" back. I want NPR. I am a former broadcaster. I want a Consumer Protection Agency and other watchdog groups. I want a CDC I trust will act in the best interest of science and of course the public. I want National Park Rangers among other things. FGS !
I don't want a POTUS that puts 100K vets out of their homes because it was a "Biden Program". Or a WH that cuts off food to a Catholic orphanage because the Pope said some "bad things". Then suddenly, Sean Hannity has to insult the Pontiff.
It is not his White House! There is a process for renovations, especially of that size. Going to a 20K+ seat public arena in this hated environment is proof enough he doesn't need a ballroom for security reasons. On his visit to China, Pres. XI gave him seeds for Jackie's Rose Garden. Do you really think XI didn't know he destroyed it? Put the White House back or be fined.
The whole world sees how dangerous and reckless Trump is. Long time allies Spain, Italy, Poland, and Germany have turned away from us. France will no longer report its nuclear arsenal to the US, and has taken all of its gold out of NY. Meanwhile our "Sec. of War" was sent home in disgrace from a Normandy Memorial. Now, we're stuck in another useless war in the middle east. This time of our own making. We got Hegseth coming on like its a Holy Armageddon. Israel committing genocide.
I want a closed border as much as anyone but I have a huge problem with these detention centers and kidnapping people on only a civil warrant (if that). It was supposed to be the worst of the worst. Up to 70% are confirmed with no criminal record. Yet, they build more of these camps. why? How many are incarcerated for 6 months or more than a year? Shouldn't it be a rotating door? Where does the deportation part come in?
Speaking of deportation, I wonder how many that went to CECOT actually belong there? It only takes one to fail the entire program. Imagine that hell?
I am 68 years old. I have voted since 1976. I have always been politically aware. POTUS come and go - sometimes we lean to the right, sometimes left. All within an acceptable margin. Not anymore. Like a "Super Villain" this actually is the danger of a madman upon the world. His recent "Meet the Press" appearance is just a glimpse into that instability. Congress MUST act. We cannot sustain this.
In a democracy, you can't always get what you want. Deal with it.
TDS is just a cheap cop-out. We are all responsible for words and actions. All of us.
I don't blindly hate Trump. I am from the NYC area, so I've known a lot about him for a long time.
I know, I want my country back. I want an EPA. I want a Dept of Education. I want a fair and unbiased FCC. I want "Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" back. I want NPR. I am a former broadcaster. I want a Consumer Protection Agency and other watchdog groups. I want a CDC I trust will act in the best interest of science and of course the public. I want National Park Rangers among other things. FGS !
I don't want a POTUS that puts 100K vets out of their homes because it was a "Biden Program". Or a WH that cuts off food to a Catholic orphanage because the Pope said some "bad things". Then suddenly, Sean Hannity has to insult the Pontiff.
It is not his White House! There is a process for renovations, especially of that size. Going to a 20K+ seat public arena in this hated environment is proof enough he doesn't need a ballroom for security reasons. On his visit to China, Pres. XI gave him seeds for Jackie's Rose Garden. Do you really think XI didn't know he destroyed it? Put the White House back or be fined.
The whole world sees how dangerous and reckless Trump is. Long time allies Spain, Italy, Poland, and Germany have turned away from us. France will no longer report its nuclear arsenal to the US, and has taken all of its gold out of NY. Meanwhile our "Sec. of War" was sent home in disgrace from a Normandy Memorial. Now, we're stuck in another useless war in the middle east. This time of our own making. We got Hegseth coming on like its a Holy Armageddon. Israel committing genocide.
I want a closed border as much as anyone but I have a huge problem with these detention centers and kidnapping people on only a civil warrant (if that). It was supposed to be the worst of the worst. Up to 70% are confirmed with no criminal record. Yet, they build more of these camps. why? How many are incarcerated for 6 months or more than a year? Shouldn't it be a rotating door? Where does the deportation part come in?
Speaking of deportation, I wonder how many that went to CECOT actually belong there? It only takes one to fail the entire program. Imagine that hell?
I am 68 years old. I have voted since 1976. I have always been politically aware. POTUS come and go - sometimes we lean to the right, sometimes left. All within an acceptable margin. Not anymore. Like a "Super Villain" this actually is the danger of a madman upon the world. His recent "Meet the Press" appearance is just a glimpse into that instability. Congress MUST act. We cannot sustain this.
Which way do you want it? Do you want them deported or incarcerated? Or, would you rather just issue them a license and let them drive Big Rigs across the country?
Under Trump it is fascism.
How about them Epstein files huh? 38,000 times
If the Epstein files were true Democrats would have used them in 2016.
If the Epstein files were true democrats would have used them in 2016.
Not if "former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin and/or his predecessors -- aided by Ghislaine's dad -- had made sure that high-powered Republicans *and* high-powered Democrats were implicated.
D'oh!
Epstein files were sealed in 2016. Nobody could.
The people who sealed them could unseal them if they chose. That would be the Obama administration. My guess is they were trying to protect Biill Clinton. Not that the Obamas and Clintons had any great love for each other but Obama would have done that for the good of the party. Anything damaging to Bill would have had collateral damage to Hillary.
Obama could not.
In 2016, they were under Grand Jury Seal and could not be opened without formal legal petitions and judicial approval.
I'm sure they could have shopped for a friendly federal judge
Another example of PDS.
If the Epstein files had anything damaging to Trump, Biden's puppet masters would definitely have leaked them in October of 2024. The one politician most likely to have been tarred by the Epstein files was Bill Clinton and leaking that material would not have helped Kamala. Of course, she was such a loseer, I doubt anything could have helped her.
I'd love to see Kamala nominated again in 2028, with AOC as her running mate, but I doubt even the Dems are that dumb. The Dems have found a winning formula. Nominate a far left socialist and have them run as a moderate Democrat, then after they get elected they show their true colors. I don't think they could pull that off if the pick Kamala again.
Maybe you're a closet Fascist, and that's why you cherish "former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin and the traitorous orange turd he installed as our "president" on 20 January 2017 and 20 January 2025.
The Dems on TV yesterday looked miserable at the announcement of the potential end of the Iran war. They so badly wanted the US to become mired in another Vietnam hoping that it harmed Trump regardless of the consequences to the US and world. The stock market is soaring. The gas prices will drop like a rock. Inflation is already much lower than under Biden but still too high but that will be coming down. Dems hate it. Only one thing concerns them. Staying in power.
The Dems on TV yesterday looked miserable at the announcement of the potential end of the Iran war. They so badly wanted the US to become mired in another Vietnam hoping that it harmed Trump regardless of the consequences to the US and world. The stock market is soaring. The gas prices will drop like a rock. Inflation is already much lower than under Biden but still too high but that will be coming down. Dems hate it. Only one thing concerns them. Staying in power.
The Dems on TV yesterday looked miserable at the announcement of the potential end of the Iran war. They so badly wanted the US to become mired in another Vietnam hoping that it harmed Trump regardless of the consequences to the US and world. The stock market is soaring. The gas prices will drop like a rock. Inflation is already much lower than under Biden but still too high but that will be coming down. Dems hate it. Only one thing concerns them. Staying in power.
Yeah, the Dems are laughing all the way to the Death Camps. They have no shame and the Midterms will show this. And they want to claim the Jewish vote supported Slow Joe in 2020? Further proof that the 2020 POTUS Election was rigged.
Their misery is understandable. If the war with Iran extended into the fall, they probably would have won big in the midterms. Certainly winning the House, and possibly the Senate. Winning he Senate would be problematic for he GOP since it would not only be able to block Trump's appointments to his cabinet as well as the judiciary, they could and likely would end the filibuster. If the Dems only get to 51 in the Senate, Fetterman might side with the GOP on some of the Dems more radical proposals, but if they get to 52, Fetterman won't matter. Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico would be a done deal giving the Dems an automatic 4 extra Senate seats which would give the Dems a permanent majority. When they get control of the House, Senate, and White House at the same time, you can count on them packing SCOTUS.
On the other hand, if this peace deal is reached, the Strait is opened up, and gas prices come down, the GOP will likely hold onto the Senate and might even keep the House. I'm still skeptical about a deal being reached soon. We've seen this movie before where it appeared a deal was close only to have the Iranians back out of the deal. I'll believe it's for real when the treaty is signed and ships start passing freely through the Strait. If they back out again, I hope Trump unloads on them with no mercy. Either they make peace or get destroyed. Negotiating with bombs seems to be the only thing the Iranians understand. As Al Capone supposedly once said, "You can get more with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word.".
No idea what you're talking about.
Hopefully a deal is cut, gas prices and inflation go down, but I think the Repubs are doomed in the midterms. Very difficult to change momentum in the short term. They will almost certainly lose the House. Even in normal circumstances it's difficult for the party in power to not be blamed for everything that goes wrong. Our media is a force multiplier with the relentless anti-Trump propaganda campaign. The Wash Post just falsely reported that there had been no improvement to the reflecting pool which previously had been a disgusting green mess and leaking water. They can't bring themselves to do anything except oppose Trump. Facts and common sense don't matter. Many people have been influenced by that decades long campaign such that they are obsessed with hatred toward Trump. Even when opposition is contrary to their own interests. Joseph Goebbles would be proud of the propaganda influences of our media. All the more effective because it is not the product of outside coercion. They are true believers.
The best thing the Republicans have going for them is that they are not Democrats. The electorate is pissed at the GOP largely due to the recent spike in inflation, mainly driven by high gas prices. That doesn't mean they have fallen in love with the Democrats. They haven't forgotten how bad things were under Biden and the Democrat Congress. The approval rating for the Democrat Party is still significantly lower than Trump's. I think a lot of voters are going to sit this one out or vote third party. The one thing the Democrats probably have going for them is a more energized base. IOW, their voters are more pissed off than the GOP base. The PO factor drives turnout. I'm old enough to remember the 2022 midterms which were supposed to be a red wave and turned out to be a red trickle. I think the same thing could happen to the Democrats this time around. Only time will tell.
The Dems have one thing going for them. The impact of the decades long anti-Trump propaganda campaign. I would say 50-70% of the population has been influenced. Strangely, not the usual suspects on the left but many older, white, college educated types who have been convinced that Trump hating is a noble cause. They can go out for an hour on "No King's" day and then knock off for a swanky lunch before returning to their gated communities. They are not personally affected by the loony leftist policies they espouse. They can't articulate exactly why they are obsessed with and hate Trump. Rather, they can only repeat generalizations. It's virtue signaling to show how much they hate Trump. The younger anarchist types who protest ICE are all very unhappy and angry people. Some of them likely get paid or at least funded to attend these riots and cause chaos but they all seem unhappy with their lives and channel that self-loathing to these events that lend themselves to venting that anger.
The Dems have one thing going for them. The impact of the decades long anti-Trump propaganda campaign. I would say 50-70% of the population has been influenced.
Strangely, not the usual suspects on the left but many older, white, college educated types who have been convinced that Trump hating is a noble cause. They can go out for an hour on "No King's" day and then knock off for a swanky lunch before returning to their gated communities. They are not personally affected by the loony leftist policies they espouse. They can't articulate exactly why they are obsessed with and hate Trump. Rather, they can only repeat generalizations. It's virtue signaling to show how much they hate Trump. The younger anarchist types who protest ICE are all very unhappy and angry people. Some of them likely get paid or at least funded to attend these riots and cause chaos but they all seem unhappy with their lives and channel that self-loathing to these events that lend themselves to venting that anger.
Seems like a reasonably good estimate. It even affects some GOP voters.
Part of the problem is the Democrat base but I put much of the blame on the Democrat leadership. A majority of them know the positions their party has adopted are insane but they are too cowardly to speak out against it for fear of being primaried. So to get along, they go along. There are crazies in both major parties as well as among independents and third party members but the Democrats have allowed them to take over the driver's seat.
Seems like a reasonably good estimate. It even affects some GOP voters.
Part of the problem is the Democrat base but I put much of the blame on the Democrat leadership. A majority of them know the positions their party has adopted are insane but they are too cowardly to speak out against it for fear of being primaried. So to get along, they go along. There are crazies in both major parties as well as among independents and third party members but the Democrats have allowed them to take over the driver's seat.
There are crazies in both parties but on the left they are in charge. In the Republican party, they are in the margins. Trump says some crazy things but more often than not pursues policies grounded in common sense. The media fixates on the words and ignores the positive results. A conflict is being resolved today that they suggested would result in WWIII and genocide. Are they apologizing? Nope. The news is all about the UFC match and the Kennedy Center. Minoriites and younger people tend to vote for Dems for their own reasons but have been less influenced by the propaganda than the elderly, white academic types who have been completely brainwashed.
There are crazies in both parties but on the left they are in charge. In the Republican party, they are in the margins. Trump says some crazy things but more often than not pursues policies grounded in common sense. The media fixates on the words and ignores the positive results. A conflict is being resolved today that they suggested would result in WWIII and genocide. Are they apologizing? Nope. The news is all about the UFC match and the Kennedy Center. Minoriites and younger people tend to vote for Dems for their own reasons but have been less influenced by the propaganda than the elderly, white academic types who have been completely brainwashed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Karmelo Anthony was old enough to stick a knife in Austin Metcalf's heart. Austin Metcalf never got a chance to get any older. Karmelo Anthony got off easy. If it had been up to me, he would stay in prison until Austin Metcalf got out of grave. He doesn't deserve to have a quality life. I hope he dies in prison. The sooner the better.
I'm not defending what this guy did, but his age should factor into whether you decide to basically end his life. Obviously, your being seated onna jury murder case is out of the question.
If Iran had developed a nuclear weapon, they would have scratched Tel Aviv. Israel would have responded in kind by nuking Tehran and there would have been a full blown nuclear exchange between them which would have had serious consequences not only for the entire Mideast but the entire world. Trump understood that which is why he went to war to end Iran's nuclear program. He understood there would be short term pain for the US but when he weighed that against the danger of a nuclear Iran, he made the correct call.
I still won't believe Iran is serious about wanting peace until I see the Strait of Hormuz opened and ships flowing freely in and out of the Persian Gulf. The question now is, what will Trump do if they renege again. I think Trump already know that.
I doubt that. They would be taking out sites holy to Islam and would kill many fellow muslims. When the US accidentally shot down an Iranian airliner during the tanker escort operation in the 1980s, Iran dod not retaliate via terrorism. They agreed to international mediation and agreed to compensation.
Iranian nukes would likely be used as a deterrent to Israeli aggression as well as aggression from Sunni Arab states. At least they enrich their own uranium, rather than stealing it from the US and leaving a toxic mess that US taxpayers are still paying to clean up.
If Iran was the big boogyman, why did Israel sell them F-14 parts when Iran held our embassy hostage. Why did Israel agree to provide weapons to Iran during Iran-Contra?
I doubt that. They would be taking out sites holy to Islam and would kill many fellow muslims. When the US accidentally shot down an Iranian airliner during the tanker escort operation in the 1980s, Iran dod not retaliate via terrorism. They agreed to international mediation and agreed to compensation.
Iranian nukes would likely be used as a deterrent to Israeli aggression as well as aggression from Sunni Arab states. At least they enrich their own uranium, rather than stealing it from the US and leaving a toxic mess that US taxpayers are still paying to clean up.
If Iran was the big boogyman, why did Israel sell them F-14 parts when Iran held our embassy hostage. Why did Israel agree to provide weapons to Iran during Iran-Contra?
I doubt that. They would be taking out sites holy to Islam and would kill many fellow muslims. When the US accidentally shot down an Iranian airliner during the tanker escort operation in the 1980s, Iran dod not retaliate via terrorism. They agreed to international mediation and agreed to compensation.
Iranian nukes would likely be used as a deterrent to Israeli aggression as well as aggression from Sunni Arab states. At least they enrich their own uranium, rather than stealing it from the US and leaving a toxic mess that US taxpayers are still paying to clean up.
If Iran was the big boogyman, why did Israel sell them F-14 parts when Iran held our embassy hostage. Why did Israel agree to provide weapons to Iran during Iran-Contra?
Iran just murdered approximately 40K of its own citizens. I'm pretty sure most of those were Muslims. They have no regard for human life. A throwback to ancient barbarians. Allowing them to obtain a nuclear weapon and hoping for the best is not an acceptable plan.
TDS! TDS! TDS!
"TDS! TDS! TDS!" -- the lame sound of a zombified-by-KGB-disinformation Trump supporter -- not unlike the hissing of a large carrion-eating possum.
You've never even heard of Sun Tzu, have you, Corbett,
much less Department D in the First Chief Directorate and Department 14 in the Second Chief Directorate.
I suppose you think knowledge about Departments D and 14 is important.
You would, too, if you weren't a zombified-by-KGB-disinformation Trump supporter.
Ever heard of Sun Tzu-loving Artur Artuzov?
"Operation Trust"?
KGB General Ivan Agayants?
KGB General Aleksandr Shelepin?
KGB General Oleg Gribanov -- the guy who sent false-defector-in-place Yuri Nosenko to the CIA in Geneva in June 1962 to protect moles in the CIA / false (or perhaps rogue) physical defector to the U.S. Nosenko in January 1964?
Tennent H. Bagley's 1994-on friend and teacher, KGB General Sergey Kondrashev?
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628735437/spymaster/
I guess I don't have your paranoia about the Rooskies.
That's because you, like most Americans, don't know jack you-know-what about them.
https://archive.org/details/SpyWarsMolesMysteriesAndDeadlyGames
I'm glad I don't know the things you fantasize.
Did Tennent H. Bagley fantasize that Edward Ellis Smith was recruited by the KGB in Moscow in 1956, that CIA's spy, GRU Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov, was betrayed by a KGB mole in the CIA in January 1957, and that Yuri Nosenko was a false defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962, sent to the CIA there (Bagley and probable mole George Kisevalter) to discredit what KGB Major Anatoly Golitsyn was telling James Angleton about penetrations of the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies and thereby protect the aforementioned mole from being uncovered?
You've heard of Nosenko, right?
You know, the guy whom another mole in the CIA "cleared" in October 1968 via a bogus polygraph exam and a specious report, and who was, a short time later, teaching "counterintelligence" the to CIA's and the FBI's new recruits?
https://archive.org/details/SpyWarsMolesMysteriesAndDeadlyGames
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2014.962362
Where you go off the rails is when you claim Putin installed Trump as POTUS. That is as nutty as it gets. Donald Trump was elected by the Electoral College, just as every elected president except for two were chosen. The electors were chosen by popular vote within each state. Donald Trump won an overwhelming majority of those electors. He won so many that it didn't even matter that there were a handful of faithless electors who chose not to vote for the man they pledged to support. To claim the Putin was responsible for Trump getting elected is absurd. I would be embarrassed to make a claim so silly, even if I did hate Trump as much as you do.
You’re right. It wasn’t just “former” KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin. It was also his predecessors going all the way back to 1959 when the Kremlin, having decided to get us to defeat ourselves, set up top-secret Department D in the First Chief Directorate (today’s SVR) and top-secret Department 14 in the Second Chief Directorate (today’s FSB) to wage disinformation, “active measures,” and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations against us and our NATO allies.
But speaking just of Lt. Col. Putin:
Why did he have his SVR and FSB, his GRU, his professional St. Petersburg trolls, and his Oligarchs work so hard to get Trump "elected" in 2016, and how do you know they weren’t instrumental in his carrying the critical swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by less than 80,000 votes combined?
Answers:
1) Not to ensure "better Russia-U.S. relations," but because he knew Trump would do an excellent job of tearing us apart.
2) You don’t.
And I give you January 6, stolen top-secret documents, rising inflation, ICE murders, Project 2025, concentration camps, Presidential corruption like we’ve never seen before, a stronger Iran, a hardened six-story subterranean fortress, and an algae-filled reflecting pool.
Of all the deranged effects of TDS, vandalizing the Reflecting Pool has to rank up there. Imagine being so consumed with hatred of Trump that some people are pouring chemicals into it, slicing the liner, and then rejoicing. Completely unhinged behavior but clear evidence of the impact of a decades long propaganda campaign.
Of all the deranged effects of TDS, vandalizing the Reflecting Pool has to rank up there. Imagine being so consumed with hatred of Trump that some people are pouring chemicals into it, slicing the liner, and then rejoicing. Completely unhinged behavior but clear evidence of the impact of a decades long propaganda campaign.
Garbage ! Nobody vandalized that pool. With what?
You have to wait 5-7 days for the paint to 'cure'. They didn't do that.
It was painted "American Flag Blue". Dark colors draw sunlight (thus heat) - basic science. Heat blooms algae.
They are pouring in 17% peroxide. 5% is considered safe. Who knows how much quantity. The paint wasn't cured.
Any stagnate pond of water will grow algae FAST Not only is there no vandalism there, there is no simple science in this administration.
Just a lame excuse to cover his latest failure.
The American President is delusional.
Completely unhinged behavior but clear evidence of the impact of a decades long propaganda campaign.
Garbage ! Nobody vandalized that pool. With what?
You have to wait 5-7 days for the paint to 'cure'. They didn't do that.
It was painted "American Flag Blue". Dark colors draw sunlight (thus heat) - basic science. Heat blooms algae.
They are pouring in 17% peroxide. 5% is considered safe. Who knows how much quantity. The paint wasn't cured.
Any stagnate pond of water will grow algae FAST Not only is there no vandalism there, there is no simple science in this administration.
Just a lame excuse to cover his latest failure.
The American President is delusional.
LOL. The domestic terrorists who defaced the Reflecting Pool should be treated the same way as the J6 trespassers. Life sentence in a max security prison. Even if they are grandmothers with no prior criminal history. That is the leftist precedent. And to rejoice about this even if you don't believe it was an intentional act demonstrates TDS.
The domestic terrorists who defaced the Reflecting Pool should be treated the same way as the J6 trespassers.
Of all the deranged effects of TDS, vandalizing the Reflecting Pool has to rank up there. Imagine being so consumed with hatred of Trump that some people are pouring chemicals into it, slicing the liner, and then rejoicing. Completely unhinged behavior but clear evidence of the impact of a decades long propaganda campaign.
Is there anything you conspiracy lovers won't believe?
What conspiracy theory would that be? If some TDS nut job cuts the Reflecting Pool liner and dumps some chemicals into it, there is no conspiracy. Of course, there are some conspiracies that have merit. There was a conspiracy to kill Lincoln. It's interesting that in the JFK context that a "conspiracy" conflates to a false story.
So you’re saying the people (darned leftist domestic terrorists!) who allegedly defaced the Reflecting Pool (and openly rejoiced afterward) weren’t working together?
To admit that the Reflecting Pool fiasco was yet another self‑inflicted wound, brought on by vanity, incompetence and greed, is obviously not an attractive option for the Trump cultists.
The Reflecting Pool was a disgusting mess. Trump has tried to fix it. Surely no American could oppose that and would hope it gets fixed. Right? Wrong. In response, unhinged leftist hoped for failure. They cut the liner and dumped chemicals into it. That is the side you are on? The anti-US self-loathing types who hate Trump and whose only objective is to oppose him even if it means committing a criminal act. This is the point we've reached. The ends justify any means for some loons.
When I was moving into a management position, my employer sent me to a management class. One of the case studies was Trump's takeover of the renovation of Wollman Rink in Central Park back in the 1980s. It was supposed to be a 6 month project but it had languished under mismanagement and outright incompetence for over 7 years. Finally, the city leaders decided to turn the project over to Trump's company. He was a Democrat back then. Trump's team finished the project in 4 months, ahead of the schedule the city had placed on him. Trump took personal control of the project and the class went over the step-by-step process to get the project completed. It was held up as an example of how to manage a large project. The Trump organization managed the rink under contract to the city for over 3 decades. The city took management of the rink away from his company in 2021. By that time TDS had become a pandemic. Who cares about competence if it means working with Trump.
Gee, that was right after KGB "spotter" Semyon Kislin "spotted" Trump in 1980 at Kislin's Joy-Lud electronics store in Manhattan. Then, in 1986, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.N., Yuri Dubinin, and his daughter, Natalia, showed up unexpectedly at Trump Tower and flattered the xxxxxxx you-know-what out of the malignant narcissist. Next thing you know, Trump's seated next to Dubinin at a big Este Lauder dinner, and wah-la, The Traitorous Orange Turd and Ivana are invited all-expenses-paid to Moscow on the bogus premise of building a Trump Tower there!!!
Regarding the Wollman Rink:
Trump convinced the primary contractor, HRH Construction, to do the work without making a profit, telling them that their work would pay for itself with the publicity.[13][18] However, in press conferences that Trump held at every incremental milestone in the four-month effort, he never mentioned HRH.[13] Adrian Benepe, then the Parks Department's spokesperson and later its commissioner, stated the project was largely complete by the time Trump entered the picture, and that the city, not Trump, had paid the contractors for the actual reconstruction.[13]
-- Wikipedia
Here's a pertinent Bloomberg article (footnote 13 from the above Wikipedia article) from 29 September 2015:
In June of 1986, Donald J. Trump was a second-tier developer in a city crawling with ambitious builders. He had a single skyscraper to his name, and was probably best known as the part owner of the New Jersey Generals in the flailing United States Football League, his taste for shiny finishes and his regular fulminations attesting to his own importance. But by November, he became, essentially, the candidate we know today, a colossal tabloid celebrity who maintains, bombastically, that he can manage government better than any politician. What changed? More than anything, what made Trump Trump was the drama surrounding the refurbishing of Wollman Rink, the ice skating oval located in the Southeast quadrant of Central Park.
As always with Trump, it’s hard to parse the reality from the publicity. At the time, New York City's government notoriously didn’t work. The city was still just a decade removed from municipal bankruptcy. Crack was everywhere. Murders were hovering around 2,000 a year. The city had actually begun to come back to life from its 1970s depths, with bricks and mortar sprouting in the lots left vacant by riots and two decades of disinvestment, but the recovery was hardly visible.
The rink was an emblem of civic dysfunction. Formerly a jewel in the crown of Central Park, a supporting star in films like Love Story and half a dozen others, Wollman Rink had fallen into disrepair. And what was worse was that the city seemingly had no idea how fix it. Shuttered for repairs in 1980 by the Koch administration and set to be restored at the cost of $4.7 million, by 1985, the rink was $12 million over budget and still not ready.
“If we could just plan and execute, it would be billions and billions of dollars that would be saved.” -- Donald Trump
Bronson Binger, a visionary landscape architect and preservationist who served as the city’s assistant commissioner of capital projects, hoped to turn Wollman into “the kind of thing you would see at Buckingham Palace,” according to Julia Vitullo-Martin, who also served as an assistant commissioner in the Parks Department during the Wollman Saga, and is now a senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association. Touring the in-flux facility with a television reporter that summer, Binger pledged that the rink would be up and running by Thanksgiving. And if it’s not, the reporter asked? If it’s not, Binger said, I will resign.
It wasn’t, and he did.
Trump, who could see from his office window the messy construction site that Wollman had been for years, saw an opportunity. In June of 1986, the developer brayed that if the city would just hand the keys to the zamboni to him, he would have it done by Christmas. "I have total confidence that we will be able to do it," Trump said. "I am going on record as saying that I will not be embarrassed."
Then and after, Trump described his interest as a pure expression of civic mindedness. All he wanted in return was the rink’s concession rights, which he would, in turn, donate to charity.
“If Koch doesn't like this offer," said Trump, "then let him have the same people who have built it for the last six years do it for the next six years.”
Trump and Koch, of course, coveted exactly the same real estate—in front of microphones and TV cameras, and the front pages of the city’s tabloids, and had been engaged in a long-running feud. The city can only be dominated by one large charismatic personality at a time, and Ed was determined that it be the mayor,” said Jonathan Soffer, author of Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City.
Trump had been pushing to have some of his midtown properties made available for a property tax abatement. Koch resisted, arguing that the abatement was to encourage the building of affordable housing in the outer boroughs. Trump, of course, sued, and even brought a personal lawsuit against Anthony Gliedman, the city’s Housing Commissioner. (Trump won, and in an early display of Trumpian knife-twisting, ended up poaching Gliedman away from city government to oversee the renovation of Wollman.)
The renovation of Wollman Rink had begun poorly and turned disastrous. Rather than using brinewater as a coolant to freeze the rink, the parks commissioner elected to use Freon, a chemical used in air conditioning units and now widely banned for its ozone-depleting properties. It was an immensely complicated operation, and one the city was incapable of properly completing. A subcontractor underestimated the amount of concrete needed to pour the rink's floor and so was forced to dilute the mixture. Design flaws meant that one part of the rink was six inches lower than the rest. There was an ongoing feud between the Parks Department under the mayor’s control in Manhattan and its capital projects bureau in Queens, still staffed with loyalists to Robert Moses who saw the construction of an ice rink as a frivolity. The project’s lead contractor was officially ruled to be in default, but by that point the principal of the company that was originally building the rink had been killed in a car accident en route to a company-wide getaway to Atlantic City, and the company subsequently disbanded.
“It was like a David Cronenberg movie,” said Vitullo-Martin. “Wollman was such a disgrace. It was hard to absorb the incompetence.”
While City Hall shrugged, the city’s tabloid turned the rink into a daily reminder of the administration’s inability to tame the city. “Skating rinks work all over the world,” The Daily News wrote. “To stand back and shrug is not going to wash. Towering incompetence is the kindest possible explanation.”
The Koch administration, meanwhile, was being consumed by a massive corruption scandal involving a kickback scheme in its parking violations bureau, a scandal that led to the suicide of the Queens borough president, a close Koch ally. And the city’s comptroller, Harrison Goldin, was eyeing his own mayoral challenge to Koch and held up any further work on the rink. Turning the project over to Trump was a way to break the political logjam and to rid himself of the cascading bureaucratic mishaps, even as Trump released a letter he wrote to Koch decrying “incompetence” that ''must be considered one of the great embarrassments of your administration.” (Koch meanwhile railed to anyone who would listen that Trump was a “blowhard” and a “supreme egotistical lightweight,” according to Soffer, his biographer.)
In allowing Trump to build the rink, Koch didn’t exactly capitulate—Trump had originally wanted to pay for the renovation himself, covering his costs by running the rink and an adjacent restaurant. In the final deal, the city paid for the renovation, and the profits were all donated to charity.
Trump had Wollman Rink up and running by November 1, two months ahead of schedule and $775,000 under budget. Skating stars like Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Dick Button, and Aja Zanova-Steindler glided across the ice at the ribbon cutting, with Button declaring the new rink to be like skating on velvet.
If Trump has any particular genius, it is for jumping to the front of the parade and acting like it is where he has been all along. Agreeing to take on the rink was in this category. It is not as if Trump decided to take over the Second Ave Subway or other long-stalled (and far more complicated) city development projects. “I mean c’mon, it’s a skating rink,” said Vitullo-Martin. “Any halfway decent construction person would have been able to build the damn thing.” There were no real environmental reviews, limited public safety concerns, and delays usually associated with refurbishing a landmarked property were removed as a condition of Trump taking over the project. Plus, the city was limited by a review process and by hiring the lowest-bidding contractor. As a private entity, Trump was able to ignore all that, paying contractors at below cost by promising more work later on in one of his many projects.
Rudolph Rinaldi, the director of construction in the Parks Department at the time, recalled Trump's taking his team to Canada to see how a similar project was refurbished, and showing up to tour the site in Central Park with one team of architects and engineers, only to show up the next time with a completely different set of architects and engineers. “We did projects that were much more complicated without Trump,” Rinaldi said. “But we couldn’t fire all of our architects and a hire a whole new team just because we felt like it.”
At the time, City Hall was mystified that Trump was even interested. “You generally don’t see developers try to fix someone else’s capital project,” recalled Vitullo-Martin. “I mean, who does that? Have you ever seen a developer come in and say to a city, ‘Oh, I can fix your crumbling bridge?’ You need a narcissist who will come forward and say, ‘You don’t know what you are doing. I know what I am doing, I will fix it and you will put my name on it.”’
“Any real estate developer in the city could have done that project, but why do you think they didn’t?” asked Adrian Benepe, then a spokesman for the Parks Department and later its commissioner. “It’s because most major real estate families in New York want to work behind the scenes and do the deals, and so many of them do many more deals and build many more buildings than Donald Trump ever does.
“There are so many myths about this thing,” Benepe continued. “One was that he did it for free. No, he did it for whatever the budget was. Another myth: he did something the city never could have done. Well, no, the project was largely complete by the time he took over.”
But Trump also wanted to prove a point: That the private sector was a far more efficient vehicle than municipal government. By getting the thing built on time and under budget, Trump burnished his reputation as a can-do guy while pioneering the notion of public/private partnership that increasingly swept the city. And in a city where the major developers sit atop philanthropic boards and give away billions to make New York a slightly better place to live, Wollman has remained Trump’s lone calling card of his concern for the greater good.
“Yes, he did a solid for the city, but he also burnished his reputation to a considerable extent,” Benepe said. “Most real estate developers, when they get involved in something like this, ask themselves what’s in it for the city. Trump wanted to know what was in it for Donald Trump and then there may be some ancillary benefits for the city.”
The distinctive mixture of braggadocious civic concern and narcissism Trump displayed in the Wollman rink contretemps now has him well on the way to the GOP nomination.
In June of 1986, Donald J. Trump was a second-tier developer in a city crawling with ambitious builders.
TDS and PDS seem to be a powerful combination when contracted by the same person. They can really mess with a person's mind resulting in intense paranoia.
Funny how you've never heard of Semyon Kislin and Yuri Dubinin.
You should turn off Greg "Blowhard" Gutfeld for a while and read Craig Unger's books, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (2018) and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (2021).
Funny how you've never heard of Semyon Kislin and Yuri Dubinin.
The rabbit hole beckons. Still peddling the debunked Russia collusion hoax? Very sad. Are you also still wearing a COVID mask and social distancing?
Another never-Trumper bites the dust
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/never-trumper-george-conway-lost-his-primary-so-badly-he-couldn-t-even-beat-a-lady-no-one-has-heard-of/ar-AA26rTMD?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6a3c2e1c25eb410bad29f5749fa91a6e&ei=24
He finished 5th out of 5.
He barely beat out None of the Above.
George Conway has one of the worst cases of TDS this side of Rosie O'Donnell. It's almost as bad as Tom Graves's.
Trump is a new kind of Sheriff. Congress managed to pass a bipartisan Housing Affordability Act which allegedly benefits both Republican and Dem politicians. Trump told them to cram it until they pass the SAVE Act. Any other establishment politician would just have signed it for the PR. On CNN they used certain buzz words with negative connotations to describe this. Trump is "obsessed," "fixated," and "delusional" according to them when it comes to the SAVE Act. If Obama had done something similar, he would be described as "heroic" or "standing up for what he believes." If crazed right wingers had vandalized the Reflecting Pool, they would be deemed a threat to democracy. The FBI would drop all other investigations and seek them out to the ends of the Earth. But the story is that Trump botched the job.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/florida-s-oldest-executed-inmate-s-last-words-revealed/ar-AA26yKl3?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6a3e6e2a27aa4507b21395079cd03e5e&ei=38
Florida just executed the oldest inmate to receive the death penalty. He was 74. Same age as me. The joke is he committed his murder in 1992. 25-30 years has become the norm for death penalty cases to exhaust appeals which is absurd. Another 74 year old man is scheduled to be executed later this year. When somebody receives the death penalty, they are more likely to die of hardening of the arteries before their sentence is carried out.
In the infamous In Cold Blood murder of the Clutter family in 1959 Dick Hickock and Perry Smith were hanged 5 1/2 years after their heinous act. It was never brought out in either the book or the movie but they were also the prime suspects in the slaughter of another family of four in Florida while they were on the lam from the Clutter murders. They were know to be in the area when the murders took place. It seems to me 5 1/2 years is a reasonable length of time to hear all appeals. Once that time period runs out, the only grounds for appeal that should be allowed is if compelling evidence is presented that the condemned person was innocent of the crime. If that can't be done, it's time to say, "Sorry about your bad luck. Adios".
I also think doing away with lethal injections would be a good step. I don't know why we ever did away with hanging. It worked quite well.
At least they are still carrying it out. Many states with the death penalty refuse to do so allowing the subjective opposition of certain politicians to override the law, judicial system, and will of the citizens of their state. There once might have been a valid concern on the basis of some innocent person being executed but with DNA and other advances it is now possible to prove beyond any doubt the involvement of a specific individual in many such crimes. The endless efforts to thwart the death penalty even in the most heinous crimes against women and children is just another example of misplaced liberalism. The same people have little concern for American citizens when they are murdered or assaulted by illegal aliens. In many cases, they won't even acknowledge the immigration status of the criminal.
You are praising a politician who has been found guilty of sexual assault by a jury in a civil proceeding who employed a CFO for 50 years, in a business found guilty on all counts of financial crimes by a jury, after the CFO plead guilty of all criminal counts against him.wow, a lot has happened in just two and a half years, huh? guess enough good men did enough of nothing. and they called ed meese a pig……. sigh+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Weisselberg
A politician found by a NY court in a civil trial to have committed massive fraud and is currently awaiting determination in the penalty phase of that proceeding as to whether the assets of the business will be sold by the court appointed receiver to satisfy up to $375 million in civil fraud damages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_investigations_of_The_Trump_Organization
A presentation of the 91 criminal charges in four indictments and a superseding indictment, currently faced by this politician, especially considering the recent background described above, convincingly labels this politician as leader of a personality cult, along with the evidence of sheer denial in the post quoted above.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictments_against_Donald_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_(classified_documents_case)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_(election_obstruction_case)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_election_racketeering_prosecution
The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al. is a pending criminal case against Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, and 18 co-defendants.
That is the case in my home state of Ohio. Governor Mike DeWine. a long time RINO, has created a moratorium on executions. He is on record as opposing the death penalty. There are currently 116 prisoners on death row. Vivek Ramaswamy, the favorite to win the governorship this fall, has said he will unblock the back log of death sentences. I doubt he will get the chance. I'm betting DeWine will commute all of those death sentences on his way out the door. Governors in other states have done that in the past and I fully expect DeWine to follow suit.
That is the case in my home state of Ohio. Governor Mike DeWine. a long time RINO, has created a moratorium on executions. He is on record as opposing the death penalty. There are currently 116 prisoners on death row. Vivek Ramaswamy, the favorite to win the governorship this fall, has said he will unblock the back log of death sentences. I doubt he will get the chance. I'm betting DeWine will commute all of those death sentences on his way out the door. Governors in other states have done that in the past and I fully expect DeWine to follow suit.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." 14th Amendment
I don't understand. You are a citizen where you were born.
How would you not be?
So an expectant mother from China or any foreign country can come here, give birth, return to their country, and the child could grow up there, and still vote in US elections via the leftist mail in ballot and otherwise enjoy the privileges of US citizenship? The vast majority of countries do not allow this. Biden allowed 20 or more million people to enter illegally. This becomes a major crisis when a president allows tens of millions of illegal aliens to enter the country in violation of the federal immigration laws. Just another reason for ICE to accelerate the deportations of those who are here illegally.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." 14th Amendment
Biden is gone and your 20M or more is exaggerated.
Where does the 14 Amendment say except those from expectant foreign mothers?
Instead of deflecting answer the question. Should someone be able to give birth in the US, and return the child to their own country with all the privileges of US citizenship including voting for the president? Almost no other countries allow this because it is completely insane. Regardless of how many millions of people you think Biden allowed into the country, all their children born here will be US citizens. Biden's unlawful conduct created a crisis that brought this to a head.