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@Greyparrot
That would mean 13 drinks by your rules. Yow!
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@Greyparrot
Can we do a drinking game? key words will be "turn the page"... "Middle class background" and "Trump"
Trump? Dang, you don’t even want to give sobriety a chance!
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@Double_R
meanwhile still talking about one comment made by one politician about you guys nearly a decade later.
Hillary really got the last laugh with that comment…
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The vaccine mandate struck me as pretty authoritarian.
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the image posted on Truth Social depicts Trump on a football field wearing a jersey for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and there is no evidence this ever occurred.
Right… “there is no evidence this ever occurred.” THAT’s the reason to disbelieve a clearly doctored photo. Anyone see the “guns” on Trump there? He sure isn’t skipping arm day at the gym!
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@WyIted
I REALLY thought that Trump applied to work at McDonalds, went through the interview process and got a job there. I also thought he would be serving random people going through the drive through despite recently surviving 3 assassination attempts.
Yep. Trump really let his constituency down with this deceptive and disrespectful stunt.
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@FLRW
The US hasn’t paid down debt in a very long time, alas. I suggest investing in precious metals if you haven’t already and hope that your unrealized gains don’t get taxed.
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@Greyparrot
I hope you live in a solid blue state so your vote is wasted.
Wouldn’t that be a solid red state for a blue vote to be wasted?
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@ILikePie5
Indians are 100% racist. They’re not fans of the Aaaafrican Americans
The caste system seems designed to instill racism and feelings of superiority, so this makes sense, and I have heard the same generalization from others. Personally, I have worked with a team comprising a black woman and an Indian man, and he said alarming things behind her back. Like I had to remind him that his words were being recorded. Funny thing is, he was clearly able to speak intelligently about race when he wasn’t talking about her specifically.
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@WyIted
To Mr. Patel's credit he said predeep was a racist to say Americans eat cows
Did Patel come from a middle class family, and does he appreciate the significance of the passage of time?
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@JoeBob
Trump because Biden is the worst president I’ve witnessed in my lifetime, and Harris is the worst candidate for president I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. The world has caught on fire on his watch, and as a distant second, I’m not onboard with DEI ideology nor do I believe some men can get pregnant.
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@RemyBrown
Not only that, but I hear they like to bite off the head first.
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@Greyparrot
Touché. I thought you missed it, but it was I who missed it!
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@Greyparrot
Well, how important can it be to her when she chooses not to make it a priority on her schedule is my implication…
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@Greyparrot
To be fair, she did acknowledge the importance of the occasion in her prerecorded video appearance.
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@Greyparrot
Trump seemed in his element. She must have known she couldn’t compare to that.
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@Greyparrot
She could be running against bozo the clown and still lose. Kamala will go down with her scum buddy.
Trump is probably the only Republican candidate Harris could possibly beat.
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@ILikePie5
Worked for him last time. No new wars.
The world was mostly peaceful during Trump’s term.
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@Greyparrot
Harris doesn’t normally drink beer— it makes her too giggly.
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@FLRW
That’s absolutely correct— he diverted funds from FEMA to ICE, both under the DHS umbrella. Once news of this spreads, Trump’s candidacy is toast!
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@HistoryBuff
What is your area of focus regarding history?
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@Greyparrot
Remember that there are only two types of thinking:
1. Binary
2. Non binary
Either/or
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I don't think an F-22 does any better against Hamas than an F-16 (huge price difference).
Israel is going for the global historical record of the least collateral + allied damage against enemies that dress in civilian clothes, refuse to meet on the battlefield, and hide behind women and children.
Plus they (unlike the USA or the other countries I mentioned) are keeping their nukes (if any) a secret. This radically different strategy caused by their unique situation where their major nation state rivals don't yet have nukes and if Israel started bragging about having them those rivals would be publicly obliged to start their own nuclear weapons programs.
Israel won't tolerate that so that would inevitably lead to a large war (which may happen anyway).
I’m not sure what your point is in all this, but my point is that Israel having nukes didn’t prevent October 7 any more than the US having nukes prevented 9/11. Nukes deter nukes, and that is about it.
The wars the Pentagon wants more money to prepare for are overseas.
WWII was overseas until December 7, 1941. Al Qaida was overseas (or so we thought) until September 11, 2001. This report is as much about prevention and deterrence as it is about war fighting capability.
It basically was, the people are old Bush era deep state war mongers
If that is truly the case, then the DoD is being extremely self critical with this report. Self criticism is often the best and most important kind. For what it’s worth, Trump asked General Keane to be his SecDef.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
(Everything we see in the Ukraine Russia war indicates that our theory of war is outdated and 85% of what we spend our military budget on is outdated and would get a lot of our soldiers killed if they ever had to fight a modern war with an enemy who knows how to utilize the new technology)
This point was actually made in the report, so in that respect, you agree with the report.
Remember when France was invaded and is now occupied? Oh wait that hasn't happened since they got nukes
You don’t think Israel has nukes?
Agree or disagree with the conclusions of the report, I’m mainly saying that it should be part of the national conversation.
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@Swagnarok
The report was not made by the DoD.
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… and a side of fries with that Whopper, please.
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“The threats the United States faces are the most serious and most challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war,” the report concluded. “The United States last fought a global conflict during World War II, which ended nearly 80 years ago. The nation was last prepared for such a fight during the Cold War, which ended 35 years ago. It is not prepared today.”
… The commissioners criticized multiple administrations for backing National Defense Strategies based on wishful thinking, as well as budgetary gridlock in Congress, and general indifference from an American public that is largely disengaged on national security issues.
“The lack of preparedness to meet the challenges to U.S. national security is the result of many years of failure to recognize the changing threats and to transform the U.S. national security structure,” the commissioners say. “The 2011 Budget Control Act, repeated continuing resolutions, and inflexible government systems” exacerbate the problem.
“The United States is still failing to act with the urgency required, across administrations and without regard to governing party,” the report says. “Implementing these recommendations to boost all elements of national power will require sustained presidential leadership and a fundamental change in mindset at the Pentagon, at the National Security Council and across executive branch departments and agencies, in Congress, and among the American public writ large.”
This is a problem which is getting no airplay currently, but it deserves our attention. Everyone is focused on high prices, but we need to be mindful of the very high price of war and preventing it. Media need to be holding both candidates’ feet to the fire on this, but they won’t. The irony is that a president holds much more sway in this matter than with inflation.
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My hat (if I wore one) is off to the Mossad. You guys are good…
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@FLRW
I’ve watched a debate featuring Sean Carroll, and I came away impressed with both the depth of his expertise and his likeability.
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“There are things we are still unable to explain, ergo Jehovah exists.”
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@n8nrgim
I would like to see Dick Cheney’s endorsement in a Harris campaign ad. That would be fun. More realistically though, I think he is just showing solidarity with his daughter.
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@Swagnarok
Thanks for your effort with that. It was a much easier read than it looked! It reminds me of the saying: “Hard times make hard men; hard men make good times; good times make soft men; soft men make hard times.”
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@Greyparrot
Whoosh!
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@Greyparrot
How important is it to this nation to have as its president its first woman of color?
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@FLRW
The Captain thinks that having a plane pic makes me a wannabe. It’s a good thing reality and I don’t care what he thinks!
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@Best.Korea
Good save!
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@FLRW
Yes. Why do you ask?
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@Best.Korea
Bernie would have less lead.
Less lead? You claimed he would be decidedly trailing.
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@Best.Korea
Thats what your link says, anyway.
Can you quote from the link the part which supports your assertion “Bernie would stand no chance against Trump.”?
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@FLRW
I see what you are saying.
Communication is occurring!
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@Best.Korea
Bernie would stand no chance against Trump.
This claim does not resonate. Trump is likely the most beatable presidential candidate the GOP has, which is precisely why Harris can beat him.
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@Greyparrot
The US political landscape is just chaotic in general currently. I think Putin will be content either way. In regards to Trump, I think the reaction to Trump bears at least as much responsibility for discord as Trump himself. It’s like trying to kill a mouse in your house with a shotgun.
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@FLRW
On February 21, 2020, The Washington Post reported that, according to unnamed US officials, Russia was interfering in the Democratic primary in an effort to support the nomination of Senator Bernie Sanders.
… In March 2020, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Brennan Center for Justice published a report indicating that Russia-linked social media accounts have been spreading Instagram posts calculated to sow division among American voters.[54][55] According to the report, Russian operatives were increasingly impersonating real political candidates and groups rather than creating fictional groups.[55]According to Twitter's head of site integrity, Russian agents also attempted in 2018 to create the impression of more election interference than is actually happening to undermine confidence in the process.[56] Shortly thereafter, the New York Timesreported that according to American intelligence officials Russian operatives have been stoking via private Facebook groups anger among African Americans, emphasizing allegations of police brutality in the United States, highlighting racism in the United States against African Americans, and promoting and pressuring hate groups, including white and black extremist groups, in order to create strife within American society,
It appears that Russia’s goal is to sow dischord and doubt in the democratic process and our society. The election of Trump is just one of several possible ways to accomplish this.
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@Greyparrot
Perhaps the spin-masters set it up that way in 2016 so as to have the veneer of credibility by then pointing to 2021 and then blaming Trump for that period of global conflict.
Pretty much…
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@Greyparrot
This is a big ask.
I know. If it were a small ask, I probably wouldn’t be motivated to ask. I am familiar with the creative connecting of existing dots, but this AI claim might constitute inventing a whole new dot— “embroiling the globe in warfare.”
I realize that Trump pissed off NATO allies by telling them to pay their share, but that led to them paying their share rather than “embroiling the globe in warfare.” I don’t think Trump’s defense spending had pissed off the aerospace and defense industry, either.
While Trump’s relations with dictators robs us of our sense of moral superiority and causes moral indignation against Trump, I don’t see the resultant “embroiling the globe in warfare.”
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