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  1. 8 minutes ago, Smax said:

    I'm so tired of hearing his voice, bitching whining lying about being the victim here

    I'M SO TIRED OF HEARING HIS VOICE, BITCHING WHINING LYING ABOUT BEING THE VICTIM HERE.

    TRUTH!!!!!!!

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    Again, I'm a layperson, but I do know how to put together a rational argument. I think the assertion that Trump is influencing the statement is a sound one. If these are good lawyers, I'd be shocked if they created this statement in a vacuum.

    Trump's basic defense against any accusation is to call the accuser a "never-Trumper." He's a never-Bidener, should we discount everything he says? I see strong Trump influence on that tack. I don't see myself using that as an argument. The "very popular tv show" also sounds like a Trump phrase as he is obsessed with ratings and lying about them.

    Stormy made a life off these communications? She used "pure opportunism" to get Trump to fork over 6 figures? Huh? She's made money since on this story, so she must be evil. I still don't think that holds much sway in a trial. Who wouldn't cash in?

    * I love this last sentence. She knew nothing about the actual crimes alleged here. Well, Blanche, she can confirm she got paid off and anything she may have witnessed indicating why.

     

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    Two things from the defense presentation jump out at this layperson.

    The choice of cloaked in innocence is odd to me. It suggests that though not innocent himself, Trump has a cloak of innocence protecting him. The idea of a cloak is most often associated with secrecy and deceit. Contrast it to, "He is innocent through and through." The usage just leapt out at me as a strange word choice for a carefully conceived presentation.

    Second, the idea that evidence is too old to be valid made me laugh. I imagine a criminal appeal where the lawyer's argument is, "My client should be released! His signed confession is more than ten years old. You can't seriously consider that to be evidence!"

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Nivek said:

    We vastly overstate the readiness and capabilities of the Chinese military or any foe really.  I heard about how battle hardened the Iraqi's were when I was in High School from my history teacher.   His comments later were about how he didn't know about the new equipment the military had but really he didn't understand the reliance upon conscripts by the Iraqi's vs. our volunteer military who were professionals and better equipped.

    Don't fall for the propaganda like Ted Cruz did when comparing a fake russian military video with ours where we celebrated the military as a diverse career building organization.   China engaged in skirmishes with India where they were clubbing each other.   India isn't exactly our ally, but they are definitely not China's.  

     

    Thanks for the response. 

    I was swayed by the extensive reporting of how formidable the Iraqi army would likely be. They'd had combat experience and we hadn't been in anything a conventional battle with another nation in decades. I recall persons like me being scorned (you're not doing that) for not thinking the US would easily win the invasion. It's was like I was a bad fan of my team.

    My response was always, "What? Did you think I had my own intelligence service working in Iraq?" I just knew what I read in several news outlets. Amusingly, one of the things to worry about was to be Iraq's airforce. They flew to Iran to hide. A bad sign for Iraquis.

    I don't think I'm swayed by Ted Cruz (how dare you!). China is a big country that develops some of is own war technology. There are a lot of them. If we get involved, I'm concerned about the survival of our surface fleet. I'm concerned about the number aircraft China has in the area. I'm concerned about their esprit d' corps.

    In their yard, it would be extremely difficult, in my opinion. And look how right I was about Iraq!

  5. 6 minutes ago, Nivek said:

    It Lindsey Graham, he is trying to play politics by thanking Trump for the aid package with the hope that he will take credit and continue on the path if he is elected again.    Don't read too much more into it than that.  

    I think that's generous on your part. I don't see a subtle nudge from a pitiful minion shaking Trump's fealty to Putin. I think Lindsay wants to make sure he has a spot if the fascists win out. Trying to stay of the proscription lists.

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  6. 18 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    China has the next best stealth aircraft after the US and its allies. I would not underestimate that portion of their military. 

    Or any part of their military. Was the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) the last disciplined and determined force we met in the field? That was 50 years ago.

    China is well-equipped and trained as far as I know. There would be nothing easy or inevitable about fighting them. We get into to trouble thinking things will be easy and our enemies are not as brave as we are. 

    Taiwan is similar in training and determination. It would be a nasty, bloody fight. If it expands to a US-China conflict...fuck, I don't know.

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  7. 22 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    I liked most all of your post, but still support aid to Ukraine. Fuck authoritarianism, at home and abroad.
     

    Also, goat burger deliciousness needs more press. 


     

     

    I absolutely support aid to Ukraine with pretty much no restriction on their use. Just because we've been pretty bad at this in the past doesn't mean you can't make a good decision in the present. They're bleeding the Russians white. The Russians are a clear enemy of the US.

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  8. 49 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    Lindsay Graham says the credit for the Ukranian aid package should go to ..... Donald Trump.

     

     

     

    Is there just one of his feet dangling out of Trump's diaper like the tail of lizard going down the hatch of a snake?

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  9. 24 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Being nuanced on Ukraine is a sign of an intelligent person trying desperately to muddy the waters to conceal their actual aims.  It’s not derangement syndrome, consider it IFF.  

    Thanks for responding. I don't know what IFF stands for.

  10. 10 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

    I 100% get not wanting to have the US go on some imperialistic bullshit.  But now we have Russia invading the Ukraine, where we just need to help provide them the equipment to thwart INVADERS and somehow people are against that?    We aren’t attacking anyone.  We aren’t using the CIA to lead a regime change.  We aren’t sending troops to die.   The US is simply sending equipment to help a county repel an  invasion.    Why are @Anastasis and MTG so against that?

    Is he? He can answer that. I agree with everything you write. This is the best of our foreign war efforts since WW2, I think. I guess Korea, too. 

  11. 10 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Sending air defense to Ukraine so apartment blocs don’t get bombed is like waterboarding, some absolutely galaxy brain Anastasis takes in here. 

    How did you get that from this?

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    I think I'm watching Anastasis Derangement Syndrome (ADS).

    @Anastasis is an able debater who needs no aid from me, but I honestly mostly see some really smart posters here projecting all kinds of shit onto what he/she actually says. I don't get it. I've agreed and disagreed with Anastasis over the years particularly when there was still more than a vestigial meaning to Republican.

    This is an observation rather than a defense. I've agreed with the meat of all of his posts over the last few pages.

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  12. 17 hours ago, Smax said:

     

    My children and yours have reaped untold benefits from all of those "wars", can you imagine how different the world would be right now if the US sunk back into a non intervention reclusive country post WW2. Did we screw up over that time, yeah we sure as hell did but we also got some things right and at the end of the day, we're still speaking English, the dollar is the most sought after currency, we still have the strongest military and most of the world still looks to us on just about everything. 

    None of that would be possible if we didn't stick our nose in other peoples business to try and shape the world in our favor

    Untold benefits? Really?

    Vietnam, the Iraq invasions, and our bumbled occupation of Afganistan have provided what benefits to whom?

    Do we count proxy wars and deadly campaigns to enthrone dictators throughout Latin America so we could exploit their resources before those people could? Sure, those countries generally didn't go communist, but was what we put in place really better?

    "At the end of the day, we're still speaking English" Post WW2, no English speaking countries were ever in danger or near danger. We did save Berlin, but that wasn't a war effort although war was risked. As part of WW2 we treated with the USSR to draw a boundary beyond which they were not to go. 

    "the dollar is the most sought after currency" Okay. Not sure how you can tie that to a successful war campaign in a foreign land since WW2

    "we still have the strongest military" At what cost? Our wars have been enormously costly to produce so little besides enormous debt; corrupt, bloated military budgeting; the ongoing costs of the (shamefully inadequate) care needed by veterans of our idiotic foreign campaigns named above.  I won't delve, but this pride in our strong military goes to the insecure adolescent mindset we've been encouraged to have; we're told we're a laughing stock or we appear weak, and the rubes in the cheap seats cheer sending in the tanks.

    "and most of the world still looks to us on just about everything."  And the world's in fine shape.

    • We destroyed the goodwill after 9/11 by invading Iraq for whatever "untold benefits" (not surprisingly untold) we got there.
    • We led the denial of the dangers of climate change which has become a climate emergency, and it's likely beyond halting now.  
    • The right-wing control of this country which is leading to fascism here has likely aided the rise of fascism in other countries whose leaders have often named Trump as an example. Further, we just had a president who is more interested in cozying up with non-free countries while demeaning, alienating, and losing the trust of our traditional allies.
    • The world does not look to us on healthcare provision, prison conditions, gun violence, fair application of the law, or making minor personal sacrifices for the good of everybody else. Who has the biggest pick-up in the office parking lot? I'll never give up some of my hamburger consumption to make the world better for my children. I'm teaching them to feel the same way!
    • The ongoing racism here and burgeoning sexism, sexualityism, and anything-you-do-is-my-business-ism are hardly lanterns in the dark to lead the world.

    Any organization or entity that devotes more time to self-congratulation than to honest self-appraisal is likely headed for disaster.

    Written without rancor.

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  13. 23 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    God I hope we get the help to them in time 

     

    We are the worst fucking allies people with righteous causes could have. I haven't opened this thread in quite a while because it was too sickening to read about another ally being let down at the crucial moment. We've been Lucy to the Kurd's Charlie Brown for decades upon decades.

    With full heart, I agree with Doc Sam.

    With full rage, I despise the GOP for holding off on this for so long. We've cost Ukraine soldiers and made their job harder.

    Aren't we at about the point where Ukraine should have pilots ready to fly F-16s against Russia? Supposedly they'd be deployable after the winter.

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  14. On 4/18/2024 at 9:54 AM, Smax said:

     

    ......

    I had no knowledge of this woman. She's what they were going for when they produced the aborted prototype, Experiment Boebert.

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    Bombastic as Trump? Check

    Hostile to truth? Check

    Ruthless? Check

    Beautiful? Holy shit, check.

    Poised on camera? check

    Embraces all stands of the GOP criminal organization? Abso-fucking-lutely.

    Disarming smile ala Reagan? Check

    I think I love her, but she's evil. I'm sure she'll make a great president.

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  15. 3 hours ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    Sounds like the OL is still complete garbage after seeing posts about the spring game.  Of course, texags is just saying the Elk's defense is just that dominating.  They picked up a transfer Center from Utah today.  Supposedly started for them this past season.  Then we have this.

     

    Every one of them has an AgTag.

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    Ever sensitive to the negro, the Aggies put inclusive art on the walls of the suite to make those people feel at home.

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    [To be absolutely clear, my ironic post scorns romantic notions about American enslavement of African people. If, even in this context, it offends, I will gladly and swiftly remove it. Neg rep or a PM will do.]

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  16. 5 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    I don't even like how that's being reported. He should be referred to as "the troubled former president" at the very minimum.

    Criminally indicted former president

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  17. 23 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Trump was perfectly happy back in his air-conditioned enclosure playing on his phone.  He wasn't going anywhere near the fray.  First whiff of tear gas and he would have turned on his heels if he even had gotten out of the car.  He had to have the streets cleared of protesters so he could have his picture taken with the Bible.  The scenario you present is indeed terrifying.  But he never had and never will have the balls to put himself in danger of any physical harm or being that close to his ilk when they are all tuned up and shit gets real.  He's not walking in and seizing anything.  He's not willingly going within 200 yards of the Capitol (even riding in the back of The Beast) when that shit was going down.  He's a shit-poster.  He's a meme stock.  He's not Patton or Omar Bradley.

    He literally threw a fit when the driver refused to take him to the Capitol. He tried to seize the wheel. He knew his presence would be decisive. When he drives up, the tear gas stops.

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  18. 8 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    What if that SS driver had taken DOtarD to the riot and let him out of the car?

    I think we have a crisis of epic proportions. 

    Are the Capitol Police going to block the President of the United States if he orders them to step aside? Once he is in, would they stop the mob?

    Trump makes it to the chamber where the votes are tallied. Do the GOPs unite except for Mitt Romney? They sured backed the SOB when impeached later on.

    What does Pence do? I think he resists Trump, but would it matter?

    Nancy Pelosi orders that Trump be removed from the chamber. Who tries to do this? There's a mob present.

    Trump demands the box of electoral votes or walks to the dais to take them himself. What does the SS do to Senators who choose to physically intervene? Again, the mob presence.

    Chaos. The count is stopped. Trump's minions in the Pentagon keep the Army in check. Trump orders the Army to remain where they are. Military mutiny? What happens to Nancy and Pence?

    If Trump leads the mob back out, we have less chance of immediate violence. If he tells them to stay, does the Capitol get retaken through military assault?

    The world watches what is possibly the end of the Republic of the United States.

    Do soft, suburban boys like me take up arms? I doubt it. It's too nice in the living room with your TV and steel-belted radials for the pick up truck you drive to the office in.

    Those Secret Service agents were key. A horrible day could have been worse. Far worse.

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  19. 14 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    This goes back to Old Testament times for each of them.

    You and I are in agreement on the issues. I just take issue with this line that is often repeated. Jews lived in Palestine prior to the creation of modern Israel. The history of this conflict dates back to the creation of Israel after WW2.

    In antiquity, empires were rolling in and out of this area. I'm reading "Jerusalem" at the moment which is a history of that city starting from scratch. Great book. There was no particular animus between what is now Palestine and the different national forms of the Jewish state (comprised of Judah and Israel).

    The imperial ambitions and violence of those times were the norm. Sometimes you were on top, sometimes the bottom, sometimes just hanging on. 

    Again, I agree with where you stand on the issues.

  20. 22 hours ago, Gengs1 said:

    The lead paragraphs:

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    This is an embarrassing proposal that some geniuses on the panel must think is pretty subtle. "You see, we can sanction certain units. It's looks like we're doing something, but we're really not. Nobody will notice. Hee hee."

    As a response to "serious human rights abuses," it's a transparent fig leaf placed atop our slavish dedication to Israel no matter what their policies are. We sold them a bunch of 2000-pound bombs a few weeks ago amid the other support for their fake "war" in Gaza. We support a campaign of high explosive bombs against neighborhoods and use of famine to displace an entire population.

    I'm thinking Blinken, whom I know nothing about, probably sees this quarter-measure for what it is and how it would play. It's worse than doing nothing. Doing nothing is at least honest even if it's otherwise wicked.

    The press ballyhoos this as though the sanctions would mean something. They would mean something to idiots in the press who refuse to think critically. But hey! They got a scoop and have made it into pap for Idiot World. Any moment, the panels on CNN and elsewhere will talk about "signals." What kind of signal is this? That analysis passes as intelligent as well.

    American foreign policy is cheap theater entertainment for the masses here. It's worse now that the GOP has decided their interests are more important than the interests of the United States.

    Pathetic.

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