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🤣 I live in Florida. Here's some clues for Newsom:
1. Our great Governor, and future President, Ron DeSantis doesn't need to encourage people to move here with ads on TV.
2. I haven't heard of anyone moving from Florida to California. 🤷🏼♀️
3. We have thousands of U-Haul/Ryder and Penske moving trucks parked at lots in Florida and people are being paid to return them to NY, NJ, CA, IL, MA, PA
4. California, for the first time since it became a state, LOST representation in the US House of Representatives. Florida GAINED representation.
That said...anyone in Florida who wants the "freedom" of California, I'll help you load your truck. Buh, bye!
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Traffic on the bridge: 1 lane open for 20 cars per HOUR (480 per day) with a weight limit of 3.5 tons (light pickup truck) that means a 99.985% reduction of capacity, not counting for weight limit). This, compared to the average 33,000 vehicles a day and to the record traffic of 36,393 cars and trucks (and no weight limit) on August 15, 2020. An existing single ferry has a capacity of about 200 vehicles/day.
Rail lines: 1 rail line open. Tested for 1 locomotive and 15 carriages at very low speed. Trains can only operate in one direction at a time. This is a 75-80% reduction of capacity (maybe more, weight limit not established).
This is a DISASTER any way the Russians try to paint it.
The fact the bridge was attacked AT ALL is testament to a complete failure to protect the most important, vital, strategic piece of infrastructure of this entire war.
Consider: The road bridge was opened for cars on May 16, 2018 and for trucks on October 1, 2018. The rail bridge was opened for passenger traffic December 23, 2019. The bridge was opened for freight trains June 30, 2020. The war did not start until 18 months after the bridge fully opened. That's "overnight" in military planning and logistics terms.
Indeed, the war is not possible, and certainly not sustainable, without these bridges at full capacity. Period.
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Yeah, there were 5 Democrats who wouldn't vote for her. (Hickenlooper, Sinema, Kelly, Tester and Warner) They never held a confirmation vote because they knew she would be rejected. ALL Republicans opposed her nomination. Having her rejected by Democrats would be more embarrassing to Biden than just withdrawing her.
FWIW, by far, most people born and raised in the Soviet Union, such as my naturalized US citizen wife, are very strong capitalists and strongly believe in our rights, particularly the 1A, 2A and 4A. All the things they weren't allowed in the USSR.
If there were 250,000 former Soviet citizens crossing the southern border every month, the Democrats would be down there piling up rocks with their bare hands to keep them out!
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@A Megalodon With Internet Connection
I swim in the ocean at New Smyrna Beach, shark bite capital of the world.
The best time would be in March when the shark migration occurs and there are 10s of thousands of sharks, many right up to the shore. You can hardly avoiding bumping into them. They show up about the same time as the tasty young college girls in thong bikinis for spring break. I am not sure it is a coincidence.
Bigger sharks come there to eat the smaller ones, and that makes for an interesting show when a 12-15 foot hammerhead runs a few 5 foot blacktips up onto the beach, right between your feet. Exciting!
When I'm not there, I swim at Blue Springs State Park. DeLeon Springs is another great place. Both are crystal clear natural springs in the St. John's river. The water temperature is the same year 'round, and these are the springs reportedly called "The Fountain of Youth" by Spanish explorer Ponce DeLeon.
The St. John's river has, reportedly, the highest concentration of alligators in the world. It is connected to the ocean and they occasionally catch bull sharks in the river. Can you handle that? People like it because if you don't get eaten by an alligator, you will feel 10 years younger after swimming there. If you do get eaten...well, you won't be getting any older. Hence the name.
I'm old, I have little to lose anyway.
Take your choice.
Of course there is the whole intercoastal waterway thing that runs the entire perimeter of the state between the mainland and the barrier islands, and has people swimming and BOTH sharks and alligators!
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My wife is Ukrainian. Born and raised in Kharkiv. Our youngest son, my brother in law and nephew have volunteered to fight Russians in Kharkiv. My mother in law, sister in law, daughter in law, grandson and 7 year old nephew are making their way out of Kharkiv, leaving all they ever had behind. The men are separated from their wives, mothers, children to fight. They had good jobs 2 weeks ago, hard enough to find in Ukraine.
My wife is physically ill from worry and stress. She can not function but to stare at her phone waiting for the next text message or call via Viber. She sleeps 1-2 hours at a time. Thank God our other 2 sons live in the USA.
The city of Kharkiv is being systematically destroyed. All the places we celebrated holidays, birthdays, weddings, and more recently, the birth of our 3rd grandchild. He was just taking his first steps when the bombs and rockets began falling on his home. We had just received a video of his first steps, playing with his friend, the family cat. Dmitriy, Vitaliy, Kirille, Varvara, Yulia, Viktoria, Alexei and Bogdan. That's their names.
What was your question...Oh yeah...what do I think about Sberbank?
I couldn't possibly care less about Sberbank or Russian's inconveniences.
I hope our family is alive in the morning and they will make it through another day.
Slava Ukraini! 🟦🟨
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Much like an A-5, much like a Remington Model 8/81. It's a long recoil action, the Barrett is a short recoil action (like an M2 machine gun). The function of the barrel/bolt is functioning exactly the same as those 120 year old designs.
The recoiling mass of the barrel hitting the rear of the receiver imparts a lot of recoil. With a short recoil, or gas operated system, the recoil impulse is imparted by the much lighter bolt/bolt carrier. In slow motion you see two recoil impulses delivered to you shoulder, the first is resisting the recoil spring and the second, larger impact, is when the barrel/bolt slam into the rear of the receiver. The Browning A5 and Remington 81 do the same. Also, the muzzle brake may be purposely less efficient than the Barrett because if you reduce the recoil too much, the rifle won't function. Try shooting a light target load in an A-5 Magnum and you'll see what I mean. (I'm speculating on that, because the .50 BMG would seem to produce an abundance recoil to cycle the action, even when tamed by a brake)
I always wear safety glasses when shooting and where I most often feel the benefit of them is when shooting skeet and sporting clays. In either sport it is not unusual to get pieces of broken incoming targets in your face, and when shooting sporting clays in wooded areas, I often get hit with ricochet shot pellets bouncing off trees. Either could easily cause serious eye injury. $15-20 shooting glasses have always served me well.
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Thank you for this video.
Having lived and worked in the former Soviet Union and having a wife born and raised in the USSR who's father was awarded two "Order of the Red Star" medals (his papers and medals hang in our home along with my father's decorations from WW2) My take on this story has always been that it is more of a compilation of stories.
I do not think it was ever intended to be or taken as a "lie" or be a "fraud"...or undiluted fact. Yes, it is a legend. Is it exactly true that those 28 men did all of those heroic deeds in that place at that time? Maybe yes. Maybe not.
Is it true that millions of men and women did all of those things thousands of times in thousands of places over a period of 4 years? Absolutely YES.
I have visited many of the war memorials in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and they are all striking. They all glorify the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, as it known there. There isn't a 4 year old in the former Soviet Union today who does not know Georgi Zhukov, a T-34 tank, a PPSh submachinegun, a Mosin Nagant rifle an or IL-2 or I-16 aircraft. They are depicted or displayed in so many statues, memorials. They are at airports, train stations, subway stops, in the art and just parked on street corners or in front of government buildings.
There is nothing wrong with a legend to honor the millions of people who died. Not just "Russians" and not just soldiers, either. My wife was raised in Kharkov (Kharkiv, Ukrainian spelling) where 274,000 people died in the war. More than ALL the Americans killed in WW2 in Europe. In one city. And Kharkiv doesn't compare to the losses in Kiev or St. Petersburg (Leningrad)
My father had the opportunity to meet Russian soldiers near Dessau, Germany in 1945. I wish he had had the opportunity to meet my father in law.
Decades later, when we were sitting around the campfire on a hunting trip my father told me..."You know, I always knew MY family was safe. Your mother, your brother and sister were safe. Those Russian guys never had that security"
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How long did you live in Ukraine? How many of your family members live in Ukraine. How many of your children live in Ukraine? Who did you work for in Ukraine? Do you own property in Ukraine? Which city?
I lived, worked in Ukraine and have family, including one of my three adult children still living in Ukraine, and fighting for their freedom. Did you? I own property in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Do you? How many of your relatives are in the trenches in Ukraine? How many of your family members have had their homes destroyed in Ukraine? How many of your relatives went through the winter with virtually no heat, water or electricity?
You want to compare the democracy (Republic) in the USA with Ukraine? Our former President is being charged with felonies that don't exist. He is being charged with crimes that were not even listed in his indictment. Our freedom of speech is being shut down everywhere, including on this platform. Is the Biden administration representative of our democracy? Do you think we have free and fair elections in the USA? Do you think the law enforcement agencies in the USA are enforcing the law equality to all people?
Do you believe the DOJ, FBI, ATF, and DHS are enforcing our country's laws fairly and efficiently? Do you think Merrick Garland is not allowing politics to influence his decisions? What about Myorkas? Do you think the IRS is not being weaponized when they "visit" a person's home who just testified in Congress about the "Twitter files"? To be honest I NEVER saw that level of government corruption against citizens in Ukraine.
Do you think the US House committee on the weaponization of government is a waste of time? Do you think the Hunter Biden investigation is a waste of time?
I'm sorry you feel the need to say such things about Ukraine based on your ignorance. Ukraine is not perfect...neither is the USA. Those are internal Ukrainian problems for Ukrainians to solve. And they have actually made great progress compared to 30 years ago. Were you there 30 years ago? Do you have anything to compare it to? That is no reason for a country to be invaded and destroyed by another country.
I might add that Ukrainians I know, my personal acquaintances, have been gravely injured and killed fighting the SAME ENEMY the USA has. Russia. We should be glad all we need to do is provide the hardware. Hardware that provided good American jobs to build weapons designed and intended to kill Russians.
I'll finish my rant by saying that I hope you never have to go to sleep with your son in a war and not know if he is safe, or even alive. I hope you never have to find housing for your family because theirs was destroyed by an invader.
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My son rode his bicycle to school every day. One day, in 2nd grade, he suddenly didn't want to ride to school anymore and asked me to take him. Why? I pressed him until he said he was getting shaken down for his lunch money by a bully at the bike racks every morning.
I said "you're going to ride your bike to school and if this guy shakes you down, you punch him in the nose as hard as you can" I added: "Don't tell him you will punch him...JUST DO IT! Immediately. No words, just PUNCH" He left for school.
About 20 minutes later I got a call from the Principal's office. "Your son punched another boy in the eye, he says you told him to" I answered, "I told him to punch him in the nose. He missed" I was told my son would have to serve detention. I said "Good, he should be punished for punching people"
When he came home, he said "Dad, I got in trouble" I said "Sure you did. You did what you had to do, the Principal did what he had to do. What's the problem? Now it's over"
The bully went running when he took a hit in the face. No, the bully didn't stop being a bully...but he never, EVER bothered MY SON again. And MY SON was never, ever bothered by a bully, ANY bully again.
You do not have to be bigger and stronger than the bully, you only have to be bigger and stronger than another potential victim.
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The AR 15 is the unquestioned TOP CHOICE for competition shooting. There is virtually NO OTHER rifle used in many types of target competition. That said, I agree that they will not be banned. There WILL BE no bans of firearms. We MAY see the age raised to 21 to buy any gun (I oppose that, but it may happen) and we MAY, I hope, see the end of "gun free zones" in schools. ALL military rifles throughout our history have been popular for hunting and target shooting. The AR rifle has been our service rifle longer than any other rifle and it is more popular because of that. ALL military rifles are designed to kill, but from the Civil War on, military rifles have been the premier sporting rifles in the USA (and other countries, Canadians, Australians and the British love their Enfields. Austrians love their Mannlichers). Military grade weapons...like M1903 Springfields, 1898 Mausers, which form the basis of what this guy calls "sporting rifles".
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Hillary is not "beyond reproach" but she IS "beyond statute". The statute of limitations for these federal crimes is 5 years. "This guy", as a former Federal Prosecutor, knows that. You don't.
In fact, Michael Sussman and Oleg Derapaska were charged on the LAST DAY before the statute tolled on their crimes.
There will be no criminal prosecution of Hillary because there can not be. Unless a prosecutor could prove, in court, beyond reasonable doubt, that her crimes were of the very few with longer statutes of limitations, there can be no prosecution. She can not even be charged.
Coincidence? Not likely. But that doesn't matter.
The penalty for Clinton, in this case, will be political, not criminal. Just as this informed and knowledgeable man said.
Your lack of knowledge does not change the law. It only assures you will be disappointed because of unreasonable expectations.
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Most people who work as full time employees in a serious job get paid time off. I recall my son, working as a part time clerk in a grocery store, years ago, got paid sick time and vacation time (he got half the amount full time workers got, but still got something)
Throughout my career, I had paid sick days, paid vacation days, I could accumulate unused sick pay up to 30 days (company short term disability took over after 30 days). 2 floating holidays, day off for birthday. After 25 years, I got 8 weeks vacation a year! I was there for 36 years.
Why shouldn't a railroad worker get the same sort of benefits? These aren't "contractors", these are employees with responsible, full time jobs.
I can't imagine teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters, bus drivers or any number of corporate office staff NOT having these benefits.
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@jackbootshamangaming4541 Partly correct. The drinking age before prohibition was determined by states and some states had pretty low age limits. During prohibition, there was no "drinking age" and anyone, regardless of age was violating the law to possess alcohol. So, yeah, people under age 21 drank alcohol. It wasn't "more illegal" to serve "underage" people since there was no such thing.
Oddly enough, before and after prohibition and until 1961 Illinois allowed women to buy any alcohol at age 18 whereas men had to be 21. Then again, women could get married at age 18 but men had to be 21. Yeah, go figure! This is because IL's age limit on alcohol was set at "the age of majority" which was 18 for women and 21 for men
Beginning in the late 60s, states started to change their age limits in response to people who were complaining that "they could be drafted for war but couldn't drink a beer". This period of time also resulted in the 26th Constitutional Amendment allowing 18 year olds to vote.
Illinois lowered their drinking age for beer and wine to age 19 in 1973. The same age that a person could be "drafted for war". (While you had to register for the draft at age 18, during the Vietnam war the draft age was 19. You could enlist at age 17) Hard liquor was still age 21 in Illinois. Not all states lowered the age to 18 or 19.
Some states lowered their age for drinking any alcohol to 18. FWIW, Wisconsin lowered their drinking age to 18 for all alcohol and it was common practice for 18 year old Illinois residents to make a Friday evening run to Wisconsin for hard liquor.
In response to the resulting increase in deaths from drunk drivers, the Federal Government said they would withhold federal road funds from any state that did not raise their drinking to age 21. IL raised their drinking age back to 21 in 1980. By 1988, all states had done so.
Again, a few years ago, the Federal government threatened to withhold federal road funds unless states lowered their legal limit for drunk driving to a BAC of .08, rather than the previous standard of .10 All states have now done so and some states have lowered it to .05
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THIS is a scandal! This is NOT just verbal faux pas. It helps explain why $38 million has been donated to O'Rourke. This needs to be referred to the proper authorities for criminal prosecution. O'Rourke may not have known but it is HIS campaign and he needs to sign off on the documents reporting his campaign expenses. IF O'Rourke is not part of this, he needs to FIRE all these people and step down from his candidacy, return the money and apologize to the people of Texas. Absent that...he is just as guilty as the rest.
Styx...give it a rest on Cruz's dual citizenship. My wife is an immigrant . She is now a US Citizen. She can "keep" her foreign citizenship also. The USA does not recognize ANY citizenship except US. You are either a US citizen or you are not. There is no need to "renounce" a foreign citizenship, since in essence, when a person is naturalized, they take an oath to be loyal ONLY to the USA. Read the citizenship oath. Doing so makes no difference to the USA. You cannot use a foreign citizenship to avoid your obligations as a US citizen. The USA does not care how many passports you collect or citizenships you hold. A US citizen cannot use a foreign passport to enter the USA from outside the country. Cruz's US Citizenship was in no way affected by renouncing his Canada citizenship. There CAN BE advantages to having passports from additional countries, such as being able to enter countries without a visa. Though the USA passport is one of the best, there are a few more countries that accept a Canada passport without a visa. I wouldn't call it life changing advantage, but if it is something you have, why not keep it? I retired from engineering years ago, but I keep my licenses and registrations current. Why not?
Initially his dual citizenship was a choice of his parents trying to give their child every advantage they could. Why not? There is nothing illegal, immoral or unethical about it. It is like speaking another language, it gives you more opportunity in life. I am American, I speak two foreign languages. I speak English in America. What's the problem? I am not "less loyal" to my native language. Both Canada and the USA are prosperous countries offering many opportunities, wouldn't you like YOUR child to have the opportunity to work and live in either or both?
Cruz was, however, NOT naturalized, he is a citizen by birth to a US citizen (it doesn't matter what country your US citizen mother is IN when you are born to a US citizen mother, which YES, makes the whole Obama birth certificate thing nonsense.) He didn't take the oath my wife did, but that changes nothing in how the US Code regards him as a citizen.
What Cruz did was to respond to critics and try to appease them. It never works...as YOU have not given him any credit for renouncing his Canada citizenship. I have no idea why people try to please other people who have no desire to be pleased.
If you have some differences with Cruz, by all means, you are entitled to them. But the citizenship thing is just plain stupid.
https://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/naturalization-test/naturalization-oath-allegiance-united-states-america
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I don't share your sympathy.
One of my sons, his wife and our 1 year old grandson tried to escape Kharkiv. They made it as far as Visokiy, SW of Kharkiv where my daughter-in-law's parents live. They are sheltering in the cellar when the attacks come. Our grandson has spent most of 4 days crying because he has no idea why he is not at his home, why he doesn't have his normal food or bed.
My brother-in-law, his wife and our 7 year old nephew, and my mother-in-law are sheltering in the basement of their apartment building in the north part of Kharkiv, just a few miles from the Russian border. Because my brother-in-law had to get across the city to pick up my elderly mother-in-law, he did not have time to evacuate. They have potatoes to eat which people store in the basement of the building.
I saw a video today of a mortar round exploding in an intersection exactly one block from where our son lives, which killed one civilian and wounded several more.
Our son and my brother in law have now signed up to fight. As of this moment, we really don't know where they are. Our daughter-in-law and sister-in-law keep in touch by Viber, so far. Who knows if that will last.
I suppose you don't have relatives there, do you?
It's easier to feel sympathy for invaders when you have no relatives in the game, isn't it?
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They HATE Trump because they can't get to him. The media did not create him, they cannot destroy him. He is not beholden to ANYONE or any party. He was not "coronated" to the nomination like McCain, Romney and Dole. He TOOK IT, he made it his all by himself. EVERYONE tried to stop him and it didn't work. He can tell them to F**K OFF and there is nothing they can do to him. And now, the GOP can kiss his ring, because he can show up, have a rally and deliver a victory to THEM.
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@miltonbates6425 Partially correct. IF Trump gets re-elected (he will) AND Republicans keep the Senate (good chance) and gain back the House (good chance), the Dems will be pretty well neutered. Except for a bunch of noise from the media, nothing much will happen.
TWO more Supreme Court picks, to replace Ginsburg and Breyer, before 2024 and another 100+ Federal judges, and the Dems are pretty well screwed for the next 40 years. And don't imagine that all this is about anything else.
On immigrants, I think you are wrong. My wife is an immigrant, naturalized US citizen, as are a LOT of her acquaintances. NONE of them will vote for anyone but Trump. And we live in the important swing state of Florida. People imagine that immigrants somehow sympathize with illegal aliens. They don't. People who went through the process of immigration do NOT sympathize with people that came illegally.
Minorities are beginning to figure out the Dems never really did anything for them, though the majority will still vote for Dems in 2020...if 20% vote for Trump, there is no chance a Dem will win.
There will be no war, California will never secede. And every day, as the economy gets better (the two trade deals this week pretty much guaranteed a great economy for the next two years at least) every American has more to lose by messing up and voting for Democrats.
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@nobodyherepal3292 Well, during that time period, yes. My father never went to Korea.
After WW2 he was an instructor at Ft. Hood and Ft. Knox (where I was born) until he retired in 1956.
He trained a lot of people who went to Korea.
He began in the "Tank Corps" in the 1930s, was assigned to the 2nd Armored Div. when it was formed in 1940, went to North Africa and Sicily, then went to England where he was assigned to the 3rd Armored Division. He then fought with the 3rd AD (Spearhead) in Europe.
He served in the occupation force until November, 1945 when the 3rd Armored was deactivated and he was back to the 2nd Armored at Ft. Hood. In 1947 he was again assigned to the re-activated 3rd Armored Division, headquartered at Ft. Knox.
Throughout the Korean War, 3rd Armored was a "training division". 3rd Armored was reactivated as a "combat division" in 1955 and rotated in and out of Germany during the Cold War. Elvis Presley was in the 3rd Armored and would have been trained by my father, but he came 2 years after my father retired.
The 3rd Armored was again deactivated in 1992 after participating in "Desert Storm".
The 1st Battalion, 33rd Armored Regiment my father was in in Europe and after WW2, is still active. Renamed the 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment in 2005, it is part of the "rapid deployment force" of the 101st Airborne Division.
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Look, this is simple. NO ONE, not Biden, not Trump is going to win ANY "battleground" state by more than 2-3% and THAT would be a "landslide"! In 2016, the margins were well under 1%. So when you see ANY poll giving ANY candidate a more than 2-3% margin in ANY battleground state...it is BULLSHIT. A lead of 2-3% would take that state out of the battleground category. And the candidates would not be spending time there.
Watch where they GO, that is where the margins are 1-2% either way, well within the "margin of error" for any poll.
If Texas were "in play" as some bullshit polls suggest, Biden would be living there 24/7 because if he could flip JUST Texas from the 2016 election map, he would win.
One exception...Trump will sometimes go to a state that is not in question for him to support a Senate candidate, and will go to "border areas" of safe states to have a rally that can affect a neighboring battleground state or help a Senator in a neighboring state. Example...his recent trip to Omaha, NE. Not only to bolster his chances for NE District 2 but also to benefit Joni Ernst in Iowa, right across the river. Listen to the speech, he was referring to Iowa as much as he was to Nebraska.
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Abbot should keep lines of busses at busy border crossings. Label the busses "New York City", "Chicago", "Washington DC", etc. Add some in for Portland, OR, Minneapolis, MN and Seattle, WA. Maybe some for Napa Valley, CA. Be sure to include some busses for Aspen, CO and places like Chappaqua, the Hamptons, and Lake George.
Illegals can sign requests/releases at the door to the bus, stow their luggage and get aboard. When the bus is full...it leaves and another, empty bus, takes it's place. There should be a constant and continuous flow of busses out of these border crossings.
Every bus load saves Texas taxpayers MILLIONs of $$$.
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Thank you for your choice to make your products in the USA. My wife buys 3-4 swimsuits a year, I will be sure to refer her to your brand. I just sent her a link to your website.
I suggest you take your production to TX, TN, GA, FL, SC, KY, AR, MO, IN, OH, AL, MS.
31 states voted for TRUMP, take your production to one of them. The people there will be glad to have your business and the JOBS. And the fair wages you pay will go much further for your employees in other states.
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You're right, Styx.
I'm married to an immigrant. She was born and raised in the USSR. We went through the whole process, 4+ years, Several thousand dollars (we did it ourselves, no attorney), she went to school to learn English, not just ESL...no, that was not good enough, but got BA degree in English! Yes, that cost $$$ also, but she would not be satisfied with ESL level English in her NEW country.
She took her oath, and she does NOT sympathize with illegal aliens. She registered to vote on the way home from her oath ceremony, brought her fresh citizenship certificate in to the clerk's office! Then we went to the courthouse and she applied for her passport. She is so proud of her "Blue Passport".
She started her own business and is making a very good income doing exactly what she enjoys. She owns her "own" firearms, loves shooting, fishing and going to the beach. We live in Florida and she loves "not having winter" (winter was pretty f**king brutal where she came from)
She voted for Trump, and is infuriated to see HER country being given away to illegal aliens.
The idea that immigrants (illegal aliens are NOT immigrants) sympathize will illegals is ridiculous! It would be like saying the person who works, earns money and goes shopping sympathizes with shoplifters!
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Up this week...The Senate will end the "30 hour debate" rule for federal judges. This will stop the foot dragging by Democrats on judicial nominees. They can turn "30 hours" into 12 weeks. If they don't like it...they can just vote against every nominee. Like they would ANYWAY! They should have done this two years ago.
It appears they are going to end the "blue slip" rule officially. In case you wonder HOW some circuit courts become "liberal", it is because they had this "blue slip" rule where the senators of the states in the jurisdiction of the Circuit had to approve the nominees for that circuit. So ONE Senator from CA, OR, WA, or HI could block a nominee to the 9th circuit. That has been unofficially gone for two years, now it will be official.
It appears they are also going to attempt to end the Cloture/60 vote rule and restore the filibuster to what it used to be...Stand up and talk until you fall down, or GTFO of the way. I have mixed feelings. The majority should rule, a couple Democrats should not be able to stop legislation. The cloture rule stops debate, the filibuster encourages it. On the other hand, Republicans, when in the minority, have used it to prevent bad gun control laws from being passed.
All this week in the Senate. Flake's head should be exploding.
Flake? Sorry you thought you needed to make a video about him. He is a quitter. He is a loser. Who cares what he thinks?
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Only if by "based off" you mean a small .25 ACP handgun.
Matt is shooting what was sold as the Colt "Junior". It was introduced in 1957 and made until 1968. It was not designed by Browning at all, but by Astra in Spain in 1954. It was sold in the USA as the Colt "Junior" from 1957-1968 and the Astra "Cub", also until 1968. They were offered in .22 short and .25 ACP. Both were banned for importation by the GCA '68. In 1970 Colt started making the gun in the USA to avoid the import ban, b ut discontinued it in 1972 (it is still in the 1973 catalog though)
The FN 1906 and Colt 1908 VP are exactly the same gun. One was marketed in Europe (the FN 1906) the other was marketed in the US a couple years later. Both the FN and the Colt were made under license from Browning.
FWIW The FN 1910 and the Browning 1955 are also the same gun. Oddly enough, though, the FN 1903 and the Colt 1903 are NOT the same gun. At first glance they look similar, but they aren't.
The "Baby Browning"? It was introduced in 1931. 5 years AFTER Browning died. It was designed independently by Dieudonné Saive who was working at FN. FN had not asked him to design a .25 pocket gun, but they bought the rights to the gun and made it. Dieudonné Saive is the same engineer that completed the design of the Browning High Power...the last gun design Browning was working on, but didn't complete, before he died.
As an aside, I have a fondness of sorts for this little pistol. I was a police officer from 1973-2009. During my career I was shot three times. The first time was in 1976 when I was shot in the left hand by a bad guy with an Astra Cub in .22 short. The bullet stopped in my hand, and was removed at the hospital. I was treated and released from the hospital and did desk duty for a few days.
BTW...yeah, it hurt like HELL!
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Russian and Ukrainian mothers are always like that. Ask my kids. Their Ukrainian mother stills scolds them every time she talks to them about what they are wearing. Our youngest son is fighting in east Ukraine. Whenever we get the chance to talk to him, my wife just wants to know what he's wearing, is he dry, is he warm? (he drinks very little and not at all when he is deployed)
NCO leadership is very important to insist and enforce that the men are doing what is needed to remain as warm and dry as possible. They will be no good if they are cold, wet and demoralized.
We just prepared another box of warm socks and gloves, enough for his whole squad. Yes, they have socks and gloves, but as you probably know...military socks and gloves are "low bidder" items. We are sending good quality wool socks and good quality hunting gloves.
We are also sending "power banks" to charge phones and laptops to other members of our family living near Kharkiv, and some more warm clothes for others in our family.
If you know anyone there, or know people serving, they really appreciate this kind of thing.
("Meest USA" is the best/cheapest/fastest for sending packages to Ukraine)
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Dr. Carson, that famous log cabin is in KENTUCKY, just outside Hodgenville in what was, at the time Hardin County, it is no longer in Hardin County, the county having been split, where Lincoln was BORN. Yes, it is still there, it is a National Park and you can visit it, in KENTUCKY. He moved to ILL when he was 10 years old. Otherwise, thank you President Trump!
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The state Senate filibustered the bill for 15 hours. The filibuster has ended. The bill can now be voted on in the Senate. It then will go to the House, where the Democrats are still out of the state. So, really, nothing much happened. Until the losers agree to return and vote for the losing side, Gov. Abbot will have to keep calling special sessions, 30 days at a time.
The cowardly, loser Democrats will eventually have to come home OR surrender their seat and be replaced by special election. As soon as even ONE of them enters the state, they can be apprehended and driven to the capitol where the presence of even ONE Democrat will constitute and quorum and the vote on the bill can be held.
If this special session expires without a House vote on the Bill, the Governor will call another special session and the Senate will have to vote again on the bill. Rinse and repeat.
Keep in mind, Texas legislative representatives are part time. They normally only meet 60 days every two years. They all have other jobs and responsibilities, families, homes, etc.
This is a major inconvenience for all of them, especially the ones that have to stay out of the state to prevent a quorum.
The Texas Senate allows for a filibuster to delay votes BUT it requires the Senator filibustering the bill to stand up and speak continuously. They can talk about anything they want...even just read a book out loud. They cannot sit, or even lean on a podium. She lasted 15 hours.
Time to vote for the losing side and go home.
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It doesn't mean any such thing for other countries. The results in other countries will depend on their Constitutions.
The US Constitution has clear separations of powers between three branches of government. Legislative (Congress), Executive (President) and Judicial (Courts). We also have a system of "checks and balances" in our Constitution. Whereby each branch has equal power to cancel the other branches actions. ALL branches must a agree for an action to be enforceable.
Example: Congress passes a law with a simple majority. The President can VETO the law (kill it). Congress can OVERRIDE the veto with a 2/3 majority vote. The Judicial branch can rule the law is unconstitutional. The Executive branch can appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court, which has the FINAL say. No skipping of steps allowed. It is a giant "Rock, paper, scissors" game. And it is INTENDED expressly to make it difficult for government to control people's lives.
People say our system makes it difficult to pass laws. YES IT DOES! That was the whole idea!!!!! The key to OUR system is that most things are supposed to be handled by the States and the people are supposed to appeal to their local elected officials...the guys you get to meet and talk to, your neighbors, the people from your city, your county. Yeah, those guys!
The Supreme Court didn't make this ruling because it "makes sense", it did so because the actions of the EPA as an Executive agency were unconstitutional (illegal). Executive agencies are empowered by the constitution to ENFORCE statutes hat are passed by Congress. They CANNOT make laws.
Biden tried to pass his "New Green Deal" in Congress and it failed. So he ordered his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create "regulations" to limit emissions of power plants. Essentially a dictator move. The Environmental Protect Act (the law) does not give that power to the EPA. That MUST come from a change in the law, which can ONLY be done by Congress.
President Trump, when he was in office, made a commitment to appointing Supreme Court Justices that followed the Constitution, and as fate would have it, he got to appoint THREE during his 4 year term. The changed the balance of the Court to a majority of Justices that actually follow the Constitution.
Now Biden has to go back to the proper way and try to get his agenda passed through Congress. 535 elected members all answerable to the people every two years.
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AND, he did it at the NRA annual members meeting, AND he threw the pen into the cheering crowd like a rock star, AND he just secured enough votes in every district and state to win a close election. So much for Eric Swalwell "standing up to the NRA" . The funny thing is that "gun control" is always a big issue for the Democrat primary, and as soon as the nomination is secured, they shut their mouths on gun control. We'll see it again in 2020. Trump will loudly and clearly support the 2nd amendment at every one of his rallies and the Dems will not mention it.
The NRA maintains it's influence by NOT being gerrymandered into "safe districts", they do it by being 3-5% of every district, and most elections are decided by less than that margin. WI, MI, PA, FL, NC and OH were decided by less than the number of NRA members in each of those states in 2016. And they will be again in 2020.
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My son is fighting in the 92nd Brigade of the AFU. My family lives in Kharkiv. The unit he joined last August had 30 men, it is a logistics platoon serving the 92nd Brigade in the Kursk offensive. The men who deliver supplies to the front. You know, those videos you see of Russian supply trucks being destroyed? Do you imagine the Russians aren't doing that to Ukrainian supply convoys?!?!?
Of the 30 men that were in his unit in August...THREE are left. All others have been killed or maimed beyond being able to serve.
They rotate their assignments every three days. Three days on, 1 day off. While delivering supplies, they are under nearly continuous attack...NOT from donkeys. From rockets, mortars, helicopters, airplanes, drones. No donkeys. My son hasn't seen any donkeys. He has seen a lot of people killed and dismembered by explosions. Have you ever seen that? Would you wish for YOUR son to see that?
The training facility my son went to in Dnipro Oblast was hit by Russian missiles last week. Not donkey carts.
My mother in law's home was destroyed, fortunately she wasn't killed, but the building had to be demolished, it was irreparable. My brother in law and nephew are fighting in the war for the AFU. My grandson has never had a normal day of school between covid and the war.
Who in your family is fighting in the war? Which of YOUR loved ones would you trade for a few square meters of territory?
You have no clue what you are talking about.
I want the war to end before my son is killed. Before my brother in law is killed, before my nephew is killed. Before my younger nephew and grandson have to go to war. Before there are MORE widows in our country. MORE children without fathers (or mothers).
You sit comfortably a few thousand kilometers away and decide who should DIE for your fantasy.
I would not trade anyone in my family for a square meter of Donets'k Oblast or Crimea.
Would you? END THE WAR!!!!!!
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Let's keep in mind that we have about half the US population that doesn't believe the results of the 2020 election and Congress has formed committees to look into the "Weaponization" of OUR government.
Having lived and worked in Ukraine, and being married to a Ukrainian woman and having property and family in Ukraine, I can tell you without question that the situation of bribery/corruption in Ukraine has greatly improved since the 90s and early 2000s. At that time, you had to pay off the mail carrier if they thought something they were delivering was important...like a pension check!
Not to mention the brides you had to pay for any document you wanted or any service you wanted from a government agency. No one got traffic tickets, you just bribed the police. No one enforced workplace safety or mine safety rules, you just bribed the inspectors.
That has pretty much evaporated. Is there high level corruption...🤷♂ I can tell you that it has improved both with the Presidency of Poroshenko and Zelenskyy.
At the same time, government services have improved greatly. And this has gone a long way. Pensioners no longer get their checks in the mail, they get direct deposited to an account with a debit card. You no longer need to get documents by going to government offices, waiting in a dimly lit corridor, sometimes for hours, and then paying bribe to the clerk if you don't want to "wait three weeks". You can do all that online now. And the Ukrainian system is being copied by other countries also...Finland, Estonia, Latvia. Our daughter in law just renewed her "foreign passport" in less than two weeks, without a bribe, during a WAR. 10 or 15 years ago, you would have waited 2-3 months (they would say they "didn't have the special paper" to print the passport), UNLESS you paid a bribe and then you got it in 2-3 days.
Zelenskyy has been doing a great job of cleaning things up. To be honest, I was skeptical of him but figured "why not"? He couldn't be any worse. When the war started he didn't pack a helicopter full of cash and flee! Biden offered to "send him a helicopter"...I wonder WHY Biden wanted him out? Zelenskyy said "I don't need a ride, I need more ammunition!"
Ukraine was part of the USSR until just over 30 years ago. Everything was corrupt. When the Soviet Union ended, the corruption just transferred from Moscow control to Kiev Control. It was incredibly corrupt. And there were a LOT of old Soviets perfectly happy with lining their pockets. Those old Soviets are dying off, literally, and the younger generation of politicians in Ukraine is really working hard to root out the corruption. It will take time, but they are making progress.
I believe that the rebuilding process after their victory over Russia will go a very long way to finish off the corruption. There are going to be a lot of private, foreign interests building in Ukraine and they will not tolerate any leftover Soviet dinosaurs with their hands out.
We need to help them where we can.
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Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 of the US Constitution allowed for legislation to ban the import of human slaves 20 years after the Constitution was ratified. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect on January 1, 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution.
While the British continued their efforts against slavery, after 1808 it was not the United States where the slaves were bound, but to colonies in the Caribbean that were not part of the US.
Democrats controlling the south kept the institution of slavery intact in the USA until forced to end it by Republicans invading and, finally, taking control of the southern states, and maintaining control of the states until they adopted state constitutions which admonished slavery.
The last Democrat run state to do so was Georgia, readmitted to the union in 1870. It took another 110 years for the Democrat controlled south to finally relinquish and give up their segregationist attitudes and cast off the Democrat slavery/segregation legacy in the elections of 1980...when the Democrats finally lost "the solid south".
As the south became much less segregated, it became much more Republican.
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@Michael_Beanflip All sarcasm aside...there were over 40 million guns sold in the USA in 2020. An all time record. Looks like 2021 is going to fall a little short.
Actually the firearms industry went through a period called the "Trump slump" in 2017-2020. It took the threats of Democrats to spur firearms sales.
You wouldn't know this, because you never filled out a form 4473, but such things as demographics are tracked by the NICS background check system. Age, sex, race.
Those 40 million guns represented 8 million NEW gun owners and 40% of the total firearms sold were purchased by African Americans. Last I checked, African Americans weren't big supporters of Trump, though many more were in 2020 than in 2016.
This is why NO federal firearms laws have been enacted and even Biden's "Executive Orders" have not been implemented. This is why Biden's nominee for ATF Director, a gun control activist, was turned back in the Senate. Couldn't even get the Democrats to vote for him.
The real problem for Democrats is that it is not just "Trumpers" who are "hoarding" guns. The demographics of gun ownership is changing. Just ask Terry McAuliffe. VA passed gun control under Ralph Northam and a Democrat controlled legislature. Republicans just kicked out the Dems in the VA legislature and EVERY county in VA went more heavily for Republicans in 2021 than in 2017 or 2020.
The 2020 riots and the Democrat movement to "defund" the police forced a lot of people into the decision to arm themselves. Most of those riots occurred in neighborhoods and cities with a large percentage of African Americans. Senators are not "safe" to pass gun control laws, and keep their seats. Chris Murphy (D-CT) announced just a couple days ago that there will be no vote on gun control in the Senate. Even Beto O'Rourke has toned down his "Hell YES, we're gong to take your guns!" rhetoric.
There will be no federal firearms laws passed in 2022. Election year. The last time Democrats passed a gun law in an election year was 1994. They had controlled the House of Representatives for 40 years, and lost it 2 months after the gun law was implemented.
In fact, that was the last time ANY federal firearms legislation was passed.
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How things work...
Current locomotives ARE electric powered!!!!!!!
The diesel engine inside the locomotive drives an electric GENERATOR that provides the ELECTRIC MOTORS of the locomotive with ELECTRIC power to pull the train. They carry their electric generator WITH THEM. Given the vast distances covered by trains the USA, this is the MOST EFFICIENT method of generating the electricity needed to power the trains. Trains are extremely efficient in the amount of fuel used per ton/mile of cargo moved.
If they were "electric" locomotives (as frequently used in Europe or in subways and light rail in the USA) they would need to get electric power from a remote generator through wires which REDUCE the efficiency of the transfer of electric power. The remote generator would have to be powered by some sort of FUEL to produce electricity.
Battery powered locomotives are even LESS efficient! For each transfer of energy, there is a LOSS through heat and friction. (YES there is friction from electricity moving through wires) Locating the SOURCE of the power as closely as possible to the USE of the power and reducing the TRANSFERS. Fuel > generator > transmission wires > transformers (to increase voltage for long distance transmission and then to reduce the voltage again to to usable levels) > rectifier (to convert AC to DC for battery storage) > battery > inverter (to convert DC back to AC for the motors) > electric motor.
A DIESEL/ELECTRIC locomotive (that IS what they are called) eliminates the transmission wires, transformers, rectifier, battery storage and inverter and provides AC electric power directly from the AC generator to the AC motors driving the train!
In case no one has been paying attention to the current energy crisis in Europe caused by the sanctioning of Russian coal, oil and natural gas... Europe gets much of it's FUEL to produce electricity for electric trains from coal, oil and natural gas. They are seeking alternate sources of fossil fuel to power their generators to power electric trains. Europe also has a much a higher percentage of electric power from nuclear power plants than the USA. Likewise, the electric trains in the USA, mostly subways and above ground light commuter rail, also get their electricity from fossil fuel power plants.
When you see a TRAIN LOAD of COAL, think of it as "another load of fuel for electric cars and trains".
Electricity is NOT AN ENERGY SOURCE!!!!!!!!!! It is a PRODUCT of energy sources!!!!!!!!
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Every morning the President wakes up and decides what the media will talk about that day. The media will talk about...all day...what the President tells them to. He sends out a tweet or two or three, and VOILA!, they follow like little kittens chasing one of those red laser pointers. Then he, correctly, notes that all the media does is chase him around on a hate filled rant as he runs them into walls and over cliffs, day after day after day after day. The Democratic party does the same thing. They have so consumed themselves with this hate that they HAVE NO PLATFORM...other than "hate Trump" But the American VOTERS don't hate Trump because the economy is great, their taxes are lower, they got bonuses, Trump is pulling off international policy accomplishments that make Obama and the Dems look like total fools. And yet...they follow that red laser pointer, day after day after day after day. Trump is not a politician. He is from a competitive industry where you WIN by offering something your opponent doesn't. The Dem politicians and the media have NO CHANCE.
As Bill Clinton told George HW Bush..."It's the economy, stupid!"
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@mentalwarfare81 Wrong. If you are able to read, please read below.
The Constitution leaves the standards of voting to the States. A federal statute prevents non-citizens from voting in federal elections.
The Constitution does not say who CAN vote, but amendments to it specify who cannot be DENIED voting rights. (women, minorities, persons over age 18, etc.)
18 U.S. Code § 611 - Voting by aliens
(a)It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, UNLESS —
(1)the election is held partly for some other purpose;
(2)aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and
(3)voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices.
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Unless the legislature passed a law declaring Trump, by name, to be a criminal without a trial, it is not an unconstitutional Bill (Act) of Attainder. Bills (Acts) of Attainder are proscribed by the Constitution to prevent legislatures from exceeding their powers and assuming the role of the Judicial branch. Legislatures can pass laws, change laws, change statutes of limitations, but CAN NOT declare a person guilty.
Additionally:
Unless Trump is being criminally charged with something that was not a crime when the act was committed, it is NOT an "Ex Post Facto" law. Both are covered in the same Constitutional Article and Section.
Art. I.S9.C3.1 Bills of Attainder <---------------- cut, paste and search. Read.
A person who CAN read, but doesn't, is no different than a person who can't read.
When you hear this nonsense on the internet, it is simple to actually look it up and fact check it.
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@paulcoffman9841 Um...my wife (born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine) actually worked in Sergut, Russia (Siberia) as an accountant in an oil and gas production facility. They DON'T "put gas fields in Siberia" in "the dead of winter". You've never been there and you don't know what you are talking about.
The construction and drilling is done in summer. Winter operations are limited to maintenance. Temperatures routinely drop to -30C and as low as -50C.
In fact, the crews/staff were paid extra wages and given extra, paid, time off (in the winter) for volunteering to work in Siberia. Which is WHY my wife did it when she was young, just out of college, and single.
Yeah, in a country with many more men than women, her and a classmate and lifelong friend thought they would reverse the odds for a couple years. She spent spent most of the winters near Sochi. Because the oil and gas fields were SHUT DOWN!
I lived and worked in Odessa, Ukraine. I understand the difference between a Black Sea coast winter and a Siberian winter.
You don't.
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I think this is going to be Trump's biggest WIN! He is going to rescue the nation from this virus and rescue the economy, TWICE, in his first term.
I think this has also completely broken whatever hold "the Squad" had on the Dem party. 3 of them have fallen off the radar and AOC has been reduced to, literally, stamping her feet and waving her arms in an hysterical temper tantrum as she watched her only chance to get any of her wacko ideas into the CARE Act. Seriously, she looked like a 6th grader whose mother took away her "My Little Pony". And, for once, a LOT of people were watching. It was AOC's "jump the shark" moment.
The next phase will not be so "urgent" and will be dealing more with the aftermath...there will not be the urgency she had hoped would let her push through her nonsense. Nancy Pelosi is not going to step on THAT rake again.
The "open border, free medical care for illegal aliens, gun confiscation" policies are to be ridiculed. Just what we need...illegals to take up hospital beds, jobs, and push down wages and gun confiscation while the prisons and jails are emptied out into the population to "protect" them from the virus.
Not to mention that BIDEN can hardly be seen as the "solution" to this problem. 🤣 Ironically, Biden is not the kind of guy you want to hand over the country to when everything is going well....and he sure as hell is the not the guy you want in charge when everything is bad.
Still waiting to see the Dems reaction to the accusation of him forcibly finger fucking a young woman in 1993. Should be exactly the same as their reaction to Kavanaugh being accused. Right?
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@graciefreebush394
Gracie, I am a retired police officer. 36 years of service, 19 years as a detective. You may be surprised to learn that many of the cases handed over to me to investigate were people that had been arrested for "non-violent" property crimes, shoplifting, vandalism, etc. Or even traffic violations. Then we find out, they are also suspects in assaults, rapes, home invasions, homicides, armed robberies. Many criminal in prison, convicted for horrible crimes against people, were arrested because someone reported a small, non-violent crime. I had a career, Gracie, that was very rewarding. But there were so many days that I couldn't answer my wife when she asked "how was your day?"
You see, Gracie, crime is caused by criminals.
Most people aren't criminals. In the worst neighborhoods in the country, and I worked in them, most people are decent, great people.
ALL the crime is committed by a very few people. When you let a non-violent crime go unreported you may be dooming someone to rape, assault, robbery, or being killed.
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@alit5563 Millions of people retired. A curious thing...unemployment benefits do not count against earnings limits for early retirees, and Social Security Retirement benefits don't count as "earnings" reportable for unemployment. You can collect the full amount of both! Millions of people did! Those, experienced, people have to be replaced...so lots of people "move up" in their careers to fill those jobs and others move in to fill the lower levels in those career paths...none of which are low paying retail and restaurant jobs, which go begging for remaining workers.
Others started their own business or new careers that they trained for while unemployed. They filled those entry level positions in trades, medical technicians, etc. What better time to do that than when the government was paying you $600/wk., in addition to your state benefits, and no one was even required to LOOK for work!?!?!? They are never going back to the low wage jobs again.
Meanwhile, businesses have to compete for the remaining people who will work the lowest wage jobs. That means higher wages for the lowest wage jobs. Businesses will pay it...or have no employees. And YES, that will kill off some businesses, for others they will cut their hours...no more 24/7 ice cream swirlies at the gas mart.
I said the "worker shortage is because unemployment pays more than working" excuse was nonsense all along. Now, 4 months after the last federal Unemployment benefits were paid (6 months after for 25 states) and there is still a shortage of labor, people are beginning to find that out.
Some people imagined there was a huge reservoir of "lazy people" who would be "forced" back to work when the benefits ran out. Well, life is full of disappointment caused by unrealistic expectations. (not sure WHY businesses would want to hire "lazy people" anyway)
That reservoir dried up long ago. Those people weren't lazy, they were smart!
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As a student in the USSR she was required to be a member of the Young Pioneers and the Komsomol. She didn't "join" and she didn't "quit". Membership ends when your education ends. Each and every student in the USSR was a member of these organizations as a student. This membership in no way determines if she is a communist or not.
I believe she IS a communist, but not because of her membership in these organizations.
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) was also a member of these organizations as a student in Ukraine and is now a rock solid conservative, capitalist. As are the vast majority of people who lived in communist regimes.
Melania Trump was, no doubt, also a member of a similar organization, though she grew up in Slovenia, not the USSR, but all communist countries had similar programs for students.
My wife, a naturalized US citizen, born and raised in Soviet Ukraine, was also a member. She voted for Trump.
We have similar programs in the USA, called "public school".
In any case, Omorova's nomination was withdrawn. She IS a communist, but not because of her membership in the Young Pioneers or Komsomol.
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I say this as a Ukrainian-American (naturalized citizen, born and raised in Kharkiv) who has a son who is fighting for Ukraine since the war started, and has a grandson and nephew that will also be fighting for Ukraine if this war doesn't end.
Trump CAN NOT say how he will end the war, because it is not his war to end. He can have a desire to end the war and a plan to negotiate, but he cannot say how "he" will do it and he cannot say what "Winning" means. It was a trick question.
Does winning mean "existing" and not being taken over entirely by Russia, as Harris seemed to indicate? Or does winning mean restoring to 1991 borders?
I can tell you that the current Biden/Harris plan will only result in the slow death of Ukraine. Ukraine CAN NOT last another 4 years of this war...as it is now. Dribbling aid to Ukraine (the US and west have actually delivered about 1/3 of what was promised) and tying their hands on how to use that aid, will only result in the death of 10s of thousands MORE Ukrainians before Ukraine LOSES. The country is already a society of widows.
THE WAR MUST END!!!!
On a recent mission, my son's unit ran out of water...WATER!... 1-1/2 days into a 3 days mission. His unit of (roughly, give or take wounded and killed) 30 men has 3 men under 30 years of age. My son, now an NCO is age 31. (A good age for an NCO) There are several men waiting (hoping, if they live that long) to be discharged at the "maximum" age of SIXTY (60) years old! There are several alcoholics, two diabetics, and many with the regular ailments (and weight) of 40-60 year old men. Men under age 25 are exempt! College students are exempt! They are taking 55 year old men but not 20 year old men!?!?! The USA, or any NATO country, would REJECT all but 3 or 4 of his unit. 8 men have deserted from his unit in the last 30 days. Desertion is epidemic in the Ukrainian military (as it is in the Russian military, also). But this is what happens when a country, literally, takes men off the street with serious health issues or men in their 50s with bad knees, backs and shoulders! And keep in mind, these deserters are in their home country! They can, literally, just hitchhike or walk home. Or to a relative's home. They don't have to run away in battle. Most of the deserters wait until they get a day or two "leave" and just never come back. Or get sent for supplies to a local village and never return.
Ukraine is giving 35 days of training to conscripts, and some of them are being made NCOs after 30 days of experience in the field. Half of them are dead or wounded after 30 days in the war.
Most of the men who were professional soldiers, OR who volunteered at the beginning of the war, are dead or so severely wounded they cannot fight.
Ukraine CAN NOT survive another four years of this.
I will NOT vote for Kamala Harris.
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@robertkleiman No. It didn't.
Unless the legislature passed a law declaring Trump, by name, to be a criminal without a trial, it is not an unconstitutional Bill (Act) of Attainder. Bills (Acts) of Attainder are proscribed by the Constitution to prevent legislatures from exceeding their powers and assuming the role of the Judicial branch. Legislatures can pass laws, change laws, change statutes of limitations, but CAN NOT declare a person guilty.
Additionally:
Unless Trump is being criminally charged with something that was not a crime when the act was committed, it is NOT an "Ex Post Facto" law. Both are covered in the same Constitutional Article and Section.
Art. I.S9.C3.1 Bills of Attainder <---------------- cut, paste and search. Read.
A person who CAN read, but doesn't, is no different than a person who can't read.
When you hear this nonsense on the internet, it is simple to actually look it up and fact check it.
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I am shocked you are fooled by this, Styx. He is in a public park in NYC. Those people were there anyway. I doubt that 1000 of them came TO SEE BERNIE. A cat fight in that park on a weekend can draw 23,000 in NYC. One of those Faith Healers standing on a chair in Times Square can claim to have a bigger crowd! Let's see him do it in Mississippi. Or Louisiana. Or Iowa. Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota or Montana. Let's see him do it 3 times a day in three different areas of the country. Let's see him to it at an INDOOR facility where people have to drive, park, walk, stand in line for hours in rain, heat, snow, cold and draw 23,000 INSIDE and 10,000 outside watching on big screen TVs. Styx, do you remember the primary in 2016? 20,000 people showed up to a Trump rally at the Flynn Theater in Burlington, VT!!!!!!!!!!!! In JANUARY!!!!!! That's equal to HALF the population of the city of Burlington at a venue that holds 1400!!!!!!!!!!! He gridlocked the city (admittedly not too hard to do in Burlington, but still) The rest were outside and it was VERY COLD! Oh yeah, at the opposite end of Church Street from Bernie's office and just a block from Leahy's office.
Bernie shows up where there is already a crowd and claims to be their leader. It is a pathetic joke, Styx. That said, some of the other candidates would make the crowd, already present, FLEE!!!!!!!
Romney is now pandering to the same people who destroyed his campaign for President. I doubt he has the testicles to actually vote for removal if it comes to that. Utah is WAY pro-Trump. He doesn't even have the gonads to post on twitter in his own name. And uses a name that translates to "Delightful Peter" I'll let you draw your own conclusions, but note that Utah has the highest per capita consumption or pornography in the USA.
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@marysander5584 Another question...
If AOC dropped into an outdoor venue on a stormy Friday night in rural, downstate Illinois do you think she could get 10,000-20,000+ people come out to listen to her speak for 90 minutes? No bands, no music, just AOC speaking for 90 minutes.
Trump did it just a few days ago. Do you think AOC could?
What abut in Casper, WY? Anchorage, AK? Greensburg, PA? Or even Las Vegas NV?
And Trump isn't even in office!
Who do you think would have more "young people" at one of their events, Trump or AOC?
AOC is the "Congressional Kardashian". She's a joke. And sometime around the morning of November 9th, the Democrat party is going to figure out they followed her off a cliff.
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By VOTING in person. Pinion Nuts...the majority of these states doing the universal mail in ballots are BLUE states anyway. California would never go for Trump. The worrisome ones are PA and NV. But I really don't think it is going to matter in the end. In my opinion, the best value of mail in ballots for the Dems is to create chaos. If the election is CLOSE, there will be all sorts of claims and lawsuits.
If Trump wins handily...doesn't have to be a landslide, just a solid win equal to 2016 or better, the plan for chaos won't work anyway.
It could have a greater effect on Congress, particularly the House. Of the 31 vulnerable Democratic held seats in Congress, 7 of them are in CA. That said, the Senate is far more important for Republicans to keep. We could deal with a Democrat House for two more years if necessary, but Trump would need the Senate to get his Supreme Court and Federal Court nominees confirmed.
One of the vulnerable Republican Senators is Susan Collins (R-ME) Actually I HOPE she loses. I would LOVE to trade her seat for Doug Jones' seat in Alabama and get her RINO ass off the Judiciary Committee. As for the people of Maine...if they get rid of her, they are STUPID. She has always been able to leverage her weak support of the GOP for a lot more benefits for her state than she deserves. A freshman Democrat for Maine will be relegated to obscurity and with a GOP majority, Maine can go suck hind tit.
The solution is to VOTE. Show up in person and VOTE! Half the mail in push is to scare you into not voting, to convince that going to the grocery store is safe...but voting isn't. NONSENSE!
VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are concerned about Covid 19, then go to early voting at off hour times. Go at 10 am or 2pm on weekdays, avoid the weekend, morning, lunch and afternoon busy times.
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Thanks for the video!
Great museum! I highly recommend it, along with the British Naval Museum at Portsmouth. My only bad experience at the Imperial War Museum came when I had a London Cockney tour guide for the World War 1 trenches exhibit and, seriously, needed subtitles in English to understand what she said...in English.
During my career I had the great opportunity to work for many years in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. There are many great museums there.
I recommend the History Museum and Memorial of Glory in Kharkov, Ukraine. The Museums of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow and St. Petersburg, particularly St. Petersburg, (go in summer, NOT winter!). Babi Yar ravine in Kiev (Kyiv) is unforgettable.
And, dare I forget, the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic. Many of these museums cover more topics than just war, but all are fascinating.
Many of these cities, just the individual cities, had more casualties of the war the the entire European theater losses for the USA. The Memorial of Glory in Kharkov honors the 274,000 residents of that city that were killed in World War 2. Throughout the cities and parks of these countries you will see many memorials and statues...statues to lost children and mothers, for example. It is a sobering thing to see.
While overseas, I met and married my Ukrainian wife and we still visit Ukraine and Europe every year and I always seek out the great museums.
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The Senate is half of Congress. The other half of Congress is the House of Representatives.
That requires a Constitutional Amendment. A Constitutional Amendment requires that 2/3 of the Legislators that would be term limited, in BOTH chambers of Congress, VOTE to limit their own terms and THEN the Amendment has to be ratified by 3/4 of the State Legislatures. And many of those legislators WANT to be Federal Legislators.
(and PLEASE...spare me the Congress of states route, that has happened exactly ONCE in our nations history, in 1787 and STILL requires 3/4 of the states to ratify an amendment introduced by 2/3 of the states)
Bottom line, spoiler alert: Ain't gonna happen.
On the other hand, YOU have the opportunity to limit their terms every two years. But the vast majority of people can't even tell you WHO their representatives and Senators ARE. Can't name them, wouldn't know them if they bumped into them. Don't check their voting records, which is all public info., have no idea what their positions are. Are you kidding? They don't even know their names! YOU don't even know the names of the two chambers of Congress!!!!!!
AND...
Only a little over half the people in the country are registered to vote, and maybe 65% of them actually vote.
Our representatives are being elected by 35% of people who could vote, most of them couldn't name the people they voted for and YOU think the solution is to ask the politicians to limit their own terms?!?!?!?! 🤡🤪
A representative Republic requires the attention of the electorate. Putting it on auto pilot and just flushing out everyone every few years...just because "time's up!"...would not only NOT be a representative Republic, it's ASININE!!!!!!! You can't fix STUPID with a policy of just replacing everyone on a timeclock!
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As a Canadian you benefit from being less than a 4 hour drive from the USA. We are YOUR health system's safety valve. WHY are there such huge hospitals in tiny cities like Burlington, VT (UVM MC) or Plattsburgh, NY (CVPH)? Because their parking lots are full of Canadian license plates! Canadians escaping their health system. There are 4 times the number of MRI services in Burlington (pop. 40,000) vs. Montreal, (pop. 2.5 million), that's not even counting Plattsburgh. Why are the malls in Vermont loaded with Canadian license plates? Escaping 15% GST and PST! Why are there 24 F-16 jets at Burlington airport? Because they are the air defense for eastern Canada and the US. 40% of the travelers at Plattsburgh and Burlington airports are Canadians escaping high taxes. They know the cheapest way to fly anywhere in the USA is to drive to Burlington to get on the plane. Why do so many Canadians buy boats and keep them on the US side of lake Champlain? (so many it is known as the "Canadian Navy") to avoid taxes in Canada! So since we are already subsidizing your health system (with $$$ and facilities) and providing you a convenient escape from having to pay for it...why don't YOU keep your nose up in Canada? (Unless you need medical care in a hurry, then we'll be glad to provide it. We accept Visa and MC). Don't get me wrong, I prefer having Canada as a neighbor to, say, Belarus or North Korea, but MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!!!!!! Eh!
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Norma...young child...the Bay of Pigs occurred in April, 1961. JFK was inaugurated in January, 1961. He didn't "inherit" anything. JFK made the decision to proceed and made the decision to abandon the mission in progress, securing the regime of Castro. There is nothing better for a despot than "defeating" the Great USA.
WHAT, exactly was "wrong" with the USA in 1961? And HOW, exactly, was JFK on his way to fixing it? I was alive and well back then, were you? The ONLY time in my life I was afraid of nuclear war was in October, 1962.
Who was it that committed US troops to Vietnam, Norma? Who was that, Norma?
Speaking of pigs...a pig with lipstick has more class than today's Democrats. That's insulting JFK with false praise. I am no fan of JFK but I wouldn't insult the man like that.
Please, Norma, use the internet to LEARN before you post nonsense.
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@Fatty4president Incorrect. I explained all that above, you didn't read it. It's OK, it's the internet, admission price is very low and knowledge is optional...so here we go again:
The Colt Junior was designed by Astra, in Spain, in 1954...not before. In 1957 Colt arranged to import the Astra made gun under the Colt name. They were sold concurrently in the USA until 1968. Two years later, Colt made the Junior again, in the USA, but only until 1972. It uses a SA external hammer for firing.
The earlier gun was a striker fired type, designed by John Browning and sold in Europe as the FN 1906 and by Colt in the USA as the Model 1908 Vest Pocket Hammerless. The title went along with their Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless, also designed by Browning but that gun was actually a concealed hammer fired gun, not striker fired.
Both of those are totally unrelated to the Astra Cub/Colt Junior...other than being a small .25 ACP.
If anything, they are closer in design to the 1950s era Beretta Model 950 "Jetfire", sans the open slide and tip up barrel.
The later "Baby Browning" designed by Dieudonne Saive is a striker fired gun, not related to any of the above and designed 5 years after John Browning died.
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Thank you, Governor. Our police officers deserve it.
We have some friends who live in Hungary. Last fall they were planning a trip to the USA and were going to fly into New York, spend a week there, then fly down to visit us in Florida.
Because of the oppressive government in New York, they changed their plans, flew into Miami. We met them there, stayed at a Condo in Pompano Beach, went fishing offshore, then a day fishing on Lake Ida, then went on a 4 day cruise to the Bahamas. We then drove back to our home on Volusia County (your old Congressional district) and they spent a week here. More fishing, some shooting, some days at the beach, Kennedy Space Center, saw a Space X launch...and went to a lot of great Florida restaurants!
They had never been to the USA and absolutely loved Florida! Our friends say we "Live in Heaven"!
They never missed New York! 🤣
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You disagree because you hate Trump and aren't Ukrainian, and never lived in Ukraine and don't speak Russian and/or Ukrainian...but Ukrainians from east, or south Ukraine (primarily Russian speaking areas), such as my family from Kharkiv, DO NOT have Russian accents. The people in this video have STRONG Russian accents. They are NOT Ukrainians. Period. WE know that even if you don't.
Russians know when they are speaking to a Ukrainian and Ukrainians know when they hear a Russian speak. If I go to Moscow, or even nearby Belgorod or Prokhorovka, (as I often used to do) they KNOW I am Ukrainian. I can speak perfect Russian, but no Russian will mistake me for being from Russia. Just as someone from Mobile, AL is not going to convince anyone they are from Brooklyn and someone from Australia is not going to convince you he is from Chicago.
Some of us do not speak Ukrainian, I don't. We had it in school, but I never used it. So I understand Ukrainian the way an American understands French that had French class in high school. 50 years ago. But my wife from Kharkiv does speak fluent Ukrainian. She used it frequently in her job. But no one from Kyiv, Lviv or Vinnytsia is going to mistake my wife for being from anywhere BUT east Ukraine.
There WAS NO "quid pro quo" for Trump, Ukraine did NOT investigate anyone for Trump, and aid was withheld for TEN DAYS...and Ukraine didn't even know it. Not a bad thing to do, considering Ukraine had a newly elected government.
Trump had begun giving aid to Ukraine in 2017 and the alleged "quid pro quo" didn't happen until 2 years later.
Trump recently was responsible for solving the impasse in Congress over Ukraine aid by making part of the aid (the non military part) a LOAN. THAT change, and Trump's support, got enough votes to PASS the bill to give $61 billion in aid to Ukraine...AND keep Mike Johnson from being ousted.
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@backwards645 No it doesn't mean that.
The Texas state legislature requires a filibustering Senator to stand up and speak continuously. She spoke for 15 hrs. Filibuster is now over. The Senate can pass the bill. But it will make no difference, because unless the bill is passed by the Texas House by tomorrow, when this special session ends, the bill "dies" and has to be reintroduced in the next special session which begins Saturday.
Again, the Senate will pass the bill on the last day of that session, but if the Democrats in the House are still out of state, it will die...again. AND Gov. Abbot will call another special session...rinse, repeat.
Abbot and Republicans are betting they can outlast the House Democrats that have to remain outside the state. If any ONE of them returns to Texas, they can be apprehended, taken to the capitol where the presence of even one Democrat will constitute a quorum and the vote can be held. (Quorum = min. 50% of members + at least ONE rep. from each party. Republicans have the 50%+ covered, they need ONE Democrat to make a quorum)
At some point ONE of those Democrats will have to return to the state (they live there after all) and then they lose. Remember, they are part time reps, they have other jobs, families, and homes. They have to pay for their out of state accommodations the state does not pay for that.
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Nonsense.
Why do you hate the Constitution?
The Speaker of the House, unlike committees, committee chairpersons, "leaders", etc. is a position which is enumerated in the Constitution. Article I of the Constitution gives the authority to choose the Speaker of the House to the elected members of the House.
Committees are created by rules within the House and have no Constitutional authority, nor is their any Constitutional restriction against them. Same with committee chairs, majority leaders, minority leaders, whips, etc. Those are powers granted to the Article I Legislative Branch by the Constitution.
Our Government is established as a Representative Republic NOT as a Democracy. You DON'T get to vote on everything just because you want to. And that's a GOOD thing!
You and I get to choose our Representatives. If we don't like what they do, we have the opportunity to limit their terms every two years. It's called an "election".
Oh wait...now you will tell me "electiosn don't matter"...after suggesting that we have MORE elections for MORE government positions.
The problem IS that most Americans have no clue WHO their representatives even are, what their voting record is, or what their positions on issues are. Asking them to VOTE for more positions in Congress is ABSURD!!!!!!!
There really should be a requirement for knowledge of a topic before posting a comment.
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George Edmonds...take a deep breath and listen carefully.... Sinema won the ELECTION. Sinema replaces FLAKE who decided not to run for re-election. McSally LOST the election to Sinema. McSally, in turn, has been APPOINTED by the Governor to replace Jon Kyl, who was APPOINTED by the Governor, temporarily, to replace McCain, who died. Sinema is in for 6 years. McSally is in until 2020 to fill out the remaining term of McCain. Since 2020 is a Presidential election year and AZ is a strong RED state, she will likely be re-elected in 2020.
It is unlikely that Sinema will be any worse for AZ, or the country, than Flake was. It was FLAKE, not ANY Democrat, who delayed Kavanuagh's confirmation and it was FLAKE who stalled any further confirmations of Judges unless he got a vote to protect Mueller. No Democrat could do that in a Republican controlled senate. Flake was a millstone around the Republican's neck. Good riddance.
BOTH Sinema and McSally WERE serving as AZ representatives in the House of Representatives. They will now BOTH be serving AZ in the Senate. I am not sure how Sinema could "destroy AZ" in the Senate if she has not managed to do it in the House.
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Actually, the Supreme Court does NOT have that power. The Federal District Court can remove the judge FROM THIS CASE and assign another Judge TO THIS CASE, but only an impeachment can remove a sitting judge.
The Supreme Court WILL NOT, and should not, interfere at this point.
If the Appeals court refuses to hear his case "en banc" and Sullivan does not dismiss the case...as he has been ORDERED to do, then it is likely the Appeals Court WOULD assign another Judge to the case. All of that will take TIME.
How will it play out?
1. Most likely the Circuit Court will deny Sullivan's petition. They have already ruled in similar cases, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. The court will deny the petition, citing precedent.
2. Sullivan will ignore the order to dismiss. Just ignore it. Do nothing.
3. Then, after a reasonable period (probably 30 days), Flynn's attorney will file a request to have Sullivan removed and a new judge assigned. In another 30-60 days the Circuit Court will rule on that motion.
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4. The Circuit court COULD, on their own or by a cross filing by Flynn's attorney, deny Sullivan's motion AND assign another judge in one ruling, and they MAY if they consider his actions to be slow walking justice for an innocent man. That would be the best case.
The law is NOT "self enforcing". No one "has to do" anything just because the law says that is what they are supposed to do. Each and every court order is subject to "due process" by specific court action. Each action requires a motion, or petition, by an interested party and then takes time to be ruled upon. It is ALWAYS like this, in every court case. This is why cases can take YEARS to be resolved.
Please try to remember, it is the INTENT of Judge Emmet Sullivan to FORCE President Trump to pardon Flynn. Why? Because it would spare the DOJ and FBI the embarrassment of having the case dismissed. Have you read the dismissal order? It sounds like an indictment of James Comey! If the Judge is FORCED to sign it, it will damage the FBI and DOJ.
IF Flynn is pardoned, Sullivan is "off the hook" and so is the DOJ and FBI in the case. NO! We WANT the DOJ and FBI to be embarrassed and pounded into the ground and THEN pardon Flynn so no one can dream up new charges against him
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Well, no one will talk about it until the 2Q GDP report comes out. I believe this person is right, we are in a recession, but it won't be "official" until the reports are released July 28. There will be some preliminary "reads" before then.
Here are the basic facts. Inflation reduces a person's buying ability, it reduces a person's "discretionary spending" but, even more than that, supply chain shortages damage sales. Even if you have money to spend, you can't buy the things you want because they are not in stock. It is impossible to grow the economy and increase GDP (the total of all goods and services) when you don't have basic materials.
There are months long backorders of building materials, appliances, automobiles. If you don't have the stuff to sell or provide for construction it is impossible to grow the economy.
Note to Biden: The USA gets almost -0- food products from Ukraine. We EXPORT the same agricultural products Ukraine does. The issues with Ukraine food products are affecting Africa and Europe, not the USA.
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I have that exact same rifle in .30-06 which my father owned and handed down to me. I also have a later Remington Model 7600...basically the same, but with a 4 lug rotating bolt instead of the 9 lug bolt on the Model 760. My Model 7600 is chambered in .35 Whelen.
All Remington Model 760s in .30-06 had a 1 in 10" RH rifling twist. Every .30-06 rifle I have ever seen, of any make, and I have many in every action type, have 1 in 10" rifling twist.
FWIW, the Model 760 (or 7600) are fantastic hunting rifles and were extremely popular in Pennsylvania because, at the time, PA did not allow autoloading rifles for deer hunting. The Model 760 had the nickname: "The Amish Autoloader."
In 1968, Remington changed the method of attachment of the forend and this gave the rifle a completely free floated barrel (the example you are showing, Brandon, is the pre-68 version) The rifles were noted for being extremely accurate. Both of the rifles I have are sub-MOA for 3 shot groups @ 100 yds.
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I am from Florida. I HOPE it was our Governor that did this.
All day, any day I would rather pay my tax money for illegal aliens (they are NOT "migrants") to be sent to a sanctuary state, ANY sanctuary state, than to feed them, clothe them, give them medical treatment and educate their children. At least US Citizens and LEGAL immigrant Floridians will no longer have to compete with them for available space in hospitals and schools.
Governor DeSantis has signed universal E-Verify, effective July 1. ALL employers will be required to have an E-verify authorization for each employee. E-verify uses a person's SS number to verify their identity and immigration status and eligibility to work legally.
There will be lots more jobs for LEGAL immigrants in Florida now. LEGAL immigrants do not lose their work skills and ethics when they get a Green Card, but employers lose the ability to exploit them and skip paying FICA taxes, unemployment taxes and worker's compensation, plus other benefits the MARKET demands for LEGAL workers.
CA FORBIDS employers from using E-verify!!!!!! CA wants them...here you go!!!!!!
MAGA!!!!!!!! DeSantis, 2024!!!!!!!!!
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It is common, and a leftover of the USSR, that many cities provide hot water for heating throughout the cities. Newer buildings don't use this system, but older buildings are dependent on it. It is often not reliable. Newer buildings usually have their own boiler systems for heating. Most residents supplement this with electric space heaters...and often this causes problems like tripped electrical circuits, or fires, as the older apartments have limited circuit capacity. Residents using this system have no control over their heat and apartments are often cold because of old, non functioning radiators, or overheated because of faulty control valves.
Residents of cities also get potable hot water from cities. They are billed for hot and cold potable water, heating water, electricity and gas for cooking. Many residents who own their apartments have added their own hot water heaters for potable hot water and do not use the city hot water which is often very unreliable. Many people use wall mounted tank or instant, on demand, gas water heaters.
After the victory, I hope that the rebuilding will eliminate these old systems which are in poor condition. They should be eliminated entirely. I understand the need for them until things are upgraded, though.
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@ExtraordinaryLiving They may be lazy, but they are not stupid. I live in Florida. The state unemployment maxes out at $275/week. But the Federal PEUC pays the maximum state benefit PLUS $300/week for not working. Add to that all the other benefits a person can get if unemployment is their only income...food stamps are maxed out until September, for example.
IF they work, even a little, their earnings are deducted, dollar for dollar, from their UI benefits. If they earn even $1 more than $275 for a week (before tax!), they also lose the $300 Federal benefit for that week.
Add it all up and retail workers that get $10-13/hour before tax, $400-520/week are getting, minimum, $575/week to go fishing. Imagine what they get in other states!
AND the government just exempted $10,200 of their unemployment benefits for 2020 from income tax, waived the need to repay excess tax credits for Obamacare, AND they do not even have to do a work search (Gov. DeSantis says they will have to start doing that in June)
The government does everything they possibly can to disincentivize work. UNLESS a person is making...wait for it...$15/hr. or more.
Hmmm...what was that minimum wage the Democrats wanted? 🤔
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Nixon was not impeached. He MAY HAVE BEEN, but he resigned. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached. Neither was removed. Going for gun control and impeachment will simply assure the Republicans flip 6 seats in 2020 and get control back. Tax returns? Look, here's the thing. Trump was a businessman all his life. He was in the hospitality business which has VERY favorable tax breaks (otherwise, no one would ever build a hotel). If his tax returns are released, they are going to show he took HUGE (legal) tax credits and deductions. The Democrats will try to paint as "tax evasion", but THEY are the ones who set the LAW he used to save taxes. My thought? Trump should release his tax returns today. He has been audited 6 ways from Sunday, he is NOT evading taxes, but he IS, legally, paying the minimum amount required....and given the carry over credits ALLOWED in business losses, it is possible (even likely) that many years he pays NO TAX. Who's fault is that? He should release his returns and if anyone complains, throw it right back on congress for making the credits and deductions he used. No one will give a rat's @ss in 2020. Just take this nonsense away from the Democrats.
Release the tax returns and two days later, release the declassified FBI/DoJ/FISA documents.
"Universal background checks" basically means banning private sales of firearms. Private individuals do not have access to the NICS background check system, so HOW can they do background checks? There HAS BEEN a solution offered. a system where ANYONE can sign in and do a background check on themselves, for a small fee, and take the approval (valid for 5 days) and present it, along with their ID, to anyone selling a firearm, dealer or private. Democrats oppose that. Why? It would be the SAME background check by the SAME system done by gun dealers now (for a small fee) and valid for the SAME 5 days. Why? Because they want ALL gun sales to go through a licensed dealer and be RECORDED in his records where it can be accessed by the BATFE. AND to make the process more difficult. Making a process more difficult means less people will do it. Less people doing it will mean less opposition to further restrictions in the future. I refer you to Democrats' arguments against voter ID.
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You want to know the other trick they tell you? "Average pay for people in this field is $1,257,000/year" What they DON'T tell you is that only 1 in 1,257,000 people with that degree actually gets a job in that field.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. (STEM) If your degree is not in one of those areas...yeah, good luck. Should have gone to a 2 year tech school and been a nurse or a plumber, electrician, carpenter, HVAC tech, automotive technician.
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You are repeating nonsense you have heard on the internet. There IS NO provision of the NATO charter which prevents the admission of a country which is involved in a war of defense IF they meet the other terms of the UN charter. Period. You can read it for yourself, is is a public document and there is no need to post uniformed information. Here is the evaluation of Ukraine's eligibilty for your edification: (I bet you won't read it and will prefer to argue your ignorance)
Article 1 of the Treaty states that Allies undertake to settle international disputes peacefully and act to this end in accordance with the United Nations Charter. Ukraine has never solved international disputes by military means. In this context, it is very important that, despite the full understanding of Russian aggression in the East and the annexation of Crimea, the state has never declared a state of war. The bet of Ukraine and its western partners is on the Minsk agreements as a mechanism for resolving the conflict in Donbas, which, of course, draws criticism in respect of their impact on the security situation in the ATO zone. At the same time, they fully comply with the terms of Article 1 of the Treaty: it's about resolving the conflict by peaceful means. Similarly, Turkey and Greece have been trying to resolve by peaceful means their territorial disputes over Northern Cyprus (where Turkey had the status of guarantor of the existence of a united Cyprus until 1974).
Article 2 of the Treaty stipulates that Allies contribute toward the development of friendly and peaceful international relations by strengthening their free institutions and stability. They shall seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.
Article 3. Member States shall develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.
For many years, Ukraine has been a reliable partner of the Alliance and participated in many Alliance missions before the war in Donbas. Today, our country is actively cooperating with NATO in the process of rebuilding and strengthening the capabilities of not only the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but also the entire security and defense sector. Priority is to achieve interoperability with Allied forces and compliance with NATO standards by 2020. Thus, Ukraine's policy is in line with this paragraph of the Treaty.
Article 4. Member States shall consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.
Article 5. It's the most prominent one, providing for the use of collective defense in the event of an attack on one of the Allies. But here we also find an important detail. The Treaty requires that the Allies provide assistance individually or collectively, including through the use of armed forces. This means that the Treaty does not contain a direct obligation to use the armed forces of member states for such assistance. According to the regulations and practice, assistance can be provided at the expense of resources, logistics and other kinds (intelligence, technical, etc.) of support. This de jure levels skeptical allegations that Ukraine's accession to the Alliance, provided that the conflict in the East is preserved, will mean the need for an automatic application of Article 5 of the Treaty. Article 5 de jure does not entail an obligation to declare war on the aggressor and necessarily apply force against it.
Moreover, given that the armed conflict in Ukraine does not cover the immediate border with Russia located in the occupied territory, legally, from the point of view of Article 5, Ukraine may resort to treating the situation according to the precedent of 1974, when Article 5 was not applied. Consequently, from the legal point of view, even if the military conflict in the East of Ukraine is preserved, the accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will not automatically lead to drawing other Allies into this war. Such an interpretation of the provisions of the Treaty allows Ukraine focusing on reforming its own security and defense sector without distracting on the problem of Russian aggression as a means of preventing our country from joining NATO and the European Union.
Article 7 emphasizes that the Treaty's Article 5 shall not be applied in the event that a member state carries out peacekeeping measures in accordance with UN decisions.
Article 8 emphasizes that at the time of accession to the Organization, the country must not have international obligations that are in conflict with the Treaty. Ukraine in its foreign policy acts within the framework of the UN Charter, which is a basic document for NATO. Consequently, it does not have any international obligations that contradict the Treaty.
Article 10 of the document states that Member States may invite any other European State to accede to the Treaty (that is, to become a NATO member) and contribute to Euro-Atlantic security. Ukraine is a reliable international partner and is ready to contribute to Euro-Atlantic security, which is evident by its participation in UKRPOLBAT.
Article 11 contains the requirement for ratification of the Treaty by all Member States. This makes any country's accession to the Alliance a purely political issue, as was the case with the decision on Ukraine's associate membership in the EU and liberalization of the visa regime between our state and the European Union.
Thus, the only conditions for the country's membership in the Alliance are envisaged in the preamble of the Treaty. It states that the parties to the Treaty reaffirm their commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live peacefully with all peoples and governments resolute in the process of safeguarding the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their peoples based on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. They also seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area, being resolved to unite their efforts for collective defense and for the preservation of peace and security.
The Revolution of Dignity has confirmed as priority the development of democracy and freedom in Ukraine. We are interested in the stability and well-being of the Euro-Atlantic area and committed to the preservation of peace and security.
Thus, the aggression of the Russian Federation cannot be considered a legal obstacle to Ukraine's accession to the Alliance. The prospect of gaining membership lies exclusively in the political plane. It depends on how quickly and efficiently Ukraine will move on the way toward embracing NATO standards, strengthening democratic institutions and remaining a predictable and stable country of the Euro-Atlantic area.
This does not mean that we have to apply for membership immediately. As a civilized partner who shares the values and visions of NATO, we are convinced that we must first accomplish certain tasks concerning criteria, compatibility and state-political stability that will allow us to finally state: "We are ready and able to pass the test on membership through ratification by partner parliaments".
Iryna Friz is a Head of the Permanent Delegation of Ukraine to the NATO PA
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@trombone79 No one will prosecute. But that is NOT the question before the Court at this time. Sullivan has not ruled on the case.
This case regards Flynn's Writ of Mandamus which requested the DC Circuit Court (Sullivan's "Boss") to FORCE Sullivan to rule in Flynn's favor. The three judge panel GRANTED the Writ and ORDERED Sullivan to dismiss the case, citing precedent in both the DC Circuit and the Supreme Court.
Sullivan then asked for the case to be reheard by the full DC Appeals Court, "en Banc". The Court could have denied his request and ordered him to dismiss OR remove him from the case and assign it to another judge...but they didn't.
They decided to hear his arguments en Banc. The dissenting Judge of the three judge panel was of the opinion that Sullivan should be allowed to rule and THEN Flynn could appeal the case IF the ruling was against him. The dissenting judge suggested that the Writ was premature. IF a majority of other judges agree, then the case goes BACK to Sullivan to rule. If Sullivan does not dismiss the case (he still could) THEN Flynn would have to wait for Sullivan's ruling and appeal THAT through the process. And YES, it could take a long time. And YES, that is Sullivans goal, to TAKE a long time and FORCE President Trump to pardon Flynn which would allow Democrats, forever, to say "Flynn is guilty", it would prevent the corruption at the DOJ and FBI from being adjudicated and it would prevent Flynn from having grounds to SUE the government.
He will most likely LOSE that also as there is solid precedent to support the Writ of Mandamus.
DO NOT PARDON FLYNN!!!!!! Be patient, he WILL WIN.
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I'm sure you do. That was the case before DeSantis was Governor. And will be the same after he becomes President.
Florida has hurricanes, lightning strikes (the most of any state), hail, strong thunderstorms throughout the state every afternoon in the summer. Many of those storms produce brief torrential rain, hurricane force winds, large hail and tornadoes. Severe thunderstorm warnings are an everyday thing from May-October. PLUS sinkholes and flooding. Not to mention the usual insurance risks like theft, general liability and fire.
Florida is the 3rd most populous state, so that's a LOT of people and a LOT of homes to insure. We are also the #1 tourist destination in the world and all those people need to stay somewhere, and those places need to be insured also. That's a LOT of risk.
That won't change when DeSantis becomes President.
Insurance companies doing business in Florida cannot avoid those risks, they are natural occurrences. So they seek to avoid as many of the other risks as they can.
Polybutylene piping and FPE or Sylvania/Zinsco electrical panels will get your insurance cancelled in Florida, but not other states. Solar panels add a large risk to the insurers in Florida. More than in other states.
It really isn't a political issue. It's simple risk/reward. Cost/benefit.
People need to consult with more than just the solar panel salesperson before they do these things. They are not making fully informed decisions.
Quite likely this couple's insurance company had no idea they had solar panels and only discovered it recently by reviewing public records of permits or by a required 4-point inspection.
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I am not sure he as any "supporters", he has people who will vote for anyone but Trump. But he cannot win on "Trump hate". Not enough people hate Trump enough to get Biden elected. When the time comes, they may not like Trump but they aren't going to throw away their jobs, tax cuts, child credits and 401K accounts.
Biden is overloading on the Covid thing. Because "polls" show he is a heavy favorite among those that list Covid as their top priority. Problem is...not enough list that as their top priority. As usual, the number 1 priority is the economy and number 2 is "law and order". Biden doesn't want to talk about anything BUT covid. I think most people realize that, whoever is elected, covid will be eradicated by science. Covid will come and go. The economy, jobs, law and order are forever. Trump rules on those issues.
Early voting is not indicating Biden is going to win in the swing states. And keep in mind that early votes are only recorded as to how registered voters have voted. It doesn't mean that ALL registered Democrats that have voted have voted for Biden. They just record that XXX Republicans and XXX Democrats have voted, or returned their ballots, so far.
The "polls" have no connection to the reality that I see in Florida.
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@mikesixx7655 Sedition:
"18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."
Nothing Twitter employees did meets the definition of sedition and the penalty is NOT the same as Treason. Treason has a minimum 5 year prison sentence and Sedition has a maximum 5 year prison sentence.
You are repeating garbage you read on internet comments.
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@TheDaadd So...a little education. Start up small businesses are currently skyrocketing, they don't need any incentive. Give people spare time and $600 a week to do nothing and many of them find a way to create a business to make money which does not have to be reported. No surprise. A lot of people took that time to develop something to make themselves less vulnerable.
I agree with some sort of bonus for essential workers. The employees of the stores that were closed got $600 + per week, the cashiers at Walmart, the grocery store and the $12/hr nurses aids should get something. A $10,000 REFUNDABLE tax credit OR a $10,000 tuition credit (which equals the average amount of federal unemployment paid) would be good...AND would continue to stimulate the economy into next year.
Better than tapering off unemployment benefits would be a "return to work bonus" of some amount ($450/week for 8 weeks has been suggested) End the federal unemployment and give people a bonus for taking a job, ANY JOB, PLUS a payroll tax holiday and you are incentivising WORK. By the end of September, everyone will find a job, just to get the extra $450/week! All those available jobs will look a LOT better when they include an extra $450 v. LOSING $600/wk. It doesn't take a genius to see that if I take ANY job I am suddenly $1050/wk better off than if I don't...PLUS whatever the job pays, PLUS a 7% raise for not having to pay payroll tax.
It would be as easy to report and verify as UNemployment is. Use the same system to report EMployment as you use to report UNemployment.
THAT would help those "millions without a job"
Democrats will HATE it.
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Adjust your sarcasm meter, there Pancho...I KNEW you wouldn't be happy. If he handed out $100 bills you would complain about how they were folded. My theory...NOTHING Trump does will make you happy, so why bother? In fact, if YOU don't like it, even better! Trump is the President, Hillary is unemployed, Scott Pruitt is EPA Chief, Jeff Sessions is the AG, the Democrat party has been reduced to a regional party of dogcatchers and county clerks, and YOU don't like it. Perfect! Your candidate LOST. To Donald Trump. The ONLY candidate EVER with -0- experience and Hillary couldn't win! LOL. I wake up and laugh about that every day! Oh, and Gorsuch WILL be confirmed (because the Dems do not have the votes to stop it) and when justices Ginsburg and Brennan retire this June, Trump will choose THEIR replacement also and conservatives will dominate the SCOTUS for the next 30 years!!!!!!!! Enjoy!!!!!
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I like Senator Kennedy, and I appreciate his support and patriotism, but he has been given incorrect information, I believe.
Membership in the Young Pioneers and the Komsomol was required by ALL students. My wife was born and raised in the Ukrainian SSR, she was also a member. Membership in the Young Pioneers ended when you entered High School and you were enrolled in the Komsomol through High School and college (if you went to college) Membership ends when you finish school. At that time you either join the Communist party or you don't.
You didn't voluntary "join" or "quit" the Young Pioneers or the Komsomol. Many people erroneously compare it to the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts. But those organizations are voluntary and not run by the government.
This would be like holding a US child responsible for being taught Critical Race Theory. It was NOT a choice. This was forced communist indoctrination. Most of the students saw it for what it was, and despised going to the meetings and activities.
And THIS is why we must oppose things like CRT in our schools!
When my wife was interviewed by USCIS for her permanent residency and, later, when she became a citizen, she was asked if she was ever a member of the Communist Party OTHER THAN through involuntary enrollment in student programs.
Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (R-IN) was born and raised in Ukraine, as was my wife. Ukraine was a Republic of the USSR and Ms. Spartz was also a member of the Young Pioneers and Komsomol. I'm not sure if Slovenia had something similar. Probably they did. If so, then Melania Trump was a member.
My wife, now a naturalized US Citizen, is very much capitalist, very much in favor of our rights, and voted for Trump. Twice. She believes Biden is destroying HER country. Generally, citizens of former communist countries are VERY much anti-communist and VERY pro-Rights.
Not so sure about this woman, but most are.
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Good news, Greg! My wife is Ukrainian. (now a naturalized US citizen) Half our family is there. In Kharkiv. Our youngest son and my wife's brother cannot leave (men 18-60 cannot leave). Our daughter in law and my mother in law, our sister in law and youngest nephew and our grandson will leave tomorrow, they tried to leave yesterday and today, but were unable to board a train. Tomorrow, an acquaintance of my wife is running a van shuttle service who will take them to Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro). There, they can board a train to Warsaw, with a stop at the Polish border. it will be a 2-3 day journey to get to Poland, we hope. My wife's best friend, literally friends since childhood, is in Poland and will take them in for now.
Our son and my brother-in-law and our oldest nephew have joined the 22nd Territorial Defense Brigade, Kharkivs'Ka Oblast, to defend Ukraine. Our daughter-in-law's father has also joined to defend the country.
My wife is barely sleeping. She is sick with worry. With the time difference it is hard for her to find time to sleep. Thankfully we are able to communicate through Viber and Skype.
We are happy for your mother in law.
Slava Ukraina! Слава Украине!
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I would hope his assessment of our country would be high enough to realize that we can do BOTH help Ukraine and protect OUR borders and meet OUR obligations at the same time.
We ARE, after all, the country who didn't "tie our future" to Czechoslovakia in 1938, or Poland in 1939. Or France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway in 1940...and paid for it with the lives of 400,000 Americans in 1941-1945.
We fought a world war on TWO fronts, provided weapons to the entire free world AND developed cures for some of the worst diseases known to man ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!!!
We listened to people like Gaetz in 1937-1941 and it cost our country dearly.
OUR future as a NATO member country very much depends on STOPPING Putin and Russia before they go beyond Ukraine.
The Ukraine war has, so far, cost our country a tiny fraction of what TRUMP spent to pay people $600/week NOT TO WORK when Fauci told him to!!!!!!!!
I would rather we spend a tiny fraction of that to pay US Citizens TO work, making weapons to kill OUR enemy, Russia (that IS who we made the weapons to use against) and allow Ukrainians to use them to deplete OUR enemy.
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Eh, Styx...you are clearly not a mechanical engineer.
Some basic engineering principals for you.
1. Heat flows to cold.
2. The transfer rate of heat is a square of the temperature differential (Delta T). As a room comes closer in temp to the outside air, the rate of heat transfer (in or out) reduces by the square of the differential. Doubling the differential, quadruples the heat exchange rate. A room with a 20 degree delta (75-55 for example) loses heat FOUR TIMES faster than a room with a 10 degree Delta T (65-55 for example) Eventually as the temps equalize, there is no heat transfer.
So...when you reduce the temperature of a heated space, reducing the Delta T, the rate of heat transfer is reduced. Therefore, the amount of heat which must be replaced due to loss by transfer is reduced by a square of the differential.
If you reduce a room temperature to 60 degrees F for a period of time...say two days (or two hours or two weeks)...and then the next person raises the temperature to 75 degrees F, it DOES NOT consume all the energy you would have used to keep the room 75 degrees for that entire period. The longer the period the Delta T is reduced, the more energy is saved.
This myth persists despite decades of people using programmable thermostats to reduce energy consumption, which use exactly the same principal.
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Styx...Cruz is a US Citizen by birth. His mother is a US citizen, therefore he is a citizen by birth regardless of which country he was born in. Yes, he had dual citizenship, but the USA, while it "allows" people to have multiple citizenships, does not recognize dual citizenship. A child of a US citizen born outside the US IS a US citizen. No US consulate will issue a visa to a child of a US citizen, they WILL issue a US passport to that child.
There are three ways to become a citizen, by birth, by naturalization OR by being the child of a naturalized citizen under 18 years old when the parent is naturalized. Cruz was not naturalized. Cruz's mother was not naturalized.
I'm not guessing. My wife is a naturalized US citizen. Our children are US citizens by birth, though they were born overseas. Our children and my wife have dual citizenship. My children could run for President, my wife can not.
There can be many reasons to prefer Trump or DeSantis or Rand Paul over Ted Cruz as a Presidential nominee, but the US citizen nonsense just makes you sound a lot less informed than you are.
(PS and YES, this means Obama is a citizen by birth, even if he was born in Kenya. That never was a valid argument.)
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I can tell you what the moratorium caused in Florida, probably other places also.
The housing slump of 2008-2014 hit Florida hard. Home values tumbled to half what they had been in 2006-2007. There were abandoned and foreclosed homes on every block. They were being bought up by investors...lots of foreign investors. Mainly from Middle East countries and China. They were fixed up and rented.
People couldn't buy homes because of restrictions making it difficult to qualify for mortgages. The rental market was HOT.
Then the market turned around, about 2015, and home prices started climbing again. Fast. The home I bought 7 years ago is now valued at 2-1/2 times the amount I paid for it.
When covid hit and the renters were allowed to NOT pay rent, while collecting "stimulus" payments and $600/week Federal unemployment in addition to state unemployment, the landlords were left without their rent payments.
At the same time people started fleeing Democrat run states and moving to Florida. The landlords, having been stiffed on rent for a long time simply started selling their properties for 2-1/2 to 3 times what they had paid for them in 2008-2012. They sold them to people who would use them as their primary residence. The investors wrote off their rental losses and collected their return on investment by selling the property.
The renters were OUT, not because they were "evicted", but simply because the property was no longer available to rent. This can happen when you depend on someone else to have your housing interests in mind.
So, renters are losing their homes and there are less and less rentals available.
Once again, the government "helped" people.
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@greasedgaming7541 Simple solution. It's called LEGISLATION. Pass a law. House, Senate, Signature.
Our rights are not subject to a single person without legislative authority ordering us what to do. That's called a "Dictatorship" and many, many people's children have died to assure that is NOT how we live in this country. EVER.
Our rights are not subjugated because of a temporary medical situation.
ALL the other things we cannot do...speed limits, stop signs, red lights, driving drunk, drive without seatbelts or car seats, even the other vaccines required for children (and those vaccine laws allow for medical and religious exemptions)...are due to LAWS passed by elected officials who answer to the voters on election day.
Pass a law. If it is that important, Pass a law.
NO Mandates.
(FWIW, I am fully vaccinated and even booster'd, I live in Florida and voted for DeSantis. Because that is MY CHOICE)
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Have you paid attention to the freak show, seriously a FREAK SHOW, of nominees that President* Biden has put forward? How does that not embarrass a Biden supporter? People who can't answer questions like "How many genders are there?" and a nominee that actually said "Everyone is prejudiced against someone" and then couldn't answer "Who are YOU prejudiced against?"
Have you watched the press conference...2 hour press conference...of Putin in Geneva? Have you watched his one on one interview with NBC? Say what you will about Putin, he will stand there and take questions over and over for hours and give cognizant answers, allow follow up questions from clearly hostile, Biden apologist reporters. It was the NBC reporter who said "my time is limited" in trying to escape his own interview! Putin went one on one with the guy for nearly 90 minutes!
Meanwhile, even CNN says they "can't ask Biden questions without his handlers screaming at him to stop taking questions"
You may not like Putin's answers, agree with his answers or even like him...but the guy can stand there and take questions for hours!
We used to have a President like that.
Biden can't even STAND for hours. Clearly, Putin ate Biden, and the USA, for lunch.
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Darth Raven. Several reasons. 1) We have a RIGHT to own firearms. It is settled law. It is an individual RIGHT as determined by the Supreme Court in TWO rulings. 2) 18 is the age of majority...ADULT as determined by our laws. There are NO other RIGHTS which one must wait until age 21 to exercise. (drinking alcohol is NOT a RIGHT) 3) There has been exactly ONE mass shooter between the age of 18-21. The others were older than 21 OR in the case of Columbine HS, under age 18. It seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Our laws and authorities FAILED these victims at every level. The FBI failed, the local Sheriff FAILED, even the officers sent to respond FAILED. Inside, there were brave people who sacrificed their lives for others...but they were disarmed by the authorities that FAILED to protect them. We need to allow trained teachers and staff to carry concealed firearms. When all the other laws fail, as we see they do, the last resort has to be a brave person inside is equipped to do more than DIE to protect others. When planes were hijacked we ARMED the pilots...no more hijackings. NONE.
The politicians and media flail around trying to angle this to their agenda, to make ANOTHER law, or laws, that will fail because you are trying to legislate against someone who is willing to KILL STUDENTS by the truckload! Seriously? No, you need to be prepared to KILL someone who is like that. No law will prevent it. The next shooter already has his gun and ammunition, he is out there, what are WE going to do when ALL the safeguards FAIL and he shows up at the door? I say...SHOOT BACK!
Replace the "No guns allowed sign" with a sign that says "Our Staff is armed and trained to KILL anyone who attempts to harm our students. Have a Nice Day"
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In my opinion, the whole Unemployment benefit thing is being blown up and used by people who have crappy jobs and low wages to offer.
When everyone was FORCED out of work last year, and everyone got $600/wk EXTRA unemployment, a LOT of those people in crappy jobs...retail, restaurant, etc., used the time and money to educate themselves or start small businesses of their own to replace the crappy jobs.
I know, personally, three people who were laid off last year. One became a phlebotomist, one became an electrician and one of them bought a stump grinder and is now making $600-900 day with his machine. They are NEVER going back to retail/restaurant work. Do you think they are alone? I live in Florida. Our unemployment rate is almost as low as it was pre-pandemic...and the cruise industry hasn't reopened yet (soon) and the theme parks only last week went back to full capacity. People ARE working. People are NOT collecting unemployment much more than they were in 2019. There IS NO huge pool of workers that are just "too lazy" to work. If there were, why would any business want to hire them? This is a result of changes people were forced into and adapting to them.
Covid is going to make HUGE, permanent, changes in the workforce...and travel industry...and commercial real estate. My son was doing "telecommuting" throughout the pandemic, he works for a large IT corporation. He has been informed he will continue to work from home and can live anywhere he has a high speed internet connection! He is going to take his big city salary and move to a low cost state to live. His company will be vacating 10s of thousands of sq. ft. of leased office space. He will no longer be traveling around the country for meetings...everyone got "used to" Zoom meetings.
The industries and employers are going to have to adapt, and compete, or go out of business.
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Russia, and Ukraine for that matter, have ALWAYS trained school children on the use and shooting of firearms since after WW2. They had this experience of being invaded before, remember? Ukraine has been making a remarkable defense against Russia, due in no small part to the training each and every Ukrainian school student receives. I do not expect them to stop training their children after they defeat Russia in the current war.
This instruction is given to both boys and girls, is NOT optional and has been going on for EIGTHY YEARS!!!!!!! If General Holt doesn't know this he should be in another line of work, maybe he could be your "diversity and inclusion" advisor?
My wife, born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine during the USSR was trained beginning in grade school with single shot "TOZ 8" .22 rifles (TOZ is the abbreviation for "Tula Arms Factory") and, later, moving on to SKS and AK-47 (Kalashnikov) rifles. They not only had classroom training but had live fire on shooting ranges. They were also taught first aid and other "combat skills"
These are official, course curriculum, classes and continue through college (if one goes to college). They appear on her official High School and College transcripts as "Military Preparedness"
They had competitions on assembling and disassembling the rifles. Which is what you are probably showing in your clip. My wife was the fastest in her class, she proudly reports!
I WISH we trained kids on firearms in every school in the USA, instead of CRT and transsexual/homosexual nonsense.
BTW, my wife, now a naturalized US citizen is an avid firearms enthusiast (along with me) and we go shooting 2-3 days a week. She has her own collection of shotguns, rifles and handguns and especially enjoys her 2nd Amendment RIGHT to keep and bear arms, which they did NOT have in the USSR (or Russia or Ukraine)
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I speak Bidenese Full disclosure. So you can sleep better. I speak, read and write fluent French, Russian and English.
I lived and worked in Ukraine. During my time in Ukraine, I lived in Odessa, Donetsk and Kharkiv. I was in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Sevastopol, Cherkassy and Dnipropetrovsk very often in my official duties.
My wife is Ukrainian, born and raised in Kharkiv. She is now a naturalized US citizen. My 3 children (all adults now) are dual citizens.
My youngest son (29) lives in Kharkiv where he is an Electrical Engineer for a Finnish company making auto parts for German cars. He also owns an apartment in Koln, Germany (Cologne). His wife and our grandson are staying there during the war. My brother in law lives in Kharkiv. His wife has evacuated to a village near Poltava. My wife and I own an apartment in the Novi Domy district of Kharkiv. We stay there when we visit Ukraine, 2-3 months per year. Most recently Sept-Nov., 2021. Fortunately this area has been little impacted so far. My brother in law's apartment in the Moskovskyi district has been destroyed. They will live in our apartment after the victory until his apartment is rebuilt.
After the victory, or even sooner if possible, my wife and I will return to Ukraine and we will help to rebuild the city as best we can.
My youngest son joined the 22nd Territorial Defense Brigade, Kharkivs'Ka Oblast, the day of the invasion. My brother in law did also. They are currently running the Russians right out of Kharkiv Oblast to the north of the city.
I do not get my information about Ukraine from the "media dubble check" or whatever you call it.
Feel better now? Sleep well.
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I wouldn't expect you to be able to see a 'bulge' from a handgun like a S&W 640 or 642 under Trump's suit coat. A common way to carry a handgun is in an 'inside the waistband' holster where only a small portion of the grip protrudes above the belt. You wouldn't see it, even if he was wearing only a T-shirt.
Shoulder holsters and ankle holsters are not as commonly used, or comfortable, to carry.
Personally, I do not like an inside the waistband holster. I carry all my concealed handguns in an outside the waistband holster, still concealed by an untucked, button down shirt. It is very comfortable. Is it possible to see a bulge, or even see the gun if I reach for something on a high shelf in the grocery store? Yes, maybe. But...so what? It's not illegal and it's not uncommon. No one is going to lose their minds over someone carrying a gun in a grocery store.🤷♂ More than a few people 'open carry', so it is not something that causes panic. In my experience, people aren't really checking you out looking for gun as they go about their business.
For times when I might have to take off my shirt, I pocket carry a small .380 pistol.
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I had the great opportunity in my career to work in the Former Soviet Union, a socialist utopia where I once stood in line to buy 2 lemons. I wanted 4, but I could only have 2. Anyone who has been there will tell you that there is a HUGE problem of wild dogs, feral dogs, in the cities. They are everywhere. (they made an attempt to clean them up in Sochi before the Olympics) Some are dangerous and attack people, especially at night. Rabies among the wild dogs is rampant. I asked a work acquaintance from the city where I was working ..."Why do you not take care of this problem with the dogs?" He said, quite seriously, "You were not here right after the war (WW2)...there were NO dogs then" A bit taken aback...I asked "So this is your emergency food supply, on the hoof, so to speak?" He shrugged..."Not just dogs, there were no ducks in the parks either"
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@lululluluvanjied1086 BULLSH*T! More Oprah nonsense... See below. Note that she left news reporting because she felt "constrained by objectivity". So, she wanted to be like a CNN reporter, but that was before CNN. Not to take away from what she accomplished, BUT she never "made her own" ANYTHING. They changed the name of an existing show on her demand.
Winfrey is, and has been, a race baiter, claiming racism against anyone who didn't give her what she wanted. She is one of the wealthiest women in the world and claims to be oppressed.
"At age 19 Winfrey became a news anchor for the local CBS television station. Following her graduation from Tennessee State University in 1976, she was made a reporter and co-anchor for the ABC news affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland. She found herself constrained by the objectivity required of news reporting, and in 1977 she became cohost of the Baltimore morning show People Are Talking.
Winfrey excelled in the casual and personal talk-show format, and in 1984 she moved to Chicago to host the faltering talk show AM Chicago. Winfrey’s honest and engaging personality quickly turned the program into a success, and in 1985 it was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. Syndicated nationally in 1986, the program became the highest-rated television talk show in the United States and earned several Emmy Awards."
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oprah-Winfrey
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I wouldn't be so sure Trump won't give aid to Ukraine. Here's why...
1. He was the first President to give lethal aid to Ukraine to fight Russians and also provided US military advisor personnel to train Ukrainians in Ukraine. He was very proud of doing that, saying Obama had only "sent blankets, I sent tank busters".
2. Trump has a HUGE ego. The Hugest! He sees himself as "the solution" to every problem, so do his supporters. If the war is still going on, Trump will want to fix it and claim credit for it. "Biden caused it, I fixed it!"
3. Trump will get in office and say "I had no idea it was THIS bad, Biden really screwed it up" Then he will tell us how innocent children are bring killed (they most certainly are). And he will say "We have to do this "
Bear in mind that Trump will have already shut down the US border, started building the border wall, started deporting illegal aliens, re-imposed the "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy and will have opened the US oil and gas industries to reduce our gas and grocery prices AND deprive Russia and Iran of funding for wars.
Trump will also pressure European countries and NATO to "give more", though as a percent of GDP and military budgets, European countries already give far more than the USA. But they WILL give more and Trump has said that is one of his goals.
His supporters will immediately do an about face and support Ukraine 100%. They will be flying Ukrainian flags from their trucks and boats.
They will also say "I have no problem with helping Ukraine defeat OUR enemy, Russia, and Trump handled OUR problems first"
And that statement is not without merit.
The question is...CAN Ukraine hold out until then?
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1. Please explain, Joe Rogan, how is it possible to fire a bullet (that bullet has clearly been fired through a rifled bore) and "never hit a goddamned thing"? The bullet HAS TO have hit SOMEthing. Even if fired in the air, the bullet will hit the ground when it comes back earth. Unless the bullet is launched into earth orbit, in which case you would not have the bullet to examine, it MUST HAVE hit something.
2. Full metal jacket bullets often look as though they are not deformed after penetrating an animal, for example. Bullets specifically designed for deep penetration, such as dangerous game bullets, may appear undeformed even after penetrating several feet of a cape buffalo, rhinoceros or elephant. Usually you can measure deformation, even if it is not obviously visible.
3. Water, even in itself, is NOT a "soft target". A soft target would be snow, fiberglass insulation batts, or cotton or polyester "batting", like pillow stuffing. When firing a bullet and NOT trying to deform the bullet, that's what you would use. You would need a LOT of it to stop a bullet. If the bullet in question was "planted", as some suggest, why would they try to plant a bullet that appears undeformed for Joe Rogan to question 58 years later?
4. I am guessing JFK had some pretty creative places to hide the condoms he always carried.
My theory is...we do not know what actually happened that day and cannot know what actually happened with the information we currently have. When all the information is released then maybe we will be able to get a better idea.
Trying to "solve" a mystery when you KNOW that you do not have all the information necessary is foolish. Even for Joe Rogan.
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Remember that until the 17th amendment, 1913, Senators were elected by State legislatures, NOT by popular vote. The idea was that 1) Senators represent STATES, not the people. That is why each STATE gets two and not more, or less. 2) The Constitutional concept was that by NOT having Senators elected they would be immune to BRIBERY and the influence of campaign funding. And if ONE chamber is immune to that, then they both are, since it takes both chambers to pass a law. 3) Senators were elected to 6 year terms by the Legislatures and would be replaced as the control of the Legislatures of STATES changed, or their terms expired. Legislatures would, naturally, choose Senators of the party that controlled the Legislature, or as the Legislature pleased, if a Senator did not represent them as they wanted. State Legislatures could recall Senators.
REPEAL THE 17th AMENDMENT!!!!!!!!!
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@uno1087 Well, none of those people got in their positions without the VOTES of the electorate. The party/parties should not tell people who is not welcome, the people should tell the party/parties who is not welcome.
All of those people, except Trump, have recently (2022) been nominated in the primary process and elected in the general election. Therefore they are, by definition, "welcome" by the voters in their districts. Whether people outside their districts "welcome them", or not, is irrelevant.
But, like you, I support DeSantis for President, 2024!
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@Steph ...President Trump IS paying attention...hence his tweets on the subject. Problem 1...even though Trump is the head of the administration and the DoJ reports to him, it is "bad form" for the President to order an investigation, even though he could. The Justice Dept. is supposed to be independent. Problem 2...AG Sessions has recused himself from everything he needs to be involved in. Because of that, HE cannot order an investigation into Clinton and he cannot be involved with the Trump/Russia investigation. He has excused himself from everything he needs to do! If Trump FIRES Sessions...omg! Don't even go there. If Sessions resigns, THEN someone else appointed by Trump could take over. But that would be obstructed for months bu the Dems in congress. Actually, the new FBI director appointed by Trump could do it, BUT Rob Rosenstein (the new Director's boss) may not allow it. (Why would he want to?) The HOPE is that breaking news will FORCE Rosenstein to appoint a special prosecutor. In fact, Sarah Sanders ploy today was to limit reporters to ONE question so as to get more questions out there in the HOPE that one of them would ask about this and then she will let loose with a well prepared statement. IF Sarah just blurts it out...Trump will be accused of "pressuring" the DoJ. IF the reporters ask the question, well, she is just answering the question. All the news agencies carry live feeds which means more people get the news and more people write to their congressperson demanding an investigation. Never forget, the whole purpose of this is NOT to impeach Trump (they know he did nothing wrong) but to keep a "cloud" over him and his administration to taint the 2018 elections and get control of Congress back. Clearing Trump or, even worse, incriminating Clinton/Obama would spoil the plan.
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@sanguinius1284 No. It's an alphabet developed by Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius who devised a letter for each sound in Slavic languages. Bulgarian was the first language to use it. It is used by many Slavic languages, not just Russian. It uses letters from the Greek and Roman alphabets, and some of it's own. Unlike English which combines letters to make sounds, Cyrillic, in theory, has a separate letter for each sound. For example "Ч" for the "ch" sound "Ш" for the "sh" sound. There are 44 letters in the alphabet. Russian uses 34 of them. (including "hard" and "soft" signs) Ukrainian uses 35, but drops 1 that Russian uses and adds 2 that Russian doesn't use. Therefor, there are actually several Cyrillic alphabets for different languages...so The Russian alphabet IS Cyrillic, but not all Cyrillic is Russian. The giveaway is the letters used. And, of course, the words.
In practice this has been corrupted a bit since Russians adopted words from other languages and didn't necessarily have the correct letter for a sound not found in Slavic languages.
For instance, the is no "J" (as in Jack) sound in Russian, so they usually substitute a "Y" such as the name "Yulia" instead of "Julia" or an "Ee-oh" such as "Ee oh sef" instead of "Joseph".
Some Slavic languages have "converted" or transliterated to the Roman alphabet.
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I wonder why Antifa didn't get violent? 🤣
Seriously, my wife and I LOVE to shoot. 2-3 times per week. My wife really loves it! We belong to several local gun clubs, indoor and outdoor, rifle, handgun and shotgun. The ranges are full of people having fun and LOTS of women.
My wife is an immigrant, from Ukraine. Born and raised in the Soviet Union. She LOVES being able to own firearms. I met her when I was working in the former Soviet Union. On our first date she said "So I have to ask...do you own guns? Do you have a pickup truck?" 🤣
FYI, in the Soviet Union ALL young people were taught to shoot in school. (they still are) So, as a school girl, she learned to shoot, disassemble and maintain "kalashnikov" rifles and RPG grenade launchers and had "military preparation" classes from High School through College. She was a "reserve Army Nurse" in the Red Army. Over 270,000 people were killed in her city, JUST her city, during WW2. The government was determined that if they were ever invaded again, every man, woman and child would be armed and fight back!
Of course, they were not allowed to own or keep these guns at home. Now she can. I assure you, as a naturalized US citizen, her RIGHT to keep and bear arms is very valuable to her.
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You know little to nothing about voting laws OR becoming a citizen. You should probably comment on some other topic.
The US Constitution does NOT prevent non-citizens from voting in STATE or LOCAL elections. Neither does federal law. The US Constitution and Federal law address ONLY federal elections. Federal law expressly ALLOWS states and municipalities to allow non-citizens to vote in state or local elections, provided it does not violate state or local laws...18 U.S. Code § 611 (a)(1)(2)(3)
Only TWO states ban non-citizens from voting in state or local elections with their State Constitutions, North Dakota and Arizona. Some other states prevent it with state laws.
Many municipalities in the US already allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. NYC would not be the first, just the largest.
A person cannot just "register, take the test, and become a citizen". After the initial process of requesting to be admitted to the US LEGALLY (which itself can take anywhere from 1-14 years depending on the circumstances) a person must reside in the USA for 3-5 years (again, depending on the circumstances of initial entry) and THEN apply for citizenship, which takes another 12-18 months before you get to take the citizenship test (which 97% of native born US adult citizens can't pass). All of this costs thousands of dollars and requires no less than 3 background checks, interviews, medical exams, vaccinations...all of which the prospective immigrant pays for. They are fingerprinted and photographed for each of these processes.
After initial legal entry the Legal Permanent Resident must file income tax returns every year, even if they had no income of their own, report their current address to USCIS and update their address anytime they move. When applying for citizenship, they must provide all tax returns and any change of address notifications, records of marriage/divorce/name change, and records of ANY violations of law...including traffic tickets...with the final disposition of any such case. They must also report each and every time the left the USA for more than 24 hours, for how long and for what purpose, along with documentation of that, such as passport stamps.
I'm not guessing.
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@thomo66 With any of the Browning designed lever guns with tube magazines (1886, 1892, 1894 and their derivatives) you have to operate the lever briskly to get the lifter to raise the case up to the chamber and close the lever briskly, especially with straight cases.
FYI, this doesn't apply as much to the Model 1895 which uses a box magazine and a spring powered lifter.
But in any lever gun, you are doing a lot of actions with the lever throw, extracting, ejecting, cocking the hammer, lifting another cartridge from the magazine in line with the chamber and then chamber and locking the action.
There is no need to operate them gently, they won't break.
This may also apply to Marlins. I collect Winchesters and have no experience with Marlins, but I suspect the same is true.
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@99.6survivalrate8 Murder is NOT a federal offense UNLESS...
1. the murder is of a federal judge or a federal law enforcement official (e.g., an agent of the FBI, DEA, TSA, or ATF),
2. the killing is of an immediate family member of a federal law enforcement official,
3. the murder is of an elected or appointed federal official (e.g., the President, a Supreme Court Justice, a member of Congress, or the murder of a federal judge)
4. the killing is committed during a bank robbery
5. the killing takes place aboard a ship at sea (e.g., on a vessel that is engaged in interstate commerce per the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution) that is in US Federal waters OR in international waters IF the ship is flagged by the USA.
6. the murder was designed to influence a court case, and
7. the killing takes place on federal property (e.g., on national parks or a Native American reservation).
None of these apply to Kyle Rittenhouse.
Rittenhouse was charged by the STATE of Wisconsin, NOT by the Federal Government.
Notice I did not end any of my sentences with a question mark. This is because I am not guessing.
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My father, a veteran of WW2 brought home many guns. 8 P-38s, 2 Lugers and an absolutely gorgeous Czech made 16 ga. double barrel shotgun. An "Opava Ferdinand". It is "best quality" in every sense of the word. Not to mention knives, bayonets, etc.
Pistols, rifles and shotguns were no problem to send home or bring back. Officially, a soldier had to get his commanding officer's signature to send it home, or bring it home. More often, they were just packed in boxes and mailed back, free of charge. US soldiers enjoyed FREE postal service.
The story on the shotgun was that my father's tank platoon was advancing through a German village. He was a platoon Technical Sargent/tank commander and was in the 4th tank of the column. A German woman stood by the side of the road, holding a "suitcase looking thing" and waving at the passing tanks. The tanks just passed by, ignoring the woman. My father ordered his tank to stop and he spoke to the woman and managed to understand that she wanted to "surrender her father's gun", so she would not be considered an enemy. My father took the case and opened the fitted, leather covered case to see the beautiful shotgun! "Well, hello!" He gladly took the surrender and told the woman to go in peace. 😜
FYI, Mark...The US required registration of machine guns beginning in 1934. It was, and still is, legal to own them, but you had to register them with the government and if you sold the gun there was, and still is, a $200 "transfer tax".
It was illegal to "bring back" an automatic rifle or submachine gun during WW2. However...as you state...it was done. By the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.
Recognizing this, the US government implemented an "amnesty" in 1968 and allowed anyone with a "bring back" automatic weapon to legally register them without any fees or taxes. Any "bring back" after that date, not registered with the federal government, is an illegally owned machinegun.
And another aside...my father joined the army in 1934 in the fledgling "tank corps". He was issued a 1918 manufactured Model 1911 pistol. The 1911A1 was, by that time, "standard" but they were still handing out WW1 1911s, particularly to NCOs in the tank corps, transport services, etc. He kept that gun throughout his career. He retired in 1956 and turned in his 1911. The Army told him it was now classified as "obsolete" and that he could buy it if he chose. For $17. He bought his cherished friend without hesitation. I have it in my collection now, with the documents of the purchase and the holster he carried it in for more than 20 years.
The US government still sells obsolete, fully functional military rifles and handguns to the public. Currently you can buy M1 rifles and M1911/M1911A1 handguns. I believe all the M1 carbines have been sold off.
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Oh yeah, when the FBI thought they could handle 10mm handguns, not surprised they set up a few of these in 10mm. That didn't last long.
They went back to the 9mm, they couldn't handle the 10mm.
Other police departments used the reduced power .40 S&W.
The .40 S&W gained quite a bit of popularity when we had a 10 year nationwide moratorium (not actually a "ban" since existing magazines were allowed) on the manufacture of magazines over 10 rounds. So, if you are stuck with 10 rounds, it may as well be .40 S&W rather than 9mm. When the "moratorium" expired in 2004, the "raison d'etre" for the .40 S&W expired with it.
Something many people don't realize is that the "Assault Weapons Ban" of 1994 was passed by Congress in July, 1994 but was not signed into law until September, 1994. After pressing Congress to pass the law before its summer break, "Because criminals don't take a summer break", President Clinton...went on his summer break.
In the ensuing 2 months, magazine manufacturers worked 24/7 to produce the bodies of magazines before the law went into effect. The result was that during the 10 year moratorium, magazines for popular firearms with more than 10 rounds, were never in short supply and never increased significantly in price.
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@vnsworkshop9961 I'm from Kharkiv. People in the Donbas have their own accent when speaking Russian, as I do. They even have different words they use specific to their region. As do people in the US/UK/Canada/Australia/Jamaica when speaking English.
People from Odesa or Crimea have another accent when speaking Russian. The people in this video are NOT Ukrainians from the Donbas, Odesa or Crimea. They are Russians from Russia. And furthermore, I can tell you they are not from Moscow or St. Petersburg, Russia, both of which have their own unique accents..
I can tell that just as well as I can tell that someone from New York or Boston is NOT from Alabama.
BTW, before the war, we had lots of people from Belgorod, Russia visiting, shopping, sightseeing in Kharkiv, Ukraine...not far away at all, but their accent was as distinct from Ukrainians in Kharkiv as the difference between someone from Montreal, QC and Burlington, VT.
I'm not guessing.
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Diane M I wasn't fair to Kamala, we know that Kamala didn't get where she is by what came out of her mouth.
Which language would you prefer? I speak three. Russian, French, English. I'll go with English as it is a safe bet that's the only one you speak. And not very well, given your atrocious punctuation.
I had a marvelous 36 year career in city (14 years) and federal law enforcement (22 years) including 7 years with the US State Department INL (I'll let you look that up) posted to overseas assignments in Ukraine and Canada. (well, Canada isn't really "overseas" is it? But that's what they call it) So, yeah, I've been to Europe. And "the border". Both of them.
After that, I retired in 2009, but for a few years I wasn't very good at being retired so I answered a request from one of my state's US Senators to be a liaison on his staff for law enforcement and immigration issues. That was interesting and taught me a lot about the legislative process. I even wrote some changes to federal legislation! More precisely, drafted the legislation, it gets reviewed and edited by attorneys. Did you know that most legislators don't actually write the bills they introduce? True. Their staff does most of that.
I have since gotten much better at being retired and on December 31, 2018 I finally said "adios"...and full time retired.
While doing all that, I raised three sons (with an assist from my wife) all with college degrees, and good jobs without any student debt. Paid off my homes (2), boats (3), and cars (2).
In the last few days? Well, I'm full time retired so I went shooting three times in the last week (skeet, sporting clays and pistol) and fishing twice (once in the Atlantic, once in an inland lake). This evening we (my Ukrainian-American wife and I) will walk to the beach on the Atlantic Ocean and just relax. Sometimes I surf fish, but maybe not tonight.
Thanks for asking!
UPDATE: We didn't go to the beach tonight. We just went swimming in the backyard pool.
Where'd you go, Diane? You still there?
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@28AccountsRemoved In our lifetimes we have never had the opportunity to vote for someone who had "previously" been President. (except for consecutive term reelections) The last time that happened was in 1912.
So...being a former President is not really a normal point on a resume. Other Presidents who failed after 1 term wisely retired and pretty much kept their mouths shut.
That said, Trump FAILED as President. (See my post above for just a few of the reasons)
Governors have been some of the best Presidents we have had in our history. And they are one of the best sources for candidates. Senators are probably 2nd. VPs, unless the President dies in office, are remarkably poor as Presidential candidates. But there is no guarantee. Jimmy Carter was a Governor. 🤷♂
DeSantis has accomplished what he said he would do and then some! All those conservative agenda items Trump talks about...DeSantis has DONE IT in Florida.
NOW Trump is saying he is going to "do" all the same things he said he was going to do in 2016, but didn't.
Florida is not "just a state". It is the 3rd most populous state. It is the number 1 tourist destination in the world and has an extremely diverse economy. Agriculture, manufacturing, import/export, tourism, medical care. Florida has several large cities, large rural areas, suburbs, tremendous and unique environmental issues. The Governor of Florida is well trained in every domestic issue a President faces, except foreign relations...and DeSantis has Congressional experience in that.
I was fooled by Trump in 2016. NEVER AGAIN. In 2020 I left my vote for President BLANK. If Trump is nominated, I will do the same in 2024.
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@karenstepp669 Trump has succeeded by doing everything no one thought he would ever do. He succeeded by not following the "rules". The GOP is supposed to be about stodgy old white men. Trump is not a stodgy old white man. (old and white, but not stodgy) Pence is. Trump needed a stodgy old white man in 2016. Now that Trump has proved himself, and has overwhelming support of the GOP, he needs to expand the base even more.
DeSantis is not a stodgy old white man, but he a younger version of Trump. In fact, he'll tell a reporter to go pound sand even more directly than Trump.
But we don't need two "Trumps" on the ticket to win. We need to go right into the opponents camp and TAKE their votes away and add them to ours. Trump has already got 93% of the GOP vote. He needs more of the Dem vote. He needs to reach the suburban women, the minorities...without surrendering conservative values.
Kristi Noem, Candace Owens or Kim Klacik do just that. There are lots of videos on Candance Owens on YouTube, check her out. She is a huge supporter of Trump and has a great presence.
IMO the best of the three for VP is Candace Owens. Kristi Noem and Kim Klacik (if Kim doesn't win a Congressional seat in the 2022 or 2024 election) should be in Trump's cabinet. DeSantis should be Attorney General. DeSantis can still be assigned the border issues...or maybe Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary, let her do it. She'd be great at it. Let DeSantis clean up the FBI, DOJ and BATFE. Klacik would be a great HUD Secretary.
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By "We" do you mean Federal law? Because Federal law affects only Federal elections.
Federal law allows non-citizens to vote in municipal AND state elections IF the state and locality make it legal. Federal law applies only to Federal elections.
Also, this was A judge of the NY Supreme Court. ONE. Judge. It will likely be appealed to the full NY State Supreme Court. But this is a matter for the STATE to handle. Only TWO states have State Constitutional Amendments forbidding aliens from voting in state and local elections. (AZ and ND)
Just sayin'
18 U.S. Code § 611 - Voting by aliens
(a)It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless—
(1)the election is held partly for some other purpose;
(2)aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and
(3)voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices.
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NO Business pays ANY tax. Simple math.
1. A business MUST make a profit to remain in business
2. The profit amount MUST be enough to encourage and interest owners and investors
3. Profits are calculated AFTER any and all taxes.
So...if you raise the taxes of a business/corporation, the business/corporation MUST pass on that cost. They will pass it on to customers, investors and/or employees.
1. Increased prices to customers
2. Lower returns on investments to stockholders, most of which are small investors with 401K programs
3. Lower pay increases, cuts to benefits
They will do this based on what they believe the market will bear in each category.
In addition, businesses must employ people to calculate their taxes and that adds to the cost. So if the tax on a business increases $1 YOU will pay $1.06, for example, for the business to collect and pass on that tax to the government.
IF the business cannot pass on the cost of taxes this way, they will relocate to a country that does not have such high tax OR go out of business. Either way, Americans still PAY
Business/corporations COLLECT taxes and pass them on to the government, they DO NOT PAY TAX
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There is no allegation of wrongdoing.
Congress makes the tax code. If it comes up at the debate, just point out that it was Biden who wrote the tax code. "Thank you, Joe"
For people who aren't aware, there are HUGE tax write-offs for the hospitality industry. If there was not, we wouldn't have any hotels or motels. Virtually every hotel/motel loses money. In 2009, Congress (controlled by Dems in both chambers) amended the tax code, signed by Obama/Biden, to increase the number of years that a business can write off losses. So, it Trump Hotels had a bad year, they can carry over that loss for several years against the taxes owed for following years. Thank you, Joe Biden. Thank you Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris!
As usual his supporters don't care. Which American would NOT use a tax deduction or credit they are allowed under the tax code?
Again, too little, too soon. Remember, Trump was elected 30 days after the "Access Hollywood" tape came out.
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No. What makes them racists is their support of slavery and segregation, support of government funded abortion (that kills a disproportionately high number of "babies of color") their support of welfare and affirmative action which makes people dependent on the government and puts unqualified people in positions in order to advance the narrative that "people of color" are not as capable as white people, their resistance to school choice which would allow minorities to get a good education, their resistance to protecting the border which allows illegal aliens to enter and apply downward pressure to wages for people of color, their resistance to anything Trump offers which provides more employment opportunities for minorities, their support of gun control to disarm victims in high crime areas, disproportionately causing minorities to suffer the consequences of crime, their lack of support for law enforcement to protect people in high crime areas. Their resistance to protecting voting which disenfranchises minority citizens by allowing unauthorized people to vote. THAT is what makes them racist.
Their gerrymandering of House districts to create "safe" minority districts and relieve anyone else of the concerns of minorities but for a handful of isolated, incompetent Representatives. The black population is 13% of the US population, about 42 million people. Yet blacks, as a constituency have far less political clout than the 5 million member NRA. Because they are represented by buffoonish Congress persons...Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, the list is long. They are ineffective and feckless. Just as the Democrats planned. Compare the geerymandered House black caucus with someone like Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) who is elected statewide on his MERITS, NOT "because he is black".
EVERY one of their policies assures that minorities stay dependant on the government, from cradle to grave. Dependant people will NEVER excel at anything.
Their policies read like something from a KKK handbook.
THAT is why they are racist...and if you disagree with ANY of their policies, they will say YOU are the racist.
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@UCSe-1zzreVNAKg-Pr_wADpg There is no "charge". There was an unofficial accusation. NOT a charge. A charge is when someone is indicted and arraigned. There actually was never any "official" accusation, either. IF a person were charged and found not guilty in a trial, THAT would be an exoneration.
ex·on·er·a·tion
/iɡˌzänəˈrāSH(ə)n/
noun
1.
the action of officially absolving someone from blame; vindication:
"the defendants' eventual exoneration"
synonyms:
vindication, freeing from blame, absolution, acquittal, discharge, ... more antonyms:
conviction, blaming, liability
2.
the release of someone from a duty or obligation.
There was no "blame", no defendants, no indictment, no trial, no acquittal. There IS NO charge from which to be "exonerated".
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@mantisnomo5984 Well. Let's see. Trump won, not Hillary. So, there is that. THAT surprised the media. The media is probably largely to credit for Trump winning. Their breathless outrage has more or less inoculated Trump from this nonsense. Trump is still President, he wasn't supposed to be by this point. There's that also. They thought they could run him out of office like they did to Nixon, or drop his popularity so low that Congress could safely impeach him. Didn't work. They have to kiss the injured butts of their followers they lied to for more than 2 years, but it's over. They know it, they just can't admit it. The media took a huge hit on this, don't imagine they didn't.
Trump will have a rally next week in Wisconsin and pack them in as always. Though I will say that a person of lesser character could easily have quit before now, but that is not Trump. So, no, given their pitiful results, I am not concerned.
Actually, improvements in technology is what killed their plan. Imagine if this had been done in the 1980s when three major news networks controlled the media. Alternative news sources and the availability of information to everyone makes it far more difficult for LIES to have an effect. Comey. Clapper and Brennan..and the media, all denied the existence of FISA warrants for Carter Page. Didn't work, we found out about it. They were living in the 80s and 90s. Propaganda thrives in an environment of ignorance. Propaganda requires ignorance to survive. Any improvements in "their" methods result in improvements in "our" methods. No, not concerned.
The only thing that can be done is to make sure the people who did this are held accountable and punished as severely as the law allows so that no one DARE try it again in the future.
How would YOU suggest we control the MSM? MY suggestion is an abundance of knowledge and additional information sources. to counter their BS.
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Democrats need to realize that DEMOCRATS never did anything to codify Roe v. Wade for FIFTY YEARS (50)!!!!!!! And NOW, after the decision blocks them, they say they will. 🤣
Most recently, in 2009-2011, Democrats had super-majority in the House, a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and Obama in the White House. They did NOTHING for immigration, climate change, abortion "rights", same-sex marriage or any of their key issues. NOTHING.
They had 60 seats in the Senate, plus several RINOs
Name the issue...they have had the same issues for decades...and they did nothing for any of these issues when they had the chance.
They don't WANT "solutions", they WANT issues to fund raise and use for elections.
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RuFing Crazy Doesn't matter the ownership. A business is a SEPARATE ENTITY by law. I am not guessing. That is the PURPOSE of a Corporation or LLC. To establish it as a legal entity separate from the owner(s) regardless if it is a sole proprietorship or a publicly held corporation. There IS NO "Therefore". Donald J Trump, INC. (or whatever name he choose to use) is separate, by law, from Donald J Trump. It is also separate from ANY OTHER Corporation which is owned in whole or part by Donald J Trump. Period. "Mara Lago Resort, INC" is NOT the same as Donald J. Trump and is NOT the same as "Doral Country Club, INC". None are related to the other in law.
Please, study business and tax law before making any further willfully ignorant remarks.
Bankruptcy is a legal procedure regulated by FEDERAL, not State, law.
The laws were established by the US Congress. You don't like it? Write a letter to Nancy Pelosi. She has done nothing to change it.
Democrats supported legislation to make it easier to file bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994 (HR 5116 103rd Congress) was introduced by Jack Brooks (D-TX) and signed into law on October 22, 1994 by President Bill Clinton (D). Biden voted for it in the Senate.
Yeah, your candidate for President made it easier for Trump Corporations to file bankruptcy and for Donald J. Trump to be able to claim himself as an unreimbursed creditor for his own corporation! Which means a transferable (from year to year) tax deduction! Nice, huh?
Biden voted for it.
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There is no "dual citizenship" in Congress.
The United States does not recognize "dual citizenship". You are a US citizen, or you are not a US Citizen.
While the Untied States does not prohibit a person from having more than one passport, the United States does not recognize that person as being a "dual citizen" and does not legally recognize any other citizenship held by US Citizens. I am not guessing. I formerly worked in the USCIS and am married to a naturalized US citizen.
While my wife holds 2 passports, (and is eligible for three) she MUST use her US passport any time she is entering the US and cannot claim another citizenship to avoid obligations as a US citizen...such as filing income tax returns, jury duty or a military draft.
After years of background checks, interviews, tests, learning a new language in many cases, and medical exams, EVERY naturalized US Citizen swears an oath forsaking ANY loyalties to ANY other country. US citizenship ceremonies are most often open to the public, you should attend one sometime. Check the USCIS website for ceremonies in your area. Public ceremonies on July 4th are common in many places.
Congress members swear an oath to uphold the US Constitution and ONLY the US Constitution.
Naturalized US citizens are eligible to serve as Congress persons per the requirements of the US Constitution. "Ending" naturalized citizens being eligible for Congress would require a Constitutional amendment.
There IS NO "dual citizenship" in the US Congress. Period.
Some members of Congress, a notable one being Senator Ted Cruz, publicly renounced their "dual citizenship". This was a publicity stunt and nothing else. Cruz is the son of a US Citizen mother who was born in Canada and, as such, is a US Citizen by birth (which is why he is eligible to run for President, my wife can not). The US never recognized Cruz as a Canadian citizen, even though he was also eligible for Canadian birthright citizenship. The moment he was issued a Consular Report of Birth Abroad, (CRBA) and a US passport, he was a US citizen and nothing else...in the eyes of the US law. In US law, there was no "foreign citizenship" for him to renounce. He did that because some people, ignorant of the US law, wouldn't vote for him if he didn't. Do not confuse political campaign stunts with the law.
The US does not, and can not, involve itself in the issuance of citizenship and/or passports by foreign countries, nor does the US report the status of US citizens to foreign countries. When a person becomes a US citizen, in that moment, they are entitled to every protection under our laws and we do not report to their previous country that they have become US citizens.
All laws regarding US citizenship are public record and are searchable in the device you used to post your comment.
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@mannypistolas92 "Highness." Not "hyness". Altesse. Высочество.
Ownership of refineries in any country is completely irrelevant to the topic of opening our (United States) oil resources to production and export sale of crude oil. I have no clue how you could imagine I could possibly care about who owns an oil refinery in any country.
You asked, so...
I read, write and speak three languages, with two alphabets. Russian French and English. With an MA in Applied Languages, in Russian, from Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. Including one year of study at Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia.
Speaking of geopolitics, I lived and worked in an official capacity in the US government in 3 countries (Russia, Ukraine and Canada). Would you like to discuss geopolitics?
My wife, a naturalized US citizen, was born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Our children are dual citizens. We own property in two states in the USA where we are now retired, and in Kharkiv which, so far, has not been destroyed. 🤞🏼
My wife speaks three languages, Russian, Ukrainian and English and our children speak those plus one speaks German and another speaks French.
Any other questions?
Хорошего дня! Passe une bonne journée!
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They are all blaming each other now. The incompetent Governor claims to be a victim of misinformation, the incompetent Mayor blames the incompetent 'URL', the incompetent Fire Chief blames 'the city' and the water department.
The media is, somehow, trying to blame Trump. 🤪
The woke movie stars and 'celebrities', who funded it all with their donations, are never going to rebuild. (wait until they run into the state regulations for building) They'll just relocate their homes tax base to NV, AZ, TX, FL
The fires continue to burn, the 'leadership' just argues over whose fault it is.
California Dreamin'
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@willdevine8266 No. In order to 'dodge the draft' Trump would have had to be drafted, then refused to report, OR refuse to register for the draft. That never happened.
Trump DID have a legally allowed medical deferment from the draft.
That is NOT 'draft dodging', except in the minds of people who have no clue what they are talking about.
FWIW, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also had draft deferments. Clinton as a student and Bush as a member of the Texas Air National Guard.
I had a draft deferment first as a college student and after that as a police officer.
I did not 'dodge the draft' because I was never drafted, and I did register for the draft as required at age 18.
The draft age, at the time was 19-26, but we had to register at age 18, and the draft system continued until January 30, 1973. During that time we were required by law to carry our 'draft card' with us and present it to police officers if requested (like during a traffic stop)
There were legal deferments for students, married men, relatively minor medical issues, public service employees and conscientious objectors. Among others. NO ONE with a deferment was a 'draft dodger'.
If someone has an issue with any of that, their complaint lies with the Selective Service system in place at the time, NOT with individuals who had deferments ALLOWED BY LAW.
On his first day in office in 1977, President Jimmy Carter issued an amnesty (a pardon) for ALL draft dodgers. So anyone that was actually a draft dodger was officially pardoned and ALL their rights, including the right to run for President, were restored.
Now you know the truth. And can be happy that your President is NOT a 'draft dodger'.
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Who appointed Wray, Larry? TRUMP!!!!!!
Who else did TRUMP appoint, Larry? Wray, Rosenstein, Tillerson, Barr, Fauci, Birx, Chao, Mattis, Milley. Drain the swamp? Build the wall? End DACA? End Obamacare? Lock her up?
TRUMP did NONE of that.
DeSantis, 2024.
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My wife, who was born and raised in the Soviet Union, educated in the Soviet Union, is as strong a US Citizen patriot as one could imagine and objects to ANY infringement in her right to free speech, privacy, firearms ownership, and private property rights. All of the things she was not allowed to have in the USSR.
Nor as a naturalized citizen immigrant does she have ANY sympathy for illegal aliens who simply want a "path to citizenship" without the process immigrants go through. Most of our acquaintances who are former Soviet citizens are the same.
This woman must have been from a family of a party member who had all the privileges. There ARE people who regret the end of the USSR. This woman would be equally repulsive in her former country. The vast majority of people raised in the communist system are VERY strong capitalists. By far, most of them are the hardest working, most respectful Americans you will ever find.
The statements this woman makes are typical communist party tripe. She is speaking exactly the BS she was indoctrinated with and her Party member parents had a privileged life. Most people had a miserable life.
Yes, they had free education...in the subject the state chose for you. Everyone had a job...in the career the state chose for you. Everyone had a home...that the state chose for you. Everyone got a vacation...in the place the state chose for you. They had little chance to "fail". And NO chance to succeed. A factory worker lived in the same apartment as a doctor. If the factory worker had more children, they got a larger apartment than the doctor. Same crappy quality, but a few square meters larger. There was no incentive to work harder, produce more, produce better, innovate. Yes, men and women each got the same crappy pay for the same crappy job. Everywhere in the country. Moscow or Kiev. Same job, same pay. Didn't matter, because you couldn't move anywhere you wanted to anyway.
Women, for example, were expected to live with their parents until they got married. Yes, they had paid maternity leave and payments from the government for each child they had. Why? Because 22 million citizens had been killed in World War 2 and they needed to repopulate the country with workers! 25% of the men had been killed! Nearly 50% of "marriage age" men (18-45) in countries like Belarus and Ukraine had been killed.
If there were 250,000 Cubans, Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians, Slovenes, Russians and Hungarians crossing the border every month, the Democrats would be on the border piling up rocks with their bare hands to keep them out!
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The state Senate filibustered the bill for 15 hours. The filibuster has ended. The bill can now be voted on in the Senate. It then will go to the House, where the Democrats are still out of the state. So, really, nothing much happened. Until the losers agree to return and vote for the losing side, Gov. Abbot will have to keep calling special sessions, 30 days at a time.
The cowardly, loser Democrats will eventually have to come home OR surrender their seat and be replaced by special election. As soon as even ONE of them enters the state, they can be apprehended and driven to the capitol where the presence of even ONE Democrat will constitute and quorum and the vote on the bill can be held.
If this special session expires without a House vote on the Bill, the Governor will call another special session and the Senate will have to vote again on the bill. Rinse and repeat.
Keep in mind, Texas legislative representatives are part time. They normally only meet 60 days every two years. They all have other jobs and responsibilities, families, homes, etc.
This is a major inconvenience for all of them, especially the ones that have to stay out of the state to prevent a quorum.
The Texas Senate allows for a filibuster to delay votes BUT it requires the Senator filibustering the bill to stand up and speak continuously. They can talk about anything they want...even just read a book out loud. They cannot sit, or even lean on a podium. She lasted 15 hours.
Time to vote for the losing side and go home.
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Whitest states: NE, MT, UT, IA, WY, ID, WV, NH, VT, ME
States with lowest homicide rates: IA, RI, HI, NE, UT, WY, VT, ID, ME, NH.
8 out of 10 on both lists.
7 of the 10 safest states, including ALL of the safest 5, allow any adult to carry concealed handguns without a license. The remaining 3 issue concealed handgun carry licenses to anyone who passes a background check and pays the fee. 100% of the safest states make it easy for adults to carry concealed handguns for self defense.
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@common12 Yeah...imagine that! Those clever American companies might make products that Europeans WANT...and may not even offer them for sale in America.🤔
They also may make products that will be INCLUDED in other things Europeans buy...raw materials, parts, grains, dried fruit, steel, aluminum...just all sorts of things.
The European manufacturers will like the cheaper prices and won't have all this fake virtue signaling...they WILL buy what is cheaper, put it in their products and sell it to Europeans.
Europeans will buy a Mercedes, Volkswagen, Audi, Fiat, BMW assembled with American wire, steel, aluminum, rubber, plastics, glass, nylon, etc. and never be the wiser.
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It is known, simply, as "Negotiating from a position of strength" Make the economy strong and then bludgeon the world with it. Your analysis, Styx, is spot on! The entire world, and especially China, benefits greatly from a strong US economy, they have NO interest in stifling a strong economy in the USA. We buy 80+% of the product of Canada and Mexico, if we sneeze...they get the flu! If we are healthy, their economy is strong. Anything they "give" on tariffs, will be re-paid 10 fold in increased business.
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@keithmazzapica5188 I send money regularly. My mother in law, youngest son, daughter in law, grandson, brother in law, sister in law and nephews are in Kharkiv, Ukraine. My wife is a naturalized US citizen born in Kharkiv. Our sons are dual citizens. Don't make assumptions about people you don't know. My family is doing more than it's share.
YES, "we", the United States, should be a leader in the world and help Ukraine fight Russians in Ukraine, so WE don't have to fight them in NATO countries.
Go reply to someone else's comment if you want to bury your head in Putin's zhopa like it's a face ring on a massage table.
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@denisereagan8085 It is not a binary choice, Denise. If the aid to Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan was denied, YOU wouldn't get any of the money.
The federal government has, as it's responsibilities, protecting the US's interests overseas. And that means supporting OUR friends fighting OUR enemies.
If it makes you feel better, the largest amount of that money goes to US Citizens who will be building the weapons to replace weapons in our inventory that are sent to Ukraine. They aren't going to drop pallets of cash over Ukraine. You knew that, right?
That money is going to US CITIZENS (you have to be a citizen to work for a defense contractor) who have really good paying jobs building artillery guns, shells, HIMARS launchers and rockets, Javelin missiles, etc. Those people live in AL, TN, CA, TX, NC, VA and dozens of other US states.
Maybe you can get a job at a defense contractor. There are websites dedicated to job postings at defense contractors. I bet they will have job openings real soon!
Cash in, Denise!
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Nice thought, but the math fails you badly. It won't need many Republican votes. None in the Senate and no more than 6 in the House.
Dems have a majority in the Senate, and only 11 Republican Senators are up for election this year. So, the Senate is a sure thing. They only need 9 Republicans to break the debate. They already have that many, and NONE of those are up for election this year. Then, they don't need ANY Republican votes to pass the bill.
In the House...Republicans have cut their majority to TWO seats. They had a 5 seat majority in January, 2023. They ran McCarthy out of the Speakership, so he quit. Then they threw out Santos, and another Rep had to quit because of health concerns. If they lose only ONE vote the bill can pass. The Republican "Knucklehead Caucus", led by Matt Gaetz, has pissed away their majority until they have no chance of even blocking Democrat bills.
They'll wait until after their primary elections to vote for it. Don't expect any vote on this until after, at least, March 5. By then, more than 1/3 of the Representatives will have already won the nominations for their districts.
Then what will you do in November? Vote for the Democrat?
You are expecting an awful lot from a party that holds a majority of TWO seats in ONE chamber of Congress.
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@porkfat5521 OK, then why are jurors visible to anyone that attends the trial? Have you ever been in a court trial with a jury? They are open to the public, anyone can walk in, sit down and watch/listen. There the jurors sit, for all to see. And, in most trials, the attorneys refer to the juror candidates by their names during jury selection. They even ask jurors pretty personal questions. Jurors have the option to answer in "private" at the Judge's bench with only the Judge and attorneys, but believe me, they ask very personal questions. In one of my experiences as a juror, the prosecutor contacted my personal attorney, after we had acquitted the defendant, to relay my "private" answers. I wonder who else he was telling? Who do jurors need protection from ? Vindictive prosecutors? FWIW, that prosecutor later was disbarred and sent to prison for exchanging sex for dropping or reducing charges against female drug offenders and prostitutes. And more than 800 cases he had prosecuted were overturned and the convicted persons released from jail/prison.
The only thing we need, and actually already have, are strict laws protecting jurors from threats or intimidation. We need strict enforcement of those laws. If a person harasses, threatens intimidates or bribes a juror, they need to go to prison. Even if they are an MSNBC reporter or a BLM supporter...even if they are a Biden voter.
That said, the camera monitors would not have to show the jurors faces. A single fixed camera could do the job and not show jurors faces.
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The decisions on abortion and gun control will come in late June.
The abortion "issue" is all because our Federal Legislature (congress) has refused, and continues to refuse, to legislate the issue. They have stood by and watched as people's "rights" have been regulated by the courts. The same can be said about same sex marriage. If the legislature is too cowardly to act, they should probably keep their mouths shut when the branch they abdicated to handles it.
This case will not, and does not seek to, "overturn" Roe v. Wade. Mississippi is not attempting to end abortion. They are attempting to end elective abortion after 15 weeks. Abortion on demand would still be legal until 15 weeks. The premise that a woman doesn't know she is pregnant by 3 months into a pregnancy is nonsense. There are cheap home pregnancy test kits available at all grocery stores and pharmacies.
48 million Americans traveled out of state for Thanksgiving dinner. If a woman in Mississippi wants to have an abortion after 15 weeks, she can travel freely to another state and do so. Within a couple hours drive. Freedom of choice does not mean an obligation on the state to provide you a 24/7 drive thru abortion, free of charge, within 1000 feet of your home. Nothing in Roe v. Wade stated so.
Surprisingly, the pro-life, people are supporting this legislation. Finally accepting something rather than getting nothing.
The appointment, confirmation and terms of the Supreme Court are specified in the Constitution. The number of Justices on the Court is not. Changing the number of Justices can, and has been, changed by litigation. Changing the terms, confirmation and appointment would need to be done by Constitutional amendment.
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After a perfect 47 year record of doing nothing, a bunch of millennials that weren't born until 30 years after Biden got to Congress thought he was going to do something now. 🤣
This is not, and never was, about "student loans". It is about education COSTS.
What they need to do is reduce the cost of education by $10,000/year. I am sure that Lizzie Warren would agree to a reduction in her husband's salary as a Professor. Y'know, to help the students. They could start with offering textbooks online for about $3 each, like every other book in the world.
Next...eliminate "Student loans". Making it easy to go into debt is NOT a good way to reduce COSTS of education. If people think they need to get a loan to go to college, let their parents get a Home Equity Line of Credit. Otherwise...apply for scholarships, work/study, tuition reimbursement benefits of employment, military service...there are many ways to pay for college.
Student loans are the WORST way.
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I have been carrying concealed every day for some 45+ years. Initially as a police officer/off duty and now as a retired licensed citizen. For a time later in my career, when working with an international agency, I was assigned to parts of the former Soviet Union, in an officially "unarmed" capacity. Specifically, in Russia and Ukraine. I do not suggest anyone smuggle a firearm into foreign countries as it probably won't end well, but acquiring a handgun in countries which are pervasively corrupt is not difficult. Doing so in the former Soviet Union will invariably result in...you guessed it...a Makarov. Who'da thunk it? That said, given a choice, there are better, lighter, cheaper and more durably finished guns on the market for CC in the USA. The Makarov worked well for me for 2 years in a concealed carry role (did I say that out loud? Concealed has a meaning, doesn't it?). When I returned, I left it there, in good hands. I don't miss it.
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Blah, blah, blah.
Republicans will agree to raise the debt limit and get nothing for it.
Congress has NEVER failed to raise the debt limit. Republicans will not cut funding for ANYTHING. Nothing. Not the DOJ, IRS, FBI. Nothing. This is theater. There will be NO impeachments of anyone. Not Myorkas, Garland, Haaland, Yellen, Buttigieg, Wray...no one. Republicans will DO nothing.
McCarthy should never have been chosen as leader. But, after more theater, everyone caved in and chose him.
Until Republicans stand up and say NO!!!!!!!!!, and YES, that means "shutting down the government" and keeping it shut down for as long as it takes to change things. They won't, and everyone KNEW McCarthy would never do that.
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The statute of limitations for these federal crimes is 5 years. "This guy", as a former Federal Prosecutor, knows that.
In fact, Michael Sussman and Oleg Derapaska were charged on the LAST DAY before the statute tolled on their crimes.
There will be no criminal prosecution of Hillary because there can not be. Unless a prosecutor could prove, in court, beyond reasonable doubt, that her crimes were of the very few with longer statutes of limitations, there can be no prosecution. She can not even be charged.
Coincidence? Not likely. But that doesn't matter.
The penalty for Clinton, in this case, will be political, not criminal. Just as this informed and knowledgeable man said.
A lack of knowledge of the law does not change the law. It only assures disappointment because of unreasonable expectations caused by ignorance.
I am sure more will come out. I am sure Hillary won't like it. But expecting her to go to prison for crimes beyond the statute of limitations is unreasonable
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@deangullberry5148 It would be the legislatures that choose the Senators, not the Governors. Governors did not have to sign off on it. This is the way it was from the founding until 1913 when the 17th amendment was ratified. The party affiliation of the Governor did not matter.
Governors only choose to fill a vacancy IF their state's constitution OR legislation passed by the state's legislature gives them that authority. That situation still exists. Some states, AZ for example, require the Governor to fill a vacancy with a Senator of the same party that vacated the seat. If Krysten Sinema, for example, resigned her seat to take another position in government, Republican Governor Ducey MUST appoint another Democrat to fill her seat until a special election could be held.
Many states have Democrat legislatures but Republican Governors. Vermont, Maryland and Massachusetts come to mind. I would expect those states would still have Democrat Senators, even if the Governor didn't like it.
Other states, like KY, PA, WI, MI have Republican controlled legislatures and Democrat Governors. Those states would probably have Republican Senators.
Some states are split, Virginia for example. For them it would be a battle over who could get a compromise vote.
The situation would not "lock out" any party from the Senate and I would expect the make up to be similar to what it is now, with a few exceptions.
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I have been a life member of the NRA since 1973, Styx. While I am disappointed with the current leadership, some of your analysis is simply not right. The NRA was formed in 1871. They served largely as a regulatory organization for shooting competition. That was the original intent and was largely their function when I joined. The NRA was not involved with politics and legislation in 1934 when the NFA was passed.
In 1977, at the members meeting in Cincinnati, we voted to change our function and get involved in politics. I was at that meeting as well as most others since 1973. The NRA-ILA was created (Institute for Legislative Action) In 1977 we had to fight the "old Guard" who thought it was not the purpose of the NRA to be involved in politics or legislation, while others of us recognized that there would BE NO hunting or target shooting if we could not have guns. While we take it for granted now, 1980 was the first election year the NRA made official "endorsements" in political campaigns.The ILA had great success in the 80s and 90s with concealed carry legislation and was very instrumental in the 2008 and 2010 Heller and McDonald litigation. But, as you note, "what have you done for me lately?" That effectiveness came as a two edged sword.
And, I believe, ultimately that has hurt the organization. Politicians began to look to the NRA for endorsement and approval. It became the process to "negotiate" with the NRA on legislation. If politicians could get the NRA's approval, legislation could be passed. And the NRA "compromised" on a lot of legislation. It traded the "Hughes Amendment" banning future production of automatic weapons in order to pass the Firearms Owners Protection Act in 1986 for example.
It seems, again, we have another entrenched batch of "leaders" who are more interested in themselves and v=being feted by politicians. Probably the result of being in office way too long.
FYI the competitions you refer to are the "National Matches", held since 1903 and being moved to Camp Perry in Ohio in 1907. It has been called "The World Series of Shooting". The NRA is the regulatory organization, providing the oversight and rules...sort of like the "umpires". The matches themselves are a function of the "Civilian Marksmanship Program" which is a government funded agency that provides training for civilians in the use of firearms and also distributes military surplus rifles and handguns to civilians. (Did you know the military distributes their surplus firearms to civilians?)
They are NOT the "NRA's" matches. The NRA does NOT make the decision about postponing or cancelling the matches.
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@nicholasbarchak6860 ALL of them, EVERY ONE of them, were appointed to the position they held under Trump, BY TRUMP. NO ONE appoints people to those positions EXCEPT the President.
While Fauci was employed in the NIH for decades, TRUMP put Fauci in charge of the covid response and could have FIRED him at any moment. Instead, he did everything Fauci commanded.
Rosenstein was in the DOJ, but TRUMP appointed him as Acting Attorney General.
Wray had LEFT the DOJ and TRUMP brought him in from private employment to be FBI Director.
Bill Barr had retired from the DOJ years ago. TRUMP brought him back and made him Attorney General.
EACH ONE of them held their position because TRUMP put them there. Period.
Not to mention that they were confirmed by the Republican controlled (at the time) Senate.
And that's just scratching the surface of TRUMP's totally incompetent appointments. Some we thought wee good, Steve Mnuchin, for example, have turned out to be idiots. Who was in charge of the PPP funds and Federal unemployment under TRUMP? Steve Mnuchin. And what do we find now? A TRILLION DOLLARS in fraud and waste in those programs!!!! While TRUMP was President and Mnuchin was Treasury Secretary.
Fully one third of covid funding was abused by fraud!!!
Shall we add Senator McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao as Transportation Secretary? Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State!?!?!
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This time Hawley got the job. He was chosen to object by the Senate majority leader. They take turns...sometimes Senators do it on their own. But rarely. Rand Paul is best known for that.
Believe it or not, MOST Senate business is conducted by "unanimous consent". A Senator asks for "unanimous consent" for...anything. If there is no "objection" the bill is adopted or the nominee is accepted. Simple, fast and easy. If there is an objection, then the matter gets placed on the calendar for a debate and floor vote.
In the case of a nominee, when that nominee is approved by the committee handling their consent hearing by a majority vote, the Chairman of that committee OR Senate majority leader Schumer will then as for "unanimous consent" to approve the nomination.
The ONLY thing one Senator can do is OBJECT to unanimous consent. Republicans decided they are not going to allow something to advance by unanimous consent and then choose the guy or gal to do the objecting. Hawley was chosen for this one. It is usually one of the Republican member on the committee that held the consent hearing.
This objection forces a floor debate and a floor vote of the entire Senate on that nominee, rather than just "wave them through". That's it, that's all, nothing more. Given the makeup of the Senate, the nominee WILL be approved by a vote.
Hawley didn't "block" anything, he delayed something that will occur anyway.
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When Governor DeSantis becomes President in January, 2025 after the 2024 election...Anna Paulina Luna is one of the really good candidates we would have for Governor in the future.
We also have Byron Donalds, Greg Steube, Webster Barnaby, Jennette Nunez, Ashley Moody. A very deep bench of young, solid conservatives.
Initially, he will be replaced by Lt. Governor Jennette Nunez, who is a great conservative herself, to finish his term. In 2026 there would be a primary and another election.
We have so many great choices to keep Florida FREE for decades.
...and a great place for Donald Trump to be retired.
DeSantis, 2024!!!!!!!
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@harryleonard746 You must know your answer makes you irrelevant. If you did not vote for Trump in 2016, he doesn't need you to win in 2020. Fact is, unless you live in one of SIX important "swing states" and change your vote from Trump to Democrat, you really don't matter at all. If you live in a safe "Blue" state or safe "Red" state, your vote is already counted. OR if you live in a swing state but voted for Clinton in 2016, you are completely irrelevant.
Have a nice day.
Just in case, I'll say it Russian also.
Вы должны знать, что ваш ответ делает вас неуместным. Если вы не голосовали за Трампа в 2016 году, ему не нужно, чтобы вы выигрывали в 2020 году. Фактически, если вы не живете в одном из шести важных «колеблющихся штатов» и не измените свой голос с Трампа на Демократа, вы действительно этого не сделаете. имеет значение вообще. Если вы живете в безопасном «синем» или безопасном «красном» штате, ваш голос уже засчитан. ИЛИ если вы живете в состоянии колебания, но проголосовали за Клинтона в 2016 году, вы совершенно не относитесь к делу.
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@prity5631 Read carefully. Interpret literally.
You will NEVER see the name of a criminal defendant on a Republican party Presidential primary ballot.
Is Biden a Republican? Has Biden been indicted for violations of the Espionage Act?
No, I'm talking about TRUMP, the guy that didn't build the wall, didn't "lock her up", didn't end DACA, didn't defend the 2A, didn't end Obamacare, didn't secure energy independence, and didn't drain the swamp.
I'm talking about TRUMP that was such a "great President" that he chose Pence as his VP, appointed Fauci, Rosenstein, Wray, Milley, Mattis, Chao, Birx and Barr.
TRUMP was such a great leader he shut down the country when Fauci told him to...like Fauci's little b*tch. THEN He spent trillions of dollars in a Socialist's utopian fantasy paying people $600/week NOT to work, like Bernie Sanders' little b*tch. And THEN he spent billions of dollars, in advance for vaccines that don't work!!!! Like Pfizer's little b*tch.
ALL that was after he ordered the ATF to ban bumpstocks and went all in on red flag laws.
No, I'm talking about TRUMP.
You will have to write in his name if you want to vote for him.
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@josephmartinez94 See, here's the thing, Joseph: "The View" is not the "challenge" DeSantis needs to answer to. They are nobody, actually.
The PEOPLE of Florida get to challenge him on election day, November 8. I don't think DeSantis is worried about that challenge, do you?
We will have an election on November 8 and you can vote for the Democrat loser if you choose.
You don't have to like it. In fact, if you don't like it, it's even better! The airheads on "The View" don't have to like it, either.
BUT...you have options. I heard that California is trying to recruit Floridians to move there. I'm not far from you, Joseph, if you want to move to CA, let me know, I'll help you load your truck and wave good bye to you as your drive out of Florida.
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@stevenwojtysiak6392 Of course I'm right, because I have been there many times and I know what I experienced.
I had a passport with me. I exited the airplane and walked out of the airport. No one CHECKED my passport. Ever. No passport control.
BTW, when you board a flight TO the United States from Switzerland, you go through extensive security checks before boarding the flight. Normally when LEAVING a country you don't. But since Switzerland has -0- control on who enters, US authorities have their security checks when you LEAVE Switzerland.
You CAN go there, y'know. Beautiful country, OCD level clean, but very expensive.
There are no border fences either, you can walk in from anywhere...and it was that way before the EU existed.
And BTW, I am not suggesting that the USA do the same thing, I am just answering the question. There may be other countries that have no border control, but I haven't been to them.
Trump 2024!
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@ellamental7630 Nothing. No need to.
The USA does not legally recognize the concept of 'dual citizenship' There is nothing in the constitution or federal law that recognizes any such thing.
The US sees it as a hard binary choice: You are a US Citizen or you are not a US citizen.
The concept of a 'dual citizen' does not exist in US law. So, there are exactly -0- 'dual citizens' in the Congress.
There may be some that hold more than one passport (my wife does) that are naturalized citizens, but they are NOT 'dual citizens'. My wife MUST use her US passport to enter the USA. The US does not forbid a person from holding more than one passport and is not involved in the issuance of passports for other countries. The US also does not inform other countries when their former citizens become US citizens
ALL naturalized citizens, when they take their oaths, renounce any allegiance to any other foreign country.
Here is the relevant part of the oath:
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; "
So the 'dual citizenship issue' doesn't exist.
That should make you happy. Right?
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Earlier today, I watched one of your videos from a few years ago, comparing the .45-70 and .500 S&W Magnum. Very informative, but your style now is much more fun.
My thoughts on this gun...pretty cool, BUT a gun with three barrels, interchangeable chokes and no way to select barrels is pretty useless. The point of having two (or more) different chokes is to be able to immediately select different chokes for different situations. Incoming targets, outgoing targets, targets at close range or longer range. If you can't choose which barrel to fire first, (and second or third) they may as well all be the same. You've lost the advantage for hunting and greatly increased manufacturing costs. May as well have a cheaper semi-auto or pump with a single barrel.
As a defense gun? Three shot capacity AND you have to disable the gun to reload. Having to claw the empties out under stress, rather than having auto ejectors, pretty much ruins it for defense (on top of a 3 shot capacity)
Basically this demonstrates why police and military haven't used break action shotguns since the late 1800s.
But it DOES look like fun and it is definitely unusual.
Thanks, Scott. 👍
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WTF happened to us?
Men and women this age...yes this age, and even younger, AFTER surviving a depression, purges and famine...SAVED THE WORLD from Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo... in B-17s, Sherman tanks, parachuted from C-47s, landed on islands in the Pacific and beaches in Normandy, Italy and North Africa, while being fired on BY MACHINEGUNS AND ARTILLERY. Fought in jungles and deserts and artic conditions, FREED people of all genders and religions from tyranny, torture, and genocide!
And, for an encore, they came home, made babies, built suburbs, interstate highways, eradicated dreaded diseases like polio, tuberculosis, measles and went to the moon and back. Several times.
Pray that we never ever need them to do those things again.
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The unemployment rate is low because the workforce participation is low. Most people burned through all their (extended and enhanced) unemployment benefits in 2020/2021, when 80+% of unemployed people made more money being unemployed, and have to work at least 5 quarters to be eligible for more. You can't collect unemployment benefits on unemployment benefits. And you aren't working or collecting unemployment benefits...you don't count in the "unemployment rate"
Formula examples:
100 people in the workforce, 94 have a job, 6 are collecting unemployment benefits. Unemployment rate: 6% Workforce participation: 100%
100 people in the workforce, 90 have a job, 4 are collecting unemployment, 6 have exhausted their unemployment benefits but have no job.
Unemployment rate: 4% Workforce participation rate: 94%
LESS people working but a LOWER "unemployment rate"
Obama pulled the same trick in 2010. Unemployment benefits had been extended for 99 months during the "Bush recession", Obama even threatened to shut down the government if they weren't extended in 2009. Then a couple months before the mid-term, when the Dems were as unpopular as they are now, he allowed the benefits to expire and just before the mid-term election the unemployment rate DROPPED. Voila!!!!!! Easy peasy!
The Dems still lost a record number of seats in the House and lost their filibuster proof 60 seat majority in the Senate in the 2010 election.
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Comey said the FISA warrant was issued based on a "matrix of evidence". I am beginning to think that Steele did not write most of the dossier. we will find out more TODAY when his testimony and that of McCain confidant and former Dept. of State employee, David Kramer, in the Fusion GPS v. Buzzfeed case are released. Steele refused to appear before Congress and Kramer claimed the 5th. Both had pleaded the Judge to keep their depositions under seal. Congressman Nunes, who is preparing criminal referrals for at least 9 people, is awaiting the release of those transcripts in order to refine, or add to, his criminal referrals expected in the next 2-3 weeks.
Also, more transcripts and the FBI 302s will be released soon. This is as a result of President Trump referring these things to Inspector General Horowitz for review. They are now being released (Page's testimony has a few names redacted, but not much else) I suspect it also is tied to Mueller and Horowitz nearing the end, or completing, their investigations
I recommend everyone read the transcripts. Takes a couple hours, but it is worth it.
https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/Ohr%20Interview%20Transcript%208.28.18.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/former-fbi-official-lisa-page-s-interview-with-the-house-judiciary-committee-day-1/9cda430d-91d2-49e6-9a7d-b78337d91a76_note.html?questionId=6219b64c-ec7c-444c-b98d-9139c89e7944&utm_term=.3250a21c58c7
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@williamfranz9872 The point was that they have not changed Florida into a "blue state", quite the opposite.
The Constitution allows states' legislatures the power to draw district lines, and to determine how their electors are chosen for the Presidential election. Changing either requires a Constitutional Amendment. The Supreme Court has already ruled it is not a venue for federal courts to control.
Any way you cut it, NY has to divide a smaller pie. NY, IL and CA have lost power in the House. TX, FL, TN have gained power. Period. They can divide the pie any way they want, but they are getting a smaller slice. The states gaining seats are all "red states". The house will flip, just on re-districting.
The biggest loss for Dems in Florida is the Dade/Broward/Palm Beach county area. It shifted far more to the right in 2020 and current polls give DeSantis and Rubio the lead in those, previously, reliably "blue" areas. In fact, if a Dem got elected statewide, it was only because of the massive number of votes they piled up in those counties. Redistricting can't change that, and the Dems are going to lose a couple of long term Democrat seats in that area. A Democrat Gubernatorial or Senatorial candidate has no chance unless they carry all three of those counties...by a LOT.
I don't think this shift is permanent but don't underestimate how much Floridians really like DeSantis and Rubio.
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@morningsunrise2729 I think I said it's a red state. Let me check. YES, I did. Feel free to read what I wrote, again. There are LOTS of "red states" with Republican governors and a Democrat Senator (or two). Hmmm, let's see...(currently, as of today) FL, WV, IN, ND, MT, MO, IL (YES, Illinois) VT...YES, Vermont! Massachusetts. Wait. What? YES, Massachusetts! Maine (Independent Senator that votes with Democrats) Alabama, New Hampshire, Wisconsin...shall we continue? Are they ALL voter fraud? AZ typically takes a long time to count ballots due to the very rural nature of the state. It is not unusual for final results to take 10 days to compile. It is not McSally's place to prosecute voter fraud, that would be the job of the Secretary of State and State Attorney General.
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Where's MY $10,000? What a dumbass move! Let's make all the people who worked their @sses off to pay for college for themselves or their kids pay for this. What about the people who got valuable college degrees, the got good jobs and PAID their student loans? Let's make all the people who didn't go to college, or the ones who went to college and got useful degrees pay for this. Doctors, Engineers, attorneys, accountants, IT engineers...they PAID their loans, if any, because they got good jobs making a lot of money. Let's also make the people who went to trade school or tech school or apprenticeships pay for this.
So...all you truck drivers, medical technicians, nurses, HVAC Mechanics, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, factory workers, construction workers, farmers...you GET NOTHING and YOU have to pay for the college degree of the Starbuck's barista's worthless liberal arts degree!!!!!
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@politicallyincorrect9027 They don't need a party and can think for themselves. They're called "Independents". You can even register to vote as an Independent (if your state has partisan voter registration)
Bernie Sanders, Angus King and Kirsten Sinema are examples of Independents currently in Congress. Joe Lieberman was another.
Lisa Murkowski once lost the Republican primary, ran as an independent, WON, and rejoined the Republican party.
Bill Clinton won the Presidency, TWICE, because an Independent, Ross Perot, drew enough votes away from the Republican to allow Clinton to win with just 43% of the vote.
Teddy Roosevelt had been a Republican President from 1901-1909, left office and came back to run as an Independent in 1912. He drew enough votes to throw the election into the House of Representatives for a decision.
You knew all of that, right?
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None of these wackos are Trump. None of these wackos have ever accomplished anything. Trump said "off the wall" stuff, but from day one I said he would win because Trump can actually DO STUFF!
Biden will be like throwing a grenade in middle of those wackos. He will probably get the nomination and Trump will kick him to the curb. You are exactly right, Styx.
Simply put...as long as Trump is IN THE PROCESS of "building the wall" (fence/barrier/whatever) in 2020, this week's events assure that, and the economy is still good...Trump wins hands down. Trump BURIES them. Trump carries enough Representatives into office to retake the House (it wouldn't take many) and add two more Senators, not quite filibuster proof, but beyond any margin of RINOs.
And as much as they hate it, by the time of the 2020 conventions we will be well down the road with peace with North Korea, the wars will be virtually ended, if not entirely, trade deals will have been made and you think people will elect Biden...a guy who couldn't get jack shit done in the 9000 years he was in Government?
Compared to getting elected the first time...this will be a cake walk.
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He is testing Biden for other purposes. Not sure what those purposes are, but we will find out. I doubt he will invade Ukraine.
In 1979 the USSR (Putin was a Colonel in the KGB) put a reinforced brigade into Cuba.
President Carter, worried the USSR would invade Nicaragua or El Salvador, where communists were fighting the governments, demanded the USSR withdraw their troops. Brezhnev told Carter to go f*ck himself. Carter did nothing. Finally, as was released after 25 years of classification, the US negotiators asked the Soviets what would they do if the US announced that the Soviets would withdraw because of Carter's demands? The Soviets told them "We don't care if you lie to your country"
Carter announced that the Soviets would be withdrawing their troops and claimed "victory" in his negotiations. In 1979 there was no internet, no "connected" independent reports to counter what the government lied about.
A few months later the Iranians, who had intel from the USSR, staged a revolution and seized our embassy and Americans in Iran and held them hostage until the day President Reagan was inaugurated.
A month after that, the Soviets having satisfied themselves that Carter would do nothing, even right in his own backyard, the troops showed up again. In Afghanistan.
Our enemies are watching and testing us.
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We also need to support a candidate for President in 2024 that DOES NOT have a record of banning bumpstocks and supporting Red Flag laws. We need to "primary them out" also. Just sayin'.
You won't have to worry about Kamala Harris breaking a tie in the Senate on the pistol brace bill. Before the bill can even be debated in the Senate, it needs to get 60 votes to advance to a floor debate and vote.
If, by some miracle, it passed the Senate, Biden would veto it and there is no way there is a 2/3 majority in either chamber to override. Most likely, it will be assigned to the Judiciary Committee where the chairman, Senator Durbin (D-IL) will throw it in a black hole.
Gunowners need to remember that ANY federal firearms legislation, good or bad, for the next two years has -0- chance of passing. The current makeup of Congress is a slam dunk gridlock for ANY firearms legislation. This is why Biden is using Executive Orders instead of legislation.
ANY AND ALL such legislation, good or bad, is political theater. We also need to remember that it is VERY EASY for politicians to support a bill they KNOW has -0- chance of passing.
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Ah...but here is the problem. My wife is an immigrant from Ukraine. As this woman is also clearly an immigrant from a former Soviet Republic/Warsaw Pact country. They don't count.
My wife has been told she is not "really" an immigrant because she is "white", "very attractive", "from Europe" and "speaks English" (not her native language, but one of three she speaks fluently). The list of lame excuses she has heard as to why she is "not really an immigrant" is insane! You know, from the same people who say Trump "hates immigrants"...even though he is married to one! But Melania doesn't count, she is not a real immigrant...because she is white, attractive, from Europe and speaks English.
Yes, seriously, these morons think unless you speak Spanish, entered illegally and clean toilets or cut grass you aren't "an immigrant".
If there were 150,000 people like Ms. Sindorova entering the US illegally every month, the Democrats would be using their vacation to pile up rocks on the border to keep them out!!!!!!!
You are welcome in our country and good luck, Ms. Sindorova.
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1. That's what "sealed indictments" are for. No need for a "new law". If Mueller had evidence sufficient to support an indictment, he could enter a sealed indictment which would be opened when the President left office, whenever, by whatever means. The purpose of sealed indictments is exactly to "freeze" the statute of limitations.
2. Ex post Facto. You cannot change the law and make it retro-active to some action already committed. It would apply only to violations going forward from the law. Same reason that NY changing their tax law to release state income tax returns would not apply to any returns filed before the law went into affect, nor could they release any portion or any information on a state return obtained from a Federal Tax return as Federal law regulates that and overrides state law. Most states, which have income tax, begin their return with "Adjusted Gross Income from Line 22 of form 1040" That information cannot be released. If NY actually passes that law (they won't, it's political posturing) it would not apply to any returns filed previously and Trump could change his driver's license to Florida and avoid all state tax (not sure why he hasn't done that yet) NY would lose, not only their political case but also lose a BUNCH of tax $$$ when Trump, and others, changed their residence address to Florida. Just like AOCs mom did.
3.The bill would never pass the Senate
4. The Bill would never be signed by the President.
5. What's the purpose? Political games. If the House passes the bill, they will claim the Senate is blocking prosecution of a criminal. The Dems have nothing. Their Mueller pipe dream failed. They cannot impeach but they need to appease their wacko fringe that they all lied to for 2.5 years in the hopes that Mueller found SOMETHING...ANYTHING...even an unpaid parking ticket! He didn't.
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"There is no recession, there are no tragedies, the border is closed, this is the best economy in history, it's Putin's fault, It's Trump's fault, it's covid ...January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6 January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "
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I wonder why gun control was not mentioned in the Senate campaign of Bredesen, McCaskill, Heitkamp, Nelson, Sinema???? Anyone care to guess? The Republicans were very clear about protecting 2nd Amendment rights. Why weren't Democrats clear about taking away your guns? Let me explain...each of those LOSERS lost by less than the number of NRA members in their states. Despite having only 5,000,000 members, the NRA has enough members in EACH state and district to make the difference in a tight race. NRA members are not gerrymandered like minorities, so they have far more political power than 40,000,000 black people. They don't need to donate huge amounts of $$$. The NRA donates paltry sums compared to other special interests. They inform their 5,000,000 members and let them go vote.
She will be up for reelection in 2024. Will you remember this interview then?
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Congress doesn't "enforce" anything. They aren't law enforcement, they aren't the judiciary. That's an Article II, Executive, responsibility. There are no Republicans in the executive branch.
As for Congress, Republicans do not control the AGENDA of either the House or the Senate. It means they can propose all the legislation they want, (submit bills) and Nancy Pelosi can throw it in the trash can. In the Senate, Chuck Schumer can throw it in the trash can.
EVEN if a Republican piece of legislation were to pass with the help of a few Democrats, Biden would VETO it and they do not have enough votes to override.
IF we give control of Congress back to the Republicans, by VOTING for them, they will be able to SHUT DOWN the democrat agenda and, while Biden could still veto legislation, Congress controls the "purse" and CAN defund any of Biden's executive orders...IF they have the balls to do it.
7 months from today...VOTE
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Names of things are whatever people say they are, or generally agree to. Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Cape Canaveral again. Mt. McKinley, Denali, Mt. McKinley again. 🤷♂ BTW, another President in the future can change it back...or change it to "Gulf of Texas" or whatever they choose.
Trump says it's "Gulf of America". If you agree, you call it that. If you don't agree, you don't call it that.
Personally I think it is a more appropriate name for that body of water and will call it that, myself.
BTW, he did NOT rename it to 'get around' Biden's order banning drilling in the 'Gulf of Mexico'. Trump issued another executive order rescinding Biden's order on drilling.
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I don't blame them. Under current procedures, and the current political situation, Republicans have nothing to gain.
The best way to do Presidential candidate debates would be to have a series of debates on particular issues, ONE issue per debate and allow each candidate 30-45 minutes to discuss their plans on that issue. Then each candidate can have a 15 minute rebuttal period. No "moderator" per se.
OR
If we continue with the current format, then each candidate gets to pick a "questioner" to ask questions of his opponent and the candidates have NO SAY on who the other candidate picks to ask questions. The questioner could be ANYONE, not just a media talking head. In fact, it would be better to have knowledgeable questioners, rather than media talking heads. For example, the Republican candidate could choose former Congressman Trey Gowdy, or Senator Ted Cruz.
Again, the debates should focus on ONE issue per debate. An aggregated average of 4 surveys (2 pollsters chosen by each candidate) could determine the top 5 issues voters are concerned with and have 5 debates.
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@SolidSquid1 A DOJ decision has nothing to do with impeachment. The DOJ can enter a sealed indictment which can be opened and the President can be prosecuted after leaving office, whenever that occurs. A sealed indictment prevents the statute of limitations from running while the President is in office. Impeachment does not, and never has, required a separate indictment by the DOJ. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached, neither was indicted or charged with a crime, before or after they left office. Neither was removed from office. (impeachment sis NOT removal, you know that right?) Since removal requires 67 votes in the Senate, Trump's removal is not a possibility in a Senate where Republicans have 53 votes. So, what's the point? You can argue about "duty" but the ONLY duty the Congress thinks it has is to getting re-elected and failed attempts at impeachment have a history of being 100% devastating to the party that attempts it. FYI, Nixon was neither impeached nor was he indicted for anything.
The Congress has NO criminal prosecution authority, ever. If they discover criminal activity they must refer to the DOJ for prosecution. They CAN impeach, all by themselves. An indictment would make it easy, give them an excuse that didn't look political, but it is not needed.
Spoiler alert for you. There will be no indictment of Trump or any of his campaign staff for any of this. There will be no impeachment. You don't have to like it and you don't have to agree with me. Just understand that IS the case. If the Dems want the President OUT, then they have their opportunity in 18 months. The report has been released, we can all read it. We can all decide if we want to vote for Trump or whatever the Dems offer.
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I don't recommend leaving guns in vehicles, or any sort of "off body" carry.
Keep them ON YOU, under your control. Ignore the "no guns" signs on businesses. That is a "request" and nothing more. "Concealed" has a meaning.
Avoid places where it is illegal to go with a gun. You do not need to go to the Post Office, for example. You can buy stamps and postage for packages online and take your packages to Non-USPS drop off locations, or even put packages in your home mailbox for the mail carrier to pick up.
Find ways. Being armed is a matter of choice and may require you to have multiple firearms, holsters, etc. I was a police officer for 36 years and have been carrying a firearm every day since 1973. It is something that requires planning in your clothing choices and firearm choices.
If it is absolutely necessary to leave a gun in a car, then disable the gun...remove the slide, for example, and take it with you and/or lock it in the trunk. If you need to do this often, choose a gun that is easy to disassemble quickly. Revolvers would not be a good choice for that purpose, although there is currently ONE revolver that has a push button cylinder release that would allow you to take the cylinder with you. Consider your lifestyle, where you frequent, what you wear and choose firearms, holsters and clothing accordingly.
BTW, the criminals stealing those guns, don't get background checks.
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@neilcharles2520 OK, I did.
My auto insurance just DECREASED, for the exact same coverage, 33%. I shop it around at every year and pay the premium in full for a year. No extra "fees" for monthly payments. Neither my wife nor I have had a ticket or accident in over 15 years. We pay under $100/mo. for 2 drivers, with two late model vehicles. Full, maximum coverage, collision and comprehensive, roadside assistance and rental coverage.
My property insurance has increased 50% in the last 10 years. Again, I shop it around every year, pay the full amount when due for a year (my home is paid for, so I do my own escrow) and I keep my home up to current codes. I pay for full replacement cost coverage and a 3% hurricane deductible. $1000 deductible for all other hazards. 10 year old, concrete block construction home, 3 br, 2 ba., 2 car garage.
I have a 4 point inspection every 5 years and wind mitigation inspection every 5 years. It saves me over $1,600.00/year in premiums to have my home up to code and have wind protection equipment (hurricane rated doors and windows, window coverings, garage door reinforcement, hip roof, strapped rafters, etc.)
My property taxes are HALF what they were 10 years ago. I make use of every available exemption. People need to find out what is available and file for the exemptions they are eligible for.
Florida is VERY cheap for taxes...all taxes...but you have to do it right.
Auto insurance is reasonable if you shop around. Homeowner's insurance is reasonable if you have a modern, up to code, home.
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Russ Gallagher Not really a "disgrace". It is called "due process"
Everyone does it, in every case, civil and criminal, from "small claims" to the Supreme Court, at least as much as they can afford to do so. Everyone seems to be OK with "due process" when it works in their favor, but it is a "disgrace" when it doesn't.
FWIW Trump has done the same thing and the SCOTUS rulings this week on his taxes are perfect examples.
Bearing in mind that the Dems GOAL was to obtain his taxes prior to the election hoping to "mine them" for "political dirt" , they LOST. Both rulings did not deliver his taxes and essentially thres the cases back for more litigation that has -0- chance of being settled before the election. Trump WINS!
Congress does not have his taxes and NOW has 4 new "legal tests" they have to meet in order to subpoena anything from any President! How is that a win for Pelosi? (she said it was) 🤪. Always remember "The Presidency" is NOT the same as "the President". SCOTUS made it more difficult for Congress to ever get ANY information from ANY President. As they SHOULD. It was a HUGE LOSS for Congress, thanks to Pelosi. Congress and the Presidency are "equal" branches of government. The President does NOT report to Congress. Congress is NOT his "boss".
As far as the SDNY case, while the court did say that Trump's reasons for opposing the subpoena were not valid, they did state other reasons that would be valid. (SCOTUS almost never does that!) In other words, they gave Trump a "roadmap" to follow to challenge the subpoenas. He will.
NO ONE got his taxes, all they got was more litigation, none of which will be concluded before the election. Trump wins!
Due process.
Another example...Roger Stone. Roger Stone is seeking to get a new trial, and he has legitimate reasons to ask for one. It is normal to allow a convicted person to remain free on bail while he goes through "due process" as long as that person is not a flight risk or a risk to the community. Stone is neither. He doesn't have a passport and "lying to congress" is hardly something you worry about when walking into a dark parking garage late at night. But the judge denied his request, which was clearly political. Trump fixed that by commuting the prison sentence but allowing Stone to continue seeking a new trial. A pardon would deny Stone the opportunity to prove his innocence in a trial and forever allow Democrats to say he was "guilty". Due process.
On another note...what is Trump hiding in his taxes? Simple. Congress, in writing tax code, has given huge breaks to the hospitality industry because if they didn't no one would ever open a Hotel or Resort. Without going into exhaustive detail (I could) Trump used those exemptions to maximize his profits...as ANY BUSINESS SHOULD! It is perfectly legal, and even the INTENDED result of the tax code. Trump was a businessman, NOT a politician. He had a fiduciary duty to his investors to maximize profits.
There were probably many years that Trump entities (NOT the same as Donald Trump) did not pay tax at all. Similar to Amazon, etc. The tax code allows them to "write off" their income in one LEGAL WAY or another. Thus protecting the industry and the millions of jobs it provides. Thank you, Congress!
Democrats would LOVE to be able to say "Look, he is a billionaire and you pay more taxes than he does!" (conflating business with personal taxes, no problem for Dems) It has been said that "Jeff Bezos pays no tax" Amazon and Jeff Bezos are two different things.
Democrats are searching for ANY WAY to separate Trump from his supporters and they think that showing "how little he pays in taxes" would help. They are MAD that Trump did not "release his taxes" like most politicians do and that he got elected anyway! HOW DARE YOU vote for a man that doesn't do what politicians want him to do.
Anyway, the goal is political, not legal or legislative. Trump has nothing to hide. As with a LOT of big companies, the taxes are under continual IRS audit. If there were any mistakes they would be corrected by the audit.
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Ukraine DID officially change their name to "Ukraine" in December 1991. They dropped "the" from the name.
"Ukraine" comes from old dialect meaning "border lands" so, for the Russian Empire, the territory WAS "the Ukraine" for centuries. Once independent, the name became a mild pejorative. As to suggest a disrespect for not using the proper name and regarding them as still subjects of Russia or the USSR. As you know "the Netherlands" is not the proper name for Nederlands. Neither is it "Holland", though there ARE provinces of Nederlands called "Holland", Amsterdam is in North Holland. Haarlem is the capital of North Holland. It is not the name of the country. Just as Texas is not the name of the United States. I digress...
During the USSR Ukraine was "The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic" as ALL Republics had the "the" title..."The (Tajik, Estonian, Belarusian, Kazak, Uzbec etc.) Soviet Socialist Republic" Except for Russia which was "The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic"
I live and worked in Ukraine, my wife is Ukrainian. The proper name is "Ukraine"
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine
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@opus3989 Buyers are not the problem.
Getting it to the buyers is the issue.
A lot of shipping companies will not traverse the Black Sea currently because their insurance companies will not cover them to do so. Even if there is a route using coastal, territorial waters (which increases the length of the journey and the fuel expended by the ships) many insurance companies will not take that risk.
Absent a Black Sea route, the only choice to deliver grain to the buyers is overland THROUGH one of the neighboring, friendly, countries. Poland, Slovakia, Romania. All three of those countries have substantial agriculture industries of their own.
Ukrainian grain is cheaper because of economies of scale, lower wages paid in Ukraine than in EU countries, lower costs of fertilizer, and the very rich and productive soil of Ukraine. Ukrainian grain is usually purchased by developing countries with less $$$ to spend and the cheaper grain is no threat to the EU agriculture economy.
SOME of this cheaper grain, which was intended only to pass thru Poland, Slovakia and Romania was, allegedly, being sold in those countries. Probably by unscrupulous sellers to unscrupulous buyers.
Those countries are obligated to protect their own economies. I don't blame them.
I don't know the details of the agreements they are working on. I understand it is some sort of "licensing" agreement. This may involve selling the grain to Poland, Slovakia and Romania (Hungary jumped in also for no particular reason other than they are Hungary) and then those countries handling the sale of the grain themselves...they will make sure it is not sold at bargain prices in their own country.
I'll wait to see the final result, but I am glad they seem to have worked it out.
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But do we?
Trump did NOT drain the swamp, close the border, secure energy independence, end DACA, end Obamacare, or defend the 2A.
Trump DID appoint Sessions, Rosenstein, Wray, Fauci, Birx, Barr....just to name a few.
Trump DID shut down the country, pay trillions of dollars to people for NOT working and paid billions of dollars to Big Pharma, IN ADVANCE, for vaccines that DON'T WOK!!!!!!!
Trump was a total failure. He folded and conceded to the left EVERY TIME he was challenged. He never "made a deal" to accomplish anything. He did exactly what Biden is doing...Executive Orders. And when he left office, Biden cancelled all of them.
Everything is WORSE now than it was before Trump took office.
DeSantis, 2024!!!!!!! NO MORE AMATEURS!!!!!!!!!!!
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@thepirate305 NO corporation paid ANY TAX in any year. ALL corporations collect taxes and pass it the money they collect on to the government. It just means that other corporations collected more (percent) tax than Amazon and passed it on to their customers/shareholders and/or employees.
Right, they can raise prces...to a point. They can cut dividends...to a point. They can cut benefits...to a point. And if they can't recoup ALL the tax that way, they move out of the country.
That's not fair. Corporate "tax" should be -0- for all corporations.
NO BUSINESS "pays" TAX.
This is very simple math...profit is calculated AFTER all costs and expenses (including taxes which is are an "expense" unless it is on specific items, like a tariff, and then it is a "cost") If ANY company made ANY profit, it means the company did NOT "pay" ANY tax. Period. YOU paid the tax...and their electric bill, water bill, landscaping costs for their headquarters, snow removal costs, etc., etc., etc.
If a business does NOT make a profit AFTER TAX, or if those profits are not enough to interest shareholders or shareholders' 401K management firms, it will
1. go out of business.
2. move it's operation somewhere with lower taxes. If that is within the USA, then only a state loses tax revenue and jobs while another state gains tax revenue and jobs (the employees pay tax to that state in income and/or sales taxes) Some states, particularly TX, TN and FL aggressively recruit business to move to their state.
3. move out of the USA. Some countries aggressively recruit US companies to move to their country.
4. go out of business and whatever jobs they created or supported will be lost.
There ARE NO other options. To imagine that "Amazon" will just pony up more $$$ for YOUR "free" stuff and "eat" the loss is naïve beyond belief.
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T-34/85. Didn't come into play until early 1944. It was not present at the biggest tank battle of the eastern front, Kursk, in July/August, 1943.
You should make a trip to the former Soviet Union. I lived and worked there for 7 years. I can highly recommend any of the museums or memorials. Hard to say which is best. My favorites are the History Museum in Kharkiv, Babi Yar Ravine in Kiev (Kyiv) and the "Memorial of Glory" in Kharkiv. Kharkiv was fought over three times and finally liberated as a by-product of the battle of Kursk on August 23, 1943. More than 274,000 people, just in that city, were killed. More than ALL Americans killed in the European theater...in ONE city! The Memorial is a beautiful park, which is also a mass grave. Very sobering.
Lots of T34/76s and T34/85s parked all over. I tell my Ukrainian wife that I don't think they scrapped ANY of their tanks, they just parked them all around the cities as monuments.
The T34/85 was in use until the 1960s in many countries.
FYI...Cyrillic is easy to learn. I think it took me about 2 hours of my first day of Russian class to nail it down. Get a chart or some flash cards. You'll know it in no time.
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I think his comments on Ukraine are a factor in his decision.
He made the suggestion that Ukraine should surrender their territory to Russia to "save lives", because we all know how well Ukrainians do under Russian control and millions of Ukrainians never were starved to death under Russian control...right?
He also thought Ukraine should give Crimea back to Russia because it was Russia's until Khrushchev's "mistake" (It was Turkey's territory before that, what about giving it back to Turkey?)
Musk got thoroughly ratio'd for it. Now claims he was rejected because of "bots". Ukrainian bots, I suppose.
Suddenly, he decides to go through with the deal and will "clean up the bots".
He acts like a bratty teenage girl with too much money.
Thanks to Musk for providing "Starlink" to Ukraine, but as was also revealed this week, he was PAID for that. Now, there is nothing wrong with capitalism, and the makers of HIMARS are getting paid also...but, gee, how did I get the impression that Musk had "given" Ukrainians "Starlink"? 🤷♂
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@1aztecninja...Try to pay attention. Read carefully, interpret literally. AFTER the attacks on 9/11 the WORLD developed systems, laws, regulations and standards to prevent that from happening again. So far, so good. The systems and cooperation may not be perfect but nearly ALL countries, including Saudi Arabia, are in compliance with the new standards. The countries on the "ban list" are NOT in compliance, one of them, Venezuela is not a "Muslim majority" country. In the first ban, Iran was included but was removed because they came into compliance with the new standards. Suggesting it does not keep us safe because of incidents than happened before the implementation of current laws and standards is ridiculous, borderline moronic, and shows you really have no argument at all. It is also WHY the Supreme Court upheld the ban. Sorry, but I will go with the Supreme Court's decision over your "logic"
And yes, I realize I just wasted a lot of internet ink trying to reason with a fool.
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3:13 Burlington is NOT the state capital. 🙄Montpelier is.
Burlington is the largest city, (40,000 or so not counting college students) and there aren't many good jobs there either. Unless you work for one of the universities or the hospital, there isn't much else. There are quite a few Government offices in Vermont, thanks to the influence of Senator Leahy. USCIS, ICE and others have large facilities there. Those are good jobs, but not very many. Retail, sandwich shops, dairy farms, starving artists and seasonal jobs at ski resorts make up the rest. A huge percentage of people are on unemployment/welfare at least part of the year. Particularly construction workers. The "factories" in Vermont are not high paying jobs...Ben & Jerry's, Vermont Teddy Bear, Green Mountain Coffee, Cabot Cheese, Champlain Chocolate. Little better than retail work. Burton snowboards moved all their manufacturing to China. The Burlington headquarters is a bunch of hippies designing snowboards. Maple syrup? Yeah, almost all of it in Vermont is produced by small private farms. It's not a big employment factor and the "sugaring season" is only a few weeks in February/March.
Vermont actively runs off any good employers or industry with environmental restrictions and taxes which rival California.
Beautiful state. Absolutely gorgeous. Difficult life, brutally cold, long and snowy winters. If you're retired and can afford two homes, Vermont should be at the top of your list for your summer home. If you like skiing...really great place.
Unfortunately, Vermont has made college graduates it's most valuable export.
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They won't. But that is not the plan. After some time, the three judge panel will deny Trump's motion. Trump will then appeal to the full DC Circuit Court of Appeals. After some time, they will deny his motion. Trump will then appeal to the Supreme Court. After some time, they will decline to hear the case and then Trump's defense team will present a NEW motion to delay the trial.
The GOAL is to DELAY the trial, NOT to dismiss the charges. No matter what Trump says...the GOAL is to delay. Ideally, to delay the trial until AFTER the election or, at least, until within 60 days of the trail, giving Trump another reason to delay with motions.
Remember that the GOAL of the government is NOT to put Trump in prison, they now that will never happen, but to take him out as a candidate.
Trump only needs to DELAY in order to WIN.
Electing Trump will end the problem. Nothing else will.
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BUILD THE WALL! Shut down the government until they fund the wall. A week, a month, a year, I DON'T CARE! In fact, I would go so far as to say shut down ALL legislative action (which does not include Judge confirmations) until the wall is funded. Let the Republicans know...add the funding for the wall to ANY, ALL, legislation or it WILL NOT BE SIGNED. NOTHING happens until the wall is funded.
Write to your representatives, Democrat or Republican, and let them KNOW...you support President Trump. Write to President Trump, every day, tell him you support his action. https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
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Meh...big nothing burger. Democrats will still control the Senate. Here's the math:
If Sinema declares she will not caucus with either party, the count is 50-49-1
If Sinema declares she will caucus with the Dems (not likely) the count is 51-49
If Sinema declares she will caucus with Republicans, the count s 50-50 and Kamala breaks the tie.
Sinema will continue to vote exactly as she has.
She did this to avoid being primaried in 2024 when she runs for reelection. Dems were going to primary her, pull her funding and make sure she lost the primary. Because she didn't vote to end the filibuster. Now they can't. NOW, if Dems run a candidate against her in the General election, they will split the Dem vote and get the Republican elected. AZ does not have runoffs. A Republican could win with 35% of the vote if Sinema and the Dem split what's left.
Shrewd move, Kyrsten!
They would do the same to Manchin, if they could, but there is NO WAY any Dem primary challenger would defeat Manchin.
Dems will not run a candidate against a popular Independent. Just ask Bernie Sanders or Angus King. Just ask Bill Clinton what happens when you do, he got elected both times because an independent, Ross Perot, split the Republican vote both times.
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They will do this until they decide it is not working for them. Trump needs to change his residency to Florida. The people who VOTED FOR TRUMP did so without seeing his taxes. The people who VOTED FOR TRUMP did so AFTER the "Access Hollywood" tape release. The people who VOTED FOR TRUMP DON'T CARE!!!! The people who did NOT vote for Trump are politically irrelevant.
AOC with her comment will make herself MORE irrelevant. when you attempt to make yourself look "big"..."we weren't asking"...when you ultimately fail you look even more ridiculous. It is a sign of her inexperience. Experienced, long lived, politicians do not paint themselves in corners. Better would be to say "we will do what we can to get his taxes".
In any case, it won't work. Obama does not control the IRS anymore.
what is the REAL reason? Because Trump was a businessman and used every legal avenue to pay the least amount of taxes. And, for the hospitality industry and construction industry and real estate industry, that is A LOT of special exemptions, and carry overs. Dems expect that they will find he pays little, if any tax, and say AH_HAH!!!!!!! But if he is following the tax code THEY passed, who is the goat? In any case, those rules apply to business and not personal taxes. His personal taxes may be a total letdown for the Dems. Just as they were when Rachel Maddow breathlessly showed us all his 2005 taxes, which showed he paid more percentage of tax than Bernie Sanders.
If that is the case, Trump will wait until just before the election and then put them out. Trump is a 4D chess player and he will release his taxes if and when it benefits HIM.
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If Trump is a racist, he sucks at it. President Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, premiered the KKK movie "Birth of a Nation" at the WHITE HOUSE!
Re: the 3/5 compromise. The NORTH, abolitionists, did not want slaves counted AT ALL. The SOUTH wanted them counted as FULL "citizens" to increase the South's representation in the House of Representatives. If slaves had been counted as full citizens, there was little chance slavery EVER would have been banned.
Idiots also ignore that our Constitution was written with the INTENT of abolishing slavery at some point in the future. The importation of slaves was banned in the Constitution after 1805, the 3/5 compromise was INTENDED to reduce the influence of slave states in Congress. The nation COMPROMISED in order to actually FORM a nation in which slavery COULD be abolished.
Somehow, over the years, it has become distorted and idiots say..."See, the south didn't even count slaves as 'full' persons" !!!!!!!
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@VegascoinVegas When Dems want to rig a primary, they support the run of a Republican (or, sometimes, additional Democrats) to get the opponent, or nominee, they WANT in November.
They did this in the CA Senate primary. With the CA "jungle primary" they wanted to make sure Adam Schiff's opponent was Steve Garvey and not the other Dem candidate, Katie Porter, who could actually win. The DNC contributed to his primary campaign and then, oops, the donations vanish after he "wins" the primary (which in CA means "came in 2nd").
Democrats supported Kari Lake in her Governor primary in 2022. Katie Hobbs sister even re-registered as a Republican so she could vote for Lake and they suggested other Dems do the same. The Dems WANTED Kari Lake as the opponent in November. It worked. Kari Lake got the nomination, Katie Hobbs won the Governor election.
So...since the Dems in control of MI and WI have FORCED RFK Jr. to remain on the ballot, and since he really hasn't dropped out of the race, only suspended in specific states, the RNC could fund HIS campaign in those states, highlighting his more liberal policies, or those of his running mate, Nicole Shanahan. He could even make campaign appearances in those states.
Then watch how fast the DNC gets his name off the ballot.
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I have been saying this in the comments for years. ATF is a SYMPTOM, they are not the DISEASE.
Every time I do, I am greeted with replies that I am a "traitor", "shill", "RINO" (and those are the NICE names I am called)
It's even worse that you say, Brandon. Those 'other agencies', despite being bigger than the ATF, would say they need MORE personnel and $$$ to enforce the nations federal gun laws. (the Treasury Dept. did it before the ATF existed)
Basically, the name on the building would change and the employees would all still work for the government doing the same thing in a new 'department'.
We need to repeal or strike down in court, the NFA, GCA and Brady Act.
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@TomTom-ow6gb Magnum Research is located in Minnesota. They developed the Desert Eagle. They contracted with Israeli Military Industries to manufacture the gun until 1995 when they moved manufacturing to Saco, in Maine. In 1998 they went back to Israel to IMI which is now known as Israeli Weapons Industries.
So, yes, it was/is "made" in Israel, but it is not an Israeli design. Just as Browning used manufacturers all over the world to manufacture his/their guns, (Winchester, Remington, Colt, Savage, FN, Inglis, Miroku for example) Magnum research has done that also.
In 2010 Kahr Arms acquired Magnum Research.
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So, you believe everything Trump says and you think he can never be wrong? As for what Trump said in 2016, yesterday he said "Now I know why innocent people plead the 5th" So now you accept that, right?
As for pleading the fifth, it was a brilliant thing to do! This is a civil case. You know that, right? There is no "guilty" in a civil case. There is no crime alleged. The criminal investigation was closed without charges months ago.
So let's say YOU are going for a deposition with an AG that has sworn to "get you". She ran for office on the pledge to "get" Donald Trump.
And you are going to give testimony, under oath, in a civil case that, at worst, results in a monetary judgement?
Remember, this same person has lost her attempt to charge you with crimes, she is livid, and desperate, because she ran on "getting you" and is now up for reelection but hasn't "gotten you." Are YOU going to risk a perjury trap?
You know what a perjury trap is, right? That's where they get you to say one thing under oath and then get someone else to say the opposite and then charge you with perjury...an actual crime.
What kind of idiot would fall for that? What kind of moron would you have to be to answer ANY questions to that person?
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@mondotib Congratulations!
FWIW, Oliver Winchester didn't "create" any firearms. He was a marketing and manufacturing genius. He took other people's designs (Smith & Wesson, Henry and King) and brought them to the market. He was a wheeler and dealer and marketeer, but not a firearms designer.
He died in 1880, even before the most famous Winchester rifles (designed by John Browning) were invented.
He started by assembling investors to buy the "Volcanic Arms Co." from Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson (of S&W fame) in 1855 renamed it "New Haven Arms" and started work on marketing what would become the "Henry Rifle" in 1860. Named for Benjamin Tyler Henry who was acquired with the deal with S&W and inventor of the Henry rifle. In 1866 the rifle was improved with the "King's patent" loading system, and that rifle went on to become the first "Winchester" rifle, the Model 1866. The Models 1873 and 1876 were basically iron frame versions of the Model 1866, sized for the cartridges they chambered.
Beginning with the Model 1878 single shot rifle and continuing through the Models 1886, 1892, 1894, 1895 lever action rifles and the Models 1887, 1897 and 1901 shotguns, were all John Browning designs.
Oliver Winchester was long dead by that time.
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Let me help. ALL House and Senate votes are, and always have been, available to the public. You used to have to go to the library to read it, but now, it is available in the device you carry everywhere in your pocket. The device you used to type your comment has all that information available to you with just a couple "clicks".
But let me make this even easier:
There are only THREE people you need to concern yourself with. (on the federal level) Your US Representative and your state's 2 Senators. You can't vote for, or against, any of the others.
Senators and Representatives DO NOT EVER "disregard" their constituents. I worked as a staff member for a US Senator for 7 years. I assure you, he NEVER disregarded his constituents and paid careful attention to the feedback he received.
If they don't vote the way YOU want on an issue, it is not because they "disregarded" you, it is because the majority of their constituents made it known that's what they wanted. They get elected by the MAJORITY of the voters in their district or state.
They DO pay attention.
Put the websites of your US Representative and Senators in your bookmarks, email them frequently. The staff reads those emails and gives the officials the feedback they receive. Phone calls work also. All of their contacts are available on their website. If they have a local office, you can drop in there also and tell the staff your opinions.
No need to be long winded or angry...it won't matter. Just tell them which BILL you are referring to and whether you SUPPORT or OPPOSE that bill.
ALL bills are available for review on the House or Senate calendar. You can read the whole thing if you like.
Simple email: "Dear __________________. I am writing to inform you I am OPPOSED to HB (or HR) 1234.
OR
"Dear Senator _______________. I am writing to inform you I SUPPORT SB 1234"
If you don't know the Bill number, just state your opinion on an ISSUE.
Add whatever else you like, but the staff counts it as "For" or "Against". They will give the official a selected sampling of emails for them to read. That's it, that's all.
I write my Representatives (State, Federal, House, Senate, and my Governor) every week. They will not always vote the way you want. It is not because they are disregarding you.
If you are not happy with them, you can vote for their opponents.
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Very good and accurate analysis. My wife is Ukrainian. She was born and raised in Kharkiv. We live in the USA now, but every other member of her family is in Kharkiv. The men have taken up arms, our youngest son, her brother, our oldest nephew. The women, her mother, our daughter in law, our sister in law are working their way west with the young children, our grandson and young nephew. We don't know where they may end up at this time. But each day the question is the same..."Are you safe? Do you have some food and water?" They will build on that.
I could have told Putin the Ukrainians would not give up. As you say, Putin already lost. Each rocket, bomb and missile makes them stronger, drives more people to volunteer. He will never have peace in Ukraine as long as the Russians are present as occupiers.
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Styx, there is no precedent to wait until after the election except in 2016. And that was fabricated. The rule is that the "majority rules" and the Republicans had the majority in the Senate in 2016, as they do now. That said...
In 2016, Obama was a "lame duck". In 2020 Trump is not. So it is NOT "the same as 2016" and McConnell would immediately point that out. That said...
I WILL AGREE that Supreme Court Justice selections are a big boost for Trump. The electorate is generally ignorant that (unless Ginsburg dies this year) the next term of the Presidency will probably get to appoint THREE Supreme Court Justices. Ginsburg, Breyer (very liberal and 80+ years old) and Thomas. That said...
Trump CAN, and will, replace Ginsgurg with a Conservative. There is no one to stop him. The Republicans got the RINOs off the Judiciary Committee and there are not enough RINOs left in the Senate to stop the nomination. Who? Romney, Mukowski, Collins? That makes it 50/50 and Pence breaks the tie.
Ginsburg has a high chance of dying this year.
Her replacement will be Amy Coney Barrett, UNLESS Barrett turns it down. After what they did to Kavanaugh, who knows? Not everyone has the wherewithal for that.
If she dies in 2020 it will be a decision for Trump/McConnell to make. Trump may make a niomination and suggest that McConnell withhold confirmation. The message being..."Elect me AND a Republican Senate or you get the nominee of the Democrats". On the other hand...that may be an incentive for Democrats to vote that the current crop of Presidential candidates can't bring to the polls.
That said...better if she dies this year, keeps it out of the election cycle and Trump can easily win on the economy.
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Wray: Blah, blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, blah
until..."The Senator's time has expired"
Just a reminder: Wray was appointed by TRUMP on the recommendation of Rosenstein (also appointed by TRUMP) and Wray was confirmed by a unanimous vote of EVERY Republican Senator in congress at that time.
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@harveypratt995 And it is good reason, Harvey.
Let's say that the man is never charged with anything. He did nothing wrong. Nothing. The FBI found no evidence to support their suspicions and no charges are ever brought. He may have been set up by someone. It could be revenge from a former spouse, girlfriend, business associate. People make false claims about others all the time.
It happens more often than you think. How much do you trust the FBI, Harvey, to release information abut YOU?
Meanwhile they have released a warrant and/or the affidavits supporting the warrant to anyone who asked for them. Those documents may say they are searching for evidence of...drug dealing, child porn, sex trafficking, wire fraud...you name it.
Would you want that information put out on YOU? How do you recover from that when the media obtains those documents and spreads it all over the news, the internet, your employer finds out about it? And then later, it's just a mistake? This man has not been charged with or convicted of, anything at this point.
But let's say they DO arrest him. What does that information in the public domain do to the jury pool that may be charged with judging him?
These exemptions are out of respect to OUR RIGHTS...not to be charged without evidence, and to have a fair trial.
They are NOT an "excuse" they are the basis of our FREE society. All covered by the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th amendments. That takes precedence over curiosity. Out of 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights, it is no coincidence that HALF of them regard our rights to freedom from unwarranted searches and free and fair trials.
Try to imagine what happens if the government can release unproven rumors about YOU. That's what it protects from.
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@WBBClips I don't know why. I don't speculate. They are not obligated by any law to do so. Lying would be obstructing. Not knowing is not a crime.
I am not painting anyone as innocent...or guilty. I am merely commenting on what we know at this time. Basically...nothing. The police may know more. If they feel it is to their advantage in the investigation for the public to know more, they will tell you. Likely the police don't want the public to know what they know. Information is power. Give as little as possible. Anything the police tell the public will be immediately transmitted to Brian Laundrie.
In my 19 year experience investigating crimes, 17 years in uniform before that, I can assure you it is very common for criminals to protect themselves and their families by not giving their families information. Families will often assist their family members without asking questions. That is not a crime. They are not lying if they really don't know. And it is very possible, even very likely, they really don't know.
It is also very common for police to give false/misleading/incorrect information to the public to produce a result.
For example...while they search where Laundrie wants them to search, and all the media and attention is focused there, they could be actually looking somewhere they have evidence that he may actually be. In fact, I would be surprised if this search is nothing more than a headfake by Laundrie AND the police.
If/when someone is indicted for a crime, the indictment will be public record. Prosecutors speak through indictments. Until then, you will know only what the investigators want you to know.
I am not guessing.
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I have many CC handguns, but no .40s. Why?
1st reason...I have .45s. And .44s. And .357s.
2nd reason...The ammunition available for 9mm has been developed and improved far more in the 30 years the .40 has been available. There really is no intelligent choice anymore between the 9mm and .40. I know .40 fan boys will disagree, but that is because they are uninformed. Many, willfully uninformed. My local gun shop has dozens of LE trade ins. ALL of them are .40s. ALL of them were traded in for 9mms. I don't imagine I know some secret that they don't. Even the FBI, that originally demanded the 10mm, then downloaded it to where it was just an oversized .40, then went to the .40 because...that's what they had anyway, have gone back to the 9mm.
3rd reason...ammunition is far cheaper to PRACTICE with and even though I handload, the component bullets for 9mm (and .45) are cheaper than .40. More practice is a good thing.
4th reason...I am an old, gun savvy codger that is not impressed by shiny new objects like the .40 S&W cartridge. Basically, I do not have a .40 because I am too intelligent to buy one.
I do, however, support your CHOICE to carry things like pepper spray or .40 S&W handguns to defend yourself. You may also want to consider just carrying a cell phone to call 911 for a police officer to bring a 9mm.
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Phillip hanna Reagan WAS a Democrat. Not a "dem supporter", he was a Democrat.
He served two terms as the Governor of California. 1967-1975. He was also in the US Army Reserve since 1937, a private in a Cavalry regiment ("cavalry" at the time being light tanks and armored vehicles, not horses) from Iowa. He "starred" in US Army training films during WW2. So he did have political and military experience.
Yes, Reagan was an actor. A fairly popular one, at that. Reagan had also been the President of the Screen Actors Guild.
Not unlike a whole lot of other people in the 60s and early 70s he switched parties. As the country became less prejudiced, less racist, less segregated, it also became less Democrat.
By 1980, when Reagan won, the "solid south" was no longer Democrat as they were during slavery and through segregation. George Wallace, who ran for President in 1968 and was an avowed racist, was a Democrat. Democrats filibustered the voting rights act and the civil rights act. Until 1980 the racist Democrats could count on all the southern states to vote "blue". ("Blue" and "Red" states weren't even a thing yet, but you get the idea)
Reagan was hated by the media. Just like Trump. But there was less media then. There were no 24 hour news channels, no internet, no "Twitter". I picked up the latest editions of the three news magazines at the time, Newsweek, Time, and US News and World Report the day before the election and all of them said the race was "too close to call". Personally, I didn't know anyone that would vote for Carter again. Reagan won in a landslide. Fake News. Reagan was called stupid, a warmonger, racist, everything they throw at Trump (you think they changed?)
Reagan was also plain spoken, a lot like Trump, and very humorous. Like Trump. Trump tends to use some more brash language than Reagan...but I think that is more a sign of the times than the man. In the 1980s, you just DID NOT say words like "Bullshit" or "ass" in public venues. No one did. I think Reagan would have, if it had been acceptable. He did call people on welfare "welfare bums". He said his plan was to "get the pigs out of the trough" I don't think Trump would do that, it is not acceptable now. Times change
That year, I volunteered with the local Republican office to drive people to the polls that didn't have transport. There was no "early voting" then. It is something I have done every election since. 40 years, this year! Time flies.
The news has always been fake...now it is more fake. 🤣
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Decision applies to CA, OR, WA, AK, NV, AZ, MT, ID and HI. Expect CA to appeal it to the full court, en banc. Meanwhile...get your magazines!
The 9th Circuit is only THREE judges away from being a Conservative majority...thanks to Trump, and Mitch McConnell for doing away with the "Blue Slip" rule in the Senate. Maybe you never knew, but until McConnell did BOTH Senators from the state where the Federal Judge comes from had to approve his appointment. Because Federal Judges are usually elevated from within the Circuit, and many of the states in the 9th circuit are represented by Democrat Senators, it was very difficult to get a conservative even nominated in the 9th Circuit.
If, for no other reason, we need to elect Trump in 2020. We CAN NOT allow Bien or Harris to pick the next TWO Supreme Court Justices (replacing Ginsburg and Breyer) and the next 150-200 Federal District and Circuit Court judges.
Remember to VOTE Trump 2020!!!!!!!!!!
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@anglosaxon5874 They can't. It's called 'checks and balances'. It's a game of rock, paper, scissors and it is magnificent at limiting the power of the government!
The President appoints judges, but the Senate has to confirm the appointments. Once confirmed, they cannot be removed except by impeachment.
BUT... the judges aren't allowed to dictate how the Administration does it's job.
Trump can be impeached, but that won't happen when his party controls the House and Senate.
There ARE constitutional remedies for all of this, but having one separate, but equal, branch try to overrule another is not the remedy.
Democrats LOST the election and can't successfully impeach the President, so they tear up the Constitution and find a judge that will do their bidding. But it won't last.
The rulings will be overturned by a higher court. The judges may be impeached, but I doubt it.
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Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee and that rodeo clown congresswoman from Florida, among many others, are the result of gerrymandering and the deliberate political castration of the black race. They are totally ineffective as legislators and the WHITE legislators around their district need not concern themselves with the needs of African Americans. Example...The NRA, with 5 million members, has FAR MORE POLITICAL POWER than 42,000,000 African Americans because they are NOT gerrymandered into "safe districts". The NRA membership represents enough votes in ANY district to affect the outcome of enough elections to insure THEIR interests are protected in congress! The amount of $$$ they contribute is minuscule compared to, say, labor unions, but they represent VOTES. They represent enough votes in many states to affect the outcome of the Presidential election. Trump won MI, WI, FL, NC, OH and PA by less than the number of NRA members in each state and I can assure you the NRA members WERE NOT voting for Hillary. Absent the NRA, Hillary would have won. Plain and simple.
African Americans have been "helped" by the Democrats (the party of slavery, the party of segregation, the party of George Wallace) right into insignificance. And THAT was the idea all along.
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Thank you for your efforts and great videos!
I have a whole house emergency generator which runs on gasoline. Here is my fuel procedure:
I keep the generator fuel tank filled with non-ethanol, and I keep 2 gallons of non-ethanol as "spare" for test running purposes. I run the generator 30-45 minutes/month for test/exercise. The fuel tank plus the 2 gallons is more than enough to last the year for test purposes. I change the oil and spark plug every year.
I keep 40 gallons of regular 10% ethanol fuel for emergency power use during hurricane season (8, 5 gallon cans) because it's cheaper! This is about a 3-4 day supply of fuel at the full load for my home (I reduce the load by turning off some things, the generator could handle it, but I just want to extend the run time)
IF we have a major power outage I will use the ethanol gas to refill the tank and keep the generator running. Once the emergency has passed, I drain any remaining ethanol gas and replace it with non-ethanol for storage.
If we DON'T have a power outage, I put ALL the gasoline in my car at the end of the hurricane season, 5 gallons at a time, including the non-ethanol gasoline which I drain from the tank.
In June, every year, I refill my supply of emergency fuel.
So, the generator is stored with non-ethanol and ALL gas is replaced after 6 months. I don't see an advantage to the engineered fuel for emergency generator use.
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Juneteenth, once a "holiday" only in Texas, has nothing to do with the "Emancipation Proclamation" but when the news of the end of the Civil War in April, 1865 and the passage of the 13th Amendment in January, 1865 reached Texas.
The "Emancipation Proclamation" (1863) did not "free" ANY slaves. It applied ONLY to "States in open rebellion" to the US Government. Those states had declared themselves a separate country. Executive Orders of the President of the United States didn't apply to them. The states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were slave states that did not secede from the union. Slaves in those states were not "freed" by the Emancipation Proclamation, either. Because they were not in "open rebellion".
The US had just lost thousands of soldiers at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, there had been the worst riots in US history (even to this day) in New York over the policy of allowing wealthy people to pay a fee to exempt their sons from military service, and Lincoln desperately needed SOMETHING to say they were "fighting for". It was a political stunt with no legal effect.
Juneteenth is a fabricated holiday intended to get votes.
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Keep in mind that throughout the entire Democratic debate series, there was NOT ONE QUESTION about the economy or immigration.
Two issues that are the most important to the biggest number of voters. Biden raised his hand when asked if he would provide "free" healthcare to illegal aliens. He has said he would open the borders and apologized for deporting illegal aliens and has said illegal aliens were a "gift" to the country.
He repeats over and over that he will "take your AR15" and acts like that is a rifle owned by only a few wackos. He has no idea that it is, by far, the most common rifle in ownership in the USA. Go to any public rifle range, the AR15 is, by far, the most common rifle you will see. That means I own them, you own them and a very large percentage of American gun owners own them. The rest want one and will get it soon. He thinks they are owned by some "fringe" element, when in fact they are mainstream. The most common rifle for self defense, competition shooting and now, even for hunting. It is available in more configurations, cartridge chamberings and options than any other rifle...EVER. And the heated competition in the market has made it the least expensive centerfire rifle available.
Get him on a debate stage with Trump and he will be eaten up and spat out.
This current virus/economic issue will be long gone before the debates begin. The same issues that got Trump elected will get him re-elected.
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I lived and worked in eastern Europe for 7 years, the former Soviet Union. When I had holidays or vacations I traveled all over Europe. Czech Republic, especially Prague, was my favorite city and country. Amsterdam and Netherlands was a close 2nd.
I am also a lifelong forearms enthusiast. Not only did Czech Republic have the most friendly gun laws (outside of Switzerland or Sweden) but they make great guns! BRNO and CZ are the best known, but there are/were many great manufacturers. Czech Republic already allows concealed carry of handguns similar to most US states. Czech Republic is a very "Conservative", politically, country. In the US it would be a solid "Red State". So is Hungary for that matter.
I bought several really top quality firearms in Czech Republic when visiting and the dealers set up the importation and delivery to a US FFL for me. They were waiting for me at my local dealer when I came back to the US a couple times every year. Even with the import and transfer fees, the prices were very low compared to what you would pay for an equal quality gun made in England, Germany, Italy. I bought best quality side by side and over/under shotguns, a single barrel trap gun and an O/U double rifle in 9.3x74R made by BRNO and Opava ...I mean British best quality/Italian EELL grade, for under $1000 USD (plus fees and taxes) which ended up being delivered to me in the US for $1200-1400. Those guns would be $6,000+ in the USA if made by an Italian or British maker.
Czech Republic is a great place for a vacation and very reasonably priced, even CHEAP, compared to western Europe. The people are very friendly and hospitable, English is widely spoken in cities. I you haven't been there...go as soon as you can! Sleep when you get back!
FYI...Switchblades are legal in most US states. Vermont allows them if the blade is less than 3". Check local laws! I have carried a switchblade for years...not because I am a thug like Cornpop...but because it is great to be able to open the knife with one hand! My favorite pocket knife is a S&W switchblade with a 2-3/4" drop point blade. I have had it for more than 30 years.
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@ronschlorff7089 Tell the Republicans that voted for it. Without them, it would not have passed. It would not have even come to a vote in the Senate.
As for NATO, we are never obligated to provide troops to any other NATO which is attacked.
ARTICLE V
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.”
So, even NATO does not obligate us to do anything more than what we are doing for Ukraine. Would we? Maybe. MUST we? No.
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Actually, as much as I like Senator Kennedy, he berated this woman pretty heavily for being a member of the Little Oktoberists, Young Pioneers and the Komsomol. ALL were organizations EVERY student in the Soviet Union had to belong to throughout their school. Students did not "join" and did not "quit" or resign. That was all done for them by the state. His persistence with this line of questions demonstrated his total ignorance of that fact. As a SUPPORTER of Senator Kennedy, I was appalled! Whoever gave him this information needs to be checked out, he may have a Democrat operative in his office attempting to make him look ridiculous.
There are thousands of reasons to disagree with this woman, and oppose her nomination. Involuntary membership in organizations as a child/student is not one of them. Each and every person who went to school in the USSR was part of these organizations.
"Little Oktoberists" was for students under age 9. From age 9-14 students were in the "Young Pioneers" and from age 14 - until finished with school (up to age 28) students were in the "Komsomol." Most all students knew exactly what it was, just as they knew that the publication "Pravda" was not actually "truth". (Pravda is the Russian word for "true").
These organizations, and their purpose, are exactly WHY we should oppose "Critical Race Theory" in our own schools. This is exactly what Democrats are trying to do here...but it is not the fault of the children/students being taught this trash. Imagine, in 2061, someone being berated because they were taught Critical Race Theory when they were a child in 2021.
I assure you that Ukrainian born Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN), as strong a supporter of capitalism and freedom as she is, was also a member. As was my Ukrainian born wife, now a naturalized US citizen, firearms/shooting enthusiast and Trump voter.
This is so well know by our government, that when interviewed for he Green Card and US Citizenship by USCIS, my wife was specifically asked "Other than involuntary membership in student organizations, were you ever a member of the Communist Party?"
While Melania Trump was raised in Communist Slovenia, which was not part of the USSR, she no doubt was also a member of a similar organization.
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Not to feed your deflection from the subject that you have no answer to, but....
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/andrew-gillum-and-the-extent-of-the-progressive-revolution
"But Gillum had also recognized that the big money in the Democratic Party—Steyer’s money, George Soros’s money—is now on the left, not the center. Last year, Gillum watched closely as Soros’s cash helped propel progressive candidates to victory in several local elections, including the Philadelphia District Attorney’s race. Gillum was familiar with Soros and his organization, the Open Society Foundation: a few years ago, he helped launch a national network for young progressive elected officials, and the Open Society Foundation was the group’s main donor. He had been in the financier’s New York apartment, addressed his board of directors, and, this spring, dined with him in San Francisco when the two men happened to be in town. Soros committed to back Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign. “If I’m remembering it correctly, it was, ‘We don’t know if you can win, but we would like what it could represent,’ ” Gillum said. “I interpreted it to mean that it would be significant to see a person of color taken seriously in a statewide race.”
Gillum is sucking up every $$$ he can from anywhere he can get it.
That aside...please explain, in detail, why you think corrupt politicians taking money from George Soros and Tom Steyer can provide better health care for YOU than YOU can?
Still waiting.
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@Keenan-k7s No one has been charged with treason, outside of aiding an enemy we are at war with, since 1921. That case was thrown out by the Supreme Court.
Nor is death the only penalty for Treason.
We are not at war with Egypt, Menendez did not "levy war against the USA" and Egypt is not our "enemy". There are lots of statues he can be charged with violating, Treason is not one of them.
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, OR shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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@notme2day I don't have to be "forced". I already took the vaccine. (I was wearing seat belts before it was a law, because I'm not stupid)
I oppose "vaccine passports". Why?
Because I am protected. I DO NOT CARE if the person sitting next to me on the plane, train, bus, subway...or standing in the line at the theme park...has been vaccinated. Neither should anyone else. If a person does not take the vaccine it is their risk, not mine, or anyone else's. I support the proposal to ban the use of vaccine passports in Florida.
FWIW my wife is Russian, we travel there (or did) often. Now we can again. Russia has lifted it's quarantine and test protocol for Americans (my wife is a naturalized citizen of the US born in the USSR) who have proof of vaccination. Many other European countries are doing so also. So we will be able, again, to visit our friends in Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Spain and Czech Republic.
We are going to Russia next month to see our new grandson!
I don't care what you or anyone else does.
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@rival121 Absolutely! Pro-choice is not the same as "pro abortion", if that is what you are asking.
Most people who are "pro abortion" are absolutely NOT pro-choice. They want a woman do be able to CHOOSE to kill her baby, but not to be able to choose what school her child, and her tax dollars, go to if she CHOOSES not to kill her baby. They defend her RIGHT to kill her baby, but don't want her to have the RIGHT to carry a gun to protect her baby if she CHOOSES not to kill her baby. Those people are pro ABORTION, they are NOT "pro-choice." They do not care about the "Rights" of women.
Most people who are anti-abortion are absolutely NOT "pro life". They have no problem with killing people, IF they deem them in need of being killed. Self defense and capital punishment, for example. So the "pro life" people will argue that it is OK to kill people...under certain circumstances, but NOT if it is a baby in the womb. Those people are anti ABORTION, they are NOT "pro life"
We need to stop appropriating "terms" that cover agendas. Words have meanings.
My wife, for example, is an IMMIGRANT. She went through the long and expensive process and is now a US citizen, she was born in the USSR. Illegal aliens are NOT immigrants. They are NOT "undocumented immigrants". Immigrants HAVE documents...lots of them. Believe me, I know! Drug dealers are NOT "undocumented pharmacists". Rapists are NOT "undocumented gynecologists".
Pro abortion is NOT "pro choice"
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@rapsheets4993 Seriously? Kamala Harris is one of the few people on earth who wasn't "demoted" when she was made VP.
VP is a total waste for someone like DeSantis. Imagine what he could do as AG?!?!? In charge of the FBI/DOJ/ATF 🤣 He'd burn out those rat's nests!
VP is a position to attract votes with diversity. And go to funerals. DeSantis is a younger and less profane version of Trump. Two conservative white guys from Florida. Who does DeSantis add to a Trump ticket?
Trump would be better off to choose any number of very qualified women to be VP. Kristi Noem, Kim Klacik, Kim Reynolds, Candace Owens, etc. Another one, a sleeper no one ever mentions, is the woman that Trump was considering, along with Amy Coney Barrett for SCOTUS Justice...Cheif Judge of the 3rd District Court of Appeals, Barbara Lagoa. Appointed by DeSantis to the Florida Supreme Court and then by Trump to the Appeals Court. Though she mat not be interested in a 4 year gig when she has a lifetime appointment. And...she is also from Florida.
I do not think DeSantis will run in 2024 and he will NOT run if Trump does.
Best for DeSantis...remain Governor until 2026 when he is term limited, and then be appointed Trump's AG for 2 years. OR remain Governor and the serve in some advisory role for Trump...NSA or DNI for instance , for 2 years
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I just had the opportunity to meet a young lady visiting the USA from Germany. She is the girlfriend of an acquaintance who is a US Army soldier stationed in Germany.
Her first desire...go shooting! We took her to local ranges, on multiple days, to shoot handguns, rifles (including a variety of AR rifles) skeet and sporting clays. She had a BLAST! (pardon the pun)
She also wanted to go to the beach on New Year's day (no problem, it's Florida, it was 84 degrees, 29 Celsius) and to see alligators...we saw lots of alligators while fishing, which she also wanted to try and really enjoyed.
Inside every German is an American yearning to breathe FREE!
..and oh, yes, she is HOT...we take all the HOT chicks, too. My HOT wife (who loves shooting/fishing also) is from Ukraine, but hey, German chicks are awesome too.
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The media is going to meltdown over this! 🤣
I will say this about Carter: He was a lousy President, but he is an honorable, intelligent man. He never called anyone a threat to democracy, or Hitler, or fascist. He didn't try to put his political opponents in prison. And when he left office, he actually built homes for low income people. I mean, he picked up a hammer and built homes!
He was elected because in 1976 the nation was just NOT going to elect a Republican President, and there was a lot of shady resigning/pardoning going on. Ford, not a bad candidate, but was a doomed candidate. I voted for Ford, but I knew he wouldn't win.
By the way, in 1980 the media told us the race was 'too close to call' until the morning of the election.
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@SarahH9000 The constitution allows a President to appoint officers of the government (cabinet, etc.) without Senate approval whenever the CONGRESS (House AND Senate) are in "recess" (not in session in Washington for 10 days or more) and those officers can then serve until that congressional session ends. A congressional session is TWO years.
HOWEVER...it takes a majority vote of BOTH chambers to declare a recess. No one person can do so.
Originally it had to do with the fact that Congress was not in session year 'round as it seems to be now, and travel times in horse and buggy days were long.
In modern times, it is to prevent the Senate from BLOCKING a President's cabinet picks just by being in recess.
It has been used many times. In recent years, Clinton had 132 recess appointments, George W. Bush had 171 and Obama had 32.
So...Trump could appoint anyone to his cabinet and they could serve until the next Congress ends on January 31, 2026.
After that, they would be required to have a confirmation OR Trump could appoint someone else. A nominee COULD have a confirmation hearing at any time during the next 2 years, if Trump intended for them to continue in that position past the next congress (for 4 years)
Most likely, Trump would appoint someone else at some point in the next two years OR submit them for confirmation.
The Democrats could DELAY Trump's cabinet picks for months and months and months otherwise.
Trump has only 4 years. And he must act like he has only 2 years, because we do not know what will happen in the mid-term elections in 2026.
He doesn't have time to waste, and Democrats would LOVE to waste time. Their only choice is to 'run out the clock' as much as possible.
As to a timeline: Congress begins their new session January 3, 2025. Trump gets sworn in on January 20, 2025. Congress could declare a 10-14 day recess, beginning January 20, 2025, and Trump could appoint ALL his cabinet members and other officers (Department heads, US attorneys, etc.) and be done with everything and ready to start his new administration without delay.
It takes a majority vote of BOTH chambers, but Republicans have a majority of BOTH chambers beginning January 3rd.
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Remember how horrible everything was when he was running for President? He was going to "fix" it, remember?
I wonder why the shipping companies, oil companies, car manufacturers, grocery stores, meat producers, dairy farmers, trucking companies, utilities, lumber suppliers, appliance manufacturers, Putin, Russia, covid...why didn't they do all this inflation when TRUMP was President?
Coincidence?
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They can't win. Abbott will just keep calling special sessions. They have to go back at some point. The term "arrest" is technically correct, but there is no criminal penalty for the offense. They would be "arrested" and brought to the State Capitol and forced to do their job.
They only need ONE Democrat present. A quorum is at least 50% of the members AND at least one member of each party. Republicans make up more than 50% of the members, so they just need ONE Democrat present.
Texas legislators, for the most part, have other jobs or professions. And, of course, they have homes and families. How long will they stay out of the state? 30 days? 60 days? 90 days? A year?
By next week, they will not be the "flavor of the week" and, in the end, they will lose and the people supporting them now will call them "traitors" when they eventually return.
Several of them will lose their seats in the next election, increasing Republican control in Texas.
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@jihadjoe8637 Because he isn't Nancy's brother in law.
Pay close attention, now...
Nancy's brother-in-law, Ron Pelosi, (brother of Nancy's husband, Paul) was previously married to Belinda Newsom. Belinda Newsom is Governor Newsom's aunt (sister of his father). They were separated and divorced in 1977.
Nancy and Paul were married in 1963. For 14 years, from 1963 to 1977, Nancy's brother in law was Newsom's uncle, by marriage. Gavin Newsom was 10 years old when his Aunt, by blood, divorced Nancy Pelosi's brother in law.
Newsom is NOT Nancy's "bother in law" nor is Nancy his Aunt (the other misconception) My Aunt's husband is my uncle by marriage. HIS brother is NOT my uncle. His brother's wife is NOT my Aunt.
WHY can't people vote FOR or AGAINST politicians for their own performance? There are thousands of reasons to recall Newsom. Who his aunt was married to FOURTY FIVE years ago is NOT ONE OF THEM!!!!
AND there's more...Arnold Swarzenegger, (Republican) the former Governor of CA, was married to Maria Shriver, who was the niece (by marriage) of JFK (Democrat)!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!
But if you want a REAL scandal...Newsom's ex-wife is Kimberly Guilfoyle. Kimberly Guilfoyle is the girlfriend of Donald Trump, Jr. If they get married, then the ex-wife of Newsom will be related to Donald Trump! OH NO! OMG!
If you research things using the computer you used to post this nonsense, you will sound a LOT less stupid.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2796753/is-gavin-newsom-related-nancy-pelosi/
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In January, 2009 Obama took office, Democrats controlled the House and Democrats had 60 seats in the Senate...filibuster proof. Yet, it took them until March, 2010 to pass Obamacare. They never needed (and didn't get) a single Republican vote.
During this same period (2009-2011) they passed NO climate change legislation, NO gun control, NO minimum wage increase (2007, under Bush was the last time) NO immigration reform, NO voting reform, NO police reform, NO prison reform, AND they didn't change the filibuster rule.
Biden was in the Senate, but when asked why he didn't do anything for all those years in the Senate, during a Presidential debate...he said "the Republicans blocked us..."
In the 2010 elections, Democrats lost control of the House. In 2014 they lost control of the Senate.
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She is right about oil! Drill, baby drill! We need to be more like China. Capitalize on this! Sell oil, flood the market, drive down Putin's source of income, and be the "arsenal of freedom". Those are good, high paying jobs, for US citizens building those weapons.
When Russia is OUT of Ukraine...to the 1991 borders...they can discuss what the reparations from Russia will be, how big the unilateral DMZ should be, and where the war crimes trials will be held.
The way to win the war is to give Ukraine what they need to win!
And, as a side benefit, Ukraine has managed to demonstrate that the Patriot missile version we developed to defeat Russian hypersonic missiles WORKS! We are helping them to defeat OUR enemy and to field test the new weapons we have developed to defeat Russia.
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The only thing the Biden administration understands is which "box" they checked. Black, Asian, South Asian, Hispanic, Native American, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, SJW, etc. A dangerously incompetent freak show.
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BTW, Lloyd Bentsen was a Texan, a Democrat, and a conservative one for the time. He defeated Yarborough for the Senate seat. Yarborough was a liberal Democrat. (at the time Texas was a 100% Democrat state and strictly banned the carrying of handguns, there was no LTC)
Bentsen won his Senate seat in 1970 because he opposed the Vietnam war AND the Voting Rights Act, which Yarborough had supported.
In a strange coincidence, Bentsen was able to run for both the VP and reelection in the Senate in 1988. Texas had changed the law allowing that, but Bentsen was "grandfathered" as he had been elected before the law change.
He lost as Dukakis' VP but won reelection to his Senate seat. Clinton chose him as Treasury Secretary in 1993.
In case you think "banning the ATF" would eliminate gun control, Lloyd Bentsen was Secretary of the Treasury when this shotgun was reclassified as a destructive device. At the time, the Treasury Dept./ATF controlled such things. Now it's the DOJ/ATF.
If the ATF is "banned", the name will change on the building and not much else. The problem is the LAWS, not the agencies. The agencies are a symptom.
BTW, any President since 1993 could have reversed the rule making this shotgun a "destructive device" by Executive order.
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I wasn't sure what that "non-statement-statement" meant. "Sidney Powell is not Trump's personal attorney"...and... what? I am not sure of the purpose of that statement, but I am sure it is not important that I know the purpose of that statement, and I am sure there IS a purpose for the statement. I have become of the opinion that Trump doesn't take a shit without a plan.
The NYT's Trump "tax story" was ONLY designed to change the topic of the first debate. Didn't work. Trump simply responded to the first question (as I knew he always would) "I followed the tax code that YOU wrote, Joe" Just like Jeff Bezos. Trump then changed the topic of the post debate discussion to how "disruptive Trump was". The media declared Biden "won"...when Trump had, in fact, dictated (again) what the media would be talking about after the debate. It was NOT his taxes. Trump is not stupid, he is fucking brilliant! Witness the fact that after "winning" the first debate, Biden wanted to change the rules for the 2nd and 3rd debate! I don't know about you, but if I am "winning", I wouldn't try to change the game.
Re: taxes...If you ever analyzed the tax breaks and credits given to the hospitality industry, you would be shocked. If we didn't have those tax breaks and credits, you wouldn't be able to find a hotel or motel room, and the millions of people employed in that industry (who pay taxes) would be without jobs.
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@thomo66 Thank you.
We shouldn't take our gun rights lightly. Here in the USA some politician or another constantly attacks our rights, but so far, we are not doing bad and in recent years our rights have been getting restored more than lost.
Only a few states seem determined to continue wasting their time and money, while most states have been restoring our rights.
The federal government has been pretty well shut down in their anti-gun efforts.
I was fortunate to have a father and grandfather that were gun collectors and I inherited their collections in addition to building my own. My grandfather was a collector of any guns designed by John Browning. So I inherited a large number of Winchester lever rifles Models 1886, 1892, 1894, 1895, 65, 54, 64, and 71. Plus a few handguns, Remington Model 8 and 81 semi-auto rifles and Browning A-5 shotguns.
My father was more "eclectic" in his gun tastes. He liked Colt handguns, though and I have several of those from him.
I'm a retired police officer, so I have been carrying a handgun every day for more than 50 years and accumulated a large collection of handguns. Most of them have been retired from daily carry for one reason or another and now I have three which make up my daily carry guns depending on the weather, my clothing and activity for the day.
I still have all the others, and shoot them occasionally, but rarely carry them. I don't like to sell or trade guns. (you never get what they're worth and always regret it) I just get new ones and the others will get handed down to my sons.
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It's the NY STATE Supreme Court, you know that right? It is not "the" Supreme Court, it is The Supreme Court of New York.
Federal law allows non-citizens to vote in municipal AND state elections IF the state and locality make it legal. Federal law applies only to Federal elections.
Also, this was A judge of the NY Supreme Court. ONE. Judge. It will likely be appealed to the full NY State Supreme Court. But this is a matter for the STATE to handle. Only TWO states have State Constitutional Amendments forbidding aliens from voting in state and local elections. (AZ and ND)
Just sayin'
18 U.S. Code § 611 - Voting by aliens
(a)It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless—
(1)the election is held partly for some other purpose;
(2)aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and
(3)voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices.
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The cartridge was designed by Elmer Keith in the 1950s as the ".41 Special" and his intent was to load the cartridge to about 1100 fps, with the potential to handle loads up to 1500 fps. Like the 10mm which came later, it was intended to be a "better" police revolver cartridge.
Just like the 10mm, most police agencies rejected the 1500 fps load as having too much recoil. Remington legitimized the cartridge in 1964 and also loaded it with a 210 gr. lead bullet at reduced velocity of 1150 fps. for a "police load" (does any of this sound familiar?) Long story short...there was no "concealed carry" market in the 1960s except for off duty police officers. And the handguns were too large for concealed carry use.
Handgun hunters liked the cartridge BUT they could just as easily use a .44 Magnum for hunting and there were more guns and factory loaded ammo available, PLUS any .44 Magnum could shoot any .44 Special. There was no ".41 Special", but there was the "police load". The cartridge ended up being too much for police use and, while adequate for hunting, it couldn't compete with the much more popular .44 Magnum. It landed squarely in the "too much/too little/too late" zone for the handgun market at that time.
Fast forward to the late 80s, all of that was forgotten, revolvers were fading fast as police duty firearms and the 10mm was introduced as a police round. Same result. Too much recoil. A reduced "police load" was introduced, but then it was discovered the reduced load could be contained in a smaller case and a smaller gun. This time, S&W introduced the .40 S&W as a, sort of, "10mm Special". That worked pretty well, and it was adopted by many police agencies. A few years later the "Assault Weapons ban" limited magazine capacity to 10 rounds for civilians who were now allowed to carry concealed handguns in many more places than the mid-60s. If you were limited to 10 rounds, better 10 rounds of .40 S&W than 9mm...right?
The .40 S&W had much better success than the 10mm, which has pretty much languished like the .41 Magnum did. When the AWB expired and we could, again, own higher capacity magazines, the .40 S&W tanked and is now not nearly as popular as it was a few years ago.
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The verdict is irrelevant. Anyone can donate to someone's defense and everyone is entitled to a defense.
The problem is...he used the Department's computer to make the donation against department policy. He was fired for improper use of department property. No doubt every police officer there uses the department computer for personal purposes at one time or another...checking personal email, etc. If he can show that others use the computers without discipline, or with much less discipline (a verbal or written warning, for example) he would have a case.
I suggest he gather his information, file suit and when he gets his job back with back pay (probably in an out-of-court settlement) then he should cash the check and move to Florida. He'll get an additional $5,000 bonus, have no state income tax, lower housing costs, lower property taxes, no snow, no ice, no mask or vaccine mandates and be protected from defunding.
See you soon. (72 degrees and sunny all day today)
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In the last election, about 20% of black people voted in a manner that suggested they found Democrats' policies racist. That's more than double the number that thought so in 2016.
But still leaves 80% that haven't figured out Democrats' racial policy is entirely based on "black people CAN'T".
Democrats believe black people can't vote, get jobs, get ID, get food, get housing, get medical care, get educated, without help from the government. According to Democrats black people need special consideration, lowered standards, extra training. They can't choose which schools to send their children to or which careers they want. They need government, specifically Democrats from government, to do that for them. Because, you know, they CAN'T.
Since ID is required for all sorts of normal functions in life, if Democrats really cared about black people, they would be suggesting laws to make it easier to get ID, NOT suggesting laws that make it easier to vote, and nothing else, without ID. Is it "racist" to require ID to board a plane, get a covid 19 vaccine, pickup mail at the Post Office, pickup medicine at a pharmacy or visit the doctor? I have had to present ID for all of those things in just the last few days. I didn't vote during any of those days. How are black people supposed to LIVE the rest of the time, the other 728 days in every 2 year election cycle, when they aren't voting?
Republicans believe "black people CAN" do all of those things for themselves and for that, they are called... RACISTS!!!!!!!!!
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Spoiler alert for Lori Lightfoot: THIS is why you have a crime problem in Chicago. The entire city government is dysfunctional!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL of you need to resign. Today! Naming streets?!?!?!
Crime in Chicago is NOT caused by guns from (Indiana, the suburbs, Tennessee) where Chicagoans are FLEEING to for their own safety! Think about that. A couple weeks ago, a 14 year old African American boy was murdered as his family loaded a truck to move to the suburbs "for their safety". They were MOVING TO a place with less gun laws and more guns...for "their safety"!!!!!!!! Evanston, Naperville, Arlington Heights, Indiana, Tennessee do not have the crime problem Chicago has, but they have less stringent gun laws and more guns!
If you live in Chicago....RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Drive to Missouri, if necessary, to find a U-Haul truck available rent, load it and GET OUT!!!!!!! DO NOT leave it unattended while loading, people are stealing U-Haul trucks in Chicago in desperate attempts to FLEE!!!!!!! (not a joke)
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@richietattersall2122 Oh, sorry, I thought you were relevant. My bad.
If you didn't vote for him in 2016, and you live in New York then you, and your state, are irrelevant. He won without you and your state in 2016 and will do it again in 2020. Whether you vote or not, we can just toss NY's 20 electoral votes in the blue column and be done with you.
I, on the other hand, live in Florida and I WILL vote for Trump again, and he WILL get Florida's 29 electoral votes (9 more than NY) And after this year, your state will lose at least one more electoral vote. Hopefully AOC's seat.
In the future, I will give you all the attention you deserve.
There is always 2024. Good luck.
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"We believed certain issues are settled..." Really?
Then why did YOU, Kamala Harris, grill each and every one of Trump's nominees for Supreme Court about Roe v. Wade when YOU, Kamala Harris, were on the Senate Judiciary Committee?
Amy Coney Barrett responded to YOUR question, Kamala Harris, as to whether Roe v. Wade was "settled law" that Roe v. Wade was NOT A LAW and was NOT "settled" because YOU, Kamala Harris, keep asking about it!!!!!!!!!! She also responded to another Senator's question that "abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution". Every Republican President's nominees for Supreme Court since 1973 has been grilled mercilessly on their opinions regarding Roe v. Wade. Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh being egregious examples. Robert Bork was the most egregious.
The FACT is the Democrats never codified Roe. v. Wade in law for FIFTY (50) YEARS!!!!!!!! They did nothing. YOU, Kamala Harris, did nothing. Despite controlling congress for the majority of those years AND having a filibuster proof majority in the Senate AND a pro-choice President in office in 2009-2011.
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The issue is not with Johnson...the issue is with EIGHT (🖐🏼✌🏼☝🏼) Republicans who voted with Democrats to oust McCarthy. (AKA "the knucklehead caucus") After the 2022 elections, in January 2023, the Republicans had an ELEVEN seat (🖐🏼🖐🏼☝🏼) majority. Now, through their OWN actions, Republicans have a TWO (✌🏼) seat majority.
That is NOT Johnson's fault.
BTW, under McCarthy, the House PASSED HR 2 which provided money to BUILD THE WALL, but then they fired McCarthy! 🤪
Schumer, in the Senate, is the person that WILL NOT protect our own borders...NOT Johnson.
Moscow Marjorie Taylor Greene (MMTG)...who was handed a FIVE (🖐🏼) to ONE (☝🏼) loss on her amendment to defund Ukraine (the legislative equivalent of a "Swirly"), that Moscow Marjorie introduced on Putin's behalf ...is NOW trying to oust Johnson, with a TWO (✌🏼) seat majority. Meaning if the Republicans lose even ONE (☝🏼) member's vote...we get Speaker Hakeem Jefferies.
Brilliant!!!!!!!!
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@CantOutRunADuck I gave you the statute that you said did not exist in any state. If a person in their car, or any other place they are legally permitted to be, has a reasonable belief they are in imminent danger of death or severe bodily injury OR the perpetrators are in the process of a forcible felony, the use of deadly force is justified.
Do you dispute that?
Your characterization of the incident as "slapping her car" is irrelevant. It is what the victim has "reasonable belief" of that matters.
As we saw very clearly, in the Kyle Rittenhouse AND the George Zimmerman trials where they killed their attackers...they have no duty to convince a jury they had reasonable belief...it is the prosecutions' job to prove they DID NOT have reasonable belief. And as the jury instructions in both cases, and many others, were given, it does not matter whether the "reason" turned out to be true or not, ONLY that it was "reasonable" in that moment for that person. And that must be decided by a jury, by a unanimous decision
This video would be all a young woman would need to destroy any prosecutor's case that she DID NOT have reasonable belief she was in danger or that a forcible felony was about to occur.
When you have 36 years in criminal trials experience, come back and we'll talk.
ALWAYS BE ARMED.
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@robertmanley2687 You want me to be loyal to Trump?
He said he was pro 2A. Almost every time he speaks, he still says it. But, on the 2A...
1. He EXTENDED firearms import ban Executive Orders implemented by George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
2. He banned bumpstocks by an unconstitutional Executive Order.
3. He supports red flag laws
4. He supports universal background checks to end private transfers of firearms
Trump shut down the country when Fauci told him to, like a good little b*tch. He signed off on $6 trillion in spending to pay people $600/week NOT to work, while not giving anything to the "essential workers". Really? Cashiers from "Ross" and Kohl's were getting $600/wk (plus maximum state unemployment) to stay home. Cashiers at Walmart were getting $400 to work 40 hours!!!! Brilliant move. Nurses, doctors, nurses aids got NOTHING. Waitresses, office workers and receptionists got $900-1400/week.
That's MORONIC!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump imposed an unconstitutional eviction and foreclosure moratorium on Americans which cost property owners and lenders BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!!!! Those people getting all that unemployment money good stiff their mortgage companies and landlords!!!!!! Trump FORCED those property owners and lenders to SURRENDER their property for nothing! What a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump took OUR money and paid billions of dollars IN ADVANCE to Pfizer, Moderna and J&J for vaccines that DON'T WORK!!! Then he gave them immunity from lawsuits!
Trump sent weapons to Ukraine...but now says he would end the war?!?!?! 🤣
Loyalty? Trump CHEATED on his beautiful super model wife, OUR First Lady, Melania with a skanky porn star and then paid that cum-dump to keep her mouth shut. When she didn't. Trump LIED to us and said it was all "made up". I don't know if it is a CRIME, we will find out, but it sure as hell is a LIE and he DID cheat on his wife.
WYF are you talking about "loyalty". Trump did all this...to US...because it was an election year! He couldn't find enough money to throw away in order to get re-elected. And then he didn't get re-elected.
SAVE AMERICA... from Trump!
DeSantis, 2024
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I don't think it is so much the liberals leaving, liberals LIKE it in CA.
We should remember that the state that produced the most votes for Trump, TWICE, was California. But their votes didn't "count" because they were less than 50% of the total. It is the Trump voters, the gunowners, the business owners, the entrepreneurs, fleeing CA...and NY and IL and MI, PA, NJ for Texas and Florida. Florida now has more registered Republicans than registered Democrats for the first time EVER. When Trump won Florida, twice, when DeSantis won and Scott won, twice, before that...there were more registered Dems than Republicans. Imagine what it will be now! No wonder the major national Democrat donor organizations are pulling support for statewide Dem candidates in Florida. They aren't going to waste their money.
Governor DeSantis has done a great job, and I can't wait to vote for him again! The Democrats, in 2018, had nominated an actual crackhead to run against him. I can't even imagine where we would be now if Andrew Gillum had been elected.
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@Grandtim1959 NO he did not.
He was investigated for that and the investigation was closed without indictment.
There IS NO evidence he did so.
One of his acquaintances, Joel Greenberg the former Tax Collector of Seminole County, Florida, had sex with a girl when she was 17...statutory rape in Florida, where it occurred. In fact, he was imprisoned for 11 years for underage sex trafficking, wire fraud, stalking, identity theft, producing a fake ID card, and conspiring to defraud the US government.
Gaetz later dated the same girl...but only AFTER she turned 18.
When his acquaintance got in trouble for what he did, he tried to drag Gaetz in with him. Greenberg "cooperated" with the investigation into Matt Gaetz but it never went anywhere. It was not found that Gaetz had ever had sex with a minor OR non-consensual sex with any woman.
A DOJ official attempted to blackmail Gaetz and offer to drop the investigation if Gaetz paid a lot of money to have it dropped. Instead, Gaetz reported the incident and went through the investigation. The DOJ official was eventually imprisoned for blackmail.
I disagree with Gaetz. I don't have to LIE about him to disagree.
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@chrisbarbera9680 All that would be well and good if Flynn were being tried for a crime. he isn't. There is no question of evidence of guilt or innocence before the court.
Like many, (most) you misunderstand the proceeding.
Flynn withdrew his guilty plea. There IS NO GUILTY PLEA. The government has declined to prosecute him. There IS NO PROSECUTION. There IS NO NEED for him to prove innocence. He is not even charged with a crime!
Upon his withdrawal of the plea and the gov't declining to prosecute, the case should have been dismissed. The Judge (part of the cabal, you are correct) did not dismiss the case. The Judge did nothing and even suggested that he, the Judge, would prosecute Flynn!
Flynn then filed a "Writ of Mandamus" to ask a superior court (DC Court of Appeals) to ORDER Sullivan to dismiss the case. Flynn "went over the head" of Sullivan to his "boss".
The 3 judge panel of the DC Circuit granted the Writ and ORDERED Sullivan to dismiss the case. He did not. Instead he filed a motion for the Writ to be heard by the full DC Circuit. His motion was granted.
There IS NO QUESTION if Flynn is innocent. That is not the purpose of the argument. He is not even being prosecuted or charged with a crime. Flynn has NEVER BEEN CHARGED with a crime. He plead guilty to a crime, the withdrew the plea before the plea was accepted by the court. THERE IS NO GUILTY PLEA! (guilty pleas are never "confessions" in any case).
The question before the court is whether the Judge, ON HIS OWN, can proceed with a prosecution...without a prosecutor! He cannot. The role of prosecution lies in the Executive branch, the DOJ, not in the Judicial branch. Prosecution is an Article II power, NOT an Article III power, and the Constitution is clear on separation of powers.
Both the DC Circuit and the Supreme Court have ruled that Judges CAN NOT do that.
Again, this is a MOVE, a delaying tactic, by Sullivan. Nothing more.
Regardless of the DC Circuit's political bent, it is inconceivable a majority of them would agree that Sullivan can prosecute a case on his own.
Even the dissenting Judge of the three judge panel agreed to that. That Judge wanted to WAIT to allow Sullivan to issue the dismissal. That Judge felt a Writ of Mandamus was premature.
But "Justice delayed is Justice denied" is a legal precedent. I sincerely doubt the majority of the court will decide "Let's see what he will do" when he has clearly shown in his actions his intent to delay justice.
This court hearing is not even about Flynn, per se, it is about a Judge's role in the case.
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@mar-a-lagofbibug8833 Had a chance to read the ruling. I am guessing you did not.
As I had stated, (see comments above) there was the possibility that the Circuit Court MAY return the case to the Federal Judge on the grounds that the Writ of Mandamus was premature. And that is what they did.
NO WHERE has the Appeals Court stated that the case against Flynn should NOT be dismissed, but rather that it should be dismissed by the District Judge (Sullivan) and IF he does not do so, THEN the Circuit Court should issue a Writ of Mandamus.
One of the remarkable things about the Writ in this case, is that it WAS issued prior to a ruling by the Federal District Court. It was done so on the belief that due to Sullivan's statements and actions that he would not do so. The full Appellate Court says: "Let's wait and see what he does"
Now Sullivan can play his game a little longer. He will eventually have to rule, and if he fails to dismiss the case, THEN the Appeals Court will do so.
As I noted many times, this action was NOT about Flynn, it was about Sullivan. Morals are NOT Statutes. There IS NO CRIME without a violation of a statute. Flynn was FIRED for his MORAL misbehavior in his job...that is the usual punishment for such things.
Remember that the purpose of this action by Sullivan is an effort to provoke Trump to issue a pardon for Flynn. If Trump did that, the DOJ and FBI are off the hook and the Democrats can forever say "Flynn was guilty". Sullivan is attempting to protect the Obama appointees of the DOJ and FBI.
Trump will not pardon Flynn at this time.
The case is settled. The guilty plea has been withdrawn, the charges have been dropped, there are no pending charges against Flynn. The case WILL be dismissed.
Flynn is not in jail, Flynn has pro bono legal representation from an excellent attorney. Flynn can wait. Trump can wait.
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Simple then, Larp...tell me why it is bullshit to enforce the existing law? Please be specific. Rights CAN be taken away by due process, 5th Amendment
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Obviously a person's RIGHTS can be taken away when they are convicted of a crime. These are CONVICTED FELONS who have been erroneously left out of the NICS system. Do you WANT convicted felons to be legally able to own firearms?
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There is no '50% tax' on Social Security.
If you are SINGLE, collecting Social Security, and your total income exceeds $25,000 then 50% of your Social Security benefits are subject to being taxed. That is NOT 'a 50% tax.' By comparison, for a single working person, ALL of their income over $13,000 is subject to tax. That does not mean there is a '100% tax on all income over $13,000.' PLUS, all of a working person's income is subject to FICA taxes, Social Security is not.
If your Social Security income was $25,000, HALF of that ($12,500) would be subject to be taxed. You would NOT be taxed $12,500. The amount of tax you would pay would depend on your tax bracket, but if Social Security is your ONLY income, and was just barely over $25,000, you would pay very little, if any, tax.
Because that does not include other deductions or exemptions or credits you may have which would -0- out your amount due.
IF you had some earned income in addition to Social Security, even from a part time job, you could be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit and end up getting a REFUND, even though a a portion of your Social Security is taxable and you paid -0- income tax.
I am in favor of exempting Social Security benefits from ALL tax...but there is no need to spread misinformation.
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Democrats hate women, Tuskegee Airmen, US military family reunions, education for black children, opportunities for black business persons, low unemployment, and they want felons to stay in prison but be able to vote for Democrats...AND they hate FREE SPEECH!
An "independent" who does NOT like the SOTU speech is NOT an "Independent", there was absolutely nothing NOT TO LIKE.
Actually, Pelosi specifically said she DID have a problem with all his "guests" and that his speech was NOT a "SOTU" address, but a campaign ad. Well...isn't that what they ALL are? She was offended he came to "HER" House of Representatives to do that.
She would probably demand a review of the next SOTU before it was delivered. Problem is, Trump will be there next year, but she will not.
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@ThomasHendrickson Not insofar as recoil is concerned. In a gas operated gun, whether the piston is short stroke, long stroke or "no piston" (direct impingement) the barrel is fixed in place. The barrel does not recoil with the bolt and does not contribute to the recoil impulse. The piston itself has insignificant weight to contribute to the recoil, compared to the weight of a barrel.
An M1 rifle is a long stroke gas piston, the M14 and M1 carbine are short stroke. The barrel is fixed in all of them. Observe the recoil of this .50 BMG long recoil rifle in slow motion and note the peak recoil occurs when the barrel and bolt, locked together, slam into the rear of the receiver. You would not see that with a gas operated rifle or shotgun.
Also because the gas is regulated with a gas port placed somewhere farther up the barrel from the chamber, where the gas pressure is considerably lower than chamber pressure, the energy driving the bolt is reduced. With a long recoil operated gun, whatever you shove out the front, comes back to hit you in the shoulder, multiplied by the mass of the barrel. Some designs, like the A-5, use a braking system with beveled bronze rings to squeeze the magazine tube and reduce the rearward speed of the barrel. The rings have to be set for the type of loads you will shoot. "Heavy loads" or "light loads". If it is set for light loads and you fire heavy loads in it, the A-5 is well known for splitting the buttstock lengthwise by driving the receiver tang back into the stock mortise. If you have the brake set for heavy loads, light loads won't cycle the action. You have to remove the barrel and the rings and position them for what you are shooting. This was one of the flaws of the Browning system that gas operation sought to fix. I suspect the muzzle brake of this rifle does that job, there being no magazine tube for braking rings to work on. I would hazard a guess that the owners manual says not to change or remove the muzzle brake.
Due to the speed of the recoiling mass in a .50 caliber rifle, the two recoil impulses may not be discernible as separate from the recoil generated by the firing of the cartridge. I don't know, I never fired a long recoil operated .50 BMG caliber rifle. But in a lighter recoiling arm, like a Browning A-5 or Remington 81 (both of which I own and shoot) it is very distinct as two separate recoil impulses. It is an unusual feeling. As Matt noted in the video. The barrel returning to battery, followed by the bolt slamming into battery a moment later create two separate "reverse recoil" impulses. All else equal (cartridge and load power) the long recoil operated gun has more felt recoil over a longer period than a gas gun of any persuasion. Hence Remington touting the Model 58 Sportsman (their first gas gun) as "softer recoiling". It is!
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I don't give Chipman much of a chance to be confirmed. His wacko theories will be graphically exposed and he needs ALL Democrats to vote for him. I don't think Manchin (D-WV) or Tester (D-MT) will vote for him.
"Tommy guns" ...Thompson submachine guns, cost much more than $10,000. Most go for well over double that amount. About the only automatics you can get for under $10,000 might be a MAC-10, TEC-9, Reising M50, Madsen M50, maybe, if you're real lucky, a Sten, etc. Not much else.
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No, he didn't "block" anything. The bill was passed in the Senate Thursday by a vote of 86 - 11, President Biden signed it yesterday in South Korea. Ukraine will get the aid.
Here's how it works:
The bill was passed in the House and sent to the Senate. The bill was introduced in the Senate and a motion was made to approve the bill by "unanimous consent". No debate, no roll call vote, no motion to assign the bill to Senate committees. This is how most (if not all) bills passed by the House are introduced in the Senate. The Senate President asked if there were any objections to agreeing to the bill by unanimous consent. Rand Paul objected.
This is pretty much standard operating procedure. It would be an unreasonable expectation to think a $40 Billion bill would be passed without a debate and a roll call vote, but that IS the process. These are all Senate procedures, very routine.
When an objection is made (and objections are usually planned in advance, including which Senator will object) the bill is then scheduled, within 7 days, for a debate, a vote to end the debate (cloture) and then a roll call vote (IF there are 60 votes to end debate).
Which is exactly what happened.
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No. He can't.
McCarthy, as Speaker, can submit his recommendations to the rules committee to remove her (or any other member) from any committee and the rules committee decides (by majority vote) whether to advance that recommendation to a floor vote. The rules committee has already done this for Omar.
It now requires a majority vote of the full House to actually remove someone, unless their leader, Joachim Jefferies in this case, withdraws their name from consideration and nominates someone else to that committee. He won't do that.
If the majority of the House members vote to remove her...she's removed. Not from Congress, just from that committee. Since Republicans have a majority in the House and since they will USUALLY follow the recommendation of the Republican Speaker and Republican controlled rules committee, she will most likely be removed from the Foreign Relations Committee.
The Republican majority is slim and at least one, Matt Gaetz, has said he may not vote to remove her. He sees her removal as being based on her policy preferences, not on any risk to national security like Schiff and Swalwell. Gaetz argues that members should not be removed just because you don't like their policy positions.
Whether you agree or disagree with Gaetz, the Republicans can only stand to lose 5 votes in any floor vote or it will not pass.
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It would be amusing, but they won't do it. They did this little show to appease their wacko base because Mueller failed to produce what they wanted...pivot to TAXES!!!!!! When Trump declines to provide the taxes, there will be a couple days of media hyperventilation and then...it will go away like all the other "bombshells" People don't care about taxes, if they did there would have at least been an attempt to make it a law. TBH most people really don't like the government thinking of excuses to look at people's tax returns.
The Dems have no legitimate LEGISLATIVE purpose to see Trump's taxes and the LAW requires that they do. If they think he is violating the law, they need to refer that to the Treasury Dept. for investigation, but he is already audited 6 ways from Sunday. They would lose in court if they tried to force the issue, they know it, and will not go that route. They will make some smoke, AOC will make some stupid comment about Al Capone's taxes or something else as inane, and it will go away. They will tell the wackos..."we tried, but the President is lawless!" And all the people that never voted for Trump and never would vote for Trump will not vote for him. Again. So what?
Meanwhile, there is going to be a lot of bad news for Dems coming from the DoJ and they had better get on offering something besides platitudes, division and fear for 2020. It ain't working. Neither is telling nearly 200 million people that they need to surrender their medical insurance and get on the Government medicine train.
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They will not be able to override his veto. That said...
If these Republicans are worried about the future abuse of this law by Democrats, then CHANGE THE LAW! They did nothing, and have done nothing to change the law. In the future, when the Democrats use this LAW, the only thing to stop it will be Congress, but Democrats WON'T vote against a President of their own party...like the Republicans will.
I think it is a nonsense excuse to oppose doing something to prevent illegal immigration. Democrats want illegals for votes, Republicans want illegals for cheap labor. Republicans talk about doing something, but never do...and when push comes to shove, they finally collapse and just vote against it, the same way Democrats do.
I was so glad to get rid of Bill Nelson as NY's third Senator living in Florida...and then Rubio goes and votes the same as Nelson would have!
They did not block the Emergency Order, they did not change the law they were worried about being abused, so, in the end, their votes will make no difference except to piss off their constituents. Brilliant.
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@barbarahazelwood2186 And how would having debt make that better?
What forces you to work hours and hours more at a job you don't want to be at? Debt? Or the government?
The government cannot tax money saved from not having to earn income to pay debt.
I saved $171,000 in interest by paying off my house early. That means I do not need to earn...and pay tax to the government... that much money. The higher the interest rates go and the higher the taxes on income go...the more I save. The "Fed", the government, raises interest rates. Doesn't affect me.
How much money would I have to earn, pay taxes on, save and invest to have a return, after taxes on that investment that I already paid taxes on, to equal $171,000? How many hours would I have to work to earn that money, instead of going fishing?
And the savings are guaranteed, the investment and earnings are not. And that's just the interest. And that's just the house. And my mortgage was rate was very low compared to what it is now. Mortgage rates now are about double what I was paying.
Debt makes you a slave to the debt.
One of the strangest things to me was that calendar dates no longer meant anything. The 1st of the month was no different than the 11th or 23rd. Now...a bill comes, we pay it. Same day. Whatever day that is. Doesn't matter. What's the due date? I don't care.
The government cannot make you a slave.
Debt absolutely does.
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@theresatrifiro9390 "Illegals have voted illegally!" Is not a valid reason to prevent LEGAL immigrants from voting for their city council. No more than "criminals misuse guns!" is a reason to ban guns from law abiding persons.
I did not say "illegals" are allowed to vote in any election. No one did. You are buying into a false narrative you read on the internet.
I said non-citizens ARE allowed to vote in local and state elections IF local and state laws allow them to. NO ONE said anything about "illegals"
There ARE immigration statuses other than "illegal" and "US citizen". You knew that, right?
For example, the spouse of a US citizen from a foreign country (think: Melania Trump) is a "Legal Permanent Resident", legally in the USA...but NOT a citizen. LPRs are allowed to work, travel back and forth to foreign countries with no restrictions (using their foreign passport and green card, they do NOT have US passports) own firearms, have concealed carry licenses, driver's licenses, professional licenses. They are doctors, nurses, plumbers, electricians, engineers, accountants. They are required to file annual income tax returns and are obligated to pay all the same taxes a US citizen does. They enjoy all rights and benefits of US citizens EXCEPT voting in federal elections or holding government jobs with a citizenship requirement.
After three years married to a US citizen, they can apply to become a citizen, but don't have to. They may choose to remain an LPR for their whole life.
Melania Trump was an LPR before she became a citizen. Victoria Spartz (R-Indiana) was an LPR before she became a citizen. Their spouse is a US citizen. Their children, born in the USA, are US citizens at birth.
The DC law allows these LEGAL non-citizens to vote for the school system in the city where they live, pay taxes to and their US citizen children go to. They pay property tax for parks, streets and other city services. They pay city, state and local income tax. They pay Social Security and Medicare tax. They have Social Security cards and can collect Social Security and Medicare benefits when they retire.
Do you really think it is a priority for Congress to prevent these LEGAL immigrants from voting for the city council, school board or park board? Seriously?
You support LEGAL immigration, right? You appreciate people who follow our US Immigration LAWS, right? Did you know that only TWO states (AZ and ND) forbid non-citizens from voting in state or local elections in their state Constitution? FOURTY EIGHT other states leave it up to the legislature or the local cities to decide. This is nothing new, nothing unusual. Maryland allows it and many cities in Maryland allow non-citizens to vote. Most in the DC area where many of the spouses of US Government employees live.
What can prevent illegals from voting? Voter ID! Right?
You want voter ID, right? Did you know this ordinance REQUIRES voter ID? Yes, voters would have to provide ID that they are residents of the city AND have legal immigration status.
Rather than try to STOP what Republicans have been pushing for, why not USE THIS as an opportunity to say..."OK, you can allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, but you MUST require voter ID and proof of immigration status for ALL voters in all elections" 🤔😁
Republicans need to STOP missing all these opportunities.
THAT would be a WIN! This...this is just a viral video that accomplishes nothing.
WOW, the wife of some State Department or DoD employee won't be able to vote for the streets and sanitation board of DC. America is SAVED!!!!! 🤣
But it fooled you.
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If you recall, Trump asked his doctor to answer directly to the media about his exam. Hmmm.
Biden..."Selling" a bill that already passed. With stories about "collapsing bridges with fires on the other side", yes...a common problem in the USA. I know it is often discussed around our kitchen table. 🤪 Our dinner conversation, just last night...
"How was you day today, Sweetheart?"
"Oh it was great. No bridges collapsed and there were no fires. Good thing, because if I had to drive an extra 10 miles to the grocery store, the cost of gasoline would have reduced what is left of our money for food to only 6 packages of Ramen Noodles and 2 bananas. They only had shrimp flavor Ramen and brown bananas though. How about you, Darling?"
"Great, no fires or bridge collapses. I spent $940 at Home Depot for a sheet of plywood, a couple of 2x4s, and a box of screws to build those storage shelves in the garage. Good thing we have the credit card. I'll use my hand tools to build them so we don't run up the electric bill."
"Yes, Sweetheart. If there is ever anything on the shelves in the store we may need the storage space"
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Dallas is the 3rd most liberal city in TX. Austin, Houston, Dallas...in that order. San Antonio and El Paso may be "Democrat" but they are not so "liberal"
That said...Trump packed in just as many in Minneapolis. The FACT IS Trump can parachute in to ANY location, on short notice, and pack full ANY venue ANY day...even multiple times per day. And he has done it EVERY time for FOUR YEARS! What other politician has EVER been able to do that? What other politician even has the ENERGY to do that? I remember when Obama drew big crowds, but not as big as Trump, for a short time, during the primary season in 2008. And THAT was considered incredible, they said Obama was like a "rock star", yet he pales...absolutely fades...in comparison to Trump. And it didn't last. In 2014 the Democrat candidate for Senator in KY wouldn't admit on camera that she had voted for Obama in 2012!!!!!!! And TBH, that is how I KNEW Trump was going to win in 2016.
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"I know how to get votes for Democrats", says Biden, "Let's FORCE the highest turnout voters, age 35-54 to PAY for the educations of the lowest turnout voters, age 18-24. Yeah, brilliant idea!"
So let's FORCE the truck drivers, HVAC mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, factory workers, construction workers, small business owners to PAY for the educations of the Starbucks baristas! 🤪
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Watch carefully. The bill, with amendments, now heads to the House. Despite all the speechifying and posturing in the Senate...I fully expect the House to strip out these two amendments (cutting off funds to cities who defund police and the CRT ban) in debate. They will not be in the House passed version of the bill. It will then go to conference committee (behind closed doors) where you should not expect any posturing (or hugging) by Senator Booker or Manchin. The complete bill, without these amendments, will be presented for a vote in the Senate and pass...without these amendments. You doubt me? Don't.
Manchin and Booker and the others got their day in the sun and Liberal Hivemind helped.
Why do they do this? Simple. Senators are elected "at large". The whole state gets to vote for them. There are no Gerrymandered Senate "districts". No "safe" districts in a Senate race. Booker and Manchin have to publicly appeal to every voter. They just did. They did so, knowing their compatriots (comrades?) in the House will "fix it" for them. Booker will have something to appeal to the people of NJ who don't want to defund the police, but the amendment won't survive, so the people who want to defund the police, still can. The Senators get re-elected (the US Congress has a lower turnover rate than the "Supreme Soviet" had during the USSR)
This happens all the time at state and federal levels.
Good example...Louisiana Constitutional Carry Bill. The Democrat Governor announced early in the process, he would veto any bill passed by the legislature. This gives Democrats from strong pro-2A districts the "green light" to vote for the bill and claim to have supported it..."See, I voted for that there bill. Yesiree Bob!" The Governor then vetoed the Bill and the Legislature fails to convene an override session. Voila!!!!!!!!! There is no Constitutional Carry, but the Legislators will all tell their voters they voted for it in their re-election campaign.
Nothing is done until it is done...and this mess ain't even close to being done!
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@CalebTrask Or...you think Sheila Jackson Lee and Jasmine Crockett got elected because of their stellar performance and you haven't looked at the lines of their districts.
Republican controlled legislatures always throw a couple of "bones" to the Democrats. Keeps the districting map out of the courts.
Crockett's district (in one form or another) has been Democrat since the days of Martin Frost, who was in office for nearly 30 years and THREE re-districtings. Now four re-districtings.
Back then, before you were born, you needed a search party to find a Democrat in most of Dallas county, or Collin county for that matter. The people of Plano and McKinney weren't voting for Democrats and Allen, TX was less than 6000 people. But...there he was Martin Frost (D-TX), Democrat AND the first Jewish congressman from Texas. How could it be?
Gerrymandering.
And, lest we forget Jim Wright, who's district encompassed the Tarrant County end of what is now Crockett's district. Wright was a holdover from when Texas was a majority Democrat state, (in office 1955-1989) before Governor Connolly and would be Senator Phil Graham switched to the Republican party. Gerrymandering kept his district safe, even though he was a crooked as a dog's hind leg (which finally caught up to him)
I'm informed, experienced and knowledgeable. I'm not guessing.
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@benthomason3307 It doesn't. 1. Lawyers don't do ANYTHING without being paid (or having the potential for being paid) 2. Lawyers, like politicians, are split about 50/50 on everything because there are always two sides paying them to say what they do. 3. What lawyers WILL agree "says a lot" is NO INDICTMENTS. Ask any criminal lawyer what they tell their client when their case is "declined" by a prosecutor. That's what happened. Trump was not "exonerated", he was declined for prosecution. There were NO INDICTMENTS of ANYONE for collusion or obstruction. None, -0-, zilch, nada. NO ONE. Not the President, not Don Jr., not Jared or Ivanka, not even Manafort, Gates or Cohen or (name any other "villain") NONE.
This is known as a "dry hole". When you hit a dry hole, you should stop digging. When you are way past the point there should have been water, you stop digging.
I think THAT says a LOT. Have a nice day. I am.
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@MrJamberee She had no businesses being nominated and I am glad she was rejected. But because of her policies, NOT because she belonged to the Young Pioneers and the Komsomol.
There is nothing wrong with asking questions about her beliefs and policies.
Apparently, Senator Kennedy had some bad information. He repeatedly asked her if she had "resigned" from these organizations. A person did not "join" these organizations in the usual way, and did not "resign" from them. Any more than you or I "joined" or "resigned" from algebra class. It was part of the school curriculum, it was not a choice (the Soviet Union was not big on "choice"). Technically, membership was voluntary. Just like, technically, Soviet Citizens had freedom of speech. But once enrolled in the organizations at age 6, their "membership" continued until finishing their education. They were assigned to community service projects, usually on Sunday, to prevent children from being taken to church by their parents (religion was officially banned). They helped with the harvest in the fall, they had summer camps, etc. More than anything, it got them away from the influence of their parents. Just like our public schools want to do.
The correct questions to ask would be if she voluntarily joined the Communist Party AFTER her education was complete. That's what USCIS asks applicants for permanent residency and citizenship.
What she was involuntarily required to do beginning at age 6 (in the "Little Octoberists" ) is irrelevant.
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I do not expect this to work. They will end the federal benefits and STILL not have a low wage work force.
Millions of those employees ARE working, but they are not going back to low wage jobs where they get laid off on the whims of unelected "scientists".
I personally know three people who were laid off from retail work when their employers were forced to close. They were determined to be "non essential" businesses. While collecting the $600/wk unemployment last year.
One became a phlebotomist and is now working in a hospital making far more money than retail, with full benefits. (she reports her phlebotomist training course was filled with former retail and restaurant workers looking to make sure they never went back to that work)
One completed his education as an electrician, got an electricians' license and is now making triple what he did in retail with full benefits.
Another used the money he got from unemployment, bought a stump grinding machine and is busy as many days a week as he wants to work, making $400- $900 day. And this is Florida, he can work year 'round.
They are NEVER going to go back to low wage retail work. Many workers over age 62 just took early retirement.
Florida already has low unemployment... 4.6%, even though several major Florida industries are still not at full capacity. To imagine that there is a vast pool of low wage workers waiting to go back to low wage jobs that can be ended the next time Dr. Fauci says so is ridiculous.
Many of the workers still unemployed are people who made $40,000+ pre-pandemic. They are still seeking work in their areas of training. What do they want to do...force mid level managers into restaurant work? Who will that benefit?
The trades, medical technician fields and new small businesses are skyrocketing. This pandemic FORCED a lot of people to reconsider their careers and gave them the opportunity, and money, they needed to improve themselves. They are never going back.
They aren't lazy. Neither are they stupid.
Some of the low wage jobs will get filled by seasonal college students out for the summer...as they always have. But there is going to be a net change in the labor market...not to mention commercial real estate and business travel. Businesses were FORCED to telework and found out it works! Zoom calls will, forever, replace a lot of business travel. Employers are going to downsize office space. Employees are going to take their NYC and LA salaries and telework from South Carolina, Arizona or Montana. There will be vacant office buildings in NYC and LA and Chicago.
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Kennedy, why do you have idiots as guests? The black guy is spouting Democrat talking points only..."We worked with Joe Manchin, we did everything he said" NO, they didn't! They played a shell game and made some of the social programs "end" after only a year, and everyone knows they would have been extended beyond that, in order for the "cost" to be reduced. For example...FREE two year community college, but only for one year. PAID leave, but only for one year. FREE daycare, for one year. Eye care and dental care for seniors, for one year. (already covered by many Medicare Advantage plans, I know, I have one)
It's like saying you'll buy a house but only pay the mortgage for 1 year, then claiming the house only "costs" what 1 year of payments amounts to.
Manchin said all along he wasn't falling for the games.
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You hate my gun because it's black, don't you?
Ignoring the fact that cosmetic features cannot cause crime, and allowing the existing firearms to remain cannot reduce crime. I have fully functioning guns more than 100 years old...including semi auto rifles (which are NOT new). They don't deteriorate quickly.
However, if he advances in the primaries, he will stimulate guns sales. That would be a good thing. we haven't had a good gun salesman around since Obama left office. Ultimately, he would LOSE. The gun control issue alone will make for the margin of victory for Trump.
It's always a good idea to keep 2 or 3 AR lower receivers around (the serial numbered part) They are relatively cheap (You can get Anderson lowers for $50) and can always be finished out into rifles with unregulated parts OR sold in the future for many times their price, if it comes to that. Lay in some 30 round magazines while they are cheap also, however, during the last "ban" magazines did not rise in price to much because they are so ridiculously fast and easy to make, the manufacturers had produced enough to last the entire 10 years of the "ban" before the "ban" took effect.
For those that don't remember...Clinton demanded Congress pass the "Assault Weapons Ban" before they took their summer recess because "criminals don't take a summer vacation". Congress passed the bill in July. Clinton then, promptly, went on summer recess...and did not sign the bill until September 14, 1994. In two months the manufacturers had made millions of lower receivers and magazine bodies.
Two months after the Clinton signed the bill, The Democrats lost control of Congress for the first time in 40 years. There have NO federal gun control laws since.
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The FBI uses media "leaks" or "feeds" the media information for their own purposes all the time. It is often used to generate information, or to "smoke out " a suspect, or to make a known suspect feel "safe" so he comes out in the open. Etc., etc. You can be pretty sure that ANY TIME an agent of the FBI makes a public appearance and speaks publicly about an ongoing investigation, it is for THEIR benefit...NOT yours. Whatever you are told is intended to produce a result for THEM. Even discussing ongoing investigations or confirming investigations exist is not allowed without higher permission and only then when it benefits the FBI. Basic "spycraft" So...they are VERY GOOD AT IT. And, used properly, it can be an affective crime fighting tool.
In this case, again, we see that agents of the FBI used their "tools"...very powerful tools...for political purposes and THAT is wrong. It would also seem to indicate that Strzoks testimony in Congress, that he did not allow his political bias to affect his work, is a LIE.
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I wouldn't really call it a "bump"...BUT, and say what you will about Rasmussen but they are the ONLY daily tracking poll, Rasmussen shows his approval has gone from 45% to 51% ...that's a 13% increase since the Mueller report came out. More telling, his "strongly approve" rating has surpassed his "strongly disapprove" for the first time since just after he was inaugurated.
I do agree with you that the best is yet to come. The media arm of the Democrat party has done all they can to diminish the results of the Mueller...continuing their lies that there is "something there there". That alone is proof they failed. The Dems can only play this for so long, and they know it...THAT is why they wanted the April 2 deadline for the "full report" The public loses interest very fast, there are a lot of things happening, people are moving on. More every day. Every day that passes, less people care about this. Every month that passes, 200,000 more people have jobs they didn't have last month. Most of them get good jobs with health insurance. They are done with this.
Clinton (Bill Clinton) got it right..."It's the economy, stupid!" People are going to get ANNOYED with what they will perceive as abuse very soon. The Democrats are offering NOTHING and attacking the guy that turned the economy around. That gets worn thin, real fast.
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@famrodriguez6057 Read carefully: "Ukraine", the country, did not pay the Bidens for anything.
Burisma holdings did. That is a private company. Ukraine, the country, was investigating the corruption of Burisma when Biden forced Ukraine, the country, to halt the investigation.
When Lockheed, the private company, bribed the German government to buy its airplanes...do you say the "United States" bribed Germany? Or do you say Lockheed, the private company, bribed Germany?
It is true Russia started their invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Obama was the President.
Trump was the first President to send weapons and US advisors to Ukraine in 2017.
Were you opposed to supporting Ukraine when Trump did it?
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DeSantis has a deep bench to choose from. Lara Trump wouldn't be a bad choice, but there are MANY others. Lara is a very recent transplant to Florida v. many excellent lifelong Floridians DeSantis can choose from, including himself.
Let's keep in mind that DeSantis himself has had his eye on a Senate seat. Also keep in mind that whoever gets appointed will serve until a special election in 2026 to choose a replacement to fill out Rubio's seat until 2028 and then have another election in 2028 for the next full term.
DeSantis COULD appoint his wife, Casey DeSantis, to fill the seat until 2026 when she would conveniently 'drop out' and Ron DeSantis could step in to run because his term as Governor ends in...wait for it...2026.
OR
DeSantis could also resign as Governor, leaving Lt. Governor Jeanette Nunez to appoint Ron DeSantis as Senator.
OR
If DeSantis drops his desire to be a Senator, he could appoint any number of great Floridians. Jeanette Nunez, Ashley Moody (though Ashley has said she is not interested), Byron Donalds, Anna Paulina Luna, or Greg Stuebe. Just to name a few. Both of the US Representatives are from solid red districts and easily be replaced by Republicans in their own special elections.
As a Floridian, I would be happy with ANY of the above as my Senator.
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@johnnyd6715 The "country coming together" has NOTHING to do with Congress coming together. Congress IS, always has been, and is INTENDED to be, an adversarial system. It is NOT supposed to be easy to pass Federal laws. Congress should NEVER be the yardstick by which we measure "national unity". THAT would be stupid.
The Constitution leaves it up to STATES to make most of the laws and they can make it as easy as they wish.
Making FEDERAL laws that affect the entirety of a hugely diverse population of 300+ million people with hugely diverse interests SHOULD be difficult.
That said, in Congress...Democrats in the Senate should compromise on bills enough to get at least 10 Republican votes. A 50/50 "majority" is not reason to stuff the Democrat agenda down everyone's throat. Senators represent STATES, not the people. That is WHY there are two Senators from each state. That is WHY Vermont has the same number of Senators as California. The House of Representatives represents the people.
The "talking filibuster" is OK. The minority party can filibuster as long as they want, taking turns speaking until the majority removes the bill from consideration, OR compromises ...OR in a 50/50 Senate, Republicans could just not show up and deny a quorum to the Democrats. (quorum requires 50 Senators but there MUST BE at least ONE Senator from the minority)
BUT...under Senate rules, they only consider ONE bill at a time. So the talking filibuster (used until 1971) ties up the Senate from working on anything else.
The idea of either is to force compromise. It is always the "majority" that must compromise to get the 60 votes UNLESS they have 60+ Senators.
The cloture rule, requiring 60 votes, simply allows the Senate to move on to other things without the need to waste time with a talking filibuster.
I say, leave it as is.
There appears to be no way to end the 60 vote rule as it stands today anyway. At least two, and as many as seven, Democrat Senators oppose changing it. Smart move. Because the Democrats are very likely going to lose the majority in 2022.
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You didn't cover the Ukrainian AK 50? Why? 😜
It is an oxymoron to say someone is "in the Ukrainian DPR" The DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) is a breakaway region that considers itself independent and has been at war with the Ukraine government for 8 years.
That said...Mosin Nagants, particularly sniper rifles, are still held in large supply by Ukraine, as are AKMs and SKS rifles. Even more were held in reserve by Bulgaria, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary and other former Soviet aligned countries. Many of them are now being unloaded onto/into Ukraine. Ukraine isn't turning down any weapons.
In addition, Mosin Nagants are very popular for private ownership and hunting. Ukraine allows the ownership of rifles and shotguns. Not surprisingly, the former military rifles are common and the 7.62x54R is plenty powerful for any game in Ukraine and/or the former Soviet Union.
Most likely, that IS an MG42. The Soviet Union captured millions of firearms and tens of millions of rounds of ammo from the Germans in WW2. They kept that stuff also. Every Republic, including Ukraine, had huge piles of those weapons after the Soviet Union collapsed. Recently there have been supplies of WW2 surplus 8mm Mauser ammo, sourced in Russia on the market. There are also a numbers of Mosin Nagant surplus rifles that were modified in Russia to resemble the sniper version.
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Eric Adams announces someone else will have to pay more for food delivery...a completely unnecessary service for most people.
What will happen?
1. Price of deliveries will increase by MORE than the mandated minimum wage increase (at least 20% more) because employers have to pay a percentage of gross wages for FICA, FUI, SUI, worker's comp, etc., and thousands of people will simply stop using delivery service. They will find that carryout, ordered online, is FAR cheaper and can be picked up on their way home from work. Employers will offer discounts for "carryout only" in online coupons (they already do it, it will be even more attractive)
2. People who still use the services, will stop giving tips.
3. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of food delivery drivers will lose their jobs.
Great job, Adams!
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It's fun to imagine things like a drop in trigger to be considered a "firearm" but the ATF has specifically determined the particular parts that are classed as firearms. Could someone, in the future, interpret that to mean a drop in trigger is a firearm? Yes, I suppose they could. Is it likely? Is it even plausible? No.
That really isn't the issue...if you read all 115 pages of the proposed change in regulation.
Obviously the ATF is between a rock and a hard place here. They cannot write legislation or change law. They go to great lengths to state that they are clarifying "what congress meant" and "updating" regulations to "meet modern technology". Forgetting that the pistol that started WW1, the Browning/FN 1910 was a striker fired pistol whose parts do not meet the definition of a "firearm" under the GCA '68. If legislation needs to be updated...it needs to be re-legislated. OR, Congress needs to amend the GCA '68.
It is not the responsibility of Administrative agencies to try to determine "what Congress meant". Vague laws are unconstitutional. Like the bumpstock ban which got struck down...ATF cannot make something illegal that is not in violation of a statute. Well...they CAN, but it can be struck down by courts.
I believe this regulation, if implemented, WILL be struck down by federal courts, likely by one of the 200+ judges Trump appointed.
The best thing we can do? Write to oppose this regulation during the comment period. If it is implemented, we can support the 2A organizations that will bring suits in Federal courts to strike it down.
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He voted to convict Trump knowing there would be no conviction. It was a politically expedient vote. Since his vote would make no difference, it will not be remembered when he is up for re-election. In 6 years.
His vote on the filibuster WOULD make a difference and WOULD NOT be politically expedient in a state where a LOT of people own guns, and WV was one of the first states to implement Constitutional carry.
Politicians will not "die on every hill" you want them to. But they WILL die on every hill that benefits themselves. It benefits Manchin, in his state, to oppose the filibuster. He will.
Letter from Joe Manchin:
>>>>Dear Mr._____
Thank you for contacting me to express your opinion on the prospect of ending the filibuster on pieces of legislation. Let me be clear, I’m in the same place I've always been on the filibuster. I sit in Robert C. Byrd's seat. There's not a person that defended the Senate more than he did, that believed in the rules of the Senate and the specific cause of the Senate, which is that the minority has input. I am not in favor of any proposal that gets rid of the filibuster. Period.<<<<
Also, remember that when Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) advanced removing the filibuster for Court appointees, which the Democrats supported at the time, Manchin voted AGAINST it. The Democrats didn't need his vote and ended the filibuster for Court appointments. Democrats soon regretted that when Trump and McConnell used that change to ram through more than 200 federal judge and THREE SCOTUS appointments in 4 years...while the Democrats HOWLED, Manchin said "I told you so"
Manchin is the ONLY Senator, Democrat or Republican, that has ALWAYS voted against any attempt to remove the filibuster.
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@debbiematteo7046 Well, I live in Florida, so let me respond.
DeSantis is term limited. He cannot be Governor past 2026. He is not "Governor for Life".
His leadership inspired us in to Florida to elect an overwhelming majority, of both chambers of our legislature, with solid conservative Republicans. A "Super Majority +" Unlike Trump, DeSantis increased Republican influence in the legislature.
Florida has a large pool of candidates in DeSantis' mold. We will choose one of them to replace DeSantis in 2026 anyway. Ashley Moody, Byron Donalds, Greg Stuebe, Webster Barnaby, Jennette Nunez. We all know who these good candidates are, even if you don't.
We know what to do. We are all big boys and girls here in Florida.
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The government needs to get is nose OUT of marriage. Keep in mind, marriage, getting married to someone, anyone is ILLEGAL, unless you get a license from the government, and the government decides who it will give a license to. At one time the government would not give a license to marry to interracial couples. It would not give a license to same sex couples. In some states you can marry your cousin, in others, you can't.
We need to END the practice of marriage being ILLEGAL, absent permission from the government. Obviously it has nothing to do with children and families. You can have children without being married and you are financially responsible for them whether you are married or not.
Marriage should be an enforceable contract between , or more, adults. Period. If one or more adults agree to be married, then sign a contract. Period. As long as ALL parties agree to the terms of the contract, who is the government to say otherwise? If multiple women agree to enter a marriage contract with one man, (or any other combination you can imagine) what business is it of anyone else or the government?
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@franklyn1010 Pelosi (Bella) won't be there. Neither will Ryan. The Speaker controls the agenda and calendar of the House. Separate and equal branches, remember? Neither Trump, nor any other President, can do anything about who is the Speaker of the House. Biden is going to find that out soon. However, Trump is right now supporting "America First" candidates for congress and having very good success. THEY will be the ones choosing the Speaker and Senate majority leader.
Trump's mistake was not immediately firing each and every politically appointed person in every Executive Branch agency. He needed to MAKE it "his administration". He didn't have experience in Washington and followed the advice of a bunch of people protecting their own asses. He won't do that again.
The reason everyone tried to shut down Trump is because he is not a politician and doesn't care about their games and THAT's why we want him!
We don't want a President that just plays the political game, that's what we have now.
And if people in other countries like OUR President, he is not doing his job to represent US. That's YOUR President's (or Prime Minister's) job.
2nd time around...Trump's policies survived challenges all the way to the Supreme Court. That means in his 2nd term, the building of the wall continues from the 1st day, "Remain in Mexico" from the 1st day, pipelines and oil production from the 1st day, the Attorney General will clean out the corrupt DOJ from the first day.
Trump learned his lesson. "Play along and they impeach you. Don't play along, they'll impeach you" His 2nd term will be much more productive.
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Every Trump rally generates 100K-150K requests for free tickets. Each request includes the name, address, phone number and email address (plus any other social media the persons lists) and these are used for campaign ads and financing. Direct advertising for a fraction of the cost. Meanwhile, the Dems have paid millions of $$$ for cell phone numbers, which they have no idea are for supporters or not.
Trump will have a rally tonight in Des Moines. There will be more people there, in one location, at one time...on a weeknight, than have been at ALL appearances for ALL Democrat candidates in Iowa to date.
And Trump has been doing this anywhere, anytime for FIVE YEARS.
MY GOD, there were people camping out for TWO DAYS, on weekdays, in winter, in NEW JERSEY to attend his rally!!!!!!!!
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@cgrey4082 You said: >>>Opinions are not facts. They are merely opinions. Some opinions are more valid than others. That's invariably opinions which are well grounded in objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts.<<<
Correct.
Still waiting for the objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source related facts that you will provide that...
1. A significant majority of GOP voters support what the Biden administration is doing.
AND
2. That under a Hillary Clinton administration that -0- people would have died from covid-19. (If Trump "caused 500,000 deaths", then that would mean Hillary would have prevented ALL of those deaths. Prove it.)
I expect all your evidence to be objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts.
I'll wait here.
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@cgrey4082 YOU said: (directly copied from your above comments)
>>>>>>Here's a fact Trumpites don't want to hear: Daughter and Jared cleared more than 500 MILLION in "new" money during four years as WH "employees." <<<<<<
>>>>A significant majority of GOP voters approve of what the Biden Administration is doing. <<<<
>>>What is most unfortunate: while being a "one term loser" he "lost" the lives of up to half a MILLION people living in the US. For no reason than his own self-interest. <<<
>>>>Opinions are not facts. They are merely opinions. Some opinions are more valid than others. That's invariably opinions which are well grounded in objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts. <<<<
“Cleared “ means after tax. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts to support that statement
Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that IF Hillary Clinton had been President, covid 19 deaths would have been -0-
“Significant majority” means substantially more than 50%. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that support your statement.
Deflection, changing the subject or denial will mean that YOU are a Trumpite.
Still waiting, cathy
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@cgrey4082 YOU said: (directly copied from your above comments)
>>>>>>Here's a fact Trumpites don't want to hear: Daughter and Jared cleared more than 500 MILLION in "new" money during four years as WH "employees." <<<<<<
>>>>A significant majority of GOP voters approve of what the Biden Administration is doing. <<<<
>>>What is most unfortunate: while being a "one term loser" he "lost" the lives of up to half a MILLION people living in the US. For no reason than his own self-interest. <<<
>>>>Opinions are not facts. They are merely opinions. Some opinions are more valid than others. That's invariably opinions which are well grounded in objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts. <<<<
“Cleared “ means after tax. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts to support that statement
Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that IF Hillary Clinton had been President, covid 19 deaths would have been -0-
“Significant majority” means substantially more than 50%. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that support your statement.
Still waiting.
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@cgrey4082
YOU said: (directly copied from your above comments)
>>>>>>Here's a fact Trumpites don't want to hear: Daughter and Jared cleared more than 500 MILLION in "new" money during four years as WH "employees." <<<<<<
>>>>A significant majority of GOP voters approve of what the Biden Administration is doing. <<<<
>>>What is most unfortunate: while being a "one term loser" he "lost" the lives of up to half a MILLION people living in the US. For no reason than his own self-interest. <<<
>>>>Opinions are not facts. They are merely opinions. Some opinions are more valid than others. That's invariably opinions which are well grounded in objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts. <<<<
“Cleared “ means after tax. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts to support that statement
Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that IF Hillary Clinton had been President, covid 19 deaths would have been -0-
“Significant majority” means substantially more than 50%. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that support your statement.
Deflection, changing the subject or denial will mean that YOU are a Trumpite.
Still waiting, cathy
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@cgrey4082 gary K
YOU said: (directly copied from your above comments)
>>>>>>Here's a fact Trumpites don't want to hear: Daughter and Jared cleared more than 500 MILLION in "new" money during four years as WH "employees." <<<<<<
>>>>A significant majority of GOP voters approve of what the Biden Administration is doing. <<<<
>>>What is most unfortunate: while being a "one term loser" he "lost" the lives of up to half a MILLION people living in the US. For no reason than his own self-interest. <<<
>>>>Opinions are not facts. They are merely opinions. Some opinions are more valid than others. That's invariably opinions which are well grounded in objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts. <<<<
“Cleared “ means after tax. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts to support that statement
Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that IF Hillary Clinton had been President, covid 19 deaths would have been -0-
“Significant majority” means substantially more than 50%. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that support your statement.
Deflection, changing the subject or denial will mean that YOU are a Trumpite.
Still waiting, cathy
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@cgrey4082
YOU said: (directly copied from your above comments)
>>>>>>Here's a fact Trumpites don't want to hear: Daughter and Jared cleared more than 500 MILLION in "new" money during four years as WH "employees." <<<<<<
>>>>A significant majority of GOP voters approve of what the Biden Administration is doing. <<<<
>>>What is most unfortunate: while being a "one term loser" he "lost" the lives of up to half a MILLION people living in the US. For no reason than his own self-interest. <<<
>>>>Opinions are not facts. They are merely opinions. Some opinions are more valid than others. That's invariably opinions which are well grounded in objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts. <<<<
“Cleared “ means after tax. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts to support that statement
Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that IF Hillary Clinton had been President, covid 19 deaths would have been -0-
“Significant majority” means substantially more than 50%. Please provide well grounded objective, verifiable, credible, replicable and source-referenced facts that support your statement.
Deflection, changing the subject or denial will mean that YOU are a Trumpite.
Still waiting, cathy
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@badmf7551 Trump didn't drain the swamp, secure the border, end DACA, end Obamacare. Trump didn't secure energy independence.
Trump DID appoint Pence, Sessions, Rosenstein, Wray, Fauci, McMasters, Mattis, Milley, Chao, Barr. All those people you HATE now...Trump appointed.
Those aren't media lies.
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Nothing odd about that. Artillery is NOT enough to win. It's enough to prepare to win. But not to win. No war has been "won" with artillery alone. What is ODD is that Congress laughed at something that isn't funny.
He was a comedian. So what? Reagan was an actor who did a series with a chimpanzee and B-movie westerns. So what?
Joe Biden was a lifeguard, coal miner, truck driver, bus driver, single black mother, Italian, Irish, Puerto Rican AND a college professor...but you make fun of guy because he was an actor?!?!? Give it a rest, Dave. You sound ridiculous.
English is, maybe, his 4th language. He speaks Russian, Ukrainian (which he didn't speak until he was elected President), German and English. He spoke better and more intelligible than Biden does...but you make fun of Zelenskyy?
I wish OUR President did as much for OUR country as Zelenskyy does for Ukraine.
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Burlington's "Church Street Marketplace" will be destroyed! No Canadians, no ski bums, no bars for the college kids. Jay Peak will be killed by not allowing Canadians in, which is about 75% of their clientele, and after they spent 10s of millions of $$$ to build a huge lodge and indoor water park! That place is a major employer in northern Vermont. Mad River Glen, Killington, Stowe, Bolton Valley....OMG! By February Vermonters will be able to write notes to each other on the last $5 bill that will just be passed around between them. No new money until sugaring season in March.
People don't understand Vermont, Styx. You kill the winter tourist season, you kill everything! There is no construction going on, no road work, no home improvements. Half the homes are already empty as the wealthier retired people flee the winter for their homes in Florida. Nothing. It's dead. Skiing, snowmobiling and ice fishing and that's about it. If you aren't working in those industries, or servicing the tourists in bars, lodges or restaurants, you aren't working.
I'm with ya, Styx. I left Vermont 5 years ago because of the cost of living and taxes. Beautiful place to live, but too damn expensive for retired people unless you are a millionaire from Boston or NYC.
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@Dynamodel48 Ask them.
Perhaps trying to protect the value of Twitter stock.🤷♂ You are asking me WHY someone else lied? You are trying to determine the reason yourself? Fool's errand. There could hundreds of reasons, not the least of which would be political.
Also, you are assuming the "lied" Not so fast. That's difficult to prove. For example, they were asked if they "shadow ban" people. They said "no". That's a lie, right? Under oath, right?
Except the Twitter files show us they didn't call the practice "shadow banning". No difference? well, try convincing 12 jurors unanimously of that. That's what a prosecutor has to do.
I'm not saying they didn't LIE. They did. I am saying that it isn't what you know, it's what you can prove. AND it is up to the DOJ, run by the Biden administration, to make the decision to actually charge someone. Congress can't do that. That's why I hold the possibility of "Lying to Congress" out there, but it is very unlikely.
"Laws being broken" is NOT the same as a crime. You knew that, right? You can break the law and it is not a crime and no one goes to prison. You knew that, right?
Violating an oath is not a crime. Hate to tell you. There is no federal crime of "violating an oath", no such statute. In order to be charged with "conspiracy" there has to be an associated crime. You can't be charged with "conspiring" to do something that isn't a crime.
A person can be disciplined for violating their oath. They can be fired. They can be impeached if they are an elected official. But it is not a crime and is not even a "violation of law" (unless some states have such a law, I can't comment on every law of every state)
As much as you may not like something, that does not make it a crime.
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Ampersandrascott....To answer your questions
1. There IS NO constitutional limit on the President's power to pardon, except in the case of impeachment. The President cannot pardon himself from articles of impeachment. Impeachment is a political action, NOT a crime. Read Article II, section 2., which states that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment" There IS NO admonition against the President pardoning himself for crimes. The pardon power does NOT apply to state crimes, only crimes against the United States. Murder is usually NOT a "crime against the United States" unless it occurs on federal property or against a federal employee or by acts of terror, hijacking, etc.
2. Nixon was never charged with a crime. Nixon was never impeached.
3. There is no crime for which President Trump has been charged, and he IS NOT "pardoning himself". This was, and is, a hypothetical question.
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OH NO!!!!!!!!! Now what?!?!?!?! First Jussie Smollet...and now this!
I believe Gays and lesbians should be able to get married...AND carry concealed handguns to their wedding! I believe in RIGHTS...not "gay" rights, not "minority" rights...RIGHTS. I am married to a bi-sexual immigrant (now US citizen)...who can blame her?...I like pussy too! It doesn't hurt YOU, so butt out! We both voted for Trump! I have way too much to do to keep my own ass afloat to worry about who someone else is sleeping with. I DON'T CARE!!!!!!! Trump is not, and never has been, an "Ideologue" . He has governed in a very conservative way, but has been quite tolerant on a social basis. Nothing wrong with that. Go for the 80%. The "Anne Coulter" faction won't like it...so what? Trump is not a politician. Democrats do things for political purposes, Trump doesn't.
"Gay people manage their pot farms with machine guns..." RIGHT ON! I am not Gay, I do not smoke pot, would love to have a machine gun and the money to feed it, but hey, if pot farms are your thing and you don't hurt someone else...who cares?
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My wife is from Ukraine, where the calendar was changed in 1918 by the Soviets, but the Orthodox Church refused to change. The Church still uses the Julian calendar, currently 13 days behind our current calendar (and it will add another day behind in a few years) Hence, Christmas is on January 7 by our calendar. December 25 is just another day in the Former Soviet Union where the Orthodox Church is most common. The few people who celebrate "Catholic Christmas" celebrate on December 25, but it is not an official "holiday". Orthodox Easter this year is one week behind "ours". Some years it is the same as ours (last year) Countries which are primarily Orthodox (Greece, Serbia, Former Soviet Union, etc.) still use the Julian Calendar, at least for Religious Holidays.
As I understand, there were two reasons for this. 1. The Church would not accept "the government" deciding when Christmas and Easter were and 2. The Gregorian Calendar was developed by the Catholic Pope, so...NO!!!!!!!!!!
We spend a couple months a year in Ukraine and if it is during the holidays it can be very confusing! Most people settle it by having parties and skipping work from December 24 (Gregorian Calendar) until January 13 (Gregorian calendar) and that covers them all. January 13 is a Holiday celebrated as "The Old New Year". If you can imagine the week between Christmas and New Year's in the USA, that is what it is like for an extra 2 weeks.
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Any AK should have a Slavic woman's name. I suggest: Anastasia. Not so much because of the name "Anastasia", but because the "short name" (nick name) for Anastasia is "Nastiya" (NAH stee yah). Just sounds appropriate for an AK. Nastiya!
Another good one, but much overused in my opinion, is Yekaterina. One of the short names for which is "Katusha" yes, like the Katusha rockets. Also "Katya"
That said...the cartridge is an interesting one. More or less the equal of the .350 Legend and a little better than the 114 year old .351 WSL. But only a little. Sub-sonic, of course, limits velocity but the case design allows for heavier bullets than can be used in the 9mm Luger. Load it with 180-200+ gr. bullets and now you're talking. Make sure the rifling twist will stabilize those bullets at low velocity. If you can't do that, you're just wasting gunpowder and machinery
Re: Texas...you ARE aware that Texas is very large. Correct? And it has a lot of different environmental areas: Swamps, forest, desert, mountains, plains, etc. If you want to have less humidity, you need to move to west Texas. On a map, extend the eastern border of the Texas panhandle south to the Mexican border. Stay west of that line for lower humidity.
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@LTB...I am sure there was a reason. I have had the opportunity to live in many countries. Among them UK and Canada. Neither are Australia, I'll grant you, but there seemed to be a national interest in both to "fix" everything that came along or every bad thing that happened with a LAW. (SOME of our politicians do the same thing but our process blocks most of those reactionary laws, requiring TWO chambers of congress to approve something AND the President signing it)
The REASON we have Supreme Court Justices for life is to MAKE SURE, they are apolitical. That does NOT always work but usually it does. And YES, some will abuse that appointment for political purposes, as Ginsburg is now. But, on the balance, it is a good thing and we will stick with it. We aren't going to go "fix" something just because one person abuses a policy that generally works well.
Our system of government "By the people..." requires that people PAY ATTENTION. Unfortunately, the politicians have tried to steer us away from paying attention. Not one in 100 Americans could name even THREE Supreme Court Justices, let alone all nine. But anyone PAYING ATTENTION, would have known that the MOST IMPORTANT outcome of the 2016 election would be the naming of AT LEAST THREE Supreme Court Justices, most like FOUR now. Justice Scalia was a surprise, but he died before the election. Kennedy, Breyer and Ginsburg were/are completely predictable. NOW it seems like a big surprise that the President gets to nominate the Justices.
Obama left more than ONE HUNDRED Federal judge positions open (they are ALL appointed for life) for the "next President" Ginsburg SHOULD HAVE retired in 2015 and allowed a liberal President to replace her. Before Trump leaves office he will have appointed MORE THAN HALF the entire Federal Judiciary! Trump's legacy will dominate the Judicial branch, and court decisions, for FORTY YEARS!
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I lived in Vermont until I retired. I left because if I stayed I would have to work full time until I died. Sold the house, moved to Florida, paid cash for a newer and bigger home and pay 1/4 the property tax and no snow to shovel.
I never thought of "the metro area of Rutland". But we did call it "Rut-Vegas". Vermont is a beautiful state and very conservative in their liberalism, but their environmental and tax laws have manged to keep the population (and the roads) relatively the same since 1900. Not to mention keeping the real estate values inexplicably high. The home values of Burlington, for example, are unfathomable. The city is 200 miles from the nearest real "city" in the USA. The home values SHOULD BE about the same as those in Nebraska. Church St.? It serves as a tourist trap and a place for the college students to get drunk. There are a few nice, but way overpriced, restaurants there. "Leunig's" is affordable, if you go after 10pm on a weekend and order from the "late night" menu. Any real shopping in Burlington is in South Burlington and Williston. Aside from the Universities and the Hospital complex which exists to serve medically under served Quebecois escaping the Canadian "free" healthcare system, your job choices in Burlington are sandwich shops and retail, or in a restaurant serving Quebecois medical and/or sales tax evading tourists who don't tip! That doesn't pay enough to rent a room in a 150 year old house.
Vermont needs to lower taxes and eliminate about 2/3 of the environmental regulations that exist mainly to copy what California does. Until then, their main export product will remain "college graduates" and "retired people"
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I think they will. On both 2A, 5A and 14A grounds, deprivation of liberty without due process and denial of equal protection.
My guess is that they will rule that states/cities cannot extend conditions to withhold permission for people to be armed beyond a loss of the right through "due process"...such as a criminal conviction or involuntary commitment to a mental institution and cannot have different rules for residents of certain cities.
I don't know how the city can even argue their reasoning for having different standards at all. "People living in NYC can't have the same freedom as someone living in Plattsburgh or Waterbury because....."
I am hoping that Roberts will flake out as usual and vote with the liberals, giving us a 5-4 victory. If Roberts wimps out, it leaves Thomas as the senior Justice to write the opinion and he tends to write very broad and inclusive opinions. I would WISH that the court would rule that ANY kind of licensing scheme is illegal and that "Constitutional carry" is the law of the land, but I doubt it. Rights CAN be forfeited by "due process", 5th amendment "...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;..." I think that a "shall issue" type of license would stand court scrutiny if the ONLY condition were to verify that a person has not lost their rights through due process.
The question is when will the court hear arguments? The SCOTUS session ends in June and this kind of decision are usually the type held for the last few days of a session. If they do not hear arguments soon, it could be June of next year before we have a decision.
The last time a NY gun law was before the court, the State changed the law and the court did not rule. I do not see that happening this time.
In case you wondered why the court did not take up 2A cases last session, it is because the Conservatives on the court did not trust Roberts. Now, they don't need him.
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There IS NO "FBI probe into Kavanaugh" Senator Lindsey Graham laid it out very well on Hannity's show.
Senator Flake requested that the FBI interview FOUR people. The three "witnesses" Ms. Ford named and the woman who said Kavanaugh exposed himself to her. THAT'S IT, THAT'S ALL. In addition, Senators Murkowski and Collins requested that the FBI review the investigation done by the Senate to see if it was satisfactory.
Swetnick/Avenatti are not, and never have been, credible. In case anyone was in doubt, Swetnick went on NBC Monday and made sure everyone saw how NOT credible she was. Did Judge Kavanaugh spike the punch with alcohol or drugs? "I saw him near the punchbowl. And I saw him give some red solo cups to people" Did Judge Kavanaugh rape you? "I think I saw him at the party where I was raped and he was laughing" Swetnick gave the names of four "witnesses". One is dead. One denies even knowing Ms. Swetnick or anything about any rape parties. Two can not be reached.
OK..... NEXT!!!!!!
The "agreement" with those Senators is that if those FOUR interviews and reviews go well, the THREE OF THEM will vote to confirm Kavanaugh. Period. End of story. Kavanaugh gets 51 votes, job done.
President Trump has said he has not "limited" the FBI investigation, which IS TRUE. HE has not. He also said he will "do whatever the Senate wants" and THAT is what the Senate wants.
How long should it take to interview FOUR people? THREE interviews, as of Monday, have been completed (per the lawyers representing those three) Mark Judge's interview has begun but is not yet complete. The Senate will have the FBI report Wednesday. No reason they cannot vote by Friday. The Democrats do not have to like it. They have the option to vote NO.
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It's what they did in the Soviet Union so people wouldn't "need" cars, telephones, etc. Every city was a conglomeration of "15 minute cities" known within the city as "districts". I guess we would call them "neighborhoods" or "wards". The districts included schools, workplaces, hospitals, etc. The state decided where you would live, how big your apartment was and where you lived. All planned so that you could easily get to work, shopping, hospitals and school without individual transportation. Yes, they were called "Stalin Houses". (Stalinskiy) They still are, actually. They are the 5 story buildings (that's as high as city water pressure could deliver water at that time) Later homes were called "Khrushchev Houses" and can go up to 9 stories...city water pressure got upgraded.
Oh, and they get their heating from the city. City supplied hot water heat that the city decides when to turn on or off. A/C? Don't be silly!
My wife was born and raised in the Soviet Union. In Kharkiv, Ukraine. The city is still divided like this (the districts have been renamed to get away from the Soviet names) The same old "blocks" of housing are still there (which haven't been destroyed by the invaders) and they are all the same.
In fact, we sincerely hope that after the Ukrainian victory, the cities will be rebuilt to get away from this type of "planning".
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@RobinPhillips1957 Which 1% is not correct?
She will not be prosecuted. Period. Was that the plan? Maybe. And was it Durham's plan or was it Hillary's plan? People have not been cooperating with Durham all this time, because...covid. You know. Pandemic. The universal excuse for non-performance.
Will the investigation fail? Only if success means putting Clinton, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, ad nauseum in prison.
If success means making sure they never do this again and rendering them irrelevant for the rest of their lives...oh, I think we will have that.
I am not sure who benefits from being required to house and feed these parasites for extended periods at taxpayer expense.
Clinton could easily lose her pension as a Senator and Sec. of State, lose her law license and lose any possibility of ever running for office again. So could Comey, Clapper, Brennan, etc. They could all be sued by President Trump AND anyone else caught up in this...Flynn, Papadopoulos, Manafort, Stone, Don Jr., etc.
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@jennanail No they can't. Here's why...coal is old energy, nobody wants it and it isn't the future...Ukraine has very little oil, and not a lot of natural gas. Ukraine was a TRANSPORTER of gas, mostly for Russia, through pipelines, to other European countries. That business is gone.
Europe is trying to get away from oil/gas/coal. Ukraine is dealing with selling buggy whips and horseshoes.
Ukraine's 'friends' in Europe BLOCK Ukrainian grain from the European market and wouldn't even allow grain trucks to pass through Poland to Baltic ports (if you will remember) when the Ukrainian ports were under attack. Europe forces Ukraine to sell their grain to low margin markets like Africa and Asia.
Ukraine was borrowing money from the IMF, just to pay for their pensions, BEFORE the war. (which are paltry, my mother in law receives the equivalent of $140/mo. and that won't cover her utility bills, my wife and I have to make up the difference.)
So with ALL its industry intact, AND trade with Russia, Ukraine had to borrow money to pay the bills they had before the war.
Ukraine needs an income source that is marketable for the future. They have minerals, such as lithium, cobalt, and others that are the FUTURE of energy.
I'm not guessing. I am from Kharkiv. All of my family is in Kharkiv. My son, nephew and bother in law are already fighting. My mother in law's building was destroyed, she is now living in an apartment my wife and I own, and used to rent for income. Her pension doesn't cover the utilities which have increased to 5 times what they were before the war. We pay her utilities and her pension barely covers her food.
Ukraine has NO resources to pay back Europe AND fix their destroyed cities.
I don't want my grandson and younger nephew to have to fight this war, their young lives have already been disrupted. I don't want my son, brother in law or nephew killed.
I wouldn't trade ANY of the lives of my family for one square centimeter of Crimea, Donets'k or Luhans'k Oblasti.
I doubt you would either. All this foot stomping about "1991 borders" is nonsense! NO ONE who is at risk of dying, or cares for someone who is, is saying that.
I want my family safe and I want a future for Ukraine and my city...which has LOST most of it's industry, never to return.
Maybe Kharkiv could be a regional base for mineral companies? 🤷♂
It's a big city, with roads, a good airport, rail transport. They will never again have the Air Force Academy there or the Tank Factory, but maybe something can be salvaged through the mining.
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You are correct. If we are not going to provide what Ukraine needs to WIN, then we should negotiate an end to the war.
My suggestion: A divided Ukraine, such as Germany was divided. West Ukraine/East Ukraine. Then have west Ukraine join NATO, just as west Germany did. The rest can be negotiated over time to reunite Ukraine.
As to the A-10...Ukraine already has one. It's called the SU-24. They are remarkably ineffective against troops with advance manpads and in areas where Ukraine does not have air-superiority.
Neither the US nor NATO would consider entering into ANY military engagement without total and complete air superiority from 60,000 feet to the ground! The A-10 and SU-24 are just one part of that, useless without cover from AWACS and air superiority fighters like F-16, F-35, F-15, F-22. I mean, why not give them AC 130s? Because they would be shot down in hours.
Ukraine, first, needs air superiority, and that BEGINS with the ability to intercept ANY and all Russian drones and missiles.
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@Atzy Because Russia is NOT moralistic, sex negative and not anti lbgtq (for women).
I lived and worked in Russia and Ukraine. My bisexual wife is Ukrainian. The homophobia is directed almost exclusively at men. Bisexual women are relatively acceptable, public displays of affection between women are common. Especially in clubs, etc. Much more so than in the US.
Russians love porn. A disproportionate amount of amateur porn is from Russia, Ukraine, Czechia, Hungary. Amateur porn is probably one of the better paying occupations in either country. Work from home, post it on the internet, collect money.
With a sex ratio of 86 men to 100 women there is lots of incentive for women to be bisexual for intimacy. Eastern Europe and the Baltics have the greatest discrepancy of ratio between men and women of any western countries. Nepal is the only country with less men/women, and only by a little.
(compare to 97 men/100 women in the US)
So, nearly 5 times as many available women than the US. Yes, it is noticeable.
Sasha Grey was popular enough that in 2015 Russia used her (without her knowledge) in their propaganda claiming that she had been "humiliated" and murdered by Ukrainian soldiers. Knowing that this would spark outrage among her millions of fans. (the driving test was from 2011)
She had to come out and clarify that she was alive and well and would not participate in propaganda and that she loved all her Russian and Ukrainian fans.
https://statisticstimes . com/demographics/countries-by-sex-ratio.php
https://greekreporter . com/2015/03/03/sasha-grey-speaks-out-against-russian-media/
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@BigHoTzMuZik I wasn't insulting you. I have no idea what "manosphere" means.
Me? Well, thanks for asking. I am happily married since 2008 to a HOT Ukrainian woman 15 years younger than me who thinks "feminism" means high heels, stockings, lingerie and pleasing her man. Which she does very well. Have you heard the term "free use"?
I told you, no judgement from me. Some people don't like that I married an import. I don't care. Some people say I didn't marry my wife, I adopted her. I don't care. (she was over 18)
We travel, go shooting, go fishing. I have stable and adequate passive sources income and direct deposits 1 to 2 times a week. I just check the bank and move money around.
Since neither of us work outside the home, we are together most all of the time...and there is no one I would rather be with.
We live in Florida and she likes to swim naked in the backyard pool. (very private). Year 'round.
We were in the Cayman Islands a couple weeks ago, next week going to Pompano Beach for a few days of fishing the canals and lakes for Peacock bass and clown knife fish.
Our home, boats and cars are all paid for, we're debt free and living in paradise.
Happy New Year!
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@bw2408 You really have no clue what you are talking about. Your statement about term limits is completely unintelligible.
Congress does not and can not investigate "crimes". They are not law enforcement and cannot charge anyone with a crime. In case you missed it, the J6 Committee just "referred" their findings to the DOJ for investigation of crimes. The DOJ may or may not do their own investigation on the matter. Congress doesn't do that. EVER.
You seem to forget that it doesn't matter what YOU want for AOCs and Jefferies districts...and it never should matter, unless you live in and are registered to vote in that district.
YOU don't get to decide who I, or anyone else, votes for. Ever.
YOU get to vote for the candidates in YOUR Congressional district and for the Senators from YOUR state.
That's it, that's all. You don't like AOC? Then move to her district, register to vote and vote for her opponent. Otherwise, your opinion is irrelevant.
THAT is how a Representative Republic works.
You seem to hate our Constitution. You don't want people to choose their own Representatives. You don't like the separation of powers, you want Congress to be law enforcement.
It's a big country, people vote. Some of the people they elect, you won't like. Get over it.
You always have the option of moving to a State and Congressional district of Senators and a Representative you like.
You DO NOT have the option to restrict who other people vote for.
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My experience with Moldova women is limited but I worked in Ukraine for a few years. Once women in the office of the company found out I was single, I had mothers and grandmothers bringing their daughters and granddaughters, daughter's teachers, etc. (Yes, one brought her daughter's teacher) to "meet" me, not to mention the women working there, if they were not married, and a few that were married. One secretary working there made a hard hit on me herself and when I passed, she brought her 20 year old daughter to meet me because "maybe you want a young girl, I understand, why not, it's normal". I was 47 at the time. And, yes, her daughter joined me for dinner that night and made clear there was "no problem" with a 27 year age gap. She preferred "older, stable men with a job that did not drink alcohol".
They were not interested in "dating". They wanted to get married! It was not so much..."maybe you would like to meet my daughter", it was more like "Maybe you would want to marry my daughter". One offered that her daughter was a great cook and "she is young and thin, good for sex!!!!" 😮 Ukrainian women tend to be rather straightforward 🤣
I actually did meet and marry my wife while working there, but it was under more conventional circumstances. We still own an apartment there and visit for a month every year. She is now a US citizen and has been with me in the US since 2008.
It was a remarkable time and I am glad to see your video, because no one believes me when I tell them this. LOL
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@jimerickson1809
Grand Juries are not trials. Indictments (no matter how many there are) are not convictions.
In a grand jury proceeding, the accused has no representation, no cross examination of witnesses and no opportunity to present evidence or witnesses. The phrase "you can indict a ham sandwich" is not without merit.
Due process. In the USA, each defendant is entitled to due process. Maybe not in the country where you live, but here in the USA, that is the law of the land.
Due process means every step, every accusation and every action can be examined, tested, challenged...all the way to the US Supreme Court.
This is a very complex accusation against 19 defendants. There will be many months, if not years, of pre-trial motions.
Other RICO trials have taken as long as 5 years to begin!
Come back and tell me when I'm wrong.
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@akselmani 47% of people in the USA pay NO income tax. Due to deductions, exemptions etc. More than 30% not only DON'T pay taxes, they GET money handed to them every year in the form of tax credits, usually the "Child tax credit", the "ACA tax credits" and the "Earned income tax credit" They ALL complain about paying taxes. 🤷♂
The biggest resistance to the war in Ukraine, in the USA, is from people who don't like Joe Biden...or ANYTHING he does. Biden could hand out $100 bills and these people would complain about how he folded them.
They had no problem with military aid and US training troops going to Ukraine when TRUMP did it...and bragged about it incessantly. Zelenskyy was a hero with those people when he won an election and defended Trump against his first impeachment.
Our country has become polarized, with some people, to the point that issues don't matter at all. Only positions relative to the politician they HATE. They will side with RUSSIA over Ukraine because Biden is helping Ukraine!!!!!!!!!
And, to be fair, supporters of Biden do the same thing for anything that was supported by Trump. "Biden derangement syndrome" is just as real as "Trump derangement syndrome"
The good news? The majority of Americans and their elected representatives in Congress, support Ukraine. Republicans and Democrats.
Recent polls show the percentage has increased considerably, especially after Russia destroyed the Kahovka dam.
Americans LOVE the little guy. The "underdog". They will support Samson against Goliath every time.
My wife is Ukrainian, born and raised in Kharkiv, half my family lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. I know who will win.
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Real Estate Agents...EXACTLY! Lawyers charge the same fee to handle the sale of a $1,000,000 home or a $100,000 home.
Real Estate Agents care ONLY about themselves and their commission. I was an inspector for 7 years and when I found defects, some of which were legitimate dangers to the buyers and their families, agents would be quick to point out..."Oh, I can get you insurance to cover that". Or "Don't worry, I can get you financing" At what price? At what interest rate? Who will PAY for that?
I told one client to "Keep that in mind when the fire department is trying to rescue your daughter from her bedroom during a fire. You have insurance." The agent called my office and complained that I had "burned her deal." Oh, well. Better than burning a 2 year old child.
A couple weeks later I had a call from the same client to inspect another home. But she had a different agent. She told me "My father is an electrician, he reviewed your report and told me to 'keep the inspector, get rid of the agent'"
They other trick they will do...reduce the sale price to cover the "cost" of a serious defect. Great, so your payments on a 30 year mortgage go down $11/mo. YAY! How does that pay for a new roof or AC system? I inspected countless "worn out houses" with 20 year old roofs, 20 year old AC systems and 20 year old water heaters. And the agent will say..."Oh, I'll negotiate the price" Uh, huh. That doesn't pay for replacing the items.
BEWARE the 20 year old house!
Just be aware, they are NOT looking out for you.
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Let's not be too hard on Obama. He DID get more Republicans elected to office than any other President during his term in office. He DID lose control of both the House and Senate during his term. He WAS so lazy that he did everything by Executive Order...and that could be un-done by President Trump just as easily. He WAS such a failure in foreign policy, domestic policy that he caused an upheaval in the country and, in fact, created the climate in which Trump could be elected.
Just as Jimmy Carter's greatest contribution to the country was the election of Ronald Reagan, Obama's greatest contribution will be the election of Donald Trump.
And Obama was SO LAZY that he left a Supreme Court seat open AND more than 100 Federal District and Appeals court seats OPEN for President Trump to fill and have a 30-40 effect on US policy. (YES, I DO blame Obama for not nominating a more centrist judge than Merrick Garland, had he done so, McConnell would never have taken the incredible risk of delaying the confirmation and we would not have Justice Gorsuch) Thanks, Obama!
We may also mention that Obama sold more guns than John Browning, signed up more NRA members than Charleton Heston and raised more money for the NRA than Ted Nugent.
Thanks, Obama!
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@joe5923 Sorry, Joe. Hate to burst another conspiracy theory, (not really) but...
While you are correct in raw numbers, it was 50R, 48D and 2 I, the independents declared they caucus with the Democrats. Under the Senate rules, that makes them "count" as Democrats.
That is NOT a "media lie". It's just a fact, whether you like it or not.
In the new Congress, with Sinema's change, it will be 49R, 48D and 3 I. Two of the Independents already caucus with Dems, that makes it 50D, 49R. IF Sinema caucuses with Republicans (extremely unlikely) it will be 50R, 50D and Kamala Harris will break the tie. If she does not declare who she will caucus with, (she doesn't have to) it will be 50D, 49R. Sinema could say nothing and the Dems still have the majority.
UNLESS Sinema declares she will caucus with Republicans AND another Democrat Senator defects (Manchin?) and declares they will caucus with Republicans, Democrats WILL have the majority in the Senate for the next 2 years.
All of that happening is about as likely as Donald Trump being chosen as Speaker of the House.
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@nancyseery2213 Before they vote. That's what the 'rules' are all about. 3 days for review by House members and YOU...if you do your part, read the bill and contact your representatives.
In THIS case for THIS bill, they suspended the rules, but that requires a 2/3 vote to pass, not simple majority.
The bill was available on the House website early this afternoon. It is distributed to the website at the same time it is distributed to the House members.
I read it.
Did you?
ALL actions in Congress are available to the public (the voters). Bills, committee procedures, committee votes, floor votes, and how each representative (or Senator) voted, everything.
Musk and Ramaswamy, and the media, don't have a secret back door, they get it off the same website you can access.
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Well, we will see if the Socialists vote for it now. They probably will and then AOC will cry. The Bill also includes the Hyde Amendment (no federal funding for abortions) which the AOC and her trailer trash said they would never vote for. The also said the $3.5 trillion was "the minimum they could accept", it was already reduced from $6 trillion.
The immigration "reforms" were stripped out, TWICE, by the Senate Parliamentarian, yet THAT is what the activists were following Kyrsten Sinema around and harassing her about. They wanted her to support something that isn't even in the bill.
So...no "free" college, no student loan "forgiveness", no "free" childcare, no paid parental leave, no immigration reform, no voting reforms, no payments for illegal aliens, no expansion of Medicare (except possibly dental care) no expansion of Medicaid, no continuance of the advance child tax credit, and, but for some tax credits, no climate change initiatives.
AOC's trailer trash is coming up empty handed. Will AOC and the trailer trash stick to their "principles" like Manchin and Sinema did? Will activists be following AOC and the trailer trash around telling them not to vote for the bill? I hope so. I would love to see them tank the whole thing!
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@themajesticstick5262 So you agree Ukraine was not "less independent". I am not aware of the difference between independent and "fully independent" Is that the same as being "a little bit pregnant"?
Ukraine had it's own government, currency, military and international recognition as an independent country from 1918-1922.
There are many factions, right now, today, occupying various territory of Ukraine. Russians, Belarusians, Chechens, Separatists, etc.
Ukraine is an independent country, right now, today.
Thank you for conceding my point.
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I agree that they are dangerous...sort of.
I live in central Florida and coral snakes are fairly common. They are the most common venomous snake in developed areas. Pygmy rattlesnakes are the 2nd most common. While we also have eastern Diamondbacks, you don't see those in residential areas so much. I find coral snakes 3 to 1 over pygmy rattlers.
While they are common, coral snakes are also non-aggressive. I have turned over a few while digging weeds in the mulch of flower beds and they never show any sign of attempting to bite...only to get away. I do wear fairly heavy gloves when gardening in case I accidentally pick one up in a pile of weeds.
So, while their venom is dangerous, and they are common in residential areas, they do not attempt to bite if you leave them alone and they are usually quite small with short fangs and won't penetrate a heavy glove. I've never seen one over 2 ft. long and most were less than 18". They do get bigger, but it is not typical.
FWIW, the most common snake here, by far, is the southern black racer. I see those almost every day in the summer, usually in my shrubbery, but also right out in the lawn, on the driveway, sidewalk, front porch. Word is that they eat coral snakes.🤷♂ I think the little anole lizards are their primary food.
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Nothing to worry about then, Ambre. Sleep well. The indictment is sealed and the subject of the indictment has been notified (or their attorney has) That person will turn themselves in at an arranged time and place, maybe this morning, I don't know, but it is already arranged. There will not be "an arrest" per se, or a "frog walk". They will turn themselves, be processed, post bond and walk out. It is not Manafort, or his attorney would not be saying he doesn't know about it. When the person has turned themselves in, Mueller (or his designate) will make an announcement. My guess is Tony Podesta for violations of FARA. Flynn? Like I said...old news. He could also be charged for violations of FARA but why wait until now? UNLESS, that's ALL they have and they have to do something to keep this alive, OR that will be the end. We'll see in a few hours. One thing I CAN tell you, the charge will have NOTHING to do with Russians colluding with the Trump campaign. Then, later today we will begin hearing who was paying for the Fusion GPS nonsense as TD Bank will turn over records at 9am. Later this week the FBI will deliver it's records regarding the closing of the Clinton email fake investigation and within a month the informant will testify to congress about the Uranium One deal.
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@janebaker966 Greta is, herself, effective birth control. I doubt she has had sex. With another person, anyway. 🤣
The age of consent in the USA is set by the states. 16 in some states, or even younger in some cases. For example, in many states a person under 16 can have sex as long as the the other person is not over 18, or more than 5 years older. For example, in many states a 14 year old girl can have sex with a 15-17 year old boy (or girl) and there is no criminal penalty attached. In all states, 18 is "anything goes".
But what is the comparison? You think voting, which effects everyone's life, is comparable to sex which only effects the lives of the people involved?🤪
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"We can't win so we should impeach!" I am guessing she doesn't know that "impeachment" is NOT removal from office. Actually, she does. What she actually says doesn't matter. She WANTS to dictate what happens in the House, she WANTS to be seen as the one who made Pelosi "do it". She WANTS the Presidential candidates to grovel for her endorsement. It does not matter that impeachment will not result in removal, it ONLY matters that when the the 14,000 people in her district who actually vote in the primary, vote for HER, she gets reelected. Saying outrageous, even stupid things, gets her recognition, gets her name out there. Her "polls" don't matter in a district with less than 1% turnout. She just needs EVERY news outlet in the country saying her NAME multiple times every day.
Every person who gives her publicity, including Styx and "mini-AOC" helps to get her reelected. She LOVES when Trump tweets about her. Millions of people see her name.
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