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  1. The only way to regain a truly conservative political party is to vote all the MAGA cultists out at the November election. You may have to bite your tongue and vote for a Democrat but that doesn't mean that you have to vote Democratic in the future and it doesn't make you 'dirty' because you did what you needed to do to make sure that US democracy survives this most challenging of times. Yes, you might have to endure four years of Democratic party rule but you know that they will hand power back if voted out in the future and you don't know that about MAGA cultists. Trump and his followers are simply too dangerous to give any power to either by actively voting for them or by passively deciding to stay home and not vote. The conservative thing to do is to ensure the continuation of a constitutional democratic system by voting for those who still support it.
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  2. So Prof, vote for non-MAGA Republicans down the ballot where you can but have some spine and vote against the MAGA cultists, and if that's a Democrat, then do that to show that you are principled.
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  3. Trump has the depth of an oil slick on the ocean. He has no idea of strategy or even tactics. He sees something and starts screaming "Mine! Mine! Mine!" as he did when he found out about rare earths in Ukraine, or minerals in Greenland.
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  4. He has already destroyed the party. The question is can the party rebuild once Trump is out of the picture?
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  5. The Youtube algorithm would not reward that. It only rewards people who leap to conclusions and make controversial statements that rile up reactions because reaction - positive or negative - is the life-blood of social media; not truth or carefully judged analysis.
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  6. It certainly looked like asbestos roof sheeting to me. I grew up surrounded by the stuff.
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  7. And then they have the temerity to say "Well it's not my fault. I didn't vote for them." That is the cowards defence.
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  8. The guy approaching Trudeau and Putin was probably a translator essentially checking if he was needed.
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  9. So, Tucker is not a useful idiot ... Does that make him a useless idiot?
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  12. The drones don't do the damage that an ATACMS would. They might destroy/damage one or two aircraft while one ATACMS with the cluster warhead could render a dozen or so inoperable.
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  13.  @earl_gray  I used to do karate and when we put on demos our principal instructor would do the "break the concrete slab on my chest" trick. There was only one guy he would permit to swing the sledge hammer because that was a critical part of the trick; you had to strike but not allow the hammer to follow through. A lot of what they were breaking disintegrated as if it had only just enough integrity to hold together; a slight bump would damage it. Our principal instructor also tried this to give confidence to one of our meek little girls. He had a pre-broken board for her to break but she didn't know that and she choked barely touching it but still breaking the board.
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  14. Donald receiving his instructions.
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  15. Trump is not playing 3D chess, nor is he 10 moves ahead on the chess board. This guy couldn't play tic-tac-toe. He's lived his whole life in a cocoon where he's been pandered to from all sides. He was handed a huge fortune along with a business structure that would ensure that the fortune kept growing almost regardless of the stupid things that Donald did with it. He's nothing but a stuffed shirt. He was manipulated into that squabble with Zelenskyy by Vance and MTG's reporter boyfriend; the guy who made the stupid comment about Zelenskyy's dress. Trump is easily manipulated as Hillary Clinton pointed out and Kamala Harris demonstrated; a man who can be baited with a tweet as well as being shown to be put impressively off message by a slight dig at his crowd sizes.
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  16. China is likely to be ready to jump on large swaths of Siberia when Russia starts to crumble. Sadly for the eastern "Russian" states, they are likely to go from rule by one autocratic regime to another.
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  17. The difference now is that Trump is terrified that the chickens are coming home to roost. He's always been an ignorant narcissist but now he sees that he is being called to account for his bad actions that have harmed normal people. The only reason he wants to be president again is to try to head off federal charges; he doesn't care about his MAGA base, normal Republicans or the American people in general. Everyone goes under the bus if he thinks it will help him avoid accountability.
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  18. If you want to reclaim your party, you have to demonstrate that MAGA is totally unacceptable as a part of the Republican party. I.e. vote non-MAGA Republican where you can but where there is no non-MAGA Republican candidate, vote for the Democrat; don't just not vote, actively vote for the person opposing the MAGA cultist. It's the only way to demonstrate to the Republican machine that MAGA is not a way forward in any sense.
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  19. Russia's 'warm' water ports are mostly boxed in so they are looking for anywhere else they can operate a navy from which is why they are looking towards the arctic, Svalbard and Greenland. They can't move warships within the Black Sea, they cannot get them out of it and they are being severely limited in the Baltic. They have only the far east and the arctic left. The arctic is gradually becoming more viable with the reduction in sea ice.
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  20. I've no doubt Zelenskyy made the best of every minute he had alone with Trump to enlighten him regarding the realities of the situation. It was a great move to get Trump away from the crowd and speak privately. Let's hope that it bears fruit - and air defence missiles.
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  22. Putin has the problem of the previous pumped up election results. If he won in a genuine election with 65%, it would look like a reduction in support from the previous elections. He couldn't have that in the middle of his "special military operation."
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  24. The proper place for a Trump portrait is in the pan of the toilet.
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  25. I come here for data and facts. You seem to care about the veracity of the data and facts you present so I appreciate that. I take your political views as interesting but your views, some of which I agree with and some of which I differ from you on, and that's OK. If we both can start from a core of true facts, we can then use our individual value filters to decide where to go from there or to discuss the merits of our differing views. So thank you for your efforts in this regard and for this forum that you provide.
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  26. The way to ensure that after Trump loses the 2024 election he doesn't continue to rule the Republican party is for him to lose in a devastating landslide so that the party has no choice but to acknowledge that they will run nothing while he's involved. This means that old guard Republicans need to do more than stay home and not vote; they must hold their noses and vote for Democrats up and down the ballot where the alternative is a MAGA cultist. This is the only way to reclaim their party and ensure the continuation of a proper constitutional democracy going forward.
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  27. Trump is a petulant child. Why would the American people want the leader of their country to behave like a petulant child when the lives of millions of people are literally on the line? There is no point in trying to figure out what Trump has in mind when he says anything: he doesn't have a formed strategy that he works towards. He just flaps with the breeze, with whoever was the last person to flatter or resist him.
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  29. Republicans cannot stay home and not vote if their only Republican option is a MAGA cultist. Up and down the ballot, vote for non-MAGA Republicans where you can but if the only red choice for a post is a MAGA cultist, you need to send a message by voting Democrat; bite your lip and do it. Preserving a real constitutional democracy is more important than a label.
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  30. Russian people are losing faith in Putin's war so they need to drum up fear and paranoia so that 1) Putin's election win looks less like the fix that it is, and 2) to reduce push back against further mobilisations. This is all very like George Orwell's '1984' with the whipping up fear and hatred against the enemy of the moment; it used to be Ukraine but now they are all 'Russians' that Putin is trying to defend from the evil 'Westerners'. This also opens up for a move on Moldova with the poor repressed Russophiles there needing Putin's help, then later on Poland and the Baltic states with the same justification. I also couldn't help but notice that one of those guys was styling his look on uncle Jo Stalin. Hilarious!
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  31. Being a fan of the Terminator films, I've watched the development of combat capable drones with a bit of apprehension. However, it's just occurred to me that you don't take ground with drones. They are not much of an offensive weapon but are brilliant against an aggressor. To take ground you still have to put boots on that ground. If the development of more and more capable drones makes potential aggressors stop and reconsider, then that's a great thing and probably something that not only Putin but also Xi are having unhappy dreams about.
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  32. Good point! I'm from Australia. We don't know what anti-freeze is. I was also thinking, with reduced fuel supplies, perhaps they were looking to stretch their fuel out with ethanol. Either that or sober Russians are likely to be more unruly and dissatisfied.
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  33. Ukraine has already stuck in the far east blowing up the Severomuysky train tunnel in Buryatia that was a major link between China and Russia though it seems that the tunnel is now operational again.
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  34. I wonder if the Pope's mention of a "white flag" was as a symbol of temporary truce in order to see if negotiations can find a way forward, rather than as a symbol of capitulation or surrender. I still think the idea is misguided as Putin will never negotiate in good faith.
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  35. Trump is not pro-American let alone pro-anyone else. He is pro-Trump and that is it.
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  37. In reference to your joke at the end, certainly if you'd pounded on the desk and told Khrushchev or Brezhnev that you didn't like how they were running the country, you'd have been in a gulag in Siberia before you could pick up your hat. Possibly not so much by the time of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. But with the arrival of Putin, ex-KGB officer, complaints about government action have seen the gulags getting a fresh influx of unwilling workers. I was very hopeful that Russia after Gorbachev and even Yeltsin would gradually become a normalised member of the free countries of the world. Putin put an end to that and the people suffering most are not those in the west but those in Russia.
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  38. It would be good if Elon came out with a statement of what he meant by that gesture if he didn't mean it as a nazi salute. This might at least tamp down the foamy mouth fascists.
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  39.  @I-have-a-brain_and-use-it  I too am one of the 160. Brains and using them, FTW.
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  40. If I understand the numbers, Harris received 68M votes to Biden's 81M in 2020. Trump received 71M compared to 74M in 2020. What happened to 13M Democratic voters? Both sides seem down but the Democrats seem to have fallen off a cliff even with so many moderate Republicans coming over to their side. Is it just that Harris is a woman, or is it that seeing Republicans on her side was repellent to a group of Democratic voters or what?
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  41. Lots of TikTokkers seem to be moving to a site called RedNote a.k.a. Xiaohongshu - or literally 'little red book' like chairman Mao's literary work. Frypan -> Fire.
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  42.  @thejollygreendragon8394  We in Aus don't register a political affiliation but then again we have no say in who the political party puts up unless we formally become part of the party. Kinda similar when it comes down to it. Then again, we have compulsory voting which means that in the most part people must take a position on the issues come election day, whereas Americans can sit home and say "It's not my problem"; like sticking their fingers in their ears and going "LAAA LAAA LAAA". Americans would find compulsory voting an appalling affront to "freedom", but it's not like anyone goes to gaol for not voting. It's more like the teacher wagging their finger at you and saying "You MUST do your homework."
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  44.  @Professor-Gerdes  Trump has no foreign policy. He's as ignorant about the world as he is on almost every other subject. During his presidency, he simply depended on the people who worked for him - all much smarter than he - and simply picked the option that was presented briefly enough to be somewhat comprehensible to him. Then he'd go play golf. Just listen to the people who actually worked with him to know this is true. The latest position presented to him was the one he'd go with, like a pennant in the wind. Trump was a sock puppet for people like Steve Bannon.
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