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Mixed race I guess would be the designation. That bother you also? Hopefully Kamala's Presidency will lead America to a kinder and gentler place even before the racist boomers die off.

For once he's showing some sense and planning for the future. Like always however, it's for his own future, nothing to do with anyone else. Once he's been tossed into the dustbin of history after he gets his butt kicked in the election by an ethic woman, he's surely heading for Russia or anywhere other than America, a place he clearly despises as he says in practically every location he goes. So he's greasing the skids so that he doesn't get taxed in America from whichever dictatorship offers him sanctuary. By the way, where are those budget hawks that our RW friends inevitably turn into once the Democrats win the election? Aren't you concerned about the deficit all this tax-cutting will result in? You do know that Trump raised the deficit by over $4 Trillion when he was President, right?

You left out the rest of it, here, I'll do it for you. ...and so I unconditionally support the guy who openly disparages those same people and whose party regularly cuts benefits from the soldiers who return. And whose policies will do even LESS for the disabled military veterans should they get into power and enact their agenda. https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2024/08/12/republican-project-2025-takes-dead-aim-veterans-health-and-disability-benefits.html

Okay, that's good to know. I will remind you of this from this point onwards. You do realize you have just invalidated every and any point you have made or will make so long as there isn't video evidence of same, right? I fear for your sanity once AI video becomes impossible to distinguish from real video. BTW, General Kelly was referring to more than John McCain though. "A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them,'" Kelly said of Trump. "A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family — for all Gold Star families — on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.”

Good for you! You stated a fact! Yes, one of the most celebrated American journalists. What does his ability in journalism have to do with what I find to be real or what's made up? He's the journalist, he's won the Putlitzer Prize and had an entire freakin' movie made about him and yes, he's got quite a lot of credibility that dates from, oh, 1972? This is really too easy, can you guys at least come up with SOMETHING that is a bit of a challenge?

No, and I'm not making fun of your misquote. Here's the article discussing Trump's noted contempt for the soldiers. You will note that there are numerous examples, not just the one. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ Here's General John Kelly confirming three years later that Trump said it. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543 So I guessing you're going to now pretend if there wasn't footage, then it wasn't said? Even though this account by the Atlantic was corroborated by several witnesses, and the instances of him calling military soldiers who died or were captured "suckers" and "losers" occurred at several different times and locations? You guys are really terrible debaters. This is a really poor choice as a hill to die upon, so to speak. Given that DJT dodged the draft with bonespurs and has so many times disparaged the military as detailed in that report.

So, "yes". You could have saved us all some bandwidth.

Yeah, I mean, what has Bob Woodward ever done?

Well, go ahead then boys! Pile on in and fill your boots! Easy money right? I would "bet" that none of you would be willing to risk a single satang because you already know you're going to lose. Just look at how desperately you're clutching at straws. A betting site run by Peter Thiel. LOLOLOL!

At least you're honest about your political leanings and outright racism.

Come on, might as well go whole hog - those soldiers are "suckers" and "losers", right? What a fine patriotic American you are! You should be very proud! Do you drape yourself in the flag on 4 July while insulting your military? There's no hypocrisy like Right-Wing hypocrisy, it all boils down to one simple thing - what's in it for me.

You think that Taylor Swift and her single tweet has a larger following than the platform X from which it was made? Because, you may be aware, Elon Musk operates and is the majority owner of that platform and has been using it to spew misinformation and Trump- and GOP-supplied (along with Russian-, Iranian- and North Korean-supplied) posts continuously throughout the last six months or longer. And I am not JUST referring to his own posts and retweets, but how he manages the platform to diminish voices in support of Harris and broadcast those in favour of Trump. That is in addition to appearing at rallies, going on talkshows with Tucker Carlson, etc., etc. You told me it was the same thing. That was blatantly untrue. One tweet encouraging the young people to register to vote and in favour of Harris/Walz is not a sustained campaign and megaphone of a platform blasting Trump propaganda. What you're upset about is that she is supporting young people and their rights and is an effective messenger because she's not doing it for personal gain like Musk is. As DJT noted "But she’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat, and she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.” As to why she came out so strongly in support of Harris, well, guess who caused that? Ol' DJT and his continuous spewing of misinformation and lies! You make your bed, you lie in it! "Though Trump now says he hates Swift, it wasn’t that long ago that he apparently coveted her endorsement. He posted images generated by artificial intelligence that suggested Swift had endorsed Trump for president in August. One image showed Swift dressed as Uncle Sam, accompanied with the words, “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump.” The former president also posted deepfakes of young women wearing “Swifties for Trump” shirts on his Truth Social Account, writing, “I accept!” Swift said Trump’s posts influenced her decision to announce her endorsement. “It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation,” she wrote on her Instagram. “It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/trump-taylor-swift-kamala-harris-election

So you're saying that DJT had poor judgement when he chose those people (all of whom had impressive qualifications and experience)? Are you claiming that the US Military leadership is a place filled with scroungers and oxygen thieves? Are stating that during those distinguished veterans' service in the White House, they were just laying around doing nothing on the taxpayer dime? How many times did DJT go golfing during his presidency? Were they his golfing partners? How about Rex Tillerson the civil engineer who rose to become the CEO of Exxon-Mobil? Was he a layabout? Or did he just turn into one when he was hired to be DJT's Secretary of State? You guys are really bad at attempting to make arguments.

It's not a wonder as to why he became a Republican. With a level of hypocrisy that approaches the size of his ego, it was a natural that he'd both become a mouthpiece and bullhorn for the GOP and form a bond with the biggest hypocrite and liar of them all.

As Trump said as a candidate for 2016, he'd “surround myself only with the best and most serious people” – adding: “We want top-of-the-line professionals.” And that was true in many cases, initially. So, what did those people think? Senior Military General Mark Milley, ex-Chief of Staff of the US Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump "We don’t take an oath to a country. We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion. We don’t take an oath to a king or a queen, or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.” General H.R. McMaster, US Army and National Security Advisor under Trump "President Trump and other officials have repeatedly compromised our principles in pursuit of partisan advantage and personal gain.” General James Mattis, Marine Corps and Secretary of Defense under Trump "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society.” General John Kelly, Marine Corps and Chief of Staff under Trump "A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law.” There's lots of others. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/18/opinion/trump-cabinet-election-2024.html

Why won't Trump go on 60 Minutes? He's the ONLY major candidate to decline to do that since the show started I believe. According to him, it was: 1) They will fact-check him. 2) He wants an apology for the interview in 2020 when he said that interviewer Lesley Stahl had claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian plant. As the 60 Minutes managers noted in their response: 1) They're a news organization, they fact-check everyone and everything. 2) Lesley Stahl never claimed that. Regarding point 2, this is irrefutable since that interview was videotaped. She never said it. As to "fact-checking", isn't it interesting that both Vance and Trump complain about this? Why do you object to fact-checking unless you deliberately are telling falsehoods? Note that Fox News has sued (and won) in Federal Court the right to lie, based on their claim that they're an opinion show, not a news show. So they don't even pretend to fact check, it's not important since they're essentially a propaganda arm of the Republican Party.

Oh, show us the photos of her on stage at a rally with Harris then. Show us her continuous re-tweeting of political posts from Harris supporters then. Show us her interviews that she makes this the main topic of conversation then. Show us how she is telling her captive concert audiences about how they need to vote for Harris then. Show us her re-tweeting conspiracy theories and anti-Trump messages then. Got anything like that? Didn't think so because it doesn't exist. She simply does what she has always done, encourage young people to vote. The only change in this election was that she made a long Instagram post supporting Harris and signed off as a "childless cat lady". This was unusual for her, but why did she do that? Oh, because DJT lied as usual and insinuated that she was supporting him in one of his social media posts hence she had to come out and refute it in the strongest way possible. She hasn't made any political statements since. So do you now consider this to be the same thing as the guy who owns X who is actively campaigning for Trump and appearing on stage at his rallies?

As opposed to the hard-hitting interviewers at Faux News interviewing DJT?

Thanks for providing a reference and attribution. They did have the Sputnik vaccine in Laos, and it was the one provided to the Lao people while foreigners were provided the Astra-Zeneca vaccines. I don't believe either vaccine caused any major problems and we were very surprised by how well Laos was able to cope with the pandemic. There are advantages to being isolated I suppose, although we also wondered whether there may have been some native immunity since the COVID-19 virus originated at the Lao-China border. As to the donating of the machines, you are aware that the one who confirmed this was Putin, right? It makes perfect sense in that of course the Russians would like to have an American prototype or top-of-the-line machine or two to compare to their own and have as a backup/blind sampling tool.

And it's a site run by Peter Thiel, one of the billionaires trying to shoehorn the Oligarchy into the Presidency. Very reliable and I'm sure it's not at all open to manipulation!

Well then, cancel the election! Thus Spake NickyLouie! LOLOLOL. Desperation taking hold. Remember what I keep saying about our Cult friends. "Every single accusation is a confession. Every. Single. One."

Except that she IS well ahead of Trump despite the massive misinformation campaign waged by Russia and her proxies, Musk, Thiel and the flood of billionaire dollars trying to get anything negative to stick to her. This is not going to be as close as the mainstream media think it will be because their polling methods are antiquated and they're peeved that they're becoming increasingly less relevant due to people getting their information from alternative sources nowadays. It all comes down to the turnout among the younger people and women whose interests are most threatened by the return of the Felon. She's doing a great job mobilizing them, and needs to stick to it. Interviews like the 60 Minutes one are helpful, they're already increasing the percentage of Republican voters who are now committed to switching their votes, as are the opinions and pledges to do so by staunch and respected Conservatives from the old GOP like the Cheneys, and pretty much anyone of senior position and expertise who worked with Trump over the previous term. Things are going just the way we Liberals want them to. If you wish to pretend that this is all gonna work out great for DJT, carry on!

So do you have any comments on the economic plans that have been put forth by the Democrats? That's called "policy". It's well documented. Here's the link. https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/building-a-stronger-fairer-economy/ https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/the-issues/jobs-and-the-economy/ Can you provide a link to the Republican's economic policy proposals, or are we still at the ol' "concept of a plan" stage? But why look at the parties who are campaigning, why not get some sober non-partisan economic analysis of the plans put forth? Here: https://www.crfb.org/papers/fiscal-impact-harris-and-trump-campaign-plans Guess who adds an additional $4 Trillion dollars to the deficit with his plans compared to hers? How about how this affects the American taxpayers? https://qz.com/donald-trump-tax-cuts-wealthiest-americans-tarrifs-1851667005 So it basically raises taxes on 95% of the populations while cutting taxes on the wealthiest 5%. That would benefit whom? Oh, DJT and his wealthy buddies like Elon. What a surprise. Now tell us about how tariffs are an effective and fair tax measure.

“How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be? Will I see my children? I don’t know.” This is how newspaper articles can be misleading. These are all valid questions Elon is asking. They just have nothing to do with each other. I would ask him these back. "Did you break the law?" "Have you been seeing your children (the ones that haven't already expressed that they want nothing to do with him)?" "With the misinformation you've been spouting and re-tweeting, do you understand much of what you write?"

Were you one of those interviewed for this article? It seems to describe many characteristics of people of a certain political affiliation on AN.