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Oh the irony.....lol. I'd be careful with those opinion pieces from J Turley, he's been known to spread conspiracy theories himself. Think Dominion...................

Care to provide a link to disprove this claim from the study? "Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed."

US assessing potential damage of Patriot missile defense system following Russian attack near Kyiv A US-made Patriot air defense system was likely damaged, but not destroyed, as the result of a Russian missile barrage in and around Kyiv early Tuesday morning local time, a US official tells CNN. The US is still assessing to what degree the system was damaged, the official said. That will determine whether the system needs to be pulled back entirely or simply repaired on the spot by Ukrainians forces. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/16/politics/patriot-missile-damage-ukraine/index.html

Again, only in a DeSantis Florida. There's at least 20 Disney movies that have gay characters, I guess the list will only grow. Perhaps they need to be clearer in their laws and have a list of banned movies as well as books.

I'm sure the Russians would love to know all the details and which planes they can look out for to target. In the meantime it looks like France is following suit with long range missiles, they also develop the Storm Shadow but call it SCALP-EG.

Isn't that the case with just about every city, not just in the US but in the world, there are area's that its probably best not to travel to. You obviously weren't one of the 56 million tourists who did visit New York in 2022. Lots of people visit New York, S.F and L.A. as tourists.

“I'm not an alcoholic. I'm a functioning — I probably function more effectively than 90 percent of the population.”................... To the case however: New: Rudy Giuliani hit with stomach-churning sexual abuse claims in $10M+ assault, civil rights, labor, contract suit by fmr assoc Noelle Dunphy. She's got recordings of (pretty vile) statements and had 23,000 Rudy emails, she says, bc worked for him but he refused to pay her. The lawsuit cites multiple audio recordings, including Giuliani referring to his accuser as his “daughter” in a sexual context. Subjecting her to sexual assault and harassment throughout her employment, forcing her to engage in “violent sex” and attend video conferences naked and work in shorts he bought printed with an American flag. Other bombshell accusations include Giuliani trying to force Dunphy to lie to FBI agents seeking to question her about what she had witnessed while working for him. Among Giuliani’s 23K emails Dunphy had access to were from Trump’s kids, Jared Kushner, former FBI director Louis Freeh, various Trump aides, secretaries of state, attorneys general, and Ukrainian officials, per the suit, which accuses Giuliani of using technology recklessly. In *Feb. 2019*, Giuliani had "voter fraud" claim planned if Donald Trump lost the election, according to the complaint. "Giuliani told Ms. Dunphy that Trump’s team would claim that there was 'voter fraud' and that Trump had actually won the election." Giuliani told alleged victim he was "SELLING PARDONS" for $2,000,000 each "which he and Trump would split" AND SHE HAS RECORDINGS AND EMAILS Noelle Dunphy is seeking at least $10 million in damages for the cause she claims to have suffered at the hands of the former Mayor. The former employee said she made numerous audio recordings of Giuliani including some in which she says he can be heard making sexual comments, demanding sex and making sexist, racist, and antisemitic remarks. The lawsuit says: "Giuliani became drunk, and fantasized about visiting a hotel with Ms Dunphy, bizarrely saying during a recorded conversation that he would tell the doorman to wait outside with the luggage so that ‘we do it on the floor in the living room … we don’t even make it to the bedroom. All the clothes come off,’ and telling the doorman, ‘I need time alone with my girlfriend, with my daughter. With my little girl. https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1770605/Rudy-Giuliani-sexual-assault-employee-trump-dxus

She's not saying that though, she's dodging the issue by saying they've not got enough votes to pass it anyway. She noted the political realities of passing federal legislation through Congress: "In order to do a national standard, you’d have to have a majority of the House, 60 Senate votes and a president. We haven’t had 60 pro-life senators in 100 years.

You missed this, don't worry I don't cast accusations on how smart or not you are. "Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed."

You did a critical analysis......really....lol So tell me what did you analysis from this, just one of over a dozen links provided in the article................... The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020. Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020. Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined. https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-murder-problem

As usual the Guardian provides a direct link for its sources in its reporting................why I am not surprised you failed to do the work to click them

Then there's the facts that Republicans prefer to ignore. From the OP: Ironically, given the accusation from the right that Democrats are too soft on crime, it appears to be traditionally “red states” that have the more serious crime problem. “The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020,” Third Way, a US thinktank, reported in January. Third Way also found that in 2020 murder rates “were 40% higher in Trump-voting states than Biden-voting states”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/republican-tough-on-crime-us-elections-2010

Actually it was a speech to the 2023 graduating class at Howard University, the same University that Kamala Harris attended. Its a pity Fox cut and edited the video, because it was a great speech for those that read it all rather then take such a small snippet for their audience to jump on. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/13/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-howard-university-class-of-2023-commencement-address/ I won't bother cherry picking quotes from it..............

Just catching up on some info on this tragic event: Jordan had a number of interventions from mental health with the last one being in Feb of this year where to avoid prison the judge told him go from court to live at a treatment facility in the Bronx, and stay clean for 15 months. In return, his felony conviction would be reduced. The prosecutor also agreed. "Mary Weisgerber, a prosecutor, said. “This is a wonderful opportunity to turn things around, and we’re glad to give it to you,” He lasted just 13 days before leaving the center. After that he had various interactions with out reach workers but they are not notified of arrest warrants. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/nyregion/jordan-neely-daniel-penny-nyc-subway.html In the video of the struggle and strangle hold another passenger can be heard saying: “You don’t have to catch a murder charge,” he said. “You got a hell of a chokehold, man.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/nyregion/daniel-penny-charges-jordan-neely-subway-death.html

Zelensky in UK today................. https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1657990871541751819

How many more millions of dollars to be wasted on this, unbelievable.................... “Well, we’re hopeful that we can find the informant,” Comer said. “Remember, these informants are kind of in the spy business, so they don’t make a habit of being seen a lot or being high profile or anything like that.”

That idea didn't work out to well for him, to achieve anything like it would have needed him to be elected again. He lost, although he falsely claims it was rigged and there was certainly no indication that his promise was going in the right direction anyway, even before the virus hit.

I'm not sure what point your trying to make, his promise was to decrease it, instead he increased it even before the pandemic.

Despite Trump's promises to reduce it the national debt was increasing before the pandemic Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

Agree on what you call him.................. Trump’s most enduring legacy could be the historic rise in the national debt It rose almost $7.8 trillion during his time in the White House — approaching World War II levels, relative to the size of the economy. This time around, it will be much harder to dig ourselves out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/14/trump-legacy-national-debt-increasee/ 25% of the US National Debt Incurred During Trump Administration https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-debt-25-percent/

A responsible teacher will have checked what the topic was before it was presented and ensured it was appropriate for the setting rather than have half the class laughing at it and the other half shocked, especially since some students there are of Mexican heritage and other's there who are black. However yes it would have been difficult to present some facts and education first in Florida with the censorship hammer in place for some subjects and discussions. Including the Bill to Limit School Discussion of Race or slavery. Luckily there was also not a topic on gays or even girls periods as that's also banned. The legal Mexican heritage student who took the video and whose father complained had every reason to. The teacher obviously knows what he did is wrong otherwise why resign? Like I said, only in a DeSantis Florida..........

Noted but I never said the actual Ann Frank Diaries were banned. A picture version of her diaries was banned however. Along with "One of this year’s rejected Holocaust textbooks was called “Modern Genocides,” and the other was an online learning course titled “History of the Holocaust.” Both were intended for high school students." Regardless this was a very small detail of my post with regards to the topic at hand and my point being that the students needed learning and facts first from the teacher before giving presentations on such subjects. I'm not going further into book bans, plenty of topics on that already.

In an ideal world, the students would have facts presented to them first by the teachers. Covering the difficult issues of racism, discrimination, gender issues. Then is the time for presentations from students, once they have those facts. BUT this is Florida, where some books on the holocaust are banned, hundreds of others banned including an Anne Frank book. Gender issues banned, lessons on some race-related concepts banned. No wonder the students are ignorant to the facts. The teacher who allowed this thankfully resigned.

Its been raining Russian aircraft. Two helicopters, one fighter jet and one bomber. Biggest loss in one day.................

Perhaps they can all immigrate and carry out their plans in Russia itself? LOL Plans are underway in Russia to build a settlement for conservative American and Canadian immigrants seeking to leave the West “for ideological reasons,” at least according to a Moscow-based immigration lawyer. Timur Beslangurov, a partner in the law firm VISTA Immigration, claimed that construction would begin next year on a village in the Moscow region for about 200 families from North America, financed by the immigrants themselves. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwdew/russia-maga-colony