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LosLobo

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  1. B-SUV / Crossover sales in May 2025 totaling 6,808 units: Toyota Yaris CROSS reigns supreme.
  2. Trump will never win a Nobel Peace Prize on the world stage, But the Ig Nobel? That fits. It’s a satirical award for absurd or ironic “achievements.” Like… turning the U.S. into a low-grade civil war. He didn’t bring peace. He brought paranoia, division, and chaos at home. And by Ig Nobel standards, he’s in good company: • 2020 – India & Pakistan: Midnight doorbell ringing • 2013 – Belarus: Arresting a one-armed man for clapping • 1998 – India & Pakistan: “Peaceful” atomic bomb tests Trump divided more households than he ever united nations. List of Ig Nobel Prize winners - Wikipedia
  3. Why are the much promised trade deals going nowhere? Coz ...He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Trump’s promised deals tend to follow this pattern: Announce a “historic” trade deal. Get media coverage. Deliver little or nothing. Take USMCA: mostly NAFTA in a new suit. The China “Phase One” deal? China bought less than promised, tariffs stayed. UK, EU, India? Talks stalled or fizzled. Turns out yelling “America First” isn’t a negotiation strategy — it's a bumper sticker.
  4. I did check again yet you couldn't respond to my question.
  5. Your topic and all of your posts were predicated on your OP opening line: “Apparently he has multiple nominations, possibly with more to come.” From that, you concluded Trump must have significantly increased world peace. But that’s not reasoning — that’s circular logic dressed up as inference and a textbook non sequitur — you're treating the nomination as both cause and proof: Trump brought peace → got nominated → therefore brought peace. History reminder: Hitler, Stalin, and Putin all got nominated too— apparently the bar’s not as high as you think.
  6. Trump’s promises are like Schrödinger’s cat — simultaneously alive and literal when campaigning, dead and metaphorical the moment you ask for receipts.
  7. Here’s why “Nomination = Peace” collapses on contact with logic..... Significantly increase world peace ⇒ may get nominated. But nomination ⇒ significantly increase world peace? That’s a logic misfire: • Non Sequitur – “Nomination ⇒ peace” doesn’t logically connect. • Affirming the Consequent – If peace brings a nomination, it doesn’t follow that every nominee brought peace. • Cherry-Picking – From my post you skipped Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Putin: all nominated, none paragons of peace. A Nobel nomination proves only that an eligible nominator filled out a form; it says nothing about real-world outcomes.
  8. Trump's nomination makes the Nobel Peace Prize bar seem so low that even a moldy ham sandwich could be nominated—after all Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini—and, more recently, Putin—have already been floated.
  9. Calling it “myopic” doesn’t make your deflection any smarter. You dodged the topic, dragged in Obama/Biden, twisted a lawful cash-return for medicine into “funding terror,” and capped it with a cheap smear about who I supposedly support. Logic clearly isn’t your forte: Red Herring – The topic was Trump’s actions; you sprinted to Obama to dodge it. Straw Man – Humanitarian funds ≠ terror financing. That’s deliberate spin. Ad Hominem – Accusing me of backing terrorists isn’t debate—just desperation. Whataboutism – If “But Obama!” is all you’ve got, you’re not defending Trump—just flailing. Try again—stick to the topic and bring a real argument, not a pile of nonsense.
  10. The “12-day war”? You mean the one he started? Trump tore up the Iran deal, killed Soleimani, bombed Iran — then panicked when Iran hit back. That’s dousing Iran with petrol, lighting a match, then acting surprised it went up in flames. He wasn’t the firefighter — he was the arsonist.
  11. Ah yes, Trump the peacemaker — bringing Rwanda and Congo together out of the goodness of his gold-plated heart? Please. This “peace deal” has nothing to do with aultrism or with ending conflict and everything to do with locking down rare earths. It’s the same playbook he tried with Ukraine: weapons for lithium, handshakes for mining rights. Diplomacy? More like a resource grab in a red tie. If there’s a buck in the ground, Trump’s suddenly a global humanitarian. NB: The Congo region holds the world’s largest deposits of coltan — the ore used to make tantalum for phones, chips, and weapons.
  12. Brandolini’s Law: don't burn calories on recycled BS.
  13. No need to dismiss your spin — I already did that, in the part of my post you conveniently omitted. You regurgitating what I’ve already disproved won’t make it true. Your boasted degree in science — albeit political — continues to fail you with your logic and reasoning: Ad Hominem / Argument from Ignorance – “You haven’t seen the briefing” = dodge, not proof. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc – Two people studied Fordow, and the MOP exists — doesn’t mean one caused the other. Single-Cause Fallacy – Ignores that MOP was built for any deep bunker, not one site. Conflation – Tweaking fuse settings ≠ designing the bomb. False Dichotomy – It wasn’t built just for Fordow or for nothing; it was made for any hardened site — Fordow happened to qualify. Cherry-Picking – You clipped the parts of my post that dismantled your claim. Faulty logic isn’t evidence — it just props up a myth.
  14. That’s spin. Here’s what Gen. Dan Caine actually said: “Ultimately, weaponeering is determining the right weapon and fuse combination to achieve the desired effects and maximum destruction against a target. … The weapons were designed (meaning with the right fusing etc), planned and delivered to ensure that they achieve the effects in the mission space.” The MOP wasn’t built for Iran; it targets any deep, hardened bunker. Fordow merely fit the profile. The bomb’s concept dates to ~2000, almost a decade before Fordow surfaced in 2009. Weapons are built for capability, not for one country. Trump’s claimed “obliteration” is unverified political theater.
  15. Nice monologue albeit a rant. You began with a question, then answered it by caricaturing your opponents, declared yourself the voice of sanity, and concluded by linking stock markets, the Olympics, illegal immigration, and Brexit into a single feel-good narrative. That’s not a compelling argument—it’s a confessional wrapped in projection. No one said Trump can’t ever be right. But if your defense relies on a strawman liberal who despises democracy, capitalism, and the Constitution, you're not defending Trump—you’re constructing a fantasy adversary to feel superior to. And if the point is NATO spending, maybe stick to that. Veering into Olympic outrage and “third-world invasion” panic doesn’t bolster your case. If your argument is robust, it shouldn’t need to be propped up by culture war distractions and grievance fillers.
  16. I know hero worship dulls critical thinking, but this? The logical potholes in your one-liner.... Red Herring / Whataboutism The discussion is Trump’s hard-ball tactics at NATO. Dragging Harris in is a side alley—her hypothetical success or failure doesn’t change what Trump actually did. Appeal to Hypothetical “Could Harris have got this through?” invites you to debate an alternate universe. Hypotheticals dress rhetoric up as proof. False Dichotomy It frames the outcome as either Trump does it or Harris fails—ignoring every other path (e.g., collective bargaining, different timelines, another president). Burden-Shifting / Argument from Ignorance The naysayers must now prove Harris couldn’t have done it. Lack of proof against a claim isn’t proof for it. Implicit Ad Populum “All the naysayers” sets up a crowd-vs-lone-hero vibe: if you doubt Trump’s win, you’re with the naysayers. Popular framing, not proof. In short: a rhetorical shell game—swap in Harris, move the burden, and hope no one notices the original claim just left the stage.
  17. The full series 4, 10 episodes of The Bear (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb 8.5/10 just dropped.
  18. But before we hand out trophies, a few calibration marks: It’s a promise, not a payment. The 5 % figure is a political pledge for 2035 and will be formally reviewed in 2029. No cheques have cleared yet. Not every ally saluted. Spain flat-out refused the 5 % goal and got threatened with trade reprisals on the spot. Germany and Italy voiced cost worries. So “all NATO members” is already springing leaks. The fine print is squishy. Only 3.5 % must be hard military outlays; the other 1.5 % can be cybersecurity, rail upgrades, even support for Ukraine’s defence industry. Creative accountants are polishing their pencils. Credit is shared (and disputed). Secretary-General Mark Rutte did the horse-trading; Trump applied the cattle prod. Allies called it “historic” with all the enthusiasm of a hostage reading cue cards. Coercion has a cost. Threatening to pull the U.S. security umbrella (or slap tariffs) isn’t alliance-building; it’s insurance-salesman extortion. Diplomatic IOUs pile up and get cashed later. So yes—Trump finally got a headline. Just don’t confuse an arm-twisted pledge for a strategic consensus, or tomorrow’s budget hikes for today’s deterrence.
  19. At least a broken clock is right twice a day—and this time it’s wearing a red tie, boasting a “triumph.”
  20. Breaking News..... 'They Don't Know What The <deleted> They're Doing': Trump On Israel-Iran After Fake And Flopped Ceasefire...
  21. Pre-1979 Iran had modern, cosmopolitan pockets, especially in Tehran, but also faced political repression, deep inequality, and limited freedoms. SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police, used surveillance and torture, and rural and religious groups were largely excluded from reforms. The 1979 revolution was driven by political, economic, and religious grievances — not just ideology. It resulted in an Islamic Republic, but the roots ran deeper. Calling it “madness” oversimplifies a complex history. In many revolutions, the new rulers end up repeating — or worsening — the very abuses they once claimed to overthrow. Trump’s proving the rule: rail against reckless wars — then start one yourself.
  22. Statistically, Trump’s statements are more often false than true—so doubting his “cease-fire” claim is simple logic. If that feels uncomfortable for you, the problem may lie less with the numbers and more with your relationship to critical thinking.
  23. The Thai word for MSG (monosodium glutamate) is: ผงชูรส pronounced: phǒng chuu-rót.
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