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What event on the 30th March 2023 triggered Jeff Walz to post that. He didn't post much on his FB account, except going fishing and going to Disney. He never posted about his nephew doing well in the state swimming competitions, the same nephew that was horrendously injured when their brother was killed by an Act of Nature/ Hand of God. March 30 was César Chávez Day, a man considered by some to be a hero of the Working Man. At the time, President Biden was hosting the 2nd Summit for Democracy, an inoffensive event. On the same day, the Senate repeals the Iraq War Authorization; maybe he was a supporter of the Iraq War? Jill Biden attended a vigil for the victims of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville; maybe, as a former teacher, he expressed exasperation about the US's inability to protect its children from gun violence, which is a feature of so-called third world banana republics. On the 30th March, of course, Trumpf was indicted by a Grand Jury concerning Trumpf affair with a porn actress who specialises in anal and double penetration sex; you could view the US as being akin to a 3rd World country, where a former leader faces allegedly Trumped up charged (though this was from stateprosecutors) or its a 3rd World country, where a former leader has been having sex with a porn star who does anal and DP (and maybe more), while his wife is pregnant, and then tries to buy her off. Third world leaders are also known to be sexually depraived. The thing was that original comment, robably about Trump's indictment, was intended for friends and family, but not everyone understands Meta settings. It originally attracted a single reply of approval "No kidding". Ok. Then a few days ago, a literal lunatic going by the name Trent Leisy, posted on a Happy Birthday thread about him speaking to Laura Loomer, the far-right White Nationalist blogger (this is what she calls herself). It was a nothing comment. No full transcript of the intervew was released, just selected quotes, and now the guy has gone into hiding. The loony has photos like this: (Trumps thumb near your crotch looking like a third arm)

To be fair, the guy was living a private life in retirement, until a far right blogger, calling herself a journalist, hunted him down. His FB account is still active. The theft is curious, and might point to other issues going on at that time. Normally family tragedy brings families together (the death of a kid brother), but that was about the time these brothers didn't seem eye to eye. In the same accident, their nephew received horrific injuries. Certainly, based in postings, Tim Walz has been very supportive of his nephew as he recovered. There is some deep family tragedy that the gutter press will now drag up, in the name of journalistic freedom.

And the other guy is known for sexually abusing a sofa and wearing woman's clothes. Both should debate well, given their respective backgrounds. Vance might be a little bit more fintech knowledgeable and probably can talk all day about how great abortion recovered fetal stem cells will be to help old people live a bit longer, and where he will get aborted fetuses from once he bands all abortions. He can probably talk about how he berates his Hindu wife each night for being a heathen, but at least he will make sure his kids won't worship an elephant god. His experience in politics, all 18 months of it, might catch him out. He can talk about his tough upbringing, when his grandmother asked him if he wanted to suck a man's penis, prepared him for the day when his mates got him dressed up like a cheap trick, but I suspect Walz can also bring evidence of personal tragedy, and how that shaped his life. Remember, its Vance who wanted to tell the world about that, its not something sleuths had to go looking for. Vance was probably a bit young to appreciate what happened on 911, he might have been too busy dodging spliffs from his older brother or his grannie telling him its ok to suck off a man, jesus still loves him, when it happened. Walz can remind us all about that day, and how it motivated him to extend his service just a bit longer. He can remind us about the day it happened, how Trump boasted his buildings were now the tallest in Manhatten.

I don't know about that. Thailand and the region attracts some depraived peope

Because you don't want to pay $10k for a smart phone, that's why you deal with "communists".

Nixon was a Communist. Explains a lot https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nixon-shock.asp You can critique policies without resorting to outlandish language. Trump started this. It looks bizarre now, but he first started bitching about emails, and then it ends up him using secret defence plans to clean his arse in his <deleted>ter. Why else was he storing secret documents in the toilet? They were probably stinking with old man piss after he took a slash. Unless he's the sort of bloke who sits when he pees.

Well hasn't (500 times, like some sort of wierd Beetlejuice or Candyman chant). The origins of Trumpf's admiration for Adolf Hitler came from a number of first hand sources. General John Kelly claimed that Trump, while in a conversation about loyalty, said that Hitler had dones a few good things. In 1990, Michael Kelly, Ivana Trump, said in conversation that Trumpf used to like to keep copies of "My New Order", a collection of Hitler's speeches in his bedside locker. At the time, when asked about it, Trumpf said he had been given a copy of Mein Kampf by a friend of his from Paramount, Marty Davis. 34 years later, Trump claims never to have read Mein Kampf. Marty Davis later clarified that in fact he had given him a copy of "My New Order". Its kind of curious why a Jewish guy would give a good friend of his, writings about Hitler. Maybe his friend was coming out with ignorant spoutings about the Nazis, and needed to be taught a lesson. It illustrates for all his well funded education, that at best, Trumpf is a stunningly ignorant man. Unlike others of his age, he never had a dad who served in WW2, who would tell the young Donald on his knee, how he stormed the beaches at Normandy, how he freed the Bataan survivors, how he witnessed the worse of what human could do to another at Belsan, how he grabbed the nearest bird for a sloppy kiss of VE day. All he could tell Donald was how he charged the US Government top dollar for barracks, so the war was good business, never forget that Donald. Plus soldiers are suckers and losers. Maybe Trump was thinking of Groucho and not Karl. Perhaps he has been stung about accurations that he's like his father, a syphilitic Klansman, and is linking Harris to her father. Perhaps you can discuss whether Harris ascribes to Keynesian economics, post-Keynesian or Neo-Keynesian. But for Americans, these are just words to toss around.

I suspect your original post was a troll posting, and you are being disengenuous about the US. Its widely known/ Also, the US government very rarely executes anyone. There are 40 prisoners on Federal Death Row. But you might be confused by the difference between punishments carried out the Federal government and punishments based on State Law. Not all cultures consider financial crime as being excluded from the death penalty. A good friend from Taiwan was very serious that Nick Leeson ("Rogue Trader") should have been executed for destroying Barents Bank. I was a big shocked, and he justified it because the man caused great harm to society, with people losing their savings. Now the extent of personal losses might not have been exactly like that, people lost their jobs because of him, so the principle remains. Time on death row is not part of the punishment, but is due to the rights of the convicted to appeal. When the UK had the dealth penalty, sentence was usually carried out quickly. The condemed had a right of appeal; within 2 weeks of conviction, and if that failed, an appeal for clemancy to the Home Secretary. Sentence was carried out within 4-6 weeks of the court appearance. The condemmed were usually not told of the date of execution . The first notice they would get would be the priest, then a few prison officers to take the prisoner to the execution chamber, final words, bag on head (no option not to have the bag), noose, drop. Vividly dramatised by Channel 4 imagining if Paul Gadd had been executed according to the previous UK guidelines. I suspect if he's ever allowed to look at Youtube, this would be a tough watch for Gadd (aka Gary Glitter). The last capital conviction in the UK was in 1973, following the murder of a soldier. The condemned man was in the death cell, before capital punishment was finally abolished.

About 5% of transgender people have identifiable chromosomal abnormalities. A previous poster implied tha humankind was XX or XY, and refused to acknowledge people with known chromosomal abnormalities. Science is continuously identifying new disorders. The most obvious disorders, such as XXY, leads to things like Down's Syndrome, which has an obvious phenotype. Many of these conditions lead to no obvious cognition disorders or other health issues that are commonly recognised. There is huge under diagnosis in the population, because of a lack of testing facilities, physician ignorance or lack of an obvioius phenotype in the new born. In addition, to chromosomal abnormalities leading to gender incongruence, there are also recognised point mutations. Fpr instance, changes in the CYP17 gene has been found to be associated with transsexulism in men but not women. In men and women, changes in the andorgen receptor affects binding to testerone affecting the development of male characteristics. If there is unfairness, its unfairness in biology. Its unfair that the activities of the parents (smoking, drinking, obesity etc) might affect the child. Note, all of the criticism I see levied is male to female transgender. Part of the criticism I suspect is freudian; some of those most criticial of homosexuality turn out to be in the closet. Similarly gender incongruence. the critics include men who secretly want to dress up in a frock. Notably, there is no criticism of female to male atheletes. What have you to say about Chris Mosier or Mack Beggs? Mack Beggs was a female wrestler who transitioned to male. He received testosterone during his treatment. Texas basically banned transgender atheletes; they could only complete based on sex at birth. The legislators forced him to wrestle girls, despite muscle advantage. He wanted to compete as a male, and subsequent developed mental health issues. Other transmen atheletes include Shay Price (bodybuilding), Jordan Jackson (taekwondo), Chris Floyd (boxer). Most of the criticism of transwomen athletes comes from men. Its like the secretly gay man repressing homosexuals. They are offended because they see themselves as transwomen, but mummy always hit them when they wanted to try on her high heels. If transgenderism represents some kind of biological advantage in extremis, then the appropriate approach in sports is to eliminate all biological disadvantage, level the playing field. Allow science to address disadvantage. That could be reducing a pack of runners to the level of the slowest, or the quickest. Or, without using drugs, introduce handicap systems, used for hundreds of years in many sports without controversy. Or for some sports eliminate the gender basis eg golf, snooker, darts.

I was an observer to UK preperations to pull equipment out of Afghanistan. There was a different approach compared to the Seppos. The UK wanted its kit back. The process took years. The Seppos did try and set up in theatre scrapyards; materiel not brought back was to be scrapped in situ, and the scrap sold on the local market. Demiliterisation though is not a simple process. The Brits related the case of a UK MRAP that was badly damaged, and which could not be recovered. The patrol commander lobbed a couple of grenades inside The vehicle survived. He got one of his ANA colleagues to try a RPG. Didn't work. So in the end, they needed to get a RE team in to set charges. The equipment can't simply be destroyed. There was all different kinds of pieces of equipment, each requiring a difference verified process to be developed, units trained, and verifications carried out, The US withdrawal was in the expectation that the Afghan Government would take over its own security. Your idea would have stripped them of all ability to defend themselves. And let it be said, there were some ANA units, particularly around Kandahar, who put up a brave and noble resistance. You would have denied them that honour

Get your own facts right. You are confused ISIS-K prisoners with the 5000 Taliban terrorists that Trump got released, including thoses on death row. Trump agreed with the Taliban to release 5000 Taliban prisoners. The Afghan President complained, but pressure brought on him saw 1500 released, in 100 tranches. with 5000 released by the end of 2020, following an acceleration in November 2020 (ie. once he lost the election, Trump made siure more murderers were released, to potentially attack Americans. He must have really hated people who didn't vote for him). Trump negotiated to get thousands terrorists released without telling the Afghan government, with zero checks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53775035 The 5000 released were Taliban, not ISIS-K The full quote you selectively quoted to confer a false impression: ISIS_K was a common enemy of the ANA and taliban, and not part of the the Trump Surrender Agreement (that's what it was; the US negotiated with the taliban terrorists a conditional withdrawal, pretty much a surrender. As much a betrayal of the Afghans as Nixon's betrayal of the South Vietnamese. During the whole of 2020, the Taliban harried the US forces and their allies. I think Kirby didn't have any notion of the strength of ISIS-K; It peaked at 3000, but 1500 were eliminated by 2021, so there was never 5000 ISIS-K at Bagram. Contempary news sources, citing a regional counter terrorism source, from the period, estimate that Bagram, along with the Pul-e-Charkhi prison housed a few hundred ISIS-K, along with a few thousand ordinary criminals. That seems inline with the vast majority of estimates for the total peak size of this group.

True. Rasputitsa/Bezdorizhzhia, or the muddy season, is in about 6 weeks. The action to take Pokrovsk is likely the last Russian offensive of the season. If they don't, before General Mud turns up, they will be left with a narrow salient, with resupply across muddy fields. Empires look stable right up until the moment they collapse. Fight the war according to the Russian plan means fighting over a few grubby flattened mining towns, and the front line moving only a few kms. Importantly, the Russian KIAs are "contractors"; conscripts are not being sent to that front line. But they are in Kursk, and seem a rather different kind of POW.

Is he having a stroke, or re-enacting his half hour of passion with Storm?

The TA was not the equivalent to the NG. This would confuse Americans, who will then believe that the TA in Northern Ireland had a oath of Loyalty to the head of SF. The TA no longer exists; its the UK Army Reserve. The UK Army Reserve is directly analogous to the US Army Reserve, which also consists of a mixture of former regulars, who have obligitatory service, and those with no prior military experience. Since 2001, the deployment of the NG overseas has been deeply contentious in a way activation in the UK has not been. The closest the UK has had to the NG was the British Militia; these existed until just before the Great War, and were essentially private armies raised by some landowner, who would kit them out and arm them, and place them at the service of the Crown, principally for the defence of the Home Nation. Another term was Volunteer Force, which might trigger recognition, through the "Ulster Volunteer Force", which during the Irish Civil War, and before, was organising in Northern Ireland to counter the Republicans, and ended up smuggling in Mausers after the British decided enough of this. The name was obviously used to give some quasi-legitimacy. You chose to leave the armed forces at a time of your choosing. You decided that you no longer wanted to serve in uniform. My brother is coming up to 25 years; he decided that he should serve in uniform. You were lucky it just didn't happen to coincide with a front line posting, so no one could cast dout on your motives 15 years later. Lots of servicemen leave the armed forces at random times in their careers. My father left after 26 years a few months before the Falklands War. He didn't resign his commission because of the Falklands. He left for a variety of reasons to do with his age, career and family. He had done his service. He was activated for GW1 as a BCR, but it was all over by the time he left Aldershot on the train.

I assume this is satire. 2020 Biden: 81,283,501 Trump: 74,223,975 2016 Clinton: 65,853,514 Trump: 62,984,828

Bloody hell. Politics happens outside of the US. You have gone to the wrong forum. Its not a forum about life in America. It must have been really puzzling to you about all these articles about Prime Ministers and Generals who's name you couldn't pronounce, and wondering who Big Jok was.

Trump blames the families

Trump blames the Gold Star families for the Arlington incident:

Given in other posts you state you are a neutral, not particularly supporting the other lot, could you apply your sleuthing skills to work out with business JD and his brother smashed up? I assuming you are spending hours and hours of research on this, and not actually being fed the sources by a third party. And dig in to why JD was investing in fetal stem cell research, which seems at odds with his Pro-Life viewpoints. Ta.

Irrelevant? A deputy head teacher pleading guilty to robbing a Walmart store, and somehow keeping his job? Depends if you are judging character. Plus the Queen of Scoops never tracked down the older sister. So Walz has a familiy member he doesn't see eye to eye with. Trumpf has a few, such as his nephew, which came about after Donald wished his grand-nephew to die, and his niece who called Uncle Donald a sociopath who should be banned from office. RFK, has family members disagree with him, though I see on this forum some thinking its more important that there are family members who apparently support him. Maybe all those opinions should be dismissed. As the opinions of Hamel-Vance's sister, Lindsay, and his older drug addict brother, Travis, plus the 10-ish other siblings out there (Hamel doesn't know how many). The Public demands details of when JD and Travis went on a bender and wrecked a car. And did JD inhale? WTF is Laura Loomer. Remarkably MTG has called her "mentally unstable and a documented liar". That's going some within MAGA. She has described herself as a "proud Islamophobe" and a "pro-white nationalis(t)". She claimed to be going out with some bloke called Tim Gionet (another MAGA supporter), who meanwhile was posting pictures of his girlfriend journalist being executed in a gas chamber. She downplayed COVID-19, saying its no worse than food poisoning. Then she actually got COVID-19 and asked her social media followers to pray for her.

Another topic deliberately picked to promote discord and discussion, to create traffic for a Forum format that's on its knees. Quelle surprise. The responses are predictable, and inconquential (except in one important aspect).

I think history makes a distinction between German civilians, Polish Civilians, Soviet (mostly Ukrainian, Belarusian), Yugoslav civilians and British civilians. You are an apologist for Putin, with your mental gymnastics to defend his actions.

So Boris Johnson was as American as they come.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2016/02/20/from-the-tower-to-the-white-house https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/29/the-myth-and-the-reality-of-donald-trumps-business-empire/ https://news.temple.edu/news/2016-10-25/bankruptcy-expert-studies-trump-casinos I actually do work for a business genius, who took a £3000 Barclaycard and turned it into a £2 billion personal fortune, plus a Plc, in about 20 years. He's a pretty clever bloke, PhD in Physics from Oxford, who early on recognised the potential of the Internet. CAGR wise, he's done better than trump. Now, I reckon there are some even clever entrepreneurs out there, who know how to build a business. Trump doesn't really know how to do that. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/as-a-businessman-trump-was-the-biggest-loser-of-all

He needs to choose better company