Alan Zweibel

If he's going to be the next president, that means most likely that elections will have already been terminated.

If by colored you mean red, then yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Rehmet#/media/File:Taylor_Rehmet_on_the_Tashara_Parker_Show.png And for whatever "reason the white robe scene from blazing saddles came to mind", it wasn't a good one. And given the sharpness of the shift, I don't think immigrants from California offers much of an explanation.

It's a pity that there aren't journals and other media sources outside of China that are looking at what goes on there. Because if there were, somebody might look there for information. But that's just crazy talk, right?

And then there's Steve witkoff, from special Middle East envoy. It turns out his sons were in on the deal too. But all they got out of it was a mere $37 million.

First off, this report comes from the Epoch Times which is affiliated with Falun Gong, a rather nutty cult that was persecuted by the Chinese government. So their objectivity is suspect. I'm not saying that their report isn't factual. Just that it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Whatever the case may be with this story, regimes of the kind headed by Xi rarely have top notch military leaders because you need someone not reluctant to take the initiative in times of war. Someone who won't put up with the kind of micromanagement leaders like Xi, out of paranoia and megalomania, are prone to exercise. As Helmuth von Moltke once wrote: No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main force. Kriegsgechichtliche Einzelschriften (1880); often quoted as, ‘No plan survives first contact with the enemy’ https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191866692.001.0001/q-oro-ed6-00007547

So, you can look at a Jewish person and know where they stand on the issues?

Why do you hve choose between evil and nutty? Maybe there's a third option? Like finding other, more rational sources?

Can someone explain to me what riclag's comment has to do with the subject of this thread?

In this case it's not so much Trump worshipping as it is reflexive hostility, and also a willingness to suspend critical faculties if someone supports your belief. The report he cites comes from Epoch Times which has a long history of conflict with the Chinese govt. Epoch Times is affiliated with Falun Gong, a kind of nutty cult, which fell afoul of the Chinese authorities. So I pointed out that they are not a trustworthy source. As I also pointed out, it doesn't mean that their report is false, just that it should be taken with a grain of salt. His reply to that: "Blocked in China. Thats a bona fide for those of us who view China as an existential revanchist threat." Sad.

I often hear that claim from people who claim to be of a non-American nationality that because of that they don't care. And yet they frequently participate in these discussions. The fact is, I can't know whether you care or not. Your alleged feelings or lack of them are irrelevant. The fact is, I've never read any criticism from you about Trump's policies. Maybe they exist. But if they do, they're extremely infrequent. Maybe I'm being disingenuous. But given the outrage here on the part of Trump supporters, a man who has called for the death of his political opponents, I find their concern unconvincing.

Now that the straw man ploy isn't working,you you apparently have decided to embrace utter non sequiturs. That's failing too.

Actually, to be accurate, he has called for them to be executed. I don't recall him getting explicit about how it should be done.

But you don't seem to have any problem with his policies. That's what. Maybe the comment was meant to say that Trump would be using it to hang his political enemies. He has explicitly called for that on more than one occasion.

You seem to be in the grips of straw man fever. The chief symptom of the sufferer is that he's got nothing.

Sounds like another I don't like Trump but...

Still trying on that same old tired ploy.

Sheik Who Purchased Shares Has Close Ties to the Chinese Govt. Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their fledgling cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars, according to company documents and people familiar with the matter. The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities. The deal with World Liberty Financial, which hasn’t previously been reported, was signed by Eric Trump, the president’s son. At least $31 million was also slated to flow to entities affiliated with the family of Steve Witkoff, a World Liberty co-founder who weeks earlier had been named U.S. envoy to the Middle East, the documents said. https://archive.ph/gKV7E#selection-2479.0-2483.338 Anyone wondering why Trump isn't raging at the UAE for the following now might find the answer below: UAE bars use of its airspace, territorial waters for military action against Iran's Islamic Regime The United Arab Emirates will not allow its airspace, territory, or territorial waters to be used for any hostile military action against Iran, the UAE Foreign Ministry said on Monday, reaffirming its commitment to neutrality and regional stability. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-884642 Despite the fact that this sheik's company, the AI firm G42, has very close ties Chinese firms including Huawei, the Trump administration allowed access for UAE companies to purchase the sales of 500,000 very high powered Nvidia chips to the UAE. The Biden administration resolutely opposed this.

The Republicans definitively acquired the KKK in 1964 How Alabama became part of the 1964 Goldwater landslide https://archive.ph/yelzd

Keep on setting up those straw men. I'll just keep on burning them down. You've got nothing.

Wow. You've got an army of straw men. This thread is about the ludicrously disproportionate size of the monument that Trump wants to build. Not about whether a monument should be built.

What can I say but thanks for the straw man but no thanks.

So are you now saying I'm an American? Coming from you, that's got to be a promotion.

Here's your rant: Here's the subject: Trump wants 250-ft triumphal arch The basis of your rant was that opposition to the arch was absolute. Not that, in fact, it was based on the ludicrous size of the thing. There was not one post in this thread that offered absolute opposition to a memorial. Stop making things up.

In the past you've accused me of being Chinese. Now I'm a European? Are you claiming I have multiple citizenships?

"The survey shows if the election were today, 52% of voters would back the Democratic candidate in their House district and 46% the Republican. That’s a 6-point edge, which is right at the poll’s margin of sampling error. The current 52% Democratic support is the highest recorded for either party; the previous high was 50% for the Democrats in October 2017." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-early-look-2026-midterms This article is an example of what is known as burying the lede. Obviously this is the big news. But Fox only notes it after 7 paragraphs of looking at the particulars of where each party leads on the various issues. I think the technical term for that is "synonym for donkey backwards".