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Roadsternut

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  1. So apparently spitting is now a Capitol Offence. The MAGA Commies are clutching. Thyis is what Communists and their Nazi bretheren did in the past. Besmirch and denounce victims of their crimes. The OP, rather than tending to the needs of his other half, his children, feeding the dog, whatever, spent his evening trying to find dirt on a dead American. It points to an empty life.
  2. But he won't do that. America has never overthrown a murderous dictatorship. And I am including Germany in that, because it wasn't American troops on the steps of the Reichstag. If you truely want America to be involved in regime change (to a better but undefined government. What, a new Shah? The current claimant to the Peacock Throne had dad who was a murderous kleptocratic SOB (ie murdered people en masse AND stole. The Mad Mullahs aren't cruising around in Lamborghinis)), then why are you not clamouring for the deployment of American troops into Iran? When are you volunteering? But I suppose you are scared of images from the debacle of Eagles Claw (bad weather, aka <deleted> happens, lead to deaths of American military inside of Iran, in 1979. https://granger.com/wmpix/woh/ira/0086845-IRAN-RESCUE-MISSION-1980-An-Iranian-Revolutionary-Guard-looks-over-the-wreckage-of-an-American-aircraft-beside-which-lie-the-charred-remains-of-a-US-serviceman-27-April-1980-two-days-following-a-fiery-crash.jpg) Its a rather expensive red herring operation, with no regard to the safety of American service personnel, to effectively protect sexual deviants.
  3. You could argue all you like, but you are not a Prosecutor, but you sound like you have a yearning to be a 21st Century Black/Brownshirt. You are likely living out your final years in some South Eastern Asian developing country and consequently have feck all to do with the US judicial process. You have no say what will go on. Nothing will happen. At least not yet. No statute of limitations on murder though. According to reports in the Conservative media (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/01/26/misfire-of-victims-gun-fatal-ice-shooting/), the killing may have been caused by a negligant discharge, when an officer recovered Pretti's holstered Sig Sauer P320. The manufacturer is facing 100+ lawsuits (to see an uncommanded discharge testing of a used example; https://youtu.be/jOMQOtOQoPk?si=RRl-JIPxG-Gkyeo3). Experienced police officers are well aware of the short comings of this weapon Basic failure in drill by an incompetant agent caused a tragic death and widespread, and outrageous besmirching of a good man's name by professional internet idiots.
  4. DHS are conducting an internal review, that's all. Vice President James Vance (aka James Bowman) has said ICE Agents have absolute immunity, and there will be no prosecution, irrespective of the facts. He wouldn't say such a thing, if it wasn't true, would he? Local law enforcement will be blocked from accessing evidence, such as it exists.
  5. Chinese nuclear accidents. The US record is pretty piss poor, so it could be an improvement. And you can't really cover up accidents. When they happen, the whole world knows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country
  6. You are repeating the Russian Communist lie. Putin puts out a lie that the losses were all by the Russian people. Ethnic Russian losses amounted to a bit under 6 million, civilian and uniformed, largely because of incompetant and murderous leadership. Proportionaaly, Belarus suffered the most, losing 25% of its population, followed by Ukraine (16%) and Armenia (14%). Putin regards these people as Nedochelovek, a Russian version of Untermenschen.
  7. Dwayne Johnson. Or this dude, Camacho. https://i.redd.it/1ft2fl3ippnb1.jpg
  8. Hmm, Youtube Drama Queen/ Temu CK Cameron Higby spouting off again, owning the Libs? Recruiting useful idiots? You probably don't understand what a Signalchat group is. They ain't secret. Which is what the Secretary of War found out. You'll be reporting radar detectors as some sort of terrorist device to bring down government next.
  9. Recruitment ads https://youtu.be/sDtcT-zqPsg?si=zy09val0MSLDcbyJ https://youtu.be/dlT5xr5o7E4?si=8MhNfIW-PUbwZlng https://youtu.be/dNF6sVurAuI?si=piPY0bq7h46emoBc https://youtu.be/mVIFOZEVbMM?si=ipdcvnVaXpiglC9_
  10. 6 of the 8 arrested soldiers were exonerated by the colonial court. 2 were found guilty of manslaughter, on the grounds they should have waited a little time before firing (there was general agreement that the men were in fear of their lives). In modern parlance, the soldiers took legitimate action in confronting a group of domestic terrorists interfering with their lawful duties, with subsequent H&S review of SOPs.
  11. The 2nd Amendment should be rescinded immediately. The People do not understand why they can arm themselves for some protests but not in others. They should trust the Government. They should have no fear of government. John Adams and others were wrong. Big Brother was right.
  12. Since 2024, debt forgiveness is part of the package offered to Contractors. Domestic debt in Russia has surged, and accounts for 95% of all Russian debt.
  13. Lets be clear. JohnnyF, based on his comment, takes a curiously liberal view of paedophiles and seems to believe people convicted of child sex trafficing offences should serve no more than 5 years in prison. The Judge, in sentencing, remarked: "The evidence at trial established that Ms Maxwell directly and repeatedly and over the course of many years participated in a horrific scheme to entice, transport and traffic underage girls, some as young as 14, for sexual abuse by and with Jeffrey Epstein. I will pause on those words for a moment, 'by and with Epstein.' It is important at the outset to emphasize that although Epstein was, of course, central to this criminal scheme, Ms Maxwell is not being punished in place of Epstein or as a proxy for Epstein. Like every other participant in a multi-defendant case, Ms Maxwell is being punished for the role that she played in the criminal conduct. As to that role, the trial evidence established that Ms. Maxwell was instrumental in the abuse of several underage girls and that she herself participated in some of the abuse" Virginia Roberts Giuffre posthumous description makes clear that Maxwell fully participated in the offences, and drew sexual gratification from them. Giuffre viewed Epstein and Maxwell "as two halves of a wicked whole". During the trial, victims, such as the woman called "Caroline" described how Maxwell was an active participant in the groomng of minors. Utterly disgusting behaviour. JohnnyF is fully aware of these descriptions when he remarks "She served her time for her part". I assume JohnnyF is trying to deflect from accusations surrounding his heroes, by minimising the seriousness of paedophillia, and the guilt and role of Maxwell. Unpaid useful idiot, it seems.
  14. Unlike American newspapers, which confine reportage of world events to a footnote, most non-US national newspapers have substantial international commentary. I note the newspaper isn't exactly pro-Gunners. You might want to bring up their sporting coverage, plus the movie reviews. Why do you care what the foreign media say. Are you constantly looking at Iranian newspapers, worried about what they might say? You sound like you missed out on some education. Maybe you can answer why the President was so interested in Northern Nigeria, that he launched over a dozen Tomahawks (about $25 million worth). I assume its because he has Nigerian roots or something, as there was no discernable American interest there.
  15. DHS has given them blanket immunity. They can do no wrong. Always believe the government. Never the question the government, because the government is always truthful.
  16. Quite right. Citizens, lawful or otherwise, should live in mortal fear of government. Its all that seperates us from the jungle. Anarchists like Guy Fawkes were terrorists. The 2nd Amendment should be abolished. By removing it, it takes away the apparent confusion of when its ok to come tooled up to a demonstration and when its not. The People are incapable of understanding. [IMG]https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5e98d495ac720b00089fd0d5/1:1/w_4480,h_4480,c_limit/GettyImages-1210050182.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5eac9a39c135d48f5b120950/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/GettyImages-1211395473.jpg[/IMG] The Sons of Liberty terrorists interfered with the legitimate functions of His Majesty's Customs and Excise, in the collection of taxes, legitimately authorised by Parliament. A representation of these leftist revolutionairies brutally attacking and killing a law enforcement officer of the government; Thomas Jefferson was wrong when he said when government fears the people, there is liberty. Only when the people fear the government is there liberty. John Adams was correct. People fear government, and thats shall it should be.
  17. I suppose one example is Spain 1975.
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  19. Define "Fit to Serve". There is no such definition. The VP has no idea what that means. You give ammunition to America's enemies. Some things should be kept in smoke filled rooms. Imagine how the Cold War would have turned out if the Commies sensed weakness from Reagan after he was shot etc, and the internal memos expressing concern for his fitness. All US Presidents have been male to date Not sure what point you are trying to prove. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment sets a high bar. A majority of the cabinet and the Vice President has to vote on it. Or a Disability Review Panel has be be set up, either approved by the President or supported by two thirds of the House and Senate. Once invoked, the VP takes over. Unless the President says "I am not ga ga", which goes through unless both the VP and Cabinet object or the Disability Review Panel objects. Its fanciful to suggest any of that will happen. The Coup will be over and there will be a purge. It fails because a Cognition test (MiniMental, MoCa)is not a pass or fail; there is interpretation required, and doctors will disagree. There is no standard that has been established about what level of cognition does a President require. Is a sharp memory a requirement, in an era of advisors. Does getting lost on the way to the toilet stop you from making critical decisions. The 25th Amendment contains no definition of "inability". A legal definition of mental capacity is pretty loose. You certainly shouldn't be shouting for removal of a President (irrespective of who that President is) based on tests that the medical community know are deeply flawed and which are largely misunderstood by people such as yourself. So what do you conclude if the President has a problem with his cognition test? If you were a doctor, and used that to conclude the patient has a neurological problem such as dementia, you will be struck off. And do you think because someone who "does well" in a cognition test they do not have dementia. You'd be wrong on that score as well. No Vice President in history has sufficient understand of mental health and aging to draw any kind of conclusion about medical fitness. And Presidents still have a right to medical privacy, like you. Calling for permanent medical panels to be constituted to monitor, and remove from office, Presidents, gets quite close to fascistic Technocracy, which advocates the abolition of democracy, in favour of government by experts, or technocrats. Google who was raised as a Technocrat. You wouldn't his sort to be put in effective charge. America has has 250 years of Presidents, some of whom have struggled in office with all sorts of health challenges, right from the start. A dementia-riddled President is not going to blow up the world. Americans talk about the "Swamp". The British talk about the "Establishment". Its the "Establishment" that ensures we all, or most of us, will wake up tomorrow. But if they don't, we wouldn't know anything about it. The reality is the Vice President exists to support the President; democracy would be damaged if Vice Presidents plotted coups based on maybe their shaky understanding of biology. Did you know bladder cancer and TB can cause dementia like symptoms? These are transient things. Symptoms subside when treatment commences. Do you remove a president from office because he's on antibiotics? While the President cannot fire the Vice President, he can fire the rest of the cabinet whenever he likes, and without any reason. The Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity Act has not been passed into law, and I think it never will.
  20. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/epstein-files-redactions-failed-after-funding-cuts-forced-doj-to-use-basic-adobe-tools/ar-AA1T5c62 DOGE cuts caused the DOJ to apparently drop Premium subscriptions to Adobe, to save $4m.
  21. Healthcare providers in the US like the capacity building; its not alturistic, because it provides a steady stream of healthcare workers. Every Western economy, due to an increasingly aged population and increased demands on healthcare services, is facing shortfalls in production of domestically trained healthcare workers, and that's largely due to a lack of funded programs. By 2036, the US faces a shortfall of 86,000 doctors. Europe is much the same. The UK NHS has set up partnerships with medical schools in India and the Phillippines to train healthcare workers to a British standard. These doctors and nurses has no intention of working in their own countries, and naturally there is intense competition for places. Yes, this does result in some capacity building; some of these doctors and nurses will eventually return home, with experience, but many do. But the West is stripping these countries of doctors. Its a long standing issue. There is an argument that says Western largesse enables people to receive medical training who wouldn't otherwise. Yes and no; those imported medics represent the brightest and best in their cohorts. They iely would have been trained using the existing domestic infrastructure. We knew about the demographic timebomb decades ago, and did nothing, except strip the developing world, to prepare for it. There has been a lack of investment in technologies, such as robotic surgery, non-surgical interventions. The profession in some countries has conspired to artificially drive up demand. Take Spinal Fusion Surgery; 500,000 surgeries a year in the US. Thats more than double the rate seen in Europe. Is the US a nation of spinal cripples, or are patients being conned into unecessary surgery. The insurers think so, and they are increasingly pushing back on claims for back surgery. It was probably this that caused a deranged man kill a healcare executive (pain does odd things to perception). US hospitals have appalling readmission rates; patients are discharged too quickly, with no follow-up because the hospitals can't be bothered to invest in community based nursing. Again, the insurers are hitting back, cutting reimbursement rates on hospitals with readmission rates that are too high. COVID exposed further issues in the under investment in medical training. Most surgeons learn on the job. They usually shadow experienced surgeons, who pass on skills. COVID saw many experienced surgeons delay retirement. The end of lockdowns saw a hard stop. Surgeons left the profession without passing on skills, leaving a cohort of surgeons less trained than their predecessors. So we need more imported surgeons. Because that's cheaper than investing in robotics and remote surgery. COVID saw lots of people have their surgeries delayed. Post COVID, you would have thought there would be an expansion in surgical theatres, more night surgeries, clever software to better manage utilisation rates. Nope, because that would cost money, and they didn't have the surgeons and nurses to staff out the extra operating theatres. Instead the solution is simple and cost free. You wait for the patients to die, or get to an age with surgery is no longer an option. Seeing that everywhere when you dig into the registry data coming out. Surgery rates have mostly assumed pre-COVID by now (Germany is still a bit down). There was never an increase in surgeries to deal with waiting lists etc. Thats apparent in US, UK, German, French, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish data sets. Australia had less of a problem, because they didn't experience the same kinds of lockdowns as the Northern Hemisphere.
  22. No American President would do well in PMQs. Speaker: Order! Order! Questions to the Prime Minister. I call the Leader of the Opposition. Margaret Thatcher: Mr Speaker, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Congressional Budget Office, since this Prime Minister took office: — inflation has averaged 4.1%, — real wages for non-supervisory workers have grown by just 0.3%, — and the federal deficit has risen to $1.7 trillion, an increase of over $600 billion in a single year. Which of these outcomes does the Prime Minister describe as “the greatest economy in history”? Opposition benches: Hear, hear! Answer the question! Donald Trump (Prime Minister): Mr Speaker, those figures don’t tell the real story. The real story is confidence. People feel rich. Businesses feel strong— Opposition benches: Feelings aren’t data! Read the CBO! Speaker: Order! The Prime Minister will address the question. Thatcher: Mr Speaker, confidence does not service debt. Interest payments on federal debt now exceed $1 trillion annually, more than the entire US defence budget. Does the Prime Minister deny that his borrowing has made debt servicing the fastest-growing item of public spending? Trump: I don’t accept that framing. Opposition benches: It’s arithmetic! Even Wall Street agrees! Speaker: Order! Thatcher: Mr Speaker, the figure comes directly from the US Treasury’s Monthly Statement. Perhaps the Prime Minister has been too busy tweeting to read it. Opposition benches: Ohhh! Boom! Trump: I read everything. Tremendous reports. Tremendous numbers. Thatcher: Then he will know that US productivity growth averaged just 1.1%, well below its post-war norm, while private non-residential investment fell 3.4% year-on-year. Can he explain how tax cuts without investment produce sustainable growth? Trump: Tax cuts always work. Everybody knows that. Opposition benches: They didn’t! Kansas tried it! Deficit explosion! Speaker: Point of order? Government backbencher: Mr Speaker, is it proper for the Leader of the Opposition to cite selectively negative statistics? Speaker: It is proper to cite statistics. It is improper to ignore them. Laughter Thatcher: Mr Speaker, let us turn to immigration, where claims of control have collapsed under scrutiny. US Customs and Border Protection reports over 2.4 million border encounters last year. Asylum case backlogs now exceed 3 million, with average processing times above four years. Is this the “total control” the Prime Minister promised? Trump: Those are encounters, not people. Very different. Very misleading. Opposition benches: You said numbers would fall! They doubled! Thatcher: Mr Speaker, whether counted once or twice, the system is plainly overwhelmed. Can the Prime Minister tell the House what proportion of asylum cases were resolved within one year? Trump: A very high proportion. Opposition benches: Number! Say the number! Thatcher: The answer is under 20%, Mr Speaker, according to the Department of Justice. This government has created delay, expense, and disorder—while claiming strength. Government benches: Ohhh! Speaker: Order! Trump: Nobody has ever been tougher on the border. The judges stop us, the agencies stop us— Speaker: Order! The Prime Minister will not disparage independent institutions. Trump: Well something’s stopping us! Opposition benches: The Constitution! You swore an oath! Thatcher: Mr Speaker, strong leadership works within the law—it does not complain about it. The Prime Minister’s border initiatives have cost over $20 billion, yet removals are lower than five years ago. Does he deny that figure? Trump: I deny— Speaker: Order! Answer the question. Trump: —I deny that it matters. Thatcher: Mr Speaker, waste always matters to the taxpayer. Opposition benches: Hear, hear! Resign! Speaker: Point of order? Trump: Mr Speaker, this questioning is very unfair. Very hostile. Speaker: Prime Minister, statistics are not hostile. Laughter across the House Thatcher: Mr Speaker, this Prime Minister believes that repetition creates reality. But the facts remain: — deficits higher, — productivity weaker, — borders less controlled. Is it not the case that governing a serious country requires more than slogans and self-regard? Trump: America is doing unbelievably well. People love it— Opposition benches: The bond market doesn’t! The dollar doesn’t! The CBO doesn’t! Speaker: ORDER! ORDER! The Prime Minister will resume his seat. Trump: This place is rigged. Speaker: The House will move on. Opposition benches: Hear, hear! Shambles! He’s lost it!
  23. Great Britain is not a country. He's a Scottish-German, two negatives. And Ginger.

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