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4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Liz Cheney. At least she used to be in the GOP, before they kicked her out for being moral, truthful, sensible, and defying their master. Anyone else? I sort of doubt it.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. That she finally grew a conscience and a spine and stood up against Trump does not necessarily mean that she would be a good candidate, president or even a good person.
Let’s not forget that she voted like 99% with Trump when she was still in congress. So if she were to become president, she would probably do what every Republican president in the last five decades has done: slash taxes for the rich, let corporate America rule the country, cut social security and medicare, raise the defense budget, not raise minimum wage, promise a small government and fiscal responsibility (one of the favorite GOP talking points) but instead increase the deficit by at least 50%.
If that’s what you want for America, then she would probably be a good choice. 

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

I certainly don't love Trump

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing after reading that. Good one!

All you guys always say things like ‘I’m no fan of Trump, but…..’ and then comes the Dems-bashing and the Trump praising. If only there was a word for that….

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

BS because a "finding" from a single judge might result in some Republican voters in Colorado not having their choice of presidential candidate available as an option in the next election. Like Trump of not, others should be able to vote for the president that they want. I certainly don't love Trump but the Democrats are too busy with their witch hunts right now to even attempt to govern. Look how popular Biden is now.

 

The validity and value of the impeachment inquiry into Biden will hopefully be revealed after some evidence is presented. This inquiry will allow more evidence to be gathered first.  

 

 

What evidence? Republicans keep screaming they have the smoking gun, and it always turns out to be big pile of horse sh!t. They’ve been at it for over a year and and still got nothing on Biden, and the only evidence they will ever be able to present will have been fabricated. The Biden crime family? Don’t make me laugh. They’re looking at the wrong (ex)presidential family.

Meanwhile, James Comer, the dumbass chairman of the House Oversight Committee, seems to be guilty of exactly the same thing he accuses Biden of having done. Only there’s no evidence Biden ever did that, and plenty of evidence Comer did. So why is Comer not being investigated?

32 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Thanks. I expect and hope that the USSC will agree with me that the "finding" of a single district judge should be overruled and all this BS stops.

How/why is this BS? Just because you hate the Dems and love Trump? If you want to talk BS, how about the impeachment inquiry by the House Republicans into president Biden? Do you think that is BS as well?

Anyone with just half a functioning brain cell will have recognized what Trump and his co-conspirators were up to before, on and after Jan. 6, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to be able to connect the dots. Many of his co-conspirators are now facing justice and have flipped on Trump. And Trump himself has been found guilty of sedition already, by that CO court, and is facing similar charges in Washington DC and Georgia. 
 

Please explain to me what the BS is that you so desperately want stopped, I’d be really interested.

The Orcs showing their true nature once again:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12872931/russian-ukrainian-swastikas-prisoners-war-crime.html

Russian soldiers carve swastikas into foreheads of Ukrainian captives in horrific war crime, harrowing images reveal.

43 minutes ago, morrobay said:

Actually the way way back 1950's was the American dream model. That ended November 22, 1963 in Dallas. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and liberal city and state governments followed. Along with the Southern border invasion: gangs like ms 13 , terrorists , million's of illegals overloading medical/social services. It's going to require an authoritarian government to fix this mess

Authoritarian governments never fix anything, just their own bank accounts and silencing their opponents any way they can.

And liberal city and state governments are to blame? Are you for real? Four years of Nixon/Ford, eight years of Reagan, four years Bush sr. and eight years Bush junior. Not to mention four years of Trump, where the GOP had the Senate, the House and the president. And all these Republican presidents and governments didn’t manage to do anything about immigration. Hmm, I wonder why.

The real problem is that since Reagan, hard-core capitalism has ruled the country. Corporate America is calling the shots and they are interested in just one thing: making as much money/profit as possible, in any way possible. The lower/middle class just got poorer, the middle class has been almost wiped out, and the rich got (a lot) richer and they spend their time counting their money and not giving two hoots about the plight of the average working Joe/Jane. 

Trump doesn’t know his @ss from his elbow. At first he claimed the economy was doing very badly, because the Biden administration had made a mess of things. Then apparently someone pointed out to him that the economy is in fact doing quite well, even better than when he was president, and in this speech he said that the economy was running on the fumes of what the Trump administration had accomplished, but that it is just a matter of time before the Biden administration will run it into the ground and there will be a crisis that hasn’t been seen since the 1920’s and 30’s.

It’s time this wannabe fascist dictator gets instantly fact-checked for everything he says and claims, because the moment he opens his mouth you can be 100% sure he’s making stuff up, tooting his own horn, telling the most outrageous lies and trying to take credit for things he has had nothing to do with.

The sad thing is that the sheeple that Trump has absolutely no respect for (I personally think he secretly despises the ‘common folk’) keep loving and adoring him, and keep sending him their hard-earned money. How blind can you be?

15 minutes ago, tgw said:

 

if Putin is admitting 300k dead and wounded, we can safely assume the real number is at least double.

the Kremlin has been lying about nearly everything.

 

and when the Kremlin talks about "Russian losses", they mean Russian losses, still lying about it, but they limit their lie to Russian losses.

Not Wagner, not LNR, DPR, Belarusian, etc. losses. unsure about Chechen. They don't include all losses of Russian-uniform-wearing soldiers in their lie, only those that were provided with a Russian military book.

 

In the meanwhile, Ukraine is reporting  342.800 enemies killed and  ~1.028.400 wounded.

“A declassified U.S. intelligence report assessed that the Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 dead and injured troops, or nearly 90% of the personnel it had when the conflict began, a source familiar with the intelligence said on Tuesday.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-intelligence-assesses-ukraine-war-has-cost-russia-315000-casualties-source-2023-12-12/
 

So nearly 90% of the personnel Russia had when the conflict began are either dead or injured. I’d call that pretty catastrophic.

18 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

And that's one scary A$$ thought, considering her warmongering father.  

 

Anyone else seeing the 1st female president and WW III to follow if her star wasn't shot down.

Her father was definitely a war mongering idiot and a war criminal, but Liz not so much. At least I don’t remember that of her, she was just being a good little Republican following dear leader Trump. Until she developed a conscience and a spine.

But if you want to talk war mongering morons? What about all those MAGA freaks who want to invade Mexico to ‘destroy the drug cartels’? Or what about all those Putin loving Republicans who are happy to let Russia get away with war crimes, and don’t see any danger in Russian imperialism?

4 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Ryan & Kinzinger, career politicians (20 & 12 yrs respectfully) and simply part of the problem.  

 

Cheney ... what a joke.

 

A bit telling when your own party casts you aside.  

 

The old guard has to go, stop reelecting incumbents, if you want change, as they've failed the people for decades, while enriching themselves.

Liz Cheney was the rising star in the Republican party, at some point I think she was third in line. But the minute Cheney (and Kinzinger) turned against Trump, all the Trump @ss-kissers couldn’t wait to shun them and kick them to the curb. Absolutely disgraceful.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no love for either Cheney or Kinzinger, but at least they showed to have a conscience and a spine. Which are two very important things many Republicans seem to be lacking these days.

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Ryan & Kinzinger, career politicians (20 & 12 yrs respectfully) and simply part of the problem.  

 

Cheney ... what a joke.

 

A bit telling when your own party casts you aside.  

 

The old guard has to go, stop reelecting incumbents, if you want change, as they've failed the people for decades, while enriching themselves.

stop reelecting incumbents

That’s not the peoblem. People (especially Republicans) should stop electing completely incompetent dumb@sses who know less than nothing about politics and don’t have the slightest interest in doing anything for their constituents. People like MTG, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Louis Gomert, Tommy Tuberville, Jim Jordan, the list just goes on and on. They are all dumber than a bag of rocks, conspiracy thinkers, QAnon believers, MAGA cult members, and yet people keep electing them. That is the real problem.

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

He should testify. Pure box office.

 

The fact that he can string a sentence together will also remind the electorate who is the most capable candidate come voting time. 

The fact that he can’t string a sentence together to save his life will also remind the electorate who is the most capable candidate come voting time. 

There, fixed that for you.

Why do you think his lawyers convinced him not to testify? Or forbade him, more likely. They were cr@pping their pants that Trump was going to fly off the handle and say things that would incriminate him. The man just has no filter, can’t keep his mouth shut and keeps going off on tangents that have nothing to do with what he was talking about. Here’s the genius mind of Trump at work:

How is this news? A high ranking government official and their relatives involved in corruption? Gee, who’d have think it. My bet is that nearly all high ranking officials are involved in some sort of racket, corruption or whatnot and the only reason this ever comes to light is when one of them refuses to share the kickbacks with their ‘colleagues’ (i.e. partners in crime) and gets ratted on by one or more of those same ‘colleagues’. The system is corrupt to the bone.

20 minutes ago, thesetat2013 said:

Seems you make up your own ideals on this topic. Trump showed last time he was in power to rid the government of illegals and choose more carefully what foreigners get visas to enter the country. Most likely he still plans this. 

Rid the government of illegals? What illegals would that be? All Trump showed (and is still showing) is that he is very good at choosing very incompetent people to work for him. 
 

And I’m not making things up: here are Trump’s plans for when he becomes president again.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-policies-agenda-election-2024-second-term-d656d8f08629a8da14a65c4075545e0f

I’m sure that’s just the tip of the iceberg, and the real horrors of Trump’s plans won’t be revealed until he’s president again. Hence my warning: his supporters should be careful what they wish for, as electing Trump president could come back to bite them in te @ss. Dictators have a habit of doing whatever it takes to stay in power, even turning on people who once supported them.

1 hour ago, poyai111 said:

Let's see him defend the indefensible - his policies - all failures reflecting a failing America. Attacking Trump's obnoxious personality will never work. Politics is about only 3 things that matter - policy, policy, policy

Politics is about only 3 things that matter - policy, policy, policy.

Biden’s administration has implemented many good policies, like Tug mentioned in his post. Trump’s administration was an unmitigated disaster, zero good policies.

3 hours ago, poyai111 said:

Add context: Trump continued: " look at him freak out!" Referring to Hannity. Obviously the irony and hence the joke, was missed by those who will not see, those who will not listen and those who live in a partisan bubble.

and those who live in a partisan bubble.

You mean all the MAGA cult members?

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Doesn't matter if he said no, the haters will say it's a lie, and his supporters don't care.

He took the best option and made a joke out of it. Stupid question anyway, as he'd be mad to say yes, even if he meant it.

He didn’t sidestep this question: when asked if he would become a dictator, Trump answered he will be a dictator on the first day. Dictators usually abuse their power, that’s why they are called dictators. So his supporters may want to be careful what they wish for. Trump is planning mass deportations, and locking millions of people up in ‘re-education’ camps, and/or in mental asylums. Who is to say who is going to be deported, or locked up? 

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-said-he-will-be-a-dictator-on-day-1-dodges-abuse-of-power-question