All_Pro_Bills

Because those leftist maniacs controlling the party wouldn't allow it.

Whining posters don't care about a recession. They're upset that their personal investment portfolios loaded up with overvalued stocks trading at huge multiples to earnings are taking a hit.

No I rely on expert market sources and my own experience and knowledge of the financial world and economics. You just want it to be about Trump so bad to the point of an obsession that your mind can't process or consider alternatives or other factors. Its hatred driven by pure emotions.

I believe today's sell off was about the PCE number coming in hotter than expected. Being what's been stated, the Feds favorite indicator of future inflation the market experienced the consequences of a new expectation of fewer rate cuts. Fact is the markets are one big speculation on the number and size of Fed rate cuts rather than a proxy for economic activity. Why else do stocks growing at single digit rates trade at huge multiples. There's severe overvaluation problem that will eventually be resolved with either lower rates and higher profits or lower PEs and lower stock prices.

Russia, Iran and China now know that our military and intelligence officials communicate on Signal - like they didn't know that already? Come on. They hack us, we hack them. That's the game. This incident doesn't change the rules of the game or how its played. And yes, some adjustments in tactics are needed. And for the record, I am not MAGA. I'm a disenfranchised Democrat that the party forgot about when the nuts took over and the agenda shifted far-left. People such as me, formed the core of the party in the past. And the abandonment of voters that share my views and the dumping of the traditional core values of the party are the main reason Trump won and Harris didn't. She was too far out there and a real dummy to boot.

Most of your ramblings are irrelevant to my assessment. And your questions about tipping off the target or intelligence methods could be asked of any operation or plan. Known risks without answers.

It was a screw-up and a breach of protocol and shouldn't have happened. I don't think texting is an appropriate form of communications for these types of military and intelligence operations. They might want to think about dumping that practice and limit the number of participants to those actually having some role in the execution and eliminate the "spectators" from the conversation. But at this point its a big nothing burger. The texts should not have been shared but the information was time sensitive and the value of that information to anyone expired after the attack was completed. By the time the reporter announced he was included in the chat group the contents were worthless intelligence.

He's giving the troops a pep talk so he can't tell them our ideas are bad and we lost because a majority of the voters didn't like them. Its like what we hear at the football coach post-game press conference where he says "we had a great game plan but we just didn't execute it very well". When the truth might be he got out-coached by the other guy and the other team has better football players. That's why they lost.

I recall they developed a proficiency at indiscriminate high body count drone strikes against wedding party's in Pakistan claiming to target 1 o 2 unidentified individuals. Maybe it was the year Barrack ironically won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Pretty much everything on this topic is conjecture and absent a statement from the Pentagon or NATO, which I haven't seen, we don't know the facts around the situation with what's reported as 4 American soldiers on a training mission either dead or missing in Lithuania. And unless you plan on traveling over there and conducting your own personal investigation its doubtful you'll ever know the whole truth. These military outfits operate under no obligation to reveal the truth or the facts surrounding their activities. Sometimes because they're classified or secret and others when they just don't feel a need to be transparent. So far the posts have been a psychology experiment on what posters believe or don't believe based on their preconceived political positions along with what they've been conditioned over time to believe or not believe.

They act like spoiled children right after they get told "no" for the first time. Throw a temper tantrum and piss themselves.

Maybe some district court judge is going to place an injunction on his EO and proclaim himself President.

There's that 'due process' thing again. Like what all those J6 trespassers got when judges, including this very same clown in about 60 cases, denied bail and held prisoners for up to 18 months while awaiting trial. And many laughed when some brought up this injustice. And now when due process is applied to illegals we should be sympathetic? Wow. And news flash. The law was already ignored when Biden let them in.

That attitude is the exact reason why Democrats lost the last election and why they'll continue to lose until the party disintegrates into irrelevancy.

The way I look at it there's a major political and social transition taking place where the needs of America the country are now being prioritized over the needs of America the Empire. This is what the voters have demanded. As we've all lived under a system where those in power served the Empire its something many do not understand or many that are dependent on the Empire do not want.

They're really not our allies but rather vassal States dependent on the US for protection which have traditionally towed the line on US policy positions. Recently its become clear, many are controlled by politicians that are intent on censorship and outlawing popular political parties and individuals that pose a threat to their control. An objective person might conclude they fear their own citizens, and a populist uprising similar to what America is experiencing, more than any foreign threat. Countries such as Germany, Romania, the UK to name a few, that stand in opposition to Putin should look in the mirror. Absent their ability for self-awareness they can't see there's little difference between the actions of the Russian President and themselves. My personal view is European societies are in decay and dying a slow death as their leadership destroys their traditional culture. America was on the same path before the voters decided they had enough.

Recessions are a component of the economic system. We've had them before, mild and severe, and we'll have them again. If you want to focus on problems I would recommend the national debt and the trillion dollar annual interest on it. And the US dollar that has lost most of its purchasing power. Add in personal and private debt levels, and these problems guarantee most people a lower standard of living in the future. No president to going to fix this as its too late unless we stop deficit spending, run a surplus, and start paying down the debt. No chance of that. Sadly, maybe 1 in a 1,000 are cognizant of this and most lack preparations for it.

I never felt anything Biden did or what Trump is doing impacts or interferes with my ability to go about my life. Anyone that feels either President is causing them anxiety with their life must either have little to no control over their affairs or suffering from some problem such as depression.

I asked what stopped the "rioters" that day from carrying out their plan? It wasn't the police. Or the National Guard. What force expelled the mob from the Capitol? Why did they leave? You or many others won't answer that question because the logical answer will destroy your delusions.

Storming? If they wanted to the protesters could have burned the Capitol to the ground. That would have been an insurrection. There was nothing there to stop them except for the standard Capitol Police detachment that was clearly inadequate for a crowd everyone knew would be that large. Somebody in charge choose to put this out-manned police detachment at risk. We get no answer on who gave that order and why that order was given for 4+ years. But widespread property destruction did not happen even with a fraction of the protesters that got violent. Otherwise, the other peaceful protesters entered through open doors, rather than breaking in, and wandered around the hallways then just all left the building and went home. Something the nitwits that push the "insurrection" story cannot provide any rational explanation for without blowing their story. If they were trying to overthrow the election results and take over the government why did they voluntarily just leave? No explanation provided, ever, of any kind.

Its an opinion. An opinion can prove to be wrong but it cannot be fake. So how am I wrong?

Trump is keeping his promise to drain the swamp and in the process is dismantling the system of hustles and scams used by liberals to fund their agenda of social and political change. All sorts of government programs, spending millions, billions, on things of no use or need to the average taxpayer. The resistance is using the courts, judge shopping case to find accommodating judges, as a vehicle to block and obstruct the effort. Mainly because they have no other recourse. Its a game of clock management. The goal is to run out the game clock, perhaps to the mid-terms, in order to keep the damage to a minimum with the idea they can capture the House in the mid-terms and use the majority in that chamber from that point forward to 2028. The problem they face in 2025 that they didn't face in 2017 is the administration is well prepared and getting exactly what they planned for from the resistance.

The punch card reference was merely an example of outdated technology. Whether these government systems rely on that or not, its a given they have a lot of outdated technology and processes. The core of Social Security is member/customer information and payment processes. There are lots of current technologies that support those functions. Right off the shelf with possibility some configuration or custom code for specific use cases. And while transforming an organizations business process and supporting technologies can be difficult, and costly, it is necessary at times and can result in the gain of efficiency, cost reduction, and an increase in maintainability. I see it more of a replacement than a re-write. The other thing to keep in mind is the technical staff. While these COBOL systems still function you're not going to find many IT professionals, with the exception of some older workers, that are eager to spend their lives working with outdated technologies. Younger workers want to work on current technologies and cutting edge stuff. I don't blame them. My company had a program about 2014-2015 where they hired around 200 college grads for practical training to do all sorts of systems work. It was mostly successful. But the grads assigned to COBOL and other outdated work quit and went elsewhere for fresh opportunities as soon as their bonus retention restrictions expired.

The OP's original premise of quoting Khuschev is by itself comical. His tenure as leader of the Soviet Union was in the biggest moments, a failure. The blockade of West Berlin and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet we are to believe he was some sort of prophet? It's as foolish as the idea Trump is working in concert with Putin. As for our western allies many have yet to notice they're values for most of these countries fail to align with ours. For starters, outlawing popular political parties because they threaten the power of the ruling class and party. Using the ruse they're a threat to democracy to maintain power and neutralize the vote of citizens. And yet many insist Putin is the biggest problem while our so-called allies emulate his actions. They're morally bankrupt and have nothing of value we require. The alliance is a one way street.

J6, where hundreds of protesters charged with misdemeanor trespassing were jailed without bail or due process for upwards of 18 months and then given maximum sentences for doing nothing other than walking into the building through an open door and talking selfies. An abuse of power by the government against ordinary citizens. The same people that cheered all that on are now demanding "due process" for illegals that are criminals and members of violent gangs.