All_Pro_Bills

Putin? Stop playing the village idiot here. But okay, articulate the U.S. strategic interest in Ukraine beyond the democracy myth. What is so strategic and important to put the lives of US service personnel at risk?

And taking the risk of a potential nuclear exchange to directly engage in a war for non-strategic interests isn't good policy.

Because its the best excuse they can come up with that doesn't assign any accountability for the problem to them. The bad news is prices are going even higher!

But the origins of American slavery did exist for hundreds of years in West Africa before the first Portuguese settlements appeared on the scene. And the practice was facilitated by Arab slave traders working with African tribes and kingdoms that captured and sold other Africans into slavery. With the initial Western Hemisphere market being South American and Caribbean sugar plantations. And later the U.S. south. I'm curious to know if CRT's version of the origin and practice of slavery indict both Arab and black African participants in the practice and include them in the theories oppressor/oppressed social model? Or is their involvement overlooked or does the stories timeline start later?

Well you don't know either but you're willing to engage in speculation and conjecture of wrong doing. Neither of which constitute or substitute for facts much less legal evidence or meet a threshold of burden of proof. And suggest the meeting raises suspicions of impropriety simply because one of the participants, the lawyer who first met with Fusion GPS that day was...... wait for it......Russian! Perhaps the problem here is nothing more complicated than a severe case of xenophobia?

You're saying one man's conviction on a specific charge proves everyone else is guilty of whatever you want to make up? You should learn how the law works in real life.

Meeting with foreigners is not illegal. Especially given private business arrangements. Sharing what campaign data? With what Russians? Wikileaks posted e-mails and correspondence on publicly available media. They did not direct anything specifically to any campaign or any organization or share anything privately with anyone that wasn't made public. And stated clearly Russian government or Russian nationals was not the source. Continue living in your fantasy.

Mueller's investigation, coincidentally staffed by many current or former employees of the law firm that represents Clinton and the DNC, resulted in no indictments or evidence of any such collusion. If anybody was out to get him it was these guys. But they came up empty. And yet you continue to insist you know better and that unproven accusations of collusion are equivalent to guilt of collusion.

Well, when Natalie contacted Trump campaign officials to arrange a meeting she lied to them about her intentions because she was already working with and/or for Simpson and Fusion GPS. And by extension the DNC and the Clinton campaign. And the Obama WH facilitated the relationship and knew all about it. I believe that's pretty close to what Durham is going to prove and submit for the official investigation findings and criminal charges.

I look forward to seeing your list. For amusement and curiosity, I've been watching some TV shows in the superhero genre that clearly push lots of social justice narratives in their story lines. Hollywood liberal propaganda basically with less emphasis on the entertainment aspect of the presentation. Most of these shows are on the WB but some exist on major networks and streaming apps. The characters are typically shallow narcissistic whiners and self-confessed victims, the plots are simplistic and transparent, and many are remakes or re-boots of previously released shows with members of self-defined oppressed groups as the lead character, which screams of cultural appropriation that gets a social justice violation exemption if done by woke writers. The few white heterosexual male characters in the stories are typically ignorant and evil haters with little to no moral compass that exist for the single-minded purpose of oppressing and victimizing woke defined oppressed peoples through various offensive actions and words. My assessment is they're characterized as some sort of stereotypical white person representing a "1950's Deep South Klan member" that somehow has survived to exist in 2022 America.

Musk acquiring Twitter and potentially snowballing his efforts into some free speech" counter-movement would be a massive kick in the balls for the censorship crowd. I doubt he's going to be allowed to pull this off without incurring the wrath of various government agencies and regulators along with pontificating from lots of characters and media outlets about the dangers of the world's richest man taking control of Twitter and how that's a threat to democracy. Not a threat to freedom. They won't ever utter that word. But a threat to their definition of democracy where "the people" obediently vote correctly by electing the people they support. All this while supporting the ownership of media and online outfits by all kinds of billionaires and oligarchs that align with their views on lots of subjects. Like censorship. I'm sure Musk understands all of this and is prepared for the fight. And while I don't particularly like him I admire his commitment to doing something about this problem. Everyone that values freedom and values our legal and constitutions system of rights should agree.

Given the evidence and science around viruses in general and natural mutations and the location of the lab and the epicenter of the outbreak and the inability to produce a Bat in the wild with the specific virus and the oddity of the specific mutations with COVID given known Coronaviruses, the lab leak theory seems most plausible when applying deductive reasoning or what might be basic troubleshooting through process of elimination. I don't recall any researchers or scientists publicly making a valid case that passed any sort of peer review standard for acceptance for how the mutations could appear naturally but if there is one that would be something to consider. The base Chinese government theory is the virus was brought to Wuhan by US military personnel participating in an athletic competition between military members representing their countries from around the world. That would imply a US military person was patient zero but there isn't any collaborating evidence to support that contention that I'm aware of here.

Yes, use a pandemic lockdown as justification to use executive power at State levels to establish a mail-in ballot process that will circumvent already in place controls and procedures to stuff the ballot box with illegitimate votes to win the election and then use your powers in state governments along with State and Federal judicial assets to stonewall and block audits and legal actions that might expose the scheme.

For answers I suggest you examine what both parties believe is a mutually beneficial US-Saudi relationship that has been in place since Nixon's Petrodollar deal with the Kingdom.

When engaging in these types of disagreements it's always nice when you have the power of The State in your corner. And we all know that Twitter is an outsourcing partner of the government and based on the arrangement carries out government censorship policy. Protecting all kinds of sacred narratives from scrutiny and questioning. And protecting the government from public supervision, Constitutional violations, and oversight like freedom of information requests along with providing Twitter (and Google, and Facebook for that matter) with lots of taxpayer money channeled through opaque intelligence agency budgets they book on the ledger as "advertising" revenue.

Its going to be a logistical challenge to coordinate the stuffing of ballot boxes in 435 individual congressional districts and explain how vote counting was stopped at every vote counting location at 11 PM and resumed after newly found mail-in ballots were located and delivered at 3 AM. Is the DNC up to the task this time? Can they come out of nowhere and find that extra 10% to keep them in control?

Or wander out into the hallway looking for the ice machine!

Go to Hell? I'm already living in New Jersey getting taxed to death so that might be an upgrade!

Maybe we start to hear it as soon as this morning, but I expect the same set of characters that insist that a private company can do whatever they want to insist the DOJ or some other regulatory agency "block" this takeover offer. Citing "public interest" in blocking the deal. Watch for most of the clowns in Congress and the administration that insist on censorship to be the most vocal as they attempt to bend light to support their argument that freedom is bad. In reality this arrangement was never a private company doing as they please but rather government outsourcing censorship powers to private business in order to avoid constitutional limitations and public oversight. Twitter takes their marching orders from activists inside and connected to the US government embedded in the government not to serve the people but to serve the party. We all know the fact checker set up is a complete farce. If the deal does go through don't expect it to be before the November mid-terms. I also wonder if Musk envisions himself being involved day-to-day? My guess is he'll do something like ask Joe Rogan to run the outfit. At that point you won't need Space-X to launch liberals into orbit and unhinged and agonizing protest.

Is Musk a "free speech absolutist"? My answer to Reich (I must point out an appropriate name for somebody advocating censorship) is probably not. But Musk is a lot closer to that than Reich who holds a view that free speech is a threat.

Or not enforce them and therefore ignoring the law of the land and failing to execute the duties of the office. I'm guessing some would conclude that is an impeachable offense if a certain President was still in office.

The outrage is being held down by large piles of cash filling the pockets of the hypocrites that rule the Hollywood collective.

There is one main rule defining the uni polar world order. The US government makes the rules and everyone else goes along with them, or else and when we decide to change the rules, the rules will change. Everyone must adjust to those changes, or else. 1) Don't follow the rules and the US government has no problem with deploying the State Department, or the Treasury department, or the Pentagon, or the intelligence services to interfere your affairs, or elections, and will seek to destabilize and replace your leaders with more compliant political figures that will follow the rules and this applies to any country regardless of their political system. 2) Follow the rules and you will be left alone as it doesn't matter what form of government you rule under including undemocratic dictatorships and royal kingdoms.

Let me say my intent was not to dishonor the soldier in the field or their standard of conduct. I'm talking leadership. And you can call it what you want but considering how many wars our country engages in vs. the rest of the world (all for good intentions of course) our government's belief in its moral and ethical superiority is always the excuse for a lack of accountability.

Their playbook is so transparent that we just know the Dem's will be hatching some scheme going into election season. Given the polling numbers its obvious they're in trouble and holding Congress is at risk. It might be some vaguely worded and fact deficient "assessment" from the intelligence community that Putin poses a critical but undisclosed risk to "democracy" and the security of the election. And of course no details or facts can be revealed because that would put methods and procedures and people's lives at risk. The usual excuse to conceal lies and avoid open discourse. And of course if the Republicans gain control of Congress questioning the legitimacy of the election result because of interference and the second coming of "the resistance". And absolute certainty: blame Trump!