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Ya, and we need that. Complete dysfunction.

I am not confident. This "government" would never survive in the objective, corporate world, or as any business I can imagine surviving. The only solutions occur in crisis mode, when horrible consequences are the threat. There is no attempt at "governing." It is completely pathetic, and a literal, legislative civil war.

How 'bout they start their lives by living up to obligations they committed to? This situation is analogous to the border situation. If we continue to allow failed governments to send their people here, we fail to solve the problem, which is those failed governments that need to be fixed internally. If we forgive promissory, legally binding obligations, we fail to solve the problem of ridiculously inflated college tuition costs. It is not the US taxpayers burden to solve other problems.

The nonsense is that Trump has anything to say about this. Only an obsessed individual would think any different. The House has offered a proposal to limit spending to last year's levels, and omit the stupid, unheeded covid recovery printing of money. Biden has called this proposal "extreme." Anybody who believes that needs to get out of any decision making position.

More nonsense.

Along this line, as an an unintended consequence of all of this, the exposure of the gross negligence of some of our NATO allies has ben exposed and hopefully will be dealt with. When this was exposed a number of years ago, it with viewed by the political opposition as insulting our other member nations. It was nothing of the sort. The situation was so bad, especially re Germany, that there was no way it could go on. Germany provided tanks at the onset of this, and not one was operationally capable. They had no airlift capability and a pathetic air force fighter readiness. No tanking capability and virtually no early warning or electronic warfare capability. Had NATO been challenged in any serious military way, the US would have borne the load in a grossly disproportionate way, resulting in far more deaths to US servicemen. The Brits do their best, France does a bit, but Germany and Italy were virtually worthless. Hopefully that changes.

Carbon footprint notwithstanding, he lives in this area and is a great community member.

Hopefully, and with the admission that it may irritate some here, that won't happen.

I don't think there is a chance in hell that Biden holds that office beyond this term. He is infirm and his countenance is an embarrassment. He can't be hidden for five more years.

He could have used a Mig, and Youngkin would still be infinitely more capable than Biden.

When I was a kid I asked my Dad if I could skate on the frozen pond. He told me to wait till it warms up. When I was a baby my mother wouldn't breast feed me. She told me, I like you, but just as a friend. When I was born, the doctor told my mother. We did all we could, but he still pulled through.

A ton of Rodney Dangerfield jokes. "I tell ya, I don't get no respect. When I was a kid, my parents took me to the beach. We got separated. I found a cop to help me find them. After a bit, I asked him. Do you think we'll ever find them? He said, I don't know. There's so many places they could be hiding."

Reprieve granted. No harm.

Nope. Couldn't care less. A comment that suggests that Raytheon is not a "stock of freedom," your words, is bizarre, and a view absolutely not shared by anybody in a US tacair cockpit or on the ground position defended by Patriot.

So Raytheon isn't a "stock of freedom?' As a guy who used to teach Sidewinder, and surface to air systems that Patriot was based on, I had very frequent dealings with that company as they used to produce the graphics used in my lecture. They build Patriot, Sidewinder and Amraam. Hard to find a company that US air assets would consider more a contributor to our defense and "freedom."

Are you aware that assets under Space Force are what alerted the US of the launching if over a dozen Iranian missiles at US forces in Iraq, and permitted a movement of material and personnel into bunkers that saved scores of casualties? I doubt it, and I doubt you are aware of what is involved in that. I suppose the point could be made that it wasn't necessary, but on the vector we were on, it makes some sense to get this group out of the Air Force. And by the way, Trump wasn't going to pull us out of NATO, as you claimed.

I know you've said you met him, and I have as well. Twice, in the emergency exit isle, bot times, on New York to DC shuttle flights. Got into a conversation as he was the speaker at my son's college grad. We talked at length the first time about Virginia colleges and the programs to pay for them, which I had great deal of experience in, as my three kids each went to different state schools, Christopher Newport, Virginia Tech and UVA. The second time he was about to take over as Chairman of the Democrat National Committee, so we talked about that. Decent guy. A typical Virginian. Reasonable and centrist.

Your interpretation of the man's words are valid when you refuse to even acknowledge them? OK, that makes sense. Of course you know better, and not being truthful of what he actually said makes you more better.

I have zero interest in expanding any discussion about Trump, or even thinking about him, and I have no "narrative," so stop that bs. I am solely interested in people lying about what he said as they repeatedly omit his decrying white supremacists and neo Nazis and he made that point very clear in that same answer, and the same people do it on this forum over and over and over. Now get to the really important work of an adult strapping negative emojis on posts. That's time well spent.

I have zero interest in responding to questions about Trump. What I do know is the claim that his good people on both sides remarks were about protestors on both sides of the remove the Lee statue and those comments did not include white supremacist's and Nazis, a point he made twice in that response and is always omitted and not acknowledged in these silly claims.

You can do any stupid little thing you want on a forum, but no reasonable, rational individual woud make a claim that someone said something, when that person, twice, refuted it in the same response. It is simply an idiotic, false claim.

And so is Bill Clinton. A convicted liar under oath before a grand jury. This is complete horseshit. The man never said that white supremacist's or neo Nazis were good people, and making that claim diminishes the people who attempt to make it.

A specious argument. I don't give a rat's what you believe or don't believe, but the quote is there, condemning and pointing out specifically the neo Nazis and the white supremacist's, yet a few people here, you included, disregard it. It's a failed and pathetic path. The man never claimed that those people were "good people," and in fact pointed out they were despicable.

Nonsense.

"And I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general." "There were very fine people on both sides, & I'm not talking about the Neo-nazis and white supremacists because they should be condemned totally." "You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists." I get that hitting Tibs with a baseball bat wouldn't matter, as has been done so many times. But for God's sake can you Trump haters stop diminishing your argument by failing to acknowledge the truth? It is complete ignorance and counter productive.