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Good. I will add you and Jason Kessler to the people I have no interest in, though I hope, having moved to Ohio, he is able to scrap up some funds to pay the massive judgement against him. He did so because he couldn't get a job here. Whatver your point was regarding him, it was lost in nonsense, as is his life.

Great. I should have stopped responding to you after you screwed up the South/Central America thing, and denied posting something I quoted from you, directly. I have zero interest in your view.

I could not be more pleased than to be told that an absolute lunatic disagrees with me. Jason Kessler has been wacky since birth, but he did hold jobs as a dishwasher, gym technician, truck driver and handyman. I, and the rest of the community, was pleased when a jury awarded a $25 million damages claim to the plaintiffs against him.and his out of town defendants. What's next? Are you going to try to prove a point by claiming Bin Laden disagreed with me?

What I commented on was your claim that the Ukraine has a problem with the US and proxy wars. The US does what it does. It eliminated the Iraqis from Kuwait in the most brilliant military campaign ever. Kuwait decided to remain a country. It then eliminated the Saddam regime in another brilliant military campaign. The Iraqis allowed Iranian and other forces to undermine whatever hope that country had. The Us demolished the Taliban in Afghanistan in another superb military performance. The tribal leaders permitted ISIS and others to get a foothold. The point is that the US has not failed thee countries, their own people have. The US can assist the Ukraine in prohibiting a Russian takeover. It cannot determine what comes next, and that is not a US failure, and was not in either Kuwait, Iraq nor Afghanistan. Ultimately, that result is on them.

Come on. The problem faced by the Ukrainian people is being attacked by the Putin Russian regime. "Promising democracy" has nothing to do with it. The ultimate responsibility lies with the citizens of the country wanting freedom or status quo. It is on them.

Think whatever you want. It's got nothing to do with "affluent, progressive areas." It has far more to do with what the local govs will allow protest permit wise, and guidance to local police, which was the tragedy in C'ville. I live here. I watched this thing happen, and all the post event legal proceedings, including knowing some of the people who were involved in those. I drove through the area an hour before, where the neo's/white supremacist were staging, and was stopped as they were allowed to cross the street on their way four blocks down from the "event," about an hour before it happened. It was shocking, and not something remotely connected to this community.

They were drawn to Charlottesville because the group had achieved what is called critical mass. The neo Nazi/white supremacist movement had made it to a point where they wanted to be heard. It was timing. Had nothing to do with Charlottesville, which was a great, community. People convicted and sentenced, police at the state and local level removed.

First, let's lose the "my reading" thing. In the past few hours you have posted something that is completely not true, (the border exchanges in South/Central America claim), and misquoted me by claiming a quote, deleting what I said, and inserting something else, and then questioning on it. It is not my reading comprehension. It is trying to keep up with your mistakes that is the issue. To your question, I am not sure how much familiarity you have with this. There was a move, prompted by a high school girl who claimed she was upset by a statue that had been in place for decades. Decent folks on both sides argued about removing it, as is normal in a civilized society. (Thus the Trump quote). A single lunatic galvanized the mass of white supremacist lunatics to visit the place and protest, almost all from way out of the area. They organized an idiotic torch march the night before that inflamed the normal people here. The state and city police totally mishandled the situation and you got one car driving into a crowd. That individual has been convicted and sentenced to life. That's the truth of the story.

I'm not sure what you are claiming here, but Charlottesville is a typical university left leaning community. In no way does it attract Nazis. The entire brouhaha was brought about by one guy inviting a bunch of people from other parts of the country.

Never made that claim. Someone else did and I'm not going to comment. It's hard enough refuting what you deny saying, and further correcting misquoted posts. O the other hand........Re the Falklands, since you brought it into this, if we ever have a discussion on that, I'd be glad to inform the group on interesting tid bits. Allied ships passing in the night and exchanging things, outside of Congressional approval. The way things work.

Not interested in "getting you." But.... You have a post above that has a quote from me that is grossly inaccurate. You seem to have deleted what I said, and included what you did. Honest editing mistake, but to make the record clear, I never said what you posted I said.

I'm not trying to one up you, but you absolutely did say "constantly." That is what got my attention, having a good deal of experience there. Here is the quote from you: "and S and Central American countries are constantly changing hands." You want my opinion on what?

Have to laugh at this one. So this substantiates your claim that "S and Central American countries are constantly changing hands?" I'm sure you would agree that such a claim is ridiculous. I spent ten years down there a many times per month, including running a business from there and I am not aware of these constantly changing hands situations. Stay in your lane.

And they could cut a whole bunch more, and it wouldn't effect safety one bit. Instead they do what they do, and in Buttigieg he is what he is, which is an incompetent Transportation Secretary who took the job because he thought it would advance his political aspirations. In the meantime, let's spend more money changing the names of decades long systems while failing to bring them up to speed, because names are important and performance is not.

Really? I get that it's off topic, but the claim is false. Political governance changes, but boundaries have not, so I don't get your point.

I'll give him a pass on this one. He's facing an offensive which may be Putin's last best. They've lived through a horrible year and an even worse winter. Still, not smart to poke the US. The US is NATO. The US is the reason he is still around, and his only hope. Could have said something like it would be wise for the West to stay the course, but understands the sacrifices other countries have made, and will need to continue to make to achieve a favorable outcome. He should also refuse to be baited by stupid press questions designed to divide.

I've got apologize to All Pro Bills. The GDP numbers are accurate. I had the federal budget, not that we have one, stuck in my aging mind, The military budget numbers I stated are correct, a little less than 800b this year, not the 1.8t in the link, but I owe an apology for the GDP error.

So it went from 778b to 1.9 trillion is one year? A "fun fact" is that if the claim was anywhere near accurate, every kid in the US would have an F-22 in his garage. I have to get out of here before I shake my head off its support.

With due respect, I think there is a gross error in your claim/link. The suggestion that the US GDP is 26 trillion is out of sight insane. Especially, since in the confirming link you posted, the claim is that fourth quarter GDP was 421.1 b, which would mean that the previous three quarters accounted for 50x that. Insanity. Maybe the guy was talking about the entire world, but this is crazy.

At the risk of missing something, where are these bizarre numbers coming from? Our GDP is about one tenth of what is claimed, and defense is about 800b as opposed to the claimed 1.9 trillion.

In the "good people on both sides" claim, there is no attempt at plausible deniability. He directly condemned those groups in the same interview, making sure he was understood. These are the kinds of repeated lies that empower the folks who defend him against legitimate claims. There is no need to make stuff up.

This part of the transcript? "I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.” “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” When he said the "fine people on both sides" thing he was talking about people on both sides of the remove the Lee statue issue, and he was correct. This repeated lie is either gross ignorance or willful deception, and it will be just that every single time the lie is repeated. Either way, he never said that those repugnant groups were fine people, and he made that point twice, as I have quoted from the transcript that you challenged people to read.

The trip and visit to Kiev isn't accurately portrayed as travelling 16 hours into a war zone. An honest portrayal of a "war zone" does not allow one to stroll around. He is clearly infirm, and I can't watch him live, because it makes me uncomfortable. He struggles to even read prepared notes, and is obviously, aggressively "handled." The entire situation is awkward.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Could you explain this?

I had a feeling this would be misunderstood after I posted it. My fault for not being more clear. Being an all volunteer force does not relieve one from following legal orders, and we're not in a bad way. My point is that being volunteer, you can resign from active duty, and that is what I believe would happen on a very large scale if there was some whiff of using active duty people in a shooting war inside the US. Such a mass resignation would take time, but the effect would be immediate. In addition, I believe their would have to be some changes that would have to be in place before such an order could be given, as one of the requirements of the UCMJ is to not obey an unlawful order. I believe the active duty military could not issue such an order. Using the National Guard for minor police augmentation is a different and legal issue. Regarding how small a minority is that thinks that way, the officer corps in the US military is every bid as diverse as the general population, so presumably the same differences that would lead up to this hypothetical would exist there and render it dysfunctional as a unified force. In my experience, despite what you may think, I cannot imagine a circumstance where US pilots would strike known civilians in the US.