All_Pro_Bills

His rejection of the perpetual war program makes West as undesirable to the Washington establishment as RFK Jr., or Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries. Or dare I say Trump in 2016. Outsiders not welcome here is the motto in Washington. And a third party candidacy makes it dangerous for the chosen Democratic nominee for 2024 (I don't think it will be Biden). So while West is a card carrying member of the liberal set that checks off all the correct boxes his anti-war stance will subject him to merciless attacks on orders dispatched to the troops from high above.

Regardless of what's being said currently. I'm not expecting Biden will be running for re-election in 2024. His popularity continues to decline and there's nothing out there to change the direction of that indicator. He's becoming a major liability that has outlived his usefulness to the party leadership. We can't expect this payoff scandal to be contained by the administration (w/DOJ & FBI running interference) which will result in his re-election bid becoming an impossibility. Regardless, he did his job, he defeated Trump, enemy of the establishment. You have an articulate and skilled debater in RFK Jr. with more traditional liberal views than Biden entering the race for the nomination. But clearly not somebody the party leadership can tolerate as the nominee mainly because he's an outsider that doesn't support the establishment's war agenda. Expect the DNC to present a chosen candidate to the voters, one that says all the right progressive things to say, supports all the social justice causes, and most importantly backs any and all military interventions and confrontations of the Washington establishment. A wildcard, Cornell West, a progressive disciple of Bernie Sanders, has declared a third party bid for the Presidency, not a bid for the Democratic nomination. I haven't seen much chatter about his announcement, but his message might resonate with enough progressive voters, especially younger people (18-34 which disapprove of Biden at 56%), to drain enough votes from a Democratic party candidate which would allow the Republican challenger to win the Electoral College vote by carrying some additional States. This worries DNC leadership and expect them to fight tooth and nail to keep West off the ballot in as many States as possible by whatever means are necessary. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/10/cornel-west-against-joe-biden-00101246

More like a list of guiding principles you find in a mission statement.

Straight out of the handbook.

I think race relations are better now than at any point in time in the history of our nation. I think the left is more racist than the right simply because of woke dogma which claims to be based on tolerance and inclusion but is actually based on racism and stereotyping. Such as a core tenant. They "believe in a world that is divided into oppressors and oppressed, exploiters and exploited and that these groups are easily identified by the color of their skin". That's also core to DEI too. How much more racist can you get than that? To presume you know everything about somebody based on their appearance which allows you to put them into a specific pre-defined group. Add in separate but equal race exclusive thinking, events, and ideas and there you have your racism. Generated by liberal think tanks, academics, NGO's, DEI obsessed corporations, and government officials.

Its been a while since I was in high school but our history lessons included the Civil War, the practice of slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass, the Underground Railroad, abolitionists, John Brown, and so on. What we didn't get was a focus on moralizing and judging the ethics and acts of historical figures against the current social norms in order to demonize the history of the country. Then go marching out of the school demanding it be renamed or that monuments or symbols of the past be erased consistent with the Cultural Revolution. I'll wager I could take an account of the historical record of mankind, look at 4 or 5 thousand years of history, the practices and ethics of those empires, countries, and kingdoms and nations. The atrocities they committed, their standard of ethics and morals, and reach a conclusion every single one of them were immoral and bad actors based on today's standards of civilized behavior. Given that should we raze the Roman Colosseum, the Pyramids of Egypt, and all other vestiges of that past because all those people acted outside today's norms? Teachers should be teaching kids the historical record and how to objectively and logically think about history not what to think of it while moralizing based on their personal opinions.

White House Backtracks: Admits China Had A Spy Base In Cuba For Years, Blames Trump China has been using a secret base in Cuba to spy on the United States since at least 2019, a Biden administration official has confirmed, in a revelation which comes of the heels of a last Thursday Wall Street Journal report which triggered a swift denial from the White House and NSC spokesman John Kirby. The admin official further told The Associated Press that the US intelligence community has considered Chinese spying from Cuba to in reality be an "ongoing" matter and "not a new development" - despite the Biden White House having strongly downplayed the reports of an expanding Chinese spy presence a mere 100 miles from Florida and the American southeast, which hosts dozens of military bases. An official says that the administration “inherited” the problem. "This is an ongoing issue and not a new development," the widely cited source, identified as a senior White House official, emphasized. "The PRC [People’s Republic of China] conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019. This is well-documented in the intelligence record."

Unless you delude yourself into believing you are always championing the cause of some oppressed and silenced group and anyone that dares to express an opposing view represents evil which must be vanquished by any means necessary. That's the mindset of the people you're debating with here.

More appropriate for mental health awareness month.

The folks in Washington are very busy. They classify an average of 50 million documents every year. I find it intriguing the government can have so many secrets. Some opinions I've read suggest the government suffers from a thing called over-classification. To hide not just secrets but instances of incompetence and embarrassment. Just who exactly they're keeping secrets from, our enemies or the American public is uncertain. What always gives me a hearty chuckle is situations where some person decides to expose a "top secret" document detailing government maleficence, illegal activity, our outright lies. The funny part is the people breaking the law and attempting to keep something secret get off free and clear and the guy exposing the illegal activity gets the book thrown at him for revealing secrets. The moral is keeping illegal actions secret is okay, exposing them is not.

I ask that question because I believe the only way for Ukraine to "win" what has become a war of attrition is for the US or some other NATO member country to commit combat forces on the ground. We haven't reached that tipping point yet as the clear strategy is to supply more and more sophisticated weapons deliveries. The latest commitment being the pledge of F-16's. By the time these aircraft are delivered and the flight crews trained I don't think these aircraft will make much of a difference. My conclusion based on what information is available is what Ukraine needs more than anything is a large number of well trained soldiers rather than more advanced weapons systems. At this point I don't expect Ukraine can field such a force on their own as this war of attrition just by shear numbers favor Russia. The soldiers would need to come from someplace else. Obviously, any decision to become involved in combat operations would take this conflict in an entirely different and unknown direction. As officials out of Washington has said they're prepared to do "whatever it takes for as long as it takes" I think that's where we're eventually headed. They won't say it because the American public absolutely is against such a more but that's what it's going to take. So I'm watching for subtle clues and comments intended to soften up the public to the idea. In some 6-9 month time frame we'll begin to hear louder and louder calls from the standard war hawks about the need to directly intervene..

Let's say you're correct. If it's the only way to stop that are you willing to support the commitment of US forces to combat operations?

Generally, I think people who believe words are equivalent to violence have never experienced real physical violence. Never been in any serious physical confrontation, been punched in the face, shot at in some military conflict, or had to step in to protect somebody else from physical harm by confronting another person or persons. When you approach the idea from the perspective of experience with actual violence it's hard to convince somebody that words are violence. What libs that say words are violence really mean is I don't like your opinion so demand you shut up because facts or truth don't matter.

Generating "hate" is big business for the Left. It manufactures issues for them to politicize to gain power. To their credit, the strategy works pretty well. For everybody else, not so much.

Like a player that instigates a fight in hockey. They irritate their opponent in order to instigate confrontation. To create an incident. To create an incident of social injustice. Common sense tells you that anyone living by current moral and ethical standards of social behavior will object to that sort of thing. So somebody objects. Which gives the Social Justice crowd, their supporters on the left, and their media allies broadcast the thing 24/7, then queue the rage about oppression and hate and bigotry and dare I say, white supremacy. It's their game. And if you don't object they push it to the limit until you do. What's next? Some weirdo pumping the neighbors Cat on the corner in a wig and lipstick? At some point its going to come down to dropping the gloves and punching them in the face. That's what they ultimately want. Which then gives the government goon squads and gestapo units waiting in the wings the green light to start rounding up objectors and sending them off to re-education camps. Thank you to Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution for the playbook. The difference is Mao's goons didn't have to worry about the Chinese citizens of that era opening their door and lighting them up. The potential of that might curb some of the enthusiasm on the American left.

I'd suggest our difference of opinion is centered on the definition of evidence. And while I didn't use the word "evidence" in my response for the sake of argument I'll retract references to that word. And for the sake of that argument I'll define "evidence" as testimony or exhibits presented in a court of law as evidence. All of which has yet to happen. Given that, I'll center my argument around the legal concept of sufficient "probable cause" to provide the likelihood that a crime has been committed. Probable cause being the threshold of reasonable suspicion a court would use to issue warrants or agree to proceed with a case against an individual. Evidence a prosecutor would claim to have when presenting a case for an indictment to a grand jury. So given the large amount of suspicious activity supported by witness statements, physical items, and transactions like bank wire transfers of money from one account to another in the name of suspected individuals under scrutiny, would you agree there is probable cause to suspect a crime has been committed which requires a more thorough and detailed investigation by the Department of Justice? One additional comment: It's intriguing to me that both statements by Bobulinsk and the FBI whistleblower's statements about the FBI form FD-1023 document both, and most importantly independently each other, refer to Joe Biden as "the big guy". Tell me that's a coincidence.

Here's some things we do know: Hunter was on the board of directors of Burisma, a Ukrainian company, where he had no apparent and applicable business experience during a time his father, the VP of the United States, was charged with leading US/Ukrainian affairs. A PC repair shop owner stated he held a laptop that one Hunter Biden dropped off for service and when the machine was fixed he failed to pick it up after several attempts by the shop owner to contact him. A receipt produced by the shop owner bares the signature of Hunter Biden. The shop owner called the FBI and initially they had no interest. Later, they contacted the shop owner, visited the shop and took the laptop into Federal possession. There is is presumed to have sat on a shelf under lock and key. Prior to the 2020 election the existence of the laptop was revealed in the media. Former members of the Intelligence community issued a statement that they concluded the laptop was Russian disinformation. Later it was proven they lied. As former CIA official Morrell who led the effort to craft the statement, causally stated in Congressional testimoney the reason was, "because he wanted Biden to win". Tony Bobulinski, a former partner of Hunter Biden, has made public statements and provided depositions verifying the authenticity of a portion of the laptop's e-mails along with alleging the current President received payments the partnership firm laundered from foreign source. Meetings, attendees, topics, payments, transactions, discussions. The infamous "10 percent for the big guy". Joe Biden being the big guy. Some of the alleged payment were made from entities linked to the CCP in China. Recently an FBI whistleblower has stated Biden received a $5 million bribe from a Burisma executive. The whistleblower also revealed the FBI has been in possession of an FBI document, form FD-1023, dated 6/30/2020 which details the crime. The FBI has been stonewalling efforts by the House Oversight Committee to acquire the document but has relented this week. Is there enough smoke to believe there's a fire here? Seems so. Will DOJ act? Doubtful. So lets see exactly who is above the law now.

I'm surprised by your perspective. I would have expected this news would send you into a state of euphoria. But your comment is a little more tempered. In the business we call it managing expectations. Maybe that feeling of impending doom comes from being a Bills fan? I know I have it. Things are looking exceptionally well for the team, winning game after game, up by double digits but in the back of your mind you have that fear that something is going to go terribly wrong at some point. And many times, it does go wrong at the worst possible moment. Recently in the playoffs. If only for the mental health of all of us the Bills need to win it all this year!

First the US IC said the evidence points to the Russians blowing up Nordstream but without providing any supporting evidence. Now, months later, they've changed their story. Throwing some Ukranian special operations group under the bus. And we're supposed to believe them. Both times. Sadly some do. Then the Russians blew up the dam flooding the countryside and several towns. Of course the press just runs with the story like they've been trained to do. Never asking a question or looking more closely. Give it a week or two and they'll change this story too.

So are you're saying, regardless of evidence and allegations, you'll continue to defend Biden up until the moment a jury renders a verdict of guilty?

But the leftist mob is much more efficient and effective at the game. Plus their dogma provides them many more opportunities. Since they can pick one victim or another from a wide variety of oppressed groups. Allowing them to constantly gripe and cry about one thing or another being done to somebody by white supremacists.

Yes, I believe global inflation would certainly have been much lower under Trump. Under Biden, excessive stimulus, bigger deficits, sanctions, asset seizures and confiscation, disruptions of global supply chains beyond the impacts of COVID, disruptions of oil and gas trade and agreements, draining the SPR, deteriorating relationships with the rest of the world (minus European vassal state). I've got a light workload today so I can do this all day!

An "ongoing investigation" into the Biden family which the FBI expects to conclude in December of the year 2153. Until then officials cannot comment on any details or specifics of their findings.

Winning? Certainly that doesn't include American working people as all they're winning is a higher cost of living with this administration. But enjoy your winning.

Republicans, you mean all of them? I think you're just mad I thought of the slogan "if you can't beat 'em, then cheat 'em" first! It's catchy, right?