All_Pro_Bills

You're absolutely correct, right or wrong Russia does attempt to influence American culture. Through official channels or unofficial ones. But what many seem to ignore, either intentionally or unintentionally, is this is not a unique action of a specific country doing this while every other country, including our own, sits idly and out of every else's business. What a lot of posters seem to believe is we can mess with anybody we want, at anytime, and in any way we please, but you can't mess with us. Because anyone sticking their noses in our business would be guilty of interference. What we're doing is "helping you". That doesn't seem fair, does it?

I've been saying time and again about the need to be skeptical of propaganda spewed from both sides. Like all wars. Here's an example. Two stories on the same event. USAToday: 'More alarming every hour': Russians admit Ukraine gains. Is counteroffensive underway?" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/06/05/ukraine-russia-war-live-updates/70288023007/ RussiaToday: "‘Large-scale’ Ukrainian offensive repelled – Russian MOD" https://www.rt.com/russia/577470-ukraine-large-scale-offensive-russia/

It's always about Trump for TDS sufferers as in your imagination he's some mastermind directing all kinds of plots and conspiracies rather than an outsider candidate with no clear idea on how to run the country that stumbled into the White House because the opposition candidate was so detestable. I'm sure he oversaw and directed every detail of the operation where the security guards on duty that night admitted to fabricating log entries to show they had monitored Epstein properly, but had all charges dropped,while they looked the other way as he personally slipped into the facility to kill Epstein. I'm sure Rep. Schiff and former Rep. Liz Chaney would be interested in investigating your claim. Maybe throw a couple Russian agents into the story to spice it up!

Anyone that has seen that list committed suicide by shooting themselves multiple times with their hands tied behind their backs.

From USAToday Story: "The Cessna was registered to Encore Motors. John Rumpel, who runs the company, told The New York Times that his daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and the pilot were aboard the plane. They were returning to their home in East Hampton on Long Island after visiting his house in North Carolina, he said."

Sorry for that!

A worthy vision of what might be. But I'd argue that's already what the left claims to preach, inclusion and diversity. Those words seem aligned with tolerance. But in woke practice inclusion and diversity are just the opposite. What I object to is just how dishonest the entire movement is in practice. Diversity and inclusion, "all are welcome". That's the message. But I assure everyone that if you came to their huddle with views and arguments that disagreed and conflicted with their views you would not be welcome. You would be attacked. You would not be tolerated. You would be silenced. The fact they need to hide behind a curtain of deceit raises a lot of suspicions that they're not really interesting in tolerance, inclusion, and diversity. Rather intolerance, exclusion, and uniformity. Like almost every social and political movement its a big con. I should have added. The right has called for boycotts and protests against the Dodgers but if the left was displeased by something the Dodgers did or didn't do they would not engage in a boycott of the team. They'd demand MLB remove the LA franchise from the league.

I don't think Bud is trying to get trans people to buy their beer. I think they're trying to improve their corporate ESG score by demonstrating their obedience and commitment to the social justice cult by promoting a marketing campaign focused on a group representing something like .01% of the population to score social credit points. The group woke ideology classifies as the victim of all victims. It's the ultimate statement of virtue signaling. Its how you get your corporate ESG score to 100. This displeases lots of the company's current customers and they decided individually or collectively to withhold their spending on the company's products. That's how market capitalism works. Ultimately, the company's management would rather lose a huge amount of sales and revenue than anger the social justice cult which has no tolerance for anyone not supporting their agenda. Once you sell your soul to the social justice Devil you can't get out without consequences.

I think your suggestions and assessment are credible but I believe the City of Chicago is in a death spiral to ruin. Companies like Tyson, Boeing, Caterpillar. Citadel, and a host of downtown retailers have abandoned the city. Mainly because of crime and safety issues the city refuses to address. This trend will likely continue. The new mayor is worse then the previous. The causes of crime are varied and an understanding into the minds of people living in povery is necessary. One cause of crime can be the perpetrators fear no consequences for their acts. I think this is major factor here. Politicians transforming criminals into victims while ignoring the real victims. That's a real turn off for law abiding citizens and an incentive to split.

You might be right. My conclusion is all "investment" decisions of professional fund managers is based completely on speculation of changes in and the direction of monetary policy.

Sounds like another potential insurrection plot foiled. Biden will speak to the nation tomorrow about extremist choirs being the biggest threat to our democracy since his handlers made up the white supremist threat ruse.

The idea is to pull off the desired cultural transformation without revealing the true nature of the change. Because its certain the citizens of every nation would object, resist, and oppose such changes. So, deceit is required. And suppressing voices of descent and reason. Disguise the true intentions by substituting other well-meaning initiatives like fighting climate change which most people can get on board with supporting. Then quietly move the goal posts toward the real objective. Re-fashioning the social and economic arrangements of society and gaining control over the system. Because rarely do people vote to install communism and its never voluntary. So lie.

Restoring the Empire? Everyone knows that's never going to happen. What else you got?

I'm not believing any propaganda. Anyone thinking this war is about bringing democracy to Ukraine is believing propaganda. The neocons and neoliberals in Washington don't care about democracy. To prove this point we can cite a number of countries the US supports where democracy is non-extent. Lots of happy dictators getting lots of aid and lots of weapons as long as they play ball. And if they don't like in Syria, they get leaned on. Or overthrow through engineered coups like in Kiev in 2014. US involvement is all about inflicting costs and consequences on Russia for opposing the U.S. system. Some officials in what was perhaps a moment of weakness have admitted to this fact. But its not working. Russia doesn't appear weakened. Look to the foreign exchange markets for confirmation. And the price of oil. Russia, and China, announce economic and cooperative deal after deal with other countries. The Biden administration sits idly while we become weaker. I believe Washington is wasting $110 billion on an adventure that's sure to fail like all of the other nation building exercises have failed before, while there are so many other domestic priorities that could use the funding being ignored. And cooperative arrangements around the world available without the need to blow things up being left on the table for Russia and China to take. Its going to be Afghanistan 2.0, wait and see.

You say people parroting Russian propaganda but I say people looking at the conflict through a lens of objectivity. Versus the alternative of parroting US/Ukraine propaganda. And I might have missed them but I can't recall any poster claiming Moscow was devoid of corruption. Clearly its not. As for Ukraine I see no evidence of any metric showing less corruption. Just, well propaganda. And speaking of propaganda, you can't tell the truth to Americans shelling out $110 billion that their representatives in Washington are once again pissing away tax dollars on another foriegn adventure failure.

I don't know any other way to say it but I'm going out on a limb to make a wild guess and say that a lot of these documents are classified for the purpose of hiding illegal or unethical government activity or actions by the intelligence community in violation of the law or acts of Congress. Let's hypothetically say I'm correct. So if that proves true, are we still going after Trump or the people that broke the law and tried to hide it? I should have added some context. The US government "classifies" about 50 million documents a year. That's 50 million secrets. And that smacks of overuse of the classified designation as it's very hard to comprehend there are that many legitimate national security secrets and concerns to keep hidden from friends and enemies alike. What it amounts to is giving the American citizen the mushroom treatment. Keep us in the dark and feed us BS.

But its not in the minds of people. Its real. I'd argue, at a minimum, a majority of Americans were at least tolerant (and many accepting) of the trans movement before the decision to target and groom children. Not even concerned at all about the trans "community". Unless its for the sake of conflict, I don't understand why they picked that "hill to die on" but they will surely die. It's a losing battle to fight against parents attempting to protect their children from some real or imagined evil. When you see "events" being cancelled because children are prohibiting from attending you're given a clear impression that "targeting children" is a primary objective. They simply need to stop it.

Queue the standard excuses for transparency such as national security threats and grave danger from terrorists using the video to plan attacks on the Capitol. Never mind they can just sign up for the guided tour and get a firsthand look instead. Coming soon will be a party game version of the video where you do a shot of JD every time you see an undercover Fed or undercover government asset inciting the crowd.

And when she punishes you until you yell out Trump's name?

I think what the high priests (you've got to be high to believe the crap they do) in the social justice religion are worried about is the ability to push other people around, penalize, and hurt any non-conformists is no longer their exclusive monopoly. When people are making a statement with a simple act of withholding their money from public companies they perceive as unfriendly to their interests it's hard to get a fix on the target (no pun intended). All their tactics of harassment and intimidation are useless. They're so scared you can smell the fear.

As part of the changes, they're setting expected response time for police and fire based on the social credit score of the occupants of the home. Am I kidding, or not? How can you tell the difference between leftist dogma and insanity? You can't!

The lesson of this story is "nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills Washington political establishment".

And yet with all this he still walks freely among us. How is that so?

Its a dance of death between the political machine and the citizens of Chicago where logic is non-existent. The only people in Chicago that will stop voting Democratic are in the Cemetery. And its likely many of them are still voting that way every 2, 4, and 6 years.

The rules aren't clear. But I'm of the opinion the reparations movement is a big-time liberal con. A vote getter chasing the carrot on a stick kind of hustle that will never happen. The funds are coming from where? Higher taxes? Rich coastal democratic donors? Leftist go fund me's? The minute you ask liberals to dig their hand into their own pocket rather than somebody else's the idea is DOA. They talk a good game about "helping" but they're cheapskates. But if every liberal wants to commit their savings and assets for reparations be my guest. That will happen when Hell freezes over.