All_Pro_Bills

And the overwhelming majority of authoritarians in America exerting media control are liberals on the left. This truth is so obvious its pointless to even debate.

What are they afraid of? Simply they're afraid because many on the left are virtue signalling predators. Similar to this I watch the wild animal and bird action in and around my yard. Occasionally a Hawk frequents the area looking for a meal. Typically, a Dove or Pigeon but in a pinch the Alpha Predator has no issue taking a Cardinal or Blue Jay as a meal. When the bird attacks all the prey flee. One might be caught. And then the danger for the rest is gone. What the prey don't realize is that collectively they could protect each other and repel or kill the Hawk by banding together and working for common protection. But they act in a single minded manner and flee. That's what people that fear the left do. Collectively there's no reason for the huge majority to take it from a few. That's why things like parents banding together to demand accountability from school boards scares the crap out of the left.

And back to extrapolating nefarious conclusions from a "leak" from some purported investigation which makes the rounds and gets passed back-and-forth among the left media to generate some faux consensus "we got ya" moment that whips up the necessary hysteria only to fade away in a few days or weeks when refuted but never retracted. A continuous and exhausting cycle of generating bull crap substituting for fact. 16 months and they're still talking about phone calls. People talking about other people talking. Now that's news! At this point the only thing function 1/6 provides is the entertainment value I derive from the topic on this message board.

Federal Election Commission is fining 2016 Clinton campaign and DNC for lying about not funding Russia collusion hoax story. Laundering Clinton and DNC funds to law firm Perkins Coie in order to make the payments appear as legitimate legal fees for services and not in reality payments to Fusion GPS, and then to Christopher Steele for undisclosed payments for opposition research. According to the FEC, Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules governing disclosure of expenditures on opposition research, when they paid opposition research firm Fusion GPS to contract with Steele. A combined $1,024,407.97 was paid by the treasurers of the DNC and Clinton campaign to law firm Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS’s information, and the party and campaign hid the reason, claiming it was for legal services, not opposition research on the dossier. Another fun fact to connect the dots here is attorneys that have/had spent time employed by Perkins Coie resided on Mueller's legal team investigating Russia collusion and the Trump campaign.

Not to mention very generous Federal and State tax credits that go to mostly affluent faux environmentalist buyers of EV's that rarely use them as their primary method of transportation which is something like a Range Rover sitting in the driveway of their 5K sq/ft home with two zone HVAC.

That's true. Nobody voted for Trump because they believe he's some pinnacle of virtue so arguing that he's got moral and ethical shortcomings is like preaching to the choir. At this point calling out his flaws is simply an exercise in self-gratification.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. That's why people host and attend yard sales.

It was obvious Trump was not a professional politician. He tended to speak in general terms which communicated his general lack of understanding details. He tended to talk too much which got him into trouble with an hostile press corps. His patronizing communications style with world leaders antagonistic to US interests taken in political circles as support was simply a negotiation and interpersonal tactic. The opposite approach demanded by some which is to tell somebody they suck and then expect them to cooperate isn't very productive. Biden on the other hand is more of an actor playing the role of President than a real President. This worked perfectly during the campaign held under the public appearance limitations imposed in 2020 during the pandemic. But his press conferences are reading from a script and then taking pre-screened and scripted questions from the press. Why bother? When he finds himself in ad hoc or uncontrolled public situations he tends to stumble and go off script. Which is followed by damage control of staffers telling us what he really meant or that he didn't mean what we thought he said or somehow the rest of us misunderstood his message. From a issue detail perspective neither appears to have the capacity to understand what's going on.

Maybe all the ladies need to take a stand and decide they've had enough and all boycott all these events until the message is received? Nothing gets a message across better than to pull money out of the pockets of the pompous douches making these decisions. When they lose money and the events lose money and sponsors lose money and pull support they'll be a sudden change in direction. Cash will always win out over virtue signalling.

There is no wrong or right side. War has always resulted in senseless killing of civilians. 400K Iraqi civilians were killed and millions displaced as a result of the US invasion. Japan committed atrocities against civilian populations in places like China, Korea, and the Philippines. Truman ordered the dropping of 2 h-bombs that killed almost every resident of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 40 million Russians were killed by the Germans. The bombing of London. On top of running extermination camps. The firebombing of Dresden killed countless thousands. Throughout history empires, the Romans, the Huns, the Aztecs, the Ottomans, the Crusades, and countless others. I could go on.. But sure, if you're a blood thirsty war monger then shame on Trump for taking actions and making statements that avoiding death and suffering in a place where people were already facing hardships. And kudos for Biden for shooting his mouth off and when the fighting started telling Zelensky he's on his own..

How do you explain the fact that no actions have been taken by DOJ or any law enforcement organization to develop a legal case and pursue charges in the past 15 months? Rather it's left to a partisan Congressional committee that has absolutely no legal authority to issue charges. Nor for that matter any desire to determine the truth absent any political advantage. All they can do is forward their recommendations to the DOJ which to this point has expressed no interest to pursue any charges. I can only conclude the strategy is to keep this committee investigation on life support in the hope it can survive to impact the 2022 mid-term election cycle as the Democrats have few to no success stories or much else to run on. The sad reality for them is there's not much enthusiasm for the "insurrection" narrative anymore beyond the core constituency. Sure Trump might have discussed options and weighed them against Federal and State law and the Constitution but you need to really understand the difference between what might be considered inappropriate discussions and illegal activities and actions. Filing challenges to election results is not illegal and the courts appropriately ruled on whether or not to allow those challenges to proceed. It's over.

The headlines sound promising that some end to hostilities can be reached or at a minimum dialing it back. U.S. markets are rallying on the news and the oil price is coming down but the reality they're ignoring is the sanctions will not be removed anytime soon regardless of any peace deal and relationships between the West and Russia are beyond repair. All these asset freeze and seizure actions have given a lot of dollar holders pause to evaluate what I've seen described as "un-hedgeable confiscation risk".

You might be on to something. But let's not overlook the fact that the last names Biden and Putin both contain 5 letters and both have an "i" and an "n". This could be the evidence needed to break the case wide open. Dare I say a special counsel should be immediately named?

You just refuse to see the big picture when it comes to alliances and arrangements in the Middle East. Like it or not you need to take into account how actions related to the Kurds will impact relations with Turkey. A fellow NATO member which "grants" the U.S. access to their airspace and bases to run missions and host U.S. forces. Pronounce and commit to undying support for the Kurds as you desire and Erdogan would have told the U.S. to get out. That threat was clear. And most likely signaling to ISIS forces under his "protection" that U.S. interests can be legitimate targets. Or unleashing more migrants into Europe. Its a balancing act where the U.S. isn't in the position to dictate terms and conditions unilaterally. That black and white world you wish for doesn't exist.

Like it or not the reality is it's not that simple.

Concluding Trump abandoned the Kruds is a simplistic conclusion to a very complex web of relationships. The U.S., Turkey, Russia, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, UAE, and the Kurds along with other groups all have both competing and common objectives that come into play at one time or another. These interests very from issue to issue or from situation to situation. As do the alliances between the parties. And U.S. policy from Trump to Biden hasn't changed much. I'm not very clear on what those policy objectives are at this point other than to keep this balancing act from boiling over into some wider conflict.

Experts! Any 1st year biology student can tell you the difference between men and women. The biological science is clear. It's also clear its generally ignored when convenient. Like it is with identity politics. He's how I see it. Somebody can hold what I conclude are all kinds of absurd and irrational beliefs. That's their business. I'll say my piece but if they disagree that's okay. But don't expect me to believe it. And don't try to coerce or force me to deny reality or believe it.

There's a fundamental difference between gay and trans. Gay people have an affinity for people of the same sex. Overwhelmingly gay men do not identify with being a women and lesbians do not identify with being a man. I base my conclusions on gay men and women a personally know and through observation of real people in real life situations. Trans people "think" or "identify" with being a member of the opposite sex which conflicts with biological fact. The "mocking" is of this belief and feelings that you can decide what you are. Which in a world committed to and run based on facts would be absurd. That apparently isn't a world were many people reside.

Hills is a great WR but much of what worked with Mahomes and Hill vs. the Bills depended on the QB's ability to improvise and buy time while Hill excelled at finding the open spots as the defense and coverage broke down. I can't envision Tua making that leap in his game. Add in a new Head Coach, different systems, and integrating lots of free agents so there might be some growing pains for that offense. I also wonder about the Chiefs motivations to make the trade and what they might know that the Dolphins don't and will soon find out?

Wonderful, sounds like the makings of a new conspiracy theory. Justice Thomas is protecting Trump. When one crackpot hoax hits a dead end just generate another. So what's your question?

Putin isn't crazy. That characterization is marketing and messaging. He's a cold, calculating, ruthless, sociopath. But so are most of the people running policy in the U.S. neocon & neoliberal war machine. Guys like Lindsay Graham. He's been almost invisible for 5 years and suddenly when a war gets started, he awakens from his coffin to advocate for war and violence. When I watch what's going on here, I sometimes imagine how the world would look without leaders? After all, I've got no quarrel with the average working man and woman in Ukraine, or Russia. or China, or Iran, or anywhere in Europe, or anywhere else for that matter. They likely feel the same way. It seems like it's the leaders that have problems with each other. Why not just let them do pistols at 12 paces and settle it without having the commit the lives and blood of the rest of us? Or just collectively decide to get rid of them all?

Did it the day US exchanges froze trading on Russian debt/stocks but thinking its not too late because I expect funds are using market to model pricing vs. mark to market until things get sorted out.

If you have any emerging market exposure in your 401K or IRA you might want to review the fund holdings for direct exposure to Russia.

Given this was a situation where a virus was "politicized" we got some unusual outcomes and messaging One novel revelation was for the first time in history medical science discovered that sick and old people and others with compromised immune systems are more likely to die when they become infected by some viral or bacterial organism. Who could have expected that? That and for having the most expensive and complex health care system in the world the U.S. experienced more deaths per capita than 3rd world countries that had much less. Which either shows how inefficient our system was in addressing the pandemic or it reflects the overall poor health of Americans.

Why is it always white people? Because leftist fanatics like these characters think black people are incapable of succeeding without "help" from white people. Which implies a covert racism presented in the form of a superiority complex.