All_Pro_Bills

I await the WH announcement the balloon incident demonstrates the dangers of climate change and white supremacy. No secure borders, no secure airspace, no more America with these clowns. And it's only going to get worse.

So if I'm following the story to this point, they've abandoned the Russian disinformation ruse and along with that expose something like 50 former IC members and every major news network and outlet as liars and accomplices in a cover up? And now the strategy is play the victim?

They don't need to as they're here already. The CCP maintains what have been called "secret police stations" around the world designed to keep tabs on expats and citizens abroad that might criticize or oppose the regime. One such outpost in NYC's Chinatown neighborhood was recently shut down by US authorities.

Now it's over Missouri. Whatever the case it's a national embarrassment and this administration has demonstrated itself as completely impotent when it comes to dealing with China. These WH and Pentagon press conferences stating this is "unacceptable" are pathetic. Okay then, what are you going to do about it besides say it's unacceptable? Nothing. We're doomed.

This 500k job gain is called seasonal adjustments. A total of 2.5 million spread across several months. Check the BLS site and educate yourself on how the model works and then understand these numbers are for lack of a better word, fake.

Would I support defending Taiwan? Its a question I can't provide an unconditional yes or no answer to because the nature and implications of such a conflict are unknown. For example, would you support Taiwan if it meant some loved ones, friends, or family, or perhaps yourself would die as a result of an armed conflict? Given that, you might not be so enthusiastic. Everything is relative and conditional in life. I support the Ukrainian people and their right to life and freedom. But we're operating from a different set of assumptions and expectations. For starters, you see Russian as 100% responsible for the conflict and the US as the white knight riding to the rescue while I assign responsibility on a more equitable level. If you recall, the State department and CIA manufactured a coup of an elected President in 2014. I expect many years from now historians will share my assessment.

You're funny. All roads lead to Russia and Trump. But China is hands off, right?

Your posts here imply support for China. Why do you hate America?

This administration is a complete joke. Our airspace has been violated. Just shoot it down. Recover the wreckage and determine its purpose. https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-says-hell-shoot-down-chinese-spy-balloon-as-soon-as-hes-done-letting-it-spy

I guess neither of them sees any problem with how the defense under-performs its regular season stats in the playoffs or folds in critical situations in those games. The excuse is execution. Maybe so but its still not getting the job done. One of them has to acknowledge there's a problem which requires both the HC and DC to address. Leslie has to be fully aware these gaffes and underwhelming efforts are costing him any chance of becoming an NFL head coach again. So not installing some changes or tweaks to the scheme and play calling or the amount of input Leslie gets in personal and draft decisions makes no sense from that view.

Good assessment. And kudos for taking the time and effort to document your thoughts. My view, regardless of the area, is a lack of progression and innovation by the coaching staff and front office. Its like they put a "process" in place 4/5 years ago and have failed to adjust and tune it using experience, data, and learnings either good or bad. They simply repeat the same script every season which fails in the playoffs at more or less the same place and under similar circumstances. A failure to adopt to changing conditions given better information. All ways to say they never make any fundamental changes or adjustments. This dog just doesn't learn new tricks. .

Hey, don't kill the messenger.

I don't think that's it. I believe some posters here are mocking you along with your views being perceived as a source of amusement.

If this doesn't work he might be forced to wear a wig and a dress while claiming he's a transsexual that is being attacked by white supremacists and a systemically racist system out to get him because they hate wealthy and privileged trans drug addicts that sell favors and secrets to China.

Suggesting logic and critical thinking be applied to ideological initiatives is an act of futility. In this case reparations. An on again off again topic. There are lots of questions about criteria and definitions. One fatal flaws of giveaways is that after 90% of the recipients blow their funds on trivial pursuits and needless stuff, what then? Demand more handouts, that's what. Most likely, there must be a necessity for some politician out there to buy some votes and score some points with another "free lunch" idea. My guess is its not going to happen because its all a game the pols run to pit the peasants against each other to distract attention away from the elites so they can horde and steal the productive goods and services out of the country and live the good life supplemented by hefty rich people welfare courtesy of the taxpayers. Its quite a con these psychos are running and its amazing how well it works for them. For the rest of us, not so much.

So resorting to just playing dumb now?

Are you paying attention or just getting paid to defend the establishment? Running a family business of influence and payoffs with China and other foreign entities. But you know that already, don't you? 10% for the big guy. Tell me you didn't hear that quote yet?

Yes, but my base thesis is they all lie.

I can't speak for the motivations of others. Why people believe one thing or another or listen to some sources and not others. Could it be confirmation bias or something like that? I don't know and I'm not going to put any more thought into it. And I'm not talking anarchy, its just how boom and bust cycles end. My thinking is I'm just not going to allow the sociopaths and maniacs running our out of control political, economic, and social systems to do major damage to me personally, and the people I'm responsible for caring after, along with friends and acquaintances that will listen to my assessment of things. I'll offer up my views that social, political, and economic systems are going bust and if anybody wants to listen then great and if they don't then good luck to them. I might listen to the opinions of others but their thoughts don't form the basis of my actions or ideas. But when it comes to media, I will say its hard to get people to tell the truth when they're getting compensated to lie. I think that's all there is to it.

In other words, trying to manipulate the legal system to hide his crimes.

I agree with you about liars. And I may be adding a little dramatic effect here, but the entire system that currently supports the elites in politics and money centers is based on lies and deceit. We're in a late-stage decline phase of the American empire where those things what's holding a decaying and decadent system together. I can think of few institutions and cultural values that are holding together. If you hold to a base assumption that everything social, financial, and political elites and the government says is a lie you'll be right most of the time.

Anyone that's not an idiot or on the payroll knew this from the start. How elaborate would it be to "fake" all the files and e-mails on somebody's personal laptop? You'd need intimate details about their life, their associations, plus planting stuff on other people's computers that corresponded with them, and on and on That's just not possible. So are the posters on the PPP that bought the Russian disinformation story and all the other establishment narratives that one by one have been shown to be false idiots or paid posters for the system?

Come on, it's funny. And the reason its funny is because the authoritarian policies of both jurisdictions are so similar that the idea of replacing Newsom with Trudeau would be plug and play.

Rumor has it that when his term as PM end, Trudeau plans on moving to the US where he will apply for citizenship and run for governor of California.

What happened to the excuse the DOJ (Garland said it) and the FBI (Wray used the excuse with Congress) don't make statements about ongoing investigations. Saying they didn't find any classified documents is making a statement about an ongoing investigation. What it boils down to is they'll open their mouths when it benefits some objective.