All_Pro_Bills

Where have we seen this before? Prior to the pro-western government currently in power the pro-Russian and democratically elected Yanukovych government was overthrown in a coup engineering by then under-secretary of State Victoria Nuland under the Obama administration. Recall the Maidan protests which were pretext for the event. His sin? Declaring no interest in forming closer ties with NATO and Western alliances. Soon thereafter, was the Russian invasion and takeover of Crimea. Of historical note is that Crimea, originally a territory of Russia, was transferred by Soviet Premier Kruschev to Ukraine in the 1950's. Of note is that Krushev was a Ukrainian and the move was generally unpopular with the impacted populations at the time. But what choice did they have, right? So now with Biden in the White House Vicky and the war-hawks are back to finish the job after the pause button on new wars and conflicts was hit for 4 years. The problem is the circumstances have changed dramatically. Biden has already taken the most serious U.S. options off the table. Now the U.S. has very little leverage, the UK is irrelevant, and Europe is split on backing or resisting taking any kind of military actions and some states such as Germany see economic integration and trade with Russia as a fundamental objective. And so goes Germany, so goes Europe. My assessment is this is no-win scenario. I see no vested interest here, regardless of your insistence that Americans should fight and die for democracy in obscure and irrelevant places around the world. I hope we steer clear of getting bogged down in another useless conflict. But our government tends to spend a lot of time and resources on useless adventures which makes a lot of defense contractors and their shareholders rich at the expense of a lot of death and destruction. Maybe we should discuss more about Yemen and U.S. support of non-democratic Saudi Arabia which is recklessly targeting, bombing, and killing civilian populations to its south? Why aren't we supporting or insisting on a transition to democracy there if that's the number one driver of policy?

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Russian intelligence concluded that Trump was unpredictable and therefore dangerous. It wasn't so much what he would or wouldn't do but rather they couldn't play out the U.S. reaction to their actions with him in charge. So they hesitated to take any action. The Biden administration is very predictable and officials like Blinken are well known. Under Biden the U.S. will provide assistance but has already shown their hand by stating they will take no direct action or commit combat forces if hostilities break out. Biden has also taken expulsion from SWIFT off the table. With the two things Russia fears removed from the equation he's more or less signaled the U.S. will take no actions that Russia has any fear or concern over. Given this all of the European countries will take no direct action because they assess the U.S. will abandon them and hang them out to dry if there is an escalation. Also, most countries see economic integration with Russia as beneficial to their long-term interests and a European centric strategy that benefits their interests instead of benefiting the U.S. Putin knows all of this. While the U.S. might welcome a proxy war against Russia that would tie up their forces and distract them from other interests in places like the Middle East I don't understand why anyone thinks Russia has any interest in Ukraine other than protecting their access to the Black Sea and keeping NATO and US forces out of Ukraine and off their border. Occupying the country is not a goal as it's a financial drain and financial disaster and in need of constant aid from external benefactors. I see the idea of an invasion as a media talking point and negotiating tactic more than a likely outcome. The most likely outcome is the situation slowly de-escalates and disappears from the headlines.

Living by the economic principle of comparative advantage. Sounds good.

The comical thing here is the left fancies themselves as crusaders in the fight against the evils of the system and the establishment. But how can you be a rebel or a revolutionary fighting the system when you control every social and political institution of the system and everything you believe is consistent with the beliefs of the system you insist you are fighting? Lets look at the belief in systemic racism. Its an inconsistent narrative. Liberals control the system. How can you claim to fight a system of racism if you control the system and make all the rules? That means liberals, that control the system, are racist. Either the system is not racist or the liberal left running the system are racist. The entire belief system is based on self-delusion.

Just touch base with former members of Bill's Arkansas State Police detail and get some insights. Or more likely their surviving family members.

People that have dirt on or go after the Clinton's are found to have a 560% higher risk of suicide than the baseline population.

Somebody forgot to lock the basement door when they put the crazy old guy to bed and he wandered up the stairs to the press podium and starting speaking some incoherent gibberish before they could put him back down there. Maybe Peppermint Patty should just level with us that grandpa has been slowing down a lot lately and the family is going to have to get together and decide what to do with him when the time comes.

Don't worry. Only the intellectually lazy and mentally compromised would believe such an excuse. He called the FBI on Jan. 8 and “explained his position”. Sure here's a guy that's a member of a government targeted political organization caught on video admonishing and encouraging other protesters to storm and enter the Capitol because "that's where our problem is". And all he has to do to avoid being arrested and sent to prison like hundreds of other protesters is to call the FBI and explain what he was doing. Why didn't they all think of that? Just call the FBI and give them some excuse and all is forgiven. And throw the incriminating video evidence of you in the garbage. Why its absolutely brilliant. I'm sure its going to catch on fast. Just call the cops and tell them you didn't mean to shoot those 5 people and the cops will tell you not to worry. Now that you've explained your position we'll just take your name off our wanted list now. Thanks for letting us know. Amazing! But I'm sure every national news show will lead with the story of Ray Epps providing transcripted and close session testimony to "the committee". Circle the clown cars. Just unbelievable, simply unbelievable. LMAO. I mean, come on man! You've got to be fooking kidding me here! How many ways can I say it? The absurdity of this "investigation" has reached new levels only somebody with a sense of comic genius could have envisioned. Just call the FBI and explain your position and they'll let you go. I'm laughing so hard my stomach hurts. I got to meet the person who made up this story/excuse. And shake their hand. And tell them you made my day as I haven't laughed at anything so ridiculous in a long, long time. So explain yourself Mr. Epps. "I was just trying to get protesters to enter the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the election results". Oh, well thank you Mr. Epps. Now that you've explained yourself the FBI will remove you from our list of most wanted people. Oh my God. Who can possibly believe any of that? Ray might as well wear his "Official FBI Informant' Tee shirt to the hearing.

What's missing as usual is context. Arlington is in Virginia. Virginia has different gun laws than the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia has very stringent gun laws. These protesters were staying at that Comfort Inn. They left their weapons in the hotel in order to abide by DC law. So prosecutors didn't "discover" anything other than a group of people abiding by the gun carry and permit laws of Virginia and DC. They'll just making up more bull sheet. And the pile is getting higher and deeper with every passing day. Now we're to believe revolutionaries will follow gun control laws. What did they have 30 days of supplies of? Pop Tarts? What the brain dead idiots can't ever explain is why a group of "insurrectionists" and "seditionists" intent on overthrowing the government and stopping the election certification, well aware of the capital crimes they'd be committing would choose to follow State and District of Columbia gun laws and yet be intent on committing higher crimes. Its like robbing a bank and insisting the getaway driver follow the speed limit. Morons.

You'd think Trump would have thrown Ukraine under the bus and into the arms of the Russians after the impeachment attempt resulting from his allegedly asking for political favors from the Kiev government. At least that was the story according to deep state CIA operative Colonel Vindman. What I'm not clear about from advocates of US intervention is exactly what type of response or action they propose to take? The administration has taken the nuclear response and direct troop insertion response off the table. They've declared expelling Russia from the SWIFT trade settlement system is off the table. To date they've sent arms and "advisors" to Ukraine which signals a you're own your own if it comes down to hostilities. And the European states have no desire to enter into any type of conflict with their biggest energy supplier. Especially in the dead of Winter. So what's the point of it all? I expect that's the obvious conclusion that most thinkers at the Kremlin and the Pentagon have reached. But your entire premise here to protect and defend democracy is a little short cited. A democracy which depends on Nazi paramilitary organizations for the core of its most aggressive and motivated fighters? You see the regular Army is nothing to write home about. That democracy angle seems out of alignment with progressive advocates that see imaginary Nazi's lurking behind every tree and under every bush domestically but can't seem to spot real Nazi's parading out in the open in a country they're willing to go to war in order to support "democracy". I can see it now. Social justice advocates on the left demanding we send Hispanic and Black US soldiers to fight side by side with Ukrainian Nazi's. Love the irony.

But for some reason this insurrectionist has not been arrested. And had his name and picture removed from the FBI most-wanted list a day after his actions were exposed in the press. However the people that listened to his urging to enter the Capitol were arrested to rot in solitary confinement. He's a government informant/asset inciting others to commit violence they would not have otherwise committed. The basic definition of a set up. But for some reason the government won't come clean here. Which makes it impossible to believe anything this administration or the committee have to say about 1/6. Liars got to lie.

I think the answer is the cross-border vaccine mandates for truckers will disrupt transportation capacity to bring goods across the border both ways. The US plans to institute similar rules on 1/22. Three days from today. The mandates will result in fewer truck drivers meeting the international driver requirements which means less products being traded and moved between the US and Canada. Fewer drivers means fewer trucks on the road with idle capacity and fewer deliveries. Ultimately, the result is less product on the shelves, disruptions to supply chains, higher wages for drivers, higher freight charges, and ultimately higher prices at the stores as consumers knowing supply is disrupted and quite possibly limited will "hoard" products with the expectation future supplies will be tight. Stores will in response institute purchase quantity limits to the affected items which will confirm consumer fears of supply issues. The expectation is higher prices until and if the capacity constraints get sorted out and resolved or for some reason demand is lower. Generally, the easiest way to cut demand is to raise prices. For US consumers I'm thinking paper and wood products will be one area to watch. And its not just final goods that will be impacted but also inputs to factories and manufacturing facilities and processes. https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/canada-s-vaccine-mandate-for-cross-border-truckers-is-now-in-effect-1.5741561

This version of the Bills will not lose because they took the Chiefs lightly or were over-confident. This team appears to be driven. Lots of guys with chips on their shoulders, real or imaginary out to prove everybody wrong and to tell their detractors to shove it. Like Allen, the QB that would never be a franchise type player and Diggs the WR that was a locker room problem and bad teammate. They put away the Patriots so just check off one item on the to-do list. Next checkbox is the Chiefs in the playoffs. Its been said Beane has built the roster to beat the Chiefs. Well this is it right here. I'm pretty confident they got it going on for Sunday. I think the Chiefs bring it too but the Bills are peaking at the right time here. Its no runaway but the Bills live to play another week.

That's what happens when you put Marxist academics and lifetime public sector employees in charge of business and economics. They reject traditional business principles and common sense and believe their superior intellectual brilliance leads to the production of free and unlimited goods and services, all without requiring anyone to perform any real work, that magically fall from the sky like bright rays of sunshine!

Maxine is pulling out all the stops here. Threats to Democracy, Racism, Domestic Terrorists. All the plot lines rolled into one. She sounds really desperate here. And the attacks on Manchin and Sinema reflect that desperation. We all know it's a matter of public record how the opposition always views the filibuster as a useful tool when they are in the minority. The record is full of speeches supporting the filibuster from the likes of Senator's Obama and Schummer and McConnell when it served their purposes. These are the facts. If you believe that anything which gets in the way of the majority from imposing their will on everyone else than I'd suggest you are more interested in a one-party ruling system of government. A system where compromise, debate, collaboration, and some semblance of a negotiated and agreed to "common good" are replaced by threats and force. Absent all the political and social justice bullsheet being dispensed the filibuster is simply an obstacle to their agenda that needs to be removed for them to pass the voting rights bill which the Democrats believe will facilitate their maintaining majority control of Congress. Democracy is just an excuse and an afterthought.

Why it's absolutely... Brilliant! Another job well done by the elected idiots and bumbling bureaucrats.

It's gotten to the point that Union Pacific Railroad has informed the County of Los Angeles that they are contemplating pulling as much of their operation as possible out of the county.

People on the left always believe they're engaged in some crusade against injustice and "the system". Even though they control almost every social and economic institution. That's part of the reason they can't let go of Trump. I saw a quote from a blog writer a couple days ago that described their mental state best. "What I find interesting is that leftists actually believe that THEY are the underdogs and that they are fighting a “revolution” against the establishment. This is a bizarre disconnect from reality. Every major institution of power and influence in the US is on the side of the political left. How can you be rebelling against the establishment if all your values coincide with the establishment’s agenda?" In the case of Trump they believe they're fighting some evil controlling force while in reality he's just a bit player in the game and the big fish are the people they blindly and loyally back. They are useful idiots and drones that will be dispensed with when no longer useful. But they're mentality is so detached from reality they cannot understand.

No worries here. The voting rights bill pushed by the administration should resolve all these issues by legalizing and codifying fraud.

As this isn't a case of a police officer alone on patrol confronting a dangerous suspect the question is why did this particular officer open fire while the others did not? After all, if the threat was extreme why didn't they all open fire?

Dem's use Jim Crow racist tool to block sanctions in support of Putin. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/senate-democrats-use-the-jim-crow

I agree in general with a couple modifications: I think there's a one-party system in place where power behind the screens calls the shots and the differences and conflict between the two major party's is purely for entertainment and dramatic purposes. Give the voters the illusion of choice every 2 or 4 years while establishing differences at the edges but not yielding on any vital interests or policies. Influential billionaires, large powerful corporations, global interests all pull the strings and call the shots. Members of both parties are well compensated for their efforts. As for the CIA I think its goals are the same as all intelligence agencies around the world. Gather information, monitor the political, social, and economic landscape, and carry out specific policy objectives domestically and internationally. All while making themselves as invisible as possible and creating the impression that it all happens by itself without their involvement and keeping their handiwork and involvement hidden from view.

For me the irony of the entire spectacle is the biggest threat to democracy since the Civil War, 9/11, Pearl Harbor, whatever event you want to cite is the 1/6 committee itself. The American version of the Committee for Public Safety. Conspiring to conduct a fictitious investigation with pre-determined outcomes in order to produce conclusions they plan to use to justify the passing legislation and creation of regulations to restrict the freedoms of American citizens and criminalize descent to their political agenda and weaponize Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies against their domestic enemies. All in plain site aided and abetted by their media stooges and enablers. They should all be arrested and charged with sedition.

No. But when he's not conducting unnecessary research projects that requires torturing and killing small animals, discretely funding illegal gain of function research is foreign labs with lax safety protocols, lying about his complicity in the pandemic, and supporting authoritarian lockdowns and ineffective mandates he seems like a decent guy.