All_Pro_Bills

Which branch of government should the authority for SCOTUS oversight sit?

When does the Russian lawyer employed by FusionGPS and Perkins Coie show up and offer a deal from Putin? Now that I think about it, they most likely falsified business records to hide the payments to her. Calling it "legal expenses". I understand in NYS that's considered a crime depending on the ideological affiliation of the perpetrator.

@TiberiusYou should buy a load of these coins so one day your grand and great grand children can each have a memento of the person that drove grandpa to the edge of insanity!

21%+ inflation in 4 years says the country is not in better shape. (Hint: its going to re-accelerate soon). More crime says the country is not in better shape. $1 trillion federal government spending deficits about every 3 months during a time the administration claims the economy is good says the country isn't in better shape. War in the Middle East where the US has lost almost all influence says the country is not in better shape. 20 million immigrants claiming asylum in where 99% of them on inspection won't meet the criteria (they're here for economic reasons) but the law won't be enforced says the country is not in better shape. Central and South American crime gangs setting up shop across the country where the government does nothing, like round them up and deport them maybe, says the country is not in better shape. I could go on. And on. And more bad news for you. From what I've seen of the Appeals Court judges questions to the government prosecutors that felon tag is most likely going to be overruled on appeal. Curiously, the judges are asking the same questions and making the same conclusions that a lot of posters here put out there while concluding the governments case was baseless. And yeah, Obama's crew is definitely running the White House. Anyone still thinking Biden is making decisions and policy consistent with the duties and responsibilities of the Commander in Chief is fooling themselves. Last week Joe was AWOL and Dr. Jill chaired the cabinet meeting. Just wow.

Drama. I'm not okay with a racist because he's not a racist. That's just you repeating party taking points because they always play the race hustle. So let's settle for Harris. A brain dead simpleton that can't give an answer to a simple question without preparing for it for 2 days. A woman that slept with her boss to get ahead. So much higher standard of morality. You're joking. The country can't survive another 4 years of Biden/Harris/Obama.

Even if he was a racist, which he isn't, that doesn't make Harris a better choice to run the country.

That attitude might fly here when you're sparing with ideological adversaries that you have little to no sympathy for in any way. But its not going to win you any votes in a liberal State or election district. There you need to tell people that McDonalds is price gouging, paying their workers poverty level wages, and the citizens not able to afford a McDouble are members of invisible, under-served, and oppressed groups that white supremacists exhibiting white privilege traits are plotting to keep them from affording and enjoying a McDouble burger. And you will fight those evil forces and insure justice and truth prevail, tax those evil doers and redistribute those funds to the masses resulting in McDoubles for all! That in a couple sentences summarizes the DNC's campaign strategy every election.

Prices generally fall when productivity increases. The question is how do you enhance productivity and do any of her proposals support increased productivity? Which results in business and workers earning more. Aren't most of her team's proposals geared towards income redistribution schemes and defining new ways to find more funds for increased government spending?

@Tiberiustold us all that polls are useless.

The hoax is the illusion that Harris has been transformed from a total moron into some shining orator and leader. That's the crock of schitt here. I know it you know it too. But you'll never say it.

Pretty much everything they do lacks authenticity and is scripted and crafted consistent with the work of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda which operated under propagandist extraordinaire Joseph Goebbels circa Germany 1933 to 1945. Rumor has it the likes of Steven Spielberg is assuming that role creating the image and public persona of the new and improved Kamala Harris for the DNC. Hoodwinking the American public into believing the village idiot is now the equal of the likes of Churchill and FDR.

Saw his interview on The View. He should not be President at this point. But they don't want to promote Harris because they're afraid she'll demonstrate incompetence that will cost them the WH. Better to wait until after getting elected to show that incompetence to the suckers that voted for her. What a masterful con game they're running. Especially the strategy of running against their own record!

And what happened to the concept of presumption of innocence? I see Adams work to date as mayor as a mixed bag and my trips into The City (as the natives call it here) have become less frequent for many reasons but he was outwardly critical of the administration's disastrous immigration free-for-all. I wondered for months when that would be punished? So Garland gets the call out of the bullpen as enforcer and head comissar of obedience to the party. And the party values ideological conformance over and above effective governance. In fact that doesn't even appear to be a concern.

If there is accountability on how the money is spent its on a need to know basis and nobody is going to tell you or me if there's any funny business. So there's no accountability. The doctrine of government avoiding transparency at all costs in play. And I'm not sure what misleading article you are claiming I've read that is forming my view. I'm relying on a known historical level of high corruption when it comes to Ukraine and the system of oligarchs. You want to assume the Russians are corrupt and the Ukrainians are not but its basically the same system sprung from the former Soviet Union. I think they both are corrupt. Its not an unreasonable assumption to conclude there is corruption and some of the funds are disappearing or not getting to the specific destination intended. You want to play Pollyanna and believe all is good until somebody confesses. Your argument is always pretty consistent. I am influenced by outside forces that provide me with my views and misinformation that produce faulty or defective conclusions and positions while you are a much smarter free and independent thinker armed with accurate and reliable facts from accurate and reliable sources to always know the truth and arrive at correct conclusions. My view of all of that are you're fooling yourself and instead are a victim of gaslighted and a steady diet of BS that's got you, and others here, believing pretty much anything the government wants to tell you.

I don't get it either. Its not like the US treasury has a spare $200 Billion laying around collecting dust just waiting for some needy cause. That money is borrowed, committing future Americans to a stream of principal and interest payment along with de-prioritizing other potential uses of those borrowed funds. If you're old enough to remember anything about the Vietnam era you might be familiar with the slogan "my country, right or wrong". Its was the slogan used by war supporters against anyone that disagreed with US government policy and questioned the merits of the war. Its the older brother of the current you're "Putin's useful idiot" if you question anything about the conflict slogan being peddled by today's crop of government advocates and supporters of the current policy. There was also the "domino theory" that if Vietnam fell then all of Southeast Asia would be under communism. That's consistent with the if Russia takes Ukraine then all of Europe will follow. If the war hawks are one thing its consistent over time in their messaging although they're not very creative. And consistently wrong too. Ultimately, to them being right is not important. Just as it was in the 1960's it is today. Its a false premise to charge that anyone that objects to or questions US government policy is siding or aiding the enemies cause. What they label as support for the enemy is plain old critical and logical thinking to produce objective conclusions. The idea anyone would try and want to understand the enemies positions, objectives, and goals is an unimaginable and inconceivable concept to the liberal war supporters. The thinking is we're right, you're wrong why should I care what you think? What it comes down to is we're talking about two different things. The war advocates are not interested in objective criticism, ideas, or conclusions. They just look at the situation from one side and ignore everything else. Slightly different from the 60's slogan but more or less "my government, right or wrong".

I could ask you to find one shred of proof there isn't any mismanagement? What do you want me to do? Get on a plane and show up in Kyiv and announce I'm going to perform an audit on all the US aid they've received? Really! The flaw in your thinking is the need for complete information before drawing any rational or objective conclusions. The inability or unwillingness to extrapolate conclusions with incomplete information to fill in the blanks and produce a most likely conclusion. I'm basing my view on the nature of the arrangement. Lots of money, $200 Billion. No accountability for how the funds are spent or dispersed. Parties resisting any audit. Historical corruption in Ukraine. A lot of the money is for paying government employees in Ukraine, not weapons. Demonstrated incompetence of the US administration. So we're sending billions of dollars to a country that is historically known for a high level of corruption without any audit or checks and balance in how the money is spent or distributed and you believe the odds favor everything is on the up-and-up? That's not a smart conclusion and its a bad bet.

Hypothetically, which would be worse? People that are slow and dumb being fooled by Trump? Or people claiming intellectual superiority being fooled by Harris and the Dems?

We didn't sign a treaty with Ukraine. Treaties require Congressional votes and approval. When did Congress pass this? Any agreement is technically is devoid of constitutionally required consent. The eroded support in the west is not the result of foriegn influence. Citizens see their needs de-prioritized to fund the war and in Europe the economies of most countries have suffered from sanctions more than Russia. The war is unpopular with the voters but their leaders don't care. What is that thing,? Oh yeah, democracy What's it caled when the government ignores the will of the people? I've heard the argument the funding supports US defense industry. But the arrangement still leaves the taxpayers with the bill. If you want to supply arms where me and other taxpayers don't get stuck with the tab I have no objection. Or maybe spend the money on something productive? If you"re concerned about raping and pillaging maybe shut our border with Mexico first? Clean up your own house first. The left is fickle. They think nobody else but them are able to arrive at any conclusion that disagrees with them through any other means than getting packaged and provided conclusions from somewhere else. Believe it or not I do my own thinking. You might want to consider doing some too. Whether my conclusions agree or disagree with one side or the other is immaterial to the goal of objectivity. I realize liberal have no use for that view.

And now... an interesting coincidence. https://abcnews.go.com/US/son-ryan-routh-accused-trump-assassination-attempt-arrested/story?id=113959628 The message is "Ryan, if you talk and reveal anything about anyone else that might be connected to the assassination attempt, we're going after your family, Stick to the story you're a lone wolf acting alone. If anybody asks where you got the money to travel and plan the attack tell them you won it playing craps in Vegas".

It will be 100x worse if the Democrats don't get their way in November. There will be riots and a 100 legal objections. And don't forget... 4 more years of having to hear about how the Russians helped.

The usual characters adapt at denying reality that through some delusion believe our government is run by Boy Scouts with an unimpeachable commitment to truth and democracy will certainly disagree, but they can't allow an audit that will show government officials and oligarchs are skimming billions/millions, as US official look the other way, in exchange for sending their soldiers to their deaths to engage their country in a US/NATO proxy war which cannot be won at this point.

Gabe was a good WR for the Bills but his performance was inconsistent. 4 TDs in a playoff game and then he disappeared for weeks. But by all accounts he was a good teammate and he parlayed his work with the Bills into a 3 year deal of $39M with $24M guaranteed that the Bills were in no position to match because of cap limitations.

What bothers sensible people is we've spent $200 billion and cost the lives of about 500K Ukrainian soldiers, witnessed the country's infrastructure become obliterated, and numb nut leaders in the EU are pushing escalating the fighting which will lead to more deaths. And those 40 million people? Most could care less whether the ethic Russian majority in Donbas are under Ukraine, Russia, or governed by some independent territory. The latest the geniuses are coming up with is allowing Ukraine to use "long range" missiles that can only be targeted through the use of US or NATO satellite systems which effectively means our military personnel are performing the targeting work and therefore we're at war with Russia. The only Ukrainian involved is the guy pushing the button. And please for the love of God please don't say I'm appeasing Putin. The risk of blowing up the world in some nuclear WW3 scenario is a cost too great and a risk best avoided. Other than having a desire for suicide, I'm not sure why anyone is so all-in on this idea. Because it won't be just me, you'll be dead too. I've opposed this entire operation since the beginning and you've been waving your pompoms and all you've got to show for it is a big 200 billion dollar bill, lots of dead people, lost territory, and pretty much a no-win situation unless NATO gets directly involved. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

They were worried the Biden administration would tip off the Iranians. and warn Hezbollah. I assume most saw the Iranians hacked the Trump campaign and sent e-mails to the Harris campaign. Not to say they're complicit. But its actual real live foreign election interference (not the made up kind) that nobody is wailing and howling about and its a clear signal they prefer another term of the Obama proxy administration in DC. Not a lot of student protests either although it will be interesting to see how much noise they make at the UN General Assembly meeting this week. I suspect the DNC has instructed the so called "student" protests to cool it so not to hurt the Harris camp. Like they did in the summer of 2019 with the BLM and Antifa riots. Same script, different year.

Except for the people bearing false witness and lying under oath about the events which produced the impeachment articles. But yeah, after people like Vindman lied and fabricated lines like "quid pro quo" (even though Zelensky himself said there was no quid pro quo understanding with Trump about Biden family gifting in Ukraine)) it was all done by the book. make up fake charges and follow the rules, that's what you guys do. Lock people up for walking around inside the Capitol and while importing murderers and rapists from 3rd world prisions. Just following the rules. And just for the record, democratic leaders don't have to make up false narrative BS. Because they have a well coordinated army of compensated intellectuals and media outlets to do the dirty work to make up all the false claims they need. Its how they avoid any accountability or blame for generating anything. Wonder no more. I was a democrat that voted for Clinton twice and Obama once but the party and its positions officially abandoned me and the rest of the middle class for their ideological nonsense. These people are simply dangerous, and most likely insane. I mean for starters, who lets murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and terrorists come freely into the country to cause a trail of death and destruction? You nuts.