All_Pro_Bills

I suspect most have jumped to that conclusion based on yesterday's security failure. I did read an assessment from Erik Prince of Blackwater which was critical and raised questions about methods and procedures not being employed or followed.

Like most Biden appointees it's obvious Cheatle is eminently unqualified to perform the job. But the hire checked the administrations DEI boxes and put a leader in place that has prioritized checking the DEI boxes for the staffing the Service. DEI is simply lowest common denominator thinking.

That's the primary driver behind all liberal doctrine.

You are absolutely correct about Trump. A "normal" candidate would be trouncing Biden now given the circumstances. What we're doing here debating the pros and cons of these two is playing the cleanest pig in the mud hole game.

I hope they're all smart enough to report the transactions as "payoffs" lest they get brought up on charges of falsifying business records.

Those in disagreement might argue those "advisors", including former President Obama, are simply just that, advisors, supporting the President in formulating his decisions. This is what is typical. But was it more than that? I believe so, observing the obvious mental and verbal gaffes and missteps of President Biden. No, these are more than advisors. They are "directing" and formulating policy and decisions. And last I checked none of them received a single vote in 2020. It would appear the real insurrectionists walked right into the White House in broad daylight through the front door for all to see. Without breaking a window or any furniture on their way to the Oval Office. All to the cheering idiots proclaiming democracy is saved! A bigger farce you'll not find anywhere.

Write-in vote for George Clooney! He's running the Democratic party as of this week.

Raise your hand if you already knew this was going on since the beginning of Biden's term?

Call me skeptical this has any real impact. If spending was contained by revenue then it has value. But its not. In the race to disaster, spending is on a rocket ship and revenues are riding on the back of a Turtle.

Whether they collect additional taxes is more or less a mathematical exercise in futility. Because the government is spending $100's of billions, trillions perhaps, more every year than they collect in taxes and the national debt continues to expand at what looks like an exponential rate at this point. So because of the effort of new agents the treasury borrows a billion less? Minus the expense and salaries of those additional 87,000 agents. Which at $100K a year is what? $870 million? So net $130 million. Whoopee. What's that? A couple hours a year of government spending? We'd be better off if some agency such as the Congressional Budget Office hired another 87,000 auditors to go after all the government spending programs and figure out where all those funds get spent, whether it useful or a waste, with power to pull the plug on graft, corruption, and waste. But auditing government spending programs isn't too popular an idea with who? Well, the government.

The big story is for a long time Biden's mind and body have been compromised by an as of yet undisclosed condition. A lot of us here saw it and thought it was obvious and were scolded for making that conclusion. But the truth appears to be that people around him, people knowing him, people meeting with him, people with a lot to gain from his presidency, all hid and deflected any outside observations of his condition. And now that the cat's out of the bag so to speak, the torches and pitchforks are coming out like its all a big surprise to these phonies. They were good with knowing it as long as the public didn't know it. Now that their asses are potentially swinging in the breeze its an imperative to get somebody else in place to protect their personal interests. The country, they didn't care much about us before this happened either.

When invoking racist they're saying we don't want to discuss the root of the issue, whatever it might be. So we're going to throw out this customary accusation and hope it puts you on the defensive and we're no longer discussing the original point of contention. The best way to address the racist accusation is to ignore it and keep pounding away at the original point. And never apologize. What I'm most curious about is whether or not a President Harris is going to attempt to chart her own course, set the agenda, or is she's going to tow the line and go along with everything the party leadership dictates consistent with what figurehead President Biden has done? The other option they have is to get rid of Joe, put a mannequin in the Oval Office, and go about running the country through staffer and party leaders without a real President just as they've been doing since January 2021.

It might be over after today's 5:30 PM press conference where a White House press corp with new marching orders is set to descend on the embattled President. Its got to take a lot of practice for these ass holes to say they're "saving democracy" without bursting out in laughter.

Maybe you should put your thinking cap on and dig past the surface of the story? Understand the motives of the involved parties such as why would anyone target a hospital which has no strategic value but will surely enrage everyone? There's no upside to it. And who is telling you this? No independent press is allowed to publish stories there. So you just have to believe a government that has suspended all democracy, including that free press. You might want to be a bit more skeptical but your unwavering support for this war effort prohibits you from any objective assessments. That's all I'm saying.

Every time Zelensky comes calling for more support, this time as a guest to the NATO summit, the Russian oblige by hitting a hospital or school. The timing is an amazing coincidence.

Saving democracy? These folks either believe their own BS or lack any self-awareness.

I think the lack of independent minds among candidates and representatives is due to $$$$ and what has been a decades long centralization of power and control. Anyone who decides to act in the best interests of their direct constituents or their conscience over the interests of the party is vilified and "exiled". When power is distributed among many its next to impossible for one person, party, or group to push people around. Washington's two party system is an oligopoly and some claim a uniparty monopoly.

I won't argue your Trump the nutcase assessment but the so called progressive left is totally insane with denial of reality the core of their belief system. They're intent on destroying the country and culture and there is no negotiating or reasoning with them.

What they're all saying is we're not the least bit concerned Biden is incapable of performing the duties of the Presidency. What concerns us is that it's now obvious to the public at-large, they now know the truth. We've all worked long and hard to hide and deny the truth. What really concerns us is Joe cannot execute a winning campaign this time. So we need to pick another unthinking puppet. A person of low moral and ethical character that will bring no specific objective or agenda to the job. Somebody that will just follow the orders of the party. Somebody the party leadership can control. Just like Joe. Another fake President. We need to pick another body without a brain who can be marketed as a popular choice to the unsuspecting voters. And if that doesn't work, cheat, lie, and steal any way possible in order to hold onto power.

I'm just waiting for the NY Times to report informed sources, speaking on conditions of anonymity, are telling them Joe Biden was fine until recently when the Russians exposed him to some secret nerve agent that caused him to lose mental and physical agility. To help Trump, of course.

I understand what you're saying. But when you say proof you're saying I need 100% certainty that this is a problem before I am willing to act. But that's not really how most decisions are made. And preventing a problem is less costly and easier than addressing it once it happens. Most decisions in life are made by assessing risk, a risk management exercise. An example might be homeowners don't insist on having certainty their home will catch fire in the future before buying fire insurance. They buy it because the risk of loss is a bigger and more costly impact than the cost of insurance. In this case I agree the risk of non-citizens voting is a much greater impact than the cost of implementing a mitigation plan, asking for "proof" of citizenship in the form of some documentation. Documentation almost everyone already has at their disposal and otherwise would be simple to get if they don't have it. Something addressed in the proposed legislation. Now there are some 10 to 15 million additional residents in the US the past 3 years that are non-citizens. More than the population of most States.This risk is much higher than 4 years ago and certainly much higher than before that election. Asking for some proof of citizenship hardly seems like a major imposition given all the other impositions on freedom and privacy we're subjected to by the government. What I find perplexing is so many are concerned with democracy and free and fair elections but they're resistant to anything that will aid and demonstrate that is our reality. They talk a good game but when it comes to playing it and action they don't show up.

They're not workers. They're almost all on social assistance along with displacing Americans such as school children from buildings and facilities converted to migrant shelters. Prioritized for social services by the administration ahead of Americans in need, mostly minorities in major cities. They requires massive amounts of resources and funding. Given things like pre-loaded debit cards. All this is inflationary.

I think that depends on how many people they can continue to gaslight or re-gaslight. Out of pure self-interest many party figures and the captive media on command have turned on Joe. Even the posters on PPP that insisted he was fine and dandy that demanded "evidence" of Joe's deteriorating public performances from anyone questioning his condition have abandoned our "good American President". They've moved on to the we're going to find a better candidate that can defeat Trump.

That's not really the question. A more relevant question is what safeguards are in place to ensure only eligible citizens register to vote? Apparently in most States not much beyond the honor system where anyone that isn't a citizen eligible to vote will self-regulate themselves and resist the urge to participate. In most places there is no verification of citizenship when registering to vote. So legislation has been proposed to validate registration of voters for "proof" of citizenship. And some are resistant to that idea. They claim is will harm the usual under-served groups but I suspect as is typically the case their motivation is more self-serving. I'm sure public officials in my state of residence don't like the idea as they focus on other more pressing identification issues. They have a higher level of validation and verification on the purchase of allergy medications than they do voter registration validation where state law requires merchants to request proof of identity for the purchase of over-the-counter allergy medication which they accumulate and send to law enforcement.

Like Sgt. Schultz of Hogan's Heroes fame used to say (if I recall correctly) our government operates under the same principle of, "I see nothing. I hear nothing. Don't tell me, I don't want to know".