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Sounds like the basis for the plot of another Disney social justice themed flop. They just need to gay-up the story a little bit.

I'm not sure. Political etiquette went out the window with the 2016 election Russia hoax dirty tricks. And campaign ads have taken liberties with the truth for decades. One candidate is a Saint and the opponent is the spawn of Satan. The good guy wants to shelter the homeless and cut taxes while providing more services while the other guy wants to deprive children of food and shelter and force women to have the babies of rapists and murders. Recently I've seen a series of ads on the NYC network affiliates for and against Rep. Bowman. To see the pro ads you're left with the impression he's a decent guy getting things done for his district. The counter ads paint him as quite the opposite. All more or less derived from the same record and events. I think its called perspective. My perspective on Biden is he's done and well past his expiration date and anyone not seeing this is in denial or lying that something is wrong here..

Exactly. Political activists and ideologists view the ability to see the world objectively as dangerous and counter productive. Objectivity is the enemy of leftist ideologists. The only goal is winning and advancing the cause. So subjectivity is employed. So yeah Nazis or Islamic terrorists are bad but if supporting them helps advance the cause they can hold their noses and support them and make up some good sounding rationale. Just don't examine the reasoning too closely for inconsistences and fibs. And as you say, over there but not here.

Linked? Azov are Nazis. There's some history here dating to WW2 collaboration with Hitler's SS and genocide.

"warned them: “This is your chance to get out.” I've always been under the impression that making terroristic threats was a criminal act. Caught on camera no less But these flunkies get a pass as is typical. Just don't try this yourself, like maybe criticizing the Pride parade. You'll be hauled off in an instant. That's how the regime works. My take is these Hamas characters and their supporters are real tough guys when it comes to raping women or holding unarmed hostages at gunpoint but its a completely different story when fighting straight up man-to-man against armed and motivated combatants. If they don't like what's going on in Gaza they can do something. Hamas can simply surrender.

They also know somebody else besides the elected President is making decisions traditionally made by the President which is what I might describe as a "soft coup". Sadly, the truth is they don't care. But its worse than that in Washington. Republicans and Democrats alike in positions of power know Biden is impaired but they go along with the ruse.

Biden's 100% responsible for the current mess at the border. It started on day-one of his administration. Revoking actions like "Stay in Mexico". He owns it. To suggest otherwise is to ignore reality.

Antifa attacking the Federal Court House in Portland every night for weeks is the closest thing we've seen to the genuine article to date. I wouldn't be too concerned about the threat presented by Nazi death squads populated with out of shape 60-year-old white guys arrested for trespassing on J6.

Democrats grab on to statements like these because that's all they have absent any policy successes to run on in 2024.

Face it, the guys suffering from cognitive decline of one form or another. And the rate of decline is accelerating. We need a President that is mentally and physically capable of carrying out the duties of the job. Not some unknown group of "aides" making decisions and issuing actions that are the responsibility of the President. That's not an endorsement of Trump or a comment on the 2024 campaign. But it is reality.

That sounds like a political crime and show trial. Which is what most Americans think because regardless of what you want to believe most of them are not so stupid. Once again try to comprehend this, its not illegal to conceal the existence of a NDA or its terms and conditions of the agreement. There's no legal requirement to disclose the existence of such an agreement. And timing of any voluntary disclosure is not relevant to the law. And campaign funds were not used. Most important, FEC and other Federal authorities with jurisdiction over Presidential elections concluded campaign law was not violated or applicable but NYS would hear none of that, and took it upon themselves to do it even though NYS does not enforce Federal election law, and the judge denied the defense expert witness testimony. How was that ruling impartial? Meanwhile Daniels was allowed to testify about the affair which had nothing to do with the payment process. To put the show in the show trial. But regardless the charges identified no victim and there was no claim of loss of anything material or non-material by the actions of the defendant. NYS claimed no damages, the banks claimed no damages but rather as a witness for the defense. If you guys want to go with the "crimes against the State" route then okay but it sounds eerily similar to heavy handed Soviet style justice. Or maybe present day North Korea or Iran. Take your pick All these points will be made when an appeal overturns the conviction. But I expect you know that already. What does the indictment say?

We all saw the trial, falsifying business records. Who was the victim?

Its here now and we clearly witnessed Soviet style justice in action. Show me the man and I'll find a crime. Success! Perhaps it's too much reality to handle but you need to be aware that its actually you that not only wants it but needs it.

I expect Jillian will be rounded criticized by "the community" but isn't the ability to speak your mind openly and with honesty what its all about?

You don't know? Maybe the Biden administration's current impersonation of Soviet era justice can be employed to drum up some charges, then round up, convict, and sentence the perpetrators before they act? If it works on high profile Presidential candidates it can certainly be applied to common MAGA enemies of The State.

Like how? Yell hey look over there and when everybody is distracted and looks the other way he pulls a fast one by replacing a current copy of the Constitution with another version with the 22nd Amendment cut out? I recall Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck where they cleverly replaced a Rabbit or Duck season posting with an Elmer season posting. Better alert Joe Scarborough to this scheme.

Send the IDF in! They get some target practice and we get rid of some troublemakers. Win-Win.

Two headlines: Buffalo Bills start 2024 OTA's charged with optimism and a transfusion of youth into the roster. Buffalo Bills start 2024 OTA's against the backdrop of consecutive post season failures. The old adage "where you stand depends on where you sit" is applicable here and to the mainstream vs. alternative media situation.

Invoking the cleanest Pig in the mud hole argument does not absolve the administration from taking liberties with the facts. Similarly, you can break the thermometer and tell me its only 30 degrees when its really 100 degrees but breaking and falsifying the measurement doesn't keep me from experiencing a lot of discomfort and I'm not sure what you're talking about because it's friggin' hot as Hell!

The deep state, which is nothing more than the permanent Washington bureaucracy led by some 8,000 or so appointed/temporary high-level managers that operate with the same consistent agenda regardless of which party is elected to run the civilian government. I think it was none other than Chuck Schummer who suggested they have multiple ways of getting to you.

Another way of thinking of nominal prices is that the price of things doesn't go up but rather the value of a unit of currency goes down.

Fixed.

A fun fact here is a $1 of purchasing power in 1960 is equivalent to $10.59 of purchasing power in 2024. For what its worth this is the link to the calculator. https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1960?amount=1 I read a compelling argument last week, I can't recall where, but the authors argued that given all the productivity and technological improvements we've experienced over the past several decades one should have expected we'd be experiencing price deflation. This is true as newly adopted advances are typically more expensive per unit at the beginning of the adoption curve but become less costly as the roll out of the new advances accelerates. But as a result of massive government spending on mostly very low "money velocity" programs we have inflation as public debt and borrowing pile up along with the Fed flooding the banking system with essentially "free" money to their commercial bank constituents. Many people think the Fed is some government agency but its actually a private collective of banks that were "contracted" through a legislative outsourcing arrangement to handle the system. Guess who they work for?

I'm a powerless citizen speaking my opinion, You disagree with my views. That's your right. But don't presume to know what I want. And the idea Putin is somehow enabled by my opinions is hopelessly comical. How exactly does that work? Is he on here posting on PPP? When you invoke Putin what you're really saying to me and others is "shut up". I understand. You're an idealist that sees this all in black vs. white, good vs. evil, binary thinking. I see lots of grey areas in the situation. You refuse to acknowledge that our government shares complicity with the Russians in creating the conditions that lead to the war. For one, engineering the overthrow of the previous government to install one more to Washington's liking. I could list more but why bother? You'll summarily reject them. That's all for today.

If only I, or other citizens for that matter, had such influence over what our government does and doesn't do. While I'm entitled to my opinion and freely express it, I hold no illusions that my elected representatives sent to Washington care one bit about my views or positions on topics such as the war in Ukraine. One needs only look at the recent votes on aid to Israel and Ukraine and the pass Congress took on more funds for US border enforcement for a clue. Their agenda isn't driven by as grassroots movement on any point in the political spectrum. I would propose we end all foreign aid and give US taxpayers a 50% tax cut? I'm sure that would be immensely popular with the voters but the global interests running Washington and directing the voting choices of our Senators and Representatives would have none of that nonsense. My problem with supporting this proxy war is the architects and supporters of this effort are vastly underestimating the risk of one of several potential very bad outcomes while focusing on the one outcome that I view as impossible at the moment. A Ukrainian victory with a return to pre-war borders. I also believe the idea Russia is intent on invading western Europe for the re-establishment of Soviet era maps is pure delusion. Russia's economy simply does not produce enough capital and resources to carry out such an effort and from a military standpoint they would stand little to no chance of success. Everybody in the know, knows this but they prefer to peddle this bit of dis-information to keep the money flowing their way.