All_Pro_Bills

The intent of this symbolism is not to demonstrate pride or community but rather to force your obedience to the "special" status granted to the group.

I expect they're just as accurate as the monthly BLS jobs numbers.

Like a Summer camp for angry Lesbians?

You want fake? How about dead people on the voting rolls in Michigan that Democratic election officials refuse to remove?

This is not entirely accurate. The Guard was already called up. The issue is being unwilling to respond in the positive to multiple requests from Capitol security commanders for additional security measures and to deploy the Guard. Which by the way sat waiting some 6 blocks or so away until later in the evening when the event and violence was over. And is it true that Capitol Police and security of the facility chain of command report into the Speakers office? Yes? If Representatives who claim their lives were threatened actually believed that crap then why no deployment of additional security? As it stood none of them were harmed and many that claimed they were threatened weren't even in the building.

I look forward to VP Harris wowing us during the campaign season with stories about her stellar performance as border Czar.

I've seen a lot of people who wouldn't back down when the conditions warranted that approach get the livin' crap kicked out of them. If you think the other guy is bluffing you better make sure. So far I don't see any evidence Putin is bluffing. He clearly articulated Russia's "red line" and their security concerns and when that line was crossed and their concerns ignored, right or wrong, he attacked. What makes you so sure he's bluffing? Because if you're wrong there's no second chance. Beyond your democracy mantra and your moralizing you can't even articulate what America's security interest is with Ukraine. Because there isn't one. Sure, isolating and weakening Russia can be a benefit but when the costs are greater than the benefits its time to re-evaluate your thinking. Remember that? Thinking. Try it.

You're willing to risk the extermination of the human race and all life on Earth for a country you couldn't find on a map 4 years ago. Do you idiots realize it was already a democracy before we got involved with the Maidan coup? Yes, they had elections and elected Presidents and legislative representatives before we showed up. Amazing. All on their own without our help. That regime wasn't perfect but it was certainly no less democratic than the Zelensky regime. I don't recall them kidnapping citizens off the streets and force them to die on the front lines of some battlefield. With democracy like that who needs dictators. You'd rather die in a nuclear holocaust than admit this is a no-win situation and acknowledge negotiating some sort of settlement is the only path forward. Unfortunately, the people setting U.S. policy are very slow learners even bigger dummies. Just looking at the history of U.S. nation building interventions provides a clear picture of failure. How many more billions are they going to drop down the rat hole before they figure it out? Its no conspiracy theory. That's what Maidan was all about. Its a fact. Look up Victoria Nuland. But regardless, at the moment its simply a lost cause. Admit it or waste more time, money, and lives proving I'm right. But you guys aren't bright enough to know a lost cause. Its 28 to 0 with 40 seconds left in the game and you still think we can win. Time to negotiate.

More like sacrificing them in a proxy war while paying off their political leaders and oligarchs. The standard blood for money arrangement. The question is how far are we willing to go? Are they going to "green light" bombing raids on Russia to be flown out of NATO country bases? And if the Russians consider those bases "fair game" and attack them to destroy those aircraft then what? Article 5? So then NATO forces attack Russia with overwhelming conventional forces and Russia rather than lose the battle and territory deploy tactical nuclear weapons? Are they bluffing about their will to do this? What if they're not? Will we respond? And then they launch ICBM's on cities like NY and Washington. EMP discharges take out electric grids and the world plunges into darkness. And we respond back and its lights out for the human race and civilization for a few hundred years or more. Are western leaders willing to risk the end of the world and my life and the lives of the people I'm responsible for and everyone else on the planet along with almost all animal and plant species in order to "save Ukrainian democracy"? In the context of that cost I suggest your democracy at all costs looks like an expensive proposition. Because this is ultimately where we're headed and if anyone things otherwise, well, they might be the one's on drugs.

So you believe 500K dead Ukrainian soldiers along with dead and displaced civilians with most of the country in chaos have been "saved" and are enjoying the benefits of US intervention in the affairs of their country? Sure the Russians are wrong and their actions are to be denounced and resisted but to think our government is doing those people a favor by putting a pro-western government in power is the height of insanity. Now tell me something other than how evil Putin is because this thing isn't going to end well for anybody.

Messages like this are currently falling on death ears as other world leaders like Biden that ignore the needs of their citizens are losing support and seats in governments to populist and nationalist party candidates. France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands to name a few. Those leaders can laugh all they want to the exit. Global liberalism's goal of centralizing power looks to be on the retreat as more and more citizens discover the alternative of local government decisions and priorities.

You mentioned listening to Billy Joel a few posts back. But I think a more appropriate and applicable song for our discussions and issues of the era would be Shades of Grey.

What doesn't work is bringing in 10 million illegals and letting them jump the line in front of American citizens in need of assistance while lavishing the new arrivals with generous accommodations and assistance denied to poor citizens. Putting up illegals in hotels while America's homeless live in the streets for example.

You are right. I stand corrected.

I agree it's premature to get exciting about any possible mistrial as it's pure speculation. But the post wasn't random as it mentioned the specific juror by name, Michael Amderson, so we at least know the source of the alleged premature guilty verdict claim.

An examination of the statistical methodology, the data inputs, assumptions, and variables are required to draw conclusions. In April 2024 the birth/death model added 231k of the 272K jobs. 85% of the jobs were produced by the use of a statistical model that derives a number based on assumptions about the economy which generates a number of new businesses (Birth) and the number of business failures (Death). If you assume the economy is "great" what kind of output would you expect? Or if you assume the economy is "bad" would kind of output would you expect? So the question is what assumptions about the economy does the BLS make? That's not in the report so we can only assume they think things are great. Greater than most economists and job market experts conclude.

More government workers, part-time bartenders and waiters and other part-time jobs. Contrast that 272K to the household survey which says 408K jobs were lost in April. Unemployment up to 4% and workforce participation rate fell. While the 272K number seems good for the President, its actually bad news. The BLS number will keep the Fed on hold. Rate cuts will be delayed and the economy will slow further into recession before the election and voters will feel it.

It sure is, for the 1%.

By what measure are "we" winning here?

Biden's plowing billions into Zelensky's coffers while his government has changed the law to revoke recognition of dual citizenship status exemptions which will allow conscription officers to round up Ukrainians with dual citizenship to serve on the front lines. Including Americans. Regardless of the $100 billion plus the US taxpayers has sent to that black hole our State Department claims they have little influence on how Americans are treated. Another we are powerless to act abdication of responsibility. A common theme with this crew. Meanwhile, a Russian flotilla of Navy ships is headed for the Caribbean with ports of call expected in Cuba and Venezuela. Can Cuban missile crisis 2.0 be far behind? Getting results! But just not for us.

So your suggesting a theme of Make America Pretty Good Again?

There's quite a lot here but I agree women tend to rely on emotions and intuition. As for the woke thing I find it interesting that most of the people subscribing to this belief system are pretty well off socially and financially. They throw their support behind marginalized and oppressed groups while they have never been a member of any of those groups all while claiming to represent the interests of the downtrodden. While they have compassion they lack real world experience and grounding in reality of life. And how they assign their compassion is curious. They might have compassion for the Hamas terrorists being killed by the IDF but they lack compassion for the women raped by the terrorists. In this regard many will conclude they have some sort of mental defect and putting them in charge of things leads to a lot of disorder and chaos.

I don't agree there's any justification for them to charge you with the conspiracy unless you're parked in front of a bank with a written plan on the car seat or you made incriminating statements to the police. There are lots of other possible explanations, non-criminal in nature, for possessing those items. How would they know what we were up to? That you were planning to rob banks is an assumption. Charges are based on facts, provable facts. And unless being in possession of those items was illegal, in that case you'd be charged with possession of illegal items of one kind or another, they have no justification beyond a reasonable doubt to charge you with conspiracy to commit robbery. Your line of reasoning opens up the law for all kinds of abuses. Let's say you and your buddy were heading out for a day of mountain climbing with the exact same items in the car. You get pulled over for the broken tail light and the cops arrest you for conspiracy to commit bank robbery or some other crime that tickled their senses. Some shady prosecutor and judge in some hick town charge and try you, a jury of locals convicts you, they take your car, and send you to the local jail. That scenario might be plausible too.

I would add, in my view the charge of falsifying business records on its own means little to nothing in regards to my viewing it as some sort of nefarious criminal act subject to imprisonment. There has to be a complementary or subsequent crime that is either being concealed or enabled by the act. And there being no indictment count for any associated crime, only some lame and illogical instructions from a judge that told the jury to pick any crime you'd like and as long as the total sum of the jury leads to 12 guilty verdicts, against no documented criminal charge I might add, then they defendant is guilty of an imaginary associated crime. You can argue the rule of law but they have the rule of law in North Korea and Russia and every country with dictators and theocracies but I wouldn't want to bet my life on that venue any more than I would a NYS court after this ruling. I conclude the entire thing is horseshit. So do most people.

With Trump it might not be mental decline but its clear to me he doesn't have a handle on the details of anything. If he did I'd be confident he'll "win" the debates. Rather than cite facts and figures along with the impact to American voters and citizens on issues ranging from the economy to the border crisis he makes bombastic statements and highly subjective commentary. See, while I prefer Trump over Biden as the cleaner Pig in the mud hole I can be critical. I'm not seeing people casting aside any criticisms of Biden and his agenda do that here like admitting he created the border problem, blamed it on somebody else, claimed he can't fix it, then issued an order to fix it while blaming others again. And he's a couple cans short of a six pack upstairs.