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9 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Not sure why he will neither admit it or refute it with past posts. Puzzling😅
Perhaps it’s the illusion of military omnipotence cloaked in false nonpartisanship that he finds convincing
Nope.
Wrong again, and the second sentence is pure idiocy.
Anyway, nothing to admit. The claim is nonsense, and I have no need to transmit it, and my political views are not "non partisan."
Can't stand the Dem party and never supported Trump.
Don't care a bit about your view, and never have.
Further, I really don't understand how someone of your age spends so much time caring about proving some false claim, but we all make choices about how to spend our time.
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3 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Not the point. You claimed it was easy. Giving up your citizenship is not easy.
Ya it is.
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34 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
so why did 50,000 Americans flee to Canada and become exiles until pardoned by Carter? They just liked the cold? It was easy for a very select few. And there were some in that group that went. There were some that had no reasonable choice but to go, They made Cassius Clay a criminal.https://www.nextavenue.org/we-gotta-get-out-of-this-place/
Name a maga policy you disagree with.
First things first.
I don't perform for you. You post absurd accusations in order to marginalize people who you don't agree with.
That is stupid, dishonest, and cheapens your persona, but it's your choice.
I am not going to respond to your request for me to address things I don't agree with or like about Trump, and there are plenty.
I don't have the desire to spend time doing that. Didn't vote for the guy in any primary or general, and wouldn't.
Regarding the folks who headed to Canada, I don't think negatively about those who avoided that draft, whether for medical or student deferments, getting married, becoming a father, conscientious objector or any other reason. That was a stupid war run by two idiots in DC that cost tens of thousands of lives, needlessly.
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2 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
"some are more equal than others". I read that somewhere. and no, everybody that could get out of it didn't. don't be stupid. you know better. If I remember correctly, John Kerry was there...So were many other that could have pulled strings but actually had a conscience.
https://www.history.com/articles/famous-american-vietnam-vets
John McCain and Colin Powell are fools to maga's like you...
good for you that you paid your respects. very impactful.
Not a Maga, and never have been, for the thousandth time.
Kerry did it for personal, political reasons.
John McCain was an Academy guy with a family history that included head of the Pacific Fleet.
Despised as an officer, but respected as a POW.
Not that that matters, but it is what it is.
The point is that anybody who had no other motive avoided it, and it was easy.
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3 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
If I remember correctly, John Kerry was there...So were many other that could have pulled strings but actually had a conscience.
John Kerry?
Please.
The guy who brought a video camera with him to record his "service" for political reasons.
Absolute worst possible example.
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3 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
tell that to the dead and their families.
I've met some of them, during events honoring them.
Don't be stupid comparing what everybody who could did during those days with the people who were killed.
It's an ignorant position.
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5 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
i did. it's patently false. read some history. check out the D vets in congress. Kennedy actually was in combat. your fearless leader dodged service with fictional bone spurs but he's forgiven that by you morons.
Everybody who could dodged service during that time.
Useless, senseless war run by moron politicians.
Enjoy the Fourth and get over it.
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Enough animus.
Take a second to read the Declaration that Jefferson wrote.
It changed human thinking which had established power in government.
One of the best, and most influential documents in history.
Where did we get such men, and why did we deserve them?
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On 7/3/2025 at 11:29 AM, The Frankish Reich said:
People are acting like the devaluation of the dollar is necessarily bad or unexpected.
Bond market follower for years leads me to an Occam's razor view, because there is no single data point that argues against it.
The Fed is more inclined to lower rates than otherwise.
Neutral now, but certainly mort likely to lower than raise.
That makes the $ less in demand.
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30 minutes ago, K D said:
A media company got busted for purposely changing a candidate's (they favored) answer to put them in a positive light. Whether that had a quantitative impact on votes is hard to say. But the damage is done. Nobody should trust CBS news ever again. What else are they spinning?
Not the first time for CBS.
Remember the fake Bush National Guard stuff that led to Dan Rather resigning?
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Of the silly things that get posted here, economic snapshots, wherein one month data reports are judged, is among the most silly.
Monthly reports have serious weaknesses and strengths.
Use a six month moving average for more accurate trends.
Still, always funny to watch both sides use one month data for political purposes.
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Iran was in a different place in early June 2025 than they were during this stupid agreement that was to end this year.
They still threatened Israel from Lebanon, (Hezbollah), Syria, Yemen with the Houthis and Hamas.
Prior to Syria falling, and the demise of Hamas and Hezbollah, a case could be made that it was in Israel's self interest to follow a strategy of delay.
Once those issues ended and they accelerated, there was no reason to delay ending the program.
The sole reason the Islamic religious regime exists is to pursue the goal of ending the Israeli state.
Their nuclear and ballistic missile programs are solely designed for that, and to suggest other motives, ie., domestic energy production is idiotic.
The time was now and the results are better than anyone imagined a month ago.
If they resuscitate it, which they undoubtedly will, it will be much easier to deal with.
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35 minutes ago, Homelander said:
You’re praising this administration for being ‘true to their word’? That's nice.
Trump campaigned as the “peace candidate” and promised to end wars on day one.
Instead, he tore up the Iran nuclear deal during his first term - then never replaced it. And you seriously think Iran was going to negotiate a new deal with the same guy who shredded the last one just to look tough for his racist base?
That agreement was the only functioning, verifiable deal keeping Iran’s nuclear ambitions in check
And if you’re still buying it, congrats - you’re just another sucker who got played by a guy who never meant a word he said.
Pure nonsense.
The Iranian nuclear weapons program was never going to stop, and they have never abided by any agreement about it.
Ever.
The Israelis knew that and committed massive assets to prevent it.
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8 minutes ago, Homelander said:
Operation Eagle Claw didn’t fail because we lacked guts it failed because it was a logistical nightmare with no margin for error. ‘Would’ve been something’ doesn’t change that 8 Americans died and zero hostages were rescued. Real leadership means learning from disaster, not romanticizing it.
It failed because it was an insane plan, ill researched and led from Washington.
I am extremely familiar with the scheme and what was going to happen if things went poorly on day two, which they probably would have.
I don't know anybody "romanticizing" anything about it.
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25 minutes ago, Homelander said:
Before the so-called ‘pro-peace’ candidates came along, when exactly was the last time the US bombed inside Iran?
Got any idea what probably would have happened during operation Eagle Claw if we didn't have that disaster at the "Desert 1" refueling site in April, 1980?
I do, and it would have been something.
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1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Military-Industrial Complex now shuddering in fear as they figure out how to spend hundreds of billions of new dollars.
They have figured it out years ago.
The reason why the US has to keep extending deployments is because they don't have the inventory nor the repair facilities to effectively support commitments.
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2 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
but there was no attack on UVA...think these events might be related? Why pick beautiful Charlottesville and UVA?
Ask someone who cares what you think.
There is no attack on UVA.
Just stupid, and you are a liar as always.
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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
You're not exactly painting a picture of a young woman getting run down by a Dodge Challenger....
Justanother day in a peaceful university town.
You are a liar.
Pure and simple.
A liar who attempts to marginalize people who he does not agree with by assigning fake viewpoints to them.
It is dishonest and an oft used strategy here by you and others.
Nonetheless, a liar.
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55 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
How many more presidents of elite university scalps will you be satisfied with. Perhaps if they put a dunce hat on them, put them on stage and beat them to death. Or just run over them with a car like in that nothinburger white supremacist rally there that you downplayed because "you live there".
I get really annoyed when people lie, especially about me, and you sir, are a liar.
I never "downplayed" anything related to that.
I drove through their staging area that morning, saw that group and had to wait while the police stopped traffic as they crossed, and stated that very afternoon how insane they looked.
For you to claim that I ever "downplayed" it is disgusting, without any substance, and a not unusual product of your bizarre imagination.
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By the way, I cannot stand quoting stupid posts that have giant X crap in them.
Often, people ask a question of someone here in a post that contains that stuff, and in order to acknowledge the question and answer it, you have to include the X thing.
There's probably a way around it, but i haven't the interest in figuring that out.
Anyway, without another stupid Rolling Stone thing, here is the question asked of me in that post.
"What source do you have about Iran rushing to finish its nukes?"
Here's the answer to that question, without Rolling Stone trash
https://emetonline.org/resource/iran-violations-since-jcpoa/
Go to the 2:50 mark until about 4:00, though the entire thing is very good. He also intimates at the end that they have an idea on location re fissile material.
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42 minutes ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said:
What source do you have about Iran rushing to finish its nukes?
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30 minutes ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said:
What source do you have about Iran rushing to finish its nukes?
As long as we're doing Rolling Stone, a known neutral, (and credible), source of intl intel, can we revisit their "Rape on Campus" story?
I ran into the woman who sued them over that in the produce section of our local Wegmans about a month after her suit was settled. Kind of an odd looking woman who is extremely identifiable.
I told her that I had never wished for a larger settlement against a dirtbag group.
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23 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Sen Warner and the prez who was forced by trump to resign respectfully disagree.
perhaps you watched it on your local fox station
Good lord. You are so thoroughly maga...
No, I live here and have a bunch of contacts in the UVA community, and there is no "attack."
I don't even know if we have a "local Fox station," and I am hardly MAGA.
Total nonsense.
By the way you are steadily drifting in the Tibs and Billstime tide, stating red herrings that have no basis in reality as fact.
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So let's review, because it's been the best few months in middle east events in decades.
1. Syria collapses after an Israeli strike.
2. The collapse of Syria ends the weapons autobahn between Iran and its Hezbollah and Hamas.
3. Hezbollah basically collapses. Hamas the same.
4. Israel clears a path through Syria for the IAF to get to eastern Syria unimpeded, and thus provides a pathway to Iran, eliminating major problems doing so without fighting their way through and having to tank in the air.
5. Iran, accurately sensing that it's murderous noose around Israel is impotent, rushes into an expedited effort to finish building the nuc program and getting weapons on a delivery system.
6. Israel becomes aware of that and figures, "it's now or never." They take out the Iranian air defenses in basically two days, enjoying unfettered access to Iranian sites.
7. Iran asks Hezbollah to respond with aggression, and they don't. China and Russia, both with strategic alliances signed with Iran, in the case of Russia, just this year, don't honor the defense commitments, leaving Iran orphaned. Moreover, China tells Iran not to screw around in the Strait of Hormuz.
8. Israel destroys a good deal of the above ground nuc facilities, "neutralizes" a good deal of the scientific talent that underpins it, and decapitates the IRCG leadership, who are really the problem, as well as destroying a good deal of the ballistic missile production and operational capability of Iran, which threatens Israel and US forces.
9. The US conducts and immensely successful strike on underground facilities thought to be impenetrable, losing nobody and putting massive weapons exactly where intended.
10. The Israelis have an obviously significant humint capability inside Iran, probably still operational, and still control the airspace.
The old aphorism applies:
"The perfect is not the enemy of the good."
The regular Iranians, non the ideologically animated religious nuts and their sycophants, did not immediately rise and throw wackos out but things are way, way better off than they were prior to the fall of Syria.
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Happy Independence Day PPP (for those who choose to celebrate)
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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I really don't know anyone I would judge as Maga, and that is the word I chose, purposefully.
Your obsession is a gross distortion, and leads you to false conclusions about people you know nothing about.
That is your issue, as well this apparent need to relay your travels.
None of my business, but quite odd.