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I can't believe you named this industry. I really talk myself out of posting, but I was going to use this as an example, just based on my experience. I was sitting next to a guy on an airplane who was the CEO of some company, and we were talking about this China law that if you were going to build a production factory there, you had to provide the Chinese gov detailed information on process and everything else related to production. That is their way, among others, of stealing R&D info, and avoiding copyright stuff. Anyway, he told me that there was a California solar company who had decided to produce there, and submitted the info. Detailed info. In less than a year, there was a Chinese factory spooled up in the same city they wanted to produce in, and this company was producing the exact same solar panels they had provided information on. Ever been to the Pearly Market, or Silk Market in Beijing? Those are two huge markets that do nothing but sell knocked off US and European goods. No patent or copyright compliance. It's a joke. Hell, I, wearing prescription sunglasses I bought there that are direct copies of something in the US that would sell for $150+. Got them for $23, delivered to the hotel. Once, while visiting the Silk Market, I was with a guy who was looking into a Tesla purchase. Across the street from the Silk Market is a Beijing Tesla dealership. The prices were 75% higher than you could get one for in the US, solely based on Chinese tariffs. They have run a rigged game for years, all designed to undercut US and European labor. Total scam.

Strongly disagree. Harming the consumer has a limitless connotation. Destroying US industry, and the jobs associated, is a very bad long term issue. Allowing gross intellectual, research and production stealing, and then using those manufacturing techniques to undercut US workers to sell at a cheaper price is a suicidal posture, and China does it all the time, across many industries.

The US has a history of implementing tariffs in response to unfair trade practices. In the case of China, who is a grossly unfair trade partner, implementation of tariffs is common sense and just plain smart.

I, as well as everyone here, am well aware of how this works.

I am not going to continue to respond to your fiction. What I have said about 50 times, and even linked to an intelligent discussion on the subject, far more cogently made than anything you are capable of, is that I fully support Ukranian aid, and Israel aid. Complex bills that include bundles of different provisions ie., Ukraine and Israel aid and border issues all tied together obfuscate the issues. You suffer from the Biden syndrome, which is leading to extremely an obvious, continued cognitive decline at an accelerating rate, full of fantasies that anyone cares or is influenced. Not fun to watch, and not interested in responding to your fiction.

I am always calm. That nonsense aside, can you point to any post where I have supported "isolationist"? I have posted on supporting Ukraine and Israel many, many times. You have devolved from being a silly partisan, through idiotic accusations which you have refused to respond to challenges of, and now writing pure fiction. Do you honestly fantasize that anyone cares what you post? You are writing pure imagination.

Let me see now. A coward. A liar. A person with no integrity. An idiot. A bullstuffer. I've probably forgotten a few. You post nonsense like this all day long, every day. The claim that any US sitting president in 2017-2021 had anything to do with the negotiated 1997 UK/China Hong Kong thing is just today's idiocy. You ever wonder why people here are laughing at you, everyday, all the time. Do you ever wonder how much damage your horsestuff damages your obvious political effort? You are a net negative, and not by a small margin, on whatever the hell you try to promote.

Totally incorrect. You read people's posts like Biden reads teleprompters. Getting legislation through to support Ukraine should include support for Israel, and the border, and that includes a wall; not authorization, but appropriation. I have no problem with funding Ukraine aid with Israel aid and the border, and that includes a wall. There are too many variables in that for you to understand, thus you juvenile creations of what other people believe or support. It is simply too hard for you, but that is OK.

At some point, you may come to the point where you realize that creating false premises is harmful to your vision of reality.

So now you seem to forget that the agreement was between the UK and China in 1997, and instead state that Trump barely took notice of it. This makes sense to you? Further, for about the one billionth time, (your recall and cognitive abilities are rivalled by the guy who can't remember Hamas, who is alive and who is dead, where is son died, that Mitterrand was French and not German, that his railroad stories are utter nonsense, how to get on/off a stage, can no longer read a teleprompter.....I could go on), I have never supported Trump. This seems beyond your capability to understand, but someone can be embarrassed and ashamed of Biden, yet not support Trump.

Could there be a greater example of why I pay no attention to you? These idiotic, grossly false premises that you create in your mind, absent of fact and vacuous in content aren't even funny anymore.

I much prefer the House leadership to the Senate leadership, and I prefer the leadership of my 12 week old puppy to this infirm suit that can't remember the name or Hamas, or anything else for that matter.

What? The turnover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese control occurred in 1997. What are you suggesting, that the US should have gone to war over this?

Why are you asking me? I have said many times that I support aiding Ukraine. The rest of your nonsense in this post is your usual nonsense, and does not warrant a response. You do this all the time, and it is really not a positive for you. You state something, then throw a bunch of nonsense, name calling, mislabeling or a host of other crap and think that is in any way effective?

I am very familiar with the history.

Their long term strategy has been explained. They are going to get rid of Hamas' control of Gaza, so they can no longer rape, murder, torture and grab hostages. Beyond that, they are going to defend themselves. If you think they are doing nothing but "bombing the rubble, " I don't think you have a grasp of the operation/action, but that is just my view. The Israelis don't do that.

Ya. You have the ability to "piss me off." Sure. I have never seen any post of your's that has ever provided any interesting or valuable information. They always seem like high school kid nonsense. I have no idea about ticket price markups, and am not interested.

Maybe there's hope for you. You quoted a post of mine and stated "Fact check: True."

Grossly wrong, but too stupid and not worth time. You have no idea what are "unnecessary fees." Certainly allowing someone to have a choice on a consumer matter is not that, and I have never, nor am I aware of anyone, who has wanted to control "women's bodies."

Does this make any sense to anyone? In the context of this thread, who is "defending millionaires and billionaires"? The accusation is made, but not supported. No surprise.

You can do that. The issue is that you can't do it with deeply discounted seats. Same as you can't pay the same for two different meals at a restaurant simply because you are sitting with your child. Total Biden. He's running an FAA is that is incapable of providing the required service they are responsible for, but goes after private industry.

The theory is that having normal sex hormones produced by the ovaries/testes has some effect on the joints and even behavior and cognitive ability. There are a bunch of youtubes discussing this, and most name reliable studies. The juiced up puppy food evidently causes slightly more rapid growth and less time for the joints joints and associated parts to keep up, resulting in problems down the line at relatively normal joint stress levels. Anyway, based on discussions I had with our vet at our pups first visit this week, and the guy who did the two acl's on my son's dog, (he says he's now doing six acl's/week), I'm holding off the neutering until at least the 13 month old timeframe.

For what it's worth. There is mounting evidence that the acl issue might be connected to early neutering, ie less than a year, and puppy diets that promote unusually fast growth. My son's dog, a beautiful 65 lb white swiss shepherd, had the same thing happen. Two acl's seven months apart. We just picked up a new puppy for us, a Golden/Swiss Pyrenees mix. He's 11 seeks old now, and we aren not having him neutered until he is slightly over a year old. Had a lengthy conversation about this with our vet and the guy who did the two acl surgeries.

Really? Who posted this: "Ignorance is bliss please continue to be ignorant"

There isn't anything new here. Of course they move, and of course they are observed. It is not possible, in this area, unless their are incredibly wicked weather issues, which there weren't, to hide any large scale movement. Point being, if the Biden Administration would have desired to effectively strike immediately, they could have. They didn't, and they went into this announcement nonsense. What they did is directly avoid a serious confrontation with the Iranian regime, permitting them to get their guys out before the fireworks. And the reason is grossly obvious. I doubt Biden is doing anything other than taking advice and pretending to make decisions. His history is gross evidence of being always wrong. This scenario is completely due to having election calculus invade effective military action. We bought him We got him. Please, don't insult anyone here by claiming some superior knowledge of this based on what you have done. Plenty of people here have done things, and know others who are quite aware.