Mikie2times

Don't have it on your birthday and I would agree with you.

As opposed to what, obese people in wheelchairs or coffee stained white shirts.

Can we be better than blaming and insulting either political party when somebody dies like this? It’s an American for gods sake. Nobody wants this *****.

I take it more as posturing for further negotiations. At which point Khomeini is not going agree to any of it. Not to the extent that Netanyahu is satisfied. Even if they agreed to something, Netanyahu won’t be satisfied until the supreme leader is dead. Which you can’t really blame him for. I knock Trump a lot but don’t think this is an unreasonable critique. Strength is not telling somebody you’re going to kick their ass. Strength is not saying anything and if forced to do so, kicking their ass. I don’t like the super liberals either and really don’t know how they seem to control the party at this point. But I’m the opposite, I dislike Trump more than them. But understand the take either way.

Take your pick. Tarrifs, war, domestic policy. He doesn’t like to look weak. That much is clear and this constant “or else” tone which seems to amount to nothing will eventually limit his options. It’s inevitable.

I’m more of the opinion that Iran will be Iran and they can never be trusted. So I don’t out this on Trump. But reading Trumps rhetoric today, he just constantly goes to the biggest threat he has. The boldest language. Yet nobody ever seems to give a crap. As I have said before, you can’t always go all in. People will eventually see most the time it’s bluffing. I’m concerned this will eventually back his ego into a corner and he will make an overly aggressive action to compensate for all the previous threats nobody took seriously. His posturing is eventually going to cost him and us.

Correct, I REALLY don't like Trump, but blaming him on this shouldn't be in the cards. Heck, blaming Biden shouldn't be either. It doesn't matter if you used diplomacy or aggression, Iran was never going to stop pursuing a bomb. Whatever they agreed with they will not honor. They can't be trusted and Netanyahu knows it.

Bet we see all time highs by next week heading into FOMC

Alright, you have one worthy x post now. We need to sign that dude.

Iran's people live under a regime that commits unspeakable atrocities. A large part of Iranian people love the US and many come here and live in Southern California area (LEGALLY) I don't think I have met any short of an MBA. Very intelligent, hard working, friendly people. They just want to be able visit home at some point without fear of retribution for coming here. Obviously Iran is neighbors with Israel and Iranl has been threatening nuclear action for a long time. Trump has shown a strong focus on trying to negotiate with Iran and I think that scares Israel as they ultimately don't trust Iran's regime to ever hold up to an agreement. Israel would rather handle this with military intervention and remove the regime as that is really the only way to long term peace. That is also what the majority of the Iranian people want. But we will see further talks between the US and Iran Sunday, so it's just an interesting and complicated situation. I think Trump really wants to cut a deal as conflict in that region isn't what he wants to see. Israel doesn't want him to cut a deal because if he does they likely won't have the freedom to use force as we saw today. But Israel also can't stand in the way of a deal or sabotage it with it's relationship with the US. Most of these views are from a few Iranians I spoke with today regarding the bombing with family in Iran. So I trust these view points.

I hope it turns out that way. I'm not thrilled over his frame. Obviously DB's don't have to be meat heads, just toothpick legs and small frame as a whole is what concerns me.

1. You put up a couple posts of crime on Twitter, yet no evidence exists that Americans aren't murdering, raping, and robbing at higher rates than the illegals are 2. You doubled down on never being directly impacted 3. Pretty sure your behavior crosses into an addiction, not so sure you can casually go without reposting content, still haven't heard you ever mention why you do it after asking multiple times 4. Cool? 5. Because something happens, doesn't make it what is happening. You and others here have a real tendency of citing singular examples as evidence something is happening. As I said, sharks HAVE bitten people, but I don't think I should be worried about sharks.

It's always insults, bad sentences, and things that can't be proven. Oddly enough, usually in that order.

I don't think people can "hide" a murder charge in the state of Texas. Nor do I think Texas is exactly friendly towards illegals. Yet the Homicide rates for illegals are 26% lower than US born citizens and 61% lower for legal non US born citizens. This isn't a hard exercise. The US has highest murder rate of any G7 country the last 3 years. People who aren't born here don't have the affinity for violence the natives do. Go figure. https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/illegal-immigrant-murderers-texas-2013-2022

I didn't start down the path of talking about my tax liabilities did I? The only insult I ever pointed your way is about your addiction to posting.

The irony of a guy that has the time to repost political X content on a NFL message board 40 times a day saying somebody else doesn't pay taxes. You're either retired, on disability, or unemployed. Regardless of the answer, your welcome.

I expect they will commit crimes at same rate as the national average, yet they don't, it's much lower. The article applies to illegals and it also talks about the legal foreign born citizens. As I have said, the US needs to find a path. What Biden did was wrong, but we will be deploying our military on US citizens as a result of this topic. It has become probably the number one marching order of the right. Once complete, by all means, tell me how your life will be better? The #1 agenda of a political party should offer an improvement on normal peoples everyday life shouldn't it? Is that what we are seeing?

I don't call them illegal alien foreign invaders because that's not what I call them. You can call them whatever you want. I take it from your response they haven't directly impacted you either? I can also post a story about a shark attack or a plane crash. Should we no longer swim in the ocean or fly? It's statistically proven immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than US born citiczens. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31440 I'm not debating they should be here. I'm laughing at you over your outrage for something that you will never feel.

In fairness, the overwhelming majority are not violent. I certainly think we need clear laws in place and clear enforcement in place. My brother has been with ICE for almost 20 years so we talk about this stuff a lot. But at the end of the day no immigrant has ever directly impacted me. If 100% of them were deported tomorrow absolutely zero things in my life would change. I wouldn't even be aware it happened. We can talk about how they don't pay into taxes, how my tax money pays for them in many instances, how they access our health care and education and all that stuff but still, never directly felt one thing. I severely doubt many here have and if so I would love to hear how that occurred. My tax money has been wasted on so much crap that will never be real to me I hardly can point to them and say, now that is it. That is the straw that just broke the camels back. That Mexican guy who doesn't speak English and wants to work on a farm for $6 an hour. Hell, he's probably contributing to a cheaper avocado and I eat a lot of those. So maybe it's a break even.

This series is taking me back to the early 90’s enjoyment of the game. Indiana is a lot of fun, play as a team, underdog role, small market.

Be careful, who is posting things nobody pays attention to when you’re gone?

If you weren’t being antagonistic then you have my apologies. It wouldn’t shock me if a group of some kind took advantage of the circumstances after it was under way. Both sides have some crazies and the US isn’t short on enemies. I don’t think it was initially coordinated in what we saw and that was primarily what my reaction was based on. My intentions also weren’t to lecture you. I’m stunned how different SoCal is to anywhere else I have been. It’s not liberals or even the weather, it’s the mix of people here.

Your excitement to throw points on the board based on a conservative politician doing conservative politician things outside the context of what we even discussed is not overly exciting to engage with. But I'm sure you will layer on multiple responses here. Most likely unanswered, unless I get some free time. Have at it.

On my Birthday I’m going to honor those that sacrificed by doing things that give me attention. But it will be about them. Not me. Even though it’s my birthday. It’s not about me. I promise. Go troops!

Sure I am, let me know at the end of the year how my form was