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As you were saying?

The vast majority of the budget is salaries for military personnel and contractors, not for programs. So go ahead and use that chainsaw.

He was bad, but it was masked by the defensive meltdown. Jets followed the blueprint and shut him down. I love how people talk about his long ball. How many times has he thrown a catchable long ball this year? What's the chicken and what's the egg?

He's had 2 straight bad games, but carry on.

I'm guessing I'm not the only one finding the irony of you posting this article and then defending Tyrod in other threads. Do you think there's no correlation?

Since you always accuse people of misrepresenting you, here's your chance. Take a chain saw to that $700 bn line item and cut it. But please provide details of exactly what you will cut and how that would solve whatever you think the problem is.

Doesn't that time frame coincide with you being a Republican? So you agreed with his behavior at the time?

How do you define fighting. They probably accounted for 80% of the casualties, because all they knew was to throw people into the fire (not limited to war time either)

Chicken and egg. If there was no communism, Nazism wouldn't get beyond a bunch of cross dressing thugs in Bavaria. PS I don't know why you're claiming that communism defeated Nazism. Communism enlisted and conscripted millions into the battlefield of attrition. But even they would have been wiped out if not for food and munitions from evil capitalists.

That’s like saying good thing you got a heart attack before the cancer killed you. Both are a plague on 20th century and should be exorcised forever.

Why do you think I mentioned market cap?

If not GDP, how else do you measure the impact of a company? Market cap? One tech company's value exceeds the total of all defense contractors. If your theory held true, the opposite would hold.

Since you've been misrepresented so often by so many people, maybe it's time to change up the delivery? Not everything is part of a dark shadows conspiracy.

I know, if only the US adopted a more friendly policy towards the Soviets all would be swell in the world. You continue to cling to the fantasy that global relations are binary and that all actions are only serving near term agendas, without an inkling of the ling term global positioning. Never mind the ridiculous assertion that you keep propping up that everything that USA does is only for the benefit of the military contractors, even though they're a smidgen of GDP.

Jets also came to dance

The team had a collective meltdown in 1 quarter of play. It didn't look like they quit.

Oh, I don't know. Perhaps it's because sensible people view Riyad as a lesser threat than Iran? You know, sometimes a simple explanation is the right one.

They try to wield influence, but that doesn't mean they actually do. It just happens that at this moment, the US interests are more aligned with the house of Saud than they do with the Persians. Nothing more, nothing less. Tomorrow, the wind may change and Saudis are left in the cold.

The links are tangential, just like the one where Saipov went after Citi bankers to send a message to Saudis or to the US, or to the street vendors, or to whoever you want to attach a circumstantial string to. Do you think it's a coincidence that he targeted people riding on Citi Bikes in front of Citi's global HQ? See, I can play that game too.

No one is denying SA regime's funding of terrorist networks. What is at question is their direct influence on US business and politics.

This is another ridiculous allegation. Citi's ties to DNC have everything to do with Bob Rubin and very little to do with Saudi Arabia. Even your smoking gun email establishes the timeline. That email was written before the implosion when Al-Waleed Talal increased his ownership. Before that, he was deemed as the essential dumb money investor. That's why conspiracy nuts can't explain the danger of a passive 5% owner of Citigroup, but could care less about 20% ownership of Morgan Stanley by the Japanese or 100% ownership of "Lehman Brothers" by the British. By following your tangents, you can ascribe Saipov's murderous rampage as a message to the Saudis because he drove his truck across the street from Citi's global headquarters and maybe hoping to hit some bankers along the way.

And how would social networks do that without tying into government's databases to identify the bad actors?

So in addition to being a vessel of Russian subterfuge, Trump controls the global equity markets? Maybe he's not as much of an idiot that I gave him credit for.

Again your prescription is to deputize private organizations to enforce regulations. As long as a user of a private communications network abides by the ToS and does not break laws, it's not up to the communications network to play the cop. Again, you are advocating modern day McCartheyism.

That Obama's vacillation in ME opened up the door for Iran to exert more influence, which led to a predictable response from Saudis and will lead to a greater escalation? Shocked I tell you. Not much that wasn't warned about in 2010. But of course to you, a 1300 yr old battle of civilizations must be part of some clandestine global plot to control the world.