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Again, my point is what we did do, not what we didn't. I just can't understand the breadth of your misunderstanding of what I wrote
Yes, Navalny covers his history, too. Apparently his corrupt cadre when he was in the mayor's office has stayed with him and are now some of the oligarchs.
Did you really read my post? Nowhere did I say we should or shouldn't do anything, my point was to dispute your magical thinking that Americans weren't always so selfish in the past.
I made no mention about a path to take or not take, I can't imagine from where you got that idea.
When were Americans not "always so selfish"? Sure, WWII is what everyone cites and it's legit, but a very small percentage of our time as a country.
I suppose you haven't read the whole 1619 Project and I'm not saying you should, it is a little boring. But read as much of it as you can take and let's revisit this assertion of yours.
Or, maybe let's examine the history of the robber barons, anti-union mine owners, the railroad magnates who used Chinese American slaves. Maybe prison labor, is that unselfish? Forcing the Indians off their lands?
Sorry, I'm just not seeing this rosy view of America's past. The myth is that we're somehow different from everywhere else, the reality is that we're not.
But you have to admit that it's odd to think you can extrapolate from the behavior of a few people at a bar the behavior of the entire population of the country they came from?
Yes, NJ is so heavily democratic that they elected Christie to 2 terms and Whitman to 2 terms and Keane to 2 terms, starting in 1982.
In 40 years, NJ has had a republican governor for 24.
Maybe if the republicans could ever put up a good candidate for Senate they might win a seat there, too.
The Canadian Keystone pipeline was for oil that would be exported:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30103078
"A section running south from Cushing in Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico opened in January 2014. At the coast there are additional refineries and ports from which the oil can be exported."
We're victims of price gouging, pure and simple. When the price of a barrel of oil goes up, gas stations immediately raise the at-pump prices. It's a safe assumption that the gas they're selling was bought and refined long before the rise in the price of oil
Again with the generalizations. I get it, you've met all Russians and you've met all Ukrainians and speak from experience. Just like you've met all Democrats and can make sweeping (albeit nonsensical) generalizations about all or them, too. Apparently, you're making conclusions based on very small sample sizes and nuance of behavior isn't comprehensible.
You probably live in a place with fairly homogenous population, hence, also, the Trump support. Don't want those aliens living around here, nossir.
My GP is Ukrainian, I don't find him rude at all, but I suppose I should defer to the vastness of your knowledge.
ok, that makes sense. so you're a Russian troll who texts via dictation? I must have missed your denial.
From today's NY Times, more of the mess that Trump left behind:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/opinion/ive-dealt-with-foreign-cyberattacks-america-isnt-ready-for-whats-coming.html
According to Nicole Perlroth, in her book, This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends, when Biden came into office, his team discovered that Americas' cyber efforts were 90% offense and only 10% defense. Which means we've been playing catch up just to stay even.
Not that it was a favor to Vlad or anything, but it certainly helps Russia and their allies.
Wow, your grasp of English is not getting better. It's possible you're a stereotypical dumb-ass Trump supporter. I know graduates of highly regarded colleges who also supported him, but they can write sentences coherently.
That brings me back to you being a Russian troll trying to sow divisiveness here in the USA. I'm going with that, you don't seem to even have functioning spell check, you give off very third world -ish vibes.
Plus, you never actually deny that you're one and I've read many accusations to that point.
I actually meant the one by Navalny, maybe your second option. There are a few, you have to find the multi-part version, at least that's the one I watched.
Anyway, he claims Putin is the richest man on the planet, his seaside dacha cost about $1B, has 2 vineyards, etc. The camera people snuck in for photos of the place.
It all started when he was vice-mayor of Moscow (maybe, memory flees) and the current oligarchs mostly go back with him to then. T
I recommend to one and all, Navalny's multi part doc, Putin's Palace, available of YouTube.
Right, the American and Israeli hackers knocked out the Iranian reactors, no problemo.
But they tipped the election through social media, I think, and that's a bit different than the current situation.
They've been talking about the crypto route for Russia for a few days.
The downside is that countries or companies that continue to do business with Russia via cryptos and are violating sanctions will be in a world of hurt if they're found out.
Russia has very good cyber maneuverers on their team, but, as was pointed out here a couple of days ago, not good enough to take out Ukraine's defensive capabilities from afar.
This is significant. As was also pointed out - all credit to whomever, I can't remember - just as the Russian military was apparently overrated, it's possible their cyber capabilities have been, as well. Russia is not really known as a hub of high achieving tech accomplishment.
I would probably take Israeli, Iranian, and American cyber warriors over the Russians, but we'll see. Putin has proven himself to be able to take on lightweights like Trump, but it's still unclear how he will fare against the cyber big boys.
It was sort of funny to see the Russian honeypot, the NRA darling, Maria Butina, on Russian tv the other day telling people they don't need iPhones because the Russian versions are just as good.
How you can be sure that what you wrote is true is to look at the nature of the attacks on Biden.
They are almost entirely made up - that he has dementia, is hiding somewhere, is responsible, personally for high gas prices or inflation. Or beside the point - that he reads from a teleprompter, has corrupt children, has a wife who shouldn't be known as Dr.
Almost none of the attacks on him are policy oriented, there are literally no alternative solution possibilities being put forth by his detractors. Because Republicans have no other agenda, had no platform, except accumulating power for its own sake.
What almost cracks me up the most, though, is the criticism of Harris, that she's not getting anything done, that she's ineffective. As if Pence and Quayle ever did anything besides play golf and bother women about their personal health choices.
I agree completely and believe I can make a somewhat coherent argument in favor of open borders.
Again we get back to the fairly newfound concept of "fake news". Don't like the way someone reported something, just claim that and run to OAN to set everyone (all 200 people who watch) straight.
Like the honeypot Melania is doing today, crying about the way the NY Times exposed her fake "charity". She did learn from the best, so it's no surprise she's gotten into scamming in her middle age.
Biden has righted the ship. He's not charismatic, by a long shot, but knows how the levers of government management work and is using them. And is not using this opportunity to save a poorly run, corrupt corporation either.
Actually, labor market participation is kind of a bogus stat. It completely ignores the so-called "underground" economy, wherein millions of people work in jobs that are unreported. As are their incomes, although they do pay taxes (and get no benefits).
More people are working than is reflected in these figures. Full employment is usually considered to be under 5% unemployment to account for people temporarily looking for new jobs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/full-employment
So we're at full employment, no point splitting hairs about the timelines. And that's why so many businesses have "help wanted" signs out front.
Turns out we can actually use a few of those asylum seekers / undocumented immigrants who were denied entry at the border or were forcibly removed from the factories in which they worked and deported.
It's interesting to note the some of the same countries that have arms wide open for Ukrainians (which is good) were so reluctant to
take Syrians, who suffered far worse. Wonder why that is.
Give it a break Ivan, I seriously doubt anyone believes that. Does you wife often wear the t-shirt that says, "I'm With Stupid"? When you claim a single style of behavior for over half - well over half - the country, you come off as profoundly stupid anyway and no one needs to read that t-shirt to understand.
Regardless, your command of the English language does not appear to be so great. In the old days, handlers did a much better job with it. I doubt you had a Trump sign in your yard in Moscow, but you keep writing what they tell you to, ok?
In Trump country, no doubt. How brave!
We did, and in Trump country, at that.
Do you have the balls to fly your Confederate flag (or, more likely, hammer and sicle) in your front yard?
A plausible scenario: If Trump had been re-elected, he cedes Ukraine to Vlad (helped by withholding military aid to Ukraine) and, in return, Trump gets the ok to build his long desired tower in Moscow.
Quid pro quo. That's exactly how Trump "governed".
or crypto
Yes there's that or Putin might control the Russian money going into the Trump projects. One word from him and that spigot goes dry.
Or the sex-y stuff and the threats, there's just so much to chose from. A smart, ruthless, former KGB operative, goes up against a rich kid from Queens who's a tough guy only in his own mind. And here's the result.
100%, failure is the hallmark of all Trumpian enterprises.
Right, the conundrum is that Trump and all his lackeys were all so incredibly, comically, inept, that it's hard to believe they could plan and execute anything like this successfully. But the guy with the eye patch, maybe him, a Yale law school grad, but who else? Mark Meadows, hah, a village idiot.
The plea deals will tell the story. None of those fools are foolish enough to take the 20 year rap for Trump, especially because he has no loyalty to anyone other than himself. It's not like their families would be taken care of while they're in jail or that they'd get a big offshore payout when they get out.
The question I've been thinking (a little) about lately, then, is why was he so desperate to stay in power? To get the Secret Service to keep renting his hotel rooms at inflated rates? Not likely.
And not to stay out of jail because he's convinced he's never done anything wrong. So, who had leverage on him and needed him to be in office? I'm thinking maybe Vladdie P., a guy with some serious dirt, who would have preferred just having Ukraine handed to him and a wrecked NATO, for starters. When he says, "jump", Dear Leader says, "how high"?
This just in, I think they are doing exactly that:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/02/oath-keeper-to-plead-guilty-january-6-00013208
Just a bunch of tourists who want to see the inside of a jail for about 20 years
Not to interrupt a particularly vituperative day of to and fro, but this is what Hillary was proposing 6 years ago:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/03/03/coal-mines-solar-farms-climate-change-video/
Of course, some leaders suffer from a distinct lack of common sense:
https://qz.com/1960354/trumps-promise-to-put-coal-miners-back-to-work-was-a-failure/
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/us-coal-jobs-down-24-from-the-start-of-trump-administration-to-latest-quarter-61386963
Maybe he should have stuck with building the wall and infrastructure week.
yum!
Well, no federal taxes on it, I guess. One can only hope it was aged in oak barrels or the like.
Would have been better off, how?
What did he accomplish in 4 years that would prompt that feeling? And no, you can't just lay the blame on Biden for things and claim they wouldn't have happened under Trump.
What did he actually accomplish? Other than saving his family business, at least temporarily. I guess, maybe, mainstreaming white nationalism is something, you seem to approve of that, eh?
Putin didn't invade Ukraine until Trump lost because if Trump had been re-elected there wouldn't have been any push back from America. And NATO would be in tatters.
Just to be clear: Trump lost to Hillary by 3M votes and to Biden by 7M. There was no path to him being re-elected other than the attempted manipulation that's just now coming to light.
Most of the country doesn't like him, clearly, never has.
2 of my grandparents came from a part of Poland that's now in Ukraine, 1 from Romania, and 1 I don't know.
My maternal grandmother was getting into puberty and had to flee Poland asap. They cut off her hair dressed her in boys clothes and she came in with a boy's passport they bought. My paternal grandfather came with another boy's name also on a passport that was bought.
They all had hard lives. Came here as poor immigrants fleeing disaster, then, pretty much as soon as they settled in, the Depression then WWII. In the meanwhile, all of their parents were murdered by the locals over there.
The one of note, the one from Romania, who I never met, had a career as a bootlegger and low level Jewish gangster. His last bust, which made front page news in upstate NY, was for possession of a massive amount of bootleg booze that he made, in 1949. Odd, since Prohibition was long gone, so go figure.
yes. good last line
What if the sheikh has 30 children by 15 women? Would you deny each woman 2 children?
In my personal world, if someone has 3 children it seems to be a lot, few do.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/20/20802413/overpopulation-demographic-transition-population-explained
Didn't Malthus get the ball rolling on unsustainability and overpopulation in about 1800?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-malthus-is-still-wrong/
I've heard of Fort Hood, the name, but don't know anything about the place other than what I just read on Wiki. Named after a Confederate general, I see, lovely. I do understand that the hill country is very nice, a friend's wife is from there somewhere and they both love visiting.
Next question: for how long has your family lived in Texas?
All 4 of my grandparents were immigrants (2 got in on fake passports) but my wife's family has been here since about the 1890's.
A few of hers wound up in Houston, where they ran an oilfield services company and did quite well for themselves. The company and them are long gone by now.
And a good saying it is.
I have a friend of about 55 years whose lawyer daughter and her doctor husband moved to Austin a couple of years ago and they love it.
People do love it there, but I don't know, I still see it as a place where most of the people voted for Cruz, Abbot, Paxton, Perry and have no problem with 18th century abortion laws and the latest travesty about trans kids and their parents. Granted, we had D'Amato and Giuliani and Peter King (all Muslims are terrorists!) and now, Stefanik, so who am I to talk.
But, there are pockets of good everywhere, as you know. The problem can be journeying outside of those pockets as I discovered from living in a cool town in rural NC for a number of years. Of course, it helps if you're from the area, which I was not. I don't know Texas well enough to ask you where you live, if it's not in one of the larger cities, I don't think I'd know it.
While I have you, let me ask your opinion about the border situation.
Hmmm, a bit of a word trickster are you? I never wrote that people could have unlimited kids if they can afford them. I wrote that it's probably better for people to not have more kids than they can afford. If you claim that's a distinction without a difference, I disagree.
Yes, we're overpopulated and climate change isn't going to make feeding everyone and having enough fresh water any easier. But the rationale for profiting off of things that are destroying the planet I believe is akin, as I wrote, to claiming that investing in IG Farben while they were making Zyklon B was legit because, hey, people are going to die anyway. Ditto for investing in Dow when they were producing napalm during the Vietnam era. Do you not agree that the line should be drawn somewhere?
Maybe it's not a perfect analogy but I'm sure you get the point. And I don't think I ever went after hookrider for following his father into anything rather for what he's doing. And, actually, he seems to be dealing with it better than you are.
I know, weird that we had such an ignoramus as our leader and weirder still that a bunch of people still adore him.
If you can convince people that experience and knowledge are over rated then he is the result.
Not trying to be antagonistic, but have you read about the environmental damage caused by fracking? Farm animals dying and water sources ruined.
I would suggest, Amity and Prosperity, by Eliza Griswold, if you're a reader. It's an eye opener and well written, Michael Lewis style..
I don't know, I've always worked for myself and my wife was a municipal employee (in a union, yay) thanks for the info.
And then, when my father died, my mother continued to get 1/2 his pension for the rest of her life, with cost of living increases, and also the medical benefits.
You can hardly find a company today that even has pension plans in which the employee doesn't have to contribute.
Well, you certainly are fine representation for the illiterate. I mean they need a voice too.
Unless, of course, you haven't finished your English lessons in Moscow.