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Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:16 pm Rush Limbaugh is dead. People with a soul that functions at even 1% shed not a tear.

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:16 pm Rush Limbaugh is dead. People with a soul that functions at even 1% shed not a tear.

Fangle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 3:45 pm

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:16 pm Rush Limbaugh is dead. People with a soul that functions at even 1% shed not a tear.

Yippee. Now for Jordan Peterson!

Calculon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:10 pm

Fangle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 3:45 pm

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:16 pm Rush Limbaugh is dead. People with a soul that functions at even 1% shed not a tear.

Yippee. Now for Jordan Peterson!

Really? I'm not a fan of Jordan peterson but he is in no way comparable with Rush Limbaugh

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:03 pmGuess who flew to Mexico for a nice warm vacation with his family ?

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz flew to Mexico with his family amid a weather crisis that has left millions in his state without power, US media report.

Photos of the Republican lawmaker at an airport emerged on Twitter on Wednesday, fuelling reports that he had left Texas amid the energy crisis.

His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.

Texas has seen widespread power and water outages due to the uncommonly frigid weather.

Mr Cruz flew to Cancun with his family, CBS News confirmed. He is expected to return Thursday afternoon. It is not clear if his return flight was originally scheduled for Thursday or is a change in plans.

The Houston Police Department also told CBS that a member of Mr Cruz's staff contacted authorities on Wednesday to request assistance upon Mr Cruz's arrival at Houston's international airport.

That's the same Ted Cruz who denies climate change; & made fun at other States, when they had problems with their powergrids; or had to deal with Natural disasters.....

Gumboot wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:50 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:03 pmGuess who flew to Mexico for a nice warm vacation with his family ?

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz flew to Mexico with his family amid a weather crisis that has left millions in his state without power, US media report.

Photos of the Republican lawmaker at an airport emerged on Twitter on Wednesday, fuelling reports that he had left Texas amid the energy crisis.

His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.

Texas has seen widespread power and water outages due to the uncommonly frigid weather.

Mr Cruz flew to Cancun with his family, CBS News confirmed. He is expected to return Thursday afternoon. It is not clear if his return flight was originally scheduled for Thursday or is a change in plans.

The Houston Police Department also told CBS that a member of Mr Cruz's staff contacted authorities on Wednesday to request assistance upon Mr Cruz's arrival at Houston's international airport.

That's the same Ted Cruz who denies climate change; & made fun at other States, when they had problems with their powergrids; or had to deal with Natural disasters.....

What a cunt.

Didn't another cunt, Scott Morrison, fly to Hawaii for a holiday while bushfires were raging in Australia a year or so ago?

TB63 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:54 pm If you really want a laugh, look at Marjorie Green and Lauren Boebert twitter feeds...

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:57 pm

TB63 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:54 pm If you really want a laugh, look at Marjorie Green and Lauren Boebert twitter feeds...

You have an odd definition of a "laugh"

TB63 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:01 pm

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:57 pm

TB63 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:54 pm If you really want a laugh, look at Marjorie Green and Lauren Boebert twitter feeds...

You have an odd definition of a "laugh"

Oh I read them for my daily dose of WTF!!...

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:47 pm

TB63 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:01 pm

Saint wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:57 pm


You have an odd definition of a "laugh"

Oh I read them for my daily dose of WTF!!...

So that wasn't euphemism?

Rinkals wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:45 am So what are the chances of an assassination attempt on Biden before next Thursday week?

Trump predicted that Biden would be assassinated in the first few weeks of his Presidency back in October.

Bokkom wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:16 am America is back, baby! Bombing brown people in the Middle East again. Getting attacked in Iraq and immediately go over and bomb Syria. LIke 9/11. Getting attacked by Saudi's and then invaded Iraq.

Hong Kong wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 4:24 am

Lobby wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:09 am

Bokkom wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:16 am America is back, baby! Bombing brown people in the Middle East again. Getting attacked in Iraq and immediately go over and bomb Syria. LIke 9/11. Getting attacked by Saudi's and then invaded Iraq.

It’s weird how people behave as if Trump stopped US aggression in the Middle East and elsewhere, when in fact he dropped more bombs at a faster rate than any other President.

In his first year in office the US dropped 44,096 bombs, an average of one every 12 minutes (Bush averaged 8,750 per year a year and Obama averaged 12,500 a year).

He dropped record numbers of bombs in Afghanistan in every year of his office, and in 2019 the US dropped 7,423 bombs in Afghanistan, 8 times as many as were dropped in 2015.

He also bombed Yemen more than any other President, as well as continuing to drop bombs in Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and Syria.

Rinkals wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:15 pm

Lobby wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:09 am

Bokkom wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:16 am America is back, baby! Bombing brown people in the Middle East again. Getting attacked in Iraq and immediately go over and bomb Syria. LIke 9/11. Getting attacked by Saudi's and then invaded Iraq.

It’s weird how people behave as if Trump stopped US aggression in the Middle East and elsewhere, when in fact he dropped more bombs at a faster rate than any other President.

In his first year in office the US dropped 44,096 bombs, an average of one every 12 minutes (Bush averaged 8,750 per year a year and Obama averaged 12,500 a year).

He dropped record numbers of bombs in Afghanistan in every year of his office, and in 2019 the US dropped 7,423 bombs in Afghanistan, 8 times as many as were dropped in 2015.

He also bombed Yemen more than any other President, as well as continuing to drop bombs in Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and Syria.

I think you may have misinterpreted Bokkom's post.

As I understand it, the point he was making is that now Trump's undertakings to withdraw from all wars have been reversed by Biden, the World is at infinitely more peril under a non-GOP President.

Trump:- good.
Obama, Clinton, Biden:- evil warmongers.

I'm basing this on his previous posting and the obviously sarcastic tone of the post you are quoting.

Lobby wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 4:11 pm

Rinkals wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:15 pm

Lobby wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:09 am

It’s weird how people behave as if Trump stopped US aggression in the Middle East and elsewhere, when in fact he dropped more bombs at a faster rate than any other President.

In his first year in office the US dropped 44,096 bombs, an average of one every 12 minutes (Bush averaged 8,750 per year a year and Obama averaged 12,500 a year).

He dropped record numbers of bombs in Afghanistan in every year of his office, and in 2019 the US dropped 7,423 bombs in Afghanistan, 8 times as many as were dropped in 2015.

He also bombed Yemen more than any other President, as well as continuing to drop bombs in Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and Syria.

I think you may have misinterpreted Bokkom's post.

As I understand it, the point he was making is that now Trump's undertakings to withdraw from all wars have been reversed by Biden, the World is at infinitely more peril under a non-GOP President.

Trump:- good.
Obama, Clinton, Biden:- evil warmongers.

I'm basing this on his previous posting and the obviously sarcastic tone of the post you are quoting.

As usual, you have completely misunderstood and misrepresented my post.

I am well aware that Bokkom was trying to make a 'Trump = good post', and was claiming that Biden represents a return to US warmongering.

My point was that, whatever Trump said about withdrawing from all wars, his actions were the complete opposite. There was no let up in the US bombing campaign during Trump's administration, but rather a marked escalation. His supporters' claims that Trump was for peace are completely wrongheaded, and not supported at all by the evidence of his bombing campaigns.

Lobby wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 4:11 pm

Rinkals wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:15 pm

Lobby wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:09 am

It’s weird how people behave as if Trump stopped US aggression in the Middle East and elsewhere, when in fact he dropped more bombs at a faster rate than any other President.

In his first year in office the US dropped 44,096 bombs, an average of one every 12 minutes (Bush averaged 8,750 per year a year and Obama averaged 12,500 a year).

He dropped record numbers of bombs in Afghanistan in every year of his office, and in 2019 the US dropped 7,423 bombs in Afghanistan, 8 times as many as were dropped in 2015.

He also bombed Yemen more than any other President, as well as continuing to drop bombs in Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and Syria.

I think you may have misinterpreted Bokkom's post.

As I understand it, the point he was making is that now Trump's undertakings to withdraw from all wars have been reversed by Biden, the World is at infinitely more peril under a non-GOP President.

Trump:- good.
Obama, Clinton, Biden:- evil warmongers.

I'm basing this on his previous posting and the obviously sarcastic tone of the post you are quoting.

As usual, you have completely misunderstood and misrepresented my post.

I am well aware that Bokkom was trying to make a 'Trump = good post', and was claiming that Biden represents a return to US warmongering.

My point was that, whatever Trump said about withdrawing from all wars, his actions were the complete opposite. There was no let up in the US bombing campaign during Trump's administration, but rather a marked escalation. His supporters' claims that Trump was for peace are completely wrongheaded, and not supported at all by the evidence of his bombing campaigns.

Bokkom wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 4:21 pm You both swinging and missing spectacularly.
Biden - Trump: Like someone said, two wings of the same bird. Just wanted to point that out.
They are all corrupted by their corporate handlers.

The Washington Post reports that Cyrus Vance’s office is “delving deeply into the personal and financial affairs” of Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization. The questioning is being led by Pomerantz, with the goal of flipping Weisselberg and convincing him to become a witness against Trump.

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Vance’s focus on Weisselberg has included questions related to two of his adult children, a tactic that could be an effort to increase pressure on the elder Weisselberg. One of Weisselberg’s sons also works for the Trump Organization, where he manages the company’s Central Park ice rinks. Another Weisselberg son works for a company that has extended loans to the Trump Organization

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They have also asked about a Trump-owned luxury apartment where Weisselberg’s son Barry lived for several years. The exact nature of Vance’s interest in the apartment is not known, but if Barry Weisselberg, who manages Trump’s ice skating rinks, got the apartment rent-free, that might be considered a fringe benefit of his job and subject to income tax. Two people with knowledge of the district attorney’s probe said the team has also been analyzing the finances of the cash-only skating rink where Barry Weisselberg works. At the same time investigators have asked detailed questions about Allen Weisselberg’s financial history and his feelings about Trump, according to people familiar with the investigation.

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In addition to asking questions about Weisselberg’s financial history, lifestyle, and relationship with Trump, investigators have reportedly been focusing on the Trump Parc East building where Weisselberg’s son Barry lived for several years; last year his ex-wife told Bloomberg that they lived there for free, believing at the time that it was a wedding present from Donald and Melania Trump. (IRS rules state that an apartment provided for free by an employer typically is subject to income tax, and a person familiar with the matter told the Post that prosecutors have been analyzing Barry Weisselberg’s tax returns.) Additionally, attorneys from Vance’s office have asked witnesses about more than $270 million in loans made to the Trump Organization by Ladder Capital, which employs Weisselberg’s other son, Jack Weisselberg.

Hong Kong wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:58 am

US and China trade angry words at high-level Alaska talks

US and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska. Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries "to attack China", while the US said China had "arrived intent on grandstanding".

Relations between the two superpowers are at their most strained for years.

The US pledged to raise contentious issues such as Beijing's treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.

The ill-tempered talks in Anchorage involved Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on the US side, facing off with China's most senior foreign policy official, Yang Jiechi, and foreign minister Wang Yi. However, a US official said the subsequent talks behind closed doors had been "substantive, serious and direct" and ran over the planned two hours.

In a blunt opening statement before the talks in private, Mr Blinken said the US would "discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber attacks on the United States, economic coercion of our allies".

"Each of these actions threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability," he said.

In response, Mr Yang accused Washington of using its military might and financial supremacy to suppress other countries. "It abuses so-called notions of national security to obstruct normal trade exchanges, and incite some countries to attack China," he added.

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:07 pm I see the official picture of seven old, white men signing off Jim Crow Ver 2.0 in Georgia was taken with a prominent painting of a plantation in the background. Not. Even. Pretending.