US Politics Thread 2021-24

[August]

Originally Posted by Sonicfire1981

professional sport always had problems with hormones, I believe including a minority to raise public acceptance won't change that. Certainly too weak an argument to call it elimination.

He wasn't talking about professional sports and you know it.

Amateur women and girls sports will be completely destroyed. Burly "former" males will be able to use their god given physical size and strength to dominate over natural females in every contest.

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Sonicfire1981

That might be because at this point in his presidency, the predominant point was wether his inauguration crowd was the biggest ever, which photos to manipulate and what alternative facts are.


whataboutism.

[Mr Quatro]

Nancy Pelosi (after drinking too much wine) said, "Trump is like stepping in dog poopie"

[3catcircus]

Originally Posted by Sonicfire1981

Ah. You linked to the pipeline lobby. I wonder why they aren't happy about the cancelation. Anyway:
You say it yourself: it's *potential* Jobs that may or may not have been created eventually, to which I might add that that this is US and Canada combined; It's also worth noting that Keystone XL is not under construction in the US as it was waiting for a court ruling. which means that not a single american job was lost that day. Except maybe one paper-pusher.
the figure "60.000" is still missing, btw.

You fail to understand the big picture. Only 1.2 miles were built in the US before being halted by a lawsuit (before Burden's EO) - which means hundreds of miles that would have been built which means that about 1000 people are now out of work, with a total of 11,000 estimated to either lose their jobs or have their jobs no longer made available. The 60,000 secondary is an estimate by the company(ies) building the pipeline.


Potential jobs lost are still jobs lost. As to the accuracy of the estimated totals - I think I'd trust a company to know with far greater accuracy what the impact to their bottom-line is going to be than government can.

professional sport always had problems with hormones, I believe including a minority to raise public acceptance won't change that. Certainly too weak an argument to call it elimination.

Who said anything about professional sports? We are talking about youth, high school, and college. And - as far as "pro" sports go... Allyson Felix is an olympian with about a dozen medals in sprints. Her 400m world record time is just over 49 seconds. Someone did a quick search and figured out that (using stats from 2018 since that was the latest available), over 300 high school boys had faster times. Its apples and oranges in regards to competitiveness if you allow biological males to compete against girls.

Congratulations, you now officially believe in Syrian Propaganda (SANA). Should I asume that you want your troops in syria unsupplied? what kind of patriot wants that?

That it may be propagandized doesn't make it untrue. Why are we in Syria again? Oh that's right - to secure things for an oil pipeline to run from Turkey to Qatar to benefit, amongst other shining beacons of freedom and democracy - Iran and China.

That one has been debunked also. Since I'm superlazy you'll have to scroll up yourself or hope someone else provides the link one more time. In fact your national guard had hotelrooms *as well as a garage with heating and restrooms to warm up in times where shifts would not allow them to go to the hotel. They were better taken care of than the secret service at the Kushner/Tramp residence, btw. (because: restrooms)

I hate to have to prove you wrong again. I'll assume you've never served - one ****ter for hundreds (thousands) of soldiers is a recipe for disaster. Where was the heating again? A parking garage is an open-air structure. Fact of the matter is the Dems should have been falling all over themselves to ensure that the guardsmen were treated like kings. They could have had marines there and had to live with dick pics drawn all over the inside of the rotunda...

read the title in the first url again. that's completely different from what you stated. it has to do with exponential growth and actions not taken in march, when the virus was "contained" and april, when it "miraculously went away".
And that fauci has something in the drawer other than injecting desinfectant & hydrochloroquin, is despite the previous administration ("Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci!"...), not because of.

Face facts - the previous administration had a plan that they executed pretty much flawlessly:


1. Get a vaccine ready.
2. Distribute it to the state governments and then move on to supplying to foreign countries.
3. Allow each state to distribute locally as they deem most appropriate since what works for one state won't necessarily work for another. Oh - and provide cryo recharges to them while awaiting use.


You wanna lay blame on failure to distribute - blame those states who managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.


Fauci came out and said that they were using the Trump admin plans and modifying some pieces of them. Burden subsequently stated that there was nothing the admin could do to change the trajectory of things for months.



So - either modifying an existing plan is re-arranging the deck chairs on the titanic or it isn't and Burden has no clue what is going on.



The fact that Fauci was most recently on MSNBC fawning over Maddow is proof positive that if there is any blame to lay on the previous admin - it belongs squarely on his shoulders for lying about effective countermeasures and moving of goalposts - and upon the CDC itself for screwing things up very early in the situation last year:


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUKKBN29R1E7

[Catfish]

Strange auction in USA. Who wants to blow up Trump's old casino?

By google translate

https://translate.google.com/transla...e22242669.html

[bstanko6]

60k job load is accurate. Immediately 10k on line workers will be unemployed.

But you have to figure in administrative, logistical, laborers, other trades slated to come in behind pipe fitters.

Biden is a cancer!

What is Sad... this is a California thing. Got Harris, AOC, and ihnran Ihateamerica written all over it.

[Catfish]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...-idUSKBN29U0LO

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Catfish

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...-idUSKBN29U0LO

Adding to that that China has self-legitimised itself by new legislations to attack and destroy installations of foreign powers on any island, atoll and piece of land within its claimed territorial waters, including practically all of the South-Chinese Sea.

Their aggressiveness has reached to levels in recent years that lets say fifteen years ago i did not really expect to see this early. Later on the century, but not this early. It all has become worse quicker than I thought it would. But people call me a pessimist...?!

It will be interesting to see if the US really is willing to engage in a full hot war. And if so, which I do not take for certain, it can still win it, which i also do not take for certain.

The nationalistic and aggressive behaviour - and the blatant arrogance and notorious lying - of China reminds me absolutely of the behaviour of Germany pre-1939. Or in plain English - they absolutely kill my last nerve. Their traders at Amazon as well, for that matter.

That Merkel pushed the EU to sign a trade agreement with China, is imo unforgivable. She does what she has done for 15 years now: maximising Europe's and Germany's dependency from other actors and factors that it has no control over. Stupid. You do not gain stability and security that way. You only get weak this way.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

60k job load is accurate. Immediately 10k on line workers will be unemployed.

But you have to figure in administrative, logistical, laborers, other trades slated to come in behind pipe fitters.

Biden is a cancer!

What is Sad... this is a California thing. Got Harris, AOC, and ihnran Ihateamerica written all over it.

Not to mention Biden ticked off the Canadians! One of the USA staunchest allies.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Nancy Pelosi (after drinking too much wine) said, "Trump is like stepping in dog poopie"

She is a real class act. I expect this type of comment from Trump. Oh well, I guess the both are not much different.

[AVGWarhawk]

The new press secretary for Biden finally answered that question that all wanted to know. What is Joe's favorite ice cream. Vanilla with chocolate chips. Glad that all important question has been answered.

[Buddahaid]

"Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani sued by Dominion voting machine firm"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55801819

[3catcircus]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

"Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani sued by Dominion voting machine firm"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55801819

They seem pretty happy to sue everyone. Let's see if they mean it and if it happens in a jurisdiction that will finally force them to release the actual source code used by the machines in question, along with the config files, as part of discovery.

[Buddahaid]

Yep. Hopefully this will calm some of the storm but I doubt it.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

"Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani sued by Dominion voting machine firm"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55801819

Everyone knew that was coming. Dominion will be under suspicion with their voting machines. Whether Dominion screwed the pooch or not, from here on out this election will probably cripple their business. Perhaps Dominion's damage control should have started a bit sooner and more vigorously.