US Politics Thread 2021-24

[August]

Biden administration reverses all punishment of Andrew McCabe

By Thomas Lifson

The Deep State takes care of its own, scoring a big victory yesterday thanks to the Biden administration defaulting, using an old trick to reverse all punishment of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who lied repeatedly to FBI officials — normally a crime that can be prosecuted severely.

That he lied is undisputed. See this inspector general's report.

Former attorney general Jeff Sessions fired McCabe just before his pension vested, but the thoroughly politicized Department of Justice declined to prosecute him. Losing pay and pension rankled McCabe, so he sued.

Rather than fight McCabe in court and let a jury decide, Merrick Garland's Justice Department has caved in completely and given McCabe everything he wanted in a "settlement agreement" that includes half a million dollars in attorney's fees and about $200,000 in pension payments he missed plus future pension payments for the rest of his life. Having already stepped down from his position as deputy director of the FBI — to which he was appointed by James Comey, who raised him from the ranks — McCabe will not be getting his old job back — just the cushy package of benefits and pension payments that retired senior government bureaucrats enjoy. He joins Lois Lerner of the IRS in the ranks of guilty political hacks who escape punishment for their partisan misdeeds in office.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...#ixzz79OECO1ZM

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by August

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...#ixzz79OECO1ZM

They just keep on poking the sleeping giant.

[Gorpet]

Elon Musk post on twitter: star ship 20 is hard. I think Elon knows where the Democrats are taking this country. I foresee the end of the Starship project he will in the future be turning over everything he has accomplished to the government or NASA.And get out out the country he has seen what they are doing to Jeff Bezos. It could be him Tomorrow i think he has realized if you crawl in bed with snakes you will get bitten.And he's not stupid, so let all American's watch Elon.

And what i'm talking about is all these young people.They really believe they may go to the Moon or Mars, it will not happen in their life time. It's a dream and when they, the young grow into the future that they are so desperately want, what they will realize they have gained Nothing they will never know of their past they have become the slaves to Microsoft 2080 and all Humans will have no gender no identity or culture . So let's leave them, 100 hundred ways to listen to Zager & Evans.

Edit was about tidying it up.The grammar Police on here will always let you know if you have fat finger's on a small keyboard. And so goes life see ya.

[Gorpet]

Well Gorpet in the year 2535 Will there even be a man or a women? Or will we be called something in between? Will we have eaten all of our pets in the name of progress and as we stand with our feet in the sand. Looking at the Domes in the distance we see city of Unity.And we thought our free educations assured us a place in and amongst those who we believed in. Diversity that was our Battle Cry. And now we cry as we live a broken dream in a collective working picking potatoes in Idaho. They tell us we must have Diversity it comes before any education or personal ambition this is what you wanted. What you forgot is % and you didn't make it. Now get your ass out there get pick thoes potatoes Those that live in the Dome need some hash browns for breakfast.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Gorpet

Well Gorpet in the year 2535 Will there even be a man or a women? Or will we be called something in between?

You probbaly know that in germany red socialists, green socilaists and liberal socialist negotiate a coaltion govenrment. Part of that includes a proposal by the green and liberal socialists that 14 year old kids shall be allowed, with a simple act at the registration office, to choose theio gender freeely, and to switch it as often as they want. Parents, according to this proposal, shall have no right and say in this.


After the already deletion of "mother" and "father" in official and media language, they also now want to eliminate the verbal reference to parents and parenthood, too. There shall only be "Erziehende", that emans "educating persons".

Its unclear whether this gets passed, since the majority of society still has some sane senses left and strongly dispises these language policing polcies and gender madness. But it illustrates where the ideological "elites" want the course to plot. They are a miniority, and still since years brutally enforce their minority priviliges and minority opinons onto the majority. And the ajroity? Lets it happen, does not seriously resist. So, compassion is not really appropriate. Victims that reject to defend themselves, are victims I refuse to pick their fight for them.

I just stand, watch in awe and cannot comprehend how stupid a people can be if the herd is just big enough.

[Cybermat47]

14 is too young to be making decisions of that kind, I feel - especially when it comes to transition surgery. 18 would be a better age.

That being said, I’ve served with transgender firefighters, and they pull their weight just like everyone else. I don’t see how they could hurt people simply by having transition surgery done on themselves or by changing their gender on a birth certificate, so I say let them do what works best for them.

[Skybird]

You dont see the point.

They want everybody being able to chose what he (eh: she, I mean: it) wants to be - independently from any facts, medical cicumstances, genetics, hormones, and further: they want people being able to switch back and forth between any of the so far proclaimed five dozens genders there are. I assume it already are more now?!

There has been an inflation of genders in recent years, like ther ehas been anjh inflation of money. And lik inflation of money means to devalue the price of money, inflating available genders to chose form means devaluing value of and appreciation for the existing two biological genders!? They want to take biological fundaments and science out of it.

Some weeks ago I posted on that the Greens in Germany have it in their party program that everybody who feels he identifies as a women, shall be seen as a woman. A man stood up and said he is a man for sure and idnetifies himself as a women nevertheless - filing his candidacy for a woman-reserved quota position on grounds of putting the verbal formulation and criterion on test.

One a sidenote, there are "pedagogues" who want to sexualise kids already form grmamars chool on, and encoruge them to try all forms of secual tastes and orientaiton systemtically,m to train their tolerance and to Assist them to find out what their sexual drive really is.

This all has become sick and perverse altready many many years ago. The Greens ion Germany, decades ago, openly defended and propagated pedophilia.

I identify as a fish, hence I can breath underwater form now on. Obviously I cannot, but that should not spoil it, i can nevertheless, can't I : because I want, I can. Never let reality and fact come between me and my stupid wishes - it only bruises the ego. At soem time I may deciode that then I idnetify as a bird so that I canfly asnd chirp like a yellowbird. If I dont like it, I become a fish again. Or may opt to become a human. Genes mean nothing, wanting is everything. Dont you dare to limit my freedom!

[3catcircus]

Originally Posted by Skybird

You dont see the point.

They want everybody being able to chose what he (eh: she, I mean: it) wants to be - independently from any facts, medical cicumstances, genetics, hormones, and further: they want people being able to switch back and forth between any of the so far proclaimed five dozens genders there are. I assume it already are more now?!

There has been an inflation of genders in recent years, like ther ehas been anjh inflation of money. And lik inflation of money means to devalue the price of money, inflating available genders to chose form means devaluing value of and appreciation for the existing two biological genders!? They want to take biological fundaments and science out of it.

Some weeks ago I posted on that the Greens in Germany have it in their party program that everybody who feels he identifies as a women, shall be seen as a woman. A man stood up and said he is a man for sure and idnetifies himself as a women nevertheless - filing his candidacy for a woman-reserved quota position on grounds of putting the verbal formulation and criterion on test.

One a sidenote, there are "pedagogues" who want to sexualise kids already form grmamars chool on, and encoruge them to try all forms of secual tastes and orientaiton systemtically,m to train their tolerance and to Assist them to find out what their sexual drive really is.

This all has become sick and perverse altready many many years ago. The Greens ion Germany, decades ago, openly defended and propagated pedophilia.

I identify as a fish, hence I can breath underwater form now on. Obviously I cannot, but that should not spoil it, i can nevertheless, can't I : because I want, I can. Never let reality and fact come between me and my stupid wishes - it only bruises the ego. At soem time I may deciode that then I idnetify as a bird so that I canfly asnd chirp like a yellowbird. If I dont like it, I become a fish again. Or may opt to become a human. Genes mean nothing, wanting is everything. Dont you dare to limit my freedom!

If someone born with XY chromosomes wants to wear a dress and call himself "she," or born with XX wants to wear a suit and call herself "he," whatever. I can tolerate it/ignore it without accepting it.

But for those who insist on you using "they/them?" It implies multiple persons --> multiple personalities. Last I checked, multiple personality disorder is a mental illness per the DSM --> if you want people to call you "they/them," you are mentally ill.

[Skybird]

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung comments with this opinion piece:


Has America's prime behind it? The question has not been asked for the first time, but it has been more urgent than ever since the defeat by the Taliban, who were considered to be backwoods, in Afghanistan. For China's state propaganda it is clear that the US is a country in decline; In Europe, doubts are growing as to whether one can still rely on the ally on the other side of the Atlantic. Anyone who expected that the Trump era would go down in history as a brief erroneous path is mistaken. The government of the Democrat Joe Biden is trying hard to convey the image of competence and energy to the outside world. Hundreds of management positions are still vacant, and there are no specific strategies for entire regions of the world.

There is also a blatant domestic weakness. In a few months, Biden gambled away the sympathies of many. In the polls, he crashed to a booth typical of his unloved predecessor. For the rest of the world, this raises the question of whether what is currently being designed in the Oval Office is only fragmentary. On his current "trajectory", Biden will lose his double majority in Congress next year and then come under increasing pressure to place the fate of the party in younger hands. Trump, on the other hand, just chased out of the White House, is already back at the gates as the undisputed standard-bearer of the Republicans.

Around the globe there is reason enough to see America as a troubled, emaciated country, a mere shadow of the former leading power. But restraint is advisable. The warnings of the inevitable decline of the United States are almost as old as the country itself. Obituaries of America's leading role were also written during the double crisis of the lost Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal in the mid-1970s; As is well known, things turned out differently.

The most common mistake made by the theorists of decline is to scrutinize America's weaknesses while ignoring those of other powers. Europe in particular is prone to such distorted images. After the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007, people turned up their noses here at the capitalist excesses in America; the crisis hit the old continent much more severely. Since then, the USA has shown unbroken innovative strength, which one could already realize with a cursory glance at the entrepreneurial spirit in Silicon Valley or at the smartphone in one's own pocket. America's economy grew almost four times as fast as that of the EU in the twelve years to 2020.

When the French finance minister Bruno Le Maire now claims that Europe must be recognized as the “third superpower of the 21st century” alongside the USA and China, this shows a misjudgment of the real situation. The EU weighs a lot, but it still doesn't know what it wants to be. Their lack of unity prevents them from becoming a central geopolitical actor.

China's regime, on the other hand, makes no secret of its contempt for the democratic-liberal path, is bursting with self-confidence under Xi Jinping's rule and demands a global leadership role for itself. But the country's further rise is no historical certainty. The imbalance of the real estate company Evergrande reminds us that parts of the Chinese economic miracle consist of shaky debt pyramids. The aging of society means a mortgage for the future.

Politically, too, there are increasingly clear signs of weakness. The empire of Beijing suffers from a lack of «soft power» - or in other words: it may be feared, but it lacks the ability to act as a role model and to attract potential allies. Under the impression of the Covid-19 pandemic, the origins of which China continues to cover up, the crackdown on the democracy movement in Hong Kong and its aggressive behavior towards other countries, its image has suffered in large parts of the world.

To see a sign of America's decline in the withdrawal from Afghanistan is therefore all too simple. There is no reason to gloss over the Hindu Kush debacle. The troop withdrawal, forced without necessity, carelessly planned and accompanied by lies, will be remembered as an eyesore of the Biden presidency. But the claim that this would permanently weaken America is inadequate.

In horror at the chaos at Kabul airport, the events were immediately equated with the shame of Saigon in 1975 - the collapse of pro-western South Vietnam under the onslaught of the communist North Vietnamese. For once, even the American Republicans agreed with the Beijing propaganda in this assessment. Both wanted to express that they were dealing with a low point in American history. But such an assessment, guided by emotional images, falls short.

There is indeed an important parallel between “Saigon” and “Kabul” - but one that is not that devastating. Both events sealed a bitter defeat, but in both cases it was not a result of military necessity, but arose from cool political considerations: The previous deployment was no longer worthwhile because the world had changed and the original fears of the Americans had disappeared.

In the case of Vietnam, it was domino theory, the conviction that communism should be stopped everywhere and at all costs, because nothing else could stop it. This theory had lost its horror in the mid-1970s. With the surprising rapprochement with the People's Republic of China, Washington shifted the geopolitical field of force in 1971 and deepened the cracks in the communist camp. A plausible interpretation today is that the US back then "lost Vietnam, but gained China". At least they had the certainty that they had a partner in Beijing who would not play dominoes.

In the case of Afghanistan, too, the defeat is offset by a much greater gain: The USA can today feel that it is the winner in the 2001 “war on terrorism”. Islamist acts of terrorism will not go away completely in the foreseeable future, but from an American point of view, their threat has decreased significantly. The last major attack in the US with a double-digit death toll was more than five years ago. Al-Qaeda and the terrorist militia IS remain a scourge of the Islamic world, but they no longer seem capable of carrying out spectacular attacks in the West. This assessment can change again, but it will shape politics for the foreseeable future. The argument that it is imperative to stabilize Afghanistan in order to prevent a second “9/11” is not suddenly completely wrong. But it has lost its validity.

What the world is currently observing is therefore not the disappearance of the great power USA, but, as in 1975, a brutal reorientation of priorities. While at that time a million boat refugees were on the losing side trying to escape the communist regime of terror in Vietnam, today the extent of the suffering under the whip of the Taliban can only be guessed at. Presumably Biden underestimated this tragedy, but he can be credited with clearly focusing his foreign policy on the central challenge of the present: China. It can rely on a broad consensus in both parties.

Biden's radical line at the Hindu Kush is also a signal to the cumbersome American security apparatus, which is usually slow to adapt to new threats. It is hardly a coincidence that the CIA, for example, has only now founded a China “Mission Center” - counter-terrorism had priority for years. If Biden's predecessor Barack Obama's famous “turn to Asia” was primarily empty rhetoric, things are now actually in motion. The establishment of the Pacific Alliance Aukus, the first summit meeting of the Quad group of four, and the redistribution of Pentagon funds are further examples.

A coherent China strategy is far from emerging from this. It remains completely open, for example, how much Washington wants to contain the Middle Kingdom and how it can interact with the other states of the Pacific region. But America at least betrays the will to oppose China's aggressive policies, while in Europe many governments prefer to bury their heads in the sand.



https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/usa-china-afghanistan-schonungslose-neuordnung-der-prioritaeten-ld.1650373

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Skybird

You dont see the point.

They want everybody being able to chose what he (eh: she, I mean: it) wants to be - independently from any facts, medical cicumstances, genetics, hormones, and further: they want people being able to switch back and forth between any of the so far proclaimed five dozens genders there are. I assume it already are more now?!

There has been an inflation of genders in recent years, like ther ehas been anjh inflation of money. And lik inflation of money means to devalue the price of money, inflating available genders to chose form means devaluing value of and appreciation for the existing two biological genders!? They want to take biological fundaments and science out of it.

Literally none of that impacts us, though.

There are much more important issues in the world than getting upset that someone with a penis lives the life of a woman.

Are there some people who push that onto kids? Yes, but you’ll find that there are trans people who agree with us that doing such things is wrong.

Transgender people wanting the freedom to harmlessly live their lives in a certain way is one issue.

People pressuring children into having a certain gender identity is a different issue.

[Skybird]

It impacts not on us? Then you stick your head in the sand. Because it does, already now, since many years. It changes policies, it changes language, it changes the way offices and government services interact with their subjects, it wastes growing ammounts of money for ideology promotion and pseudfo science, it creates privileges for members of the right elite groups, it delketes the need of skill and comoetenbce and replaces it with group privileges, it discriminates men, it heavily distorts job chances again especially for men. Grammar gets distorted, terminology abused, history forged, not following new language rules can even get you sued and legally sanctioned, not agreeing to this madness gets you criminalised. Money gets wasted in growing ammounts for non-science that is propaganda, and pushing of privileges for members of noisy groups.



Its war on culture, and its war on science. And it gets worse and worse, and destroys social integrity within our communities. I lines up with allies like anti-masculinists and fascist feminists. It fosters incompetence, egocentrism, and narcissism.



Wokeness should be declared a capital crime. Its corroding our societies faster than the Alien's blood burns a hole into the floor.



You are sleeping deep and dreamless if you say this does not impact on us. It does. People already get character assassinated due to it, loose their jobs, dont find another job, see that unqualified people get a job for wich they would be better qualified, because of "quotas". Yu do not use new lanbgauzge in your acamdeic papoers? you get fired from university, you cannot file your homework when you are a student, your excercise papers will get disqualified, you cannot graduate. People get sued and brought to court over accusations in context with violating gender ideology demands, they are accused of hate crimes and discriminationation, if that is not ironic. And if you dare to speak out against it in a talk show, the headlines on next days newspapers will most likely courtmartial and "execute" you. Social sanctionising? Witch hunt is a better word.


For all exmaples I listed, I could find according news stories from the past several years, if only I would spend the time again, it all has happened, and has happened more than once, and is practiced more and more often. In Europe. In America.



Forget that heap of sand. Raise your head, open your eyes, and start seeing again.

Rome is in flames.

[mapuc]

So Trump are planning on creating his own social networking service, which he call Truth Social

Will it be a success ?

Maybe it will, I feel no interest in becoming a member there.

Markus

[Skybird]

Just another sitcom, and if there is one thing I absolutely cannot laugh about, than these US TV sitcoms.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

SOLD OUT!

SO mine may become a Collectors item?

Not bad paying around $40 for something that is selling for up to $150 now.
Best Government type investment I've made in a LONG time!

[Rockstar]

“I hate you Donald Trump. But, I love the way you kiss me.”