Phil1111

When Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 by saying “Nobody builds walls better than me”, it was to say the least a questionable claim." Picture of trump's wall last week. Torn away by water erosion. Biden administration imposes limited sanctions over Russian gas pipeline Getting your news feed from Mike Lindell.com again? "ended oil and gas leases on federal land and is now imploring OPEC" Because GOP hacks and oil companies don't like to obey laws: Between 69 and 84 percent of observed methane gas flares in Texas were unpermitted, environmental group Earthworks said in a report published on Thursday, which says the Railroad Commission of Texas "systemically fails to regulate flaring." Make sense now?

As compared to straight people that take things seriously?

The Taliban have been winning more lately than the GOP as well

Well,well,well. If it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

Perhaps if the vaccination rates stay low more chips will become available for auto production!

Wrong, again. "In 2001, when the Taliban were weak and ready to surrender, the U.S. passed on a deal....Within a few weeks, many of the Taliban had fled the Afghan capital, terrified by the low whine of approaching B-52 aircraft. Soon, they were a spent force, on the run across the arid mountain-scape of Afghanistan.... It was in the waning days of November 2001 that Taliban leaders began to reach out to Hamid Karzai, who would soon become the interim president of Afghanistan: They wanted to make a deal. “The Taliban were completely defeated, they had no demands, except amnesty,” recalled Barnett Rubin, who worked with the United Nations’ political team in Afghanistan at the time.... But Washington, confident that the Taliban would be wiped out forever, was in no mood for a deal. “We don’t negotiate surrenders,” Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said in a news conference at the time, adding that the Americans had no interest in leaving Mullah Omar to live out his days anywhere in Afghanistan. The United States wanted him captured or dead." Arrogance of GOP leaders and officials. Democrats having to clean it all up. RNC supporters and officials conveniently having memory issues regarding history. Which category are you in?

Perhaps he has forgotten that trump negotiated the release of over 5000 Taliban fighters from Afghan prisons. "The release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners, which the United States agreed to in a February deal with the insurgents that also began the phased withdrawal of American troops, faced opposition from the Afghan government, which is holding the prisoners. After prolonged pressure from the Trump administration, Mr. Ghani released 4,600 prisoners from a list provided by the Taliban but called for consultations over 400, who he said were accused or convicted of major crimes, including murder, that were beyond his authority to pardon." Which would represent about eight percent of their current fighting forces. The release was specifically negotiated by trump over the objections of the ruling government. Perhaps he has forgotten about the trump-Taliban peace deal because it was removed from the RNC website only four days ago. The rest of the world certainly knows that. So making deals to release documented convicted terrorists is ok. Cutting the legs off of the elected government is ok as long as trump and the GOP do the negotiating? Trump's Deal To End War In Afghanistan Leaves Biden With 'A Terrible Situation' March 4, 2021

So America if the GOP had its way.

Agree. Make life as difficult as possible. Think of a salmon swimming upstream.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sues NASA, escalating its fight for a Moon lander contract Evidently the brotherly love for space is gone.

The Conservatives have already managed to shoot themselves because they are on the wrong side of the issue. "Liberal voters, 87 per cent say they have already been vaccinated or intend to do so. We observe comparable results for the voters of the Bloc Québécois (84 per cent) and the New Democratic Party (83 per cent)."https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/canada-where-vaccine-acceptance-isnt-political/ "This is what Canadians want. The vaccinated majority is fed up with being held back by the minority who can’t be bothered to protect themselves and everyone else against this pernicious disease. They’ve lost patience with the hesitant and the plain lazy. Yet as of Sunday O’Toole has thrown his party in with those still arguing that the unvaccinated few should effectively exercise a veto over the ability of the rest of us to get beyond COVID and return to normal life. No one, he says, should be required to be vaccinated. “We should educate people and not force them.” Perhaps O’Toole feels he must take this position to guard his right flank against a possible threat from the anti-vaxxers. Or perhaps he doesn’t want to be offside with Conservative premiers like Jason Kenney and Doug Ford who have also taken a “no mandatory vaccines” stance." Quebec supports mandatory vaccinations and 75% of Canadians do. So this one issue may seal the fate of the conservatives in this election given a fourth wave up to the September 20 election date.

No, see below. Just as tribal leaders have done for hundreds of years. They just as easily could have walked from their posts in the middle of January to allow the Taliban takeover.

Could be. Clearly the agent wasn't from C-21 and wearing their gold blazer with C-21 on it. Clearly the agent wasn't from Re/Max because their leased Mercedes would have been out front.

So a glass half empty kina guy eh?

Its Texas where the right to bear arms is fiercely defended. Its Texas where the fear to bare arms is always concealed.

Correct, hence the title of this thread. True hypocrisy is the bible loving GOP base who discount every allegation a woman makes. Then laughs about the locker room entitlements of male sexual privilege.

What about the exhausted nurses and doctors looking after these simpletons. Twelve hour shifts day after day. Because of burnout and staffing shortages. Duty runs to week after week. Then endless "bing, bing" of the patient calling for assistance with more of "I can't breathe". These professionals have had a year and a half of their compassion, empathy. Sucked out of them day after day as patient after patient is wheeled out to the morgue.

Gun forums are far more interesting for the GOP hardcore. Fact and science are nowhere to be found. Instead the latest covid minimizing Facebook fables are mixed with liberal excess.

What! Why wasn't I informed? There is a left bias here largely because of trump. Cuomo has burnt many bridges in NY if you'll pardon the pun. His support vanished because he was a bully and felt he answered to nobody.

An uphill battle: Marjorie Taylor Greene Banned From Twitter Again because she spread false rumors on Twitter. and NYU Researchers Were Studying Disinformation On Facebook. The Company Cut Them Off and the GOP misinformation campaign Poll: Majorities support vaccine, mask mandates — but not Republicans It sees as if vested interests want to spread misinformation for financial and political objectives.

On the one hand we have the US with lots of guns and massive incarceration sanctions. Then we have the UK. Few guns, lax sanctions. NYT "GRANTHAM, England — Daniela Espirito Santo died after waiting on hold for the police to answer her call for help. It was the seventh time in a year that she had reported her boyfriend to the police, including for death threats and for trying to strangle her. Two of those calls came in the hours before her death. The first was in the morning, after her boyfriend pinned her on the bed and pressed his forearm against her throat. “Is this it?” Ms. Espirito Santo, 23, had gasped, according to a police report. “Are you going to kill me this time?” The police took him into custody but quickly released him. He returned to Ms. Espirito Santo’s apartment and soon afterward she called the police to report that he had assaulted her again. The dispatcher told her that her situation wasn’t urgent, because the boyfriend had left. He directed her to a nonemergency hotline and hung up after 94 seconds. Just over an hour later, Ms. Espirito Santo was pronounced dead; the cause was heart failure. She never spoke to the nonemergency dispatcher. Her call stayed on hold for eight minutes, and when the dispatcher picked up, the only sounds were the cries of her 7-month-old. The police later found her slumped on her sofa, not breathing, her distraught baby cradled limply in one arm.... it also illustrates another flaw in British authorities’ efforts to address violence against women: the repeated failure of prosecutors to punish abusers. Initially charged with manslaughter, the boyfriend, Julio Jesus, then 30, was eventually sentenced to only 10 months behind bars." So he'll serve five months and be on parole for five months and thats it.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Suspended From Twitter After Saying Vaccines Are Failing quack,quack,quack

There are no winners when crime is involved except perhaps white collar when the perpetrator gets away with the crime. I see no evidence of any high horse. Just an opinion to which we agree to disagree.

Clear but disappointing given your previous history of having a open, flexible mind with regards to science and facts.

This is the name of the new and latest UN climate report. "The report, approved by 195 governments and based on more than 14,000 studies, is the most comprehensive summary to date of the physical science of climate change." I'm sure that Rupert Murdoch will have his FOX and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, stooges denying it all.But the science of more than 14,000 scientific studies can't be ignored. Expected global GDP impact by 2050 under different scenarios compared to a world without climate change: -18% if no mitigating actions are taken (3.2°C increase); -14% if some mitigating actions are taken (2.6°C increase); -11% if further mitigating actions are taken (2°C increase); -4% if Paris Agreement targets are met (below 2°C increase) I hope governments and people get on board with fighting climate change. But i doubt actions will mitigate under 2.5 degrees increase.