Phil1111

No mystery whatsoever. Women want to control their bodies. Republican male Christians want to control women's bodies. Together with the entire political discourse.

The US GDP growth is forecast to grow at 4.9% this year while Russia is forecast to grow at 2.2% The US population is growing by .5% a year while Russia is losing 1/2 million a year. Russian population loses from migration and war is equal to the heights of the covid epidemic. But Russia has a bigger asset in its back pocket in this comparison. It owns the US political right. It may own the next US president, again.

It seems to me that one is cheaper than two. Big doors beat small doors and margins rule the day. With capacity/day right after margins.

Based upon Russian battlefield performance and reports the Poles might have a chance. But the Putin kleptocracy is not in any way similar to the Stalin rule. I have heard recent reports where grenades, bullets, rifles, etc. are all in short supply. But that N. Korean artillery rounds have arrived.

I should have put those countries in the list as well. But I was thinking of countries that have been outspoken about Russian dangers. Thankfully Poland has just kicked out its right wing politicians. Although Poland has really stepped up military weapons purchases.

Only the Baltic states and Ukraine understand the danger of Russia.

So we have one of these ?

No wonder trump has so much fertile territory.

Agree. Israel has many political parties and coalition governments are the norm. Netanyahu is another trump and he currently faces corruption and bribery charges. His party just changed the constitution to remove power from the courts and give it to the government. As I've said before the US has to adopt a tougher line about Israel. But after the gun lobby, the military industrial complex and health care. Israel has the most powerful lobby group in the US.

No conspiracy involved at all. The Israel right wing seeks to weaken the Palestinian Authority so setters can run amuck in the West bank opening new settlements. He doesn't need Hamas as an enemy. He needs the votes of Jewish West bank settlers. March 21, 2023 JERUSALEM (AP) —" Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday repealed a 2005 act that saw four Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled at the same time as Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip. The development could pave the way for an official return to the abandoned West Bank areas in another setback to Palestinian hopes for statehood. It was the latest move by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, which is dominated by settler leaders and allies, to promote settlement expansion in the territory, inflaming tensions with the Palestinians and the international community... Angry condemnation also poured in on Tuesday from the U.S. and several other countries over the of latest in a string of incendiary comments about the Palestinians by Israel’s ultranationalist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich. Earlier this week, Smotrich claimed there is “no such thing” as Palestinians, sparking widespread outrage.... Netanyahu’s government has put settlement expansion at the top of its agenda and has already advanced thousands of new settlement housing units and retroactively authorized nine wildcat outposts in the West Bank.." Assholes. .

John have you not learnt anything in the last couple decades“only the little people pay taxes,”? trump has taught the poorly educated that tax cheating is the way to wealth. The less enforcement the greater the opportunists to "Be like trump". When if the FBI is eliminated "pussy grabbing" will open up to the poorly educated as well.

Why not trump as president and Bankman-Fried as the VP for the GOP ticket. For republicans it would be a dream team. If they won it would save on secret service costs if they had adjoining cells.

Nobody else in the region will accept the refugees except possibly Lebanon if Hezbollah forced the weak governments hand. But Hezbollah doesn't want that because it needs them to go to war again and it likes the Gaza geography in the heart of Israel. The refugees won't move because they call Gaza home. Gaza will be rebuilt just as its been rebuilt four times before this after previous Hamas defeats. Except Iran and Hamas will be excluded. Presumably there will be a Egypt, Jordan, PLA caretaker government until new elections can be held absent Hamas. Straight from the Israel media "U.S. Sees Palestinian Authority as Possible Solution in Gaza, Yet Israel Is Working to Weaken It" The US should demand the resignation of Netanyahu after the war as a condition of help. Demand the west bank settlers move back to Israel proper. The only problem with this is that US evangelicals will strongly object. So instead Israel will play the US once again. It will go along with a new government absent Hamas. Then the Israeli evangelicals will sabotage peace like they have done before. An Israeli evangelical is a far right settler in the west bank an ultra Zionist.

Why because of his skill and experience he might become another presidential contender?

The new US house speaker Johnson is an evangelical christian and as everyone knows they lead politicians in accepting corruption, lies, fraud and general GOP politicking. So yesterday the house voted where the issue was expelling Santos. No surprise the vote was to keep him in power. In Washington new banana trees were sprouting everywhere.

Sounds like an opportunity fomented by the US congress's inability to govern. I'm thinking "Joe's Caravan Services" "Like Aspercreme we take the pain out of the Darien Gap"

Agree Agree and it leads to: Republicans have been very successful in selling their "trickle down" message since the 1950's.

Everything you mention touches on John's concept of trolling and upon more reflection I agree with him more.

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This may help: What's the Difference Between a Fact, a Hypothesis, a Theory, and a Law in Science? It uses the example of gravity.

There is a another side to that thinking. You come from a physical science background. Where facts are facts. Beyond that there is the area of science where theory is not fact but widely believed to be true. In human psychology small factors which may not be relevant to the equation can develop outsize influence in the reasoning of people. trump and the GOP is a prime example as most republicans just believe that he is the only person to defeat socialist and non-white voters. There are hundreds of millions of Americans who think that way. Many people refuse to admit that they were wrong as hundreds of millions of republicans have done about trump. IMO the planet could be a dried out desert and some could still refuse facts. Antarctica completely melted and Florida 1/2 the size it is now. They would talk about how the planet will revert back to ice covered when the last human dies off.

Brent seldom states facts as everyone here knows! He mostly references positions only thinly supported by fact, if at all. Its up to debaters to decide the facts. Or individually think that someone is lying. A straw is still a straw. Wrong. There is a slowing of the rate of growth in EV demand in the US. In part due to the economy and mostly due to a perceived lack of supply of supporting infrastructure. There is a world outside the US, Brent.

In debate leaving out certain parts of facts or arguing factually incorrect positions isn't actually lying. As long as there is a grain of truth in the position somewhere. Brent is right there has been a slowdown of EV sales in the US in the last eight months. Consumers are reluctant to buy a second EV or in some case a first. Because recharging stations have not kept up with demand. In addition middle America still doesn't have the infrastructure for them. Biden's infrastructure plan will address part of that. But pricing is another factor for which used EV sales should play a factor. IMO Brent's reputation plays a part because overreach in his facts hurts his position. But another two or three years like this one for heat, fires, etc should finally drive a nail in the coffin of fossil fuels.The decline of reinvestment by the industry is proof that even they recognize this. Brent recognizing it? Thats another story, sorry Brent.

Brent when you were younger your points of debate were much more salient. Even your hero corporation for gas guzzling vehicles has gone to the other side. BP just announced that it is buying $100 million in Tesla electric chargers to install in its dinosaur gas stations.

Why do you toy with the (personal abuse deleted)?