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Although Biden called a spade a spade. I'd prefer if he would have said nothing on the subject. Xi is likely 1/2 as outwardly inclined to just be a criminal as Putin is. But at least he is rational. Typical for trump. Obviously angling for more hotel licensees in China once he wins re-election. Xi will go back and double down on intellectual theft and pandering to an anti-American base. Talk like that keeps business people from wondering why American sales are slowing. But he has enough problems domestically to keep him busy. About 20% of condominiums built in the last 20 years are either vacant or unfinished. Youth unemployment is rising and the rate of growth is slowing. Debt is a big problem, even bigger than America's debt.

Famous words uttered by all true republicans. No we're not RINO's were independents! We think for ourselves and we have critical, analytical minds! You may want attribute statements and representations like that to other physical factors, or shortcomings other than balls.

Republicans have been fighting for Americans in the Senate, in the hall and with each other. Here is the latest from the Lincoln project entitled Elbowmania

Nah: SpaceX hopes for second Starship flight test next week

"The Prosper Independent School District in Texas seeks to spend $94 million to build a new high school football stadium, a record amount for the state. If Prosper ISD’s proposal gets approved, it would be the most expensive school stadium ever built in Texas by $14 million, according to The Dallas Morning News. The Texas school district is seeking $102.4 million in total bond funding for the football project, with $94 million going towards the new stadium and the remaining funds used for renovations to the district’s athletic facilities." Sorry John and Jerry, in America engineering is going down the toilet. The new industry is sports.and entertainment. Sorry for that. I was wondering what it would be like to be Brent.

Diving deeper in the story Russia is painting 40 people of questionable loyalty to be a battalion, which normally would have 500 troops. No word if live ammunition is to be issued. No word if they vetted out the Nazis and fascists.

Well the US could send the B-1s to Ukraine. When trump is re-elected the US might end up buying 300-400 B-21 Raiders. "In comments given to the National Interest, former Trump National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien explained that the U.S. Air Force needs 300-400 B-21 Raider stealth bombers considering the growing threat from China's rising military might. ... O'Brien was considered by most who observed the Trump national security team up close in Washington as knowledgeable, politically connected, and able to move between the MAGA/populist wing of the GOP and more neoconservative elements. Many Republican defense hawks would consider O'Brien an excellent pick for Secretary of Defense, State, or even an outside chance at Vice President. " So a new $300 billion dollar weapons program. Perhaps if the US just bought off the Chinese communist party?

Old news. It just a rebranded trump revenge scenario to settle the score with everyone who crossed him in the last four years. The Insurrection Act is to be authorized on day one and the DOJ seized by loyalists. The act will be used to crush demonstrations by any liberals or democrats that dare to protest. A special advisor is studying how Netanyahu amended the constitution to shuffle aside the supreme court in Israel.

No Joe. Even though they are ignorant Wendy still considers them her friends. Conservative ones at that. Bless her heart. She probably volunteers at the animal shelter as well.

Putin should pay for his Walmart coffee. Foreign assignments can be very difficult.

All of the debaters really just want trump to be the winner. Perhaps they are running for VP in which case Ramaswamy is the winner. He knows every conspiracy and is ready to endorse the most radical of them. America is in a bad, bad way. i had no idea that 60% of Americans can't afford diapers. The person who said that didn't mention if the diapers were for seniors like trump or for babies. America's navy is in a bad way and underfunded by at least 50%. Up to 300 new ships are needed. Elections have noting to teach republicans. Abortion restrictions are the top issue as is more prayer. Hidden terrorist sleeper cells are everywhere in America. Mainly because of an open border. Mexico is going to pay for a new $10 billion border wall.

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?