Phil1111

Trade is in the best interests of America. Low wage jobs making t-shirts, crappy furniture, etc. is best left to low wage countries. The US currently has full employment by most economists definitions. The new plan to bring back semi-conductor mfg.. to the US is a good start. There is nothing wrong with corporate profits as long as they are not monopolistic. Agree, together with defense, justice, health and welfare of all. This is the essence of the issues. Unfortunately a national dialogue doesn't seem to be on the horizon to address these issues. But! the US has a dynamic and flexible labor markets.The most dynamic and flexible capital markets. Robust software and engineering sectors. Hopefully the worst of trumpism is over. Immigration is keeping the US young. If not White. Xi and China will be no competition for the US because communist leadership has never been successful. Let alone a dictatorship of communism. The mechanisms for correcting the worst issues is in place. It just takes a couple leaders. Politics functions like a pendulum. It will swing back to the center..

There are some good people in Florida. But 5-10 million straight jackets may be necessary. In other news. More and more evidence is coming out that Russia is to blame for an attack on a NATO members infrastructure. i.e. Nordstream. Yet no politician seems to want to speak about it. Putin's false flag drone attack was especially lame. One hit the domed roof of the Russian senate building. With an explosion no bigger than a hand grenade. I guess the FSB wanted to ensure that there was no real damage. Or drone shortages in Moscow were such that only Mickey Mouse drones were available.

Great news for Slim. "Trump: 'I'll end Ukraine war in a day if re-elected' Former US president Donald Trump has said he'd be able to end the war in one day if re-elected to the White House. In an interview with Nigel Farage on GB News, Mr Trump said stopping the conflict would "take 24 hours". "I will get that ended. It would be easy." Calling the war a "disaster" that "has to be stopped," he added: "That deal would be easy. A lot of it has to do with the money." Mr Trump, who has previously boasted of his close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the pair "got along great". The former president claimed Mr Putin "never would have gotten into Ukraine" if it weren't for the "incompetence" of Joe Biden's administration. "Putin was not going in, it was never mentioned and I knew him very well," he added."

When you're a conservative in America. Bragging about it brings votes and status. For his base it just means he is who they all want to be.

In TX if you own 10 acres you can step outside and let it rip.Unrestricted as long as projectiles don't exit your property. AFAIK no country can restrict your rights to shoot. .300 magnum let it fly! Where the latest shooting occurred it was an area of 1/4 acre lots. If a county doesn't restrict shooting you can still let it rip as long as a projectile doesn't exit your property. But according to a local resident(of the shooting) that's widely ignored. Because according to him property owners will put tin cans on the property line fence and still shoot at them. Getting police to take action for such complaints is very difficult. The last time there was an attempt to restrict shooting in some area of Texas of smaller lots.i.e. under 10 acres. There was a huge outcry and it went nowhere. Since they just captured the shooter responsible for the latest outrage. Texas prisons will be his home at taxpayers expense for the next while. Just one more cost for the second amendment.

Hence the Ukrainian children kidnapping program. Draft Tatars, Chechens, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Avars, Armenians, etc. When they get killed off Ukrainian children will rebuild the gene pool. Slim knows (face palm). Why do you think he wants Ukrainian capitulation so bad? If his engagement on western internet sites slips. That dreaded draft notice e-mail could be next.

NBC reporters from the scene of the crime. Reported that every weekend there was recreational shooting on other properties on that street. The homeowner where the victims were shot. Reported that five calls to police were made over 20 minutes before the homicides started. The good news: There were twelve people in the home at the time so it could have been worse. Armed neighbors who regularly practice didn't make it any safer.Calling police didn't make it any safer.

He has to. Russian courts are now handing out 25 year sentences for criticism of the state. Criticism of the war. Trophy wives are not permitted to visit inmates. Even ordinary wives are not permitted. Russia’s Foreign Ministry, stated: “Traitors and betrayers, hailed by the West, will get what they deserve.” Slim knows what he'll get if he concedes any wrongdoing. If he admits Russia is failing. New prisons, a new gulag are the destinations for critics, for political prisoners. In other bad news for Russia. Major-General Roman Kutuzov, commander of the Donetsk People’s Republic’s 1st Army Corps, Wall killed by Ukrainian special forces in an ambush. Thats more than two dozen generals KIA to date. Mikhail Mizintsev, also known as the "Butcher of Mariupol," a deputy defense minister in charge of logistics was fired yesterday.

Or see the trade value to Putin of many tens of thousands of Russian prisoners.

An armed society without the utmost respect for everyone else. Is one that slides into anarchy. Its why preppers have the emphasis on guns and ammo.Their belief and a dark human instinct. That the rule of the jungle is but a gun away. At least as far as that gun can shoot. As long as the ammunition lasts.

Nailed it. Blaming the victims for what in Texas would be normal, expected and neighborly isn't the answer. Although more well to do White people would likely do the 911. Just more crazy people with guns. Who in any other country would never get near one.

Agree. I agree with most all of your ideas on guns and gun control This latest idea i think you've missed the target on. IMO you can cherry pick the best ideas from Israel. But terrorism, for them is far more an issue than just guns. Armed guards in schools and other frequent targets isn't one solution for America that will work. AFAIK. This is where the rubber meets the road for guns in America. For every person willing to start a compromise like BIGUN. There are two who can't like Brent and wolfriverjoe. Brent who espouses NRA and GOP views. Joe who usually has the practical answers why single responses won't address the whole issue. Canadian liberals, our current government. has just announced the Canadian left's idea on gun control. They are spending $1 billion to buy up "assault rifles" from gun stores. They will pay up to $6500 per gun. i.e. Sig 550. In order to start the assault weapons ban program. Instead of selling the guns to willing US buyers. With appropriate ATF permits of course. Instead of giving them to Ukraine. Equally good idea. They will be destroyed. Meanwhile Canadians are waiting up to two years on surgery waiting lists. Earlier this month "Canada spending $59M on assault rifles, machine guns for Ukraine, Canada is spending $59 million to procure for Ukraine 21,000 assault rifles and machine guns, along with ammunition, from weapons maker Colt Canada," These would be Colt M-4 rifles.

Russian gas sales to the EU have dried up. So the main Russian gas company Gazprom had some employees sitting around. The Russian PM ordered Gasprom to form two companies to fight in Ukraine. According to the Wagner group they are already in Ukraine fighting. Other Russian private military contractors in Ukraine include "RSB-Group, MAR, ATK-GROUP, Slavonic Corps Limited, Wagner Group, E.N.O.T. Corp, Cossacks." No word yet if Russian trolls operating in the west. May be sent to fight as well if their engagement in western internet forums is insufficient.

Joe, I thought that you were just getting slow on the uptake lately. In Israel they obviously don't have the "strip searches". I think you're just being a little facetious on that sentence. But otherwise your post would be right on target to what BIGUN has been saying all along. Many Israeli grocery stores have private contractors at the front door with a AR-15. To check and scrutinize customers. Bars and schools same thing. Anywhere where people gather and can be attacked there are armed private contractors. Who search anyone suspicious. Ready to kill transgressors. Israel Restaurants Put Security At the Top of the Dinner Menu "Israeli law currently requires a guard in schools of 100 or more students. These guards are generally employed by private security companies, while the Israel Police (the country's civilian police force) have overall responsibility for guidance, oversight, and control for the entire security system of educational institutions, from kindergartens through universities. The law permits certain individuals to carry firearms in schools....the Israeli Ministry of Education has provided funding to (1) construct shelters and fences, (2) add reinforced protection to school buses, (3) hire and train security guards, and (4) provide professional psychological care to treat students' emotional reactions to terrorist attacks. Armed security guards sometimes accompany students on field trips," Its time to end the ignorance of the obvious. Gay or straight bars need contracted heavily armed guards. Same with schools, churches, workplaces, political offices, etc. Anything to protect the sanctity of the 2nd amendment. God bless America and the right to hold dear the gun. Because without a gun freedom won't exist.

10 hours earlier today You-tube The Russian Army ‘is out of ammunition’ due to ‘treason’ in the Kremlin | Wagner’s Prigozhin Treason. the cause of many Russian..er.. orcs, deaths "Ukrainians call Russians orcs because they are making an association with, the disorganization, minimal intelligence, and overwhelming bitterness of orcs. Furthermore, they also arrive in great numbers. Not to mention, orcs do not exist exclusively in Tolkien’s world. They exist elsewhere as mythical creatures portrayed as bloodthirsty warriors who thrive on war." From a full version on how and why Russians came to be labeled orcs.

Slim one of your friends paid the price for spending money on super-yachts instead of maintenance. Could you translate what the women are saying? Russian military supersonic fighter MiG-31 crashed in Murmansk region, Russia Evidently the pilots were seriously injured. A Swedish woman with bigger balls than trump decided that she needed to make a difference, in Ukraine.

When your native languages are Russian and Punjabi. Its what you're most familiar with.. The FSB must be slipping to teach that the US DOD is not in the business of defending US national interests. Instead thinking that "They are in the business of WEAPONS OF WAR.... " Engagement means rubles and no e-mail draft notices, eh Slim?

I thought the war was all about Russian language and Nazis? I'm not a subscriber to the US-right-Putin fantasy news feed. Why doesn't Putin target the bio-labs instead of elementary schools. Instead of nurseries and hospitals? He has lots of drones, artillery and missiles. I know you don't subscriber either but I can't read Slim's posts because my PC has a fantasy idea blocker on it. Putin said that Russians and Ukrainians are brothers. Thats the whole reason why he personally approved the kidnapping of Ukrainian children. He wants to use those children to improve the Russian genetic pool. Kill off Russians with prison records and replace them with the children from Ukraine. I think Hitler wanted to do something similar.

You don't think Putter will assign Tucker to the Ukrainian front for getting fired? Slim is bent outta shape because his forces couldn't gain any territory all winter long. Because airline connections are a real bitch to get home. All his friends are constantly sending e-mails for western goods that have been embargoed. Because he dreads getting the call-up e-mail from the mighty Russian army.

A English pro-Putin version of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf aka Baghdad Bob. Would also work. RTV and Slim are both ready for that.

He really needs to consider being a Televangelist. A couple weeks for the mail order course. He already knows how to spread fear to White folks.He is massively popular with the White MAGA audience. I can see his TV promo now. A free Glock with every $10k donation MGGA , Make God Great Again. He could spin hell and other fears, into non stop cash.Imagine the funds he would suck away from the GOP and the Christian right.

Well in Canada Canadians don't use guns. I used a sledgehammer to capture an asshole in my domicile. About 20 years ago a neighbor phones me and says there is a suspicious guy prowling by my garage. I go out to the garage door and its closed but the inside light is on. So i open the door and enter and the said asshole is holding a couple powertools and trying to force his way out the car garage door. I grab him by the neck and arm and drag him outside. As I exit the door I take from him a 18lb sledgehammer that he had a hold of. I use it to hold the mandoor open when its windy. I threw him to the ground and put the sledgehammer on the back of his neck. It had rained the day before so the ground was slightly muddy. So his face ended up half buried in the mud. By the time the cops arrived I was starting to feel a bit sorry for him. The cops were quite happy when they found out I had removed the sledgehammer from him. Because that was another charge on him. "Assault with a weapon".

It seems to me that you're connected to the drug industry...mmmmm Then "For the past decade, the White House and Congress have relied on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a renowned advisory group, to help shape the federal response to the opioid crisis, whether by convening expert panels or delivering policy recommendations and reports. Yet officials with the National Academies have kept quiet about one thing: their decision to accept roughly $19 million in donations from members of the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the drug OxyContin that is notorious for fueling the opioid epidemic." So the most conservative drug peddling conservative individuals were buying state policy. Brent, I thought you were a good guy, with integrity Shame.. In other Russian news A Russian solider(33) so distraught over the assignment to the Ukrainian front. Decided to indulge in some vodka. A short drive later the S-400 missile system he was driving ended up overturned in a ditch. The $160 million dollar system will not be deployed anytime soon.

Rupert MurDoch has a worldwide cash generating machine that is more than FOX. His team identifies right wing agendas and politicizes the narratives to generate cash. They have employees and puppets. The puppets seize these narratives and regurgitate them as fact They amplify the messaging. Enter Slim. He is trying to save kidnapped Ukrainian children. By placating Putin with just 25% of Ukraine.Hence the peace pleas. Until Putin can fully digest Belarus.Other accommodations will have to be made. Puppets will always be ready to accept new narratives. Because they have flexible minds that know Washington and the US state is evil. So they await further directions from FOX. Eagerly buying whatever FOX sells.

Something with the latching mechanism makes sense. Because Starship yaw was well developed before the termination of flight decision was made. This was tweeted "The damage in Boca Chica at the Starbase launch site looks pretty serious, but a former senior SpaceXer from there says he believes the pad can be repaired; and a (water-cooled?) flame diverter installed in 4 to 6 months. Just passing on what I was told." To which Elon respoinded: "3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount. Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch. Looks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months... Aware that this schedule is hyper ambitious, Musk then explained, on Apr. 22, that the engines may have caused unexpected damage. "Still early in analysis, but the force of the engines when they throttled up may have shattered the concrete, rather than simply eroding it," he argued. "The engines were only at half thrust for the static fire test." Flying another in two months seems overly ambitious. IMO Elon has a history of using the whip on employees and exaggerating. So maybe? A video has emerged of pad damage actual damage starts at 1:22.