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[blubo]

Forgot about this idiot till I saw this:

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Army splits with West Point grad who touted communist revolt

WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the cadet opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a blood-red image of socialist icon Che Guevara.

apnews.com

how did this pos get appolnted to a military academy?

 

[Catman100]

Quite a few more than 13 soldiers died on his watch. There are charts out of American deaths in Afghanistan. Trump's claim of 0 is a lie.

American Casualties in Afghanistan

Here's someone who puts things in context:

Let's Talk About Trump's Withdrawal Claims

LOL Wikipedia and some random person on YouTube?
I'm not even going to waste the time to review either of those two links.
Do better man. I have hope for you.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

And Biden wanted a golf match with this guy...

 

[blubo]

my god

 

[DreadLox]

LOL Wikipedia and some random person on YouTube?
I'm not even going to waste the time to review either of those two links.
Do better man. I have hope for you.

Uh, you're a random person. All of us here are random persons.

wiki demands sources or your edit gets deleted.

 

[sambowieshin]

"To build"
"To build"
"Allocated"

Nothing built yet.

So her accomplishments are to...spend money?

Wow.

Tough to build a bridge or road overnight dude.

'Take an alternative route': Big Mac Bridge to be under construction for next 6 months

KYTC said they want to ensure the bridge is in good condition ahead of the upcoming Brent Spence Bridge Corridor project.

www.cincinnati.com

New Brent Spence Companion Bridge

www.cincinnati-oh.gov

President Joe Biden approves Laredo’s World Trade Bridge expansion

President Joe Biden gave the green light to permits for a bridge expansion project this past Friday, May 31.

www.kgns.tv

MnDOT provides update on Blatnik Bridge replacement, including timeline

Estimated to be completed in 2032, the Blatnik Bridge Replacement Project will include 4-5 years of full bridge closure.

www.wdio.com

Massport Thanks President Biden and Federal Delegation for Supporting Infrastructure Projects at Logan Int’l Airport | Massport

Massport Thanks President Biden and Federal Delegation for Supporting Infrastructure Projects at Logan Int’l Airport

www.massport.com

 

[blubo]

don’t know if this is staged or not but pretty cool if it’s real

 

[Blue Bigfoot]

TDS

He's beyond garden-variety TDS at this point.
This is like weaponized gain of function full on TDS distemper.

 

[vhcat70]

Illegals have NO rights. American 'rights' are for American citizens. Period.

Actually not.

 

[Cold Stout Beer]

Typical Dem: Make stuff up, destroy someone and profit off of it along the way. Crappiest "people" on the face of the earth, lol. I bet Juan's skin is crawling now that his daughter is feeling uncomfortable. F him.

Jim Jordan subpoenas company led by daughter of NY v. Trump judge

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is subpoenaing the firm that New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan's daughter does political work for.

www.foxnews.com

 

[vhcat70]

So... Biden ACTUALLY withdrew the troops. Thanks, that's what I thought. You're dismissed.

Well, at least not 13.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

VP Harris mocked for being 'too scared' to do interview without Walz: 'She simply cannot be left unattended'

Social media users called it "embarrassing" that Vice President Kamala Harris' first major interview would be done alongside Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Cold Stout Beer]

 

[Catman100]

Uh, you're a random person. All of us here are random persons.

wiki demands sources or your edit gets deleted.

There's a huge difference between you and I. I would rather make sure some random person is qualified to inform me about anything, whether on YouTube or Wikipedia. You take the bait hook, line and sinker, as long as it's anti Trump.
Keep being you, I will be me.

 

[UKBlueBlood]

Been away from the board for the day. I’m sure it has been discussed… but let me get this straight.

Harris is FINALLY going to sit for an interview (with CNN… pfft!), BUT she isn’t going to do it solo (bringing her wingman in Walz), and it’s all going to be PRE-RECORDED.

Seriously? Do I have this right?

 

[gamecockcat]

Lolz... Trump wants to inc

Small business bankruptcies are up 40% YoY.

Did not know that. I looked up the stats after I read your post and 2023 filings were up around 15% over 2022. So, in a nutshell, the economy seems like it's not nearly as wonderful as we've been led to believe.

As to why the 2008 banking crisis occurred, it was a combination of several factors: 1) extremely relaxed underwriting by banks, 2) rating agencies looking the other way when classifying these NINJa (no income, no job) loans, 3) banks/brokerage firms bundling these loans into 'safe' investments, 4) SEC allowing derivatives (futures, CDOs, synthetic derivatives, etc.) to be traded, 5) regulators asleep or ignorant of the amount of leverage some firms were taking on and the potential ramifications if something went amiss.

"The Big Short" actually does a pretty good job of describing all the various components of runaway greed, stupidity and political posturing that led to a near total collapse of the world's banking system.

 

[HymanKaplan]

Divide 100 by half, and add 50.

 

[screwduke1]

 

[HymanKaplan]

Few know this, but Tim Walz is an extremely talented ventriloquist.

 

[Dionysus444]

That's your response? Pathetic. You concede everything I said including the logical fallacy. Brilliant, Einstein!

I didn’t concede anything, that’s just the only thing I addressed as it was the most egregious. Now who’s making the logical fallacies?

As to the substance, what of it was there? I’m supposed to address your personal opinion of Kamala’s popularity? Why would I? You’re entitled to whatever crappy opinion you want. Biden is a corpse. Kamala isn’t. Her support compared to his in this race is as simple as that.

 

[Catman100]

Did not know that. I looked up the stats after I read your post and 2023 filings were up around 15% over 2022. So, in a nutshell, the economy seems like it's not nearly as wonderful as we've been led to believe.

As to why the 2008 banking crisis occurred, it was a combination of several factors: 1) extremely relaxed underwriting by banks, 2) rating agencies looking the other way when classifying these NINJa (no income, no job) loans, 3) banks/brokerage firms bundling these loans into 'safe' investments, 4) SEC allowing derivatives (futures, CDOs, synthetic derivatives, etc.) to be traded, 5) regulators asleep or ignorant of the amount of leverage some firms were taking on and the potential ramifications if something went amiss.

"The Big Short" actually does a pretty good job of describing all the various components of runaway greed, stupidity and political posturing that led to a near total collapse of the world's banking system.

Just saw that movie a couple of months ago and thought it was damn good.

 

[screwduke1]

Under Tim Walz, Minnesota Banned Christian Teachers

And banned Christian colleges from supplying teachers to Minnesota public schools. Now, Tim Walz is running for vice president.

thefederalist.com

 

[HymanKaplan]

conniving dims will do anything and everything to remain in power. they are relentless

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They will do anything, no matter how silly, contrived, and petty. LOL


You gotta hand it to those fascist little scamps.

 

[DreadLox]

There's a huge difference between you and I. I would rather make sure some random person is qualified to inform me about anything, whether on YouTube or Wikipedia. You take the bait hook, line and sinker, as long as it's anti Trump.
Keep being you, I will be me.

She was accurate. Trump's claim that there were no deaths in Afghanistan during his term in office is just not only wrong but a lie.

Defense Casualty Analysis System

dcas.dmdc.osd.mil

Note the url extension: ".mil" (Armed Forces of the US)

There is no need for "bait". Trump always claims to be perfect. "It was a perfect call". "We heard you extorting him." "It was a perfect call."

We can all be ourselves and be wrong. Some of ourselves are not only in error but wicked. Nobody is good except God alone.

 

[Marleydogg]

Yes.

Don't ever question me again, commie boy. Right here it is. Every single one raised their hands for healthcare for all, including illegals.

 

[HymanKaplan]

I didn’t concede anything, that’s just the only thing I addressed as it was the most egregious. Now who’s making the logical fallacies?

As to the substance, what of it was there? I’m supposed to address your personal opinion of Kamala’s popularity? Why would I? You’re entitled to whatever crappy opinion you want. Biden is a corpse. Kamala isn’t. Her support compared to his in this race is as simple as that.

Whoops! I think you just DID. LOL (for those that don't get it. Dion most definitely addressed Mike-McD's personal opinion of Kamala's popularity, by describing it as... "crappy".

That's a BINGO!

 

[HymanKaplan]

I beg your pardon. GD attends Purdue & loves it. Mitch Daniels really elevated its quality & they've held the tuition line for several years due to his policies.

I wasn't talking about Purdue. I was talking about the awful town in which it's located.

 

[DreadLox]

Just saw that movie a couple of months ago and thought it was damn good.

The book is unbelievably good. (It's Lewis's best, I think.) The characters he found. Their stories. Lewis's telling. All come together in a fantastic tale. We saw a talk by Timothy Geithner around the time this book came out. His big thing was that the world needs bankers. I'm just a nobody so I held my peace but what I wanted to scream was, "We didn't need THOSE bankers." (i.e. the bozos who personally benefited from the big bailouts) IIRC, Lewis's big point is that brokerage is an almost mechanical process. Getting capital together with markets. It can be almost secretarial. Instead, there are all these mystifying products that brokerage houses have come up with whose only utility is to peel off some $$ from the suckers. I think it was Vonnegut who said that every time money changes hands there is a point after the time when it leaves one hand and before the time it gets to another. That's when brokerages get their taste.

 

[Marleydogg]

I get why the government would request that a social media company stop spreading unscientific info that could potentially endanger lives during a pandemic... But that is also a slippery slope.
The laptop is completely irrelevant to public safety. There should not have been any mention of that at all by the government.
The government may not ALWAYS be the enemy but it's NEVER our friend.

GFY!

 

[mdlUK.1]

Karma?

Oakland homeless woman steals city council candidate's fundraising money: 'I was left to fend for myself'

A homeless woman stole a bag with $1,000 worth of donations from an Oakland City Council candidate during a campaign kickoff event, and police never showed up when called, according to a report.

www.foxnews.com

 

[sambowieshin]

GFY!

KMA! Very good conversation

 

[HymanKaplan]

This would be more believable if they at least had the letter typed out and sent into email. Literally nobody handwrites letters lol. I think people quit doing that 20 years ago.

(a hand raises, from the back of the room)

I do. I try to write 2 or 3 handwritten letters a week, to either a friend or two, and maybe a family member. Complete with stationary and a fountain pen. It's a habit my grandmother instilled in me, when I was a kid.

I also have an old 1950's Royal typewriter that I restored. I've been writing short stories for years, and that's the way I prefer to write.

 

[blubo]

Been away from the board for the day. I’m sure it has been discussed… but let me get this straight.

Harris is FINALLY going to sit for an interview (with CNN… pfft!), BUT she isn’t going to do it solo (bringing her wingman in Walz), and it’s all going to be PRE-RECORDED.

Seriously? Do I have this right?

pre recorded? i haven’t heard that. ridiculous if true but totally believeable.

 

[bcw1029]

“President Biden’s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor,” the White House summary states, noting that when Biden entered office, “the Taliban were in the strongest military position that they had been in since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half of the country.”

Biden review of chaotic Afghan withdrawal blames Trump

President Joe Biden’s administration is laying the blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of Biden’s presidency. The White House publicly released a 12-page...

apnews.com

Wrong.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

don’t know if this is staged or not but pretty cool if it’s real

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Staged. Fake.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

FBI now saying Crooks was looking at both Biden and Trump events. Sure. Good lord they are a joke.

 

[HymanKaplan]

How in the hell could a reasonable person conclude that Joe Biden presents a more difficult moving target than Donald Trump?

That's like choosing between a sloth and a mongoose.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

The horse was thinking 'what the f-ck is that?'






also someone in the comments pointed out she appears to be trying to get her picture taken next to the horse...in a burqa haha.

'that is me standing next to the horse. can't you see how happy I am?' haha

 

[HymanKaplan]

That horse hates Cumin.

 

[UKBlueBlood]

pre recorded? i haven’t heard that. ridiculous if true but totally believeable.

I heard second hand it was being pre-recorded. I can’t find anything that definitively states the interview will be live. This leads me to think it may really be recorded. This is one reason I was asking if I have this straight.