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How will they rule ??!

  • YES - Qualified

    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
I guess next you old ****ers will be plugging for ensure, and posting the best prices on scooters and batteries.

Stay off the sidewalks


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“No cost” schtick again.
It’s like when cell phones came free with the phone plan.
The money is in the subscription. And that govt contract is phat.

He’s in damage control AGAIN.

Here is a riveting 10 min video about the program Verzion was awarded the contract for:

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_or...library/storyboard/detailedwebpages/fens.html

TLDR: old copper infrastructure for all FAA networks is being replaced with fibre and cut over starting with large facilities to smaller/remote ones.
Well that was from the FAA themselves. Lord knows you can take that to the bank. I see you are really looking at sources.
 
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You honestly haven't looked at any of the stuff USAID was funding, have you? LOL.

Africa had a meeting of leaders last year. They said that.. "the US and Britain would show up, spend money on nonsense and give us a lecture. China shows up and builds a hospital and a bridge." A journalist spoke up and said "wait until you see what the hospital and bridge cost you in the long run"... and then the African president said "here comes the lecture".
 
Deee you are completely ignorant to what is happening or you agree with the course set by Obama. Since Obama has taken over the middle class taken home is over $5,000.00 less a year. You can use as your argument liberal/democrat talking points but the truth is that we are taking home less because of more taxes. Just can't get past that bottom line.
You are taking home less because business are paying the execs and shareholders more, and not the blue collar workers.
Corporate profits are way above where they were before COVID, but the common man isn’t seeing much of that.

Worker pay decoupled from efficiency gains a while ago and the blue collar man took the brunt.

I always thought unions were inefficient havens a bad attitude workers, but they do get the worker paid better.
 
The first actual "news" event that I can recall in my lifetime was when Dwight Eisenhower died in 1969 (I only remember it because my Mom was so upset. I think I probably said, "Good riddance. He completely dick-fingered European reconstruction, and didn't have enough sack to stand up to Truman. LOL. followed by, about 4 months later, the first Moon landing.
 
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In border/immigration news:





"Among them is Sinaloa cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero, who has been wanted in the United States for 40 YEARS. Another is Zetas cartel leader Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales."








The ICE doxxing is a big problem, they also got to do something about those idiots that show up wherever ICE does with bullhorns trying to warn everybody.


I watched a podcast on the cartels and the expert dude was saying the "head" is just the face of the cartel. He said there are 4 or 5 dudes behind the scenes who actually run these cartels and they live very quiet lives and you'd never know they were the leaders. I think we need to get some of these guys to make a dent in the cartels.
 
You honestly haven't looked at any of the stuff USAID was funding, have you? LOL.

Africa had a meeting of leaders last year. They said that.. "the US and Britain would show up, spend money on nonsense and give us a lecture. China shows up and builds a hospital and a bridge." A journalist spoke up and said "wait until you see what the hospital and bridge cost you in the long run"... and then the African president said "here comes the lecture".
I’m in support of reviewing and restructuring.

There was too much dumb culture war typse stuff in there if the snippets thrown out as true.

USAiD also was doing alot of great work in the world both philanthropically and in contributing to US foreign influence in countries.

Let’s make sure we’re spending money on the right things for the right reason.

The USAiD conspiracy crap is the 2025 version of the QANON whackos.
 
It's not what it used to be, but the Wall Street Journal is about as close to actual news as you're going to get anymore.

I get that (WSJ daily) and the New York Times Sunday edition.
You almost have to follow individual reporters now. Those big outfits have cia and fbi plants. They might run a story they think is true but is being planted by spooks. Catherine Herridge perfect example. She got fired by cbs because she wouldn't stop on a Biden story. She then fought them in court to get her work back since they were just going to sit on it. She's earned the right for me to believe her.
 
I watched a podcast on the cartels and the expert dude was saying the "head" is just the face of the cartel. He said there are 4 or 5 dudes behind the scenes who actually run these cartels and they live very quiet lives and you'd never know they were the leaders. I think we need to get some of these guys to make a dent in the cartels.


Gus Fring
 
I’m in support of reviewing and restructuring.

There was too much dumb culture war typse stuff in there if the snippets thrown out as true.

USAiD also was doing alot of great work in the world both philanthropically and in contributing to US foreign influence in countries.

Let’s make sure we’re spending money on the right things for the right reason.

The USAiD conspiracy crap is the 2025 version of the QANON whackos.
You should be able to find some really good cases of usaid funding great stuff then. Oddly, I've only seen around 7 things that were refunded after being cut. 100's of things cut and only 7, that i've seen, have been brought back. LOL DOGE has a website and you could look at that yourself.
 
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You misunderstood what I said or choose to distort it. I maintain that the main solution to making Medicare solvent for future generations is to mandate a cap on benefits after a certain dollar amount. 80% of Medicare payments are paid out in the last 2 years of life, often to simply keep people artificially alive, some against their own will. A great arrangement for providers and drug companies, a bad deal for the tax payer.

Medicaid is a different animal. It provides supplemental insurance to impoverished people or in the case of the ACA expansion to people that work for companies that do not offer health care or cannot afford it. It services people across all age groups. Medicaid keeps people out of emergency rooms where we wind up with an enormously larger price down the road.

Having said that Medicaid should also have caps, as well as the ACA. The biggest problem with the ACA is caps are not allowed. But as Jamo points out the last thing in the world any politician of either party will propose is a REDUCTION in benefits.

We as a national can have something close to universal health care and still be fiscally responsible about it if we do it the smart way - the way France Canada and other countries do it.
So many consider this a crazy left wing idea when the rest of the industrialized world has figured it out.
 
You should be able to find some really good cases of usaid funding great stuff then. Oddly, I've only seen around 7 things that were refunded after being cut. 100's of things cut and only 7, that i've seen, have been brought back. LOL DOGE has a website and you could look at that yourself.
Notice that he's all emotion and zero substance. He "feels" that USAID is doing good.
 
Yep. Every single person I follow on X is laffing at the Admin over this mess. Total miss. If it was plan to show how SDNY is ignoring them... still freaking stupid and poorly executed. Handing out binders to "influencers" seems like some shit Biden was doing instead of just arresting the Got Dayum pedophiles.... How hard is that?
 
right up front I need to say that the Epstein stuff is so far down my list of issues that I'm concerned about that it's essentially buried on the back page, so I haven't paid even a moments attention to it. So IOW, I'm not particularly informed on today's happenings. Just skimming the headlines though it seems like she thought she was going to get the entirety of the files/evidence, when in fact, she did not.

So if it IS true that "lifers" are obstructing the process, the anger at the AG seems, at first blush, well, misplaced. (Bearing in mind that, as I previously stated, am not up on the finer points of what happened today.)
I agree Epstein doesn't score high on "known" or "popular" things to do but.... This is one of those things that define a society. You have a man and woman who were trafficking young girls and not one single person who took part in that scheme has been brought to justice. This isn't one of those outrageous claims with no substance.... They both were convicted and the fbi and doj both claim they have over 200 victims.... 2 people doing time for that isn't enough. Epstein was blackmailing people. He wasn't filming them sleeping with 30 yo hookers to blackmail them. People don't turn over their entire fortune to keep sex with a 30 yo hooker out of the news.
 
Yep. Every single person I follow on X is laffing at the Admin over this mess. Total miss. If it was plan to show how SDNY is ignoring them... still freaking stupid and poorly executed. Handing out binders to "influencers" seems like some shit Biden was doing instead of just arresting the Got Dayum pedophiles.... How hard is that?
 
If true, wouldn't surprise me if this was the plan all along, make a deal to get the hostages (many complained Israel gave them back too many terrorists/prisoners in the exchange), Israel gets some hostages back but knows Hamas won't fully live up to the deal...when that happens, Israel goes back in...they knew they were going to end up killing the terrorists they gave back in the exchange.

Ceasefire truce ends in a couple days.




















"There will be no aid outside the humanitarian zones," said Kobi Michael, a former head of the Palestinian desk at the Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry and before that a senior Israeli military intelligence official. "This will prevent Hamas from continuing to steal all the humanitarian aid and will increase pressure on the group through the local population."
Several Arab leaders did say Hamas insulted Islam by killing those kids and parading them. Trump has had a good relationship with Saudis and the Gulf states. I almost think they might just all agree that the Palestine problem is too big to keep dealing with and just let Israel end it. Jordan has been holding on by a thread because their Palestinian pop is constantly threatening to overthrow their government. The Arabs might actually be backing Israel on this. I would say Turkey, Egypt and Iran wouldn't be on board with this though so it could still go very sideways.
 




It’s all smoke and mirrors, bondi was never serious about this
I love it when lefties come in here to educate us on stuff. Oddly you didn't come to tell us about the debacle with the Afghan withdrawal. You didn't show up to tell us about how letting in 12 million illegals would be good for our economy. You didn't show up to tell us how funding a proxy war with the largest owner of nuclear weapons would benefit us either....

Maybe read the room and realize that everyone on this thread is pissed over the Epstein release. Find one person on here who is happy about it. Quit digging up some people we never heard of trying to spin it... Or pretending Liz Wheeler was saying more than what we she actually said.

If you want to pretend to be middle of the road guy who isn't partisan, then you need to hide it better because you are coming off like a left wing shill that thought Biden was super healthy right up until cnn told you he was too mentally handicapped to continue. LOL.
 
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I love it when lefties come in here to educate us on stuff. Oddly you didn't come to tell us about the debacle with the Afghan withdrawal. You didn't show up to tell us about how letting in 12 million illegals would be good for our economy. You didn't show up to tell us how funding a proxy war with the largest owner of nuclear weapons would benefit us either....

Maybe read the room and realize that everyone on this thread is pissed over the Epstein release. Find one person on here who is happy about it. Quit digging up some people we never heard of trying to spin it... Or pretending Liz Wheeler was saying more than what we she actually said.

If you want to pretend to be middle of the road guy who isn't partisan, then you need to hide it better because you are coming off like a left wing shill that thought Biden was super healthy right up until cnn told you he was too mentally handicapped to continue. LOL.
Sorry I guess it’s too soon for you on the Epstein sham.

Here’s some good news on trumps impact on the us markets. Are we great again yet? Don’t worry something else will get spun up tomorrow to keep the reality show content going!
 
Were Gene Hackman and his wife (and dog) friends with the Clintons?

Maybe Hackman is on the redacted/missing Epstein list. If he'd only waited a couple of days, he could have seen that in all likelihood that list will never come out.
 
Sorry I guess it’s too soon for you on the Epstein sham.

Here’s some good news on trumps impact on the us markets. Are we great again yet? Don’t worry something else will get spun up tomorrow to keep the reality show content going!
reddit? LOL I already dislike you as much as Sam. Jesus H Christ. You are posting reddit shit on here like a "gotcha". Maybe look up some YoungTurks or MSNBC clips to roast us pubs.

We were litter ali predicting a recession well before the election. Just because you don't know and felt like you needed to school us.... doesn't mean squat.

Maybe read this far right article on Politico.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-00203464

Wealth of Nations

Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.​

 


Imagine being so naive and stupid that you think going the same way we were is a recipe for prosperity... LOL Sweden leads the world in grenade attacks. You remember hearing about how violent Sweden was 20 years ago?
 
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It was a shit show but it does point how bad SDNY is once again. 8am deadline so we'll see what happens at 9am...
 
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