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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:19pm On May 04
For my records here.
CNN fails to hide poll that finds finds MAGA 100% with Trump

Tim Pool is done with Democrats.

Rep Nancy Mace releases names of 9 house member who used tax money to silence those who accused them of sexual harassment.
‎2007: Rodney Alexander ($15,000)
‎2009: Office of Carolyn McCarthy (2 cases resulting in 1 settlement) ($8,000)
‎2010: Eric Massa I ($85,000)
‎2010: Eric Massa II ($20,000)
‎2010: Eric Massa III ($10,000)
‎2010: John Conyers I ($50,000)
‎2014: Blake Farenthold ($84,000)
‎2014: John Conyers (Severance pay $27,111.75)
‎2017: Patrick Meehan (2 cases resulting in 1 settlement) (Severance pay $39,250)"

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:05pm On May 04
Do African Americans have a serious working culture?

DeepSight:
Its not a matter of money, its a matter of time. Every group of people walk a different journey.
Once upon a time Romans looked down on Brits and Germans as barbarians.

Where is Italy today?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:48pm On May 04
DeepSight:
Stop being silly, it is madness to count welfare that went to all races over sixty years as something special that blacks ought to have developed from.
If each descedant of slavery gets $10 million today , after 5 years the blacks will have caught up with the whites?
Or they will have danced azonto with the money?
My friend, no amount of money will make such a huge difference.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:38pm On May 04
DeepSight:
Welfare given to every poor person is not the same thing as reparations. That welfare is given to all races. That's one.

What do you mean the entire nation went to war "just to free them?" You make it sound like a favour?

Should they have been enslaved at all? And should anyone have fought to retain that system of slavery?

When you remember those whites who fought to free them, who were those whites fighting against? Other whites who wanted to keep slavery right? Do you forget that?

Here is the simple fact.

1. Jews got reparations
2. You don't want blacks to get same
3. Yet you congratulate Jews for doing better than blacks.

Why is that?
It all boils down to reparations. After $6 Trillion , you still want more?
Who should pay for it?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:36pm On May 04
If you haven't noticed we want the black community to excel.We want the excuses to stop.There should be a reflection on where blacks are and an honest discussion on how to move from there.
What chains internally have bound that need to be removed.

We don't want to dwell on the past .
Forward always backwards never is a popular school motto.

Start with the gang culture . Stable families. Petty jealousy.



DeepSight:
This tells alot about both of you. You don't get to discuss this subject at all without knowing something like that. It's like someone discussing apartheid and not knowing of Nelson Mandela.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:31pm On May 04
Korea was a third world in the sixties.China too



DeepSight:
You just have no sense of history and ripple effects. If that is what your good culture people could do from hate, do you think that suddenly stopped. Does it not occur to you that same people would go to extreme lengths to keep black people in shackles?

Is it not a shame that segregation lasted till the sixties? I mean the sixties for heavens sake.

So we are talking about a mere fifty to sixty years ago. And you expect that in that time the people so marginalized by society ought to have perfected everything? How will it not take time for heavens sake Tctrills and basilico. How many centuries did it take whites to our their act together and with all these odds against a marginalized black community you insult them for not being perfect yet right?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:30pm On May 04
Wake me up when blacks thank the whites who died to free them from slavery.
It's always condemnation and demands for reparations.

tctrills:
Blacks received close to a hundred billion in welfare each year how is that not more than what Jews received?

The best the Jews get is 3.5 billion yearly in a defence pack with the US. 70% of which is spent in the US on America companies.

And yes, Germany gave them a few billions in a one time payment.

What have the blacks received?

The entire nation went to war just to free them. The received the blood and sacrifice of America. America fought to make them free.

And today what better reparations is better than the opportunity to live freely in the land of greatest opportunity.

Again, I fully support giving welfare to the poor black and white, I only ask, what have the blacks done with their opportunity?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:24pm On May 04
So a city was burnt to the ground and condemned all blacks from East to west to poverty.
Make it make sense deepsight.

tctrills:
You dwell in irrelevance. That was in the 1920s. 100 years ago and some how, you feel it's the reason why black America is a mess.

Here are some figures that should make any sensible person think.

Despite segregation, the burning of black wall street, the KKK and all forms of oppression, black American reduced poverty by 45% from 1940 to 1965.
Just 25 years.
87% to 41.8%

In the years following, with all the opportunities that freedom brought their way. With a welfare program that have them billions each year what have they done?

Poverty has reduced by 24% from 1965 to date.
Why was black America able to do more with less? What changed?
Within that same period, black on black violent blew up, fatherlessness became an epidemic.

They were given more and they did less that's the amazing story of black America
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:19pm On May 04
DeepSight:
Do you know anything at all about Black Wall Street which she referred to? ? ? ? ?
Obviously neither you nor tctrills will.
Well I honestly don't.
Okay. I've seen it was in 1921.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 7:16pm On May 04
[quote author=WriterrNg post=139304619] has resumed firing?
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 7:12pm On May 04
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/nuclear/iran-letter-by-khomeini-shows-that-he-considered-nukes/

A newly disclosed letter from Ayatollah Khomeini written in 1988 says that Iran would need nuclear weapons to win the war with Iraq, a report says.

Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani released the letter as part of a feud with a military commander over responsibility for the 1988 cease-fire, the BBC reports.

In the letter, Khomeini, who died in 1989, quotes the country’s leading military commander of the day on the weaponry Iran would need to continue fighting. The letter also reveals that Iran’s economy had been almost destroyed by the eight-year war and that the supply of military volunteers was drying up.

The letter strikes a nerve because the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has denied that Iran plans to develop nuclear weapons. He has said that such weapons would violate Islamic principles.

But the letter suggests that Khomeini, leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, had no such qualms.


Later on a book was written about Khamenei declaring a fatwa on nuclear weapon. It was an oral fatwa which noone explicitly heard but Iranians use it fool the infidel armies.
Obama in his desire to give Iran a bomb had his spin Master use that to declare that Iran wasn't developing a nuclear bomb.

Wake up from your slumber. Iran has no need to enrich uranium when nations like Russia and America had promised to supply it with 3.5% enriched fuel.
They went upto 20%. Netanyahu was ready to attack them..Obama threatened him and alerted Iran.
They went upto 60%. They had promised not to develop ballistic missiles .when the said they had them,they lied about the range..2000 km but recently fired one with a 4000 mole range.

Believe the Iranians at your own risk.

Kingsnairaland:
Wake up from sleep there is no atomic threat from Iran USA Trump just wants to steal Irans oil
lol

Go watch trump video 30 years ago he said it self lol

Wake up from sleep

Oil is what runs the world
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:37pm On May 04
Barrack Obama desperately wants Trump to fail in neutralizing the Iran atomic bomb.


WriiterNg:
⚡Barack Obama says Netanyahu pushed for military confrontation with Iran—something Obama resisted while in office.

Obama recalls that Netanyahu made the same case for attacking Iran to him that he later made to Trump.

His view now:

I think my prognosis was accurate.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:26pm On May 04
cococandy:
This is such a disgusting take. Do you even have any idea what you’re talking about? You know America is a hyper capitalist scape and to succeed as a community, black America needs to be able to control their own sources of capital, loans, mortgages etc.

Which they did and still do and every time they make way in their progress, racist America destroys it.
Have you read about the destruction of black Wall Street? Which if left alone today would’ve funded many African American businesses without the prejudices that white lenders often attach to their business.

Do you know how many successful African American communities have been massacred and paved over with parks and lakes so that they never get ahead in life?

I pray for you that you may become more enlightened. I remember when I was uninformed like you too. And I chose pious hoity toity self righteousness thinking I must be somehow better than African Americans since I’m able to succeed and some of them still struggle.

Oh the naivety. I kinda pity you that you’re still stuck there mentally. But I have hope that you will wake up one day.

Get woke. Thank you
What has impaired black progress is the subject matter.
Is it the actions of others or does the African American community need to look inwards before blaming other factors
Are there internal factors within the community that hinders them? Factors that are not in their DNA specifically. Things they can change
They could be under undue influence to practice single parenthood living under welfare for example.
They could have been injected with viruses from some Congolese apes by scientists studying HIV viruses.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:21pm On May 04
Those still looking to tee up Epstein with Trump.
He was in bed with democrats at the height of his investigation under Trump 1.0

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Who has excused white crime as not being from culture. Children from white neighbourhoods where drugs and gangs are the order of the day also grow up into the same. Children of drug Lords also become drug Lords if not criminal drug addicts. There are very many violent white only neighborhoods and the trajectory of the children there is almost a certainty.

Let me give you some good advice. Join a golf club whether you play or not and you'll see life differently. Fake it , if membership is beyond your means. Pretend that you are in the house watching the Masters or Living Golf. Use chatgpt to teach you golf terns like birdies,irons, greens, slope ,boogies, caddies eagles , handicaps,over under par, tee off,etc😃😃😃
If you think football fans spend a lot of time discussing arsenal ,man useless etc ,Golfers can spend hours talking about golf.
A golfing lifestyle is a culture.

DeepSight:
You don't know the meaning of culture. You heard a white man say black culture is the problem and you licked it off the ground he spat it down on.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:17am On May 04
tctrills:
I love your brilliant yet simple argument. These leftist know but they just choose to argue for the sake of it.
When the society role model are flashy Yahoo boys , many kids will aspire to join that .
When your role model is Bone Thugs and Harmony, the results are predictable.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:06am On May 04
When a significant portion of a homogeneous society engages in a particular activity ,a culture will build up.
Indians for instance have a business culture, they help each other from small stores to Big business.When most of them get educated they will join their fellow Indians
Black kids living with gangs within their neighborhood will grow up into that culture be it hip-hop, rap music, basketball etc.
Japanese have a culture of honesty and kindness. You'll find kids bowing to a driver who stops at a zebra crossing. Kids in creche going to school or shopping alone etc.
Blacks exposed to gang culture and easy shortcuts to quick money become criminally prone. They could be quite a number.
Argentina and Brazil kids grow up playing football in the streets. Many kids role models are great footballers, many gravitate to football.

tctrills:
Good, you are getting smart.
Whites also have very bad cultures that they should improve.
But I will leave it for whites to fix while you and I concern ourselves with fixing the evils in our culture.

You are finally getting it.

From the prompt below and it's result, you see that addiction is a cultural problem in the US. So yes, there are good and bad cultures and society should work to improve the bad or negative ones
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Ivanpah the solar thermal electric generating plant is to close down after only 11 years of operation.
I've always said man made climate change via Carbon dioxide is a hoax.
Obama and liberals green new scam gobbled up $2 billion dollars to have 350,000 computer controlled mirrors to heat up water to drive a steam turbine .
Max output is about 1GW but the darn monstrosity does 398MW at most.
At night or when it's cloudy they have to use natural gas to generate electricity.
California Energy board has prevented it's closure despite gobbling $100 million annually to run it. The same carbon emission it was meant to escape is essential to the plant running. Makes the electricity charges in California to be higher.
The money spent could have installed over 2.5 GW power capacity using solar panels .
The plant is responsible for frying over 6000 birds annually. The plant also got tax breaks .

Liberals forcing the world to go green, disastrous consequences.
EU has high energy costs because of this CO2 is heating up the planet insanity.
(We tried getting a big tech open a Tier 3 data centre in Lagos using their own power generation plant . They said no, EU will penalize us for using fossil fuels).

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
bayelsaowei:
This is the shameless and childish state of the United States. Just take a look at a DOJ.
Because the left is insane.
See how they celebrated Luigi Mangione?
Why you people don't understand simple things?
Comey actions as a long serving US Attorney, FBi Director and Deputy AG is not the same as an internet troll. He was doing it on purpose. He must be happy that someone might decide to 86 the 47. That's exactly what he wanted.
Note he posted that after reports of him being investigated over Russia hoax came out
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
DeepSight:
Played as a Russian asset.
I was on tariffs.
Germany Chancellor says NATO alliance is the best thing since sliced bread.
Suddenly Iran is no longer humiliating America.
Now this
Germany’s automotive industry pleaded for an urgent de-escalation in the tariff dispute between the US and the European Union and called for immediate talks between the two sides after President Donald Trump said he would increase auto tariffs on the bloc next week.

Liberal policies in Germany have increased their energy costs . China car exports into EU are growing. Germany vehicle market in China is shrinking. The US market has higher margins per vehicle
(Conspicous consumption running riot).
Germany auto industry is absolutely the big kahuna of the economy.

When Trump asks them to Jump they should ask "How High.

Don't forget Germany is working against Trump ending the Ukraine war out of spite. Spineless liberals .
When Trump powér plays EU and NATO ,you call him a Russia stooge.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 4:21am On May 04
WriterrNg:
⚡Iran peace plan proposes entering into a strategic dialogue with Arab neighbours and the region to build a security system that includes the entire Middle East.
The horse has already left the barn.
The most dangerous regime in the Middle East is known .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:57pm On May 03
Obrigardo:
You want to schlong your plong to her?
No. I want to save her photo Incase you lose your phone ,I can always repost it .
Who is that?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:54pm On May 03
Ijebosb



They took 11 months to investigate Comey. Prosecution intends to prove it's case beyond reasonable doubt .
Translation. The grand jury has seen undisclosed evidence.
Your opinion is irrelevant and worthless.

basilico:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-doj-pursuing-separate-comey-probe-for-classified-leaks


This man Comey is in plenty of problems. At some point no earthly choice judge will be able to save him.
Comey went to see Trump in early 2017 and informed him that Russia had kompromat on him. Buzzfeed reported this meeting and published the Steel dossier. Comey after the meeting memoriazed his conversation to be used again.......

When Comey was fired on May 9 2017, he sent copies of those classified memos to David Richman with instructions to leak them to the NYT on May 16, 2017. NYT promptly did that the same day.This was to facilitate the appointment of Robert Mueller as the Special Counsel.
As regards that appointment, evidence abounds in plenty how a select group of FBI and DAG Rosenstein conspired to get Robert Mueller as SC, includinyh Rosenstein taking Mueller to say hello to Trump. Mueller was appointed on May 17, 2017.
All of them knew fully well that the Steele dossier used fraudulently at the FISA court was hearsay and complete junk.
Deepsight.what you think of this?




James Comey has an upcoming book. DOJ will confiscate all proceeds from the book if he is convicted of the 86 -47 case
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:36pm On May 03
Who is that hottie?
Obrigardo:
Guys look at those plates, huge plates at at pedo-lar-go.
basilico will be using all his baby oils when he sees this one grin
This is gonna thrill tctrills down there grin

These maga cultists come here and start lecturing us on piety and other gobnobby stuffs when we should be checking their hard drives and browser history.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 2:57pm On May 03
[quote author=WriterrNg post=139287813] glad you've posted that. They transport 2 mbpd to prevent the wells being turned off.
The turning point comes when they shut down the well..
Pressure from below builds up and that well will never be the same again.
Oh by the way US Carrier Ford is now only 250 miles from Iranian coast with it's intact air wing. 3 carriers mobilized against Iran.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:00am On May 03
In 2024 and 2025 it had filed for bankruptcy when gas was cheap. It's been hemorrhaging for a long time.

Factor in the Pratt and Whitney engine problem. 40 planes out of 214 in total grounded when they desperately need to fill every seat.

The spike in fuel was the last straw, their fleet was down to less than 100 by January before the Iran war.

Anyway it's better if The Ayatollahs just get the nuclear bomb than for oil to hit $100



nateevs:
On another round of news of unintended consequences of Don Tzu's war.

Spirit Airlines has now shut down operations due to exponential hike in price of jet fuel...... making operations unsustainable.

This werey MAGA man and his werey gang are already zooning into position to obfuscate from the real truth and blame it on others .


Meanwhile, this is yet another reason to applaud the most consequential President of the United States.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:43am On May 03
Bemeruca.
Bleeding heart liberal forced out of her own home by a tenant. Police can do nothing.

https://e-noticies.cat/en/politics/podemos-candidate-leaves-her-home-out-of-fear-after-taking-in-immigrant-squatter
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 9:34am On May 03

Chris Rollins
@ThePowerAudit
Analysis of Iran's 14-point proposal to the US.

This proposal is not a negotiation. It is a regime documenting that it "tried peace" before what comes next.

Iran's 14-point response was delivered through Pakistan to a US 9-point proposal. The US wanted a two-month ceasefire. Iran demanded 30 days. They are bleeding $170 million daily under the blockade and cannot afford Washington's timeline.

First, it demands phased steps toward lifting the naval blockade and releasing frozen assets. Earlier versions demanded full upfront removal. The fact that Iran is already softening its own opening position tells you who has the leverage.

Second, it requires a permanent end to the war on all fronts including Lebanon and Yemen. Binding Iran's fate to Hezbollah and the Houthis guarantees US rejection.

Third, it insists Iran retains uranium enrichment rights. This directly contradicts Trump's stated war objective that Iran will never have nuclear weapons.

Fourth, it declares missile capabilities non-negotiable and rejects any international inspectors. Iran's stated reason is that they consider international inspectors to be spies for Israeli intelligence services. Given that Israel just killed their supreme leader using precise intelligence on his location, this fear is not irrational. But it still closes the door on the one verification mechanism Washington would require.

Fifth, it demands US troop withdrawal from Arab countries and the entire region.

Sixth, it demands war reparations and compensation from the country currently blockading it.

Seventh, it proposes a "new Hormuz system" under Iranian management. Qatar's own FM told Araghchi tonight this deepens the crisis.

Meanwhile, Iran's own parliament publicly declared nuclear negotiations banned. Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi is burning through every back channel he has tonight, calling Qatar, Oman, Pakistan, and Russia. And this proposal was published by Tasnim, the IRGC's media outlet, not through presidential channels. The people negotiating and the people publishing are different factions with different goals. That is what Trump meant by 'disjointed leadership

In summary, Iran's proposal asks Washington to give up everything it won militarily in exchange for promises from a regime whose supreme leader is dead, whose navy is destroyed, and whose own parliament contradicts its own foreign minister on live television. The proposal's real audience is Tehran, not Washington.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 9:17am On May 03
Iran President went on TV and asked the people to turn on 2 lights instead of 10. He blamed damage on infrastructure instead of the blockade.
There were reports of.some in Iran pushing for negotiations.

Latest Estimates of total oil in Iranian tankers is 166 million barrels. They are just floating around with nowhere to take their oil . A single large volume tanker offloading 2 million barrels is a drop in the ocean.
The Ayatollahs should just give up everything and sell of that and pay their IRGC crew laying mines at the Straits of Hormuz.

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