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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:51am On Aug 12, 2025
benalvino3:
On one side, they are promoting starvation propaganda, on another side, they are in school, and on yet another side, they are casually sittin

https://fxtwitter.com/koshercockney/status/1954542961535922209
Anything from Hamas is a lie. Good video , Elon Musk or Trump should retweet it
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:03am On Aug 12, 2025
armyofone:
Are both ex prez boogeymen ? Why hide them under the staircase ? grin "away from the thousands of visitors" why grin

Scared of their faces ? grin

Too handsome ? grin

Where will the next president hide this current one's ?

Cain dem use beat 1st wife will be use to beat 2nd wife - African proverb grin
The ex- presidents must have eaten Trump's goat without his permission.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:27pm On Aug 11, 2025
Few for my records.

President Trump has directed the relocation of official White House portraits of former Presidents Barack Obama, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush to the top of the Grand Staircase, a restricted area hidden from most visitors and guests....The portraits are now "out of view from thousands of visitors who tour the White House each day," according to sources who spoke to CNN..

Petty ,if there is no reason for that ,but we know there is

JD Vance says a lot of people will be indicted over the Russian hoax .

“I absolutely want to see indictments,” Vance stated on a Sunday Fox News appearance. “Look, of course, you’ve got to have the law follow the facts here. You don’t just indict people to indict people. You indict people because they broke the law. But if you look at what Tulsi and Kash Patel have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don’t know how anybody can look at that and say that there wasn’t aggressive violations of the law.”

“I absolutely think they broke the law. [b]You’re gonna see a lot of people get indicted for that. [/b]Here’s the thing that should really bother the American people. What do you want our intelligence community to be doing? I want them to be catching bad guys. I want to be making sure that terrorists aren’t gonna kill innocent American civilians. I don’t want them laundering Hillary Clinton’s campaign talking points into the American media and giving them this air of legitimacy. It is sick and it’s disgusting.


Democrat senator Mark Warner tweeted
Pete Hegseth must go.
Tulsi Gabbard must go.

Our national security cannot be in the hands of such incompetent people.


Senato Mark Warner requested the FISA warrant of Carter Page fmin 2017 His staffer was the recipient . James Wolfe leaked it to Watkins his girlfriend Media could not publish it. He was indicted. Before trial he demanded depositions from the members of the Senate intelligence committee. The case was dropped,implying Mark Warner had instructed him to leak the very top secret warrant to media
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:33pm On Aug 11, 2025
Ghislaine Maxwell jail is being protected by Counter terrorism and Special ops teams in her new low security gaol. This after death threats.

https://www.rightjournalism.com/counterterrorism-special-ops-teams-assigned-to-protect-ghislaine-maxwell-in-texas-prison/

Looks like there is a serious group that wants her dead after she was interviewed by the Deputy Attorney General. This don't look like a small matter
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:44pm On Aug 11, 2025
bayelsaowei:
you are even sympathetic a bit for suggesting that the IDF shouldn't have killed the rest of the folks along with the alleged terrorist. wink

But then.. IDF one day must answer for killings of innocent humans..

And that day will come pretty soon.

They should enjoy themselves.
I'm being sarcastic. Why should you be his body shield when you know the IDF is after him? They were birds of a feather . Hamas hides among civilians using them as human shields.
If I knew my wife is wanted by IDF better off dead I would hand her over, then complain to BBC when they don't feed her bacon,eggs and sausages in jail.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:59pm On Aug 11, 2025
bayelsaowei:
grin cheesy

Yes we agree with the almighty IDF. The sole arbiters of good and true news..all praise the IDF..

grin grin

How about the others that were killed. They were terrorists too??

grin
IDF intelligence discovered in the tunnel system had him as a terrorist. The IDF failed in that they should have sent a team to kill him alone and leave everyone else alive. Maybe they should've sent a bomb that could only kill those whose DNA was known. Or a bomb using facial recognition to kill it's target. So a terrorist can just mingle with the mad men in a market , and the hunters sit outside waiting for him to expose himself to prevent collateral damage.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:59pm On Aug 11, 2025
Biden regime took measures to force banks and financial institutions to drop Trump as a customer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/inside-the-enormous-biden-effort-to-debank-trump-after-jan-6/ar-AA1KeobK

They wanted to finish him completely, Letitia case judge had a court appointed manager overseeing Trump businesses. I'm not sure if the court-appointed monitor, retired Judge Barbara Jones, is still overseeing the Trump Organization’s financial activities as of today.
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by basilico: 12:42pm On Aug 11, 2025
UN gives correct picture of the starvation in Gaza,
Hint: It's not the IDF.
This is depressing news.Savages will always be savages

Netanyahu is planning to sue New York Times for the images it posted online of the child with celebral palsy being touted as a victim of starvation.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:40am On Aug 11, 2025
With the cries about redistricting and a census count of citizens only , this makes a lot of sense . Democrats import illegal aliens in order to gain more congressional seats and turn red states purple or outright blue when the illegals become voters. Biden sold the border wall because he didn't want any hindrance to immigrants legal or not.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-border-wall-materials-sold-160037203.html

Foreign Affairs › Re: Five Al Jazeera Journalists Killed In Israeli Strike In Gaza by basilico: 9:55am On Aug 11, 2025
AlphaTaikun:
That was a targeted assasination on a lone journalist BUT the unintended consequences was the taking down of 4 more totally innocent journalists!
Ever heard of a term collateral damage. The IDF should have used one bullet aimed at him only?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:47am On Aug 11, 2025
Ibime:
Here we go, another Hamas terrorist killed while moonlighting as a journalist. Nateevs and Budatuum can now add this to their journalist count.

https://www.nairaland.com/8495371/five-al-jazeera-journalists-killed

The IDF Struck the Terrorist Anas Al-Sharif Who Posed as a Journalist for the Al Jazeera Network

The IDF had previously disclosed intelligence information and many documents found in the Gaza Strip, confirming his military affiliation to Hamas. The documents include personnel rosters, lists of terrorist training courses, phone directories, and salary documents for the terrorist, and provide unequivocal proof that he serves as a military terrorist in Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Here he is in a selfie with deceased Hamas leader Sinwar and Hamas leadership
bayelsaowei, I didn't have to wait for long .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:26am On Aug 11, 2025
bayelsaowei:
As in Isreal just decides who is a terrorist and then kills the person.. grin grin

This life sweet oo.. people don dey play God..

What a wonderful world..
I'll revisit this. There must be more to the story, as opposed to just IDF killed the hallowed members of Al Jazeera.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
bayelsaowei:
grin grin

Chaii..

I don't know what green energy did to conservatives.. I don't really understand..

Well if they like they should continue sleeping on a bike.. the world would move on with or without America if they choose to snooze..
I have posted a lot about climate change here. It all started with the need to rein in and wrench power from Big oil.
Through data that they can't prove, using computer models scientists started the religion of climate change. Science is settled. A lot of funds go to research with progressives getting the bulk. Climate change became a tool to gain control. Computers process the data you give them better than human beings Give it garbage , it will spew out garbage. The turning point came when they narrowed down on Carbon Dioxide as the leading cause , largely emitted from fossil fuels.
You may not be aware but there are companies that are paid to extract CO2 and sequester it in underground storage. Total hogwash. With more CO2 you get more vegetation and more food . Greenhouses pump CO2 to hasten photosynthesis upto 2000 ppm. Yet climate experts yrlp at CO2 levels approaching 440 ppm.

The drive to move to clean , green renewable is a sinister attempt to have more govt in your life Climate passports, 15 minute cities, limiting your Carbon footprints etc. ESG took it a notch higher with companies getting access to cheaper financing if they hit high ESG scores. Ask Sri Lanka what happened when they banned fertilizers ( oil by-product) to maintain their 98/100 ESG scores. Tesla got a lower ESG score than ExxonMobil,which is just laughable as it's more about micromanaging businesses.
ExxonMobil surpassed Tesla in the 2022 S&P 500 ESG Index, prioritizing industry-relative performance.
Sustainalytics gave Tesla a better 2024 ESG score, citing lower risk than ExxonMobil.
Industry-specific metrics and exclusion of Scope 3 emissions distort ESG comparisons significantly.
Tesla’s governance and social controversies contrast ExxonMobil’s environmental efforts within its sector.
It's all a big scam to replace oil with renewables that they can control. Trump understands this perfectly well and that's one reason they hate him.
Don't confuse a cleaner pollution free environment with climate change. Internal Combustion Engines are more efficient nowadays leading to less hazardous smog . America has high standards of pollution control than other countries, but the liberals want more - Get rid of beef, use electricity in home heating ,ban fracking,ban New York coal fired pizzas ,eat lab grown meat, etc. The limit will be capping population growth.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:25am On Aug 11, 2025
benalvino3:
Solar n wind are not the future
EVs are good. You need fossil,or nuclear,geothermal or hydro to charge them.

Assuming you get 5 Sunlight Hours in a day .To charge a 100KW Tesla car , you need 20Kw of installed solar panels. Large panels of 500W needed are 40 occupying 1100 sq feet. Who has that space?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:41am On Aug 11, 2025
budaatum:
You wouldn't believe basilico's job is solar panel installation.

They must not be painted green, so he probably doesn't think its to do with energy.
It's not my job. I'm an electrical engineer,a professional ICT specialist and I have a company that builds, designs and operates solar projects
There is nothing you can teach me about green energy.
When I have time I have go through all these in a day . **Image** below.
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:03pm On Aug 10, 2025
benalvino3:
The problem with nuclear energy is waste management. Other, it can be safely managed but it will take a very long time for the isotopes to decay. If they can send them to he button of the sea it would be okay. Or if they can shoot them out to space.
Yea that's a real problem. Modt t of it is stored underground I believe, some is used for armor piercing anti tank missiles.
Energy generation requires govt intervention and support.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:10pm On Aug 10, 2025
IjeBos:
You have never stepped one foot in the US yet want to alert an actual American about something your conspiracy addled brain cooked up?
Take your meds dude you will be better for it.
Does your state have any republican congress person? If not, why?
Your scumbag hero also benefitted from gerrymandering,yet he has the galls to call.out Texas.

https://www.propublica.org/article/obamas-gerrymander
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:31pm On Aug 10, 2025
IjeBos:
Yes, you are not American, so the things our courts do have 0 influence on you.

The stuff you post is so poorly thought out that it clearly reads like someone who has no historical nor cultural understanding of the US.
Someone who has never stepped foot in the US.
You should invest your time in things that actually affect your life, not inhaling propaganda about things you don't have the slightest clue about.
I'm alerting you to the dangers Obama brought upon America. If Jack Smith is going down Judge Chutkan will also go down.. Ditto those activist Obama and Biden judges who mercilessly incarcerate protesters of J6 fedsurrection. As I understand a conspiracy has no statutue of limitations as long as the seditious conspiracy is still going on . Whether it's a social media comment touching on the conspiracy, it's a continuing conspiracy.
As to the rest of the world the scumbag Obama brought nothing but misery esp Middle East Not even to his father's country did he leave anything impactful . Bloody useless traitor.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:20pm On Aug 10, 2025
benalvino3:
Nuclear energy is clean and efficient, unlike solar and other green alternatives, which are often too expensive and inefficient for widespread use and you know they have high carbon footprint to develop as well.

Even if I see the potential for these green technologies to power cars which I think they are doing a good job, I don't believe they are suitable for powering an entire country.

when converting fossil fuel energy to mechanical energy in cars, about 80% of the energy is lost during the process. This is where electric cars shines as they are 98% efficient in converting electrical energy to mechanical energy. energy density of fossil fuels cannot be compared to that of green energy sources.
Green energy fails at the aspect.

If you ask me, I will say overall, the idea of green energy powering a country or city is greenwashing.
Green energy production is intermittent Requires expensive storage systems. Maintaining 50Hz or 60Hz from solar or wind requires expansive control systems.
Nuclear, geothermal and gas generate heat or rather steam to turn rotary steam turbines . Hydros also use the water to turn rotary turbines .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:19pm On Aug 10, 2025
ijebosb:
As you're not American, you might want to try thanking Tinubu or Buhari for your situation.
Yes I'm not American. Your hero Obama brought divisions to America in the pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion. He appointed activists as judges , where possible foreign born
In most cases against Trump they always rule against him or dissent.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:42pm On Aug 10, 2025
bayelsaowei:
Hope Ukraine preserves their honor and critical locations from the ongoing deals and discussions..
Please tell Zelensky to stop smoking weed. Those territories are gone. Kaput. Including Crimea. Gone.
He should broker a ceasefire or risk losing Kyiv .
Russia had warned of every attempt to still the planned Putin and Trump meeting this Friday. EU bitter losers don't want to be outshined.
Macron can send every Palestinian back to their shithole if Trump invites him to participate in the Friday talks,even as a janitor or the barista.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:33pm On Aug 10, 2025
Obama and Diversity. The first foreign judge to be appointed to DC federal was by Obama . Judge Chutkan who was presiding over Trump case, she helped Jackboot Smith commit every ethical violation he could.

There are currently 61 serving foreign born judges serving in the federal system. All were appointed by either Obama or Biden. Gemini couldn't find any foreign born judge appointed since 1980,Obama is such a smart ass.

Summary Corrupt DC system , 5 out of 15 judges in DC are foreign.

Tanya Sue Chutkan
Country of Origin: Jamaica (born in Kingston)
Appointment Date: June 2014
Appointing President: Barack Obama
Details: Appointed without prior judicial experience, Chutkan arrived in the U.S. by 1979 and attended George Washington University (B.A. in Economics) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.). She currently oversees cases involving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Amit P. Mehta
Country of Origin: India (born in Patan, Gujarat)
Appointment Date: December 2014
Appointing President: Barack Obama
Details: Appointed without prior judicial experience, Mehta immigrated to the U.S. at age one and was raised in Maryland. He is overseeing four January 6-related civil lawsuits targeting former President Trump.

Ana Cecilia Reyes
Country of Origin: Uruguay (born in Montevideo)
Appointment Date: February 2023
Appointing President: Joe Biden
Details: Appointed without prior judicial experience, Reyes moved to Spain and then Louisville, Kentucky, as a child. She is the first openly LGBT Latina judge on this court and issued a preliminary injunction against Trump’s executive order on “gender dysphoria” in military readiness standards.

Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali
Country of Origin: Canada (born to Egyptian parents)
Appointment Date: 2024 (exact month not specified in sources)
Appointing President: Joe Biden
Details: Appointed without prior judicial experience, Ali became a U.S. citizen in 2019. He graduated from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and Harvard Law School. Ali, the first Muslim and Arab American judge on this court, restored $2 billion in USAID funding to foreign nonprofit contractors, reversing a Trump administration freeze.

Sparkle L. Sooknanan
Country of Origin: Trinidad and Tobago
Appointment Date: January 2025 (sworn in January 2, 2025)
Appointing President: Joe Biden
Details: Appointed without prior judicial experience, Sooknanan moved to the U.S. at age 16, graduated from Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 2010), and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She ruled to reinstate Democrat Susan Grundmann to the Federal Labor Relations Authority, preserving a
democrat majority.a
Obama introduced some DEI to the court system. The 5 judges above ,none has any judicial experience.Mmm they seem to be just activists to me.
Thank you Obama.
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by basilico: 8:57am On Aug 10, 2025
Uprightness100:
The Palestinians:

▪️ They entered Lebanon and caused a civil war and the spread of weapons and chaos to this day

▪️ They lived in Jordan and attempted to overthrow the King of Jordan in what was called “Black September.”


▪️ They entered Syria and killed the Syrian people and dug tunnels in the Syrian city of Ghouta.

▪️ They entered Egypt and killed the Egyptian soldiers and slaughtered them in the Sinai desert

▪️ They entered Kuwait for work, and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, they stood with Saddam Hussein against Kuwait, which received them.


▪️ They entered Iraq and became suicide bombers, exploding in popular markets in Baghdad.

▪️ They entered Europe as refugees, and today they are demonstrating in the streets and waging chaos and violence against the country’s residents.

▪️ They entered ISRAEL to work, and they did what we all witnessed on October 7th.
When I call Palestinians despicable, this is one reason.

In 2005, Wafa al-Biss, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman from Gaza, was treated for severe burns at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, Israel, after a gas cooker accident. Granted permission to enter Israel for follow-up treatment, she was caught at the Erez Crossing on June 20, 2005, wearing a 22-pound suicide bomb vest hidden under her robes.She had attempted to detonate it when she was caught, thankfully it failed
She intended to detonate it at the hospital but was stopped by suspicious guards. Al-Biss, affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, later claimed she was coerced, though she initially expressed a desire to target Israelis. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison but released early in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange. Upon release, she encouraged others to follow her path, sparking controversy.



foolishboy419
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by basilico: 8:49am On Aug 10, 2025
HolinessForever:
CNN caught showcasing a CHRONICALLY ILL girl to sell the “famine in Gaza” narrative.

(GAZAWOOD)
Gaza has an inbreeding rate of upto 40% .That status means many kids especially suffer from rare genetical diseases.
Not to be seen as biased towards the Fakestinians, Indian community also has a lot of inbreds with a lot of genetical rare diseases being prevalent. With indians its a question of retaining wealth within families their caste system.
With Palestinians, the cousin marriages are part of the Sunna
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:25am On Aug 10, 2025
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/08/08/cbs-news-hamas-stooge-should-have-waited-before-basically-calling-huckabee-a-liar-n3805633


CBS Hamas stooge thinks she knows more than Mike Huckabee, US Ambassador to Israel.
Liberalism is akin to madness
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:37am On Aug 10, 2025
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:48am On Aug 10, 2025

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/heres-how-the-palestinians-got-their-name,22410

People who lie about their origins circa 1964 will lie about anything . Modern day Palestinians are a fake people.

In 2018, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas told the United Nations’ Security Council, “We are the descendants of the Canaanites that lived in the land 5,000 years ago and continued to live there to this day.”

Linda Sarsour " Jesus was a Palestinian of Nazareth"

Walid Shoebat “On June 4, 1967, I was a Jordanian, and overnight I became a Palestinian".


The word “Palestine” is not Arab or Middle Eastern in origin. It dates back 1,900 years and is derived from a people who were not native to the region — the Philistines, a people from the Aegean Sea who were closely related to the ancient Greeks. They lived on the coast of what is now the Gaza Strip and Israel, but had disappeared by the 6th century BCE.The Romans, in a fit of spite, reapplied the term “Palestine” to the Land of Israel centuries later, after they defeated a Judean uprising in 135 CE.

In effect, the Romans sought to erase the association between the Land of Israel and the Jewish people.

Before Israel was founded, several prominent Jewish and Zionist organizations used the name “Palestine.” These included the Palestine Post newspaper and the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, which are now the Jerusalem Post and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.


bayelsaowei, I have mentioned you Jerusalem is the most contested city in history.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:39pm On Aug 09, 2025
12 Congress members have the vote to force a release if everything Epstein files DOJ has


https://mishtalk.com/politics/12-republicans-led-by-massie-have-the-votes-force-release-of-epstein-files/

Mike Johnson has no choice.

The List of 12

_Rep. Tom Barrett (R., Mich.), 44: “There are too many questions and not enough answers about the Epstein files. I agree that it’s time to release them, which is why I put my name on a resolution to force their release and give the American people the transparency they deserve.”
_Rep. Lauren Boebert (R., Colo.), 38: “We want to see the list. Period. I don’t care what names are on it. I want to see what names are on it and why.”
_[sup][/sup]Rep. Tim Burchett (R., Tenn.), 60: “Ultimately, I don’t answer to the president or the voters. I’m going to answer to my maker as a Christian.”
Rep. Eric Burlison (R., Mo.), 48: “This is not about politics. It’s about principle. When government hides abuse, it’s our job to uncover it.”
_Rep. Eli Crane (R., Ariz.), 45: “I believe transparency should be the hallmark of every administration whether they’re Democrat or Republican.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.), 51: “I will never protect pedophiles or the elites and their circles.”
_Rep. Nancy Mace (R., S.C.), 47: “I’ve always been an advocate for women and children. The Jeffrey Epstein case is no different. I want to see arrests.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.), 54: “This transcends all other issues. This is about whether there’s an elite and powerful group of people who are above the law or whether they answer to the law. And that’s what this is about. And right now, anybody who wants to subvert or keep the Epstein files secret, they are on the wrong side.”
_Rep. Max Miller (R., Ohio), 36: “I believe in transparency and delivering the truth to the American people.”
_Rep. Cory Mills (R., Fla.), 45: “This is a bipartisan issue, where no one wants to see women and children being sexually exploited, trafficked or in some way having this predatory manner. And so I think that it’s a universal thing, that we want those who have actually committed these types of crimes to be held accountable.”
_Rep. Keith Self (R., Texas), 72: “We want transparency and accountability and justice. We want to expose the criminals and we want to protect the victims, because let’s just be honest. Some people may have flown on the plane, but they’re not charged and did nothing wrong. But we want accountability.”
_Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R., N.J.), 72: “The American people deserve full transparency.



Add basilico to the list.Id said thus thing will not go away.

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