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Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 9:43am On Aug 04
In other words you support a murderous Iranian regine killing thousands of protesters because NATO killed Iraqis.Obama funded ISIS, America sanctions countries, Ceaser invaded countries, Dresden was bombed in WW2,


OkpaNsukkaisBae:
So how many people did NATO coalition forces kill in Iraq looking for non existent nuclear weapon?
Did FIFA sanction US & co?
Abi did u see ICC issuing arrest warrant against Western leaders involved?

How many countries imposed economic sanctions on America?

History didn't start in 2025.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 9:08am On Aug 04
What if it was 1000?
Does it qualify international efforts to force them out.
How many Iranian citizens should they kill before they are removed.
Kindly post an acceptable figure or forever hold your peace.

Fash20:
Why don't you provide us with evidence that Ayatollah massacred 30000 people. 30000 people are a lot and there is no way the Iranian government would have hid it.

You and your folks just consume western propaganda without havjng second thought. Are you that gullible.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:34am On Aug 04
Benalvino3,I don't know much about this Hasan Piker,all I know is he's rabidly antisemitic.
James Carville long running staunch Democrat strategist has had enough of this Piker.

I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker," Carville said on Fox News's The Sunday Briefing. "If he becomes a force in a Democratic Party, I'm out of here. I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with that guy
"I can't sit here and tell you for certain how this is going to turn out, but the one thing I can tell you for certain, Hasan Piker and James Carville are not going to be in the same political party," he said. "One of us is going to leave. It might even be me


When Carville says that , all is not well in the Democrat house of cards.
Piker has been campaigning with Warren , Bernie Sanders, El Sayed, AOC , Mamdani etc. He is basically a strong force within the Democratic Party. Piker wants Bartender barrista AOC to run for president 2028.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:23am On Aug 04
A democrat fantasizing about how collecting more taxes would facilitate building faster trains. Other People's Money.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:11am On Aug 04
cococandy:
She’s bringing diversity to the non diverse communities. Kudos to her
Kudos also to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors who bought a home in Topanga Canyon, an upscale and predominantly white neighborhood in Los Angeles County, California with 98% white neighbors. smiley :-
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:08am On Aug 04
raumdeuter:
How is this policy not going to discriminate against minorities and blacks the Democrats claimed do not have govt IDs
The sanctity of the ballot must be preserved. No action should ever be taken that can prevent a single ballot being disallowed .
That's just a store for New Yorkers only
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico:
While it's not good morning to everyone here I'd like to talk about leaders who have had their day in court.

Charles Taylor Sentenced for war crimes and atrocities in the war in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Pol Pot. His enforcers sentenced over his brutal reign of terror within Cambodia.

Hissène Habré . sentenced for slavery, murder of political opponents during his time.

Bokassa. Sentenced for his crimes against his own people.

Saddam Hussein. Hanged by his own people for his crimes

I could go with another 10 or more dictators who faced consequences for massacring their own people.

Lastly . Iran. This year alone it's said Khamenei executed over 30,000 of Iranian citizens for protesting his brutal regime

If at all you care for rights of citizens why do you support Iranian regime. Whether you hate Trump or Netanyahu, why not show love for the Iranian people who have died in their millions under Khomeini and Khamenei. Why should you not support the regimes removal . You are turning a blind eye to the atrocities against Iranian people in your desire to see America and Israel humiliated by mass murderers.
Writerrng

Addendum From Google Gemini.
The international community acted In Kenya. Ater 2007 elections clashes flared between supporters of two rival parties. 1,133 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced ICC indicted several people ,two who later on won election Presidents Kenyatta and President Ruto . 1100 deaths were enough to trigger ICC into action.

The Ayatollahs can comfortably execute tens of thousands of Iranian citizens who protest them without the ICC doing anything.When America and Israel acts to remove these despots, You want that efforts to fail.
Someone help me reconcile that.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Abdul El Sayed in a leaked video reveals why he went mum over Ayatollah Khamenei death.


Two famous quotes

'An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
"

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:19am On Aug 04
+ bayelsaowei

Why you don't mention that Trump org filed and recieved a $72 million tax refund in 2010.
That when the IRS started a rolling audit ,assigning an audit agent to examine Trump Org accounts as frequently as he could. It could be daily, ,weekly or monthly as opposed to when IRS simply audits the accounts of companies once a year. For Trump org IRS was running a continuous rolling audit stemming from that 2010 tax refund.
This is what has been stopped ,the permanent rolling audit. Trump org will be subject to audits just like other corporations once a year.

You ignore that this DOJ settlement was as a result of a contractor leaking his tax returns ,there was a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against IRS.

Well that's how I understand the whole matter.
I can't fail to ignore that in 2010 Trump was leading the Tea Party in demanding Obama birth certificate. I also can't forget Lois Lerner was accused of orchestrating political discrimination by using her position at the IRS to intentionally target, delay, and scrutinize the tax-exempt applications of conservative political group.

In other words the Charlatan Obama was behind the continued harrssment of his arch enemy, a twice duly elected President of America.

feedthenation:
---Future GOP candiadates will forever regret Felon 47 being elected as President---because history will never be kind to them---this guy is blatantly corrupt and enabled by the GOP---

---Now it is obvious why Felon 47 wants the IRS agreement to exempt his Trump operations from past and future tax audits---
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Oxford Union speaker proves, yeah Islam is tolerant.

https://notthebee.com/article/while-trying-to-prove-islam-is-not-violent-muslim-debater-warns-opponent-that-muslim-mob-outside-would-cook-him--if-not-for-her-benevolence


Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:31pm On Aug 03
I'm seeing Kamala Harris bought a swanky home in Malibu. Point Dome.
It's making waves because there are literally no black people who live there 1 black person for every 470 whites
As I've seen it's a liberal white neighbood overflowing with white lucky spoilt brats for children.
Why would she not want to live among blacks.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
cococandy:
Worth knowing

Some of the weird conspiracy theories they have are quite shocking. It’s like a cult that really, really wants to believe nonsense and find a villain that doesn’t exist.
I won't talk about the ICU in New York being full because they were. Loved ones bade goodbye to their relatives over zoom calls .
On March 18th Trump announced a medical warship with 1000 bed capacity would dock at New York to relieve the congestion..it was meant to admit patients without COVID to free up hospitals. Sceptics led by Rachel Maddow said it would take weeks if not months .They poured scorn and vitriol hoping to prove Trump a liar. The ship docked within 12 days of the announcement.
The NY authorities then demanded it admit COVID patients ,which made it's capacity be reduced to 500. In the first week NYC sent 3 patients .3 patients in a week, you heard that correctly.
So much for the overflowing ICUs.

The ship stayed there for a whole month. It received a whooping total of One Hundred and Eighty Two patients. Yes 182 only in a whole month..

That's how desperate the situation in New York was. Cuomo did something smarter. The vulnerable old patients were sent back to their homes from hospitals after recovery where they died en masse after contracting the rona again. He went Scott free for that

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:24am On Aug 03
GloriousGbola:
This says all you need to know about the anti masking BS

and why engaging MAGA is an exercise in futility
This photo you posted. Those are members of the Patriotic Front the white supremacist group that supports Trump. They are just a group like the Muslims who support democrats. Everyone is free to join a group .
Patriotic Front was heavily infiltrated by FBI on Jan 6.

SPLC indictment alleges they sponsored these white supremacist groups in order to get more donations to expose these same white supremacist groups .

These guys below matched past DC in a show clearly intended to embarrass Republicans and Trump in particular. Personally I think they were sponsored by democrats to portray Republicans as Nazis led by the POTUS Hitler.

Liberal sheeple are very easy to fool.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:59am On Aug 03
cococandy:
you assumed. lol
Meant that as a compliment.
If I misrepresent the quality of information/knowlegde I can provide such that my students do not learn well enough to pass boards and get licensed, yes I would be a scammer.

Actually this isn’t a hypothetical. It happens to many nursing schools that they lose accreditation based on not meeting metrics of the educational requirements. The students get refunded their tuition or have their student loans forgiven.

The school owners might pay fines if the investigation determines the misrepresentation is benign or careless. They might even go to jail if the investigation determines that their conduct was deliberately criminal.

People get punished for these kinds of offenses daily in America. But not Trump obviously. Because he’s above the law.
Which is fine. Trump university wasn't offering any standardized courses like degree or diploma.
Trump University primarily offered non-accredited seminars, workshops, and mentorship packages focused on real estate investing, entrepreneurship, finance, and marketing. Get a free introduction then they extol the vurtues of the higher $35K gold elite courses with one on one mentorship lectures.

I don't see anything illegal with that . There are so many seminars and courses offered by experts that grant you certificates of attendance. ICT courses are offered by top notch universities , they give you a certificate of completion .
How you utilize the knowledge you acquire is all upon you.
Mentors charge huge amounts for online courses especially on investing ,team building and Management.
I don't see anyone so stupid as to attend Trump university expecting theyll get a Bachelors degree or diploma. Maybe they felt they didn't get what they expected so they filed lawsuits.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:49am On Aug 03
I've gathered from you in the past that you make good money from your skills and experience.
Were you to teach people, you'd set your fees on how much your students are willing to pay as a big factor
How much you think you'll charge if you had your own nursing school?

Some would call you a scammer.






cococandy:
Like I said earlier, maga fall guy man chop.

We should justify it because it is a man eat man society.

Keep that mindset when it comes to all those black yahoo boys swindling people out of their hard earned money with promises of more wealth in return.

After all, according to your logic, it’s their fault for believing in the scam.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:44pm On Aug 02
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cococandy:
Got it. It’s not his fault that he scammed them. It’s their fault for believing in the scam.

Maga fall, guy man chop. Right?
How many people are on Facebook offering useless courses like forex trading, Some charge an arm and a leg $100 an hour for what you can easily teach yourself.
I challenged a Lagos guy one day to go live and execute a forex trade I got insults.

If your clientele can afford to pay $100 an hour, why not charge them?
A dentist can charge you $250 to extract a milk tooth,in Africa you shake the tooth and pull it out , then gargle a salty solution
.I would pay the dentist comfortably if he also taking my $100 am hour courses.
its a man eat man society .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:32pm On Aug 02
Let me deride those who paid his Trump university course.
You pay what the institutions deems you should pay.
Those clowns sued him because they didn't get as rich as him. He advertised they would learn his secret to success .
How much you think my knowledge of most stuff is worth?


cococandy:
Basilico is ready to explain it all to us.

The banks are all wrong. Trump is the only source of truth.


A man with a history of the level of fraud other people go to prison for is his source of truth.
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
cococandy:
Yea I’m sure you know better than all those bank executives on what constitutes financial misconduct.

I’m also sure you moonlight as a bank CEO on the days when you’re not the US surgeon general.

Mr I know it all
I analyze things logically. All those banks didn't suddenly discover he was crooked.
New York got all his bank records and the only crime they found was pathetic to say .
Allan Wesselberg the CFO was living in a company condo and had a limousine at his service that weren't declared as benefits.
Can you imagine someone with hundreds of bank accounts and over 500 companies ,the only crime they could get was the renumeration to the CFO after going through every record of the parent company Trump Org.
Those cases are all a sham coordinated. ,I believe there's a nerve centre somewhere in DC that coordinated all that lawfare.

Letitia James used the tax assessor value of properties to determine it's worth. For instance Mar a Lago, she gave it $ 21-27 million then charged him for obtaining loans ten times that
That figure is purely brick and mortar ,sitting on 17 acres of prime Florida paradise Homes on 2 acres have been sold for far more than the value .she gave Mar a Lago. Madness.
Fodder for those easily swayed.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:32pm On Aug 02
The bank can never say it was a grand plan to bankrupt him then jail him.
Jp Morgan Chase closed all his a counts one month before Capital One. Deutsch Bank and Signature banks also closed all Trump org accounts plus minus one month around Capital one.
The others cited political risks. Trump has also sued JP Morgan for $ 5B.

The struck while the iron was still hotm
Facebook ,IG , YouTube ,Twitter immediately banned Trump in January 2021 Others like Snapchat, Shopify, TikTok ,Twitch and Pinterest removed his content and severely restricted him.

Capital One closure is not because of SARs or money laundering,they have to give reasons ..
I'm told an individual getting a single SAR is a huge deal . Hunter Biden had over 150.

It's so easy to fool the liberal sheeple.

cococandy:
No black man on earth could get away with these levels of scandal and still remain in office.
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:53pm On Aug 02
raumdeuter:
Then leave. You have threatened to hurt yourself in the past. Your priorities should be seeking help.

BTW Trump is alive today and still President of the USA
And still playing golf. He won a golf tournament. Media will say he cheats in that game of gentlemen.

https://x.com/michaelsolakie/status/20839073104940730616
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:13pm On Aug 02
Yiu didn't hear of the antifa shooter who was sentences to 100 years. The other co-accused got 30-70 years.
That's just one case. Dozens of protesters have been charged.

How many ICE agents need to be killed to change your mind.

bayelsaowei:
Has any ICE officer being killed by any protester thus far?

Oboy just celebrate their deaths with your full chest.. it’s better than this back and forth..

Because I no know wetin I Dey argue with you again..

ICE has been implementing a rough and unprofessional MO in recent times.. and it is condemnable under any democratic framework..

Because of that MO the lives of citizens have been lost..
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Establishment democrats fed off the socialists hoping to tame them.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/establishment-democrats-warn-socialist-candidates-could-cost-party

The genie is out of the bottle. The likes of El Sayed and other far left winning the primaries and getting defeated by the republican is becoming a reality.

Feed the crocodile hope it eats you last.
Majority voters want govt to provide everything for free , if the money comes from the bourgeois the better. The Democrats competed with DSA on whom to offer the most freebies .
Now its like the sword of Damocles hanging over their head.
Schumer would likely lose to AOC . Hakeem Jeffries would also likey lose to a DSA candidate.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:32pm On Aug 01
Michael Byrd saw Ashley Bobbit entering through the broken window and shot her. He knew there were Capitol Police behind her, .No warning ,no disabling shot ,he shot her in the neck to kill her. He was not charged at least with reckless endangerment. Theybsaid his actions saved house members and others .

Renee Good was shot as she apes towards an ICE agent. Almost zero time for the agent to tract . Yiu call it murder.The agent saved his life and possibly others.

See the difference. Two tiered justice.




bayelsaowei:
If after reading all my posts here about the present ICE and can’t see the reason why I criticize them then I can’t help you..

What I have constantly criticized is the recent MO of ICE where they have infused extreme violence in the doing of their jobs.. to an extent where lying, killing of citizens and aggressive clamp down on legal immigrants have become a norm..

ICE can actually do their jobs like they have always done.. but Trumps present ICE is on a violent and showy display rampage.. and now as we speak even legal immigration is under threat..

Video evidences have shown the rascality of the present ICE, acting like agberos and assassins all in the name of immigration enforcement..

Where is Rene Good and Alex? Answer me..
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:44am On Aug 01
I'd gone by her indictment,sloppy it turned out to be and by reporting from a journalist.
I would never trust what democrats say or go , Republicans I give them the benefit of the doubt until I'm proven wrong

ijebosb:
I called it.

But you can tell how bad this case was going to be for Pirro by how it ended.
Instead of allowing the judge to dismiss it and allowing people like Basilico and Raumdeuter to yell about a rigged biased Judiciary, Pirro basically called Trump a liar in the dismissal by admitting the contractor messed up the job.
Yeah, Pirro knew she was going to be in Big trouble in court if she pushed further.
So what you think about Fauci diaries?
Do you believe these Fauci own words?
When you criticize Anthony Fauci, you're criticizing science."
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
cococandy:
I’ve had enough of you and your nonsense.
How lovely. I quote exactly what Fauci wrote on his private diaries and you call it nonsense.
Fauci in his diaries also called Ron de Santis a jerk and total disgrace for refusing to lock down Florida as per his advice. Florida went on to have lesser casualties by over 8% than the national average for the most vulnerable. Florida gained economically with people running away from Fauci lockdowns , in handing Ron Desantis a 19% win margin. Fauci called Desantis a total disgrace .
Florida overall casualties were less than those states that completely locked down as per Fauci recommendations.
I'm gllad to know that posting Fauci diaries is nonsense. U
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:30am On Aug 01
That's an isolated case .
I'll see how it goes in the end.
I always say whatever truth is buried will one day come to light.


ijebosb:
bump for Mr. I'm never wrong.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:08am On Aug 01
budaatum:
It tells others to believe what it does not believe.
You support Pakistani child groomers and rapists .You support homo story books being availed to small children in libraries.
You detest the white yet live in UK while calling them racist .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:04am On Aug 01
I believed social distancing worked . Fauci when questioned under oath says there was no science behind the 6 feet. It's not me saying that

You are more upset at what sceptics said about the virus than the man who paid for the lab research.
You think Fauci is a hero,despite his diaries saying the complete opposite.

Putting it simply ,big pharma needed an mRNA vaccine to be seen to work ,which would make it very easy to develop them for any other disease. There was no compassion from Fauci at all.

cococandy:
If you “have a feeling” social distancing works, why do you think Fauci made it up?

You allowed party politics rid you of your god-given common decency.

The whole time you’ve been spreading conservative misinformation and dangerous rhetoric that endangers people’s lives, you didn’t actually believe in what you were saying.

At the height of Covid, people like you spread so much misinformation that others died listening to them. And you’re still not backing down despite knowing better.

And for what? Just for talking points ? Mtchew
is

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:47am On Aug 01
Fauci is an evil man. Joe Biden gave him an award.
Trump should revoke it symbolically.

https://x.com/RandPaul/status/2083318034505109688

@RandPaul
Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:38pm On Jul 31
cococandy:
I don’t click on any links you guys share on here. You should know that by now. Don’t share a link and ask me to go read it. I don’t trust any of you chronically online fishers.

As for social distancing, it is a proven method to mitigate spread of droplet borne diseases. You guys often choose to extract the least bit of knowledge from an opportunity where you could learn so much. And then refuse to expand your worldview because you’re fine with sticking to whatever confirms your bias.

Social distancing works. The scientific discussion is what amount of social distancing is adequate. That’s where the 6-feet rule comes in. Some scientists are not sure if 6-feet is enough. While some think it’s adequate.

Depending on the size of the causal organism and their air buoyancy, some might travel further than others in the air. That’s what he means by the 6-feet is not a magic rule. It doesn’t mean he recommended social distancing out of thin air. In fact the more distance the better.

A true scientist who is not ego-driven learns from changing circumstances and updates their behavior and recommendations based on it.

IF he was initially against masking and then changed his opinion, it’s because he reviewed the studies of fellow scientists, the mechanism of spread and realized masking was good. At first he told people who were rushing to the stores to hoard masks and PPE not to do that because it could lead to a shortage for healthcare workers dealing with actually infected people.

It wasn’t until they studied the virus more and realize asymptomatic people could spread it too, did he change his opinion and recommend universal masking. And that was the appropriate thing to do.

That’s the mindset of a scientist. Their recommendations are not based on ego or rooted in stone. It evolves with studies and evidence.

I can tell you for free that the more distance you put between yourself and a sick person, the better for you. Take the free advice and keep yourself safe.

If you think it’s not science-based, go to your nearest hospital, stand by someone with tuberculosis and have them cough in your face. Until you’re willing to do that, anything you are saying is ludicrous and not worth considering.
I post links to buttress my points.
I have a feeling social distancing works but it's Fauci who testified to a committee of Democrats and Republicans.
Any argument can be validated from research data be it pro or anti.
I try my level best not to post political pundits unless they are reporting verbatim.
I'll usually italicise any comment that's relevant or from an AI summary or the pundits point of view.


If it's a .gov and not from a democrat I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:30pm On Jul 31
Kamala is a jrd ore leftist who often gave very vague answers during her 2024.



With DSA tearing Democrats apart , she joins them in letter and spirit.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Govt will tell the residents to show compassion for these disadvantaged young men of fighting age Else they are racists.
Seriously.60,000 immigrants into a town of 83000.



benalvino3:
Bayelsaowei, lots of compassion, empathy and solidarity.

I am sure you'd use 80 padlocks to lock your doors

I read somewhere that Morocco emptied a 2000 capacity jail and sent them to Ceuta

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