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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:49pm On Oct 16, 2022
LordReed:
LMAO the bias is totally yours. You are so blind to that fact that you cannot see that saying Ukraine shouldn't join NATO is kowtowing to Putin. Bwahahahahaha!
US Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:15pm On Oct 16, 2022
A feminist

Human parents may evict their fetal tenant around nine months to unburden themselves of its thirst for nutrients, or perhaps the baby gladly vacates the premises, having hit the point of diminishing returns.

Jessica Ayers, an evolutionary social psychologist at Boise State University, told me. The goals of child and parent, however, don’t always align, even when one is growing inside the other. Fetuses may maximize their chances of surviving after birth by extracting as many resources from their parent as they can. Their tool for mooching is the placenta—technically, the very first organ that any human produces, Ayers said—which allows a fetus to access its mother’s blood vessels and siphon out nutrients. The human placenta actually entrenches itself so aggressively into the uterine wall that it sometimes leads to severe hemorrhaging at birth,

Foreign AffairsRe: Gov. by basilico: 10:50am On Oct 16, 2022
olugabbie:
I think, it is more reliable not superior.
The F35 has stealth . In a visual dogfight the Sukhoi matches up.
Stealthy F35 means it sees the enemy on radar and downs it beyond visual range.The Su+35 never knows who hit it.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:32am On Oct 16, 2022
LordReed:
And agreeing with Putin is not kowtowing. LMFAO!
See your bias.
Obama did not install the missile shield in Poland and he supplied Ukraine with blankets and night vision googles instead of lethal arms all in order to please Putin.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:14am On Oct 16, 2022
Questions that democrats should be asking of Joe Biden instead of how "dangerous" Trump is


Are You Better Off?


The November midterm elections will be a national referendum on Joe Biden's presidency.

The 8 key considerations when answering the question in the above title are:
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1. Inflation and the Economy - Has Joe Biden been successful in reducing inflation and managing the overall economy?

2. Southern Border - Is the Joe Biden immigration policy working at our southern borders?

3. Safety - Is Joe Biden doing enough to build the conditions and enablers for a robust law enforcement policy to keep Americans safe?

4. Parental Rights - Is Joe Biden and his Justice Department doing enough to encourage parents to get involved in the education of their children?

5. Energy Policy - Has the Joe Biden energy policy helped American's become energy independent?

6. Spending - Has Joe Biden been able to rein in excessive spending?

7. Taxation - Has Joe Biden been able to reduce our tax burden?

8. Confidence - Is consumer and business confidence on the upswing or downswing? Why?



What Joe Promised in his campaign

Joe Biden’s campaign told America what the octogenarian would do if the American people were stupid enough to make him president:

Open the southern border

Free criminals

Destroy US energy industry

Flood the streets with deadly drugs

Defund local police

Groom your kids for genital mutilation

Make sure every pregnancy ends in abortion

Kick off record-breaking inflation with profligate spending

Train people to not work

Extend the Covid health emergency forever

Punish the productive

Reward the freeloaders

It was all there in his rare campaign appearances, but people thought they were gaffes
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:00am On Oct 16, 2022
LordReed:
LMFAO! yet you are forming mad that Obama didn't build missile defense in Poland. Abeg goan sit down.
He kowtowed to Putin. "After elections I'll be more flexible"

Was his last term. Sellout to Putin
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:57pm On Oct 15, 2022
LordReed:
I asked for a simple yes or no.
No.
Because it's just a political power game by the West.

Actually I really don't care as long there are no wars, political upheavals and economic downturns.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:52am On Oct 15, 2022
LordReed:
And if Obama had set up the missile shield will it not be the same you who would have been condemning him for it. Let's test it. Are you in favour of Ukraine joining NATO, yes or no, no long story.

Oga don't dodge this question. LoLz
I been there on this thread. Ukraine can join NATO. Russia feels it's a threat to their security. Poland yesterday installed Patriot anti air missiles. These missile shields can also be offensive. If Ukraine joins NATO and install their missile shields only 500km from Moscow, that will not sit well with the Russian.
NATO is a military body solely formed to check Russia Warsaw pact countries.

For the time being and foreseeable future Ukraine can't join NATO unless Russians leave all their newly acquired territory. An attack on one NATO nation is an attack on all of them.

What are the benefits of Ukraine joining NATO? Most of their war machines are Soviet design, their artillery uses Soviet caliber, It will be expensive to transition to NATo standards like 5.56mm ammunition as opposed to their 7.62mm.

How about Russia builds a base in Cuba? Or Panama?
Foreign AffairsRe: Gov. by basilico: 6:40am On Oct 15, 2022
atmy1:
Paying 4 times more for gas than your own companies is hardly like friendship," Emmanuel Macron said about American gas prices.
It makes a lot of sense to me. America is selling them LNG which has to be converted before it reaches the final consumer. Add to the transportation costs and there are at least 4 major players. The gas driller, the LNG converter, the transporter, the EU LNG conversion down to the final retailer.
With Russia it's Gazprom all the way. Drill and pump into EU gas storage.

Nah let's hurt Russia by not buying their gas. We shall get rid of Putin.
Foreign AffairsRe: Gov. by basilico: 6:26am On Oct 15, 2022
TonySpike:
The Saudi/Iran feud is more religious than political and has persisted for over 1300 years. I don't think Russia can offer a Truce on this. The only thing that may unite those two countries will be a mutual attack on Israel in the future.
And after that the hostilities resume immediately. The solution for the feud is for Iran to get rid of the theocrats, this requires external help. Joe Biden is sympathetic to Iran, lessening sanctions and working on the nuclear deal.
Foreign AffairsRe: Gov. by basilico: 6:21am On Oct 15, 2022
TonySpike:
A strong currency has nothing to do with economy, if you are in doubt, ask Ghana. Russian Ruble is strong because of numerous import embargoes due to heavy sanctions. Importation is very low at the moment, hence, spiking up their currency worth.
You cannot tell how much imports are flowing in. China and India combined are lmost self sufficient and can supply nearly everything Russia is not able to manufacture. Russia has vast resources too that the world needs
Foreign AffairsRe: Gov. by basilico: 6:11am On Oct 15, 2022
opamoses1:
The US is likely to stop it's security guarantee to Saudi Arabia. Saudi (Sunni sect) can now go and beg Russia for protection from Iran (Shia sect).
Joe Biden actions towards energy has been to make it more expensive. Reduce America output, reduce Russia gas supplies by sanctions and inflaming the war, escalate ME tensions, if he dumps Saudia the oil market becomes volatile.
It would take several days to reverse the war on energy , Biden is making it worse
I'm wondering what the end holds, in Feb the rouble was 137 to the dollar, today it's at 62 to the dollar..looks like the Russian rouble has been strengthened by the war.Which is a sign Their economy is not doing badly.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:13am On Oct 15, 2022
LordReed:
None of which Trump has asserted in court, why? LoLz.
FBI the criminal org initially hinted at nuclear codes for sale to Russia.
I hope you don't buy that
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
obixcel:
Joe Biden: "If Republicans are elected (in Congress) they gonna raise inflation..."
grin grin grin grin I've never heard more stupid words than that..as if the current inflation wasn't caused by who? Democrats for sure.
Sadly 50% of the population believe so. And all JB supporters here.

Here is Inflation... Trump {Red) vs Biden (Blue)
This looks deliberate ploy to crash the economy by Joe Biden handlers.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:01pm On Oct 14, 2022
LordReed:
Na wa o, basilico sitting in his house knows the contents of classified documents. LMFAO!
I use my head. Trump declassified documents showing how corrupt FBI ran the Russia collusion esp 4 FISA warrants. Warrants presented to the judges, one of them has been appointed to review the classification of docs taken from Trump. This judge signed one of the FISA warrants , he has the highest level clearance.

FISA warrants were based on lies, FBI knew it was all crap yet presented them to a court to approve spying Trump campaign.
Right now FBI is holding onto a 100 pages saying they themselves will review them.Why not the special master judge who has clearance to review them. It doesn't take stupid to realise they most likely incriminate FBI top dogs.And that the judge Special Master will see how they brought to him a pile of dung to sign.

Too bad, the truth might never be known. FBI illegal actions are too many, this will be buried like Hunters laptop
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:09pm On Oct 14, 2022
feedthenation:
---You too can enlighten us---
However based on the bill signed into law by Trump himself in January 2018---it is a felony which carries a 5 years prison sentence to mishandle and movement of classified documents---nobody is above the law, including the POTUS---
Are those documents Trump had classified. Base it on the memo I showed him declassifying crossfire hurricane.
FBI does not want anyone to review the documents, remember that judge has the highest clearance. Some of the documents declassified were presented to the said judge in their FISA warrant on Carter Page. The judge will obviously see how the FBI decieved him.
The FBI don't want the judge looking at a 100 pages saying they are classified. They could be classified because they expose names of corrupt FBI, just like they hired Igor Danchenkor as a Informant, preventing his name from being revealed during the Mueller inquisition. They call this protecting sources and methods
Judges with a moral fibre don't take it kindly when you present fake information to them.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:57pm On Oct 14, 2022
feedthenation:
---Shameless lies like Trump asking the RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, to arrange for fake electors to meet and rehearse the process of casting fake votes---


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElwipVAqeu0
Does the constitution allow for. Separate group of state electors?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:55pm On Oct 14, 2022
feedthenation:
---So Trump is not a liar---check out his different statements about the FBI raid of Mar a Lago---

He didn't have any government records at Mar A Lago?
He did have records there, but the FBI planted them?
He did have documents there, but they belong to Trump?
He did have documents there, they didn't belong to Trump, but he had waved a magic wand, declassifying everything?
He did have documents there, but it's common for ex-presidents to store government records in their possession?
He did have documents there, but they were all returned to the archives and Trump's attorney signed that all the documents had been returned?
What kind of documents is a President allowed to keep.
Enlighten us. Postcards from the Pope only?
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch was denied access to some Clinton( tapes ? ) by a judge who ruled that Bill Clinton had the right to keep them.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:38pm On Oct 14, 2022
LordReed:
So you agree you were wrong about Biden I guess. LoLz.

LoLz! Trump has been subpoenaed, let him come and testify that it didn't happen.

Obama negotiating a treaty on missile defense with the Russian president is treasonous? Since when did negotiating treaty cease to be an executive function?
Trump is willing to testify. I am sure they won't They are just doing it for optics. Why is Nancy Pelosi not saying why she rejected National Guards Trump offered three days earlier - you cannot see the witchunt here and the two tier double justice system run by JB

A full professor lectures, supervises, researches , writes papers etc. Biden was none of that.

Obama should have setup the missile shield. Instead he kowtowed to Putin, didn't arm the Ukrainians. In other words he sold out to Putin's desires

Trump gave approval for antitank weapons to Ukraine. See abc news. The fact checkers just muddy your brains for no reason

Here is Poroshenko decrying what Obama sent.

The White House announced that Ukraine would receive $53 million (€41 million) in new aid, including $46 million (€35.6 million) for military equipment such as counter-mortar detection units, body armor, binoculars, small boats and other gear for Ukraine’s security forces and border guards in the east.

Poroshenko used a speech to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to appeal for lethal aid.

“Please understand me correctly. Blankets, night-vision goggles are also important. But one cannot win the war with blankets.” He added: “Even more, we cannot keep the peace with a blanket.


You trust fact checkers who
1. Protect democrats
2. Vilify anything Trump/MAGA
3. Are leftists used by big tech..for plausable deniability.When Facebook bans you it was through the recommendation of these Soros funded factchckers

If you can be objective, you will realise that a lot of what you read is just propaganda. Both sides but leftist media dominates the discourse

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:24pm On Oct 14, 2022
LordReed:
LoLz! Biden served as Benjamin Franklin Presidential Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2019 so how did he lie?

Trump lied virtually everyday of his time in office not a peep from you but here you are calling truth lies. What a crying shame! LMFAO!
About lies. Can we agree that the media and big tech are virulently ant Trump and waste no single chance to make him look bad.. To the extent of fabricating stories about him.

For instance a witness to J6 said Trump tried to wrench the steering wheel of the Beast in order to force the secret service drive him to the Capitol. The lie here is that from behind It's impossible to grab the steering wheel. The biggest lie is that on that day Trump was in the SUV and not the Beast.

Obama talking to Medved If I'm right is treasonous. After elections he did not put up the missile shield in Poland He also sent blankets and Tissue paper to Ukraine instead of arms. Trump sent lethal arms to Ukraine.
Foreign AffairsRe: Gov. by basilico: 11:19am On Oct 14, 2022
castro2468:
Because you don't know the difference between Persia and Arabic
This is Persia فارسی
This is Arabic اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ‎

Iran was never an Arab country and Will never be, the Persian have their own culture which is unique and different from Arabs.
The Iranian are Persians who are of the Shia sect. The majority of the rest are Sunni sect ( I think over 85% ).
Shia n Sunni rivarly is generational and they will never agree to live peacefully until one decimates the other
Well in the modern world , it makes sense to live in peace so that rivarly has been managed somehow. But over 1500 years both sects have been at loggerheads.
Foreign AffairsRe: Gov. by basilico: 10:42am On Oct 14, 2022
You are forgetting that these countries have the Triad. Nuclear bombs undersea, over the air and on the ground. Ground based systems for instance with a 10000 miles range can be tucked away in a forest, And Silo based are in hardened hidden locations.
Subs can be anywhere so long as it's 200km exclusive zone.
Air bombers are long range with refuelling can fly for days.

If you attack first better kill everyone because their retaliation can come from air, land or sea.

One ICBM with Multiple Re-entry Vehicles can decimate 10-12 cities at a go.

Nobody wins, Biden wants to get rid of Putin, Just like in Libya he has noone to replace him with.
Western nations are very afraid of losing their citizens, ( (war crimes). A single ftatened city in America and the country would call for ceasefire.

VictorUSA:
Even when this results in a nuclear war, the damage that would be inflicted on western nations will be less. Russia will end within 24 hours. Imagine USA, France, Germany sending nukes at the same time to Russia. It will be a total disaster for Russia.


China would be tough but they can be taken down easier than Russia. The US is trying to eliminate the growing influence and significance of Russia and China. Look at it this way, the influence of Russia is been tackled, this is proven by the votes in the UN. Its significance has been reduced when Europe rejects its gas.


The world will surely get used to surviving without Russian fuel and gas and that's the goal of the US.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:46am On Oct 14, 2022
LordReed:
Just like you defended the liar in chief when he was in office? Still waiting for tax returns, Republican health care plan and returned coal mining jobs? LMAO!
Joe Biden is the liar. The media took hours to analyse everything Trump said, with JB they ignore till they can't.He even lies he was a professor. He lies the economy is the greatest, no inflation, no recession, The media ran out of superlatives to paint Trump look bad
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:34am On Oct 14, 2022
Lord Reed
Trump is being hounded for classified documents that FBI does not want anyone else to see. They claim He never declassified materials but there is evidence he did.They relate to fbi corrupt investigation of Russian hoax.ie Crossfire Hurricane.The president is the final declass authority, some juniors below him should not block any material he orders for release, well in this case it seems it's a cover your arse by the rogue gestapo FBI

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:30am On Oct 14, 2022
LordReed:
So now you've jumped from Obama to Clinton. LMAO!

Dodged the Trump question. I don't write long sentences so that you won't claim you didn't see the question but you repeatedly dodge them. What a laugh.

I guess negotiating treaties is no longer an executive function is what you're saying.
Have not avoided Trump. Everyone would want to see the emails that Clinton refused to hand over.We know that she was granting favors to countries or companies who in turn donated to her foundation. Those emails are not top secret, they are only classified to cover her corruption. Her foundation got the most donations while she was SoS from questionable countries. Pay for play .

The FBI refuses to investigate democrats completely. She was given a pass by Comey, She had top secret information in her unsecured undeclared server.
Most likely Clinton was likely hacked, her emails were on the blackberries she was using overseas in Russia and China.
Trump made a joke implying FBI is burying the criminal actions, it behoves anyone to release her emails to prove fbi and her was lying and are just corrupt.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
benalvino3:
it's less than a month now. let's watch and see.
Their lies are shameless.
Joe also said one time that he ran for President because of Charlotte Unite the Right Rally
Media. No challenge.

What's to prevent the from announcing election results that are fake? Quickly denounce election deniers.
Democrats will not get a WW3 but a Civil War can happen.

Not sure which dictator got 99.9% of the votes. He was more interested in knowing who the 0.1% were..so he could reeducate them. America is headed there. The democrats declare a win, the media says so, Anybody of the contrary opinion is an enemy of the state
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:28am On Oct 14, 2022
benalvino3:
ones a nice country is like North Korea now

Elon Musk is being investigated by US federal authorities for his conduct in connection with the acquisition of Twitter — Bloomberg
Do you think these democrats will accept loss next month? I don't think so. Their actions are like that of a lifetime dictator.
The sham Jan 6 committee subpoenaed Trump also. He retorted saying he would love to testify.

Democrats are out for blood
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:17am On Oct 14, 2022
Ibime:
Media covering this story is based out of UK and rightfully refer to them as Asian which in Britain is basically the Indian subcontinent. From a British perspective, Japs are far East while Arabs are middle East, then Asia is the Indian subcontinent, who is who they have colonial history with
Britons understand. A chinese group of men in Thesaloniki is likely to get "stares" from locals who read about Asian gangs on Daily Mail.
You don't get the point at all. Political correctness at play, thousands of girls needlessly trafficked.Police didn't want to be called racist for targeting "Asians" earlier on
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:11am On Oct 14, 2022
Joe Biden said the key reason he ran for President was to tackle inflation.
. Absolute rubbish.Inflation was 1.4% when he entered office 8.2% right now, a 40 year high.

Democrats are just stupid to support this liar .The elites know they can get away with any lie, because the leftist media will not call them out.

https://mobile.twitter.com/susanertelt/status/1580658565152657408
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:16pm On Oct 13, 2022
LordReed:
How did Obama court Russians to his advantage in the elections?

So you admit Trump was courting Russians to his advantage in the election?

Also you didn't answer my question: Do you know what START is?
You hardwired to only see one side. Clinton used a personal unsecured server during her time as SoS. She would have got away with noone saying a thing until some Shapiro guy emails appeared in WikiLeaks.long after she had left State Department. A committee demanded she hands over all gov material in her possession.. the home brewn server. Her server would most likely have been hacked, she was using her blackberry overseas without clearance. She returned 30k emails, then deleted another 30k claiming they were about yoga n wedding n personal stuff. Then she forensically wiped the server, crashed the hard disks with a hammer?
Sound like Trump did worse?


Strategic arms reduction treaty. Don't know much Little I know is that both superpowers agreed to reduce nuclear stockpile and stop development of some range of missiles.. long range, intermediate or short I'm not sure.
But there was no enforcement mechanism, Russians went ahead with research n development of more advanced weapons while America icbm are decades old, Russia recently unveiled Satan 2 ICBM.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:06pm On Oct 13, 2022
Ibime:
Asia in UK is Paki/Indian area

It's only Americans that popularized Asia being Chinese/Japan area
For those in UK. Media news is international How to explain to an African say what exactly asian means.
Political correctness to avoid mentioning the actual country of origin of the gangs?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:36pm On Oct 13, 2022
LordReed:
It isn't 1 family Alex is required to pay nor was it a single award, it was 15. 2ndly, punitive damages are not awarded to pay for losses but to punish and act as a deterrent.
How much punitive damages do you think a jury would award against Dr Faucci and Big pharma

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