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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:49pm On May 26, 2022
AmazonTopaz:
You are just a clown.

Mass shooting is a common phenomenon in America you are the one politicising it yet cried fake tears when Beto confronted Abbott in Texas.

Something is really wrong with you instead of addressing the issue you are blaming it on elections.
1950 to 1975 how Many school shootings occured?

Infact Ill go back further, 1900 -1975 how many school shooting.
answer. Less than 2020-2022
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:31pm On May 26, 2022
saxywale1:
1950 to 1975 is a wide range of data and also old as well. Technology has advanced since then. We could also talk about socio economic factors and so on.

However, gun violence has always been around in the USA from the times of the Wild West and to the prohibition era and till date. There have been several attempts of failed bills and acts passed to regulate and curtail gun violence to an extent.

A few below:
Please read up on the gun control act of 1968 and what led to the act. If you want to read further, you can also read up on the brady handgun violence Prevention Act of 1993 or the 1934/1938 acts.
I'm not an American. how many mass shootings from 1950 to 1975. Less than 2020 -2022?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:17pm On May 26, 2022
saxywale1:
I beg to differ on point 1:

I can't think of any developed country at the top of my head that has lax gun laws like the USA. Basically, there are lots of guns in circulation and research as always pointed to the fact that lax gun laws leads to more gun deaths. Basically, there are too many guns/assault rifles in circulation. Let's not even go into the loophole of private sellers from guns shows that helps buyers to bypass background checks.

Universal healthcare would not have saved those kids that got their fragile bodies torn apart with bullets from an assault rifle. Mental health care is also very expensive as encompass a lot of care and support from social workers, case officers, police officers, security guards, mental health doctors & nurses, emergency wards of hospitals (people can suddenly flip), missed diagnosis, care homes e.t.c Just last month, Abbott slashed $211,000,000 from the budget of the state department that oversees mental health programs.

However, I agree with your 2nd point:
Multiple systems, high cost/wages for healthcare professionals, high cost of medications, defensive medicine, government not taking a larger role on controlling cost, adminstrative cost e.t.c. has made the healthcare system expensive and not excellent.

Finally,
The kids killed have not even been buried yet, and the NRA convention with some GOP attendees like Trump, Cruz and Abbott is going ahead at Houston tomorrow. I expect to see protests.

Gun violence in states per capita 2019 and 2022.
Would you care to pinpoint the number of mass shootings say between 1950 to 1975?
Something went wrong somewhere
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:11pm On May 24, 2022
Ibime:
I guess you were under a rock when he announced over a month ago that he will release 100m barrels - 1m a day to help cushion the price of crude, from the stock of 1bln barrels. To be foolish is one thing, to be foolish and not know it is another. The strategic reserve is for times of war like this.
Ibime. Are you stupid. He wants to import oil from Venezuela. He has asked OPEC to increase output . Saudi prince refused to pick his telco
On his first day in office he stopped the Keystone XL pipeline which was pumping in oil from Canada.
He blocked lease explorations too.
Under Trump America was a net energy exporter. Under Biden America is a net energy importer
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:57pm On May 24, 2022
feedthenation:
---Kellyanne Conway wrote in her new book that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election---

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/24/kellyanne-conway-yes-trump-lost-00034625

Kellyanne Conway: Yes. Trump lost


One of Donald Trump’s most steadfast aides acknowledges in a new book that the president lost the 2020 election and says he was ill-advised by campaign staff and the election deniers who surrounded him.

“Despite the mountains of money Trump had raised, his team simply failed to get the job done. A job that was doable and had a clear path, if followed,” Kellyanne Conway writes in her memoir, “Here’s the Deal.” “Rather than accepting responsibility for the loss, they played along and lent full-throated encouragement (privately, not on TV) when Trump kept insisting he won.”
Kelly Ann Conway fell out with Trump early on

politico.com has never written anything positive about Trump . Prove me wrong
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:41pm On May 24, 2022
@eveyone. this is not a cess pool. If I want to discuss romance for example I know where to go
Mods do your job. Put your feet down

For years we have had very decent conversations and some character is messing it up. hound him We all know you can.
A character cant be posting nonsense all the time
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:33pm On May 24, 2022
benalvino3:
Ibime
Budaatum
and amazonTopaz all professional victims. they can't get an ID. poor humans grin
Dont make me laugh..
I am annoyed over other issues smiley smiley
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:31pm On May 24, 2022
ono:
Cool bro. Will bookmark!
@ramdeuter I forgot to include you. accept my apologies please. was travelling.

A lot of people have lost their minds here
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:38pm On May 24, 2022
@benalvino @ono and @zendi


Read this guy articles on substack.com He is very methodical . Or follow him on twatter. Besides his articles the comments are very informative.

https://technofog.substack.com/
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:21pm On May 24, 2022
Where is this Amazon Topaz? She been screaming about Georgia laws preventing minorities from voting.

More Georgians went to the polls during the 2022 primary elections early voting period than ever before, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced over the weekend that the three-week voting period saw voters show up in record numbers.

In total, 857,401 Georgians cast their ballots ahead of election day. Nearly 93% of those ballots were cast in person. The remaining 7% were cast absentee.

The Secretary of State’s office says these numbers show a 168% increase in early voting turnout from the last gubernatorial primary in 2018 and 212% increase from the last presidential primary in 2020.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:49am On May 24, 2022
zendi:
I wrote a little piece of fiction purely for the entertainment of the brethren.
But sorry, it was not designed to make sense to a senseless idiot like you.
Check back on your posts;
They almost all contain the phrase, "criminal Trump".
When did you convict the 45th US President of any crime, mad man?
Why bother reply to this fool?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:48am On May 24, 2022
zendi:
I wrote a little piece of fiction purely for the entertainment of the brethren.
But sorry, it was not designed to make sense to a senseless idiot like you.
Check back on your posts;
They almost all contain the phrase, "criminal Trump".
When did you convict the 45th US President of any crime, mad man?
Why bother reply to this psycho?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:32pm On May 22, 2022
Obrigardo:
There is this stupidity among criminal trump fans. They will howl about a bogeyman, the one they can't touch or do anything to. The one they can smear and defame to their insane mind-fvcked dumb ilk, but then they quietly ignore the number of republicans who have actually been arrested for voter fraud. They even ignored criminal trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows who committed blatant voter fraud. But, yeah, 2000 mules. What a height of stupidity i've ever seen.
We dont respond to you because you are an emotional physcho
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico:
Ill drop two names.
Mark elias
Zuckerberg. FB CEO
Mark went around battleground states advicing them to change laws because of corona. they moved to mail in primarily.
Zuckerbucks funded drop in boxes in especially heavy democrat leaning districts. He dumped 400m into some non profit which along with Mark Elias spent all zuckerbucks in demoncrat districts sponsoring drop boxes.
The film by Dinesh Dsouza shows mules were picking up fake ballots from democrat leaning non profits and voting . Each mule getting paid for each ballot.

As for kraken , I would like Zuckerberg to be questioned. that is the kraken .. what he knows what his bucks did achieve.


Then he permanently banned Trump from his sordid platform. along with twitter, In my opinion they all connived to steal the vote. Aided by media too , they portrayed a narrative that questioning this was misinformation
Trump won bigly. Election night he was hugely leading in 5 battleground states then they all stopped counting. Fox called Arizona for Biden around before the last voter had voted. Five battle ground states. Georgia Arizona Wisconsin Pennsylvania and Ohio.


They all stopped counting at the same time when Trump had a huge lead. The following morn Joe was leading in all of these five states.
Miracle.
Georgia specifically. They stopped counting votes because of a 'toilet leak'. Ruby Freeman and her daughter started triple counting votes for the next few hours. video available. They had chased away all republican watchers then. The votes had been in several black briefcases hidden under a table

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ruby+freeman&t=brave&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOh5j7s1H7ek

In the morning all those five battleground states had discovered enough votes, a spike for that geriatric.
Joe Biden is a thief.He never won. He stole.

We have a case going on against Sussman over 2016. Trial day 5. He fed FBI lies about muh russia collusion in 2016/2017.


I could write more. For now I retire
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 11:08am On May 22, 2022
benalvino3:
At basilico, they have started making arrest in Arizona.

There are some BIG developments in the Election Corruption Investigation in Yuma County, Arizona.

Possibly including Law Enforcement raids on non-profits potentially involved in ballot trafficking.
Joe Biden stole simple. I said one day I will be proven right
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 1:34am On May 20, 2022
Transgendered makes history. In 2019 he won the men's surfboard competition.
He then 'discovered' himself and became a woman
He won some surfboard competition as a woman.
He makes history winning a competition as a man and a woman in his lifetime.

Hip hip hooray. What a lucky being who believes gender is fluid that can be turned off and on

https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/19/australian-transgender-surfer-crushes-the-competition-in-open-womens-divisions/
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:14pm On May 19, 2022
benalvino3:
Liberalism is a mental disease
But seriously one can opine that. Those are people who need mental health checkup.
How about once we accept abortion, they push that a child's life can be terminated post birth when the mother feels like the child wont have a good life because she is jobless. Oh some are pushing for this already.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:54pm On May 19, 2022
Timiofak:
Lol, we are all watching it unfold.

Exactly my point that mean he doesn't care about climate change he only cares if he is making money

Because if does care he won't support climate deniers.
why do we have sahara desert? Because we burnt fossil fuels?
Elon Musk is just cashing in.

KEY POINTS
Tesla beat analysts’ expectations on top and bottom lines for Q1 2022.
For the period ending March 31, 2022 Tesla reported $3.22 earnings per share, and revenue of $18.76 billion.
It also recorded record automotive margins of 32.9%

Elon Musk owns 193.3 million Tesla shares, representing 20.7% of total shares outstanding


That is a cool 600m for him in one quarter. As CEO of Tesla he can afford a salary of 100K with all expenses paid by Tesla. Then live like a jet set king
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:05pm On May 19, 2022
Timiofak:
Lol, if I see billionaires defecting from a party to another, that means the party is doing something right

Elon musk is a douche.

Claims to hate climate change so much that he supports climate deniers. Lol, the joke is impossible to make up.
Half the people he is supporting won't even touch his cars with a ten foot pole

I don't see any reason for him explaining himself, vote republican that's his concern.

If he reduces his offer for twitter, they can as well not sell, lol it's not like they are bankrupt? Or are they?
What is wrong with you? Shareholders can sue Twitter if they refuse to sell their shares at a premium.
What pains you is that he has realized democrats and the left don't mean well for his business opportunities
As for climate his biggest investment is in EVs. He has to support climate change because thats where the largest piece of his pie is baked.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 2:03am On May 19, 2022
raumdeuter:
Even CNN is sounding out the alarm
A poll from CNN yesterday from David Axelrod
Dems will use Roe vs Wade to galvanize votes midterm
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico:
benalvino3:
what does Ukraine have to do with this? are you too old for nairaland? why not retire like the old cargo who is still travelling to go visit his mother in lagos.
He visits home every Xmas. Yet his parents supposedly wrongly denied oba of Lagos visit Chicago every Xmas.
He is still here screwing up this thread.

Those kikiki things are his. The old cargo decided to kill this thread by posting as much rubbish as he can. You can crosscheck when he was posting then and these rubbish posts every hour.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:31pm On May 18, 2022
Ibime:
Stop jumping upandan and switching topic. Answer your question below
Trump?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:30pm On May 18, 2022
benalvino3:
When you call them out for pushing such thing, then they turn around and point the finger at you for pushing what they are actually pushing.
That's the left. They accuse you of doing the same thing they are doing. The truth is usually the opposite of their accusations.
They are the ones dividing people into races, gender etc. When you call them out they accuse you of being phobic or racist.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:15pm On May 18, 2022
benalvino3:
liberalism is a mental disease
abortion witness



THESE IDIOTS WILL SHOUT TRUST THE SCIENCE TO YOU.
The Supreme court black judge nominee refused to define a woman when asked,

Honestly I have been watching a lot of sports and I notice that most of the black sportsmen in almost every discipline get egged on fervently by white supporters. Whitey for instance adore Usain Bolt. They christened him the greatest athletee. Whitey also adore Basketball stars who are mostly black .
I work for Britons who love Mo Farah exploits for instance. Dare change the TV channel when Mo Farah is about to race { that was ages ago}
and they would have skinned you alive.

This race thing is pushed by democrats and the left to secure votes maybe.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:10pm On May 18, 2022
Ibime:
You tell us
Are u not the FIN expert?
Why is there inflation. Because Putin invaded Ukraine?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:02pm On May 18, 2022
chopnaira:
I ah silent readers andi I ah remembas how's da threads uses ta be fery good till basiliKo ah create da many donkey trolls Fram isi 4chan thread behafiours ta drive many goods posta aways


Anyways grabs ya popcorns andi comes andi enjoys

Da ridee Isa Jus begins cheesy

Kikikikikikiki
Grandpa. we shall still continue friendly chats whether you post your nonsense.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:24pm On May 18, 2022
Ibime:
Mumu the jump from 2016 to 2019 throw your rubbish in the bin. We have already excused Covid
What was the reason for the jump in spending smart ass?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:23pm On May 18, 2022
Obrigardo:
I don't think that's entirely true. Reduce inflation by improving the budget and cutting spending while taxing the hell out of these billionaires. Should be as simple as that right? Just that the "Cut spending" part is the Achilles heel of any administration.
For once you idiot I liked your op.
Dont go into big spend without a plan of how to finance the spend,
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:21pm On May 18, 2022
BasedUsername:
So do you just store folders full of images of animals engaging in sexual acts on your hard drive or what?
Ignore him for heavens sake.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:19pm On May 18, 2022
Ibime:
You are talking rubbish as usual

Obama was more fiscally conservative than Trump.

Trump immediately increased the deficit that Obama had left

Also the responsible Conservatives in Congress beat the stimulus down to $600, Trump was busy tweeting that they should up it to $2k just for popularity. What does that have to do with bargaining for military budget, when they had already succeeded in bringing it down to $600. As usual, you have no clue what you are talking about
when did covid start?
you quote 2013 , was there the rona then with people not going to work.

Ask your lecturers for a refund.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 1:17pm On May 18, 2022
budaatum:
You are not grown up yet.
I made my point. This is beyond your pay grade
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 1:14pm On May 18, 2022
budaatum:
I wouldn't bother letting you waste my time, bas.
Go get a cheese burger. Growns up are talking here.

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