Mark Davis

Marxism

Funny how the tables have turned. I'm going to need an updated scorecard. It's probably only 48 hours away from being blamed on Trump somehow.

This is the base derivative of their Marxist views. It was all well and good until it came to the racism that goes along with it and they have turned on some of the people on the left. Marxism and it's believers are dangerous people and I'll take them at their word on how they feel.

I hear ya. I'm a sucker for blondes occasionally and sometimes the crazier the better. This photo here has me in, even if I would have only been in 11 years ago: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=459792587369379&set=a.128358412627390

https://www.fox9.com/news/nicole-mitchell-mn-arrested-burglary-becker-county https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=848852477244643&set=a.128358412627390 Girl needs to stay made up

In most cases you're probably right. Even around here though it's shocking to occasionally see people walking outside with them.

There should be a volunteer group to escort students to class. If the odds were a little more level, it would be amazing how paths would open up. I think over half of them have covid masks on outdoors. Mental illness running wild out there.

I saw the girl speaking in a television interview about it this morning. I don't recall the show. Said when she tried to pursue to identify for the police that the mob cut her off so she couldn't follow enough to keep him within sight.

At the very least, those types are either seriously outnumbered or sitting passively by while the more radicals are taking actions against Jewish people. Some of the videos from Columbia are pretty damning.

If only this were true I'd feel a lot better about it. However, when they say they support Hamas, I take them at their word. Saying you support people who want to wipe a country and race off the planet is not something someone would say if they were just a casual supporter of some benign cause. At some point there's going to be violence from these folks, if not now, later on a larger scale. They not only hate you, they hate our entire system and capitalism itself.

I can assure you that no state trooper here is going to make some woman take a pregnancy test on the side of the road. I'm not in favor of what the AL Supreme Court did but this is obviously hyperbole and just gives the nutjobs something to breathe in their paper bags about.

Trump still favored over at Bovada, although it's narrowed to where the amount he's favored is less than the vig. The fact both are +110 and greater shows there is still some money on the field and the possibility one doesn't make it to the general. https://www.bovada.lv/sports/politics

I know you follow this part of the world and are knowledgeable about the cross currents, but take the embassy move as one example. I'm not sure how people are extrapolating that move toward this current situation unless it's purely political and is essentially like wearing blinders towards an anti Trump bias. That move didn't establish Hamas, make Iran a bad actor, etc. Those things already were in place. I don't feel that had anything to do with what is going on now. If the embassy were still in Tel Aviv, would Hamas have not attacked Israel? I find it hard to believe that would have changed in any way at all. In specificity to the Iran situation, In my eyes we emboldened Iran by releasing funds to them. I think time is showing that when we ease sanctions, release funds, react in a more passive faction to their bad acts, they are proving to seeing that as an opening to take further and more aggressive actions. I actually agree with you that Iran largely telegraphed this attack so that it could be intercepted. They can look strong to their public and the Arab street while trying to create hesitancy in the West to respond because of the lack of large scale fatalities and damage in Israel. But it does seem probing to me and they are wanting to see how the West and opinions in the West will respond to this attack. I would ask, when in our lives would we have ever had a significant faction of our country say Israel should stand down if their homeland was attacked in such a way, whether intercepted or not? We already have a significant portion of the West and sentiment in the West that are sympathetic to some of Hamas' wishes, if not Hamas themselves. By that I mean they are focusing on a cease fire rather than the return of the hostages. Now the ball has been moved under another shell and now we have the question of how far should Israel go in response to Iran, all the while the hostages are still held by Hamas.

I'd say the blame for this lies almost totally with Iran. They fund and prop up Hamas, they arm them, they arm Hezbollah, they arm the Houthis and prop them up. Action should have been taken sooner in regards to the Houthis and we've been quite careful to strike at indirect Iranian targets and they seem emboldened that we aren't going after their forces directly. This particular mess isn't started without Iran's funding and support. I'm not sure why Trump is even part of this discussion this far in arrears. The fact is the world seems to be catching on fire right now, and Biden is in office and war is everywhere. I'm not going to sit here and be so political to blame the Biden Administration for all of these wars, personally I don't feel there's any U.S. action that is to blame for Russia invading Ukraine. But it's odd to blame Trump for the aggression of Iranian proxies when he took the step of eliminating Soleimani when many on the left were concerned that could lead to broader conflict. Hell, at the time I was unsure, but looking back on it I think time has shown that it was proper and sent the right message. There's a balance between not provoking a larger war but striking them enough to punish bad acts so that they know there is a price to pay that is beyond what they may gain in those actions.

The Trump tax package was a great benefit to my business, specifically the S Corp treatment that Sen. Johnson fought hard for in order to get his vote. Taxation is actually the runaway top reason from a self interest standpoint for me to vote for either, and that would be for Trump. As far as tariffs go, yes they will cause price increases. In rough terms those increased prices will go to the government. It essentially should function as a de-facto use/consumption tax.