Voltaire

LOL at the human bowel movement that is gutterboy whining about people's reaction to Renee Good's death when he posted celebrations like this in the Ashlie Babbitt thread. ---- "The officer who killed Babbit is a hero. He saved many lives that day." ---- Not a soul has posted anything this vile about Renee Good, or have I missed it?

Its the latest example of FAFO. Suicide by cop. I notice that no one in this thread is anywhere near as big a jerk as thegeneral was in the Ashli Babbitt thread. Whoever was responsible for the Phantom's Phantom alias, which I suspect is you but I can't keep up, was just as bad as thegeneral.

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

Good to see you posting here artista as your perspective is so relevant. The moment/opportunity to kick the house of cards down may have come and gone. The mullahs in Iran are among the most evil scumbags on the planet, so I certainly would support regime change if it could be done on the cheap through air strikes. Ah, but I don't know that I want to climb out on that limb. Unfortunately there's no way of knowing in advance if that result is possible. Things could go wrong in a thousand different ways. There could be a failed state with 90 million refugees. Worse, the US could be bogged down patrolling the place. One thing I know is that I wouldn't want US boots on the ground. Dealing with Venezuela is about as much ambitious foreign adventures as I can handle right now. Learning lessons from Iraq apply to both situations, you just don't know what chaos would unfold. It looks like the decision was/will be that a de-fanged Iran may be acceptable.

Its been great every week other than this one. Now, I enjoy drinking leftoid tears as much as anyone but with them buzzing with rage over Renee Good, the flavor this week is off. At least to me. I'm not terribly interested in spiking the football and rubbing it in their faces right about now.

Until some Jimmy Carter 2.0 president comes along

You gotta hand it to whichever Taiwanese individual or crew it was that invented that focking chip. They did their country a massive, massive service. With Taiwan, its not just a matter of defending a democracy from a totalitarian regime anymore. China getting their hands on those chips would be a disaster. Now, given that situation, you'd thing that not even the most feckless of US presidents can plausibly sit around and do nothing if Taiwan gets invaded by China. Of course, AOC and Rashida Tlaib exist... Taiwan just need hope we're not that stupid.

I may as well put this out there. When we elected Trump, I could have given you a couple dozen good solid reasons and Greenland wouldn't have registered a blip. There's probably good reasons to get it; I'll give him the benefit of the doubt about Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic Circle. Alright fine, make a play for it. The Danes are NATO allies. I don't think the Europeans carry their share of the security burden in the alliance but that's another story. I want to make it clear that not ruling out military force when negotiating with an ally is horrible. These are friendly democratic nations, you treat them honorably and with respect. I like Trump and if he thinks buying Greenland is important, I can warm up to the idea. I see the point he's making. But even if successful, I do not endorse the way he conducting the Greenland negotiations with Denmark. By all means make your offer to Denmark; make an offer directly to the Greenland people. But leave the military option off the table. He's poisoning goodwill in Europe for no reason by doing so and giving them a legitimate complaint IMO.

Its been a week or so, have people around here posted that? If so they speak for themselves. Most of us do think people who actively interfere with ICE operations are scum but nthat does not mean we think that they deserve to die. Until the moment she hit the gas, all the punishment she deserved was what she'd willingly signed up for when she arrived: petty stuff like obstruction, failure to comply, traffic violations etc. Speaking for myself, I think she was drunk on her activism, got caught up in the excitement of the moment, and when an officer walked in front of her car, she made the snap hate-filled split-second decision that cost her her life.

They can have Greenland, but leave Tarik Skubal alone. I'm sick of the five focking clubs that use the rest of the league as their collective farm system.

When you have five Democrats splitting up the black vote and mix in one rich Indian with more money than all of them combined, you get Shri. Detroit city use to have two Congressional seats because it had 2 million people. Now the city's population is only 600,000 with the black population split into those two legacy congressional seats. Ideally, you ram Shri and Rashida Talaib's districts together, watch both go out on their ass, and get a halfway decent chocolate Democrat out of it. Even if that effort nets you Jasmine Crockett 2.0, at least its somebody different.

I did give it a cursory look, but there's not much out there. I don't have time to look into everything. Granted, I do have a nice three day weekend, but its not something I'm terribly interested in and further, looking sh*t up for you has proven time and again to be a wasted effort as you are not a serious person nor have you been capable of holding a decent conversation in the last ten years. There goes an hour of my time looking up sh*t I don't care about for a request by you and you won't read it anyway. Use to be I was half retired and had all kinds of free time, not so much anymore.

In this thread one person wants to hear both sides of the story and make an informed decision and the other person bases their opinion on a clearly biased news article that doesn't present either. The one is known to take nuanced positiones based on the evidence. The other can be predicted with 100% reliability to take the most extreme positions on all matters of issues and does so with the animalist hateful vile dripping phlegm that fills the vacant space where most people's soul would occupy. And which is the cuck? The gutterboy has resided in the gutter from the very beginning of your warped twisted evil existence. At least your ridiculousness and low IQ self-owns in defense of the indefensible can be fun to read at time.

That's not FoxNews. That's an AP story sourced from a FOX site, but AP does have more credibility than CNN. Her attorney says she was wrongfully convicted, but defense attorneys get paid to say things like that, and I'm not going to draw conclusions from that either. It does imply that a case can be made in her defense. We'd have to look at both that defense and the prosecution's case to figure out what's going on.

We've long known conservatives are more attractive than people of the left and it's not just my observation / opinion, there's actual research into it. Good-Looking People Tend to Vote Republican Because They’ve Had Easier Lives, Says Study - Newsweek Science Weighs In: Conservatives “Look Better” | Psychology Today ---- Even AI agrees... AI finds conservative women more attractive, happier in photos | New York Post ... it's able to predict a person's political beliefs with 61% accuracy based on photos alone.