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03-05-25 08:25 #17413My mistake, not EV, but hybrid with formula 1 technique, meaning very high consumming when You drive a bit, when hybrid cars have higher consumming than normal thermic, when You drive a bit, meaning out of towns and traffic jam.
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03-05-25 08:11 #17412
Like clockwork, 3-Days later, back with the gibberish...
And true to form, you're back to calling, other ISGers, my esteemed colleagues and other BMs, names again. How predictable and juvenile of you! Originally Posted by Elvis2008
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It was only just 3-days ago, you were bemoaning to your other MAGA adjacent cultist, about the practice of name calling by others. And HERE YOU ARE, contradicting yourself like clockwork, doing what you do best, and quite frankly, ONLY know how to do.
Elvis 2008, when name calling, is what you do best, all that MAGA gish gallop, and why that's the ONLY OTHER THING, you constantly sever up as a form of "debate", ...
...is starting to make perfect sense!
PS: Actually, I'm kinda somewhat impressed? That you manage to go through, that entire gibberish rant and not use the D-BAG or Double D-BAG word usage...is that progress? (...kkkk!)
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03-05-25 05:51 #17411
Nope. No mention of the Stock Market this time.
Trump has now dropped the USA Stock Market as any guage or measure for how he is doing as a so-called potus and how the economy is doing. Originally Posted by EihTooms
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But still, and with a nod of appreciation to so many fine Fact-Checkers in the media and on the Internet, he had so many accomplishments from his 1st four year term to mention as substantiation for why we should all be excited about what he has in store for the next four years:
He incited an insurrection against the government.
Layed the groundwork for ushered in Trump's Pandemic.
Mismanaged a pandemic that killed over a million Americans.
Called neo-Nazis very fine people.
Separated children from their families.
Lost those children in the bureaucracy.
Tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church.
Tried to block all Muslims from entering the country.
Got impeached,
Got impeached again.
Had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history.
Pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden.
Fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia.
Bragged about firing the FBI director on TV.
Took Vladimir Putins word over the US intelligence community.
Diverted military funding to build his wall.
Caused the longest government shutdown in US history.
Called Black Lives Matter a symbol of hate.
Lied over 30,000 times.
Banned transgender people from serving in the military.
Ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions.
Vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers.
Refused to release his tax returns.
Increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion.
Had three of the highest annual trade deficits in USA History.
Called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers.
Coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist.
Refused to concede the 2020 election.
Hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House.
Walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl.
Suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID.
Abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey.
Pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans.
Incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic.
Withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords.
Withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal.
Withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block Chinas advances.
Insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter.
Pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op.
Failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies.
Called Haiti and African nations shithole countries.
Called the city of Baltimore the worst in the nation.
Claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase Merry Christmas even though it hadn't gone anywhere.
Forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader.
Believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe.
Suggested the US should buy Greenland.
Colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices, after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges.
Repeatedly called the media enemies of the people.
Claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID wed have fewer cases.
Violated the emoluments clause.
Thought that Nambia was a country.
Told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public.
Called his exceedingly faithful vice president a p-why for following the Constitution.
Nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet.
Nominated a corrupt head of the EPA.
Nominated a corrupt head of HHS.
Nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department.
Nominated a corrupt head of the USDA.
Praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies.
Refused to allow the presidential transition to begin.
Insulted war hero John McCain even after his death.
Spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president.
Falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote.
Called the Muslim mayor of London a stone cold loser.
Falsely claimed that he turned down being Times Man of the Year.
Considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions.
Mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID.
Locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones.
Used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the China virus.
Hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser.
Pardoned several of his shady associates.
Gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his bat shit crazy conspiracy theories.
Got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia (Had a Secretary of State who called him a moron.
Forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history.
Botched the COVID vaccine rollout.
Tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him.
Charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties.
Constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate.
Claimed that COVID would magically disappear.
Called a USA Senator Pocahontas.
Used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivankas merchandise.
Opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling.
Got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers.
Claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US.
Ignored or didn't even take part in daily intelligence briefings.
Blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining.
Redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle.
Got played by Kim Jung Un and his love letters.
Threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution.
Botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
Threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them.
Pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to find him votes.
Thought that the Virgin islands had a President.
Drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane.
Allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing.
Rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos.
Pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID.
Rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers.
Held blatant campaign rallies at the White House.
Tried to take away millions of Americans health insurance because the law was named for a Black man.
Refused to attend his successors inauguration.
Nominated the worst Education Secretary in history.
Threatened judges who didn't do what he wanted.
Attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci,
Promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn't).
Allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues.
Struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble.
Called an African-American Congresswoman low IQ.
Threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders.
Went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic.
Claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were witch hunts.
Seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution.
Demanded total loyalty from the FBI director.
Praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles.
Completely gutted the Voice of America.
Placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service.
Claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower.
Suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country.
Suggested that COVID wasnt that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public.
Overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported.
Reduced the number of refugees the US accepts.
Insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames.
Gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address.
Named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old whod previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties.
Eliminated the White House office of pandemic response.
Used soldiers as campaign props.
Fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him.
Demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade.
Hired a shit ton of white nationalists.
Politicized the civil service.
Did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the USA Government.
Falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts.
Claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won.
Insulted reporters of color.
Insulted women reporters, insulted women reporters of color.
Suggested he was fine with Chinas oppression of the Uighurs.
Attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him.
Summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House, to pressure them to overturn the election.
Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News.
Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas.
Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer.
Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him.
Acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney.
Attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault.
Held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present.
Didn't disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media.
Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time.
Ordered US companies to leave China even though he has no such power.
Led a political party that couldn't even be bothered to draft a policy platform.
Claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers.
Tried to pressure the you. K. To hold the British Open at his golf course.
Suggested that the government nuke hurricanes.
Suggested that wind turbines cause cancer.
Said that he had a special aptitude for science.
Fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure.
Blurted out classified information to Russian officials.
Tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida.
Fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban.
Hired Stephen Miller.
Openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them.
Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel.
Abandoned Iraqi refugees whod helped the USA During the war.
Tried to get Russia back into the G7.
Held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden.
Seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive.
Lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated.
Falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they werent.
Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies.
Still hasnt come up with a healthcare plan.
Still hasnt come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated Infrastructure Weeks.
Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID.
Told the Proud Boys to stand back and stand by.
Screwed up the Census wording.
Withdrew the USA From the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic.
Did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule: President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.
Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act.
Seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
Stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win.
Constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president, (which presumably includes four that were assassinated, and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump).
Claimed Andrew Jackson couldve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened.
Said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake.
Claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him.
Claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President.
Created a commission to whitewash American history.
Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain.
Claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn't have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there.
Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent "Bowling Green Massacre" as a reason to ban Muslims.
Had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others.
Bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties.
Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House.
Stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians.
Falsely claimed Biden wanted to de-fund the police.
Said that the head of the CDC didn't know what he was talking about.
Tried to rescind protection from DREAMers.
Gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic.
Tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax.
Said USA Rates of COVID would be lower if you didn't count blue states.
Deported USA Veterans who served their country but were undocumented.
Claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln.
Touted a super-duper secret hydrosonic missile, which may or may not be a new hypersonic missile, or may not exist at all.
Retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile.
Forced through security clearances for his family.
Suggested that police officers should rough up suspects.
Suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs.
Tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender identification.
Suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher.
Nominated a climate change skeptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy.
Retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called Fuck tha Police at a campaign event.
Hugged a disturbingly large number of USA Flags.
Accused Democrats of treason for not applauding his State of the Union address.
Claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter.
Because they were spending too much time on Russia.
Mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
Obsessed over low-flow toilets.
Ordered the re-release of more COVID vaccines when there werent any to release.
Called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek).
Hijacked Washingtons July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech.
Took advice from the MyPillow guy.
Claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists.
Said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure.
Never seemed to heed the advice of his wifes Be Best campaign.
Falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent, though he, (himself), votes by mail.
Announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest.
Insulted the leader of Canada.
Insulted the leader of France.
Insulted the leader of Britain.
Insulted the leader of Germany.
Insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!
Falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues.
Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually.
Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders.
Said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their Sony televisions if the US were ever attacked.
Left a NATO summit early in a huff.
Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that.
Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary.
Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise.
And a whole bunch of other things I can't remember at the moment.
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03-05-25 05:49 #17410If winning means that fewer people are dying, Americans are not going to have send boat loads of arms and money to Ukraine, and Europe is not going to be steal the $250 billion of Russian assets parked in European banks, then we are. Originally Posted by Xpartan
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Boris Johnson punked the first set of cease fire talks, and Keir Stamer tried to do it a second time. The British scum do not care how many people die. They want and need that money. If the war went on, the European bankers could have went forward with some kind of war crime type crap and stolen that money using some USAID type dispensing system.
When Stamer said the UK was going to put boots on the ground, someone checked the UK military and learned that they have 25 working tanks. The French have like 125, and Russia has 2,000 or so. Do you think these countries would have had so few tanks if they really thought Russia was a threat? The war was always a racket.
The lucrative war on Covid took 3 years to end and now the same goes for Ukraine. I wonder what costly, pointless, and never winnable war is coming next. I nominate the war on fentanyl.
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03-05-25 05:34 #17409Yeah, the difference between someone who votes Democrat and a Democratic douche is that a douche will support the party no matter how stupid it is. Biden is not demented? No, he is not. Kamala is a drunk? No, she is not. Originally Posted by Tiny12
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So instead of falling into the Trump is crazy camp, it is important to see what he really wants when he acts crazy.
And so here it is: https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6369607232112.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: I want Americans to stop being murdered by opioids and fentanyl.
Yeah, okay, now it is fine to call Trump crazy. This is like blaming the failures of prohibition on Canada and Mexico. Opioids are as easy to make as alcohol and when you ban all items, you make the more potent items in the class the norm. You ban beer and wine and you get more whiskey and vodka. You ban oxycontin and you get heroin and fentanyl.
Last I checked there were a dozen or so overdoses in Portugal. We need to do what they are doing rather than pointing fingers abroad. This was the rare total swing and a miss for Trump. The only good part is that he allegedly is backing off the tariffs.
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03-05-25 03:21 #17408
The fascists did their homework this time, and the country is demoralized.
A wonderful letter, but it's not going impress the man brazenly working for foreign interests; his utterly unscrupulous, carefully picked entourage; and the army of willfully blind and exulted cult followers, ready to cut off their right hands if it pleases their Living God. Let's face it: we're living in a country steadily slipping into fascism, and the silence from the opposition is deafening. Originally Posted by EihTooms
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I want to be wrong, but it seems the fuckers are winning.
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03-05-25 02:00 #17407
Yes, a useful one for Putin and Xi. And no, not all of us. Just his supporters.
The stock market was always Trump's go-to measure for how well he was doing his job and how well the economy was doing. It took the steep stock market decline of March 11,2020 due to so many dead American bodies stacking up inside and outside of the morgues to grab Trump's attention to his Trump's Pandemic enough for him to briefly pause his constant lying about it being a "Democratic Party Hoax, we have this under control, it is disappearing, it will go away without a vaccine", mocking the known mitigating measures and so on to finally declare it a National Emergency on March 13,2020. Originally Posted by Tiny12
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So it will be interesting to see if he mentions the stock market at all this time around in his "weave" before Congress or whatever incoherent blather comes out of his pie-hole in about an hour from this writing. If he mentions it at all it will probably be to inexplicably blame the losses to date on Joe Biden after rushing out there to take credit for the post-election relief rally before it became clear stock market investors just aren't into him and his chaotic incompetence or is it his determined anti-Americanism all that much.
To recap as of this writing and as Trump is about to "weave" his way beyond all coherent verbal communication to Congress and the American people:
As measured by the S&P 500 Index, the USA Stock Market is down 0. 8% since his election and down 3. 65% since his inauguration.
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03-04-25 23:42 #17406I can tell you what Trump is thinking. I am not sure what tangible goals he is looking for with regards to the tariffs. With Canada, the three big things are oil, defense spending, and the border. Excluding oil and gas, the USA has a trade surplus with Canada. Given the USA can produce the oil and gas instead of getting it from Canada, I think Trump wants that production to be domestic and not from Canada, and apparently, we have the reserves to make that happen. Originally Posted by Tiny12
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On defense, Canada is not spending shit on defense, and they are relying on us to pay for their defense. Trump wants us to pay a lot less for defense and for Europe and Canada to pay a helluva lot more. On this, he is totally right. Outside of Poland and Turkey, all the countries in NATO have had pathetic defense budgets. What is so bad about this is with Ukraine, the contributions of our so called NATO allies were pathetic.
On the border issue, and this is with both Canada and Mexico, I am wondering how many Chinese goods are being shipped in, and the made in China sticker is taken off and a made in Canada or made in Mexico is attached. He wants something done on that.
With Fentanyl, I think Trump has his head up his ass. He is following the DEA, prohibition style plan to lower supplies not getting that anyone can produce opioids just like anyone can produce alcohol. So Mexico is going to have to do some symbolic clean up on that, but Trump is not going to get fewer deaths until the USA embraces a Portugal style drug policy.
The border issue is better. I am not sure what more he wants there. My understanding is there is more LE on the border now, but here are the issues with Mexico:
Now in 2024, Mexico sent 78% of ALL their exports to the United States. That's an astounding 37% of Mexico's GDP. US manufacturing is in trouble as companies move offshore to avoid taxation, high wages, and asinine green legislation. John Deere, an American branded company, announced it will move manufacturing from Illinois to Ramos, Mexico. This is part of a growing trend of companies simply finding it difficult to turn a profit in the US.
The average hourly salary for unskilled labor is $4. 55 per hour in Mexico compared to $17.42 in the US. The cost of living is simply drastically less in Mexico than in the US or Canada. Mexico has a robust, educated workforce, with more students graduating with engineering degrees than in America. There is also a strong apprenticeship aspect to trade labor in Mexico, with multiple generations of men honing their skills from a young age.
China Conquers Mexico's Automotive Market, and the US Is Worried. Led by the automaker BYD, China has established itself as the main car supplier in Mexico. The US worries China could use Mexico as a "back door" to sidestep tariffs and gain footing in the US market. A Tesla competitor, BYD markets its Dolphin Mini model in Mexico for about 398,800 pesosabout $21,300 dollarsa little more than half the price of the cheapest Tesla model. According to official figures, 20 percent of light vehicles sold in 2023 in Mexico were imported from China, representing 273,592 units and a 50 percent increase compared to 2022.
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With Canada, you put tariffs on oil and in so doing make it more attractive for the USA to produce its own oil. That involves short term pain and is doable. With Mexico, I think the issues are more on our end than theirs. Why are we graduating so many lawyers and so few engineers?
Another issue is Mexicans have a different more European attitude towards governments. One time I was told I could not buy alcohol in Mexico due to it being an election day. The US border agents told me do not worry you will find someone to sell it, and I did. I also learned that ALL the businesses paid the cartels protection money. That sounds bad but the cartels really do protect the businesses and the police apparently are so fucking corrupt, as many mongers will tell you are, they are more likely to steal than criminals.
The bottom line is that I am sure Trump has things he wants from the Mexican government. I am just not sure that they have the power to deliver. With Mexico, Trump is probably going to get a few little things and declare victory. I do not see what the Mexican government can do that would soothe Trump. Graduate fewer engineers? Taxes on Chinese cars? Having a minimum wage of $17 an hour? No more good drug cartels? Good luck with that.
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03-04-25 22:33 #17405Yeah, well, there is quite a divergence between what Polish leaders say and how ordinary Poles feel, https://theconversation.com/why-many...-warsaw-240562. Originally Posted by EihTooms
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During my recent visit, I was sometimes asked why the BBC and other influential western media never probed behind the slick public face of Volodymyr Zelensky's team to report on the real conditions and opinions of ordinary Ukrainians. Instead, Russians are demonised and Ukrainians hailed for their "European values" and their sacrifices on behalf of the west.
Coverage in Polish state media conveys a similar message but I found many citizens have become sceptical. There is pity for conscripts, sorrow for the loss of young lives on both sides and fear for where all this dehumanising violence is leading. But few of the people I spoke with believed that Russians are the only party violating the Geneva Conventions.
Often, the conversation turned to Boris Johnson. I was asked to explain why the then prime minister advised Zelensky in April 2022 that Ukraine should continue the fighting. Did Johnson, as has often been rumoured, sabotage proposals for a negotiated peace carefully drawn up in Istanbul shortly before his visit? Did he not care at all about the hundreds of thousands who would suffer and die if this war continued?
I did not have answers to any of these questions.
And then there was the Russian reaction, https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/dona...-house-7821096.
After US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodomyr Zelensky's stunning clash at the White House, support arrived for the American leader all the way from the Kremlin in Russia. Russian officials and state media reacted with satisfaction after the heated exchange ended with Zelensky abruptly leaving and cutting his visit short.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova remarked that Trump had shown "restraint" by not physically assaulting Zelensky during the exchange.
"I think Zelensky's biggest lie of all his lies was his assertion in the White House that the Kyiv regime in 2022 was alone, without support," Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
She further said, "How Trump and Vance held back from hitting that scumbag is a miracle of restraint," adding that Zelensky was "biting the hand that feeds him. ".
End of link. Quite frankly, the UK, the home of the Steele Dossier and horrific censorship laws, can go fuck itself. This once great power is down to 25 working tanks, and the UK's pathetic strategy of divide and conquer is obvious to those of with two working eyes, Loony Tooms. IMO the UK is on the side of death and deceit and is no longer worthy of being an ally.
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03-04-25 21:02 #17404
Is President Trump an Idiot? Or does he think we are?
Possibly the answer to the questions is "both. " If these tariffs are so good for American manufacturers and American jobs, maybe someone can tell me why share prices of some companies like Ford Motor are at multi-year lows.
As you probably know, parts and intermediate products used to manufacture an automobile can cross the border multiple times. Apparently a 25% duty will be paid now every time that happens. Anderson Consulting is estimating the cost of pickup will go up by $8000 and an SUV by $9000. Or that's what the talking heads on CNBC are saying. Fruits and vegetables imported from Mexico will go up big time. How are we supposed to grow avocados and watermelon for harvest in March in the good old USA?
The Trump administration is telling us that we're imposing tariffs on Canada to stem the flow of fentanyl and illegals. Bull shit. Do they really believe we're that stupid?
The US probably sends more drugs and illegals to Canada than they send to us. And how about the new 10% tariff on imported oil? Republicans fought tooth and nail to keep the Keystone XL pipeline on track, to ship oil from Canada to the USA, so we'd have more energy security and more jobs. And now Trump has given the Canucks a bigger incentive to ship their oil to China than Biden did when he jerked Keystone. This is no way to treat your 51st state!
Well, I guess that Mexico and Canada can team up with China now, since they're all kind out of locked out of trading with us. The Europeans will be next.
I feel sorry for Treasury Secretary Bessent and Commerce Secretary Lutnick, having to explain this lunacy.
What the f*** was Trump thinking?
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03-04-25 20:22 #17403
Diesel is back in Europe when people prefer than EV, Tesla having sales divided by 2 on this year in Europe, because of Musk behavior. I will stick to E85 powering my exceptionnal engine with R8 cup admission, but I remember my great diesel with 655000 kms engine. EV guaranty are with limited kilometers.
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03-04-25 19:47 #17402
Donald J Trump is GOD
Enjoy MAGA payback for robbing our nation of Our Lord and Savior by rigging 2020.
And allowing Scumbag Joe to flood our nation with 20 million more illegal aliens.
Paybacks are a MOTHERFUCKER.
I am your warrior, I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution. I will totally obliterate the deep state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...residency.html
GOD IS GREAT!!
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03-04-25 17:07 #17401I would like to play versus on German autobahns, to see how many kilometers running close to 300 km / h. Shame for what was Ferrari = V12 with making hard, noise. Originally Posted by AxelHeyst
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03-04-25 07:31 #17400
The Left is so pathetically LAME lolol
MAGA couldn't ask for a more inept opponent lolololol.
A YUGE thanks to all the losers that voted for Harris.
This video captures your essence quite well.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ew-york-times/
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03-04-25 06:31 #17399Is your name Spidy from Spiderman? That was my favorite comic going up. I think I am going to start calling you Spidy the Amazing Binary man because literally everything you post is right wing / MAGA / Republican bad and Dems good. You have no balance. You and Loony "there is no government waste" Tooms must have been separated at birth. Originally Posted by Spidy
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https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...rd-he-still-f/
This fact checking was a hoot. "Breaking: Biden administration quietly DROPS all charges against Sam Bankman-Fried," read a June 20 Instagram post. "The crypto founder who stole $4 billion and gave half of it to Democrat candidates is now free as a bird. ".
Did SBF steal money? Yep. Did he give it to Dems? You betcha. Is he in jail? Nope, and the fact check is, and this is hilarious, well, they are going to put him in jail. Yeah, SBF is not in jail now.
I actually considered litigating a matter with stocks. I had to listen to blowhard CEOs say that they had a fiduciary duty to shareholders which is the strongest duty there is, but that duty is more like a doody in terms of shit. If you are a shareholder of say Coca Cola and one day the board at Coca Cola says "Yeah, we are not making Cola anymore. We are going to focus on umbrellas", you would think this is a pretty straight forward case of breach of duty and could sue.
It does not work like that. SCOTUS has watered down the fiduciary duty such that the only thing you can sue for is corruption and not incompetence. Unless the Board of Directors at Coke decided to sell umbrellas to make themselves money, you are shit out of luck when it comes to a lawsuit. Your case will be dismissed. I think this is pure BS but it is what it is.
In fact, it is so hard to sue the only way one can do it is with an insider. That is why there is so much money thrown at CEO types via the golden parachute / NDA.
President Javier Milei does not have any duty at all. In fact, I would argue that those hurt by buying this LIBRA crypto could best voice their displeasure by voting against him. And let's not forget that some pocketed profits in the crypto as it went up.
And you are not going to get any sympathy from me for buying a fad crypto. There have been so many scams in this space you would have to be a fool to buy almost all crypto outside of Bitcoin. This was the equivalent of Milei at the craps table saying, "I know the dice are coming up 7 and that is good for Argentina ", and the dice came up 6.
And a rug pull is not a ponzi scheme. It is saying you are going to build something, get a bunch of investors to give you money, and then take off with the money after having done little to nothing, and it has happened so much in the crypto community, they even have named the scam.
Thing is crypto is outside the main stream with investing. They are not subject to many of the other laws like other types of investment. Mark Cuban, back when he was not a loon, exposed the entire stock market as a Ponzi scheme which pissed off the big boys, and the SEC went after him versus the banks costing tax payers hundreds of billions and Bernie Madoff. I have been very unimpressed with government regulation in the financial world. The laws originally written were among the best laws ever written but the big banks and judges have shredded them down to the point that the big boys can do almost whatever they want.
I actually prefer the crypto world where a fool and his money are soon parted, and there is no illusion of government safety. I do not think the SEC is worth a hoot.
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