American Politics

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3010171]In 2018,16% of white victims were killed by Black offenders, while 8% of Black victims were killed by white offenders. Between 1980 and 2008,84% of white homicide victims were killed by other white people, and 93% of Black victims were killed by other Black people.[/QUOTE][I][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/I] Nice set of crime data (and a conversation perhaps for another day), but AGAIN, [u]unrelated[/u] to which party, has without a doubt, committed most of the political violence, by either right-wing QAnon/ MAGA/Rethuglicans or left-wing Dems.

The misuse and misinterpretation of your data, does however, [I][b]importantly emphasize[/b] that those crime statistics reflect [u]socioeconomic, segregation and over-policing in Black/Brown communities, as key factors[/u], in crime, [b]but not political affiliated violence.[/b][/I] So thank you for that!

In contrast, for example, is here are several pieces of [B]related[/B] data/facts, clearly showing the vast majority of political violence, are indeed committed by right-wing QAnon/MAGA Rethuglicans:
[LIST][i]From 2016 to 2023, 74% of extremist murders were committed by right-wing actors, compared to 4% by left-wing actors.[/i] [url]https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2022/03/the-rise-in-political-violence-in-the-united-states-and-damage-to-our-democracy?lang=en[/url][/LIST][LIST]After Rethuglicans lost in 2024, in the 11 weeks between the election and Inauguration Day, armed actors at protests grew by 47% compared to the 11 weeks prior to the elections, and organized paramilitary groups grew by 96%.[url]https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2022/03/the-rise-in-political-violence-in-the-united-states-and-damage-to-our-democracy?lang=en[/url][/LIST][LIST][i]"In contrast to the 1970s, much of today's political violence is aimed at people instead of property and [b]most of the recent deadly outbursts[/b] tracked by Reuters [b]have come from the right.[/b]

"Case in point: the Trump supporter who shot a neighbor he suspected of being a Democrat."[/i] [url]https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-violence/[/url][/LIST]
[b]"What's Driving Political Violence in America?"[/b] [i]... "Trump himself may bear much of the responsibility for this trend. His entry into American politics triggered a sharp rise in violent rhetoric, which seems to have led inexorably toward violent actions. ",[/i] July 18,2024 [URL]https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/whats_driving_political_violence_in_america [/URL].

Deliberate attempts to try and "muddy the waters" to deflect from the asymmetrical political violence from the right, whether it's YOUR Fuhrer's stochastic terrorism, or the well documented right-wing Rethuglican gun-totting, blood-lust for violence, you can't escape it, ...

...much like the scorpion said to the frog, "...IT'S MY NATURE".

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3010473]Every sane, informed person knows that the world is a lot safer today, than yesterday. Thank you, President Trump.[/QUOTE]He had the balls Joe Biden never had. And Kamala never had balls either.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3010408]Trump already broke that promise in his previous term when, despite Repub MAGAs and their eternal benefactors in Mainstream Media's selective amnesia about it, he happily presided over the boots-on-the-ground Afghanistan War with direct combat involvement by the USA Military for every day, hour and minute of it, leaving the far more difficult task of pulling us out of it to the immensely greater President and Commander-in-Chief that immediately succeeded him.

You nailed it re Putin, of course; this was a tremendous victory for Putin for sure, as Trump had apparently been working to serve in this way at least since he tore up the Iran Nuclear Accord Agreement, that his own Administration repeatedly asserted had been working, in order to consequently and unavoidably bring America to this point of plunging us into still another Repub-initiated counterproductive endless war in the Middle East.

That was obviously one of the two main reasons Trump tore up that agreement so as to being us to this point, to slavishly serve Russia Russia Russia being first and foremost.

The second being he had to tear it up because Obama's name was all over it.

The same reason he had to defund and remove the leaders of the highly successful Pandemic Prevention and Response team in those Chinese labs in 2018 and 2019 contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid; that program and the Pandemic Response handbook he was handed and promptly ignored at the Obama-to-Trump hand off, had Obama's and Hillary's names all over it, having been put together by the Obama Administration after its brilliant and successful handling of the H1 N1 and Ebola virus Pandemic threats.

Trump always feels compelled to counter the successful accomplishments of his predecessors and betters with a colossal failure that obliterates all those previous hard earned gains and drives him and the suckers who enable him into deeper holes of loss.

Oh well.[/QUOTE]Trump and company are going to do everything they can to enact martial law in the United States and cancel the midterm elections.

[QUOTE=Goatscrot;3010549]Trump and company are going to do everything they can to enact martial law in the United States and cancel the midterm elections.[/QUOTE]Somebody in Blue States will sneeze, Trump will declare a Special Blue State or Blue City Emergency, call out and deploy the Marines and ordinary, fully legal American citizens will have every reason to believe they might be rounded up and sent to a prison camp for so much as approaching a polling place.

After Trump outlaws Vote By Mail, of course.

[QUOTE=Goatscrot;3010549]Trump and company are going to do everything they can to enact martial law in the United States and cancel the midterm elections.[/QUOTE]Declaring this from 10000 miles away 1 1/2 yrs out WOWWW you are a WHACKO 1000% certifiable.

Last time the oligarchs claimed this bullshit via their bullhorns like MADCOW.

In 2020 they said Our Lord and Savior would cancel the election in Nov 2020, instead they fucking rigged it.

I'm reading the GOP may actually pick up seats in Nov 2026, is this more bullshit brewing to rig the midterms?

Like they claimed Trump would pardon his whole family before he left office in Jan 2021 but guess what happened.

Scumbag Joe pardoned his whole Scumbag family before he left office in Jan 2025.

Is it a prerequisite to be an Expat that you have to be 100% out of your fucking mind lolol.

I guess, who the fuck Else would leave the best country that has ever existed to live in a Sooper hot 3rd world shithole.

I'm guessing the psych meds you're taking must be from India or CCPland, best wishes BRO.

The Worst Negotiator in the history of negotiations just delivered a huge Win-Win for Iran and Lose-Lose for America no matter what Iran does next.

Unless the USA Intel shows without a doubt that Iran had a nuclear weapon at the ready with the Ayatollah's hand poised over the launch button, which they won't, Iran holds all the cards for the fate of America and international democracy. Trump handed them all the cards. Not even as a random deal. He went deep into the deck, searched out the best cards in the game, arranged them into a lovely hand and put that directly into the hands of Iran.

Iran can retaliate openly and brazenly, attack our troops, international interests and anyone and everyone in America with a Death of 1000 Cuts terrorists attacks, crippling the economy, international travel, wiping out jobs and assets along the way.

Something like Trump's Pandemic closures and economic disaster times 100. Half the world would inderstand and be on their side.

Or.

Iran could "take the high road", do nothing, play the victim of American-style democratic ultra Warmongering, leave America with dog shit on its nose from here to eternity, as a monument to how nobody should ever trust America with a treaty, economic or peace, nor should any country be foolish enough to replicate a democratic or representative republic that could ever dumb down its citizens so thoroughly that they would elect and empower a Repub or a Trump. Far from being a "leader" in anything. America would be a global pariah from here to eternity.

Or.

Why not do a bit of both? Iran could still kill America in a Death by 1000 Cuts on the sly, still crash the economy, international travel, wipe out millions of jobs, etc through fear of one terrorist attack after another with Iran credibly denying involvement and simply citing international rancor for America and its Trumpian behavior as the motivation AND leave dog shit on America's nose from here to eternity.

Or.

Iran could come up with some totally unpredictable but effective method for showing MAGAs what Winning Really Looks Like.

Only time will tell.

For sure, there is zero chance that any of this will ever be good for America.

It is entirely up to Iran and its Ayatollahs now.

Trump as made it so.

[QUOTE=HumbleHal;3010528]He had the balls Joe Biden never had. And Kamala never had balls either.[/QUOTE]When Trump first ran for president in 2012 he droned on on about GWB had the war in Iraq. He told Jeb Bush that it (The War) was stupid because it caused disorder in the Middle East.

It doesn't take "balls" to sent someone else to drop bombs or fight in a war. He famously said that our men and women who serve in the military are "losers and suckers. ".

I guess we know why Melania has spent less than 10 days at the White House in the second term.

Since bullshiting Trump is back, USD is falling, but not the worst yet for Americans.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3010500]I really can't get fired up about the notion that people are dying in significant numbers from contact with latex condoms.

They violate the entire point of engaging in sex with another person and that is the argument against them that responsible adults who don't want to wear them or can't engage in sex with them should be making. Along with pushing for new, better and less pleasure-inhibiting modern methods of birth control and disease prevention.

Trump's and the entire Repub Party's method of outlawing Sex For Pleasure is not the way to go, imo.

I'm not buying that they are killing people.[/QUOTE]"They violate the entire point of engaging in sex with another person".

Anyone that uses condoms is a certifiable fucking moron!!

Just get one of these.

[URL]https://www.amazon.com/JANOKE-Inflatable-Blow-Doll-Groom/dp/B0DL4D15M6/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5ocV2rwPdR-yL_fJb6HeRp_I2t4dTBlVQY0WiZX9wzoj8t8IRK-l5R3I3jMRmIHIC1tVjvpIxC24OOoyUjt8di0TidnktkNCk8dRHuuR2oe8Euq8HbEG0LVxmCL8yI3IOok-3kY1i2-rD68cKnRNc7HLRCAfNwgDI6zacUgvZmDAZ6GpsXRwh3xOwx2RiOEK_wg5t0I8TccxTYNYMSEFmhCYmvm8nIb6tUgWWqnbx15uGkkAShSnRo_JKS8QSSNXwvqzXBKJglFOh2H6vm2vh0FY-i4cN9ku0VM4EcGNnJo.oWnMt2TC9HsQ3jcY_yZOMSORwsQ6-ZoDHufRXbfLUPY&dib_tag=se&keywords=blow-up[/URL]+dolls&qid=1750658527&sr=8-3.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3010473]Every sane, informed person [/QUOTE]I consider myself both sane and informed. I do not agree with your opinion. That's all it is.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3010473]knows that the world is a lot safer today, than yesterday. [/QUOTE]You, I and all of my fellow citizens now have a target on our backs. You call that being safer?

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3010473]Thank you, President Trump.[/QUOTE]No thanks! He is not made my world a safe place! All you war mongers out there seem to forget that [U]Japan[/U] attacked Pearl Harbor using the same reasoning. How you feel about that?

[QUOTE=HumbleHal;3010528]He had the balls Joe Biden never had. And Kamala never had balls either.[/QUOTE]A nuclear Iran was / is acceptable to the Democratic Party. Fetterman is the only Democrat Senator that I am aware of who has the balls to stand up against the pro-nuclear Iran Wokes that control the party. Remember, Obama's "nuclear deal" with Iran, the one Trump tore up in his 1st term that would have formally allowed Iran to possess nuclear weapons right about now.

[QUOTE=Goatscrot;3010549]Trump and company are going to do everything they can to enact martial law in the United States and cancel the midterm elections.[/QUOTE]Dear Goatscrot, I am so reluctant to start this up with you because I respect your long time contributions to the BKK Reports Forum. But where the hell do you come up with such tripe. It is pure paranoid fantasy on your part.

The threat to our democracy and freedom is real, but it is coming from your side, dude. Do I really have to go over the anti-democratic history of the Democratic party since 2015? The Hillary Russia collusion hoax, 2 fake impeachments, all the unprecedented lawfare including attempts to take the Republican nominee for President off the ballot, 2 assassination attempts when all else failed, AND up to 20,000,000 illegal aliens who were allowed to enter the country by the Biden Administration for the main purpose of voting for the Democrats. And let's not leave out the stated goals of the Democrat Party like doing away with the filibuster (when Senate Dems are a majority only), stacking the Supreme court, and of course no voter ID requirements ever.

Sorry to have to tell you this Goatscrot, but your party is fascist and insane (for example: the Dem's position on men competing in girl's sports or the sexual grooming of minors in grade school) and you are crazy too, if you support these policies and goals.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3010492]I hope you are right AH, but I am not sure. [/QUOTE]I hope I am right too, Elvis. But no matter how this turns out in the short run, ie if the US has to bomb Iran again; the bottom line is Iran, the #1 state sponsor of terrorism, will not have nuclear weapons at its disposal and that is a very good thing for the Middle East and the entire world.

Furthermore, Trump has stated that he is not into nation building, based on Bush's Iraq mess and I believe him. There will not be US troops on the ground in Iran. But I assume the US is prepared to bomb Iran back into the stone age if the Mullahs don't get the message and attack American interests in the region. The Israelis are already bombing the regime's enforcement and control agencies, and Trump will close down the Iranian economy, no imports or exports. Thus, bankrupting the country. The idea is to impair and destroy the dictatorship's ability to control the country while at the same time helping the Iranian people overthrow these religious fanatics that have enslaved Persia since 1979. The plan just might work, but even if the Ayatollah can somehow remain in power, he won't have nuclear weapons or ballistic missile launchers. Trump did a great thing!

So airlines are canceling flights to the Middle East. Yep, the world is now safer.

[B]NOT![/B]

Here is the problem with the MAGA people tied up in political emotions, they cannot think things trough correctly. But most importantly they don't realize how much damage just one air to air conventional missile launched at the right target can cause. I hope no one is touched by the retaliatory strike [B]Iran[/B] is bound to deliver at some point.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2991279]If you are asking where I stand on the Democrat party's continued tactic of Lawfare, that is finding friendly left-wing judges to make a temporary rulings to preventing many of Trumps EO's from being carried out, I say it is futile stalling tactic because the Trump administration will win most of these legal suits on appeal in the Supreme court.[/QUOTE]Using the process of the Article 3 branch has a purpose. The current leader of the Article 2 branch does not want to follow the law. If he is going to win then why the rush?

[B]We both know why![/B]

In this area you are completely wrong. The Article 3 branch is not political. This is how it was designed. I suggest that you go back and read the Constitution of the United States of America.

A ruling from the judge is law until overturned. Murder does not get excused based on political leanings. Using your logic it ok if a republican kills a democrat then beats the rap if the judge is also a republican.

[B]Sorry my man, that simply is not right![/B]