I forgot about the cars, oh my oh my. The Chrysler Corp stuff wins the day in the US in my opinion, though this is surely debatable. Go in Google, are many breathtaking photos. Oh shit, and your average Joe could own these beauties.
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I forgot about the cars, oh my oh my. The Chrysler Corp stuff wins the day in the US in my opinion, though this is surely debatable. Go in Google, are many breathtaking photos. Oh shit, and your average Joe could own these beauties.
[QUOTE=Kadeem;2594644]Republicans want to produce oil and gas domestically but the democrats including Biden wants to get our oil from Russia and OPEC which are against the USA. You support this.
Most of the solar panels are made in China. Most of the lithium for batteries for electric cars and electric storage is controlled by China. The democrats are obviously making China economy boom.
We are handing our economy and money to our adversaries. Smart move Biden.[/QUOTE]Do not tell me what I support. I clearly have said that electric cars will kill the corrupt oil economies. I don't care if they are foreign or US. The US has significant lithium resources there is no reason they should not be exploited. If you can exploit oil why can't you make a buck out of lithium. Many of the boron mining waste dumps have economic concentrations of lithium. Stop whining about China eating your lunch. If a fraction of the money spent on the military to ponce around the middle east, Asia and Europe then the US could easily match China in the areas of solar panels and batteries.
Who screwed the pooch in Afghanistan? The former guy, that's who! [URL]https://news.yahoo.com/only-trump-mike-pence-mike-091407562.html[/URL].
"Few people seem impressed with President Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, a sooner-than-expected military-run airlift operation from Kabul's civilian airport. Biden says his options were limited by a February 2020 peace treaty former President Donald Trump's team signed with the Taliban in Doha requiring all USA Forces to exit Afghanistan by May 1.
Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former Vice President Mike Pence have all said this week that if Biden followed Trump's Doha agreement better, Afghanistan wouldn't be such a mess. But they can't quite agree on why that's true, and few other high-ranking Trump national security officials seem to agree with them.
Pompeo told Fox News Sunday "we would have demanded that the Taliban actually deliver on the conditions that we laid out in the agreement," including engaging "in meaningful power-sharing agreement" talks, "before we completed our requirement to fully withdraw. " ("The Taliban have not violated any of the written conditions of the four-page agreement signed in Doha," The New York Times notes.).
Pence argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the Taliban only took over the country because Biden broke the Doha agreement by not withdrawing all USA Forces by Trump's May 1 deadline.
On the other hand, Trump's first national security adviser, H. R. McMaster, said Pompeo "signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban" and traced Afghanistan's collapse "back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. " Lisa Curtis, an Afghanistan expert on Trump's National Security Council, told The Associated Press "the Doha agreement was a very weak agreement" that gave the Taliban too much — including 5,000 released prisoners — and seriously weakened the Afghan government.
Trump's defense secretary during the Taliban negotiations, Mark Esper, told CNN Wednesday that Trump "undermined" his own deal by publicly pushing to withdraw all USA Troops even if the Taliban didn't live up to its side of the treaty. Christopher Miller, Esper's successor, told Defense One that Trump never planned to withdraw USA Troops and considered the treaty a "play" to get Afghanistan's president to negotiate a power-sharing deal with the Taliban.
"In many ways, this is an overdue conversation," Aaron Blake writes at The Washington Post. "Trump's negotiations with the Taliban weren't huge news outside foreign policy circles because the war wasn't front-of-mind at the time," mostly. Still, he said, "it's striking" that so many "people who served in high-ranking foreign policy roles in the Trump administration seem to recognize the rise of the Taliban isn't going to make Trump's decision look like a great idea."
[QUOTE=Paulie97;2594832]These are genuine news sources, the big three, and even CNN with a left center slant. They rake Dems over the coals all the time when they have it coming, and so do I. Fox, OANN, News Max, etc. Though are tabloid. It's the new era of true "fake news," the Rush Limbaugh Show masquerading as a news network, and that's being generous.[/QUOTE]Here's a non-biased "source" to back you up: [URL]https://www.adfontesmedia.com/intro-to-the-media-bias-chart/?fbclid=IwAR0xgUnmJOI4a109rGg9Q06d8_Aj5LiMw0I4WBWfmf4S2yly_6n8p-HHJAQ[/URL].
I suggest that everybody look at the chart then examine your own assumptions. Look at the "green box" at the top of the chart. Look at how these sources "lean". The vast majority of the "green box" portion of the chart are "centrist". They may lean a little bit one way or the other but [B]none of them[/B] are rabidly partisan.
Then look at the remainder of the chart. From where on that chart do [B]you get your news[/B]. If you get it from Fox (TV) or The Daily Kos, your news should be relegated to lining the bottom of your birdcage. If you get your news from a source or sources within the "green box", you news is likely valid.
Now, which of the sources did the former guy disparage? Which of those sources do his cult disparage? All of the cult members will now start childish name-calling.
Nobody could be as dumb and ignorant as the Biden admin appeared to be during this Afghanistan fiasco. It's obvious that the Biden admin simply didn't care. The only military "operations" Biden cares about are the US tax payer funded sex change operations for trannies in the US military due to one of the many worthless Biden executive orders. Other than that, he'd prefer to be hiding in his basement eating ice cream.
[URL]https://www.worldtribune.com/team-bidens-va-will-pay-for-transgender-veterans-sex-change-operations/[/URL]
Biden's key advisors are on the same page as Biden.
[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2594688]It has been 8 months since Biden took office. When Trump reduced troops to 2500 why didn't Taliban take Kabul then? It seems like they waited for a weak president to put his plan in to attack. Biden had 8 months to figure it out but Biden didn't have a plan. He just assumed Taliban would cooperate. He should have been smart enough to get all the Americans out at least before he reduced troops further but he didn't. He should have listened to his military advisors telling him that he was moving to fast. But in his defense he didn't remember these discussions because he is senile. This catastrophe is totally Biden. You can't blame Trump or anyone else.[/QUOTE]Indeed. The Taliban didn't dare make a move during Trump's drawdown, because they feared and respected him. Once he was fraudulently removed the Taliban sensed weakness, and watching Biden falling down stairs, failing to finish sentences and wandering around lost and senile must have strengthened their certainty. And indeed they were correct: Biden was too weak and disorganized to stop them taking the country in a week, in the worst humiliation in American history.
Imagine just flying the troops out on zero notice in the middle of the night, without even telling your allies in the Afghan army or the British stationed in the country. It is basic common sense that you coordinate with allies and get your civilians and vital assets out before the soldiers. The sheer idiotic incompetence is breathtaking. Even the sycophants in the fake news media can't cover for him as they did with his corruption, collapsing on the stairs, senility, election-rigging etc.
[QUOTE=Kadeem;2594644]Republicans want to produce oil and gas domestically but the democrats including Biden wants to get our oil from Russia and OPEC which are against the USA. You support this.
Most of the solar panels are made in China. Most of the lithium for batteries for electric cars and electric storage is controlled by China. The democrats are obviously making China economy boom.
We are handing our economy and money to our adversaries. Smart move Biden.[/QUOTE]Excellent post. Biden has crippled US energy production by blocking the Keystone pipeline, while simultaneously giving Russia a massive boost by approving the pipeline from Russia to Europe, which will enable Russia to turn out Germany's lights. Kremlin Joe. Maybe we should be checking through Hunter's laptop for kickbacks from Russia on top of the ones we've already found from Ukraine and China.
Another point about lithium: guess where one of the world's biggest deposits of lithium is? Afghanistan! So Biden has now also surrendered that to China, who are making a mining deal with the Taliban right now. So all those electric car batteries the communist green enviro-wackos demand we use will come from China, giving the CCP yet another advantage over us. Great job, Sleepy Joe!
[QUOTE=Smoothy;2595058]The only military "operations" Biden cares about are the US tax payer funded sex change operations for trannies in the US military [/QUOTE]Ha! Brilliant.
You are of course talking about native Indians right? Or do you mean nut job white folks who are almost all themselves born to immigrant ancestors?
After several months of lies pushing a false narrative, the FBI has now admitted that there was no coordinated, organized plot to overturn the election on January 6.
[URL]https://ricochet.com/1030850/capitol-breach-fbi-has-no-evidence-of-an-insurrection/[/URL]
[URL]https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/[/URL]
In fact, any coordination that existed was done by FBI agents / informants, who are the dozens of unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators in the charging documents (of protesters charged with the terrible crime of "trespassing" Any criminal case on this basis would be forced to reveal the identities of these people. They cannot do that, so they dropped the whole thing.
Another fake news narrative proved false, following on from Trump-Russia, Fentanyl Floyd, covid lockdown hysteria, and many more.
Meanwhile actual news, such as the Hunter Biden laptop detailing both his own crimes (drug abuse, falsely filling out a firearm application, disposing of a firearm in a garbage can) and wider corruption among the Biden crime family (bribes and no-work jobs for Hunter; "10% for The Big Guy") is suppressed.
[QUOTE=Smoothy;2595058]Nobody could be as dumb and ignorant as the Biden admin appeared to be during this Afghanistan fiasco. It's obvious that the Biden admin simply didn't care. The only military "operations" Biden cares about are the US tax payer funded sex change operations for trannies in the US military due to one of the many worthless Biden executive orders. Other than that, he'd prefer to be hiding in his basement eating ice cream.
[URL]https://www.worldtribune.com/team-bidens-va-will-pay-for-transgender-veterans-sex-change-operations/[/URL]
Biden's key advisors are on the same page as Biden.[/QUOTE]Please tell me that you didn't use the World Tribune as a source. I have always suspected that you've lost it, but the World Tribune makes "Pravda" look good. [URL]https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-tribune/[/URL].
[QUOTE=Paulie97;2594847]I forgot about the cars, oh my oh my. The Chrysler Corp stuff wins the day in the US in my opinion, though this is surely debatable. Go in Google, are many breathtaking photos. Oh shit, and your average Joe could own these beauties.[/QUOTE]Sure, even during a Repub presidency that produced and presided over 3 Recessions and one of the worst jobs creation records in 100 years, an average Joe had a shot at keeping up his car payments while eating 2 or 3 roast beef sandwiches a day as long as the Dems prior to that Repub presidency shouldered all the heavy lifting and assumed all the political risk establishing Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Social Security to carry him and his parents through a typically atrocious Repub economy and into the next historic Dem economic expansion and jobs creation presidency.
That's probably why the AFL-CIO, UAW and all the other big blue collar worker Unions endorsed JFK and not Eisenhower's VP.
[QUOTE=ChrisP;2595143]After several months of lies pushing a false narrative, the FBI has now admitted that there was no coordinated, organized plot to overturn the election on January 6.
[URL]https://ricochet.com/1030850/capitol-breach-fbi-has-no-evidence-of-an-insurrection/[/URL]
[URL]https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/[/URL]
In fact, any coordination that existed was done by FBI agents / informants, who are the dozens of unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators in the charging documents (of protesters charged with the terrible crime of "trespassing" Any criminal case on this basis would be forced to reveal the identities of these people. They cannot do that, so they dropped the whole thing.
Another fake news narrative proved false, following on from Trump-Russia, Fentanyl Floyd, covid lockdown hysteria, and many more.
Meanwhile actual news, such as the Hunter Biden laptop detailing both his own crimes (drug abuse, falsely filling out a firearm application, disposing of a firearm in a garbage can) and wider corruption among the Biden crime family (bribes and no-work jobs for Hunter; "10% for The Big Guy") is suppressed.[/QUOTE]So it was really all due to Trump's 4-5 years of America-hating rallies and the culmination of his incitement of Anti-American democracy violence, sedition and insurrection, and no other influence on that murderous, cop-attacking and killing Repub Trumpster mob.
That's totally plausible.
Why would you think that FBI conclusion would get Trump and the murderous, America-hating mob he incited off the hook for anything?
This is a surprise to no one:
[B]Former Pence aide says Trump and Stephen Miller fought against taking Afghan refugees with racist hysteria.
Olivia Troye slammed previous administrations failure to help allies who were lifelines in Afghanistan[/B]
Aug. 20,2021.
[URL]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-visas-afghan-refugees-troye-b1906190.html[/URL]
[QUOTE]A former White House Homeland Security official has accused the Trump administration of [b]deliberately obstructing visa processing for US allies in Afghanistan.[/b]
In a series of posts on Twitter, Olivia Troye, who served as an aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, eviscerated the previous administrations actions, which she said were steeped in racism.
There were cabinet mtgs about this during the Trump Admin where Stephen Miller would peddle his racist hysteria about Iraq and Afghanistan she wrote, adding that Mr Miller a senior aide and speechwriter for Donald Trump [b]would undermine anyone who was trying to resolve the Special Immigrants Visa issue.[/b]
Ms Troye went on to say that while Mr Pence was fully aware of the problem, it was impossible to make progress because [b]Mr Trump and Mr Miller had watchdogs in place at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, State and security agencies to make the process even more difficult.[/b]
According to Ms Troye, [b]the Pentagon weighed in, and there were memos sent from General James Mattis and others attempting to expedite the visas, but to no avail.[/b][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=PVMonger;2595016]Here's a non-biased "source" to back you up: [URL]https://www.adfontesmedia.com/intro-to-the-media-bias-chart/?fbclid=IwAR0xgUnmJOI4a109rGg9Q06d8_Aj5LiMw0I4WBWfmf4S2yly_6n8p-HHJAQ[/URL].
I suggest that everybody look at the chart then examine your own assumptions. Look at the "green box" at the top of the chart. Look at how these sources "lean". The vast majority of the "green box" portion of the chart are "centrist". They may lean a little bit one way or the other but [B]none of them[/B] are rabidly partisan.
Then look at the remainder of the chart. From where on that chart do [B]you get your news[/B]. If you get it from Fox (TV) or The Daily Kos, your news should be relegated to lining the bottom of your birdcage. If you get your news from a source or sources within the "green box", you news is likely valid.
Now, which of the sources did the former guy disparage? Which of those sources do his cult disparage? All of the cult members will now start childish name-calling.[/QUOTE]I'm not sure about that infographics. AP might be indeed a reliable source -- but only when it's not fighting for the Palestinian cause. And I don't know much about Al Jazeera, but don't they refer to Islamic terrorists as martyrs?
OK, let's forget about Israel and the Middle East, but they put Sputnik -- a Kremlin propaganda mouthpiece on the same line as CNN. Murdoch's Fox and NY Post, plus Washington Examiner are somehow above MSNBC (come on, really?). MSNBC, somehow, is found on the same level as another Putin's pet RT, conspiracy monger Zero Hedge and Washington Times.
Nah, something's not right.