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[QUOTE=PVMonger;2721796]First, in 1970 (that's the date [B]you[/B] used (the world's population was 3.68 billion. The total population of the USSR and China was a little over 1 billion. That's about 28%. And while 28% is close to 33.3%, it isn't 33.3%.[/QUOTE]It's hilarious and deeply sad that you actually went and dug up population stats from 1970. Now I can see why you've posted every day on here for years.

P.S. Total population of USSR / China was 29%. But well done on your 4%! Point is, JustTK the black knight's assertion that communism was a tiny, beleaguered 10% was rubbish. Whether it was 42%, 38%, whatever, it was a serious and significant chunk of the world's population. (And that's not including the fellow travellers and fifth columnists in capitalist countries!) And it failed because, like everything produced by leftists, it was bullshit.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]You got me. I am soooo embarrassed. Ha Ha.

The reason I did not place quotes around the post is obvious. Left wing stooges like yourself would have dismissed the merit if the point I wanted to make without reading it and then stupidly attacked and vilified the author. It is a ploy you hatchet boys use all the time to avoid real debate on the issues.

The 2nd trick the left likes to use is to just flat out lie by manipulating the data. For example your link to Cato dated March 10,2021 does not give any support to your position that Biden's open border policy is better than Trump's wait in Mexico policy because in fact fewer illegal immigrants entered the country per year under Trump's leadership that under Biden's mismanagement. So your apparent counter argument is inane and deceitfully meaningless.

It belongs right up there with BKK Bob's lunacy that the economy is better under Biden than it was under Trump or that Jimmy Carter ended stagflation which are both straight out lies. This is why I normally have you and your psycho pals on ignore and I do not pay any attention to what you post. Be assured that after I file this reply I will put you back on my ignore list where you belong.[/QUOTE]Biden's economy is producing way more jobs than there are applicants to apply for them. Illegal immigrants are not stealing your future.

If it's crime you're worried about, tell House Repubs to stop voting to Defund The Police. And, no, the profile of the greatest criminal threat to life and limb in the USA is not an illegal immigrant with an AR-15.

If discrimination based on sexual preference or gender identity is outlawed across the country are you concerned about waking up one morning as a pregnant ladyboy?

How did Biden's "far-left" policy of doing what was necessary to pull the USA out of the Trump's Pandemic Repub Economic Disaster make this happen?

[B]U.S. inflation rate is in the middle of the pack globally[/B]

[URL]https://www.axios.com/2022/06/13/inflation-rates-around-world-us-china-eu-japan[/URL]

[QUOTE]Inflation in the U.S. is at a 40-year high, but America isnt alone. Soaring prices are a truly global phenomenon.
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Turkeys official inflation rate of 74% is the highest in the G20, and it's likely higher still in reality.

The next highest is Argentina (+58%), which has been printing money to help cover its deficit.

Several of the biggest economies in Latin America and Africa are also recording double-digit inflation.[/QUOTE]And this:

[B]Here's How U.S. Gas Prices Compare to Other Countries'[/B]

[URL]https://www.newsweek.com/how-us-gas-prices-compare-other-countries-1714242[/URL]

[QUOTE]In fact, the country hovers in the middle of a list comparing gas prices around the world, according to Global Petrol Prices, a website that tracks the retail price of gas across 150 countries.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Gino02;2721587]What happened PVMonger? Should I assume no response means you agree that libtards are even worse (in foreseeing results of any strategy) than a broken watch?[/QUOTE]Alright, since PVMonger is posting other reports since this post, but not rebutting my response to his statement about comparing Trump predicting Germany's current fuel crisis in 2018 with "even a broken watch is correct twice a day", we conclude that PVMonger agrees that "Libtards are even worse (in foreseeing results of any strategy) than a broken watch". Let's move on.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]You got me. [/QUOTE]Of course I did. It's a constant event as you copy and post the material of others with no quotation marks or source attributions. You're a sitting duck.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]The reason I did not place quotes around the post is obvious. Left wing stooges like yourself would have dismissed the merit if the point I wanted to make without reading it and then stupidly attacked and vilified the author. [/QUOTE]It's funny and ironic, since you are so ashamed of the author that you want to steal his material.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]It is a ploy you hatchet boys use all the time to avoid real debate on the issues. [/QUOTE]Source evaluation is part of "real debate. " There's the source then often the sources within the source like imbedded links. Someone's rambling demagogic blog post or a Tucker Carlson rant is virtually worthless, as is Russian state propaganda. Are you implying that there are no right wingnuts hanging out here that attack sources? Sure they do, but like you are typically too embarrassed to reveal their own because they usually are something along the lines of Tucker Carlson, Breitbart, Russia State News, or the World Tribune. I had to put your whole post in Google to find where you stole it from. Do you really think no one notices this behavior?

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]The 2nd trick the left likes to use is to just flat out lie by manipulating the data. For example your link to Cato dated March 10,2021 does not give any support to your position that Biden's open border policy is better than Trump's wait in Mexico policy because in fact fewer illegal immigrants entered the country per year under Trump's leadership that under Biden's mismanagement. So your apparent counter argument is inane and deceitfully meaningless. [/QUOTE]Nonsense as you obviously didn't read the article. Your explanation is invalid, and was anticipated and answered by the author.

"Yet despite this supposed focus, the government records show that Border Patrol was observing more immigrants sneaking into the country than when President Trump took office. In fiscal year 2016, Border Patrol agents witnessed about 100,000 successful entries. By 2018, the number had risen to nearly 128,000. In 2019, it hit 150,000. Through four months of 2020, it was on pace to hit almost 156,000. It appears to have worsened since then. In early 2020, officials told the Washington Post that got‐8203;aways had "soared," reaching over 1,000 on one day. Nor can the Trump team claim that the increased crossings were only the result of more people crossing overall. In January 2020,29 percent of 41,000 detected crossers evaded capture. In December 2016,17 percent of 52,400 made it in. ".

[URL]https://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-border-policies-let-more-immigrants-sneak[/URL]

Also see the graph within the article. It's quite the steep climb of successful sneak-ins from 2015, then spiking from 2017 through 2020 while the volume of detections remained relatively constant. The percentage of successful sneak-ins relative to detections also increased. Prior successes were largely the product of enhanced detection technology put in place during the Obama administration. See the imbedded link within the article. The Trump administration though dropped the ball, did not follow through with this technology. Then again we saw what they think of law enforcement on January 6th, 2021.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]Be assured that after I file this reply I will put you back on my ignore list where you belong. [/QUOTE]"Back" on ignore? Sounds like our pal Elvis. I mean who else is constantly taking members on and off ignore? LOL The blustery, unsubstantive and source free writing style here is rather similar. Perhaps you all are distant relatives.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]We all know the left thinks open borders are good [/QUOTE]I'm personally a centrist, but have yet to hear a single politician make a case for "open borders. " We've repeatedly asked for proof of this by way of sourced quotes but none have been forthcoming. Would you care to be the first to provide this? Asylum seekers and others are turned away at the border all the time. Last I checked I had to make it through customs when I returned from Colombia.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]so why aren't you proud of Biden's border accomplishment? [/QUOTE]Biden was a step in the right direction as we got a criminal tyrant out of office. Plus Mexicans aren't your problem if you have an IQ over 60 and are willing to apply yourself. More on that in a moment.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]He has allowed 4 or 5 million illegal aliens into the country[/QUOTE]Prove it. The numbers aren't even remotely that high, 4 to 5 million given passage in the last 18 months. There were 2 million apprehensions during the first 13 months but most of those were immediately sent back. The rest awaited adjudication. Migrant "encounters" have since increased, back up to Y2 K levels but the pandemic is of course a significant factor. Encounter levels were rising significantly under Trump as well once the pandemic got going.

[URL]https://www.factcheck.org/2022/02/cotton-distorts-border-apprehension-impact/[/URL]

Also some of us are for a looser immigration policy as we need our yards mowed, fruit picked, roofing services, and we want our hamburgers served within a reasonable length of time. And the vast majority of migrants are hard working and law abiding. We are experiencing a labor shortage. Historically what always follows that? Migration, has been going on for millenniums. As to you, you are a xenophobe that is being played by demagogues like Trump. In sociological terms it's all about "the other," people who look and think differently than you. The sky is always falling in your world but the problem is you, your dishonesty and spurious arguments, not Mexican immigrants.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921]Can a man become pregnant? / Is a ladyboy a girl?[/QUOTE]LOL That's the far left, have spoken against it myself, especially the transsexuals in womens' sports. Then there's the far right hillbillies that worship Trump. Most of us are in between the extremes. Some of us are honest enough to quote our sources and not steal material, which was where we started wasn't it? Wink.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2721921] Can a man become pregnant? / Is a ladyboy a girl?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2721942]I can help you with these. No and no.[/QUOTE]That is a logical answer to my question and it indicates that you are not WOKE. This along with the fact that you post actual trip reports further demonstrates that you are not a left wing fanatic like some others on this thread.

But why do you think the Wokes will not or can not answer this question? And why do they insist on indoctrinating young school children with this drivel? And why are they intent on destroying women's sports by allowing men (tranys) to compete in women's events?

And please note the Left's tactic of trying to cancel anyone who opposes their insanity combined with another favorite woke tactic of accusing those who oppose this sexual identity idiocy as homophobes and / or sexist like BKK Bob just tried to do to me in his last post.

No BKK Bob, I am not concerned "about waking up one morning as a pregnant ladyboy?" I just don't like what is going on in our grade schools. No sane person does. Leave our kids alone, fascists! But I note that you did not answer the question. If you are in agreement with the idea that chromosomes do not determine one's sex and therefore that individuals can be any sex they want to be; how many ladyboys have you slept with? This is not a gotcha question. I have no problem with anybody who enjoys shagging ladyboys. As you probably know, I have been to LOS around 50 times in the last 25 years and so I am quite used to ladyboys asking me to enter their Go Go's as I wander around Nana or ladyboys SW's offering themselves to me on Soi 4 or on Sukhumvit. They do not bother me and I don't care how many ladyboys you have slept with. I am just trying to point out the lunacy of the woke Democratic party. So one more time since you did not answer my simple question: "can a man become pregnant? / Is a ladyboy a girl? The answer is obvious so why won't the Left answer it?

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2721962]It's hilarious and deeply sad that you actually went and dug up population stats from 1970. Now I can see why you've posted every day on here for years.

P.S. Total population of USSR / China was 29%. But well done on your 4%! Point is, JustTK the black knight's assertion that communism was a tiny, beleaguered 10% was rubbish. Whether it was 42%, 38%, whatever, it was a serious and significant chunk of the world's population. (And that's not including the fellow travellers and fifth columnists in capitalist countries!) And it failed because, like everything produced by leftists, it was bullshit.[/QUOTE]Here you go again, changing the parameters when you lose.

You were the one who said Communists were close to half of the population. They weren't. So what do you do, you deflect. Whether JustTK was incorrect is immaterial. [B]You[/B] were the one who said communism was half of the world's population. Not him, [B]you[/B]. And now, like a good rightwingnut, you intimate that it doesn't make any difference that [B]you[/B] were wrong because he was wrong also.

Maybe one of these days you will learn to research stuff before posting. But I doubt it. In the old days, this was called "Before opening your mouth, put your brain into gear". You ought to try it because you will appear less ignorant.

[QUOTE=Gino02;2721984]Alright, since PVMonger is posting other reports since this post, but not rebutting my response to his statement about comparing Trump predicting Germany's current fuel crisis in 2018 with "even a broken watch is correct twice a day", we conclude that PVMonger agrees that "Libtards are even worse (in foreseeing results of any strategy) than a broken watch". Let's move on.[/QUOTE]The mod saw fit not to post my reply to you. I will try again. The proverb, "A broken watch is right twice a day" means [B]a normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident.[/B].

Please tell me that your boy the Mango Mussolini was correct on the following: 1. COVID will go away with the warm weather; 2. The Army took over the airports during the Revolutionary War; 3. Tariffs will be paid by China, not by Americans; 4. Muslims were dancing in the streets after the collapse of the World Trade Center; 5. Ted Cruz' father was involved in the assassination of JFK; 6. Trump's inauguration crowd was larger than Obama's; 7. Mexico will pay for the wall; 8. Injecting disinfectant will cure COVID. There are more than 30,000 more but my fingers are tired of typing.

See, that's what is meant by a normally unreliable person can get something right by accident. Even you.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2722064]

No BKK Bob, I am not concerned "about waking up one morning as a pregnant ladyboy?" I just don't like what is going on in our grade schools. No sane person does. Leave our kids alone, fascists! But I note that you did not answer the question. If you are in agreement with the idea that chromosomes do not determine one's sex and therefore that individuals can be any sex they want to be; how many ladyboys have you slept with? This is not a gotcha question. I have no problem with anybody who enjoys shagging ladyboys. As you probably know, I have been to LOS around 50 times in the last 25 years and so I am quite used to ladyboys asking me to enter their Go Go's as I wander around Nana or ladyboys SW's offering themselves to me on Soi 4 or on Sukhumvit. They do not bother me and I don't care how many ladyboys you have slept with. I am just trying to point out the lunacy of the woke Democratic party. So one more time since you did not answer my simple question: "can a man become pregnant? / Is a ladyboy a girl? The answer is obvious so why won't the Left answer it?[/QUOTE]My opinion of the issue is right there in my posts subject line and the body of the post; what on earth difference should it make to you what gender anyone chooses to identify with? There is no push or expectation that a man choosing to identify with whatever trappings, body / chemical altering he wants, male or female, "changes" him into a child-bearing human with a real vagina. Or the counterpart scenario taking a natural born female from female to male gender identification.

The concept is "gender identification", not "miraculous transformation. " Seriously, no amount of surgery or chemistry will turn an male into a female or a female into a male to the point of the latter being able to impregnate a woman or the former birth a child. It is only about how someone wants to present themselves, which seems to be an inordinately high concern for people who should keep their busy-body noses out of it.

As far as your plea to "Leave our kids alone", that is exactly what the movement to prevent YOU from pushing them away from whatever inclination they choose is about.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2722064]That is a logical answer to my question and it indicates that you are not WOKE. This along with the fact that you post actual trip reports further demonstrates that you are not a left wing fanatic like some others on this thread.

But why do you think the Wokes will not or can not answer this question? And why do they insist on indoctrinating young school children with this drivel? And why are they intent on destroying women's sports by allowing men (tranys) to compete in women's events?

And please note the Left's tactic of trying to cancel anyone who opposes their insanity combined with another favorite woke tactic of accusing those who oppose this sexual identity idiocy as homophobes and / or sexist like BKK Bob just tried to do to me in his last post.

No BKK Bob, I am not concerned "about waking up one morning as a pregnant ladyboy?" I just don't like what is going on in our grade schools. No sane person does. Leave our kids alone, fascists! But I note that you did not answer the question. If you are in agreement with the idea that chromosomes do not determine one's sex and therefore that individuals can be any sex they want to be; how many ladyboys have you slept with? This is not a gotcha question. I have no problem with anybody who enjoys shagging ladyboys. As you probably know, I have been to LOS around 50 times in the last 25 years and so I am quite used to ladyboys asking me to enter their Go Go's as I wander around Nana or ladyboys SW's offering themselves to me on Soi 4 or on Sukhumvit. They do not bother me and I don't care how many ladyboys you have slept with. I am just trying to point out the lunacy of the woke Democratic party. So one more time since you did not answer my simple question: "can a man become pregnant? / Is a ladyboy a girl? The answer is obvious so why won't the Left answer it?[/QUOTE]See, [blue][Deleted by Admin][/blue]. You take an illogical position then ask others to try to defend a statement based upon your illogical position.

You use the term "woke". I suspect that you don't understand is that the opposite of "woke" is "asleep". But most rightwingnuts are asleep, so there's that.

Can a man become pregnant? By asking that question, you profess your ignorance that someone who is a transgender man (formerly a woman) can't become pregnant. Is a ladyboy a girl? Does she think she is? Again, you are showing your ignorance.

But that's what you rightwingnuts are all about. Ignorance. That's what the one-term, twice-impeached, POtuS wanted. And he got them. Doubled. In spades.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2722075]The mod saw fit not to post my reply to you. I will try again. The proverb, "A broken watch is right twice a day" means [B]a normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident.[/B].

Please tell me that your boy the Mango Mussolini was correct on the following: 1. COVID will go away with the warm weather; 2. The Army took over the airports during the Revolutionary War; 3. Tariffs will be paid by China, not by Americans; 4. Muslims were dancing in the streets after the collapse of the World Trade Center; 5. Ted Cruz' father was involved in the assassination of JFK; 6. Trump's inauguration crowd was larger than Obama's; 7. Mexico will pay for the wall; 8. Injecting disinfectant will cure COVID. There are more than 30,000 more but my fingers are tired of typing.

See, that's what is meant by a normally unreliable person can get something right by accident. Even you.[/QUOTE]I (and I believe I can speak for we all the reasonable Republicans as well) truly feel sorry for brainwashed libtards like you who can't differentiate jokes from serious statements. This deficiency can be funny at times but seriously harmful for the society as people with such deficiency exercise their voting rights against their own good based on misunderstood statements, not based on the actual achievements, failures and strategies of the candidates.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2722064]That is a logical answer to my question and it indicates that you are not WOKE. This along with the fact that you post actual trip reports further demonstrates that you are not a left wing fanatic like some others on this thread.

But why do you think the Wokes will not or can not answer this question? And why do they insist on indoctrinating young school children with this drivel? And why are they intent on destroying women's sports by allowing men (tranys) to compete in women's events?

And please note the Left's tactic of trying to cancel anyone who opposes their insanity combined with another favorite woke tactic of accusing those who oppose this sexual identity idiocy as homophobes and / or sexist like BKK Bob just tried to do to me in his last post.

No BKK Bob, I am not concerned "about waking up one morning as a pregnant ladyboy?" I just don't like what is going on in our grade schools. No sane person does. Leave our kids alone, fascists! But I note that you did not answer the question. If you are in agreement with the idea that chromosomes do not determine one's sex and therefore that individuals can be any sex they want to be; how many ladyboys have you slept with? This is not a gotcha question. I have no problem with anybody who enjoys shagging ladyboys. As you probably know, I have been to LOS around 50 times in the last 25 years and so I am quite used to ladyboys asking me to enter their Go Go's as I wander around Nana or ladyboys SW's offering themselves to me on Soi 4 or on Sukhumvit. They do not bother me and I don't care how many ladyboys you have slept with. I am just trying to point out the lunacy of the woke Democratic party. So one more time since you did not answer my simple question: "can a man become pregnant? / Is a ladyboy a girl? The answer is obvious so why won't the Left answer it?[/QUOTE]Well you have all the lingo down, "the left" "woke" "cancel," etc. You've been indoctrinated well, good little sheep / cyber foot soldier. "The left" though feels like they are the ones getting "canceled. " Here's an interesting article.

"These are laughable concerns from those who tried to cancel millions of black people's votes in the last presidential election, and whose party is now cranking out literally hundreds of voter suppression laws to cancel Black people's voting rights. It's also a perfect illustration of the bait-and-switch tactic underlying all the phony Republican hysteria fueling so-called cancel culture. Conservatives' indignation is really just anger over the fact that marginalized folks—mostly thanks to social media—can now call them out for all the things they regularly say and do to further racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic agendas and white mob violence. What these put-upon conservatives are really pissed about isn't censorship or cancellation. It's consequences. ".

[URL]https://www.thenation.com/article/society/republicans-cancel-culture-kaepernick/[/URL]

And another, but it's for sure that the far right are pros at cancelling.

"What more grotesque display of cancel culture is there than invading the USA Capitol in a violent attempt to cancel the constitutional tabulation of ballots in the 2020 presidential election? Or the Republican officials who even now seek to erase the past 13 months of Joe Biden's presidency (not to mention 81,283,098 votes) by refusing to say that he was elected? Or demanding the cancellation of the television show "The View" because of the odious and uninformed opinions of Whoopi Goldberg? Or the calls for the removal of Colin Kaepernick from the NFL for legally protesting as part of the Black Lives Matter movement? Or, in 2003, the banning of "French fries" from the menus of congressional dining rooms because the government of France opposed the Iraq war? Or demanding that radio stations not play songs by the Dixie Chicks because of the group's opposition to the same invasion? Or last year's attempt by the Ohio secretary of state to cancel a Jane Fonda speech because of her 50-year-old views on Vietnam?

[URL]https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/594423-the-cancel-culture-of-the-right/[/URL]

If you want to "debate" as you claim you do you need to do more than parrot Tucker Carlson buzz words. You need to engage with the other side, and from their perspective, not a perversion of it.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2722067]Maybe one of these days you will learn to research stuff before posting. But I doubt it. In the old days, this was called "Before opening your mouth, put your brain into gear". You ought to try it because you will appear less ignorant.[/QUOTE]You're asking a lot here. Wink.

OK, Pxxx is back on my ignore list because I won't waste my time debating with an angry concrete wall. It gets you nowhere. To quote Bill O'Reilly, anyone who thinks illegal immigration is under control and lower under Biden than it was under Trump is either a "Loon" or a liar or both.

Every sane person know this and I won't debate a loon. Now Biden maybe doesn't know what is going on at the border, but we know Biden is mentally infirmed. You can bet your last peso that Nancy, Sandy, Bernie and fake Pocahontas along with all the elites and various leaders of the woke Marxist Democratic party know the truth. The open border is not an accident or caused by bad management. They want an open border to dilute the percentage of American citizens in the USA and to facilitate their planned totalitarian left wing takeover of the country ie to turn the country into California. It is just tragic for the left that Joe Biden is president and his incompetent presidency is destroying the movement by awakening the American people to the danger. This is what happens when you make a deal with the Devil.

[URL]https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/1/135-million-new-illegal-immigrants-settled-us-unde/[/URL]

Hey Pxxx, you want slog me over my not providing quotes to 2 memos I cut and pasted from [URL]https://www.billoreilly.com/?[/URL] OK fine. But then what the fuck about your boy Biden? You conveniently forgot about him didn't you? What is the matter with you? Here is video to remind you of what Biden was like before he lost his mind when he was just a liar and 3nd rate political hack.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmuAB5MqP0Y[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2721974]Biden's economy is producing way more jobs than there are applicants to apply for them If it's crime you're worried about, tell House Repubs to stop voting to Defund The Police.[/QUOTE]Who writes for this guy? He's a comedy genius. Whenever I see an Eihtooms post I need to make sure I'm sitting down before I start reading.