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07-07-23 19:27 #12629Senior Member

Posts: 2560A plurality of Republican and Republican leaning voters favor reducing military aid to Ukraine. I imagine a majority of libertarians would eliminate military aid entirely. I'm not necessarily Russia friendly, I'm anti war. But I do favor friendlier relations with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, along with a host of other countries.
Originally Posted by Paulie97
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Yes, Trump was much more Russia friendly than Hillary, maybe in part because he figured the probability of getting a Trump Tower built in Moscow was a lot higher than becoming president. And he is a narcissist and puts his self interest ahead of the country's. However calling him traitorous as far as Russia goes is a stretch. He did his dead level best to prevent the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from starting up, and also encouraged NATO countries to increase their defense budgets.
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07-07-23 18:54 #12628Senior Member

Posts: 2560I fully agree with the following.
Originally Posted by EihTooms
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The Reagan Administration's decision to remove peacekeepers from Lebanon.
The Biden and Trump Administrations' decision to remove our troops from Afghanistan.
The Nixon and Ford Administrations' decision to remove our troops from Vietnam.
The Eisenhower Administration's decision to make peace in Korea.
Maybe Xpartan was right when he criticized me for saying Democratic Politicians are somewhat less anti-war than Republicans. Maybe they really are war mongers. Or at least it looks like it's Republicans that are predominately getting us out of wars.
Yes, Eisenhower did provide money and arms to the South Vietnamese government. However, he didn't commit men, beyond a small number of advisors, perhaps fewer than we have in Ukraine now. In 1954, he told his people he "simply could not imagine the United States putting ground forces anywhere in Southeast Asia. There was just no sense in even talking about United States forces replacing the French in Indochina. If we did so, the Vietnamese could be expected to transfer their hatred of the French to us. I cannot tell you, said the President with vehemence, how bitterly opposed I am to such a course of action. This war in Indochina would absorb our troops by divisions!"
Eisenhower knew war. Kennedy did too, and although he greatly escalated military aid and the number of American advisors, his administration never sent combat troops to Vietnam. LBJ and Congress were the ones to blame.
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07-07-23 18:44 #12627Senior Member

Posts: 2560Don't be silly Tooms. Kevin McCarthy had very little to do with the 209,000 jobs (not 497,000) added in June. You can give some of the credit to Paul Ryan and other Republican Congressmen and Senators who lowered the corporate tax rate from the highest in the world to the middle of the pack. Now it makes more sense to do business and add jobs in the USA. And some of the credit to the 5 Trillion+ in unfunded pork and stimulus passed by Democrats in 2021 and 2022. As a result, special interests which benefitted from this largess are creating new jobs. Time will tell how many of those jobs will disappear when companies go out of business, like Solyndra. Or what will happen when we have to pay the piper for the massive debt we're incurring.
Originally Posted by EihTooms
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But most of the credit goes to factors beyond the control of politicians, including the rebound from the pandemic.
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07-07-23 08:55 #12626Senior Member

Posts: 7971LOL. More word games
Any Joe Biden links to billions in bribes from anyone anywhere has been thoroughly debunked even by Trump Admin DOJ zealots and are not supported by any evidence.
Originally Posted by Tiny12
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What Xpartan cited was proven or testified to by the people involved.
It was only "election interference" in the sense that Russia really, really wanted to and did help Trump win the election. It wasn't like they were randomly stuffing voting machines with banana peels in an effort to screw things up for any and all candidates and issues on the ballot.
They were only engaged in helping Trump win and working with and for anyone in Team Trump including Trump himself to accomplish that. "Interference" might sound to the ill informed that Russia was out to hurt Trump as likely as hurt Hillary. But that BS won't float with anyone who is not glued to Fux News day and night.
LOL. I see "Interference" re the 2016 election is the new substitute safe word for "collusion" among the most slavishly devoted and protective Trumpsters.
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07-07-23 06:21 #12625Senior Member

Posts: 4832Best description I have heard of typical ISGer right there.
Originally Posted by Paulie97
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07-07-23 05:25 #12624Senior Member

Posts: 1956Lol
You completely skip over the fact that isolationist and traitorous and Trump was by far the more Russia friendly candidate. Just as you are quite a Russia friendly poster, and continually betray your true agenda while calling yourself center right and Libertarian.
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07-07-23 05:18 #12623Senior Member

Posts: 2560Yes, please. Continue. This is entertaining. It sounds a lot like the logic that the alt Right uses to link Joe Biden to billions in bribes from China and the Ukraine. Again, yes, I believe that Russia did try to interfere in the election. And believe that Trump perhaps colluded when he asked Russia on national television to try to find Hillary's emails.
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07-07-23 02:38 #12622Senior Member

Posts: 7971Eisenhower's total commitment to replacing the defeated and retreated French and fight in their stead by word, deed and treaty was voluntary. But once commited and then having the USA troops present, thanks to Eisenhower's by then 10 years long commitment to his Domino Theory, be attacked, LBJ's decision to make it legal for us to fire back was far more inevitable and unavoidable than voluntary.
Originally Posted by Tiny12
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Unless, like Reagan in Beirut, you wanted LBJ to turn tail and run in response to our being attacked and thereby teach opposing forces in the region and elsewhere in the world that they can count on America to respond that way to any attack or show of aggression in the future.
If Eisenhower had been a Dem he still would have had one of the most atrocious economic and worst jobs creating records of all time. He would have been an impossible to believe outlier among the ranks of Dem presidential economic stewardship in modern times.
If Trump had remained a supposed Dem he never would have entered politics as one. To run and win as a Dem he knew very well he would have to actually work hard, pay attention, Know Something and Do Something to produce positive results for America while avoiding those "once in 100 years catastrophes" that due to wild coincidence of course only develop under Repubs and MSM would never notice or praise him for it.
That would be anathema to someone like Trump and he knew it. That's why he, Reagan and other losing celebrity types who decide to try politics for a change switch from Dem to Repub before they do.
Besides, even if Trump had somehow missed that obvious difference over his decades of observing MSM's love affair with those alarming disaster headlines the Repub Party provides them over and over and over again, he never would have made it past the first Dem debate in his bid for the nomination.
Dems tend not to fall for failed businessmen / blatantly obvious con men whose only chance to win might be his extraordinarily tight collusion with Russia and whose rare stated goal was to place enough Federalist Society judges on the bench to outlaw Sex For Pleasure and make sure all acts of sexual intercourse are solely for the purpose of procreation.
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07-06-23 23:42 #12621Senior Member

Posts: 1956Tooms
Odds are high you had it right the first time when you said "baloney. " Your typical older expat living in the 3rd World is there to try and stretch a meager to modest retirement income. That's even though you'll meet more than your share of real estate tycoons, various mega-millionaires, billionaires, and especially Navy Seals in 3rd World monger watering holes. Wink. Just pull up a seat at the bar and start a conversation with the guy next to you. You'll hear about it in no time. LOL.
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07-06-23 22:40 #12620Senior Member

Posts: 2741Self-deluding
2016.
Originally Posted by Tiny12
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June 9: Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner meet at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. The Trump aides say her information was not useful and that the meeting primarily focused on adoption policy.
June 19: Papadopoulos offers in an email to a high-ranking campaign official to travel to Russia to meet with officials if Trump is unable to. He states he is willing "to make the trip off the record if it's in the interest of the Mr. Trump and the campaign to meet specific people. ".
Week of July 18: Three Trump national security advisers Page, J. The. Gordon and Walid Phares meet with Kislyak in Cleveland. Theytell him they hope to see improved relations with Russia.
July 20: Sen. Jeff Sessions, an early Trump endorser who led his national security advisory committee, meets with Ambassador Kislyak and a group of other ambassadors at a Republican National Convention event.
July 27: Trump calls on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails from the private server she used as secretary of state.
"I will tell you this, Russia: If you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said at a news conference. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. ".
Aug. 14: The New York Times publishes an expos on Ukrainian documents that appear to show that $12.7 million in cash was earmarked for Manafort by the Russia-aligned Party of Regions.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, a prominent Trump surrogate, meets in his Senate office with Kislyak.
Trump tells the Kremlin-backed Russia Today inan interview that "it's probably unlikely" Russia is interfering in the election.
Nov. 10: A senior Russian diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rybakov, tellsInterfax news agency that there "were contacts" between the Russian government and the Trump campaign during the election campaign. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later tells the Associated Press that the contacts were "quite natural, quite normal" and took place with both campaigns.
December: Flynn and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner meet with Kislyak at Trump Tower.
Dec. 28: Obama signs an executive order to sanction Russia for its interference in the presidential election. The sanctions are to take effect the following day.
Kislyak contacts Flynn.
Dec. 29: Obama orders the ejection of 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives from the country and imposes sanctions on two Russian intelligence services as retaliation for the election-interference campaign.
Flynn has a series of phone calls with Kislyak. He would later acknowledge that it was possible they discussed the newly imposed sanctions, but he "couldn't be certain. " According to The New York Times, the phone calls came after Kislyak was brought to the State Department and informed of the sanctions, and became "irate and threatened a forceful Russian response. ".
Court filings later reveal that Flynn asks Kislyak to refrain from escalating the situation in response to the sanctions. This conversation takes place after Flynn confers with a senior official on the Trump transition team about how to address the sanctions.
Flynn calls the transition official after his conversation with Kislyak to update him on the call.
Flynn goes on to lie to the FBI about this on Jan. 24.
https://www.politico.com/trump-russi...line-of-events
That's only a 6-month timeline. Shall we continue?
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07-06-23 19:22 #12619Senior Member

Posts: 2560Baloney. A Democrat will be the next president if Trump's the Republican nominee and there's no popular 3rd party candidate. Why? Because some Republicans and right-of-center independents like me either won't go to the polls or won't vote for Trump. And because Democrats and Democrat leaning independents are mad as hell at Trump and will show up to the polls in larger numbers.
Originally Posted by EihTooms
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Now if No Labels succeeds in nominating a popular, reasonable Democrat or left of center candidate like Kyrsten Sinema or Joe Manchin, then Trump will win. There are a lot of independents and moderate Democrats fed up with the direction that Biden and the progressives are taking America. They'll vote for the third party candidate. I'd say that's what you should worry about, but you benefitted greatly from the last period of Republican control of government. Maybe you will again, the next time that happens. With the corporate income tax cut and the Qualified Business Income deduction provided to owners of rental real estate like you and Trump, your mutual fund and real estate investments put together are worth perhaps 15% or 20% more than they would be otherwise.
You sound like admirers of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, only you're a Democrat. The Republicans "challenge, obstruct, suppress, deny, (do) not count or overturn" votes and steal elections. Right.
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07-06-23 19:14 #12618Senior Member

Posts: 2560Team Trump never colluded, other perhaps than Trump encouraging Russia to pursue Hillary's email messages on national television. Russia did unilaterally try to interfere in the election. Putin was out to get Hillary because he believed she interfered in the 2012 Russian election. I don't know whether she, the State Department, the CIA, NSA or DOD did or not. I do know that the sanctimony and moral outrage that some Democratic politicians like to direct at certain foreign leaders and Republicans can backfire.
Originally Posted by EihTooms
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07-06-23 19:08 #12617Senior Member

Posts: 2560Again,
Originally Posted by EihTooms
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Do you really believe that what happened during the Civil War, over 150 years ago, has anything to do with the propensity of modern day Democratic and Republican presidents to wage foreign wars? Given that I've said there's no cause and effect between the Party of the President and wars, and that Democrats are somewhat less anti-war than Republicans, I don't understand why you're focusing on this. Again, I just pointed out the correlation between deaths and Democratic presidents to highlight a spurious correlation (correlation where there's no cause and effect), like yours between Republican presidents and GDP and job growth.
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07-06-23 17:24 #12616Senior Member

Posts: 2560If Eisenhower were a Democrat, you'd love him, and you'd try to somehow pin the blame for Vietnam on Richard Nixon. Hell, if Trump had remained a card carrying member of the Democratic Party, you'd love him too.
Originally Posted by EihTooms
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Think about what you wrote Tooms. That's crazy. See deaths by year in Vietnam here.
https://www.archives.gov/research/mi...lty-statistics
During Eisenhower's term in office, during 1956 to 1960 (or from 1954 if you prefer), a total of 9 American servicemen died in Vietnam. From 2000 to 2006, five servicemen died there, and we weren't at war with Vietnam. According to Wikipedia, we had fewer than 1,000 advisors in Vietnam during Eisenhower's administration. That rose to 23,000 advisors under Kennedy. LBJ ramped that on up to 549,500 servicemen. Ultimately 58,220 Americans died in Vietnam.
What I really don't understand is that you apparently believe this war was just and good, because you praise LBJ's escalation of the war effort. (I disagree on that BTW.) Yet you criticize Eisenhower, for doing what we've done in many countries all over the world -- provide military advisors to friendly regimes.
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07-06-23 17:18 #12615Senior Member

Posts: 7971Wow. That Kevin McQarthy must be a brilliant Job Creator!
Private sector adds 497,000 jobs in June, more than double expectations, ADP says.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/adp-...ndroidappshare
We used to attribute these kind of results to the economic stewardship stated, campaigned on, won on, proposed, promoted, fought for, negotiated, legislated, signed and passed by the President. Like Joe Biden has done over the past 2 1/2 years.Private sector jobs surged by 497,000 in June, well ahead of the 267,000 gain in May and much better than the 220,000 estimate.
Leisure and hospitality led with 232,000 new hires, followed by construction with 97,000, and trade, transportation and utilities at 90,000.
The unexpected jump in payrolls comes despite more than a years worth of Federal Reserve interest rate increases.
But now some folks are passionately and repeatedly arguing that these results are really due to the brilliant and heroic efforts by the Repub Squeaker of the Pink Tinkle House NOT to once again within those same years apply brilliant Repub economic stewardship to Crash Worldwide Economies and Wipe Out millions upon millions upon millions of jobs by defaulting on the debts largely produced due to and in response to previous typically horrific Repub economic stewardship.
Well, anyway, that would be the only notable accomplishment by this particular Pink Tinkle House that could possibly be related to the ongoing jobs creation and avoidance of even a medium size recession, much less a Great Recession.
Now, back to pro Repub MSM reminding us heading into an election year how much better most people think Repubs are at handling the economy than Dems.
Lololol.

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