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Jon Letendre

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  1. If Republicans should focus on eliminating welfare, etc., then also, would-be immigrants should focus on eliminating those policies in their home countries which are making them desperate to flee. Welfare usage is extremely high in immigrants. Will taking on millions more annually of those most likely to avail themselves of welfare handouts make it easier, harder or impossible to end those programs?
  2. Democrats were cheated, as well. 2020 was record-breaking for the number of primary candidates who got involved and yet they all walked away for no apparent reasons except to make way for Biden, who basically won the nomination by default. Like Trump, Bernie Sanders used to pack arenas -- Joe Biden can't pack a high school gymnasium, never has, never could. Sanders had real support, you could see it in the real world in a multitude of ways. Every progressive I spoke with wanted Sanders. He won New Hampshire, Nevada, California. Then, mysteriously, Sanders' support evaporated and Biden, who still couldn't fill high school gyms, saw his support suddenly surge. It was obviously fishy. Then Biden chose for 2nd-in-line Kamala Harris who Democrat voters had very recently quite soundly rejected. If I was a Democrat voter I would have much less enthusiasm for Trump hate and would be more concerned with my own party leadership cheating me and not giving me and my fellow Dems what we want.
  3. Trump won 2020 even stronger than he did in 2016, and he will win in 2024. Whether he will be sworn-in or cheated again is another question.
  4. The recent Pentagon intelligence leak is exposing the endless stream of lies that has been the mainstream narrative on the situation in Russia/Ukraine. "The most significant implication of the documents is simple: Ukraine’s combat power is significantly degraded, and in particular their mechanized units and artillery forces are in very rough shape. ... "We have known for quite some time that Ukraine is facing a critical shell shortage, but the leaked documents reveal just how acute this issue is. Ukraine’s usage rate is very low right now - the report claims only 1,104 shells had been expended in the previous 24 hours - compare this to the 20,000 or so shells that the Russian army is firing on a daily basis. Even more alarming for Ukraine is the note that they have only 9,788 shells on hand. ... "One can only conclude that the tail is wagging the dog. The Ukrainians are able to extract material, training, and cash from the west, but there is little accountability or honest information flow in return. There were hints of this earlier in the war - that Ukraine is a sort of black box which sucks in resources but does not communicate honestly in return; American officials have complained (and Ukrainian leaders have confirmed) that Kiev simply does not tell DC all that much. Apparently this remains an issue well over a year into the conflict. One particularly alarming footnote in the leaked documents states: "We have low confidence in Russian (RUS) And Ukrainian (UKR) attrition rates and inventories because of information gaps, OPSEC and IO efforts, and potential bias in UKR information sharing." Good grief. ... "It has long been apparent that the Kiev regime has no real plan, no firm path to victory, and only a tenuous and unfriendly relationship with reality. Far more terrifying is the thought that the Pentagon is much the same. ... "The entire strategic logic of Ukraine has reversed. Rather than becoming a cheap way to drain the Russian military, NATO finds itself drawing down its own stocks to prop up the hemorrhaging Ukrainian state, with no clear endgame in sight. The proxy has become a parasite. "There does not seem to be any long term plan to sustain Ukraine’s war. The Pentagon’s procurement plans do not indicate any real intent to ramp up production of key systems. For FY2024, they have ordered a modest 5,016 GMLRS - the missiles launched by the famous HIMARS system. Ukraine has already fired nearly 10,000 GMLRS, making this yet another system where Ukrainian expenditures vastly exceed supply. To salvage the situation, Kiev must place its hopes on one desperate dice roll with a mechanized attack package comprised of half-strength brigades wielding a disparate inventory of different vehicles and systems. This Frankenstein’s monster of armies - sewn together with a bevy of different tanks, IFVs, APCs, and artillery systems drawn from all corners of the NATO alliance, will likely be asked to smash through the heavily fortified and robustly manned Russian lines in the south, where it will be pulverized and become only so much more mulch for the Pontic Steppe." https://open.substack.com/pub/bigserge/p/russo-ukrainian-war-leak-biopsy?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
  5. First, asking questions about past elections is not the way to detect that the charges are phony, instead you look at the charges and read people like Dershowitz who are legal experts and have no pony in the race. That said, John McCain ran against Obama in 2008. McCain was viciously anti-Trump right up to his death. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan ran against Obama in 2012. Both Romney and Ryan are viciously anti-Trump to this day. George W Bush is viciously anti-Trump to this day, as is his brother Jeb and as was their father, HW, right up to his death. Dick Cheney was GW Bush's VP and he is viciously anti-Trump, as is his daughter Liz. Maybe all those Republicans were no threat to the Washington good old boys club. Maybe all those Republicans went against their own party's voters and were spared persecution by that club precisely because they are loyal members of that club and Trump is the first real opposition to it.
  6. Isn't it fun that we haven't seen a single one of Epstein and Maxwell's elite politician/billionaire child sex trafficking clients indicted, but instead Trump gets indicted, on charges that Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz describes as "Micky Mouse charges made against a man running for President" ... "this is American injustice at its worst." https://rumble.com/v2gdjco-liberal-media-cancels-dershowitz-for-exposing-fraud-theory-alvin-bragg-conc.html
  7. Dershowitz Warns Of America's Abandonment Of The Rule Of Law (rumble.com) Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz: "We are living in an age where the rule of law takes second place to the rule of politics and partisan result orientation. It's a very, very dangerous time." ... " Even members of my own family are attacking me - "how dare you do anything that enables this new Adolf Hitler?" That's the way they think of Donald Trump. Now, if you think of him that way then you don't care about the rule of law. "So many liberals, so many progressives, so many left-wingers have told me they know they're sacrificing the rule of law, but it's worth it to get Trump - "if we don't get Trump, it'll be worse." And the thesis of my book, I say it outright in my first chapter, it's much more dangerous and much more of a negative precedent in the future if we compromise our rule of law in order to prevent somebody who you think is dangerous - people disagree - that's up to the American public - let them vote!"
  8. The video shows Capitol Police walking the "shaman" into position in the House Chamber at the Capitol. They didn't guide him back outdoors and they didn't detain him for tresspass, but guided him into position in a restricted area. Watch the video and see for yourself how comfortable they were with each other.
  9. So, you've viewed the video and grokked the lies or will you keep leaning on psychologizing and ad hominem, per your usual?
  10. The McCarthy/Carlson Jan 6 live video release has been quite revealing. So many vicious lies were told about Jan 6 these past two years. As with covid, watching them panic as their thoroughly bs narrative falls apart is great entertainment. I found Schumer's pearl-clutching particularly amusing.
  11. Keeping one's head in the sand is deadly dangerous.
  12. Yes, it is. And what you are doing now is called gaslighting.
  13. Thanks, that is a compliment coming from you. Your need to psychologize is noted.
  14. The sooner the Russians complete the encirclement of Bakhmut, liquidate all the fighters within and move on to eliminating Zelensky's Biden-blackmailing human sacrificing clown regime -- the better for Ukrainians, Russians and Americans.
  15. In a joint press conference yesterday, Hungary and Austria announced they will not "provide Ukraine with defense assistance "to prevent a further escalation."" Apparently, these defense ministers didn't get the memo from our own expert here who knows that even sending offensive weapons will not cause escalation, a concern that is "antiquated" and "stupid." Austria, Hungary agree not to supply weapons to Ukraine (yahoo.com)
  16. Not hypocrisy. Intentional instigation of World War Three.
  17. Imagine living in Russia, watching your government instigate World War Three and your possible vaporization by arming Mexico with offensive weapons for use against America, and yet downplaying what's happening on grounds that, well, at least no Russians will operate those arms, and besides, America is the aggressor.
  18. In case anyone still doubts what the Biden regime wants in Ukraine ... Biden on March 11, 2022: "The idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment, and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews - just understand, don't kid yourself, no matter what you all say, that's called World War Three." Biden yesterday, January 25, 2023: "Today I am announcing that the United States will be sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine."
  19. Having looked into it, lived it with my daughters in school and discussed it with many parents, I do not share your doubt.
  20. Invoking religious people repeatedly and exclusively as though this issue spontaneously arose from that corner's general desire to control what people get to read, as though there is no other relevant background, nothing that came before and that explains and lead to this, is also a fallacy.
  21. Eiuol: " ... Russia's actions as deliberately harming Western interests ... " Grames: "Since when is Ukraine a western interest?" Alex: "It is for Ukraine to chose" First, Alex, I have no interest in discussing this or anything else with you, so I am unlikely to reply further. The above exchange is an good example of the games you usually play. You do not even try to read other discussants accurately or honestly — you instead typically twist their words into meanings obviously not intended in order to dismiss them and change the course of conversation. Whether Ukraine is an essential American or western (whatever that means) interest is a question of fact. A question of facts and circumstances, not a decision for Ukraine to make. You could engage Grames' statement honestly, on the level of meaning obviously intended, but that's not your way. This seems like a good time to repeat that the Biden Crime Family is in up to its neck in Ukrainian crimes and corruption and is in serious danger of igniting world war III in its desperation to keep its involvement hidden. Our future depends upon ending the Zelensky/Biden crime spree. Go, Putin.
  22. That is an unjust smearing, and par for the course with you. Grames wished ill to "the present American government and those who support its policies," and he stated he wanted to see "The American empire" defeated. That is not the same as standing against legitimate interests and not the same as desiring harm to America, just the opposite, in fact.
  23. We were discussing the photographic evidence of Biden's doubles, which is all over the internet and easy to examine, and Q has never to my knowledge mentioned that topic. Just making it up as you go.
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