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The Senator wants to be "personal friends" with the current president even though he trashed talked him in order to be "personal friends" with the previous, corrupt and crazy president. 

It's all about personal power and position for the Senator.  

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22 hours ago, GordonGekko said:

You are avoiding the question.  Was it when BLM stormed the Oklahoma capital in April of this year armed with assault rifles or was it when they attacked the White House in June 2020 causing the president to leave for safety in the terrorism bunker?  Which insurrection are you referring to?

Or are you going back further when a BLM founding member bombed the nations capital in 1983 or when the black supremacist terrorist organization the Black Panthers stormed the nations capital in 1967 armed with assault rifles?

You are really obsessed with "black terrorism."  Can you show me a post in this thread where anyone advocated violence from BLM?  I don't recall seeing a single black face among the White House rioters except for the police officers who were hounded and injured.  You're just making up a false argument.  I'm glad I didn't live in Portland because their antics were dangerous, disorganized and inarticulate.  

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2 minutes ago, subee said:

You are really obsessed with "black terrorism."  Can you show me a post in this thread where anyone advocated violence from BLM?  I don't recall seeing a single black face among the White House rioters except for the police officers who were hounded and injured.  You're just making up a false argument.  I'm glad I didn't live in Portland because their antics were dangerous, disorganized and inarticulate.  

Black supremacy has become a huge threat in America and cannot be understated.  $2 billion in damages in 2020 and 47 murdered.  There are some people in this post up in arms about the mostly peaceful protest on January 6th yet ignore the threat of BLM.

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Afghanistan

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Senior U.S. officials said the Pentagon fell victim to the conceit that it could build from scratch an enormous Afghan army and police force with 350,000 personnel that was modeled on the centralized command structures and complex bureaucracy of the Defense Department. Though it was obvious from the beginning that the Afghans were struggling to make the U.S.-designed system work, the Pentagon kept throwing money at the problem and assigning new generals to find a solution.

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In the Summer of 2011, Army Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV made a round of public appearances to boast that he had finally solved a problem that had kept U.S. troops bogged down in Afghanistan for a decade. Under his watch, he asserted, U.S. military advisers and trainers had transformed the ragtag Afghan army and police into a professional fighting force that could defend the country and keep the Taliban at bay.
“We’ve made tremendous strides, incredible progress,” Caldwell, the head of the U.S. and NATO’s training command in Afghanistan, told the Council on Foreign Relations in June 2011. “They’re probably the best trained, the best equipped and the best led of any forces we’ve developed yet inside of Afghanistan. They only continue to get better with time.”

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In fact, according to documents obtained for the forthcoming Washington Post book “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War,” U.S. military officials privately harbored fundamental doubts for the duration of the war that the Afghan security forces could ever become competent or shed their dependency on U.S. money and firepower. “Thinking we could build the military that fast and that well was insane,” an unnamed former U.S. official told government interviewers in 2016.

I worked as a contractor to the military for a few years.  One of the first things that I observed was the tendency for the enlisted troops to show and tell the brass exactly what they wanted to see and hear, whether or not that was actually true.  For instance, an appointments problems at the VA clinic didn't actually get resolved they just didn't get monitored or logged in the same way.  The backlog of calls to a service center didn't get resolved...the assigned military just deleted the messages and logged the calls in another area, and so on. 

I asked the enlisted fellow about the call backlog.  He said that deleting the calls "fixed the problem" and that if the people needed help they would call back.  It was good enough.  

I have concerns about our military. 

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3 minutes ago, GordonGekko said:

Black supremacy has become a huge threat in America and cannot be understated.  $2 billion in damages in 2020 and 47 murdered.  There are some people in this post up in arms about the mostly peaceful protest on January 6th yet ignore the threat of BLM.

And yet, according to the FBI, white supremacy is a larger problem and bigger threat to the country as a whole. You keep ignoring that fact and it really makes you appear as an apologist for the white supremacy ideology. Maybe that's your goal. 

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"I'd like to make it clear that [Defense Secretary Mark Esper] has not issued orders to reduce military personnel below this 4,000 to 5,000 level in Afghanistan, although we are conducting prudent planning to withdraw to zero service members by May 2021 if conditions warrant, per the U.S.-Taliban agreement," David Helvey, the official performing the duties of assistant secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on National Security at a hearing.

That's from September of 2020. According to The Hill, there was prudent planning to have zero troops in place by Spring. It's August. 

I guess "prudent planning" isn't really one of the strong assets of the military, from the looks of things.  Just like with healthcare we pay a bunch of money for chaos and bad outcomes. 

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3 hours ago, GordonGekko said:

Black supremacy has become a huge threat in America and cannot be understated.  $2 billion in damages in 2020 and 47 murdered.  There are some people in this post up in arms about the mostly peaceful protest on January 6th yet ignore the threat of BLM.

Dude, gaslighting might work with your people, it doesn't with us. No matter how many times you repeat your disinformation, you are not addressing idiots. We actually read the news! 

 

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14 minutes ago, Curious1997 said:

Dude, gaslighting might work with your people, it doesn't with us. No matter how many times you repeat your disinformation, you are not addressing idiots. We actually read the news! 

 

No gaslighting there.  Just facts which nobody can refute.  Do you support the armed Insurrection at the Oklahoma capital?  Why hasn't Biden disavowed black supremacy or Antifa?  Why hasn't he been to the border yet?

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3 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Afghanistan

I worked as a contractor to the military for a few years.  One of the first things that I observed was the tendency for the enlisted troops to show and tell the brass exactly what they wanted to see and hear, whether or not that was actually true.  For instance, an appointments problems at the VA clinic didn't actually get resolved they just didn't get monitored or logged in the same way.  The backlog of calls to a service center didn't get resolved...the assigned military just deleted the messages and logged the calls in another area, and so on. 

I asked the enlisted fellow about the call backlog.  He said that deleting the calls "fixed the problem" and that if the people needed help they would call back.  It was good enough.  

I have concerns about our military. 

I do as well! 

Any organization that allows itself to be fleeced as often as our military, is corrupt and easily manipulated. 

If in your own backyard, you don't have control of something so small as procurement, how can you possibly be any good thousands of miles from home! If you can't keep your own home in order, how can you keep anyone else's? 

I have always thought from studying the Korean War onwards that the American military is vastly overrated and incompetent! And it begins at the top! Too many jackasses who appears to be more politicians than actual fighting men. 

It's a reflection of our entire govt structure. We can't handle hurricanes (Katrina) tornadoes, all in our own country! 

Why? Because we are too enamored with these supposed tough guys, yet the Afghans, Vietnamese etc etc kicked our butts even though we vastly outgunned them! 

It's the fast food mentality! We don't care about ourselves so why should we even be interested in local, state or even federal government. We are too easily fooled! So easily fooled that for some people a Vegas version of the pyramids or the Eiffel tower, represents the cultures enough, that they have no need to see the real thing or experience the people of those cultures! 

We are so good at faking it that we even have industries in self help and psycho babble, to fake ourselves into believing that we are successful when we are not! facebook depends on our gullibility! Likes and affirmations! Like rats in a maze hooked on a cocaine drip! 

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15 hours ago, GordonGekko said:

Billionaire and former president yet he is a loser.  He is also the worst racist ever as he has largely dedicated his life to civil rights and spent the 80s financing black entrepreneurs when banks wouldn’t.  Rapist?  Why is he in jail?  Just admit your racism and sexism towards Caucasian men. It’s very evident here.   Your post is pretty delirious I don’t understand why you can’t set your jealousy of others aside and show some respect to a great man who improved your life.

I'll share your disdain for fanatical political extremism, but you don't seem at all opposed to it, just one extreme in particular.  

I'm usually at least familiar with far-right talking points, but clearly my sources aren't far enough right.

BLM killed 47 people?  Trump brokered Peace Plans involving NK and Israel / Palestine?  When was that?  Bidens pick for head of Land Management personally spiked trees?  Trump financed black entrepreneurs in the 80's? I can't even find do much as debunked claims of these claims, much less verifiable ones. 

I did have somebody point out recently that Im out of the loop because I didn't know Fauci and Clinton released Covid on the world to facilitate their child trafficking operation which they use to harvest adrenochrome.

I'm not sure it's even debatable anymore that Trump is not a billionaire, and that it's quite possible most people posting in this thread have a greater net worth than he does.  A number of years worth of his taxes are public, and they pretty clearly show a net worth of around zero.

I'm not sure that should be that surprising.  He has a well established reputation as a self-described business tycoon who has always been far more of a business buffoon than tycoon.  There's a 30 for 30 called "Who killed the USFL" that succinctly sums Trump the businessman.

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23 hours ago, MunoRN said:

I'll share your disdain for fanatical political extremism, but you don't seem at all opposed to it, just one extreme in particular.  

I'm usually at least familiar with far-right talking points, but clearly my sources aren't far enough right.

BLM killed 47 people?  Trump brokered Peace Plans involving NK and Israel / Palestine?  When was that?  Bidens pick for head of Land Management personally spiked trees?  Trump financed black entrepreneurs in the 80's? I can't even find do much as debunked claims of these claims, much less verifiable ones. 

I did have somebody point out recently that Im out of the loop because I didn't know Fauci and Clinton released Covid on the world to facilitate their child trafficking operation which they use to harvest adrenochrome.

I'm not sure it's even debatable anymore that Trump is not a billionaire, and that it's quite possible most people posting in this thread have a greater net worth than he does.  A number of years worth of his taxes are public, and they pretty clearly show a net worth of around zero.

I'm not sure that should be that surprising.  He has a well established reputation as a self-described business tycoon who has always been far more of a business buffoon than tycoon.  There's a 30 for 30 called "Who killed the USFL" that succinctly sums Trump the businessman.

Bureau Land Management spikes trees to maim loggers https://www.CPR.org/2021/07/21/tree-spiking-eco-terrorism-tracy-stone-manning-buearu-of-land-management/

https://theohiostar.com/2021/06/14/biden-bureau-of-land-management-nominee-tracy-stone-manning-was-involved-in-eco-terrorism-case-resulted-in-college-roommates-conviction-prison-sentence-court-records-show/

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23 hours ago, GordonGekko said:

Bureau Land Management spikes trees to maim loggers https://www.CPR.org/2021/07/21/tree-spiking-eco-terrorism-tracy-stone-manning-buearu-of-land-management/

https://theohiostar.com/2021/06/14/biden-bureau-of-land-management-nominee-tracy-stone-manning-was-involved-in-eco-terrorism-case-resulted-in-college-roommates-conviction-prison-sentence-court-records-show/

 

Your link says that she wrote a letter for roommate who was the tree spiker.  Concerning either way, but not as you claimed.

I watched the video in your other link which was not cuckoo at all.

There doesn't seem to anything to support the claim, but he also claimed that Trump financed Jesse Jackson's presidential runs, which we know he did not since those records are public.

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