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by GannonFan
Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:15 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: The Ukraine Crisis
Replies: 4962
Views: 185931

Re: The Ukraine Crisis

1/3 of the occupied territories speak Russian. Didn’t Russia support the separatists? Would you let Mexico reclaim California? They were not separatists. They did not ask to leave Ukraine. They simply asked for autonomy from the ban on their native language. For that, they got murdered, raped and t...
by GannonFan
Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:56 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: So, hhmmmm, what's a new topic? Hunter Biden
Replies: 617
Views: 42077

Re: So, hhmmmm, what's a new topic? Hunter Biden

I see the humor in the irony of both sides twisting as best they can to get to their desired outcome - the right pushing for a conviction of Hunter based on a gun law they would otherwise be wholly against, and the left pushing for an exoneration of Hunter based on supporting an overturning of a gu...
by GannonFan
Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:51 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

He at least comes off as more real than a Schumer or McConnell. Pomp and circumstances are primarily bullshit. "Pomp and circumstances are primarily bullshit" but dignity and respect for the office aren't and how you dress can be perceived as showing a lack of dignity and respect just as ...
by GannonFan
Tue Sep 19, 2023 1:31 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1704123105180893497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1704123105180893497%7Ctwgr%5Ed653d2cda833a3013b6f835cb60a0961986cc3f7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Flauren-boebert-inspires-grabbing-the-hog-history...
by GannonFan
Tue Sep 19, 2023 1:25 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who are your heroes?
Replies: 8
Views: 181

Re: Who are your heroes?

Next thing you know someone's going to pick donald trump. He stole the Republican Party right out from under the Party overlords. Indeed, that's a fair assessment. And it's counter to how the powerbrokers on the other side of the aisle have maintained control of the Democratic party, despite a size...
by GannonFan
Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:42 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: 2024 Primary
Replies: 1676
Views: 78049

Re: 2024 Primary

Evangelical Leader Warns Trump Of The State That Could 'Upend' His Campaign Vander Plaats has been critical of Trump ― last month, for example, he called the former president out for “F bombs and mocking people with disabilities.” ... Mike Evans, part of a group of evangelicals who met with Trump a...
by GannonFan
Tue Sep 19, 2023 9:14 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who disagrees with this?
Replies: 29
Views: 814

Re: Who disagrees with this?

The United States of America has historically come together during times of crisis but has always had people with different beliefs and ideals. Diversity of ideas, backgrounds, perspectives has helped make this country the greatest on earth. Where we're failing now is in the and lack of tolerance a...
by GannonFan
Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:14 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: 2024 Primary
Replies: 1676
Views: 78049

Re: 2024 Primary

It’s a constitutional amendment not just written for but because of the civil war. You could make similar “who gets to decide case against many of them. A jury of citizens already determined the Oath Keepers were guilty of seditious conspiracy. The leap to aiding and abetting isn’t a long one. An A...
by GannonFan
Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:00 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who are your heroes?
Replies: 8
Views: 181

Re: Who are your heroes?

Washington, Lincoln, Grant, and Truman come to mind at first thought.
by GannonFan
Fri Sep 15, 2023 2:01 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

You missed the part where Russians and Russian-supported independent military factions (like the Wagner group as one of many examples) have been stationed and operating in Eastern Ukraine at least as early as 2014 (back when Putin questioned why Ukraine even had territory that he said is rightfully...
by GannonFan
Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:59 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: So, hhmmmm, what's a new topic? Hunter Biden
Replies: 617
Views: 42077

Re: So, hhmmmm, what's a new topic? Hunter Biden

the left pushing for an exoneration of Hunter based on supporting an overturning of a gun law that they would otherwise be fully for. is the left really pushing for an exoneration of Hunter, though? :? i don't think the left really gives a shit if he is charged and convicted of anything. I think th...
by GannonFan
Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:00 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

You still aren’t aware of what the commons is. :lol: That’s ok. It’s an old timey word. I used the definition you gave. Do you want to move the goal posts and give a different definition? You want to keep what qualifies as "the commons" narrow so you can attack "greedy" business...
by GannonFan
Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:57 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

How? How was Russia provoked? How was Russia's safety as a country put at risk that they had to invade and try to annex another country to protect their own safety? Okay. One more time. Back in 2014 when the pro US government of Ukraine came to power, they removed Russian as an official language. T...
by GannonFan
Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:58 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: So, hhmmmm, what's a new topic? Hunter Biden
Replies: 617
Views: 42077

Re: So, hhmmmm, what's a new topic? Hunter Biden

Something something something...common sense gun laws. Shannon Watts, everyone's favorite anti-gun harpy, remains strangely silent. :lol: You don’t see the humor in Hunter possibly beating the gun charge because of a ruling championed by 2A proponents? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I see the h...
by GannonFan
Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:52 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

I'm not ignoring it all, I've already said everyone's main goal is to maximize their profit - companies and businesses want to make as much as they can, workers want to also make as much as they can, and people buying things don't want to pay as little as possible. That's greed, for lack of a bette...
by GannonFan
Fri Sep 15, 2023 6:44 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Does the article also talk about Russian influence in UKR politics? Or the history going back millennia? My wife’s hometown was settled by Volga River Russians which were really Germans who Catherine the Great encouraged to settle the steppes. Point being it’s a complicated region. UKR is an indepe...
by GannonFan
Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:38 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

You're not getting it. People and businesses weren't necessarily being nefarious or underhanded when dealing with inflation. Maybe some were, sure, but the biggest issue is around the uncertainty. If you don't know what inflation will be like 3, 6, or 9 months from now, you're going to bake in some...
by GannonFan
Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:08 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

So the KC Fed determined that the Fed wasn't partly responsible for inflation? Super independent source there. And again, once the inflation horse is let out of the door, it's very hard to contain. Sure, you can try to make the argument that businesses tried to profit on inflationary pressures and ...
by GannonFan
Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:34 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Not enough to justify creating runaway inflation. By 2021 worker sickness wasn’t as big an issue as the labor shortages from not being able to hire enough workers. Busineess couldn’t compete with workers being paid enhanced unemployment not to work. Based on by the end of 2020 we knew what we were ...
by GannonFan
Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:13 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Senate Republicans Align With Democrats to Avoid Shutdown Looks like the House ultra conservatives may have overplayed their hand. Expecting lots of RINO name calling and calls for moderates to be primaried. This could lead to Republicans losing winnable House seats. The spring agreement was just d...
by GannonFan
Wed Sep 13, 2023 7:55 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: NoRe: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

the runaway government spending, first a smaller amount by Trump on the way out, and then a much larger amount by Biden several months later Trump signed $2.2 trillion CARES act in March 2020 Trump signed $484 billion Paycheck Protection Program in April 2020 Trump signed $2.3 trillion Consolidated...
by GannonFan
Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:19 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Which is great and all, but minimum wage efforts and union activity also contribute to inflation as well. If they didn't we could just snap our fingers, make minimum wage something vastly higher, and all of our problems would be solved. However, as we've seen with the housing market, the pharmaceut...
by GannonFan
Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:46 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Isn't real income still down something like 3% or so over the past couple of years? Of course that's strongly impacted by inflation, but it's a real thing, not just perception - people aren't able to afford as much now as they could just a few years ago. That tends to make people gloomy, no matter ...
by GannonFan
Mon Sep 11, 2023 11:53 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 8396
Views: 871003

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Interesting graph (yeah the image wouldn’t copy over well). The dark blue are expected economic outcomes with light blue being the actual. Better graph in the link. I would guess the housing costs among other inflation related household expenses like healthcare skew the perception. And with a long ...
by GannonFan
Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:47 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: 2023 SCOTUS Rulings
Replies: 227
Views: 12104

Re: 2023 SCOTUS Rulings

His praying wasn't part of the curriculum. Were players required to pray? His prayer was an expression of his personal beliefs and players could participate if they chose to just like a Pride flag is an expression of the hypothetical teacher's personal beliefs and students could offer their support...