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AOChe and 88 agree on something ...

AOC calls SALT deduction a 'gift to billionaires,' opposes effort to hold up infrastructure bill
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist known as "AOC," is breaking with members of her party who want to undo a major part of Trump's 2017 tax cut, accusing them of favoring an unequivocal "giveaway to the rich."
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"I don't think we should be holding the infrastructure package hostage for a 100% repeal of SALT," Ocasio-Cortez told Huff Post's Igor Bobic, according to a pool report. "I think we can have a conversation about the policy, but it's a bit of an extreme position, to be frank."
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Pretty much can tell what happened. Ukraine was going to fight Russia with US backing, only to have Ukraine do a 180 today and say that they weren't looking for casualties, just peace.
Where in the world do you get that from? Ukraine wants NATO membership as a guarantee against further Russian aggression. They have neither the infrastructure nor the manpower to fight Russia, no matter how much aid we give them.

Ukraine has never been, nor pretended to be, a belligerent in this.

Russia is currently suffering some real consequences for their influence activities. It remains to be seen if that is a long term good thing vis a vis Russia’s future actions, but Putin is anything but strengthened right now. Quite the opposite


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SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:26 pm Is it just me, or did Ukraine totally flip flop, and Putin come out looking as a much stronger leader as he just had talks with Biden.

Pretty much can tell what happened. Ukraine was going to fight Russia with US backing, only to have Ukraine do a 180 today and say that they weren't looking for casualties, just peace.

Biden got put in his place by Putin today. Let's hope Putin doesn't use the recording of the "meeting" to further blackmail Biden into other beatdowns.

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I don't think that was ever the case. Ukraine was never going to fight Russia. They've been in the middle for decades. They've long wanted peace - and that includes the discontinuance of Russian hackers using cities like Kiev as a cyber terrorism proving ground. I've been railing for years at what Russia has been doing to Kiev. We either aren't paying attention or we aren't taking it seriously.

How an Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar
https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hac ... k-ukraine/


https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine ... e-attacks/
The war in eastern Ukraine has given Russian-affiliated hackers the opportunity to perfect their ability to launch cyberattacks with a series of major intrusions in Ukraine over the past few years.

“The annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas, it has created a volatile political environment," says Merle Maigre, the former head of NATO’s cyberdefense center in Tallinn who is now executive vice president at the Estonian cybersecurity firm CybExer.

Even as Russian tanks crossed the physical border into eastern Ukraine in the spring of 2014, Russian-affiliated hackers were sending malicious code onto Ukraine’s IT systems, providing political chaos as a smokescreen.

Three days before the presidential election in May 2014, hackers broke into Ukraine’s Central Election Commission and disabled parts of the network using advanced cyberespionage malware, according to a report by the International Foundation of Electoral Systems funded by the U.S. and U.K. and seen by POLITICO. The Central Election Commission was hit again later that year, when hackers took down its website ahead of a parliamentary vote in October.

Large-scale attacks followed the next year, and again in 2016. The targets, this time, were companies running Ukraine’s power grid. In 2015, hackers used so-called BlackEnergy malware, dropped on companies’ networks using spear phishing attacks that tricked employees into downloading from mock emails. So-called KillDisk malware later destroyed parts of the grid.

The resulting blackouts — the world’s first known successful cyberattack on an energy company at scale — affected about 230,000 Ukrainians for up to six hours. A year later, in December 2016, hackers relied on even more sophisticated tools to successfully turn off the lights in large parts of the Ukrainian capital yet again.


We're seeing these attacks here. There are documented attacks and our country has done nothing. Obama did nothing. Trump certainly didn't do anything (he actually accused the Chinese while the rest of his government used data and facts to accuse Russia). Biden's sanctions will have what impact?

We either take the threat seriously and engage or we welcome our new, totalitarians overloads. :twocents:
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CID1990 wrote: Fri Apr 16, 2021 5:52 am
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Pretty much can tell what happened. Ukraine was going to fight Russia with US backing, only to have Ukraine do a 180 today and say that they weren't looking for casualties, just peace.
Where in the world do you get that from? Ukraine wants NATO membership as a guarantee against further Russian aggression. They have neither the infrastructure nor the manpower to fight Russia, no matter how much aid we give them.

Ukraine has never been, nor pretended to be, a belligerent in this.

Russia is currently suffering some real consequences for their influence activities. It remains to be seen if that is a long term good thing vis a vis Russia’s future actions, but Putin is anything but strengthened right now. Quite the opposite


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Should have been more clear I was filling in for the media and blowing it way out of proportion to make Biden look worse.
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Liberal men are the unhappiest people in the country...

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Col Hogan wrote:Liberal men are the unhappiest people in the country...

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Cool new feature to GoogleEarth as it now allows you to see a timelapse of the last 37 years.

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Woke math is well entrenched in California, and could be coming to a school near you...
There are features of American wokeness that make me gasp that socialism in the U.S. is going to be worse than the USSR where I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. The ongoing effort to transform mathematics education into a crypto-Marxist indoctrination vehicle seems like the sign of things to come.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/w ... k4bpFhYdUA
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Col Hogan wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 12:28 pm Woke math is well entrenched in California, and could be coming to a school near you...
There are features of American wokeness that make me gasp that socialism in the U.S. is going to be worse than the USSR where I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. The ongoing effort to transform mathematics education into a crypto-Marxist indoctrination vehicle seems like the sign of things to come.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/w ... k4bpFhYdUA
I don't know if I should laugh or cry. Math is math.

Is this a two-edged sword? Can people use centered ‘ethnomathematics’ to deny climate change and global warming while reclaiming their mathematical ancestry?
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Col Hogan wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 12:28 pm Woke math is well entrenched in California, and could be coming to a school near you...
There are features of American wokeness that make me gasp that socialism in the U.S. is going to be worse than the USSR where I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. The ongoing effort to transform mathematics education into a crypto-Marxist indoctrination vehicle seems like the sign of things to come.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/w ... k4bpFhYdUA
I read the article, if you can call it that. I couldn't tell if it was serious or not. The author spends too much time trying to be clever with their Communism/Socialism analogies and jabs. I'm sure there was a "story" there but it's hidden underneath bad analogies which lack any substance. :twocents:
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Un-f***ing believable. From a blue check mark with about half a million followers.

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Pwns wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:07 am Un-f***ing believable. From a blue check mark with about half a million followers.

The cop should have shot the knife out of her hand. :coffee:

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Oh.

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“Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” Aristotle

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SDHornet wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:34 pm Oh.

Had a USPS inspector secretly stalking and photographing an employee from the native areas and behind trees on the course who was collecting some sort of disability due to a bad back. It prevented him from even sitting at a desk but he could still golf a couple times/week and collect his pay.
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“Here’s the sad reality: Almost nobody in Washington, Republican or Democrat, cares much about the debt, but lots of grandstanders care a lot about who racks up that debt,” said Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.).
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/550 ... llying-cry


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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ri ... e-n1265407
Santorum, 62, a Republican from Pennsylvania who served in the Senate from 1995 to 2007 and is now a CNN commentator, said there was "nothing here" before European settlers arrived.

"We came here and created a blank slate," Santorum said. "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans, but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture."
yikes. Nothing here? No culture? Let's set aside the countless rivers, towns, islands, etc... named after Native American tribes. Let alone sports teams. Let's forget about their cultivation of the Earth helped the English colonies become established. Let's forget about their cultivation of things like corn and tobacco made this country healthy and prosperous. What a idiotic remark.


Oh, let's not forget that the Iroquois Confederacy is reflected in our form of government! :lol:
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Ibanez wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:22 am https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ri ... e-n1265407
Santorum, 62, a Republican from Pennsylvania who served in the Senate from 1995 to 2007 and is now a CNN commentator, said there was "nothing here" before European settlers arrived.

"We came here and created a blank slate," Santorum said. "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans, but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture."
yikes. Nothing here? No culture? Let's set aside the countless rivers, towns, islands, etc... named after Native American tribes. Let alone sports teams. Let's forget about their cultivation of the Earth helped the English colonies become established. Let's forget about their cultivation of things like corn and tobacco made this country healthy and prosperous. What a idiotic remark.


Oh, let's not forget that the Iroquois Confederacy is reflected in our form of government! :lol:
Santorum is 62? :shock:
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kalm wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:16 am
Ibanez wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:22 am https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ri ... e-n1265407



yikes. Nothing here? No culture? Let's set aside the countless rivers, towns, islands, etc... named after Native American tribes. Let alone sports teams. Let's forget about their cultivation of the Earth helped the English colonies become established. Let's forget about their cultivation of things like corn and tobacco made this country healthy and prosperous. What a idiotic remark.


Oh, let's not forget that the Iroquois Confederacy is reflected in our form of government! :lol:
Santorum is 62? :shock:
I'm disappointed that we still have at least 10 years of Santorum possibly popping up on tv news shows and sharing his opinion on things. I didn't care for his opinions when he was politically active.
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James Carville says Democrats 'don't have the votes' to be 'more liberal' than Joe Manchin
He added: "But the Democrats can't f--- it up. They have to make the Republicans own that insurrection every day. They have to pound it. They have to get people to write op-eds. There will be all kinds of investigations and stories dripping out for God knows how long, and the Democrats should spend every day tying all of it to the Republican Party. They can't sit back and wait for it to happen."
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Col Hogan wrote: Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:48 pm
Who does she think she is? The mayor of Baltimore?
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Thought Biden's speech was great tonight: coherent, intelligent, optimistic, patriotic.

Sounded like an actual leader.
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I received a "notice" from Biden in the mail today regarding my stimulus payments and I was wondering where's the outrage over Joe wasting taxpayer resources to mail me a customized letter while also trying to take credit for the up to $2,000 in stimulus payments.

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UNI88 wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:42 pm James Carville says Democrats 'don't have the votes' to be 'more liberal' than Joe Manchin
He added: "But the Democrats can't f--- it up. They have to make the Republicans own that insurrection every day. They have to pound it. They have to get people to write op-eds. There will be all kinds of investigations and stories dripping out for God knows how long, and the Democrats should spend every day tying all of it to the Republican Party. They can't sit back and wait for it to happen."
Most Americans don’t know or care who Joe Manchin is. They want stability and expect higher wages, standard of living, and security.

Corporatism won’t allow them to be more “liberal.”
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