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The false notion that we need the immigrants to work the fields and other jobs Americans don't want to do is wrong. Why should our American moochers and looters take a job and work when they are being fed by the producers? Both social security and Medicare/Medicaid are running out of money but we never hear that Welfare is.

Biden is just trying to make a January Trump cease fire impossible, so that he doesn't look as big an idiot as Jimmy Carter in 1980. That is it.

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Now here is the condensed as hell short answer to "How do these idiots keep getting elected."
Idiots keep electing them.

I could be wrong, but this is how me dino thinks this dangerous as hell stupid crap could very well play out.
Since the beginning of his stolen regime, Biden has done the complete opposite of everything Trump did or would do.
I also think if Putin nukes anyone, it will be only "let's play chicken with Biden" targets in the Ukraine.
Biden's (along with puppeteers) only response will be giving Trump the "this is your mess now" middle finger when Orange Man Bad takes office.
This my best guess. If I'm wrong, the worst that can happen is Earth will become a radioactive burnt out cinder or welcome to a lawless Road Warrior world inhabited by the few survivors.
Now let us all try to have a nice day.

Democrats are so Butt Hurt they are now on a direct path to destroy everything before Trump is sworn in. They have two months to go on a wild spending spree and piss off the entire world to the point of starting WW3 and they just don't care. The plan of allowing the outgoing admin 3.5 months after an election to do their final dirty work is just stupid and should be changed.

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"Trump broke a 132-year drought of a president winning two nonconsecutive terms to the Oval Office."
Some would say he is the first guy in about 80 years to win 3 consecutive elections for POTUS, and
the first ever to be cheated out of his win so blatantly.
The cheating in 2024 didn't quite succeed in stealing the office of POTUS, but it's unbelievable that
sKamala actually received enough honest actual votes to win more than a handful of states filled
with brainwashed morons.

And more specifically with the Covid pandemic (I was still practicing then), I totally think a lot of my patients did not die from Covid, they died from Covid treatments (remdesivir and ventilators). I worked for a large hospital chain. We were not allowed to try outpatient treatments like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. We were told to send patients that were borderline hypoxic home, offering no real treatment, and advise them to monitor their oxygen levels at home, if it worsened go to the ER. Many did worsen, were admitted, then the hospital would get federal money if they used remdesvir, more if ventilator. Once on ventilator, there was a strong chance of not surviving. The Covid nightmare was the last straw for me, I refused the vaccine, and was forced to retire. Not the way I wanted to end my career.

As a retired family doctor who practiced for over 40 years, I would agree with this. A lot of medical interventions seem to just lead to more problems. Particularly surgery. Reflecting back on 40 years, I now think I over prescribed a lot of medications that may have done more harm than good. My mantra now would be "First, do no pharm."

My childhood was spent on the St Johns River, about two miles from the ocean, near Jacksonville, Florida. I fished off our dock, with a cane pole and shrimp as bait. I could pull in blue crabs one after another all day. My dad harpooned a trout once, off our dock. At certain times of year, at high tide, with still water, the shrimp would migrate single file along the water's edge, and I could grab them by hand and get enough to eat, without even using a net. I would see dolphins, manta rays, and sea turtles often. It was a great childhood. But now I am in Colorado, and no longer fish.

I spent a lot of my youth on Whidbey Island - catching sculpin in the lagoons when I was little, then catching lots of salmon from the beaches and my grandpa's boat. He had a cabin on Lagoon Point. Great times for this kid, I'll tell you...

Looking out of my home, towards Cheyenne Mountain. I'm already toast.

Conspiracy 'theories', my foot!

I also just now checked Wikipedia for updates on Ukraine's application for EU membership. Here's what I found on the latest:

"On 2 February 2023, the European Commission published an analytical report on Ukraine's alignment with the EU acquis, "complet[ing] the Commission's Opinion on Ukraine's application for membership of the EU adopted on 17 June 2022".[89]

On 8 November 2023, the European Commission recommended opening accession negotiations with Ukraine.[33] On 14 December 2023, the European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine.[90] On 21 June 2024, the European Union agreed to start membership negotiations with Ukraine.[13][91] Accession negotiations began on 25 June 2024, at the same time as those with Moldova.[13][92]

On 13 November 2024, the Ukrainian Government announced the completion of the screening of the first cluster of negotiation chapters.[93]"

Putting what I posted previously to you together with this information, I would say the EU may think that with Ukraine in the EU, that would protect it and the Donbas from 'annexation' by Putin.

Just as I said, 'they' are not going to let go of the Donbas.

I don't think Ukraine is in NATO; isn't there something about a country cannot be at war with any other country when applying for membership? Anyway, seems NATO prefers having the whole 'defense of the Donbas' completely in the hands of the U.S.

I just re-read your post, freedom, and noticed your statement in parenthesis: "(not that I think that is the entire motive of Putin's invasion.')

You are correct.

This might interest you: I have a theory, formed when I read Loren Eisley's "The Immense Journey" as a Freshman in college. And that is that the long childhood of mankind and the long childhood of man are mutually recapitulative. And according to this theory, then, the emergence of an atheism, following the enlightening theories of Voltaire, etc. (who became an atheist after the earthquake at Lisbon), was due to the emergence in mankind of his adolescent phase of development. The "I know more than Mom and Dad" sort of thing all parents go through!!

(There was also of course, an atheistic humanism that erupted in the Renaissance, built on the discoveries of classical Roman and Greek thought, but that was more like the two-year old's defiant attitude. Humans beginning to have their own minds. And demonstrating it.)

Laplace, when asked by Napoleon what he thought of God, replied: I have no need of that concept, Sir!

I was about 10 or 12 when my little brothers sang it that way. As they were 7 to 9, it was an innocent mistake at the time. My dad cracked up and mom was scandalized. I didn't understand until a few years later.
Of course, now it is all I hear.

If, along with the control of information through the control of media, had been the only destructive element, Americans might have been able to combat it. But these unsavory characters took over control of education, K-12, too, and then attempted to hide or ban any dissenting information. Did you know that Bill Ayers went to university, where he graduated with a PhD in Elementary Education, and has since created a 'foundation' for the furtherance of 'education'?

Thomas Jefferson felt our republic could only continue to exist if the electorate was educated and informed. I'm sure he meant 'with the truth'.

As for Christians, Saul Alinsky's Rule to 'use their morals against them', was the final nail in the coffin for them. The conversion to Christianity of the 'wise and unwise'---the Greeks and the non-Greeks---was a necessary advance for humankind. However, it entailed a philosophy of love, and for the most part Christians find the alternative to altruism: 'tough love', hard to practice. I don't.

I'd give a thumbs up but the content is...well, off-color!! How old were you, anyway?

NIFO

Well, if Obamma is a tool, I'm pretty sure Putin is too.

SpiritWoman, that's a heavy thought. The advocates of complete freedom of speech and press ("media" today) asserted confidently that if we were completely free to combat error we had nothing to fear from error, malefactors, evil... And yet, from the great ideas of the 18th century Age of Enlightenment, and the founding ideas of the United States, we are...here, today--and America is the very best case. Great and promising ideas, really the essential truth in philosophy, have been displaced by postmodernism. And at least in the West, the ideas of the Enlightenment lost to Postmodernism in an essentially free exchange of ideas. In a nutshell, of course, Ayn Rand explained this as the unwillingness, the lack of courage, to challenge the all-powerful Christian moral tradition of altruism, reinforced by the German version of it... You could say, I guess, that the time periods we are talking about are very brief in mankind's history and progress surges and recedes as it progresses...

The one I will always remember is from the Eagles song take it easy. "Looking for a lover who won't blow my brother."

Now THAT's funny, Thanks

I spent a lot of time on the lical river with a pole and bobber, catching catfish when I was younger. Then I grew up and fished Puget Sound for salmon, rockfish, cabezon ( minimum length 36" or toss it back), grayling, ling cod pacific cod. I used to keep a coffee can full of smoked fillets on the counter for us to snack on. Fished for bass and trout in lakes north of Lake Huron, fished for perch in Lake Erie, sunfish and crappie in ponds. I still have all of my gear, but haven't had a chance to use it in a very long time. I have to confess that my first salmon (a 10lb silver) came into the boat wrapped up tidily in my line with the hook dangling next to his cheek.

Great M&Ms . . .