Trump: Set to declare 2024 presidential bid tonight; will indictments follow soon?

[Brad Thomson]

It seems to me that Mike Pence is sort of pretending that he doesn't really want to have to testify against Numb-Nuts, and he suggests that he may challenge the subpoena in court, and he says we will see what comes of it, and so forth... but in actually Pence is absolutely drooling inside, and he will be giggling all the way to the courtroom while licking his chops and rubbing his hands together in glee.

[Brad Thomson]

Trump would have stopped that tyrant dead in his tracks within 2 weeks of the invasion, ha!

Unlikely. Trump, who wants to be a tyrant himself, was impeached for illegally withholding support to Ukraine in a failed attempt to bribe Zelenskyy. This only helped and encouraged Putin. Also, Trump is on record as supporting Putin and considering him a friend. Now, of course Trump never hesitates to stab his friends in the back and toss them under the bus once they are no longer any use to him, so you may be right.

[Neil Frarey]

This "proxy" war is absolutely necessary.

Nope.

Trump would have stopped that tyrant dead in his tracks within 2 weeks of the invasion, ha!

By a show of shear force.

Whatever it takes.

Now what? Ukraine children dying as you read this post! Over a year of blood and death!

Watch this ...

https://youtu.be/FfJv9QYrlwg

... look at how smug Germany giggles.

They're not giggling now.

Are they?



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[Brad Thomson]

Locking down people with no symptoms and masking healthy people and children was the main crime resulting in the greatest unnecessary mass transfer of wealth from small businesses to elite corporations like Amazon...

The laws of evolution dictate that a virulent virus will never spread to pandemic proportions as it kills its hosts very quickly and hence cannot spread. That is why you do not see ebola pandemics.

First, agreed completely.

Second, the Bubonic Plague killed an estimated one-third of all people in Europe in an era when the fastest mode of transportation was to ride on horseback, or travel by foot (though what you say may well be true of Ebola).

[Brad Thomson]

One person's treason is another's 'revolution'...

True, but Trump is not a revolutionary nor is he a democrat, neither are his sycophants. He wants to be a dictator for life, and they want him to be their dictator for life. Mixed in with this is rabid Christian fanaticism. These factors are why the situation is so critical. I still suspect that reasonable and law-abiding Americans will manage to convict Trump of a felony and thereby disqualify him from running again, hopefully with minimal collateral damage. If they do not stop him he will continue to get bolder and bolder in his calls for violence. America is at a crossroads, implosion remains possible. Trump should be shot and pissed on.

[Sid Belzberg]

This is open to debate. If the earlier strains of COVID had been quite weak, such as they are now, then of course, no mandates would have been required. If COVID had been as virulent as Ebola, or the Bubonic Plague, then the mandates put into effect would not have been nearly severe enough. An over-reaction (and it may well have been one) is safer than an under-reaction. Again, this is open to debate. In democracies, we elect people to make these sorts of decisions for us, and we toss them out if we do not like the decisions that they make. Trump got tossed out on his ass. He is entitled to try again unless he is put out of business by being convicted of a felony, or by some other means. I suspect that he will be convicted of a felony for stealing and concealing and lying about the classified documents (where his own lawyers that he lied to, thereby removing attorney-client privilege, will have to testify against him to protect themselves), and for the manipulations in Georgia (where his own recorded voice proves his guilt).

If the earlier strains of COVID had been quite weak

The fact is the original strain SARSCOV2 was quite weak for almost the entire population except for the elderly or those that were immunocompromised. Locking down people with no symptoms and masking healthy people and children was the main crime resulting in the greatest unnecessary mass transfer of wealth in history from small businesses to elite corporations like Amazon and The Chinese Communist Party, which was among the biggest beneficiaries of the lockdowns.
This paper was published in November 2020 by CAO et al. tracked over 1174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases (tested positive but no symptoms) and found ZERO cases contracted from the asymptomatic.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
"There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases."

Hence lockdowns of the healthy and masking of the healthy were insanely stupid concepts regardless of the virulence of the virus. The laws of evolution dictate that a virulent virus will never spread to pandemic proportions as it kills its hosts very quickly and hence cannot spread. That is why you do not see ebola pandemics.

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This is an important thread of how China conned the Western World into lockdown policies resulting in. the devastation of Western Economies while
China's. GDP in 2020 flourished.

https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/s...31084047253513

[Dilip Panjwani]

Treason cannot be tolerated.

One person's treason is another's 'revolution'...

[Dilip Panjwani]

This is open to debate. If the earlier strains of COVID had been quite weak, such as they are now, then of course no mandates would have been required. If COVID had been as virulent as Ebola, or the Bubonic Plague, then the mandates put into effect would not have been nearly severe enough.

Very reasonable assessment of the issues, Brad!

[Dilip Panjwani]

This "proxy" war is absolutely necessary. Psychopaths like Putin do not stop until they are stopped. History presents us with many examples of this sort of person. The most recent one was Hitler, before him Napoleon. These monsters must be eliminated, there is no appeasing them. Anyone who is against the helping of Ukraine is without a knowledge of how human history operates. If Putin were to win and take Ukraine, he would set his sights on another country next, probably Moldova. And on and on he would go until he was stopped. Putin is Hitler/Napoleon on nuclear steroids. There has never been a more dangerous human.

Xi's peace plan:
The war stops and Ukraine, Moldova retain their independence, if they agree to be a neutral geographical barrier between NATO and Russia.

[Dilip Panjwani]

Trump should have been assassinated long ago. America could end up paying seriously for not taking Trump off..
....convicted of a felony, or by some other means....

OMG! The demon in Trump seems to have taken residence in you...becoming even more ferocious... :-)

[Brad Thomson]

forces crippling covid mandates upon millions of people?

This is open to debate. If the earlier strains of COVID had been quite weak, such as they are now, then of course no mandates would have been required. If COVID had been as virulent as Ebola, or the Bubonic Plague, then the mandates put into effect would not have been nearly severe enough. An over-reaction (and it may well have been one) is safer than an under-reaction. Again, this is open to debate. In democracies, we elect people to make these sorts of decisions for us, and we toss them out if we do not like the decisions that they make. Trump got tossed out on his ass. He is entitled to try again unless he is put out of business by being convicted of a felony, or by some other means. I suspect that he will be convicted of a felony for stealing and concealing and lying about the classified documents (where his own lawyers that he lied to, thereby removing attorney-client privilege, will have to testify against him to protect themselves), and for the manipulations in Georgia (where his own recorded voice proves his guilt).

[Brad Thomson]

The guy that does go to a proxy war

This "proxy" war is absolutely necessary. Psychopaths like Putin do not stop until they are stopped. History presents us with many examples of this sort of person. The most recent one was Hitler, before him Napoleon. These monsters must be eliminated, there is no appeasing them. Anyone who is against the helping of Ukraine is without a knowledge of how human history operates. If Putin were to win and take Ukraine, he would set his sights on another country next, probably Moldova. And on and on he would go until he was stopped. Putin is Hitler/Napoleon on nuclear steroids. There has never been a more dangerous human.

[Brad Thomson]

Why?

Treason cannot be tolerated.

[Neil Frarey]

America needs to put Trump out of business one way or another.

So Trump doesn't go to war ... Trump saves countless lives with his swift presidential action with Operation Warp Speed ... and you want to get rid of that guy?

In favor of what?

The guy that does go to a proxy war ... forces crippling covid mandates upon millions of people?

Why?

[Brad Thomson]

But as a leader of the free world he was very effective on several critical important national and global issues.

I do agree with this. And unlike many American Presidents, he did not start a war.

The hush money payment to a cheap, ugly hooker is meaningless, but the theft of classified documents is bad, the attempt to manipulate election results in Georgia is horrendous, and the incitement of insurrection on January 6 is an act of treason.

America needs to put Trump out of business one way or another.