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Posted in: As Donald Trump staffs up for second term, only MAGA loyalists need apply See in context

Peter14

Trump is not interested in hiring those who are loyal to the USA or to GOP.

The biggest resistance will come from the GOP. Trump isn’t a conservative and the GOP is.

This will be the hollowing out of the GOP.

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Posted in: As Donald Trump staffs up for second term, only MAGA loyalists need apply See in context

Antiquesaving

Dems still looking for the Boogeyman, they still don't get where they went wrong.

One thing they won’t be doing is whining that it was stolen for 4 years like a sore loser!

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Posted in: As Donald Trump staffs up for second term, only MAGA loyalists need apply See in context

Jay

Why is this a story? To get results, you need a team that shares core American values

Trump doesn’t want a team that shares core American values, he wants a team that will share core Trump values.

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Posted in: As Donald Trump staffs up for second term, only MAGA loyalists need apply See in context

This has always been the case. If the Trump thinks you aren’t sufficiently loyal, then you are out.

Expect a high turnover.

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Posted in: New Zealand Maori begin march on capital to protest indigenous treaty bill See in context

fzgai

Hmm, that does sound a little out of step these days.

Aren’t we supposed to treat all people the same, basically?

Yes. But this pertains to the treaty and the people that it covers as part of a legal agreement.

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Posted in: Trump pressures candidates for Senate GOP leader to let him fill his cabinet right away without vote See in context

The best news about this, is that Trump won't have any choice on Mitch McConnell's replacement. Hopefully it is either John Thune or John Cornyn.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

dobre vam zajebava

Total 3,404 civilian casualties, from both sides.ACCOUNTED in person by YOU?

Nope. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:

https://ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-related%20civilian%20casualties%20as%20of%2031%20December%202021%20%28rev%2027%20January%202022%29%20corr%20EN_0.pdf

HOAX

Take a deep breath. Relax.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

dobre vam zajebava

all have started in 2014

Kiev,maidan protest organized and paid by USA UK and others

Nope. It was a protest of the people. After Yanukovich reneged on EU promises. USA, UK not involved.

coup d etat,escape of legal UA president Yanukovich to Russia.

No coup. Yanukovich fled to Russia.

Crimea referendum,joining RF

Illegal referendum after Russia annexed Crimea.

so called ATO,UA attacks on Donbass,Lugansk,

After Russia started civil war.

over 15.000 civilian casulaties,countless amount of refugees

Total 3,404 civilian casualties, from both sides.

2024 feb RF have attacked UA to protect own national and security interests

Nonsense. Russia has nukes, which guarantee its security.

as attack was provoked by NATO pressure and militarizing of UA.

No provocation. UA militarizing due to threat of Russian invasion.

now USA and west should come to its own senses and understand clearly that UA adventure is over.

This conflict has nothing to do with USA.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

Blacklabel

You tried the “threat to democracy” and “no guardrails” and “dictator from day one” false Trump narratives.

Give him time. He hasn't started yet.

the voters didn’t believe you and most of the people pushing those here every day have disappeared out of shame of being so, so wrong.

Trust me. I would absolutely love to be wrong about this.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

JJE

Russia is conducting a limited ground operation in defense of Donbass, which was mired in a nasty civil war since 2014

A civil war that Russia started.

as a result of a western financed and orchestrated coup which toppled a democratically elected government.

There was no coup.

Don't forget this.

Yanukovych fled to Russia.

Don't forget this.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

Fos

Just as I said earlier: the last two posts put the US ratio to GDP expenditure on two different values 1% or 3%?

Well, the number probably varies based on the definition that you are using. But that is irrelevant. Because we are comparing it against 33%!

Here we are again, informing people with random dispatches without knowing the source, just opposing numbers. Do I need top go on on how fabricated is you information?

No. Just do a Google search and find out for yourself. It's not difficult!

Propaganda really does not pay off, we have a real conflict here, where people are dying. 

Percentage GDP spending on military isn't a secret. Nor is it propaganda.

Do you disagree that Russia is in a full on war economy and US is not?

Yet Gaza would be off the topic, they say. The inconvenient truth

Yes. Go argue you your Gaza talking points in that forum. They usually have one every day.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

mrtinjp

Standard propaganda, If that was the case..we would be in ww3, and that's the idea anyway to trigger via Ukraine..

Don't forget Russia started this war.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

Antiquesaving

Remember this is the same UK ministry that told us they had "sources close to Putin" confirming he was terminally ill, that was over 2 years ago and he looks great for a dead guy.

No. I don't remember that. But is likely true. Now, if you believe those sources...

How many times can they repeat the same thing over and over again and people here believe it?

That Putin is sick? I haven't heard it even once. And it is, at best, speculation.

It is Ukraine that has lost more men, the fact even the BBC now is admitting when it occasionally does its job and shows the desperation of Ukraine rounding up men on the streets to force them into service.

Ukraine haven't lost more men than Russia, that is certain.

The USA, Germany and UK in that order are the ones that will eventually benefit from this war.

Kind of irrelevant. Nobody wanted this war except Putin and some pro-Putin types on this forum.

So go ahead believe what you want, but remember the UK government is not a neutral source of information nor are Ukraine, the USA, the EU or Russia.

You seem to be ready to believe many sources, but when the news is bad for Russia, you go out of your way to try to discredit the source.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

Fos

US led propaganda trying to release information completely disconnected with reality, and the social media doing the rest, taking advantage of people who are not prepared to put into context what they read. 

"US led propaganda"? What does that even mean? Who are you talking about?

Participants at this forum quoting random percentages of US weapons expenditures to GDP (1%?) using Washington military dispatches,

Well, just the facts, actually. US defense spending is around 3% of the GDP.

Compare this with Russia, where is is about 33% of GDP.

when in fact we have indeed a war economy in America more than what we are told about Russia. 

Well no. The facts above prove you wrong here.

The US spends 43% of global military spending. More than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. 

In 2023 the White House contributed 68% of Nato's total expenditure with USD 860 billion. 

This is correct. And not surprising. We have known this for years. But at 3% of GDP, while high, is sustainable.

And yet the same participants, unconcerned of what is happening in Gaza and Lebanon

That would be off-topic on this thread.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

Blacklabel

"Lawfare turned Trump from being a loser into a victor," he told Democrats pointedly.”

Even if you buy Fareed Zakaria's opinion, and I don't, Alvin Bragg is just a prosecutor.

He is not the president. He doesn't represent the Democratic party, and certainly not Biden or his administration.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

Blacklabel

And they didn't against Trump.

of course they did.

Really? And you have evidence?

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

Antiquesaving

Yeah, they are now. But it's not sustainable.

Well we keep hearing this and Russia seems to be doing it just fine.

Inflation is around 9.8% and interest rates are at 21%.

Russia is spending one third of its GDP on the military and this war.

That's not sustainable.

What I don't understand is the MSM and USA UK etc...propaganda machine tells you and others Ukraine can win, Russia is losing,

I don't make judgements on MSM opinion. I look at the facts and come to my own conclusions.

Harris is winning, Trump is finished,

What I remember from the MSM is that the polls are a tossup and the margin of error could go either way.

So, not sure where you got that from.

Putin in dying,

That's an oldie. I doubt anybody bought into that speculation.

Russia can't continue, blah blah blah

I haven't heard this one.

and you keep on believing them

As I say, I take the facts from the MSM and form my opinion.

even after they are wrong over and over and over and over and over again.

I don't remember the MSM being wrong about any of this. And if they are they usually print a retraction.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

falseflagsteve

Seems like he’s thought very hard about what action to take and to take that action immediately, I like his style.

I don't think Trump has thought hard a day in his life.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

EvilBuddha

Just face it, the liberal left overreached by prosecuting Trump and trying to put him away. It created a sympathy wave and energized his support base, and was a big own goal.

Nope. The liberal left had nothing to do with Trump's legal woes.

It will be fun watching those cheering over here a year ago when Trump unleashes his vengeance.

So, you now believe that a president can weaponize the justice system to go after his foes?

The liberal left doesn't.

And they didn't against Trump.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

Blacklabel

He wanted to jail Hillary and Obama in his first term, but wasn't able to.

he decided he didn’t want to. I felt he should have, but he didn’t.

That's because his Justice Department wouldn't do it.

he can do the same type of lawfare and weaponization of the DOJ to them that they did to him.

They did no lawfare or weaponization of the DOJ to Trump.

So, that would be none.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

Antiquesaving

He said Moscow’s troops suffered an average of 1,500 dead and wounded per day, bringing their total losses in the war to 700,000.

Is this the same UK that bosted in the summer of 2023 how great the Ukrainian offensive was going and Russian lines were collapsing?

The same UK that claimed Russia was running out of weapons is 2022, and again in 2022 the again in 2022, the in 2023 then again in 2023 and again in 2023 the in January 2024, the April 2024 the in June 2024 then......Yep and again in September and October.

And correct in all cases. Why do you think Russia got so much ammunition from North Korea and Iran? And for most of 2024 they are spending a third of their GDP on the military? The "running out" narratives are correct, which forces Russia to adjust. You conveniently miss the last part out.

Don't like the facts? Shoot the messenger.

While reports from most countries is Russia is out producing the west by hundreds of thousands of shells and other weapons and equipment.

Yeah, they are now. But it's not sustainable.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

bass4funk

They don't exist. But Trump knows that.

To the left maybe, not to the right, anyway,

It's not an opinion. It's a fact. They don't exist.

the purge is going to happen, so good times ahead.

As much as I'm certain that Trump does want to purge his "enemies", I doubt that he actually can. He wanted to jail Hillary and Obama in his first term, but wasn't able to.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

Primusinter

Russian forces reportedly lost almost 200 tanks, over 650 armored vehicles, and suffered an estimated 80,000 casualties in taking roughly 1,500 square kilometers during a period of intensified Russian offensive operations in September and October 2024.

Give your sources.

Russian forces have thus suffered an estimated 80,110 casualties over the last two months – roughly 20,000 more casualties than US forces suffered during almost 20 years of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

https://x.com/DefenceHQ/status/1843198787097124968/photo/1

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/war-in-ukraine-update-october-2024/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/08/defence-secretary-john-healey-russia-army/

How many North Koreans are among these casualties?

These number are for September and October. So, none.

It feels like you've completely forgotten about them.

Nope.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

Blacklabel

A difference between a mandate and the freedom to choose is the difference.

nobody is “stopping” electric cars. If you want one, get one. If you don’t, you don’t HAVE to.

You never did.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

MarkX

I find it funny that while Biden was pushing for electric cars, Trump is going to stop that, all with the help of...... Elon Musk, Mr. electric cars himself. So either Trump lied, which I suspect, or Musk is an idiot.

I don't think Musk is an idiot, although he is out of his depth in many areas, including running a social network company.

Musk will be pushing for massive tariffs on Chinese EV's.

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

falseflagsteve

Mr Kipling

Well, the Ukrainians are getting hammered big time and next up will be their clearout of Kursk.

Looks like the Russians are getting hammered more. (See above.)

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Posted in: Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine See in context

Mr Kipling

Another Ukraine article doing everything to avoid the real big story of the collapse of Ukraine defenses in the east. Though it would get boring to keep reporting the 3-9 kilometers a day the Russians are taking.

And the massive casualties the Russians are incurring for this.

Russian forces reportedly lost almost 200 tanks, over 650 armored vehicles, and suffered an estimated 80,000 casualties in taking roughly 1,500 square kilometers during a period of intensified Russian offensive operations in September and October 2024.

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Posted in: Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish See in context

Trump has said he has a particular focus on “corrupt bureaucrats who have weaponized our justice system” and “corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.”

They don't exist. But Trump knows that.

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Posted in: Russia open to hearing Trump's proposals for ending war, an official says See in context

Fos

More than a myth we should ask Naftali Bennet, one of the staunchest ally of Washington, who obviously had to say goodbye to his political career after that.

Yeah, but if you think he could have gotten a decent deal, you are dreaming. At that time Russia had much more Ukrainian territory.

It is too late for that anyway. Now the dealers are different and the US administration (the military industrial complex) is already thinking to the next battlefront, obviously Taiwan. Perhaps the unpredictable Trump will break this pattern, for the good of humanity.

Dreaming.

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Posted in: Russia open to hearing Trump's proposals for ending war, an official says See in context

falseflagsteve

Taiwan

Some of them will have to live under his boot or move to the other side of what is left of Ukraine.

Or they don't agree and keep fighting.

Don't you think that if there were an acceptable agreement to Ukraine, they would have found it already?

Ukraine needs security guarantees if it is to stop fighting, and I don't think Trump is about to offer any.

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