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Not just Siemens, also the chairman of Maersk. But he probably hasn't considered the long term implications of climate change on his business. What is a supply chain anyway?

Scared of the purple M&M because her nuts are bigger.

Florida is one long strip mall and some condos built on a swamp. I don't think it's in any position to throw stones. Some nice people there though. Also, Florida Man. And alligators.

Yep. In the US all legally sold guns can flow unrestricted into the unregulated secondary market. We have to formally transfer ownership of a transportation machine, but you can give or sell a killing machine to anyone, no questions asked and no future accountability. Hell, it's actually better if you *don't* ask questions. Genius system. Thanks NRA Republicans!

Aw, that's delightful. You just keep telling yourself that fairytale and being confused as to why it's so hard for your candidates to win over Black voters. Way easier than actually learning some history after the 60s. And your hero DeSantis' most recent stunt of rejecting the AP African American studies course will surely help too!

Again, blatantly false in the most obvious ways. Limbaugh's favorability ratings were even worse than Trump's. He occasionally dipped below 50% with Republicans, independents disliked him and Democrats reviled him. I get why you'd like him though. College dropout, drug addict, bigot, misogynist, and general purveyor of hate. Also, probably the first to figure out that you could motivate a base more with hatred of the other than with aspiration and optimism. Quite the legacy.

You are utterly shameless. If you weren't trying to make a point of Biden "murdering" children you wouldn't have posted about it half a dozen times. Suddenly pretending like you didn't do it doesn't make those posts go away. Jeebus. And the answer your weird question is that it's called criminal negligence. I didn't suggest that he "just end it." I suggested that he could have initiated an orderly withdrawal on day 1, if he weren't interested in prosecuting the war. Before he was president Trump said we should just get out of Afghanistan, but after he had the job he escalated the war. Instead of leaving, he sent more troops into harm's way and tripled the drone strike activity, killing thousands of civilians and costing hundreds of billions of dollars. That's an elective escalation, which got us NOTHING in return. He didn't win the war. And he waited until after he lost the election to order an immediate withdrawal-- which was only slowed by his caretakers. It was a poison pill, playing games with American lives for the sake of scoring political points. I'm not surprised that you approve. Anything for a "win" eh? I've already acknowledged that Biden could have managed the withdrawal better in multiple ways, but let's not farking rewrite history to show that Trump achieved an honorable peace in Afghanistan. He simply put the terrorists back in power.

Busted? WTF are you talking about? -- Do you not know the meaning of the word "murder"? Is basic English the problem here? Murder means it was deliberate. Murdering children means one set out to kill those children. You are welcome to revise your statements, but as it stands you said what you said. Your ignorance doesn't make me a liar. He was under no obligation to further prosecute that war. He could have started a planned and organized withdrawal on day 1. Instead he chose to ramp up the strikes. That is what escalation means. That's pure crap. The taliban never observed the ceasefire. They were still engaged in military operations. The war raged on. And Trump had no practical plan for a feasible withdrawal. His initial order was for an immediate withdrawal, FFS. As with so much else,the grownups had to come along behind him and clean up the mess. ?Yes, withdrawing slightly more slowly now means "escalating." Clearly words are not your thing. Again, basic English may be the problem. Lying means that it's deliberately falsehood. There is almost zero chance that Biden "lied" about the drone strike initially. If he knew that they had struck civilians he likely would have either addressed the tragedy, or more likely said nothing at all. He wouldn't have gone around drawing attention to the mistake if he had known it at the time. When he learned is an open question, but probably when he stopped touting its success.

Yes, you are wildly disingenuous and profoundly dishonest. If the "lying" were "the thing" you wouldn't nance around clutching your pearls like Biden is some kind of warmongering murderbot targeting children. His record is orders of magnitude better than the guy you're applauding. If lying is "the thing" it's because you're doing the lying. Trump inherited a war. Did he withdraw as promised or did he escalate the cost in blood and treasure? Biden inherited a war. Did he withdraw as promised or did he escalate? And frankly you have no idea if Biden lied or not. We know the pentagon gave incorrect information, but we don't have any idea if/when they corrected it or how Biden responded.

Again, I think you are being completely disengenuous. I don't think you particularly care about civilians killed in drone strikes. If you did, you wouldn't be able to support Trump, who tripled the rate of drone strikes relative and implemented opacity to stop reporting the outcomes, but with incredibly high civilian death counts reported from other sources. Biden, on the other hand, imposed stricter standards and dramatically scaled back drone strikes worldwide. Yes, that disastrous drone strike during the Afghanistan withdrawal was awful and tragic on every level, and should be remembered as such. But it's grossly dishonest for you to throw stones at Biden when your god-emperor lives in a glass mega mansion. Have some intellectual and moral integrity. Reason.com "During the length of Trump's four-year presidency, Airwars documented more than 16,000 air and artillery military strikes in Iraq and Syria... During Biden's first year, there have been 39 total military strikes spread between both countries." "Alleged civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria skyrocketed under Trump's four years in office to more than 13,000 compared to 5,600 during Obama's second term. Thus far, Airwars reports only 10 under the Biden administration."

I'm seeing reports of $10 million. Still seems expensive, but more plausible. For $34 million they could have included torsos and maybe even heads.

Really? Holy crap. That would mean that there is now a Republican member of Congress that Republicans won't allow to read stories to children. It's all come full circle!

Aw, Florida Man thinks Treasury.gov is a "biased left wing rag." At this point I'm shifting to pity, because the truly stupid aren't even smart enough to recognize their gross deficiency.

Well, the video of the speech is a tight framing on the speaker. Would you expect to see this angle? You can clearly see him delivering his speech in the photo, no? Are you trying to imply in some way that this is not a genuine photo? How far can you possibly push this? Geez. Squirrel fur is waterproof. Um, no. Trump didn't get the information wrong. He lied. He personally intervened to have the parks service edit photos of the crowd to be more flattering AFTER the comparison to the Obama crowd was made public. In the exact same way he casually asked Raffensperger to "find" him enough votes to win in Georgia. "Just find me a crowd photo large enough to 'win!'" I love your dedication to whataboutism, but I don't think you're sincere about any of this. Biden was HEAVILY criticized by both parties and across all media for the handling of the withdrawal (and deservedly so)--the precipitousness of which Trump helped instigate, BTW. His Taliban deal left Biden in a pickle, but Biden's mistakes are his own. At any rate, I think if you really cared about any of these issues you'd be far more pissed at Trump than Biden. Trump promised to get us out of Afghanistan and instead put more troops in, leading to thousands of deaths and a trillion dollar expense. He promised to end the drone strikes, but instead tripled them and killed a crap-ton more civilians than Biden. Are those not the same "meaningful lies," far more egregious and costly than Biden's? Politicians are often wrong. Politicians also lie. Mostly they make promises they don't keep. Often they embellish or spin their accomplishments to seem better than they are. But it takes a special kind of motherfarker to pee on your leg and tell you it's raining--or not raining, as the case may be. We have NEVER had a president like Trump before, a pathological liar, lying casually and without reason about things that don't even matter. There is no "whatabouting" this. It was totally unprecedented, and that's why his lying captured the attention of the media and the public at large. It's not because anyone was out to get him. It's just that no one has seen anything like it before and it's terrifying for an institution that depends on credibility for domestic relations, foreign relations and our national security.

I don't know. It's like a crooked picture on the wall. And there's soooo much of it. I am not used to an unmoderated forum. I keep expecting someone to see the absurdity and enforce some basic standards. Like, "Thou shalt stop shitting in the public pool!" ?‍♀️

Yeah, he said it was for family time, but I suspect that it was not very appealing to stay. Ryan was a serious politician and I don't think he had any appetite for the clown show and it likely made the decision to leave much easier. I preferred the Obama/Biden vision, but the country would have been just fine under Romney/Ryan, who are both serious, honorable (adjusting for political life) and capable. I don't even mind deficits if we get good value for them. The thing that is obnoxious about the large Trump deficits is that they were elective and wasteful. He was trying to goose an already healthy economy in silly ways. I don't blame him for the pandemic portion of the deficits. I think that was mostly necessary and vastly favorable to the alternative. But the reason he has such massive deficits in the pandemic years is because that emergency spending was stacked on top of his already huge default, elective deficits.

Jeebus. You are pathetic. You'll ignore actual data from an original sources like Treasury, because "anyone can make a chart," but will post opinions from third rate papers like the Examiner and Post, because apparently only those "authoritative" sources (lol) can type words and numbers. ? Look. Everyone with eyeballs and a functioning brain can see both deficit and spending numbers. You can keep your head up your ass and pretend they are not there, but it won't change the facts. We see you.

No, you are a liar. Or just too farking dumb to read a simple table. Perhaps a graph will help. Sorry, the treasury does not work in crayon. Whether in dollars or percent of GDP, both measures of spending peak under Trump and decline with Biden. You're welcome to make excuses and rationalizations and grovel at the altar of Trump, but you're not going to get away with "alternative facts" like your God Emperor.

Hey, Florida Man, are you just looking for more ways to showcase your ignorance? Even if you move the goalposts from deficit to spending, as you are now trying to go, Trump has higher spending. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/federal-budget-receipts-and-outlays And if you're looking for "record spending" check the WWII era for spending nearly twice the percent of GDP.

That chair is leather or vinyl. Instead of discoloring the fabric they are just beaded on the surface. You can see it if you zoom in.

Yeah, never happened! Fake news! ? You can see rain falling on Trump at 1:32 of your video. You can see it falling throughout. -- I'm pretty sure you can watch a Marine bring Melania the umbrella several minutes later, at 5:35. At which point it continued to rain. ^ That empty chair belongs to the empty suit giving a speech. Yeah, it rained. Yeah, he lied about it--just one of countless, sometimes pointless, lies he told. Get over it.

You mean like how Melania and many others used umbrellas and ponchos? How she held aloft her rain splattered umbrella during her husband's speech? Graham's benediction followed Trump's address. This has been shared with you before. "Mr. President, in the Bible, rain is a sign of God's blessing. And it started to rain, Mr. President, when you came to the platform," said Graham. "And it's my prayer that God will bless you, your family, your administration, and may He bless America." It's not rain!

No he doesn't. Why do you say this stuff that is obviously factually wrong? Are you pathological? The highest deficit on record is your god emperor in FY 2020 -- with a healthy contribution to the 2nd highest deficit in FY 2021. He was running large--and growing--deficits even with a healthy pre-covid economy. Biden's first full fiscal year deficit in 2022, is less than half of Trump's 2022. US Treasury But, but, but... anybody can make a chart! Yes, yes they can. The US treasury, which tracks deficit, debt and surplus can indeed make a chart illustrating deficit by FY.

Eh, I support higher tax revenue, but I don't think this is a good approach. 90th percentile will start somewhere around $155K income. That's not exactly wealthy and those people aren't the problem. They are paying their taxes like everyone else, not hiding it in shelters. Whereas the very rich, the top 1% or so, can pay for clever accounting to shelter their income and are paying a pittance in proportion to income and wealth. I'd much rather see a simplified tax structure that eliminates most deductions.

Well, my eyesight is just so-so. ?‍♀️ But there are also the still photos that are very clear and people in attendance who experienced it firsthand mentioning it in other media. Hell, Franklin Graham talked about the rain DURING his speech AT the inauguration. Like, it wasn't a mystery or a question that it happened. I'm still confused that this was even being "debated."