Hey, let’s not go to war with Iran. I mean the President clearly wants a war. But we will have to do what we can to prevent it. Or at the very least stand up and say that we oppose it. I don’t know how effective marches or letter writing or whatever is, but be the kind of person who participates in opposing the war.
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Tap out, Teheran.
Clearly this is correct. Instead what would be good is Soleimani still walking the earth and killing Americans.
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This is bad and seems to be the Democratic position, for “optics.”
Starting by saying, “It’s good that he was assassinated” destroys anything you might say next. It justifies what Trump did. https://twitter.com/RepJoeKennedy/status/1213082537268011008
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Clowns on Goldy’s Twitter feed are going to turn a Trump re-election into a Trump electoral landslide.
Those who ask why the Gang of Eight was not consulted need look no further than the presence of Adam Schiff as one of its members.
Hey y’all:
We’ve been here before.
Osama bin Laden death: Pakistan says US may have breached sovereignty
As more detailed accounts of the assault on Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad by US special forces emerged, international lawyers, religious leaders and human rights groups called for clearer justification of the legitimacy of the raid.
In London, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said American confirmation that the al-Qaida leader was not holding a weapon when he died was disturbing. “The killing of an unarmed man is always going to leave a very uncomfortable feeling because it doesn’t look as if justice is seen to be done,” he said. “When we are faced with someone who was manifestly a war criminal in terms of the atrocities inflicted it is important that justice is seen to be served.”
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Earlier this week, the UN’s independent investigator on extrajudicial killings, Christof Heyns, said there was “considerable dispute in legal circles as to whether we are dealing with an armed conflict in respect of al-Qaida in Pakistan”. Prof Nick Grief, an international lawyer at Kent University, said that the attack had the appearance of an “extrajudicial killing without due process of the law”. He added: “It may not have been possible to take him alive… but no one should be outside the protection of the law.” Even after the end of the second world war, Nazi war criminals had been given a fair trial, Grief added.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/05/osama-bin-laden-pakistan-us-sovereignty
There’s one thing I would have been fine with had Hillary won:
She would have taken the SOB out, too.
Oh? So. THAT’S why America can’t see the tax returns..
Thanks for sharing your shallow and insipid dumbfuckery, Doctor.
Take a pill. I haven’t seen you fucks so worked up with bloodlust since you invaded the wrong fucking country, which was Iraq, in case you forgot. I suggest you revisit that monumental fuckup of yours and give thought to how it relates to current events.
Spoiler: it’s a tax.
Journalists of color deserve more support. Here’s how Seattle can help.
How to pay for such a program? The natural source of funding would be the flush tech behemoths responsible for destroying much of journalism’s old revenue-generating models. The city would put a small tax on every advertisement placed through Google, Facebook and Twitter, targeted at a Seattle audience, whether or not the ad buyer is from Seattle.
https://crosscut.com/2019/12/journalists-color-deserve-more-support-heres-how-seattle-can-help
And really, what’s more appealing than taxing primarily white people to support a POC “reporter” who writes things like
…lip service to racial diversity while being whiter than a Friends Trivia Night on Vashon Island…?
@ 6
Oh? So. THAT’S why America can’t see the tax returns..
Q: Why would a guarantor’s identity show up in a tax return?
A: It wouldn’t.
While Dumbfuck dances the price of oil spiked. Industry analysts and Foreign Policy wonks suggest the next step for Iran is more attacks on Saudi oil fields and possibly tankers.
Driving the price higher.
So, Dumbfuck.
What’s the most increase at the pump the average voter will ignore before coming to the conclusion that this one guy wasn’t worth it. Keep in mind that gas/oil prices more than anything like minimum wage hikes affects the final consumer price if nearly everything.
What do you think? $3.75 for regular? $4? $15 per tank more? What about $20?
Then there’s a debate question coming. “Given that the UN, the U.S State Department and all our Allies agreed Iran was complying with the nuclear agreement was it prudent to kill the treaty and drive the country to war with Iran. (Follow up…Doesn’t it show weak leadership to let Netanyahu dictate Middle East Policy for America?)
@ 10
…the price of oil spiked.
As of this writing USO, the US Oil Fund Limited Partnership, is up 2.53%. This is still 4% below its 52-week high.
WTI crude is up 2.27%.
As of this writing Exxon and Chevron are down, and Halliburton is down. Suncor, a Canadian oil sands company, is up about 0.5%.
The US is now a net oil exporter. It was only a couple of months ago that there was significant internal unrest in Teheran.
Sanctions are still in place. Iran has more to lose by closing the Strait of Hormuz than does the US.
Cz-252, you’re an idiot. If you were smart you would have been trading options to capitalize on the opening drop in the market. Early on the DJIA was down 370. It’s now down less than half that.
What you have seen in the oil markets today is what happens when an oil refinery explodes and goes offline. For a week.
Even Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit isn’t going to go Full Chicken Little the way you just did. He might have made some money this morning, too.
@7 Don’t worry, Trump doesn’t like wars; he only attacks persons, not nation-states. And this was a bad guy: “During the past decade Iran has conducted proxy wars across the Middle East in Iraq, Syria and Yemen and it also controls much of Lebanon through its proxy force there, Hezbollah. Soleimani was in charge of all these operations. Soleimani also oversaw operations against US servicemen in Iraq by Shia militias in which hundreds of American servicemen were killed following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/02/opinions/killing-of-irans-general-soleimani-is-hugely-significant-bergen/index.html
I’m fine with it, I guess. But it occurs to me this operation was too slick to have been dreamed up and carried out by the rank amateur in the White House. We owe our greatest thanks to the intelligence agencies the amateur so despises for pulling it off. The rank amateur does, too.
It’s not just me who thinks Cz-252 is an idiot. So does Barron’s.
Buy Airline Stocks. Friday’s Surge in Oil Prices Doesn’t Matter.
But the U.S. airline industry has earned record profits when oil was about $100 a barrel and gone bankrupt when oil was $40 a barrel. Over the long run, it is the supply and demand balance between airplane seats and customers that determines industry profitability, not the absolute price of oil.
Oil-price volatility, of course, matters to airlines. A rapid increase in energy costs can leave airlines with seats sold that are no longer profitable. That, however, is a short-term phenomenon and resolves itself as long as oil prices don’t continue to fluctuate widely.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/buy-airline-stocks-fridays-surge-in-oil-prices-doesnt-matter-51578062124
@ 12
We owe our greatest thanks to the intelligence agencies the amateur so despises for pulling it off.
Bolton’s comments today made it seem as if this was in the works for awhile.
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Congratulations to all involved in eliminating Qassem Soleimani. Long in the making, this was a decisive blow against Iran’s malign Quds Force activities worldwide. Hope this is the first step to regime change in Tehran.
2:27 AM – 3 Jan 2020
“Long in the making…”
@11 “As of this writing Exxon and Chevron are down, and Halliburton is down.”
S&P -0.47%, XOM -0.47%, CVX -0.30%, HAL -0.04%.
Maybe a genius like you can tell us why. The really tough part is explaining why HAL is down so little.
USO is a nice vehicle for playing the peaks and valleys of oil prices. As it sinks, sell puts at 11 or 11.5. As it rises, sell calls around 14.
It’s a nice way to pick up an easy $3-4k about three times a year. You don’t even have to tie up money by owning the security.
Mind you, it does require a spine. Would not be a good investment vehicle for Cz-252, HA’s resident boneless Chicken Little.
@14 Yeah, like 3 years in the making? This certainly appears to have Bolton’s fingerprints on it, even though he doesn’t work in that shop anymore.
Oh do let me take market advice from the guy who laughed at TSLA and cheered on the short-sellers because, global warming hoax or something. Also, you do know the difference between stock price of oil companies and price per barrel and which one is reflected in pump prices? Apparently not.
Know what else happened today? TSLA, that hippie company with their non-oil cars hit an all-time high and is flirting with being double the most I paid for any of my shares. Already there for the first time I went in. In fact that initial buy is flirting with triple in about 5 years.
Sometimes it’s not about me personally making money. I don’t have any oil stocks. Not even in any funds I don’t direct. It’s a deal breaker on choosing where to park my money. Had a bunch of Chevron through the early 90s but I don’t want any part of that anymore. I’d say it was like 30 pieces of silver but I don’t go in for that kind of thing either.
@ 15
The really tough part is explaining why HAL is down so little.
It’s the really easy part if you have been following, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
This is a non-event over the long term, same way as the Iranian drone strike on Saudi Arabia’s production facility was a non-event over the long term.
In a non-event situation there’s little to move a stock.
Plus, Halliburton has had a nice run-up in the last month. It was below 21 in early December. The fundamentals of HAL haven’t changed, which supports the stock. People willing to step in and buy, like me, support the stock.
Cz-252’s hysterics aside, this was really a nothingburger to the oil markets.
Why? US fracking has boosted domestic production.
Meanwhile, Doctor Dumbfuck must be profoundly disappointed that I didn’t criticize whacking Soleimani. See, e.g., @12: “Even Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit isn’t going to go Full Chicken Little ….”
It’s worse for him than that. I didn’t go even a little bit Chicken Little on this one. I mean, it’s not like Trump bombed Iran; the guy was killed in Iraq. He had no business being there. What I wonder, though, is: Why did Putin want him gone?
@ 18
I’d say it was like 30 pieces of silver but I don’t go in for that kind of thing either.
You really should look into how dirty cobalt mining is, Cz-252. That it’s done where poor people with brown skin live shouldn’t make it any less concerning to you.
I’ve never owned TSLA except in mutual funds. Somehow I seem to have survived.
Everyone’s got a home-run stock. Even Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit with his Starbucks shares. I bought Amgen in ’95 at less than six bucks a share. Apple in ’93, no idea what I paid but it has done well. Both in my retirement account and I haven’t touched them.
IRAs were a great idea.
@19 We can always count on you to follow up anything halfway intelligent with complete and total idiocy:
“The fundamentals of HAL haven’t changed”
You also could say that about every stock that’s going down today. They’re going down anyway. So fundamentals obviously have nothing to do with it. Actually, fundamentals haven’t driven the stock market for a long time now. Sentiment drives it (more about this below).
“People willing to step in and buy, like me, support the stock.”
People aren’t willing to buy stocks. They’re doing the opposite. For months now, there have been huge outflows of money from stock funds. People have been fleeing the stock market in droves. This recent rally is almost entirely due to share buybacks by corporations using cheap borrowed money that they’re not investing in business growth because they don’t see economic growth.
“this was really a nothingburger to the oil markets”
To the tune of +2.5% in WTI and +3.0% in Brent, and that’s just today.
“Why? US fracking has boosted domestic production.”
Yes it has, but anyone who knows anything about oil is well aware that the growth rate of U.S. shale output is slowing rapidly (e.g., only half as many new bpd will come online in 2020 as in 2019), rig counts are declining, shale oil is only marginally profitable, and the sector has been characterized by bankruptcies and bad junk debt. All of this doesn’t exactly paint a healthy picture of long-term energy security, does it?
But the real long-term threat to oil stocks is climate change, the emergence of alternative energy sources, and a shift to EVs which will reduce (and possibly kill) oil demand.
Why do you think the Saudis were happy to sell their oil for $25 instead of $100? and happily sell it for $40 – $60? It makes sense for them to pump oil as fast as possible and sell it for any price they can get, because when reserves become stranded assets, it will be worth $0, that’s why.
I like the idea of selectively buying airline stocks (DAL and LUV are on my radar), but I’m waiting for the correction Wall Street expects and bigger stock price drops than we’re seeing yet. I’m basically doing that with all stocks, except I did pick up a few more shares of Unilever on its sharp drop last month.
@21 “Somehow I seem to have survived.”
There are so many ways to make money in stocks, if you haven’t latched onto one by now, you’re a dumbfuck.
“Everyone’s got a home-run stock.”
Not true. Dumbfucks swing for the fences. The smart money aims for steady gains, compounded.
“Even Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit with his Starbucks shares.”
That was an accident, but I’ll take accidents.
“I bought Amgen in ’95 at less than six bucks a share. Apple in ’93, no idea what I paid but it has done well.”
I did lots of things in the ’80s and ’90s that I can’t do anymore. The market has changed. The economy has changed. The Fed’s loose money and corporate buybacks are propping up stocks, valuations are inflated, and fundamentals are dodgy as the economy crawls upward and corporate debt soars. If you can identify a young company with a great future, fine. But that is, and always has been, dart-throwing and your long-term strategy should not depend on getting lucky. On a planned basis, today this is largely a game of walks, bunts, and singles. Your best friend is a calculator. The strategy is to make 5%-6% on an investment dollar, then multiply the resulting $1.05 or $1.06 by 5%-6%, then multiply that number by 5%-6%, and keep rinsing and repeating, etc. It takes time, but in time that $1 becomes huge, simply as a matter of mathematics. This requires no stockpicking acumen whatsoever. Any half-assed company should be able to make 5% or 6% a year, in good times and bad; just spread your money over a bunch of them, so the inevitable fuckwad doesn’t sink your entire portfolio. It’s been said that diversifying is the only free lunch on Wall Street; you’re a fool not to sign up for insurance that costs you nothing. Don’t put all your eggs in a Varian or whatever. That’s dumbfuckery. Boring stocks are good for your long-term financial health.
@9
But it would show that Donald is not a billionaire at all.
It would show that he’s hundreds of millions in debt.
Do keep up.
@21
Do let me know when that mining causes armed conflict in a region that has spanned three generations. Also let me know when the U.S. Treasury spends $4T in a decade to ‘protect’ those mines.
There is no such thing as clean guilt free technology. Cognitive dissonance is at least something that crosses my mind. In the balance, no emissions and no oil consumption is more important to me personally. I can live with that though it is not beyond my notice.
And Kshama has to buy her office supplies somewhere.
Our departed troll used to brag about not buying Apple (Foxconn) and “I have a Samsung” not noticing that Samsung uses Child and semi-slave labor in Malaysia. But to participate in modern life one needs a smart phone so…
Not surprisingly, defense stocks, not oil stocks, are up today. Lockheed, which I own, is up $14 a share this morning. I bought it 10 years ago for $85 and it’s now $414. Can’t go wrong investing in war. Soulless, perhaps, but human conflict is as reliable as sunshine. If rabbits ran the world, then I wouldn’t buy stocks like Lockheed, because there’d be no future for weapons.
Start by going back to the Dec. 31st attack.
How the fuck do you suppose that a large violent mob crosses the Tigris in force on a mile long bridge, enters the Green Zone untouched, and finds the outer set of blast doors surrounding the US compound wide open? And only Iraqi security forces to oppose them? And those security forces all mysteriously wind up on the opposite side of the encircling blast walls? So that what little tear gas they have to deploy ends up driving them back instead of the attackers?
While the Ambassador and most of the senior diplomatic staff are away on travel.
Now ask yourself how president RapeFantasy is going to react when he finally figures out that he got played by Team Bolton?
@ 25
Debt is incredibly cheap. Apple has hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and yet it borrows, and substantially so.
Wife and I insisted the daughter carry some college debt. We could afford to give her a free ride, but chose to make her borrow, five figures each year.
Debt is good. Debt is what gets you out of bed in the morning to go to work.
“The diplomats are Never-Trumpers who can’t be trusted to tell the truth in congressional hearings. The FBI is full of deep state agents who want to harm trump and they can’t be trusted. The CIA illegally uses foreign agents like Kim Jong Un’s half brother. They can’t be trusted at all.”
“We have intelligence from the CIA and State Department that he was plotting attacks against American interests so we killed him,”
mmmmmmkay
This. is. CNN.
President Trump dined on ice cream as news of the airstrike broke
From CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk/h_65f1c6b6a688cd0f05cdb51b82de9dd8
Insert “Fat Donny Two Scoops” joke here, ‘froggy.
I bet on the night he’s re-elected, Trump will have three scoops.
Here’s the Obama-appointed Dallas Fed president’s take on the oil price thing, shared specifically to assuage the concerns of HA’s resident boneless Chicken Little, Cz-252:
The impact of geopolitical-driven surges in crude oil prices was less harmful than a decade ago, Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan said in a CNBC interview on Friday.
His remarks were in response to the U.S.-ordered drone strike against Iran top general Qassem Soleimani late Thursday, with his death expected to incite an increase in tensions in the Middle East and to potentially result in a sharp retaliatory response.
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“We would’ve gotten a different reaction 10 years ago,” Kaplan said. “The effect is going to be more muted than we’ve seen historically,” he added, noting that the U.S.’s newfound status as an oil exporter would help offset the pain inflicted on consumers through higher energy prices.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/impact-of-oil-price-spike-on-us-economy-more-muted-than-a-decade-ago-says-dallas-feds-kaplan-2020-01-03?mod=home-page
The market’s fireworks were over by about 6:50am today. You snooze, you lose.
Also, I didn’t fuck the chick Prince Andrew fucked.
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The targeted killing of Soleimani was a lawful, proportional, preemptive military action against a combatant enemy who had killed and was planning to kill Americans. See my book: Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways.
Piece by Stanley McChrystal published in Foreign Policy earlier this year:
Iran’s Deadly Puppet Master
https://foreignpolicy.com/gt-essay/irans-deadly-puppet-master-qassem-suleimani/
I suspect this was on CIA and Pentagon wish lists for a long time, the hardest part was getting Cadet Bone Spurs to sign off on it, and he made them wait until the election year. Coward that he is, it’s likely the closest he’ll ever get to wagging a dog. I don’t know whether it was a legal and proper exercise of his authority, but the American public won’t care. When previous presidents did something like this, they briefed the congressional leadership from both parties; the White House excluded the Democrats this time, and they’ll say that was to prevent leaks, but you and I know it was out of pure partisan animus. In any case, Trump won’t get Obama’s OBL mileage out of this, because 99.99% of Americans never heard of this guy, and won’t see it as significant beyond making gas cost more.
“Why did Putin want him gone?”
Question gets to the point. After all, Putin’s in charge of America’s foreign policy and calls all the shots. All that’s left is a formal surrender. Or worse. Which leads to another question. What is Putin’s end game?
This not going to turn out well for America. That’s what has our Doctor Dumbfuck so excited these days. He knows Russia is winning, not America.
Starting around 2:25 or so in the brief video, Iran’s Republican Guard spokesman breaks into tears over Soleimani’s death.
https://www.memri.org/tv/irgc-spokesman-general-ramezan-sharif-american-joy-will-turn-into-grief
Sad!
@31 and multiple other posts: Wherein a dumbfuck performs end zone dances before the opening kickoff, so eager is he to subject America to another four years of amateur leadership by a Putin stooge, a money launderer for Russian gangsters, a pathological liar and cheat, a sociopath who imprisons helpless toddlers, and a serial deadbeat, tax cheat, bankrupt, and adulterer. the dumbfuck clearly has something wrong in his head.
@11. There’s a whole paragraph @10 that you failed to comment on, I could see why you wanted to ignore it an focus on you investing acumen.
Warren’s Q4 fundraising numbers weren’t awful.
They weren’t good but they weren’t awful. Still, she needs Bernie’s heart to feel the burn, and soon.
@31 you are a good bullshitter or schizophrenic. You relish in the fact if The Hump gets re-elected, but you say you didn’t vote for him, and that you wouldn’t vote for him in 2020. Either you’ve had a change in mind or just a liar.
And something I take relish in, is that your daughter, your poor daughter will not only have to live in debt but in a dim future of ravaging storms, and mass migration, due to climate change. So for that reason, I would agree the debt is good, but not for the reason of making her get up in the morning to go to work to pay back the debt.
I guess all I had to do was read @38 for the answer, it would have saved me time making the comment.
@38 answers @41
@ 41
…you say you didn’t vote for him, and that you wouldn’t vote for him in 2020. Either you’ve had a change in mind or just a liar.
Or I’m telling the complete truth and the plain fact is that WA will go so heavily for the Democrat that my vote for president in this state means absolutely nothing, so I have the ability to 1) truthfully claim that I have never voted for Trump and 2) the freedom to criticize the Democrat to my heart’s content because the likelihood is that (s)he will be another poor choice, and one for which Steve will again accept zero responsibility.
Really, I don’t see why it’s so hard to believe that unless it’s Klobuchar or maybe Mayor Pete I’ll probably just end up pulling the lever for the Libertarian Party candidate. Or write in Bernie’s name.
Soleimani just found out every one of his 72 virgins is a suicide belt-wearing man.
@44. That’s kind of stupid – not who you voted for or how you’ll vote in 2020, but your indirect praise of The Hump but yet not vote for him. You should just vote for The Hump, you don’t seem to have as many issues with him as you do with the rest of the “shitty” candidates.
@44 and @46 just as stupid as my comment on me relishing the negative impact of climate change, but that was exactly my point.
Be proud of your love for The Hump, Puffy will get over it.
Mayor Pete’s statement on the assassination.
https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1213139943901614080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1213139943901614080&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F1287406268
Bob, it seems like he tends to disagree with you of being all giddy about it.
“and one for which Steve will again accept zero responsibility”
I voted for Hillary Clinton. You think she was…awful. And by no coincidence, so did Putin. No surprise at all to find you on the same page as him. Again. Always.
You’re not just a traitor, Doctor. You’re a dumbfuck traitor.
After reading some of the comments (tweets) in response to the Mayor’s statement – I think I see Bob’s point on how fucking stupid liberals can be. I only read the first three tweets after….let me continue….maybe they get better.
Can’t have your fucking cake and eat it too. Jesus christ.
By Pete is a Republican – twitter user.
“he drove around generals and sat at a desk. he was basically a temp / chaffeur”
Go fuck yourself. And tell us all about your Uber job. And not that I’m a good speller and make typos, you fucking spelled chauffeur wrong.
One of the other comments by a twitter user is that the statement was made in a tweet…..well what the fuck are you on twitter for then?
I don’t have twitter….glad I don’t. People deserve Climate change.
I thought The Hump and The Humpsters were praising manufacturing
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/ism-manufacturing-index-december-2019.html
Sorry baby, but you deserved to be treated like that, I mean you worked for Faux News.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/courtney-friel-says-trump-asked-her-to-visit-his-office-for-a-kiss
I would think that this would be enough to vote for anyone that in effect would defeat The Hump.
https://youtu.be/tVQqDEq9tNc
https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1212928617518419968
Heh. Trailerbilly yunguns gonna bleeeeeed fer this. Yup.
Breaking News Headline of the day:
Then made boom boom. Yup.
“New evidence showing Donald Trump’s direct role in pressuring Ukraine for political favors is dialing up the heat as Republicans launch their New Year push to shield the President in a swift Senate impeachment trial.
“Trump’s top Senate protector, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is expected to attempt to define the next phase of the drama on Friday morning with his first floor speech of 2020.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/03/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-republicans-mcconnell/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: These two paragraphs capsulize the contempt that Republicans have for the Constitution and the political rights of every American who didn’t vote for them.
@45 Civilized people don’t dance on graves, but you’re not civilized, you’re a Republican, so have at it.
@29 “Debt is incredibly cheap. Apple has hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and yet it borrows, and substantially so.”
Exactly. See anything wrong with this picture? Can you imagine any way it might go south?
@36 Russia would benefit from America and Iran blowing each other up, as long as the prevailing winds don’t blow too much radioactive fallout into Russia. Worse than Chernobyl, I mean. They’ll put up with a certain amount.
@41 He isn’t a good anything. He’s a nasty, brutish, uncouth, and utterly unprincipled troll.
@44 “to criticize the Democrat to my heart’s content because the likelihood is that (s)he will be another poor choice”
Compared to what? The question is irrelevant, because you’ll criticize the Democrat no matter who it is, and refuse to vote for him/her no matter who the Republican is. If the next Hitler has an (R) after his name, he’ll get a pass from you.
Therein lies the key to why other people and rabbits here really do question your (a) intelligence, (b) judgment, and (c) sanity.
@49 “You’re not just a traitor, Doctor. You’re a dumbfuck traitor.”
Because he does it free. Any half-assed traitor would expect to be paid.
@51 “he drove around generals and sat at a desk. he was basically a temp / chaffeur”
Irrelevant. In the Battle of the Bulge, cooks and drivers were handed rifles and sent to the front line.
In the military, you can be assigned any duty according to the needs of the service.
When our service members and veterans enlisted they put themselves at the disposal of the commanders. You don’t get to say, “That’s not my job.” You say, “Yes sir.” That’s why they all deserve our respect no matter what they do/did in the service.
Cadet Bone Spurs? Fucking draft dodger. While others were fighting and dying so he didn’t have to. Deserves no respect. None.
@52 What I’ve been saying. The economy continues to deteriorate while the stock market goes up. What does up, must come down. Stocks are overvalued. There’s a correction coming.
@54 Right now, I’m inclined to think the only Democrat with a good shot at defeating Trump is Biden.
I’m skeptical that enough voters will buy what Warren and Sanders are selling. Buttigieg is a niche candidate; he can’t turn out black voters, and his youth and inexperience will turn off some swing voters.
Biden has his faults, but I’m worried we’ll lose if we nominate one of the others. He has strong union and minority support, and the experience many voters want.
62,
EEEN-DEEE-PEN-DUNCE always for all time gonna have a problem with anyone the Democrats nominate unless and until it is a younger, moar intellijunt Ronald Raygun – cept without all the dementia and piles of dead Catholic nuns.
They prefer their naked racism with a clean conscience.
Fuck ’em.