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LOL I’ve heard that complaint too! hey they are selling some of that stuff and excepting bitcoin as payment. It’s not too late!

Had they withdrawn after destroying the Taliban government and just given the country back to the tribal leaders there would’ve been no American civilians there to evacuate. But that is Roads not taken

The reporter asked about what would happen if there were still Americans there after the deadline. So Biden thought he’d make a little joke about that. That is not funny. The fate that likely awaits someone in that situation is not a laughing matter. And the decisions he made are largely responsible for their condition. Not that he decided to withdraw. But the haphazard way in which it was executed. Like I said, joking about that makes you a f——-g a——-e. You guys would be far less forgiving if the last idiot had done the exact same thing.

Newsweek good enough?

Being killed in the evacuation is not the same thing as being killed after being left behind.

You don’t joke about leaving Americans stranded in a place like Afghanistan because your administration is incapable of planning a proper withdrawal. He has caught a lot of flak that he doesn’t deserve. Mainly all the US weapons that were now in the hands of the Taliban. They were not abandoned by the US military they were abandoned by the Afghan army. That’s a distinction that seems to be lost at all of the people gleefully reporting how well armed the Taliban is now. But when military leaves if even a single American is left behind and then publicly executed by the Taliban or one of the terrorist groups that man will be politically dead. If he isn’t already. God knows he deserves to be. They are already preparing for that eventuality. What do you think they mean by “we will evacuate every American who wants to leave“. They are already preparing to look the country in the eye and say anyone who was left behind obviously didn’t want to leave. Well also one thing. Our previous president made Nixon look honest. Our current president is making Carter look strong. Bidens stupid little smirks and Harrises incessant cackling when asked questions about this disaster they are leading are doing them and their office is no credit.

No he was a chronic depresseive who self medicated with alcohol. So kind of close LOL

I was wrong about Joe Biden. Earlier I called him a “feckless idiot“. That doesn’t really describe him at all. He’s an absolute f——-g a———e. Biden jokes about stranding Americans in Afghanistan I see why the staff cut his mic. ”there are chords in the heart of even the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made” Edgar Allen Poe

I can’t imagine there is any other political philosophy out there that seems to annoy people as much as libertarianism. Imagine a society where you can do what you like, get married whom ever you like, do what you like in the home and property that you exclusively own, do what you will with the body that is exclusively yours, keep most of the money that you earn and do what you wish with it, and the only restrictions on you is not to hurt, steal from, or otherwise infringe on anyone else. Who would want to live in a hell like that?

Actually my favorite one is this one: ”I would die for you but I will not live for you” Ayn Rand I do not buy into the whole of her philosophy but she is good for a quote or two. She is also good for long, preachy books whose points, while interesting, are about as subtle as a train wreck.

I see blood everywhere

LOL dystopian Miami. As if there was any other kind!

I’d still probably die of dysentery before we ever got out of Nebraska

Sure. What are you making? Oregon Trail? I’m afraid much more than that you will have exceeded my skill set!

No I was attempting to explain why so many people are skeptical about everything they are told about COVID-19. And apparently you’ve been watching different press conferences to conclude that about Biden‘s honesty. The statements made about the situation on the ground in Afghanistan have been far from honest. Or maybe he really is just clueless or doesn’t listen to people who are not telling him what he wants to hear. But that’s a subject for a different thread.

Turns Out The Hardest Part of Making a Game Is...Everything Interesting reading. My education and background is electronics engineering. So I have some experience in coding. But the first programming language I learned was Fortran and last (and the only one I was any good at) was C++. Nowhere NEAR as complex at what is used today. People get down on game devs over small bugs and other problems but to tell you the truth I am always amazed games work as well as they do. I sure as heck couldn't do it! Tip the hat to all of the OBS guys & gals and all the others too.

At the beginning it was actually hard to say what was misinformation and what wasn’t . Go back to April 2020 and all of the advice concerning COVID changes on a month to month basis. First they tell us don’t wear the mask. Then they tell us wear the mask. Then it’s wear two masks. Stay 6 feet apart. Ah but the virus can travel 28 feet through the air. All of this was coming from the Trump admin and the CDC. Of course the reason for that is this particular virus was new. It has not been around long and no one knew much about it. So they were feeling their way along. But how does all these changing directives sound to people who are already distrustful of the current administration or government in general? Skepticism is understandable. Even the vaccines that exist today are not traditional vaccines. They manipulate the messenger RNA to create a protein it makes the body resistant to the virus. Generally speaking that’s not how inoculations work. They usually give the body a dead sample of the target disease so natural immunity can be built. The Covid vaccine forces the body to construct a proteins that may or may not be affective. So once again skepticism is understandable. And there is no way to know the long-term effect. We may all be zombies in 10 years. The problem is the government, used in the general term, did not look at the American people right in the face and say we don’t know everything there is to know about this virus. Every single directive is presented as an authoritative direction only to be contradicted a short time later in small or large part. That just bred skepticism. I think the way this should’ve been framed, and it is the way it is being framed now, is that you’re better off with the vaccine them without it. They should have let off with that back in January. Instead the Trump administration and then the Biden administration following them when the vaccine was first released we’re telling people it would protect them. It wasn’t until months later the message changed to “better off with them without“. The best piece of advice is the one I took to heart. Avoid all the other humans like the dirty and diseased apes they probably are LOL! Edit: Another factor that caused skepticism is assertively stating it did not come from the lab in Wuhan China. Nobody knows where it came from. When you don’t know the answer it’s acceptable to say we don’t know. And to tell you the truth right now it really doesn’t matter. Questions like origins and culpability can be worked out later.

I haven’t watch the video yet but yes that iconic Iwo Jima picture was staged in a manner of speaking. Echo company of the 2/28 captured the summit and raised the first flag there. It was too small to be seen from the beach so the battalion commander ordered a larger flag to be raised. This was a few hours later so By that time a news photographer was on the summit with them and took that picture of the second and larger flag going up. It was not staged in the sense they were trying to capture an iconic image but they knew he was there and taking the picture all the same. From what I read they waited until he was ready to get the picture to do it.

Actually I’ve never heard the show in my life. I have heard of him. He’s something of an institution in these parts. But his show broadcasts in Nashville and I live closer to Memphis. I couldn’t pick up if I wanted to. anyway back to your point I’m a little confused. Who are we talking about when you’re saying someone has blood on their hands? But let me just throw this example down. In my opinion Donald Trump has blood on his hands for the capital riot. It’s very hard not to argue that he incited them to do exactly what they ended up doing. Now he did not intend for them to storm into the capital and wreck havoc and end up with people dying. But he did say let’s go over there and make our voices heard. Maybe that does not rise to the level of criminal culpability. But in my opinion at least it certainly rises to the level of moral culpability. Personally I thought he should have been criminally charged for it. That said I didn’t want him dead. I would much rather he left in disgrace. Or maybe spent a little bit of time in jail. if you’re making an argument that a guy who does a radio show somehow has blood on his hands that’s going to be a much harder sell. Take what Hurlshot said about Rush Limbaugh. A lot of people found his show toxic. I think the last time I heard it was in the 90s and I don’t expect it’s any different in the later years. He was certainly very right wing. But nobody was being compelled to listen to him. So if you find his radio show toxic, and you don’t have to hear it, why then do you find joy in his demise? Suppose he didn’t die. Suppose his show was just taken off the air for one reason or another? Why would that make somebody who never listens to it happy? The only reason I can conclude is they were mad the other people were listening to it. So that means they’re happy people they don’t know can’t engage in an activity they disapprove of. If anybody thinks a person talking on the radio is doing such harm that it’s good that they die They absolutely need to get the hell over themselves.

Read my further responses. I addressed all of your points. In fact one of them verbatim.

I remember an argument in the VFW two years ago. I was almost asked to leave LOL. It was another member who I am actually friends with who is wearing a hat with a picture of a AR 15 in the words come and take it. He was also wearing a back the blue T-shirt. I couldn’t help myself. I asked him if he was still “back the blue when they came to take it?”

Matt Gaetz elopes to California, marries girlfriend with the accusations hanging over this guy why would she even want to marry him?