BruceVC

They not controlled opposition, Im telling you But the shutdown had to end and these 8 Democrats broke ranks for that reason And they will vote on extending Healthcare benefits in December and that should pass. That was the main issue for Dems You cant have the US government shutdown and not functional

When I see analysis like this the more convinced I am that Canadas only future is to become part of the USA !!! No one will be angry with American ownership of Canadian assets if you American

You right in the general sense and that applies to most countries that have a crisis with illegal migration like South Africa. There is an irrefutable reality around the work and contribution that illegal migrants do And yes it makes more sense to focus on border control and quick deportations for those caught trying to enter illegally Because whats not working is the heavy handiness of what ICE is doing around these streets arrests and violent raids within established communities. And the voting optics and outcomes matter because of the perceptions around how ICE is conducting themselves For example ICE will raid an apartment block that is in a Latino community and lets say 15% are illegal migrants, the other 85% see how ICE is dragging people into vans and families are being destroyed and it goes down very badly And then as I mentioned ICE isnt interested in most Dem states and cities with working with local authorities. So they seen as this violent Federal intervention force that has no regard for what citizens think or there basic rights And thats why the GOP needs to change this strategy or I predict more election losses like on Tuesday

What the GOP needs to do is change there entire strategy around how ICE enforces migration laws And Im talking about the optics and reality around ICE arrests and these violent raids on buildings and apartments Its alienating large parts of the Hispanic community and they will lose votes Trump ran on deportations of illegals as a popular policy and large numbers of Hispanics voted for him But they never signed up for how ICE is conducting themselves. Im not sure how exactly they would change things but I would start with being less militant and working with state and city officials to enforce migration laws This idea of ICE bypassing or just ignoring local authorities is not working and its mostly Dem cities where you see this practice by ICE

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-day-2025-voting-results/ Interesting set of elections in Virginia, California, NY and NJ with the Dems winning by large margins Its been touted as a "referendum " on Trumps presidency but these are generally blue states but you cant ignore the margins in Virginia and NJ. With Harris last year it was much closer so its a reason for Dems to celebrate The influencing factors are ostensibly Trumps disapproval ratings, the US economy and the Hispanic vote Midterms will be very interesting and I look forward to seeing how Mamdani will now deliver on all this " free stuff "

And thats a common sentiment that many Americans now feel I was watching a CNN show where they were interviewing members of a specific Hispanic community who had mostly voted Trump and most of them said they wont vote for Trump again and felt disappointed They didn't all say he had lied but they did say he had failed to deliver or he was doing things outside of what he campaigned on Either way its less votes for the GOP in the midterms

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/123987715/****-cheney-former-vice-president-dies **** Cheney is dead He will be remembered as someone with an interesting legacy. Significant and controversial at the same time depending on what part of his life you reflect on Either way, RIP

Trump didnt campaign on Project 2025 But he did campaign on the things I mentioned and he never lied that he wasnt going to implement them like border control and deportations of illegals. He stated many times he was going to do this and he still won the election There is understandable Trump voters remorse from many Americans but to say he is inconsistent\lied around what he said he was going to do isn't an accurate reflection of the reality of what he has done As I keep saying, end of the day let the midterms and the state elections tell us what American sentiment about Trump really is Those results will tell us the truth

And the lore of Bunker was interesting, as you find more notes you start to put together the madness what the soldiers experienced I ended up running away from the monster most of the time to the Administration Room , if it was front of me I would use one bullet to stun it and then run over it I even ran away from it after getting the dynamite because it found me , it started chasing me but I somehow got through the tunnels you drain in the arsenal and survived

Im still finalizing my first Skyrim\LoreRim experience and I am researching new mods So I decided to play Amnesia Bunker, its classic Amnesia good fun horror survival. The addition of the monster makes a great change and its nice having weapons Its there best game so far I did decide to use 1 cheat mod. I loaded a mod that gave me an endless torch, I got tired of the rats and the darkness mechanics so from the Arsenal onwards I used this Torch cheat I enjoyed the ending and how you deal with the monster but it did kill me about 5 times before I came right

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/4/nyc-mayoral-election-live-mamdani-leads-polls-against-cuomo-sliwa I see Mamdani will win the NY mayoral race What a racist country the US is that a person born in Uganda who openly believes in socialism could win an election in the wealthiest city in the US Those Nazi\racist people in the US, Im outraged

I would argue Trump was very honest on what he would change and implement if he won the election, at least on main things The main voting issues that concerned US citizens were crime illegal migration\border control inflation Things like DEI or the Israeli vs Palestinian conflict were not primary voting issues So Trump will and should be judged on those deliverables in the midterms. This weeks elections in NJ and Virginia should be an interesting bellwether for the midterms and the GOP current popularity But its a silly point you making and false equivalence A person cannot run for the job of US president if they fail certain basic health expectations and Dementia is one of those things So Biden should never had been the Dem candidate. Whats the point of saying " but Biden would have been better " when his cognitive reality disqualifies him Its a completely hypothetical debate and seems like a waste of time. You can argue Harris would have been better than Trump but she lost the election So Im not making a rhetorical point, Im stating categorically " Biden was never a presidential candidate because of his dementia " And then you probably not aware of the racism and discrimination against white men that DEI has created in certain countries Like the case of the UK RAF, it happens and you should be outraged. Discrimation is wrong !!! And it was a women who exposed this practice https://news.sky.com/story/complete-nonsense-if-raf-is-pausing-job-offers-for-white-men-over-impossible-diversity-targets-javid-says-12674947 "Sajid Javid has said it would be "complete nonsense" if the RAF has placed an "effective pause" on offering jobs to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities. It comes after defence sources told Sky News on Tuesday that the head of RAF recruitment had resigned in protest at the move which aims to hit "impossible" diversity targets. The senior female officer apparently handed in her notice in recent days amid concerns that any such restrictions on hiring, however temporary and limited, could undermine the fighting strength of the Royal Air Force (RAF), the sources said. "

None of that has any relevance to what I said Let me repeat it for clarity and give more context . The Dem strategists lied to there supporters and the world about the collapse of Bidens mental state. They didnt care that he was suffering from Dementia because they had convinced themselves he was the " only " candidate who could beat Trump and ironically when the truth came out during that debate with Trump it only made things worse for them and should people vote for them What the Dems should have done after the midterms is find a new candidate selected through the DNC process but they decided to stick with Biden despite his dementia If being lied to doesn't concern you thats fine but its one of the reasons Trump had such a sweeping victory Everything you mentioned is issues and criticisms with Trump, thats not what Im talking about And yes I dont think systemic racism exists widely in the US because my definition of that is where you have laws and systems that are racist. Like in Apartheid, that was an example of systemic racism. But you can post an example of a US law or bill that is specifically racist and I will read it. But racism like all forms of bigotry does exist in the US like all other countries but its not "systemic " Then as @Zoraptorsaid I didnt want Trump to be the GOP candidate. But he won the RNC and he became the candidate, thats how national conventions work in the USA Then I always accept the outcomes of free and fair elections in any country even if Im not happy with the outcome and Trump won in a free and fair election Thats how Democracy works and Im not going to change my view on this because of the candidate

Its excellent, one of the best police dramas I have ever seen. Complex and nuanced characters really make the show You should watch it to the end

Yes the US could target the Soles cartel bases within Venezuela, thats why they have deployed naval assets. Its already been raised as a possibility Thats not the same as attacking the government of Venezuela and Maduro can try to spin that as much as possible and then people can decide to believe that targeting drug cartels is the same as targeting the state. I would expect that type of sensationalism and SM outrage Saying all that targeting Soles and Venezuela is not going to make much a difference to drugs being smuggled into the US. Firstly drugs like cocaine come mostly from Peru, Bolivia and Colombia and then most of the drugs are smuggled by Mexican and other cartels through the border, air and pacific routes. The Caribbean routes are just one way Here is good link on the Soles Cartel so you can understand its relationship within Venezuela https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/09/26/what-you-should-understand-about-the-cartel-de-los-soles/

A couple of years ago we witnessed military coups in Mali, Niger and Burkina Fuso where Democratically elected governments were overthrown and the main reason for this was the " failures " of the state to deal with the insurgencies and Jihadists. The various generals claimed they would end these conflicts if they were running the countries The French military were also booted out and Russian Wagner\Africa Corp were brought in to replace the French military Several years later as predicted the insurgencies are not only continuing but the violence has got worse. The Juntas have failed in there main objective and citizens have no recourse because the Democrat systems have been abandoned https://theconversation.com/jihadists-have-blockaded-malis-capital-whats-at-stake-268692 The capital of Mali is basically besieged "For weeks now, Bamako has been isolated from its external sources of supply, particularly fuel, which must be imported from its coastal neighbours. The government was recently forced to declare the closure of schools and universities due to lack of transport. Would the capture of an African capital by jihadists, rather than by conventional rebels, trigger an external intervention by western or African powers? This is unlikely. With the exception of its partners in the Alliance of Sahel States, Mali’s government is very isolated diplomatically. France was forced to depart just a few years ago, and was stung by its deep unpopularity in the region. A new French intervention seems unimaginable. The US is currently more interested in transactions than in new interventions, especially in Africa. Mali’s break with the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) would also seem to prevent a coordinated regional response. Even Burkina Faso and Niger, Mali’s neighbours and its partners in the Sahel alliance, are bogged down with their own jihadist insurgency. "

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5584001-rubio-trump-deny-impending-venezuela-strikes/ Both Trump and Rubio have denied the US has any plans to attack Venezuela, targeting drug cartels is not the same as war with a country unless the country where the drug cartels operate want to create a war " Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back on a report Friday that the Trump administration had decided to strike military installations in Venezuela. “Your ‘sources’ claiming to have ‘knowledge of the situation’ tricked you into writing a fake story,” Rubio posted on social platform X. He was responding to a Miami Herald report that said the strikes could come “at any moment” amid an increasingly aggressive posture from the U.S. toward Venezuela. Sources told the news outlet the strikes aimed at cutting off the hierarchy of the Soles drug cartel. President Trump earlier Friday also disputed reporting that he was planning to carry out strikes inside Venezuela. “No. It’s not true,” Trump said. "

You guys seem to forget that Trump is not in terrible physical shape, look how he was dancing in Malaysia. He has got the moves baby

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/americas/hurricane-melissa-damage-jamaica-cuba-latam-intl @Malcador Terrible damage from the hurricane, do you have any family or friends impacted?

Honestly, you would rather have someone with full blown dementia as the US president than Trump? You really dont like Trump But isnt it sad the low bar we have for world leaders, a choice between Trump or Biden in the US I blame the US voters, its there fault

Im not Afrikaans so it doesnt apply to me What is funny is the stories we hear about the people who migrated to the US and how hard they say it is to live there compared to South Africa. No domestic workers or the number of farm workers compared to South Africa But the reality is its such a tiny number of people who have left for the US, its become much more of a sensationalized story than a real one All the main Afrikaans groups in South Africa say that SA is there home and they not leaving

Do you have no issue with being lied to for several years about Bidens mental state and how he was the official presidential candidate of the worlds most powerful and influential country until a few months before the election? No issue with that?

Im not following this debate closely but Trump doesnt have anything like the dementia that Biden had or what my father has and your dad He forgets things and makes some mistakes but thats more common for his age as you mentioned Trump can hold a conversation and he has many interviews where he is coherent outside of his normal rants and narcissistic personality. He can answer questions It was an utter disgrace and betrayal of the entire Democrat base the way the Dem strategists lied about Bidens mental decline Can you imagine if Biden had become president with his condition

This is a particularly interesting analysis of the reality of the Indian and Chinese unbalanced relationship with Russia and how unhelpful it has now become for Russia on many levels but especially oil sales and Chinese investments into Russia . Its only 10 minutes and worth listening to for those still interested in this war but I think @Malcador and @Zoraptorwould appreciate it

I have finally decided to take the plunge and play Skyrim, its only been 14 years since its release The hardest decision was what mod collection to use and I did loads of research around the best mod collections and how they change vanilla Skyrim and I finally decided on LoreRim v4 which is the last and final LoreRim version This mod collection has over 4000 mods and uses Requiem as its foundation But how can anyone install 4000 mods, who has the time for that and I have one word for that relevant question ..." Wabbajack " (WJ) These are steps I followed and the timelines to install LoreRim and the issues I experienced Wabbajack downloaded all the mods in about 6-8 hours, I let it run overnight and with a Nexus Premium account I had no issues LoreRim V4 uses Skyrim AE edition and you need to install the relevant Creation Club (CC) mods or the Wabbajack install will fail. But WJ provides detailed logs on what is failing so I had to manually re-download 3 CC mods. Then I had about 10-12 Nexus mods that reported on being corrupted during the WJ installation. You just delete them from the WJ download and it downloads them again Finally it reported some access errors 1-2 times but you just shutdown WJ and restart it and then it worked, WJ remembers where it last failed so you dont have to ever start the whole process again WJ then created my MO2 profile with all the 4000 mods in the correct MO2 load order So the entire install of LoreRim and troubleshooting after the initial downloads took about 5 hours. Thats nothing compared to how long manually configuring 4000 mods would take as any modder will agree My next steps before I play Go through the post installation configuration advice and tips from the mod creator Install some additional mods and possibly some adult mods. There is a process to follow from the mod creator I will make sure I save my working MO2 profile so I can easily role back I dont plan to add many new mods but I want to play around before I start with LoreRim because now I understand the installation process