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ConorMcGregor NutHugger

ConorMcGregor NutHugger

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Simpleman said:
The guy is an idiot but whats the point of saying that hes a Trump supporter. I could post the homicides and crime stats from any major city and then show that they overwhelming vote democratic. Also whats the point of mentioning that he was armed? Was he doing it illegally? Did he say that he was going to shoot someone there? Did he point it at anyone? Why not mention that he also had a set of car keys on him? Must also be tough form some here to say that there were cops there and (wait for it)...... did a great job.... oh the humanity!
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Imagine if he where a Mexican? Muslim? A Muslim Mexican? Oh the humanity.
 
Sheepdog

Sheepdog

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Pitbull9

Pitbull9

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Simpleman said:
The guy is an idiot but whats the point of saying that hes a Trump supporter. I could post the homicides and crime stats from any major city and then show that they overwhelming vote democratic. Also whats the point of mentioning that he was armed? Was he doing it illegally? Did he say that he was going to shoot someone there? Did he point it at anyone? Why not mention that he also had a set of car keys on him? Must also be tough form some here to say that there were cops there and (wait for it)...... did a great job.... oh the humanity!
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We could also do that with the Bernie supporter who shot up the baseball field almost killing a senator but let’s not let that get in the way of Gustos agenda lol
 
Pitbull9

Pitbull9

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This Pothead said:
You so fucken right. Damn you Freeloading Rusty @MC Gusto why don't you talk about those libs terrorizing our country?
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Actually my point was that there are bad people everywhere in every circle and that is that, but I see you are having fun so continue lol. I just finished a nice workout followed by massive amounts of food followed by a big ass ripper!!!
 
Lukewarm Carl

Lukewarm Carl

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Pitbull9 said:
Actually my point was that there are bad people everywhere in every circle and that is that, but I see you are having fun so continue lol. I just finished a nice workout followed by massive amounts of food followed by a big ass ripper!!!
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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
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jason73 said:
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In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one — Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after seven years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.

No doubt much of the stampede of Republican voters toward Mr. Trump is based on their disgust with the Republican establishment. It is easy to understand why there would be pent-up resentments among Republican voters. But are elections held for the purpose of venting emotions?

No national leader ever aroused more fervent emotions than Adolf Hitler did in the 1930s. Watch some old newsreels of German crowds delirious with joy at the sight of him. The only things at all comparable in more recent times were the ecstatic crowds that greeted Barack Obama when he burst upon the political scene in 2008.

Elections, however, have far more lasting and far more serious — or even grim — consequences than emotional venting. The actual track record of crowd pleasers, whether Juan Perón in Argentina, Obama in America, or Hitler in Germany, is very sobering, if not painfully depressing.

After the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran, we are entering an era when people alive at this moment may live to see a day when American cities are left in radioactive ruins. We need all the wisdom, courage, and dedication in the next president — and his or her successors — to save ourselves and our children from such a catastrophe.

A shoot-from-the-hip, belligerent show-off is the last thing we need or can afford.



— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

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Putin orders Russia to develop new missiles after US leaves treaty
President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's military to begin developing new medium-range missiles in response to President Donald Trump's announcement that the United States is leaving a key Cold War nuclear arms treaty.

Putin announced that Russia was also suspending the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces, or INF treaty, a day after the U.S. said it was pulling out of the 1987 agreement over alleged Russian violations.

At a televised meeting with his foreign and defense ministers, Putin ordered his military to begin developing new ground-launched hypersonic missiles with an intermediate range, and to also begin converting previously sea-based cruise missiles for ground launch -- the deployment of which was banned under the treaty.

But Putin said Russia would not deploy the missiles unless the U.S. deployed its own.

"Our response will be symmetrical," Putin told his officials. "Our American partners have stated about suspending their participation in the Treaty, and we are suspending our's. They have stated that they are doing research and research and development, and we will do the same."

The INF treaty, which was signed by then-President Ronald Reagan with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, banned Russia and the U.S. from developing ground-launched missiles with a range between 310 and 3,100 miles. It removed part of the specter of nuclear attack that then hung over Europe and is seen as having helped build the trust between the two enemies that eventually led to the end of the Cold War.

Trump in a statement on Friday announced the U.S. was suspending its compliance with the treaty and said it would withdraw altogether in six months unless Russia came back into compliance. The U.S. for years has accused Russia of secretly developing a cruise missile with a range that violates the treaty, something Moscow has always denied.

In the statement, Trump said if Russia did not comply by destroying the missiles, "We will move forward with developing our own military response options and will work with Nato and our other allies and partners to deny Russia any military advantage from its unlawful conduct."

At their meeting in the Kremlin, Putin asserted the U.S. was already developing missiles in violation of the treaty and therefore Russia would do the same. He approved a proposal by his defense minister Sergey Shoigu to also begin converting Russia's Calibr cruise missiles -- which are currently sea-based due to the INF treaty's restrictions -- so they can be launched from land too.

Putin's comments will stoke worries that the U.S. and Russia may be headed into a renewed arms race. But Putin emphasised that Russia would not deploy the new missiles if the U.S. did not.

"We start from the position that Russia will not deploy, if these missiles appear, neither in Europe nor other regions of the world, weapons of intermediate range so long as in the corresponding regions of the world similar weapons of American production do not appear," Putin said.

Trump administration officials, however, have previously said warnings that leaving the treaty risks a new arms race ignores that Russia has already developed and tested a missile that violates the treaty.

"When an agreement is so brazenly disregarded, and our security so openly threatened, we must respond," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the State Department when he announced the withdrawal on Friday. Russia denies its missile, the 9M279, is in violation of the treaty.

The U.S. has already been conducting research on intermediate-range missiles in response to Russia's alleged banned missile. Research and development is permitted by the INF treaty, provided there is no flight testing, and the Trump administration has said it would end the research if Russia returned to compliance.

U.S. officials have previously said the missiles remain at an early stage and that deployment is not imminent.

But European countries, arms control experts and critics from both parties on Capitol Hill have expressed alarm at the U.S. exit, fearing it puts Europe under threat.

Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the Trump administration "lacks a coherent strategy to address the threat new Russian cruise missiles pose to the interests of the United States and those of our allies."

Some analysts believe the U.S. is more likely to deploy the missiles in Asia to counter a rising threat from China. Although Trump administration officials in their statements Friday focused on Russia's violations, in reality many experts believe the White House's desire to leave the INF treaty has more to do with China.

American officials, and also some Russians, view the treaty as outdated in that it ties Russia and the U.S. from developing missiles, which China -- not restricted by treaty -- has already deployed on a large scale. In a visit to Moscow in November, National Security Adviser John Bolton, who has driven the push to leave, told Russian reporters that even if Russia destroyed its missiles China would have to as well if the INF treaty was to be saved.

The beginnings of an arms race beyond the scope of the treaty have already seemed to appear. The U.S., Russia and also China have begun to develop hypersonic missiles and other new-generation weapons. Last March, Putin touted an arsenal of doomsday weapons he said Russia was developing, among them nuclear-armed underwater drones and also a hypersonic cruise missile.
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