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[quote quote=1502]No matter what people think of Trump. He has exposed the CCP for what they are and no future president can ignore that we are in conflict with them. My money is on us, even with less aggressive conventional Administrations[/quote]
I disagree. The Chinese threat will be papered over by 98 percent of politicians in the U.S. because it is being papered over by nearly 100 percent of the wealthy. Too many wealthy people (especially the billionaires) have a need for access to the Chinese market, and won’t poke the bear.
They steer the politicians.
Trump has been right on China. He was right on ISIS. He has been right on NATO. He has been “not wrong” on North Korea (remember, they were about to nuke us when he took office), and he has been “not wrong” on Afghanistan as best I can tell. The question is whether he has been right or wrong (or voting present) on Russia…but Russia isn’t dangerous with moderate energy prices.
His foreign policy has been overall better than anybody could have expected from a marketing-driven socialite blowhard.
As to China: Here’s the rub… In 1985, the U.S. imported approximately $400 million of goods from the USSR. Inflation-adjusted to today, that’s about $1 Billion. We exported 6 times as much to the USSR than we imported from them.
For comparison, the U.S. imported approximately $450 billion of goods from China in 2019. That amount is about 4 times what we exported to China.
In other words, the Communists have done a really good job of wresting the means of production from the Capitalists. So, all the capitalists have their balls in a vice and won’t criticize the communists… See the NBA for example, or Amazon’s quick walk back of its TikTok ban.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That’s a heck of a response, Bob. The references to foreign combatants on U.S. soil and US Citizens living abroad are golden. Once again, logic is a tough mother.
Your line about rights and privileges of citizenship only accruing to citizens is a good one and incites a lot of arguments from the left. CA Prop 187 and the debate around it was a good example of that conflict writ large that cause a lot of liberal lashing out.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Wow. They reassembled the gun correctly to render it lethal, then charged her with lethal threat. That’s creative.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1519]Hmmm, if the same standard was applied universally, you must annually file a tax return, would there be anyone left in Portland for the peaceful protests?[/quote]
Well, to be fair, you don’t “HAVE” to file a tax return if you have no income. So there’s that.
I doubt you meant this, but I would say that an officer not filing tax returns is a really, really, big red flag that that officer is willing to exercise discretion around a lot of other rules.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)the Portland protests look mostly white, and officer Jackson said the white protesters had primarily caused some real problems for him.
At what point do we finally remove the cloak of “racial grievance” from protests like this and start knocking the white college students’ heads? I know that’s profiling, but I just watched video of Portland mayor ted Wheeler navigating the crowd and all the people yelling are white guys.
when does the black community say they don’t need this sort of help? Maybe they have and I’m on the wrong channel.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Thank you for posting. I listened to the whole thing. Impressive. Sad.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1485]I would love to hear the accussed explain what they were doing. Just kids being kids?[/quote]
People will do what they will do.
Sounds to me like these “teens” made a bad set of choices. Their parents should be ashamed of themselves, but that’s asking too much these days.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Is TC going on timeout to the EXCELLENT cardboard site?
Some of us speak football so well we can’t walk properly anymore. Go sell fandom somewhere else.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Think about this: if coronaviruses were so easy to vaccinate against that we could do a crash course for one brand new virus type, then why is the common cold so common?
Yes, vaccination will be a challenge.
If I were a bureaucrat throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at this vaccine initiative, I would be royally pissed that only 1 percent of trial participants are black. AAs are getting slammed hard by COVID due to location and cultural behaviors.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“Took the most perfect double-tapered shit I’ve ever had in my life.”
That’s a keeper.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t follow this sort of thing much and couldn’t have picked Chrissy out of a lineup, but that’s some funny stuff right there.
I was running some errands with my oldest (16) and he and I got to talking about what it was like when I was a teenager vs now. We concluded that the guys talk a LOT less about girls now, that locker room talk isn’t what it used to be, and that smart teenagers these days know that everything they do is being recorded. That last one is kinda sad if you ask me. Some of my best memories would likely get me in some trouble if they were tweeted at the time and findable now.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1460]If football becomes a pay if you play sport, the rest of college athletics is doomed. Really interesting in a Title IX environment. Who do you pay on the women’s side? Hoops and what else?[/quote]
It would never fly because of title IX wrong-ness and also greed, but why not just pay based on the net revenue generated by the sport after its individual expenses and reasonable overhead?
If a women’s sport sustains itself and generates a profit, then pay.
It really isn’t that hard but we have to create a world of equal outcomes when the value of the input is vastly different between men and women.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Love it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I would think it would be very hard to walk back from the woman of color commitment.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I should have edited my comment on the revenue share. Instead of saying it was “ridiculous” I should have said that it was entirely reasonable but will be viewed as ridiculous by the NCAA and conference. I wrote too quickly.
I totally believe that big time football should be spun out of universities and treated as for profit clubs. All this stuff at Stanford about the athletic department not sharing the endowment essentially already does that. Football is one big for profit entertainment operation that the university reserves student admissions slots for because those students enrich the student population and experience, and they bring donors together. Just because the football teams profits are used to subsidize a bunch of other sports doesn’t mean it isn’t for profit.
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