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So are you saying DiJonai is a Liberal / Democrat ?

You posted that in this thread ... so that's the point right? Accept I don't see anything anywhere about what party she is affiliated with.

DiJonai Carrington is vocally anti-Donald Trump and has publicly worn explicit anti-Trump apparel. I'm not saying that 100% means she is a liberal/democrat but it's a pretty strong indication.

Took her right out of the air, bro! Very dangerous play. The scumbags calling it a "basketball play", defending her and/or whining some tired-@ss b.s. about "racism" should rot.

How timely, Fate. Bill Maher has Mike Rowe on his show. Can find the full clip but here is a snippet.


#NILF

Too many people think they're going to get a degree, then get a job sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, maybe working from home 1-3 days a week, and making $80,000 a year. Truth? The trades. Plumber, electrician, road construction, etc. Might start at $50,000, but if your good, doesn't take long to move up. Young man I know: Had a baseball scholarship if he wanted it. Also, had a choice. He took the choice. He's now, when he might have been just graduating college............he's instead making $120,000 a year, and moving up.

But, he travels. (and I know many people that spend a week at a time away from home). He/they work in the heat, the cold, etc.

Well that may be - there are plenty of staunch old school Repoublicans who are aggressively anti-Trump. There are plenty of people who couldn't tell you what communism is vs facism that are aggressively anti-Trump.

That said - it's one more example of some idiot - in this case a high profile idiot - saying something dumb and then having "social media" present them as representing one side or the other. And then the muppets that get fed that in their echo chamber spamming the web with it. That's really the issue. But hey. All is fair in love and politics - Spread the S**t - that's what good fanboys do.

Nothing to see here, folks......

Doing the quick math here... with 94% of the vote in, Crowley was up by 1198 votes... then, when the flash drives were "fixed" he increased his lead by another 1194 votes... from a mere 3% of the ballots cast! He doubled his lead!

That's crazy! Especially since he had quit the race in early July and then recently just threw his hat back in the ring. He reentered because "data he had initially relied upon to justify his exit was incorrect".

Then, when he reentered, Mandela Barnes suspended his campaign, he said "it’s become very clear who our nominee is going to be". That was July 30th.

And it was pretty clear: Hong had a 22 point lead!

What an amazing turnaround!

Those unexpected "late" vote dumps that seem to come out of nowhere!!! It's the Democrats so they may find more votes and still be counting a month from now. Elections are a crap show anymore. Go back to the way they used to be done. Follow real rules!!!

Oh memories.....

Where did those "vote dumps" occur? Any evidence of "vote dumps"? Do you even know what a "vote dump" is?

My favorite from that era was when the push to reopen schools was solved by the CDC by arbitrarily changing the social distancing to three feet... and they called it science! 🤣

Republicans continuing to be absolutely stumped by how absentee ballots work will never not be funny. Why bother to understand how a simple process works when you can invent some super complex conspiracy theory instead, right?

Didn't he throw his hat back in the ring because the Lt Gov backed out (it had something to do with campaign finance), which allowed him to secure the outgoing person's blessing?

He dropped out two days after her.

It's hilarious how they claim that "communists" are taking over the Democrat party and then start some whacko nonsense when one of them loses.

I guess they chose to ignore the fact they admitted a mistake was made and then corrected the mistake. I mean that makes sense, right? A conspiracy theory someone openly admitted to?

Not sure why the outrage. The Democrats have elected officials just like Kim Jong Un in cities and states across the country now.

If it was not true it would be funny. Since it is true it is not really a laughing matter.

It's hilarious and just proves that you don't know the difference. And sadly, you don't want to know the difference. You're too busy lapping up every drop of snake oil your extremist president gives you.

Adding the word
Democratic to Socialist is the same as putting lip stick on a pig. The pig is still a pig it lays in the mud and still smells. All forms of socialism are pure and simple communism. There is no redeeming qualities of socialism. It all takes freedoms from people and I am not interested. This DSA movement is nothing more than the American and French revolution in reverse. It is sick.

Obviously, as I said, you have no concept between what socialism, communism and a dictator are. The only one acting like a pig here is the one wallowing in the ignorance of not even attempting to understand the difference because he would rather wallow in what he is being spoon fed than to bother to learn anything for himself. It is sick.

Kim Jong Un is the supreme leader of North Korea. He holds absolute power over the country as a totalitarian dictator. He rules with total control through a strict single-party system and a powerful military.

Please at least attempt to learn what you're talking about before continuing to make a fool of yourself. Despite what you think it isn't attractive.

Do you not think that all socialist want his same power. If you say no your more naive than anyone could ever imagine.

If you can't look at trump and see that's exactly what he is trying to do you're more naive than anyone could ever imagine.

Where do they find these people??

I don't go along with that idea in a general sense but if a man hadn't eaten in a couple of days or someone had hungry children I wouldn't try to prosecute them or paint him as a criminal if they were stealing some food. I would actually be willing to pay for it myself.

You can spin it that way mac, but the reality is it is more a dart thrown at S Korea over support for N Korea.

I can agree with you in that limited example. That said I don't think many face prosecution over stealing a few loafs of bread and pack of salami. If you were the store owner, you probably won't press charges. On the other hand if it was happening a hundred time a week by 100 different people you would get tired of the losses as that adds up to real money. At minimum you would seek to have them trespassed from your store.

And then we're getting away from the point, and this crackhead's proposal, making theft LEGAL if you need the product.

You see, sometimes there actually is a middle ground on which to least most people can agree.

Of course once again he and others keep ignoring trump's own words. I guess wherever they get their news from isn't reporting that to them.................

Trump’s South Korea move rattles foreign policy world

President Trump’s decision to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea is being met with derision from Democrats and fears from other allies who are already worried over the president’s past willingness to toss aside longtime defense commitments.

Trump said it was too late to fully cancel what he called expensive and provocative joint exercises known as Ulchi Freedom Shield but directed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the drills on Sunday — just a day before they were set to start.

The war games are a major part of a mutual defense treaty between the U.S. and South Korea, meant to protect Seoul from possible North Korean aggression.

The announcement, made in a Truth Social post, further added insult to injury by excoriating Seoul for refusing to help the U.S. in its war against Iran.

This is not the first time Trump has criticized the exercise. In 2018, he said he was suspending the drills after meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

But in curtailing the planned 10-day war game, Trump risks further alienating vital allies and partners, making the U.S. less safe in the process, analysts say.

Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that “watering down U.S.-South Korea military exercises is a risky move that lowers coalition readiness and puts U.S. forces at risk with no real tangible benefit to the United States.”

He said Trump “does not seem to understand that North Korea is part of the ‘bad guys’ team.”

“North Korea threatens key American allies and trade partners — South Korea and Japan — daily,” he added. “Kim Jong Un is not America’s friend, he cannot be reasoned with, and he won’t give up his nuclear weapons. There is no Nobel Prize in Pyongyang.”

The president has said the exercises come across as unnecessarily hostile toward North Korea and has touted his “very good relationship” with Kim.

“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea,”[/b] he wrote on social media.

“These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful,” the president added.

Trump noted Seoul’s decision not to get involved with the Iran war.

“While somewhat unrelated, I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, ‘No thanks!’” the president wrote on social media.

On Monday, Trump said he was turned off by South Korea not agreeing to help the U.S. denuclearize Iran even though the U.S. has troops in South Korea to deter aggression from North Korea.

He told reporters he recently spoke on the phone with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and asked if the South Korean leader would give the U.S. “a little hand” with Iran.

“I called him. I said, ‘Would you like to give us a little hand? We don’t need help with Iran, but if you’d like, give us a hand with Iran.’ He said, ‘No thanks.’ And I said, ‘Wait a minute. We have 39,000 soldiers over there, guarding you from Kim Jong Un, your next-door neighbor, and you’re not going to help us on a very easy military operation in Iran. That’s strange,’” Trump told reporters Monday in the Oval Office.

“We can’t go around and protect all of these countries, especially when they’re not there to help us,” he added.

Outside observers said it was obvious Trump was frustrated with the lack of support from key U.S. allies on the Iran front.

“Trump obviously he’s got his mind fixed on Iran right now, and it’s pretty clear that he still holds some frustration toward American partners and allies whom he asked for help and rebuffed him, and South Korea is on that list,” said Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Sobolik also said Trump has long held the perspective that South Korea is not doing enough in housing some 28,500 troops on the peninsula — most notably trying in his first term to pull American forces out of the country.

“I think he has locked in this distrust not just of the Koreans but of the value that America being there actually has,” he told The Hill.

That leaves the relationship between the two, “not in a great place,” Sobolik said. “This definitely feeds into preexisting doubt that the Koreans have had about the United States and Trump specifically.”

Lawmakers have also weighed in with their frustration over the scaled back exercises.

“China and Russia are watching how easily this President abandons America’s allies, and they will remember it the next time they test us,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement Monday.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called Trump’s decision “shortsighted” and a “mistake.”

“North and South Korea are still technically at war,” Kelly wrote on social media Sunday. “Our ability to help defend our ally against the North Koreans is because our forces are well trained and able to coordinate with the South Koreans.”

“Hollowing out these joint exercises is shortsighted and a mistake,” the Arizona senator added.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) wrote on social media that the reduction “does nothing more than free up thousands of North Korea’s troops to support Putin’s systematic kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder of innocent Ukrainian citizens.”

Dan Blumenthal, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said there is precedent for Trump to look at canceling or scoping down exercises with South Korea “in hopes of making progress on talks with North Korea in his first term, which didn’t … pan out.”

He added: “So … it’s something that is at the front of his mind, you know, on a fairly constant basis when he thinks about the Korean Peninsula.”

Blumenthal also told The Hill the reduction of exercises “hurts us. It hurts the alliance. It hurts deterrence.”

Still, South Korea seems to want to improve relations with North Korea and hopes that Trump has the ability to do that. South Korea’s Lee has pushed for Trump to facilitate direct talks with Kim to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

Trump, during his first term, met with Kim three times.

Blumenthal said the way to foster dialogue with Kim is not through reduced exercises.

“We get nothing out of reducing our exercise program with South Korea,” he said, adding that it “certainly will appear like a concession … even if that wasn’t the main purpose behind them in the action.”

Some, though, have called the move to reduce the exercises as strategic.

Jennifer Kavanagh, the director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, called it “both a necessary and strategically wise one aligned with U.S. interests.”

“For decades, the Pentagon has argued that U.S. military exercises with South Korea advance several objectives, including deterring aggression by North Korea and China; encouraging regional stability; and preparing U.S. and South Korean soldiers to operate together in a contingency,” she said in a statement. “The reality is that there is little evidence bilateral exercises support any of these aims. In fact, they seem to work in the other direction.”

She added that the exercises “unnecessarily burn U.S. resources and readiness at a time when the United States is running low on both.”

Others have said not to panic just yet, as U.S.-South Korea relations have appeared pretty stable up until this point.

“He had a good meeting with President Lee in Busan in October, and he also agreed to give technology to South Korea to allow them to build nuclear short submarines, so it’s possible that something suddenly changed regarding Iran. But I also think there’s a possibility something is going on behind the scenes that we haven’t seen yet,” said Evan Sankey, policy analyst at the Cato Institute.

“If this were to go so far as to withdraw troops from South Korea, then we’re talking about long- term damage,” he added.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6034269-us-south-korea-military-exercises-cut/

Another treaty agreement trump has broken we can now add to the list. Nobody can trust the word of the U.S. anymore because whether we honor an agreement with them can hinge on a single election.

And trump, in his own words said he likes and doesn't want to upset Kim Jong Un. That Kim Jong Un is.......