"Ukraine has shown its willingness to fight for its freedom, with the help of weaponry made here in the US by American workers.
#32 | Posted by LampLighter "

That probably explains the 'snatch vans' grabbing guys off the street to send them to the front lines.

"Wow, you're a ---- idiot. Bye, --------
#29 | Posted by hamburglar"

You have the debate skills of a poop flinging monkey - typical for liberals. Go cry to your mommies. The one with a penis might tell you to man up but I doubt it.

"Digitally or physically?
#28 | Posted by hamburglar"

Physically - and proven.

What do you have?

Meanwhile, the US knowingly funded Islamic extremists since the days of the Russian Afghan invasion that still carry out terror attacks against Russia to this day. But, we are the 'Good Guys'...

"They also don't care about reducing the size of government.
When has that happened? At either a Federal or State level?
#29 | Posted by eberly"

I trust under DOGE that the government can be reduced for the first time in the nation's history. Meanwhile, the Dems run to judges to stop any firing or cut screeching how this will kill people. It is the equivalent to saying that the DMV can't cut 10% because it is the model of peak efficiency and that a 10% cut will cause all license issuing to stop. No one would believe that because the DMV is a running joke because of how inefficient it is and the fact that pretty much every American has witnessed that inefficiency first hand. However, Dems still think there is no fat to cut in the rest of government. I am a realist and have worked in private industry. I would say that EVERY large private company could cut 10% or more of the workforce and have NO IMPACT on productivity. I would say that number is equal, or likely, much higher in the government since downsizing has never occurred. This concept is foreign for liberals as I sense they have never worked for a successful company.

"No, I meant like Pres Trump effectively surrendering to Pres Putin before the peace negotiations had even begun.
#25 | Posted by LampLighter"

With a blank check from the US, Ukraine would never offer peace. So, it had to be done. Given Biden's incompetent running of the military, we no longer can just threaten and get actions like in the past - military or economic sanction threats are both ineffective now due to Democrat impotence. So, you can either embrace the actual reality or you can join your Japanese WW2 heroes and throw yourself off a cliff before the Russians invade Chicago.

"We are fighting the terrorists over there, so we don't have to fight them here."

Actually, your liberal judges are fighting tooth and nail right now to keep the terrorists in the country.

"Well, we were doing that until a few weeks ago.
Until Trump decided Putin's terrorists aren't worth stopping.
#24 | Posted by snoofy"

How many times have the Russians invaded the US in our nation's history? How many terrorist attacks were carried out by the Russians against the US in our nation's history?

By not fighting in Ukraine, do you honestly think that number will change from zero?

"So, your current alias seems to prefer supporting surrender instead of fighting for freedom?
#22 | Posted by LampLighter"

You mean like the Japanese soldiers did during the Battle of Okinawa where they chose suicide over surrender? I don't find these soldiers to be heroic or morally superior because they refused to surrender in the face of the inevitable loss on the battlefield. You seem different. But, I guess it is easy to take your stance when you don't pay the tax money to support it and it is not you or your family being asked to actually do the fighting.

Does any liberal on this site think that loaning SS money to the government at a 2.5% interest rate was the right move as opposed to investing it in the stock market or running it like a sovereign wealth fund? Or hell, like CalPERS or CalSTRS or TIAAF-CREF? Can we all at least agree that restricting the SS Fund to only lending to the government at a 2.5% rate for the last 30 years has been colossally stupid and cost SS recipients trillions of dollars?

"So, you prefer surrender instead of fighting for freedom?
#19 | Posted by LampLighter"

There is no reason for US citizens to make a Masada-like stand (or pay for someone else to do so) when the results were certain from before the first shot was fired. You dumb dems still need to square the circle on how Putin is unable to take over the Ukraine after 3 years but is a threat to roll over all of Europe. Or that Biden's tough sanctions on Russia and policy weakened the Russian military to the point they were stripping refrigerators for computer chips and reduced to fighting with shovels yet their military is now stronger than ever. Maybe try to at least make an internally consistent argument.

"The Judge seems to be asking that DOGE show the [legally justified] results that DOGE has said it has attained.

That's A Good Thing, no?

#12 | Posted by LampLighter"

I would rather have the judge asking the people spending the money (such as the NGOs and the DOD) to justify it rather than the people trying to cut the spending. Yet, not a peep from the liberals on the spending part. That is why your party is in utter collapse.

"So, your current alias seems to fully support Pres Putin's invasion of a sovereign country?
#17 | Posted by LampLighter"

I am against wasting a million lives and billions of dollars trying to stop something as inevitable as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West. This outcome was 100% certain before the first shot was fired and it is still certain today. So, what was gained other than your sacrifices to Moloch?

"His demands are no state secret:

installation of a new Ukrainian government, prohibition of European security forces on Ukrainian soil, reduction or elimination of Western military assistance, and immediate recognition of Russian sovereignty over four eastern Ukrainian provinces and the Crimea.

#1 | Posted by Corky"

Yeah...I am fine with all that. That was obvious before the war started. It is where the war will end up regardless but I guess the Dems wanted to kill off a few million people and waste billions of dollars before agreeing to it. Democrats are a death cult.

So I have this straight, this judge has no issue that the DOD can't pass an audit on where the money was actually spent....but is outraged that the guy cutting the spending that can't be tracked is not posting those cuts in a manner the judge likes. Those great liberals, always focusing on the important stuff again.

"2020 was 5 years ago.
Maybe one day this magic email will finally show up.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack"

Epstein was arrested in 2019 and his multiple houses included video tapes and black book records of the people he filmed and entrapped. Yet, not a single client has been arrested. So, by your Biden-logic, Epstein was squeaky-clean because the incompetent and corrupt Federal government has not tossed anyone in jail yet.

"You'd have to be a moron not to notice the laptop had been in the hands of Russians.
#20 | Posted by Danforth"

And how did you come to this conclusion when the FBI and DNI did not?

Nothing is 'fleeing' to Europe. Europe is a dying market/economy. Please name me 5 European tech companies without using Google.

Europe has basically transformed itself into a continent wide theme park for middle class Americans. And like all theme parks, Europe is importing the low wage staff to run the place.

This should be done in a fair manner. Give them 30 days to return all the potentially classified intel that they have and then send in the FBI for 5AM dawn raids to ensure all the files were returned. Make sure to check in their garages next to the Corvettes.

So let me get this straight,

This dimwitted old man is outraged that Elon (or the GOP) wanted to 'privatize' Social Security Fund by investing it in the stock market rather than having it forcibly borrowed to the US government earning a 2.5% annual return? This guy, and the liberals on this site, do realize that if the Fund was invested in the S&P back in 2000 when it the S&P was ~1,500 and the Fund was ~$800B, it that amount would have grown to $3.0T today vs. the $1.4T the government return provided? In short, we would not be looking at the SS being in default in less than a decade. If we would have invested in the S&P in 2000 for the existing funds AND used the subsequent annual transfers since then, we would have ~$12T in the Fund, or 'lock box', now which would have made it the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. But nope, dumb Democrats demanded that 2.5% interest rate. You really can't fix stupid.