I fell for it hook, line and sinker!

I'm sure patriotic Republicans, Independents, and Libertarians on the Drudge Retort (and of course everywhere in America) will denounce these nefarious efforts by foreign actors to subvert the 2024 US elections.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if J Dunce Vance converted to Catholicism in order to join Opus Dei.

Another tidbit about this "stable genius II":

JD Vance went from thinking he was gay and changing his name twice to becoming an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist.

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In addition to sanctioning Russia, President Biden punished Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Since 7 Oct 2023, these marauders have killed approximately 370 Palestinians in the West Bank in order to appropriate Palestinian homes and property.

The sanctions will block designated Israeli settlers from access to the US financial system, blocking them from any type of property in the US and freezing any property that they might already own. The sanctions will also include a ban on entry to the US.

Australia and Japan followed President Biden's "soft power" approach and sanctioned them as well.

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Do you mean these pilgrims?

Years ago a squad of Border Patrol agents set up a roadblock over an hour's drive south of the US-Canadian border. But that major highway is also used by AMCITs not coming from Canada so they wouldn't have their passports on them to prove their US citizenship. I was able to prove my US citizenship and allowed to go, but this was invasive, time-consuming, and unconstitutional.

Good for USDJ Nina Morrison and thank you President Biden for nominating her. We need more like her on the bench.

Well said, Doc. Subsequent generations inherited the Monroe Doctrine from over two centuries ago (which USMC General Smedley Butler mocked in "War is a Racket"). But the crises aren't just the wars. Our society seems constantly under duress. Look at American women who have to go to Mexico or Canada for reproductive health care (if they live near the border and can afford it).

Sounds reasonable, Doc. The 1920 GOP platform of Warren G. Harding was "Return to Normalcy." For our generation, the US got in and out of the "Forever Wars." Our Soldiers back then suffered from "shell shock" which we call today PTSD. Why discuss the terrible Spanish Flu?

But in essence, we the American people live from crisis to crisis, don't we? If it's not war, it's COVID-19. If SCOTUS isn't trampling over our civil rights, it's student debt or enormous medical bills. The double crises of opioid addiction and unstoppable gun violence are destroying American families. LA had encampments of homelessness after the mortgage crisis reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath".

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Maybe that's how J Dunce Vance convinced Usha to hold her nose for a few years. Like you, they conducted an actuarial analysis and figured the Dotard will croak in office and *POOF!* Usha becomes First Lady.

Morning Doc!

And obvious in 1918 when the US first fought the coronavirus (then called the "Spanish Flu"). No electron microscopes until later to detect virus which is smaller than bacteria.

In 1918, California residents were fined and/or imprisoned for violating health codes.

The GOP is a death cult; they must have a monopoly on the firearms and funeral industries.

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There is confusion in the craft.

For "America First" kind of guys, Dotard had two foreign wives (Ivana and Melanoma), and Mitch McConnell married a Taiwanese woman (Elaine Chao). Usha Vance was born in the US (and was registered as a Democrat until 2014) but because of her dark skin and accent she is treated by her husband's supporters in the RW as an "auslander" anyway.

I wonder who dumps J Dunce Vance first, Usha or the Dotard?

@#7 Concur 100%

@#5 More murder to continue "eastern" colonization of Mali.

The French and the US have left. Russia (and soon China) will now despoil the Sahel as they extract uranium, further impoverishing the Tuaregs and ruining their groundwater.

@#8 True, the Dotard certainly has the touch of death. And the Trump Crime Family (TCF) won't a lose nickel on Bitcoin nonsense, but they'll let the American people go down in flames.

All those decades, the Donald didn't lose a penny to his Manhattan neighbor, arch goniff Bernie Madoff and his ginormous Ponzi scheme, because evil recognizes evil.

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I wish Elon Musk would launch himself off the planet on one of his Space-X rockets. He's worse than a crappy James Bond villain.

Concur. And I have two relatives who were victimized by GE's retirement plans.

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The dotard should send pollsters to the 668 psychiatric hospitals operating in the US to give him better numbers than 0.00. And I don't mean the staff.

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Not just your view, LAMPLIGHTER. I knew several people at GE as well as an outside consultant who oversaw its re-structuring a few years ago. The post mortem was both eye-opening and terrible.

Where would you rank Neutron Jack? Somewhere between Bernie Madoff and Armand Hammer?

Good shot! DeSantis is another elitist hypocrite! And how about coward Josh Hawley caught running away for his life on video on 6Jan2021? Hawley graduated from Stanford University in 2002 and Yale Law School in 2006.

You're welcome, Corky. But I'm not sure about the less regulated part of your statement. Besides national laws, European companies must adhere to EU laws. I'll have to look into that.

BLUF: There is just less tension in these unarmed societies where the wealth gaps are minimal.

And LL: You worked for Neutron Jack?

The elite Yankee Connecticut Bush Dynasty that attended the best Ivy League schools with all of the best connections possible in the US made a fortune with oil, but adopted this "Aw shucks I'm a regular guy from Texas" persona. Elitists attended church and spoke like rednecks. Now we see that here with J Dunce Vance, Yale Law School alumnus.

After J Dunce Vance loses this November, he'll re-write his memoirs:

"Hillbilly Eulogy: A Memoir of a Yale Law School Grad and Failed Hypocritical VPOTUS Candidate."

There is less stress and anxiety in many of these European countries because they have universal health care, low citizen access to firearms, living wages, robust social security nets, as well as affordable pharmaceuticals and free college. And in some countries, the police are unarmed (e.g. the UK and Ireland).

Financial problems and debt (school, home, or medical) causes stress.

A 2015 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that medical bills caused one million US adults to declare bankruptcy every year and that 26% of Americans age 18 to 64 struggled to pay medical bills. Medical bankruptcies are mostly unheard of outside of the US.

Lastly, when you walk into a penzion in Germany, the TV might be set to a soccer game. In Paris and Vienna, people eat and drink on the sidewalk terraces without TV. But walk into a bar or hotel room in Florida, and the TV is already set on Fox News.

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The term for the dotard is "blatherskite."

If Canada appears behind other NATO countries in budgets, they contribute to US defense through NORAD (which doesn't appear in the NATO budgets). NORAD just intercepted two RU and two PRC bombers IVO Alaska (posted on DR several days ago).

And please don't forget US aid to Israel. Adjusting for inflation, US aid to Israel from 1951 to 2022 totaled $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II.

Now let's examine the other recipients of hard-working American taxpayer dollars:

In Afghanistan (OEF): 157 Canadian, 2 Finnish, and 10 Norwegian Soldiers KIA (as well as other casualties from our NATO partners in ISAF).

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) KIA or WIA in Afghanistan = 0.

In Iraq (2x) Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF): 318 KIA from Coalition partners.

IDF KIA or WIA in Iraq = 0.

During the Vietnam War: 521 Australian Soldiers KIA and 3,000 WIA. 5,099 South Korean Soldiers KIA and 10,962 WIA.

IDF KIA or WIA in Vietnam = 0.

As for Finland, the US is bolstering their defenses against he Kremlin. The Finns have become a front-line defense for NATO, sharing a 830-mile long border with Russia. And Helsinki gives the USG carte blanche in their country.

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