You’re not being an asshole if you protect your home. If you push granny to the ditch because she is on the way and slow, you’re an asshole.
Your definition might differ though, since you wrote earlier that real men are assholes. I think you did not mean scumbag -behaviour like in my example.
No you are correct, I did not mean scumbag behavior
being an asshole, IMHO, is being a blunt, direct, protective, to the point individual that takes no bullshit
And thats how I feel about what Trump is doing with my country….he is protecting my home
Yeah, this is not so bad.
If my Doctor is an asshole and cures me of whatever disease I have……then thats good for me
If my Doctor is not an asshole and says there is nothing he can do, but there is a cure, then that is not good for me
Did you ask the same question when Biden was refusing to enforce immigration law in a literally revolutionary way? What about using vast amounts of public resources granted to NGO’s by local, state, and federal government to facilitate this movement of people?
How many illegal immigrants do we import before America isn’t America anymore? Lewiston isn’t anything like Lewiston was even 10 short years ago, and we continue to pay for revolution to be done to ourselves. This is in stark contrast to Lewiston’s last wave of immigration, which was not publicly-funded but consisted of French Canadian migrants who saw an opportunity to work in the growing textile mill industry, and took it.
The opportunity in the case of African migrants from Socialist hellholes was a fresh host for more Socialism, plain and simple. Nobody bothered moving to Maine in such numbers that translators for 42 languages are needed for the local public school until they were enticed with generous publicly-funded welfare benefits.
At this point it will be up to Ukraine as much as anyone else, and Ukraine appears to be a puppet government of the same international blob of interests that oppose Donald Trump, possibly led by intergalactic lizard people.
Trump possesses an incredible amount of overall leverage. I’m confident he will use it to end the war.
Surely. So it being absent in the meeting is not a good sign. Putin refuses to negotiate properly with Zelenskyi though (and vice versa).
The two questions remains: how much land Ukraine is willing to give up, and what security measures there will be (without them there’s new attack in few years anyway).
We’ll see. I hope for fair peace. But I have very low hopes that Russia even wants peace in Ukraine.
Not sure how Ukraine opposes Trump though, or even can. Ukraine’s independence is relying to US support currently.
Ukraine is a puppet government with a literal actor in charge. It’s not so much that Ukraine opposes Trump, but that the USA is no longer in alignment with the blob of interests that want this war to continue.
The EU is part of that blob, and rarely mentioned in media coverage is that their purchases of Russian energy during this conflict exceeded their financial support to Ukraine.
Here’s a good read from a certified American badass, General Smedley Butler, written in 1937, right before everything popped off. International finance has only grown more sophisticated since he made all of his astute observations about who really “wins” wars.
War is a Racket
Many wackjob states were issuing driver licenses to non-citizens with illegal statuses.
This is nefarious and anyone in the government that approved this should be in prison as well.
I actually sorta need lithium to avoid genuine problems
Some people really need these meds. I don’t take a cocktail of psych meds… just that one… I know there is a lot of skepticism for psych meds nowadays, but this drug has literally saved my life for the time being
I have to disagree on this. But if USA aids with peace I’m happy.
I know. I’m not sure it it exceedes the aid, but it’s shameful.
Ps. I need to add that EU countries have not gained benefits from this war, quite contrary. It has caused massive inflation and energy shortage.
Finland’s economy has taken a massive hit for example, but at least we’re not dodging the rules as much as some countries.
You guys like to ask who gains something. Well, who gains from war in Ukraine? China, Russia and western military industry.
Yes. If you wait until you are “rich enough” to give them everything - you will never have them imo.
Zero, if raised correctly. I want them to be able to focus on school and have no school debt coming out.
Of course. I put a lot of thought into this and probably too much to really lay out here.
I have milestones that will give them access to certain amounts and then also ages with milestones for certain amounts. And funding for certain things like housing, car, necessities granted they are in school, pursuing something etc. I have the baseline for each child set, but I will alter and change things for each individual child as I see fit.
The main thing is not allowing them to sit around, have no goals, draw money, and be a bum.
At the end of the day, they are going to inherit everything I have - so I will have to make sure I do a good job early of teaching them correctly and to have ambition.
Ours was rather smooth. We didn’t have anyone to fight. Biological parents are known, but deceased now. It is not cheap though. Being known in the community, having the best attorney, and having money definitely made it very easy for us comparably.
The emotional connection is no different for me. She is mine and I don’t care about her genetic predilection as you can’t even be 100% sure with your own biological children.
I will be 100% honest. I used to be against adoption fully in my younger days for many of the reasons you have listed. My best friend was adopted and his perspective really changed my views. Children are malleable clay and just want to be loved and know someone cares about them.
I would adopt all the children, if I could. I genuinely love children and believe they are the greatest gift on this planet. The main thing worth pouring your time, energy, and money into - everything else is just peripheral noise that doesn’t matter.
This was a not very good movie about Gen Butler and “The Business Plot” from a few years ago.
They would’ve bowed down
As someone who’s been making fake Trump tweets on t-nation for about a decade, I find a certain amount of built-in humor comes with the idea.
Newsom’s problem is that he’s the Governor of California and still every bit the manipulative sleazebag he was when he was caught dining at The French Laundry while forcing Californians to stay inside their homes, closing down beaches, etc.
To put it in Tolkien terminology, he looks fair but feels foul. You can put him in any situation and he will somehow find the best possible weasel words to explain away the disastrous public policies his party has overseen in what used to be a middle class paradise. Lately, as with Maine Democrats, they don’t typically bother with defending their own long and dominant governance, instead campaigning on the idea that Trump is a fascist dictator in-waiting and that electing them is how you stop fascism.
In other words, they want you to believe that Democratic Socialist ideas of race-based social justice (DEI) are the antidote to Hitler’s National Socialist ideas about race-based social justice (ethnic German supremacy).
Not sure what that’s about, but I recognize a humorless person’s attempt at humor when I see it. If you claim to have met a Progressive(I may expand this to “Democrat” even) who’s funny, I’d say you are a liar or also humorless.
Agreed. He’s the only person on that side speaking up, and is relatively well spoken, but he is 0% genuine. But If he is the candidate it literally takes one commercial showing the shitty parts of LA/SF and the campaign is over.
I give it about a 3 on the haha meter.
Unfortunately 5 is neutral. 10 is max.
So he’s actually at -2.
And for some strange reason, I don’t think he was joking.
