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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/26 at 7:01 pm to Coeur du Tigre
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re: Trump pulls millions from funding of Catholic Charities after war of words with Pope Leo
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/26 at 11:55 am to Vacherie Saint
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Why were federal dollars being used to fund charities?
Because that was the Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2 shift from Social programs... "Let us give the money to the Churches and they'll be more efficient in helping people.”
re: Woman drinks too much on cruise, sues Carnival and gets $300K
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/26 at 8:16 am to SuperSaint
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There is a video out there of Young SS getting shitfaced and being escorted in a wheelchair to my room through the breakfast area at 9am. The video clip looped on the Cruise News for a couple days.
Where is my $300k?
Sounds like you should also look into royalties and video residuals, as well as emotional distress from the repeated showing of the incident.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/26 at 8:10 am to Coeur du Tigre
Good thing Magyar is smart and experienced enough to know what to tackle to dismantle Orban's apparatus. I'd seen comments to the effect of "so what, Orban will be back in a couple of years, just like Trump, and he'll finish off the opposition for good!" Orban stacked the Constitutional Courts with loyalists, so that might be a challenge, but Magyar seems to know how to wield his supermajority effectively.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 4/16/26 at 6:55 am to Coeur du Tigre
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f Vance is going to save his career, he needs to firewall Trump and start running his 2028 campaign right now. He will inherit the MAGA vote as an anti-war candidate and Rubio will still be tied to Trumps coattails. If he's still employed.
Trump is vindictive and has not forgotten anything either of them, or anybody else, has said about him before they bent the knee. He sent Vance to Hungary when things didn't look good... had it been trending towards a victory for Orban, he would've gone himself to bask in and claim the glory. Vance will be continuously humiliated in these ways to remind him he's just allowed to come along for the ride and who allowed it.
re: Gabbard Issues Criminal Referrals for People Behind 2019 Impeachment Attempt
Posted by Lee B on 4/15/26 at 6:53 pm to lake chuck fan
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 4/15/26 at 1:33 pm to VolSquatch
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For one, the people who built a nation are who made it successful. Why would anyone think people who have never built anything and who generally have no real skills will contribute positively?
Historically, as I mentioned, the people who built civilizations were invaded and conquered by people who had spent that time instead practicing being invaders and conquerors, who just adopted the identity of the people they rtook over... so I'm not sure your theory holds up.
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Unskilled labor is less and less necessary by the day. Why would anyone want to import millions of unskilled laborers who might not have jobs in a decade? What do you think they are going to do then?
Go somewhere else where they will be paid to do unskilled labor. As far as Mexicans, immigration got reversed... Mexicans who were coming to the U.S. for work started going back to Mexico as their economy took off after NAFTA. and a lot of the Central Americans who were headed to the US now just stop in regions of Mexico where labor is needed.
As for unskilled labor, we still need a lot of it...
New Republic: Trump Turns to Migrant Workers Amid Farm Labor Crisis
The Trump administration has finally accepted that its immigration crackdown is causing a labor crisis.
The constant chant is "AI will replace engineers and coders and Doctors, go learn how to hang sheetrock and do plumbing," isn't it? That's "skilled labor," but from what I've seen with my eyes in the last few years, there's an awful lot of immigrants who seem much more skilled at it.
re: Trump posts "God might be playing his TRUMP card!" with an image depicting Jesus Christ
Posted by Lee B on 4/15/26 at 9:30 am to Django Unchained
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The Bible says God raises up leaders of the world. If you believe the Bible, then it’s not a stretch to say God is using Presidents Trump
Wouldn't he also be raising up the other leaders of the world? So is he using Khamenei (his supporters certainly believe so)? Atheists Kim and Xi, who will be in power until they die?
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Charlie Kirk = David Lee Roth in Van Halen
Erika Kirk= Gary Sherone in Van Halen
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Ukraine is cooked. Population has totally collapsed. Not counting refugees there are likely fewer than 30 million people left inside Ukraine.
Hungary's population is only 9.5 million. They're cooked, too.
Slovakia's population is 5.2 million. Roll up the carpet.
Poland's population is only 38 million... that places it below Ukraine at almost 39 million (according to UN estimates, I'm sure you estimate it lower)...
But Ukraine is still one of the biggest populations in Europe. What does that mean for its economy?
Well, Ukraine needs farm equipment... modern farm equipment replaces the need for human workers in harvesting wheat and other produce.
And tech sectors don't need a lot of people, they just need good people.
Germany (89 million) and Japan (123 milion) along with Russia (144 million) and China (1.41 billion) are actually the countries trending the worst as far as demographic collapses because their birth rates are almost negative and their populations are mostly older.
I'm one of the few posters on this board that does not think immigration is some apocalyptic national death sentence, and Ukraine was welcoming to immigrants before the invasion.
The historical reality, for those who know anything about history, is that tribal settlements and city-states in Europe were usually conquered by outsiders, who then assumed the identity of their new land and installed themselves as the rulers, and nowhere is that more a part of the story than Ukraine and Russia... and Stalin moved people around to obliterate local nationalist sentiments and make them only "Soviets," Russia itself has 190 different ethnic groups, and due to shifting borders over history, Ukraine is home to over 100 different nationalities (including a Korean community that has long been there) and "Ukrainians" are Austrians, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Belarousans, Armenians, Lithuanians... some "pure" Nationalist identity thing makes as little sense as it does trying to push it in the U.S.
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Here’s the harsh reality.
Ukraine is cooked. Population has totally collapsed. Not counting refugees there are likely fewer than 30 million people left inside Ukraine.
Refugees are never coming back considering they are living much better lives and their homes destroyed or are now located inside New Russia.
Yay, Putin! What a great human being!!!
re: Bank Citizenship Proof Exec order in process
Posted by Lee B on 4/14/26 at 10:33 pm to goatmilker
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So the scam is really big is what you are saying.
You guys have complete faith in the accuracy of the government and financial institutions to target the right people and not make mistakes. I think a lot of people will get nervous at that prospect.
This only takes effect if all states sign on to it.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 4/14/26 at 10:07 pm to VolSquatch
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If you think you've seen war crimes, wait until we have wars with guys thousands of miles away in a warehouse full of computers controlling real life Terminator robots armed to the teeth.
No need to wait, the Russians have been killing Ukrainian civilians - like grandmothers walking babies - with drones for years now.
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Also why only idiots, including Putin, claimed that Ukraine was about to join NATO. Ukraine's goal was to apply for membership to the EU and its citizens backed this as a way to clean up corruption.
... and this is what Putin truly feared. The clean up of corruption and the possibility of Ukraine economically thriving, close enough for a lot of Russians to see and notice. Russians are told that the Baltic States are phony and made to appear as if they are thriving to fool them... and that America is really a ghetto full of drunks and drug addicts and the world is shown a fake TV version of it... in other words, it's just as bad as most of Russia. The educated people who could afford to travel know better, but they are not the majority of the population (despite those ridiculous Russian government-supplied education and IQ stats).
This will be a great way to cause a run on banks, and really kick off the Trump Great Depression. Proceed!!!
Also, she's an actress they used before for something else...
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Part of his retirement package from DuPont up to the age of 95
Okay, that's great... but you have to admit he's not really a good case study for the average American going into a nursing home in 2026?
Crap... sorry, Leopold.
I'm pretty sure those people just laughed at it.
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That’s not what he said. His dad stayed in a nursing home and they didn’t take all of his assets.
Why make stuff up?
He said this:
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As I stated, they get private healthcare insurance so they can be treated in the US instead of waiting up to a year. In the UK a retirement home is NOT free. Everything you own, bank account, property, etc.. is given to the government in exchange for a decent room and care.
He made that jump... and to extent that he exaggerated what goes on in the UK (see below), I pointed out the same goes on here, and he offered his dad as an exception, which implies he was providing an example of our free retirement homes... which, like there, they are if you are penniless (but they don't put you in a particularly nice one in that case).
His dad paid to stay in that nursing home... and if the cost exceeded his retirement/social security payments or the savings account he gave them access to take it from every month (which they do usually exceed, as the costs continuously rise and people live in the homes for 5 or more years on average, at an average cost these days of $100,000 a year), he then had it covered by Medicaid... and unless he was completely penniless, Medicaid does something called the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program, "a mandatory program that requires states to seek reimbursement from the estates of deceased Medicaid beneficiaries for certain long-term care costs, primarily for individuals aged 55 and older. This includes costs for nursing home care, home and community-based services, and related medical expenses."
In the UK: "The UK does not automatically take assets from people entering retirement homes. However, if a person needs financial support for care, the local council may assess their assets (like savings, property, and income) to determine how much they should contribute toward care costs. This is called a financial assessment or means test."
One way or another, they got paid. It works no differently than what he pointed to in the UK. My brother-in-law has seen it happen to just about every person in the nursing homes he managed, because $100,000 a year is a lot and that burns through what most people have within 5 years... so, if you're going into one of those, best to go in aware of that...
How to Avoid a Nursing Home Taking Your House: 7 Proven Strategies
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