03-10-2022, 02:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-10-2022, 04:02 PM by Classic-Xer.)
(03-08-2022, 05:34 PM)sEric the Green Wrote:You failed in REAL business. Keep that in mind the next time you insult me or my intelligence. Who isn't familiar with politics and social issues these days? Based on my experience with politics, 90% of it is bullshit which is why most of Us have no interest in entering politics. I mean, look at Pelosi, how did a self serving moron like her become Speaker of the House? You fix that we can talk. The world isn't standing up to Putin. The world is mainly reacting to Putin and still allowing Putin to dictate rules of engagement/involvement and more or less still abiding by his rules and tip toeing aka appeasing him so far. Like I said, the world needs a strong leader other than Lezenskyy to start ignoring Putin;s threats and start getting more directly involved with the defense of Ukraine and leading an international war effort against Putin's troops in Ukraine. Russia is not the Soviet Union and the world should start acting that way. You don't give someone like the upper hand to begin with and you don't allow someone like Putin maintain the upper hand. You have to flip the script and put Putin on on his heals aka the defensive. Biden is clearly not up for such a task. Why isn't there a naval fleet of war ships within striking striking distance of the Russian fleet? Why isn't there a NATO army massed along the western border of Ukraine? Why aren't there air force bases filled with NATO planes with pilots ready to take off? Why is NATO fucking around and wasting valuable time playing hot potato with some old planes when there isn't time to waste at this point? Does Europe really deserve to remain free? That's the question.(03-08-2022, 01:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-07-2022, 05:23 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:I think the Blue politicians and their filthy rich donors prefer to continue using debt instead of their own money like they've been doing for the last 40 years. Actually, it's about 90 years if you go back to the beginning of modern time. It's not going to last but that doesn't seem matter to wealthy people who have direct access to private jets and private property outside the country. Do you really believe that your governor would stick around like Zelenskyy? I hope not for your sake. So, do you have a seat reserved on one of their private jets?(03-06-2022, 02:50 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: How much personal wealth are Joe, Nancy, Chuck, Hillary, Barack, AOC, Maxine and Newsom willing to part with/give away these days? I'm sure they're all willing to say that they're willing to act to reduce the gap between them and those below them to gain/retain their political support but how many of them are actually giving away the bulk of they're wealth to those below them these days. I mean, shouldn't they be doing that right now instead of waiting for a national consensus? Barack is worth a hundred million and he owns several high end properties here and abroad and his college aged daughters are already set to become rich woman without accomplishing anything by themselves and pretty much set for the rest of their lives.
Your neoliberal, Reaganomics idea is that personal wealth should be the only thing to use to benefit those less fortunate. It is time to depart from your 41-year failed experiment. What counts now is how much in taxes they are willing to vote for, even if it means they have to pay more in taxes. You are not willing to pay more taxes to get protection from poverty for everyone of every class, nor to help Ukraine defend from today's Hitler. Those you mention and all the other liberals are willing. They are patriots; you and the Republicans who are opposed to and who block these taxes are fools and maybe traitors.
As I mentioned, it has been YOUR choice to be dumb on political and social issues. You could surely know if you bothered to use what mental capacities you use in your business that it is the Republicans who have relied on debt to finance what they ask the government to do. It is also they who lower taxes on the wealthy rather than raise them so that the US can't pay its bills except through more and more debt. I don't know how much you guys want to keep piling on debt upon debt before you, if you ever do, realize that trickle down doesn't trickle.
What we've got here is, failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. Like Classic Xer. And Putin.
The world is standing up against the evil man in Russia who is trying to vastly extend his tyranny over a free people. I'm glad some Republicans are joining with the Democrats in this, and I wish for more Republicans also to see the danger in their midst of tyranny by separating themselves more and more from Trump and his big lies and his coup and his ongoing attempt to install tyranny here in our own country. The conservative American Enterprise Institute just disinvited trump to their conference and invited a Biden admin official instead. Some progress there. As ML King Jr. said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. None of us are free until all of us are free.