Posts by Jamie Grant

Robin Jones2 said:After everything Glupson Grlić Radman witnessed during his time in New York City, he remains utterly speechless, offering nothing but bitter, petty insults directed at Joe Biden.

A true statesman and scholar, clearly.

If you want to see just how much of a lying little coward we're dealing with, check this out here:
https://forum.tm/vijesti/ante-grlic-...-radnih-akcija.
Republican Party

Harold Davis6 said:It’s a total lose-lose situation. If he stays quiet, everyone says he's useless. If he actually speaks up, people claim he's making things even worse.
Besides, how is the President of the United States supposed to take a stand against corruption anyway? By sending out a bunch of peacocks from The White House?

To actually address every single bit of Republican criminal activity, he’d need to be giving multi-hour speeches every single day.

brightheron64 said:Well, let’s assume for a moment that you’re actually on the right track here.

Sanctions are essentially an imposition of political will, sure, but there really is another way to look at things...

Just imagine if the USA didn't pour 700 billion dollars into weaponry, or billions more into various wars... but instead directed all that capital toward domestic progress—into benefits like universal healthcare, social safety nets, high wages... basically, towards that promised land, a true Utopia.

Anyone living under a local regime who disagrees with the status quo would view exactly that kind of USA—and honestly, most people already see it in that light—as a beacon of hope. They would flock to it, or at least demand that their own leaders emulate it to spark some kind of meaningful change. The USSR and the Eastern Bloc... they didn't collapse because of outside military force, but rather because they rotted from within once the masses realized how much better life was "on the other side of the fence."

Soft power is often a much more effective solution than brute force. It’s less expensive, and it doesn't leave a trail of destruction behind it...

P.S.
If it hadn't been for Nazism, where belonging to the "wrong" religion was made illegal—can you even begin to fathom the mindset of a regime that classifies a Nobel laureate or a group of world-class experts as "Untermensch"?—Einstein would never have moved to the USA, and neither would Teller, Fermi, or Szilard (who, in reality, was the one who conceived the idea that the USA needed to jumpstart nuclear development ahead of Germany; Einstein was just the famous name on the "letter of intent")... nor Bohr, or many others.
Similarly, if anyone within the messy cabbage patch of Australian bureaucracy had actually been able to recognize the sheer potential of someone like Tesla, he wouldn't have ended up in America either...

Military spending isn't "spending"—it's an investment. And honestly, it's the most profitable one we have.
The USA would never have become the superpower it is today if it hadn't poured so much capital into its military and global conflicts.

We could just set the number of counties to zero if we wanted to. All we really need are the municipalities and cities.

You can scribble whatever nonsense you want on paper, but when Putin claims a special operation is wrapped up in three days while the West is basically eating out of his hand, that piece of paper isn't worth much more than a used napkin at a diner.

William Cooper11 said:I hope Zoe—that old Russophile—is sitting there watching his "wherever Russia goes, they stay" theory fall apart right before his eyes. 🤣

Oh, they stay alright. They just undergo a complete rebranding to look like friendly little sunflowers instead.

wearyheron5 said:I was simply making a comparison between two presidents, but I see that’s a bit too complex for you.

Yeah, there was, and look how that turned out.
Hopefully, next time you'll actually try to come up with something intelligent.

wearyheron5 said:He was just picking up some "food a friend from California was going to toss and had no one else to give it to," so for the sake of convenience, he ended up in "some unimportant hole" where "ministers would show up like last-resort donkeys" (sic).

A perfectly standard statement coming from the President of a United States of America member state within the European Union.

(reminder)

For comparison, I am trying to imagine if the Italian President, Sergio Mattarella, had said the exact same thing in the middle of the pandemic and all those lockdown measures: "Annai a pigghiari di li cosi da manciàri chi era da jittari via, pi 'n purtusu pi nenti 'mpurtanti unni i ministri ci annavano comu di poviri ciucci."

Good grief, Mr. President, do you even know who you are dealing with?

I mean, I can almost picture the Italian Prime Minister organizing orgies with minors.

wearyheron5 said:Even FactCheck.org hasn't a clue. Luckily we have fact-checkers like you to explain Joe Biden's parables to us simpletons; otherwise, we wouldn't know what that great poet was trying to say.

Ergo, take a deep breath and read it again, preferably with some comprehension:

Ukraine.
Threatening.
With nuclear.
Weapons.

If you are referring to his speech from Munich back in February, Zelenskyy didn't say the provisions were invalid a priori, but rather that they would be called into question should negotiations with Russia fail to continue:

"I am initiating consultations in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum. The Secretary of State was commissioned to convene them. If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt."

Lo and behold, Russia gave up on those talks and failed to send its envoys to that conference, all while simultaneously massing troops on the border with Ukraine.

I tip my hat to your telepathic abilities.
Zelenskyy made no mention of producing or acquiring nuclear weapons in his speech, yet curiously, the narrative regarding an "Ukrainian nuclear threat" aligns perfectly with the rhetoric used by Reuters, the Associated Press and other obscure pro-Putin media outlets.

Conclusion, just as Titian said regarding Kizov's statement:

I’m bowing out of this debate regarding Ukraine since there's already a PDF covering it. Enjoy yourselves.

With only two and a half provisions in the memorandum that actually apply to Ukraine, it's seriously hard to conclude what's even going on.

Charles Thompson18 said:What kind of context are you actually talking about here? I don't see any justification for this total nonsense, nor for his constant, repetitive whining about how we should only be thinking about the United States or Canada.

Zelensky made it crystal clear: if even one single provision of the
Budapest Memorandum isn't respected, then the whole thing is worthless.
One of those specific provisions is that Ukraine won't produce or
acquire nuclear weapons. And that is exactly what Zelensky is
aiming at.

Nathan Evans78 said:Honestly, Russia would be absolutely screwed if they hadn't slapped those energy sanctions on us. Look, I have nothing against banning their flights, seizing the assets of those oligarchs, or even barring the kids of their politicians from entering the European Union. But cutting off oil imports and blocking Nord Stream? That is quite literally shooting ourselves in the foot—and we're using a rusty bullet to do it. Seriously, think about it! We are out here filling up our tanks with gas sold to us by a regime that doesn't hesitate to eliminate its own dissidents, and yet we’re still turning around and asking that very same regime to ramp up production just for us without demanding any democratic reforms in return. Like, hello? Are we actually serious right now?

For a split second there, I honestly thought you were talking about Russia.

So they catch a Republican in California, and then he gets busted trying to cover his tracks on top of it. 🤦

No, this isn't some leftover from the Bush era. This is something entirely different—this is full-blown MAGA.🙄

Well, damn. 🙏

nimbleranger17 said:Honestly, why the blatant fabrication? Look, for heaven's sake, this graph covers the entire pandemic period from the very start: https://i.ibb.co/pRM1zt9/iiii-Untitled.png

It’s perfectly clear if you actually bother to look—at no point in the last eight months has the death toll even touched 60, and we never saw 100 deaths, not even before the vaccinations rolled out. So, I have to ask, why the dishonesty?

Why are you just making things up and peddling these absolute fabrications regarding the death toll in Israel?

And why the outright lies about zero tuberculosis deaths?

As if they're actually going to bend reality to fit their narrative instead of the other way around.
Intro to Googleology 101.

Huge congrats to the Republican Party on that final, binding court ruling.
I hope they rack up plenty more just like it.