Politics

[Sabattiboy]

If Trump is such a negative force for the Republican chances one wonders why the Dems are pushing so hard to prevent him running again. Do they know something we don't? This is a sincere question.

Maybe if they keep prodding him he will not let it go thus keep it divided for the dems advantage.

Hopefully they will overplay their hand.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

With the latest revelations of bias at the FBI on top of all the previous ones like Struik et al, isn't it getting close to the point of the FBI being guilty of not just bias but active 'interference in the outcome of an American election', the Dem's supposed pet peeve. Now the boot would be on the other foot and watching how things work over there it seems easier to bring charges when you are the opposition party than when you are in power.

 

[Zambezi]

Everyone carries on like Trump is the only one who can clean out the swamp or instigate charges / investigations into Pelosi, Biden(s), etc etc.

Why couldn't the next Republican president do that?

Trump showed what can be done. He showed that you can go after the swamp, it doesn't mean he is the only one that can do it. De Santis, or whomever, will have the same ability as well as the backing of the RINOs (some of them anyway and more than would back Trump) to go after them.

If Trump would have behaved like an adult he would have accomplished 10 x more than he did.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

 

[Ray B]

Call me sinical BUT I see a possible strategy to be used by a government that HATES it citizens. It is cancelling the student loan debt of thousands of former but now employed students. The $10,000 limit would represent the amount of loan that is being paid by the student at about $50 - $100 per month. So the govt cancels it- which is another way of saying it increases the taxes of the general public- predominately the middle class non-college educated wage earners. The govt takes this money to pay to the creditors/colleges holding the loans, So far, this is readily apparent to most. the working class pays the gov't so it can pay the colleges to let the graduates off the hook from their loans.
BUT it doesn't stop there. If a person has a debt that becomes uncollectable or is otherwise written off, the IRS considers this income, All of those students that were paying $1K a year on their loans will now have to claim an additional $10K income in the form of cancelled debt, which will result in about $5K being due on April 15. So the backstabbing govt will have been able to collect the same debt twice. Pretty cool if you are the govt that just hired 87,000 IRS agents to make sure the rules are followed.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Call me sinical BUT I see a possible strategy to be used by a government that HATES it citizens. It is cancelling the student loan debt of thousands of former but now employed students. The $10,000 limit would represent the amount of loan that is being paid by the student at about $50 - $100 per month. So the govt cancels it- which is another way of saying it increases the taxes of the general public- predominately the middle class non-college educated wage earners. The govt takes this money to pay to the creditors/colleges holding the loans, So far, this is readily apparent to most. the working class pays the gov't so it can pay the colleges to let the graduates off the hook from their loans.
BUT it doesn't stop there. If a person has a debt that becomes uncollectable or is otherwise written off, the IRS considers this income, All of those students that were paying $1K a year on their loans will now have to claim an additional $10K income in the form of cancelled debt, which will result in about $5K being due on April 15. So the backstabbing govt will have been able to collect the same debt twice. Pretty cool if you are the govt that just hired 87,000 IRS agents to make sure the rules are followed.

Supposedly, the forgiven school loan program will not be taxable at the Federal level

The Biden administration has confirmed that the student loan forgiveness won't be a taxable event at the federal level for borrowers.

This is a classic Democratic party redistribution of wealth program.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

 

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[Sabattiboy]

Call me sinical BUT I see a possible strategy to be used by a government that HATES it citizens. It is cancelling the student loan debt of thousands of former but now employed students. The $10,000 limit would represent the amount of loan that is being paid by the student at about $50 - $100 per month. So the govt cancels it- which is another way of saying it increases the taxes of the general public- predominately the middle class non-college educated wage earners. The govt takes this money to pay to the creditors/colleges holding the loans, So far, this is readily apparent to most. the working class pays the gov't so it can pay the colleges to let the graduates off the hook from their loans.
BUT it doesn't stop there. If a person has a debt that becomes uncollectable or is otherwise written off, the IRS considers this income, All of those students that were paying $1K a year on their loans will now have to claim an additional $10K income in the form of cancelled debt, which will result in about $5K being due on April 15. So the backstabbing govt will have been able to collect the same debt twice. Pretty cool if you are the govt that just hired 87,000 IRS agents to make sure the rules are followed.

That would be considered a backfire on them. However, they control the 87k IRS agents that are being hired and will make sure that doesn't happen until any important elections are past.

 

[Sabattiboy]

Supposedly, the forgiven school loan program will not be taxable at the Federal level

The Biden administration has confirmed that the student loan forgiveness won't be a taxable event at the federal level for borrowers.

This is a classic Democratic party redistribution of wealth program.

But the redistributed wealth will not come from the wealthy much less the ultra-wealthy.

 

[spike.t]

I am getting very worried about the midterms. According to Trafalgar, a friendly to conservatives polling group, Blake masters is losing to Kelly by two in Arizona, and Johnson is trailing to Barnes in Wisconsin. Another Trump pick, Mehmet Oz, is trailing a guy in a hoodie who can't string two sentences together in Pennsylvania. The senate could easily go from 50/50 to Democrats up by 3 or 4.

AZ US Sen General – Aug 2022 – Trafalgar Group

www.thetrafalgargroup.org

WI US Sen General – Aug 2022 – Trafalgar Group

www.thetrafalgargroup.org

Meanwhile the erstwhile leader of my party is still grousing about the last election and offering amusing, if extra-constitutional remedies.

Yes, he has a legitimate argument to make. So make it a positive about supporting candidates in the mid-term who can shine the bright light of republican led hearings, both houses, over the harm that was done. But no, he is entirely too self-centered to make that logical leap. Instead, we are on the verge of wasting the greatest political opportunity since Jimmy Carter.

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Just read this and they love it...from what I have read about the happenings over there, that seem to me being an outsider just pushing voters towards the Democrats..ie the abortion law amongst others....everyone seems to me to be over confident of the Democrats being hammered....

Americans are starting to get it: we can’t let Trump – or Trumpism – back in office | Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut

Republicans have put all their chips on extremism. But voters are sending more and more signals that they’re fed up with it

www.theguardian.com

 

[mdwest]

Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

www.reuters.com

Mikhail Gorbachev has passed..

Love him or hate him, there is no question that he was one of the most significant leaders to stand on the world stage during the 80's..

Based on the little I know about him, the last few years must have pained him greatly watching whats been going on internal and external to Russia..

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

www.reuters.com

Mikhail Gorbachev has passed..

Love him or hate him, there is no question that he was one of the most significant leaders to stand on the world stage during the 80's..

Based on the little I know about him, the last few years must have pained him greatly watching whats been going on internal and external to Russia..

It is sad to hear that, I think he was a statesman of great courage. That era had some of the greatest leaders on the world stage simultaneously - Gorbachev, Thatcher, Regan for example, and great things were achieved. Compare and contrast with the current pathetic bunch, it is no wonder things are in a mess.

 

[Jeff505]

Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

www.reuters.com

Mikhail Gorbachev has passed..

Love him or hate him, there is no question that he was one of the most significant leaders to stand on the world stage during the 80's..

Based on the little I know about him, the last few years must have pained him greatly watching whats been going on internal and external to Russia..

Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, Gorbachev and and the Soviets could not compete with the free world. Communism is and has always been a disease. “Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall”, that was the beginning of the end for the tyranny of the Gorbachev regime.

 

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[Vashper]

Gorbachev went to his grave under curses and regrets that he was not punished. Only a few percent regret him. Jokes have already appeared, such as "the guard of honor returned to the barracks late, because they buried him seven times "for an encore." There are two main claims against him: firstly, the West deceived him by promising not to expand NATO to the east; secondly, Gorbachev did not take measures to preserve the Union, although he should have done so in his position.
I think he was not a traitor, but was really deceived. Apparently, he hoped for the support and recognition of the West, or even received assurances in this regard from the elder Bush, but the West decided to support Yeltsin.
By the way, Kravchuk and Shushkevich, participants of the Belovezhskaya collusion on the destruction of the Union, also died this year. The people see this as a sign.

"Judging by the little I know about him, the last few years must have caused him a lot of pain, watching what was happening inside and outside of Russia." - he was a politician, which means he was a two-faced brute, and he did not tell the truth even if it did not harm him in any way.
But I personally noticed (and I am a rarity in this respect with us) that in some matters he still showed integrity. For example, he sharply denied that he had any secret documents on the masssacre in Katyn, although he was required to admit it.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Gorbachev went to his grave under curses and regrets that he was not punished. Only a few percent regret him. Jokes have already appeared, such as "the guard of honor returned to the barracks late, because they buried him seven times "for an encore." There are two main claims against him: firstly, the West deceived him by promising not to expand NATO to the east; secondly, Gorbachev did not take measures to preserve the Union, although he should have done so in his position.
I think he was not a traitor, but was really deceived. Apparently, he hoped for the support and recognition of the West, or even received assurances in this regard from the elder Bush, but the West decided to support Yeltsin.
By the way, Kravchuk and Shushkevich, participants of the Belovezhskaya collusion on the destruction of the Union, also died this year. The people see this as a sign.

"Judging by the little I know about him, the last few years must have caused him a lot of pain, watching what was happening inside and outside of Russia." - he was a politician, which means he was a two-faced brute, and he did not tell the truth even if it did not harm him in any way.
But I personally noticed (and I am a rarity in this respect with us) that in some matters he still showed integrity. For example, he sharply denied that he had any secret documents on the masssacre in Katyn, although he was required to admit it.

In my Western view, Gorbachev grew up very poor under Stalin and wanted a better life for the majority of Soviet peoples in general. On trips to France, UK, Italy and other European countries, he wondered why their standards of living were so much higher than the USSR. He attempted many paths to change. Some were successful and some were not. The agreement with Reagan to drastically reduce nuclear arsenals was revolutionary! He TRIED to improve the crumbling economy of the USSR and ultimately the Russian state. He did improve relations with Europe and the US. To denounce him as a "traitor" is shortsightedness at it's best. Gorbachev is exactly what the USSR needed at the time to save the USSR/Russia from financial ruin and the world from Armageddon. Where are we now Vashper?

 

[Vashper]

In my Western view, Gorbachev grew up very poor under Stalin and wanted a better life for the majority of Soviet peoples in general. On trips to France, UK, Italy and other European countries, he wondered why their standards of living were so much higher than the USSR. He attempted many paths to change. Some were successful and some were not. The agreement with Reagan to drastically reduce nuclear arsenals was revolutionary! He TRIED to improve the crumbling economy of the USSR and ultimately the Russian state. He did improve relations with Europe and the US. To denounce him as a "traitor" is shortsightedness at it's best. Gorbachev is exactly what the USSR needed at the time to save the USSR/Russia from financial ruin and the world from Armageddon. Where are we now Vashper?

Well, with Armageddon, everything is simple: relative stability is maintained because at one time someone lost the monopoly on nuclear weapons, and while this situation persists, there is hope that it will not be used.

I personally, I repeat, am not happy and I do not launch fireworks, like some. By the way, when Thatcher died, many Englishmen went out on the square and sang "the witch is dead, ding dong." In our country, Gorbachev is associated with the gravest consequences, although he himself denied that he was responsible for the events after 1991. As for the economy, it was during Gorbachev's rule that the economy "crumbled", although he certainly did not want it.

I will quote one figure who is not very popular in the West, but in my opinion the idea is correct:
"... in a personal sense, the difference between a traitor by weakness and a traitor by intent and calculation is very great, in political terms there is no difference, because politics is the actual fate of millions of people, and this fate does not change whether millions of workers and poor are betrayed by weakness or traitors by greed" (PSS, vol. 40, pp. 131-132)." V.I. Lenin

 

[Zambezi]

Russians blame him for "failing to keep the union together"... Maybe it's time for the Russians to see that "their" union was not a union that was rightfully theirs. Forcing / occupying countries together doesn't form a union. Those countries were not and will never be Russia's to play with.

So Gorbachev merely brough about a era where the occupied countries could find liberation. Maybe the people of Russia should stop and think about it. It was never a union, it was a brutal occupation.