On 2024-01-19, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:58:05 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Relf wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> DFS:
>>>> > melting ice/rising sea levels will significantly and negatively
>>>> > impact the Earth and humans short- and long-term.
>>>
>>> Everyone needs a cult; every cult needs an Apocalypse.
>>
>> I want apocalyse, now!!!
>
> Bibi is working on it...

Aptly named NutYahoo.

--
"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

On 2024-01-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:55:38 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> If these "scientists" can believe cow farts will cause global warming,
>> what won't they believe?
>
> Cow farts are yesterday's news.

May be yesterday's news, but there still trying to get Europeans to cull
their cattle herds in the name of "climate change." Steaks for WEF
parasites, cricket "meat" the peons.

> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/methane-emissions-may-swell-
> from-behind-dams/
>
> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210601100642.htm
>
> I guess hydro power isn't all that green after all. or I should say it is
> a little too green as the vegetation trapped behind the dams slowly
> ferments.

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"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 2024-01-19, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:58:05 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> Relf wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>
>>>> DFS:
>>>>> > melting ice/rising sea levels will significantly and negatively
>>>>> > impact the Earth and humans short- and long-term.
>>>>
>>>> Everyone needs a cult; every cult needs an Apocalypse.
>>>
>>> I want apocalyse, now!!!
>>
>> Bibi is working on it...
>
> Aptly named NutYahoo.

So I guess he won't be wanting pork-lips, now.

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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:05:04 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:53:53 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Simpson's:
>>>>
>>>> "If you've ever handled a penny the government's got your DNA."
>>>
>>> And thanks to the FitBit app Google knows where I am.
>>
>> And when you're wanking. :-D
>
> Probably although it hasn't managed to handle heart rate variability yet.
>
>> My Amazfit/Zepp watch keeps track of me via GPS and the Russian
>> equivalent,
>> Glonass (English spelling of cyrillic text).
>
> How do you like it? I didn't want one of those Dick Tracy watches but I'm
> a planet Fitness member and they had a discount on the Fitbit Charge 6 and
> I thought I'd give it a try. I had been using a step counter app on the
> phone that didn't use the GPS and was only semi-accurate.
>
> I miss the analog face with a seconds hand. I have to go to the stop watch
> function to get the time between sets after turning the always on display
> on, which is a lot of swiping.
>
> The HR seems pretty good, SpO2 maybe. I've compared the step app, fit
> FitBit, and a standalone Garmin GPS for miles when hiking. They're all in
> the same ballpark but often differ.
>
> It's a gadget but I'll probably get bored at some point and go back to my
> Timex Expedition that has a second hand and doesn't talk to anybody.

I had a Charge 5 and it went tits up after a year. :-(

I like the Amazfit Bip 3 I have. One minor issue is that the calorie counter
does not add in the BMR (basal metabolic rate).

Also, it counts calories differently when, say, Free Training is in progress. I
forget to turn off the training and a couple hours later it shows huge calorie
counts.

It does have a lot of watch faces, some free, some a couple or 3 bucks.
One of them I swear uses the Artwiz font.

--
Today is the first day of the rest of the mess.

On 2024-01-18 3:07 p.m., rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:41:27 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> I didn't watch much of the film "Don't Look Up", but I got a laugh at
>> the end where all the rich bastards landed on the target planet, came
>> out of hibernation, and met the native inhabitants. Meryl Streep got
>> taken out rather quickly and viciously. :-D
>
> I've got to put that on my watch list. Any film where Her Streepness gets
> taken out has to be good.

It's rather dull but the ideas behind it are very good. Clearly, the
film insinuates that the world would end because a conservative
government would put profits before common sense but it doesn't
explicitly say that.

--
RabidPedagog
Catholic paleoconservative

Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>Not enamored of octegenarians in the White House or Congress.

I doubt that anyone is, although Trump's fans *really* love that guy.

>Our "system" has been circling the drain for a few decades

No doubt about that, and it just keeps getting worse.

--
"If anything, Windows offers more choice - you have almost all of the
best oss software, and a far larger range of proprietary software." -
Tom Shillton

On 2024-01-19 8:10 a.m., chrisv wrote:
> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Not enamored of octegenarians in the White House or Congress.
>
> I doubt that anyone is, although Trump's fans *really* love that guy.

I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
not. In reality, DeSantis' record looks much better and Ramaswamy does a
lot better when being pressed by the obsolete media. People should not
ignore that he didn't do much to stop illegal entry into the country
(they actually stopped themselves for fear of what he might do) and he
was responsible for locking down the country, regardless of the excuses
he uses. The poisonous "vaccine" was also created under his presidency
and he takes great pride in reminding everyone about that.
Unfortunately, a lot of people who vote Republican aren't actually
conservative and will choose charisma over common sense.

>> Our "system" has been circling the drain for a few decades
>
> No doubt about that, and it just keeps getting worse.

It's not much better in Canada. While people are getting into your
country by walking across the border, they do that here once the
American government has told them to leave and others simply land in our
airports and decide to stick around. They are "refugees" but noone has
any idea what it is that they are running from. Quebec has already
complained to the Canadian government that the situation is untenable,
that they can't financially support these parasites and requested that
our virtuous prime minister stop inviting them in. However, the response
has been that the province is on its own, meaning that money which would
have gone into education or law enforcement is instead being used to
feed and house the parasites without any support by the woke asshole who
told them to come right on in. As a result of an existing housing
shortage and the influx of these parasites, houses are unaffordable even
when they are literally broken-down shacks. In addition to that, crime
is increasing because the "doctors and engineers" from the Third World
never do anything other than drain government finances need some extra
money and it is clear, even to the dumbest individual, that Western
Civilization is collapsing by _design_.

--
RabidPedagog
Catholic paleoconservative

On 2024-01-19, RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
> On 2024-01-19 8:10 a.m., chrisv wrote:
>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> Not enamored of octegenarians in the White House or Congress.
>>
>> I doubt that anyone is, although Trump's fans *really* love that guy.
>
> I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
> his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
> not. In reality, DeSantis' record looks much better and Ramaswamy does a
> lot better when being pressed by the obsolete media. People should not
> ignore that he didn't do much to stop illegal entry into the country
> (they actually stopped themselves for fear of what he might do) and he
> was responsible for locking down the country, regardless of the excuses
> he uses. The poisonous "vaccine" was also created under his presidency
> and he takes great pride in reminding everyone about that.
> Unfortunately, a lot of people who vote Republican aren't actually
> conservative and will choose charisma over common sense.

I liked DeSantis a lot before I knew a bit more about him. Now that he's not
getting much traction in the election he's coming across as a bit vicious
and petty. I think he's a closet neo-CON.

Ramaswamy is pretty good at soundbites, but he (through one of his
companies) invested $110 million into Pfizer stock when they were making a
killing (in more ways than one) with their almost completely untested mRNA
shot.

Trump talks a lot but he doesn't back up a lot of it with action. I don't
know why Democrats whine about him so much. What "horrible" things has he
actually done. He definitely didn't drain the swamp as he kept picking swamp
creatures for his cabinet.

But our economy was in a hell of a lot better condition off under Trump than
under whoever pulls the senile puppet's strings now.

>>> Our "system" has been circling the drain for a few decades
>>
>> No doubt about that, and it just keeps getting worse.
>
> It's not much better in Canada. While people are getting into your
> country by walking across the border, they do that here once the
> American government has told them to leave and others simply land in our
> airports and decide to stick around. They are "refugees" but noone has
> any idea what it is that they are running from. Quebec has already
> complained to the Canadian government that the situation is untenable,
> that they can't financially support these parasites and requested that
> our virtuous prime minister stop inviting them in. However, the response
> has been that the province is on its own, meaning that money which would
> have gone into education or law enforcement is instead being used to
> feed and house the parasites without any support by the woke asshole who
> told them to come right on in. As a result of an existing housing
> shortage and the influx of these parasites, houses are unaffordable even
> when they are literally broken-down shacks. In addition to that, crime
> is increasing because the "doctors and engineers" from the Third World
> never do anything other than drain government finances need some extra
> money and it is clear, even to the dumbest individual, that Western
> Civilization is collapsing by _design_.

The same thing is happening in the U.S. Listen to the whining coming from
New York and Chicago as Governor Abbot moves illegal aliens to those cities.
Biden is ignoring their pleas for help as well. Sleazeball. Biden should be
impeached for the illegal alien plague alone. Instead he tries to threaten
Texas because they've taken action to block the entry of these illegal
aliens — doing the job the federal government is supposed to be doing.

--
"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

On 2024-01-19 10:35 a.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2024-01-19, RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
>> On 2024-01-19 8:10 a.m., chrisv wrote:
>>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not enamored of octegenarians in the White House or Congress.
>>>
>>> I doubt that anyone is, although Trump's fans *really* love that guy.
>>
>> I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
>> his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
>> not. In reality, DeSantis' record looks much better and Ramaswamy does a
>> lot better when being pressed by the obsolete media. People should not
>> ignore that he didn't do much to stop illegal entry into the country
>> (they actually stopped themselves for fear of what he might do) and he
>> was responsible for locking down the country, regardless of the excuses
>> he uses. The poisonous "vaccine" was also created under his presidency
>> and he takes great pride in reminding everyone about that.
>> Unfortunately, a lot of people who vote Republican aren't actually
>> conservative and will choose charisma over common sense.
>
> I liked DeSantis a lot before I knew a bit more about him. Now that he's not
> getting much traction in the election he's coming across as a bit vicious
> and petty. I think he's a closet neo-CON.
>
> Ramaswamy is pretty good at soundbites, but he (through one of his
> companies) invested $110 million into Pfizer stock when they were making a
> killing (in more ways than one) with their almost completely untested mRNA
> shot.
>
> Trump talks a lot but he doesn't back up a lot of it with action. I don't
> know why Democrats whine about him so much. What "horrible" things has he
> actually done. He definitely didn't drain the swamp as he kept picking swamp
> creatures for his cabinet.
>
> But our economy was in a hell of a lot better condition off under Trump than
> under whoever pulls the senile puppet's strings now.

Democrats could argue that his actions set the economy up for the
difficulties being faced right now, especially with inflation. After
all, he locked the country and caused supply chain issues. However, he'd
just blame the ones who recommended the action to him.

>> It's not much better in Canada. While people are getting into your
>> country by walking across the border, they do that here once the
>> American government has told them to leave and others simply land in our
>> airports and decide to stick around. They are "refugees" but noone has
>> any idea what it is that they are running from. Quebec has already
>> complained to the Canadian government that the situation is untenable,
>> that they can't financially support these parasites and requested that
>> our virtuous prime minister stop inviting them in. However, the response
>> has been that the province is on its own, meaning that money which would
>> have gone into education or law enforcement is instead being used to
>> feed and house the parasites without any support by the woke asshole who
>> told them to come right on in. As a result of an existing housing
>> shortage and the influx of these parasites, houses are unaffordable even
>> when they are literally broken-down shacks. In addition to that, crime
>> is increasing because the "doctors and engineers" from the Third World
>> never do anything other than drain government finances need some extra
>> money and it is clear, even to the dumbest individual, that Western
>> Civilization is collapsing by _design_.
>
> The same thing is happening in the U.S. Listen to the whining coming from
> New York and Chicago as Governor Abbot moves illegal aliens to those cities.
> Biden is ignoring their pleas for help as well. Sleazeball. Biden should be
> impeached for the illegal alien plague alone. Instead he tries to threaten
> Texas because they've taken action to block the entry of these illegal
> aliens — doing the job the federal government is supposed to be doing.

They don't want to stop the huge influx of third-world garbage because
most of them have the pre-requisites to become a Democrat voter, namely
a complete lack of common sense and a belief that they deserve someone
else's wealth. I can't stand that the problem is now appearing in my
area too. The parasites coming here don't even mind being interviewed by
the local media, with claims that they're here because they love the
education system. We all know that they have no interest in actually
getting an education anyway, but they don't deserve to be given entry
anyway especially since we don't know who they are and what their
academic credentials are. If they were to apply, they should be at the
very bottom of the list of what's considered because of their status
alone, ASSUMING they actually intend to study and become useful.
Instead, like every other leftist shithole, they'll probably be
considered _above_ everyone else and have their complete lack of
credentials disregarded because it would be "racist" to expect
candidates to know how to do more than write their own name.

At this point, it's pretty clear that the housing shortage is going to
worsen, that entry into academia is going to be increasingly difficult,
that jobs will be harder to acquire if you're a young person entering
the workforce and pay much less. It's going to be the very fast death of
Western Civilization because the majority here is too afraid to be
called "racist" to tell these third-world parasites to fuck off and tell
the politicians enabling them that they are pieces of shit.

--
RabidPedagog
Catholic paleoconservative

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:29:29 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:

> I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
> his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
> not. In reality,

Ann Coulter, for all of her over the top style, was an early Trump
supporter when the rest of the world was never Trump. It wasn't too far
into his administration when she started posting how many miles of wall
had been built -- zero.

In 2016 Scott Adams wrote a book about why Trump was going to win, again
at a time when he was a very long shot. The GOP should read it. It was
about style and framing arguments, not politics per se. That's where
DeSantis is weak.

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:35:59 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> Ramaswamy is pretty good at soundbites, but he (through one of his
> companies) invested $110 million into Pfizer stock when they were making
> a killing (in more ways than one) with their almost completely untested
> mRNA shot.

His whole background is pharma. His companies would gamble by buying
patents that had never been carried to fruition and trying to make them
work. Innovative but the pharmaceutical industry leaves me cold.

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:22:00 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:

> They don't want to stop the huge influx of third-world garbage because
> most of them have the pre-requisites to become a Democrat voter, namely
> a complete lack of common sense and a belief that they deserve someone
> else's wealth.

Democrats love new voters; Republicans love cheap labor and new consumers.
Neither give a damn about the country with extremely few exceptions.

rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:29:29 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:
>
>> I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
>> his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
>> not. In reality,
>
> Ann Coulter, for all of her over the top style, was an early Trump
> supporter when the rest of the world was never Trump. It wasn't too far
> into his administration when she started posting how many miles of wall
> had been built -- zero.
>
> In 2016 Scott Adams wrote a book about why Trump was going to win, again
> at a time when he was a very long shot. The GOP should read it. It was
> about style and framing arguments, not politics per se. That's where
> DeSantis is weak.
>
the rest of the world don't give a fk what the americans do anymore ,
they've just become shits and giggles

rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:22:00 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:
>
>> They don't want to stop the huge influx of third-world garbage because
>> most of them have the pre-requisites to become a Democrat voter, namely
>> a complete lack of common sense and a belief that they deserve someone
>> else's wealth.
>
> Democrats love new voters; Republicans love cheap labor and new consumers.
> Neither give a damn about the country with extremely few exceptions.
>
if you don't like the government in the country you live in , move

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:53:07 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> I had a Charge 5 and it went tits up after a year. :-(

The Carge 6 was $90 with the PF special. No big loss if it dies compared
to the smart watches. Anything on my wrist is vulnerable.
> I like the Amazfit Bip 3 I have. One minor issue is that the calorie
> counter does not add in the BMR (basal metabolic rate).

I don't pay any attention to that. I'm mostly interesting in HR and steps/
distance. I've got an oximeter that I got during the covid thing that I
trust more for that function.

I'm curious about the steps algorithm. At the gym I use the treadmill,
bike, or stair stepper in the cardio mode so my hands are on the cardio
electrodes and I'm not going anywhere but it comes up with a high step
count and distance.

rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:53:07 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> I had a Charge 5 and it went tits up after a year. :-(
>
> The Carge 6 was $90 with the PF special. No big loss if it dies compared
> to the smart watches. Anything on my wrist is vulnerable.
>
>> I like the Amazfit Bip 3 I have. One minor issue is that the calorie
>> counter does not add in the BMR (basal metabolic rate).
>
> I don't pay any attention to that. I'm mostly interesting in HR and steps/
> distance. I've got an oximeter that I got during the covid thing that I
> trust more for that function.
>
> I'm curious about the steps algorithm. At the gym I use the treadmill,
> bike, or stair stepper in the cardio mode so my hands are on the cardio
> electrodes and I'm not going anywhere but it comes up with a high step
> count and distance.
>
sure it does but i wonder if you know ,
it takes running 24 miles to lose a pound

On 1/19/2024 5:53 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:05:04 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:53:53 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The Simpson's:
>>>>>
>>>>> "If you've ever handled a penny the government's got your DNA."
>>>>
>>>> And thanks to the FitBit app Google knows where I am.
>>>
>>> And when you're wanking. :-D
>>
>> Probably although it hasn't managed to handle heart rate variability yet.
>>
>>> My Amazfit/Zepp watch keeps track of me via GPS and the Russian
>>> equivalent,
>>> Glonass (English spelling of cyrillic text).
>>
>> How do you like it? I didn't want one of those Dick Tracy watches but I'm
>> a planet Fitness member and they had a discount on the Fitbit Charge 6 and
>> I thought I'd give it a try. I had been using a step counter app on the
>> phone that didn't use the GPS and was only semi-accurate.
>>
>> I miss the analog face with a seconds hand. I have to go to the stop watch
>> function to get the time between sets after turning the always on display
>> on, which is a lot of swiping.
>>
>> The HR seems pretty good, SpO2 maybe. I've compared the step app, fit
>> FitBit, and a standalone Garmin GPS for miles when hiking. They're all in
>> the same ballpark but often differ.
>>
>> It's a gadget but I'll probably get bored at some point and go back to my
>> Timex Expedition that has a second hand and doesn't talk to anybody.
>
> I had a Charge 5 and it went tits up after a year. :-(
>
> I like the Amazfit Bip 3 I have. One minor issue is that the calorie counter
> does not add in the BMR (basal metabolic rate).
>
> Also, it counts calories differently when, say, Free Training is in progress. I
> forget to turn off the training and a couple hours later it shows huge calorie
> counts.
>
> It does have a lot of watch faces, some free, some a couple or 3 bucks.
> One of them I swear uses the Artwiz font.
>

Those gadgets are all bullshit.

None of you are crossing the Death Valley every day. So their just
amusements, nothing more.

The proper work out is based on what a a human body is made for, and
doing a lot of experimentation with the latter in mind, never departing
from it. Each body is in a different state, so you just have to
experiment and see results for yourself, instead of following someone
else's procedures and recommendations.

I experimented for two years! And I eventually even cured my diabetes by
the appropriate amounts and frequencies of "work out" and food intake
that I found to match my state of health.

Each one of you should do the same if you want to get anywhere with your
crazy cro-magnon work outs.

On 2024-01-19 15:15, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:29:29 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:
>
>> I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
>> his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
>> not. In reality,
>
> Ann Coulter, for all of her over the top style, was an early Trump
> supporter when the rest of the world was never Trump. It wasn't too far
> into his administration when she started posting how many miles of wall
> had been built -- zero.

I remember that and am glad that she was able to quickly criticize the
man when everyone else on her side of the political fence was making
excuses for him.

> In 2016 Scott Adams wrote a book about why Trump was going to win, again
> at a time when he was a very long shot. The GOP should read it. It was
> about style and framing arguments, not politics per se. That's where
> DeSantis is weak.

At this point, it's pretty clear that neither DeSantis nor Haley will be
the nominee anyway.

--
RabidPedagog
Catholic paleoconservative

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:00:43 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:

> None of you are crossing the Death Valley every day. So their just
> amusements, nothing more.

True, but I like being amused. A long time ago I had a heart rate monitor
that required a chest strap and a watch like monitor. I found out that
after hiking up mountains most of my life I had a finely tuned sense of
how fast I could move without going anaerobic. Putting a number on it
didn't add anything.

On 1/19/2024 6:30 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:00:43 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
>
>> None of you are crossing the Death Valley every day. So their just
>> amusements, nothing more.
>
> True, but I like being amused. A long time ago I had a heart rate monitor
> that required a chest strap and a watch like monitor. I found out that
> after hiking up mountains most of my life I had a finely tuned sense of
> how fast I could move without going anaerobic. Putting a number on it
> didn't add anything.
>

This is what I'm talking about. You have to experiment on your own body
yourself. And it takes a lot of time. Nobody else can do it for you.
Nobody else would know how.

On 2024-01-19, RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
> On 2024-01-19 10:35 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-01-19, RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
>>> On 2024-01-19 8:10 a.m., chrisv wrote:
>>>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Not enamored of octegenarians in the White House or Congress.
>>>>
>>>> I doubt that anyone is, although Trump's fans *really* love that guy.
>>>
>>> I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
>>> his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
>>> not. In reality, DeSantis' record looks much better and Ramaswamy does a
>>> lot better when being pressed by the obsolete media. People should not
>>> ignore that he didn't do much to stop illegal entry into the country
>>> (they actually stopped themselves for fear of what he might do) and he
>>> was responsible for locking down the country, regardless of the excuses
>>> he uses. The poisonous "vaccine" was also created under his presidency
>>> and he takes great pride in reminding everyone about that.
>>> Unfortunately, a lot of people who vote Republican aren't actually
>>> conservative and will choose charisma over common sense.
>>
>> I liked DeSantis a lot before I knew a bit more about him. Now that he's not
>> getting much traction in the election he's coming across as a bit vicious
>> and petty. I think he's a closet neo-CON.
>>
>> Ramaswamy is pretty good at soundbites, but he (through one of his
>> companies) invested $110 million into Pfizer stock when they were making a
>> killing (in more ways than one) with their almost completely untested mRNA
>> shot.
>>
>> Trump talks a lot but he doesn't back up a lot of it with action. I don't
>> know why Democrats whine about him so much. What "horrible" things has he
>> actually done. He definitely didn't drain the swamp as he kept picking swamp
>> creatures for his cabinet.
>>
>> But our economy was in a hell of a lot better condition off under Trump than
>> under whoever pulls the senile puppet's strings now.
>
> Democrats could argue that his actions set the economy up for the
> difficulties being faced right now, especially with inflation. After
> all, he locked the country and caused supply chain issues. However, he'd
> just blame the ones who recommended the action to him.

There's a lot more than the lockdowns, though I think I think those came
with Biden, not Trump. There's also the completely uncontrolled illegal
alien issue (with all the special privileges they get) and there's the
shutting down of oil pipelines and exploration. There's also the billion$
going to Ukraine.

>>> It's not much better in Canada. While people are getting into your
>>> country by walking across the border, they do that here once the
>>> American government has told them to leave and others simply land in our
>>> airports and decide to stick around. They are "refugees" but noone has
>>> any idea what it is that they are running from. Quebec has already
>>> complained to the Canadian government that the situation is untenable,
>>> that they can't financially support these parasites and requested that
>>> our virtuous prime minister stop inviting them in. However, the response
>>> has been that the province is on its own, meaning that money which would
>>> have gone into education or law enforcement is instead being used to
>>> feed and house the parasites without any support by the woke asshole who
>>> told them to come right on in. As a result of an existing housing
>>> shortage and the influx of these parasites, houses are unaffordable even
>>> when they are literally broken-down shacks. In addition to that, crime
>>> is increasing because the "doctors and engineers" from the Third World
>>> never do anything other than drain government finances need some extra
>>> money and it is clear, even to the dumbest individual, that Western
>>> Civilization is collapsing by _design_.
>>
>> The same thing is happening in the U.S. Listen to the whining coming from
>> New York and Chicago as Governor Abbot moves illegal aliens to those cities.
>> Biden is ignoring their pleas for help as well. Sleazeball. Biden should be
>> impeached for the illegal alien plague alone. Instead he tries to threaten
>> Texas because they've taken action to block the entry of these illegal
>> aliens — doing the job the federal government is supposed to be doing.
>
> They don't want to stop the huge influx of third-world garbage because
> most of them have the pre-requisites to become a Democrat voter, namely
> a complete lack of common sense and a belief that they deserve someone
> else's wealth. I can't stand that the problem is now appearing in my
> area too. The parasites coming here don't even mind being interviewed by
> the local media, with claims that they're here because they love the
> education system. We all know that they have no interest in actually
> getting an education anyway, but they don't deserve to be given entry
> anyway especially since we don't know who they are and what their
> academic credentials are. If they were to apply, they should be at the
> very bottom of the list of what's considered because of their status
> alone, ASSUMING they actually intend to study and become useful.
> Instead, like every other leftist shithole, they'll probably be
> considered _above_ everyone else and have their complete lack of
> credentials disregarded because it would be "racist" to expect
> candidates to know how to do more than write their own name.
>
> At this point, it's pretty clear that the housing shortage is going to
> worsen, that entry into academia is going to be increasingly difficult,
> that jobs will be harder to acquire if you're a young person entering
> the workforce and pay much less. It's going to be the very fast death of
> Western Civilization because the majority here is too afraid to be
> called "racist" to tell these third-world parasites to fuck off and tell
> the politicians enabling them that they are pieces of shit.

Can't argue with any of this. The illegal aliens go to the front of the line
for just about everything. Definitely a population replacement plan. It's
already pretty much done its job in Europe and we're not that far behind.

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"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

On 2024-01-19, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:22:00 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:
>
>> They don't want to stop the huge influx of third-world garbage because
>> most of them have the pre-requisites to become a Democrat voter, namely
>> a complete lack of common sense and a belief that they deserve someone
>> else's wealth.
>
> Democrats love new voters; Republicans love cheap labor and new consumers.
> Neither give a damn about the country with extremely few exceptions.

True. Republicans make the right noises but, somehow, with a majority in the
House and Senate and Trump as president they didn't really get much done.
Not on illegal immigration or the so-called "affordable health insurance."
When the Republicans had a majority in the House and Senate, they could get
legislation passed to get rid of Obama Care. But, somehow, when Trump was
president (and that legislation could have actually could have been signed
into law, they just somehow couldn't get anything passed. Slimeballs. Bought
and paid for by Big Pharma. Has anyone noticed their insurance premiums
going down since ObamaCare? — after all it's "affordable" now, don't you
know?

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"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

On 2024-01-19, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:29:29 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:
>
>> I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
>> his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
>> not. In reality,
>
> Ann Coulter, for all of her over the top style, was an early Trump
> supporter when the rest of the world was never Trump. It wasn't too far
> into his administration when she started posting how many miles of wall
> had been built -- zero.
>
> In 2016 Scott Adams wrote a book about why Trump was going to win, again
> at a time when he was a very long shot. The GOP should read it. It was
> about style and framing arguments, not politics per se. That's where
> DeSantis is weak.

I get the idea DeSantis feels entitled and is peevish that things are not
going his way. I liked some of the things he did in Florida but he started
showing some of his character flaws in this presidential run. At least
that's the way I see it.

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"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

On 2024-01-19, RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
> On 2024-01-19 15:15, rbowman wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:29:29 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:
>>
>>> I would have hoped that by this point, those same people would consult
>>> his track record in deciding whether they want to support him again or
>>> not. In reality,
>>
>> Ann Coulter, for all of her over the top style, was an early Trump
>> supporter when the rest of the world was never Trump. It wasn't too far
>> into his administration when she started posting how many miles of wall
>> had been built -- zero.
>
> I remember that and am glad that she was able to quickly criticize the
> man when everyone else on her side of the political fence was making
> excuses for him.
>
>> In 2016 Scott Adams wrote a book about why Trump was going to win, again
>> at a time when he was a very long shot. The GOP should read it. It was
>> about style and framing arguments, not politics per se. That's where
>> DeSantis is weak.
>
> At this point, it's pretty clear that neither DeSantis nor Haley will be
> the nominee anyway.

Ramaswamy described Haley pretty well. Dick Cheney in high heels. She's a
creature of the Deep State Swamp, bought and paid for by the defense
industry. If Trump is stupid enough to pick her as his Vice Presidential
candidate he would guarantee his loss.

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"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

On 2024-01-19, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:35:59 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> Ramaswamy is pretty good at soundbites, but he (through one of his
>> companies) invested $110 million into Pfizer stock when they were making
>> a killing (in more ways than one) with their almost completely untested
>> mRNA shot.
>
> His whole background is pharma. His companies would gamble by buying
> patents that had never been carried to fruition and trying to make them
> work. Innovative but the pharmaceutical industry leaves me cold.

Me too.

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"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput