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I'm sure they are pissed off, and they should be. Note, i'm not saying we shouldn't be supporting this war and Ukraine, i'm just saying there is a very thin line between supporting them and using them as a proxy war. I realized I linked the wrong article above. I think it referenced the one I linked and that's how that one got included, but it was about Boris Johnson's somewhat impromptu visit to Ukraine in April. Now I can't find it. It was reported back then that he warned Zelensky with many of the things you all have pointed out, for instance that you simply can't trust Putin. There is nothing wrong with that. It went further in saying that Johnson said that if they did sign a deal with Russia, he'd be risking western support going forward. If true, I don't see him saying that without US awareness and agreement. Also if true, kind of sounds like we want the proxy war and luckily, for now at least, that coincides with what Ukraine wants.

As I said, if Zelensky wanted to agree to it, and we stronghanded him, that's bullshit. The biggest argument on this site is we should support Ukraine/Zelensky if they want war, conversely we should support him if he wants peace too. In terms of 'owning' the Russians, this war has been a fabulous success that we can all cheer on from the comfort of our homes on the other side of the world. If this war stopped in April, how many tens of thousands would have been saved from the Ukrainian military and citizens? I've heard some estimates of up to 1 million Ukrainians that were forced into Russia, what are the chances they are ever coming back? Imagine how much less this global inflation crisis may have been if this stopped that long ago. We still haven't seen the real crunch on just how bad this war will be globally until we see how Europe gets through this Winter. Points on Putin and just how safe could Ukraine feel even if Russia did pull out are valid. As mentioned, this might be better for us in terms of China as well. From a US standpoint, this has been great. Just surprised it's one of the few guys still on this site that supported us going into Iraq that is the one pointing out war is still a pretty horrible thing and comes with some great losses, even if you 'win'.

Some great news from the last few days which seems to be confirmed now. I haven't been around much lately. Has anyone pointed out that it looks like Russia and Ukraine were close to an agreement that would have stopped the war in April but Boris Johnson helped nix it (i'm sure with our support). https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/world-putin-wants-fiona-hill-angela-stent?check_logged_in=1&utm_medium=promo_email&utm_source=lo_flows&utm_campaign=registered_user_welcome&utm_term=email_1&utm_content=20220910 Take a look at the current map below and note that the deal would have given Ukraine everything it controlled prior to Feb 24. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-world-news-kharkiv-e06b2aa723e826ed4105b5f32827f577 If it comes out Zelensky was leaning towards taking the deal and didn't because of us, heads should roll.

Finishing up the concert now and McCartney is out there with Chrissie Hynde and holy crap, she's so good. Rush, being one of my favorite bands, was quite awesome as well. Overall this concert absolutely fantastic.

I saw the likes, which I guess I understand. I never thought i'd be a one issue voter, yet there are two single issues in which I wouldn't vote for Dixon now (Abortion and Election/Trump). That said, we'll be rewarded with this sentiment by 4 more years of a mediocre governor (honestly, only accomplishment that she screwed over Konstanstinov?!?!) along with an horribly incompetent (Flint) and possibly corrupt (See Dugan/Benson husband) Attorney General and a Secretary of State which only increased waiting times, even before Covid, not to mention her law breaking husband..... Sad that these are our options, even sadder that with the options, there is still only one clear cut choice.....ugh.

Abortion is on the ballot in Michigan. Game Set Match for Whitmer.

If she accepted Sterns invitation to his show, this is what you would have had.

First born is heir now, but there are a few generations of first born males already in line. If the Monarchy holds on, it's only a matter of time.

The Trump unity bridge travels around mostly southeastern Michigan. It's a complete shitshow. The Drew and Mike podcast regularly reaches out to the guy, he still hasn't realized they are mocking him.

Right at the end they have an angle on Shane with a blurred Pat Smear in the background and he's got the biggest smile in the world.

I'm surprised no one has talked about this. I'm trying to get through the full concert, i'm about 2 hours in and it's been fantastic. This, rightfully so, won the twitterverse related to this show. I don't think Grohl lied when he said he's never seen anyone hit the drums as hard as this kid.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/31/voting-rights-ballot-proposal-headed-court-after-canvassers-deadlock-michigan-abortion-rights/7948041001/ Very likely the MI supreme court allows this on the ballot. If so, Whitmer minds well stop campaigning as there would be no reason to waste funds on a race you already won.

i'm very confident I had it about 4-6 weeks ago, especially as I hung out with my brother (and shared a room) on a family reunion trip last week and didn't get sick as he went from completely fine on a Friday night, to chills/fever as he woke up Saturday. 4-6 weeks ago I had the same symptons as him, 1.5 days of a sore throat, .5 days of chills feeling warm/cold inside those 1.5 days. By day 2, felt pretty good, day 3, felt fine. Hope the same for you.

Maybe I just live in a different world. If my elected official, regardless of the party they are in, have family members getting 100k gifts out of the kindness of someone's heart, I want that scrutinized.

WAPO confirmed thousands of the emails, including the one I have mentioned. Freeh gave the money to Biden's grandkids as he's asking an eager Hunter for a chance to meet with his Dad. That's old school political bribing. You can argue that it's not black and white and technically this or that, but it's bullshit. You know it, I know it. As i've said, if you want to whatabout this and point to Trump being a bigger corrupt politician, I can't argue with that. Jared, as it appears, did nothing illegal either in regards to the Saudi 2 billion, but in a perfect world, he's in jail over it right now. I guess the biggest thing about the Hunter stuff isn't that it should/shouldn't be a bigger story over X, Y, or Z, but that so many people actually think the laptop is fake news still.

If a city of warren businessman that might do business with the city at some point gave Fouts 100k and said 'whatever you choose to do in the future, i'd just like to work with you', you would be good with that? I have a customer that is a government agency, if I saw one of their employees at Starbucks on my lunch and paid for their coffee I could face consequences.

Whatever, I know your MO.

You're honestly telling me that if it came out that someone gave a Pence family member 100k, made a point to tell his kids, and ask them to tell Pence he would look forward to working with him in the future, you would be fine with no one questioning it?

Yup... most of the laptop is just crude Hunter Biden porn/crap, but there are definitely some things that would at least raise some eyebrows. Luckily the MSM worked with the Biden Administration and the 50 top former intel officers to convince the majority of people there was nothing to see there. And again, I agree wholeheartedly with the 'whatabout Trump and/or his kids'. I will happily punch down my vote for a old school semi-crooked politician in Biden over seditious F@#&$'s.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-fbi-director-donated-100k-to-biden-grandchildrens-trust-while-he-was-soliciting-biden-for-work-report Note: Biden was still VP at this point too.

I mean, there is some evidence of your standard political unethical behavior combined with some money exchanging that you'd certainly question if it was someone from a party you didn't like....but in the grand scheme of things, it's just your basic run of the mill indication of political cronyism that I'm sure most of us would like to go back to.... the good ole days if you will.

Actually many people have talked about Jared's deal and the stuff with Ivanka. In her case, the full story indicated nothing wrong with Ivanka, that's why you didn't hear more of it, because it was fully vetted. In Jared's case, it's sickening and much worse than the Hunter Biden stuff even if it turns out to be true that 'The Big Guy' was in fact Biden (which deep down we all know it was) and POTUS did in fact have business ventures with China that were hidden and lied about. So to answer your whatabout, yes, what you mention are things that should be explored via the news and not censored (which they were not) by the MSM and social media outlets.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/zuckerberg-admits-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story-for-a-week-122082600097_1.html I know most will dismiss this as it's Hunter Biden, but the fact that so many news organizations and social media outlets completely shut it down, or as Facebook admits now, limited it's spread, based on information from the FBI and not by verifying it themselves, is pretty scary.

In regards to Oblong's question, you're right, they would say so. But if instead of the government doing anything about the price, they just said they would pay it on behalf of the users for a year, Big Pharma would absolutely love that. In fact, why just do it once, if the people like it, keep doing it.....even better.