Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Lacey

What even funnier is that according to Rich, we are the idiot leftist morons who are brain-washed by our media sources. Still, he can't tell himself that the Fox News article he is purporting clears Hegseth and Waltz of any wrongdoing, completely overstates and makes up what the CISA guideline says to try and provide cover for the amateurish behavior of Hegseth and Waltz.

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

And the idiot leaves the conversation because he thinks he's won while he's never been more wrong than what he's posted in this thread. Everyone knows it except him.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I don't have to jump through the hoops of a known and proven liar. 

That said, ever heard of google?

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I've been here answering all of your questions, while you've avoided every question I've posited to you.

Then again, you've always been an intellectual coward and a fraud who didn't have one word to say when your heroes Austin and Milley caused the deaths of 13 military soldiers in Afghanistan, directly because of their total incompetence.

When you grow a pair and want to remark about that Mission failure, you let me know BM.  

Originally Posted by James Brown

Not surprisingly, a quick search shows that this is not a "Healthcare Bill" introduced in the "California Legislature"; but is instead a proposed ballot initiative filed with with the CA attorney general’s office by an individual of unknown party affiliation.   But hey, why let truth get in the way of a good outrage narrative? 

The individual who filed this proposed initiative may indeed be sick and demented etc., but he is clearly not the Democratic Party.   Apparently anyone in CA can propose a ballot initiative and title it anything they like.   The initiative goes nowhere of course, unless over 500,000 signatures are collected to get the initiative on the ballot.  The AG's office gets to select the actual title as part of the CA ballot initiative process, by the way.  
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/controversial-health-care-ballot-initiative-named-after-alleged-murderer-luigi-mangione/509-0a6c71c1-e3c0-4f76-ba2d-0097b2f9eb9b

According to the individual who filed this proposed initiative with the AG's office, he thought the proposed title would generate press, which it did.   Obviously the story pierced Richard’s outrage bubble, although I doubt any normal people even noticed.  Also, none of the articles I skimmed remotely suggested the initiative was introduced in the legislature by a legislator, Democrat or otherwise.  So those are apparently Richard's own fabrications.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi James; you put your finger on precisely what I am most worried about. How does the administration back out of this? We all know admitting that the scope of this ridiculous tariff plan was a mistake is not going to happen. Trump can never admit he made a mistake, even if 100% of his advisors tell him so.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Foreign trade policy is in the wheelhouse of executive branch authority.  So the courts are going to have little influence.   Congress would have to pass veto-proof legislation to do anything.  That’s not likely.

The off-ramp here seems to be several countries cutting bespoke trade deals with Trump, under the threat of crippling recession.    Even if the deals are simply a return to status quo, Trump can claim victory if long term recession is avoided and the market recovers.    This is a negotiating by bullies strategy.   It is wasteful, risky, pointless, and beyond arrogant.  Trump apparently views the stock market as a scorecard, so let’s hope he makes a lot of quick deals with our trading partners.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

As I've said before, the upper echelon of our federal leaders is a bunch of untouchable elites. We hold privates in the Air Force to a higher standard when it comes to handling classified information, for example, than we ever held Hillary, Trump, Biden, Vance, Sandy Berger, and so on.

I agree that the chain of custody is moot, mainly since no one will ever be investigated or prosecuted over Burisma-gate or Hunter's laptop. Still,  I think it's an overstatement to say that *all* of the data is authentic. As far as I know, a particular subset of the data could have been tampered with, despite a copy of some clean data from the laptop being authenticated. In short, there is no doubt that the vast majority of the data is authentic, but still, some data could never be fully authenticated. Does it matter? Not a bit at this point.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

It seems the Supreme Court agrees.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-trump-administration-not-deport-venezuelans-now-rcna201949


Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now


WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in the early hours of Saturday told the Trump administration not to take any action to deport Venezuelan men based in Texas it alleges are gang members.

In a statement, Lee Gelernt, the lead ACLU attorney in the case, praised the Supreme Court's decision, saying, “These men were in imminent danger of spending their lives in a horrific foreign prison without ever having had a chance to go to court. We are relieved that the Supreme Court has not permitted the administration to whisk them away the way others were just last month.”

Originally Posted by James Lacey

It seems the Supreme Court agrees.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-trump-administration-not-deport-venezuelans-now-rcna201949


Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now


WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in the early hours of Saturday told the Trump administration not to take any action to deport Venezuelan men based in Texas it alleges are gang members.

In a statement, Lee Gelernt, the lead ACLU attorney in the case, praised the Supreme Court's decision, saying, “These men were in imminent danger of spending their lives in a horrific foreign prison without ever having had a chance to go to court. We are relieved that the Supreme Court has not permitted the administration to whisk them away the way others were just last month.”