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Pragmatist2025
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re: Yet another example how impotent and useless the Republican Party is
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/13/25 at 7:49 am to frogtown
quote:It’s strange, because the narrative is that things are better now because Republicans have made them less worse. Sorta like a reduction in a scheduled increase is called a cut. Making a slight reduction in a $2T deficit is now a win.
We are $40 trillion in debt. We have a $2 trillion deficit. Debt to GDP is at 125%. We are on an unstainable path. This is a big deal. This is the elephant in the fricking room. Trump sweeps into power with both a GOP House and Senate and they proceed to make it worse.
Voting is no longer a recourse for citizens.
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re: A Message to those who love the “Fishing Boats”
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/9/25 at 8:14 am to Decatur
quote:I do not know in any absolute way if that is the purpose. He just seems strange that after spending trillions on the war on terror and actively seeking them out to retrieve intel, that there are no reports of this happening, as least as far as I have heard.
This operation isn’t about drug interdiction. It’s about destabilizing Venezuela with the goal of regime change. The Admin is just not interested in capturing these folks and working its way up the chain to really impact the drug trade.
re: A Message to those who love the “Fishing Boats”
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/9/25 at 8:04 am to SlowFlowPro
No doubt the emotional trauma of experiencing the drug related injury or death of a loved one is immense.
My question would be is there an aversion to capturing one of these boats? I have not seen this reported. It would seem helpful if the narco terrorists could give information that reveals the origins of and those responsible for supplying the drugs.
My question would be is there an aversion to capturing one of these boats? I have not seen this reported. It would seem helpful if the narco terrorists could give information that reveals the origins of and those responsible for supplying the drugs.
re: VAERS shows 38,472 deaths reported. 9,252 of deaths occurred on the day of or 1 to 2 days
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/9/25 at 7:43 am to BR Tiger
Have literally never heard of a broken arm being reported as the result of a vaccine, though I suppose you are being hyperbolic. If it was Tylenol being reported as causing an injury not a question would be raised. You are correct though about the political factor. Doctors were threatened and even fired if they raised any concerns about the jab.
MANY people had immediate serious life-threatening and even fatal reactions to the Covid gene therapy injection. Others developed acute conditions that became chronic. Look at the data about the spike proteins still present 6 or 8 months later. The denial or even attacking of these actual events is mind-boggling.
MANY people had immediate serious life-threatening and even fatal reactions to the Covid gene therapy injection. Others developed acute conditions that became chronic. Look at the data about the spike proteins still present 6 or 8 months later. The denial or even attacking of these actual events is mind-boggling.
re: VAERS shows 38,472 deaths reported. 9,252 of deaths occurred on the day of or 1 to 2 days
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/9/25 at 6:56 am to L1C4
quote:Because of underreporting.
Google search will tell you that VAERS is not reliable.
re: VAERS shows 38,472 deaths reported. 9,252 of deaths occurred on the day of or 1 to 2 days
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/9/25 at 6:42 am to Night Vision
quote:My wife said this is next to impossible. And the other poster was correct. A lot of underreporting goes on. There is a low tolerance for injuries and deaths, as it should be.
I've heard more than one doctor say they didn't even know what VAERS was while being interviewed.
re: Trump Will Start Blasting Americans Like He’s Blowing Up Foreign Narco-Terrorists
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/8/25 at 4:54 pm to dgnx6
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Well I have an issue housing terrorists or keeping people on death row for decades. Move it along. And not you or anyone can guarantee me that once these drug runners serve their sentence that they are deported and not released back into the country.
Not drug runners…Narco-terrorists. We created the DHS, have lived under the Patriot Act for decades and have multiple 3 letter agencies dedicated committed to counter-terrorism. If these are terrorists, why is there no interest in finding the source?
Every major drug seizure almost anywhere is publicized to show the effectiveness of our efforts. What harm would there be in showing the material results of these actions?
re: Trump Will Start Blasting Americans Like He’s Blowing Up Foreign Narco-Terrorists
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/8/25 at 4:36 pm to dgnx6
quote:They have been labeled narco-TERRORISTS. We have been fighting the war on terror for 25 years. We have locked up many hundreds of terrorists in GITMO over the years to glean intel. Why would this not be a consideration?
You folks are naive.
re: Trump Will Start Blasting Americans Like He’s Blowing Up Foreign Narco-Terrorists
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/8/25 at 4:21 pm to Da #1 Stunna
quote:
How effective was that past policy??? Just curious, but after, 40 or so years of evidentiary data, it has been comprehensively said, that the "WAR ON DRUGS" was a total failure. Are you saying you think the old, failed way, is a better policy than the current one, that is setting the tone of what the new standard is under Trump. We are not putting the CIA in charge of this so they can game the system and make money to create havoc. This time, we are actually trying to put a stop to it. This is a different type investment/committment into this project. Much bigger stakes. The "its not going to work crowd" just want to do what we did before so they can keep calling it a failure because that is the brainwashed message told by the corrupt media and put on repeat. New approach to an old problem. I like the more aggressive posture and they need to crush the Venezuelan cartels to show Mexico that they are on the clock to get themselves under control, or ..........
I can’t discern if you are replying to me or not. I asked if it would be beneficial to capture some of the narco-terrorists to get information about their network. Is this a bad idea?
re: CNN Can Not Understand Why We Can Not Arrest The Drug Runners and Bring Them to Trial.
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/8/25 at 10:15 am to Timeoday
I posted this in another thread but got no response. Is this rational?
The first questions about the bombings were whether or not these were extra-legal actions. As they were no longer seen as drug smugglers, they were labeled narco-terrorists in international waters, making them enemy combatants of the United States. This would perhaps satisfy that question.
Granted that I am not familiar with maritime law but if we can bomb them could we not also stop and capture them? It would follow the MO of how we have dealt with terrorists before, and it seems beneficial if there was a goal of finding the source or terrorist network.
Any terrorist captured would presumingly be subject to appearing before a military tribunal. In my opinion, it would at least lay to rest who and what we are blowing up.
The first questions about the bombings were whether or not these were extra-legal actions. As they were no longer seen as drug smugglers, they were labeled narco-terrorists in international waters, making them enemy combatants of the United States. This would perhaps satisfy that question.
Granted that I am not familiar with maritime law but if we can bomb them could we not also stop and capture them? It would follow the MO of how we have dealt with terrorists before, and it seems beneficial if there was a goal of finding the source or terrorist network.
Any terrorist captured would presumingly be subject to appearing before a military tribunal. In my opinion, it would at least lay to rest who and what we are blowing up.
re: Trump Will Start Blasting Americans Like He’s Blowing Up Foreign Narco-Terrorists
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/8/25 at 8:58 am to Jbird
Maybe this is off-topic, but the first questions about the bombings were whether or not these were extra-legal actions. As they were no longer seen as drug smugglers, they were labeled narco-terrorists in international waters, making them enemy combatants of the United States. This would perhaps satisfy that question.
Granted that I am not familiar with maritime law but if we can bomb them could we not also stop and capture them? It would follow the MO of how we have dealt with terrorists before, and it seems beneficial if there was a goal of finding the source or terrorist network.
Any terrorist captured would presumingly be subject to appearing before a military tribunal. In my opinion, it would at least lay to rest who and what we are blowing up.
Granted that I am not familiar with maritime law but if we can bomb them could we not also stop and capture them? It would follow the MO of how we have dealt with terrorists before, and it seems beneficial if there was a goal of finding the source or terrorist network.
Any terrorist captured would presumingly be subject to appearing before a military tribunal. In my opinion, it would at least lay to rest who and what we are blowing up.
re: President Trump’s 2nd National Security Strategy
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/5/25 at 8:05 am to Penrod
quote:I read through some of it, and it does clarify some things. The idea in the quote from you has always made me feel uncomfortable though, particularly the American interest part.
In fact, Trump’s position has never been “No foreign wars” it has been that we will only do these things for American interests.
Throughout the years no matter what stripe the President, this ambiguity has often brought actions that fall outside this purview.
re: President Trump’s 2nd National Security Strategy
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/5/25 at 6:19 am to hawgfaninc
Has the Patriot Act been scrapped & Homeland Security been disassembled?
re: Property taxes - theft
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 11/27/25 at 7:58 am to BamaCoaster
quote:Would vote for this and anyone who proposed it. So, never gonna happen. The fair share/class warfare crowd will never go for everyone paying the same percentages.
All taxes should be consumption tax.
re: Are we allowed to say Merry Christmas this season?
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 11/21/25 at 1:57 pm to BarberitosDawg
I say Xmas. Dont care.
re: The new Smollette-ette - TDS
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 11/21/25 at 6:17 am to Kjnstkmn
She should be charged whenever the FBI agents who convinced militia guys to plan the kidnapping of a governor are charged also.
re: Is Obamacare the worst legislation since NAFTA?
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 11/21/25 at 6:10 am to retired_tiger
quote:It is neither the responsibility of the President nor legislators to come up with a plan for ‘healthcare’. That is what got us into this mess.
So where is trump's plan?
re: News report - ICE says they are now starting to go after people who hire illegals.
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 11/18/25 at 7:24 am to Tiger Attorney
quote:It has been (or should have been) since the beginning.
This is the way.
re: The US supports a Palestine state for the first time in modern history
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 11/15/25 at 5:34 am to hawgfaninc
quote:The “support” of a 2SS is window dressing. “Owned” has more than one facet. When the president openly calls for the judiciary in Israel to exonerate Netanyahu of corruption charges whose trial has been in a holding pattern for a couple of years, that can’t simply be ignored.
Trump is owned by Israel bros in shambles
And the others quoting scriptures comparing the Zionist political state created in 1948 to biblical Israel is cognitive dissonance, just as is dismissing the Palestinian presence prior to that time as insignificant.
The sophomoric pejoratives “Hamas bros” , “owned by Israel bros” and other similar jibes are feeble efforts to dissuade analytical thinking on these matters past tribal politics.
re: Dick Cheney Died on 11/3. His Funeral is Scheduled For 11/20....
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 11/12/25 at 5:35 pm to SirWinston
quote:The major news item changes every ten minutes. Good threads fly off the front page in an hour or two. But, yeah, that seemed like weeks ago now.
oh yeah I vaguely remember that
re: What Did Men Do to Deserve This? (Another take on the so-called man/boy crisis)
Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 11/12/25 at 4:32 pm to 4cubbies
First of all, kudos on nailing it in the ‘low energy prices’ thread the other day by simply mentioning kWh usage.
However, this is just bad.
However, this is just bad.
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