2020 Presidential Race

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BreatheUT said:
If I had to peg you I'd say...under 35, single, struggle with dating, works for the government, lives in mom's basement, favorite meal is hot dog and chips with a Kosher on the side and still plays hours of video games.
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Bravo....Your deductive reasoning skills are stunning. Explains the level of accuracy of your other conclusions.

Now it's my turn.
You have a severely deviate septum, protruding forehead, short legs and torso, but excessively long arms.
 
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luthervol said:
Bravo....Your deductive reasoning skills are stunning. Explains the level of accuracy of your other conclusions.

Now it's my turn.
You have a severely deviate septum, protruding forehead, short legs and torso, but excessively long arms.
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So you’re saying that pointing out the idiotic bleating of the liberal left is so easy that even a cave man can do it?
 
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Vol Main said:
You brought it up, as if the U.S. provides a significant share of their defense budgets, which we don't.
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Really. Ever hear of NATO? Where would they be without it? How much do they contribute in real dollars compared to us? How many bodies and how much material can they muster for their own defense? Plus who pays for our nuclear arsenal which ultimately protects them? If they had to pay for their total individual defense and then tried to keep all their governmental social programs they would be bankrupt.
 
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Vol Main said:
Denmark, Sweden, and Finland are countries of rich white people who made money in oil? Norway has oil, but I do not see that picture there either.
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The population in Norway is over 30 million less than just the state of California... I don’t see very many similarities between the two countries.
 
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37L1 said:
Really. Ever hear of NATO? Where would they be without it? How much do they contribute in real dollars compared to us? How many bodies and how much material can they muster for their own defense? Plus who pays for our nuclear arsenal which ultimately protects them? If they had to pay for their total individual defense and then tried to keep all their governmental social programs they would be bankrupt.
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Instead of asking me, why don't you answer your own question. I think you will find that we provide very little military assistance to Scandanavian. I must ask if you are suggesting that Venezuela would be prosperous like the Scandanavian countries if it were in NATO, that it is a failed society because we do not contribute to it's defense budget? Are you suggesting that NATO makes Scandanavian countries mixed system prosperous, that democratic socialist countries can be free and prosperous if they just join NATO?
 
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37L1 said:
Really. Ever hear of NATO? Where would they be without it? How much do they contribute in real dollars compared to us? How many bodies and how much material can they muster for their own defense? Plus who pays for our nuclear arsenal which ultimately protects them? If they had to pay for their total individual defense and then tried to keep all their governmental social programs they would be bankrupt.
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That makes us look like the idiots not them
 
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DynaLo said:
So you’re saying that pointing out the idiotic bleating of the liberal left is so easy that even a cave man can do it?
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That's certainly the way that only a cave man would interpret what I said. So I guess you're partially correct.
 
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Vol Main said:
Instead of asking me, why don't you answer your own question. I think you will find that we provide very little military assistance to Scandanavian. I must ask if you are suggesting that Venezuela would be prosperous like the Scandanavian countries if it were in NATO, that it is a failed society because we do not contribute to it's defense budget? Are you suggesting that NATO makes Scandanavian countries mixed system prosperous, that democratic socialist countries can be free and prosperous if they just join NATO?
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I'm not suggesting anything of the sort and you know it. Venezuela is in the mess that it's in because of the economic mismanagement of the particular political system that is currently in power and has nothing to do with whatever military assistance they are receiving or not. Your example is ludicrous but, considering the source from which it emanated, not surprising.

I'm suggesting that without the US defense system, which includes military numbers, airlift capability, air power, Research/Development, naval assets, missile technology/delivery systems, nuclear capability, etc., you know, all those things we pay for and they don't but benefit from by being considered an ally through treaty. If they had to provide even a modicum of those on their own, they would not be able to afford their social programs. So in exchange, those countries lose a measure of their ability to decide on their own, since they are pretty much at the mercy of other members of the treaty and what they decide to do and with the expectation that they will go along to keep the protection provided by said treaty.

Those countries you mentioned can't even function on their own economically but also benefit from being part of the EU. You know that association that worked so well that Great Britain has tried to get out of it? Ever wonder why? Because it's an economic system run by committee. You know a committee, where one or two do all the work and everyone gets credit for it? Kind of like Germany paying for Greece in the EU, and each country losing more of its autonomy through belonging to the association. They let decisions, that impact their countries, be made by the EU entity in Brussels, not Copenhagen or Stockholm.

So in short, much like Democrats, they trade a measure of freedom for security and social programs.

That last is sure to stir up the hornets nest. Have at it, buckaroos.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Biden Campaign Urged Iowa Staffers to Risk Their Lives for Uncle Joe

Former vice president Joe Biden's presidential campaign ordered its Iowa staffers to be "adaptable, flexible, and willing" while suspending the campaign's inclement weather policy in the finals weeks before the Iowa caucuses.

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"Hey guys, all weather policy is dissolved throughout the entire state because we have five weeks left until the election," Kay Glad, Biden’s regional organizing director for Iowa, texted staffers on Dec. 30, when much of the state was blanketed in snow. "If it feels like unsafe driving conditions, then talk to me separately but quite frankly I don’t want to hear any complaints because you know how important this is and how much time we have left."

Glad's texts were leaked by an anonymous Biden campaign staffer to the Nation, which published them on Friday. The staffer described an atmosphere of fear, noting there had been at least five separate car accidents involving Iowa campaign staff between Christmas and New Year's Day. The campaign's existing policy had recommended that staffers avoid driving in potentially dangerous conditions.

Biden Campaign Urged Iowa Staffers to Risk Their Lives for Uncle Joe
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As someone who lived in Iowa for years, where nothing ever ever ever closed for weather, this gave me and my wife a good belly laugh. Thanks!
 
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Rifleman said:
As someone who lived in Iowa for years, where nothing ever ever ever closed for weather, this gave me and my wife a good belly laugh. Thanks!
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My wife and I are in Ames now and have been for a few years. Still amuses us as well how schools here are open still when it’s -18 and literally a foot of snow falling that day. Back home in TN we called up the national guard when it was forecast to get below freezing.
 
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C/O said:
My wife and I are in Ames now and have been for a few years. Still amuses us as well how schools here are open still when it’s -18 and literally a foot of snow falling that day. Back home in TN we called up the national guard when it was forecast to get below freezing.
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I was had moved to and was living in Nebraska in 1988 when a blizzard hit in March I believe it was . Never in my life had I seen anything like that before .
 
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0nelilreb said:
I was had moved to and was living in Nebraska in 1988 when a blizzard hit in March I believe it was . Never in my life had I seen anything like that before .
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I was in TN during what we the called ‘the blizzard of 93’ and let me tell ya, that was no blizzard. That’s a Tuesday to the upper Midwest. It’s caucus time here in Iowa and the weather doesn’t stop it. We were under a blizzard warning about 2 weeks ago and it still didn’t stop people from lining up outside to attend some of the rallies for Pete and Warren here in town that day.
 
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C/O said:
I was in TN during what we the called ‘the blizzard of 93’ and let me tell ya, that was no blizzard. That’s a Tuesday to the upper Midwest. It’s caucus time here in Iowa and the weather doesn’t stop it. We were under a blizzard warning about 2 weeks ago and it still didn’t stop people from lining up outside to attend some of the rallies for Pete and Warren here in town that day.
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Yeah 93 in west Tn was just Ice . That did cause some problems with power lines , but it wasn’t a blizzard. I seen that fine powdery white hell and once was enough . We had to put straw bales in front of the hog sheds to keep the wind off and keep them from drowning from sucking in snow . First time I’d heard that before . Oh and did I tell you how much I hate shoveling snow ? Never knew how anyone could have a heart attack doing that , I mean it’s just snow right ? Right ! Lol
 
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C/O said:
I was in TN during what we the called ‘the blizzard of 93’ and let me tell ya, that was no blizzard. That’s a Tuesday to the upper Midwest. It’s caucus time here in Iowa and the weather doesn’t stop it. We were under a blizzard warning about 2 weeks ago and it still didn’t stop people from lining up outside to attend some of the rallies for Pete and Warren here in town that day.
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0nelilreb said:
Yeah 93 in west Tn was just Ice . That did cause some problems with power lines , but it wasn’t a blizzard. I seen that fine powdery white hell and once was enough . We had to put straw bales in front of the hog sheds to keep the wind off and keep them from drowning from sucking in snow . First time I’d heard that before . Oh and did I tell you how much I hate shoveling snow ? Never knew how anyone could have a heart attack doing that , I mean it’s just snow right ? Right ! Lol
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Ice Storm of "93. Got up that morning & called into work saying I won't be in today. I had a big tree that fell over because of the weight from all the ice that was on it. When that big ole tree fell (middle of the night) it had just missed the corner of my house by just a few inches. No damage. I had to get the chain saw out & go to cutting it up & moving pieces (chunks) of the tree to the front yard so the street dept would come by to pick-up. The Jackson street dept was very busy that week or so.
 
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we had more than a foot in Cleveland. not saying thats a midwest blizzard. but it was more than ice for a lot of people.
 
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