Actually, TFG did bomb ISIL in Iraq and many children were killed as collateral damage. Yes, he promised to "bring the troops home from Syria," (about 150 special operators). He said "I've brought the troops home but then proceeded to send 1800 troops to Saudia Arabia when Iranian drones attacked some oil sites. He started that engagement. He negotiated with terrorists, the Taliban, we he breached the 2008 rules set by the GOP that, when Obama suggested pulling out of Iraq Obama was staunchly told by the GOP "YOU DO NOT ANNOUNCE YOUR PLANS TO WITHDRAWAL TROOPS" because they will merely wait to take it back over. Instead, Trump negotiated with Taliban terrorists regarding the last day of American occupation, and when they left, the Taliban swiftly took over the country again. What did all that fortune and the U.S. then accomplish? Please explain that to the Gold Star parents, fellow patriot.

He only attempted to force Bar to indict his political adversaries, as well without more than $400M in aid Congress approved for Ukraine by attempting to extort Zelenksy to announce an investigation into Hunter Biden and Burisma. An investigation, by the way, that was already open but merely stalled because Ukraine's prosecutor general (and all his predecessors) used the office to extort money from Ukrainian oligarchs to NOT pursue investigations into them.

Of course, this is the part where you remind me that "Biden" withheld $1B to Ukraine until they fired UPG Shokin. Except that demand didn't come from Biden, it came from Obama and Biden explicitly said, this isn't from me, if you don't believe me, call the President right now. Oh, and Hunter Biden is under indictment so that litmus test fails as well.

And yes, Trump did have a KKK mentor: His father was in the Klan and was rounded up by police at a Klan rally long ago. Fred Trump was taken to court for housing discrimination laws because he wouldn't rent to black tenants.

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I think an authoritarian agenda by a man who has admitted he will take vengeance on those disloyal and critical to him and behave as a dictator (but for just one day) is a greater and more egregious threat than any liberal-progressive notion of maintaining the separation of Church and State, encouraging tolerance for those not of white skin color, exposing unambiguous insurrection promoted by TFG as well as promoting of a stolen election that was shot down in over 60 court cases for lack of evidence BEFORE he heard a rally on Jan 6 to "fight like hell" to stop the steal.

Let's talk about how if you don't adopt far-right positions then the right-wing media labels you "far-left radicals.

I must disagree with you, friend, at this point: When it suits their purpose, [Republicans] wrap themselves in the Constitution, [even dropping so low as to hug it], but in their books and [rallies] they refer their unwavering, undying love for America, without Acknowledging that American is We the People and that they loathe more than half the American voting public who did not vote for Trump in 2020. They decry them as communists, socialists, and even fascists due to their ignorance of which side of the political spectrum fascism lies on.

Oh, the irony, indeed! Let us all vote for a POTUS candidate who repeatedly attempted to discredit news networks, newspapers, and individual critics that, well, haven't shown due fealty to him. A man who champions free speech and has vowed to exact revenge, should he become president, on those information purveyors he deems unsatisfactorily loyal to him. The path is clear! A vote for Free Speech, with its accompanying State-level censorship, is now a mandatory vote for American LIberty and the right to Free Speech enshrined in the 1st Amendment! Here Here!

Americans just don't want lithium mining and processing in their backyards. Where are the great Patriots who will accept it in their backyards?

Hey, Coward. Hate to break it to you, but fascism is on the FAR RIGHT of the political spectrum. It's like saying, "Marxist libertarian." The terms are an oxymoron. A better example of this idiocy is calling President Obama an Islamic Socialist lead-from-behind empty-suit dictator anti-christ who brought Sharia law to the U.S.. Let's break that down:
Socialism expressly denies any God.
Islamic theocracy expressly establishes Islam as the State Religion.
You can't be a tyrannical dictator and a do-nothing empty suit.
And he turned out not to be the anti-Christ nor did he place Americans under Sharia law.

You keep using your word salad if it helps you sleep at night.

At least you're not cynical.

Actually, I just sold a $22.5k residential solar project that will pay for itself in electricity cost savings in just over 5 years. We provide a 30 year warranty on the whole project. And he's save about $150K in electricity bills over the next 25 years. Solar panels carry a 25 year warranty from most makes and models and produce between 86% and 92% of their original production capacity after 25%. It they don't, you get a warranty replacement.

Your numbers are way off.

Bring back coal-fired automobiles!

or IRC, for short.

A word to wiser vigilantes: Draw a lesson from this story and always carry a drop gun.

Yes, that's sarcasm, folks.

Smirnov,

In total agreement. Not a plug, but I've seen that Backblaze provides great deets on their luck with hard disks AT SCALE. I haven't peeked there in years. I wonder what their data show?

More true than most are able to understand. The interesting successes of Project Stargate, as documented by the Stanford Research Institute physicists who ran the program, documented in Amazon Video's "Third Eye Spies" is convincing evidence that consciousness exists beyond our physical minds and is not merely a chemical side-effect of the brain.

Didn't China give up on that plan? Not denouncing the plan, but humanity's apparent desire for expediency at the cost of progeny. I'm speaking to the motives of the patrician class and those plebians they convince to act against their own self-interest. This is not in any way a castigation of the Republican Party of United States of America.

ugh. Get over yourselves. I've been in IT for more than a score and since MacOS X (BSD under the hood) my macs have been the best tool for interoperating with SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, SGI Irix, all Linux dists, OpenBSD, Windows pick your version, NFS, SMB/CFS...

And I get a more reliable OS that requires less interaction on my part to keep me working on all that stuff above. They make great tools. Yes, they are a walled garden. You think you don't live in a walled garden? When was the last time you committed a kernel change? Yes, there more expensive. The TCO is lower over the life of a mac, but the buy-in is >$. I can compile just about any *nix code and run it in a terminal on my Mac. Yes, I'm on a windows box at work. If you're a Windows fanboi, you are still in a walled garden.

Torx vs Phillips. ugh.

Zuck thinks he can create better UX than Apple? That's a losing bet. He didn't learn anything from MS or Samsung? Let Apple make the UX and then copy it, as Jobs did with Xerox PARC. There's still plenty of money to be made, but Apple has historically always done it better because integration. Ultimately the marketplace for 'metaverse' will probably look like iphone versus samsung+google android, with Meta replacing samsung as the hardware vendor.