• Smails's Avatar
    Today, 03:55 PM
    Smails replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    I'll take pivot and deflect for 800, Alex.
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 03:46 PM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    You've got a good point about not believing what Trump says. As for putting lives in danger and broadening the conflict...where were you when we...
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 03:10 PM
    And by the way, it's NOT what happened. paul is taking Trump's typical hyperbole at face value here. Iran told Qatar. Qatar told us. Iran didn't...
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  • Smails's Avatar
    Today, 02:59 PM
    Smails replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    Nope, not even close for me. I've criticized him for plenty of things he has done. Quit making shit up. I certainly don't have all the facts on...
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 02:18 PM
    I can't believe you'd prefer putting more lives in danger and potentially broadening the conflict with Iran.
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 02:15 PM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    I can't believe you guys are actually defending the commander in chief evacuating a base (almost anyway) to let a foreign power fire missiles at it....
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 01:56 PM
    That seems to be the obvious destination of paul's line of thinking. I guess we could have blustered, put more lives in danger at the base and then...
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  • Smails's Avatar
    Today, 01:37 PM
    Smails replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    They would have 100% sent ordnance our way... Seems like someone wants us to get into a more prolonged bombing campaign...
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 01:33 PM
    And if they bombed one of our bases anyway, what should the response have been?
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 01:28 PM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    Told Iran if they bombed our base, a response would be forthcoming. You don't appease the enemy by giving them an open shot at your base. That's...
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 11:58 AM
    Once we bombed Iran's nuclear sites, how would you have preferred this to go down? Iran fires missiles at our bases (without advanced notification). ...
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 11:52 AM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    You'd been screaming for Biden's head if he pulled this stunt, and you know it. RIP Bill Moyers: “But in a way I’m relieved because I honestly...
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 11:47 AM
    paul, you can't really be this simple.
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 11:29 AM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    I'm visualizing the scene at the air base in Qatar. The base commander (BC) gets a message from the Mid-East command (MEC): MEC:"Abandon the base...
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 11:22 AM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    What he did is a clear violation of our Constitution, Article III, Section 3. If Obama or Biden had done the same, they should have instantly been...
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  • X-band '01's Avatar
    Today, 10:44 AM
    It must have been a very good day for Roy Cooper when he heard that Thom Tillis won't be running for a 3rd term. He was lucky to get a 2nd term...
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 10:09 AM
    This is unironically what a far too significant portion of Democrats believe. I have nothing in common with these people, and there is no reason for...
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 10:02 AM
    Yes, if Trump can trade dropping 14 bunker busters on Iran's nuclear facilities for a telegraphed, symbolic lobbing of 14 interceptable missiles at a...
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 08:57 AM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    If they're OK with that, they'll probably love the new racism. Also impressive. ...
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 08:55 AM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    So the keyboard warriors are OK with a President giving an enemy the OK to bomb our base? That's impressive on their part.
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  • GoMuskies's Avatar
    Today, 08:14 AM
    If that story is true, it's one of the greatest deals in American military history. Impressive.
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Today, 07:23 AM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-conference-nato-summit-the-hague-netherlands-june-25-2025/ That is from a press...
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  • Strange Brew's Avatar
    Yesterday, 07:07 PM
    Down to $3.3T over 10 years according to today’s report! :) Honestly, the CBO has no idea. Just like their estimates for the ACA. They were way,...
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    Yesterday, 11:28 AM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    25 years AFTER the Vietnam War, we had a balanced budget and no deficits. 25 year later, we don’t. Also….wait….what? The UN guy agrees with our...
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  • Strange Brew's Avatar
    06-28-2025, 10:44 PM
    That wasn’t the point however the total cost of the Iraq and Afgan wars was about 4-6T over -20 years. Not really the driving factor of our debt...
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  • Strange Brew's Avatar
    06-28-2025, 09:50 PM
    You’re right. In fact all of the tax increases and subsidy cuts won’t get us there. CAP Federal spending at 16% (currently at about 39%) of GDP....
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    06-28-2025, 08:57 PM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    Returning to those tax levels would appear to increase revenues back to around 20% of GDP. Not quite enough to overcome our spending increase, but a...
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  • Strange Brew's Avatar
    06-28-2025, 05:53 PM
    Actually Newt was responsible for that budget. And Clinton ran on welfare reform sooo. I remember Clinton saying, “the era of big gov’t is over”. ...
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    06-28-2025, 05:18 PM
    paulxu replied to a thread Miscellaneous Stuff in Out on the Mall
    RIP the "Cobra".
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  • paulxu's Avatar
    06-28-2025, 04:38 PM
    paulxu replied to a thread Politics Thread in The House of Smack
    Yet despite all those challenges, Clinton handed Bush a balanced budget with a surplus. Not hard to figure out what went wrong.
    27417 replies | 7138782 view(s)
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