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I did an exchange with the French. They don't try in any way, shape or form to hide the fact they they are constantly collecting information on us. Must be taught in their basic training because EVERYONE did it.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/equity “the quality of being fair or impartial” Maybe I’m misunderstanding the point you’re tying to make. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

My point stands in spite of the wild rabbit hole you went down. At no point did I say everything is wrong because I haven’t seen it. I simply said I have to question the validity of what you said because it wasn’t representative of my experience. You are the one who passed your earlier comment off as if it were a fact. If you didn’t check that fact, why should I believe you check any of your facts? And your rape claim comparison is beyond ridiculous. Whole argument is stupid anymore. You guys keep claiming crap with little credible evidence. It’s been rejected by every court out there, regardless of their political leaning. The election didn’t go your way, so like a lot of idiot democrats 4 years ago, you’re all crying that you must have been cheated. Accept it already, and stop crying. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I have to question the validity of all of your statements because my experience doesn’t match what you say. I registered to vote in DC, and I was required to provide evidence of where I live with a statement from a utility/valid photo ID, whatever. https://dcboe.org/Voters/Register-To-Vote/Register-to-Vote There is even a website explaining this. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Facts! And anyone thinking we're the only ones spying on our allies. We just got caught is all.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-homeland-whistleblower-idUSKBN28R33L Link just gives what could be some more info on all the protests last summer for those that were saying the violence was coming mostly from the left. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but I’m sure diehard Trump supporters will deny it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I found definitive proof that Trump is a Russian lapdog from their rally yesterday...That helo ain’t ours.🤣

Well, you gave good, solid answers... Thanks for the discussion.

So, just how much violence is required for it to be "fishing for a civil war"? How many people died? How many were injured? How many billions of $$$ were lost in the violent riots that were active attempts at starting a civil war? How many people has Antifa killed over the years? How many died in the Oklahoma City bombing? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that dude was homegrown. How much damage was caused? On par with the violent riots this summer? I'm not saying any amount is justified. It's not. But I'm just curious what your threshold is for starting a civil war? I think you know the answers to those questions. Right wing extremists have caused way more death and destruction. Those are the exact same types of people actively calling for war now. It needs to be discouraged by GOP leadership. Trump needs to squash that talk. No one's blind to the incredible amount of flaws in the Democratic party, they suck! But comparing people on the right who are literally calling for civil war to people who feel targeted by society (and their demand for equality) the same is silly. Are some of the uninformed people in that cause hurting their own cause? You bet, but they're not calling for civil war. Who knows? Maybe you're right.

So how is what he said an example of bias? A bunch of whiney babies cried when Trump was elected and said they were moving to Canada (kinda like when a bunch of people did the same when Obama was elected), and there are people (even official GOP people like AZ) saying it's time to fight and be willing to die for Trump. He pointed out that it is an absurd comparison. Where's the ridiculous bias? Are you saying the social justice movements this summer were active attempts at starting a civil war? And the people who moved to Parler, or somehow think Qanon is legit, or epoch times, etc. are reading those posts, so not sure why you are so confident no one is reading them. They're strong in their echo chambers. Probably safe to say nothing will come of that garbage talk, but to say no one is reading it is what seems ridiculous. Last point, it is beyond stupid that the GOP is still remaining silent while this kind of talk is ongoing. I have hope the GOP can make some kind of recovery or a move to normalcy again, but their deafening silence makes that tougher. If this is another case of me missing sarcasm, my bad. I don't see the /s this time 😂

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The guy clinging to desperate lawsuits with dubious, at best, evidence and hearsay/eyewitness testimony from very credible people, posting conspiracy after conspiracy from super credible sites is calling me disingenuous? 6-3 conservative majority on SCOTUS. They recognize the absurdity of these lawsuits. 9-0 against the GOP effort. Sorry. What is disingenuous about what I said? I know you won't answer it, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Correct me then, if I'm the one being crazy, how many challenges has Trump's camp won so far? 1? Doesn't the WSJ have a bias to the right? https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-challenges-to-election-face-end-of-the-legal-road-11607518944

SCOTUS ruled 9-0 against Trump’s PA challenges on the election. Those libtard democrats must have gotten to the conservatives on the court to not have acknowledged all of the fraud that went on... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just saw another article, still not been located. Wishing him well!

You clearly understood the intent of the post... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I wondered the same thing.

Yeah, that's why I just said more healthy/fit, not winner of the Crossfit Games...

Sounds like some T-37 "thrust attenuators" haha.

I agree the waist measurement for the PT test is stupid, but is it really too much to ask that members of a military force look professional, and maybe, just maybe like they take care of themselves? I'm sure most of the talk on here about fit and fat is facetious, but I'm sure there's one or two on here that truly believe that. You can tie performance in the jet directly to fitness. If a fatty is an amazing pilot, he'd be that much better if he were more healthy. PT test is a yearly nuisance, being fit should be a responsibility you take almost as seriously as being proficient in the jet. Maybe, slightly less important, but you get the point. https://taskandpurpose.com/mandatory-fun/air-force-f35-pilot-life/ More generically, it's not just for the meat eaters https://hartzellprop.com/fit-for-flight-the-benefits-of-exercise-for-pilots/. Just because an ops guy can walk in, kill himself in a PT test to beat other careers in the AF doesn't mean they're taking care of themselves. If you think you should be able to be a fatty in a military uniform, I think you should check yourself. Not a PC view? Oh well, hit the gym. Oh, and for anyone keeping score, the Navy has more fatties than the AF. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/09/03/navy-fattest-obesity-rates-across-services.html ***Slight hijack*** Brabus' comment about having "mental strength and a desire to win"...that about "90% of the non-ops people don't have" is stupid and wrong-headed unless it was sarcasm I didn't pick up on. Based on a ton of other comments on baseops, it didn't seem like a stretch to think that's how he feels about everyone not in ops. It's why pilots have a bad name. I tell my super-smart high school senior frequently, "it's okay to be the smartest kid in the room, just stop acting like it because nobody likes that guy!" What's the old saying, you get more flies with honey, than you do with vinegar. I know this is the "safe space" for a lot of you, but I sure hope that attitude doesn't manifest itself with the non-ops people you interact with on the daily. Having been in leadership positions in a flying ops world and a training world, this is one of the biggest complaints I heard about pilots, so while not super relevant to the discussion I thought I'd throw out a bit of unrequested advice. ***hijack over***

This has as much chance as every other "legitimate" lawsuit that's been filed so far, and is about as absurdly obvious as a desperate attempt to stop the inevitable... I'm sure SCOTUS is dying to let Texas stomp all over other state's rights. It would be a great precedent. I wonder how Texas would respond if someone tried to force them to do something the Lonestar State didn't want to.

I find this sentiment hilarious. I guess Biden has no say in the matter... What proof do you guys have that this is what they have planned? How would you say they're going to enforce this crazy idea? Still working on the whole dementia thing? Let me know how that works out for you. No fan of the guy, but I highly doubt he is intentionally going to be cool with people trying to sideline him, if in fact, these crazy ideas are what the nuts on the left intend. I doubt they do, even if they want to. It's a non-starter because it just falls DOA as an idea with no merit. Dude just won the highest office in the land, could still argue if Trump hasn't done too much damage, the world. That's gotta be more than a little empowering, and my bet is that the man aint gonna stand idly by while people try to cram radical ideas down our throats. He'll do what he has to do, compromise and give some (highly likely that he gives more ground to the left because he's a democrat after all) ground to the left, and little to the right. He's not suicidal, he's not gonna just start giving the right whatever they want. Both sides of the aisle have proven they're cool with accomplishing nothing, so that's probably what will happen here. Hopefully he'll continue on a similar path with China, hopefully he'll do some good for the environment. After that, he won't do much good or bad... Wanted to add I love how the left is attacking their own demi-god, Obama because he hit the nail on the head regarding the whole "defund the police" messaging. He didn't shoot down the idea of re-allocating some funding, or fixing training focus areas, he simply said something along the lines of "snappy slogans like Defund the Police won't win you many supporters." He's 100% correct, they shoot themselves in the foot when they go for the snappy slogan that fires up the extremists, thereby hurting a cause that is actually legitimate, fixing the many problems in the way our country polices its people (from calling cops to deal with mental health issues, to helping someone who locked themselves out of their house to dealing with violent criminals or domestic disputes to racial profiling, etc.). But no, the left, people like Omar and AOC, and some senator from ATL I can't remember started to eat their own... Our country's politicians are so stupid most of the time <---- I had sometimes, but changed it to most of the time.

That’s fair. I completely agree that the Obama admin lied about the things you’re accusing them of. What else? You claim I need self-reflection? Here’s some reflection on promises kept vs not. Not an apples to apples comparison on lies, but the best I could do to attempt to show something that wouldn’t be claimed as liberal media. https://guides.libs.uga.edu/factchecknews - Showing it is a non-partisan fact-checker Obamameter- https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/?ruling=true Trump-o-meter- https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/?ruling=true By sheer volume alone, Obama broke 5x more promises, but he also fulfilled 10x more and had some kind of compromise on 7x more promises than Trump. Using this scale you could say he lied about way more I guess, so I’ll give you that. You’d also have to recognize that he accomplished way more if we’re using this as any kind of metric. This hurts to see for me because I was not a fan of Obama either. James P. Pfiffner, VN vet, military scholar, solid, respectable dude and expert in this field wrote a paper talking about this (https://pfiffner.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pfiffner-The-Lies-of-Donald-Trump-A-Taxonomy.pdf) In it he says something we all agree on, all presidents lie. He also goes on to show that Trump does it more than any previous president, and not just in quantity, but the level of serious topics about which he lies is more egregious than past presidents. This isn’t me (someone who detests democrats as much as, maybe more than republicans) just trying to hide my bias against Trump, this is me attacking what people on the right continue to excuse, apologize for and rationalize as Trump’s lies. People say the media is “mean” and “unfair” to Trump. I’ll agree that they hold his feet to the fire more, and blow things out of context more than they have for previous presidents, but only after Trump proved he was willing to have a very, very loose relationship with the truth. He started lying, name calling and straight-up making bogus statements before he even announced his candidacy. Only then did the media start to treat him like a hostile witness. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/28/why-do-fact-checkers-find-more-false-statements-from-trump-than-biden/42343935/ (media bias, right of center https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/columbus-dispatch/ ) Occam’s razor says the simplest explanation is often the right explanation. Trump simply lies way more than most other presidents. (edited to remove some hyperbole) Completely agree with you that all politicians lie, it’s like they have a disease or something. Hence why I said our country needs a reset on all politicians from all parties. Set up some new rules, and hold them accountable. TLDR/ People claiming Trump was on the same level as any president before him are hiding under a rock from the mountains of evidence demonstrating otherwise. All politicians lie, Trump just does it on a scale that is simply way more than most other politicians. His lies hurt not only our country on the world stage, but they hurt democracy as well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You gotta let it go man... I guess every word that’s ever come out of your mouth has never contained hyperbole to get your point across. You’re right, he probably wasn’t serious 100% of the time. Got me... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Why is it so hard for Trump fans to admit that the man lied constantly? The man lied non-stop. If that word is too strong for you, he stretched the “facts” or presented “alternate facts” constantly. Obama got that treatment from Fox News. Bush avoided it mostly because it wasn’t really happening yet. Not an individual attack on pcola, but in general, the right needs to stop with the crocodile tears about just how unfairly Trump was treated. He invited it, relished it even. Played to his base like a charm. Apparently there are people on here eating it up still... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Isn’t there a clear difference between quirky, intentionally meant to not be taken seriously vs the things Trump has said while being 100% serious? You guys aren’t being honest with yourselves if you claim this is proof of some kind of bogus double standard. We all know that many news sources have a left leaning bias. Saying that this is an example of that is silly, and hurts what would be credible complaints going forward. It will all turn to noise if you try to hold up everything he says with an actual sense of humor as “oh, see, he’s losing his mental capacity...” or “oh, see, the media is in love with him and was super mean to Trump!” Trump’s craziness was, and there are thousands of tweets out there to back this up, put out there with a straight face. What am I reading wrong here? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk