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Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

September 4, 2025 04:07 PM Forum: Politics

Are There Actual Signed Trade Deals?

Posted By Brian McFarland

This thread needs a new title, maybe "Who's Your Least/Most Favorite Fraud?" or "Lying Liars Gotta Lie" or something.

September 9, 2025 05:24 PM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Lacey


Using Grok, I conducted an analysis to determine how often the SCOTUS has sided with Trump versus pushed back on him, and Trump, as it turns out, has been limited by the SCOTUS far more than enabled. Trump has gotten a lot of leniency on immigration enforcement and national security issues, but plenty of pushback on regulatory and domestic policy issues (DACA, adding citizenship question to census, immunity from state subpoenas, etc.).
That graph is fascinating and not at all what I would have predicted.  Thank you for posting it!

September 9, 2025 09:21 PM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Lacey


We can quibble over details, but I think what I learned overall is that the data doesn't seem to show that courts are biased toward helping Trump or shielding him from wrongdoing.
That matches my take-away.  I'm pleasantly surprised.

September 12, 2025 04:49 PM Forum: Politics

Assassin Caught.

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Lacey


Early fog of war reporting suggests that his father, a veteran sheriff for 27 years, and a family friend, also in law enforcement, turned him in. The family friend is also described as a minister. It goes without saying that the 22-year-old is probably a Mormon as well. There's a lot of social media content from him being reported now, and I think we can confidently say he's not trans, not an immigrant, not black, not Hispanic, and not a drag queen. The old "psychotic leftist" narrative is not looking good at the moment. I suppose anything is still within the realm of possibilities, but it's not looking good for all the people who jumped the gun (no pun intended).
You mean like the kind of people who post stupid thread titles like these before any facts whatsoever are known?

"Charlie Kirk, prominent conservative speaker and debater assassinated by another Psychotic leftist Democrat at Utah Valley University and Vile Gov. Pritzker blames Trump"

"Charlie Kirk was murdered for his religion, his conservative views, and his threat to the Marxist Democrat Party because of that and more importantly because he is changing minds of Young People"

But really, what else is new?

September 12, 2025 06:37 PM Forum: Politics

33 hours for the suspect/killer of Charlie Kirk to be caught. Not bad.

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Court TV reported that total time from the murder of Charlie Kirk until they had the killer (Oops... I Mean SUSPECT) in Custody.

Way to go Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino!   Thanks for your service to our nation.  smile

33 hours isn't a bad record, less than 1 1/2 days.
Wrong again. Thank the suspect's Dad who turned him in.

September 12, 2025 11:08 PM Forum: Politics

Charlie Kirk was murdered for his religion, his conservative views, and his threat to the Marxist Democrat Party because of that and more importantly because he is changing minds of Young People

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Do you think that's where he may have learned how to shoot and got access to his firearm? Do you think his family's political ideology and his upbringing had absolutely no effect or bearing on his beliefs and attitudes? Obviously he vehemently disagreed with Kirk but we don't know the details behind this person and he's not talking to investigators. The young man who shot Trump was a Republican, too.
There's a good chance the shooter wasn't motivated by politics at all. Maybe he just saw Kirk as the despicable misogynist bigot that he was.  Here's a few choice quotes from the loudmouth himself:

- If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.
- Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.
- If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder if she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
- Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge (discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement).
Uh, yeah I think she is.  She's the breadwinner. LOL.

That's just a few of the many idiotic quotes to emanate from his pie hole. That said, he certainly didn't deserve to be shot dead.  Ignored - yes.

September 13, 2025 04:28 PM Forum: Politics

Charlie Kirk was murdered for his religion, his conservative views, and his threat to the Marxist Democrat Party because of that and more importantly because he is changing minds of Young People

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll


Trump is not Hitler. I call him Hitler and Satan here to troll you because of your rhetoric. I would never say that anywhere else, nor TO anyone else. Hopefully I have not provoked you to violence 😂
Davis's endless inability to recognize that he's being trolled is a constant source of entertainment.

September 13, 2025 08:46 PM Forum: Politics

Charlie Kirk was murdered for his religion, his conservative views, and his threat to the Marxist Democrat Party because of that and more importantly because he is changing minds of Young People

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Of course you think he's Satan and you believe he's on a par with Hitler.  

You're not trolling me, because trolling would be done to get me angry.

As I've stated before, you're mentally ill because You actually believe your deranged mental state, almost like a schizophrenic hears voices, you hear Satan when Donald Trump speaks.

You do realize that TDS is a real form of mental illness correct?  wink

Your protestations now to the contrary because I've called you out are laughable at this point.   smile

Sad for you that someone acted upon the words that those like you have uttered so many times in the past.

He is deranged as well.  The difference between You and this shooter is that I'm quite confident that You personally would never act upon the anger and emotions you feel for Trump.

You disagree with virtually EVERYTHING he does, because of your mental state.  If he cured Cancer, you would find a way to denigrate it.  You would most likely say "Yeah, but what about heart disease"? 

And if you really want to speak about who is trolling who, then Donald Trump wins that contest hands down, as every utterance he makes is called out angrily by the radical left and by those like Yourself.  

So who is trolling whom??  My opinion is that he's trolling you.  

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Well, that's about as valuable as that fictitious biomedical engineering degree you got from the University of Nowhere. LOL

September 13, 2025 09:34 PM Forum: Politics

Charlie Kirk was murdered for his religion, his conservative views, and his threat to the Marxist Democrat Party because of that and more importantly because he is changing minds of Young People

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Lacey


And of course, he proves your point in his very next post, and doesn't even realize he has proved your point. That is some next-level lack of self-awareness right there. His lack of critical-thinking skills, inability to accept new information and change his opinion, and self-awareness are all primary reasons I don't believe he has a BME. Even an education in a soft skills degree program teaches you these skills.
Well, according to him, engineers repair things.  That alone demonstrates that he's completely clueless about what engineers do.  He's obviously not a degreed engineer.

Oh wait, isn't he educated in physics and nursing, too?  That explains all the anti-science and anti-vax crap he believes.

September 17, 2025 03:21 PM Forum: Politics

And now for something completly different - Part Deux

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark
Hi All,

Sorry to hijack the forum again by actually mentioning < gasp> astronomy, but comet Swan 2025R2 is putting on a good show low in the evening sky and last night the clouds cleared enough for me to image it. 

A combination of 60 20 second images using my 5" f/5 refractor and a Canon D60.  The very bright star is Spica.

Now back to your usual programming! angel
Excellent