Posts Made By: Mel Maki

July 14, 2022 11:57 PM Forum: Politics

Will Joe Biden be the Democrat Nominee in 2024?

Posted By Mel Maki

The checks mailed to house holds are a smaller part of the money spent by the feds. I'd bet the money spent on bonds would take our breath away.

July 15, 2022 12:10 AM Forum: Politics

Will Joe Biden be the Democrat Nominee in 2024?

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark


It says that inflation rate was for last year.  It is misleading to compare it to current inflation.
Misleading by them or me? I wasn't intentionally trying to fool anybody. The way it was written would get it by a person without a healthy interest in economics.

July 17, 2022 01:57 AM Forum: Politics

He didn't March in LOCKSTEP with the Democrats reckless Spending

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Funny how he had agreed with the Democratic plans but now becomes a steadfast economist backtracking on his previous statements because he states the inflation report justifies it. But maybe, just maybe, his steadfast interests in coal supersedes anything else and now he comes up with the inflation report as an excuse to renege on his agreements with his fellow Democrats. I can understand why they're justifiably angry about it. And maybe, just maybe, the problems with inflation needs to be addressed and managed by the federal reserve board and not him.
As for the rest of your nonsense, that's already been addressed in previous threads so there's no reason to hash it out again because you can't or won't accept the history behind it...
You have said a few times the annoying, "...already been addressed...no reason to hash...", but nearly everything in the forum(almost) has already been addressed. Events happen every day that add a different slant to topics.  

July 17, 2022 02:10 AM Forum: Politics

Right Wing Media Outrage Over SPR Releases

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Ya know, the insanity peddled by Tucker's suckers and Tucker himself could be regarded as hilarious but the fact that it's believed makes it tragic. Millions of people believe this nonsense and continue to be misled by it. Had they known the facts, at least some of them might have realized the truth of the matter. However, in your case, even when you've been informed of it, you still persist in refusing to believe it. That's called willful ignorance...
"...willful ignorance..."
Hunter's involvement was, is, and should be controversial. Biden backers that pretend otherwise are willfully ignorant.
It is difficult to take people seriously that do not smell a rat in everything Hunter is involved with a father that has never, not one time, discussed his business. Ignorant or smart criminality?

July 17, 2022 03:56 AM Forum: Politics

Right Wing Media Outrage Over SPR Releases

Posted By Mel Maki

You do this often. You are genuinely surprised that others disagree. "But didn't you see the link?"
People with different politics simply do not believe what the link says and are equally surprised that you seem to believe everything it says. You give them some authority that leaves others scratching their heads with, "Why in the world does he think that is accurate?"

July 17, 2022 04:29 AM Forum: Politics

He didn't March in LOCKSTEP with the Democrats reckless Spending

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

My reference is specific to what Davis stated: "... like the KKK of old, that was a Democrat Party group..." and "The Modern Day Democrats are no different today."
And we've already, in previous threads, noted how KKK of old is not the Democratic party of today. Indeed, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a Democrat in the KKK or in other white supremacist groups. 
"Historians agree that although factions of the Democratic Party did majorly contribute to the Civil War's start and the KKK's founding, it is inaccurate to say the party is responsible for either.""We rate the claim that the Democratic Party started the Civil War to preserve slavery and founded the KKK as FALSE because it is not supported by our research."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-democratic-party-did-not-found-kkk-start-civil-war/3253803001/
I don't have anything to add to which party did what for the KKK but the last sentence will always impress some readers more than others.
"FALSE because it is not supported by our research." 

July 17, 2022 04:59 AM Forum: Politics

Right Wing Media Outrage Over SPR Releases

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

What?!  In other words you don't believe in facts as you state, "People with different politics simply do not believe what the link says..."
"Simply" would be putting diplomatically; willful ignorance is on the money. 
However, In your case, "simply" would likely be accurate.  I think you've fixated on Hunter Biden and/or his laptop, and anything associated with either. I believe he could be found not guilty and innocent of wrongdoing by a jury of his peers and you simply would not believe it. You've already come to simple conclusion in your mind that Hunter Biden is guilty of, fill in the blank, and that's the end of it. 
More than other people you latch onto political words and phrases. You might have said Hunter's LAPTOP and MAGA 50 times and other political words seem burned into your retinas. If anybody has fixated it is you.
But how can anybody with an open mind follow what the president and his son have gone through and think they must be innocent? Remarkable! Insisting those two are innocent of doing wrong requires the contortions of a mind trying to believe what the president is trying to say. Staying above all simple minded. 

July 17, 2022 08:30 AM Forum: Politics

Right Wing Media Outrage Over SPR Releases

Posted By Mel Maki

Only summations from various networks. If both sides were there, some insults back and forth, me and millions of others would watch. But sorry, not available. Now it is like bad tv. I doubt it will make very much difference for the Dems. If the Dems played it straight it might have made some difference. Now every day reminds the same people, "I don't like those guys." People can only dislike Liz Cheney so much and most non-Dems have been there. Somebody tell Raskin past 80 our hair should not be darker every year. 

July 17, 2022 11:59 PM Forum: Politics

MAGA Scammer Busted!

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
Yeah, will the story be retracted by Laura Ingraham or OAN or what any of the other right wing propagandists said at the time? No, it's been reported and believed by their viewers for two years and they'll just keep on doing it with no repercussions.

Besides, you think any of the right wing guys here are even going to watch that video? Fat chance. Mel will say that's just his opinion, I have another one over here, and disregard the fraud charges against the perp. That's low, burning down your own garage and blaming it on BLM and Antifa and Joe Biden supporters. It's a tactic OAN, and to a bit lesser extent Fox news, use that seems to work pretty well for them, with no oversight.
Why is this nonsense getting national news? Maybe local news should give it the 10 seconds it deserves and be done with it. The loose border fentanyl poisoning of the US (thousands will die this year) deserves 20 minutes of coverage if somebody burning a garage deserves 1 minute. This seems too insignificant for any political gain anywhere.
Rod, how many more of these "most unlikely personalities in the US to have a political show" have you hidden away?

July 18, 2022 02:06 AM Forum: Politics

I stopped at a local fast food restaurant today for some Breakfast Tacos..

Posted By Mel Maki

Rich, you will not even admit that Trump grabbed thousands of women by man-handling THEIR PRIVATES when he said it loud and clear to everybody. Name twenty things more newsworthy than that!
The big story of the year is how Biden outsmarted the big oil Arabs by convincing them to not shake but do that goofy fist touch. And you will barely discuss it. Somehow everybody forgot the history of our leaders doing the hand shake with leaders that have killed maybe millions.
Now our leaders need to do a woke routine before they get to business? China and Russia can't stop laughing how foolish Biden appears. And yet still Dems are defending. When has a weaker president been abroad representing the US?  FDR did meet with Stalin and Churchill when he was a very ill man.