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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

May 24, 2022 07:08 AM Forum: Politics

The Build Back Better Plan

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Lacey


How did this thread veer so far off its original topic? Richard complaining about a bill that never passed? 
It veered off the tracks from Mel's post #10 and off course and off topic from there on but it's a genuine Melvin derail!...

May 23, 2022 07:16 AM Forum: Politics

Meanwhile Down Under

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark
In the federal election held yesterday, the liberals were decimated, losing around 20 seats. In my state of WA, the swing against the liberals was more than 11%, unprecedented in federal elections. WA was considered a liberal stronghold. Not any more. In the eastern states many seats held by the liberals were lost to independents. Again, totally unprecedented in federal elections. Never before have so many independents been elected.

The next few months and years could be interesting.
So, if my read from this CNN link is correct, the "liberals" in Australia are the conservatives in the states, and the independents who won are more like the liberals in America, correct? And one of the big loser, a guy named Palmer is an Aussie version of Trump, more or less, correct?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/22/australia/australia-election-results-new-government-explainer-five-things-intl-hnk/index.html

May 24, 2022 09:23 AM Forum: Politics

Meanwhile Down Under

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

We can classify US Democrats of today as they would have been referred to back in the '40s and '50s, by actual Democrats in that day as full blown "Communists''

These leftists today are nothing like the Democrats of Old.

These people hate the country as it was founded.  They hate everything about it, and they would like to burn it all down and start again.
I guess that's why they passed the infrastructure bill, huh?...

May 24, 2022 07:04 AM Forum: Politics

WORST Performance by the US Stock Markets in 90 YEARS and its occuring under the Biden Presidency

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
What was the slogan? Build Back Better?

Bottom line is nothing is built, nothing is back and nothing is better.....
And that's because of obstructionist senators in congress-50 presidents as it were- each thinking they know what the hell they're doing. BUT, at least we have a major infrastructure bill that passed and the Republican reps and beneficiaries of the funding of their districts for it and who voted against it are touting it as if they voted for it...

May 24, 2022 07:31 AM Forum: Politics

WORST Performance by the US Stock Markets in 90 YEARS and its occuring under the Biden Presidency

Posted By Rod Kaufman

This GOP congressman probably doesn't care which way the markets are going because when he works off the beach like a genuine Cancun Cruz, it's reportedly for free!
https://thehill.com/news/house/3498795-ethics-watchdog-zeroes-in-on-gop-congressmans-trip-to-aruba/
Maybe Margi Taylor Greene can lend him her $92,000 paid for by campaign donations SUV if he stops in Georgia on the way back...

May 24, 2022 07:57 AM Forum: Politics

Dems Lead Repubs by 47- 42 In Recent Congressional Poll!

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Good news from the latest polling!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LASwlid3MEs

May 24, 2022 11:16 PM Forum: Politics

Written in 1954, shared by a retired judge

Posted By Rod Kaufman

A visionary viewpoint of Trump and right wing media... 

May 25, 2022 02:58 AM Forum: Politics

The ISIS Plot To Assassinate Former President George W Bush

Posted By Rod Kaufman

in order to enact retribution for the war in Iraq launched by George W Bush,  "The FBI uncovered a plot by an alleged ISIS operative to assassinate former President George W. Bush, according to the Department of Justice."
"The suspect — Iraqi national Shihab Ahmed Shihab — was arrested by FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force agents on Tuesday and appeared in federal court in Ohio at 2:30 p.m."
https://thehill.com/news/administration/3499554-isis-plot-to-assassinate-george-w-bush-broken-up-report/

May 25, 2022 04:06 AM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
Breaking news keeps coming in. TV now says 14 kids dead.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elementary-school-reports-active-shooter-campus/story?id=84940951

Sandy Hook all over again.

18 year old shooter "not at large". 

Nope, governor now says shooter is dead.
I can hear it now: "If only the teacher was armed" or the custodian or principal etc, etc. But being Texas, maybe they were...
How's that "constitutional carry" in Texas working out anyway? 
Anytime this happens, and the mass shootings in America happen a lot, the Republicans in congress should be called out for opposing any gun control. I'd sure like to hear what Margi Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have to say about it, when they get back from the range...

May 25, 2022 06:32 AM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis


So far the only person sleazily politicizing it is YOU.

Boy isn't that shocking that you would immediately start

Edit:  oops, looks like another leftist sleaze starts in with in the politics of it. 

The bodies aren't even cold yet.  
It's the standby/default setting and messaging from the wingnuts that any mention of the latter in thwarting gun legislation is to state it's being "politicized" with righteous indignation that they're immediately the victims for even be referred to in a comment about gun control and mass shootings. In other words, how dare they! or who, me?...