I see we reached the part of the conversation where you start blathering incoherently. If you could argue with any facts or reasoning, you would do so. But you can't, so you wont. Remember this when you're talking history with your grandkids and they ask you how people could be so unbelievably dumb as to by the Russiagate conspiracy theory, and you lie to them.
That's an interesting assertion, but it conflicts with what the President has said.
The president is a WWE character, a self-promoter and a habitual liar. If he said water was wet I could ask a chemist for confirmation.
If the focus of the investigation is limited strictly to the Trump campaign, you would have a point. But it's much broader in scope.
Which is the problem with special prosecutors: they turn our entire Constitutional system of justice on its head. Probable suspicion > warrant > investigation > prosecution is how this is supposed to work. Not having a Grand Inquisitor with a writ of assistance, unlimited powers to investigate and anyone and anything he chooses for any reason, in the complete absence of any evidence to support its theory.
Both parties have been actively hostile to Russia for over a hundred years. Which makes for one of the many, many, many, many plot holes in Russiagate: why would Russians try to interfere to put one party hostile to their nation over the other party hostile to their nation? It would be like accusing MLK of interfering in an election between Strom Thurmond and George Wallace. Doesn't make any kind of sense.
Then investigate him for something real if you have probable cause (like money laundering or bribes). Not dumbass McCarthyite conspiracy theories trying to start WWIII.
Really. Really? You think that America went out of its way to avoid ISIS in Syria? You taint the rest of your post by starting off with that, makes it hard to take you at all seriously.
Your ignorance of the subject is not my problem.Yes, the United States has been arming, training and funding both ISIS and Al Queda to overthrow Assad. From the beginning.
America was reluctant to get involved in Syria in general
if for no other reason than he's allied with Russia and Iran and has been a thorn in Israel's side due to the illegal occupation of the Golan Heights after the 1967 war which was started by Israel
FTFY.
It is sort of curious how hard you are arguing for the Assad side
Why are you arguing for the Al Qaeda head choppers and the ISIS organ eating side? Because you want to see another Arab country turned into a third world hell hole like Iraq and Libya so American neocons can jizz themselves?
its hard to argue that the Syrian government hasn't engaged in plenty of other war crimes
How hard would you fight if if was your country being overrun by foreign-funded terrorists who wanted to chop off your head or cut out your heart and eat it?
The thing about chemical weapons in general is that they are not particularly effective as weapons of war
Then WTF would Assad use them in areas packed with his own people and military, when he was winning the war, on the day inspectors arrived. If your bullshit detector is completely and utterly non-functional....I have some oceanfront property in Idaho I would love to sell you at a great discount.
I'm sorry that facts upset you so much but you'll have to join the reality-based community at some point. Your cognitive dissonance may give you a heart attack when the truth is revealed, and most of the facts are public knowledge acknowledged by Trump himself.
Your complete and utter inversion of reality is noted. There are no facts that support the Russiagate narrative.
I called out the Birthers who also made assertions without evidence, that Obama was a muslim born in Kenya. Doesn't mean I supported Obama's drone murders or bank bailouts. In fact I would see him in the Hague.
It's called having a bullshit detector, and using it no matter the source of the bullshit. You might try it some time instead of the noble cause corruption Russiagaters are presently engaged in.
You are too much limited by the space (Especially in Europe) and the cost of the pumping station with artificial reservoirs.
Not at all. The Coal Creek power plant in North Dakota delivers power to the Minneapolis metro area in Minnesota - 436 miles away. So conventional power is already conveyed over great distances. Distances that would cover:
Los Angeles from pumped storage in Mexico
Italy from pumped storage in Northern Africa
Japan from pumped storage in eastern Russia
London from pumped storage in France, Brussels or the Netherlands
Even the densest metropolitan areas are within a few hundred miles of an area 2.5 miles long by 1 mile wide (size of Ludington facility in Michigan) that could be made into pumped storage. Manhattan has one of the highest population densities of any city on the planet, but you could get power from as far away as Canada. Furthermore, if the entire region is just too gosh-darned populated for a large pumped storage facility, then it's also too densely populated for a nuclear power plant. If (not when) another meltdown happens, you don't want to start the evacuation of millions of people with little to no notice.
Like the offshore wind farms coupled with artificial islands serving as water reservoirs for pumping stations. It is their price that kills them.
Annnnd it will still be a fraction of a percentage of the long term costs of nuclear power. There are dams and aqueducts that have functioned for hundreds or even thousands of years - that's what you can expect from pumped storage. Storage you can build schools and daycare centers over if you needed to - going to do that for a storage pond for nuclear waste?
Besides, theses reservoirs have a gray energy. You need energy to make all that concrete. And in some cases you drown ecosystems. And sometimes the drowned vegetation ferments and that produces even more CO2 than a forest fire. Sometimes there are bacteria in the slit of you reservoir and they fart methane which is not environment friendly.
See the aforementioned water towers. If you really have to worry about fermentation, evaporation, whatever, you can make a contained system where water is perpetually cycled between an upper and a lower tank. Sure the initial investment will be expensive - but not as expensive as nuclear power. And it will last much, much, much, much, much longer.
Nah, you can still go fuck yourself. You're treating a conspiracy theory with no evidence behind it as being as indisputable as the American invasion of Iraq or penchant for bombing weddings, funerals and hospitals. You whine like a little bitch about $5,000 in Facebook ads when there's an American official on video - in front of banners for western oil companies - bragging about spending $5,000,000,000 to subvert Ukraine's democracy.
Few things as annoying as bed wetting tough guy hypocrites.
Congress would not allow them to enter the US, and the US military/government would not send them to a country that would disappear/kill/torture them.
Obama no more needed a special act to transfer Gitmo prisoners to federal custody on US soil than Bush needed a special act to send them there in the first place. He also could have sent an Article III judge there to conduct trials. Who cares if the building was still there as long as the prisoners were freed from the gulag.
But Obama had no intention of ending the gulag, but to move it to a Supermax prison in Illinois - which is why senators like Russ Feingold voted against his neocon proposal.
You understand Gitmo popuplation went from thousands to a few dozen right?
You understand Obama continued to hold people in Gitmo that had been cleared for release under Bush, right?
Obama was hampered pretty intensively by openly hostile legislators.
Pretty much complete bullshit. Obama didn't need an act from Congress to transfer inmates of the gulag into federal prisons or to release them, any more than Bush needed a special act to send them there in the first place.
Fuck that tired Obamabot bullshit. Obama no more needed a special bill to transfer prisoners out of Gitmo than Bush needed a special bill to send them there. And Obama didn't intend to close it so much as move it to a SuperMax in Illinois - which is why people like Russ Fiengold voted against his plan. The problem with Gitmo wasn't its location, it was the utterly lawless system of endless detention of mostly innocent people. One Obama had no intention of ending.
This was all known waaaay back in 2009. So fuck you along with your propaganda.
Oh, the dumbfuck hypocrisy. How many countries has Putin invaded on the opposite side of the planet from him? How many thousands of people has he kidnapped and tortured? Has he allowed the Russian military to arrest anyone on Russian soil and throw them in prison indefinitely?
Also, contrary to left wing propaganda, torture does work.
No, it doesn't, shit for brains. All torture does is get the victim to say whatever he thinks the torturer wants to hear. Your dumb ass would confess to assassinating Abraham Lincoln if water was poured down your throat.
On much of this, we are ALL talking to of our ass. We simply do not know. We really can't answer "is water boarding torture" for two reasons. First because we haven't experienced it and don't really know what it's like. We can only parrot what someone said on our favorite echo-chamber TV program.
Do you have to try immolating yourself before saying it's a bad idea? How about jumping out of a plane without a chute? It's like your asinine right brain is in a struggle for dominance with your dumbass left brain.
It's also clearly far less severe than most of what what traditionally be considered torture. There is a continuum, a range of degree, and framing it as a yes/no question is willful dumbfuckery
FTFY. There is no question on waterboarding. It's torture. It triggers a primal instinct and the United States has executed people who have performed it. Why are you even trying to defend this when doctors have had to step in and revive victims of waterboarding when they've become non-responsive.
Take your DVD sets of 24 to a pawnshop and see if you can get enough money to do something about your cranial rectum disorder.
Uh huh. Found Saddam's WMD's yet or his personal notes on planning 911 yet? If you're a dipshit-dumbfuck running up to kick the CIA's football, that's your call, but don't expect other people to join you.
They were afraid that any interference would potentially cost Hillary the presidency, and any interference from the Executive branch could be spun as corruption or undue influence (The swamp protecting one of their own.)
Obama already did that by not prosecuting Hillary's dumb ass for her email server, while being absolutely ruthless with anyone else who mishandled classified evidence. Even David Petraeus, despite getting a slap on the wrist at the end, was prosecuted for his actions.
Never in their wildest dreams did they think Donald would win, and they didn't consider it as a real possibility and here we are.
Speaking of Obama, he (very politely) called out Hillary for her laziness and sense of entitlement. He would go to red districts to campaign, and while he might still lose by ten points, thats better than losing by 40 points. Hillary couldn't be bothered to campaign in Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, yet we're supposed to blame a few thousand dollars in Facebook ads for her loss in a $9+ election.
A noun, a verb, and Russia. The complete inability to make a relevant comment or argument is common amongst bed wetting cowards suffering from rectal cranium disorder.
But turning the blame around by questioning unrelated moral issues and make some Orwellian excuse out of it is a quite Russian propaganda technique
That's an American propaganda technique: whining like a bitch whenever someone points out your Biblical levels of hypocrisy. For every single corpse you can lay at Russia's feet, there's a mountain of dead bodies from American actions. So fuck off on your handwrining over motes, when you refuse to deal with the beam in your own eyes.
There were some oddities earlier in the Syrian war where ISIS and America seemed to go out of their way to not conflict with each other
Fixed your autocorrect fail. Just letting you know so you can check your device settings.
he's waged a brutal campaign in his fight for survival
If foreign governments were literally arming, funding and training jihadists and terrorists to overthrow your nation, how hard would you fight to defend it?
As for why Assad would use chemical weapons, there is a twisted bit of dictator and civil war logic that makes it make sense: it ensures that his underlings and army cannot surrender. If he was about to lose, there's a chance that Assad himself could hop on a plane and escape to Iran or Russia
Except that doesn't make sense. It's the opposite of making sense - in fact it's complete dumbfuckery. Why would Assad use gas after the U.S. had been braying for a year about "red lines" and when Syria was winning the war? If he was going to use chemical weapons, why didn't he do it a year beforehand when your CIA backed head choppers and organ eaters were starting to overrun the country? And why would he use chemical weapons the day inspectors arrived in the country? Dumb. Fuck. Er. Eee. Moreso now that even the SecDef that loves shooting Arabs admits there's no evidence Assad used gas.
So you're trying to throw stones at Russia for ignoring a treaty....after Bush ignored the ABM treaty. Does your limited sense of self-awareness at least tickle from time to time?
Willful dumbfuckery. Bush started placing ballistic "defense" systems in eastern Europe, nominally to contain Iran but not even Ray Charles was blind enough to buy that whopper. And he's dead. Then Obama started a trillion dollar upgrade program for America's nuclear arsenal. OF COURSE this is to change the reality of mutually assured destruction in a nuclear war to a conflict America can win with a first strike.
Add to that the fact that the U.S. has completely surrounded Russia with military bases, has overthrown one country on Russia's border, nearly doubled the size of NATO after promising it wouldn't expand eastward, is sending Navy ships to the Black Sea (like Russia sending a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico), and Russia's entire defense budget is little more than half the last increase to the U.S. imperial budget.
As for Russia, how about we begin with Russia signing a treaty with Ukraine by which it guaranteed the integrity of its territory, not only not to invade it, but actually to defend it, in exchange for Ukraine abandoning its nukes, and then taking over part of it.
How about you pull your head out of your ass, as the U.S. overthrew the elected government of Ukraine. Would you insist that America defend Canada after the USSR overthrew its government and started to bring it into the Warsaw Pact??? How many megatons of excrement is packed into your cranium to say all this bullshit with a straight face?
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I see we reached the part of the conversation where you start blathering incoherently. If you could argue with any facts or reasoning, you would do so. But you can't, so you wont. Remember this when you're talking history with your grandkids and they ask you how people could be so unbelievably dumb as to by the Russiagate conspiracy theory, and you lie to them.
The president is a WWE character, a self-promoter and a habitual liar. If he said water was wet I could ask a chemist for confirmation.
Which is the problem with special prosecutors: they turn our entire Constitutional system of justice on its head. Probable suspicion > warrant > investigation > prosecution is how this is supposed to work. Not having a Grand Inquisitor with a writ of assistance, unlimited powers to investigate and anyone and anything he chooses for any reason, in the complete absence of any evidence to support its theory.
Both parties have been actively hostile to Russia for over a hundred years. Which makes for one of the many, many, many, many plot holes in Russiagate: why would Russians try to interfere to put one party hostile to their nation over the other party hostile to their nation? It would be like accusing MLK of interfering in an election between Strom Thurmond and George Wallace. Doesn't make any kind of sense.
Then investigate him for something real if you have probable cause (like money laundering or bribes). Not dumbass McCarthyite conspiracy theories trying to start WWIII.
Oh, their costs may certainly go down, but not your cost as a consumer - they will simply pocket the difference. Which is the idea in the first place.
Prices are determined by the what the market will bear, not what the cost is for the business.
Your ignorance of the subject is not my problem. Yes, the United States has been arming, training and funding both ISIS and Al Queda to overthrow Assad. From the beginning.
America was plotting to overthrow Syria before the Arab Spring was a thing. Again, remedial knowledge of the subject.
FTFY.
Why are you arguing for the Al Qaeda head choppers and the ISIS organ eating side? Because you want to see another Arab country turned into a third world hell hole like Iraq and Libya so American neocons can jizz themselves?
How hard would you fight if if was your country being overrun by foreign-funded terrorists who wanted to chop off your head or cut out your heart and eat it?
Then WTF would Assad use them in areas packed with his own people and military, when he was winning the war, on the day inspectors arrived. If your bullshit detector is completely and utterly non-functional....I have some oceanfront property in Idaho I would love to sell you at a great discount.
Your complete and utter inversion of reality is noted. There are no facts that support the Russiagate narrative.
I called out the Birthers who also made assertions without evidence, that Obama was a muslim born in Kenya. Doesn't mean I supported Obama's drone murders or bank bailouts. In fact I would see him in the Hague.
It's called having a bullshit detector, and using it no matter the source of the bullshit. You might try it some time instead of the noble cause corruption Russiagaters are presently engaged in.
Not at all. The Coal Creek power plant in North Dakota delivers power to the Minneapolis metro area in Minnesota - 436 miles away. So conventional power is already conveyed over great distances. Distances that would cover:
Even the densest metropolitan areas are within a few hundred miles of an area 2.5 miles long by 1 mile wide (size of Ludington facility in Michigan) that could be made into pumped storage. Manhattan has one of the highest population densities of any city on the planet, but you could get power from as far away as Canada. Furthermore, if the entire region is just too gosh-darned populated for a large pumped storage facility, then it's also too densely populated for a nuclear power plant. If (not when) another meltdown happens, you don't want to start the evacuation of millions of people with little to no notice.
Annnnd it will still be a fraction of a percentage of the long term costs of nuclear power. There are dams and aqueducts that have functioned for hundreds or even thousands of years - that's what you can expect from pumped storage. Storage you can build schools and daycare centers over if you needed to - going to do that for a storage pond for nuclear waste?
See the aforementioned water towers. If you really have to worry about fermentation, evaporation, whatever, you can make a contained system where water is perpetually cycled between an upper and a lower tank. Sure the initial investment will be expensive - but not as expensive as nuclear power. And it will last much, much, much, much, much longer.
Nah, you can still go fuck yourself. You're treating a conspiracy theory with no evidence behind it as being as indisputable as the American invasion of Iraq or penchant for bombing weddings, funerals and hospitals. You whine like a little bitch about $5,000 in Facebook ads when there's an American official on video - in front of banners for western oil companies - bragging about spending $5,000,000,000 to subvert Ukraine's democracy.
Few things as annoying as bed wetting tough guy hypocrites.
And the moment Obama took office, it became his policy, same as drone murders are now Trump's policy. And Politifact is toilet paper.
Obama no more needed a special act to transfer Gitmo prisoners to federal custody on US soil than Bush needed a special act to send them there in the first place. He also could have sent an Article III judge there to conduct trials. Who cares if the building was still there as long as the prisoners were freed from the gulag.
But Obama had no intention of ending the gulag, but to move it to a Supermax prison in Illinois - which is why senators like Russ Feingold voted against his neocon proposal.
You understand Obama continued to hold people in Gitmo that had been cleared for release under Bush, right?
Pretty much complete bullshit. Obama didn't need an act from Congress to transfer inmates of the gulag into federal prisons or to release them, any more than Bush needed a special act to send them there in the first place.
Fuck that tired Obamabot bullshit. Obama no more needed a special bill to transfer prisoners out of Gitmo than Bush needed a special bill to send them there. And Obama didn't intend to close it so much as move it to a SuperMax in Illinois - which is why people like Russ Fiengold voted against his plan. The problem with Gitmo wasn't its location, it was the utterly lawless system of endless detention of mostly innocent people. One Obama had no intention of ending.
This was all known waaaay back in 2009. So fuck you along with your propaganda.
Oh, the dumbfuck hypocrisy. How many countries has Putin invaded on the opposite side of the planet from him? How many thousands of people has he kidnapped and tortured? Has he allowed the Russian military to arrest anyone on Russian soil and throw them in prison indefinitely?
Fuck. Off.
No, it doesn't, shit for brains. All torture does is get the victim to say whatever he thinks the torturer wants to hear. Your dumb ass would confess to assassinating Abraham Lincoln if water was poured down your throat.
Do you have to try immolating yourself before saying it's a bad idea? How about jumping out of a plane without a chute? It's like your asinine right brain is in a struggle for dominance with your dumbass left brain.
FTFY. There is no question on waterboarding. It's torture. It triggers a primal instinct and the United States has executed people who have performed it. Why are you even trying to defend this when doctors have had to step in and revive victims of waterboarding when they've become non-responsive.
Take your DVD sets of 24 to a pawnshop and see if you can get enough money to do something about your cranial rectum disorder.
Uh huh. Found Saddam's WMD's yet or his personal notes on planning 911 yet? If you're a dipshit-dumbfuck running up to kick the CIA's football, that's your call, but don't expect other people to join you.
Obama already did that by not prosecuting Hillary's dumb ass for her email server, while being absolutely ruthless with anyone else who mishandled classified evidence. Even David Petraeus, despite getting a slap on the wrist at the end, was prosecuted for his actions.
Speaking of Obama, he (very politely) called out Hillary for her laziness and sense of entitlement. He would go to red districts to campaign, and while he might still lose by ten points, thats better than losing by 40 points. Hillary couldn't be bothered to campaign in Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, yet we're supposed to blame a few thousand dollars in Facebook ads for her loss in a $9+ election.
A noun, a verb, and Russia. The complete inability to make a relevant comment or argument is common amongst bed wetting cowards suffering from rectal cranium disorder.
His post not only isn't "whatabboutery", it's nothing close to it.
That's an American propaganda technique: whining like a bitch whenever someone points out your Biblical levels of hypocrisy. For every single corpse you can lay at Russia's feet, there's a mountain of dead bodies from American actions. So fuck off on your handwrining over motes, when you refuse to deal with the beam in your own eyes.
Weapons from Syria, like the parent poster said. Reading comprehension, it's not just for kids any more...
Fixed your autocorrect fail. Just letting you know so you can check your device settings.
If foreign governments were literally arming, funding and training jihadists and terrorists to overthrow your nation, how hard would you fight to defend it?
Except that doesn't make sense. It's the opposite of making sense - in fact it's complete dumbfuckery. Why would Assad use gas after the U.S. had been braying for a year about "red lines" and when Syria was winning the war? If he was going to use chemical weapons, why didn't he do it a year beforehand when your CIA backed head choppers and organ eaters were starting to overrun the country? And why would he use chemical weapons the day inspectors arrived in the country? Dumb. Fuck. Er. Eee. Moreso now that even the SecDef that loves shooting Arabs admits there's no evidence Assad used gas.
So you're trying to throw stones at Russia for ignoring a treaty....after Bush ignored the ABM treaty. Does your limited sense of self-awareness at least tickle from time to time?
Willful dumbfuckery. Bush started placing ballistic "defense" systems in eastern Europe, nominally to contain Iran but not even Ray Charles was blind enough to buy that whopper. And he's dead. Then Obama started a trillion dollar upgrade program for America's nuclear arsenal. OF COURSE this is to change the reality of mutually assured destruction in a nuclear war to a conflict America can win with a first strike.
Add to that the fact that the U.S. has completely surrounded Russia with military bases, has overthrown one country on Russia's border, nearly doubled the size of NATO after promising it wouldn't expand eastward, is sending Navy ships to the Black Sea (like Russia sending a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico), and Russia's entire defense budget is little more than half the last increase to the U.S. imperial budget.
How about you pull your head out of your ass, as the U.S. overthrew the elected government of Ukraine. Would you insist that America defend Canada after the USSR overthrew its government and started to bring it into the Warsaw Pact??? How many megatons of excrement is packed into your cranium to say all this bullshit with a straight face?