The Downfall of America........

[Hobo Hilton]

What could possibly go wrong ?​

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G7 leaders back deal to use interest from Russian assets for Ukraine​

BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy, June 13 (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Seven major democracies started their annual summit on Thursday, many of them under a cloud at home but determined to make a difference on the world stage as they seek to help Ukraine and counter China's economic ambitions.
Heading into two days of talks, diplomats said a deal had been agreed in principle on plans to issue $50 billion of loans for Ukraine using interest from Russian sovereign assets frozen after Moscow launched its invasion of its neighbour in 2022.

Western nations were also unanimous in their concern over China's industrial overcapacity, which they say is distorting global markets, and their determination to help African states develop their economies, diplomats said.
"There is a lot of work to be done, but I am sure that in these two days we will be able to have discussions that will lead to concrete and measurable results," Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told her G7 guests as their talks started in a luxury hotel resort in the southern region of Puglia.

https://www.reuters.com/world/troubled-g7-leaders-focus-ukraine-war-china-italian-summit-2024-06-13/

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Just remember...

America hasn't even begun playing Cowboys and Messicans yet...



Sirhr

 

[Atomic_Lobster]

Dang and I thought it was going to be Cowboys and muslims

 

[Hobo Hilton]

Treasury Secretary Yellen says U.S. debt load is in ‘reasonable place’ if it remains at this level​

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday said the swelling national debt is manageable as long as it stays around where it is relative to the rest of the economy.
In a CNBC interview, Yellen also noted that high interest rates are adding to the burden as the U.S. manages its massive $34.7 trillion debt load.
“If the debt is stabilized relative to the size of the economy, we’re in a reasonable place,” she told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin during a “Squawk Box” live interview. “The way I look at it is that we should be looking at the real interest cost of the debt. That’s really what the burden is.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/treasury-secretary-yellen-says-us-debt-load-is-in-reasonable-place-if-it-remains-at-this-level.html

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Dang and I thought it was going to be Cowboys and muslims

Back when I was a kid and we had doe tags along with our buck tags... we had a saying"

"If it's brown, it goes down."

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[Hobo Hilton]

Someone should ask the working American's if they would rather spend their tax money on rockets or closing the border.
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Bezos’ Blue Origin joins SpaceX, ULA in winning bids for $5.6 billion Pentagon rocket program​

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/pentagon-picks-blue-origin-spacex-ula-in-5point6-billion-rocket-program.html

 

[Hobo Hilton]

The tribes of our enemies are joining together.... Always a bad sign.

Russia and North Korea sign partnership deal that includes mutual defense pact, Putin says​

Russia and North Korea on Wednesday signed a new “comprehensive strategic partnership” as Western officials grow increasingly concerned about the implications of President Vladimir Putin’s first state visit to the nuclear-armed country in 24 years.

Russian state media reported the inking of the partnership, which included a mutual defense pact, hours after Putin arrived in Pyongyang to receive a red carpet greeting from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a welcome ceremony attended by thousands.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/19/north-korea-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-putin.html

 

[Emerson0311]

The tribes of our enemies are joining together.... Always a bad sign.

Russia and North Korea sign partnership deal that includes mutual defense pact, Putin says​

Russia and North Korea on Wednesday signed a new “comprehensive strategic partnership” as Western officials grow increasingly concerned about the implications of President Vladimir Putin’s first state visit to the nuclear-armed country in 24 years.

Russian state media reported the inking of the partnership, which included a mutual defense pact, hours after Putin arrived in Pyongyang to receive a red carpet greeting from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a welcome ceremony attended by thousands.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/19/north-korea-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-putin.html

We NATO/League of Nations have been tribing/intimidating/buying up as many wannabe countries for our team as we could for what, 100 years? Lately we have been openly mocking, killing, attacking, and organizing “regime changes” anywhere we find value in being the boss. The other side is finally getting off their ass to do the same. I doubt North Korea is helping anyone very much though. China has been working unapologetically for it’s own benefit for millennia.

 

[mosin46]

actually might be a smart move by putin. should serve as a warning. might be saying "attack us and you will have multiple enemies"? mutual defense treaties are a big worry for me. remember 1914 and 1939? created huge disasters. of course the US has been playing that dangerous game > 100 years.

 

[Hobo Hilton]

When a Legend Airlines Airbus A 340 landed at San Salvador airport on July 15 after an 18-hour flight from the United Arab Emirates, its crew quickly realized something was wrong.
Salvadoran officials refused to connect the jet bridge to allow the roughly 300 passengers, all Indian nationals, to disembark, according to three former crew members on the flight who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Several passengers told the cabin crew they planned to travel onward to Mexico and cross the border there illegally into the U.S., one crew member said. Others said they were going on vacation to the Mexican border city of Tijuana, another crew member said.

New $72,000 migrant smuggling routes to the US start with charter flights​

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/migration-usa-smuggling/

 

[Hobo Hilton]

Are there any American's left that would trust the word of "The Federal Reserve" ?

Federal Reserve says all 31 banks in annual stress test withstood a severe hypothetical downturn​

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/26/fed-banks-stress-test-2024.html

 

[Hobo Hilton]

U.S. needs major nuclear power expansion to meet rising electricity demand, Southern Company CEO says​

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/27/us-needs-major-nuclear-power-expansion-southern-company-ceo-says.html

 

[Hobo Hilton]

WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - The Biden administration will expand deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 309,000 Haitians in the country already, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Friday.
The administration will expand access to the Temporary Protected Status program to Haitians through February 2026 due to violence and security issues in Haiti that limit access to safety, healthcare, food and water, the department said.

About 264,000 Haitians in the U.S. were already covered by the program, according to the U.S. government.
U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat seeking another term in Nov. 5 elections, has walked a political tightrope when it comes to immigration, trying to step up security at the U.S.-Mexico border while also taking a more humane approach to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
In a presidential debate on Thursday, Biden's Republican challenger, former President Donald Trump, criticized Biden for failing to stem high levels of illegal immigration.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-deportation-relief-additional-309000-haitians-country-already-2024-06-28/

 

[LuckyDuck]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/health/partner-boyfriend-girlfriend-labels-wellness/index.html

Get a load of this nonsense. I've noticed over the past few years this 'partner' crap has made its way into most news articles and are absolutely intentionally designed attempts at social engineering aimed at further eroding the nuclear family construct. At this point I forgot how many things are now "offensive" and how my education is "wrong".

Don't say spouse/wife/husband because that's offensive to the alphabet people, say 'partner' or you're a bigot (but they can use it because they fought so hard for that 'right'). Don't say 'normal' or 'real' whatever gender because that's offensive to the trans and other 39 genders in the 'community'. Believe in immigration laws(?), that's 100% xenophobia. Criminals are just misunderstood and victims of our racially biased society put in place by white men as a result of their warmongering privilege resulting in systematic racism designed to keep "people of color" oppressed. The schools aren't failing their students, the subjects being mandated like English and math exist due to the patriarchy.

I'm ranting now but this 'partner' garbage constantly being crammed down our throats is just another example of ridiculous concepts being broadcast. I found this article hosted on another site and there was a whole discussion about how backwards us 'inbred Americans' are failing to bring us into modern society due to our uneducated prejudices and attested that Australia's society has accepted it since the 90's. Australia... freaking Australia is the argument, where you can throw a shrimp on the barbie and sit down with both Kangaroos and jackboot kings men (if you had too much to think that is). I grow so weary of these constant attempts to change the English language and the follow-up punch labeling anyone who protests either 'phobic' or an 'ist'.

I don't play tennis or bridge and I don't have a 'partner'. I have a wife, I have a spouse. I have a 'ball and chain', (one of my favorites which everyone loves) is referring to her as my last or former girlfriend. But I will not acquiesce to this contrived new socially accept vocabulary put in place by people who cannot/will not recognize the most basic of facts such that in biology you either have a 'pole' or a 'hole' and to act otherwise is pandering to the mentally ill and does a great disservice not just to our present society but our children who are being constantly inundated and indoctrinated into believing this fantasy world is normal.

Anyway, thank you for allowing for me get on my proverbial soapbox to vent, I feel slightly better now.

-LD

 

[91Eunozs]

Has anyone heard from @Hobo Hilton? Hasn’t been on here since July…

 

[LuckyDuck]

Has anyone heard from @Hobo Hilton? Hasn’t been on here since July…

I noticed that too since reviving the thread. Hope he's ok.

-LD

 

[10ring'r]

Funny you bring this up LD. Had a doctors appointment the other day, and my "wife" usually goes because I've got "Selective Male Hearing". Female doc asks me if that was my "partner" that came in with me. I said...No, that's my wife. Partners are people that have dirty dic#s, and give you UTI's! According to a TV commercial, anyways. She was not amused. My wifey shot me the stink eye, then smirked. LoL. When we got in the car to leave, she said I was still an as#hole, but she loved me anyway. I told her...well, you married it, so sucks to be you!
Mac

 

[LuckyDuck]

Funny you bring this up LD. Had a doctors appointment the other day, and my "wife" usually goes because I've got "Selective Male Hearing". Female doc asks me if that was my "partner" that came in with me. I said...No, that's my wife. Partners are people that have dirty dic#s, and give you UTI's! According to a TV commercial, anyways. She was not amused. My wifey shot me the stink eye, then smirked. LoL. When we got in the car to leave, she said I was still an as#hole, but she loved me anyway. I told her...well, you married it, so sucks to be you!
Mac

I remember going to the doctor... oh 2 years ago and they had 'non-binary' as an option for the intake form. At a doctor's office...

 

[NoDopes]

Do you own any guns?
Have you experienced any depression?

 

[Boatninja]

On my last MRI visit, one of the required fields was "preferred pronouns".
I wrote "Captain & Sir". Kinda threw them off for a few seconds , then the girls behind the counter got a kick out of it....

 

[LuckyDuck]

On my last MRI visit, one of the required fields was "preferred pronouns".
I wrote "Captain & Sir". Kinda threw them off for a few seconds , then the girls behind the counter got a kick out of it....

I had to look at my doctor's portal, sure enough I've got that too. I still don't understand the 'they/them' option (unless we're identifying as legion) and god help, "Xe"... what in the ever living flip is that. Hell how do you even pronounce that? Is this like "the artist formally known as Prince"?

-LD

 

[billt]

I remember going to the doctor... oh 2 years ago and they had 'non-binary' as an option for the intake form. At a doctor's office...

They now have it on the Federal 4473 Form. How many chicks with dicks do you know with guns?

 

[NoDopes]

They now have it on the Federal 4473 Form. How many chicks with dicks do you know with guns?

So, they just renamed the question "Do you have any mental disorders?"

 

[stevieb92]

So, they just renamed the question "Do you have any mental disorders?"

Liberalism is a mental disorder, so that should disqualify all Democrats from gun ownership...

 

[Dispatcher91]

prob kiss 2A gone. if thomas can't hang in til '24,then there is no help from SC,not that there ever was much anyway.

Maybe look at it as we may have to invoke the 2A, update the Declaration of Independance, and kiss the government goodbye.