Ummm, it's less than 3 months from the election to the inauguration. Quite a bit less than a year, ijs
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Deewayne,
“false TX drivers licenses & fake social security numbers in 2015”
This can’t be correct. Our leftist friends refute this fact. Illegals gaining access to every benefit. Medical, driving, voting. The media says that’s a lie
Mean while those pieces of ID are earned by legal immigrants through months and years of study and assimilation.
The conservatives won’t sign Biden‘s deal because Bidens “deal” cuts the number to 5000 allowed in per day.
1000 per day is still a crisis. It’s pretty sad where the opposition comes to the table and thinks they are negotiating in good faith with a number like 5000 illegal immigrants per day.
So we would still need to find 100 cities that can afford to take 50 new dependents per day that don’t pay taxes. EVERY DAY
Over 18,000 new dependents in 100 cities. At 5000 per day.
We are now getting 10,000-12,000 per day
They need to hold a vote and everybody that votes Yay. needs to take a percentage into their home and their property. The same fantasy land, pie in the sky, Pollyanna, deep thinkers must reason that these people just absorb through osmosis and disappear into the mist
until they show up on a place like
Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, NYC then the elite aren’t so happy to be a sanctuary city
“false TX drivers licenses & fake social security numbers in 2015”
This can’t be correct. Our leftist friends refute this fact. Illegals gaining access to every benefit. Medical, driving, voting. The media says that’s a lie
Mean while those pieces of ID are earned by legal immigrants through months and years of study and assimilation.
The conservatives won’t sign Biden‘s deal because Bidens “deal” cuts the number to 5000 allowed in per day.
1000 per day is still a crisis. It’s pretty sad where the opposition comes to the table and thinks they are negotiating in good faith with a number like 5000 illegal immigrants per day.
So we would still need to find 100 cities that can afford to take 50 new dependents per day that don’t pay taxes. EVERY DAY
Over 18,000 new dependents in 100 cities. At 5000 per day.
We are now getting 10,000-12,000 per day
They need to hold a vote and everybody that votes Yay. needs to take a percentage into their home and their property. The same fantasy land, pie in the sky, Pollyanna, deep thinkers must reason that these people just absorb through osmosis and disappear into the mist
until they show up on a place like
Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, NYC then the elite aren’t so happy to be a sanctuary city
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That's why I have an email account for those that I never look at.
Brent in Az
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The border and policies were exponentially better under Trump.
But....but .... Orange man bad!
But....but .... Orange man bad!
Back to Ukraine. I found this to be a very good piece of analysis from the Wilson Center, Kennan Institute. As some here would note, they are indeed card carrying members of the "rarified air" analytical community - in other words the staff specializes in the field about which they base their observations. The article is also 15 paragraphs long which likely makes it "mind numbing" as well. Founded in the seventies, the center itself is considered the leading institute for the study of Russia.
It is copied below.
Although Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive brought only modest results, there are broad indications that the cumulative strategy of pressuring Russia economically and militarily by Ukraine and its supporters is working. Internal problems with Russia’s cumbersome military institutions and issues affecting Russia’s ability to manufacture its most effective weapons mean that Ukraine has a chance to win what is rapidly turning into a war of attrition.
Russia’s Military Potential, Not Ukraine’s, Is Being Degraded
Russia’s formidable navy is mired in an increasingly dire strategic situation in the Black Sea. Ukraine has used its advantages in long-range precision targeting to inflict serious damage on the Russian fleet and Russian maritime military infrastructure, damage that Russia has struggled to respond to effectively. Russia has lost as much as a fifth of its Black Sea Fleet since summer 2023, including some of its most sophisticated ships.
In the skies above Ukraine, things aren’t going much better for Russia, with its air force unable to leverage much of its potential power. The growing density and sophistication of Ukrainian air defenses have greatly constrained Russia’s ability to operate its heaviest bombers beyond its forward line of troops.
Russia has tried to overcome this problem by relying on air-launched cruise missiles and glide bombs that can be dispatched from the safety of Russian airspace. But these weapons are significantly more expensive and difficult for Russia to manufacture than is its much larger and less used supply of gravity bombs.
Russia will ensure an ample supply of cruise missiles and glide bombs for the duration of the war, but doing so will impose high costs on Russian industry. Bombardments massive enough to overcome Ukrainian air defenses can cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to conduct, greatly adding to state spending, likely making it unsustainable over the long term.
For all the expense, none of these massive bombardments has yielded any decisive results in degrading Ukrainian military potential. This is largely because Ukraine’s strategic depth is not in Ukraine. Stocks of Ukrainian arms and ammunition and the facilities that produce them are shielded beneath the American nuclear umbrella in Europe and the United States. Russia as a combatant in the conflict does not enjoy this advantage. Ukraine has increasingly threatened Russian industry through its acquisition and development of longer-range missiles and its expanding sabotage operations.
Russia did succeed in briefly slowing the onslaught of Ukrainian long-range strikes on its industry and high-value military equipment with increased electronic jamming of Western-supplied precision guided munitions. But these adaptations have proven fleeting as Ukraine has adapted its own tactics and gained additional military capabilities in recent months. One of the most significant of these new capabilities has been American cluster munitions. Cluster munitions provide Ukraine with an alternative to smart weapons for interdicting mobile, high-value Russian targets by enabling a rapid massing of firepower over a large area.
The cumulative effects of the past several months of stepped-up Ukrainian attacks on Russian logistics, air defenses, and artillery have been devastating for the Russian military. On the ground, Russia’s rate of artillery fire has fallen dramatically, from a high of 45,000−80,000 shells per day during Russia’s summer offensive in 2022 to 10,000−15,000 shells per day by the beginning of fall 2023. This is a serious problem for the Russian military as artillery units have arguably been its most effective fighting force, responsible for inflicting as many as 70 percent of all Ukrainian casualties.
Russian forces have continued to resist Ukrainian advances behind a formidable defensive network and in some cases have even advanced. But even these positive results for the Russian military have come at a tremendous cost, with the total number of Russian casualties surpassing 315,000 and growing rapidly. The ongoing offensive Russia launched around Avdiivka closely resembles its disastrous operations in Vuhledar and its pyrrhic victory in Bakhmut in the spring of 2023. The ongoing strategy of throwing away huge numbers of lives and equipment to achieve meager ends is degrading morale and leadership and shows that the Russian military is either unwilling or unable to learn from past mistakes. None of these explanations bodes well for Russia’s prospects in a long war.
Russia’s State-Level Problems
The constraints and persistent problems Russia faces at sea, on land, and in the air are symptoms of bigger problems within the Russian state. Russia’s continued underperformance suggests that it lacks the ability to make full use of its theoretically greater military potential.
Russia has more manpower than Ukraine, but it is unlikely to make full use of that advantage. Regardless of what any poll may say, the war is self-evidently unpopular among Russians of military age, who have fled the country by the hundreds of thousands since the beginning of the war. Previous attempts to mobilize recruits have greatly accelerated human capital flight. Russian leaders routinely claim that incredible numbers of patriotic volunteers are entering military service, but these boasts are undercut by steps that reek of desperation for manpower, such as greatly lowering standards for citizenship to attract military recruits from abroad.
Government efforts to bolster the appeal of military service face a long-term uphill battle as the number of Russian casualties mounts. Maimed veterans will increasingly become the face of the war in Russia: Russian officials have suggested that as many as half of all soldiers wounded in Ukraine sustained at least one limb amputation.
Even if Russia’s recruitment and mobilization systems are reformed, the military itself will still face inherent limits on the number of troops it can put into the field. The June Wagner rebellion highlighted just how quickly the Russian state can be paralyzed by armed internal revolts when disaffected actors organize. As a result, it is reasonable to assume that there will be limits on the size of the Russian population under arms at any given time, well below the capacity of the Russian military to deploy effectively.
This theoretical limit may even exceed that of the maximum size force the Russian military can actually employ in combat. The biggest army the Russians can put into the field may not be all that much bigger than what it has already deployed. Russia struggles to execute combined arms operations with the army’s present size. Attempts by Russia to gain an advantage by putting an even larger army in the field without addressing these institutional problems may just result in more poorly coordinated and disorganized human wave attacks.
The Cost of the War—to Russia
Russia may have gained control of 18 percent of Ukraine, but doing so has cost nearly eighteen years of military modernization and has exposed serious institutional weaknesses. If Ukraine maintains its determination and retains external support, it can win a war of attrition. The continued battering of both the Russian military and the Russian economy will eventually force Moscow to choose between an indecisive end to the war or risk Russia losing its place as a major power as the West slowly but massively re-arms over the next several years.
It is copied below.
Although Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive brought only modest results, there are broad indications that the cumulative strategy of pressuring Russia economically and militarily by Ukraine and its supporters is working. Internal problems with Russia’s cumbersome military institutions and issues affecting Russia’s ability to manufacture its most effective weapons mean that Ukraine has a chance to win what is rapidly turning into a war of attrition.
Russia’s Military Potential, Not Ukraine’s, Is Being Degraded
Russia’s formidable navy is mired in an increasingly dire strategic situation in the Black Sea. Ukraine has used its advantages in long-range precision targeting to inflict serious damage on the Russian fleet and Russian maritime military infrastructure, damage that Russia has struggled to respond to effectively. Russia has lost as much as a fifth of its Black Sea Fleet since summer 2023, including some of its most sophisticated ships.
In the skies above Ukraine, things aren’t going much better for Russia, with its air force unable to leverage much of its potential power. The growing density and sophistication of Ukrainian air defenses have greatly constrained Russia’s ability to operate its heaviest bombers beyond its forward line of troops.
Russia has tried to overcome this problem by relying on air-launched cruise missiles and glide bombs that can be dispatched from the safety of Russian airspace. But these weapons are significantly more expensive and difficult for Russia to manufacture than is its much larger and less used supply of gravity bombs.
Russia will ensure an ample supply of cruise missiles and glide bombs for the duration of the war, but doing so will impose high costs on Russian industry. Bombardments massive enough to overcome Ukrainian air defenses can cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to conduct, greatly adding to state spending, likely making it unsustainable over the long term.
For all the expense, none of these massive bombardments has yielded any decisive results in degrading Ukrainian military potential. This is largely because Ukraine’s strategic depth is not in Ukraine. Stocks of Ukrainian arms and ammunition and the facilities that produce them are shielded beneath the American nuclear umbrella in Europe and the United States. Russia as a combatant in the conflict does not enjoy this advantage. Ukraine has increasingly threatened Russian industry through its acquisition and development of longer-range missiles and its expanding sabotage operations.
Russia did succeed in briefly slowing the onslaught of Ukrainian long-range strikes on its industry and high-value military equipment with increased electronic jamming of Western-supplied precision guided munitions. But these adaptations have proven fleeting as Ukraine has adapted its own tactics and gained additional military capabilities in recent months. One of the most significant of these new capabilities has been American cluster munitions. Cluster munitions provide Ukraine with an alternative to smart weapons for interdicting mobile, high-value Russian targets by enabling a rapid massing of firepower over a large area.
The cumulative effects of the past several months of stepped-up Ukrainian attacks on Russian logistics, air defenses, and artillery have been devastating for the Russian military. On the ground, Russia’s rate of artillery fire has fallen dramatically, from a high of 45,000−80,000 shells per day during Russia’s summer offensive in 2022 to 10,000−15,000 shells per day by the beginning of fall 2023. This is a serious problem for the Russian military as artillery units have arguably been its most effective fighting force, responsible for inflicting as many as 70 percent of all Ukrainian casualties.
Russian forces have continued to resist Ukrainian advances behind a formidable defensive network and in some cases have even advanced. But even these positive results for the Russian military have come at a tremendous cost, with the total number of Russian casualties surpassing 315,000 and growing rapidly. The ongoing offensive Russia launched around Avdiivka closely resembles its disastrous operations in Vuhledar and its pyrrhic victory in Bakhmut in the spring of 2023. The ongoing strategy of throwing away huge numbers of lives and equipment to achieve meager ends is degrading morale and leadership and shows that the Russian military is either unwilling or unable to learn from past mistakes. None of these explanations bodes well for Russia’s prospects in a long war.
Russia’s State-Level Problems
The constraints and persistent problems Russia faces at sea, on land, and in the air are symptoms of bigger problems within the Russian state. Russia’s continued underperformance suggests that it lacks the ability to make full use of its theoretically greater military potential.
Russia has more manpower than Ukraine, but it is unlikely to make full use of that advantage. Regardless of what any poll may say, the war is self-evidently unpopular among Russians of military age, who have fled the country by the hundreds of thousands since the beginning of the war. Previous attempts to mobilize recruits have greatly accelerated human capital flight. Russian leaders routinely claim that incredible numbers of patriotic volunteers are entering military service, but these boasts are undercut by steps that reek of desperation for manpower, such as greatly lowering standards for citizenship to attract military recruits from abroad.
Government efforts to bolster the appeal of military service face a long-term uphill battle as the number of Russian casualties mounts. Maimed veterans will increasingly become the face of the war in Russia: Russian officials have suggested that as many as half of all soldiers wounded in Ukraine sustained at least one limb amputation.
Even if Russia’s recruitment and mobilization systems are reformed, the military itself will still face inherent limits on the number of troops it can put into the field. The June Wagner rebellion highlighted just how quickly the Russian state can be paralyzed by armed internal revolts when disaffected actors organize. As a result, it is reasonable to assume that there will be limits on the size of the Russian population under arms at any given time, well below the capacity of the Russian military to deploy effectively.
This theoretical limit may even exceed that of the maximum size force the Russian military can actually employ in combat. The biggest army the Russians can put into the field may not be all that much bigger than what it has already deployed. Russia struggles to execute combined arms operations with the army’s present size. Attempts by Russia to gain an advantage by putting an even larger army in the field without addressing these institutional problems may just result in more poorly coordinated and disorganized human wave attacks.
The Cost of the War—to Russia
Russia may have gained control of 18 percent of Ukraine, but doing so has cost nearly eighteen years of military modernization and has exposed serious institutional weaknesses. If Ukraine maintains its determination and retains external support, it can win a war of attrition. The continued battering of both the Russian military and the Russian economy will eventually force Moscow to choose between an indecisive end to the war or risk Russia losing its place as a major power as the West slowly but massively re-arms over the next several years.
Brent in Az
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American tax dollars hard at work.
www.breitbart.com
Ukrainian Officials Charged With Stealing $40m From Weapons Budget
Ukrainian defence ministry officials are accused of conspiring with an arms firm to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy weapons.
www.breitbart.com
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Correct. Who says brainwashing doesn't work. Those who watch MSM like CNN, CBS, NBC ABC, MSNBC actually believe that Brandon and his lacky can't do anything about the border and the border crisis is the fault of conservative Repubs and Trump. And anyone who says otherwise is lying about the reality of the numbers and impact of illegal immigrants on our country! What universe and reality do these people live in?? TDS is real and it is a mental disorder! There is no other explanation. I know the process for legal immigration inside and out, having LEGALLY sponsored three immigrants and in process of sponsoring one more. I've spent huge money and expenditure of time and energy working through a system that is overrun with a political corruption of philosophy at the highest levels supported by a brainwashed population led by those who equate the importance of a place like Ukraine with the invasion and sovereignty of our own country. We are staring at, right now, a process within our country that began under BHO. I guess most didn't pay attention when he said he was going to fundamentally change our country.
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Here is the reason for Bidens corrupt border infiltration. If they can turn Texas, and Florida blue, Republicans will never win another election.
www.breitbart.com
Soros-Funded Group Seeks to 'Turn Texas Blue' with Mass Immigration
A political action committee (PAC), financially backed by billionaire George Soros, is looking to "turn Texas blue" this year.
www.breitbart.com
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A good friend of mine, took 26 months and $5000.00 to get permanent residency status in the USA. That’s if you are a Canadian and married to a US citizen and following all the rules. Our system in Canada takes about a year for the same thing if you are from a European country. Other countries have an express lane!
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The process is a nightmare, especially if you are doing all the work yourself without the help of a lawyer. It took over two years and roughly $8,000.00 in fees, travel, hotels, etc, for the naturalization of my wife. Oh, and let's not discuss how they treat you like dog sh*t when you are in their offices. I was so happy the last day we had to visit one of their offices and not have to deal with those unpleasant government employees.
Soon, all those who came in illegally will have status, provided by our government and paid by our Taxes. Ugh!
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it was never really deregulated. Comcast and AT&T (and subsidiaries) own the last mile in probably 90% of the country. This wasn't an accident.
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After watching the little fella putter across the landscape I kinda feel sorry for him at the end! Lol
Did anyone else notice the big pheasant?
After watching the little fella putter across the landscape I kinda feel sorry for him at the end! Lol
Did anyone else notice the big pheasant?
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Joe Biden v Donald Trump - where contest will be won and lost
A general election showdown between two adversaries is coming into view. Here's what to look for.
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I clicked on the link and it worked.....
So razor wire is good in some places but not in others.
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Same brainwashing goes for FOX watchers, too. Same circus, different clowns.
That's why facts in this country are so much diluted.
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No, it’s about a year until the next Presidential takes office from now.
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