Politics

[Ridge Runner]

So....IF Elected.....Harris will_______.

She is the sitting VP.
Biden is missing (as in not active) as POTUS.

Why isn't she doing anything about what she is campaigning on while as the sitting VP?

Team Trump needs to be exploiting this to the max.

 

[deewayne2003]

So....IF Elected.....Harris will_______.

She is the sitting VP.
Biden is missing (as in not active) as POTUS.

Why isn't she doing anything about what she is campaigning on while as the sitting VP?

Team Trump needs to be exploiting this to the max.

Agreed, however it’s being hit on constantly in various non mainstream media outlets; though Trump is exploiting the alternative media options very well.

 

[DillonG]

There is no such thing as "price gouging." It is literally a made-up concept by marxists and you would do well to extirpate it from your vocabulary. Left free to do its thing, the market will bring prices to a balance point between supply and demand.

Thank you! I appreciate your critique. Not many people believe in a hands-off economic policy. I actually lean harder and want the government to make entitlements elective. I know I will never receive social security. Let me keep at least a portion of my salary to invest as I see fit. The S&P has historically had a ROI that outpaces SS.

 

[DillonG]

Agreed, however it’s being hit on constantly in various non mainstream media outlets; though Trump is exploiting the alternative media options very well.

The problem is that Trump still needs to use mainstream media, which is inherently pro-Democrat. The reason being the main voting block are boomers or gen-x. Alternative media is primarily consumed by younger people, and they are far less likely to vote.

I only watch MSM for comedic effect. I use alternative media for more diverse opinions.

 

[Zambezi]

I thought that she came into office after Mugabe was already in power?

Didn’t Jimmy Carter send Andrew Young as a mediator between Ian Smith’s government and the “freedom fighters”?

Both countries were playing virtue politics at the time. Thatcher (UK) as the leader of the Commonwealth were sinking the colonies left right and centre in the name political correctness. The USA was doing the same.

A thriving country thrown onto the pyre of political correctness that led to the current situation of it being just another communist country with the begging bowl extended. Not to mention the black population 1000000 times worse off. Carter and Thatcher, along with their minions can go suck a fart.

 

[WAB]

Both countries were playing virtue politics at the time. Thatcher (UK) as the leader of the Commonwealth were sinking the colonies left right and centre in the name political correctness. The USA was doing the same.

A thriving country thrown onto the pyre of political correctness that led to the current situation of it being just another communist country with the begging bowl extended. Not to mention the black population 1000000 times worse off. Carter and Thatcher, along with their minions can go suck a fart.

I’m still confused, by the time Thatcher came into power wasn’t the bush war over? If so, what did she do to Rhodesia? Don’t get me wrong, you were royally screwed over by the Brits, I just don’t see how thatcher could have had anything to do with it.

 

[Zambezi]

I’m still confused, by the time Thatcher came into power wasn’t the bush war over? If so, what did she do to Rhodesia? Don’t get me wrong, you were royally screwed over by the Brits, I just don’t see how thatcher could have had anything to do with it.

Thatcher came into power mid 1979 and the Lancaster House agreement was signed in December 1979. It was her government that oversaw the agreements and the details therein. Furthermore, she was the leader of the Conservative party from the mid 1970's (Leader of the opposition). She ran the agreements for 6 months and had the power either support Rhodesia or betray it. She chose the latter. Much like the entire western world. Popularity and expedience over loyalty and an ally.

The majority of the Rhodesians held dual nationality (UK / Rho) and thousands fought in WW2 on the side of Britain, including Ian Smith who was an RAF Spitfire Ace.

 

[Corey0372]

Thatcher came into power mid 1979 and the Lancaster House agreement was signed in December 1979. It was her government that oversaw the agreements and the details therein. Furthermore, she was the leader of the Conservative party from the mid 1970's (Leader of the opposition). She ran the agreements for 6 months and had the power either support Rhodesia or betray it. She chose the latter. Much like the entire western world. Popularity and expedience over loyalty and an ally.

The majority of the Rhodesians held dual nationality (UK / Rho) and thousands fought in WW2 on the side of Britain, including Ian Smith who was an RAF Spitfire Ace.

An interesting anecdote between the Reagan and Thatcher period was the head butting they did regarding the Falklands War and US Sanctions on apartheid era South Africa. Reagan was pissed about the Thatcher govt carrying out the Falklands War against his administrations wishes, and Thatcher was pissed about US sanctions policy toward RSA being slow.

 

[Corey0372]

Just don't ask a Rhodesian about Thatcher!

Or a British miner......

 

[Hunter4752001]

I seem to recall revalations that that at that time GCHQ bugged the Rhodesian delgates and passed the information onto to Mugage's delegates putting them a step ahead in the negotiations.

 

[rookhawk]

Meaning no disrespect to you at all, but this case is a classic Argument from Exception.

Most men grok these things, few women do. Of the few women who do, fewer still have the capacity to exercise force meaningfully.

Look no further than here. And he's a deformed man who'd never have even qualified to be in the Olympics as a male fighter, let alone have won the gold. A weak man ran roughshod over the very best female boxers in the world.
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I was chatting with some of my fellow fat, aging, unfit buddies about this the other day.

Hear me out: We all come out identifying as female gender as a group. We all pick a female Olympic sport. And we eat right, exercise, and train, train, train. I mean we seriously train. We get an expert to teach us the sport, and we live, breathe, sleep the sport full time for say 60-90 days.

Then we go set world records and win Olympic gold in the female events.

Thereafter, we can identify as men that hate women and want to take away their gold medals and world records.

You might find this absurd, but it’s not a novel idea. A fellow in Canada was a mediocre retired weightlifter. He decided to identify as a woman and set a national record within 30 days with zero training. If he can do it with no training or preparation, I’m sure me and my fat buddies could pull it off with 90 days of truly disciplined hard work.

 

[Woodcarver]

I remember back in the 70s and 80s all the uproar about the Russian and German women athletes and people wanting them to be tested for hormones and such. Now, these guys with a mental defect call themselves women, and the world allows them to compete with actual women. WTH. The world needs to grow a pair (pun intended) and tell these idiots to go play with whatever parts they haven't had cut off or altered.

 

[bowjijohn]

every week or so, the Rhodesian Light infantry regimental association send out a Sit Rep to its members

This week’s includes a couple of interesting links

This one

Also a series of 3 articles covering an incident involving the destruction of Zim’s airforce in 82

Perhaps it also touches on the beginning of the end of the honeymoon between thatcher’s gov and Mugabe

1.

Apartheid destruction of Zimbabwe’s air force: 1982 Thornhill mystery solved

A South African government memorandum, squirrelled away by a former apartheid operative, has revealed the answer to a 42-year-old mystery: who was behind the devastating 1982 sabotage of the air force of newly independent Zimbabwe? Much more than just another military episode in an unstable era...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

2.

The Zimbabwean parliamentarian who helped destroy Thornhill Air Base

In 1982, most of Zimbabwe’s fixed-wing air power was destroyed during a nighttime raid on the Thornhill Air Base. The involvement of SA’s apartheid regime — and its collaborators — was always suspected, yet conclusive evidence has not emerged until now. The discovery of previously hidden...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

3.
Phttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-08-14-thornhills-ring-of-spies-and-the-long-tail-of-impunity-in-zimbabwe/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=first_thing&mle=MEdjczVNYUpZeFBuZmN2SkdvQUJXRjRpM3lqdVZqclIrTDc0a2k3OHBrL2lWYVhvVXQxdWdDb3MvQ2w4MEEyd2Zma0VmMEdHZTJtWTU3QWpDdkx5ME9SUWg3dGd0Q0htRmhtRXNRZ01reUpFY2VYZlM3a3JzZmIwZ1k5RkJSS0UreldqKzZhUXUzOW9URDc0UGdwajJnPT0%3D

 

[sgt_zim]

The problem is that Trump still needs to use mainstream media, which is inherently pro-Democrat. The reason being the main voting block are boomers or gen-x. Alternative media is primarily consumed by younger people, and they are far less likely to vote.

I only watch MSM for comedic effect. I use alternative media for more diverse opinions.

Separation of economics and state is as important as separation of Church and state.

 

[sgt_zim]

I was chatting with some of my fellow fat, aging, unfit buddies about this the other day.

Hear me out: We all come out identifying as female gender as a group. We all pick a female Olympic sport. And we eat right, exercise, and train, train, train. I mean we seriously train. We get an expert to teach us the sport, and we live, breathe, sleep the sport full time for say 60-90 days.

Then we go set world records and win Olympic gold in the female events.

Thereafter, we can identify as men that hate women and want to take away their gold medals and world records.

You might find this absurd, but it’s not a novel idea. A fellow in Canada was a mediocre retired weightlifter. He decided to identify as a woman and set a national record within 30 days with zero training. If he can do it with no training or preparation, I’m sure me and my fat buddies could pull it off with 90 days of truly disciplined hard work.

I'm down with that. It would be a nice touch to sport this beard while claiming womanhood.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

This is pretty funny stuff

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

This is good too, Kamala speak

 

[Dirtdart]

Didnt Carter call off the Marines that we’re going to help the South Africans in Angola.

I do not remember that being part of any of the conversations I was involved in.

The guys that I was referring to were proud SADF and Koevoet veterans that fought in a border war that lasted over 20 years to prevent SWA from being controlled by communist only to see the place handed over to those same communist.

Not the same scale but it took 20 years, 3 trillion dollars, and 4 US presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. The mere thought of the cost in blood turns my stomach.

 

[Hunt anything]

I THINK I read it in one of Boddingtons book that his unit was on a tarmac with live ammunition issued and orders to go to Angola in support of the South Africans. Carter pulled the plug on it as they were loading the aircraft.

 

[mdwest]

I THINK I read it in one of Boddingtons book that his unit was on a tarmac with live ammunition issued and orders to go to Angola in support of the South Africans. Carter pulled the plug on it as they were loading the aircraft.

I thought boddington was a logistician and spent his entire career in the USMC reserve…

If that’s correct, an armed support mission to Angola seems very odd for him and any unit he would have been assigned to at the time..