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  • Dr.3D's Avatar
    02-05-2025, 05:43 PM
    Woopsie!
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    02-04-2025, 07:14 PM
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    02-04-2025, 07:00 PM
    Yep. Amazing! http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?568628-Tulsi-to-be-nominated-for-Director-of-National-Intelligence&p=7275410#post7275410
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  • Dr.3D's Avatar
    02-04-2025, 05:53 PM
    Well, if they are left there, they will just do it again.
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  • CaptUSA's Avatar
    02-04-2025, 02:02 PM
    WHOA! I did not expect this! Tulsi made it through the Senate Intel Committee! It'll go to the full Senate for a vote. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/04/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-committee-vote-odni/
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    02-04-2025, 12:37 PM
    Man, if I was here illegally, I would be running for the border. I sure wouldn't want to be put in a prison in El Salvador.
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  • CaptUSA's Avatar
    02-04-2025, 11:53 AM
    Bobby made it out of committee on a strictly party line vote! Now, it will go to the full Senate! (on a related note, Tulsi's committee vote is expected today, too. I doubt she gets through, but we shall see.)
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    02-04-2025, 10:59 AM
    Wow! I didn't know that.
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    02-04-2025, 09:45 AM
    So mass incarceration of regular people in El Salvador under the guise of fighting gang crime? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/thousands-of-innocent-people-jailed-in-el-salvadors-gang-crackdown Thousands of innocent people jailed in El Salvador’s gang crackdown El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele was re-elected for a second term in a landslide win. Bukele has overseen a vast and brutal crackdown on gangs, transforming the nation from one of the deadliest to one of the safest in Latin America. But that peace has come at a cost with thousands of innocent people jailed. Amna Nawaz and producer Teresa Cebrian Aranda visited the country for this report. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.
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    02-04-2025, 09:41 AM
    https://gwjusticejournal.com/2024/06/21/truces-to-terror-bukeles-legacy-of-gangs-and-mass-incarceration-in-el-salvador/ Truces to Terror: Bukele’s Legacy of Gangs and Mass Incarceration in El Salvador Sofia Ramirez June 21, 2024 Share Image Credits: @mauriciocuellar on Unsplash (Unsplash License) In 2012, Nayib Bukele won the mayoral election in Nuevo Cuscatlán, a small municipality in El Salvador, as a part of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), which is a left-wing political party. That same year, the FMLN organized a pact with the two biggest gangs in El Salvador: MS-13 and Barrio-18. This truce was formulated secretly, as negotiating with gangs is a highly controversial issue that could result in public backlash. The agreement allowed for the gangs to have around thirty members moved from the Zacatecoluca Security Penitentiary Center to state prisons in exchange for a lower homicide rate. As a result, the murder rate in the coming weeks dropped, with the average of daily murders dropping from fourteen to six. This “truce” was quickly revealed by Salvadorian journalists and exposed to the public. The Minister of Justice and Public Security, David Munguía Payés, denied any agreements with MS-13 and Barrio 18, claiming that the homicide rates dropping were from the work of the National Civil Police. The government chose to continue denying any alleged truces that came up in the media.
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  • CaptUSA's Avatar
    02-04-2025, 09:35 AM
    Just curious how you can tell what is an actual policy proposal versus some negotiation tactic... Seems to me like he says one thing, gets you guys all fired up defending it, only to turn around a few days later and has you guys cheering for much, much less.
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    02-04-2025, 09:29 AM
    "They say 60% of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot. 82.4% of people believe them whether they're even accurate statistics or not." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK6zjtUj00
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    02-04-2025, 07:58 AM
    The president of El Salvador? He's been trying to break the back of MS-13 for several years now but many of those gang members are living in the U.S. He might also get paid a fee for housing U.S. prisoners the same way private prisons get paid. The fact that U.S. citizens might be part of the deal is disturbing though and possibly illegal. Imagine if Biden had exported January 6th prisoners to foreign countries? MS-13 is a complete quagmire of a problem. Refugees from right wing CIA backed death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s eventually formed their own U.S. backed street gangs to protect themselves from the Mexican Mafia and the Bloods and the Crips in the U .S. Bill Clinton deported as many as he could that were not U.S. citizens but El Salvador and other Central American countries were not prepared for the influx and their prisons became breeding grounds for more gang activity allowing them to become international. This time the president of El Salvador has invested heavily in prison infrastructure and has done his own brutal crackdown on the gang. He's basically running a concentration camp. Not just gang members have been rounded up but people associated with them have been rounded up as well.
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    02-04-2025, 07:27 AM
    So how do YOU interpret the quote and what context would YOU put i it? It seems pretty obvious to me. "Were' putting in hundreds of millions of dollars" (the military aid we've been giving up until this point "and I want security of the rare earth and they are willing to do it" (the condition for sending more of the hundreds of millions of dollars). The context of the article is that Ukraine had already offered that as a deal to Trump to continue military and a significant amount of the areas where the rare earth is located is currently under Russian control. So you would leave all of that context out and just be left with a sound bite?
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    02-04-2025, 07:08 AM
    I think Executive Orders serve a function. Some make changes until another president, some get challenged by judges and smacked down. I think in this era any EO that get smacked down would be recognized as something on the agenda and might be considered for Congress. In some cases a smackdown of the EO might end up being more productive with Congress to cement it into law.
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  • CaptUSA's Avatar
    02-03-2025, 07:02 PM
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-is-creating-a-u-s-sovereign-wealth-fund-what-that-means/ar-AA1ylT9h?ocid=BingNewsSerp To be honest, I'm not sure of the implications of this financial tool. I've never seen it implemented. Any Austrians in here want to take a crack at this one?? What does he mean by "monetizing the balance sheet"???
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    02-03-2025, 06:43 PM
    Can Trump Tariffs Lead To Trouble? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LURyPTUh200 President Trump made it clear during his presidential campaign that tariffs will be a part of his policy-making. He has followed through on that. Tariffs are risk. Yes, they can be used as a political tool, and can get results. But tariffs can also turn very bad, especially when egos are revved up. American history is littered with the use of tariffs going very bad. President Trump should always keep this in mind.
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  • CaptUSA's Avatar
    02-03-2025, 05:29 PM
    And now he's backed off the Canada tariffs, too. China will be by the end of the week. Why does Trump hate the American industries he wanted to protect?? Why doesn't he want all that tariff money that was going to replace taxes???
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    02-03-2025, 04:13 PM
    Wait for the SS spin.
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  • Dr.3D's Avatar
    02-03-2025, 02:37 PM
    Dr.3D replied to a thread USAID Exposed in U.S. Political News
    Some may be upset because their funding is drying up. :p
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  • CaptUSA's Avatar
    02-03-2025, 11:01 AM
    Might be best to do a quarterly take on Trump's policies so we don't get whiplash from all the pauses and reversals... Just know, folks, this creates all kinds of confusion, and that confusion adds significant costs to anyone brokering deals in the supply chains. You never know what the rules are, unless you check Truth Social every 5 minutes. Even then, the policy could change in the next 5 minutes.
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    02-03-2025, 10:41 AM
    Ok, so this is just a negotiation tactic??? Trump pauses Mexico tariffs for a month https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/world/sheinbaum-trump-tariffs-paused/index.html
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    02-03-2025, 09:54 AM
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    02-03-2025, 09:48 AM
    I'd be happier with legislation and not executive orders that are Constitutionally questionable and can be undone by the next President, but yeah, pleasantly surprised so far.
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  • CaptUSA's Avatar
    02-03-2025, 09:46 AM
    He's all over the place. He says it'll bring in more money (even though it's a tax on Americans who buy those imports, so they have less money to spend on other things) He says it'll protect American industries (at the expense of other American industries, of course) And he says it's punishment for other geopolitical issues (fetanyl, trade imbalances, etc.) Of course, it can't be all 3. If you're protecting American industries by raising the prices on foreign goods, then you don't get the money you wanted in #1. If you really want money going to the government, then you still want Americans to buy those goods, therefore you're not protecting any American industries in #2. So, it's #3?? You're punishing your trading partners and your own citizens because the governments of our trading partners aren't doing what he wants??
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    At least until every county or so willingly decided to submit to Christ, which I think will happen eventually because I'm a postmillennialist.
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Ron needs to quit playing defense and go on offense. It's not enough to say "the Soviet Union was worse than Iran." If he could point out the following documented facts it would shut the naysayer up for good or at least make them back-peddle.

1) In 2003 Iran was the only Muslim country to help us fight and remove the Taliban from power.

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This parody is an attempt to "rewrite" the bill of rights in keeping with the current application by our criminal government. Original text will be in italics followed by a list of possible options.


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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government

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Federal Reserve advised gold standard for Russia

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I ran across this information by accident (providence?) while looking for something else. The first link is an essay from Jude Wanniski who went with fed governor Wayne Angell to Moscow right after the collapse of the soviet union. Note that Angell advocated the new Russia to go to a gold backed currency! The second link is an online Google book from the Mises institute that talks about the same essay. I've excerpted the essay bellow. (It's too long to post directly). It's interesting to note

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