Can I be anti-everyone involved?

I feel like this was an ELI5 moment.

She has two prior felony drug convictions. She thought those were expunged but they weren’t. So when she indicated otherwise on her paperwork, that triggered an arrest. This probably would have happened under the Biden administration too, but it wouldn’t have made the news.

Can someone clarify, which rights? To use this toilet instead of that toilet?

I think it is word games. What constitutes “Talking about tariffs?” Each side wants the other to appear to be the one that comes to the table first.

Edit: And I was right. Today’s headline: China exempts some goods from US tariffs to limit trade war pain.

Do these real men include all the pedophile priests

No.

Doctors who help the less fortunate should be admired but there was a local pediatrician that was arrested for sex crimes against children. Don’t emulate him.

That’s not hard to understand.

Catholics got a lot of predatory priests for a time because it was one of the few professions where you could explaine away why you weren’t interested in adult women. Most abuse was by homosexual men who had an itch for boys. If you look at their share of the population, these men were clearly the primary problem.

They recruited others like them into seminaries and good men were driven away by their behavior.

It took Pope Benedict XVI evicting them from the seminaries to reach an inflection point. But now any pervert can be rather openly perverted and, if they want boys, they’ll be more successful as a teacher, coach, or scout leader.

My local public school has had about a dozen arrests of these men in the past ten years. More are hidden in their ranks because everyone is looking at the priest and nobody is looking at the teachers. The problem didn’t go away, it just adapted to other professions.

The solution to false masculinity is to replace it with real masculinity. Men who speak well of women, who practice custody of the eyes, who willfully suffer for the good of others, and who do hard things. We used to promote examples of such men but that time seems to have passed.

By your source, they resisted 12 years (mostly due to western aid) and then gave-up.

“By the early 1950s, the Soviet forces had eradicated most of the Forest Brother resistance. Intelligence gathered by the Soviet spies in the West and MGB infiltrators within the resistance movement, in combination with large-scale Soviet operations in 1952, managed to end the campaigns against them. Many of the remaining Forest Brothers laid down their weapons when offered an amnesty by the Soviet authorities…”

Now you have to be a troll. First, Russia ruled the Baltics for several generations. Second, it is the most easily conquered NATO territory in Europe today. Many doubt that NATO would respond and Russia would displace native people (who they will forcibly relocate elsewhere) with Russians who will be moved in to Russify the lands.

Georgians recently elected a very pro-Moscow political party. Belarus could revolt but doesn’t. During Soviet rule, we had the example of the Hungarians whose little revolt was crushed quickly. They then fell back in line to Russian rule.

Then what? Then you get the 1950’s - 1980’s in eastern Europe all over again, including an obvious level of stagnation when compared to those on the other side of the iron curtain.

They win wars. They bore of occupations.

I’m pro-Europe but I also recognize that Europe is very dependent on the US for military technology and weapons. France is the only country that is resistant to the possibility of the US just turning everything off. European nations would do fine vs. Russia with American technology and weapons. I suspect that Russia could reconquer to Berlin if Europe was depraved of American military technology and weapons. Maybe I’m wrong, though.

China will have to become a net importer for that to happen and that’s very unlikely. The Euro has a better chance but I seriously think Trump would turn all of Europe over to Russia to stop that from happening.

China has to be careful because they are an export driven economy and there’s not a lot of wealthy customers out there. If they contribute to a serious recession in the US, it’ll carry consequences in China too. The key for them will be retaliation that carries a big political hit but not an economic hit.

If you want a good video summary of her testimony, there’s this video. Facebook even tried to force her to lie to Congress.

A lot of the problem competing with China in heavy industry is they use a lot of coal for electricity generation vs. places like the US that use cleaner but more expensive natural gas China also has a government policy to subsidize industry through energy pricing schemes.

If the west insisted China maintain similar environmental rules, western industry would have been a lot more competitive.

The UK might not be able to trust the US but they should be taking advantage of current events to leverage their relatively better trading position, compared to most other nations, to score some solid economic gains. Trump is likely to overlook the UK because the Pound isn’t a threat to Dollar supremacy like the Euro.

President Biden also took a lot of flack from Europe when he maintained trade in Russian uranium despite their putting rules into effect concerning Russian oil. There are a few things that both parties aren’t willing to give us regarding Russia.

The news media is just feeding his narcissistic needs. Want to know what would really piss him off? If we forgot he existed for a week or two.