BSG, Obama must have seen your post above prior to today's press conference.BoSoxGal wrote:Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave, right?!
First of all, which group do you put yourself in, and why?liberty wrote:And the Russian people are superior to us hands down. We out number them two to one, but three quarters of our people are militarily worthless. The only thing we have going for us is that Trump would use nukes before he would allow a Russian army to occupy Alaska.
That's one of the most bizarre and wrong-headed posts I think I've ever seen...liberty wrote:The truth is not always pleasant , but it is still the truth. Putin is a greater leader than anyone we have our side. We have a couple military leaders that may be match for him, but no one in government. And the Russian people are superior to us hands down. We out number them two to one, but three quarters of our people are militarily worthless. The only thing we have going for us is that Trump would use nukes before he would allow a Russian army to occupy Alaska; his ego would not allow him to lose.
And then this:the Russian people are superior to us hands down. We out number them two to one, but three quarters of our people are militarily worthless.
What on earth gives you that idea?The only thing we have going for us is that Trump would use nukes before he would allow a Russian army to occupy Alaska
If he could get say $70 million for Alaska that would be a 900% profit - huuuuuuuuge - and it must be very tempting.All the evidence to date indicates that if Putin demanded Alaska back, Trump would agree to negotiations, say he thought Putin had a good point, and then maybe strike a deal where the US ceded half the state to the Russians
Please see thread where I've made similar comments. I don't think we are moving in LJ's direction though; he is moving towards us.ex-khobar Andy wrote: And as a side note, I find myself agreeing with LJ more and more. Last week I agreed with Palin (vide supra). All this is vaguely troubling. I think I will go and lie down, and take my meds.
No contract is ever "iIronclad." Clever lawyers can rip anything to shreds. Want to bet that Drumpf gains injunctive relief and even finds some loophole miraculously supplied by Congress? And, yet, if forced to sell, damages will not be nominal but YUGE.The contract language is clear: “No ... elected official of the Government of the United States ... shall be admitted to any share or part of this Lease, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom...”
The language could not be any more specific or clear. Donald Trump will breach the contract on Jan. 20, when, while continuing to benefit from the lease, he will become an “elected official of the Government of the United States.”
... we believe GSA can justify its termination in litigation. But the worst thing that can happen is that the government will be liable for monetary damages. (We are aware of no precedent in which the Trump organization could gain injunctive relief that would require GSA to continue the lease relationship.)
... damages could be awarded, we expect them to be nominal at best. Courts are skeptical of claims for anticipatory profits, primarily because any such recovery is, by its very nature, speculative. Regardless, it would be a price worth paying to preserve the integrity of our government and its contracting system. The faster GSA ends its business relationship with the Trump Organization, the better.
Crackpot wrote:No he's just not insane
Bicycle Bill wrote:First of all, which group do you put yourself in, and why?liberty wrote:And the Russian people are superior to us hands down. We out number them two to one, but three quarters of our people are militarily worthless. The only thing we have going for us is that Trump would use nukes before he would allow a Russian army to occupy Alaska.
I an in the militarily worthless group ; If I tried to serve at this point on my life I would be more of a burden than a benefit. However it is not my spirit that is weak, my rebel yell is still strong, but the body is not up to it . Hell I have been retired for going on thirty years. If they sent me back to survival school now it would kill me.
Secondly, the Japanese military experts made the same mistake in WWII, thinking that giving the Americans a bloody nose and a black eye at Pearl Harbor would be enough to cow us and keep us out of the war in the Pacific. The same goes for Hitler and the Nazis. Neither group realized what a pissed-off, motivated America was capable of.
Most of the draftees pressed into service during WWII were probably what you would have called "militarily worthless" at first too. But with training and after being supplied with the proper equipment, they went forth and did the job. And those that were unable to pick up arms and join the actual fighting, whether because of age or because they were the "weaker sex", were the ones that stepped up and kept the factories running and the needed materials pouring out in massive quantities; quantities so great and seemingly inexhaustible that by the end of the war we were building bombers faster than the Germans could shoot them down and launching cargo ships faster than they could torpedo them.
But we are not the same people we were then. The motto of the day was not ,” HELL NO WE WON’T GO. R,O.T.C. and draft board facilities were not sabotaged . Fraging officers was not considered a right thing to do.
And that's what would happen again if Putin ever decided to get too big for his britches — which he won't. Because he is smart enough to know one thing, and that's this:
You are right he is smart, very smart and he won’t do it unless he is sure he can get away with it and as long as we have a president that will use tactical nukes he can’t get away with it. Putin has superior people, but they are not fire proof.
Out of all the countries in the world that have nuclear weapons, AMERICA IS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS ACTUALLY USED THEM. And Putin knows that if we did it before, we can and would do it again.
That is all we have going for us in this case. We have an outstanding army, but they are not big enough to deal with a country like Russia.
Didn’t Obama say he wanted to get rid of all our nukes?
And why does it bother you guys so much that the Russian are a superior people?
-"BB"-
.I don't think we are moving in LJ's direction though; he is moving towards us
And that right there is where I think you are seriously wrong. Deep down inside we *ARE* the same people.liberty wrote:But we are not the same people we were then. The motto of the day was not "HELL NO WE WON’T GO". R.O.T.C. and draft board facilities were not sabotaged. Fragging officers was not considered a right thing to do.
it really gives me pause... 
